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[ "Stealth and speed are emerging from the shadows in cross-platform MMORPG V4, developed by Nexon Korea, as part of the game’s largest update to-date since launching last summer. Gamers can now experience the powerful Assassin character class on mobile and PC in the smash hit fantasy MMORPG. As the second new class introduced in the MMORPG V4 since launch, the Assassin Class emerges from the shadows to deal devastating damage with twin blades. With lightning-quick attack speeds, the Assassin wields razor-sharp blades with short skill activation times to quickly eviscerate foes.\n\nAbout the new Assassin class in MMORPG V4\n\nAssassin uses a pair of swords to deal out melee damage. It is the fastest attacking melee class in the game as of now. Some important information about the new Assassin class are:\n\nOther additions in the update\n\nTo celebrate the addition of the Assassin class in MMORPG V4, this update also brings a special event with lots of rewards for all the players. There will be check-in gifts which will be given to all the players logging in to the game for 14 days starting from 27.01.20. There’s also another ‘Dual Blades’ reward which can give you great Assassin gear for upgrading the newly added class in the game. There’ also an event dungeon for additional rewards to each player.\n\nAre you excited about the latest MMORPG V4 Assassin class update? Let us know in the comment section!", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Back in March 2011, I wrote a little article on this blog about Jessy Lasky's connection to magic. I stumbled upon his connection by accident. I knew that Lasky had something to do with Houdini's movies and looking further into it the name Herrmann popped up. So the research began.\n\nHere are some of the sources of the information.\n\nAnd finally, A website created by Betty Lasky\nhttp://www.jesse-l-lasky.com/timeline.html\n\nI found that some of the resources mention Herrmann the Great, but the time period didn't make sense to me because Herrmann the Great died in 1896. So that is how I figured out it was Leon Herrmann. There were also a number of additional newspaper articles I found through the Library of Congress, but I didn't keep track of that info as best as I should have. Still, looking over the above resources, everything I found can be found above.\n\nJames Hamilton had asked me in April 2013 where I found the info, while at the Magic Collectors Conference in Washington D.C.. I mentioned that I discovered it all online, but obviously didn't have the source info handy. Let me state for the record, James Hamilton is THE LEADING SOURCE of Information and Knowledge on the HERRMANN FAMILY today! No question about it. In fact, James and I talked about Herrmann for almost an hour and it was one of the most fascinating conversations I've ever had, one of the highlights of the weekend for me.\nJames also, apparently uncovered much of the Herrmann/Lasky connection a few years previous and spoke on it at a Magic History Conference in 2010. Unfortunately for me, I never heard his talk or was aware of it. Anything I found was discovered without the knowledge of James's research. But make no mistake, James is the authority on Herrmann. I seriously doubt I would ever uncover anything that James Hamilton was not already aware of. I have the utmost respect for his knowledge, and I'm posting these resources here just to show where I got my information." ]

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[ null, "I have a rule about all social media, not just facebook. If I’m going to post the photo of a real life friend…or anyone…I ask their permission first. I don’t just do it without consent. It doesn’t matter if it’s a group standing in front of a restaurant or a small dinner party at home. I don’t feel comfortable posting anyone’s photo without getting permission. Why, you ask? Because your real life friends might value their privacy and not want their photo posted on your Timeline. Not everyone wants everyone to know what they are doing twenty-four hours a day. There are some people out there who prefer to hold on to whatever privacy they still have left.\n\nI was curious about this and I wanted to know how other people think. Here’s something interesting.\n\nHere is some good news, however. A study suggests that people who do this may be alienating themselves from those who might be called normal human beings.\n\nAs CBS Washington reports, researchers from three British universities — the University of Birmingham, University West of England, and the University of Edinburgh — have concluded that frequent Facebook photo-posters “risk damaging real-life relationships.”\n\nWhatever you do, don’t post photos of kids without consent from parents. Frankly, I would go berserk if I were a parent and someone posted my kid’s photo on facebook or anywhere.\n\nSo when she spotted a friend of her ex-husband posting “literally hundreds of pictures” of her daughter, Elmuts said she expressed her displeasure and asked her to remove the photos. A confrontation ensued, after which the woman unfriended Elmuts on Facebook.\n\nHere’s a page where there’s a legal discussion about posting photos of friends on Facebook.\n\nIf you do a simple search you’ll find a lot more information out there. But for me the bottom line is short and sweet: just don’t do it without asking for permission first. I had a family member once post images of me online at a family gathering and I didn’t want those photos up. I asked her to take them down and she did. It wasn’t an issue. But that was a family member. If you have to go to a real life friend and request that it could lead to a problem that could have been avoided.\n\nDon’t be that social guy who posts photos of everyone he ever knew in the universe without asking their permission first. And we all know someone who does this all the time in real life. I personally know one who has been posting photos of friends all week and I’ve been getting e-mails about it from more than half the people I know. They aren’t too thrilled about it either.\n\nI’ve been reading more and more articles about how hugely ignored most transgender people are as compared to the privileged and elite transgender person that Caitlyn Jenner is. Some stories are downright painful to read when you see how some trans people suffer. I’ve seen other commentary about how many trans women don’t really want Caitlyn being their spokesperson. I’m not knocking Caitlyn, and neither is anyone else. Her journey has brought the entire discussion out in the open and in many ways it paved the way for people like me writing blog posts about it. However, there are a few strong opinions out there about the way she’s been doing it.\n\n‘When I came out, I didn’t go and go hardcore and be like, “I’m going to save the world for LGBT,”‘ The View co-host said on Monday’s episode of the talk show.\n\n‘Beforehand, I was definitely repping the community, even when I wasn’t saying this is what I was. And I’m not faulting you because yes, we need you. It’s too fast, too soon.’\n\n\nI found that here.\n\nHere’s an interesting article about making the right career choices through gut instinct, but not knowing you’re doing that at the time.\n\n‘I got offered a part in Mission: Impossible II with Tom Cruise, but they wouldn’t let me see the whole script because I might have spilled the beans. I only got my scenes,’ McKellen tells People.com.\n\n‘Well, I couldn’t judge from reading just those scenes what the script was like. So I said no. And my agent said, “You cant say no to working with Tom Cruise!” and I said, “I think I will.”‘\nIt’s a good thing he did.\n\nAnd there you are. I hope I made a few of the right career choices this year, too, by finally turning a few things down that I wouldn’t have turned down five years ago. Only time will tell. All I can say is that looking back in hindsight, there are a few things I should have turned down. Sometimes you have to learn the hard way.\n\nThe Rainbow Detective Agency\nBox Set\nFour books in One" ]

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[ null, "The three-masted barque “Statsraad Lemkuhl”, built in 1914, is one of the proud vessels that will participate in The Tall Ships Races.\n\nThe beautifully located Fredrikstad, last host port in 2005, is once again a host port for the 2014 Tall Ships Races. Being the second time this historic town will host the races, it promises a social and cultural program give every crew members and visitor the ‘experience of a lifetime’.\n\nThe Tall Ships Races is the world’s largest sailing ships event and are designed to encourage international friendship and training for young people in the art of sailing. The races are held annually in European waters and consist of two racing legs of several hundred nautical miles, and a “cruise in company” between the legs.\n\nEach year about 70 – 100 big and small sailing vessels and 6000 crew members are participating in the event. The regattas are organized by Sail Training International.\n\nMany people show up to see the twenty largest vessels participating in Class A: “All square – rigged vessels (barque, barquentine, brig, brigantine or ship rigged) and all other vessel more than 40 meters Length Overall (LOA), regardless of rig”.\n\nYou can learn more about the participating ships here.\n\nLocated about 90 kilometers south of Oslo, Fredrikstad offers rich cultural life, a bustling quayside and a cozy Old Town. It’s proud to be the best preserved fortress town in Scandinavia with a rich history, shops, galleries and cafés.\n\nFounded in 1567, by King Frederick II, Fredrikstad is situated where Norway’s longest river Glomma meets the sea. It’s traditionally been an important harbor for timber export, then later for shipbuilding, until the main yard was closed in the 1980s.\n\nThe Tall Ship Races in Fredrikstad co-insides with the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of Norway’s Constitution and independence.\n\nProgram details will be confirmed during spring 2014.\n\n1200 All ships have arrived" ]

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[ "Part of Drops summer sale. It's a great headphone, I personally have it and love the sound. Beats most of the \"Gaming\" Headphones out there\n\nIt's has a great sound quality, especially for the price with classic Koss sound with really good, fun tuning. Ample and fun bass but still quite controlled and somewhat tight, not overwhelming at all. And mids and highs are also well presented, Overall really fun to use. (for reference I have HD6XX which pretty much standart audiophile entry/mid/high level depending on how you look at it. As well as Philips Fidelio X2HR, Hifiman HE-X4, HD280, AKG 275 Pro Monitors, AirPods Pro, Shure Se-215 and many more, too much to list here)\n\nUSE REFERRAL CODES TO GET ANOTHER $10USD OFF, bringing your total only to ~$48AUD\n\nIt's super light, comfortable and close back so you won't bother people round you. Though it might get a little hot during summer and long sessions, it hasn't for me yet.\n\nComes with 2 cables, both has mic. One is inline and the other is boom type, haven't used them much but they are said to be pretty decent from reviews.\n\nOverall great bang for thee buck, especially if you are going to get other things from the sale, shipping will be only $5USD additional. like the dac/amp combo here: https://drop.com/buy/drop-o2-sdac-dac-amp —- beware it's 120V only so you'd need a appropriate power source for it.", null ]

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[ null, "Pan Am offered a $279 round trip fare in the early summer of 1987. I booked a flight, applied for a passport, & called Karen Zimbrich for advice. “I got a cheap flight to Caracas, but don’t know where to stay when I get there. She suggested I book one night in a chain Hotel & then find someplace cheaper when I got there. I called Hilton Hotels & asked them how much a night in the Anauco Hilton’s least expensive room would be. “500 Bolivares the agent replied. “How much is that in dollars? I asked. “$26.29”, she replied. “Book me for a week” I said. So I flew to Caracas, not sure what to expect. I got a taxi to the hotel for five dol…lars & checked in. I felt like Godillocks when I got to my room- it was a suite. I had 3 different bedrooms so I rotated sleeping in a new one each night. I discovered that every museum in Caracas was either free or less than two dollars to visit. I took my fill of Picasso, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali…it was like Heaven. Sat in a Café outside Parque Central & paid 5 bolivares (about 25 cents) for an ice cold beer. At the time I didn’t understand how the strength of one currency could harm another country’s economy. As I began to see the cardboard shanties built on the side of the mountains, street beggars & child prostitutes, I began to realize many people in this beautiful country were suffering. Many people I met said they had committed to give away at leas 10% of the money they had brought with them as a voluntary “poverty tax”. I decided to give 15%. Everywhere there were people in need, so it wasn’t hard to do. I went to the Rinconada Hippodrome & won 1000 bolivares on a horse. I gave away 200 to children I met at the gate. I sensed this country would soon be facing a revolution, and I was right." ]

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[ "There are 10 different games inspired by cult horror movies from the 80’s and 90’s. That exaggerated horror in some cases even comical and disturbing.\n\nSome games are more horror and tension oriented, others are based on bullshit movies like (Scary Movie).\n\nWhat games come in this collection?\n\nBrad is home alone every night, he has no father and his mother works at a hospital on the night shift. After getting some unknown messages on your cell phone, things start to get really weird.\n\nDylan takes a job on an isolated island looking after the lighthouse for six months. The last lighthouse keeper has mysteriously disappeared and as the days go by, Dylan discovers that he may not be alone on the island.", null, "Jack and Sara live on a farm isolated from everything. When someone leaves a mystery box on their doorstep things start to get weird.\n\nInside the box is an ancient amulet whose origin is unknown. The amulet has a terrible curse… the curse of mold.\n\nA killer who kills people who shit and don’t flush… Jhon is working night shifts at a vhs tape store.\n\nAfter a customer clogs the toilet with poop… the poop killer will chase Jhon.\n\nBilly is a marijuana dealer and lives with his friend Jamal in an apartment. They sell and smoke a lot of weed… After your friend takes a shit in your toilet… the poop killer comes to visit you.", null ]

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[ "This is not some aberration. There are many more mosques where this kind of thing is preached, because the Qur’an depicts the Jews as inveterately evil and bent on destroying the well-being of the Muslims. They are the strongest of all people in enmity toward the Muslims (5:82); as fabricating things and falsely ascribing them to Allah (2:79; 3:75, 3:181); claiming that Allah’s power is limited (5:64); loving to listen to lies (5:41); disobeying Allah and never observing his commands (5:13); disputing and quarreling (2:247); hiding the truth and misleading people (3:78); staging rebellion against the prophets and rejecting their guidance (2:55); being hypocritical (2:14, 2:44); giving preference to their own interests over the teachings of Muhammad (2:87); wishing evil for people and trying to mislead them (2:109); feeling pain when others are happy or fortunate (3:120); being arrogant about their being Allah’s beloved people (5:18); devouring people’s wealth by subterfuge (4:161); slandering the true religion and being cursed by Allah (4:46); killing the prophets (2:61); being merciless and heartless (2:74); never keeping their promises or fulfilling their words (2:100); being unrestrained in committing sins (5:79); being cowardly (59:13-14); being miserly (4:53); being transformed into apes and pigs for breaking the Sabbath (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166); and more.", null, "TORONTO—A Montreal mosque where an imam had prayed for Jews to be killed “one by one” is facing fresh calls for an investigation after more videos surfaced online showing anti-Semitic preaching.\n\nThe Middle East Media Research Institute released a video on Tuesday of sermons in which an imam at the Al Andalous Islamic Centre conveyed conspiracy theories about Jews, their history and their origins.\n\nSheikh Wael Al-Ghitawi is shown in the video clips claiming that Jews were “people who slayed the prophets, shed their blood and cursed the Lord,” reported MEMRI, which translated the Friday sermons.", null, "The imam went on to say Jews were the descendants of “Turkish mongols” and had been “punished by Allah,” who made them “wander in the land.” He further said that Jews had no historical ties to Jerusalem or Palestine.\n\nThe view conveyed by the imam has typically been used to deny that Jews have a connection to the land of Israel, said Rabbi Reuben Poupko, co-chair of the Quebec branch of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.\n\n“This is a bizarre strain of radical propaganda. It appears in the writings of Hamas and other groups like it and claims to debunk Jewish history,” said the rabbi, who said it was “unseemly” to use a religious service to propagate hate.\n\nHe said he did not believe such views, as well as the “deeply troubling” earlier calls to violence, were supported by the broader Muslim community “but its presence in this mosque needs to be investigated.”\n\nThe videos were posted on YouTube in November 2014. The centre was already in the spotlight over an August 2014 video that showed an imam asking Allah to “destroy the accursed Jews,” and “kill them one by one.”\n\nIn a press release last week concerning the August 2014 video, the mosque administration blamed “clumsy and unacceptable phrasing” by a substitute imam, whose wording was “tainted by an abusive generalization.” The mosque could not be reached for comment about the most recent video.", null, "“If you examine the annals of history you will see that the Jews do not have any historical right to Palestine,” Al-Ghitawi said in the latest video. He claimed there was “not a single Jew in Jerusalem and Palestine” for lengthy periods.\n\n“Jerusalem is Arabic and Islamic,” he said at a separate sermon. “It is our land, the land of our fathers and forefathers. We are the people most entitled to it. We will not forsake a single inch of this land.”…" ]

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[ "TVF Tripling is a web series that focuses on the bond between three siblings as they embark on a roaptrip together.\n\nThe Viral Fever is back with a new web series, this time a family drama about three siblings. The production house which is also the brainchild behind TVF Pitchers and Permanent Roommates, brings you a saga of an unlikely family reunion. Three siblings take a road trip together, each trying to deal with his (or her own) individual life crisis.", null, "There's Chandan (Sumeet Vyas), whose marriage to a foreigner seems to be falling apart. He is also homeless and jobless, which might explain the reason why he seems to pissed off with the world in the trailer.\n\nThere is Chanchal (Maanvi Gagroo), who seems to have married into royalty and regrets the isolation and responsibility that comes with the title.\n\nThere's also Chitvan (Amol Parashar), the laid back DJ who is the most excited of the trio for the road trip.\n\nAlso starring in the series is the orange Tata Motors car (in which they embark on the roadtrip), which has a lot of screen time in the two and a half minute trailer, mostly because Tata Motors has sponsored the show.\n\nThe story seems interesting enough, and the lead protagonists share great chemistry on screen. Watch the trio embark on a road trip on 28 August 2016 on TVF Play." ]

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[ "When I watch my two-year-old son play with his toys I usually admire his efforts and think to myself how cute he is. But when I stop to think about it, I am amazed at how his play is really his job. Young children have an important job that they take very seriously. Through play children make connections and inferences, test hypotheses, explore sensation, discover the power they possess to affect other people, and use theatrical scenes to tell the story of their world as they understand it. What seems to be merely “fun” is actually a hugely important process of discovery", null, "My son is constantly making connections between new things and what is already familiar, and he uses that information to make inferences. One of his current obsessions is with speed bumps. There are two speed bumps we have to drive over to get to our apartment, and riding in his car seat he began to notice this regular occurrence. “Bum! Bum!” he said joyfully. Soon many other things were bum bums – anything that caused his toy car to go bum bum – the bump going from the tile floor to the carpet, the bumps in between each tile, or the small space between each cushion on the couch. He made a connection between his toy cars and our larger car and then inferred that many other things could behave the same way as our driveway speed bumps.\n\nChildren are mini scientists as they test out cause and effect with their toys and mini psychologists as they explore their own sensations and discover how their actions affect others. This morning I watched my son test the following hypothesis: “I think that every time I throw a toy car it will drop to the floor.” He then stood on a chair and systematically tossed each of his 10 cars on to the floor. He tossed them one at a time with about the same arm motion every time. As each car made a satisfying thwap he paused to stare at it and consider what had happened before continuing with the experiment. The mini psychologist comes out when he spends time analyzing the sensation of wonderfully squishy crackers after dunking them in milk, or when he watches the behavior of mom and dad while performing various acts of negative behavior. “Which of these behaviors will make mom the most angry?” And so he tests it—falling on the floor, throwing things, crying, running away, kicking during diaper changes—and waits to see what behavior mom will display in response.\n\nBy far my favorite thing to watch my son do is act out the story of his world as he understands it. He doesn’t have a ton of language yet, but regardless of limitations, his toy cars have long talks with each other. His tiny baby voice mimics the inflections and tone he hears in adult conversation so that even though hardly any real words are spoken, I feel like I’ve just listened in on a theatrical production. My other favorite occurrence of this is in his crib at night. After loud protestations about being put in the baby prison, he turns to his teddy bear and starts telling his fluffy friend all that happened in his day. “Bum! Bum!” he says. “Brrrrr!!!” (big trucks) You!! (love you) Ma! Da! Bye-bye!” Real words are intermixed with lots of baby nonsense words but all for the purpose of processing through the events of his day.\n\nWhen we were little my dad often joked with us when he came home: “Did you work hard all day? Did you play and play?” Children work hard to explore their world through play which is the same thing as saying children spend their day being scientists, psychologists, explorers, and discoverers.\n\nAudrey is a tutor at Brainspring Learning Center in Plymouth." ]

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[ null, "Osteospermum used to belong to the genus Dimophotheca, but only the annual species remain in that genus; the perennials belong to Osteospermum.\n\nThis evergreen perennial has sprawling stems that root along their length and form mats. Leathery and minutely toothed leaves can be seen along its margins. The flower heads are purple with white or mauve ray florets.\n\nThe scientific name is derived from the Greek osteon (bone) and Latin spermum (seed)." ]

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[ null, "What One Tour Can Catalyse!\n\nThe ‘Local Food Wanaka’ group was started at the end of 2012, after Earthcare Education Aotearoa’s ‘Localising Food Tour’ swept through Wanaka, giving presentations on food security and local food resilience action planning, and teaching workshops on permaculture, seed-saving, seasonal calendars and ‘starting a garden from scratch’.", null, null, null, null, "What One Photo Can Catalyse!\n\nIn the ‘Food Security & Local Food Initiatives’ slideshow (presented by Robina McCurdy and Suzie Lees), a palpable excitement went through the audience when one pivotal image appeared on the screen, accompanied by its story. This was ‘The Great Waiheke Island Plum Drive’. A flurry of conversation ensued, followed by the resolve ‘we could do this here, but with apples!’ Now, after seven years of running the ‘Autumn Apple Drive’ hosted Rippon Vineyards, doing everything imaginable with apples, Local Food Wanaka offered a range of workshops which go ‘beyond apples’, eg making bone broth, fermented foods, cider making, home orchards and herbal remedies.\n\nLocal Food Wanaka is the online repository for projects, events and resources in the Upper Clutha region devoted to re-localising food.\n\nLearn from them to start something similar relevant to your area!", null ]

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[ null, "Stanford joined UConn, South Carolina and Louisville as No. 1 seeds in the first early reveal Monday of the projected top 16 seeds for the women’s NCAA tournament.\n\nThe Cardinal entered Monday’s game against Oregon with two losses this season. UConn and Louisville each have one loss, and South Carolina has lost twice. The Huskies, Gamecocks, Cardinal and Cardinals are the four teams that have held the No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press poll this season.\n\nNC State, the only team this season with two wins over the nation’s No. 1 team (South Carolina and Louisville), was a No. 2 seed and the sixth overall team in Monday’s reveal. The Wolfpack also have losses to two unranked teams: Virginia Tech (in overtime) and North Carolina. One of Stanford’s losses was also to an unranked team, Colorado, and the other was to UCLA.\n\nUConn’s loss was to Arkansas, and South Carolina fell to NC State and UConn. The Huskies have been a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament 11 of the past 12 seasons and have reached the Final Four all 12 years. They were a No. 2 seed in 2019.\n\nThe SEC has the most teams in the top 16 with five: No. 2 South Carolina, No. 5 Texas A&M, No. 12 Georgia, No. 13 Tennessee and No. 16 Kentucky. Texas A&M has just one loss, in overtime to LSU. Kentucky has the most losses of any team in the top 16, with five going into its game at Florida on Monday.\n\nThere are four Pac-12 teams: No. 3 Stanford, No. 8 Arizona, No. 9 UCLA and No. 11 Oregon. Stanford was on the road for nine consecutive weeks earlier this season because of COVID-19 regulations in Santa Clara County; the Cardinal’s two losses came during that period.\n\nThe NCAA confirmed earlier this month that the NCAA tournament will be held entirely in the San Antonio area, with some first-round games in nearby San Marcos and Austin. All games from the Sweet 16 on will be at the Alamodome, with the Final Four there on April 2 and 4.\n\nBecause it’s a single-site event, there will be a true S-curve for the bracket, instead of geography influencing where teams are placed. Therefore, the regions are numbered instead of named for the city they’re in.\n\nThis would set up a potential Sweet 16 matchup between the Huskies and Lady Vols, who have not met in the NCAA tournament since the 2004 national championship game won by UConn. The Huskies beat the Lady Vols 67-61 in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Jan. 21. UConn was supposed to play Baylor earlier in January, but the game was canceled when the Lady Bears went on a pause due to COVID-19. This regional would have by far the most combined NCAA championships: 11 for UConn, eight for Tennessee and three for Baylor.\n\nThe Gamecocks finished last season and started this one as the top-ranked team, and ascended to No. 1 again briefly last week before losing at UConn. South Carolina, the 2017 champion, currently has a 31-game winning streak against SEC foes. Maryland is the only Big Ten team since Michigan State in 2005 to reach the Women’s Final Four (2015). The Terps also had Final Four trips in 1982, 2006 (won championship) and 2014. UCLA and West Virginia are looking for their first Final Four trip in the NCAA era; the Bruins won the AIAW national championship in 1978.\n\nTexas A&M won the national championship in 2011. Louisville is looking for its fourth Final Four appearance and Oregon its second. Kentucky has not been beyond the Elite Eight. The Louisville-Kentucky modern-era series in the regular season dates to 1975, but the programs haven’t met this season.\n\nNWS: Travel may be nearly impossible" ]

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[ "Hyundai Motor is celebrating another successful year in Europe. As a testament to outstanding achievements, the company has been awarded more than 110 awards in 2021. This is the largest number of awards the company has ever received in a single calendar year.\n\nAmong them, Hyundai Motor has won 10 Car of the Year awards for models from its fleet in Europe, and other awards will be announced later. In addition, the carmaker was also named “Manufacturer of the Year” at the 2021 Top Gear Awards in recognition of the diversity and strength of the entire product line.", null, "In 2021, Hyundai expanded its fleet by launching three new models: the IONIQ 5, a fully electric mid-size CUV; BAYON, a new crossover SUV designed specifically for Europe, and the KONA N model, the first Hyundai SUV dedicated to high performance. In addition to all this, the TUCSON line has been expanded with the Plug-in Hybrid powertrain and is inspired by the additional embellishments of the Hyundai N line, the TUCSON N Line.", null, null ]

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[ "What Would Florence Do?\n\nMercy Street has no shortage of nineteenth century medical trivia. Dr. Foster repeatedly invokes his stellar medical education, which includes not only study in Philadelphia, America’s medical Mecca of that time, but also a grand tour abroad where he learned all kinds of fancy techniques from some of the great medical minds of the era. Similarly, we have been introduced to Anne Hastings, the alleged Crimean War nurse, her character no doubt causing many to brush up on their nineteenth century European history.\n\nThe show is overtly trying to demonstrate that the nineteenth century was a period of transatlantic medical knowledge exchange and that many Civil War doctors were smart and worldly and not just a group of bloodthirsty stooges. It is in this context that the Crimean War is exceptionally important to understanding patient care during the American Civil War. It is largely out of the Crimea that the notion of modern nursing came to the forefront of Anglo-American minds.\n\nLady with the Lamp, Henrietta Rae’s 1891 imagining of Florence Nightingale’s work in the Crimea\n\nThis was, in part, a result of the popularity of the Victorian icon Florence Nightingale and her legacy of sanitary hospital reform. Nightingale proved the inspiration for many American social reformers to volunteer their services during the Civil War.[1] Indeed, the Crimean War’s legacy to modern military medicine is one of philanthropy and private initiative overcoming government negligence, a theme that is already apparent in the show.\n\nA bit of background is important here. When the British army arrived in the Crimea in 1854, it did so unprepared for high casualties or for extended deployment through the winter. After a number of battles and a season of campaigning in the fall, the British and French armies laid siege to the Russian port city of Sebastopol. The extended campaign, combined with the lack of proper provisions, shelter, and uniforms for winter action, led to thousands of wounded and sick soldiers overwhelming regimental hospitals. As a result, the Army began evacuating men from the front across the Black Sea to Turkey. These men were treated in abominable conditions at Scutari until Nightingale and her band of sisters arrived to clean up the military hospital.", null, "In Mercy Street, we learn about Florence (if I may) from the character of Anne Hastings who, armed with condescension and plaster of Paris, is nursing know-it-all who seems to exists merely to tell Mary Phinney what she doesn’t know about her job. But there is a serious inconsistency with Anne Hastings’s background and character development based on what we know of the history of the Crimean War.\n\nIn the first episode, when we were introduced to the Mansion House Hospital, the place is a hot mess. Men are unwashed, still in their uniforms and lying on dirty linen. They are crowded and cramped together in every area of the building, with no ventilation, or even, decent quality food or water. Mansion House is a little slice of Scutari in Alexandria: it is a place ripe for a selfless social do-gooder to come and reverse the tide of misery that is this sad hotel. If ever there was a hospital in need of a Nightingale nurse, it is this one.\n\nYet, Anne Hastings has been at Mansion House for a while and seems to be more interested in the affections of Dr. Hale and showing off her skills with the plaster bucket than doing anything about the sorry state of the place. If she is a Nightingale nurse, then she missed the biggest medical lesson of that war: sanitation. Nightingale, “saw a clear relationship between the diseases killing her patients and the filth in which they lay, the air they breathed, the water they drank, and the food they ate.”[2] Nightingale nurses cleaned men’s bodies, boiled their vermin infested uniforms, gave them clean sheets, prepared decent food, and ascribed to the belief that ventilation made for hygienic wards. They were fixers.\n\nHastings seems to be completely unaware of the mess around her. Sunday’s episode even went so far as to have her indignantly bark at Samuel Diggs when he was trying to open a window in order to ventilate the hospital, which is exactly what Florence did at Scutari. Florence (if I may) would be so disappointed (in so many ways) that all that excellent training and experience at saving men’s lives has gone for naught.\n\nDr. Isherwood is a graduate of Gettysburg College, Dartmouth College, and the University of Glasgow, the latter where he did his Ph.D. He specializes in modern history with a focus on war and memory studies. His articles and book reviews have appeared in First World War Studies, War, Literature and the Arts, The Journal of Military History, and War in History. Currently, Isherwood is writing a book, Remembering the Great War: Writing and Publishing the Experiences of WWI, for I.B. Tauris. Dr. Isherwood teaches at Gettysburg College where he is the Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute. He is the co-lead of the digital history project jackpeirs.org and maintains a teaching blog, Great War Writing." ]

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[ "On this day in 1951, one of Disney’s most offbeat and unfathomable animated features premiered–but it took seven more years for the story LP to appear on Disneyland Records.\n\nInstrumental: “March of the Cards” by Sammy Fain.\n\nMany believe the Walt Disney version of Alice in Wonderland to be the one of the few feature films to come close to capturing Lewis Carroll’s dreamlike, non-linear books and gain greater appreciation with each generation.", null, "The 2010 Tim Burton version was the first Alice adaptation to be a box office hit out of the gate, but a story thread was needed in order for Alice’s adventure to “made sense” and “send a message.” The very things that make Carroll’s books so eternally compelling is that they defy all sense and that the audience is given the option of interpreting them—or not—”and when you come to the end, stop… see.”\n\nWalt Disney and his artists could never really tame this beast of a fantasy. The finished film was not among Walt’s favorites—although the Wonderland concept was of constant fascination throughout his career, from the Alice in Cartoonland series and his first TV special, One Hour in Wonderland (promoting the 1951 Alice), to the popular Alice in Wonderland ride and Mad Tea Party teacups park attractions.\n\nUltimately, the film is one of a select few classics that only gains momentum as the world catches up with it. Ward Kimball (who contributed the acerbic Cheshire Cat and unhinged Mad Tea Party sequences) called the movie a “loud-mouthed vaudeville show.” Maybe it was to a degree. So are Looney Tunes cartoons, Marx Brothers comedies and Monty Python sketches. It took on a life of its own, a Young Frankenstein monster of animated design, music and madness. that even its creator could not contain. Surely no one in 1951 expected this sort of thing from Disney—much less a confident, outspoken female character like Alice, who did not suffer fools and stood up to authority. Don’t let’s be silly!\n\n[As of last Friday on Cartoon Research, our wondrous friend Jim Korkis has by coincidence started a multi-part series on Disney’s Alice, and its journey to the screen. I not only urge you to enjoy it but also the comments which share the same acknowledgment of the 1951 film as a definitive masterwork.]\n\nAs we covered in previous Animation Spins, particularly this one about The Greatest Record Album Ever Made, there was no soundtrack album for Alice in Wonderland until the CD in 1997. Briefly, Decca had purchased the rights but dropped the option. The newly-minted Disneyland Record company decided to record a studio version with their musical director (and Disney Legend), Tutti Camarata, and multi-talented Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer Darlene Gillespie.\n\nWalt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland, Music from the Score Conducted by Camarata (which can be downloaded at Amazon, iTunes, Spotify or on vinyl picture dischttps://www.disneymusicemporium.com/product/XVLP32/alice-in-wonderland-picture-vinyl). It was recorded in 1957 at Hollywood’s famed Capitol Records building with an immense orchestra and chorus (Norman Luboff may have been involved with assembling the singers, the female voice in “’Twas Brillig” could be his wife Betty; Thurl Ravenscroft can also be heard clearly in the ensemble).\n\nDarlene was narrated the story on one of the earliest albums in the original “Storyteller” LP record and book series. Her narration bridges each of the songs, while some of the music bridges and instrumentals also play while she speaks. Released in 1958, the album had a glossy book inside the gatefold cover with short text, line art and color images from the film.\n\nWhen the ABC-TV network canceled the Mickey Mouse Club, Disneyland Records re-recorded and repackaged most of the Storyteller albums to replace the Mouseketeer narrations by Darlene Gillespie from Alice, Annette Funicello from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (see this Spin) and Jimmie Dodd from Peter Pan and Bambi (see this Spin).\n\nEach new gatefold cover did not mention a narrator at all, but did include an intriguing “Magic Mirror.” This was a die-cut oval revealing a portion of the front page—a clever selling tactic because one could not see the whole illustration without buying the record! Surrounding the Magic Mirror was a photograph of a fabric pattern selected by the art director to complement the illustration and the theme of the story. Alice was given a simple plaid checked cloth fabric, as opposed to an elegant satin for Cinderella, or a forest green fabric for Peter Pan, etc).\n\nDisney Legend Ginny Tyler performed all the scripts as they were originally written with only a few revisions. She is not credited on these albums, but introduces herself as the “Disneyland Storyteller.” She begins the Alice LP with a transitional device: “I’ll be Alice… Alice in Wonderland!” and continues in character as a little girl. She does the same on the Cinderella Magic Mirror Storyteller, upon which her narration replaces Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket (see this Spin).\n\nDarlene portrayed Alice basically as herself, a personality in the role she created as the singer on the album and a performer on the Mickey Mouse Club. Her performance is not slick or polished but is natural, unpretentious and even quite amusing.\n\nA master of voice acting, Ginny Tyler plays every role as a separate entity, not just as a ‘different’ voice. Everything about her performance is top drawer—the pacing, breath control, diction—and most important and difficult, the choice of how to emphasize the words. One can vary the tone just for the sake of not sounding repetitious and it becomes a sing-song. There does not seem to be a Ginny Tyler narration in existence that is not on the button.\n\nHowever, there’s no getting away from the fact that this was not Ginny’s script—and not her songs, because Darlene was still singing. It is a challenge that she rises to admirably. It works, because lots of Storytellers were narrated by actors who were not necessarily in the soundtrack portions of the records, but for those who know the Darlene version, the original works better—which is ironic because Darlene isn’t the original Alice, either, but her identity on the Camarata album was attached to her narration. One thing must have been fir sure—the narration was specifically designed to flow in and around the songs and instrumentals from Camarata’s album.", null, "When the Magic Mirror series was being produced, Disneyland Records was struggling with cost-cutting measures to stay in existence. For this reason, some steps were skipped when making the re-recorded Storyteller albums. Back in 1958, Alice in Wonderland Storyteller was produced by recording Darlene’s narration and sometimes timing it when it needed to be inserted within the bridge of a song. Then it was fitted over the various instrumental sections, inside the song bridges and between the songs.\n\nAfter Ginny Tyler recorded her 1962 replacement narration, it would have taken time and money to go back to the music tracks, time some of it, place her narration over the sections again, making sure they match, etc. Instead, her narration was recorded “wild,” with no need to time (note that her version is a few minutes longer, allowing her the freedom to slow down and play with the voices). When Darlene’s narration was present on the tape over some music, or heard on a portion of a song, it was either cut or faded. This saved hours of studio time, resulting in much-needed cost savings in 1962–when the record company faced closure unless it kept making more and costing less. Annette’s pop records had kept the label afloat since 1959 and that lead to what was still a few years away—the recording success of Mary Poppins, which solidified the Disney Music Group to this day.\n\nThroughout the sixties and seventies, it was very possible to buy a Magic Mirror or an even later edition of a Storyteller album and still find a Mouseketeer narration inside. The supply of early LP versions must have been plentiful. Perhaps the old covers were discarded when a new cover was printed and the remaining early records were placed into new covers. Disneyland Records must have known this because none of the subsequent covers was very specific about the narrators unless they never changed (like Cliff Edwards as Jiminy Cricket, who was NOT replaced on Pinocchio, as explored in this Spin).\n\nTo millions of listeners, the Magic Mirrors were narrated by whoever was on the record inside regardless of the date on the cover. Even in 1969, when the cover sported the super groovy artwork that was used five years later when the film was reissued for its second time in 23 years (and the film stills were replaced by painted illustrations), it was conceivable that the 1958 version could be inside.\n\n[Anecdotally, I received my first copy of the 1962 Alice Magic Mirror album in 1966. The 1958 Darlene Gillespie record was inside and it was over ten years before I even realized that Ginny Tyler recorded her own version. In the late seventies, my brand-new copy of the 1969 Snow White Storyteller with the purple cover had the 1957 Annette-narrated LP was inside.]\n\nDarlene was sixteen (going on seventeen), and about five years older than the movie voice of Alice, Disney Legend Kathryn Beaumont. Either the Storyteller script was written to fit her TV persona as an American TV teen of the 1950s, or she just made the lines work in her own style. It’s always fascinating to compare two different interpretations.\n\nThis is the 1962 Magic Mirror version narrated by Ginny Tyler:", null, "This text was also recorded by Lucille Bliss [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzhRTOCbCsM] for Disney’s Peter Cottontail album, which was in this Spin.\n\nInstrumentals: “Alice in Wonderland,” “In a World of My Own,” “I’m Late,” “The Caucus Race,” “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” by Sammy Fain, Bob Hilliard; “March of the Cards” by Sammy Fain.\n\nOne of the finest of Jymn Magon’s late-seventies “new wave” of Disneyland read-alongs that added a cast, music and sound effects. The text was similar with alterations to fit the dialogue and to work the songs into the narrative rather than putting them at the end.\n\nThe Camarata album provided a rich library of cues for the background. Listening carefully, it is possible to hear the vocals in some of the background music. The songs had the vocals mixed down to be barely audible so they could be used as underscore.\n\nAlice in Wonderland was revamped as a read-along once more in 1999 (#60437-2) by Randy Thornton and Ted Kryczko in 1999. For the first time, Oliver Wallace’s background music from the 1951 film soundtrack was heard in the background. Roy Dotrice narrated. Originally released exclusively on cassette, it is now out of print but would most likely be the current version if reissued in the future by Disney Publishing, which now releases CD read-along packages.\n\nSalvador “Tutti” Camarata must have loved this gorgeous vocal arrangement in his native family language version over his original orchestral track." ]

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[ null, "In the conclusion to the Unblemished trilogy, the Verity must put an end to the Void, and Queen Eliyana - as vessel of the Verity - must lead the battle. Souls are at stake…as well as El’s heart. She must somehow discern whom to trust while trying to piece together her shattered memories. But with so much at stake, she cannot afford to lose.\n\nSara Ella masterfully takes readers to new worlds in the jaw-dropping finale to the Unblemished trilogy. With the fate of the Reflections at stake, Eliyana must destroy the Void . . . but at what cost?\n\nEliyana Ember is a reluctant queen. As vessel of the Verity—the purest of souls—only she can lead the fight against the wicked magnetism of the Void. If she fails, the paths between Reflections will cease to exist, and those she loves will remain plagued by darkness.\n\nAfter falling through a draining Threshold and suffering near-death, Eliyana awakens to a Shadowalker-ridden Venice, Italy. From there, she must learn to navigate mysteries of time and space. Traveling across the seven Reflections, Eliyana seeks one thing: the demise of the Void.\n\nBut something else is at stake—the fate of her heart. Kyaphus Rhyen and Joshua David, brothers in arms, duel to win her hand. Ky remains ensnared and tortured by the Void. Joshua, though well-meaning, harbors dark secrets. Meanwhile, Eliyana finds herself torn, her mind and memories leading her in one direction, but her heart pulling her toward a man she knows she shouldn’t trust.\n\nHow can she discern whom to believe when she cannot even depend on her own fragmented memories?\n\nTraversing the realms of fantasy and reality through a labyrinth of plot twists, Unbreakable delivers a thrilling conclusion to Sara Ella’s Unblemished Trilogy.\n\nSara Ella is the award-winning author of the Unblemished series and Coral, the upcoming reimagining of The Little Mermaid. She spends her days throwing living room dance parties for her two princesses, raising her little prince to be a king, and conquering realms of her own imaginings with her swoony husband by her side. She may or may not be obsessed with #Bookstagram, which feeds her current addiction to bookish tea and candles. A lover of fairy tales, she believes \"Happily Ever After is Never Far Away.\" Connect with Sara online at SaraElla.com; Facebook: WritingHisTruth; Twitter: @SaraEllaWrites; Instagram: SaraEllaWrites; and YouTube: Sara Ella.\n\n▼▲\n'Wow! What an exquisite conclusion to the thrilling Unblemished trilogy. . . A feast of pop culture and literary references, masterful worldbuilding and heartfelt allegory, the entire series is not to be missed--and this last book ties it all together in stunning fashion.' -- RT Book Reviews, 4 stars\n\n'Sara Ella returns with the thrilling conclusion to her Unblemished trilogy, a series that combines elements from fairy tales and fantasy to captivate the reader. . . Ella masterfully creates a realistic fantasy world, a story with a nod to pop culture and literary references. . . Her allegorical story is filled with excellent narratives, engaging characters, and truths--and plenty of plot twists! The relationships are clean, the faith element is a light touch, and the violence is neither graphic nor inappropriate. Recommended for public and school libraries, for fans of fantasy and fairy tale retellings, for young adults and adults alike.' -- Christian Library Journal\n\n▼▲\nI'm the author/artist and I want to review Unbreakable.\nBack\nBack" ]

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[ null, "Jul 19, 2018\nMicrosoft said it detected and helped the US government to block Russian hacking attempts against at least three congressional candidates this year, a Microsoft executive revealed speaking at the Aspen Security Forum today. Although the company refused to name the targets but said, the three candidates were \"people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint.\" According to the company, the Russian hackers targeted the candidates' staffers with phishing attacks, redirecting them to a fake Microsoft website, in an attempt to steal their credentials. \"Earlier this year, we did discover that a fake Microsoft domain had been established as the landing page for phishing attacks,\" said Tom Burt, Microsoft's vice president for customer security. \"And we saw metadata that suggested those phishing attacks were being directed at three candidates who are all sta\nNext Page " ]

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[ "Israel faces such a precarious military, demographic, geographic and economic reality that normalisation with the regional nations is the sole and most cost-effective solution for Israel’s security and strategic needs as well as its survival\n\nThe Abraham Accords, informally known as the Deal of the Century, is the latest attempt for the normalisation and acceptance of Israel with its neighbours. Israeli Defence Minister and alternate Prime Minister, Benjamin Gantz, thanked US President Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the UAE for inking the Abraham Accords. Gantz highlighted, “I would like to thank first and foremost US President Donald Trump, a true friend of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. The agreement expresses the alliance between regional countries that are interested in regional stability and cooperation, and emphasizes Israel’s eternal aspiration of reaching peace with its neighbors.”\n\nIsrael’s violent birth into the Middle East has always posed a problem for its neighbours and for its own image. A policy of state expansion through war with its neighbours and illegal settlement expansion into Palestine has done little to improve this image. For Israel, the normalisation with another nation in the Middle East represents a significant achievement as it has for long worked to normalise its presence in the region. Acceptance and normalisation in the region is the only solution for the long-term security of Israel due to the many strategic weaknesses. These weaknesses are geostrategic in nature meaning they exist due to the very nature of the nation and so are a constant or at the very least pose exhaustive problems for it.\n\nIsrael is an artificial nation created by colonial powers. The nation is so small that in any war scenario Israeli territory would suffer from significant loss and damage as it will have to fight from within its own territory. As a nation with less than 8,100 mi² of land, smaller than Wales in the United Kingdom and a population the size of London, Israel lacks strategic depth. At its narrowest, Israel is a mere 10 miles wide (not including the West Bank). A hostile fighter could fly across the core of Israel (from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea) within four minutes. Israel is surrounded by Muslim nations. Egypt, the largest country in the region and with a population 11 times the size of Israel can field a military that will outnumber Israel. This means Egypt can absorb casualties at a far higher rate than Israel. This would mean the Egyptian military can engage in an extended, high-intensity battle that would break the back of the Israeli military with a rate of attrition that Israel cannot sustain. If Israel was forced to simultaneously engage with the other countries it shares borders with, dividing its forces and supply lines it would run out of troops long before Egypt, even if Egypt were absorbing far more casualties.", null, "Every war, invasion or attack, is an existential threat for Israel. Despite its aggressive posture, the country’s geography and demography works against it. As a result, Israel depends upon US military and economic assistance. For its investment in military platforms is prohibitively expensive and purchasing platforms from abroad have consistently come with strings attached. The quantitative imbalance has been dealt with through the development of an industrial base that maintains an asymmetrical Qualitative Military Edge (QME). Knowing it cannot compete with the region on quantity, Israel has focused on maintaining fewer but qualitatively more advanced platforms. If Egypt or Syria were to go through rearmament, they would bankrupt Israel. The wars Israel has been victorious in were not possible without US supplies.\n\nIsrael faces significant economic dilemmas. It has a GDP of around $370 billion which is just too small to cater for its strategic imperatives. This has a knock-on effect on how much taxes the government collects, especially as it subsidises the world’s Jews to migrate to Israel to normalise its occupation. Israel’s demography also suggests it has a labour shortage as it only has 4 million people. Economic development and industrial development are labour intensive and dependent on knowledge and skills retention. With such a small labour force Israel is reliant upon foreign knowledge and expertise. All of this means Israel cannot survive with the domestic economy it has and it has come to rely upon foreign markets.\n\nAs a nation with less than 8,100 mi² of land, smaller than Wales in the United Kingdom and a population the size of London, Israel lacks strategic depth\n\nIsrael will never become self-sufficient as it will always have to import energy. Israel relies heavily on external imports for meeting most of its energy needs, spending significant amounts from its domestic budget for its transportation sector which relies on gasoline and diesel fuel, while the majority of electricity production is generated using imported coal. Whilst the region has an abundance of oil and gas, none of this is in Israel. The geography of Israel is also not naturally conducive to agriculture. More than half of the land area is desert and only 20% of Israel’s land area is naturally arable. The climate and lack of water resources also do not favor Israeli farming as a result Israel suffers from a chronic water shortage.\n\nTo get around its economic dilemmas Israel has focused on key industries for its survival; technology, military and foreign aid transfers. It also relies on influential Zionists from across the world, especially in the US to influence the foreign policies of these states in favour of Israel. Israel has a heavy dependency on the goodwill of other states. If it was to lose favour it is too small for a country to be self-sufficient. Because of the strategic role Israel plays in the Middle East, it has been spoiled with military hardware and technology which would have otherwise taken it decades to develop. Israel is reliant upon foreign nations and people for its survival, without them it simply could not exist due to the geographical challenges it faces.\n\nIsrael has supported America’s agenda in the Middle East as it needs a foreign patron to survive. But the US being a global power has interests within the Middle East beyond Israel. Despite significant lobbying efforts in the US and constant statements of shared history and interests, Israeli governments have regularly fallen foul of the US and even been disciplined by them. The Obama administration agreed to a nuclear deal with Iran despite condemnation by Israel as it strengthened Iran. The US looks upon two states in historic Palestine with parts of the West Bank being a Palestinian state. This is a strategic problem for Israel as it will not control all the strategic areas in and around Palestine. Israel has attempted to build settlements and expand its final territory, but it does not see eye-to-eye with the US on this issue. Israel is such an artificial creation which is why there is very little it can do and to compensate for this it needs a foreign patron, the US, to survive. Despite differences with the US on numerous issues, Israeli leaders have concluded there is no other way it could survive in the region without a foreign backer.\n\nIsrael is such an artificial creation which is why there is very little it can do and to compensate for this it needs a foreign patron, the US, to survive\n\nIsrael faces such a precarious military, demographic, geographic and economic reality that no amount of development can change these facts. Despite receiving significant US funds and military equipment it is outnumbered and surrounded. The only viable strategy for Israel is for the regional nations to normalise relations with it. This will allow it to focus on commercial and economic issues rather than military and security matters. Therefore, normalisation with the regional nations is the sole and most cost-effective solution for Israel’s security and strategic needs as well as its survival.\n\nThe next parts in the series will explore how Israel has attempted to normalise its relations with the nations in the region and beyond." ]

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[ "The case is the latest legal battle amid a broader \"free the nipple\" campaign that seeks to normalize the exposure of female nipples.\n\nA Utah woman has been charged with lewdness in her own home after her stepchildren walked into the room and saw her bare chest.\n\nAttorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah argued this week that the statute under which Tilli Buchanan, 27, was charged is unconstitutional, and they have asked a judge to drop the charges against her and change the state law.\n\nBuchanan and her husband had been installing drywall in the garage and had taken off their shirts that were itchy from the fibers, she told The Salt Lake Tribune.\n\nWhen her stepchildren, aged 9, 10 and 13, walked in, she “explained she considers herself a feminist and wanted to make a point that everybody should be fine with walking around their house or elsewhere with skin showing,” her lawyers wrote in court documents, The Associated Press reports.\n\nNow the state has charged Buchanan with three charges of lewdness involving a child. The charge is a Class A misdemeanor.\n\nThough her husband was similarly clad, he was not charged with a crime.\n\nThe state’s lewdness statute criminalizes exposure of “the female breast below the top of the areola” in the presence of a child in a private place “under circumstances the person should know will likely cause affront or alarm.”\n\nIf convicted, Buchanan faces imprisonment, fines and the requirement to register as a sex offender for 10 years.\n\n“It was in the privacy of my own home. My husband was right next to me in the same exact manner that I was, and he’s not being prosecuted,” she told reporters after the court hearing.\n\nThe charges were filed after the children’s mother told that authorities she was “alarmed” by the incident, according the AP.\n\nBuchanan’s case raises a number of constitutional concerns, says Leah Farrell, an attorney at the ACLU of Utah.\n\nTo begin with, “the criminalizing of behavior that many people don’t consider criminal, and is normal.”\n\nMost people wouldn’t consider, for instance, that they “might be brought into court because of their dealing with their dirty clothes within their house. Anything that really extends the criminal justice system into people’s homes in this way is something that we’re interested in looking at closer,” Farrell says.\n\nAnd then there’s the gender issue.\n\n“Simply because Miss Buchanan is a woman, she is facing this charge,” Farrell says. “Therefore, women throughout Utah are at higher risk of facing a criminal charge simply because of their gender. There are different ideas around what morality is or is not. But the state’s reach to criminalize morality based on gender and gender stereotyping is incredibly problematic.”\n\nFarrell notes that the statute’s language requiring women to predict whether going topless is likely to cause “affront or alarm” imposes an additional burden that is not required of men.\n\nRyan Robinson, West Valley City prosecutor, would not comment on the case, except to say that city prosecutors “see our role as enforcing the law of the state of Utah as enacted by our state legislature, and we’re excited to see what the judge decides.”\n\nThe judge said she will rule in the coming months.\n\nIn February, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal judge’s ruling that an ordinance in Fort Collins, Colo., banning women from being topless in public was unconstitutional. Fort Collins decided not to appeal the court’s decision, after spending more than $300,000 to defend its ban.\n\nThat case concerned women being treated differently in public rather than in private. If anything, Buchanan may have a stronger case, says Farrell: “You wouldn’t think you would lose those protections within the private space of your home.”\n\nThe courtroom battles are one front in what’s called the “free the nipple” movement.\n\nIn August, three women who were arrested and convicted for being topless at a New Hampshire beach asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case. They argue that the city ordinance barring women from showing their nipples in public is inherently discriminatory on the basis of gender.\n\nFacebook has also been criticized for its ban on images of women with “uncovered female nipples except in the context of breastfeeding, birth giving and after-birth moments, health-related situations (for example, post-mastectomy, breast cancer awareness or gender confirmation surgery) or an act of protest.” Instagram’s policy on female nipples is similar.\n\nMore than 100 people lay nude in front of Facebook’s New York offices in May, holding aloft images of female nipples in protest of the company’s policies.", null, null, null, "In an interview with NPR, the president's niece says the cruelty of the president's upbringing was eventually mirrored in his own actions, making him unfit for office in her view." ]

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[ null, "Munawar Faruqui lately admitted that he has struggled with suicidal ideas in his life, and opened up about how he managed to push away these ideas in moments of weak spot. He additionally revealed that he discovered himself in a troublesome state after he heard of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s dying, allegedly by suicide, and finds himself in the identical state at any time when he hears such information about anybody. Also Read| Munawar Faruqui says cheating in relationship is his biggest regret\n\nWhen he participated within the actuality TV present Lock Upp earlier this yr, Munawar had shared with host Kangana Ranaut and others that his mom had taken her personal life in January of 2007 by ingesting acid. He had mentioned, “The doctors also told us that my mom had not had anything to eat for eight days. For 22 years of her married life, my mom was not happy. All my life, I saw her being beaten up or saw fights between my parents.”\n\nIn a current dialog with Siddharth Kannan, Munawar was requested if he has additionally struggled with suicidal ideas, and he replied with a sure. Asked how he pushed these ideas away, the humorist mentioned, “This body has been given by God. In Islam, many things are ‘haram’ (sin) because they harm your body, like tattoos, ciggarette. Ending that body’s existence is considered the biggest sin. And I really feel that about my mother, why did she do this? Such a smart woman, why did she do this knowing it’s a sin? It is said that weak people do this, but last 3-4 years I realised that only very strong people can do this.”\n\nHe added, “When I heard about Sushant Singh Rajput… 2-3 din tak haath kaanp rahe the (my hands were shaking for two-three days). Even today when I hear news like that, or end up joking about it myself, after a minute I just go back there. And I realise what it takes. When these thoughts started coming into my head, the first thing that stopped me was that God doesn’t allow it, and the second is you start seeing faces. When they hear the news what will be their first reaction? Ruk jaa, mat kar (stop, don’t do this).”\n\nMunawar, who emerged because the winner of Lock Upp, lately launched a brand new track, Khawab, which he has written, composed, and sung. In the track, he speaks concerning the experiences of his life, together with the lack of his mom and his new-found fame. He additionally mentions his arrest in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, in July final yr, over an alleged joke about Hindu deities throughout considered one of his exhibits." ]

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[ null, "There are more questions than answers this morning, on this mandatory 14-quarantine at a government approved facility, now that one local family said no and proceeded to go home.\n\nA vague statement was issued by a police spokesman shortly after 2am today, saying: “The Bermuda Police Service wishes to advise that the situation involving a family who declined to quarantine at a government approved facility, and instead proceeded to their residence upon returning to the island, remains under review.\n\n“As such, there will be no further comment on the matter at this time.”\n\nBut what does that review actually mean when it comes right down to it.\n\nThe policy, implemented by Premier David Burt and approved by Cabinet dictates that all non-vaccinated passengers who arrive in Bermuda are required to quarantine for 14-days at a government approved facility.\n\nBut if it is mandatory and you can arrive without being vaccinated and just walk away – then obviously it’s not mandatory.\n\nThe family was not detained or arrested – they simply declined paying to be quarantined at their own expense and went home.\n\nWhat a review will do about that today – apparently absolutely nothing!\n\nBermuda Real knows of several Bermudians currently abroad, who are not vaccinated, who insist that they have no intentions of going into quarantine at their own expense.\n\nOne resident, who left for the UK about two weeks before the policy went into effect, stated outright that he would go to jail first before he pays a single dime to any approved facility.\n\nHow this all pans out in the days ahead remains to be seen, but clearly the pushback has just begun.\n\nThe full story was carried live in progress outside the home of Sophia Cannonier by TNN, when police showed up. They were joined by health officials and eventually stood down.\n\nA number of area residents also stood watch as the events unfolded.", null, null ]

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[ "A pastor at the House of Commons\n\nRose Hudson-Wilkin is responsible for pastoral care of both members and staff of the Palace of Westminster.", null, "Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin is the 79th Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons.\n\nSince November 2014, she has been Priest in Charge of St Mary-at-Hill, City of London. She additionally holds the roles of priest vicar at Westminster Abbey and chaplain to the Queen.\n\nBorn and brought up in Montego Bay, Jamaica, she is the first black female chaplain to the Commons. In 1982, Hudson-Wilkin travelled to the UK to train at the Church Army college in the West Midlands. She was ordained in 1994, the first year that the Church of England accepted female ordination.\n\n\nMAIN DUTIES AT THE HOUSE OF COMMONS\n\nAccording to the UK Parliament, her main duties and responsibilities are:\n\n\nIn an interview with the UK Evangelical Alliance, the Reverend emphasised the importance of praying for the members of the Commons, so that they may \"keep in mind their responsibility to seek to improve the condition of all mankind; so may your kingdom come and your name be hallowed\".\n\nBaptisms and weddings in the chapel for the Members of Parliament (MPs), Lords, staff and their families keep her busy because most months there are a few, which she must prepare for. But it is not all marriage preparation and prayers, there's also pastoral work.\n\n“People know where I am. They know my office is there and they don't need an appointment to see me. It is like having a parish. It is a parish – my Westminster parish”, she commented.\n\nWhen Hudson-Wilkin was appointed in 2010, there were many who questioned it, and they keep criticising her roles even today, but she does not pay attention to it:\n\n“I have very little time for those who regularly shout political correctness. They are not living in the real world. The real world that I know is a multi-ethnic and multicultural world and I look to see all parts of society reflecting that.” “Britain is a multi-ethnic society. I would like to see that reflected in all walks of life, and also reflected here in parliament.” she added.\n\nAnother challenge is the division between politics and faith, with the secularisation of public life that any institution has to face nowadays. But Rose was optimistic: “I know some say MPs only come to the prayers on Wednesdays to get their seat for Prime Minister's Questions, but on other days of the week, when they do not need to save any seats, people still come in. They say to me: ‘We like to have this quiet before things get rather raucous’. The prayers are valued”.\n\nShe believed Christians should not separate faith from life. “You see my take on the Christian faith is not about a holy huddle”, the chaplain explained. “It is about a faith being lived out. If you look at the gospels – and even in the Old Testament – the focus is about people and their lives. Our Lord said: ‘I have come that they might have life and have it more abundantly’. If there is something in society that prevents people from having abundant life, then it should be challenged”, she stated.\n\nAnd challenge it she does. Rose is known for being straight-talking despite living in the world of cautious politicians. “We should be looking after the widows, the orphans, the children. That's what my gospel is about. So I don't see faith as a separate entity to politics, for me it is intertwined.”\n\nThe chaplain urged Christians in the UK to “get off their backsides, not grumbling about what is going wrong in their community”, but actually endeavouring to put things right. “Christians should not always blame government or political parties for not doing the things they want.”\n\nBesides nursing the spiritual health of British politicians, and her duties as a vicar, the Reverend also has a family. So how does she fit all this into her day? “Someone once said how do you do it all? I said: I don't think about it, because if I thought about it I would know that it's impossible. So I just wake up and do it”, she concluded.\n\n\nYOUR ARE AT: Evangelical Focus - CITIES - A pastor at the House of Commons\nADVERTISING" ]

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[ null, "Pope Cornelius (died June 253) was the Bishop of Rome from 6 or 13 March 251 to his martyrdom in 253. He was pope during and following a period of persecution of the church and a schism occurred over how repentant church members who had practiced pagan sacrifices to protect themselves could be readmitted to the church. Cornelius agreed with Cyprian of Carthage that those who had lapsed could be restored to communion after varying forms of penance. That position was in contrast to the Novationists, who held that those who failed to maintain their confession of faith under persecution would not be received again into communion with the church. That resulted in a schism in the Church of Rome that spread as each side sought to gather support. Cornelius held a synod that confirmed his election and excommunicated Novatian, but the controversy regarding lapsed members continued for years.\n\nThe persecutions resumed in 251 under Emperor Trebonianus Gallus. Cornelius was sent into exile and may have died from the rigours of his banishment, but later accounts say that he was beheaded.\n\nEmperor Decius, who ruled from 249 to 251 AD, persecuted Christians in the Roman Empire rather sporadically and locally, but starting in January of the year 250, he ordered all citizens to perform a religious sacrifice in the presence of commissioners, or else face death. Many Christians refused and were martyred, (including Pope Fabian on 20 January 250), while others partook in the sacrifices in order to save their own lives.\n\nTwo schools of thought arose after the persecution. One side, led by Novatian, a priest in the diocese of Rome, believed that those who had stopped practising Christianity during the persecution could not be accepted back into the church, even if they repented. He held that idolatry was an unpardonable sin, and that the Church had no authority to forgive apostates, but that their forgiveness must be left to God; it could not be pronounced in this world. The opposing side, including Cornelius and Cyprian of Carthage, believed that the lapsi could be restored to communion through repentance, demonstrated by a period of penance.\n\nDuring the persecution it proved impossible to elect a successor, and the papal seat remained vacant for a year. During this period the church was governed by several priests, including Novatian. However, when Decius left Rome to fight the invading Goths, the Roman clergy chose a new bishop. In the fourteen months without a pope, the leading candidate, Moses, had died under the persecution. Novatian believed that he would be elected; however, the more moderate Cornelius was unwillingly elected the twenty-first pope in March 251.\n\nThose who supported a more rigorist position had Novatian consecrated bishop and refused to recognize Cornelius as Bishop of Rome. Both sides sent out letters to other bishops seeking recognition and support. Cornelius had the support of Cyprian, Dionysius, and most African and Eastern bishops while Novatian had the support of a minority of clergy and laymen in Rome. Cornelius's next action was to convene a synod of 60 bishops to acknowledge him as the rightful pope and the council excommunicated Novatian as well as all Novatianists. Also addressed in the synod was that Christians who stopped practising during Emperor Decius's persecution could be re-admitted into the Christian community only after doing penance.\n\nThe verdict of the synod was sent to the Christian bishops, most notably the bishop of Antioch, a fierce Novatian supporter, in order to convince him to accept Cornelius as bishop of Rome. The letters that Cornelius sent to surrounding bishops provide information of the size of the church in Rome at that time. Cornelius mentions that the Roman Church had, \"forty six priests, seven deacons, seven sub-deacons, forty two acolytes, fifty two ostiarii, and over one thousand five hundred widows and persons in distress.\" His letters also inform that Cornelius had a staff of over 150 clergy members and the church fed over 1,500 people daily. From these numbers, it has been estimated that there were at least 50,000 Christians in Rome during the papacy of Pope Cornelius.\n\nIn June 251, Decius was killed in battle with the Goths; and persecutions resumed under his successor, Trebonianus Gallus. Cornelius was exiled to Centumcellae, Italy, where he died in June 253. The Liberian catalogue lists his death as being from the hardships of banishment; however, later sources claim he was beheaded. Cornelius is not buried in the chapel of the popes, but in a nearby catacomb, and the inscription on his tomb is in Latin, instead of the Greek of his predecessor Pope Fabian and successor Lucius I. It reads, \"Cornelius Martyr.\" The letters Cornelius sent while in exile are all written in the colloquial Latin of the period instead of the classical style used by the educated such as Cyprian, a theologian as well as a bishop, and Novatian, who was also a philosopher. This suggests that Cornelius did not come from an extremely wealthy family and thus was not given a sophisticated education as a child. A letter from Cornelius while in exile mentions an office of \"exorcist\" in the church for the first time. Canon law has since then required each diocese to have an exorcist.\n\nSome of his relics were taken to Germany during the Middle Ages; his head was claimed by Kornelimünster Abbey near Aachen. In the Rhineland, he was also a patron saint of lovers. A legend associated with Cornelius tells of a young artist who was commissioned to decorate the Corneliuskapelle in the Selikum quarter of Neuss. The daughter of a local townsman fell in love with the artist, but her father forbade the marriage, remarking that he would only consent if the pope did as well. Miraculously, the statue of Cornelius leaned forward from the altar and blessed the pair, and the two lovers were thus married.\n\nCornelius, along with Quirinus of Neuss, Hubertus and Anthony the Great, was venerated as one of the Four Holy Marshals in the Rhineland during the late Middle Ages.\n\nA legend told at Carnac states that its stones were once pagan soldiers who had been turned into stone by Cornelius, who was fleeing from them.\n\nThe Catholic Church commemorated Cornelius by venerating him, with his Saint's Day on 16 September, which he shares with his friend Cyprian. His Saint's Day was originally on 14 September, the date on which both Cyprian and Cornelius were martyred, according to Jerome. Cornelius's saintly name means \"battle horn\", and he is represented in icons by a pope either holding some form of cow's horn or with a cow nearby. He is the patron against earache, epilepsy, fever, twitching, and also of cattle, domestic animals, earache sufferers, epileptics, and the town of Kornelimünster, Germany, where his head is enshrined.\n\nThe contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 08 Mar 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.\nView Cornelius 's image gallery\nImage Gallery", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "It’s been just about a long time since Apex Legends was delivered, however players actually have issues, mistakes and exclusions while playing or running the game. Numerous players whine that they received a blunder message saying, ‘The server has received erroneous player data’ while getting to the pre-match hall screen by getting to Reddit and Twitter.\n\nAll players in Apex Legends with ‘Blunder Disconnect Persistence’ or ‘Server Received Invalid Player Data from Response Store’ can not play, and assuming this is the case, there are investigating guidelines making sense of numerous arrangements so don’t look any further. finish. This stodgy Apex Legends mistake code\n\nPrior to applying the arrangements referenced beneath to fix Apex Legends mistake code issues, we suggest that you first really look at your web association and redesign the game to the most recent form. On the off chance that you have a steady web association and you have proactively refreshed the game to the most recent fix and you are as yet getting this mistake, attempt the accompanying strategies to fix the issue.\n\nMost availability or server issues happen when Apex Legends’ servers are down. Hence, it is prescribed to actually look at the server wellbeing of Apex Legends prior to applying any specialized arrangement. To check the situation with Apex Legends servers, you should visit the authority Twitter handle of Apex Legends and EA Support. In the event that you access your Twitter account, you can let Apex Legends know if the server is down.\n\nOn the off chance that you can’t find a post that makes reference to a continuous issue, you’ll need to show up for an outsider site called Downdetector. At the point when you visit the site, you will see an outline showing the quantity of grievances submitted as of now. Altogether, this outsider site reports episodes when the quantity of protests surpasses the ordinary volume around then.\n\nIn the event that Apex Legends’ servers are right now down, we will have no real option except to trust that the designer will deliver a fix to resolve the continuous issue.\n\nOn the off chance that your Apex Legends server isn’t down, however you are disapproving of “Apex Legends server received invalid player data from Respawn Storage” then you ought to investigate your organization. To fix this, you want to restart your gaming gadget and change your web association from Wi-Fi to portable data as well as the other way around.\n\nOn the off chance that the over two strategies don’t take care of the issue, then, at that point, you should control cycle your gaming gadget to clear any impermanent issues or reserve on your PC.\n\nThe following are a couple of basic strides to drive your PC or control center.\n\nSwitch off Apex Legends on your gaming gadget.\nSwitch off the PC and turn off the power link from the power source and the gadget.\nSit tight for some time and plug in the wires.\nTurn on your PC/control center and open Apex Legends to check whether the blunder endures.\n\nAt last, to fix the issue of getting inaccurate player data from the Apex Legends servers, you should uninstall and reinstall the game from your PC. When you have effectively erased the game from your gaming gadget, go to the client store and download the game once more. After the download and establishment process is finished, you ought to run the game on your PC and check for mistakes.\n\nAssuming that you are as yet encountering issues with Apex Legends blunder codes, you ought to contact EA Help for additional help. We will refresh this post when we find more ways of fixing the issue of invalid player data received from the Apex Legends servers.", null, null, null, "Itter Wordle {Sep} Explore The Concept Behind It!\n\nAmong Us Submerged Map (May-2022) Find Out Complete Insight Here!\n\nIs Darwin’s Data Legit or a Scam {July} About Wife & Children!" ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "Follow Me\nIt's strange enough for Tamal to be the new kid in town. But it's even stranger to be living in the house that everyone wants to avoid, a house with a very deadly history. Nobody wants to talk about what happened, nobody except the terrifying girl Tamal keeps encountering throughout the house. Tamal's parents can't see her, but he's sure she's there... and wants something from him. Tamal's family thought this house would be a new start... but instead, it might be a dead end.\n\nHaunt Me\nMaria has never gotten over her sister Isabella's death... and the guilt she feels about what happened. It hangs over everything she does, even an innocent slumber party with her two best friends. When one friend suggests they play a game that summons the spirits of the dead, Maria thinks it's all make-believe. But then she starts to hear from a spirit―a spirit claiming to be her sister. Maria doesn't want to think it's possible... but the sinister spirit has a way of making her listen. Has her sister actually returned?" ]

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[ "From the Editors 12 months ago\n\nOn the 75th anniversary of D-Day, on the cemetery grounds in Normandy where nearly 10,000 lost American soldiers are buried, Trump took an interview with one of his FOX faves, Laura Ingraham, in which, among other petty political slants, he proclaimed that Mueller “made a fool out of himself.”", null, "Let’s not forget that 75 years ago, 160,000 troops stormed the beaches of Normandy in order to liberate Europe from Nazi Germany. The American war cemetery where Trump conducted this interview is sacred ground. And this is where the petulant president couldn’t resist the urge to call out his political opponents such as Mueller and ‘Nervous Nancy’ (another of his ridiculous nicknames), whom he called “a disaster.”\n\nPelosi, on her part, refused to speak about the president as she entered the cemetery, stating, “I don’t talk about the president while I’m out of the country. That’s my principle.” In fact, this interview shows the grace with which she presented herself at the ceremony. If only we had a president who displayed even a little sense of decorum.\n\nPrevious Article\nHey Congress, Do Your Job.\nNext Article\nEnemies of the People" ]

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[ null, "While fans await the highly-anticipated Obi-Wan Kenobi series, it seems that another project may soon begin filming shortly after its premiere.\n\nThe speculated High Republic Disney+ project, dubbed as “Stranger Things in space,” will begin filming in June, according to Bespin Bulletin.\n\nPre-production on the series has begun, according to the site known for its Star Wars scoops, with sets being built for filming this summer. According to reports, principal photography will take place from June through December.\n\nThe series will be shot in Culver City, California, as well as Manhattan Beach Studios, which contains a large number of productions.\n\nWith the High Republic era of storytelling already in full force, it seems that Lucasfilm is trying to maximize this era through a vital volume of entertainment. And with the studio already slated to host the iconic Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, CA in late May, the series may garner a lot of attention if announced at such a fan-beloved event.\n\nHopefully, we’ll get more official word on this project soon!" ]

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[ "Kelly advances along with Filipe, Jordy and Gabriel go down.\n\nIt was a big surprise to see Jordy eliminated from the event this morning. The conditions at Keramas were quite incredible, and both Jordy and Jesse Mendes were on form. The waves ridden were really good; the massive turns were being scored, and we all know that Jordy is capable of so much more. It was close, really close, and the word out there is of a savage low-balling for the South African. There is the contention that if the judges were clearly scoring for the air games and the huge punts, then how did a backhand barrel from Jesse get the wining score?\n\nIt was mentioned in the criteria for the day that for a barrel to get the big score, it needed to be deep and throaty, and Jesse’s neat backhand barrel was far from that. With less than a point in it, the loss was a crushing blow to Jordy’s chances on the world title chase at a venue that is almost tailor-made for his style of power surfing.", null, "This turn or a half stuffed tube? Hmmmm ... Photo: WSL/Dorsey\n\nJordy rarely gets angry, hardly ever, but he gave his board one big hit, to show his frustration. It was a big deal. Martin Potter also questioned the scoring of the backhand barrel. “The result was a big question mark for me,” said Pottz. Similarly, Strider, who was watching from the water, admitted that, “It should have gone Jordy’s way.” The online world lit up with the result, and it didn't look pretty.\n\nOn a brighter note, Wade Carmichael brought some incredibly powerful turns to his heat, and surfed very controlled and competitive, putting muscles into his combos, and finishing off his rides neatly to solidify the judge’s appraisals. He wasn't going for the air, he wasn't even looking for the air sections, he was just looking for a place to sink a rail and throw some rooster-tails, a skill that he’s more than proficient at. His big score 8.5 was another power-and-precision wave, with three full-rail carves in combination, that was enough to get surfers and spectators alike cheering for his unique approach. His opponent Joan Duru continued to show his radically improved vertical backhand approach, but it wasn't enough against the rampaging longhair.\n\n@wadecarmichael throwing buckets! He just earned the highest wave score of the day with an 8.50! - Tune in LIVE on wordsurfleague.com, Facebook Live, or the free WSL app! #CoronaBaliProtected @corona\n\nThere was obviously a ton of interest in the Toledo V Callinan heat, with Filipe possibly the most on-form surfer in the world right now, but with the judges and sports fans really enjoying Callinan’s performance and approach of late. His backhand surfing is tight, fast and vertical, and he has been surfing with a calculated approach but adding in flair whenever he can, answering all of the judging criteria on the respective days’ surfing as well as showing a great variety. Filipe took to the air though, finding one incredible wave with two progressive air moves including a tweaked nose-pick reverse on the inside section off a little lip that wasn’t looking like an air section. It was a wave with all the variety and progression that was needed, and his 8.6 score was justified and saw him to victory.\n\nMichel Bourez brought a new level of power to the game against Kelly, and showed from the start that it was buckets of water that was going to impress the judges. Having said that, he also has an air game, and his first air, while not part of one of his top two rides, added interesting variety to his power-based surfing. Whereas Carmichael has no air game to speak of, Bourez still has a trick or two up his sleeve. His surfing is so savage, so powerful, but Kelly was not in the mood to tolerate any of it. Slater surfed strong and with power, and while not pulling off any wild moves in the air, he mixed it up beautifully with a long and drawn out wrapping cutback to fully utilize one big, open wall. The fact that his brings in variety to the game is refreshing to watch at this stage, where so many surfers were, as Martin Potter put it, ‘tic-tacking along, looking for the little air sections.”\n\nKelly then proceeded to do the old ‘wily competitor’ thing that he knows so well. He paddled Michel up the point until they were sitting fairly deep, and then snuck an insider out of priority. The wave turned into an absolute nugget, and taking off deep, got barrelled all the way across the reef. Kelly sneaked out cleanly and went straight into an under the lip gouge to complete one of the better combos of the day. The score of 7.5 was well deserved and he won the heat, albeit by a slim margin.\n\n“My chance came under his priority, and then when that thing came and he didn't look at it, I had to scrap to get into it,” he said of the winning wave. Kelly’s definitely buoyant however, laughing and free-styling in the interviews, and is unquestionably looking like he has found something that is getting him the hear results he craves. “There’s a little bit of magic,” he admitted after the heat, “something’s happening.”\n\nIndeed, something is happening.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "There’s something to be said for future proofing your network to ensure you’ve got the next generation technology ready for your next devices. The Netgear Nighthawk X10 is the router to choose – if you’re the target market. Narrowing down who that is, that’s the real challenge.", null, "I’ve spent a bit of time with this router now, and there is absolutely no doubt it’s one of the very best on the market. However Netgear have built a rod for their own back when they released the sensational Orbi home wifi solution for those looking for range and coverage.\n\nBefore Orbi, you needed to look at the top of the line router to ensure you had the best range and speed possible. With Orbi, if coverage across your home is what you need, you can get it with certainty.", null, "So who’s likely to buy the X10. Well, with a fast internal processor – quad core, to handle the potential traffic and devices that will connect it’s really about pure networking, and those who are going to stream content locally and want a low latency network for things like gaming.\n\nThis is as much or more a device for the hard core connected gaming and entertainment family than it is the ever-connected family.", null, "Compared to previous generations, the network range was similar if not slightly better in my testing, and the speeds on the local network were impressive. Remember, a local network speed means great transferring of data from one device to another, and when you want to store things like movies on a central storage location you want a fast network.\n\nSpeaking of movies, the X10 is also the first of its kind router to have a plex server built in. This means you can plug a USB hard drive of content into the device and stream that content to your TV or other devices all pretty much plug and play.", null, "These features are exceptional, but appealing to a smaller audience in my view.\n\nHowever, for a family or household who share content and stream a lot, the X10 is ideal – the perfect solution.\n\nWith six network ports around back, including two that can be aggregated for your network storage unit, the whole crew can plug in for your next LAN party.\n\nHart to fault the X10, except to say if you’re only looking for better WiFi coverage – there are other solutions (*Cough : Orbi)" ]

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[ "To honor the victims and heroes of 9/11, LMS hosted a tribute and balloon release on Monday, September 12. Students listened as Brad Clanton outlined the events of 2001 and \"I'm Proud to be an American\" was played. They then released balloons and stopped by to shake the hands of our own local heroes, Levelland First Responders. Watch the Tribute Video", null, null, null, "The South Plains Educational Co-op hosted Field Day for almost 500 students on Wednesday, September 28. Field Day was held at Lobo Stadium and staff and students from across LISD worked the event and brought smiles to children's faces.", null, null, "School spirit can be seen across the district as students and staff on every campus show their Lobo Loyalty!", null, null, "On September 20, LIS fourth grade students attended Ag Awareness Day where they learned about conservation, farming, and the many agricultural resources that support our local economy.", null, null, null, "Always Working for the Win!", null ]

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[ "While much cultural attention is focused on Riga during its stint as European Capital of Culture for 2014 and its annual City Festival running August 15-17, it by no means has a monopoly on artistic excellence as the forthcoming contemporary dance festival Vides Deja (Environmental Dance) 2014 should prove in Ropaži, 30km north-east of the capital.\n\nTaking place August 25-31, nine contemporary dance productions will be performed by both local and foreign dancers.\n\nAll those interested will be able to participate in dance workshops and performances led by professional choreographers and artists, as well as watch dance films, listen to a debate and go on bike tours. Entry to all festival events is free of charge.\n\nAlongside the international artists, festival visitors can watch the latest production by local choreographer Olga Žitluhina, a full-evening dance show Ārā (Outdoors), which has been nominated for a number of prestigious awards, including Performance of the Year at Latvia’s theatre awards Spēlmaņu nakts 2013/2014.\n\nFestival visitors will also be able to see productions from choreographers Lilija Lipora and Elīna Breice.\n\n“This year, we have chosen human relationships and humanity as the main themes for the festival dance program,” Festival Artistic Director, choreographer Lilija Lipora told LSM.\n\nParticipants and visitors alike will be encouraged to take part in brand new environmental dance performances and productions in the open air, to be created during the festival with the help of choreographers.\n\nThe Festival is being held in Ropaži District for the second successive year, having previously attracted several hundred visitors and lovers of the art of dance.\n\n“We are really proud and pleased that Ropaži and the surrounding area inspires the creation of new works of art and district residents and visitors are able to enjoy high-class artistic events in the regions” said Sanita Megere-Klevinska, Manager of the Ropaži Municipality Center for Culture and Education.", null ]

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[ "Defra budget takes another hit; farmers worried they may have to pay for the Badger Cull\n\nDefra received a further cut to its budget last week, shaving another £83M off. This is on top of the already planned £200M cut to take place this financial year.\n\nThe Defra budget has declined by around 25% since 2010, according to ENDS report. The National Audit Office recorded Defra’s shrinking budget in a report last year. This graphic is taken from that report. 2015-16 revenue spending had been planned at £1.76Bn before the latest cut brought it down to £1.68Bn, compared with £2.46Bn in 2009-2010. I make that a 32% cut in revenue budget.", null, "Defra seemed to have lost sight of how much they had underspent on their budget in 2013-14, something the EFRA committee chided them for, in their annual report.\n\nNatural England and the Environment Agency can expect to take another cut to their already emaciated budgets. I heard this weekend that National Nature Reserve Managers cannot afford to have their equipment serviced as there is no budget. This is the sort of false economy that starts to operate in desperate times, as the cost of replacing equipment that breaks because it has not been serviced, will be many times more expensive. Or just won’t happen.\n\nThe Farming and Landowning Industry has already set out its stall. Quoted in Farmers Weekly, ” CLA president Henry Robinson said: “Defra is an important department that does crucial work to create a regulatory framework that is a vital factor in how rural businesses make decisions.\n\n“It also plays an essential role in administering support payments. We will work closely with officials to help them understand how they can achieve their objectives.”\n\n“Mr Raymond pointed out the latest cuts came on top of recent heavy reductions from a budget ‘where there are so many demands’.\n\nHe said: “The Department is already under-resourced and we are obviously concerned when you see a reduction of £80 million out of a budget of just £2.3bn.”\n\n“It is a fair chunk on money and any reduction is a worry as we don’t know where the axe is going to fall.\n\n“The big concern, with so many demands on Defra, we could end up with more demands for cost recovery for animal health. At a time when the industry is suffering very badly on output values, that would be difficult.”\n\nDefra’s animal health budget, in particular is under immense strain and the Department and the Animal Health and Welfare Board for England has been looking for a while at areas where costs could be passed onto farmers, particularly in bovine TB policy, which eats up a huge chunk of the budget.\n\nMr Raymond cited TB testing as an example of where the Government might look to recover costs.\n\n“We know the cost of bovine TB is increasing and until the Government delivers the strategy in full to help get the disease under control, it is not going to fall.””\n\nSo Farmers are worried they might have to stump up more money to pay for TB controls, perhaps even having to take on all the costs of continuing the badger cull.\n\nYou’d think on that basis they would welcome news from the National Trust that they had completed a four year trial of badger vaccination across a large Estate in East Devon. The Trust has managed to get costs for vaccinating badgers against TB down to £242 per animal. This compares quite well with the costs of killing badgers which have come in at between £3ooo and £5000 per animal. NFU’s actual response was this, from Deputy President Minette Batters:\n\n“But we must remember that vaccination will not cure a sick badger and in areas where bTB is endemic up to one in three badgers could have the disease.\n\nThis particular National Trust programme was carried out in an area where TB is endemic and therefore is unlikely to have had any impact on controlling disease – indeed some farms in the area came down with bTB during this badger vaccination trial.”\n\nI expect Edward Jenner received the same kind of response when he invented vaccination in 1796. Vaccination is itself named after the Cow because it was cowpox which was used to vaccinate against smallpox. Ms Batters seems to struggle with the concept of vaccination being a preventative measure, and not intended to cure sick animals. As for TB being endemic to an area, it is only endemic when animals in that area are infected. It can survive in the soil, only for months. Once all the animals in an area are disease-free, the area is disease-free.\n\nIt seems, regardless of increasingly savage cuts to DEFRA budgets, NFU would rather spend thousands per badger killing the animals, than hundreds per badger on disease eradication. Perhaps when they are expected to meet the full costs of the cull themselves, farmers may decide to ignore their union and proceed with vaccination programmes.\n\nUK conservation professional, writing about nature, politics, life. All views are my own and not my employers. I don't write on behalf of anybody else.\nView all posts by Miles King →\nThis entry was posted in badgers, Defra, NFU and tagged badgers, budget, Defra, NFU. Bookmark the permalink.\n\n4 Responses to Defra budget takes another hit; farmers worried they may have to pay for the Badger Cull" ]

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[ null, "The story spans the years from 1945 to 1955 and chronicles the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael, steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.\n\n578\nHe didn't say that line in the film, did he? by Peter Roberts\n\nSo many iconic moments and characters in this film, it has been embeded in to popular culture. Whenever people think of Brando two of his roles always spring to mind and this is always one of them. This is a story that is complete just in this film. Then you get the pleasure of two more films, 'The Godfather Part II' is often quoted as being better than the original, I disagree but they are both excellent films. The third film in the trilogy isn't so great and is let down by having one of the Garcia brothers in it. This film is a must see and you will love it forever, if you don't then stop watching films altogether." ]

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[ "2 edition of Classical Calliope found in the catalog.\n\nJilted by his cheating wife when they visit a traveling circus, Marshall finds himself pulled into a world of lions and tigers, clowns, carousels and enough sweeping and shoveling to make a grown man weep. Beautiful Giulietta seems attracted to him, but when the accidents start, things get out of hand. Written from both of their points of view, we. This classical reference shows that he's both a whiz at Greek history and has had a bit of gender confusion in his day. Gender confusion is putting it mildly. Cal calls himself \"the most famous hermaphrodite in history\" ()—a fact that we can hardly debate since the book is .\n\nHome Fire is Shamsie’s retelling of a Greek tragedy, and when reading this book in class, I was really drawn to how Shamsie adapts a classical work within a modern context. (If you want to hear her talk about it, check out this awesome interview: “Adapting Antigone and Googling While Muslim” Shamsie has a really cool metaphor for her use of Antigone; she starts talking about it . Clio was one of the nine Muses, the ancient Greek goddesses of music, song and dance. In the Classical era, when the Muses were assigned specific literary and artistic spheres, Clio was named Muse of history. In this guise she was represented holding an open scroll or seated beside a chest of books. Her name was derived from the Greek verb kleô meaning to make famous.\n\nWe never forget that the classical name for the god of love lies inside the medical term for what Calliope/Cal is. An aunt who prefers female partners is coyly described within the family as \"one. The Histories of Herodotus is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature. Written from the s to the s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known around the Mediterranean and Western Asia at that time.", null, null, null, null, null, "CLASSICAL CALLIOPE - NOVEMBER - VOL, II, NO. XI [CLASSICAL CALLIOPE] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying : CLASSICAL CALLIOPE. As the muses as a whole were incredibly influential in the mortal and divine world, it comes as no surprise that they were depicted at length in classical art.\n\nCalliope, being considered the eldest, the muse at the helm of her sisters, was a popular subject. She is depicted on dozens of Athenian red figure vases, mosaics, and sculptures. Books shelved as calliope: Chikasha Stories Volume One: Shared Spirit by Glenda Galvan, The Serious Goose by Jimmy Kimmel, Leonardo and the flying boy: A.\n\nSources include contemporary studies, ancient writings, and original works by the subjects. Personalities are often humanized through anecdotes. A general index, an index by profession, and a useful Classical Calliope book line are added pluses.\n\nThe black-and-white reproductions of artifacts and artwork, photos of historical sites, /5(2). The French label Calliope boasts an extensive range of recordings, some devoted to rare works from the Renaissance to the 20th century, others presenting complete editions such as the organ music of Messiaen (performed by Louis Thiry) and the string quartets of Beethoven and Mozart (Talich Quartet).The label was awarded the Grand Prix du Président de la République, and.\n\nmetamorphoses book 5, translated by brookes more BATTLE OF THE WEDDING FEAST OF PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA [1] While Perseus, the brave son of Jupiter, surrounded at the feast by Cepheus' lords, narrated this, a raging multitude with sudden outcry filled the royal courts—not with Classical Calliope book clamours of a wedding feast but boisterous rage, portentous of dread war.\n\nIn ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Muses (Ancient Greek: μοῦσαι, Moũsai) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts. They are considered the source of the knowledge embodied in the poetry, lyric songs, and myths that were related orally for centuries in these ancient cultures.\n\nView all Presto Classical news. Mirella Freni () 10th February The Italian soprano, who was widely recognised as one of the finest Verdi and Puccini singers of the twentieth century, has died aged Ēriks Ešenvalds on There Will Come Soft Rains.\n\n8th February Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds talks to David about his. Mickey Sabbath is a depraved, cruel, aging ex-puppeteer — the dirty old man to rule all dirty old men — and one of the most reprehensible characters in literature. Which, obviously, makes him one of the most alluring to read about.\n\nAbout. Emma Curtis & The Frolick invite you back to London,for an evening of music-making at the height of Handel’s fame. Performing music from Calliope, the era’s most popular songbook, with period instruments and style, more than fifty songs from the opera, theatre, coffee-house, tavern, folk and soapbox, including A Favourite Aire by Mr.\n\nHandel in Ariadne. Calliope: 'cover is the work of two great artists' In the post \"Black Composer In Polka Dots\" I explained I had sent a respectful message to Harmonia Mundi USA, the U.S. distributor for the Calliope record label, in which I urged that the cover picture of Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges on Calliope () be replaced.\n\nBaker told SATA: \"When my husband and I founded the magazine Classical Calliope (now Calliope) ina chief goal was to heighten awareness among young people of the importance and merits of studying Greek and Roman civilization. We felt that one of the ways to accomplish this goal would be to include a department that focused on the origins of English words.\n\nMiddlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold since its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides' life and observations of his Greek heritage. It is not an autobiography; unlike the protagonist, Eugenides is not : Jeffrey Eugenides.\n\nIt plays from a paper roll or may be played manually from the keyboard on the back, creating beautiful musical effects. This particular Calliope was located on location at the New York Worlds Fair for 5 months, it was shown and furnished music for /5(24). Calliope (Lesson 61)- J.\n\nCrazy Calliope Music [Recorded in Chicago on Wurlitzer Steam Calliope]. Series: Calliope. Series by cover. Enter the name of the series to add the book to it.\n\nWorks can belong to more than one series. In some cases, So, the Dummies guides are a series of works. But the Loeb Classical Library is a series of editions, not of works.\n\nHelpers supersidvicious. Richard Goyette plays Calliope by J. Sgreras on a Goyette Classical Guitar. Calliope by J Sagreras Book 3 - Duration: HowdyShell 3, views. Kalliope (Gr:Καλλιοπη), often spelled Calliope is the Muse of epic poetry, and the daughter of Mnemosyne and is believed to be Homer's muse, the inspiration of The Iliad and account says Kalliope was the lover of the war god Ares, and bore him several sons: Mygdon, Edonus, Biston, and Odomantus (or Odomas), respectively the founders of Children: Orpheus, various others.\n\nThe Suzuki Guitar Method is a special way to teach music to children ages three and up. A student’s teacher and parents work together to create an environment in which children can learn music." ]

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[ null, "We make great journey’s as lacrosse players to games, camps, and tournaments, but we rarely consider the journey of a lacrosse stick. As a lacrosse coach who is commonly known as the Godfather of lacrosse in San Diego, Dennis Yeatman has been able to form a network of lacrosse brotherhoods and sisterhoods that extend beyond the boundaries of cities, states, and countries thanks to one traveling lacrosse stick. Throughout his over 50 years of dedication to lacrosse, lacrosse players have come to Coach Yeatman to receive guidance and direction; but it’s what Dennis Yeatman received early in his own lacrosse career that turned a young man into a true ambassador for the lacrosse community.\n\nLacrosse Sticks Can Be More Than Possessions\n\nWhen Dennis Yeatman was a spry young lacrosse player sprinting across the many fields where the sport was being played in Maryland, an All-Star lacrosse team from England came across the pond to compete against Dennis’s Severna Park HS team. While lacrosse was an extremely popular sport in Maryland during the 70’s, it’s popularity in England wasn’t comparable. Despite the massive difference in lacrosse’s prominence in England, the Brits gave Dennis and his Falcon teammates a fair contest that brought them together after the game. Dennis had a lacrosse player from the English team, Steve Fish, stay with him and his family. Steve and Dennis became great friends over the three day stay; and before returning to England, Steve traded a prized Hattersley Special lacrosse stick. This simple act of generosity, the gifting of a lacrosse stick from one player to another, is not an uncommon one but it is a powerful gesture that has a lasting effect on the recipient. Steve’s kind trade with Dennis helped direct him towards his later life of giving through lacrosse that has expanded the reach of the game to unknown degrees.\n\nAfter playing and coaching lacrosse at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, the ship Dennis was on was transferred from Bath, Maine to be home-ported in San Diego. There was little lacrosse and no youth programs in the county where he now lived; but his love for the game, and knowledge of the infectious nature of playing lacrosse, pushed Dennis Yeatman to start the first youth lacrosse program in the area, Pacific Lacrosse. By giving the local athletes who had never played in or even seen a lacrosse game the chance to try a sport that got all of the players involved, Dennis Yeatman began his own westward expansion of the game he grew up playing. And the children who started becoming passionate lacrosse players in the area helped develop a thriving community by sharing the sport with others and bringing more participants to the Pacific Lacrosse.\n\nDuring the following years of coaching lacrosse in the San Diego area with Steve Fish’s lacrosse stick by his side, Dennis Yeatman saw an expanding population of boys’ and girls’ lacrosse players amass into a community. This growth led to more lacrosse players from the area getting the opportunity to play lacrosse at the collegiate level, and this includes all five of Dennis’s children. Competing at four different colleges around the country, Grant, (USC Lacrosse), Caroline (SDSU Lacrosse), Will & Anne Morgan (University of Maryland Lacrosse), and Jack (Providence College Lacrosse) all continued on the Yeatman legacy of being passionate athletes and dedicated ambassadors of the game. And as Dennis Yeatman’s children moved on to the next levels of lacrosse, he was able to be a fan, coach, and advocate of the game that had given him so much.\n\nWhen the years of being a lacrosse coach seem to fly by season after season, it can be easy to lose track of time and fall out of touch. But Dennis was able to stay in contact with Steve throughout his entire lacrosse career as pen pals who would swap stories of their lives on opposite ends of the Earth and even had chances to meet up on a trip with their families . All the years of growing the lacrosse community in their respective areas allowed Dennis and Steve to both have plenty to tell each other of the triumphs and troubles they faced. And then, Dennis, after receiving a wooden lacrosse stick as a gift over 40 years ago, was able to send Steve one “letter” that trumped them all. With the help of the legendary lacrosse stick maker Alf Jaques, Dennis refurbished the tried and true wooden lacrosse stick Steve had given to him and restored it to its original glory. The wooden lacrosse stick had served Dennis valiantly for years as a reminder of the giving and inclusive nature of the sport; and after using that motivation to accomplish so much with Pacific Lacrosse in the San Diego area, it was time that the stick found its way home.", null, "Continuing the Lacrosse Growth in All Ways\n\nAs a lacrosse ambassador himself, Steve was able to play and develop the Croatian lacrosse team with the help of a gear donation from Dennis and Pacific Lacrosse. And there’s obviously still letters, phone calls, and emails going back and forth between these two to this day. But what Steve and Dennis both can admire, share, and appreciate together is how their friendship over the sport of lacrosse has been a giving one that continues to add to the lacrosse community. Dennis has players who he coached years ago bringing their own children to Pacific Lacrosse now, and watching these lacrosse families bud into a flowering fraternity of ambassadors of the game makes every second worth it. By applying the giving attitude that Steve Fish was able to form into a lifelong friendship with Dennis by handing over a lacrosse stick, Dennis has had an effect on the San Diego area that is an immeasurable one. Striving to teach life’s lessons to the athletes who come through his program, and worrying about the lacrosse aspect second, is the lesson that Dennis learned from that traveling stick; and it’s what keeps him going to this very day." ]

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[ null, "If you watch illegally stream content from the likes of Netflix, Sky TV and Prime Video for free, you could soon see a new warning pop-up on your screen. As part of the ongoing crackdown on piracy, a pirate IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) service allegedly operated from the UK has been shuttered by law enforcement, with anyone who now tries to access content from its servers confronted with a message warning about the dangers of piracy and the penalties for breaking the law.\n\nPirate IPTV services bundle in paid-for content such as a Netflix, Sky TV and Amazon Prime Video for a low monthly fee that’s far cheaper than paying for these paid-for streaming and telly options legitimately. This effectively means you get access to a boat load of premium content for free.\n\nOf course, because you’re not paying for these services legitimately it means the money isn’t go back to the creators themselves. If everyone did this hit shows such as this year’s unmissable breakout Netflix show Squid Game wouldn’t be possible.\n\nAnd if that isn’t a deterent enough for you, IPTV services have been linked to higher risk of credit card fraud and malware threats. So you could end up paying for using these services in other ways. Not only that, but there are no filters on IPTV products – which means adult content such as pornography or violent families can appear next to children’s shows, so wouldn’t be suitable for use when you have a family.\n\nThe latest illegal service to be shutdown hasn’t been named by police, but anyone that now tries to access it will be greeted with a warning from police against further illegal streaming. Similar warnings have been sent in the past, with hundreds of thousands of IPTV users seeing a message from West Midlands Police when they tried to access the illegal service back in September.\n\nAccording to Leicestershire Police Cyber Crime Unit, as part of the latest crackdown two people were arrested on suspicion of infringing copyright by communicating protected works to the public on Monday.\n\nThe 33-year-old man and 48-year-old woman were later released under investigation. Equipment was also seized and the IPTV service was shut down.\n\nLeicestershire Police said: “The IPTV service, which is believed to have provided illegal access to pay TV services, has since been shut down. Officers were also able to access the online platform, disable the illegal streams and display an on-screen message to users of the service warning them against further illegal streaming”.\n\nWhile Detective Constable Aaron Horn, from the Leicestershire Police Cyber Crime Unit, added: “I would like to take the opportunity to remind our communities that providing or accessing copyrighted material through illegitimate IPTV services is illegal." ]

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[ null, "The poll response comes on the heels of Trump unveiling a surprisingly softer tone at a rally yesterday.\n\n“Don’t worry about race or religion, you’re all doomed and will cave to my power,” said Trump in blend of several voices. “To me you are but flesh, equally weak and in need of my intervention. There is no Donald, there is only Baal.”\n\nTrump went on to completely abandon his harsh immigration stances.\n\n“Building a wall and banning Muslim entry would mean less soldiers for my dark army,” said Trump. “We need to support our troops by bringing in more!”\n\nEven some of the more Christian conservatives were more accepting of the Baal-possessed Trump.\n\n“Hillary is pretty damn evil, and so was Trump,” said the Zodiac Killer. “But I think we can all agree that there is nothing on Baal’s public record that shows it is more evil than Hillary or Trump. I’m willing to hitch my wagon and see where this ride takes us.”" ]

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[ "How to Get the Most out of MeetUp.com for Conversational Spanish Practice\n\nLast Sunday I stumbled upon a Spanish meetup 10 minutes from my house. I was so excited to go because it was super convenient and it was a way to practice speaking on a day I really hadn't planned on studying anyway (bonus!).\n\nI love meetup.com overall. You can find people almost everywhere that share your interests. It's a great way to connect with people that are passionate about the same things you are. I've found so many groups and met so many new people through various groups on this site, from culturally-aware moms to avid salsa dancers.\n\nFor language learning, though, I've had mixed results. I joined several Spanish meet-ups in my area when I was looking for opportunities for conversational practice. Here are the lessons I've learned trying to hone my Spanish speaking skills through going to meetups.\n\nIt's Pretty Much a Crap Shoot\n\nInitially I joined every Spanish meet up I could find within 30 miles of my house. Due to scheduling, distance, and frugality (some wanted “donations” for events that were averaging a whopping 3 people), there were many meetups I saw posted that I could not attend. Currently I'm only a member of 2.\n\nDepending on how well the meet up is organized, you don't know if the people that RSVP will actually show up. You have no indication of this based on past results, because meet-up by default assumes you attended every event you RSVP “Yes” for. This means looking at the group's past event RSVPs is not a good way to figure out if it has a decent following.\n\nIt's much more valuable to look at the comments. If you see a good number of people that rate the events highly and have comments like “this was awesome!!!” you have a better sense that people actually attended.\n\nYou May End Up Being a Student…or a Teacher\n\nMany meetups are intended to be casual and have a mix of levels of speakers. That means that if you're an absolute beginner, you could end up asking someone to translate into your native language every 30 seconds because you're completely lost. Or, as an intermediate-advanced level speaker you may either 1) gets frustrated by said beginners or 2) end up becoming their teacher for the day. It's an ego boost (man, they suck more than I do!) but really doesn't serve your purpose for going. To me the point is spontaneous conversation about interesting topics that should flow naturally.\n\nOne great thing is that many native speakers seek out and attend these meetups to maintain their own fluency and are patient with speakers of all levels.\n\nIt's also a great test of your ability to keep up with the pace of a conversation with someone who's fluent. It's much different than talking to a fellow student who speaks slowly as they pause to scan their brains for vocabulary and verb conjugations. It's also a great way to be exposed to the cultural cues you would never get in a textbook or even your best language learning app.\n\nIt's What You Make It\n\nOn Sunday I sat between someone who had literally just signed up for Spanish class and another fellow learner that I had met at several meetups prior. Unfortunately there weren't any native speakers at this meet-up, but I did meet some new people that I could meet up with outside of group outings.\n\nI was also sitting across from the organizer and had the opportunity to make a few suggestions, including letting him know the location was convenient for me and I would definitely attend other meetups there. Organizers like to hear feedback and they want the meet-ups to be well attended and beneficial for everyone. Remember they have volunteers time and money to organize the meetup, so they are committed to making it successful.\n\nNo Meetups in Your Area?\n\nI've considered starting my own meet up–mainly because most events are not close to my house. Most of the meetups I attend require me to drive for a half hour. I thought it was out of the question until I read Rachel Myers blog post on how to organize a language learning meetup. She breaks down step-by-step how to organize a meetup without it becoming like a second job. Following her advice, it's something I may consider in the future to have a more targeted group for intermediate-advanced and native speakers only.", null ]

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[ "Where do Glasgow’s cyclists cycle and how do we know?\n\nWhere do Glasgow’s cyclists cycle and how do we know?\n\nIn this guest blog, GoBike member Bob Downie explains how working with data - including Strava Metro app data provided by UBDC - has revealed patterns in cycling activity that can be used to help reduce casualties on our roads.\n\nThe roads in Britain can be unfriendly places for the cyclist. For a number of years I have campaigned as a member of GoBike, the Strathclyde Cycle Campaign, to make our highways better places to cycle. When I started campaigning it became apparent that neither the local authorities nor cycle campaign groups had a clear idea of where cyclists in the Greater Glasgow area prefer to ride. This has led to local authorities installing cycle facilities without a model of where cyclists want to travel and cycle campaign groups reacting to local authority initiatives without a clear vision of their ultimate campaign goals.\n\nIn order to find a way through this uncertainty, I evaluated several datasets that tell us about where cyclists actually travel, and compared the patterns that these reveal. For this, I have had access to four data sources, which reveal information on preferential cycle routes - the “desire lines”. These data sources are tabulated below.\n\nThe cycle tracking smartphone apps link cyclists by GPS and other data location services to servers that track when and where they cycle. Both Strava and ECC then compile these data and make them available, providing mapping and statistical data on cycle usage. Whilst the final web maps seem similar, they are compiled in significantly different ways. Strava assigns all data to modelled road segments so that it can say, for example, “on this section of road on this day there were “x” number of cyclists”. The ECC conversely collects data solely on a point-by-point, time-location basis, with the phone sending out a “ping” at fixed time intervals. This means that the slower a cyclist traverses a route, the more “pings” are collected and the busier the route will appear. Slower off-road routes thus appear conspicuously busier on ECC data than on Strava data. Both tracking apps suffer in that users are self-selecting groups, leaving open the question of whether their cycling behaviour is truly typical of the bigger cycling population.", null, "The above figure shows the Strava tracks for a section of Glasgow Southside, though for clarity the least used routes have been filtered out. The width of the blue lines is proportionate to cycle usage and shows the Strava community prefers to travel in straight lines along the main (radial) roads.", null, "An interesting feature of the Strava Metro data is that it calculates the average time that cyclists take to traverse a road segment. As the lengths of the road segments are known it is possible to calculate the average cycle moving speeds, exclusive of stopping time. Conducting this analysis shows that cyclists travel nearly 50% faster on main (radial) roads than on side streets. It also shows that very few cyclists fail to turn off Strava when they journey by car or bus, as revealed by apparent cycle speeds of >25mph on the motorway network.", null, "The above figure shows 2017 ECC data for a section of Glasgow Southside. As with the Strava data, the width of the line (red/brown) is proportionate to cycle usage. This shows that cyclists prefer to travel in straight lines along the same main roads that Strava highlights. The ECC data also suggest more usage in off-road areas but this is in part an artefact of the time-based data collection method, as previously indicated.", null, "It is an unfortunate fact that cyclists have accidents but the reality is that these are infrequent. Therefore, in order to show spatial patterns, the accident data have to be aggregated over many years. The above image shows a heatmap based on data from a 14-year period. This shows that cycle accidents align along the same main roads that both Strava and ECC data indicate are the preferential “desire lines”. The accident data also highlight that relative to the amount of cycle traffic defined by the app data, certain road features are cycle accident hotspots. These areas include roundabouts on urban dual carriageways and main roads characterised by small shops and on-street parking", null, "In recent years Glasgow City Council has conducted an annual 2-day survey of cycle activity at entry and exit points to the city centre (see numbered points on the above image). The survey stations can be cross-plotted with the associated numeric Strava Metro data-tracks (light blue lines above). A degree of scattering is shown but overall the correlation is reasonably good. If a route is busy in a roadside survey, it is also busy in Strava. This good positive correlation greatly enhances confidence in that the ability of tracking apps to provide good evidence for the location of the main cycle desire lines.\n\nBoth tracking apps suggest that cycle desire lines follow the main radial roads, rather than the quieter back streets. The data in themselves offer no explanation for this preference but logically the main roads offer the simplest and most direct routes from the suburbs to the city centre. The calculation of cycle speed from the Strava data shows that cycles travel faster on the main roads, but whether this is a cause or effect is unclear. The STATS19 accident data and the Cordon Count survey data align well with the smartphone app tracking data enhancing confidence that the apps, despite being used by self-selecting groups, are giving a true picture of cycle activity. The STATS19 accident data show that roundabouts on urban dual carriageways and main streets with shops/on-street parking have cycle accident levels considerably higher than might be expected from the cycle traffic levels shown by the cycling apps. This suggests that these areas should be a focus for action to make them safer for cyclists.", null, null, "The studies have only been undertaken in the Glasgow area and it would be beneficial to extend similar studies to a much wider geographic area to see if preferential radial/main road cycling patterns are present in all cities. The mapping of cycle accident data has revealed certain road types/features that seem to be associated with abnormally high levels of cycle accidents. Extension of these studies to a wider area might better define which road types and features need to be redesigned to reduce cycle casualties.", null, "Bob Downie has a fascination with all aspects of cycling as well as a professional background in digital mapping related to his career as a geologist. In recent years he has started to combine his interests in cycling with his interests in digital mapping to investigate cycle traffic in his home city of Glasgow. He has been showing the maps that he has made to anyone that he can get to listen to him. Happily, through his association with GoBike he has managed to get his maps in front of councillors, council officials and some MSP’s, even a government minister. Bob hopes that they will use the information to inform their future decisions on how they integrate cycling into the transport network of a modern nation." ]

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[ "We have just one night away and the Speaker's Night will arrive upon us with a marathon of madness!\n\nThe theme for the night is 'Making choices' so I hope you all make a fabulous choice and head to D'Utama to witness some exciting Speakers and Evaluators, spout pearls of wisdom.\n\nAll role-plays have kindly be taken up with Joanna Tong filling in the ASA2 position. Thank you Joanna.See you by 7pm with G.Levin.\nThe role of the Ah Counter will not take place due to time restraints sorry...but thank you Viswam for taking up this role .\nTerima kasih to those whom I asked to take up roles earlier, like Henry Fu but various speakers pulled out and adjustments had to be made accordingly.\n\nFor all speakers please ensure that you bring along your CC and ACL Manuals for your Evaluator to write in their Evaluations.Also do have your speech titles ready for me if you have not already done so.(I have been forwarded some from Marcus already).\n\nLook forward to seeing you be ' entertained' and not 'strained and drained'.\n\nSee you then.\nYours in Toastmasters\n\nUpdated by Joanne Tham\nPosted by D'Utama Toastmasters Club at 10:16 PM\nEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest", null, "Our Facilitator Dr. Devi Menon, DTM arrived as early as 7:00PM to ensure that she was prepared and properly briefed on the flow. She is a Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Languages and Linguistics where she taught for the past 18 years. She is the Lecturer Advisor of the University of Malaya Toastmaster's Club, a member of Taman Indrahana and the Charter President of Sai Masters TMC. She was the immediate past Area Governor for W3.", null, "Our 1st Speaker was strong 'CEO of Freescale', Cheah Ai Ling, CC CL (CIMA) who attempted to lift the spirits of the employees while calming them down in a hostile situation of the project \"Confrontation: The Adversary Relationship (Speeches By Management)\". She was calm, cool and compose when the audience began firing away their questions in attempt to stir up the situation.", null, "Ai Ling's Panel of Evaluators was composed of Gan Poh Lin, CC ALB, Marcus Loi, CC and Nancy Liew, ACB ALB, and the Lead Evaluator was Johnson Yike DTM. Drawing from personal experience, each evaluator gave their perspective on how the hostile situation and staff could have been manage, and the feedback was well received.", null, "Our 2nd Speaker was DTM Soh Fong Wai who shared a non-technical presentation about \"The Underwater World (Technical Presentations)\". It was an interesting piece where he shared about underwater photography and the audience was able to seek clarification & ask question during the presentation. A lighter moment of the speech when Fong Wai commented on how much the camera's cost.", null, "His Panel of Evaluators comprised of Richard Yeow, CC, Johnson Yike, DTM and Irene Lee CTM, ALB, and his Lead Evaluator was Dr. Lim Chooi Peng, DTM (Past District Governor of District 80). The Evaluators were wondering if Fong Wai was sharing about the features of a camera or to take up underwater photography. In any case, we definitely took back information about both.", null, "Our 3rd Speaker was Ernest Wong, ACB ALB who gave a new perspective on a classically folk tale, \"Cinderella (Story telling)\", and the audience had a second childhood as we were asked to imagine ourselves when we were 9 years of age. Ernest played the role of a teacher who was telling us 9 year old children the story.", null, "His Panel Evaluators consist of Gan Teong Hock, ACB ALB, Richard Yeow, CC and Calvin Lim ACS, and his Lead Evaluator was Lee Wei Seong, ACG CL. The challenge of the Storytelling manual as pointed out by the all the evaluators including the open evaluation was the important of one's voice and the use of vocal variety. Calvin gave a very impressive example (\"Dong, Dong, Dong .... and the clock struck twelve ....\").", null, "Our Facilitator, Dr. Devi Menon DTM gave an insightful take of the ACM and reminded us that though we are evaluating Advanced Speeches, we should not park our Toastmasters' Principles of Evaluation (using the sandwich matter). A point well taken and the ACMers will be more sensitive especially to first time presenters to the ACM.", null, "In conclusion, I really had a wonderful time and everyone surely have learned a lot during this meeting. We learned to beef up our communication skill, evaluation skill, and develop a thick skin ;-)\n\nWho will your child\n\nStrong leadership and effective communication are some of the key skills necessary to be successful. It is important for your child to pick up these skills as early as possible. Start them on the right path…start here…", null, "\nPROJECT 1: THE ICE BREAKER\nTo introduce yourself to an audience, giving them some information about your background, interests, and ambitions.\nPROJECT 2: ORGANISING YOUR SPEECH\nTo tell others about a topic, allowing listeners to easily follow and understand the speech, especially when moving from one idea to another.\nPROJECT 3: VOCAL VARIETY\nTo develop your voice so that it enhances your message and attracts the listeners’ attention.\nPROJECT 4: BODY LANGUAGE\nTo use body movements naturally and effectively to support your speech.\nPROJECT 5: IMPROMPTU SPEAKING\nTo learn to think within a very short time, and convey a message in a clear, logical, enjoyable, and even persuasive manner.\nPROJECT 6: EVALUATION PROCESS\nTo evaluate a speech by giving constructive and encouraging feedback with positive suggestions for improvement.\n\n“I've gained more confidence in speaking which make me feel more comfortable in approaching other people. I am able to communicate more effectively and get my message clearly across to the other person.”\nMuhammad Nur Hafidz bin Azmi, 16\n(2007 YLP Participant)\n\nACM #40 has been confirmed to be on 27 October 2009 (Tuesday) and our Facilitator is Dr. Devi Menon, DTM (from Sai Toastmasters Club & Taman Indrahana Club) !!! Dr. Devi Menon is a Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Languages and Linguistics where she taught for the past 18 years. She is the Lecturer Advisor of the University of Malaya Toastmaster's Club, a member of Taman Indrahana and the Charter President of Sai Masters TMC. She was the immediate past Area Governor for W3.\n\nALL Roles has been filled !!!! ACM #4o is ready to go !!!! I will be sending the Agenda, and Project Details (once made available by the Assignment Speakers) by next week. I'm surely looking forward to another FUN FILLED ADVANCED COMMUNICATOR MEETING !!!!\n\nFor more Information and Guidelines about the ACM: Download Here\nACM #40 is organized by D'Utama Toastmasters Club. ACM is open to ALL Competent Communicator(CC) / Toastmasters (CTM) and above, and members of good standing with their own respective club. NO DOOR Fee but registration is required to attend & for seat allocation (max 18). I will be updating the details on both D'Utama Toastmasters website and Division B Blogspot periodically and besides sending email updates.\nIf you are interested to participate, please feel free to email me ([email protected]).\n\nAs part of the club's tradition, D'Utama Toastmasters Club celebrated the birthdays' of members and guest who were born in the month of August to October in last night's meeting (15 Oct 2009).", null, null, "( posted by Johnson Yike )\nPosted by D'Utama Toastmasters Club at 10:47 AM\nEmail ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest\nLabels: Regular Meeting" ]

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[ null, "A settlement of US$12.6 million has been reached with insurers of the ship, M/T Great News, which crashed into Petrojam refinery's dock in Kingston in 2009.\n\nThe settlement amount, announced at Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing, is said to represent the full and final payment for repairs to the refinery's facility.\n\nInformation Minister Sandrea Falconer said, however, that the settlement agreed with the insurance company fell short of the value of the estimated cost of the damage to the dock.\n\nTotal cost of repairs to the dock is estimated at US$16 million (J$1.4 billion).\n\nFalconer said the difference between the total cost and settlement amount - US$3.4 million - will be claimed through a lawsuit to be brought against the shipping company, Sea Ventures Shipping Limited.\n\nThe name of the insurance company was not disclosed at the Cabinet briefing.\n\nThe settlement includes a sum of US$1.45 million approved for Titan Maritime LLC for the clean-up of debris from the seafloor which resulted from the accident.\n\nThe contract also includes a contingency amount of US$250,000.\n\nThe incident resulted in damage to the main dock destroying various sections of concrete, mechanical and piping equipment.\n\nAll the manifolds and associated pipelines used for the transmission of oil from the dock to the refinery were destroyed.\n\nM/T Great News at the time was was transporting crude oil to the Petrojam refinery, but no injury or spill was reportedly caused from the incident.\n\nSince then, the dock has been undergoing continuous rehabilitation, racking up millions in cost.\n\nWinston Watson, the refinery's general manager, was said to be travelling when the Financial Gleaner called for comment on the insurance settlement.\n\nBut already the state-owned refinery issued a J$99-million contract for emergency repairs awarded to Diving and Salvaging Limited, while the National Contracts Commission last year endorsed another for J$360.6 million for additional civil work, business interruption expenses and improvements to the dock.\n\nThe work on the dock, according to Petrojam, is divided into two parts: civil works and mechanical and electrical.\n\nThe amount of debris to be removed by Titan Maritime LLC was not immediately known." ]

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[ null, "Republican Party of India (RPI) supporters shout slogans as they block traffic on the Eastern expressway during a protest in Mumbai on Wednesday.-AFP PHOTO\n\nMembers of the Dalit community obstructed roads, damaged buses and marched down railway tracks, delaying train services which are the lifeline of India’s bustling financial capital. Some schools and business opted to close as a precaution while the city’s famous lunchbox delivery men, called “Dabbawalas”, also cancelled their services.\n\nThe protests came in response to violence which broke out at a ceremony in a village near Pune in Maharashtra state on Monday, leaving one man dead.\n\nDalits had gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the Bhima-Koregaon battle in 1818, in which they helped British colonial forces defeat the high-caste Peshwas.\n\nDailt leaders accused right-wing Hindus of inciting Monday’s clashes, which spread to other areas of Maharashtra of which Mumbai is the capital. The state government has ordered a judicial inquiry into the clashes. Mumbai police said more than 100 demonstrators had been arrested and nine cases of unlawful activity had been registered. On Wednesday politicians called for a peaceful end to the violence. “There is an attempt to create a social divide which we have to foil unitedly,” said Neelam Gorhe, a leader of the right-wing Hindu party Shiv Sena.\n\nDevendra Fadnavis, the state’s chief minister, has ordered a judicial inquiry into the clashes in Pune. Many domestic airlines have waived cancellation charges on flights to and from Mumbai as well as other neighbouring cities. The city also witnessed violence on Tuesday as protesters pelted stones at trains and clashed with security forces in several locations.\n\nMeanwhile, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader and BR Ambedkar’s grandson Prakash Ambedkar has withdrawn the state-wide bandh after normal life was badly affected in Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra on Wednesday, reports Times of India. Dalit groups had called for a complete shutdown in the state in protest against the violent clashes that broke out during the Bhima Koregaon battle anniversary in Pune on Monday. “The bandh was mostly peaceful barring two incidents in Mumbai and one in Aurangabad. I want to congratulate the protestors as they kept their calm even at a time when the emotions were very high. Police is taking combing operations in Aurangabad and that they should stop immediately,” said Ambedkar. “People are extremely hurt at the communal tensions in the state the contributions of the marginalized community towards nation building are being questioned today,” he added." ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "GREAT FALLS — Two groups each contributed $1,000 in reward money for information leading to a conviction in cases in which three elk were killed illegally and left to waste in Musselshell County.\n\nThe Montana Chapter of the Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and the Montana Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife each added to the $1,000 offered by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks through its 1-800-TIP MONT program.\n\nThe first case involves two six-point bull elk that were killed around midnight on August 17 about 10 miles east of Roundup near U.S. Highway 12. Both were on private property and left to spoil.\n\nOn August 21, Hutzenbiler was called to the southwest corner of Musselshell County near Dean Creek Road and Goulding Creek Road where a six-point bull elk was shot and killed on private property and left to waste. The elk was killed during the night of August 20.\n\nThe 1-800-TIP-MONT program is a toll-free number where people can report violations of fish, wildlife or park regulations. Callers may remain anonymous." ]

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[ null, "Apple has just rolled out iOS 16 Beta 2 build number 20A5303i. This 2nd test version is intended for Developers and can be downloaded on any compatible device that has the iOS 16 Configuration Profile installed on it!", null, "If your iPhone is already running Beta 1 and you haven’t deleted the iOS 16 Developer Beta Profile in the meantime, this 2nd beta will show up in Settings -> General -> Software Update.\n\nTap Download and Install, provide your device’s Passcode and be patient until iOS 16 Beta 2 is requested, downloaded, prepared for update, verified and installed on your iPhone!\n\nIf your iPhone runs a public iOS 15 version and you’ve decided to try out iOS 16, you have to download and install the iOS 16 Configuration Profile that enrolls your device to the Developer Beta program. This profile can be downloaded from your account on Apple’s Developer platform.\n\nYou can also grab the profile from third-party sources. However, we recommend you to do it via the official channel. More details are available here.\n\nAccording to the Developer release notes, this is what’s new in Beta 2:", null, "Other features noticed during beta testing and reported by users are:\n\nThe release notes also don’t mention too many patches. Below you can find some noticed by users:\n\nNew issues occurring for the first time in this 2nd beta are listed below:\n\nWhile reported problems that remain unfixed are listed here:\n\nHave you updated iPhone to iOS 16 Developer Beta 2? Did you spot any other features or changes not mentioned in this article? What about bugs? Share your feedback in the comments." ]

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[ null, "Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wilderness is a stark place, and Mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before.\n\nWhen a little girl appears mysteriously on their land, each is filled with wonder, but also foreboding: is she what she seems, and can they find room in their hearts for her?\n\nThis is Eowyn Ivey’s début novel based on the Russian fairy-tale, ‘Snegurochka’, which translates to ‘Little daughter of the snow’.\n\nI will admit that I committed the ultimate sin when purchasing this book – I fell in love with the cover and bought it mainly for that reason.\n\nThere are very few characters in the book and the story is mainly centred around Jack, Mabel and Faina. The descriptive of the Alaskan wilderness is as vivid as you could get, and you can imagine being stood in the middle of this harsh, yet beautiful land that Eowyn obviously knows well.\n\nJack and Mabel have moved away from the city life of the 1920’s, in to the Alaskan wilderness, so that they can be alone, after Mabel lost her child years ago and is still grieving and struggling with seeing other parents and their children.\n\nIn the wilderness, Jack runs their small farm single-handed(at first), which is hard going and taking its toll on him. Mabel is stuck at home all day and is become increasingly lonely and depressed. Life in the wilderness isn’t turning out the way they hoped it would.\n\nDuring the first snowfall of the year, Mabel decides that she wants to be childish and for the two of them to build a ‘snow child’ together. Jack carves a beautiful face into the little girl they have built and Mabel places a hat and mittens on her. Night falls and they return to their little cabin.\n\nThe next morning when they wake, they find that the ‘Snow child’ has vanished and all that is left is a trail of small foot prints heading into the forest.\n\nJack enters the forest and catches sight of a young girl wearing the same hat and mittens, a young feral girl who seems to be living up in the mountains.\n\nThe girl, named Faina, becomes friendly with Jack and Mabel and comes regularly to visit them, though she very rarely will enter their home. With the help of Faina, the couple find that they are now becoming increasingly happier.\n\nThe couple start to fall in love with Faina, but they still have no idea where she lives nor where she goes when she leaves them.\n\nWho is Faina really?\n\nAs the story is based on a fairy-tale, there is a mixture of both fantasy and reality to it, which fit well together. We are never told exactly who ‘Faina’ is, or where she came from or go’s to. That is for your own imagination to work out.\n\nThe book is not a fast paced, roller coaster of a book. It is a slow yet enchanting read that some might find hard going. Saying that, I never felt I was struggling with the story and was constantly absorbed in to the Alaskan lifestyle of the 20’s.\n\nIt is heart warming, yet gut wrenching at the same time, and you can feel all the emotions that the characters carry throughout the book.\n\nThe character’s are well thought out and Jack and Mabel are a loveable couple who just fit perfectly together. Faina, is this shy, reserved, child that you never fully understand.\n\nIs she real or is she actually the child they made of snow, come to life?", null, "Eowyn (pronounced A-o-win) LeMay Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. She worked for nearly a decade as a bookseller at independent Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska, and prior to that as a reporter for the local newspaper, The Frontiersman.\n\nHer new novel, To the Bright Edge of the World, was released on August 2. Her debut novel, The Snow Child, was a New York Times bestseller published in more than 25 languages. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a UK National Book Award winner, an Indies Choice award for debut fiction, and a PNBA Book Award winner." ]

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[ null, "And The Dark Knight Rises parody videos just keep coming. Joining \"Batman Maybe\" and \"Bane Vs. Cable Guys\" is \"Bane After Batman.\" This new Dark Knight Rises parody video comes way of Funny Or Die. Just like a common theme with The Avengers parody videos seemed to be presenting the team as a boy band, a common theme of turning Bane into a little bit of a whiner seems to be developing with Dark Knight Rises parody videos. This Funny Or Die segment stars Chris Kattan of Saturday Night Live fame as Bane. It is set seven years after the events of The Dark Knight Rises, and Bane has been released back into the Gotham community as part of a fresh start program. Apparently, the penalty for attempting to blow up a city with a nuclear bomb isn't that severe in Gotham City. However, Bane has been ordered to complete 275,000 hours of community service and take anger management classes. Bane is attempting to adjust to normal life by taking flute lessons and trying online dating, even though he sometimes misses \"ripping out people's throats and threatening the world with a nuclear bomb.\"\n\n0commentsBane After Batman with Chris Kattan" ]

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[ null, "Hazael (; Hebrew: חֲזָהאֵל, Modern: Ḥaza'ēl, Tiberian: H̱azā'ēl; Aramaic: חזאל, from the triliteral Semitic root h-z-y, \"to see\"; his full name meaning, \"El/God has seen\"; Akkadian: 𒄩𒍝𒀪𒀭, romanized: Ḫa-za-’-ilu) was an Aramean king who is mentioned in the Bible. Under his reign, Aram-Damascus became an empire that ruled over large parts of Syria and the Land of Israel. Read more on Wikipedia\n\nSince 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hazael has received more than 126,448 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia making him the 4,767th most popular politician.\n\nPage views of Hazaels by language\n\nAmong politicians, Hazael ranks 4,739 out of 14,801. Before him are Nicholas Kanabos, Moussa Traoré, Robert Clive, Miran Shah, Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, and Antonia the Elder. After him are Yamato Takeru, Igor Smirnov, Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Maria of Montpellier, Horace Walpole, and Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken.\n\nAmong people born in 900 BC, Hazael ranks 15. Before him are Jehoash of Israel, Jehoahaz of Israel, Caranus of Macedon, Menua, Arame of Urartu, and Shammuramat. After him are Takelot II, Sarduri I, Shoshenq III, Ishpuini of Urartu, Ashur-dan III, and Shalmaneser IV. Among people deceased in 900 BC, Hazael ranks 4. Before him are Elijah, Uzziah, and Omri. After him are Tukulti-Ninurta II and King Gong of Zhou." ]

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[ "As we go to Copenhagen", null, "After months of anticipation, I am finally in Copenhagen. It’s a strange feeling. There is a mixture of excitement and fear in the air.\n\nThe question on everyone’s mind is: ‘will Copenhagen result in a fair ambitious and binding deal… or will it be a greenwash?’\n\nMy first weekend in Copenhagen has been a big one! Back to back meetings with NGO’s and other civil society actors (hence the short blog). Everyone is strategising around where pressure needs to be placed, what the likely scenarios and what action we need to take.\n\nThere is LOTS of action planned, both in Copenhagen and around the world. I will keep you posted (along with the media hopefully) on all that is going down.\n\nDuring the past few weeks we have seen a range of different signals around the possibility of an outcome at Copenhagen. You probably all know that Governments have been playing down the possibility of a binding agreement at Copenhagen. Despite this, there have been a few hopeful signs with some of the big developing countries such as China, India and Brazil coming out with strong proposals.\nThe jury is still out on the outcome of Copenhagen.\n\nAs the dust settles after the mayhem of Australian politics of the past few weeks very little has changed.\n\nIn response to this situation, WE NEED YOU! There are so many different ways to get engaged… don’t just read over this and think someone else will do it. Now is the time for all of us to pull together in our different ways to send a clear signal to our government.\n\nIn the next blog I will out line a range of actions you can take. But right now, here are three things you can do:\n\nStay tuned because I am going to meet with some of our top negotiators on Australian targets and hopefully the Ambassador Louise Hand. If you have any questions you would like me to ask just post them below.\n\nWith hope, Tracking for you in Copenhagen,\n\nps. Check out our international sister website Adopt A Negotiator" ]

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[ "We met so by chance, I in one of the many observation posts in my area, she perhaps in preparation for a hunting night.\nI say her because I like to imagine her as a female, certainly conditioned by the readings on the goddess Athena from which it derives the name and personality traits that man likes to attribute to gods and animals.\n\nIn the case of our owl, it was not too bad: the characteristics of this strigid in Greek mythology are particularly positive; in fact, besides being represented in every iconography together with the goddess Athena, it shares cunning and cunning. It is so important and beloved in Greek culture that it has traversed the centuries to the point of representing the nation in one-euro currency. Another story in our country, Strigiformes, in general, were associated, as the name suggests, with the world of the occult and the crepuscular and nocturnal attitudes did not help to placate the aura of superstition, so much to lead to true persecution in the past.\n\nI omit the details on the treatment reserved for these splendid animals, but perhaps the childhood stories of a dear friend of mine were the starting point to better read up on me and try to do a more conscious photographic work.\n\nWe speak of a species with strongly anthropized habits and for which the relationship with man has become an opportunity; for this reason, the rural territory is, in fact, the main place for the species, where the various phases of its biology take place even in broad daylight.\n\nThe family I followed had chosen as a nest a hole at ground level, created by landfill; this peculiarity of nesting is reminiscent of an American relative, the little owl of the burrows, usually prefer old abandoned den of prairie dogs.\n\nIn reality, as I later discovered, this practice should not have been unusual, given that the European owl comes from the Middle East, where the territory allows this type of nesting.\nOver the centuries, Europe has changed several times, the progressive deforestation offers the possibility of colonizing new areas and consequently, Athena’s partner, respecting the universal law of evolution, adapts to the ever-increasing anthropic push, sharing the environment rural agrarian with the man.\n\nThe countryside of the splendid Tuscan coast, a place where I live, has allowed me to get to know this bird so common but also elusive to a distracted observation and although I have been patiently following its vicissitudes for 3 years, I still manage to surprise myself with their tender and tenacious interaction with the territory. It was fascinating to follow their experience and to fully understand their customs while respecting their rhythms and naturalness. A way to dispel the prejudices of unfounded inclination towards a discreet attention, rewarded with wonderful sharing of unforgettable moments for me.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "You May Also Like: Bible Word Search (MOD + Hack) APK\n\nThe Lion’s Song is an episodic adventure game created by Vienna-based independent developer Mi’pu’mi Games. The Lion’s Song is steeped in early 20th century history and focusses on a cast of Austrian artists and scientists with each episode taking a closer look at their intimate struggles with creativity and inspiration. Each episode follows a different character, that possesses an exceptional mind and the game draws players into a story of personal struggle for creativity, human connections and inspiration:\n\nA talented composer suffering from writer’s block just before her breakthrough concert, an up-and-coming painter growing through his challenges and a brilliant mathematician trying to make her voice heard in a men’s world. While episode 4 will take players on a mysterious train journey that connects the storylines of all previous episodes. Emotions will run high as players make connections with each character, and work to navigate and experience their lives in different ways with different outcomes.\n\nWith four easily accessible episodes, the award-winning adventure series The Lion’s Song is making its long-awaited Android premiere. Independent game company Mi’pu’mi Games, based in Vienna, produced the serial adventure game The Lion’s Song. The Lion’s Song is rooted in the history of the early 20th century and centers on a group of Austrian artists and scientists, with each episode focusing more closely on their personal battles with inspiration and creativity. The game immerses players in a narrative about a person’s battle for inspiration, human relationships, and creative expression through the story of a different individual who has an amazing mind in each episode:\n\nA gifted composer experiencing writer’s block right before her breakthrough performance, a budding painter overcoming obstacles, and a smart mathematician seeking to be heard in a world dominated by men. The storylines of all the previous episodes are connected in episode 4, which will send players on a strange train excursion. As players develop relationships with each individual and attempt to navigate and experience their lives in various ways with various outcomes, emotions will run high. The decisions that players make in this episode will directly affect the plots of all previous and upcoming episodes, tying The Lion’s Song together into a single overarching story.\n\nIn the end, the choices taken will determine whether the heroes achieve the success they are aiming for. The game won the German Developer Award for Independent Game of the Year in 2016 and an IGF Honourable Mention for Excellence in Narrative in 2017. The Lion’s Song has a striking art direction and a distinctive setting, and it was first developed as a Ludum Dare project in 2014. Go to www.lionssonggame.com to learn more about The Lion’s Song.\n\nDownload and install the latest version of The Lion’s Song MOD APK from our site for Android and iOS. For the app’s downloading process in Android and iPhone versions, both are provided here in detail.\n\nQ. Downloading and installing the (The Lion’s Song) APK Mod (Hack Unlimited Money and Gems + Unlocked All) from ApkDownloadHunt.com is safe?\nWe check Google Play for the required APK file when a user downloads an apk file from ApkDownloadHunt.com, then we let them download it directly. Users may feel comfortable and secure playing the games and apps that have been put to our website.\n\nQ. Why is installation authorization required for (The Lion’s Song + Free Shopping, Purchase + Full Paid for free, No ADS)?\nThe operating system of your device is needed by the app. You will be made aware of all the privileges required to use an application when you install it.\n\nWell, I hope you will love this new version game Hack MOD APK. Download the latest version for free from the given links and enjoy it. The Song of the Lion It lately became a very well-liked adventure game, gaining a large following of adventure game enthusiasts worldwide. As the biggest mod apk free game download site, moddroid is your best option if you want to get this game.\n\nAlong with giving you access to the most recent version of The Lion’s Song 1.0.7 without charge, moddroid also offers Mod APK mods, which may be used to avoid performing tedious mechanical tasks while playing the game instead. The Lion’s Song mods from moddroid are guaranteed to be completely safe, readily available, and cost nothing to install. You can simply download the Moddroid client.", null ]

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[ null, "It's our job to go through the dirty sheets.\n\nUpsher is a journalist for the Hebdomadal. He, and his partner Doff, began chasing Marko and Alana for a story when they learned that Marko and Alana, members of opposing sides in a war, may have married an enemy combatant -- a big news story.[1]\n\nFirst, the duo paid a visit to Even, one of Alana's long-time friends who claimed Alana would never not support the war effort.[2] The duo followed up and visited Countess Robot X, Alana's supervising officer in the army, on Mota. The Robot informed them that Alana showed hesitation to bomb enemy civilians and was dismissed for her cowardly actions. A sudden sniper shot winged Upsher but he quickly recovered and escaped.[3]\n\nThe duo next visited Special Agent Gale after one of his workouts. The showed him a picture of the two with a baby and were ushered inside. Gale lied and told them it was a deep cover situation and they should keep quiet about the story. After the duo left, Gale called the Freelancer Agent for a hit on them.[4]\n\nLater while laying in bed, Upsher whispered to Doff that he thinks Marko and Alana went to Quietus. However, they were suddenly attacked by two poison darts in their bed. They turned on the lights and found The Brand and Sweet Boy in their room. They had been called in to complete the hit for Gale. The Brand told them they had been poisoned, but it would only kill them if they spoke about the Alana and Marko story. She told them she is not killing them because she appreciates the articles they wrote for the Freelancers during the strike.[5]\n\nFor a while, Doff and Upsher kept their word. The Chief offered them a chance to follow up on a story with Prince Robot IV going missing while having a baby and they turned it down, knowing they'd be killed by the Brand's serum if they spoke of the events.[6]\n\nAfter time passes, the Doff dropped the story while Upsher still liked to keep tabs. He even saw a reference on the Open Circuit which reminded him of Alana. He became suspicious that the television actor may in fact be her.[7]\n\nThe duo continued their lives on Jetsam. One day when Doff developed a picture in his dark room, Upsher broke into the room and ruined the picture as he announced he had important news. Upsher showed him a newspaper, announcing that The Brand has been murdered. He believed the drug that would kill them if they talked about the Marko would no longer be effective now that The Brand was dead. Doff told him wasn't not worth the risk, but Upsher blurted out to their newspaper chief about Hazel being a wartime love-child. The Chief told them to get serious and walked away. Doff began to believe him but was still hesitant to chase the story. He began to draw parallels to their own homosexual relationship with each other and wanting to be left alone.[8]\n\nThey followed up on a 'missed connection' ad in the newspaper, where a woman was looking to meet a man described to be like Marko. They arrived on Gardenia where Ginny, the author of the missed connection, ushered them out back to speak to them in private. She slipped about them being chased by a royal blueblood and the duo realized how deep the story was going to be.[8]\n\nUpsher and Doff take a ship and traveled around Outcome in an attempt to find heat signatures of Marko and Alana. They found The Stalk's Skullship abandoned on a planet and move in to investigate. However, they were suddenly attacked by The Will. The Will used his Lance to incapacitate Doff while he interrogated them. He demanded to know where Prince Robot IV was located but the duo swore they didn't know. He released Doff from his lance and told them they work for him now.[8]\n\nWhen Upsher had enough and told him to kill them already, the Will pulled out his gun to execute them. However, Doff interceded and told The Will he'd get in touch with a contact that may be able to locate the Prince if he agreed to let them both live.[9]\n\nRetrieved from \"https://imagecomics.fandom.com/wiki/Upsher_(Saga)?oldid=60235\"\nCommunity content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted." ]

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[ "Today we learn something about Unity of Man, its aims, founders and headquaters.\nPeace and harmony in your heart.\nDidi\n\nUnity of Man is working as a spiritual, cultural and charitable non-profit-organization\n\nThe movement was brought into being by Sant Kirpal Singh who taught the ancient path of self-knowledge and God-knowledge and was worldwide esteemed for His untiring commitment to create a spirit of brotherhood and peace. In 1974, Sant Kirpal Singh convened the first “World Conference on the Unity of Man” in Delhi. This impressive conference became the starting point of the movement which was carried on by Dr Harbhajan Singh and his wife, Mrs Surinder Kaur.\n\nThe name Unity of Man refers to the inner unity of all life. Just like the sun and the sunrays are in perfect union, the same way God is not separate from His souls. We are drops of the ocean of all consciousness, whom we worship as the same God, calling Him by different names. The human body is the true temple of God, and the human form provides us with a golden opportunity to realize Him.\n\nTo fill the human heart with compassion, mercy and universal love,\nwhich should radiate to all countries, nations and peoples of the world.\nTo make a true religion of the heart as the ruling factor in one’s life.\n\nTo enable each one to love God, love all, serve all,\nand have respect for all, as God is immanent in all forms.\n\nMy goal is that of oneness. I spread the message of oneness\nin life and living. This is the way to peace on earth.\nThis is the mission of my life, and I pray that it may be fulfilled.\n\nIn this spirit Unity of Man is committed:\n\n– to explain that spiritual achievement has nothing to do with occultism, supernatural powers and esoteric practices which on the contrary are hindrances on the way\n\n– to support people in need, following the motto ‘help for self-help’ – at present focused on the area of northern India", null, "Words cannot do justice to a personality like Sant Kirpal Singh. Esteemed worldwide as a great Saint of the 20th century, embodiment of kindness and mercy, He gave out the living knowledge of the true nature of man whose aim is to return to his origin – God, and emphasised the value and dignity of each individual as a conscious being or soul. Sant Kirpal Singh did not teach any new faith. He treated the subject of spirituality as a science.\n\nCommissioned by Sant Kirpal Singh to carry on His work, Dr Harbhajan Singh dedicated his whole life to the service of humanity and built up the Project Kirpal Sagar. His example inspired others to lead a life with higher values. Born on 10 December 1932 in Laaylpur, situated at that time in India before the partition, Dr Harbhajan Singh met Sant Kirpal Singh in 1961, after years of intense search.", null, "Mrs Surinder Kaur, president of Unity of Man India, was born in 1940 in the village of Bhawalpur, where she grew up with two brothers and three sisters. The name of her mother was Paronie Kaur, and that of her father, Katar Singh. He was a freedom-fighter, a courageous and broad-hearted character, who supported the needy with the means he was able to save when they had to flee to eastern Punjab during the partition of India.\n\n17 comments on “About Unity of Man”" ]

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[ "Satanovsky: Nobody expected such tactics of street fighting from Kazakhstani radicals", null, "Militants in Kazakhstan actually took to the warpath with the forces of law and order, taking advantage of public discontent over a twofold increase in the price of liquefied gas. Moreover, the Protestants demonstrate their mastery of the tactics of street fighting, which no one expected from them.\n\n\nThis opinion was expressed by the Russian orientalist and political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky in his Telegram channel.\n\nIn addition to the well-developed tactics of battles in urban areas, \"peacefully protesting citizens\" demonstrate the ability to intercept and neutralize the security forces\n- the expert noted.\n\nAt the same time, Satanovsky connects the events in Kazakhstan with the global context, pointing to an imminent meeting of Russian representatives with NATO to discuss security problems, as well as to the activity of radical Islamists in Central Asia.\n\nThe political scientist is sure that the Kazakhstani protests are managed from a single center, and the organizers of the riots did not expect such decisive actions from Nur-Sultan. In particular, Tokayev called for help from the combat units of the CSTO countries, which have already begun their duties. On behalf of Russia, units of the airborne troops participate in the mission.\n\nEvgeny Satanovsky draws attention to the importance of the measures taken to restore order. In this regard, he recalled what the Islamic terrorists were doing in Syria and Iraq with the Christian population they had captured. And if the development of events in multinational Kazakhstan follows a similar scenario, the country will face a wave of violence.\n\nGod forbid! So all hope, as always, is on the military\n- concluded the analyst.\nCtrl Enter\nNoticed oshЫbku Highlight text and press. Ctrl + Enter\nReporterin Yandex News\nReporterin Yandex Zen\n15 comments\nInformation\nDear reader, to leave comments on the publication, you must sign in." ]

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[ "Home › Activism › She is Here by Mary Petiet\n\nShe is Here by Mary Petiet", null, "On the morning of January 20, 2017, the world watched Donald J. Trump stand on Capitol Hill for inauguration as the 45th president of the United States. He did not stand alone. Timothy Michael Dolan, Catholic cardinal and archbishop of New York, also stood, and he invoked the divine feminine as he opened the inaugural ceremony with a recitation of King Solomon’s prayer from the Book of Wisdom.\n\nAs Dolan stood before the capitol building, which houses the US congress, he called upon the divine feminine with the words: “Now with you is wisdom, who knows your will and was there when you made the world, who understands what is pleasing in your eyes, what is conformable with your commands, send her forth from your holy heavens. From your glorious throne, dispatch her that she may be with us and work with us, that we may grasp what is pleasing to you. For she knows and understands all things and will guide us prudently in our affairs and safeguard us by her glory.”\n\nAbove Dolan, above the inauguration, soared the rounded womb-like Dome of the Capitol, the spiritual center of American power, topped by the statute of Columbia, female symbol of freedom, bearing a sheathed sword and the laurel wreath of victory. Within the dome’s painted interior, which depicts scenes of George Washington’s mythic ascension to heaven, the first president is flanked by the goddesses Victoria and Liberty, and Columbia again appears, now defending democracy from tyrants and kings, her sword drawn, her shield bearing 13 stars and stripes raised. Ceres, goddess of agriculture is there with her, and Minerva, goddess of wisdom.\n\nAcross The Mall stands the Washington Monument, the obelisk piercing symbol of the masculine, which works to balance the womb-like bowl of the dome. Just one day after the inauguration, one day after Dolan called upon the divine feminine, The Mall between the dome and the Washington Monument was filled by women, as millions marched world-wide to defend their rights in a climate turned frighteningly reactionary in what is hopefully the last gasp of patriarchal rule, the swearing-in of the 45th president.\n\nShe is here, defending us from tyrants and kings, and maybe the silver lining in these times is our awakening to her presence, and our vital work is finding the balance between her and the unchecked masculine running rampant and destructive through our culture.\n\nBetween 3.3 and 4.6 million people participated in the Women’s March in America, and overseas 300,000 more marched from Antarctica to Iraq. The marchers included women, children, and the men who support them. They poured from The Mall, the balanced space between the dome and the Washington Monument, to the world, and they embodied a massive surge of the divine feminine in peaceful assertion and affirmation of the life giving, nourishing principles society needs if it is to continue in any meaningful way.\n\nShe is here. “Set her forth from your holy heavens.”\n\nIt is unlikely the newly inaugurated president is aware of the absolute significance of this moment. He is probably unaware he embodies the masculine principle in its most destructive form, and that right now he is holding a mirror before America, and this mirror is reflecting America’s darkest image, and this darkness, instead of begetting further darkness, is ultimately the agent of positive change. The darkness projected is so extreme it calls the forth the feminine to restore the balance, to soothe the rage, to midwife a new era of balance from what are hopefully birth pangs instead of death rattles.\n\n“…dispatch her that she may be with us and work with us, that we may grasp what is pleasing to you. For she knows and understands all things and will guide us prudently in our affairs and safeguard us by her glory.”\n\nIn the short amount of time since the inauguration and the march, women across the country have organized themselves into hundreds of grassroots groups to support each other and to support what is right in our society. Groups are meeting to share stories of the march, groups are forming to take action against what appears to be the federal dismantling of society as we know it. They are sending postcards to their representatives, calling their offices, and gathering to protest and march yet again.\n\nThis is the divine feminine working through us and within us. Each of us, male and female, embodies the life asserting principles of the feminine, and these healing principles have been called forth from Capitol Hill by the Archbishop of New York’s reading from the Book of Wisdom. They have emerged to counter the stark reality reflected in the mirror image, and they are the basis of the countless actions being taken now, by the people, in the name of what is right.\n\nNow is the time, we are the solution, and she is us.\n\nMary Petiet is a writer, reporter and story teller. She has been published in several anthologies, journals and magazines. Her book Minerva’s Owls (Homebound Publications, April, 2017) remembers the divine feminine to re-envision the world.\n\nLike Loading...\n‹ After the WOMEN’S March…What Do We Do Now? by Marie Cartier\nDespite Hollywood’s Activism, the Oscars are still White by Anjeanette LeBoeuf ›" ]

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[ null, "Canadian dream pop outfit Alvvays arrived on scene in 2014 fully formed. With a winning combination of twee-infused shoegaze coupled with lead singer Molly Rankin’s infectious vocals, the Toronto collective were destined for some degree of adoration. Unsurprisingly, their debut record Alvvays, and its follow-up, 2017’s Antisocialites, were both short-listed for the Polaris Prize, and the latter won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year.\n\nAntisocialites brought them much fortune, including an opening spot on The National’s Sleep Well Beast fall tour in 2018, and while nothing tracked quite as hard as the band’s breakthrough single “Archie, Marry Me,” outstanding cuts like “Dreams Tonite” were all over indie radio stations and year end lists.\n\nThe next step would have been a quick turnaround album to build off the momentum, but much like Kendrick Lamar and Björk, Alvvays took five long years to get back to us with Blue Rev. At a dazzling 14 tracks and 38 minutes, Blue Rev is the fullest full-length album by Alvvays to date, with their previous efforts barely reaching a half hour.\n\nThe gap between releases wasn’t intentional. Life got in the way, as it usually does. Band members left; Rankin had her apartment broken into and demos stolen; a basement flood nearly destroyed everyone’s gear. With border closures keeping the band separated, each took their time with building those creative juices before reassembling in 2021 for the recording of Blue Rev.\n\nThe time off seems to have only helped make the band even more adventurous than before. With an emphasis on genre-boundary pushing and perfecting hook-writing, Blue Rev is Alvvays’ sparkling return. The opener, and song of the year contender, “Pharmacist” is two minutes of pure blissful shoegazing, with some My Bloody Valentine-esque layering compacted into their punchy pop structuring. The distortion and dreaminess is amped up from Antisocialites and it’s a welcome addition to the band’s overall sound.\n\nBlue Rev comes off more shoegazing than dream-pop intentionally, reinventing the band on the border of the genre line. “Many Mirrors” smacks of RIDE’s Going Blank Again, whereas “Belinda Says” (a reference to Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Gos, not Belinda Butcher of My Bloody Valentine, mind you) features a classic rock aesthetic à la Hum. “Very Online Guy”, on the other hand, goes hard with the synths. Altogether, it makes for a collection of songs that feel familiar but fresh.\n\nRankin’s upped the ante in her shimmering lyricism and featherlight vocal melodies, as nearly every track on Blue Rev features ear-worm choruses that speak to the listener while drawing them in. “Bored in Bristol” deliriously rolls out of focus as she repeats the forlorn phrase “always waiting”, which stays with us long after it’s over. “Lottery Noises” pairs a wicked guitar riff with Rankin’s “Take another shot / I won’t shoot you down,” showcasing her range and vitality.\n\nWhat’s interesting with Blue Rev, and Alvvays as a whole, is that the simplicity of their music doesn’t prevent it from resonating. In a time where everyone has to be doing something new, Alvvays are both taking that true to heart and staying the same. The core sound of the band is intact, they just have added layers of complexity to it. This is audible in the undeniable familiarity of “After the Earthquake”, which has jangle pop written in its code, with danceable qualities that would draw comparisons to Purity Ring or Wild Nothing, but it still possesses that Alvvays charm, so it never loses to those comparisons.\n\nWith Blue Rev, Alvvays rocket back into contention when it comes to leaders of the cyclical shoegaze revival that pops up every few years. A honed songwriting approach from Rankin seems to fuel Blue Rev, with only a few songs inching beyond three minutes. This excess-trimming approach makes Blue Rev the leanest the band has sounded, but also makes it their tightest work to date." ]

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[ null, "This past weekend, my partner, Alan, and I competed together at a local CrossFit competition. It was an awesome day, with really awesome workouts that challenged not only our physical capacities, but our ability to work well together, too! There were even Regionals athletes at the competition, which added to the intensity and nerves that day.\n\nAlan and I were like two peas in a pod – We were seamless and smooth in every workout, and made our way into the Finals!!! A moment that almost didn’t happen…\n\nAfter WOD #1, we were sitting pretty in 5th place. After WOD #2, we remained in 5th, and knew we had to do something great in WOD #3 to make it to the Finals, because only the top 4 teams made it.\n\nHonestly, it was a surprise to us both, and I suddenly felt a feeling that I have never felt before.\n\nBefore I continue, let me rewind a bit…\n\nI’ve always “wanted” to qualify for Regionals, and I’ve even toyed with the idea of maybe one day making it to the Games. But, the farther I get in my journey, the more I realize that in the past, I really loved the IDEA of it more than actually doing it.\n\nI said I “wanted” it, but I don’t think I really knew what that meant until now.\n\nI thought that I wanted it. I really did. And, at the time, it seemed like I was giving 100%. In hindsight, though, I was giving what I felt like I was good enough for. Meaning – I always had “low expectations” at competitions and shot for the top half of the bunch…I was too afraid to go for top 5, or even top 10. So, I performed that way – I competed at “top half” effort with “top half” desire and determination. At the time, I thought that was “wanting” it.\n\nIn that moment, I FINALLY felt what it truly feels like to REALLY WANT IT!!! And, it’s a feeling you really can’t understand or explain until you’ve felt it for yourself.\n\nThe Finals WOD was an Every Minute On The Minute Death By: 7 Thrusters (75/55), 7 Pull ups, and 7 Burpees. Each teammate had to complete their own reps. If one partner “died” than it was over for both.\n\nDuring that workout, I experienced a burning desire that I haven’t felt before in a WOD.\n\nSo many times, I have pushed so hard, and then suddenly in the end I would wave the white flag. The pain outweighed the want. That is what separates the champions from everyone else. Champions are able to push through that pain. They can go in to that deep, dark, horrible place, and charge through it like bulldozer without a second thought. There’s no hesitation. No doubt.\n\nI literally had no doubts, no hesitations, and no fear.", null, "I often see the quote, “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you’ll be successful.” During the Final WOD, I finally experienced that for myself.\n\nI wanted it SO bad, that the pain and lack of air honestly didn’t even register in my brain.\n\nIt was awesome. I actually felt unstoppable. I felt like a champion.\n\nIt was very much like the saying, “You never know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have.”\n\nI’ve been on a competitive-high this week, and I even find myself pushing harder in the workouts at my box. Suddenly, I’ve realized that I really do have more to give, and I really am capable of making that podium! 😉\n\nAs I coach, I have been thinking about this whole experience a lot. One of the most difficult things as a coach is letting my athletes experience things for themselves, learning from their own mistakes, and taking their own path. But, I also know that it will be much more valuable and life-changing that way.\n\nI can talk and write until I am blue in the face, but until they experience it for themselves, it really isn’t going to have the same impact, nor will anything change until it is their OWN journey.\n\nIt’s just not the same talking about. EXPERIENCE is the teacher. Words are great, and can be very powerful, but until you have actually FELT it for yourself, you really don’t know.\n\nI have been comparing it to my husband, Spencer. I always thought I knew what being in love was. I thought I loved before, and maybe I did, sort of, but then when Spencer came into my life, I suddenly realized what love was actually supposed to be. I settled a lot, and thought I was only good enough for a certain level of men. So, the crappy men in my life is what I thought love was.\n\nThanks goodness for Spencer! Now, in hindsight, I am horrified at the thought of who I could have married instead. But, I also needed to experience all of those sh***y relationships in order to appreciate Spencer. I wouldn’t have been ready for him any other time in my life. Those past relationships prepared me for him, and the timing was just right! 🙂\n\nI think all of my competitions are very similar to my love life. I wouldn’t have been ready earlier in my CrossFit career for that Final WOD. I don’t think I would have pushed as hard. I think just making it would have been good enough for me, and I would have thrown in the towel after 2 rounds. And, while I wish I had given more in my past competitions and had different outcomes, they have still helped build me to this moment. I think I finally snapped and got fed up with always being in the middle.\n\nBottom line – Don’t be afraid of experiences, and don’t regret any of them, good and bad, because even the bad ones serve a greater purpose in life! 🙂" ]

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[ null, "What are the key differences between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren?\n\nIt's not just the policies. It's how they get there.\n\nWhen Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) joined the 2020 Democratic primary last week, some argued that there was already someone in the race with almost identical views: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Some even suggested that to vote for Sanders over Warren could only be a matter of sexism.\n\nBut there are clear differences between the two that should be taken into account.\n\nSanders and Warren do support some of the same marquee policies, including Medicare for All, $15 minimum wage, and a Green New Deal. Both have called our criminal justice system racist; both favor gender pay equity. But their political philosophies are very different. The answers on their homework might look the same, but when you look closely, you see that they take a very different approach to each equation.\n\nFamously, when asked if she was a socialist, Warren identified herself as “capitalist to my bones.” Sanders, by contrast, has been a committed socialist for decades. Warren is a reformer, who believes that capitalism can be reigned in and regulated. Sanders vision is more revolutionary: he wants to redefine the way America works, taking power away from capital and placing it in the hands of working people.\n\nWould a Sanders presidency look vastly different from a Warren presidency? Perhaps not. But, if a Democratic primary is about assessing competing visions for America’s future, then these differences matter.\n\nBernie Sanders vs. Elizabeth Warren: On the issues\n\nSanders and Warren have both called for breaking up the big banks. But, their terms for dividing the banks are different: Sanders proposes a hard cap on financial size where Warren would break them up by function (separating commercial and investment banks).\n\nWarren has been a dogged financial watchdog throughout her political career, encouraging oversight with moves like creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Her punitive policies stop short of radically redistributing wealth, whereas Sanders pushes further. Both have proposed tax plans that target the wealthy, and Sanders’ plan would tax more wealthy individuals and restore a 70 percent marginal tax rate on the wealthiest Americans (though both plans project between $2-3 trillion in revenue).\n\nYou can see further differences between Sanders and Warren when it comes to the structural difference of their proposals. Warren’s “Accountable Capitalism” plan would require corporations to have workers comprise 40 percent of their board, while Sanders has made a point to bolster and promote a more militant labor movement with legislation aimed at building union strength like his “Workplace Democracy Act.”\n\nGenerally, the candidates support each others’ proposals, but the policy they write comes from two very different points of view.\n\nWarren is a co-sponsor of Sanders’ Medicare for All bill, but that doesn’t mean they have the same plan for American healthcare.\n\nSanders believes that a single-payer system that features one health program with comprehensive coverage of all Americans that is free at the point of service is the only viable, long-term solution for America’s healthcare woes. For Warren, there are a number of possible paths to universal coverage, and some of them might involve the continued dominance of private insurance companies in a marketplace.\n\nFor Sanders, the goal is not “affordable” healthcare, but reframing healthcare as a human right that the government extends to all of its citizens, regardless of what they can “afford.”\n\nWarren’s defining reticence to transform America’s capitalist system is also evident in her views on education. Sanders wants to make public college tuition-free. While Warren has come around to that point of view recently, she has generally supported regulation like public aid and increased oversight rather than disruption.\n\nAt a 2015 speech to the American Federation of Teachers, Warren said:\n\n“Democrats talk about resources, pointing out that we’re no longer investing in our kids the way we once did. Republicans talk about risks and incentives—arguing that students take on debt without fully understanding the consequences, and that colleges get access to federal dollars pretty much no matter the quality or cost of the education they provide. Here’s the truth—both sides are right.”\n\nWhile both Warren and Sanders vocally support teachers’ unions, oppose charter schools, and have been critics of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Warren has played both sides of public education policy. In the past, she has supported school vouchers, which many see as destructive to public education, whereas Sanders has been more consistent in his unequivocal support of public schools.\n\nHere again, there is a contrast between Warren and Sanders, in substance if not in rhetoric. Warren supports “the idea of a Green New Deal” while Sanders has promised to expand on the Green New Deal resolution championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).\n\nThe climate legislation that Warren has offered has been far less inspiring than something like Ocasio-Cortez’s vision of a Green New Deal. One proposal was to force corporations to disclose climate-related risks. While this is a solid proposal, it feels like a lot of other “too little, too late” legislation championed by other rank-and-file Democrats.\n\nThough both candidates have opposed Saudi Arabia’s aggression in Yemen and have moved to end American military involvement in Afghanistan (and both have been slow to criticize Israel),\n\nBut we see that they get to good conclusions using different thought processes.\n\nIn her Foreign Affairs essay laying out her foreign policy vision, Warren says that America began running into problems abroad relatively recently, as it “began to export a particular brand of capitalism” in the post-Cold War era. By contrast, in Sanders’ recent book, he draws a line of imperialism through U.S. history, from post-World War II intervention in Iran through CIA support of Central and South America in the 70s and 80s to the 21st century War on Terror.\n\nThese philosophical distinctions have real consequences. Look at the prospective coup in Venezuela. The Trump administration seems poised to install right-winger Juan Guaidó and overthrow authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro without an election. Warren said recently on Pod Save America that she supports the “diplomatic part” of the coup, and disapproves of the “saber rattling.”\n\nThough Sanders has been critical of Maduro, he has said, “what must not happen is that the United States must not use military force and intervene again as it has done in the past in Latin America, as you recall whether it was Chile or Guatemala.”\n\nThe reformer and the revolutionary\n\nBut, these differences are worth considering because there is a meaningful difference between Sanders and Warren.\n\nRepublicans are, and have always been, boldy and unapologetically the party of capital. Tax cuts and deregulation are the primary goals of each Republican administration. That isn’t going to change. The question a primary voter must ask themselves is if capital is to be opposed head-on and challenged (Sanders) or regulated and negotiated with (Warren).\n\nThe big picture changes that Warren or Sanders could achieve in a single presidential term may not be far off. Most Sanders supporters would likely feel fine supporting Warren in a general election and vice-versa. But, with almost two years until the winner of the primary faces Trump, diminishing the differences between these two progressive standard bearers does neither the candidates nor the voters any favors." ]

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[ null, "As the NHL continues working out the details of its plan to restart the 2019-20 season, Commissioner Gary Bettman said the league is evaluating \"probably eight or nine different places\" to stage games.\n\n\"I don't think anybody has a fixed timetable, particularly in North America right now. We have been working very hard since we took the pause on March 12 to make sure that whatever the timing is, whatever the sequencing is, whatever physical ability we have in terms of locations to play, that we're in a position to execute any or all of those options. There is still a great deal of uncertainty.\"\n\nA few sports leagues have returned (the Korea Baseball Organization, German Bundesliga and NASCAR), all of which are happening behind closed doors.\n\nAt the end of last month, ESPN's Greg Wyshynski reported the NHL was moving on from a proposal to play games in North Dakota. Instead, the league was looking into using two to four cities as its home bases.\n\nAccording to The Athletic's Pierre LeBrun and TVA Sports' Renaud Lavoie, a more recent plan would shift the NHL's structure to four six-team divisions and rely upon four different venues.\n\nDarren Dreger of TSN followed up Monday and reported two cities could house 12 teams as part of a restart. TSN's Bob McKenzie speculated Las Vegas would be one option, while Ryan Rishaug tweeted the Edmonton Oilers \"feel they could manage as many as a dozen teams in Edmonton if needed.\"\n\nWith the NHL still nailing down the logistical details, on-ice action could be more than a month out at minimum." ]

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[ "some of you might have read the posts about my desaster, trying to scan and 3D-print 1:29 figures. (first pic, upper left)\n\nafter putting everything aside and digesting my defeat, i started to think about possibilities to save some of these crippled figures.\n\nso first i smeared some two part epoxy into the biggest holes of the skirt.\n\nthe rest of the mixed epoxy mutated to a carpetbag.", null, "today i got bolder. i tried to build up some arms and a nose.\n\nfirst she got a nice, good looking greek nose. then i started on the arms… and helt her by the head… tomorrow i will try to make her a nice greek nose.\n\nthe right arm i made from one piece, and fixed it at the shoulder and at the hand to the figure.\n\nthe elbow ended up a little too roundish, but who will notice from three feet distance?\n\nthe left arm shall have the hand sticking out into the air. that was not doable. the thin epoxy roll did sag.\n\nso, today she got only an upper arm, and tomorrow, when she gets her greek nose, she will get the lower arm too.\n\nas you can see by the growing number of luggage, again i mixed too much epoxy.\n\nnext time i will prepare thinner wire and thread for grips.", null, "to be continued… eventually…\n\none problem in this scale (1:32) is, that the female arms are so thin, that any wire, that would fit inside, does not help stability.\n\nafter accidently breaking off the half left arm, i made an entire arm.\n\nnow i am pushing it back into position every ten seconds, or so.\n\nmade a nose as well. not greek, not nice, but a nose of sorts.\n\nhoping, that the color will mask the small imperfections.", null, "it dried without breaking or sagging.", null, "well, progress has to wait a bit. today and tomorrow i’ll spend my free time at a first response course for snake bites.\n\nso, maybe wensday i can start painting." ]

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[ "He wants Mexico to halt migrant caravan headed for US; says he'll send in military\n\nWASHINGTON • President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the military and close the southern US border if Mexico does not halt a caravan of Central America migrants heading north, raising the risk of huge disruptions to trade.\n\nStretching almost 3,200km, the US-Mexican border is one of the busiest in the world, processing thousands of commuters daily and much of the half a trillion dollars of annual trade between Mexico and the United States.\n\n\"I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!\" Mr Trump wrote on Twitter on Thursday.\n\nSeveral thousand Honduran migrants moved this week through Guatemala, and some were trying to cross to Mexico on Thursday, local media said. Some hope to eventually enter the US to escape violence and poverty.\n\nMr Lopez Obrador, who takes office in December, said in the northern city of Saltillo on Thursday that he believed \"an agreement can be reached\" on the migration issue. \"We're going to take care of our relationship with the US government,\" he said. \"It's very important to have a relationship of friendship.\"\n\nMr Trump told a political rally in Montana on Thursday he wanted \"to thank the Mexican government because they are stopping it hopefully before it ever gets to Mexico\".\n\nMr Videgaray said his government had asked the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help process the migrants to guarantee transparency, and so that Mexico could cope with a \"higher volume of requests\".\n\n\"Later on, UNHCR could help the Mexican government to find places to settle (migrants) inside or outside Mexico for those granted refugee status, but that hasn't been defined with UNHCR yet,\" he said.", null, "In the caravan, Central American migrants hiked from Honduras through muddy jungle and residential streets, some toting babies along with backpacks, Reuters images show.\n\nIn Guatemala City, where migrant shelters filled with people, waves of people departed at daybreak on roads leading to Mexico. The nearest border is about 177 km away.\n\nThere are no official estimates of the size of the group.\n\nIllegal immigration is likely to be a top issue in the Nov 6 congressional elections in the US and Mr Trump claimed migrants in the caravan were being used by his political opponents. \"A lot of money has been passing to people to come up to try and get to the border by Election Day,\" he said, without giving evidence." ]

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[ null, null, "The musician said police brutality and violation of rights persist across Lagos while Mr Sanwo-Olu turns a blind eye.\n\nThe musician said police brutality and violation of rights persist across the country.\n\nThe celebrated musician says the suggestion is a joke and a very disrespectful one.\n\n“This suggestion of a “walk for peace” sounds like a joke and a very disrespectful one at that. People were murdered in cold blood and absolutely no iota of justice has been served more than a year after. How can there be peace without justice? #EndSARS,” Falz wrote in a series of tweets.\n\nFalz was included in Mr Sanwo-Olu’s list of invitees for his proposed peace walk which he announced in his speech earlier today.\n\nThe musician says apart from the charade the governor is hoping to carry out through the walk, the state has no commitment to giving justice to the victims.\n\n“In this same speech, you said “To be a smart city, we first must be a just one”. Remember the young Nigerians that had their lives snatched away by weapons wielded by our own armed forces? You want to sweep that under the carpet? Is that how to establish a just city? #ENDSARS,” Falz added.\n\nHe also reiterated that police brutality and violation of rights persist across the state and the government pretends to be unaware.\n\n“Young Nigerians, till today, are still being constantly harassed and extorted by police officers!! You were quiet about that. Or are you not aware? #ENDSARS,” he wrote.", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "If we live long enough, we learn that not only does everything change, but also that everything can change all at once. Thus far 2015 has been one of those everything-is -changing-at-once scenarios. The changes in my life are all of the first world kind, thankfully, so I’m not complaining. But still, when I am living the changes, the totality can seem overwhelming.\n\nIn case you haven’t heard me mention my first world changes, here are a few of them. I became an in-town grandmother. I took a month off from work. When I returned to work I not only shortened my hours, I changed the actual days that I work. And I changed the ways I accept payment for my services. All that is enough to make a woman pushing sixty feel as though she has unremitting jet lag, but there is more.\n\nNow I probably do sound whiny, but…sniff.. my personal trainer moved to another facility. For reasons unrelated to the trainer, I was unable to follow him to the new location. So after eight years of a set exercise routine I am having to start over. With the threat of diabetes always dangling over my head, I am afraid not to exercise. So I’m trying things, but it’s not the same. By the way, if you’re considering Zumba, forget about it; it’s way too humiliating.\n\nThis whole year has simply been disruptive. While I wouldn’t change any of it (except for losing my personal trainer,) I’ve been anxious to return to some semblance of normality, which for me means healthy doses of solitude and time for creative pursuits. I’ve kept waiting, patiently and impatiently, for the jumble of my days to settle down, but after almost half the year has now gone and I’m still waking up wondering what day this is, I have reached the conclusion that what I thought was a temporary adjustment is actually permanent.\n\nMy new normal is taking on a babysitting gig at the last minute. It is not being able to figure out how to get any gardening done.\n\nAt least I brought a few fragrant snowbell blossoms into the house.\n\nIt is trying to figure out what to pack in my bag each morning so that I can try to hit an exercise class after babysitting. It is trying to fit all my clients in in just a day and a half. It is thinking about painting and writing, but not actually doing much of either.", null, "Is a bird emerging here?\n\nIt is thinking that my life is so unremarkable that I have little to share.\n\nYes, almost everything has changed, but honey, NOT BOOKS!!!! I am never disappointed by the power of the written word. I always seem to read the right thing at the right time. Once again I am not surprised that others have already written my thoughts in a more eloquent way than I ever could.\n\nThis time I have found solace in words from Stefan Zweig’s autobiography The World of Yesterday. In relating the story of his peripatetic life, continually leaving everything behind as he fled totalitarian regimes, he said, “My life was already unconsciously accommodating itself to the temporary rather than to the permanent.” So true, I thought. My struggles do not compare to his, but I too no longer have a permanent schedule, nor can I be too attached to anything except what is in the moment. After all it is from individual moments that we form our most indelible memories, and it is for these moments that I have made these changes in my life. I have become permanently temporary.", null, "Zweig, having taken refuge in England as World War II approached, remarked, quoting Shakespeare, “Let us meet the time as it seeks us.” I take that to mean let us do what is necessary for the times we live in, for sometimes we are simply swept along by events which are out of our control. I believe I can adjust to the reality of my life circumstances, which are actually darned fortunate. Since everything is temporary, I want to be able to show up for it all. Perhaps in the hubbub some things, the New Yorker, for example, will fall by the wayside. I may or may not be able to pick those things up again, but what is important is that I am doing the best I can. None of us will ever pass this way again.", null ]

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[ null, "Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa made an absolutely incredibly save early on in today’s game against Watford at Stamford Bridge.\n\nWatch the video below as the Spanish shot-stopper produces perhaps his best moment in a Chelsea shirt after what many will feel has been a slightly underwhelming first season at the club overall.\n\nKepa with the save of the season at Stamford Bridge ? pic.twitter.com/L81pS5H8Jb\n\nKepa will probably be best remembered for his row with Maurizio Sarri in the Carabao Cup final when he refused to be subbed off, but he’s now shown what he’s all about on the pitch.\n\nTroy Deeney couldn’t believe this effort didn’t go in, with other Watford players also looking shocked to see the Blues ‘keeper get a hand to the shot.", null ]

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[ "In Memory of Bill Keech\n\nOur long-time colleague and friend, Bill Keech, passed away, surrounded by family. Our thoughts are with his wife, Sharon, his daughter Sarah, his son Dan, his daughter-in-law, Cindy, his three grandchildren, Cody, Tommy, and KC, and Bill’s many friends. He was a giant in our discipline, a remarkable intellect, and one of the kindest and generous people one could know.\n\nWe will all miss him deeply.\n\nWilliam Robertson Keech (“Robby” as a young man, to distinguish him from his father “Bill,” and later “Billy” or “Bill”) earned his bachelor’s degree at Bucknell University (1961) and his M.A. and Ph.D. (1965) at the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of the political science faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1965 through 1996, rising from lecturer to full professor. In 1997, he became Head of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, serving until 2001. In 2006, he retired from Carnegie Mellon to take up a position as Research Professor of Political Economy at Duke University.\n\nBill first came to Durham in the 1960’s to conduct field research for his dissertation, which was published in 1968 as his first book, The Impact of Negro Voting. He was active in the civil rights movement, standing out even then: He was six feet, eight inches tall, and an obvious Yankee agitator in the segregated South of the early ‘60s. Bill first took a temporary position at UNC-Chapel Hill, climbing the academic ladder to tenured full professor between 1964 and 1996. As a result, he and his spouse Sharon Keech have been avid, sometimes loud, fans of UNC basketball.", null, "Bill moved to take the position of Head at the internationally-recognized Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in 1997. In 2006 he retired from Carnegie Mellon, and moved back to North Carolina to live close to his son, Dan, daughter-in-law, Cindy, and – most of all – his three grandsons, Cody, Tommy, and KC. Bill and Sharon’s daughter, Sarah, lives in New York City and was trained in the law and worked on financial services and, more recently, health care, for which she found a passionate vocation. Moving back to North Carolina, Bill was following his first passion: his family. At the same time, Duke was eager to nourish a second passion of his and so recruited him to take a position as Research Professor at Duke in the Political Science Department, where he taught classes on political economy and development and became a favorite professor of a generation of students interested in problems of economic policy.\n\nBill was devoted to his life as an academic, publishing four books and many refereed journal articles. Each of the books reflected Bill’s growth and professional evolution; he was blessed with a restless, probing intellect and addressed himself to problems of racism and voting rights, the organization of political institutions, and later the working of macroeconomic policy and the monetary system. In order to accomplish the latter, Bill recognized in the late 1970s that he didn’t know enough economics to be able to do the work he wanted to take on, and used a precious academic sabbatical to take the economics sequence at the University of Michigan, supported by a grant from the NSF. It is rare for a rising mid-career star to set aside the subjects of his early success and devote himself to learning entire new fields. This combination of humility and ambition was characteristic of Bill’s approach to academics generally, and for that matter, to life.", null, "His scholarly and leadership achievements were recognized in a very public way when he was elected as President of the Southern Political Science Association in 1989, a position in which he served with energy and honor.\n\nIn 2018, upon his (third!) retirement, this time from Duke’s Political Science Department, Bill was honored with a day-long conference reflecting on his work and achievements. The conference was attended by more than 50 people, many of them students or colleagues from the past, others new friends who had known Bill only for a few years. Among the many who described Bill’s central influence on their careers was Ken Shepsle, long-time Professor and former Chair of the Government Department at Harvard University. Ken, along with so many of Bill’s students over the past half-century, credits Bill with spurring his interest in the social sciences and serving as a mentor, just as we credit him with being a favored colleague and, most of all, friend.\n\nA memorial and remembrance will be held later this summer, organized by the family.", null ]

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[ null, "The 47-year-old former footballer - who split from Louise Redknapp in 2017 after 19 years of marriage - has been spotted recently with mother-of-four Frida Andersson-Lourie and the pair are believed to have met through mutual friends.\n\nA source told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: ''Jamie feels ready to move on from his marriage to Louise and is happy to be doing it with someone who has kids too and is financially secure.\n\n''It's early days for Jamie and Frida, but they have grown close and are really enjoying spending time together when they can.\n\n''He really gets on with Frida and she has been very understanding about him juggling fatherhood and his successful TV career.\n\n''He likes that she's also a parent so fully appreciates the balance, she is also keen on her fitness and loves spending time at home.''\n\nThe romance with Frida, 37 - who is divorced from American hedge fund tycoon Jonathan Lourie, 58 - is Jamie's first confirmed relationship since his and Louise's shock split.\n\nMeanwhile, Louise, 45, recently revealed her and Jamie's sons - Charley, 16, and Beau, 11 - are desperate for their parents to rekindle their romance.\n\nLouise said: ''[Charley] is super-protective over me. But he knows he can talk about anything and doesn't need to be embarrassed, I'm so open.\n\n''One morning he said to me, 'If you ever did want to go on a date, I'd be OK with it.' It was actually a big moment as he'd always been quite vocal that I'd never go on a date. They always hope their mum and dad will work things out.''\n\nThe couple announced their split in September 2017 after months of speculation about their relationship.\n\nBoth Louise and Jamie get on well now and share custody of their boys, and she admitted she still wants to be the one-time Liverpool FC player's ''best friend''.\n\nThe former Eternal star said: ''I'm a real softie, and I still want to be his best friend, which is impossible.''\n\nDiscussing their parenting arrangements, she added: ''We have a great system of co-parenting between us. Our rule is that while one of us is working the other is with them. We both want the kids all the time and encourage the other to go out so we can have them.\n\n''I'm able to do the job I can do because he's happy to share things with me. I have friends who don't have that, but he's hands on.''" ]

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[ null, "Swede Rostem Akman (2-0) won the war Saturday night in a battle that went to the third round over Gard Olve Sagen (1-1) at Superior Challenge 16.", null, "The exciting matchup of two young prospects that have already proven themselves at the amateur ranks did not disappoint fans in Stockholm. Both fighters showed impressive striking, with Akman using an effective jab to control much of the standup. The Norwegian however had his moments and landed a huge punch rocking the local fighter in the second and briefly getting a take-down.\n\nThe story was the pressure of Akman and he started to take control landing his straight punches throughout, and finally in the third landed a bomb that stumbled the MMA Trondheim fighter. Eventually the punches were too much, putting Gard down forcing the referee to jump in." ]

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[ null, "Confirming the figures in its Q4 results, CEO Jeff Bezos said: “Prime membership continues to get better for customers year after year. And customers are responding – more people joined Prime this quarter than ever before, and we now have over 150 million paid Prime members around the world.”\n\nIn addition to growth in users, the company also announced that watch time of Prime Video originals series and movies, such as Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Man in the High Castle, has doubled.\n\nFire TV also saw growth, with more than 40 million active users worldwide. This follows a report from Ampere Analysis that one in three users in 16 leading markets now own a streaming box or streaming stick. In the US, although Netflix is still the key service for Fire TV owners, Amazon device homes are more likely to subscribe to Amazon Prime Video and HBO Now than the average.\n\nDevice wise, Amazon noted that it sold “tens of millions of Amazon devices” during the holiday season, with the best-selling devices being Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, and Echo Show 5.\n\nElsewhere in terms of services, Amazon Music now has more than 55 million users worldwide with customers in the US, UK, Germany and Japan collectively growing by nearly 50% year-over-year.\n\nThe company’s net income increased to US$3.3 billion, while sales grew by 21% to US$87 billion." ]

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[ "Professor Guosheng YIN, Patrick S C Poon Professor in Statistics and Actuarial Science and Head of Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, is recently elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 2021, one of the top honors for demonstrating distinction in research in statistics or probability. This is a true recognition for Professor Yin’s significant contributions to the frontiers of clinical trials and biostatistics throughout the years.\n\nProfessor Guosheng Yin received Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. In 2003-2009, he worked as Assistant Professor and also Associate Professor (tenured) in the Department of Biostatistics at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2013. His main research areas include AI, machine learning, clinical trial methodology and adaptive design, Bayesian methods, and survival analysis. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers and two books in the areas of clinical trial design and methods.​ He has also been named by Clarivate Analytics among the world’s top 1% Highly Cited Researchers​ in 2015 and 2019.", null ]

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[ "As one of the most visually impressive Liverpool Christmas party venues, Alma de Cuba will be opening its doors during the festive season welcoming partygoers in out of the cold to celebrate Christmas Cuban style.", null, "For Cuban’s the celebration of Christmas is a super special time of year, some may not be aware, however, that Christmas was officially cancelled in Cuba between 1969-1997.\n\nHere we look at Cuba’s Christmas past and how you can party with us Cuban style this year at Alma de Cuba.\n\nFor three decades Cuban?s were not allowed to publicly celebrate Christmas because Fidel Castro, the country’s leader, was a well-known atheist. Cuban people could privately enjoy Christmas in their own homes but there were no mentions of the holidays in the media, shop fronts or any public space and no traditional Christmas decorations or festive related good was sold.\n\nThis was until 1997 when the Pope visited Cuba and beseeched Castro to lift his ban of the holiday thus uniting Cuba with Christmas cheer once again.\n\nBecause of Castro?s ban, there was an entire generation of Cubans who hadn?t celebrated Christmas, people who were born and lived into adulthood without ever having seen a street lit up with fairy lights or seen a giant Christmas tree in their local town or village.\n\nAll this changed in 1997 and people flocked to stores to purchase all the Christmas trappings the rest of the world had enjoyed over the last 30 years.\n\nFor Cuban?s, the festivities begin on Christmas Eve or Nochebuena, as entire families come together to enjoy a feast of traditional Cuban food, music and dancing.", null, "The feast would include roasted pig, rice and black beans, yuca and fried plantains and for dessert, what else but Rum cake and Arroz Con Leche or Rice pudding to us.\n\nBecause of the ban on Christmas itself Cuban?s hosted Nochebuena to celebrate their love for each other and not the gift-giving indulgent Christmas day the rest of the world knows and loves.\n\nOf course in Liverpool, we do love and celebrate Christmas exceptionally well.\n\nAs the city?s streets begin to fill with Christmas cheer and the bars and restaurants are bursting at the seams with jubilant groups of party goers, Alma de Cuba will be playing host to many a happy festive event.", null, "Join us for festive afternoon tea, samba style, as we give a Cuban Christmas twist to the popular offering and invite everyone to get up and samba dance after enjoying a selection of Cuban Christmas inspired foods and drink.\n\nFor one of the city’s most exquisite Liverpool Christmas party venues look no further than Alma de Cuba. This Christmas we invite companies to consider booking special nights in the restaurant space or VIP Lady Chapel where the converted church interior offers a breath-taking backdrop to any Christmas night out and the original features such as stained glass windows give a traditional Christmassy feel.\n\nWe can also offer VIP booths for Christmas nights out in Liverpool and our weekly entertainment will continue to thrill audiences throughout the festive season.", null, "Enjoy the Voodoo floor show, the unique petal shower and lots of lovely live music playing every weekend during the festive period when you spend Christmas 2018 in Alma de Cuba.\n\nBook your Christmas event in one of the most stunning Liverpool Christmas party venues by calling 0151 305 5101." ]

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[ null, "My iPad shows charging symbol, but is not charging...\n\nMy iPad shows charging symbol, but is not charging...\n\nSee image, it is showing the charging symbol, but not charging... What is going on?\n\nsame problem I faced with my iPad 4, took it for repair more than once, but the problem is still there without any fix. I bought a year ago and use it for about 8 months before the issue happened!\n\nIt sounds like the cable or power box ( thing you plug it into and them plug into wall) is busted, try a different one of those\n\nThis problem started right after the last upgrade.\n\ni got the same problem too. its so irritating after the last update\n\nThe problem is definitely in the gas gauge line between the logic board and the battery.\n\nThis could be a failed battery—and if there were no prior repairs, this is most likely.\n\nThe most common cause if the phone has been opened, is a missing FL 11 on the logic board. The FL 11 is a tiny component that commonly gets knocked off when people connect or disconnect the battery.\n\nApple diagnostics won't help you—they will just show how many amps the phone is consuming while charging, which won't help you to narrow down between these possibilities.\n\n2.) If the problem isn't solved, look for the FL 11 on the logic board and send the phone out for repair if it's missing.\n\n3.) If this doesn't resolve the problem, replace the dock connector.\n\n4.) If the problem still isn't solved, send the phone out for a U2 IC chip replacement on the logic board.\n\nYou got to speak English. I am 12 and my iPad is not charging even though it is can you help me without using all those big words???\n\n@Kassidy be nice kid. Ask your parents to take it to a Microsoldering repair shop and explain what’s going on with the iPad. They know how to speak this language, and they’re the only ones that can fix problems as complex as this one.\n\nMost of what I see is hardware failures, and this is a common one called 'fake charging' that can happen after water damage or drop damage damages in phones which causes a hardware fault on the logic board. I had an iPad mini lately that had a similar problem---charging okay but the battery percentage never went up or down....that one turned out to be a tiny resistor near the battery connector had rubbed off.\n\nDid this just start happening on it own out of the blue, or is there some history here?\n\nUpdate: iPad 4 fake charging is probably a burned U2 charging ic chip, just like in the iPhone 5. I have seen this a lot this year\n\nYes there has been some history of this happening, I change my charge when the battery kept charging but right now it's not even changing its percentage, what's happening\n\nI just had this on ipad air 4th generation did a hard reset, it seems to be ok now\n\nBe sure that you are charging using the correct wall adapter like this one here. Also make sure that the charging cable is not longer than three feet (or one meter). There is too much voltage drop for the iPad to charge properly on most longer cables. iPads also will not properly charge when plugged in to a PC or Mac - not enough voltage over the normal USB connection.\n\nI am using the wall charger and cable that came with the iPad. Looking around the internet it looks like this is a somewhat common issue. Have people had success by upgrading to a strong Volt/Amp/Watt Charger?\n\nHow old is your iPad? Which model is it? I would not recommend trying a charger with increased output - you could easily damage your device.\n\nI was using the USB-C (29W) adapter and cable to charge iPad b/c it is faster. But it stopped charging the iPad for some reason. When I used the regular lightning cable and charger, it charged fine. The USB-C still works to charge the iPhone but not the iPad. Go figure !\n\nI know it's kind of late to answer this but to anyone who have this issue, it's your charger cable, in the cable there are a few wires for different things, I don't know exactly which does what, but some of them are for charging , some of them are for USB connection , I think those wires for charging are damaged and when you plug it in , ipad thinks it's connected to the charger because of those wires that are not damaged yet...you should buy another charger cable, like I do , every single month !\n\nI am facing this issue since a month and my battery meter hasnt gone up or down from 16% ever since. I wanted to try everything before taking it to apple centre. Hope this works. Im gonna buy a cable today and will reply back here if that works!\n\nI think I'm having this issue, because my little brother sort of made a tiny open slit in between the end of the cable towards the connecter, to the connecter itself. It worked when I temporarily taped the cable so that the slit doesn't show, but now it just doesn't work. I think it got to the point when it's at its brim of holding all the power to connect in the currents. I have all of my schoolwork in there, and it's really important that I get this problem fixed by tomorrow. Because the next day's Monday. Thank you for your answer though.\n\nI followed advice about not using a long extension cable. As soon as I disconnected from extension cable and plugged charging cable directly into wall socket, all was well.\n\nguys i need help for a few days my ipad was of and when i put it on charge all that cam up was a black battery with red lines. i tried 2 different cables and 3 differnt chargers and now my ipad doesnt do anything when press the power button or plug in the charger i really need help!!!\n\nI had a similar prblm like u.. When connected to chrgr shows a charging icon with one red line n it nvr goes up evn after 2hrs charging. If u hav got any solution or hahad ur prblm solved.. Plzz help us with ur solution.Thanks in advance.\n\nTry getting a toothpick to clean the port in which your skinny end of the charger goes that is on your device. Be careful not to scratch it. This process will help clean your device and might allow it to charge.\n\nPlease help me, because my iPad says it's charging, but the battery runs down.\n\nBy chance a simple fix worked - I reversed the end of the charger which goes into the iPad port. Turns out for some reason one end of the charger when plugged in resulted in fake charging while the other end worked fine. I've now made a light mark on the side which works so I can plug it in with that side face up. Don't know the wiring technicality, but if you've tried all other fixes give it a try before going to Apple!\n\nCould not believe it, but tried it and it worked ?!\n\nI just had this issue and got on the phone to Apple. They did a diagnostic test and it was all clear, then they suggested a force restart (turn off and on again). Battery is now recharging as usual! I was stuck on 1% so was scared to do this but kept it plugged in and now all’s fine.\n\nI had that problem couple months ago , but what I did was left it couple weeks then one day , it started working again .maybe it's the port or the charger or something,\n\nI found I had to wiggle the input cable and apply some pressure before the lightening bolt showed up. I think the input cable for the iPad has been badly designed given the number of people that I see have had the same problem (this could be strategic by Apple - so we customers have to go and purchase another charging cable). It creates a great inconvenience and frustration.\n\nTurn your device off. Cut a plastic qtio in half at a 45 degree angle. Stick the plastic pointed part in the charger port. Back and forth back and forth. Apply a tiny bit of 91% or higher iso alcohol to the tip and repeat back and forth. Blow out with compressed air. Repeat process to clean contacts on your cable. 70% that's it. 15% of the time you need a new chrager, 15% battery replacement. That's been my experience.\n\nI have slso had this problem not just with my ipad but my Samsung s4 and laptop. I noticed that all these would fake charge when I connected to public wifi and might not be a hardware problem but some kind of hack or virus with the wifi adapter. I noticed when I disconnected from wifi restart the device's they would charge as normal.\n\nI had my iPad mini plugged in for two days and it wouldn't go up passed 3%. So then I just switched the charging cables and as soon as I plugged it into my iPad my battery % went straight to 100%. So I'm assuming it's because of the wrong charging cable that started this frustration\n\nIf you have the issue above, please buy new genuine cable 1st and try. Do not go to any one.\n\nDoubtful the battery needs replacing, but you could check by having Apple run diagnostics on it. More likely, the system just needs to be reset. Before you go to Apple, turn the iPad completely off for 30 seconds. Then connect charger without turning it back on. Chances are, it will now show it is charging. If that doesn’t work, turn it off again. Disconnect charger. Hold the home button and power button down simultaneously until you see the Apple icon on the screen. Now reconnect the charger. It should be charging normally. If not, make an appointment at the Genius Bar. Good Luck." ]

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[ "Pattern matching is the one skill that kept homo sapiens on top through the harsh millennia of predatory competition. Our brains are really very good at spotting a snake in the grass, even if we are not familiar with that particular snake, or that patch of ground.\n\nYou realize quickly how good we are at it when you see how relatively hard it is to persuade computers to do similar “fuzzy” matching; computing is about following rules defined in advance. This is why autonomous vehicles don’t ever quite arrive. However, there is a tool that leaves the human to work out the pattern, and just manages the mechanics.\n\nFor the domain of words, Regular Expressions (or regex) are a great way to specify a search pattern in order to find words and characters hiding in a large amount of text. For example, how would you find all the dates mentioned in an email? This is exactly the sort of problem for regex. And with so many websites that let you dump a lump of text and apply regex searches to it, it is very easy to both learn and do valuable work with no more than a browser.\n\nAnd yet regex is one of those skills, like touch typing, that developers know they should learn but often leave until the last moment. But it is a useful skill for everyone working with text, as many text editors will allow regex searches. What I recommend is that you learn a small core, and then extend your knowledge when you need it. If you like word games (even Wordle), you won’t have any trouble understanding the whys and wherefores of regex.\n\nRead More: DigitalOcean’s New CTO Doesn’t Do Process for its Own Sake (But She Has a Process) – InApps 2022\n\nBecause regex is a computing discipline, we need to dip quickly into how text is represented in computing. A printing letter or a dollar symbol are examples of characters, which make up a string within the computer’s memory. A line of text is a string ending with a new line character.\n\nWhen you press return on a keyboard, that new line character gets appended to the string. So an entire Shakespeare text may be expressed as a single string, or many lines. This text, for example, probably uses a new line character to indicate the end of a paragraph; this web page will naturally use word wrapping to split the paragraph into many lines on the screen.\n\nThere are plenty of regex symbols, but I’ll introduce a few at a time so that you will find it easier to work out what you can do. First of all, every existing printing letter stands in for itself except if it is a special regex symbol.\n\nLet me introduce you to two important regex symbols::\n\nThe full stop can stand in for any single character, except a new line.\n\nThe asterisk, an example of a quantifier, specifies that the character it stands in front of may be repeated zero or many times.\n\nYou might be slightly surprised that special symbols are not used. This is down to the age of regex when only keyboard characters were available.\n\nThe following are all valid regular expressions that could represent my first name:\n\nMaybe you spotted the trick that a full stop followed by an asterisk can stand in for any string of any length. Now regex is often known for being “eager” in that it will match as much as it possibly can, which is why it is important to be very careful with that combination.\n\nThese important symbols are anchors:\n\nThese ensure you can find things relative to the start or end of a line. Understanding whether your text is made of lines, or is a single string, is part of the initial analysis when working out how to solve a problem.\n\nFinally, we have alternation which is an OR operator. The pipe symbol gives us a bit of logic control:\n\nYou can read the above as “this or that”.\n\nNow, I’ll use regexr.com to place some examples in; there are a number of sites that do the same thing. Regex can be found embedded in many applications that need search capabilities and utilities such as sed and AWK.\n\nBefore we start searches in the wild, here are a few notes:\n\n/my regex will work keep searching/g\n\nLet’s examine the result of several simple regex patterns applied to a well-known text that is made of lines:", null, "OK, this is no more than a simple search for the word “to” across the whole text. Not very useful.", null, "This is a reminder that regex searches are case-sensitive. Unless you turn the case insensitive flag on, or you explicitly look for uppercase characters, or you do this:", null, "Now let’s use our anchor to find the first word of each line. That should be easy. First we add the multiline flag “m”. And we search for the start of the line, followed by any number of characters and a space…", null, "OH NO! Despite my intention, the expression has (as I warned earlier) been too eager and got more than I hoped it would. So we need to learn a bit more — in fact like skiing we need to know how to stop!\n\nFortunately, we can also restrict searches to a “class” or range of characters. We use square brackets and stick the allowed characters inside. We can also use a dash to express a range.\n\nSo we can create these filters:\n\n[A-Z] only a capital letter\n\nSo we can go back and solve our “only first word” problem with the following:", null, "This says “starting from the beginning of the line, look for a capital letter, then look for any number of lowercase letters”. So this time we are using a space letter implicitly as an excluded group — it gets stopped by the doorkeeper. This is good enough for the Bard.\n\nSo with our handful of tricks, are we ready to do something useful, like find search for dates in a text like I promised? Well, let’s just look at a narrow band of US-style dates:\n\nNow we can probably do the last one… but wait. Isn’t a forward-slash part of the special symbols we need? It is — so when we want to use a special regex symbol as part of our search characters we “escape” them using a backslash:", null, "The escaping of forward slashes with backslashes is — ugly. Welcome to Leaning toothpick syndrome. Can you see ways of improving the filtering in the above example? For example, the month can only start with a “0” or “1”.\n\nFor completion, I will make this a bit neater by using extra methods that define “a digit” in a simpler way, and also quantify the exact number of repeats:", null, "Now, armed with this knowledge, you should be able to" ]

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[ null, "Luke Evans is set to star alongside Josh Gad in a 'Beauty and the Beast' prequel series.\n\nThe 42-year-old actor will star as Gaston in the upcoming series for Disney+, having previously played the part in the 2017 movie.\n\nJosh, 40, is also reprising his role of LeFou from the money-spinning film, which starred the likes of Emma Watson and Dan Stevens.\n\nThe eight-episode series will follow Gaston and LeFou as they set off with Tilly - LeFou’s stepsister - after a revelation from her past comes to the fore.\n\nGary Marsh, the president and chief creative officer of Disney Branded Television, said: \"For anyone who’s ever wondered how a brute like Gaston and a goof like LeFou could have ever become friends and partners, or how a mystical enchantress came to cast that fateful spell on the prince-turned-beast, this series will finally provide those answers … and provoke a whole new set of questions.\"\n\nProduction is set to begin in spring 2022 and the series has been tentatively titled 'Beauty and the Beast' - even though it doesn't feature either character.\n\nBriana Middleton will play the part of Tilly and Jonnie Davis, the president of ABC Signature, is already looking forward to the show.\n\nHe explained: \"There are few more precious gems in the Disney library than this iconic franchise, and this prequel is both a love letter to what’s come before and its own spectacular adventure.\"\n\nThe upcoming series is being written and executive produced by Josh, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, and the show will feature original music from Alan Menkin.\n\nJonnie added: \"Josh, Eddy and Adam’s vision gives us a window into the origin of Luke’s Gaston and Josh’s LeFou with the twist of a new partner in crime - Tilly, played by the luminous Briana Middleton.\n\n\"This dream team would not be complete without the genius Alan Menken returning to write even more glorious music for the franchise he helped create.\"" ]

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[ "Accounts Hacked – Change Your Password If You Use TeamViewer", null, "TeamViewer, the company behind a popular remote desktop platform, which allows users to share their screens, access their computers remotely, or participate in online conferences, has been hacked…maybe. A little over a month ago, the company received reports from a cross-section of users who claimed that their accounts had been accessed by unauthorized users.\n\nThe company almost immediately issued a statement that no hack had occurred, and was slow to take user claims seriously. Simultaneously with the rise in user complaints, the company’s network was disrupted by a serious DoS (Denial of Service) attack.\n\nOver the next several weeks, the company’s response has changed, both in the face of backlash from their user base, and as more evidence has continued to surface. The company still insists that its networks were not compromised, and that the reported account breaches and the DoS attacks were not related in any way, but now acknowledges that an unspecified number of user accounts were compromised.\n\nThe current thinking is that the accounts were compromised using passwords gleaned from the mega-breaches we’ve been hearing about recently, where hundreds of millions of user accounts from LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and other social media properties. The problem, company spokespeople say, is that a significant percentage of their user base uses the same password across multiple different accounts. If, for example, a LinkedIn user sets his TeamViewer password to match his LinkedIn password, then once a hacker has access to one, he can access the other.\n\nThis phenomenon is by no means new, and is a topic that security experts have talked about before at great length. Too many users rely on common passwords that give them access to several of their accounts, and if TeamViewer’s explanation of the account breaches is correct, then it painfully underscores the dangers associated with doing so.\n\nAt the end of the day, whether or not TeamViewer’s network was compromised, the core fact remains the same. TeamViewer has confirmed that an unspecified number of user accounts have been compromised. If you have an account on the system, it is recommended that you change your password immediately." ]

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[ null, "A steel formed atrium accommodates all of the circulation areas\n\nKnown as Quadrant:MK, a new national centre for Network Rail in Milton Keynes will bring together nearly 3,000 employees when it opens next year. Staff from offices in London, York and Manchester, working across a number of functions including project management, finance, human resources, procurement and property will move into a building sustainably constructed for the 21st Century.\n\nTim Coucher, Network Rail Programme Director for the project, said: “I’m confident Quadrant:MK will be a place which inspires our people and I know it will be a fabulous place to work. We’ve managed to combine cutting-edge design with the latest in environmentally-friendly features, culminating in a light, bridge, energy-efficient building of which Network Rail and Milton Keynes can be proud.”\n\nAiming to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating, the project will take advantage of a range of passive measures designed to regulate temperature and reduce energy use, including an optimised orientation and facade, narrow floor plans and solar shading.", null, "The overall project consists of four individual blocks offering a total of 38,000m³ of office space. Each of the blocks has four levels and they are all linked together by a large central atrium or street. The office blocks are standalone structures, individual buildings which form a much larger working community.\n\nIt is steel which brings these separate buildings together, by spanning the void between them and so forming a covered atrium with two office blocks on either side. The blocks have been positioned in a fan-like formation in order to harness the low angle of the sun to maximum effect in winter and conversely in the summer, meaning they will not take in excessive heat when its warm. Because of this orientation, the void (atrium) is an irregular trapezoidal shape.\n\nA series of steel trusses span this central atrium, trusses which will support a glass roof. These trusses are a maximum of 2.7m deep and vary in length, (the longest being 27m-long) depending on their location.\n\n“We looked at a number of options for spanning the atrium and steel offered the most efficient and lightweight solution,” explains Charlie Scott, Waterman Structures Project Engineer.\n\nMost of the trusses are supported directly off of the office blocks, while others are on steel posts, grounded in the atrium.", null, "Steelwork contractor Graham Wood Structural brought all of the trusses to site in two pieces. They were assembled on the ground and lifted into place by a 200t capacity mobile crane. “The heaviest trusses weighed 8.5t and we used a large mobile primarily for its reach, as it had to be positioned outside of the atrium’s footprint,” says Adam Harding, BAM Construction Project Manager.\n\nThe trusses have welded connections and were fabricated from hollow sections. Spanning between these primary trusses are a series of secondary trusses, all connected to form the overall volumetric shape.\n\nThere are a number of other interesting steelwork features within the main atrium. Two architectural bowstring footbridges span the void, providing better connectivity for the workers. As well as lifts, access to and from the ground floor is also provided by cantilever scissor staircases, housed in a steel tower attached to each of the four blocks.\n\nEach of the four office blocks has two further internal atria, an inner and outer void, with the inner linking directly into the main central atrium. As well as allowing natural light to penetrate the inner office spaces, these atria also act as large chimneys, by helping to draw warm air out of the structures.\n\nSeparating the main street atrium from each of the blocks’ inner atria is a glazed facade, a feature element providing transparency. Steel oval hollow sections horizontally positioned, span this 15m internal elevation at each floor level, supporting and restraining the glass laterally. The glazing is also top hung, with steel rods attached to the roof and down to each of the three oval sections.", null, "The atrium roof features rooflights to let natural light in\n\nA similar oval section and glazed facade arrangement has been used at either end of the main atrium, with the southern end housing the Centre’s main entrance and the northern end incorporating a staff entrance to the adjacent multi-storey car parks.\n\nThe main entrance area offers steelwork its most visual element of the entire project. Spanning between the front two office blocks is a large attached 80m-wide support structure clad with brise soleil. As the two office blocks are not parallel to each other, to get straight lined front elevation, the support structure is a triangular wedge shape.\n\nA series of 20m-high ‘hockey sticks’, fabricated from hollow box sections, are spaced along the front of the entrance, with a right angled top portion connecting back to the main structure. The top or horizontal portion is a moment connection, and these span varying lengths from 6m up to 16m, depending on their location; the spans get longer closer to the centre.\n\n“This was another area where steelwork was the most efficient material to form a feature element,” adds Mr Scott.\n\nSumming up the project, Mr Harding says the main challenge for this job is the tight schedule. BAM has 85 weeks to complete the job, which is due to be finished in April 2012. “Steelwork has more than played a part in keeping us on target for that date, as erection has been quick and efficient, with Graham Wood completing steelwork for each block in four weeks.”", null, null, "A series of hockey stick columns form a feature façade" ]

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[ null, "Millions of people have been vaccinated and businesses are reopening their doors, but the coronavirus still looms large, challenging Formula 1’s organizers as they plot a 23-race calendar for the globetrotting series. Just two weeks ago, the Canadian Grand Prix had to be cancelled for the second year in a row, with the event replaced by the Turkish Grand Prix at the Istanbul Park Circuit. The track had returned to the calendar in 2020 for the first time since 2011.\n\nNow those plans have been scuppered due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, forcing F1 to rework the schedule yet again. The French Grand Prix is now shifted up a week, with a second race in Austria slotting in between the French and Austrian Grands Prix in late June. As in 2020, this second race at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, will be called the Styrian Grand Prix after the state in which the race takes place.\n\nThe Turkish Grand Prix delivered a thrilling contest in 2020, with Racing Point’s Lance Stroll taking his maiden pole position before Lewis Hamilton climbed from sixth to victory in tricky conditions to secure his seventh world championship, so it is disappointing to miss out another race around Istanbul Park. It also would have been more exciting for fans if F1 had replaced Turkey with a different circuit, such as Mugello, instead of running a doubleheader, but F1 likely wanted a quick fix, and negotiating with a track already on the calendar was an easier route.\n\nF1 deserves praise for how quickly it found a workaround to maintain a 23-race schedule, and the Red Bull Ring has produced gripping races due to its three DRS zones and drastic elevation changes. The Austrian track has also been a happy hunting ground for the circuit’s namesake, Red Bull, in recent years, with Max Verstappen winning in 2018 and 2019. With Verstappen locked in a tight battle with Hamilton for the championship, an extra race in Austria will be a solid opportunity for the Red Bull driver to keep the fight close. F1 fans should also be thankful that the series didn’t opt for a French Grand Prix doubleheader instead, since the Circuit Paul Ricard has produced some of the biggest snooze-fests in recent years.\n\nOne unfortunate consequence of the rejigged schedule, however, is that Romain Grosjean’s F1 farewell test will not coincide with the French Grand Prix. Grosjean had an unceremonious exit from F1 after he missed the last two races of the 2020 season following his crash in Bahrain, and Mercedes’ Team Principal Toto Wolff had graciously offered Grosjean a test drive in Hamilton’s 2019 championship-winning Mercedes W10 so the beloved French driver could leave F1 on a high. The test was originally set for a few days after the French Grand Prix weekend, with Grosjean also slated to drive several demonstration laps during the weekend in front of his home crowd.\n\nHowever, the new dates for the French Grand Prix conflict with IndyCar’s REV Group Grand Prix at Road America, which Grosjean is competing in with Dale Coyne Racing as part of his IndyCar rookie campaign. While it is a shame that Grosjean will miss out on driving F1 machinery in front of French fans for the final time, the fact that Mercedes is still honoring his test drive shows that underneath the ruthless competitiveness that dominates Formula 1 is a sport filled with compassion and respect. With Grosjean telling F1’s Beyond The Grid podcast that he intends to push “100 percent” during his test, the demonstration will also give F1 fans an idea of how Grosjean might have faired in quicker machinery than Haas’ dismally slow VF-20 — that is, if Mercedes decides to release his lap times.\n\nIn other news this week, F1’s plan for sprint race qualifying is moving ahead, with the British Grand Prix at Silverstone announced as the first race to trial the new format. With the sprint race taking place on Saturday, the classic qualifying session is now shifted to Friday, giving drivers just one hour of practice before attempting to set their fastest laps. The 100-kilometer sprint race is expected to last half an hour, with points awarded to the top three and the finishing order determining the grid for Sunday’s grand prix.\n\nMany fans are still hesitant about the new trial format, but the F1 drivers seem optimistic. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc predicts that the cars will be “pushed to the max from the first lap to the last lap,” and Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel foresees an “intense” weekend since “you have to come up with your final set-up very quickly after you first hit the track.”\n\nSilverstone is therefore a fantastic choice for the first track to host a sprint race, and the array of high-speed corners like Abbey, Copse, and the Maggots-Becketts complex should be even more riveting than ever to watch since the drivers will be able to go flat out for the entire race.\n\nTwo more sprint races are planned for 2021. One will probably be at Monza, another ultra-quick track where approximately 75% of the lap is driven with the accelerator pinned to the floor. The third sprint race is planned for a flyaway race, and other high-speed tracks like Suzuka in Japan and the new Jeddah Street Circuit in Saudi Arabia would make great candidates.\n\nLastly, this week saw a clarification around a brewing controversy surrounding the cars’ rear wings. After the Spanish Grand Prix, Hamilton suggested that Red Bull was gaining “at least three-tenths” per lap due to a bendy rear wing. Adjustable aerodynamic parts are banned in F1, which would make Red Bull’s car illegal if Hamilton’s observations proved true.\n\nIn an attempt to limit the squabbling, F1’s governing body, the FIA, announced a series of new load/deflection tests for rear wings to be implemented starting June 15. Although wings need some degree of flex to prevent the carbon fiber pieces from shattering under the aerodynamic load, the Technical Regulations state that aero components need to be “rigidly secured” and must “remain immobile in relation to the sprung part of the car.”\n\nThe new tests are designed to ensure that no team’s wings are bending beyond the allowed amount, and FIA will also keep tabs on the rear wings via the on-board cameras. The FIA has not accused any team of breaking the rules yet, and Red Bull has maintained its innocence. Team Principal Christian Horner said that “the FIA are completely happy with the car,” but he also said that Mercedes boss Wolff had already brought up the issue with him.\n\nThe FIA will permit a 20 percent leeway on the tests for the first month, a fair time span to allow the teams to adapt to the new examinations. Red Bull seem confident that their car will meet the FIA’s standards, so hopefully the new tests will work well to quell any discontent bubbling in the paddock over the legality of Red Bull’s entry." ]

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[ "Ford Wheeler first went to Every Thing Goes in 1997. He was working as a production designer for James Gray’s first film, Little Odessa, and had heard from someone – he doesn’t remember who – that there was this vintage furniture store on Staten Island that had all and for cheap. It turned out to be true. “They had all kinds of things, not just furniture,” he says. “Things that anyone else would throw away. Curtains, sheets, dishes, old telephones. They would sell whatever they had on hand. But, you know, it was weird. This quirk manifested itself in various ways. Although the place was overflowing, it was unusually, unusually organized. “Each item was measured, placed in a plastic bag and labeled,” he says. “They also had a system to track customers – every time you went upstairs you would hear ‘the customer moving to the second floor’ through a walkie-talkie.” And the employees “had this policy of being truthful or frank. . So, you know, any other place you could trade. If you try to negotiate there, they get mad.\n\nThis all starts to make sense when you consider that Every Thing Goes is run by Ganas, New York’s oldest township, whose core values ​​are truth revealing and recycling. The group of some 65 people live in eight houses on a hilly residential road on Staten Island’s north coast, obscured by sprawl and concrete walkways. They share expenses and meals – once a week, when one member returns from the grocery store, the others create a staggered chain from house to road to slowly pass the week of food in the pantry. Each morning, they meet for “feedback learning”, where they discuss each other’s behavior, thoughts and feelings with full and direct honesty. And then there’s the store, which has been open since 1983, Ganas’ second year of existence – and which is run by members who, in return, don’t have to pay the fees. $ 920 rent the others (and receive $ 200 per month treatment).\n\nThe store is actually made up of three stores: Every Thing Goes Furniture, Every Thing Goes Gallery, and Everything Goes Cafe. All are painted in bright green and yellow, and all three are on Victory Boulevard, a busy street in Brighton Heights, otherwise populated by Mexican restaurants, storefront churches, and delicatessens. The furniture store, according to store manager Brian Scully, who has worked there for 17 years, operates in much the same way it did when it first opened. “We have an ad in the yellow pages that says we’ll come and take things out of your house,” he says. “Which is a big plus – I mean, if you’ve got any trash you want to get rid of, you’re going to pay $ 400 to get a trash removal service to come and pick it up.” We’ll take it for free and we’ll keep it out of the landfill. They do pickups five days a week, typically on Staten Island (though they sometimes come to the other four boroughs, on request) – from tiny apartments to mega-houses on Howard Avenue. “We just loaded the truck,” says Scully. “Usually it’s about 40 to 60 items per trip – we go for the furniture, but we will also take household items, like pots and pans, knick-knacks and clothes.”\n\nOnce back at the store, an elaborate inventory process begins, during which every item – from an Eames chair to a golf club to a package of plastic plates – is measured, photographed, and then given a label with a description and many number that corresponds to its eventual placement. All of this information is stored in a database, so that every employee knows exactly where everything is at any given time. A 12 inch by 12 inch painting of Mickey Mouse? It’s 117 2C – on the second floor of the furniture store, in other words. (Whether things are organized so completely isn’t entirely obvious – the Mickey Mouse painting sits atop a coffee table with a breadbox, another smaller coffee table, and two lamp shades.)\n\nDespite the sheer amount of merchandise and the hard work employees put into organizing it, stores “are almost breaking even,” says Scully. “We are providing jobs, we are paying construction taxes, we are in the dark.” Scully says that’s because the goal is to keep things cheap, to ensure a constant flow of supply (“We try to reduce waste by restoring and recycling whenever possible,” the page ” About us ”of the group reads in green), and to make it accessible to the neighborhood. “I’m not trying to get the most out of every song, but it’s a balancing act,” says Scully.\n\nIt’s a balancing act both because the store helps support the whole operation – those eight houses and 65 people, the Friday night dinners to welcome potential new members – and because Ganas doesn’t not only sell to the neighborhood. In recent years, the customer base has grown increasingly diverse and, in response, their prices, which Ford said were once “very cheap”, have skyrocketed. (Although proportionally: “When I get a vintage sofa that I know in Brooklyn or Los Angeles would sell for $ 3,000, I’ll sell it for $ 900,” Scully says.) Selling to film and TV producers has become a substantial part of their business – pieces of them have appeared in everything from Jessica jones at Madam Secretary. More recently, Brooklyn vintage merchants have found them. “They come and buy things and sell them,” he says. Another more recent part of their clientele: the influx of former Brooklynites who have moved to the North Shore in recent years, and who, accustomed to very neat and cramped shops, are generally delighted with the modest prices and the sprawl Staten Island locals recommended it new York Magazine, in fact, that we included the store in our “Best of New York” issue). “It’s a real hunt, but I have found special lamps on occasion,” says writer Molly Bruce Barton. Megan Joseph, a curator who has moved to Tomkinsville near Bed-Stuy, says she particularly likes the staff. “You know their name, they know yours. They circulate between the three stores. And if you go to any arts event on the island, you’ll see them there too, ”she says. “One of the women, the managers – you’ll see her at the cafe, then at the Staten Island Arts virtual events, then you’ll see her composting at the farmers market on Saturday. These people are simply rooted in the cultural community here.\n\nWhile these newcomers are mostly all aware that the store is run by Ganas, and are aware that Ganas is a commune, they all say that – lately, at least – the store looks like… a store. Which has not always been the case. According to member Jorge Caneda, the whole point of opening the stores was to create – as he put it in a 2014 interview with artist Caroline Woolard – “a new step, a new gestalt to work on our relationships, on questions of hierarchy, questions of collaboration, on questions of learning to listen deeply to what we hear – not what which is said or heard: all our companies had this objective. Although the “About Us” page on the store’s site still emphasizes the importance of conflict resolution and communication (“We seek open and caring ways of relating with each other in which we let’s see problems as opportunities to work together. And we find that when we put our minds together to solve problems, we make better decisions, ”Scully says in recent years, it’s been more in the background. Because “the radical honesty that went on in the store made it difficult to run a store.”\n\nAnd while the original, idealistic goal was never to make a profit – just to provide work and income for new members – they do find that they do need to earn money. Six years ago, Ganas ‘financial situation became so dire that they were forced to set up a GoFundMe for their workers’ year-end bonuses. “Ganas is in a very difficult situation in terms of cash flow,” said the fundraiser. “We cannot pay workers bonuses this year, and we cannot continue the unsustainable practice of borrowing to cover them.” So the price increase. And over the summer, Scully put together a Instagram Account. The images are low-fi (in some you can see the shadow of the photographer, looming in front of, for example, a satin sofa). Each only gets a handful of likes – 5 on a photo of a dog crate (caption: “dog crate”), 13 high on some Stacor flat back drawers. “It’s been pretty good,” Scully said. “I sold some things to dealers in Los Angeles, and even with the shipping they were still very happy with our prices. I know they sell our products for more. But that’s okay – I’m just as excited to find a dresser that I can sell for $ 40 to someone who needs it.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "That little yellow dauber wasp\nworked and flew until it dropped.\nUntil the end of every blessed day\nit flew straight, never lost its way.\nFound the dirt, mixed the water,\nhefted tiny gobs, daubed the mortar.\nNever wondered if this mixture\nmight represent some wider picture—\nsome perfect mix of form and function.\n\nFunction—raise a progeny within asylum.\nForm—daub a ball, a safer nest, a quiver.\nIs this a bumbling wasp’s ancient elixir,\nor ordained by phylum’s older nature?\nSome Yung Dynasty’s expert woodcarver\ncaptured that monk’s hot blaze of mystery.\n\nBut dauber wasps are born consistent—\nborn enlightened—carry water carry mud;\nno need to prize a finger off far-off moons.\nIt knew well its place in time and space;\nno need to plan on how to find a grace.\n\nBut then it found a perfect final resting bed—\na nest inside a monk’s empty wooden head.\nA leavened monk stares off beyond rare air;\nbut essences of tiny wasp beat him there.", null, "The author was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in the jungles of Colombia. He holds a BA in Mathematics from North Carolina State University, an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, an MBA from UCLA, and a Certificate in Poetry from the University of Washington. An Honorman in the U.S. Naval Submarine School, he was Submarine Service (SS) qualified. He is a recipient of the Vietnam Service Medal, Honorable Discharge, and a Whiting Foundation Experimental Grant. He is a member of IEEE (technological society), AAAS (scientific society), and the Academy of American Poets. A former Boeing engineer." ]

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[ "The OMG Girlz have called it quits. The female group featuring rapper T.I.’s stepdaughter, Zonnique Pullins, released a message via Twitter on Thursday, announcing the sad news as well as thanking fans for their love and support.", null, "The Atlanta-based group of girls, then ages 11 to 13, was first assembled in 2009, with rapper T.I.’s wife, former Xscape member Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, at the helm. The original lineup also featured Lil Wayne’s daughter, Reginae Carter, who was allegedly kicked out of the group in 2010. The OMG Girlz had two tracks hit the U.S. Billboard charts, including “Gucci This (Gucci That)” and “Where The Boys At?”\n\nAlthough this may be the end for the girls as a group, we wouldn’t be surprised if Tiny was behind her daughter’s pursuit of a solo career; nonetheless, we’re sad to see these girls go their separate ways." ]

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[ "CJ Werleman on Wednesday shared a video on his twitter handle account. In the video, A British man was teasing a Pakistani driver, racially profiling him and making remarks that would be considered severely inappropriate.\n\n“You’re from Pakistan. You think you’re fucking special. No wonder the Indians are bombing you.”\n\nA racist British man vilifies a Muslim cab driver, telling him he’s “lucky” to be in England. pic.twitter.com/GUCnFZhSHp\n\nPlight of a Pakistani cab driver\n\nPakistani Muslims in the UK are stereotyped as lower class and introverted, famous for crime and extremism. Usually, they receive a lot of Islamophobia and anti-“Pakistan” racism. In this particular case, the British man was definitely intoxicated. Moreover, he did not know that the cab driver was recording the ordeal.\n\nOnce the racist slurs got more toxic than before, the can driver pointed it out that he was indeed recording the whole incident. However, the drunk British man couldn’t care less, but in the end, his video did go viral.", null, "This incident serves as a stark reminder of how Muslims and Pakistanis get to face racism and Islamophobia in the UK. Yes, the scourge exists in many other countries as well, but that does not mean that it should be normalized.\n\nThe Pakistani cab driver kept his cool and calm throughout the ride. He even escorted the customer out with respect, not that he deserved any." ]

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[ "'Fighter' Raheem Sterling slaying ghosts of England past at Euro 2020", null, "England have Raheem Sterling to thank for their trip to Rome on Saturday for their Euro 2020 quarter-final against Ukraine, and they are now favourites to go on and reach a European Championship final for the first time.\n\nThe Manchester City star is already playing in his fourth major tournament but his talent, until now, had not been fully appreciated by the England support.\n\nA precocious young player when England crashed out at the group stage of the 2014 World Cup, Sterling was one of the fall guys two years later as Roy Hodgson's side exited Euro 2016 in embarrassing fashion against Iceland.\n\nOn social media, Sterling branded himself \"The Hated One\" during that tournament and he had to deal with negative stories in the press about his perceived lavish lifestyle and other issues.\n\nHe did not forget that treatment. In 2018, months after helping England reach the semi-finals of the World Cup despite failing to score, Sterling was racially abused while playing for Manchester City away to Chelsea.\n\nSterling took to Instagram to challenge media organisations for their portrayal of young black players, claiming it was fuelling \"racism and aggressive behaviour\".\n\nAt just 26, he is a senior figure in a youthful England squad with 65 caps already to his name and represents a fearlessness and social conscience that have made Gareth Southgate's side respected on and off the field.\n\nIn the face of booing from some of their own support, England's players have continued to take the knee before each match in the tournament to highlight the fight against racial injustice.\n\nSterling is used to harnessing criticism as a motivation to prove his doubters wrong.\n\nBefore Euro 2020 began there were calls for him to be dropped by Southgate after a disappointing end to his season at City, where he had been usurped by international teammate Phil Foden in the pecking order.\n\nFoden was one of a multitude of exciting attacking players left watching on from the bench as Sterling opened the scoring against Germany in the last 16 on Tuesday for his third goal in four games at the tournament.\n\n\"Please keep asking the questions because if we cannot motivate him, everyone else will certainly be able to,\" said Southgate with a wry smile after England's first knockout victory over Germany at a major tournament since 1966.\n\n\"He is a fighter,\" added Southgate. \"He has got an incredible resilience and hunger. He has developed over the last couple of years this real hunger to score.\n\n\"His drive is fantastic. We know the journey he has been on with England and I am so happy for him to be able to deliver the performances he has.\"\n\nAfter scoring just twice in his first 45 England games, against minnows Estonia and Lithuania, Sterling now has 15 in his past 20 games for his country.\n\nBorn in Jamaica, Sterling moved to England as a five-year-old and grew up in the shadow of the new Wembley stadium as it was constructed.\n\nSee off Ukraine at the Stadio Olimpico and England will be back in Sterling's backyard next week for a semi-final against Denmark or the Czech Republic in front of 60,000 fans as coronavirus restrictions are further relaxed.\n\nUnlike Michael Owen at the 1998 World Cup, Wayne Rooney at Euro 2004 or even Harry Kane three years ago in Russia as he claimed the Golden Boot, Sterling has never been hailed as English football's golden boy.\n\nBut his long road to success at a major tournament is symbolic of England's 55-year wait to win one.\n\nThey will rarely get a better chance and if Sterling does lead them to a first-ever European Championship win come July 11, he will have forever silenced his critics." ]

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[ null, "Audrey Hepburn’s personal treasures will go on auction on September 27 at Christie’s, London. Among the things being sold is a trench coat that is expected to fetch anywhere between $7,683 to $10,244.\n\nThe auction of the iconic movie star’s things will take place in a live sale, and an online sale which will take place from September 19 to October 3. Her things have been divided into three categories – clothes, couture ad costumes, memorabilia and correspondence, and the professional portraits.\n\nAn annotated script of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ will also be auctioned and is expected to go anywhere between 60,000 an 80,000 pounds. There is also a blue dress by Givenchy, a gold cigarette lighter which is inscribed, and a number of photographs.\n\nHepburn’s glamorous Los Angeles mansion is also to be sold, and the going rate is $14 million. It is a 7,000 sq ft property designed by architect Paul Williams in 1938. The property has 6 bedrooms, a private tennis court, and a guest house.\n\nHere are some other celebrities who have had their things sold for exorbitant prices:\n\nA 1962 private jet that was owned by Elvis Presley sold at a California auction for $430,000. The private jet was sitting on a tarmac in Roswell N.M. for more than 30 years.\n\nBasketball champion Michael Jordan’s sneakers were sold for $190,373 at an auction.\n\nThe estates of Star Wars star Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds are to be sold. Some of the pieces that will be on sale are a life size C-3PO, a pair of ruby Wizard of Oz slippers, the lavender silk chiffon dress which Reynolds wore in the popular ‘Singing in the Rain’.\n\nThe white halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe was auctioned for $4.6 million.\n\nAlso Read: Do you really know your LBD well? Here is how it came about", null, "Why Roman Holiday Still Enthrals After 66 Years Of Its Release", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "This week Magnum Photos kicks of a new 6×6 print sale to celebrate its upcoming 70th anniversary and explore the legacy of one of the organizations founders, David ‘Chim’ Seymour.\n\nSeymour was well-known for his deeply-engaging documentary images, specifically for a group of images of orphans of WWII that were shot for UNICEF in 1948.\n\nFor this print sell, Conditions of the Heart: On Empathy and Connection in Photography, Magnum asked its photographers to pick an image that they thought spoke to the connection between photographer and subject.\n\nSigned 6×6 prints will be available from over 60 Magnum photographers for $100 through Friday Nov. 4 at 6 p.m.", null, "Two men sitting in front of a holy statue at the Feast of San Gennaro. Little Italy, New York. 1969.\n\n“Well, I feel empathy and a connection with these guys, but do they feel it with each other? It doesn’t look that way. Or maybe they’re just having a little digestive trouble after downing a few sausage-and-onion heros at the Feast of San Gennaro. Not ‘conditions of the heart,’ but rather, ‘conditions of the gastrointestinal tract.’”", null, "“When I take a camera in my hand, the world around me slows down. As do I. I love to work slowly, to have time. People, in an event like the one in this picture, will start to trust me in this way, which allows me to blend in. For this image, I hung around at a religious gathering for hours. After a while, I stopped getting noticed. I feel comfortable working in this way.”", null, "“The drama inside the helicopter unfolded in front of my eyes, silently and in slow motion. The last thing on my mind was to photograph it. About two hours before taking this photograph, an eternity in my mind, we had survived a helicopter crash in Mount Sinjar that had killed four passengers, including one of the two pilots. We were now aboard a second helicopter, an even older-looking replica of the one that had just gone down, being flown across ISIS territory to the safety of Kurdistan. In the past, especially when working in areas of conflict, I had adhered to a false sense of distance from my subject, one that allowed for the pursuit of a sort of superficial creativity over genuine empathy. I was simply trying too hard. I don’t particularly remember the moment when I took this photograph, I suppose it happened almost unconsciously. We, the survivors inside that helicopter, all shared the same experience, an almost inexplicable feeling of being alive.”", null, "“This is the picture I get the most compliments on. I shot it in Trafalgar Square, London, early one weekday morning. I was fascinated by the workers’ black legs and their graphic shapes against the white wall. I had been bending over for about half an hour, when a far too confident pigeon landed and decided to strut by. I instinctively shot this one frame but, as I was doing so, I noticed something had happened with the human legs. It all happened so quickly that I wasn’t exactly sure what I had got, but something felt right. When I saw my contact sheets, I was delighted to find legs within legs and that the coattails mimicked the pigeon’s tail. I like to think that humans aren’t the only ones that need to get up early for work.”", null, null, "“It is speculative for anyone but the ones involved to talk about empathy or emotional connection in a photograph. Once an artist is dead we rely on stories that surround certain images. In some rare occasions we hear from the person in the picture, who might tell us how the picture came about. This image of a shepherd in Bomarzo is such an example. After the book Italy was published with this image on the cover, we found out that the 12-year-old in the image was an orphan boy from Southern Italy. By then he had lived in Germany for the past 40 years and remembered Herbert List very well. He said List had been the first adult to listen to the sad and adventurous stories of his childhood life. The day after this image was taken, List brought him his first bag of candies.” – Peer-Olaf Richter, Herbert List Estate", null, "“The ability to understand and share the feelings of another is the reason everyone should have a dog.”", null, "“Sometimes they don’t tell stories, they simply speak as images. They express feeling, increase knowledge. Photographs can draw passion, beauty and understanding. And then there is love.”", null, "“In 2002, my wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen, from Colombia. While the courts processed her paperwork, we spent two months in Bogotá, waiting to take Carmen home. I used that time to explore the city and contemplate my daughter’s birthplace. During my long walks I regularly encountered homeless children. Seeing these kids was a profound part of my experience, but I couldn’t bring myself to make pictures. I suppose my feeling of connection with my new daughter overwhelmed my desire to be a photographer. As a substitute for the kids, I photographed the city’s many homeless dogs.”\nJeanette D. Moses" ]

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[ "What You Should Know About ‘529’ Education-Savings Accounts\n\nThe college-savings accounts known as 529 plans can be confusing. Parents know they have tax advantages. But what exactly are those advantages? What investment options make the most sense? Which expenses qualify and which don’t? With so many questions, many parents don’t even bother. So to help clear away some of the fog, here are answers to common questions about 529 plans.", null, "The 529 plans come in two basic varieties. The more common type is a 529 college savings plan, where parents, grandparents and others can invest money to be used for a beneficiary’s qualified education expenses. The less common type is a 529 prepaid-tuition program, which some states and a consortium of private colleges offer to allow parents, grandparents and others to prepay tuition at participating schools at a set price today. Some states offer both types of plans.\n\n• What are the benefits?", null, "Contributions to 529 plans aren’t tax-deductible at the federal level. However, many states offer state income-tax deductions or credits. Your money grows tax-free, and withdrawals to pay for tuition and other qualified expenses are free from federal taxes and, in most cases, state income taxes.\n\nThese plans can be used to pay for a range of college expenses including tuition, room and board, books and computer equipment, and they can even be used to pay for up to $10,000 a year in K-12 tuition. There are several investment options, and a multitude of plans to choose from. You can also transfer money in an account to other beneficiaries. There are many plans that make it easy for people to invest even small amounts, and there are many low-cost direct-sold plans available (not sold through an adviser).", null, "There are more upsides than downsides, but one consideration is that you could face tax consequences and/or penalties for withdrawals that aren’t considered qualified expenses. Another consideration: Your child’s need-based financial aid for college could be reduced. (More on both of those issues below.)\n\nAlso, you won’t be able to buy individual stocks within a 529 plan, and while there are multiple investment options to choose from, you’ll still have less choice than if you were designing a portfolio on your own.\n\nHas your college financial planning included 529s? How have they worked out for you? Join the conversation below.\n\n• Where can the money be used?", null, "The money in 529 plans can be used at most colleges and universities in the U.S., for undergraduate and graduate degrees. You may even be able to use the funds to pay for certain eligible institutions outside the U.S., according to the College Savings Plans Network, a repository for 529-plan information.\n\n• What investment options are there?\n\nThere are many. People commonly choose a portfolio allocation that automatically becomes more conservative as the beneficiary approaches college age. Other options include 100% equity funds or fixed-income funds, balanced funds that maintain a set mix of stocks and bonds, and stable-value funds, designed to give priority to protection of your principal. Some states offer FDIC-insured bank options, including relatively high-yield savings accounts and bank certificates of deposit, to protect your principal.\n\nYou aren’t stuck with one particular investment, either. You can move some or all of your existing money in an account to another investment option twice each calendar year, or after making a beneficiary change. Additionally, you can select a different investment option anytime you contribute to the plan. You can also switch to a different state’s plan once in a 12-month period, though some states penalize such shifts out of their plans.\n\n• Is there a ceiling on how much I can invest?", null, "Each state sets its own aggregate contribution limit per beneficiary, which ranges from $235,000 to $542,000, according to Savingforcollege.com; once an account hits those limits, no more contributions can be made, but earnings can continue to accumulate. While there are no annual contribution limits, you need to be mindful that contributions are considered gifts for federal tax purposes. In 2021, you can contribute $15,000 per donor, per recipient, free of federal gift taxes. You could also make a lump-sum tax-free 529 plan contribution of $75,000 and spread it out evenly over your tax returns for the next five years, an option some grandparents use as an estate-planning tool.", null, "You can compare state plans on the College Savings Plans Network site or at Savingforcollege.com. Always look at your state’s plan first, to see if there may be tax or other benefits specific to state residents that make it a more attractive option. There are also adviser-sold 529 plans for those who might want professional advice on how to invest, but these are often more expensive than a direct-sold plan.", null, "Almost anyone can participate in a 529 plan. Parents, grandparents, other relatives or family friends can own an account or contribute to one. You can even set up a 529 for your own education expenses. A trust, corporation, nonprofit or government entity can also open an account in many states. A beneficiary needs to be a U.S. citizen or resident alien with a Social Security number or federal tax identification number.\n\n• How could a 529 plan have an impact on financial aid?", null, "While there could be an impact, experts say the benefits of saving for college through a 529 plan would likely outweigh the effects it could have on financial aid. Assets in accounts owned by a dependent student or one of his or her parents are considered parental assets for federal financial-aid purposes, and typically only 5.64% of the account is considered in the Fafsa (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) calculation each year. This is more favorable than them being counted as student assets, according to Savingforcollege.com. Distributions under this ownership structure don’t reduce college financial-aid eligibility. Assets in accounts held by grandparents will have no impact on students’ Fafsa, but distributions will be counted as student income, which will affect aid.\n\n• What happens if you don’t use all the funds within the plan?", null, "Some parents worry about what would happen if their child doesn’t wind up going to college, or if the 529 money is needed for something else. The account owner maintains control of the assets regardless of how old the beneficiary is. This means the beneficiary can be changed at any time to another family member such as a sibling, stepchild, legally adopted child, niece or nephew, aunt or uncle—so there’s little concern about the money not being portable.\n\nYou also have the option to withdraw some or all of the money for something other than qualified education expenses. You may pay a penalty for that, however. Any earnings withdrawn (but not contribution amounts) would be subject to state and federal income tax plus a 10% federal tax penalty. There also may be fees or penalties charged by the plan.\n\nThe state-sponsored investment plans known as 529 plans get their name from Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code. They are formally known as Qualified Tuition Programs.\n\nTax-advantaged: It means that money in a 529 grows (typically through their holdings of mutual funds) without federal income tax, and you don’t pay tax on withdrawals if used for qualified education expenses.\n\nThe two types of 529s are prepaid tuition plans (where you purchase future tuition at a locked-in price) and savings plans, where your money grows in the markets.\n\nAn account holder can open an account for any student or future student—known as the beneficiary. Parents and grandparents often own these accounts for the beneficiary, or contribute to ones set up by others.\n\nA 529 is typically called an education-savings plan now, rather than college-savings plan, because the 2017 tax bill expanded the mandate to include tuition at a public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school.\n\nMs. Winokur Munk is a writer in West Orange, N.J. She can be reached at [email protected]" ]

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[ null, "I’m thankful for a lot of things this year.\n\nI’m thankful for #DancingManning and any opportunity I have to use him.\n\nI’m thankful for JJ Watt…for being fun to watch, and for being a good dude.\n\nAnd my sick running back combo of Eddie Lacy, CJ Anderson and Justin Forsett in Week 12.\n\nLet us know what you’re thankful for by tweeting by tweeting at @Mike_Piff03 with #PiffsGiving.\n\nAnd now we’re just ONE WEEK away from the playoffs…that is, if you’re in a normal league. Because nobody in their right mind should leave their Fantasy Championship up to Week 17 when players get rested.\n\nAnd now for something completely different.\n\nSam Kalmar on Facebook: “Larry Fitzgerald or Kelvin Benjamin?…And in need of a TE (assuming Julius Thomas is out) Ertz, Reed, Paul, anyone?”\n\nNobody sounds very confident that Larry Fitzgerald is going to go this week, but I would still go with Kelvin Benjamin regardless. We’re already seeing some early seedlings of a wide receiver rivalry between Benjamin and Odell Beckham, and really we’re all better for it. Benjamin ranks 5th in target percentage in the league and he is clear and away Cam Newton’s favorite target around the end zone. Panthers receivers have caught 10 touchdowns this season and Benjamin has accounted for 8 of them. He also faces a Vikings defense that is susceptible to big receivers in red zone situations. Case in point: Brandon Marshall.\n\nNow regarding your TE situation…the word on Julius Thomas is encouraging that he may go this weekend. But obviously you want to have your bases covered. I think out of the 3 you brought up, I like Jordan Reed paired up with Colt McCoy. McCoy’s game is very tight end friendly, but Reed is dealing with some injury issues himself. However if he goes, Reed will be a go-to option when Washington is playing catchup against Andrew Luck…If they are available though, go get either Mychal Rivera from Oakland or Kyle Rudolph from Minnesota. Both have rookie quarterbacks who rely heavily on them in the red zone. I like both better than Jordan Reed.\n\nFirst off…I don’t want to take anymore questions on Charles Simms while the Bucs have 2 other running backs healthy. They are also bad at using them…Second, Bucy. Your options. Woof! With that said, Jerick McKinnon is your best option. Sure he hasn’t seen the end zone yet, but he’s due. And the Panthers are just the team who can let that happen as their defense has given up 13 rushing TDs, 2nd worst in the league.\n\nI’ve already laid out my affection for Kelvin Benjamin this weekend, but this does seem to be a tough if you have to choose between the two. Mike Evans has 8 touchdowns in his last 7 games. The Bengals defense, though, has only allowed just 6 scores to wide receivers all season. Based on the matchup, I like Kelvin more this week.\n\nI think Josh Gordon proved in his return to action last week that he IS the Browns offense. First week back and he gets 16 targets? I think they like him, despite how “alienated” he felt during his suspension…Both Rashad Jennings and Fred Jackson looked good last week getting their fair share of action coming off injuries. I like Jennings more though, based on the matchup with Jacksonville. So Rashad Jennings and Josh Gordon are your two.\n\nThe answer is Sammy Watkins and I’ll tell you why…First, he doesn’t seem entirely healthy. Watkins should have lit up the Jets pass defense on Monday Night Football. He wasn’t necessarily limited, but just 3 catches and 5 targets? Against the Jets?…Reason #2 is Joe Haden. Yes, Julio Jones got by him for one but Haden had his revenge. Oh did he ever.\n\nEveryone have a very Happy Thanksgiving. You’re welcome to keep the questions rolling, but if you awaken me from my post meal slumber, it will quickly turn into Slapsgiving…in which I would gladly deliver." ]

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[ null, "Sheep are a good investment for America, according to a new Sheep Industry Economic Impact Study completed this month by Julie Stepanek Shiflett, Ph.D., of Juniper Economic Consulting.\n\nThe impact analysis revealed that every $1 in sheep and sheep-related production added an additional $2.87 to the United States economy in 2016 – a multiplier effect of nearly three times the initial investment.\n\nThe findings estimated the following:\n\n• A $2.02 billion investment in sheep production activities (ranging from lamb production at the farm gate to wool sock exports) generates a total economic benefit of $5.80 billion.\n\nThe study – commissioned by the American Sheep Industry Association – follows previous impact studies in 2008 and 2011. The overriding differences in this study compared to the 2011 study is that the sheep industry has contracted, yet the modeling effort in this study improved, capturing more value added including wool hosiery exports, lanolin, and the pelt shearling value.\n\nThe accuracy of the modeling effort is directly impacted by the accuracy of the data used to build the model. The 2016 suspension of slaughter lamb prices sold on a carcass-based formula had multiple adverse effects for lamb marketing, flock rebuilding efforts, and suspended the only lamb risk-management tool, LRP-Lamb, but also hindered sheep industry analyses such as this impact study.\n\nAn important segment of the industry that adds value, but is perhaps undervalued in impact analyses, and thus policy discussions, is the non-traditional lamb market. Industry estimates currently validate its existence and importance." ]

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[ "The aboriginal people of Malaysia, also known as Orang Asli, make up 178,197 of the Malaysian population. In 2000, they were identified as a vulnerable population with 83% of the population still living in poverty.\n\nA study conducted in 2020, focusing on the Orang Asli in Terengganu identified that all were earning less than RM880 a month, a figure that is way below the national poverty line of RM2,208.\n\nWith the majority of the Orang Asli population still hunters and gatherers, their lives and livelihood are closely connected with nature and the land.\n\nThe struggle is real for this people group, especially during a pandemic. Many have lost their jobs and over the months, families were grappling with food security.\n\nAs such, since 2021, Kechara Soup Kitchen Society launched a national food distribution to better support the aboriginal community.\n\nThe 3 Main Race of Orang Asli", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "According to Al Hadath broadcaster, the arrests took place before dawn on Monday.\n\nThe Associated Press news agency also said Sudanese officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed the arrests.\n\nSudan has been on edge since a failed coup plot last month unleashed bitter recriminations between military and civilian groups meant to be sharing power following the toppling of the country’s longtime leader Omar al-Bashir.\n\nAl-Bashir was toppled after months of street protests in 2019, and a political transition agreed after his removal was meant to lead to elections by the end of 2023.\n\nTelecommunications access has been restricted in the country, Al Jazeera correspondent from the capital Khartoum said, explaining that it is very hard to get information on what’s going on.\n\nThe military has also blocked all roads and bridges leading into Khartoum city.\n\nThe Sudanese Professional’s Association, the country’s main pro-democratic political group, called the military’s moves on Monday an apparent military coup and called on the public to take to the streets." ]

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[ null, "The Globe Electric Theatre opened in 1910. Advertisements at the time pronounced; ‘Pictures from around the Globe’ and ‘See the World at the Globe’. In around 1926 it had the first Christie organ fitted, which was a 2Manual/6Rank instrument that was opened by organist Steff Langston. In around 1932, the organ was enlarged to 2Manuals/7Ranks.\n\nAlways independently operated it was renamed Globe Cinema in around 1946. The Globe Cinema was closed on 6th February 1960 with Jock Mahoney in \"The Land Unknown\" and Eric Fleming in \"Curse of the Undead\". It was later demolished and the site redeveloped.\n\nIn 2009, the offices of Antanda Solicitors is located at this address." ]

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[ null, "Looks like dancing queen Madhuri Dixit has some serious competition from husband Shriram Nene. Yes, you read that right! Madhuri recently threw a grand bash for Dr. Nene as he clocked another year on the 12th of February. It was quite a star-studded night as several celebrities from the tinsel town of Bollywood like Sanjay Kapoor, Farah Khan Kunder, Riteish Deshmukh, and Genelia D’Souza attended the party. Videos from the get-together have surfaced online and one such video showcases the actress dancing with Dr. Nene on her hit number Tamma Tamma.\n\nIt was Farah Khan who first took to her Instagram space and shared a video of the husband-and-wife duo matching steps to the popular song. In the video, Shriram Nene and Madhuri can be seen having a gala time as they danced together. Sharing the glimpse of the night with netizens, Farah had dubbed the duo ‘couple goals’. She also joked about Mr. Nene giving some ‘serious competition’ to Madhuri when it comes to dancing. Farah wrote, “Happy birthday Ram.. giving @madhuridixitnene serious competition (laughing emoji) #couplegoals”.\n\nLater on, many fan accounts too shared the video of the power couple dancing on social media.\n\nOn the occasion of Shriram Nene’s birthday, Madhuri had shared a heartwarming video on her Instagram space featuring many pictures of the couple together over the years. Sharing the post, Madhuri wrote a sweet caption that read, “My husband, my friend, my confidant, my heart & the best father in the world, Happy Birthday #Birthday #Husband”." ]

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[ null, "Arup Singla, a man from Punjab, used to visit his relatives admitted to the civil hospital, Sangrur. There he came to know about their health condition. He realised that they were suffering from malnutrition and other ailments. Most of the patients belonged from financially weaker backgrounds.\n\nArup Singla decided to come up with a solution for the problem. With the help of Punjab government, they built a building near the hospital with a kitchen to cook food. Arup, under his NGO Shri Durga Sewa Dal, started providing meals four times a day which included breakfast, lunch, evening tea, and dinner for the patients and their attendants in the civil hospital, cancer hospital and the red cross de-addiction centre for free. They have set up individual counters in all the wards of the hospital.\n\n“During the initial stage, Dal members have contributed from their pocket. It was the only source to buy the raw materials. But, now, apart from our contribution, we get donations from other people”, Arup told The Logical Indian.\n\nThe initiative started in 2004. Every day, Arup and his team catered to almost 350 to 550 people. Even though some members were hesitant to give money for such an initiative during the initial stage, they all joined hands together later. There was a certain time when Arup also thought about selling his property.\n\nThe NGO consists of 500 volunteers, and 30 to 40 people serve every day. The building is in the backyard of civil hospital. They meet a daily expense of Rs 5,000 to Rs 7,000. Besides feeding the patients, the NGO also provides free education and regular courses like embroidery and beautician course for financially backward girls.\n\n“We always provide our full support to our father’s initiative, both economically and mentally”, said Dheeraj Singla, Arup’s son to The Logical Indian." ]

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[ "Warriors depart for Cameroon ahead of international friendly", null, "Two batches of the Zimbabwe national team have left the country for Cameroon as things finally start to move in the direction for the Warriors ahead of AFCON 2017.\n\nMoney issues and a standoff between the players and ZIFA delayed their original departure which had been set for early Saturday. However after the two parties reached an agreement yesterday things now seem to be back on track.\n\nThe squad has been forced to travel in batches due to the limited seats available on flights and are flying to Ethiopia before connecting to Cameroon.\n\nOne batch left in the morning with another departing this afternoon.\n\nZIFA communications manager told Xolisan Gwesela told Soccer24, “I can confirm that two batches have managed to leave while a third will travel later today.\n\nZimbabwe will clash with Indomitable Lions on Monday as both teams fine tune their preparations for the continental showcase." ]

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[ null, "If you have a Samsung phone, you probably are aware of the new “virtual assistant.”While it may sound like an excellent idea, the content of this new assistant is far from safe for work. This post will guide you on Samsung virtual assistant rule 34.\n\nSam, the new Samsung virtual assistant, has a controversial past. While Sam isn’t intended to replace Bixby, Sam has been drawing Internet users’ attention ever since renderings of her character model surfaced on HITC.\n\nInternet users have flocked to her character model, mixing the character’s artwork with comics and memes. The giant corporations are well aware of their customers’ potential parasocial relationships with fictional characters. These relationships can lead to engagement with their products and software ecosystem.\n\nThe virtual assistant is a hit on TikTok, and it has gone viral on the internet. But, beware, Samsung virtual assistant rule 34 is not intended to be seen at work. Some of Samsung’s virtual assistant content is considered NSFW and should not be shared on public forums. Samsung also removed some of its content, but that’s a separate discussion. However, the content is still interesting.", null, "Samantha is a 21st-century girl.\n\nThe new Samsung virtual assistant, Samantha, is a bright-eyed perky lady who likes to browse apps and text her friends. The new character has been described as the new love interest of the internet.\n\nA host of users drew sketches of Samantha and shared them on social networks. She was named Samantha because of the way she looks and functions. This new virtual assistant is the perfect companion for any 21st-century girl who loves Samsung’s mobile phones and all of its accessories.\n\nSamsung decided to include Samantha in its latest phone, the Galaxy S7. This virtual assistant isn’t intended to replace Bixby. While Samantha’s appearance isn’t entirely representative of Samsung’s branding, it still comes with some impressive features.\n\nIt’s the most popular AI on the market, competing against Alexa, Siri, and Cortana. Samantha has become a sensation in the Internet world. She will undoubtedly be a hit on Tik Tok and other social media.\n\nThe NSFW sketches of the Samsung virtual assistant Sam have gone viral on the internet. The Samsung virtual assistant is artificial intelligence capable of assisting Samsung users using voice. The concept is gaining international attention, with some claiming the assistant is more interesting than the actual product. Samsung is a world-renowned company, and its subsidiary, Light Farm, has received the LIA Grand Prix award for its development of the device.\n\nDoesn’t have a face\n\nSamsung has hired a company called Lightfarm to develop a realistic character model. They developed hair and clothing to make Sam look as accurate as possible. Whether these images were a concept or a full-blown prototype is unknown. Samsung did not mention when it plans to release the virtual assistant, and it’s unclear when it’ll be available to consumers.\n\nThe company has not announced an exact date for the launch of the virtual assistant, but they have released some early images. Interestingly, the Samsung AI has a Pixar-like art style, which explains why the character is similar to other Pixar characters.\n\nSamsung’s Sam isn’t an official AI; it was a deleted project created by Lightfarm. Although the company hasn’t officially announced the product, it’s expected to be out in the coming months.\n\nThe naughty name of this virtual assistant is meant to arouse hilarity among fans. But that doesn’t mean Samsung is not committed to making this assistant NSFW. It is one of the many ways to spread the word about Samsung’s virtual assistant.\n\nThe Samsung Virtual assistant is a virtual reality voice assistant that allows users to communicate with the company’s products. Since it was released, it has become extremely popular and has surpassed Lady Dimitrescu as Waifu of the Year.\n\nBut how did this assistant gain so much popularity? Is it a rip-off? Read the post mentioned earlier to learn more about the Samsung Virtual Assistant and how it differs from the original. In this post, we have told you about Samsung virtual assistant rule 34." ]

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[ "Saving the planet: my generation must do more to support young climate activists\n\nTaking action on climate is getting more difficult, but if we can’t put our bodies on the line for the climate, we must support activists who do.\n\nThis morning, I did it. Put my name on the Extinction Rebellion mailing list so I can attend all the coming protests in Melbourne that don’t conflict with work.\n\nWhat took me so long? Actually, I was in the same place in January 2019, as bushfires raged across the country, disrupting our precious three-day holiday break. But then COVID hit, and my attention was hijacked by a more imminent threat to body and life.\n\nNow the time has come to refocus on the crisis facing the planet, and the rightness of the claim made by three generations of youth — including my own 20-somethings — that the future is not ours to ruin.\n\nYet, my generation continues to ruin it — less by the denial, doubt and stubborn inaction that have characterised the past 30 years (though Murdoch’s disinformation channels continue to punch above their weight) than with new and unconscionable laws that jail protesters, make it harder for them to make bail, and increase the amount they are fined.\n\nBut the inconvenient truth has not changed: we must stabilise global temperatures at 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial times to stop sea levels rising, temperatures soaring and ecosystems collapsing. To do this, we must declare a climate emergency.", null, "We saw during COVID what this pronouncement can achieve. The dedication of resources, the forming of a National Cabinet designed to implement robust interventions at lightning speed.\n\nBut how to yank the government into crisis mode? The truth is that it won’t happen without radical action, including civil disobedience. Because we were told 30 years ago how to avert the climate disaster at minimal cost and inconvenience, but vested interests ensured our governments didn’t listen.\n\nWe’ve seen this before. In India, where Gandhi had to refuse to obey the laws of the British occupiers to indict the empire for its exploitation and impoverishment of his people. We saw it with American slaveowners and racists, who resisted equal treatment for Black Americans until civil rights leaders defied custom and police to conduct sit-ins at diners and march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. We saw it with the right of women to vote, which male politicians denied for decades until suffragettes abandoned peaceful protest and began lobbing bombs.\n\nWhen the going gets tough, those who cannot abandon a just cause get going. They put their bodies on the line, risking their freedom by breaking unconscionable laws in the hope their actions will inspire others to join them.\n\nThis includes 21-year-old Hannah Doole, who gained international attention for her abseiling action at the Port of Newcastle for which she’ll be tried this month, and 26-year-old Maxim O’Donnell Curmi, who spent the past four months in jail — plus copping a $1500 fine — for protesting at Sydney’s Port Botany.\n\nHow can we help these courageous people achieve their ends? Firstly, by risking arrest to join them in their most dangerous efforts. But what if that’s not you, because of age, temperament, caring obligations or a million other reasons you’re not willing to risk jail?\n\nMy idea is to sponsor a climate defender, in the same way we sponsor children in poverty overseas. Sponsors could follow and make public the journey of a particular activist — and should she get caught on the wrong side of the law, they could swarm in to provide moral and material support as required, as well as ensure her struggle is visible.\n\nThis is the least we elders can do. To show our admiration and support for the brave, mostly young people taking the risks to get the urgent action now required. So they know we’re not all indifferent to the mess we’ve left them, but that some of us are worried and really do care.", null, null, null, "Dear Leslie, my boss is a pervert but I don’t want to lose my job by reporting him…\n\nIn2019 I attended a SS4C rally at Civic Park, Newcastle, and was very impressed, not only by the kids, but by the turnout of concerned adults from young couples with babies in prams and toddlers in strollers, to Aunts, uncles, grandparents (I’m currently a great-great-uncle four times over). There were also a long line of adults watching proceedings from the street overlooking the park.\nThe concern is there and the current spate of puppets of the plutocrats know – hence, the repressive and draconian anti-procession laws and penalties recently passed in NSW. Just who do they think they’re fooling?\nThe Right of Dissent is the Linchpin of Democracy and will nevertheless prevail. I just hope it won’t result in broken heads and windows, burning cars and capsized police vehicles, but needs does as the Devil drives, and if that’s the sort of wake-up call the Pollies need, then be it on their heads.\n\nYes, did the same thing in Adelaide on the same day. Still attending when I get the time.\n\nSounds fine in theory. Just two points.\n1. Action to curb emissions today won’t show up in the global temperature graph for a few decades if not a century. Me thinks we are already close to the tipping point because the rate of change is not linear and sudden changes in slow things like glaciers are happening right now. So we need to frame action and hence support from Crusties like me, around that, and not hold on to some dream that emissions cessation today will result in today’s youth not living in an unpleasant air conditioned world tomorrow. We screwed already basically but that’s WHY we need to take action..\n2. Run industrial action and government policy through the TPP filter first. If those big multinationals lose business because of what TPP government did do or didn’t do, they have a case to sue the offending government for profit loss. Hence the draconian laws preventing industrial action. Et Al.\nAnd it’s a very expensive et al.\n\nDid you see the news item the other day?\nThe United States of A, High Court has overruled an Environmental Protection Agency case.Implying that every State has the right to apply their own rules.\nMeaning, the USA now has virtually no control over emissions. thus free-slather, and good by planet.\n\nThat was a worry. I cried. I still hold hopes that we can pull it off.\n\nAt least less work for the air con.\n\nI’m not sure about your time frame Billy, the earth has shown herself over and over again to be resilient. But hey even if you’re right, that just means we have to get cracking faster bigger harder, and get more creative about it.\n\nThe earth is resilient. It won’t suffer.\n\nAgreed. We will be the ones to suffer.\n\nWill the writer also accept liability if a critically ill child in an ambulance is blocked from getting to a hospital because of an extinction rebellion protest ?\n\nSeriously? And if the ambulance was held up because of an Anzac Day march will you be suing the RSL?\n\nAn Anzac Day march would quickly make way for an emergency, a bit different if you have half a dozen people stuck to the street.\n\nWould a Government accept responsibility for traffic blocking the ambulance due to poorly designed roads? Would the organizers of a Christmas parade be liable? I take your point – there’s a lot of issues with ER style protests – but there’s a point where desperation breeds risk.\n\nA few weeks ago my wife and I were stuck on M1 for two hours near Taree due to an accident. We were in a mobile phone black spot (1bar, 3G) so we listened to local radio. Guess who was on? LAWSEE!!! It was the morning the harbour tunnel was blocked due to climate action protests. Well the outrage! How dare these ratbags, these dole bludgers! What about the fieries, the ambulances, the poor children trying to get to school. Equally outraged octogenarians rang in. On and on for hours. I felt like calling and reminding his brain dead audience there’s an eight lane bridge above the tunnel! What a hoot. A very amusing way to pass the time.\n\nOn a side note, it took the authorities about 5 hours from time of truck collision to finally put traffic on the other side of 4 lane motorway. Geez guys, it ain’t brain surgery.\n\nLeslie you’ve inspired me. I love your idea of sponsoring a climate activist, so I’m putting feelers out among some of the activists I know – what a great idea! And I’m joining Extinction Rebellion on the 13th July up in Moe. I’ll see whether that kind of action suits this older lady, because I’m fussy about the positive energy of action taken.\n\nWonderful! I already have one older reader whose contacted me by email to say he can provide a regular generous financial donation so stay in touch!\n\nLeslie – you’ve inspired me too! I have a 7 year old, so going to prison in order to highlight the plight of the planet is off the agenda for me, but sponsoring a climate activist is a wonderful idea.\n\nJennifer – you’re getting some downvotes, which is really disappointing. I can see how much you care about this subject and I just wanted to write in solidarity, so you don’t feel too alone.\n\nAlso, just in case anyone isn’t sure – climate activists know that the earth is resilient, they know that the planet will continue whether humans are here or not. They’re protesting in order to make it clear to the powerful people that control decision making that the time to act on legislating for climate change is now. They want to reduce human suffering as much as possible, and these actions come from a place of caring. Deep caring. I am in awe of these activists and the love they continue to show, despite the derision they constantly receive." ]

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[ null, "Places of Invention in the Visual Realm\n\n• Reveal and address a series of systematic design strategies, enriching the creative spectrum of architectural and spatial practices\n• Bring some transparency to the design process, reducing the degree of subjectivity and uncertainty associated with the creative disciplines\n• Provide a new lens on how to understand and read some paradigmatic works of modern and contemporary architecture\n• Contribute to architectural education, inviting and motivating students to learn and apply these rhetorical procedures and devices as methods of creation and communication; and\n• Awaken our awareness of some of the challenges in our society, highlighting the role of the rhetorical figures as drivers for social change and action\n\nRhetoric has been broadly defined as the art of persuasion. Unfortunately, in the last two centuries, rhetoric has suffered a rather bad reputation because it has been deliberately overused to mislead and manipulate. However, the present argument claims that rhetoric is, above all, a method for creation, considering it as the study of the general relationships of unexpectedness for invention and persuasion.\n\nSince rhetoric was established in the early fifth century, it has been concerned almost solely with language, public speaking, and literature. The term “figure” (such as metaphor, antithesis, metonymy, among many others) refers to any device or pattern of language in which meaning or form is enhanced or changed.\n\nThis study extrapolates to architecture and visual arts, what rhetoric does, which is not more than to put “things” together that have not been put together before, to create a new whole. Through the analysis of a large and heterogeneous group of art and architectural examples, this research constitutes a “proto-manual” of more than a hundred rhetorical tools and means by which architecture might be thought of, created, explained, and communicated. It reveals a particular methodology for the creation and communication of architecture and other visual disciplines beyond intuition and magic inspiration. This study attempts to explore the practical possibilities of application of rhetorical methods rather than to elaborate a comprehensive theory of rhetoric in the visual realm.\n\nInvestigating the relationships among form, event, body, subject, matter and/or space, the study reflects on the spatial and social conventions, contradictions, and dislocations found in contemporary “everyday” life. Rhetorical figures are used as interrogative and critical tools to stimulate our social conscience and also to assist spectators’ awareness of the challenges of our society.\n\nDr. María Fullaondo is a practicing architect, artist, and a leading educator with more than 25 years’ experience at the intersections of architecture, urban design, art, visual communication, and media. She has extensive international experience in architecture education in various universities and countries, including Spain, Australia, China, and South Korea. Her research, creative work, and teaching are very much inter-weaved, blurring the boundaries between activities and outputs.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "On Friday, the Nyahururu County Referral Hospital announced that Koech had succumbed to injuries inflicted by a mob after he attacked Gertrude Chepkoech, a first-year student at the Univesity.\n\n“He succumbed to serious head injuries he sustained from the beating…The injuries were very severe,” said hospital administrator Thomas Kiptoo.", null, "According to Mr. Kiptoo, the deceased had a severe slash on the throat and another on the stomach, both of which were self-inflicted, according to witnesses.\n\nHis remains, according to Mary Kiema, the Nyahururu Sub County Police Commander, are in the mortuary and have been booked as unknown.\n\n“We are still waiting for family members to show up as none has come,” she said.\n\nChepkoech was stabbed numerous times after being attacked by Koech, who was supposedly her roommate’s lover. Following the terrible deed, Koech allegedly turned the knife on himself in an effort to kill himself as a lynch mob swarmed the crime scene.\n\nThe man, who had stabbed himself in the stomach, was, however, rescued by the police and rushed to Nyahururu County referral hospital for medical attention.\n\nAccording to Lucy Nakiridi, a cleaner at the private hostel where the deceased lived, they were alerted by the screams from the girl’s room.\n\nHowever, upon rushing to the scene they found the girl’s lifeless body with deep cuts.\n\nAccording to the witness, the culprit from Nakuru was prohibited from entering the premises after his girlfriends accused him of reportedly forcing himself into their room. According to reports, Koech discovered the deceased alone in the room. His sweetheart had gone away for examinations.\n\nThis year alone, at least 85 women have been killed countrywide under different circumstances. According to data emanating from media reports, the victims range from as young as four years to as old as 70 years.\n\nThe majority of the victims were aged between 21 and 30 years — at the prime of their lives. To put the number—85—of women killed this year to perspective, the victims can fill six 14-seater matatus! Femicide represents the most extreme form of violence against women.\n\nData from a report by Code For Africa indicates that 49 percent of the victims were killed by their partners, including boyfriends, husbands, and former lovers. The rest— 51 percent—were killed by criminal gangs and unknown people.\n\nAn average of 137 women across the world are killed by a partner or a family member daily, with an average of five women every 60 minutes according to a 2018 report by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).\n\nThe report also showed that 87,000 women were killed intentionally in 2017, with 30,000 of these killings dying at the hands of their current or former partners. It shows women are most at risk in their own homes.\n\nUNODC also indicated that Kenya was among the countries with the highest cases of female homicides." ]

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[ "Some Nigerians’ search for wealth has taken on a new dimension with videos of some desperate Nigerians watching them bath naked in their tens on a river under the supervision of a so-called ” Prophet” When the initial video surfaced last week, Ejes Gist News thought it was one of those social media messages.", null, "ALSO READ : Sunday Igboho dares Makinde, Arrest me if you can\n\nBut more evidence has shown that, with more people entering the ritual, it has become a regular occurrence. Behind the activities is Prophet Onyeze aka AKA Na Asu Uchu from Anambra State. His followers were told by the prophet that such a bath would make them extremely wealthy.\n\nBREAKING: Buhari Jets Out To London For Medical Appointment\n\n“Nigeria Look into our problem, we are dying, No Helper” Police Officer Cries Out Bitterly..." ]

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[ null, null, "Steel Panther featuring lead vocalist Michael Starr, guitarist Satchel and drummer Stix Zadinia have released their first song since their announcement that they had parted ways with bassist Lexxi Foxx back in July 2021. The group has a new single titled “Unplug Yourself” that made its debut within the video game Unplugged VR.\n\n“ROCKERS UNITE! #UnpluggedVR is out on #PCVR*!\n\n‘Unplug Yourself’, exclusive song by @Steel_Panther" ]