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[ null, "Buddies Phil and Pat sharing a moment together. This photo was taken in about 1953, not long before Pat \"ran away.\"\n\nSometime in the early 1950s my parents and I left a second-floor apartment on Grand Avenue and moved to a new house at 2422 Dugan Court in Davenport.\n\nBefore long I had a pet dog named Pat. Pat was a playful, rambunctious, black and white, medium-sized dog. Perhaps he was a spaniel. I really don’t know; kids don’t care about details like that.\n\nPat was a handful from Day One. My folks had not yet fenced their back yard, so Pat had to be on a chain when outside. When he escaped, which he seemed to do quite often, he went absolutely wild.\n\nOne day I was playing with some toy trucks when Pat made an escape. He grabbed one of my trucks and took off running down the block with it, crossing busy Lincoln Avenue.\n\nI complained to my mother, who hurried after Pat and tried to bring the truck — and Pat — back home.\n\nBut Pat would have nothing to do with it. This was a big game for him. Like dogs do he’d crouch down and wait for Mom to get close, then he’d take off.\n\nI don’t believe I got my truck back that day until Pat was darned good and ready to return it. Then, since it was made of rubber, it had his teeth marks in it.\n\nHe was well fed, but once he apparently chewed on some small pieces of concrete he’d found and swallowed them. We know this because we watched as one by one he threw them up.\n\nOnce Pat got away and was gone overnight. I was worried about him. He’d never been gone that long.\n\nThe next morning he came slowly limping home, leaving bloody paw prints with each step. We didn’t know where he’d been, but he obviously had walked through a lot of broken glass and had cut all of his paws. I don’t remember if my folks took Pat to the vet or if Mom, a nurse, bandaged his paws.\n\nIt would have been late summer or fall of 1953 when Pat “escaped” yet again. But this time he didn’t come back.\n\nMy parents told me he had run away. Perhaps he had found a new home, they suggested. They said not to worry — they were sure he was fine.\n\nPat did, indeed, have a new home. The Humane Society.\n\nYears later my parents confessed that Dad had dropped Pat off there on his way to work. I’m sure that hadn’t been easy for Dad. Even though Pat was what I’d call a “high-maintenance” dog, we all loved him.\n\nWhen the truth came out about what had happened to Pat, Mom and Dad explained to me that she had been pregnant at the time with my brother.\n\nAnd they were afraid the rambunctious pet would wrap his chain around her ankle and cause her to fall, endangering the baby.\n\nSo they had made up the story about Pat running away because they thought that would be easier for me to accept than the truth.\n\nAs a teen, I gave them some flack now and then about how they had deceived me. But in my heart I understood why they had done what they did. I might have done the same thing, had I been in their shoes.\n\nI don’t know if I ever told them, but I forgave them for taking Pat away.\n\nPosted by frontporchexpressions on March 29, 2009 in Uncategorized\n\nSupporting our troops with beef sticks", null, "They call her the Beef Stick Lady. And that’s just fine with Dee Ann Paulsrud who, with her husband Ted, farms east of Danbury. That’s in west central Iowa.\n\nFor the last two years, Paulsrud has run the Beef ‘n’ Up the Troops program. That’s where people donate money to buy Iowa-made beef sticks that are shipped as a gift from home to Iowa National Guard troops deployed overseas.\n\nThe Iowa Cattlemen’s Foundation actually started the program when the War on Terror began in 2002. Late in 2006, when the foundation discontinued Beef ‘n’ Up the Troops, donations of $75,000 — 10 times the original goal — had paid for 15 shipments totaling 3.5 tons of more than 100,000 beef sticks to troops.\n\nDee Ann Paulsrud says the Cattlemen aborted the program because they could no longer “donate the time and the staff and so forth. It does take a lot of time.”\n\nWhen the decision to drop Beef ‘n’ Up the Troops was made, she says, Ted Paulsrud was retiring from two terms as District 7 director to the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association. “He was aware that they were going to abort the project. And he wasn’t a happy boy.”\n\nThat’s when Dee Ann decided to take up the initiative. Why?\n\nFor people like her husband, who served in the National Guard in the Viet Nam era, and her father, who was a second lieutenant in World War II.\n\n“My dad was gone from home for over four years from training to being over in Europe. He made it home and, therefore, there’s me,” Paulsrud says.\n\nBeef ‘n’ Up the Troops was “just something I could do with the phone, the computer and my kitchen table. But it has gone beyond my kitchen. I have actually gone out and done some speaking. But it’s all about the soldiers, it’s not about me.”\n\nWhat’s in it for her?\n\n“The satisfaction is, my dad would have loved to get something like this. As much as anything, I may do it out of respect and honor to my dad. My dad died young. He was 60 when he died.”\n\nHer volunteer effort takes a lot of time and effort but “the benefits have been that we’ve gotten to know a lot of people across our great state.”\n\nSince the Paulsruds are beef producers, people had some questions for Dee Ann when she became the Beef Stick Lady.\n\nWas there profit in this initiative for her? Did she create a job for herself?\n\n“No, there’s not a profit. No, the beef does not come from our farm,” she says. “And yes, I did create a job, but everything I do is donated. And there are lots of unsung heroes, people who’ve helped us along the way.”\n\nOne of them is Scott County farmer Gerald Boldt of rural Davenport, a vocal supporter of Beef ‘n’ Up the Troops.\n\n“I really believe this is something I had a need to do,” he says. “I have donated several times in the past few years, and I am proud to have been part of the Cattlemen’s effort to help Dee Ann.”\n\nBoldt is referring to the Scott County Cattlemen’s Association. He recently sought donations from members at their annual banquet. Their contribution allowed Paulsrud to order 4,000 beef sticks instead of the 3,000 she had planned to order. That took her over the 60,000 beef stick mark since she’s been running the program.\n\nThe nine-inch sticks are processed at Source Verified Foods in Ackley, Iowa, at 69 cents each when ordered 3,000 at a time. Then they are shipped to Sioux City free of charge via Fareway Food Stores trucks to the 187th Air Refueling Wing of the Iowa Air National Guard, which flies them at no charge to the troops.\n\n“Each stick is vacuum packed in heavy plastic,” Boldt says, “with a ‘Cattlemen Care’ logo and a message that says they are a gift from friends in Iowa. They have a shelf life of 14 months, even in hot conditions.”\n\nThe Paulsruds enjoy doing something nice for the deployed troops. But last August appreciative troops did something in return for them. And it was a huge surprise.\n\nThe 185th Air Refueling Wing sent the couple an American flag that had flown on a KC-135R Stratotanker, an aerial refueling tanker aircraft, over Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on a combat mission supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. It came with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of thanks signed by the soldiers.\n\nWhen they opened the package, “both of us got the biggest lump in our throats, and we both had tears in our eyes,” Dee Ann Paulsrud recalls.\n\n“And I said, ‘We’re doing this for the soldiers, they’re protecting our freedom and they’re taking the time to do that back.’ It meant the world.”\n\nSo Paulsrud keeps raising money — any amount folks want to give — and ordering and shipping more beef sticks. It’s a passion for her.\n\n“The more I can get the story out, the more people want to contribute,” she says. “I just keep putting the money in the checking account until there’s enough, then I order more sticks.”\n\nBoldt says he hopes people will donate to “help put a smile on a soldier’s face, even if it’s just for a moment. A moment can be can be a long time when you are away from home doing your duty like they are for us.”\n\nPosted by frontporchexpressions on March 29, 2009 in Uncategorized" ]

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[ null, "London: Member of British Parliament, James Daly in a letter to Tim Davie, Director General of BBC Broadcasting House, has expressed his gratitude and appreciation over the release of Jammu and Kashmir map depicting it as a disputed territory.\n\nIn the letter titled ‘Map of the Disputed Territory of Jammu and Kashmir’ James Daly said, “I am writing to you having been made aware of a map of India that was displayed on the BBC World Service website depicting Jammu and Kashmir as a disputed territory. I am extremely pleased that the map reflects the accurate status of the area and I hope you are able to resist any external pressure to change or amend the image, or not to reflect the disputed status of the region.”\n\nRefuting the Indian claim that Jammu and Kashmir is its integral part, the British MP said, “It is a dispute that escalated into three wars and several other armed skirmishes between India and Pakistan. …. Suggestions that the area is anything other than disputed territory would be inaccurate, and is likely to leave the BBC open to accusations of a lack of impartiality over the conflict. It could have the potential of arousing tensions amongst Pakistani, Indian and Kashmiri diasporas here in the UK.”\n\n“The BBC World Service does an excellent job of projecting British soft power throughout the world, and does a great deal of good internationally. It cannot be seen to be taking sides in international disputes. Therefore, I commend the accuracy of the image and I hope this remains the policy of the BBC,” the letter added." ]

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[ null, "One of the founders of grime music, UK rapper and producer Wiley went on a Twitter rant, posting on his official account throughout the day: the artist then tried to respond to criticisms he received over a series of controversial tweets he wrote about Jewish people and Israel earlier on Friday.\n\nAfter comparing Jewish people to Ku Klux Klan the singer was accused of being anti-semitic, the rapper defended himself in a series of tweets including one in which he said, \"I'm not anti-semitic, I am anti-slippery people.\"\n\n​The rapper went as far as to blame Jewish people of illegally stealing lands, claiming that bringing it to the public's attention automatically gets people labelled as anti-Semites.\n\n​Wiley also appealed to his origins saying that black people cannot be racist.\n\nBlack People can’t be racist they can only be upset about how they have been mistreated.\n\nOn Friday morning, Wiley posted a string of statements including: “If you work for a company owned by 2 Jewish men and you challenge the Jewish community in any way of course you will get fired.”\n\nHe also drew comparisons between Jewish people and the Klu Klux Klan and wrote, “is it anti-semitic to say Jewish people have power?”\n\n​He also wrote, “Listen to me Jewish community, Israel is not your country, I’m sorry” and “The Star of David, that’s our ting.”\n\nHe later backtracked saying, “Forget anti-Semitic racism is racism and ya can’t hide the fact that systematic racism exists and it wasn’t set up by us.”\n\nAmong those who condemned Wiley's statements were Jewish comedian David Baddiel and Guardian columnist Owen Jones:\n\nI've said many times that the issue with anti-Jewish racism is the unique duality of being able to cast Jews at once as vermin (later Wiley calls Jews \"slippery\") and yet in control of the world. So anti-Semitism can seem to be punching up, and wearing the clothes of revolution.\n\nThe oldest antisemitic trope is that Jews wield disproportionate unaccountable power and are puppetmasters behind injustices and nefarious politicians. Antisemitism is essentially a collection of historically very deadly conspiracy theories\n\nFirst Dua Lipa shares a post calling Israelis (50% of the worldwide Jewish pop) ‘fake Jews’ and now Wiley goes on a long continuous angry rant about the Jewish people. Anti-Semitism is the new trend in town for British artists by the looks of things https://t.co/UDhrVKSbJL\n\nDanny Stone, chief executive of the Anti-Semitism Policy Trust said that drawing parallels between Jewish people and the Klu Klux Klan is offensive and the inference is anti-semitic.\n\nHere is Wiley, who earlier tweeted the Jewish community was too 'touchy', positing that being in business gives one insight into why people don't 'challenge' Jews and the KKK. The parallel is offensive & the inference is antisemitic. Jews and money. Dress it up however you like. https://t.co/sKtQYHqaKm\n\n​Wiley who is often labelled as the “Godfather of Grime,” is renowned for his controversial tweets. Earlier this year he got involved in a Twitter feud with fellow rapper Stormzy." ]

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[ "Part 2: The Architectural Survey of the Great Temple and Palace of Medinet Habu (Season 1927–28)\nUvo Hölscher", null, "On January 1, 1829, having made the voyage up the Nile, the great decipherer Francois Champollion began his personal records of the inscribed monuments on the river at Wadi Halfa just below the Second Cataract. One century later the work of the Epigraphic Survey begins anew the effort to record the inscriptions still in situ in Egypt by means of modern hand copies. This report is intended as a sketch of the work of the Institute at Medinet Habu." ]

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[ null, "Since creating my Pitch I have uploaded 2 additional digitally created mandalas to my Instagram page with positive feedback. Making art digitally takes significantly less time than drawing on paper, so I’m beginning to incorporate this more into my feed as my project becomes closer to the fast, inexpensive, simple, and tiny principle.\n\nBelow are two examples of digital mandala creation from accounts I follow. The mandala niche has a vast community of both traditional artists and digital artists. The first account shown has made me consider filming myself digitally drawing to continue to create both photo and video content for my social platforms.\n\nAlongside my digital and weekly mandalas, I’ve been posting older drawings I’ve created multiple times on my platforms in different photographic positions to maximise content production whilst minimising the drawing workload and time taken. This also enables new followers to see some of my older works they may not have previously seen.\n\nAfter being featured in Chàe Media’s magazine issue last semester, I asked if I could contribute anything this semester, so we decided I would make a mandala which could be used as a colouring in for the ‘time to unwind’ section of their newest issue. The magazine was released on September 7, and I enjoyed contributing my artwork.\n\nShortly after the launch of Chàe’s magazine and a few new posts on my Instagram I was approached by UOW Creative asking to feature some of my artworks and a bio on their Instagram, to which I obliged.\n\nI gained an increase in followers after these two collaborations compared to previous stats which, whilst follower counts aren’t as important as active engagement, was a confidence boost. My future goal is to continue collaborating with other accounts and those passionate in the arts outside my own (eg. poetry, music, writing).\n\nOne example is this poet’s Instagram account that I follow, who I collaborated with last semester. Another example would be using the sheet music or lyrics of any small songwriter or famous musician (like Harry Styles for example) which would be displayed alongside my drawings.\n\nOne subject reading stated that you should only run as many social media accounts for your business or project as you can manage. I often forget about Pinterest as I don’t use it as much as Instagram/Facebook, but I know that it is popular for art and my niche mandala community. Moving forward my goal is to focus on producing content on Instagram and Pinterest predominately.\n\nDespite a high number of impressions which corresponds to the number of accounts following The Drawing Lab, audience engagement through commenting and likes is significantly lower (disregarding the top 3 impression posts which were promoted and are outliers).\n\nI’ve begun commenting on posts of those in my niche which has increased engagement with my account. For example, I left a comment on this accounts time-lapse video and followed her, and received a follow back shortly after. When I actively engage with users in my niche, I am met with kind responses, likes, and occasionally follows.\n\nWhilst one of my Pitch utilities was to combine sheet music and other creative arts with mandalas, a recent Instagram poll has demonstrated that my audience prefer my current weekly colour mandalas over pairing them with other artistic forms.\n\nMy audience of fellow niche artists and those who admire my work are continually the most engaged with polls like this that are involved around the creative decision-making process of choosing art colours, styles, and backgrounds. I shall continue to create content I find my audience to be actively engaged in.\n\nI also continue to be challenged by connecting with my niche and audience, as mandalas originate from eastern cultures, and I’m met with a language barrier with many mandala artists coming from eastern backgrounds such as the Indian art community.\n\nMy goals are to:\n\n7 Replies to “Prototyping and Developing”" ]

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[ "Unreal Engine, one of the first to come to mind when it comes to the free game engine, unreal engine tetris has been used to produce many successful games. This list we have compiled for you includes The 6 Best Unreal Engine Games. These games are popular and liked by gamers in general.\n\nYes, you heard that right! The recently released first episode of Final Fantasy VII Remake has been completely recreated in Unreal Engine 4. The stunning visuals of this remastered game are proof of what the Engine is capable of.\n\nIn the game, you will especially enjoy exploring the lush green world that awaits outside. You see in this game that UE4 uses it with its maximum potential.\n\nTetris Effect has a great visual feast for Tetris lovers thanks to its unreal technology.\n\nMost players probably weren’t expected Tetris Effect to be this fun. To give the game a new look, developer Monstars Resonair made the game as visually stunning as possible.\n\nThe game features impressive particle effects driven by the player’s movements and has vibrant backgrounds that provide some of the most spectacular visuals players will ever experience.\n\nThe Unreal Engine is also used in popular Batman games such as Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. It is the game engine of these games that enchants those who play with the visual beauty it provides.\n\nRobo Recall, created by Epic Games, is a VR (virtual reality) game made with the Unreal Engine.\n\nEpic Games made Robo Recall, the Unreal game engine’s creator, so it’s not surprising that the game is well done. This is a VR game created for use with Oculus Rift and Quest. In the game, players play like an expert robot tasked with destroying rogue robots attacking civilians.", null, "How can I create my own game?\n\nComments Made\nThe 6 Best Unreal Engine Games No comments yet! You can make the first comment.", null ]

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[ "Scarday, born Dayanna Scarlett Segura García, is a social media influencer and video maker best known for uploading comedy videos, trendy dance videos, and lip-syncs for her more than 10.5 million Tik Tok fans. She has also amassed over 472 million likes on the platform. She also has an impressive presence on Instagram with over 2.1 million followers.\n\nShe began Tik Tok when she was 16 years old, and within two years, she had established herself as one of the best Mexican Tiktokers. She managed to catch the attention of users thanks to her friendly, imaginative, and talented personality, and her numbers grew steadily. Domelipa, Jovany Lucio, and Ilika Cruz are only a few of the celebrities with whom she has worked. She was invited to her first awards ceremony in 2019, as a part of the yellow carpet at the Eliot Awards.\n\nThis young woman is a charismatic and insightful content developer and influencer. She also has a knack for making us all laugh with her hilarious videos and great sense of humor. In addition to her spectacular fluidity in dance moves and ability to spot trends, Scarday also touts her wildly impressive make-up designs and tutorials. She has become a Tik Tok style icon known for her beauty tips as well as her fashion, including clothing style and her ever-changing hair color – which is always impressing her fans.\n\nWhen Scarday isn’t dancing on Tiktok she often posts videos on her youtube channel where she has over 431 thousand subscribers. She posts videos in her native language, Spanish, and has a large Latinx following. She posts videos including question and answer sessions, videos with her family members, and even tutorials.", null ]

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[ "Actress Kym Marsh, who stars in Coronation Street, has shared adorable pictures of her daughter Polly and baby grandson Teddy.\n\nKym posted the picture of Polly cuddling her nephew to her Instagram page.\n\nThe 43-year-old captioned the post: \"My baby and my grandson.\"\n\nMy baby and my grandson.\n\nA second commented: \"Both are adorable.\"\n\nKym has son Dave and daughter Emilie from her relationship with Dave Cunliffe.\n\nPolly is daughter of Kym and her actor ex-husband Jamie Lomas. Jamie and Kym also had a son named Archie who was born 18 weeks prematurely and sadly passed away.\n\nTeddy is the son of Kym's daughter Emilie and and her boyfriend Mikey Hoszowsky.\n\nEarlier this year, Emilie announced she was expecting her first child with boyfriend Mikey.\n\nBack in February Kym announced she had quit Coronation Street after 13 years.\n\nThe former Hear'Say singer told The Sun newspaper: \"When I was lucky enough to be offered four episodes I could never in my wildest dreams have thought I'd be here 13 years later.", null, "Kym's departure from the show was confirmed by Corrie executive producer John Whiston, who said he was \"sad\" to be losing her from the show, but \"totally understands\" her desire to head off into new ventures.\n\nHe said: \"Kym has done a fantastic job. She has brought incredible heart and humanity to some hugely important stories.\n\n\"We will be really sad to lose her when she goes but totally understand that, after dedicating herself to the show for so long she now fancies trying something else.\"" ]

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[ "NYC Census And Elections Information From Harlem To Hollis\n\nInformation from the census is provided to states and localities to help decisionmakers create electoral districts of equal numbers, based on the population counts for each district. This helps ensure proper and fair representation for the citizens.\n\nThe Municipal Library provides resources on elections and voters. Here are some examples:\n\nThe New York City Board of Elections has prepared Annual Reports since 1912. These reports offer results for general elections for New York City offices, state and federal offices that affect New York such as State Senators, members of Congress, and Presidential election results. Statistics on registered voters, voter turnout, and related indicators are presented, too.\n\nAccomplishments and goals of the Board of Elections are also summarized. Please note that from 1970 to 1987, the Board did not publish reports. The latest available in the Library’s holdings is from 2005. Here is an example of an image from the 2002 report:", null, "This 2002 report also describes the redistricting process that took place after the 2000 census was concluded. The 2002 election was the first held after the New York State Legislature reapportioned Congressional and District Legislative lines based on the 2000 census counts. The Board of Elections was then responsible for renumbering 5,974 election districts, reassigning poll sites and notifying voters.\n\nCitizens Union, a non-profit, good government organization, publishes the Voters Directory. Usually there are two issues in each election year, one for the primary and one for the general election. The Municipal Library collection includes Directories from 1953 to 2010. Background information on candidates, maps of Senate and Assembly Districts, and related information can be found here. The New York City Campaign Finance Board also prepares Voters Guides for primary and general elections.\n\nEach Guide is organized by borough and includes candidate information, schedule of debates, information for voters, and descriptions of the functions and activities of the Campaign Finance Board. Library holdings date from 2001 to 2015. A variety of different language versions may be available. Please be sure to check our government publications portal for more recent publications from the Campaign Finance Board.\n\nThere are two series issued for primary and for general elections each year with individual guides by borough and district as well as a general New York City guide. Each guide includes information on the voting process, voters’ rights, answers to frequently asked questions, and detailed background on candidates and issues.\n\nHere is an image from the 2002 Citizens Union Voters Directory:", null ]

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[ null, "This powerful photograph by photographer Samuel Aranda was introduced today as the World Press Photo of the Year 2012. The description reads,\n\nA woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011.\n\nThe Size of Lytro’s Sensor Compared with Other Common Formats" ]

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[ null, "The Unfinished Drama of Scripture\n\nThe Unfinished Drama of Scripture is a fresh retelling of the biblical narrative as a sprawling yet cohesive six-act play, in which disciples of Christ still play significant roles today. The author asserts that theological misunderstandings occur when we do not recognize which \"act\" we are living in, and therefore misconstrue God's intentions and lose our identity and mission. He contrasts competing religious and philosophical worldviews with the True Story of the world as found in the Bible, and clearly outlines the scriptural trajectory from Creation, the Fall, Israel's calling, Jesus, the Church and the New Creation. Through careful study from Genesis through Revelation, this is a call to grasp and live out the divine purposed that God always intended and to better know the God of the drama who pursues us with astonishing perseverance. Jim Reynolds holds a bachelor's and a master of divinity degree from Abilene Christian University (1964,1967), a doctorate from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Calif. (1974), and a law degree from Southern Methodist University (1981). He has ben a licensed marriage and family counselor, and has published numerous articles and books, including Secrets of Eden, God and Human Sexuality (1974), The Lepers Among Us (2007), The Lavish Hospitality of God (2009), and Why We Don't' Shoot the Wounded (2010). Jim has taught religion, theology, philosophy, and biblical studies at Pepperdine University and the University of Texas, and presently is an adjunct professor at Dallas Christian College. From 1981 to 2007, Jim was a family lawyer and partner with the Whitaker Chalk law firm in Fort Worth Texas. Since 1984 he has been pastor of Lake Highlands Church in Dallas, Texas. Jim and his wife, Donna, have two children and eight grandchildren.\nJim Reynolds, Paperback, ISBN 10: 1619969009, ISBN 13: 9781619969001" ]

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[ null, null, "With her hired attorney suspended over a sex scandal involving a client, a stepmother accused of torturous abuse of her stepsons that included ice baths, starvation and handcuffing says she's too broke to hire new legal counsel.\n\nThe Tennessee Supreme Court earlier this month ordered Vogel suspended from the practice of law for a year for having sex with a client in a court-appointed case in U.S. District Court. Cox, who has been jailed since November 2014 in the aggravated child abuse case, has filed paperwork for a taxpayer-funded attorney, saying she has no money to hire one.\n\nAt Friday's hearing, Assistant Public Defender Christy Murray said her office would need to review the witness list in the case before deciding to take on Cox's defense. If the public defender's office has represented anyone on the witness list, that would create a legal conflict of interest barring Murray from accepting the appointment. McGee set a Thursday status hearing on that issue.\n\nCox, 39, was arrested in May 2013 after her two stepsons made a daring escape — still handcuffed together — from the Canton Hollow Road home she shared with the boys' father, Kenneth Michael McIntosh, and her own children. They sought help from a Farragut High School maintenance man. Prior court testimony has shown the boys had not eaten in three days.\n\nThe boys, then 14 and 16, initially accused only Cox of abuse. But at a preliminary hearing in 2013 in Knox County General Sessions Court, attorney Marcos Garza sent McIntosh to the witness stand in Cox's defense, and he wound up implicating Cox and himself. A Knox County grand jury later indicted both. McIntosh, 40, has since struck a deal to testify against Cox.\n\nThe case has been repeatedly delayed because of the sex scandal involving Vogel. Although Vogel knew he faced disciplinary action, he continued to represent Cox with her blessing. He remained on the case even after a hearing panel of the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility imposed a 30-day suspension of his license, which the state's high court overturned as too lenient.\n\nMcIntosh's sons testified at the 2013 preliminary hearing that Cox disciplined them with all manner of torture — handcuffing them to cabinets, beating them with mallets and rolling pins, burning them with cigarettes and forcing them to strip naked and get into a bathtub filled with ice cubes and cold water.\n\nSuch tactics were not employed with her two children, according to testimony.\n\nMcIntosh, an ex-police officer from Ohio, insisted his boys were trouble, especially the 16-year-old, whom he accused of sexually abusing other boys and killing animals. He never sought help or police intervention, according to his testimony.\n\nInstead, he testified he occasionally handcuffed the boy and made his brother keep watch. On one occasion, McIntosh said, he handcuffed the older boy to an overhead cabinet with the teen's hands stretched above his head.\n\nLike Cox, McIntosh remains behind bars. His plea deal, brokered by attorney Susan Shipley, won't be presented to McGee for approval until Cox has been tried, so the terms are not known." ]

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[ null, "The Broadway hit An American in Paris — the winner of four Tony Awards and named Best Musical by both the Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle — will be launching its first U.S. national tour this fall. Broadway Connection Teaching Artist Christopher Howard, a performer who has previously toured internationally with A Chorus Line, nationally with Billy Elliot and has worked at notable theatres across the country, will be joining the U.S. tour team straight from his work with The Phantom of the Opera tour. Here, Dance Informa chats with Howard to learn more about his career, what his recent tour has involved and what he aims to teach his students through his Broadway Connection classes.", null, "To first introduce yourself, can you tell us a little bit about your background? How did you start dancing?\n\n“I am currently a swing and the assistant dance captain on the U.S. tour of The Phantom of the Opera. Originally from upstate New York, I went to school at SUNY Buffalo, earning two degrees (BFA Music Theatre, BA Dance) before beginning my career. SUNY Buffalo is actually where I began my formal dance training at 18 years old, having grown up as a singer and actor only. After graduating from SUNY Buffalo, I was immediately accepted as a scholarship student to the Joffrey Ballet School in NYC and began working from there soon after, dancing on a cruise ship, spending a season as a guest artist with Dayton Ballet, and then starting to tour as a music theatre actor.”\n\nWhen did you book your first gig? What was it?\n\n“I booked my first gig while still at the Joffrey School in NYC. I was accepted to dance on a cruise ship for Celebrity Cruise Lines. Though not the most glamorous nor artistically fulfilling job, it did give me an inside look at the life of a dancer from maintaining performance quality and technique on your own to keeping a show fresh and exciting week after week. At the time, it was also a good way to save a little bit of money so that I could go back to New York and continue my training without having to worry as much about finances so I could truly focus on my career path. The traveling was a nice perk, too!”", null, "Now you’re wrapping up your work on The Phantom of the Opera. How long have you been performing it? Any memorable takeaways?\n\n“On the tour of The Phantom of the Opera, I have been a swing and the assistant dance captain for nearly three years, having started as an original company member for this new touring production. There’s been a ton of memorable moments on this tour – from having to do numerous ‘split tracks’ (where I’m covering more than one role at a time in the same show) to forgetting which role I am playing sometimes (a condition I affectionately refer to as ‘swing brain’). I’ve even gone on for roles I don’t cover! Above all, I think the most memorable moment for me in the show itself will always be the revealing of the chandelier. It’s a spectacular new take on the moment (with a spectacular new chandelier) that is still stunning to watch night after night.”\n\nSpecifically, what about The Phantom of the Opera do you think keeps fans coming back for more?\n\n“I think Phantom has become such a hit because it excels in so many different areas. The sweeping music is stunning to listen to. The pyrotechnics and other technological effects are amazing to watch. The costumes and sets are gorgeous to see time and time again. But what really keeps people coming back is the story. In this crazy world of music theatre, we forget sometimes that it is our job to tell a story – through words, through music and even through dance. And this story at the very core is really just a complicated love story that everyone can relate to in some way. Audience members might see a little bit of themselves in a character or two, allowing them to really connect with these people on stage, feel for them and root for them to get what they want. When people can relate to the characters and the tasks at hand, they will keep coming back for more.”", null, "Now you’re preparing to join the cast for the upcoming tour of An American In Paris. When do rehearsals begin? When does the tour launch? What about this show intrigues you and has you excited?\n\n“Soon! Rehearsals for An American In Paris are beginning the last week of August in NYC with the tour previewing in Schenectady, New York, in mid-October before officially kicking off in Boston, Massachusetts, in late October. I saw this show on Broadway about a year ago and was absolutely captivated by the amazing story told through so much dance! Christopher Wheeldon has done such an amazing job interweaving this story with song and dance that you can’t help but get swept up in it. I’m excited to dance to this beautiful Gershwin score with Wheeldon’s brilliant steps night after night.”\n\nAcross your experience as a performer, how have you worked to keep each role fresh?\n\n“It is a little bit easier to keep things fresh when you’re working as a swing, because you’re responsible for knowing so many different roles and perform different parts all the time (sometimes multiple parts in the same day). But there are times where you are in the same role show after show, and it can become a bit monotonous. Sometimes your director and/or choreographer gives you a bit of artistic freedom as an actor to make different moments resonate for you in different ways. Sometimes when different people are on in different roles, things are different automatically. Sometimes you see other people make new acting choices, and that changes your reaction and response. By opening up and exploring as an actor within the confines of the direction, you can really make a show fresh every single time you perform it.”", null, "When touring, how do you also keep yourself in top-notch performance condition? Any tips?\n\n“As a dancer, I do many things out on the road to try and stay in top performance condition, especially as a swing since I am not always guaranteed to be dancing every day. As we travel from city to city, I will often contact local ballet companies and schools to see if they have classes we can take to maintain our dance technique and stay in shape – it also helps challenge your body that gets used to doing the same steps every day. I always find a local gym to cross-train by running, weight lifting, swimming, and will often look for good Pilates or yoga classes in town to keep me focused and active. Eating well can be difficult in new cities and hotels as well, but by buying a lot of your own groceries and finding the healthier places to eat, you can usually keep your eating habits pretty standard.”\n\nIn addition to performing professionally, you also teach with Broadway Connection in various classrooms across the country. What do you seek to impart to your students as a BC Teaching Artist?", null, "“I love having the opportunity to teach for Broadway Connection. It allows me to really connect with these students across the country who are so passionate about dance and theatre. I always love to stress the importance of proper dance technique, working with one’s own body, and the nuances of picking up detail in choreography quickly and efficiently. But to me, the BC experience is more than that – it’s about teaching these students the importance of theatre and its main objective, to tell a story. Dance is a vital means of expression that we often put behind dialogue and song in a musical, but it’s unbelievably important to help students understand that dancing is often the best way to further along our story, both as individual characters and as an ensemble. Steps are important, technique is important, and flashy tricks and illusions have their own value, but we have to teach them that the primary objective of dancing in a musical is to tell a story, whether that be through impressive pirouettes or through the smallest of gestures.”\n\nFor further information on Broadway Connection, visit www.broadwayconnection.net. To see what cities are on schedule for the touring productions of The Phantom of the Opera and An American in Paris, head to www.thephantomoftheopera.com/ustour and www.anamericaninparisbroadway.com." ]

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[ "Herring also served in the British Army during World War I, earning the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross, as well as being Mentioned in Dispatches. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in December 1914, and was posted to the 99th Field Artillery Brigade, serving in France and Macedonia. By the end of World War I he held the rank of captain and temporary rank of major.\n\nAfter the war Herring trained in law, and later served for 20 years as Victoria's Chief Justice. He was also Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria for a record 27 years, retiring at the age of 80 in 1972, Chancellor of the Diocese of Melbourne, President of the Boy Scouts' Association of Victoria for 23 years and, from 1958, President of the Australian Boy Scouts' Association. His remarkable range of roles also included chairman of the trustees of the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance (1945-79) and the Australian War Memorial (1959-74).\n\nLate in Herring's life his wife Dame Mary Herring contacted the Museum of Victoria with a view to donating his military collection to the Museum. Although he had a deep association with the Australian War Memorial, she felt that her husband had 'far closer links with Victoria than with a Canberra based institution such as the Australian War Memorial or the National Library of Australia, both of which will make strong claims for ownership.' (12/8/1980, Director F.J. Kendall to Premier Hamer). It was hoped that the collection would eventually become part of a war memorabilia museum in Melbourne. The collection, comprising 141 items (including parts), was received by the Museum in 1980, and the donation formalized in 1988.", null, null, null, null, null, null, "1914-15 Star medal awarded to Gen. Sir Edmund Francis Herring for service in World War I. When awarded this medal he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery. Part of a group of 17 mounted ...\n\nVictory Medal 1914-1919 with ring mount and ribbon awarded to Mjr. Edmund (Ned) Francis Herring. (The Victory Medal is the fifth medal from the left in the group.) Born on 2 September 1892 at ...", null, null, null, "Spare medal ribbons mounted. Part of General Sir Edmund Herring Collection. Riband bars are small sections of the coloured ribbon from which individual medals are mounted or suspended. (Each medal is ..." ]

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[ "Little Havana is on the map for Super Bowl LIII and we are excited as can be for the festivities.\n\nI had an interesting experience one morning two weeks ago. While drinking Cuban coffee at El Exquisito’s ventanita and reading the latest Calle Ocho News edition, I looked up to see a great deal of activity at the fabled Ball & Chain across the street from me. That bar and music hall was already in mid-day form. Next door to it the artist, who goes by the tag, “gwizah,” was placing the finishing touches on a striking mural depicting the impending Super Bowl from a Miami slant with a nod to Fox Sports, which will be broadcasting the contest. At the same time, Bill Fuller, one of the owners and operators of the Ball & Chain, invited me to cross Calle Ocho and join him and some folks from the bar for an interesting time with the talking heads from Fox Sports. Soon a group of musicians were banging out salsa music as the Fox Sports crew, headed by Curt Menefee, Jay Glazer, Jimmy Johnson, Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Michael Strahan, etc. all sauntered past the mural and into the Ball & Chain while displaying their best salsa dance imitations while adorned in Hawaiian shirts and shorts.", null, "The Ball & Chain was an appropriate place for this run up to the big game, though it is still five months away, because the bar sits barely a mile away from the site of the storied Orange Bowl, which hosted five Super Bowls in a span of just eleven years in the early years of one of the world’s most popular sporting events. Additionally, the stadium that supplanted the Orange Bowl as the home of the Miami Dolphins and the Miami Hurricanes, today’s Hard Rock Stadium, has hosted five additional Super Bowls, giving Greater Miami the enviable distinction of hosting more of these classics than any other metropolitan area. Come February 2020, the area will host the eleventh and latest iteration of this classic at Hard Rock Stadium.\n\nToday’s Super Bowl is a billion dollar extravaganza with an audience in the hundreds of millions. Almost from its beginnings in the late 1960s, the Super Bowl was a larger than life event, and Miami and its storied Orange Bowl represented its most important venue.\n\nBuilt at a cost of $340,000 in 1937 by Franklin Roosevelt’s Public Works Administration, the steel and concrete structure that came to be known as the Orange Bowl contained, initially, just 24,000 seats. Subsequent additions to it, including an upper deck, would bring seating capacity to 78,000. Located on the former site of Tatum Field in the Riverside Heights neighborhood, the stadium was easily the area’s most iconic structure.\n\nThe merger agreement between the established National Football League and the upstart American Football League paved the way for a championship football game between the two leagues, with the first, played in Los Angeles, in 1967. In that contest, the powerful Green Bay Packers defeated the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10.\n\nThe following two Super Bowls, as the contest quickly became known, were played in the Orange Bowl. The first, Super Bowl II, was played before 75,546 fans on January 14, 1968. The city was swamped with out of towners here for the game. Ticket prices were $12 for the best seats, and $6 for the remainder! An estimated 50 million persons saw the game on television. But not Miamians, since it was blacked out at home because of a league rule. Again, the dynastic Packers prevailed with a 33-14 victory over the Oakland raiders.\n\nThe Orange Bowl was the venue the next year for Super Bowl III, one of the most famous contests in this classic. Played on January 12, 1969, under sunny skies after a morning fog had lifted, the N.Y. Jets upset the highly favored Baltimore Colts, 26-7. Three days earlier, their brash quarterback, Joe Namath, stood before a crowd of 700 at the Miami Touchdown Club, raised a glass of Johnny Walker Black and water and “guaranteed” a Jets victory. Namath was brilliant in the shocking upset that followed on the turf of the Orange Bowl. Afterwards, he told a stunned press corps and anyone else within earshot, “Hello World, Welcome to the American Football League.”\n\nTicket prices for that memorable Super Bowl III were the same as the year before while a football program fetched just $1! On hand for the contest were Senator Ted Kennedy and his infirm father, Joe Kennedy (Just six months after the assassination of Teddy’s sibling Bobby Kennedy) . Three Apollo astronauts led the singing of the National Anthem.\n\nWe will conclude our look at Super Bowls in the Miami area in the next installment of this column." ]

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[ null, "***May contains some spoilers***\n\nKang In-soo was always able to see and speak to ghosts. After transferring to a new school, he begins to see a ghost who he becomes acquainted with. Meanwhile, students are disappearing around In-soo’s new school as there is a ghost roaming the premises. In-soo must try to identify this mystery ghost and prevent more students from getting hurt.\n\nThere are some bloody scenes towards the end of the film. Most of the film does not incorporate any blood or gore. However, for the scenes that do incorporate blood and gore, they are done well and in moderation.\n\nMourning Grave is a Korean-based film that combines subtle bits of romance with more traditional paranormal horror elements. As such, the plot is a combination of two stories which ultimately becomes connected at the end of the film but leaves the viewer wanting more. In the first half of the film, In-soo and the ghost girl form a bond with each other and develop feelings for one another. The second half of the film is focused on the ghost girl’s past (who we later discover is actually Se-hee) and why she is seeking revenge on the classmates that bullied her. But when the story is tied together, there are twists which unfortunately did not feel impactful and somewhat empty. The ending of the film also felt tiresome that ended with a jump scare as if the creators were not sure how to end the film.\n\nThis is a film that would have been better as a romantic horror story rather than an every day paranormal story. There were two relationships in this film which were enticing and at times humorous. During the film, In-soo starts to live with his uncle, Seon-il, who can also can see ghosts. While In-soo and the ghost girl are developing their feelings towards one another, Seon-il is developing his own relationship with an aggressive and playful ghost. The interactions of both relationships are both adorable and heart-warming.\n\nIn respect to the performances, all of the actors performed well within their roles. In addition, the pace of the film was well-done and the story progressed appropriately. Overall, Mourning Grave is worth a watch, but the story, itself, took on multiple directions and as such was not able to create a fulfilling story line.\n\nYou may also like our review of The Wailing." ]

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[ null, "THOUSANDS of enthusiastic cycling fans will line the iconic streets of Edinburgh’s Old Town on Thursday May 19 2016 – when round three of The Pearl Izumi Tour Series, recognised as the UK’s leading city centre team cycle race series, is staged in the capital.\n\nThe main race will start at 19.30 with support races and an open hill climb time trial starting at 16.00. All races are free to spectate.\n\nSpectators will be looking to get the best vantage points as six of the UK’s top professional cycling teams (of five riders each) race around a challenging closed-road circuit in the heart of the capital.\n\nThe teams, who include defending Champions Madison Genesis, JLT Condor presented by Mavic, NFTO, Pedal Heaven, Team Raleigh GAC and Team WIGGINS, will travel to Edinburgh fresh from racing in Motherwell, home to round two of the series on Tuesday May 17.\n\nIt the first time the unique team based televised event has held a pair of rounds in Scotland.\n\nJon Mould, the Motherwell race winner and member of the leading team JLT Condor presented by Mavic, said: “I’m really looking forward to Edinburgh, it’s the best round of the series with the best crowds, so it’s my favourite one.\n\n“It’s looking really good for the team so I think it should be a good round for us.\n\n“We’ve got another strong team so we’ll go into the race quite hard and get stuck in.”\n\nEvan Elephant, from Team Raleigh GAC (who are lying third in the overall team classification after round two in Motherwell), and who is from Tranent in East Lothian, said: “It’s fantastic to have the opportunity to have a top race on my doorstep and I’m looking forward to getting stuck in in front of friends and family.”\n\nEdinburgh’s fast, furious and tactical race will be staged on a new and extremely challenging 1.6-kilometre circuit that includes cobbles, a gruelling hill climb and hairpin bends\n\nThe 500-metre cobbled climb up Victoria Street, which was used when the series last came to the city in 2014, will again form the centre piece of the race.\n\nIn 2016, the riders will turn left at the top of the street to take in the Lawnmarket and a fast downhill section on Johnston Terrace below Edinburgh Castle, before returning to the Grassmarket via West Port.\n\nMick Bennett, The Pearl Izumi Tour Series race director, said: “The new Edinburgh circuit is going to make the racing even better, for the riders and for spectators.\n\n“We’ve retained the spectacular Victoria Street climb, which for me is one of the most iconic locations in the Tour Series, and now will also be racing in the shadow of the famous castle. It’s a hard circuit and will make for a great race.”\n\nThe teams will tear round the circuit for a lung busting and energy sapping 60 minutes and five laps, offering some close, tactical and very spectator friendly racing.\n\nThe overall winner and the team with the lowest cumulative times will be crowned the Edinburgh Champions at a podium ceremony immediately following the end of the race.\n\nSeries leaders, both team and individual will also be announced.\n\nJack Pullar from the Pedal Heaven team, a former British National Hill Climb Champion who represented Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, said: “Edinburgh is my favourite city in the whole of the UK. I’ve had a lot of good memories there, so it’s going to be a special race for me.\n\n“I think with the new course it’s going to be even better than last time, because you take in even more of the sights, like the Castle. We were third team In Motherwell and we’re moving back-up, so I think it’s upwards from here. As a team we should suit Edinburgh, so we’re targeting a good result.”\n\nEdinburgh’s Festival and Events Champion, Councillor Richard Lewis, said: “Winding through the hilly, cobbled streets of the Grassmarket in full view of Edinburgh Castle, this has to be one of the most visually stunning legs of the Pearl Izumi series.\n\n“Make sure you get there early to secure the best view and to cheer on the riders as they go head-to-head.\n\n“Cycling really is on the rise in the Capital with more than 16.5 million cycle trips now being made annually in the city. As a compact, densely populated and beautiful city, Edinburgh is suited perfectly to travel by bike and high profile events like the Pearl Izumi help to promote cycling and sport in the city.”\n\nThe free-to-attend, action-packed event, centred around the Grassmarket, Edinburgh Castle and West Bow, is brought to Edinburgh by Sweetspot, EventScotland and the City of Edinburgh Council.\n\nPaul Bush OBE, VisitScotland’s director of events, said: “We are delighted to support Tour Series in 2016 and are excited about the prospect of seeing some of the UK’s finest talent battling it out through the streets of Edinburgh following a highly-successful Motherwell stage yesterday.\n\n“The number of cyclists in the capital and across the country is on the rise and events, such as Tour Series, have an important part to play in this, encouraging people to participate in a sport that is not only terrific fun but also provides a great means of transport.”\n\nIn addition to the main race, Edinburgh will also host a corporate Pro-Am relay, sponsored by Brother UK, and other support events including an open hill climb up Victoria Street and an amateur club race that will give aspiring local club riders the chance to race on the same course as the pro-teams.\n\nThe support events begin with the The Grassmarket Scramble at 16.00 with the main event of the evening being staged at 19.30.\n\nThere will be a small promo event village in the Grassmarket with leading cycle brands, cycling organisations and cycling events exhibiting.\n\nHighlights of the Edinburgh event will be shown on ITV4 on the evening of Friday May 20 and will be available via catch-up services with the ITV Player.\n\nMedia contacts for Edinburgh round of Pearl Izumi Tour Series:\n\nFor further press information, logos and images, or to arrange an interview, please contact:\n\nAll events will be based at Edinburgh’s Grassmarket.\n\nA downloadable circuit map of the can be viewed here: http://thetour.co.uk/files/documents/TS2016_RaceManual_Edinburgh_v1.pdf\n\n18.00 – The Brother Corporate Grand Prix – A corporate Pro-Am relay where ten teams of five riders, each joined by a professional cyclist, take on the Edinburgh circuit in a battle of Scottish businesses and Tour Series partners\n\nFor media accreditation please log on to www.thetour.co.uk/press and follow the links for Media Accreditation. If you need further information about the accreditation process or if you won’t have a named reporter / photographer until the event you can contact:\n\nRound One Thursday 12 May Ramsey, Isle of Man\n\nRound Two Tuesday 17 May Motherwell (includes women’s round)\n\nRound Three Thursday 19 May Edinburgh\n\nRound Four Thursday 26 May Redditch (includes women’s round)\n\nRound Five Friday 27 May Aberystwyth\n\nRound Six Tuesday 31 May Durham\n\nAbout The Pearl Izumi Tour Series:\n\n2016 will be the eighth season of the Pearl Izumi Tour Series, an unique team based, televised city centre cycling series organised by SweetSpot Group Ltd, the company behind the organisation and promotion of the Tour of Britain and the Women’s Tour.\n\nThe Pearl Izumi Tour Series brings together the very best in British professional teams and male and female riders, competing on town and citycentre circuits in front of packed crowds as a part of a full day of cycling activities.\n\nSweetSpot is a sports marketing and events company specialising in the creation and execution of high-quality, commercially-successful, annual sporting events. www.sweetspotgroup.co.uk\n\nEventScotland is working to make Scotland the perfect stage for events. By developing an exciting portfolio of sporting and cultural events EventScotland is helping to raise Scotland’s international profile and boost the economy by attracting more visitors. For further information about EventScotland, its funding programmes and latest event news visit www.EventScotland.org. Follow EventScotland on Twitter @EventScotNews.\n\nEventScotland is a team within VisitScotland’s Events Directorate, the national tourism organisation which markets Scotland as a tourism destination across the world, gives support to the tourism industry and brings sustainable tourism growth to Scotland. For more information about VisitScotland, see www.visitscotland.org or for consumer information on Scotland as a visitor destination see www.visitscotland.com." ]

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[ "BECOME A PATRON\nVideo game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) posted a $308 million net loss during its fiscal third-quarter ended December 31, 2013. EA called it a \"transitional quarter,\" referring to the fact that both Sony and Microsoft launched next-generation consoles in November. As a result, gamers tempered their spending on software titles for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.\n\nThe good news for EA is that it seems to be on solid footing going forward. EA was the top publisher on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, led by Battlefield 4, Madden NFL 25, FIFA 14, and Need for Speed Rivals. And for the month of December, FIFA 14 and BF4 were the two of the top three best-selling titles across all platforms in the Western World, the publisher said.", null, "\"In a transitional quarter, EA delivered EPS results above our guidance driven by strong sales of our next-generation console titles, continued growth in our digital games and services, and financial discipline across the business,\" said Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen. \"For our full year outlook, we are lowering our non-GAAP net revenue guidance to $3.91 billion due to the weakness in current generation software, but we are increasing our non-GAAP EPS guidance to $1.30 due to the improvement in our operating profits.\"\n\nLooking at the whole picture, EA is a long ways from reaching for the panic button. Industry wide game sales have been trending upwards for the past several months, and both the PS4 and Xbox One have been selling well, according to the latest data by NPD Group." ]

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[ "Benedict and Catherine, Part 5. The Second and Third Stages of the Spiritual Journey", null, "LITURGICAL CATECHESIS: What is the Penitential Act and why do we use different ones?\n\nThe Penitential Act follows the greeting. At the very beginning of the Mass, the faithful recall their sins and place their trust in God’s abiding mercy.\n\nThere are several options. The celebrant makes the decision. It is recommended that different “Penitential Rites” be utilized during different liturgical times of the year. This way, what we say and hear symbolizes that we are in a different “season.” For example, during Lent, I say “Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy.” During Christmas, we say the Confiteor (“I confess to almighty God …”) because it calls for a sung “Lord have mercy” response to follow. This indicates the higher solemnity of the season. During Easter, we also use the Greek “Kyrie Eleison” (a Greek phrase meaning, “Lord, have mercy”). This indicates the solemnity of the season and distinguishes it from the Christmas season. This 3-part litany recalls the three Persons of the Trinity offering God’s merciful actions. Further information can be found on the website.\n\nLITURGICAL FEEDBACK: Last week’s question. How audible was the homily? Results were positive. 92% – 94% responded that the homilist at the 5:00 Vigil Mass, the 7:30 and 9:30 Sunday Masses could be heard well. What was interesting was that only 78% responded positively at the 11:30 AM Mass. I preached at the 11:30 Mass and it was relatively empty. Hence the “echo effect” was quite pronounced.\n\nPeople also said that the organ seemed too loud. In speaking with the organist afterwards, he mentioned that he used the same organ “stops” and played at the same level at the 9:30 Mass (which was packed!). Here is where this information proves valuable. Now we realize that we need to be more sensitive to the acoustics depending on how populated each liturgy is. I thank those of you who participated and encourage you to continue to do so in the future. On to Catherine of Siena…", null, "Last week I mentioned that God is pleased with his children who come to him with an aversion to sin and feel sorrow and shame for their transgressions. This is a spiritual posture for people at the beginning of their spiritual journey. People who are more advanced progress even further by their openness and acceptance of God’s love. In The Dialogue, Catherine writes, “Some there are who have become faithful servants, serving Me with fidelity without servile fear of punishment, but rather with love.” This is the “second stage” of the spiritual journey.\n\nBut, just when you thought they could relax, God throws them a curve ball. In the excitement of the moment, people in the second stage have a tendency to become proud or complacent. They serve God with great fervor but do it because it profits them. Catherine explains what happens next, “This very love, however, if they serve Me with a view to their own profit, or the delight and pleasure which they find in Me, is imperfect. “Do you know what proves the imperfection of this love? The withdrawal of the consolations which they found in Me, and the insufficiency and short duration of their love for their neighbor, which grows weak by degrees, and oftentimes disappears…I withdraw from their minds My consolation and allow them to fall into battles and perplexities.", null, "As an example, Catherine offers the story of St. Peter. “It was with this imperfect love that St. Peter loved the sweet and good Jesus, My only-begotten Son, enjoying most pleasantly His sweet conversation, but, when the time of trouble came, he failed, and so disgraceful was his fall, that, not only could he not bear any pain himself, but his terror of the very approach of pain caused him to fall, and deny the Lord, with the words, ‘I have never known Him.’\n\nWhat is God’s goal in this? I’ll go into that next week." ]

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[ "I am so very excited about this guest post today from my friend Mystie. This girl is the most organized and well-thought-out and well-planned friend I think I’ve ever not met. {grin} We are online friends and she lives on the other side of the country, but I would LOVE to meet her in person one day.\n\nMystie has created a brand new resource that I just knew my readers would LOVE. In fact, I’m quite excited about this myself. I have one daughter, my middle child, who LOVES cooking/baking and helping in the kitchen. This is the perfect resources for families!\n\nIt started when my younger brother was about to head off to college last summer. I was showing him my ebook Simplified Dinners, trying to convince him that he didn’t have to eat ramen or hot dogs even though he was going to be off campus in his own apartment. “See,” I pointed to one page, “You just saute some onions and peppers…” “Saute?” he interrupted, “is that like cutting something really small?”\n\nI realized then that I had to make a simpler Simplified Dinners.", null, "I worked on that as a project, and discovered a great a perk: my 11-year-old and 9-year-old sons were eager test cooks! Now they have over 10 different dinners under their belt and are quite independent in the kitchen, simply using Simplified Dinners for New Cooks as their source. They can cook a meal from scratch and get it from basic ingredients in the cupboards to dinner on the table. Yes, it takes them longer than it would take me, but they love the responsibility and I love not being tied to the kitchen every late afternoon!\n\nTeach Your Kids to Cook\n\nSimplified Dinners for New Cooks is great for anyone who doesn’t have much cooking experience, someone who doesn’t know what saute or dice means. They can still get dinner on the table with this resource in their hands. It’s great for dads on kitchen duty, for grads out on their own for the first time, or for the mom who’s never cared to cook.\n\nYour kids can cook dinner!", null, "It’s also the perfect resource to teach your kids to cook! My 11-year-old and 9-year-old have been testing it out for me, and they have loved the independence they have gained in the kitchen. They can get dinner on the table all by themselves, and that makes them so proud.\n\nSimplified Dinners for New Cooks uses only thirteen cooking terms which are explained in the opening chapters of the book. There are also only fifteen tools used total – including can opener and baking sheets – so if your kitchen is stocked with these basic tools, you know how to do the basic techniques outlined, and your pantry contains the basic items listed in the master pantry list, then you have everything you need to make a variety of dinners – or have your kids do it for you!", null, "There’s a sample available at Simplified Pantry, so check it out to see if it’s something that will work for you!\n\nWin a Copy of Simplified Dinners for New Cooks\n\nThis give away has now ended! Aubrey was the winner. Thank you for entering!\n\nAnd if you don’t win or you can’t wait, you can use the discount code mercy15 to get 25% off Simplified Dinners for New Cooks now through Friday, March 6th! If you buy it and win the giveaway, I’ll refund your purchase. 🙂" ]

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[ "COVID-19: Outlook for the economy", null, "With the COVID-19 outbreak dragging the world into a massive recession, NUS Business professors provide an overview of the prospects for an economic recovery\n\nSince COVID-19 (the Coronavirus) was first reported in Wuhan in China towards the end of December 2019, it has rapidly spread globally and the World Health Organisation declared it a pandemic on March 12th, 2020.\n\nBy April, the world had seen more than 2 million people infected and more than 120,000 deaths; these numbers are still rising. The serious public health threat has forced many governments to impose extreme measures – lockdowns – to mitigate the spreading of the disease. China locked down Wuhan on 23 Jan and then many other countries followed. Many Asian countries have practiced very demanding social distancing, e.g., forbidden large crowd gathering, closed schools, and some eventually practiced lockdowns. While Asia may have somewhat contained the spread of COVID-19, the number of infections worrisomely surged in Europe and North America. Public health and economic anxieties fill the globe.\n\nThe Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER) and NUS Business School (Finance Department) hosted a series of discussions via Zoom on the Asian experience in general and the Singapore experience in particular. This piece summarizes the content of the first of these series, which focuses on the economic outlook.\n\nAn economy is heavily dependent on person-to-person interaction. Policies severely limiting human-to-human interaction induce significant declines in supply and demand, and interrupt global value-chains. Recent data show that China caught a big down draft in February through a collapse in its PMI. Similarly, the US saw an unprecedented rise in jobless claims in April on a scale not seen even at the height of the global financial crisis.\n\nNote that these economic setbacks fall most heavily on the lower income group – those in the labor-intensive service sector, part-timers, temps, and the self-employed. The global economic contraction throughout the world is going to surpass the global financial crisis by a big margin. Correspondingly, equity prices and corporate earnings have dropped precipitously; liquidity problems are spreading, and many companies, especially small and medium enterprises, may have to declare bankruptcy.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund has declared that the current situation is worse than the Great Recession. Governments around the world are delivering the historically most costly intensive monetary and fiscal stabilizing policies in a hurry.\n\nChina has unlocked its cities. Factories are running again. However, China cannot thrive alone because the rest of the world is still stuck in a shutdown. For example, some factories are sending their workers home again because of extremely weak export orders. Global consumption has decreased and certain economic sectors are literally shut down, thus affecting supply chains. Unlike the SARS (2003) period, or even the Great Recession, the world is now deeply interlocked: the recovery of a single economy relies on the simultaneous recovery of many economies.\n\nFour ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries – Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand – have thus far provided over US$150 billion in subsidies ranging from 5 to 16 percent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to stimulate economic recovery. These huge amounts of subsidies may, however, not be effective.\n\nSecondly, except in Singapore, most rescue money is directed at helping businesses avoid bankruptcies rather than ensuring that jobs are preserved. With high unemployment, spending is curtailed.\n\nThird, this region’s recovery depends on recovery in larger Asia and other continents. The global economic outlook is currently highly uncertain due to a lack of global cooperation and concerns about the risk of a second wave of inflection. This may result in a stop-start-stop-start situation for different national economies. This is particularly gloomy for poorer countries due to their lack of funds for multiple rounds of stimuli.\n\nThe COVID-19 pandemic is a particularly devastating blow to low-income countries, including India. They do not have a good healthcare system. As testing and providing ventilators on a large scale is not possible, the only thing they can do is to make sure that there is social distancing to flatten the curve. They have done that very aggressively by locking down the whole country. But the resulting economic fallout would mean that people will end up suffering from hunger, family stress, crime, and loss of economic hope for a prolonged period.\n\nIronically, the cost of a stimulus package increases with the proportion of the population suffering from poverty, which lower-income countries‘ governments cannot afford. For example, the Indian government has a stimulus package of around US$28 billion, which is tiny for a big country like India. A well thought out, bigger and broad-based package along with well-coordinated public policies will be needed to help revive the economy, which had already been on a downtrend since last year. But, where to find the money?\n\nThe above essay is adapted from a recent webinar series on the global economic and financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nCOVID-19: Outlook for the economy" ]

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[ "Today is Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Birthday. He’s known for a lot of things but first he was a Beat Poet and then he opened a bookstore in San Francisco called City Lights.\n\nThis is a repost from some time ago.\n\nI think I must have written this before the disastrous American Presidential Election of 2016. Today the $600 billion tax cut for the 2% masquerading as a new health care bill failed miserably. There is still a lot of work to do. There are still too many people without affordable health care, too many children living in poverty but at least we didn’t roll the clock back to much darker days.\n\nHowever, this is a rambling memory of the day I first discovered his poetry, a very long time ago, a time I barely recognise now. Still… I catch myself smiling because I know I carry this little memory in my DNA now. It is as much a part of me as the air I breathe, as the beat of my heart.\n\nToday, however, it has a special poignancy.\n\nHe’s often forgotten as one of the great beat poets of the fifties and remembered more for opening City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco which is an amazing place. I’ve been several times now and I still regret not visiting it more.\n\nWhen I was in my twenties Beat Poets made me think of Kerouac and Ginsberg. I knew of Ferlinghetti and City Lights Bookstore but I hadn’t read him.\n\nOne day I stumbled across this poem in an anthology of poetry in my local library.\n\nI discovered it in the early 70s in the midst of the Vietnam War and anti-war protests, Buddhist monks setting themselves on fire in protest, and the civil rights movement and women fighting to be recognised and heard and LSD and music, so much music. The first concert I attended was to see Jimi Hendrix and then a little later, Led Zeppelin, in 1970. I had already lost my heart to a musician who would end up being the father of my child. It was a world in upheaval and tremendous creativity and alternative thinkers and hope and belief in our ability to create a better world and days of dark despair and colour everywhere. But most days you woke up filled with hope and determination and ended them with sadness and confusion or escaped for days in music and hallucinogens that made the world a prettier place.\n\nAnd in the midst of all that I discovered this. I couldn’t stop reading it. I just sat in my library and read it over and over until I pulled out my journal and copied the entire poem in its pages. I think it was a defining moment for me. I don’t think I had truly grasped just how powerful words could be until then. I had an epiphany in my tiny local library.\n\nSo this one will always be my favourite Ferlinghetti poem:\n\nOriginal link from The Poetry Foundation website can be found", null, null ]

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[ null, "Hands up, don’t shoot!: Buddhist mob violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar has been making international news for a while now because hundreds of Rohingyas have been massacred, thousands have had their homes burned down, & hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee for their lives to other countries. (Hundreds were drowned in the exodus, thousands were refused entry to other countries, & many survivors were sent back to Myanmar where anti-Muslim violence continues & includes non-Rohingya Muslims.)\n\nBuddhism cannot be judged by politics in Myanmar. Many remember that in the 1960s Vietnamese Buddhists actively opposed the series of military juntas ruling South Vietnam & were prominent in opposing the US war against Vietnam. Their opposition helped counter anti-communist rhetoric used by the US to justify it’s barbaric war.\n\nIt only goes to show you theology has less to do with tyranny than the heritage of colonialism & the often misguided attempts to overcome it–or the accommodation modern regimes are making to neoliberal plunder in hopes of getting in on the take. Those regimes use religious intolerance to enflame sectarian conflict.\n\nBuddhism is as Buddhism does–which is just as true of the Papacy. These Tibetan monks traveled from exile in India to stand with the Black community in Ferguson, Missouri. That placard reads: “From Tibet, Justice for Mike Brown.”" ]

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[ null, "WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. securities regulator is considering measures to require big investors to disclose more about short positions, or bets that stocks will fall, use of derivatives to bet on other stock moves and to protect small investors from trading apps that use features common to video games in order to boost risky trading activity.\n\nThe review of rules by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was prompted by January's GameStop saga and the meltdown of Archegos Capital, its new chair plans to tell lawmakers. Gary Gensler, sworn in last month as chair of the top markets watchdog, will testify before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee on Thursday. Democrats are pressuring him to take a tough stance on Wall Street after Gamestop's fierce rally in January, fed by bullish posts on Reddit, and the March implosion of New York investment fund Archegos. \"Whenever there are major market events, it's a good idea to consider what risks they might have placed on the entire financial system,\" Gensler will tell lawmakers, according to prepared testimony published by the committee on Wednesday. SEC staff are working on potential measures, Gensler will say, including greater disclosure of \"short-selling,\" a strategy hedge funds and other big investors use to bet a stock will fall; increasing transparency around securities lending, which underpins short-selling; and new reporting rules for the \"total return\" equity swaps that felled Archegos, a family office. In addition, Gensler has asked staff to draft a request for public input into how trading apps entice retail customers using game-like features such as points, rewards, bonuses, and competitions, according to his testimony.\n\n\"We need to ensure investors using apps with these types of features continue to be appropriately protected,\" he will say.\n\nGensler did not elaborate on the timing for any potential regulatory proposals, which typically must go through a lengthy rule-making process including public feedback.\n\nShares of GameStop soared in January after retail investors congregating on Reddit and trading on low-cost brokerage platforms bought shares in the video game retailer, causing big losses for hedge funds that had shorted the stock.\n\nThat episode was followed in March by the collapse of Archegos, whose soured media stock bets left the fund and banks that financed its trades nursing roughly $10 billion in losses.\n\n\"The professional investor community on Wall Street and Reddit rebellion of retail investors at home will be carefully listening to what the SEC chairman has to say about his thinking on how these financial activities are regulated,\" said Dennis Kelleher, chief executive of Washington-based Better Markets.\n\nAs volatility soared in January, retail broker Robinhood curbed buying in GameStop and other stocks because it could not provide the cash its clearinghouse, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp (DTCC), required to guarantee those trades during the two days it takes them to settle.\n\nGensler has directed SEC staff to draft a proposal on expediting the settlement process to reduce system risks, according to his testimony.\n\nThe heads of the DTCC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which oversees brokers, will testify alongside Gensler.\n\nGensler's promises to Congress spell disruption for Wall Street. The SEC is also cracking down on special purpose acquisition company or \"SPAC\" mergers, and drafting new climate change risk disclosure rules, issues Gensler is also likely to be grilled on.\n\n\"We wouldn't be surprised to see members use the opportunity to press their interest for and against climate change regulatory changes, for revisions to family office rules, and more,\" said Ty Gellasch, head of Washington-based Healthy Markets.\n\n\"They could fill seven hearings with Chair Gensler's to-do list.\"" ]

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[ "Zimbabwe: Story of the Rocks\n\nGender Based Violence in rural communities", null, "Prof. dr. M van Reisen from Tilburg University asked Stillare to work with the women of Zimbabwe. The goal was to work towards more community security by empowerment of women leadership. This work was input to the Second Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership, Development, Peace and Security held in Harare Zimbabwe and Leiden The Netherlands in the autumn of 2014.\n\nWhile exploring the situation of the women of Zimbabwe, Stillare found a way that brings both men and women to a next stage of coping with each other. Not by working on equality… not by talking about women rights…. We worked on the connection between men and women by improving their consciousness on the interests they both have. Women and men understood that combining their skills would enhance their possibilities to reach their goals. While working with the women the men and the chiefs, we found a way to shape modern patriarchy serving the whole community again.\n\nStillare found a way that brings both men and women to a next stage of coping with each other. It is not about equality… it is not about women rights…. So about what is it? Is it about using the reduction of women to only become trade items? We don’t think so. We think we found a way to get modern patriarchy become more healthy again.", null, "The group of women of the Harare Colloquium visited the village Seke for a long and pleasant afternoon. The whole village was present.\n\nOf the group we worked with in the initial sessions, three of these women live in Seke. They welcomed the Colloquium and offered them a place to sit next to the men of Seke, under the roof, protected from the sun. As first glance, I could see the women of the village sitting on the ground or leaning against the buildings. Men and women were strictly separated.\n\nThe Second Colloquium on Women’s Empowerment, Leadership, Development, Peace and Security was a forum intended for women leaders to exchange experiences and ideas on women’s leadership.\n\nThe colloquium gave particular attention to the situation of women’s leadership and peace building in Zimbabwe, particularly with an assessment of the space for women in rural settings. It was attended by women leaders with either a political background or a role in NGOs from a range of countries, from South Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Liberia, to the Philippines, Belgium and the Netherlands.\n\nThe second colloquium was held five years after the first colloquium. The previous one was hosted by President Sirleaf of Liberia and co-hosted by President Halonen from Finland. It reviewed the progress to implement the Monrovia Declaration as adopted in Liberia in 2009.\n\nCapacity building on negotiation, Ministry of Finance, Ghana\nStory of the Rocks – Approach\n\nA year after this session, I am proud to announce that the women and men of Seke still are on track. They deliberated and found new ways to come to a balance. Patriarchy became less violent and women were allowed to create more balance in their lives. There has been a growth in the collaboration between the women and the real men of Seke.\n\nBackground of the Story of the Rocks\n\nThe emergence of a viable opposition party in 2000, that seriously challenged the dominance of the ruling party in urban and rural areas, created situations where politically motivated violence became rampant in most parts of the country.\n\nViolence erupted preceding national elections that took place in 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2008 and their aftermath. Intimidation and physical violence targeted rural women mostly to instill fear in them to induce them to vote for..." ]

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[ "Saturday - August 17, 2019 1:12 pm , Category : HEALTH\nKabul, Aug 17 (IANS) As many as 140 Afghan couples tied the knot at a mass wedding in Kabul, a local media reported on Saturday.The mass ceremony took place on Friday in western Kabul, Xinhua news agency quoted Arianna News TV as saying.The ceremony was sponsored by Hazrat-e-Abul Fazl organization, a local charity group.The aim of the event to cut back on lavish expenses of wedding parties as young generation in the war-affected nation are suffering grave poverty.\"I am so glad for attending this great wedding ceremony, I ask all citizens to prevent lavish expenses,\" Ismail Khaliqi, a groom at the wedding, was quoted as saying.Najiba, a bride who joined the ceremony was also joyful for the mass wedding.\"My wedding was more glorious compared to others. We did a great job. We must be a good example to the others,\" she said.Families taking part in the event also welcomed holding such weddings and called on the wealthy people to financially support poor families to get married.Highly lavish wedding parties have become very common in Afghanistan, among the poverty-stricken people that can cost thousands of US dollars.\n--IANS ksk\n\nOver 3,000 vaccinated against coronavirus in Mosc...", null, "Won't be complacent, will focus on giving our best against SRH: Mishra\n\nCBI: We are conducting probe into Sushant case professionally\n\nDrugs valued at Rs 25 cr seized in Assam, one held\n\nApple to launch iPhone 12 in S Korea earlier than usual\n\nOver 3,000 vaccinated against coronavirus in Moscow" ]

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[ null, "The crypto market looks better today with most of the coins trading in the green following the recent drop in the price of Bitcoin.\n\nAt the moment of writing this article, BTC is trading in the green as well and the most important coin out there is priced at $10,452.23.\n\nThe online publication the Daily Hodl notes that Dave the Wave analyst predicted that BTC would hit $500k eventually.\n\nAn important thing worth mentioning is the fact that Dave predicted BTC’s collapse from $11,600 to $6,400 back in 2019. Now, he reacted to Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’ recent Bitcoin analysis.\n\nThe co-founders of the crypto exchange Gemini said that BTC is undervalued as long as it’s trading below $500k.\n\nA follower said: “They didn’t indicate timeframe, though. Don’t hate too much on optimistic price projections :).”\n\nSomeone else posted this: “They have 1% of all Bitcoin so its possible they might be slightly biased. That price would make them the richest people on earth wouldn’t it?”\n\nDave shared his analysis of BTC’s long trajectory which is tracking the past price movements of the coin and increasingly long cycles.\n\nThe road to 500K and price stability.\n\nWhen peaks are ‘stepped’, they meet on the logarithmic growth curve.\nWith each subsequent cycle – from base to peak- an extra year is added. pic.twitter.com/i4HN49UdGi\n\nIt’s also important to mention the fact that he refers to himself as a BTC Centrist and he also released a prediction that claims BTC will hit $100k in 2023.\n\nHe said: “At some point in the not too distant future, the term shit coin will drop the s, and maximalism will recede into the distance as the market turns increasingly manic.🙂 Of course, I’m still a BTC centrist.”" ]

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[ "Africa key focus at day one of Securing Asia 2014", null, "Day 1 of Securing Asia and Africa 2014 commenced on 14th July 2014 at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, providing a dedicated forum for international delegates and experts from approximately 50 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe in the field of homeland security and counter-terrorism to exchange their ideas and experiences on the current global climate.\n\nIn contrast to the previously successful Securing Asia 2012 and 2013 conferences, Africa was a focal point – the continent was recognised as an integral component of the global homeland security market and enabling the rises in economic growth of Asian countries including India and China. Harry Dhaul, Chairman of the Steering Committee began the day with a welcome address highlighting the growing need of the homeland security industry “to protect the haves from the have-nots till the have-nots become the haves”. This year’s panel produced an outstanding array of individuals to provide a comprehensive insight of the current threats and challenges to global homeland security.\n\nSir Jonathan Evans, Member of Advisory Board, Facewatch and former Director General of British Security Service MI5 (2007-2013) spoke about his past experience in leading MI5’s work to ensure the safety and security of the London 2012 Olympics. His discussion of this event highlighted the importance of community engagement and including a cyber dimension to the strategic framework of security operations.\n\nAmong the other highlights included Peter Cook, Director and Founder of Security Association for the Maritime Industry (SAMI) who spoke about the “tropical disease” of piracy. He stated that combined with geo-political issues such as territorial disputes, piracy continues to be a multidimensional problem for international maritime security. Of particular interest was the extraordinary first-hand insight provided by Rakesh Maria, Commissioner of Police in the Mumbai 26/11 attacks, who spoke about the lessons learned from the event. He referred to the security operation as “not a failure of intelligence, but a failure of imagination” and emphasized the critical role of the media in security crises through assurance of public morale and establishment of normalcy.\n\nThe rapidly growing African homeland security market, projected to reach $344.5bn in 2022, up from $178bn in 2010 has created fierce competition between Asian and Western firms to secure African homeland security contracts. As an international business platform, Securing Asia and Africa 2014 enabled buyers and sellers from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East of the latest security technology to discuss their needs, requirements and ideas. The exhibition provided a successful platform to facilitate not only business deals, but ‘business to business’ relationships with exposition and B2B meetings." ]

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[ "A proposed quarter-cent sales tax on infrastructure is still up in the air, but the need for a new jail for Lyon County is not.\n\nLyon County is under pressure from federal authorities to update the 1976-era jail in Yerington, or build a new one. It was expanded once, in 1990, and is still overcrowded and outdated.\n\nThe commission has postponed a decision to increase the sales tax by a quarter-cent to pay for a jail. They have voted on one occasion to build a new jail in Silver Springs or Stagecoach, but after county revenues nose-dived, changed that to an expansion of the current jail in Yerington.\n\nA new jail is not exactly a new problem to Lyon County.\n\nLt. Douglas Brunson said when he came to Lyon County in 1995, he was told the county was on a five-year plan for a new jail.\n\n“Most were sentenced, which means by law they have to work,” he said. “Now we have 60 to 80 with almost no sentenced prisoners.”\n\nBrunson said many judges now sentence offenders to probation, home confinement or community service, leaving the arrested but not convicted in the jails, many of whom have to be kept separate from one another.\n\nSo he’s hoping for not only more beds with a new or expanded jail, but more classified beds, i.e., enough separate locations so he can separate the inmates.\n\nHe said each inmate had to be housed with those who are similar in terms of the alleged offenses and history. Guards are responsible for each inmate’s safety, and separation is how they maintain order.\n\n“If you have a smaller guy, say arrested for DUI for the first time, we can’t put them in with a big biker who has been arrested 15 times,” Brunson said.\n\nWomen are kept apart from the men, and sometimes have to be separated from each other. Sex offenders are kept together, but separate from all other inmates. Maximum security inmates, charged with violent crimes, are kept apart from those accused of nonviolent ones. Those with mental illnesses are kept apart, as are those taken into civil protective custody, like someone who has passed out drunk.\n\nBrunson said he would also like to have a padded cell for mentally ill inmates.\n\n“We have gotten people in who bang their heads against the walls,” he said.\n\nThe jail was built in a linear style, with each housing unit checked physically by a deputy on rounds, with no 24-hour supervision.\n\nIn a corner of that room is a table with a curtain drawn around it that serves as an exam room for when the county nurse/practitioner comes in on Thursdays, Page said.\n\nIn the women’s section, each 8-by-10-foot cell has two bunks and is connected by a dayroom. There is a television the inmates share. One shower off of the dayroom is used by all inmates in the section. A table bolted to the floor with eight stools attached sits in the center of the dayroom.\n\nFor the men, the dayroom is larger with more cells and showers, but the rest is the same. Except now some inmates sleep on cots in the dayroom.\n\nBrunson said he would also like a few more multi-purpose rooms – the jail only has one. It is used for interviews with inmates, inmates’ consultation with their attorneys, video court appearances for the Walker River Court, and in a corner, with a curtain, is a medical exam bed.\n\n“Medical gets top priority” for the room, Brunson said.\n\nThere is a library of sorts, two bookcases in a hall filled with books and encyclopedias. There is a visiting area, fingerprint and booking area, control area and staff offices, a laundry and a kitchen.\n\nBrunson said the narrow laundry is a problem area because fire officials consider it a hazard because of obstructions in exiting the cramped room.\n\nBut the kitchen is the best part of the jail, he said, adding that he is the food manager.\n\n“The health department loves it,” he said.\n\nInmates get cold cereal for breakfast, a bag lunch and a hot dinner, and special diets for health or religious reasons are available.\n\nThe outside yard is not often used, because it is visible from the street, Brunson said.\n\n“They could get over that fence,” he said. “Or have someone throw drugs over.”\n\nHe also said kids playing in the park across the street used to harass the inmates, and sometimes the inmates would flash passing cars.\n\nStaffing is a problem as well, with the jail needing 10 deputies, three sergeants, a lieutenant and four civilian control operators. Brunson said they needed four more deputies and one additional control operator.\n\nCounty officials have said safety of the inmates and the jail staff as well as adherence to federal regulations requires the jail. The question is still how to pay for it and where it will go.\n\nMany want to see the jail in Silver Springs, and Brunson said it would be preferable for staffing reasons and to cut the travel time, cost and distance. More than 80 percent of Lyon County’s residents live north of the Carson River.\n\n“Transportation is a staff headache,” he said. “For more than four or five inmates, we need two deputies. This county is growing and growth means more crime.”", null, null ]

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[ "Nepal. Visit Countryaah official website to get information about the capital city of Nepal. New elections to Parliament in May ended a long period of weak governments. The Nepali Congress Party (NCP) received about 60% of the votes (111 out of Parliament’s 205 seats) and was thus able to form its own government. Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, who had the same post in 1990-91, was appointed Prime Minister. Despite the ongoing Maoist uprising, the elections were conducted in orderly form.\n\nIn its first budget, the new government offered loans at low interest rates and other economic lures to the poor, hoping to get the Maoists to lay down their weapons. However, the clashes continued and are believed to have claimed at least 900 people’s lives since 1996. Among those reported to have been killed was Suresh Wagle, a member of the Maoist Party Politburo.\n\nA government proposal for a new anti-terrorist law was criticized by the opposition and human rights organizations. The law would give the police great powers to, inter alia, conduct home investigations and give local administrators the right to prosecute suspected terrorists. In August, the Supreme Court ordered the government to appoint a human rights commission. However, a decision on this was made by Parliament as early as 1997.\n\nKhadga Prasad Sharma Oli of CPN-UML was also elected Prime Minister of Parliament in October with 338 votes out of 597. However, he was only allowed to sit until July 2016 when the CPN-MC withdrew their support to the government, which then was in the minority. In August, a new government was formed with Pushpa Kamal Dahal from CPN-MC as new Prime Minister. The first priority of the new government was to improve relations with India, and a few days after his accession, he was invited by Indian Prime Minister Modi.\n\nIn May 2016, the government decided to grant amnesty for all human rights violations committed during the civil war.\n\nIn accordance with the agreement between the two major parties of the government, in June 2017, Dahal handed the prime minister post to Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Indian Congress party.\n\nThe territory looks like a succession of terraces that are arranged at increasing altitude, from South to North. The first consists of an alluvial lowland, the Terai, where tropical forest and savannahs are, with the crops, the dominant notes of the landscape. Parallel to the Terai rise the wooded Siwalik Mountains, which are almost 2000 m high; then a series of pre-Himalayan chains, more extended and up to 3000 m high, which act as the lower limit of the central plateau, in which the fertile basins of Katmandu and Pokhara open. Beyond stands the imposing Himalayan bastion, which culminates in some of the highest peaks in the world (Everest, 8850m; Kanchenjunga, 8585m; Dhaulagiri, 8222m).\n\nThe rivers, not long but impetuous, cross the country mostly from North to South, in often narrow and sunken valleys, and flow into the Ganges. There are three main basins, which are divided into numerous branches: that of Karnali, which drains the western part of the territory, that of Gandak, which bathes the central section, and that of Kosi, to the East. There are few lakes of a certain size, next to the numerous small glacial lakes scattered at altitude.\n\nThe climate of the Nepal can be divided into three longitudinal bands: the subtropical one, in the S, hot-humid throughout the year; the temperate one, in the center, where the temperature is mitigated by the altitude; the ‘alpine’ one, to the North, characterized by harsh winters, with temperatures that decrease with height, remaining almost constantly below 0 ° C. The rains, of the monsoon type, are distributed for 80% from the end of May to the middle in October, with quantities that go from 2500 mm in the eastern section of the country to 1200 mm in the western one.\n\nNepalese authorities are preventing police and prosecutors from investigating allegations of war crimes committed during the 1996-2006 civil war between the state and the Maoist guerrillas, Human Rights Watch writes in a new report. In this way, the authorities contribute to a widespread culture of impunity, reports the human rights organization. Only two charges for human rights violations during the war have led to convictions in civil courts: one for the murder of a teenage girl and one for the murder of a journalist. The two commissions set up in 2015 to investigate war crimes allegations have not convicted a single person of war crimes, despite the fact that more than 65,000 reports have been received. By the end of the ten-year war in 2006, more than 16,000 people had been killed and more than 1,000 had disappeared.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Some financial infractions at the Koforidua Technical University which were highlighted in the 2019 Auditor-General’s report took centre stage when the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament began sitting on the report in Ho last Monday.\n\nIn one instance, eight accounts officers were said to have failed to account for a total amount of GH¢620,456 being students’ fees in 2019.\n\nMeanwhile, an amount of GH¢48,196, which was invested in a waste recycling project by the university in 2015 is yet to materialise with no proof of a formal contract agreement on the project.\n\nWhen the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Emmanuel Essuman, appeared before the PAC together with other officials of the university, he said some of the monies were retrieved leaving an outstanding amount of GH¢306,770.\n\nHe said some of the culprits were dismissed while others were suspended, and one handed over to the police.\n\nRegarding the recycling project, Professor Essuman could not immediately produce any contract agreement to the PAC.\n\nThe committee also sought to know why an amount of GH¢338,946 was paid to a private company over the termination of the 1000-bed students’ hostel project, after the university failed to put up a defence at the court in the case.\n\nResponding, Professor Essuman said the hostel project was embarked upon by the Students’ Representative Council which pursued a procurement procedure without involving the management of the university.\n\nHowever, he said the university thereafter stopped the SRC from making its own procurements to prevent such losses in the future.\n\nWith regard to an overdue students’ fees totalling GH¢4.9 million as of 2019, the Vice-Chancellor informed the committee that the issue had been resolved.\n\nThat claim was confirmed by the team from the Auditor-General’s Department present at the hearing.\n\nThe committee also demanded to know why the university operated 23 different bank accounts with as many as 10 commercial banks, using some for both collection and payment transactions which attracted colossal charges.\n\nIt was then confirmed by the auditors that seven of the accounts had recently been closed and the monies paid to the Bank of Ghana (BoG).\n\nThe committee heard that the BoG was yet to refund GH¢36,000 to the university.\n\nThe Accra Technical University, which took its turn earlier, explained that its internally generated fund (IGF) dropped to 31.4 per cent from 33.9 in the previous years due to a drop in the number of students.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor, Professor Samuel Nii Odai, said the recent introduction of new programmes by the university would increase the intake and that would soon favour the institution’s IGF.\n\nThe PAC, chaired by the Deputy Minority Leader, Dr James Klutse Avedzi, will sit for f ve days for the zonal hearing to consider the three AuditorGeneral’s Reports referred to it. The zone include the Greater Accra, Eastern, Volta and Oti regions.\n\nThe committee will also look into reports on the Ho Technical University, all pre-university educational institutions in the zone, for the Financial Year, December 31, 2019, in addition to the report on the management and utilisation of District Assemblies’ Common Fund.\n\nDr Avedzi, who is also the NDC MP for Ketu North, said matters of education were highly crucial to the state and so whatever went wrong at the educational institutions affected the whole nation adversely.\n\nDISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.\nTags:\nAuditor-General's report 2019\nJames Klutse Avedzi\nKoforidua Technical University\nPublic Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC)" ]

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[ null, "Before the days of the internet, mobile phones and on-demand streaming services, there were only a handful of TV channels at our disposal. Movie premiers and new episodes of the latest must-watch TV show were affectionately referred to as event TV or water cooler moments that would be discussed the following day.\n\nThose days are long gone. Everybody now has a personalized schedule that they watch at their own pace. You can seldom talk about any show with a friend, colleague or significant other without someone shouting spoiler alert. Have no fear; this is not another nostalgia-fuelled post looking back at our analog past through rose tinted glasses. But, are we about to come full circle?\n\nAs 2018 came to an end, Bird Box dominated conversations on our newsfeeds. The Ted Bundy Tapes and the Fyre Festival documentary quickly followed to ensure that Netflix continued to dominate online discussions.\n\nNetflix appears to be on a mission to bring back the cultural conversation. However, this time around our daily narrative will be determined by data. For example over the holiday season, Bird Box became the movie that everyone was talking about. But, if we take a look under the hood, are we being played, rather than the film itself?\n\nEverybody knows a Netflix user that is overwhelmed by choice and unable to choose what to watch after 30 minutes of scrolling. The streaming platform tries to make it easier for everyone by using their viewing data to suggest other titles of interest. The result is that Netflix can now recommend something suitable to watch quicker than we can ourselves with alarming accuracy.\n\nHowever, let’s dig a little deeper. A closer look at the entire viewing data across the platform will quickly reveal the most viewed actors, directors, and genres. Could data be used to determine the next Netflix Original movie or show rather than traditional content creation methods?\n\nThere have also been rumors that the Bird Box memes that dominated our timelines were created by Netflix to generate hype and start social conversations. Finally, Netflix, heavily promoted Bird Box on the banner at the top of the screen to deliver a fear of missing out of the latest pop culture conversation.\n\nThose looking for a conspiracy will quickly find information to support their argument. For example, 9,000 separate accounts tweeted a Bird Box meme with the same typo: “Dr.Lapham” with no space. Film reviewers also pointed out that the movie itself felt like it was forcibly screwed together, a movie marionetted by strings of data code.\n\nArmed with an SEO-friendly name, many believe that Netflix created a narrative using the release as meme bait to manipulate its audience. What’s the big deal? Nobody get’s hurt and 45 million viewers tuned into the movie within its first week of release.\n\nAs we finally begin to emerge from our echo chambers and surrounding ourselves with only things that we like, are we preventing ourselves from exploring ideas outside of our comfort zone? If data suggests that Sandra Bullock in a survival horror movie would be a huge hit regardless of if it’s actually any good, are we sacrificing the traditional creative process?\n\nIn a digital age of instant gratification, organically growing your traffic is being seen as too time-consuming and risky. But, does it really matter if a movie is being made more palatable by an astroturfing marketing campaign where memes are posted by bots to fuel the cultural narrative?\n\nHowever, this is just one example. The Genius YouTube channel has also used similar tactics with bright yellow thumbnails to capture attention. Essentially the channel stands accused of being a meme factory using cynical tactics to grab easy hits to appease their advertisers.\n\nThe battle to steal the cultural conversation and daily narrative that dominates our social media newsfeeds and timelines is undoubtedly underway. As users and members of the global online community, maybe we should learn to question content and the daily narrative that has been designed to manipulate our thinking before we hit the share button.\n\nAs we seamlessly consume content across multiple devices, we are increasingly consuming whatever the algorithm or Twitter trend tell us to watch. But the biggest casualty is serendipity. The happy accidents that lead to discovering new things that you shouldn’t like but end up loving are something that even the most complex algorithms would struggle to comprehend. Am I alone in finding something quite beautiful in that?\n\nRead next: BitcoinSV ‘feature’ exploited to store child abuse imagery on the blockchain" ]

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[ "We’ve spent hundreds of hours researching and comparing American Box Mods of all specifications to find the best one for any need (or budget). Here are the results.", null, null, "The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century\nView Product\nRank No. #4", null, null, null, "An American Outlaw (The Whicher Series)\nView Product\nRank No. #10\n\nWhy You Should Buy Best American Box Mods from Amazon\n\nAmazon is not the only store that sell American Box Mods. However, there are several compelling reasons why you should buy American Box Mods from them, with the suitable Price and Reviews. Here are five:\n\nAmazon is very good at making recommendations of American Box Mods based on your search history. From time to time, they will even show you discounted prices on American Box Mods that you previously expressed an interest in. They also make your shopping experience a little easier by showing you items that you recently viewed.\n\nAmazon checkout is easy, especially if you already have an account. You can add American Box Mods to your cart and go through a multi-step checkout process, or you can buy American Box Mods with only one click by using your stored credit card information.\n\nBefore you make a purchase for American Box Mods, you want to know that the company you are dealing with is legitimate and that others trust the company enough to make a purchase. You may also like to read what others are saying about the product in the review section. Amazon does all of this quite well.\n\nNavigating the Amazon site is easy. Even though the site is huge, you will not feel overwhelmed when searching for American Box Mods. This is partly due to Amazon’s filtering process. You can search for items by brand, price or user rating. You can also search for specific features.\n\nAlthough price is not the only factor to consider, it is nevertheless extremely important. The price of an American Box Mods should be in line with its value. You can compare American Box Mods reviews to make sure you are getting a fair price. This is easy to do on Amazon.\n\nThe demand for a particular American Box Mods is a good indication of its ability to perform the functions for which it was designed. If a product has been around for a while and still has a high demand, it is likely a good product.\n\nLike most products, American Box Modss come in various sizes. Do you need a large American Box Modsor a small one? Think about where you will use your American Box Mods in order to determine the best size. You can also read the customer reviews on Amazon to see what others are saying about the size of the unit they purchased.\n\nAmerican Box Modss also come in a variety of colors. Do you need a particular color? You should also consider whether the color of your American Box Mods would have any effect on the efficiency of its operation.\n\nMake sure the American Box Mods you are considering is backed by a good manufacturer’s warranty. If it isn’t, you might be better off with another ones." ]

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[ "Saturday afternoon, the province announced there are nine new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Newfoundland and Labrador. Two are in the Eastern Health region and seven are within Central Health. All are under investigation. There are also four new presumptive positive cases. With nineteen new recoveries since yesterday and one previously reported case determined to be a false positive, there are 169 active cases in the province.\n\nThere are also two new possible exposure sites, listed below:\n\nHugh: The Three Most Universally-Enjoyed Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything\n\nRobert: Stay in the house from “Home Alone”", null ]

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[ "It’s time for change! Rather than sticking to the one-off format that has been the Brew Guide bread and butter, your new Guide is going to consist of new breweries, updates of past breweries, brews that you need to try, and craft beer places you need to visit. I may even throw in a couple upcoming events. Basically, it’ll be a one stop shop for every type of post I’ve done before!\n\nFebruary brought a whole lot of time spent around Rhode Island, thanks to the lady purchasing RI Food Fights #BestDonutsRI passport. Each passport had 19 coupons good for one donut at various RI establishments, and she wanted to make sure we took full advantage of them. Since relationships are a fun balancing act, she got to get donuts and I got to hit up breweries. Might have been the easiest compromise made, ever.\n\nFirst stop of the month was Tilted Barn in Exeter. The small brewery with a huge following has made some serious waves in the craft beer community in a relatively short time. It’s not uncommon to travel down the long dirt driveway and see a long line of eager fans waiting for their allotments. Luckily, we were arriving an hour before closing on a Saturday, and if I have any advice to anyone going there, this is the best time to go. There was a minimal line, if any, and all but one beer was available to purchase a pour or cans of. Going into the upstairs of the barn, there was room to breathe and enjoy our pours. Unless it’s a limited can release day, make sure you stop in later for sure. That being said, you should absolutely make them a stop in your brewery travels. All the beers I’ve had the pleasure of trying have been mighty tasty, my favorite of which is their Cactus DIPA; Probably one of my favorite IPA’s yet. You’d be hard pressed to find one that’s smoother or juicier. On a final note, please remember that the folks at Tilted Barn are basically welcoming you into their home, which is a mere footsteps from the barn. Please be respectful of their farm, and especially their dogs! Belows slideshow is compiled over both of our trips there, so you can see the difference of a line/ no line situation.\n\nRather then run straight home to Mass from Tilted, we opted to see Proclamation Ale Co.‘s new digs in Warwick. I was a big fan of their previous “pallet fortress” taproom in W. Kingston, so they had a lot to live up to (original Brewguide post, in case you missed it). Happy to say, their new place is expansive and gorgeous. Big bar, plenty of seating, a whole bunch of coin-op games, their cool color pencil “Proc” sign and even a nod to the previous taproom with pallet wall. All that along with more brewing capacity and a barrel aging room! Only issue I had was that it’s getting too popular, so only 2 beers were available on tap when we got there. I enjoyed a very good Ethereous (don’t listen to anyone online saying it tastes different, it’s delicious) and a fresh waffle with cookie butter from Burgundian (highly recommend you try them). So, as you can clearly see, Proclamation is killing it right now.\n\nFast forward one week, and here we are back in Providence. First, a stop at Knead, the donut shop that won the “RI Food Fight” by a landslide as far as I was concerned. Only other RI donut I’ve had that gives PVDonuts a run for its money.", null, "Once that scrumptious base was set, it was time to get back to the beer! It was now time to finally visit a place I’ve heard so much about, Long Live Beerworks. Arriving about 15 minutes after opening, I was surprised to see a just small line; I had heard that things could get a bit crazy on Saturdays. Turns out, the line in this case was more due to the taproom being what realtors normally refer to as “cozy”; an L-shaped bar, couple of high top’s, bar-top ledges wrapping both usable walls, as well as a small patio area are there to maximize the usage of the space available and all that space was already mostly occupied. Yup, a full house happens that quickly. We grabbed a small pour of the 3 available beers, a four pack of Attitude, 2 “souvenir” tulip glasses and found a little spot on the wall. All three beers, just wow! Nitro Kart and Attitude are both killer brews, but that All Seeing Eye is fire (as the kids would say). Great balance of a hazy juicy DIPA while maintaining a hoppiness that other juice bombs can tend to forget. Long Live immediately went from an unknown to a place I can’t wait to hit up again, especially looking forward to seeing them in a bigger place in the future!\n\nTo put a wrap on RI, after a quick lunch (more on that later), we stopped into Revival for the 2018 release of their Bourbon Barrel Juliett Imperial Stout. The taproom was packed and what was supposed to be a single pour and pick up turned into a hang. There were 4 variations of Juliett on tap, including an interestingly good New England style version, so how could I resist? In a world where barrel aging has become more and more common, standing out from that once sparse crowd can be hard. Juliett does the barrel aging well, where the booziness only accentuated the flavors of stout without being overwhelming you, making for a slightly sweet and very smooth treat. Another great beer from an always consistent Revival Brewing!", null, "Troop PVD is a newcomer to Providence that has a ton going for it. The place is fully entrenched in a 90’s hip-hop vibe; sprawling graffiti filled walls, bar stool backs made of skateboards, stacks of boomboxes, a colorful wicker furniture lounge area and, of course, shout out’s to Wu-Tang. The staff was great, very helpful and attentive, and the food was amazing. The Korean Steak sandwich was tender and savory, and the lady thoroughly enjoyed her street noodles. As the prerequisite implies, the beer selection here is full of great local craft breweries, with a slight bias towards Revival Brewing; since you know, the same guy owns both places and all. I was impressed with what came of the limited lunch menu, so I’m even more excited to see what dinner will bring next time through! Our pics below don’t do it justice, so to get a real feel of it, check out their Insta (Click Here) and stop in next time you’re in Olneyville.", null, null, null, "The newest cider in Downeast’s pilot batch series, Dark & Stormy has all the flavors of my favorite mixed drink. This dark brown cider has a strong ginger backbone & hints of lime, with the apples providing the sweetness while the aging in the rum barrel provides a nice, smooth booziness. The lady brought home a 32 oz. growler, and it wasn’t long for this world once it got cracked. Luckily, she also took a picture too (unfortunately with a dumb Insta sticker) while she was there, since it was gone too quickly once it got home.", null, "Brew Guide is celebrating one of the best drinking holidays one week early! Join us at Harpoon’s St. Patrick’s Day festival for live music all day, tasty brews and good vibes.\n\nHave a big event coming up? Let me know so I can feature it here! Contact me @ [email protected]." ]

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[ "The crowd is cheering with raucous applause and congratulations as you ceremoniously accept your proffered, hard-earned degree from university faculty. Your friends and family are there in the audience, cheering you on and celebrating your success and future. Years of studying, cramming, late nights… friends lost, new acquaintances made… doors opened, and paths forgotten. All for this moment. From this moment on, your life is forever changed as you begin your path to the future.\n\nFor recent college graduates that majored in computer science or software engineering, this is where you’ve probably hoping for those big paychecks that average salary by profession told you to expect. However, as I mentioned in a previous post, it is not just as simple as walking into a well-paying job for younger developers. You still must stand out, work hard, and never give up.\n\nFor the sake of this post’s conciseness, I will assume that the younger developers for this topic to be recent graduates who are having difficulty finding jobs. Some of what I say here will echo my previous post, but with a more fine-tuned perspective.", null, "Firstly, for new graduates, congratulations! All that studying and hard-work has led you to this moment. If you are like some other younger developers, you may have been unable to get an internship or job experience while you went to school. Whether it was because you had to focus on classes, couldn’t sacrifice an income-earning position for an unpaid internship, or had difficulty standing out amongst fellow developers, you are not alone in your situation.\n\nThankfully, since college is now a thing of the past, time is not as scarce. Time absolutely needs to be spent learning skills that are in demand. As I discussed previously, not all subjects that a new developer will need to know are taught in the classroom.\n\nOn the topic of unpaid internships, I have always subscribed to the following belief: Do what’s required to advance within a career, but do not pursue it recklessly. Basically, do not take a position that will not pay unless willing to sacrifice the time spent. Yes, the experience you could get in an unpaid environment could still be valuable, but never risk financial security or viability for it. As much as some might find hourly wage work such was food service or retail demeaning or beneath them, it teaches invaluable lessons such as humility, hard-work, and a perspective unlike other job industries.\n\nMany developers are introverted and, thus, might find it hard to make themselves stand out amongst the crowd of other developers. This is a two-part issue and, unfortunately, cannot be remedied quickly. The first part to standing out and being visible through networking and job applications. The second part is making sure that, when the opportunity arises to be seen or considered for a job, the right skills and experience are listed.\n\nNetworking, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the exchange of information among individuals or groups, specifically to produce relationships for employment or business. Thankfully, this is the right stage in a young developer’s life to be thinking about networking. Prospective developers need to look up all those students that they were in classes together, try to get letters of recommendation from helpful and reputable professors, and get connected with their university’s career services.", null, "At this point in the career of a hypothetical young developer looking for a job, it can be very disheartening. Sometimes those on the job market, young or old, will run into situations where they have experience and skills but not hear back from recruiters or job applications. Nothing is worse than being turned down or ignored for a job that seemed like a perfect fit. Unfortunately, and many in the working world understand this well, the best candidate is not always the selected candidate.\n\nAnother problem that young developers can find themselves in is a lack of references or networking acumen. They see others able to get jobs, but unfortunately they are not able to. This is common for graduates who focused on doing their best academically and spent less time on post-graduation and career plans. For these former students, they must be able to pave their own future without the benefits of a strong career network within their industry. Through a combination of hard work, putting themselves on the market visibly, and practicing in-demand skills, new developers can start a career.\n\nMarket visibility, when it comes to being on the job market, is heavily dependent upon candidate’s social networking. For some developers who are typically introverted, this can be difficult. Thankfully, there’s a few things that can be done as a new developer to curb this:", null, "Nothing hurts more than having a large network of connections but being unable to capitalize on it. Thankfully, the way that many recruiting, headhunting, and human resource staffing agencies work are entirely based off technical SEO keywords for developers. This means that the more an online profile, cover letter, or resume speaks to specific technologies, the easier it can be for a developer to find a job placement. Furthermore, the location of where these skills is of vital importance. Recruiting services often must sift through hundreds of resumes when determining a selection—developers ought to make it easier (and, thus, make themselves look better) for them by placing their skills near the top. For example, a typical Java Developer should do something like this:\n\nWhen it comes to interviews, developers possibly have the largest range of possibilities in which to expect. Many of the types of interviews a young developer could expect are heavily dependent upon the corporate industry they applied to, the interviewers’ technical acumen, and the company itself. The good news is that all these factors still can be addressed using the STAR method in an interview. This interviewing method deserves a post in of itself, but, to summarize:\n\nTo summarize, networking is an extremely important part to starting a developer career. Without it, young and inexperienced developers can struggle for years without being able to find a job. Mastering how to properly network can be the difference between barely getting by financially in today’s economy and being economically stable. It can be hard for upcoming developers to realize the importance of networking due to stringent academics, but it can not be forgotten. Lastly, networking is a subtle constant for a developer’s life. Neglecting networking may have an unnoticeable effect; however, nurturing one's network of connections can lead to a prosperous future.\n\nIntroduction ‘); These three characters have caused much pain, both emotional and economical, to technical and business professionals alike. If…\n\nCyber Security: The Future of Technology\n\nIntroduction You may have heard the recent craze of cyber security as a growing field. In this modern, online…" ]

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[ null, "Humans (Japanese: 人間 human), also known as beorc in Tellius, and occasionally known collectively as mankind, men or humanity, are the most common sentient race in the Fire Emblem series, mirroring humans in real life. Despite possessing weaker physical abilities compared to most races in the series, humans are very prosperous due to their high birth-rate, ability to craft tools and weapons and use of language.\n\nPort Warren, a human-occupied town located in the Kingdom of Archanea.\n\nHumans are notably very social creatures, and although there are individual exceptions, the vast majority of humans typically come together to establish communities and live together in social groups; these groups can range in size from small villages or tribes to enormous nation-states. Humans often derive a sense of identity and purpose from the communities they are part of, and frequently express determination to protect and even die for their community. Indeed, this sense of nationalistic pride is often the source of conflict between nations.\n\nHumans often maintain a strict hierarchy within their society, through which they seek to maintain order and security. Typically in the Fire Emblem series, human nations are hereditary monarchies where a single royal family rules over the population with the support of a system of nobility, where other humans are given prestigeous ranks and maintain the state's affairs in detail on behalf of the king or queen; such nations are called kingdoms, or occasionally empires. Needless to say, this system is not foolproof, as the royal family often has absolute power over their lands and a sinister or corrupt king or queen could potentially exploit and abuse their people for their own gain. As a result, there are societies which are deliberately built to avoid the problems of monarchy, such as republics like Carcino where the common people both rule and keep their rulers accountable; the Sacae region in Elibe, whose people form small, nomadic tribes headed by an ordinary person in the role of chieftain; or simple, closely-knit villages which are isolated from the affairs of the rest of the kingdom's territory, such as Caer Pelyn.\n\nThe majority of human societies in Fire Emblem are loosely based on medieval European society, and so in terms of social structure, attire and aesthetics strongly reflect these European influences. However, there are several exceptions: notably, the Sacaen tribes draw their influence from Mongolian culture, and both Chon'sin and Hoshido instead reflect a strong Japanese influence.", null, null, "The humans of the Fire Emblem series, for the most part, look identical to their real-world counterparts. A key difference is that in Fire Emblem, humans are very frequently seen with a wide range of hair colors which are naturally impossible in real humans, including purple, blue, green, and countless other colors. Similarly, a wide variety of unusual eye colors are also present. Both hair and eye colors are frequently used to convey a character's status in some form; for instance, blue hair is frequently seen on the games' main protagonists, and red eyes often denote something unusual, often related to Manaketes. Of course, this is not always the case; a large number of non-protagonist characters also have blue hair, and Raven has red eyes but is an entirely ordinary human.\n\nOne area in which Fire Emblem humans do not diverge significantly from real life is skin color, as few to no Fire Emblem humans have skin colors which do not match a real skin color. However, pale-skinned people are the overwhelming majority, and the number of dark-skinned characters remains extremely low.\n\nCompared to other sentient races, humans have an extremely high rate of birth, which is a key factor in their wide distribution and dominance; indeed, Jahn believed that the sheer number of humans and the speed at which they were born and grew up was a key factor in their ability to successfully fight dragons in the Scouring.[1] As in real life, after coupling with a man, human women give live birth to one (or rarely, two) baby(ies) after nine months of pregnancy. The parents raise and protect their children for at least fifteen to eighteen years, after which they are regarded as adults and take on responsibilities of their own. The average human life span in Fire Emblem is similar to that of real humans; although a human will on average live to the age of sixty to eighty years old, conflicts and diseases often ensure much earlier deaths than this. Very few humans live beyond one hundred years, and for those who do, such as Athos and Jeralt, it is often the result of magical power.[2]\n\nAlthough it is highly uncommon, humans are able to reproduce with Manaketes, taguel, wolfskin, and kitsune. In the case of Manaketes, the resulting child looks mostly human, perhaps sporting the trademark pointed ears of Manaketes, but their powers are more in line with those of Manaketes. A half-human, half-Manakete will live for centuries, though still not as long as full-blooded Manaketes do,[3] but whether or not they will have the ability to assume dragon form seems to vary; the half-Manaketes Ninian, Nils and Nah have the abilitiy, but fellow half-Manakete Sophia does not. On the other hand, only two children resulting from the union of humans and taguel are known: Yarne and Morgan. Both retain the full ability to transform into beast form, but both inherited different amounts of a taguel's physical traits (Yarne inherited all of them, while Morgan inherited none). Other effects on their biology and lifespan are unknown. Wolfskin and kitsune hybrids function like taguel hybrids; they retain full transformation ability, but not always the physical traits (ears, tail) in human form. Three children resulting from kitsune-relationship hybrids are known: Selkie, Shigure, and Kana. Velouria is the result of a wolfskin-human relationship, while Shigure and Kana can also come from this form. However, Shigure and Kana lack wolfskin or kitsune features.", null, "Seliph, a human who fights by using a sword as his weapon.\n\nWhile other, more powerful species rely on their own natural abilities to fight, humans are relatively weak in and of themselves and have no claws or breath to succeed in battle with. Instead, humans rely on their creativity and resourcefulness to master weapons, using them in place of natural defenses in order to fight. In Fire Emblem, physical human weapons remain in a medieval state and are primarily limited to four types: swords, axes, lances, and bows. Though there are some variants that serve the same general purpose, for instance, the kingdom of Hoshido use naginata, which function like lances, katana, special types of swords, and kanabō, club like weapons parallel to the axe.\n\nAnother factor in the combat success of humans is their tendency to fight in large, organized groups under the guidance of a single commander. This comes in many forms, ranging from the vast, rigidly controlled structure of armies, to smaller, relatively lax bands of mercenaries. Through co-operation in great numbers, humans are able to successfully challenge even the mightiest of creatures, although they spend most of their time engaging each other in wars. Humans are also notable for their ability to tame and domesticate animals to meet their needs, most notably using horses, wyverns, griffons and pegasi as pack animals and steeds in battle.\n\nUnlike real humans, Fire Emblem humans can learn to wield magic, for both offensive and defensive purposes. All humans have the ability to learn a bit of magic, but only a small few have enough natural talent in the art to follow through on it and become full-fledged Mages, with no amount of practice being able to bridge the gap for the untalented.[4]\n\nRelationships with other races", null, "The Scouring, an infamous result of human attitudes toward other races.\n\nHuman relations with other sentient species have, on average, been extremely rocky, often of the humans' own volition. Although the bulk of human conflicts are spent fighting other humans, it is far from uncommon for other races to be the subject of organized violence from humans.\n\nIn particular, humans have a turbulent history with dragons, or their Manakete forms, and have frequently been the instigators of bitter conflicts against them. The two most prominent examples of this occurred in Archanea and Elibe: in the former, Manaketes were the subject of cruel persecution from power-drunk humans following the decay of the ancient dragonkin civilization and the rise of humanity in its place, which in turn led to the rise of Medeus and his Dolhr Empire's quest for vengeance against humans;[5] and in the latter, a once peaceful co-existence was broken by humans when they engaged dragons in a genocidal war known as the Scouring, which ultimately resulted in the banishment of almost all dragons from Elibe. In some cases, the feeling is mutual; many Archanean dragons were contemptuous of humans and their sheer inferiority, as exemplified by the majority of Dragon tribes, such as the earth dragons, refusing to become anything like humans out of their pride as Dragons despite the mental danger it posed, and who later posed a grave unprovoked threat to humans when they degenerated into a feral state. [6]\n\nAt the same time, however, these same civilizations (and others) also tend to express a reverence for dragons in the context of mythology. Dragons figure heavily in the myths and legends of various cultures, often telling stories of benevolent dragons who aided humanity in the past, such as one story told in Ilia about an ice dragon,[7] or the reverence which the people of Caer Pelyn hold for Manaketes. Individual dragons are often hailed as gods with powers and technologies beyond the grasp of humans, especially in Archanea and Jugdral, although in these and most other cases, the majority of human worshippers regard them as general humanoid gods without realizing their true dragon nature. Additionally, in at least Archanea and Jugdral, evidence suggests that human magic actually outright originated with the dragonkin and was given and taught to humanity through various avenues over the millennia.[8]\n\nIn Ylisse-era Archanea, taguel are claimed to hold an even worse history with humans. During Chrom's era, the taguel have been hunted for sport by humans to the point of extinction.\n\nVarious dark entities, such as Duma and Fomortiis, also threaten humanity, primarily through the hordes of monsters that serve them. In their many forms, some of which even deriving from human corpses, even the weakest monsters are more powerful than an ordinary human and are unambiguously hostile toward them, posing a significant threat to human populations." ]

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[ null, null, null, null, "This work, playfully dedicated to three of my heroes, references the iconic fruit which is associated with them- Sir Issac Newton, who according to legend was inspired by one, Alan Turing, who allegedly poisoned himself with one, and Steve Jobs, who named his world-beating company after one.\n\nI have worked with the video medium for many years and have sought ways to bring what is clearly (and most emphatically) an indoor medium- outside, and this installation is simply another attempt to make something of this kind.\n\nThe work has a very simple “core” idea (many apologies for this pun), which centres on the illusion that we are looking at an image of the same apple as it moves from one screen to the other, which of course, as everyone will understand, it does not. Aside from this, and that I like the idea of putting domestic TV sets into a tree, I just want to tip my hat to Messers Newton, Turing and Jobs." ]

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[ null, "I really want to look at the role of women in Elvis films. In the existing literature, they are often written off as being a piece of arm candy, but I think that approach fails to account for how strong many of his leading ladies were. This is particularly true of the earlier films. With this in mind, in this project I would like to asses the role of women in early Elvis movies and also the response which the character of Elvis has towards their strong show of feminism." ]

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[ null, "Budweiser Canada has launched a spot for the Super Bowl that puts a 2020 spin on one of the brand's most iconic commercials.\n\n'Whassup Again', created by Mosaic and directed by Revolver Films' John Grammatico, sees a bunch of voice-activated technology pieces reenact the famous lines of the beer brand's 1999 spot 'Whassup?'. The original features two friends chatting on the phone - a landline, no less - before being interrupted by multiple friends asking \"wassssssuuuuuuuuuppppppp\". The catchphrase became a bit of a cultural phenomenon and was spoofed in the 2000 film Scary Movie.\n\nThis modernised version isn't just a re-make for the sake of. There's an important message which is laid out via a partnership with Uber. A voiceover at the end says, \"it's a smart world - don't be stupid about how you get around\".\n\nThe brand also released a couple of cheeky teasers prior to full spot dropping. Check one out below.", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Multiple Jobholders: Over Two Decades Of Trends As Of March\n\nWhat are the long-term trends for multiple jobholders in the US? The Bureau of Labor Statistics has two decades of historical data to enlighten us on that topic, courtesy of Table A-16 in the monthly Current Population Survey of households.", null, "At present, multiple jobholders account for just 5.0 percent of civilian employment. The survey captures data for four subcategories of the multi-job workforce, the current relative sizes of which are illustrated in a pie chart. The distinction between “primary” and “secondary” jobs is a subjective one determined by the survey participants.\n\nNote: Not included in the statistics are the approximately 0.23% of the employed who work part-time on what they consider their primary job and full time on their secondary job(s).\n\nLet’s review the complete series to help us get a sense of the long-term trends. Here is a look at all the multiple jobholders as a percent of the civilian employed. The dots are the non-seasonally adjusted monthly data points, which are quite volatile, and a 12-month moving average to highlight the trend. The moving average peaked in the summer of 1997 and then began trending downward. It is now at 4.9%, and the latest monthly data point is 5.0%.", null, "The next chart focuses on all four subcategories referenced in the pie chart. The trend outlier is the series illustrated with the red line: Multiple Part-Time Jobholders. Its trough was in 2002 and has been trending higher in early 2007, long before Obamacare. At about the same time we also see a steepening decline in the trend for the employed whose hours vary between full- and part-time for either their primary or secondary job.", null, "Here is a closer look at the two cohorts that have changed the most since the mid-2000s. We’ve rescaled the vertical axis to give us a clearer view of the trends.", null, "The Great Recession noticeably increased the percentage of multiple part-time jobholders. This metric leveled out in 2010 and 2011, but it has subsequently resumed a slow upward trend. It seems likely that the downward trend for the cohort whose hours vary for their primary or secondary job (the green line) has to some extent contributed to the rise of exclusively part-timers (the red line)." ]

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[ "2 edition of Migration and urbanisation in Thailand, 1980 found in the catalog.\n\nPublished 1988 by Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University in Nakornpathom, Thailand .\nWritten in English\n\nCOVID Resources. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID) is available from the World Health Organization (current situation, international travel).Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this ’s WebJunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. This study uses a panel database of rural households in Thailand collected from – to investigate the effects of rural–urban migration on economic development. One finding is that social protection policies for the rural poor in Thailand may be less effective for urban by:\n\nUtilizing both census and population register data for the period –, this analysis assesses changing levels and rates of urbanization in Thailand, compares regional variations in urbanization patterns, and relates such differences to selected indicators of economic and demographic development. Although the overall level of urbanization remains low, the rate of urbanization is high Cited by: SAGE Video Bringing teaching, learning and research to life. SAGE Books The ultimate social sciences digital library. SAGE Reference The complete guide for your research journey. SAGE Navigator The essential social sciences literature review tool. SAGE Business Cases Real world cases at your fingertips. CQ Press Your definitive resource for politics, policy and people.\n\nSoutheast Asia—the region of the world that spans Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam—is going through rapid urbanization today. Urbanization in China increased in speed following the initiation of the reform and opening policy. By the end of , % of the total population lived in urban areas, a dramatic increase from % in By , the OECD, based on Functional Urban Area (FUA), estimates there are currently 15 megacities in China.", null, null, null, null, "Get this from a library. Migration, urbanization, and development in Thailand. [United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.;]. Despite strictures on urban growth and on migration to cities, statistics for China show a sharp increase in the level of urbanization in the late s, a massive increase in the number of cities Author: Canfei He.\n\nInonly per cent ofpopulation of the BMR was classified as poor, compared with per cent nationwide, or per cent in the village North-east. Urbanization means the share of urban population in the total population of a country.\n\nIt has the ninth largest population in East Asia. As India has embarked upon economic reforms during the s, published data from the Census provides an opportunity to study the country's urbanization process with reference to regional inequality and to the contribution of the components of urban growth, namely, natural increase, emergence of new towns, and the net contribution of rural to urban by: Urbanisation and Migration in Africa.\n\nJoseph Teye. Centre for Migration Studies. University of Ghana. Expert Group Meeting, United Nations Headquarters in New York. The speed of urbanization also varies substantially across countries. Figure 2 illustrates the diversity in the pace of urbanization for some populous countries located in the regions considered here.\n\nStarting at almost identical levels intrajectories of urbanization have been very. Internal Migration in Thailand. et al. \"Sources of Data on Migration and Urbanization in Thailand: Reflections on Data Collection Techniques, Definitions and Results.\" Migration, The scene is repeated often in Thailand's seven camps for Laotians: since overLaotian refugees have left Thailand for other countries, U.N.\n\nfigures show. Aboutare currently. Urbanization, Migration and Poverty in a Vietnamese Metropolis presents the results of a major interdisciplinary research project that gathered data on more than one thousand households in Hồ Chí Minh City over a three-year period, and on migration flows at the urban destination and in four sending communities in different regions of by: 6.\n\nIn rapidly urbanising countries that are opening up to Western market influences, urbanisation studies of the role of rural–urban migration on health-related behaviours are urgently needed.\n\nHere we report on a large national cohort of 87, adults in the Thai Cohort Study (TCS), first surveyed into examine the role of urbanisation in Cited by: In this chapter, we focus on issues relating to urbanisation and migration in order to understand if urbanisation has contributed to reduction in poverty.\n\nIn Chap. 4, we noted that much of the economic growth is originating from the urban areas and within the urban areas, the large cities due to agglomeration effects tend to offer greater Author: Arup Mitra. Published on a regular basis sincethe Thailand Migration Report is the latest in a series produced by the UN Thailand Working Group on Migration.\n\nThis chapter describes the major characteristics, trends, and differentials, as well as the determinants of internal migration, urbanization, and population distribution, in sub-Saharan Africa by using available data and estimates for at least the last two decades (– and –) and projections for – and into the twenty.\n\nRegional and Urbanisation Policy in Thailand: The Tertiary Sector as a Leading Sector in Regional Development Show all authors. Utis Kaothien. O'Rourke, D. () A stock flows approach to a theory of human migration with examples from past Irish migration, Demography, 9, pp.\n\nCited by: 4. Sociologists and people involved in studying migration will find the book invaluable. Show less New Directions in Urban-Rural Migration: The Population Turnaround in Rural America covers a wide-ranging treatment of urban-rural migration and population growth in contemporary America.\n\nUsing data from the, and censuses of Thailand, this paper explores the changing pattern of internal migration. Throughout the period, the census indicates a high degree of stability. Lifetime migration shows a slight rise in each period; recently it has risen in inter- as opposed to intra-regional : Sidney Goldstein, Alice Goldstein.Thailand's Ministry of Social Development and Human Security's Master Plan for the Development of Ethnic Groups in Thailand omitted the larger, ethnoregional ethnic communities, including the Central Thai majority; it therefore covers only % of the population.\n\nThere is a significant number of Thai-Chinese in Thailand.Migration is an important element in urbanization and modernization, although the specific interrelations among development, urbanization, and population mobility have not been fully delineated (Findley, Chapter 1, this volume; Lee ; Ravenstein ; Shaw ; Zelinsky ).Migration can relieve population pressures on overcrowded rural areas, populate thinly settled regions, achieve." ]

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[ null, "“SchoolGirl Strikers” has been a great success in Japan, which is why the game receives new updates almost constantly. This light novel-RPG follows a story of school girls facing off big challenges and having fun with their friends. You can communicate with them, create a team of five and make […]", null, "SchoolGirl Strikers Gameplay – Out Now on the Japanese App Store\n\nA few days ago, we wrote about the new “Voice and Sound” teaser trailer where Square Enix gave a sneak peek of their new game. Now the name and cast have been revealed! “School Girl Strikers” is about school girls who have gained mysterious powers. And why not put […]" ]

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[ null, "No Deaths due to Recent Food Poisoning Incident in Rural Idlib\n\nSocial media users and news pages claimed one child died and 55 other people were rushed to hospitals due to food poisoning in rural Idlib.\n\nFacebook page @chok.gozaal posted Tuesday, May 12, a photo of a child captioned, “A child died in the Deir al-Hassan camp and 55 others got food poisoning in the Reayat al-Toufoula (Childhood Care) camp after getting meals provided by the Al-Sham Al-Shareef organization.”\n\nAnother page named “Syrian Documentation Center” said Monday a child had died due to food poisoning in the Deir al-Hassan camp and 10 others are in critical situations.\n\nDozens of IDPs at the Reayat al-Toufoula camp got food poisoning after having Iftar meals provided by a relief organization operating in rural Idlib. Iftar is the evening meal with which Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset.\n\nAccording to Verify-Sy’s reporter in the area, the medical team of the Syrian Civil Defense, aka The White Helmets, had rushed the poisoned people to three hospitals in Atmeh, al-Dana, and Sarmada of rural Idlib, where medical care was provided and the patients were discharged after recovery.\n\nThe director of The White Helmets, Mustafa Haj Youssef, confirmed this information in a statement to Verify-Sy. He pointed out that they had documented 70 non-critical cases of poisoning, all of whom were admitted to hospitals and medical points in Atmeh, Bab al-Hawa, and al-Dana.\n\nThe White Helmets said yesterday 70 civilians, including 31 children and 21 women, were poisoned at the Reayat al-Toufoula camp, the Deir Hassan camps, rural idlib. The incident occurred due to providing Iftar meals that caused the food poisoning on Monday May 11, 2020, The White Helmets reported." ]

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[ "It was a gorgeous and sunny late winter evening to get an early viewing of the 2019 novelties by Hamilton. The event was called At the Heart of Cinema which celebrated Hamilton’s numerous appearances in film. Set in the Toronto International Film Festival Bell Lightbox building, the ambiance was perfect.", null, "As we entered, we were not only greeted by an amazing and knowledgeable staff, but a masterfully crafted venue. As you can see, everyone was in for a treat. We’ll first start off with the star of the show and then make our way through the line-up to an often-overlooked area for brands, but one which can ultimately measure the quality of a watch brand as a whole.", null, "The star of the evening was the Murph which starred in the fantastic Christopher Nolan hit Interstellar. The watch gets its name from being gifted to the character Murph Cooper by her father. Since this movie is definitely worth watching, there’ll not be any spoilers to this truly wonderful movie here. However, the subtle lacquered seconds hand which has Eureka written in Morse code on it, is tied to the plot. The mesmerizing box was designed by the film’s product designer Nathan Crowley. Mr. Crowley could not be there in person but did make an appearance in video. This box was designed after a tesseract, which has a pivotal role in the film. This watch wears incredibly well and is a lot more beautiful in person. The polished bezel plays with the light very well to lighten the watch on one’s wrist. This was one of the things that was overheard most about this piece – how well it wore.", null, null, "In 1957, the Hamilton Ventura took the world by electrical storm by being the first electric watch. Designed by Richard Arbib, this asymmetrical case was further popularized by Elvis Presley in 1961 in the film Blue Hawaii. Pictured here first is the 999-piece limited edition Skeleton Ventura. This watch is inspired by the recent Spiderman films as worn by the character Tony Stark.", null, "Also pictured here are the other new-for-2019 Ventura models: The Ventura Auto with its circular dial within the triangular case, the ChronoQuartz, and the Ventura Open Heart. Leading the industry toward watches being powered by an electric source, this Ventura proudly wears its mechanical heart on display. This 25-jewel movement pulses at a classic beat rate of 3.5 Hz. It also has the endurance to see a weekend’s sabbatical with a power reserve of 80 hours. The Ventura Auto with the circular dial, however, was an unexpected hit with the crowd, mainly people working in the media, and devoted watch collectors.", null, null, null, "This year we were graced with the presence of the new Blue Power Reserve line in the Jazzmaster series. Elegantly versatile for any situation from day at the office or to a formal event, there is also the Thinline available for those who wear extra-tight cuffs or who desire a more traditionally elegant approach to their outfits. The Thinline Auto watches are a serious alternative to the Nomos Orion as well. Coming in at half the price, consumers can more readily find and try these watches on as well. Having a more modern movement and lumed hands also give this Hamilton watch a step up on the Orion.", null, "With its blockbuster panda-dialed release last year, Hamilton did not rest on their laurels. For 2019 the Intra-Matic features a soft blue dial accompanied by creamy beige chronograph subdials and accents. Many enthusiasts immediately pre-ordered last year’s Intra-Matic. They actually did so at an alarming rate. Those who did still wear them, which is saying a lot. Most collectors flip such watches as soon as something new catches their attention. This is not the case with the Intra-Matic. The soft blue with shades of French gray dramatically changes character depending on the lighting.", null, "Mechanical watches personify the romantic relationship between humans and machines. This is especially the case with a manual-wind watch. Those who like to feel a direct connection with their timepiece and who have a higher appreciation for history naturally gravitate towards the Khaki Field Mechanical by Hamilton. Despite having classic sensibilities and robust construction harkening back to its origins in military service, this watch is thoroughly modern. These Hamiltons can now be had with a very modern movement boasting an 80-hour power reserve. This watch can also be had in three different dial colours – white, earth and black.", null, null, "You can catch a glimpse of the new Khaki Navy Scuba in blue in this picture as well. Rated to a water resistance of 100 meters, this dive watch offers more than enough depth rating for recreational divers, who do not go deeper than 100m/333 feet into the realm of technical divers. You have a choice of three straps as well: a blue rubber strap, a blue NATO-style strap, or a bracelet.", null, "Though not one the new novelties, the Hamilton Below Zero was present that evening. I wore my beloved Hamilton and was pleased to see its presence on some banners. It was featured in one of the greatest modern science fiction movies, The Martian. The film was based on the fantastic book written by Andy Weir. For the movie, director Ridley Scott and prop master Noel Cowell were rumored to have personally picked this watch. Looking past the new offerings, they chose the Below Zero based on its aesthetics. It’s hard to argue with their choice. Even though I will never take it diving, the Art Deco styling and all-black design make this a unique and powerful watch.", null, "The Jazzmaster Open Heart is an example of Hamilton’s dedication to women’s watches. Welcoming all viewers with its skeletonized white mother-of-pearl dial, this is a unique timepiece. Not settling on a quartz movement, nor having a design simply reduced from a men’s model, this is how a women’s model should be approached. It is powered by the calibre H-10 which has wonderful 80-hour power reserve, and a unique design. Hands featuring Super-LumiNova are also a feature that other brands neglect on a lady’s watch. This gorgeous timepiece is obviously not all about function. There are 4 wonderfully placed diamonds applied at the 12-3-6-9 hour markers. This timepiece comes complete with grace, practicality, and a flare for rising above any occasion.", null, null, "Though the focus was on Hamilton’s presence on-screen, most of the collectors walked away with a strong sense of direction for the brand. Being a brand under the Swatch Group is not an easy task. Not only are the brand’s offerings strategically placed within the larger portfolio in regard to price, but also of identity. When most brands are leaning on the historical past, Hamilton seems to be looking forward. While not abandoning their heady history in military service, these pieces all have a very modern feel to them. Beyond their designs, the emphasis on functionality is greatly appreciated. Features such as extended power reserves and details such as luminous hands on lady’s watches will go a long way for the brand. The Hamilton going forward is much more than what was previously perceived by collectors. It is no longer a brand which focuses on product placement. It is no longer a brand which relies on its history for inspiration. It is a brand which successfully marries tradition and modern techniques at an approachable price point.\n\nThough it is true that Hamilton leads the way in thoughtful product placement in cinema, they are also a brand with a formidable line-up of classic, modern, and highly functional timepieces.", null, "About the Author Furry Wrist Abroad 24 posts\nFurry Wrist Abroad is a Master Scuba Diver residing in Canada who loves all watches that perform well as tools within their intended environments. With an uncompromised approach towards ascertaining the value and worth of a watch, whether this be a dress watch, racing chronograph, or a dive watch, all companies are held to account for their design choices and no allowances are given when the act of time-telling is undermined for market-driven or design reasons.\n[email protected]", null, "As comfortable as your favorite pair of jeans", null, null, null, null, null, "Worn & Wound and Zodiac bring back the 90s" ]

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[ null, "Greg Kincaid is the author of the book: “A dog named Christmas”, that went onto become a TV movie. He has a wonderful way with words and the quote below really speaks to the tone of the past year – not only for myself, but for so many of us here that are engaged in community activism, politics and trying to find a better way. A better analogy would be hard to find.\n\nThe next couple of days are going to be a whirlwind as I start preparations for the holidays.There’s a turkey to be deboned and marinated for the BBQ (that’s how we’re rolling here this year) along with a dozen other things that need to be done. So this morning is the last you’ll see of me with the exception of a few tweets or FB posts by phone.\n\nSome of the stories this year in BC politics have been overwhelmingly sad and appalling. When people take their lives, when kids in care see no other option but to end it all, we’re doing something very wrong. And when those in charge refuse to be accountable,in some cases misleading the RCMP in order to do so, something has to change. The stories keep coming, and we keep plowing through to keep the roads clear – if we stop, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. And I strongly suspect we only know half of what’s really going on.\n\n2015 was the year I had my own Kai Nagata moment, leaving both The Duel column I’d written for years,and then ultimately leaving 24Hours altogether in protest of Postmedia’s downward spiral. It was the year that pitted mainsteam media against independent and alternative media, and in some cases, mentors against students. I’ve always, from day 1, used my writing as a blogger,or a columnist to not only tell stories, but make changes happen. 2015 was the year that was used against me-a surprising moment that continues to define my choices moving ahead.\n\nYet while there is so much wrong to write about and try to change, there are many wonderful things to celebrate as well.After years of having an MP I couldn’t even find,who failed to appear when it mattered, I have an MP who not only answers calls, but actively engages with all in the community. (Shocking, I know!)\n\nAfter years of Nimby-ism and a lack of political will to make it happen, the City of Surrey finally found a location for a winter shelter for the many people on the street. And while it doesn’t solve the bigger issue, it does provide reprieve for those who need it. There were several Christmas celebrations held for those living on the streets in Central City this year,and much care involved in all.\n\nOne local community leader, Jen, brought cards and stamps for those on the street who wanted to send a note to someone they loved, even offering to help find an address if they didn’t have one. Absolutely heartwarming.\n\nDavid Dalley and the Newton BIA held the first and very successful Halloween community party in Newton, which also has it’s own art gallery now, Agent C. The Grove still faces some challenges but is a space actively used by the community for things like Encylopedia House and free food planters. We sang carols there recently,as one of the big storms rolled in!\n\nI’ve been witness to so many new people getting engaged in their communities all across the province-a move that signals a trend I hope will continue. I’ve met with many people who are actively trying to keep those people engaged and help others to understand why their participation in the process at some level, is vitally important for our democracy.\n\nThrough social media, we’re not only finding each other,but connecting all across the province and country! Despite all the trolls and partisan sniping, those connections are building bridges like never before among progressive people.The medium isn’t bad,it’s how many people use it.\n\nWe can build a better way. We will change how things are done. We will define the future of our province ourselves,we will not let wayward politicians define it for us. And we will not let those sparks of engagement go out once lit. The defining story of 2015 is not the politicians…it is the people who are making change with no spotlight all around us.And you are part of that story, and how it ends.\n\nSo as I am tugged by the arm to go string cranberries and popcorn for the critters outside, I leave you with these last thoughts. To my friends facing challenges right now, I wish you strength,courage and be easy on yourself – you are each in my heart and you know who you are.\n\nAnd to all, however you celebrate, let go of expectations and demands,let go of the drama and simply enjoy. Find your voice. Live in the moment.Love as much as you can.Thank you for being a part of this,even when we don’t agree.\n\nAnd remember… “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead.That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.”\n\n8 thoughts on ““No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead.That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.”~Greg Kincaid,”" ]

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[ "The Netflix series is a spinoff sequel to the ABC sitcom \"Full House.\"", null, "The 36-year-old actress, who plays Stephanie Tanner on the Netflix series, said in an Instagram post Monday that she \"can't wait\" to start filming the sitcom's fourth season.\n\n\"Well... it's official... season 4 of @fullerhouse has been announced!\" Sweetin captioned a photo of herself with co-stars Candace Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber, who portray D.J. Tanner and Kimmy Gibbler.\n\n\"Can't wait to get back to work with these lovely ladies @candacecbure @andreabarber and the rest of the FH family ASAP!! #fullerhouse #shewolfpack,\" she added.\n\nWell... it’s official... season 4 of @fullerhouse has been announced!! Can’t wait to get back to work with these lovely ladies @candacecbure @andreabarber and the rest of the FH family ASAP!! #fullerhouse #shewolfpack\n\nNetflix confirmed on the Fuller House official Twitter the same day that the show will return for a fourth season this year.\n\nFuller House is a spinoff sequel to the ABC series Full House, which had an eight-season run from 1987 to 1995. The new show focuses on an adult D.J. Tanner and her three sons, played by Michael Campion, Elias Harger, and Dashiell and Fox Messitt.", null, null ]

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[ null, "President Donald Trump gave Kanye West a shout-out on Twitter, thanking him for being “willing to tell the TRUTH.”\n\nWest, who has recently been quite vocal about his support of the president despite the liberal backlash, defended his pro-Trump views to Jimmy Kimmel and declared he would not be bullied over them.\n\n“Liberals can’t bully me, news can’t bully me, the hip-hop community, they can’t bully me,” the rapper said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” claiming he is not a politician but stepping out in support of the president “represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said.”\n\nKanye responds to Kimmel grilling: I had to ‘overcome fear’ for Trump support…‘Liberals can’t bully me’ https://t.co/KzhlzrGVvD pic.twitter.com/btnFU3WzuU\n\nTrump thanked the 41-year-old star in a tweet following the interview.\n\n“Thank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH,” the president tweeted. “Thank you Kanye for your support. It is making a big difference!”\n\nThank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH. One new and great FACT – African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in the history of our Country. So honored by this. Thank you Kanye for your support. It is making a big difference!\n\n“One new and great FACT – African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in the history of our Country,” he wrote.\n\nThe Chicago rapper explained to Kimmel his support for Trump in the 2016 election and his decision to openly show that support, even when wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat sent his fans and the left into a tailspin.\n\n“Just as a musician, African-American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things, you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me,” he told Kimmel. “And then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn’t say it out loud or my career would be over; I’d get kicked out of the black community because blacks — we’re supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only, like, we can only be Democrats and all.”" ]

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[ null, "Triathletes probably all know this already but it seems clear now that swimming can provide significant benefits for other aerobic sports such as cycling. Strong evidence for this comes from the return to form of Team Sky cyclist Richie Porte after a 2014 troubled by illness with a dominating performance in the 2015 Paris-Nice stage race.\n\nThe secret sauce in Richie’s success? A winter spent blending training miles on the bike with an average of 20km swimming per week in his local pool in Launceston, Tasmania.\n\nI would ride my bike in the morning, then come back home and walk the kilometre to the pool in the ‘arvo’. It was a fantastic routine. It really put me in good health…\n\nHow did swimming help? Initially swimming helped rehabilitate lungs scarred from a pneumonia suffered in 2014. Swimming then also provided a great cross training activity for the off-season which ultimately he credits with boosting his breathing capacity. He has demonstrated this increased breathing capacity with a crushing win in the final Paris-Nice time trial on the Col d’Eze.\n\nA few years ago the prospect of swimming in the cycling off-season would have been scoffed at by cycling coaches and team managers. But now with sports scientists and human performance experts gaining influence in the professional cycling world, a lot of the old traditional cycling views on cross training, core strength and conditioning are now being washed away.\n\nThere is a lot of that folklore. You don’t swim, you don’t walk upstairs and this and that. I come to an Italian background [in cycling] where they told me not to swim, not to do core stability and things like that. But the sport has changed so much and if you have the right people like Tim Kerrison telling you to swim, I take their word for it.\n\nSo if you are a triathlete, take heart! If you are a cyclist, pay attention! Cross training offers huge benefits whatever your sport, and core strength and conditioning really can’t be ignored any longer. Fortunately we have the perfect programme for you to add these elements to your training with the BikeFit programme and the TriFit programme!\n\nTry both BikeFit and TriFit for free" ]

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[ null, "The third album by Chicago-born Matthew Francis Andersen is a collection of songs themed around a fictional town called Pine River. From the off, it feels like this is a place that’s very familiar and has been visited countless times before. “Have you got another bottle?” he asks on the opener, ‘Absolutely’, a tired, bluesy, country-boogie shuffle that sounds like it was found lying on the floor of a touristy bar somewhere in Nashville or Austin – the album was recorded in the latter city.\n\nWhen Andersen sings “We’re calling you a taxi,” you can’t help but think that would be a great idea – let’s all pile in and get the hell out of Pine River and find somewhere more interesting to hang out.\n\nThings do get, slightly, more appealing, although, ironically, the title track – a pretty, nostalgic ballad, with some lovely steel guitar on it, is about someone who did get the hell out of Pine River, but is now returning to the town, where they once left someone behind: “If it wasn’t for your mother, I might’ve stuck around this old neighbourhood…”\n\nThere’s some impressive and slick musicianship on ‘Pine River’. Andersen’s guests include drummer and percussionist Kevin Lance (Carolyn Wonderland, Fastball) and the wonderfully named guitarist/producer Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams, Warren Zevon) – the haunting slide on ‘It Just Does’ lifts what is a run-of-the-mill country song – but, as concept albums go, it feels like a very loose and unfocused one.\n\nWilly Vlautin (Richmond Fontaine, The Delines) is the master at documenting the sad, dark and troubled lives of people in small-town America – unfortunately, Andersen doesn’t come anywhere close to that. Some of his songwriting is clichéd, obvious and one-dimensional – he never really gets inside the characters that live in Pine River, so the listener can’t relate to them.\n\nOn the lyrically clunky ‘When The Snow Flies’, we learn that Pine River is: “not a mighty piece of water, just bigger than a crick, but it’s far away from home, where the memories are thick.’’ Er, thanks for that one.\n\n‘Newborn Surprise’ tackles the emotional subject of a young soldier in a war zone, who is worrying about whether he’ll live long enough to see the birth of his child, but the song is just too cloying to take seriously.\n\nThe latter part of the album is a slog to listen to, weighed down with dreary, acoustic barroom ballads. By the end, you too will be asking, “Have you got another bottle?” – if you haven’t already jumped in that taxi…\n\nA loose concept album set in a fictional, small American town, where not much goes on - rather like most of the songs" ]

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[ null, "Listed for $7.5 million last month, twice the price at which the three-bedroom Russian Hill condo had been purchased at the end of 2013 prior to being completely remodeled by Black Mountain Construction with April Sheldon Design, and a sale at which would have topped $3,000 per square foot, the sale of 1070 Green Street #1501 has closed escrow with a contract price of $6.875 million ($2,799 per foot).", null, null, null, "At the same time, the Russian Hill unit #1601 within The Royal Towers at 1750 Taylor Street, which was also remodeled by Black Mountain Construction but with a different architect, remains on the market, but not officially listed, for $10.5 million.", null, "Iconic Dogpatch Bar On The Market For $580K" ]

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[ null, "DONʼT PLAY WITH HIM – HEʼS A JEW My father, Moshe Frumin, is a “Bricha” (escape) boy. Escape during and after that War (World War II). Without a home, without a father, without a childhood. by Moshe Frumin (sculptor) and Inbal Gildin (designer). A father and his daughter This text has been translated from Hebrew to English by Gal Talit.\n\ny father recalls events and memories from his childhood and with them creates new beginnings every day, with a strong sense of choosing life, believing that you must keep on going, or in his case, running... We chose to share with you: 1) three memories of anti-Semitism after World War II 2) a story of rebirth and 3) a project of hope\n\nMEMORY #1: DONʼT PLAY WITH HIM – HEʼS A JEW Wałbrzych (Waldenburg), Poland. End of World War II. When we returned to our apartment after the war, strangers were living there. Someone arranged for us to live in the apartment of a Nazi who had been deported from Poland. It was a fancy apartment. In the same building lived a family with a young child. His parents wouldnʼt let him play with me and certainly not talk to me. One day, when we were both alone in the building, he called me and took me by the hand to his room. There were nothing but electric trains", null ]

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[ null, "FIGC has announced that Series A will end with a playoff scenario if the coronavirus stops the season again.\n\nIn an official statement, the FIGC vowed to restructure the configuration of Italy’s top three leagues for the remaining fixtures if a further suspension is imposed according to Football Italia.\n\nThe format is described as ‘a short playoff and playout stage,’ involving teams playing for top spots and those struggling to escape relegation to A, B and C.\n\nThe Federal Council took place this afternoon with all the leading Italian football players, including FIGC President Gabriele Gravina, Lega Serie A Leader Paolo Dal Pino and those in charge of Series B and C.\n\nThey even discussed the possibility of another complete shutdown.\n\nIn the event that the campaign is completely cancelled, the federation states ‘tables will be defined by applying objective correction coefficients.’\n\nThe coefficients used would ‘account for the structure of the tables and/or the different number of matches played by the teams, which will in any case be used for promotions and relegations,’ although the winners of Serie A have not been listed.\n\nMayor of Milan: San Siro Stadium Will Prove to Be a Divisive Issue" ]

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[ "Woman who couldn’t have children insists she loves her DOG like a daughter, quit her job to be a ‘stay at home mother’ and says her ‘child’ should be accepted in all public places like families are\n\nA woman who is unable to have children has said her trusted dog is like a substitute daughter to her, and believes she should be given the same privileges as a child.\n\nKate Taylor, 42, from Calne, Wiltshire, adopted her cross-breed Poppy, now 13, when she was only ten weeks old while struggling to conceive with her husband, Rob, and says she dotes on her pet the way she would a child.\n\nShe working from home, and cannot bear to be away from her pooch more than three hours at a time. She is pushing for dogs to be accepted in all public spaces the way children are.\n\nSpeaking to FEMAIL , Kate explained that ‘perceptive’ Poppy saw her through moments in her life where she could not see ‘the light at the end of the tunnel,’ and helped her carry on.\n\n‘Why should being a mum mean you have to give birth?,’ she said. ‘I’ve come to realise that being biologically related to someone is the least of what makes you a mother. Motherhood is so much more than that. It’s about loving someone unconditionally, nurturing and caring for them. Putting their needs before your own.\n\n‘The void childlessness has in my life has been very much filled by my dog Poppy, who I treat and love like any mum would their daughter.’", null, "Kate Taylor, 42, from Calne, Wiltshire, adopted her cross-breed Poppy, 13, when she was only ten weeks old while struggling to conceive with her husband, Rob, and says she dotes on the pup the way she would a child", null, "Mother and daughter: Kate was left feeling like she did not belong in society because she could not conceive after three failed rounds of IVF, but she then realised Poppy was the only child she needed\n\n‘The love and devotion that I feel towards her could not be stronger, and I know many people feel that same bond towards their canine companion.’\n\nKate – who runs the pet directory dotty4paws.co.uk -recalled how she and her husband Rob went through three rounds of unsuccessful IVF, putting strain on their wellbeing.\n\nAdmitting that not being able to be a mother gave her a sense that she did not belong in society, she quickly found that the unconditional love she gave Poppy filled the void.\n\nAnd Kate admitted that leaving Poppy is unbearable, because the pup suffers from separation anxiety.\n\n‘I hate leaving her. If I do, I make it as brief as possible,’ she says.\n\nThe blogger, who sometimes refers to the dog as her ‘furbaby’, says she can never be out for the whole day, and cannot leave the house for more than three hours.", null, "Kate says that leaving Poppy is unbearable, because the pup suffers from separation anxiety (pictured on a snowy day away)\n\nBut she argued: ‘You wouldn’t think of leaving a child alone while you’re out.’\n\nShe also explained that she cannot understand that ‘misbehaving’ children are allowed to sit in pubs while dogs are kept out.\n\n‘We’ll go out to the pub and on the side you have a dog quietly sitting under the table, you wouldn’t know she’s there, and across, you’d have two kids creating mayhem,’ she said.", null, null, "Kate explains she does not believe being a mother ends at blood ties, and says she loves Poppy as much as she would her child (pictured together during a day trip)\n\n‘Why is it they are allowed to be there, to be accepted anywhere,’ she asked.\n\nShe went on to argue that children can be as ‘difficult’ as dogs, and a child is as likely to misbehave as a dog is to ‘bark and bark.’\n\nShe added that whether it comes to dogs or children, ‘you know your offspring well enough to know how they’ll behave.’\n\nKate would even love to be able to pay a fee so Poppy could be by her side on a night out.", null, "Kate says that children can be as ‘difficult’ as dogs, and a child was as likely to misbehave as a dog was to ‘bark and bark’ (pictured in the snow with Poppy)", null, "While Rob loves Poppy, he doesn’t share the strong bond Katie shares with her, and so both ‘daughter’ and ‘mother’ will take ‘girls trips’ for a day, sitting at dog-friendly cafes and pubs (pictured together by the beach on a day away)\n\nBut she would never think of taking a plane with Poppy, because her beloved pet would have to stay with the luggage. For this reason, the Taylors and their dog keep their vacations local, and do not leave the UK.\n\nWhile Rob loves Poppy, he doesn’t share the strong bond Katie shares with her, and so both ‘mother and daughter’ take ‘girls’ trips’ for a day, sitting at dog-friendly cafes and pubs.\n\n‘Being a parent is not all about being blood related, some natural parents can be shoddy parents who do not care about their children’s welfare,’ she argued, describing herself as a doting mother to Poppy.", null, "A close-up pictures of 13-year-old pup Poppy, whom Kate adopted when she was only ten-weeks old", null, "Kate quit her job as a teacher and ‘tailored’ her life to Poppy, working on her blogging from home in order to spend as much as possible with her pup (pictured together by the beach)\n\n‘You adapt your life to what you’re able to have and to do,’ she said, adding she felt she needed to find someone or something to give the love she could not give a child.\n\nBut Kate is already worried about outliving Poppy, admitting: ‘I can’t even contemplate the thought of it’.\n\nThe couple have recently adopted a eleven-week old cross-breed puppy called Gertie – short for Gertrude – that they hope to model after their beloved pup in order to cope with the loss of Poppy.\n\nBut the arrival of a new pup in the family was a shock to Poppy, who is used to getting her way after being the couple’s sole dog for 13 years.", null, null, "Kate also says that Poppy filled the gap she felt in her life after her failed IVF rounds, but admits that Poppy being 13, she cannot bear the thought of outliving her (pictured: Gertrude)" ]

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[ "Don Andrés was a respected member of his neighborhood and community. Folks knew him as a quiet man who would help out when someone needed to and didn't cause any problems. He was affiliated with several political parties and was working on the campaign of politician Pedro Rodríguez Villegas. Their lives were flipped upside down when a gruesome discovery was made in his home.\n\n34-year-old Reyna Gonazález went to Andrés' home on May 14th and never returned. Her husband, Bruno, went to the home to go find her when he was met with a locked door and an argumentative Andrés. When Bruno was able to bust down the door, he found the butchered remains of his wife on the kitchen table.", null, "Upon investigation, more horrors were uncovered. The police found women's shoes, nail polish, jewelry, cellphones, clothing, and multiple objects that were obviously not his. They also found a notebook with 28 names written down. They found the IDs of Rubicela Gallegos and Flor Nínve, who had been missing since 2019 and 2016.\n\nThey found even more gory details, such as skulls, skin, a woman's facial muscles, hair, and dismembered feet. In addition to the finds were 28 VHS tapes.", null, "The investigation is still ongoing and more gruesome details have been uncovered every step of the way. Officials are convinced that he has killed at least 20 women but probably more. He detailed every single murder, including how much each body part weighed, their address of where they lived, their age, etc.\n\nIt's most likely going to take a long time for the full details to come out. This man has at least 3 decades of murders." ]

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[ null, "Matthew McConaughey honest ‘fessed as much as having a crush on Reese Witherspoon all the device through their joint interview on Friday’s “The Ellen DeGeneres Picture.”\n\n“I did have a dinky bit bit of a crush on the young lady sitting next to me from ‘Man In The Moon’,” he published after DeGeneres asked the pair who their first star crushes had been.\n\nWitherspoon, 45, used to be timid by her buddy and “Express 2” co-vast title’s answer.\n\n“One of my early, early crushes,” the 52-one year-primitive added. “When you’ve seen the movie you seek… inevitable. I point out, what’s now not to have a crush on?”\n\n“You’re so candy,” Witherspoon acknowledged sooner than joking they might perhaps per chance restful bewitch a movie about it.\n\nAs for her crush? Jim Morrison from The Doors.\n\nMcConaughey, who says he first met Witherspoon in 2006 the night she received Most efficient Actress at the Oscars, used to be also in attendance at her marriage ceremony to Jim Toth in 2011.\n\nWitherspoon remembers the vast day as the day McConaughey “stole” her heart by dancing with every lady “over the age of 65” at the reception.\n\n“We broke a sweat on the dance ground,” McConaughey added, to which his pal answered, “Y’all did. You did.”\n\nBoth actors are married with kids. Witherspoon is at display married to Toth, a Hollywood agent, and they fragment son Tennessee James, 9. She also has two kids from her previous marriage to actor Ryan Philippe — Ava Elizabeth, 22, and son Deacon Reese, 18." ]

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[ null, "A hidden chemistry lab was unearthed by a worker doing renovations to the iconic Rotunda at the University of Virginia, and school officials say the room is directly linked to the third U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, who helped design the building.\n\nThe \"chemical hearth,\" which dates back to the 1820s, is thought to be one of the few remaining in the world. It featured two sources of heat for conducting experiments, and a system for pulling out fumes.\n\nAccording to the University of Virginia press release, the room, described as \"a semi-circular niche in the north end of the Lower East Oval Room,\" was preserved because the walls of the hearth were sealed shut in the mid-1800s:\n\n\"The University of Virginia's Rotunda still has its secrets, as conservators are discovering amid the building's ongoing two-year renovation.\n\n\"One of them is a chemical hearth, part of an early science classroom. It had been sealed in one of the lower-floor walls of the Rotunda since the 1850s, and thus was protected from the 1895 fire that destroyed much of the building's interior.\n\n\"Two small fireboxes of the hearth were uncovered in a 1970s renovation, but the hearth itself remained hidden until the current round of renovations. When preparing for the current renovations, workers examined some of the cavities in the walls and found the rest of the chemistry hearth.\"", null, "The discovery was made by Matt Schiedt, who is a project manager for the company overseeing the renovations to the rotunda, according to the Charlottesville Newsplex. Schiedt told the publication he wanted to know how thick the walls were. He added:\n\n\"I was laying on my back looking up inside this little space. I saw that there was a piece of cut stone which is very unusual to have in this location. You could see that there was a square cut in the stone and that there was a finished space around that with plaster and painted walls.\"", null, "Schiedt tells NewsPlex most chemical hearths from the era have been destroyed, making the new discovery \"unique,\" he says.\n\nIn a letter from April 1823, Jefferson requested the class be located on the ground floor so water would not have to be pumped to upper floors, according to the release:\n\n\"For the Professor of Chemistry, such experiments as require the use of furnaces, cannot be exhibited in his ordinary lecturing room,\"\"Jefferson wrote. \"We therefore prepare the rooms under the oval rooms of the ground floor of the Rotunda for furnaces, stoves &c. These rooms are of 1,000 square feet area each.\"" ]

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[ null, "Microsoft has just announced it will end the ability for Zune devices and Zune PC software to play subscription music. The company will convert Zune Music Pass subscriptions to Groove Music Pass unless the user cancels.\n\nAccording to the Knowledge Base article, Zune devices will still be able to play MP3 tracks you own:\n\nAs of November 15, 2015, Zune services will be retired. You will no longer be able to stream or download content to your device from the Zune music service. However, Zune devices will still function as music players and any MP3 content that you own on the Zune device will remain there. You’ll also be able to transfer music to and from your Zune player.\n\nThe KB article doesn't appear to state whether the Zune software on Windows will continue to play MP3 music the user owns. However, the Zune software has always allowed media management without being signed into a Microsoft account, so there's no reason to believe this will change.\n\nThe article goes into detail about what will happen under various subscription scenarios, including monthly, 3 month and annual passes. Basically, paying subscribers will automatically be converted to Groove Music Pass. If a user chooses to not continue as a Groove subscriber, Microsoft promises to send an email soon with detail on how to cancel and obtain partial refunds for any pre-paid time periods. Microsoft also stated that the 10 song per-month plan will go away.\n\nMicrosoft's music strategy has shifted a number of times in recent years. The company rebranded Zune as Xbox Music in 2012, then recently rebranded again to Groove Music. During these changes, the service has shifted from a PC-centric model to one that serves mobile and other devices, including Windows Phone, iOS and Android. Most recently, Groove has spread to Xbox and Sonos. At the same time, Microsoft is supporting music stored on OneDrive, living locally and streaming from the cloud, through Groove.\n\nIn late 2006, Microsoft launched its first Zune. Browsing back through Neowin's Zune tag is a stroll down memory lane, cataloging its difficult journey. It's unclear how many users are still using their Zunes to play music. But judging from the passionate commenters across various websites who still use Zune and consider it under-appreciated and misunderstood by those who have never used it, many will lament Microsoft's decision." ]

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[ null, "The poetry of Jericho Brown is like a magnet. It always pulls you in. His third collection is firmly upholding the tradition.\n\nI love Copper Canyon’s books; soft & gentle pages carress’d by a lip-gloss cover lending a certain bubble-bath quality to the reading of one of their poets. But ultimately it is what is on the page that counts. First things first, Jericho Brown is a poet, a real, poet, he has the elixir in his veins. He also possesses a curious voice, like a multi-sharded cylinder standing steadfast in a storm. That storm is America, its culture & its questionable past.\n\nHis first two volumes were received with high praise & deep respect across the English-speaking world, the second of which, New Testament (2014) won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. The Tradition is eagerly awaited, then, & does not disappoint. In places it even exceeds expectations; the lyrical jaundice of Flower, the killer jibes of truth within Bullet Points & numerous moments of the highest pathos & beauty, as in the closing couplet of The Microscopes;", null, "The chief pillars of Jericho’s creative temple are his colour, his family & his sexuality. His mother, grandmother, brother & kids all have cameos & something important to contribute to both the poet’s life & our understanding of the world. These very personal takes are full of raw remembrance temper’d by a supreme sense of post-Millennium reality.", null, "……………………………They remind\nMe of black people who see the movie\nAbout slaves and exit saying how they would\nHave fought to whip Legree with his own whip\nAnd walked away from the plantation,\nTheir eyes raised to the sun, without going blind.\n\nOn a number of occasions I was very much reminded of a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, Negro Hero; the pitch & balance of the wordplay are almost identical – is he her spiritual inheritor, perhaps? Jericho’s art presents the Apollonian & the Dionysical extremes of poetic composition; from technical stanza formation full of controll’d & order’d musings, to solid blocks of Wolfean streams of consciousness. The latter sort are often triggered by the smallest things, such as the two copulating rabbits on his lawn, providing the catalyst for an introspective journey into the failings of his own love life. Then, with his title poem, Jericho proves he can turn not just a good sonnet, but an absolutely bangin’ one.", null, "Also a sonnet of sorts are his five Duplex poems, seven couplets where the second line is the same as the first line in the following couplet. From innovation comes mastery, and Jericho is growing into his role as both a teacher in his tactile environment, & a clear-cadenced, beautiful poet-teacher for the planet. Indeed, his academic background – studying at Harvard, teaching at Emery – seems to be a fertile field for inspiring such embedded nuances as his use of Homeric simile in the opening to As a Human Being;", null, "Jericho Brown is a philosopher-poet, stood on a crag overlooking the humanity of America, striking the rocks, drawing lightning into his penstaff & tossing electrical ejecta onto his page. The Tradition delights on first reading & invites further study. Each poem contains a different beam of inspiration wassailing from Jericho’s kaleidoscopic soul, altho’ the colors aren’t garish, its too moody a piece for that. This is an extremely intelligent collection, filled with both unpretentious flair & flashes of Faustian confidence. Roll on Brown’s 4th book.", null ]

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[ "A tosheroon, “as any fule know, chiz chiz” is the gold piece that sometimes turns up in the sewer. Likewise, in the flood of verbal crap which constitutes the majority of my marking, there are, very occasionally, little gold coins. I offer you the following.\n\nWhat originates as the character’s physical journey to her childhood home turns into a mental journey into her physique.\n\nI had to ponder that for a bit, but I think he meant “psyche”.\n\nI have also been entertaining myself with making my students play the lottery. That is, I give them a grading rubric, and ask them to use it to predict their grades. This is generally hilarious, mainly because of the ones who give themselves 99% when I end up giving them 49%.\n\nThis rubric is in the form of a sheet they are supposed to attach to their essays, but some morons cannot manage this. Such a one is the guy who emailed me, saying “I forgot the sheet, but I typed it out and here is my prediction of my grade.” He gave himself 99%, including 10 out of 10 for “grammer”.\n\nI could not resist emailing him back to ask if he really meant to give himself 10 out of 10 for “grammer”. He replied “i think i did good on this essay, i tried real hard.”\n\nOkay, so this semester I am teaching Children’s Literature, a class for which the reading is, to put it extremely mildly, “light”. FFS, one of the goddam books on the motherfucking reading list is Flotsam, which doesn’t even have any words.\n\nNaturally, this poses some challenge to slackers because the reading can actually often be done in the 10 minutes per week they appear to allocate for it. This week, however, we were doing the kickass awesome novel by Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, which, if you have a child and have not read it, you must immediately go and get, and even if you don’t have a kid, you should still read it. I wasn’t sure about this book, but my spawn and her teacher raved about it, so I read it, and they were not wrong.", null, "(Slight aside here to say that I have childhood trauma from the Velveteen Rabbit, and so any book that has even a teeny tiny Velveteen Rabbit vibe is a book I will not normally go near for any money, and the words “toy rabbit gets lost” really did make me hugely hesitant. However, this book is the book the Velveteen Rabbit should have been, so much so, that it may have eased my pain.)\n\nAnyway, to return to my despicable slackers, none of these assholes had bothered to read the book, like even cracked it open, even though it would have taken the slowest of them no more than 3-4 hours to read. “Fine,” I said. “We were going to discuss it today, but I shall just make it the topic of the essay portion of the exam.” Take that, slack-jawed yokels.\n\nI am not going to give them easy questions, either. The questions will contain words of many syllables, require examples from the text, or may simply be cryptic. For one of them, I am thinking of going with “Why a warthog?” Feel free to add suggestions of utter meanness in the comments.\n\nSo, that half of the class was a wash. The other thing I had planned was a peer review of their drafts of their final projects – which was writing a children’s story. I had said, several times, that they needed a draft of their words, so we could talk about age-appropriate vocab and similar. “Don’t worry about pictures, but you must have your text”. Yes, yes.\n\nSo how many of them had a draft? Oh, you know, half a dozen. The rest of them were desperately scribbling any old bullshit while I looked at the drafts by the people who had thrown 15 minutes at the task. But hey, guess what? It was worth actual MARKS. Quite aside from the fact that getting help with the draft might help with the finished product … OMG who am I kidding?\n\nI gave a bunch of them zero, which felt quite awesome.\n\nMostly this blog is about my experiences, but I am making a departure and today to tell you this fantastic story of a plagiarizer one of my colleagues experienced, partly because it is awesome, but also because I had all my crazy at the beginning of the semester and not much is going on.\n\nSo, the Poetess, who teaches creative writing, previously mentioned for meanness involving the Starbucks recruiting ad, comes fuming up from a creative writing class, and naturally, I enquire as to the nature and origin of her fuming state, hoping for lulz.\n\n“It’s this student. I am pretty sure he plagiarized his creative writing piece, but I am not sure if I can catch him,” she said.\n\nThe circumstances are these: in creative writing, students submit pieces of writing to be workshopped by the class. The Poetess circulates copies and then the writer reads his or her work, and then she and the class discuss it. Or so I gather. Anyway, there is definitely reading aloud involved.\n\nHer suspicions were aroused when the student was having trouble reading “his” story. He was stumbling over words, and then when someone asked him which character was saying a particular line, he didn’t appear to know. The Poetess followed up with a question about the character’s motivation, which left the student similarly stumped.\n\nSo, she was pretty sure he didn’t write the story, but she wasn’t sure how to get proof. “Well, if all else fails, not knowing who is saying what in his ‘own’ story is pretty damning,” I said, “but have you tried google?”\n\n“No one is that stupid,” she said, indicating what I admit is a distressing degree of naivete.\n\n“It will take 60 seconds to try. Just pick a sentence with some unusual words in it.”\n\nThere it was, the whole story, with only one thing changed – the title. The Poetess was both impressed and horrified. “Who does that?” At least one person, it would appear. Later that day, she googled the previous assignment the student had handed in, and found that it, too, was just copied and pasted from the internets.\n\nNow, there’s a rule that says two incidents of plagiarism is enough to get a student a suspension trial with the Cheater Board, but there’s a grey area about whether or not the incidents can be reported together. In other words, a cheater has to be convicted once, or at least meet with a prof about the problem before a second incident is counted as a separate offense.\n\nOn the other hand, who the FUCK cheats in creative writing – a subject where you can really write whatever you want? It’s not like fiction needs sources or facts like an essay, nor is creative writing a required course, unlike composition, where the hapless are inclined to try their luck with essays from the internet. This is usually a class filled with overblown egos of emo cutters who fancy themselves geniuses, not slackers with low self-esteem.\n\nShe sent off the report, requesting that the incidents of cheating be counted as 2 instances, given their egregious nature. I agreed that it was worth a shot, anyway. I also wanted to know if she was going to meet with the student (so that I could pruriently be within earshot), but she said she was only emailing him. “I think he is in a gang, so I would rather not see him in person,” she admitted.\n\nOh, great. Our other office-mate has a paranoid schizophrenic with violent tendencies in his class this semester, so that pinboard with the “read this if I turn up dead” notes is getting pretty crowded.\n\nA few days passed before the student bothered to get in touch; he made an appointment with the Chair, no doubt to complain about unfairness, and then didn’t show. The Poetess was invited to attend the rescheduled meeting, and I was hanging out to hear the outcome.\n\n“What did he SAY?” I asked, because, as you can imagine, the possible explanations for his behaviour had a pretty good chance of being outlandish.\n\nWell, it turns out that mostly what he had to say was a string of excuses about how he had not been to class because he was sick, and intimidated by all the good writers in the class. None of which, as the Chair pointed out, explained the copypasta of the stories. No admission, no explanation, just a refusal to even address the issue. Very dull. The least cheaters can do is provide entertainment in the form of hilarious weaselling.\n\nThe sentence for his crimes is delicious, though. Instead of outright expulsion or suspension, the student is sentenced to several hours of plagiarism re-education camp, which must be completed before he can enroll in any more classes. The Poetess confessed herself reasonably satisfied with the outcome, although, “I would have been happier if he had been kicked out.”\n\n“This is so much better, though,” I said. “Can you imagine how MAD this is going to make him?”\n\nI thought I would have a bash at micro blogging for the little things that happen that don't warrant full-blown rantage." ]

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[ "Don’t Give Up On Us: The Very Best Of David Soul\n\nDon’t Give Up On Us: The Very Best Of David Soul", null, "Well known for his role as Kenneth ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson in television programme Starsky & Hutch, David Soul also carved out a very successful singing career, utilizing another of his many talents. He is knownthroughout the world for being an actor, director, producer, singer/songwriter, concert performer and social activist.\n\nSoul has several number one international hits, Don’t Give Up On Us (1976) and Silver Lady (1977) and has placed three others in the top 12 in the U.K. With his band, Soul has toured extensively in the US, the UK, the Far East and South America and has performed sold-out concerts at the Greek Theatre in L.A., Radio City Music Hall in New York, The Sports Palace in Monte Carlo, The Festival Hall in London as well as a Royal Command Performance to honour the Queen’s Jubilee 1977." ]

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[ null, "Realme has announced that it will be launching its next phone in the affordable C-series later this week. It is the C35 that is in the pipeline, and it looks very similar to the Realme 9 Pro series that is coming to India on February 16. The camera bump on the back of the Realme C35, as seen in teasers the company is sharing on Facebook, has the same camera cutouts as the Realme 9 Pro and 9 Pro Plus. But that is where the similarities probably end.\n\nSlated for launch on February 10, the Realme C35 will have very modest specifications. Realme has confirmed that its next C-series phone will use a Unisoc T616 processor, meaning it will be good enough for light smartphone users. The handset, model number RMX3511, will come with 4GB of RAM and run on Android 11 software, obviously with Realme UI skin on top. The phone will come with a 50-megapixel camera system and a 5000mAh battery inside. Posters also reveal a side-mounted fingerprint sensor on the phone.\n\nWhile the official teasers reveal only so much, previous listings of the phone have shared additional specifications.\n\nFor instance, the listing on the TUV Rheinland certification website revealed the Realme C35 will use 18W fast charging on the battery. The selfie camera on the phone may come with an 8-megapixel sensor, and use 128GB of internal storage.\n\nRealme has confirmed that the C35 will come in two colours; a shade of black and a shade of light green. The design of the phone shows diverging ray patterns from the camera module. The display of the phone will have a teardrop notch and a chin thicker than the rest of the bezels. The phone’s rounded corners make it look premium, while the flat back panel gives it a nice touch.\n\nThe Realme C35 is launching in Thailand on February 10, so if you are expecting it in India, you may have to wait for some time. That is only if Realme decides to launch the phone in India in the near future. For now, Realme is getting ready for the launch of 9 Pro series in India. The Realme 9 Pro series includes the 9 Pro and the 9 Pro Plus, both confirmed as 5G phones. Realme 9 Pro+ will come with a Dimensity 920 processor, a Sony IMX766 sensor, and a colour-shifting design. The details of the Realme 9 Pro, on the other hand, are not officially out yet." ]

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[ null, null, "I never heard of the Baroque composer Agostino Steffani until last year, when the Boston Early Music Festival presented the North American premiere of Steffani's Niobe, an opera about the mythical queen who bragged so much about her many children, the gods killed them all in revenge. One of the leading roles, Niobe's husband King Amphion, was played by the early-music superstar countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, who sang the opera's most sublime aria — a hymn to the harmony of the spheres. I couldn't wait to hear Jaroussky again, and was eager to hear more Steffani. Now, I have my wish. The celebrated coloratura mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli has been studying Steffani, and he's the focus of her latest CD, Mission. The album includes many arias and duets — Steffani was especially admired for composing duets — that have never previously been recorded. And in several cuts, Bartoli is joined by the phenomenal Philippe Jaroussky.\n\nBartoli has an astonishing capacity for both vocal fireworks (rare for a mezzo-soprano) and warm, delicate lyricism, and they alternate in a startling way on this recording. She gets to sing the same aria from Niobe that blew me away when Jaroussky sang it in Boston. She's playing a king who is something of a philosopher, and would rather contemplate the music of the spheres than rule his country.\n\nNiobe, like many of Steffani's operas, has political overtones, and on one level it's a cautionary tale about the obligations of a leader. One reason for Steffani's neglect may be the active life he led outside of music. As a boy soprano, his talent brought him in contact with powerful political and church leaders. He was an Italian who spent most of his professional life in Germany, where he even met and encouraged the younger George Frideric Handel. As a bishop and diplomat, his high position meant that he had to use someone else's name on some of his music. But now, with the powerful advocacy of Bartoli and Jaroussky, I'm sure we'll hear a lot more Steffani." ]

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[ "I had another post planned for this week, but then, someone posted the video from Miss Congeniality about April 25th being the perfect date, and well, I changed my mind.\n\nToday actually was a jacket kind of day, if you wear jackets. I personally do not like them, so I wore a sweater, and I probably would have taken it off at my extremely overheated office if the tank I was wearing underneath did not suffer from Giant Armhole Syndrome. (My official photographer was having the same problem today.)\n\nHowever, if you do need a springtime jacket, please do not succumb to the following siren songs:\n\nThis is both boxy and has stupid holes.\n\nThis looks like you borrowed a jacket from your dad and not in a good way, or like your gramma bought this for her Alaskan cruise and was really proud of being “hip.” Pairing it with matching jeans with holes makes it about 10x worse. Denim jackets can be difficult to pull off if, like me, you have broad shoulders and no waist….but lengthening it doesn’t fix the problem.\n\nSo close to being somewhat acceptable.", null, null, null, "I could actually accept this as a viable jacket…except for the stupid ruffle on the shoulders and pockets. We are adults here. Let’s save the ruffles for little kids, okay?\n\nSpeaking of pointless and ugly ruffles…", null, null, null, "Again, this would otherwise be a perfectly acceptable spring coat, even with the gingham. I don’t know that I like the color combination, but at least it’s not actively offensive.\n\nI knew they would have something awful.", null, "And of course, there are bloggers pushing this monstrosity. Bomber jackets kind of make you look boxy anyway. Adding a ruffle at the bust does not help. It’s almost as bad as a dropped shoulder. No, I take that back. It’s worse. You don’t want to take a menswear-inspired silhouette and slap some ruffles on it, particularly not ruffles at one of the wider points of the body. Also, I hate this color. I think it makes 95% of people look washed out as fuck.\n\nIn another menswear-inspired fail…", null, "Why aren’t we over camo yet? If you are going hunting, first, I hope you’re not just doing it for fun – I hope you or someone is eating what you’re killing, and second, then you might have an excuse to wear camo. However, I don’t understand it for hunting really either, because then you have the bright orange hats/gloves so other hunters don’t shoot you. As a fashion statement, it says “nope.”\n\nAnd the winner of the Ugly Sweepstakes…", null, null, "Holy shit. It’s the Tacky Trifecta! (1) Athleisure, which I am mostly over, because I’m pretty sure you can’t pull it off without looking like Sue Sylvester, unless you wear heels, and fuck wearing heels with comfortable pants; (2) Bad Giant Floral Prints that would maybe look okay on a couch but not on a human; and (3) Longline Menswear.\n\nI’d rather be cold.\n\n7 thoughts on “WTF Wednesday: You May Need a Light Jacket, but Not These”" ]

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[ null, "I have been evicted from my home office.\n\nNow, it’s for a very good reason – my wife and I will welcome our second baby girl into the world in November. We have three bedrooms upstairs in our house and then a lot of space downstairs in the basement. Yours truly has the honor of taking up new residence in the basement so beautiful girl #3 in our house can have a room with the rest of the family.\n\nIn this process, I was cleaning out closets, and I came across a shotgun that my father-in-law had passed down to me that came from his father-in-law. It’s a Remington 1100, a pretty little semi-auto that fires 12 gage shells. I own a couple of firearms that I use entirely for sport (I’m not a hunter) and maintain as the illusion that I am prepared to defend my home, like I’m Jason Bourne or something. Spoiler alert: I’m not. Also, I live in rural Kansas. One of the things you do for fun in rural Kansas is shoot guns.\n\nAnyway, I wanted to move the weapon to a new storage space and realized it was loaded. Normally I don’t leave my shotgun loaded – I fire whatever ammunition I have loaded at the range. I’m not a firearm expert nor am I a gun aficionado, so I had to call a friend of mine who is far more knowledgable than me to walk me through the steps of safely unloading a semi-auto shotgun. It was easy and I was careful and safe, but something occurred to me in the process:\n\nThe trigger of a gun is dangerously intuitive.\n\nIt’s because the trigger of a gun is seductive. Children learn to “play with guns” at an early age – we have water gun fights, cowboys, soldiers, and cops are popular childhood heroes. Video games are full of gun-toting heroes and villains, and even cartoons have cartoony-laser guns of various sorts. I’m not commenting here on the sociology of gun play or violence in America. My point is that, with a gun in our hands, we are practically wired to pull the trigger. Don’t believe me? Pick one up and hold it for a minute and see where your finger goes. Sadly, it takes absolutely no skill to pull a trigger. All it takes is enough muscle.\n\nIf you’ll grant me the analogy here, I think that we have become a trigger happy culture. Let’s depart from actual triggers and firearms and talk about our interactions with other people; more particularly, I’m speaking about our conduct with others online. We are confronted continually and consistently and perpetually with viewpoints and opinions that are contrary to our own through social media. It’s inescapable, unless you don’t use social media. If you don’t use social media, God bless you – I really mean that.\n\nYet with an overwhelming influx of connectivity has come an alarming increase of hostility. It would seem that this principle is operating in reverse. Shouldn’t more connectivity mean more understanding? Shouldn’t quicker connection equate to faster developing intimacy? This has not proven to be true.\n\nThe greatest travesty of all trigger pullers is the one who claims to do it “in the name of love.”\n\nRarely is a so-called love-forged bullet fired at someone else received in love. Bullets never heal – even non lethal bullets can gravely wound. Intentions don’t matter when they’ve been weaponized; they only cause collateral damage and leave pain and suffering in their wake. Damaging news (and non-news) links, misapplied and skewed facts, scathing memes, sarcastic emojis and post “likes” and reactions…when loaded into the chamber of a gun called TRUTH and fired “in love” only take life, not give it. It takes a relationship to correct and rebuke, and it takes great care when we do it.\n\nJesus teaches that we should love our neighbor. It’s easy to throw that verse out and leave the definition of neighbor hanging. Jesus doesn’t. In Luke 10 he tells one of his most famous parables about the “good Samaritan.” It’s important to recognize that Jesus gives this parable in response to the question, “and…who is my neighbor?” coming from a guy who wants to “justify himself.” You can read: “defend his position” or “prove that he is right” or “settle a debate” or “win an argument.”\n\nTo catch you up, a good guy gets beat up by bad guys on the side of a busy road. A bunch of religious people ignore this guy – they’ve got better things to do or seemingly good reasons not to intervene. A Samaritan though, gets to be the hero of the story – and this was absolutely shocking to the hearers in Jesus’ time. Samaritans were dirty, half-breed idolaters who were seen as inferior.\n\nThen Jesus pulls one of those ultimate teacher moves. He forces the guy to say it – to admit it – that the one who was the neighbor, that did right by the guy, was the guy everyone didn’t want to like in the story. Not only was he the hero, but then Jesus commands, “Go and do likewise.” Wait – what? Did Jesus just say do the same thing our “enemy” would do in this story?\n\nSecond: are you trying to help those who are beat up by the side of the road by firing bullets from the gun of TRUTH into them, hoping they will get it right and pick themselves up? Or are you extending a hand of grace to them? Are you stopping by to care for your neighbor, to nurse them back to health in relationship, and to show them a glimpse of the depth of God’s love for them? Are you looking for the image of God in every individual and sharing God’s love with them? Are you defined by your love?\n\nYou can’t weaponize love. I hope, church, we quit trying.\n\nSympathy for the Heretic\n\nI heard old St. Nick once punched you.\nBut I’d like to think\nthat he’d admit it was\nan overreaction.\n\nDid he even know you?\n\nSee\nI don’t think you wanted the world\nor power\nor money\nor sex\n[and those are the things that get bishops’ ears].\n\nI think you just wanted to\nneatly fold things like\na napkin, on your lap\nbut not only your lap, not for you\nbut for your people to eat at the Table.\n\nYou\nwith your pastor’s heart.\n\nBut then again.\nI wasn’t there.\nI really don’t know your heart." ]

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[ null, "LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s global financial isolation intensified on Friday as the London Stock Exchange suspended trading in its last Russian securities and some insurers pulled cover from issuers over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.\n\nBanks, investors and insurance companies in recent days have tightened this pressure by exiting investments in Russia and stopping the provision of their services.\n\nThe London Stock Exchange said it had suspended GDRs, which represent shares in a foreign company, for eight Russian companies, including Magnet and Sistema, after freezing trading in 28 companies on Thursday. Read more\n\nThe trade halt comes as Britain, the European Union and the United States continue to impose financial sanctions on Russia to prevent its companies from accessing Western markets.\n\nTrade credit insurers, which provide a financial safety net for exports and imports, are backing away from covering firms exporting to Ukraine and Russia, industry sources said, at risk of sanctions, high claims or missed payments, in another shift in the noose over Moscow. . Read more\n\nThe move into the nearly $3 trillion global market will put more pressure on the already reeling Russian economy.\n\nSee also GameStop plans 4 for 1 stock split. Its shares are on the rise.\n\nSix officials told Reuters that EU officials were also considering curbing Russia’s influence and access to financing at the International Monetary Fund in the wake of the invasion. L2N2V71XO\n\nFor its part, Washington will continue to adopt multilateral sanctions, [and] He targeted the wealth of Russian oligarchs as part of a pressure campaign,” Isaac Boltansky, director of policy at brokerage BTIG, wrote in a note on Friday.\n\nBritish insurer and asset manager Royal London has become the latest Western investor to say it will sell its Russian assets as soon as possible, after a rush of similar announcements in recent days.\n\n“We can’t trade these things anyway, but as quickly as possible we intend to divest,” Barry O’Dwyer, chief executive of Royal London, told Reuters. Read more\n\nThe chief executive of another major British investment group, Schroders, said on Thursday that Russian stocks and bonds were now “in a totally uninvestable world”. Read more\n\nHowever, some investors are piling into Russia-linked funds and see the current faltering levels as a potential cheap entry point for Russian assets. Read more\n\nGerman Bank (DBKGn.DE) It said it is testing its operations in Russia, where it employs about 1,500 workers in a major technology hub, as banks with a large Russian presence grapple with the fallout from their growing financial isolation.\n\nSee also Why is the stock market going down? She knows the worst is yet to come." ]

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[ null, "Magic has come to Storybrooke — and ABC’s Once Upon a Time will conjure up even more fantastical drama as a result.\n\nThis Sunday at 8/7c, last year’s highest-rated new drama returns for Season 2, picking up right where it left off, with Mary Margaret, David et all fully aware of their remarkable identities, Emma a full-on believer and both Mr. Gold and Mayor Regina Mills – aka Rumplestiltskin and the Evil Queen — champing at the bit to use the restored magic to their advantage.\n\nSeries creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis gave TVLine a peek at the show’s wild, new reality and how it will affect everyone, from Emma and the reunited Charmings to Ruby, Belle and seven little guys.\n\nTVLINE | Now that the residents of Storybrooke know their true identities, what will be the first question they have?\nEDDY KITSIS | I think their very first question is going to be, “Why are we still here?” Everyone naturally would assume that when the curse is broken, they’d go back to where they were, and that’s not the case. And then it just becomes a free-for-all. All of the questions that you have, they probably have. What happens now? Can we leave the city? Who did this? Why did they do this?\n\nTVLINE | So, everyone is fully cognizant of both their existences. Mary Margaret is now Snow White, but she can also teach grade-schoolers long division.\nADAM HOROWITZ | Exactly, which is to say that the 28 years of the curse remain as real to them as their prior lives in fairytale land. Hopefully that complicates things in an interesting way.\n\nTVLINE | If Emma’s now a believer and the curse is lifted, what is your narrative engine for Season 2? What will power you through the first batch of episodes?\nHOROWITZ | Part of it’s going to be how Nucky retains power over the boardwalk.\nKITSIS | We’re just going to borrow from other shows.\nHOROWITZ | But that’s an excellent question, and in many ways the premiere this year is a new pilot, which is to say we take this show that hopefully you enjoyed last season and spin it in a direction that is both familiar and new. The show to us was never about breaking the curse and getting memories back. It was about larger conflicts – some of which were introduced last season, and some of which we’ll introduce very soon. They will center on all of our major players from last year, and yet there are some new people coming aboard. It’s all in service of this larger story we’ve been telling, centered on Snow White, Charming, their daughter Emma and their relationship with the Queen and Rumplestiltskin.\n\nTVLINE | Is anyone in Storybrooke itching to get back to fairytale land more than others?\nHOROWITZ | The reactions kind of run the gamut. Everybody is very interested in what their new circumstance means, and they also are very concerned about what the presence of magic will mean for all of their lives.\nKITSIS | The seven dwarfs are a perfect example. Leroy realizes he doesn’t just have to be the loser anymore; he had a purpose [as Grumpy], to be a part of the queen’s guard. He is one of the characters who is excited to reclaim who he once was and act on that.\nHOROWITZ | We’ve also got some stuff with Ruby that we’re very excited to show the audience.\nKITSIS | She’s another example of a character who now realizes what she once was, and how that will affect her in the way she behaves in Storybrooke will be a lot of fun. You will see a different Ruby this year.\n\nTVLINE | As Rumple unleashed the purple smoke, we saw a hint of a smirk on Regina. With magic in play, what does that rivalry look like?\nKITSIS | Those two have a very complicated relationship, one that we are excited to get into. In fact, Episode 2 is going to be about how Regina met Rumple. What’s interesting is they have this weird thing where they keep f–king each other over, and yet they still seem to need each other. But Rumple knows that Belle is alive, and that Regina [imprisoned] her — and Regina enters the season not knowing that he has that piece of information. So whatever she was saving Belle for just went away, and now I have a feeling Rumple is gong to want revenge.\n\nTVLINE | What does Belle make of this situation", null, "she just stumbled into? She hasn’t really known Storybrooke.\nKITSIS | This will probably be a strange land to her. She’s never seen a telephone before, she’s never seen a television…. And her inner nature is still one of goodness. Rumple has this large agenda and whatever it is, it required him bringing magic to this land. He has always been a character who has had to chose between love and power, and he’s always chosen power, so now that Belle, this wild card, comes into his life, into this meticulous plan, how will it affect it? And which path will he now choose because of it?\n\nTVLINE | The storytelling has always had one foot sort of planted in “reality” – Emma bonding with the son she gave up for adoption, Mary Margaret and David’s tortured romance. What is the Season 2 equivalent?\nKITSIS | It’s going to be, “How does the real-world conflict with fairytale land? — in the sense that people have two lives in their head, and there may be things about who they once were they no longer want to be. In a weird way, the curse-breaking allows everyone to reevaluate themselves.\n\nTVLINE | What is Emma’s journey now?\nHOROWITZ | After experiencing the initial joy of finding her parents, Emma struggles as she learns how to be parented. She’s also going to have to come to grips with what it means to be the savior post-curse. She’ll have to reconcile what she thought she knew about the people in her life with who they’ve become, and then navigate a world turned on its head.\nKITSIS | We’re also excited to finally get a good look at some of Emma’s backstory before she had Henry. We may even see the origins of her beloved yellow bug.\n\nRELATED | Matt’s Inside Line: Get Scoop on Once Upon a Time‘s Pinocchio and More\n\nTVLINE | Characters such as Sebastian Stan’s Jefferson are set to return for an episode or more. Are they there just for a head count, or do they serve a larger purpose?\nHOROWITZ | We’re trying to give everybody a pivotal role in the larger story. So Jefferson doesn’t just show up to say, “Hey, I’m still here.” He’s got a part in this story.\nKITSIS | And he has his own story. He’s got a daughter out there. Look, people like Sebastian we would love to have in every episode, but that is not possible because of their schedule. But he is in three episodes in the first batch, and we’re excited for those because they’re not just a “head count.”\n\nTVLINE | Can you tease the circumstances under which we’ll meet one of the new characters?\nKITSIS | Once of the new characters we’re going to be meeting is Lancelot (Teen Wolf‘s Sinqua Walls), who has a, uh, very…\nHOROWITZ | … “complicated” relationship with Snow and Charming. We’re going to explore how that happened, and what it means for the past and for the future.\nKITSIS | He and Snow have a secret that I’m not sure Charming knows.\n\nVIDEO | Which Once Upon a Time Newcomer has Ginnifer Goodwin Snow Excited?\n\nTVLINE | Which existing character would will surprise us most this season?\nKITSIS | I would say Regina. Last year, all we ever showed her was making the wrong decision. Her father said, “Once you go down the revenge path you’ll never go back,” and she did it anyway, and she killed her father. She was told the curse will create a hole in her heart that can’t be filled, and she says voids can always be filled. And yet in the finale, she is faced with saving her son Henry or saving the curse, and she chose Henry and lost everything. So what happens now to Regina? Will this be a second chance? Will she redeem herself? Or will she revert to being the Evil Queen? And now, by the way, she doesn’t have to keep lying — I’m the Evil Queen, that’s right. And this is how it goes. The audience will be surprised by how she handles all this.\n\nTVLINE | In closing, any message to the show’s fans?\nKITSIS | Please watch.\nHOROWITZ | We want to say “thank you” for all the support that we got, and we hope you join us for Season 2. We really are aware we’re only coming back because you watched, and we really want to continue to try to raise the bar.\n\nTVLINE | And, Nucky’s not as bad a guy as we think.\nHOROWITZ | Nucky is complicated, you know… He’s a product of this time.\nKITSIS | You’re both missing the point, which is regardless of what Nucky does, he runs that city well. In today’s world of bad government, at least the trains are running on time in Atlantic City, as far as I can see." ]

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[ null, "The hand is controlled by the Cybernetic Interface attached to the socket.Credit: Hiroshima University Biological Systems Engineering Lab\n\nLosing a limb, either through illness or accident, can present emotional and physical challenges for an amputee, damaging their quality of life. Prosthetic limbs can be very useful but are often expensive and difficult to use. The Biological Systems Engineering Lab at Hiroshima University has developed a new 3D printed prosthetic hand combined with a computer interface, which is their cheapest, lightest model that is more reactive to motion intent than before. Previous generations of their prosthetic hands have been made of metal, which is heavy and expensive to make.\n\nProfessor Toshio Tsuji of the Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University describes the mechanism of this new hand and computer interface using a game of \"Rock, Paper, Scissors.\" The wearer imagines a hand movement, such as making a fist for Rock or a peace sign for Scissors, and the computer attached to the hand combines the previously learned movements of all five fingers to make this motion.\n\n\"The patient just thinks about the motion of the hand and then the robot automatically moves. The robot is like a part of his body. You can control the robot as you want. We will combine the human body and machine like one living body,\" explains Tsuji.\n\nElectrodes in the socket of the prosthetic equipment measure electrical signals from nerves through the skin--similar to how an ECG measures heart rate. The signals are sent to the computer, which only takes five milliseconds to make its decision about what movement it should be. The computer then sends the electrical signals to the motors in the hand.\n\nThe neural network (named Cybernetic Interface), that allows the computer to \"learn\", was trained to recognize movements from each of the five fingers and then combine them into different patterns to turn Scissors into Rock, pick up a water bottle or to control the force used to shake someone's hand.\n\n\"This is one of the distinctive features of this project. The machine can learn simple basic motions and then combine and then produce complicated motions.\" Tsuji says.\n\nHiroshima University Biological Systems Engineering Lab tested the equipment with patients in the Robot Rehabilitation Center in the Hyogo Institute of Assistive Technology, Kobe. The researchers also collaborated with the company Kinki Gishi to develop the socket to accommodate the amputee patients' arm.\n\nSeven participants were recruited for this study, including one amputee who had worn a prosthesis for 17 years. Participants were asked to perform a variety of tasks with the hand that simulated daily life, such as picking up small items, or clenching their fist. The accuracy of prosthetic hand movements measured in the study for single simple motion was above 95 percent, and complicated, unlearned motions was 93 percent.\n\nHowever, this hand is not quite ready for all wearers. Using the hand for a long time can be burdensome for the wearer as they must concentrate on the hand position in order to sustain it, which caused muscle fatigue. The team are planning on creating a training plan in order to make the best use of the hand and hope it will become an affordable alternative on the prosthetics market." ]

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[ "Twitter recently announced a new feature called Fleets, which allows users of the social network to share text, photos, and videos that will be available on their profile for only 24 hours. While the idea may seem similar to Instagram Stories, there are some things that are quite different between them. I’ve been testing Fleets since last week to share an in-depth look at this feature.\n\nYou may be wondering why this is such a big deal. First of all, Twitter is probably the last major social network to implement “stories”, and also one of the most unexpected to do so. Also, the new Fleets feature is only being tested with a few users in Brazil, so availability is extremely limited for now, which has increased the curiosity of users around the world.\n\nOnce Fleets was enabled in my account, it was possible to see the photos of users who had already shared some content at the top of the screen, just like on Instagram. These photos get a blue circle when there is a new Fleet available and a gray circle if you have seen all the contents from that account.\n\nYou can view a Fleet in full screen with just a tap. But that’s where things start to get different from Instagram Stories and similar ones we already know. Fleets posted from a same user are presented in a vertical scroll, while Instagram Stories are shown sequentially in the horizontal (I’m not talking about aspect ratio, just to be clear).\n\nIf I want to share a Fleet, I just have to tap my profile picture. Fleets are primarily based on text, so the first thing you’ll see on the composition interface is the keyboard. But don’t expect to share long texts there, since the 280 character limit is also the same for Fleets. Everything is very simple and there are no options to change the font style or text alignment. It’s all about writing and sharing immediately.\n\nUsers can also upload photos, videos and GIFs through Fleets, but it’s not as fun as in other apps. There are no stickers, filters, handwriting or anything like that. The only thing that’s possible is to type something on the image. However, the photos and videos posted on Fleets get better quality than on Instagram Stories.", null, "After posting a Fleet, I can check how many people have seen it so far, including the details of each person who opened it. As for viewing Fleets, users can reply to them or send emoji reactions via DM. There’s no way to retweet a Fleet, and users mentioned by other people are not notified.\n\nWhat I really appreciated is that anyone can post clickable links on Fleets, while this feature on Instagram Stories is restricted to verified users or for those with a large number of followers.", null, "For now, Fleets still lacks many features to be considered an interesting option for users, besides being very buggy and confusing about some things. Still, I can see a certain potential on that platform.\n\nWhile I use my Twitter mostly to share work stuff, Fleets can be a place to post random content that will be deleted after 24 hours. If Twitter eventually allows users to create their own groups on Fleets, then this feature will become more attractive to me.\n\nUnfortunately, as I said before, Fleets is only available in Brazil for now, so people from other countries still can’t even see what we’re “Fleeting” here.\n\nAre you excited about Fleets? Let me know in the comments below." ]

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[ null, "A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ntufam Mba Ukweni has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration of interest in seeking re-election in 2019 did not come as a surprise to him despite the performance of the present federal government.\nSpeaking on phone conversation with The Tide yesterday, Ukweni lamented the poor performance of the present administration saying, that if President Buhari remains in office beyond May 2019, inefficiency will continue.\n“If President Buhari wins the 2019 election, the inefficiency will continue, I don’t see any magic to be done if he wins the 2019 election, there is not going to be any change than what we have now. It is the nature of our people, it is a nature of a black man to perpetuate himself in power.\n“I don’t think there will be any new ideas; it is left for Nigerians to decide. They did it in 2015 thinking that President Buhari will change things but we have not seen anything different, we have seen how far he has gone in the correction process.\n“If he has done well, it is for Nigerians to decides then return him, if he has not done well, it is still the choice of Nigerians to vote him out.”\nSpeaking on the administration’s efforts in revamping the economy, the Senior Adocate said, “If the economy improves, everybody would have seen the improvement, improvement in economy is not a hidden thing, as far as I am concern, I have not seen any improvement in the economy.\n“Now, the living standard is very poor, we have increase in unemployment, income is very poor, and these are the indices in measuring the improvement in the economy. There is no improvement in the economy.”\nMba Ukweni, however, stated that it was within the rights of Buhari to seek re-election, stressing that, “nobody can deprive him of that. Nigerians have right to choose the person they want.\n“I don’t see President Buhari creating anything new, I don’t see President Buhari changing anything,” he added." ]

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[ null, "Leader of the Islamic Revolution His Eminence Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei attended a commemorative mourning ceremony in Tehran on Tuesday night on the eve of Tasua, the ninth day of the lunar month of Muharram, paying tribute to Imam Hussein [AS] and his companions.\n\nImam Khamenei took part in the mourning ritual alone in compliance with the health protocols amid the coronavirus pandemic in Iran.\n\nIt was the third night that the Leader was attending the Muharram mourning rituals for the Master of Martyrs, Imam Hussein and his companions.\n\nThe event was held on Tuesday night at Imam Khomeini Husseiniyyah [religious congregation hall] in Tehran.\n\nDuring the first ten days of Muharram, Shiite Muslims around the world commemorate the martyrdom anniversary of Prophet Muhammad‘s grandson Imam Hussein [AS].", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "As the pandemic seems to be reviving down putting an asterisk next to 2020 in the history books, 2021 was going to be a very promising year for Mariah Carey with talks of a new album and world tour, but allegedly, according to someone close to the situation, Mariah Carey has been reduced to a minus 1 from the 99 problems Jay-Z had.\n\nIn 2017 Mariah Carey left her former manger in lawsuit fashion to sign with Jay-Z.\n\nAccording to the source everything they (meaning Mariah and Roc Nation) had been doing some great work together, but much like what happened in 2017 with Mariah and her former manager Stella Bulochniko, Mariah had went in search of new management and believes that she has found it.\n\n♫ And after all this time you think that I wouldn’ t feel the same, But time melts into nothing and nothing’s changed ♫\n\nSo allegedly, according to the source:\n\n“Mariah and Jay had an explosive meeting which did not go well at all,” “She has made it clear she wants nothing more to do with him and has called it quits with Roc Nation. She will formally depart in the next few weeks.”\n\n♫ Each day of my life, I’m filled with all the joy I could find, You know that I, I am not the desperate type ♫\n\nBut just like us, Mariah Carey caught wind of the alleged rumor of the break-up/explosive media and she took to her social media to put what she is calling lies to rest.\n\n“The only “explosive” situation I’d ever “get into” with Hov is a creative tangent, such as our #1 song ‘Heartbreaker’,” the 51-year-old singer wrote in a tweet. “To the people who make up these lies I say “Poof! —Vamoose, sonofa*****”!”\n\nWell it’s seems that somebody is lying but whatever the case we hope that Mariah Carey’s and Jay-Z’s future endeavor dreams come true." ]

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[ null, "The Eagle’s Lore Croghan was allowed into the Bossert Hotel, now preparing for a “soft opening” in August, and got great photos (follow the link, after clicking “Read full story” below) of the lobby’s elaborate decor, along with a peek at one of the hotel rooms, and some spectacular shots from the rooftop terrace outside what will be a bar. Bars and restaurants will not be part of the “soft opening”; they will open later at an unspecified time.", null, "If so, the Eagle is on it.Following reports of a party on the Bossert’s famous roof (on which the Brooklyn Dodgers celebrated their only World Series win), the Eagle contacted one of the hotel’s owners, who said, “We plan to make a major announcement soon.”The hotel has been under renovation since it was sold in 2012, and two years ago, the Eagle reported on an imminent re-opening, only to follow up earlier this year with news of another delay and the news that the hotel operator originally slated to run the place was being replaced.Stay tuned, and as always, check out the Eagle‘s story to get the details and", null, "In early July the Eagle reported, in a story we linked to here, that one of the hotel’s owners, either David Bistricer or Joseph Chetrit, had said that “a major announcement” about the hotel would be made soon. It was presumed that this would be of a firm opening date for the hotel, which has been postponed several times since six years ago. No such announcement has been made, and no visible work has been done on the hotel for some time. The Bossert’s renovation process is beginning to rival in length the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.Now the Brooklyn Paper reports that…" ]

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[ null, "Penn State is coming off a thrilling 3-2 win over No. 20 St. Joseph’s on Sunday in a game played at the Penn State Field Hockey Complex. Sophomore Sophia Gladieux notched two goals while senior Emma Spisak had the third. Brie Barraco tallied five saves in the cage as Penn State won its third straight game to start the season..\n\nGladieux leads Penn State with 10 points off four goals and two assists. Anna Simon has nine points off four and one while Spisak has five off two and one. Mackenzie Allessie, Elena Vos and Meghan Reese each have three points a piece. Barraco has a .750 save percentage with 18 saves to date.\n\nAlbany enters the weekend 2-2, owning wins over Colgate and Wagner. The Nittany Lions lead the all-time series with Albany 2-0, including a 3-1 win on Sept. 4, 2016, in the last meeting.\n\nDelaware enters the weekend 2-2, owning wins over American and No. 18 Old Dominion. The Blue Hens host Harvard on Friday while Penn State is facing Albany. Penn State leads the all-time series with Delaware 16-7-2. Delaware won the last meeting, 3-1, on Sept. 8, 2019, in Delaware.\n\nPenn State begins Big Ten play next weekend with a game at Maryland. The action takes place on Saturday, Sept. 18, at 1 p.m.\n\nJunior Jemma Punch took a pass from senior Emma Spisak in overtime and broke away for the game-winning goal in a 3-2 (ot) win at #8 Virginia in Penn State’s 2021 season opener on Aug. 27. Punch’s goal capped off a thrilling road win. Anna Simon and Sophia Gladieux each had goals as well and keeper Brie Barraco withstood 25 Cavalier shots, collecting nine saves.\n\nPenn State is ranked #9 in the latest NFHCA Coaches Poll. The Nittany Lions are one of six Big Ten teams ranked in the top ten.\n\nParking for all Penn State Athletics’ non-football events will require a valid permit or payment of the applicable parking fee for campus lots. Fans with valid Penn State University Park parking permits will be permitted to park at non-football athletics events for free, following Transportation Services parking policies and access. For field hockey, fans are asked to park in Jordan East, Stadium West or Porter North. Fans without a permit are encouraged to prepay for event parking at a discounted rate of $5.50 through ParkMobile – https://psu.parkmobile.io/. Prepayment is available through 11:59 p.m. the day prior to each event. Event day parking will be [$10/$20] per vehicle [and is cash only/can be purchased on the ParkMobile app]. The East Deck is also available for most events for $1 per hour. Parking for all non-football athletics events is managed by Penn State Transportation Services. For more information or questions, visit transportation.psu.edu or email [email protected].\n\nThe Penn State field hockey team has two road games scheduled to be aired live on the Big Ten Network to a national audience this season. The Lions’ game at Ohio State on Friday, Oct. 22, at 3 p.m. and their game two days later at Michigan State on Sunday, Oct. 24, at 2 p.m., will be telecast.\n\nAdvertisement\nRelated Topics:AlbanyDelawaregamesHostsNOTESPennStateWeekend\nUp Next" ]

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[ "Specific search: we have the galaxy, the Bowl Slayer, in a real and remote\n\nFebruary 5, 2019 slovakia Comments Off on Specific search: we have the galaxy, the Bowl Slayer, in a real and remote", null, "Scientists have discovered, with their new 3D map of our galaxy, which is not as clever as we were. think so far. Regular shapes are not recognized by their map.\n\nThe new map is doubled 1 339 stars, mentioned Cepheid. Scientists often try to plan the situation of the stars in the space, but these places and there are unjust dimensions. Sometimes scientists believe that the star is much closer to us than it is true, and that the little light needs to be far away. Rhythmic rods of light, which discharges cepids, however, to let screws show in detail how long they are to color the color.\n\nUsing program data Wise from NASA's non-inspirational mode, he noted that classical placements are true different galactic structure – not what we have used. It is our galaxy spread and a suggestion that we do not know about its & # 39; globe.\n\nResearchers have not investigated why our galaxy does not look at the way we have thought so far, but we have a specific estimate. Typically a normal spiritual galaxy pattern shows a huge increase over the long spiritual weapons. But sellers think we have the inter-related parts of the galaxy much closer. They think that's the heart of our galaxy; move around axis, at the same time drag the god out of the shape." ]

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[ "Hundreds of bridges in the South West are 'substandard'\n\nThe South West has some of the highest number of substandard bridges, according to a report from the RAC Foundation.\n\nIt claims maintenance backlog for council-owned road bridges across Britain has increased by a third in 12 months and says an estimated £6.7 billion is needed to ensure all the structures are up to scratch.\n\nMore than 3 thousand bridges are classed as substandard, meaning they can't carry the heaviest vehicles.\n\nFour councils in our region are in the top ten of most substandard bridges, with Devon leading the way on 244.\n\nSomerset has 160, Cornwall 140 and there are 66 in Gloucestershire.\n\nRAC Foundation director Steve Gooding said: \"While we should draw some comfort from the good knowledge highway authorities have about the strength and structural integrity of their bridges, the fact is that many thousands are subject to enhanced monitoring, speed and weight restrictions, and the cost of bringing them up to scratch is continuing to mount.\n\n\"Ancient bridges on rural back roads might not be the highest priority for repair, but the risk we run is that substandard structures on some roads result in heavier vehicles having to make lengthy detours.\"", null, null, null ]

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[ "Surfing on the Internet", null, "Surfing on the Internet\n\nAFTER THOUSANDS of hours in front of a computer screen, I’m shell-shocked. The Net feels like a carnival gone awry. Too many choices. Too many people. Too many posts stacked like an endless tube of Pringles. Too many threads that aren’t worth the time but scream to be read all the same. It’s like elbowing through a department store on Christmas eve, with all those cosmetics ladies trying to spritz you with cologne and five more people to go on your Christmas list and you don’t even know what to get them or where to look and the clock is ticking toward closing time. Mall mania. I’m getting agoraphobic. I’m getting bored. I’m wearing thin.\n\nIt sounds crazy, but text can buffet you on the Net. It can fry you. It’s like solar wind. And when there’s way, way too much noise and not enough signal, it can send you running for shelter. And that’s what I’ve found on MindVox.\n\nI read about Vox somewhere along the way, probably on alt.cyberpunk. It’s hard to remember where I first heard about it, considering that I must have read the equivalent of tens of thousands of pages on hundreds of channels by then (I sound like a seventies club crawler when I try to piece out the details… “It’s sort of a daze, man. It was one of those places. I don’t remember if it was day or night, but I was with these really weird people…”) I’ve heard Vox described as “the East Village of cyberspace.” I’ve heard that two former members of the fabled Legion of Doom (a notorious pack of teenaged hackers busted and disbanded in the eighties) have gone legit and built the place. Every member of the LOD, as well as their rival hacking ring, the MOD (Masters of Destruction, Masters of Deception, Mothers on Drugs — take your pick, no one’s really sure), is supposed to be hanging out there. It seems like a pretty interesting group house, and I’m looking for digs, so I telnet in to check out the place.\n\nAn ASCII iron cross greets me at the gate. Later, I consider it a welcome mat, a gothic Home Sweet Home door knocker that winks hello, log-on after log-on. But the first time, it’s imposing. I log on as guest and read MindVox’s explanation of itself as “a sprawling Tavern at the crossroads of the entire world.”\n\nWhether you have jacked into Vox by dialing a local number with your modem, or stacked together a web of net connections that spans the world, you have arrived — and while you might make use of the facilities provided, chances are you’re not here ‘cuz you want to flip through an online multimedia encyclopedia, or because you’re on a quest for that elusive copy of MegaTerminal 92.7Y NOW SUPPORTING NEON ANSI MODE and V.FAST You’re bored with the cookie-cutter tract houses that litter the electronic landscape with copies of copies. All featuring the same thing, with the same environment and the same people. Your cruise through the Datasphere has brought you to our gates because it’s more interesting to hang out in an experimental theatre, recording studio, occult bookstore, headshop, R&D lab or club, with people you read about; than a 7-11. with people you’re sick and tired of.\n\nPlease, I think, please let this be for real.\n\nI scroll down through more than sixty thousand bits of Patrick Kroupa’s editorial. Kroupa, who has been described by the Associated Press as “a towering 25-year-old high school dropout in a black leather jacket, with long hair gathered under a gray bandanna, three earrings and a hearty laugh,” is one of MindVox’s two principal gods, the other being Bruce Fancher, a twenty-three-year-old who dropped out of Tufts to cofound the system. Bruce minds the store. Patrick imbues it with rock star charisma. And between Bruce’s intellectual elbow grease, Patrick’s Jim Morrisonesque mystique, and the collective cachet of the entire semi-reformed Legion of Doom, MindVox has cultivated the noble rot of cyberpunk legitimacy. It has drawn bulletin board bohemians like moths to a lava lamp.\n\nI have found my home.\n\nI stroll into Bandwidth Forum (BWF), MindVox’s central piazza and watering hole, the place where voxers flesh out their personas, post their day-to-day epiphanies, and rip good-naturedly at each other’s flesh, where you can find threads under the rubrics of “Cat Vomit” and “The Hume Thing.” The Algonquin Round Table meets the World Wrestling Federation. The men are proud, and women can snap tire irons with a flutter of their tiny, alabaster hands: bandwidth uber-moderator 3]ane; Cass in Atlanta; teenaged Newt (the Annette Funicello of BWF); Feline (“I’m freeing my Inner Bitch. Fuck off”); Eponine, who works as a theatrical electrician when she’s not cutting a graceful figure on the ice rink; and Spirit. The guys are a generally roguish lot with handles to match: Headbanger, the Chemist, Critic, Nihilis, the Ghost in the Machine (fGitM for short), Gearhead, Cable, Gunfury, the Toxic Avenger (Tox, to his friends), and the ever-disaffected Kieran.\n\nTomwhore, the resident poet, plays Bandwidth court jester to 3]ane’s empress. With a few notable exceptions, this gang is on the tender side of twenty-five — young enough to be nicknamed “Mindslack.” Vox isn’t a total playpen, but the high school and college posse definitely makes its presence felt In fact, the class curmudgeon is a twenty-two-year-old med school dropout named GaIt (I’m a month older than him; I feel like Mrs. Robinson). Smarting from accusations of crustiness, Galt broadcast what he thought was a rhetorical question: “Do I really sound so old?” He got back a volley of replies from kids too young to buy alcohol. “Yes!” Silly rabbit.\n\nOutside of BWF, a plethora of forums awaits my perusal. Vox has a bad-assed image, which is reflected in forums devoted to hardware hacking, viruses, heavy metal, drugs, computer security (or lack thereof), and, of course, thugworld.\n\nVoxers seem to enjoy their reputation as, “The Hell’s Angels of Cyberspace.”\n\n“We are the citizens of this diabolical domain,” writes Tomwhore. “Each of us has added to the wrath of the elder masters, each of us has helped to stoke the flames of the great blind gods who are as, we post, spreading their terrible visions across the net. The net to them is just another plane on which to crawl across, to reach out and enter our minds and send us spiraling down into the abbys of our own tortured and self made hells. In short, welcome to your worst nightmare.”\n\nThis Dante’s-ninth-circle vibe is a touchstone for the faithful. Vox is hyper-aware of its own punk authenticity. “Vox is my online home and I will not live in Viacom’s lobby,” fumes Alibaba amid rumors of a sellout “Fuck that noise, I’m here because I like it here. If Patrick and Bruce sell out and dissapear, then that’s ok, because I wish them the best and its not like Patrick is ever here in the first place. But the day that happens, is the day I cancel and find someplace else to hang out. I’m about as hyped at the idea of MTVox as I am by the idea of signing up to the America Online Cyberpunk forum. I know its being run by people who’s ideology I hate, who are catering to some list of demographics that they’re reading off for ‘generation X’ which is their next big money barrel. FUCK THEM and FUCK THAT. I can see why they look at this and get all hungry, but we aren’t old enough to have become them, I hope to god we never do and its sometimes difficult for me to reconcile making money for MTV by watching the artists they play, its like Fishbone, GNR, Nirvana have all said, it helps them reach the people and say what they want to say and sell their albums, but you gotta hate it I don’t want corporate cyberspace run by them, I at least want my chunk of it run by people I know are real. If you guys can sell Vox, fuckyes, do it, but if you’re reading this MTV, FUCK YOU.”" ]

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[ "Text of the Socialist Party leaflet on the public sector pay deal.\n\nThe call was clear from workers across all the public service union conferences earlier this year – real cost of living pay rises was demanded to match the galloping rate of inflation.\n\nInstead, this offer of headline increases of 6.5% up to the end of 2023 on top of the original pitiful terms of the ‘Building Momentum’ agreement simply doesn’t cut it. The current rate of inflation is around9% and that is in advance of the massively hiked energy bills landing in October not to mention what is in store in 2023.\n\nPresident of ICTU and FORSA general secretary Kevin Callinan said that this was the best deal possible through negotiation. The implication of this is that if inflation-matching pay increases were to be won it would have required a struggle.\n\nYet the union leaders never seriously entertained waging such a struggle. It was clear months ago that the government was not going to make a serious offer. As far back as March the union negotiating committee felt obliged to walk out when an insulting 2.5% was offered.\n\nThat should have been the cue for the immediate balloting of public sector workers and the waging of a determined campaign for real cost of living increases. We only have to look at developments in Britain and the North to see that campaigns of industrial action both enjoy widespread public support and in many instances are winning inflation-busting pay rises.\n\nThe teacher unions and INMO in particular have an open goal to fight for serious pay rises in the context of the recruitment and retention crisis in the education and health sectors.\n\nKevin Callanan, while admitting that the deal does not meet the rising cost of living, indicated that it is up to the government to make the difference in the budget taking place on 27 September.\n\nThe government made no such firm commitments to the unions on serious measures to address the cost of living crisis yet most unions have already issued ballots weeks before the budget!\n\nFor all these reasons we are calling for a ‘no’ vote. Whatever the outcome of the ballot, we are facing into a recession coupled with ongoing inflation beyond October putting the real cost of living pay increase back on the agenda again. It is either that or another one-sided class war as was experienced during the initial years of the great recession when the union leaders refused to lead a fight.\n\nTherefore we say that a struggle form below in wider society needs to be built on a par with the water charges struggle of 2014 to 2016 over the cost of living beginning with the local protests this month culminating in the demonstration in Dublin on 24 September.\n\nSuch a struggle needs to focus on demands such as an immediate reduction in energy prices and the nationalisation under the democratic control of working people of the energy companies so that generation and distribution of power are done on the basis of the needs of people and the planet and not as opposed to serving profiteering.\n\nIt is clear, even by contrast with union leaders in Britain like Mick Lynch of the rail workers’ union RMT, that the current trade union leadership in Ireland have no stomach to seriously fight on behalf of their members let alone enter the national debate and challenge the capitalist interests of the landlords and energy companies. The proposed ballots for industrial action last month in advance of this pay deal were exposed as cynical ‘shape throwing’.\n\nInflation means pay deal is a pay cut: Unions should mobilise their power to fight for more", null, "“It is extraordinary how the media is a willing tool in acting as a bullhorn for Ryananir’s Michael O’Leary in the controversy over his demand to be handed over Hangar 6 at Dublin Airport in order to provide 300 aircraft maintenance jobs\".", null ]

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[ "Running the Alps of Crozet\n\nThe Alps of Crozet are located in France, exactly where they belong.\n\nBut, if you are not needing to cross the Atlantic, live in the vicinity of Washington DC, and have a “thing” for running uphill in an all femme half marathon – the Alps of Crozet located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Crozet VA is for you.\n\nOur sistahood of 7 – spoiled by running near sea level, and typically opting to avoid hilly terrain – was unprepared for an Alp-edition half marathon. With the exception of Deb and Kim – who arrived early and drove the course. They knew what they were getting into. The rest of the sistahood, upon arrival – stared blankly with mouths wide open at the mountain line. Followed by a steady hum of “this doesn’t look flat” murmurs. Apparently we all missed clues about the “alp climbing” challenges of this running course – including:\n\nThe sistahood arrived in Crozet VA the day before the “Bad” race – in 3 shifts. The role of the first shift (Deb & Kim) – was to get to our rental chalet early, have first dibs on the bedroom choices and still somehow choose the “outdoor living” section of the chalet. The area without heat. OK ladies – if you must. The second shift arrivals of Jill and Mel – had the role of placing chocolates on all of our beds. They forgot, and focused on consuming a carb loaded dinner feast instead. I can’t blame them for forgetting the chocolates. The shift 1 & 2 sista’s devoured Deb’s gourmet pasta filled with butternut squash. By the time the late shift (Jane, Tamar & Emma) arrived, our momentary sadness over lack of chocolates – was quickly replaced by consuming the remaining gourmet meal – and taking the rooms in the chalet WITH the heat. Yeah that’s it. Oh darn – we have heat!\n\nWe awaken at oh-dark-something, and proceed to replenish our bellies with bagels and bananas. And coffee. And the fact that we are running in less than 2 hours on a terrain that would soon feel like the name of the series (“Bad”) – hasn’t fully set in. Likely because we were blissfully ignorant. The temperatures were in the mid-30’s, no wind and no rain. Life seemed ideal – before the run.\n\nOur 15 minute drive to the Crozet Park – was toward (not away from) the looming mountains. With an event that has less than 100 runners – we parked 100 feet from the start line – and proceeded to pickup our running bibs. And check out the other runners. Who all appeared pretty ‘bad ass’. I wanted to ask someone “are we running into those big mountains” – but thought better of it. Deb – who will be running her very first half marathon – is staring at the mountains and looking pale. Tamar is talking about turning back after 4 miles. Jill offered to do re-con work at the coffee shop and just skip the run. Kim decided that she no longer had a time goal for this race. Melanie was smiling and looking energetic. Emma wanted to know if she could talk to me while we were running, and I remembered I had forgotten to bring my “goo”. There you have it. We are ready to tackle the Alps of Crozet. And 5 of us piled back in the car to drive back to the Chalet -to retrieve my ‘goo’.\n\nThe nice part about small races – is you can arrive 5 minutes before the “start”, and still have plenty of time to park the car and get in line. There are no cannons, gun firing or loud booms and whistles at the start. A lovely lady just says “go” – and we are off. With less than 100 people running, we quickly spread out and had the roads to ourselves. We had time to spend with our thoughts – especially about the hills. And we climbed these hills for nearly 10 miles — with a few downhill dips (not nearly enough) on one of the most challenging half marathon courses along the East Coast. That’s my story.\n\nBut the best part of the story – is that we all finished, claiming our warrior “Bad to the Bone” badges as follows:", null, "The “Baddest” Fashionista Badge – goes to Ms. Tamar – who despite some initial angst about running the full Monte (13.1 miles) – did it in style. Sporting her fashionable on-sale Lululemon jacket for $40 dollars – Ms Tamar kept her thoughts focused despite the many barking dogs along the course. At one time, when Coach Mel noted that the dogs looked like pack Wolves – Ms. Tamar remained composed as she quietly shielded herself by repositioning Deb and Mel to be the wolf front line.\n\nThe “Baddest” Coach Badge – goes to Ms. Melanie. The strength of the pack is in the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack. Despite the course having it’s fair share of barking dogs (or wolves as us city folks call them) – Melanie ran alongside her mom Deb, shielded Tamar from the dogs, and was the energetic force in keeping everyone’s thoughts distracted from “oh joy, another hill”.\n\nThe “Baddest” First-Time Half Marathoner Badge goes to Ms. Deb. Oh sure, she could have looked for a half marathon that was along a flat course, such as a beachfront. She could have selected the “easy route”. But no. Not Deb. Deb said to herself — “I need my first half to be a huge challenge….and I need my sistahood to suck it up with me” – and there you have it. For the record – it was Deb who selected this Half Marathon event. Not only did she finish it in style – with arms raised at the finish (Coach Mel raised them for her) – but there are rumors that she immediately started talking about her next half marathon. Mr. Faulkner A!", null, "The “Baddest” Bad to the Bone Badge goes to Ms. Jill. In 2014, Ms. Jill discovered that being around the “sistahood” can be truly bad for your bones. In the spring…during a sistahood event — resulted in broken ribs. In the fall…just thinking about a sistahood event….resulted in a broken foot. Yet despite the potential for more rib cracking, bone breaking activity – and “just” released by her doctor to return back to running – Ms. Jill went out to overachieve. Instead of running the 5K course, she did a 10K. No surprise there. Then she ran to the coffee shop, scouted out the goodies – and returned back to the race in plenty of time to watch us all finish.\n\nThe “Baddest” Conversation Pace Badge goes to Ms. Emma. According to all of the books I’ve read, “conversation pace” is about running at a comfortable pace – one at which you can carry on a conversation. Emma, however defies all training manual, bio-mechanical, aerobic capacity, VO2max logic – and can carry on a full conversation regardless of hills, running speed or any other challenge. She pointed out every landmark on the course — the chicken coup, peach orchard, big dogs, barking dogs, and checked her Garmin for the latest stats every 3 minutes. It is truly an amazing feat – and I’m looking forward to the medical study that unlocks this code.\n\nThe “Baddest” Stealth Runner Badge goes to Ms. Kim. Oh sure. She says that she won’t be running a 2 hour half marathon – but don’t underestimate the steady pace and rhythm of this savvy runner. Claiming a Top 3 podium spot – Kim climbs the “Bad” hills without exertion – no loud breathing. Pure stealth. Complete running economy, and finishes without the need to keel over and collapse. And if that wasn’t enough – a PR to boot!\n\nThe “Baddest” Maintenance Runner Badge – goes to moi (Jane). Starting with forgetting my goo, and unable to decide if I should wear my gloves (opted not to) – one thing led to another. I had only single-knotted my shoes – so by mile 5 the laces came undone. At this point – I was gasping for air, my eyes had teared up and I was likely foaming at the mouth – but my fingers were frozen. I spend most of my time willing my fingers to tie my shoe laces – a process that felt like 10 minutes. Emma and Kim are now long gone. By the time I catch back up with them – my water bottle had frozen. Then it was time for a goo…but my fingers were so cold I couldn’t get it open. Ooooh the maintenance needs of a runner….", null, "With all sistas having finished, high fives and smiles prevailed. Thanks to Jill’s recon efforts finding the Coffee Shop — we wasted no time settling into a hot cup of Joe, and sharing runner warrior stories that only get better the more times they are repeated. Add a few trips to the local vineyards for wine tasting – and by nightfall – our running adventure resembled the Alps of Crozet. An incredible weekend with the sistahood!" ]

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[ "Or login with email\n\nWhen it comes to music Ris Ceol are a powerhouse of a band, all the while being regarded as a slight anomaly due to singing in Gaelic.", null, null, "Ris Ceol are a very hard band to pigeon hole as they draw from a great many influences. Primarily rock there are many elements of country thrown in and a slight nod to punk on tracks like ‘Trump.’ They sing in their native Gaelic which is very refreshing and judging from their last release which we also reviewed this one shows a natural maturity in progression. The guys seem to have gone for a more acoustic feel to the songs, especially on ‘Nimh and Neamh’ and ‘An Fear Breige.’\n\nThe quality of the musicianship remains top drawer and the vocals are excellent once again. ‘No Pressure’ the opener is a funky little number and with its fabulous beat, ‘Damhsa Leis An Diabhal’ is the firm favourite. I’m glad that they have stayed true to themselves as translating any of these songs to an English version would lose their character. Once again Ris have taken their time and come up with something special. The only issue we have with this band is that they are not over here.", null, "WildSpiritz were lucky enough to catch up with the band\n\nIMS chats to Francesca herself\n\nErnest catches up with Cellar Twins\n\nInterview with Down Not Out\n\nErnest catches up with the band\n\nOne of the best live bands we've seen\n\nEleanore and the Lost - Full Interview\n\nErnest was lucky enough to speak to Eleanore.\n\nThis site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies." ]

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[ "Invoking “Grandmother of the West”….? What is THAT all about?\n\nNo demon has a real name. That’s part of their punishment. They really want a name and identity. Invocation of a false god or spirit allows demons to step up and be recognized, take the name and get to work.\n\nRemember that forcing demons to reveal their name is part of the rite of exorcism.\n\nExorcists will wind up – by Christ’s power and authority – forcing demons to cough up their names like, “Ares” or something. Not that “Ares”, the Greek god, ever existed as a Greek god, but as a demon who got the name “Ares” because they invoked “Ares”.\n\nInvoking spirits, powers, gods, etc. is to invoke a demon. Period. It is a grievous sin against the FIRST COMMANDMENT.\n\n“But Father! But Father!”, some of you mewling softies and synchretists are objecting. “You are being judgmental about the sincere faiths of indigenous peoples whom Catholics oppressed with diseases and subjugation to a foreign culture. They have their wisdoms and we can embrace and learn from their sophisticated faith patterns and nature-sourced images of cosmic power flows… and … and… Vatican II says we have to do this, because it is the new lens through which everything in the past has to be reinterpreted. But you don’t get that and you are mean and disrespectful of their .. faiths, which are every bit as good as… as… YOU HATE VATICAN II!”\n\nIt doesn’t make a difference of a people made up their sky gods and water gods or tree gods or lizard gods 3000 years ago or 30 years ago. It doesn’t make a difference if they left their faith expressions and invocations on cave walls or in stone carvings or on the pages of some 1990’s “new age” publisher. Invoke a spirit or power, especially with a name or a title (which, duh, is a name) and you have invoked a demon. Some demon now has a name and targets.\n\nOne exorcist told me, “they line up” for invocations in false religions, pagan ceremonies, etc. to GET an identity even if it is made up, like in Wicca. It doesn’t make any difference if it was something historic like Aztec stuff from a thousand years ago, or the wacko scribbling of a new age crank trying a make a few bucks off of the stupidly naïve.\n\nHENCE: If you sit as a willing participant, witness, while some person – it makes zero difference if that person is sincere, a believer in some strain of spirituality – invokes the “Grandmother of the West”, you have just participated in the invocation of a demon.\n\nIt doesn’t make any difference if the title “Grandmother of the West” sounds sort of hokey. After all, couldn’t they have come up with a cooler name for the demon, like Cthulhu or Thqbnhj of Ykqxg Muncher of Souls? No, it could be that or, “Daisy the Flower Petal” spirit or “Bob’s unknown animal spirit guide”. Demons don’t have to have cool sounding names. What do they care? It’s a NAME. To invoke them, even in a fake new age thing 10 minutes old or an pagan ancient pagan cult from 1500 BC, it is a violation of the 1st Commandment if done in earnest.\n\nI saw an image of cardinals and bishops, and another guy, in Canada do as instructed – put their hands on their hearts, the “seat” of who they are, symbolic place of the their love and identity, and watch and listen as a demon was invoked.\n\nThey didn’t this in Rome, with Pachamama.\n\nThey did this in Canada with the “Grandmother of the West”.\n\nBut by all means… crush the Vetus Ordo which includes, by the way, the Rite of Exorcism and all the effect constitutive blessings and sacramentals meant specifically to provide protection from demons.\n\nMoreover, the pagan ritual involving the invocation of “the Grandmother of the West” was done so as to be admitted to the “circle of spirits”.\n\nThe circle of WHAT SPIRITS? And WHY?\n\nSomewhere I saw a video, but I can’t find it. Anyone? [UPDATE: At Rorate there is a still photo, which is a capture from a video.]\n\nThis type of ceremony is either made up B as in B, S as in S, or it has some historic rooting in an indigenous belief.\n\nSo… I searched the interwebs and found this, pretty much right away, which is what any functionary of the pre-trip preparatory group could have found out when they looked over, ahead of time, what was going to be done.\n\nCheck this out HERE\n\nA couple of screen shots from “Celebrate! Ceremonies and Blessings for Individuals, Families, and Spiritual Communities.” by an writer on … I don’t know what the hell it is, frankly. She writes about “Huna” which is a New Age thing from, I think, Hawaii. In other words it is a made up in 1945 and HERE. Think of the word “kahuna”. Once you start reading that wiki article, your skin should start to crawl and alarm bells will ring.\n\nYep. This was another way – wittingly or unwittingly – to invoke demons.\n\nScreen shots from the “ceremony” book. Just a taste. But, Grandmother of the West is here.", null, null, "It is cringeworthy, isn’t it.", null, null, "Get a load of that crap. But, silly as it is, it is dangerous. Anyone invoking these “spirits”, made up yesterday, 30 years ago, or 3000 years ago, is invoking demons.\n\nAnd all those prelates, cardinals, etc., Francis… sat there during that… thing they did.\n\nIt’s called idolatry and it is against the 1st Commandment of the Decalogue and it is very dangerous.\n\nFr. Z is the guy who runs this blog. o{]:¬)\nView all posts by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf →\nThis entry was posted in Francis, The Drill and tagged Grandmother of the West. Bookmark the permalink." ]

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[ "The cartel will give a tight market extra supplies at a much slower pace than in recent months, despite pressure from the White House to help cool prices", null, "OPEC+ responded to months of diplomatic efforts from US President Joe Biden with one of the smallest oil production increases in its history. Picture: BLOOMBERG\n\nOpec+ responded to months of diplomatic efforts from US President Joe Biden with one of the smallest oil production increases in its history.\n\nThe cartel will add only 100,000 barrels a day of oil in September, giving a tight market extra supplies at a much slower pace than in recent months, despite pressure from the White House to help cool prices.\n\nThe 23-nation alliance will divide that amount proportionally between members, and with only the Saudis and the UAE able to bolster production, just a fraction of it is likely to be delivered. For July and August, the group had pledged to add more than 600,000 barrels a day to the market.\n\nThe increase offers little respite for consumers suffering the inflationary squeeze of high oil prices. Brent crude erased earlier losses and was little changed at $100.59 a barrel as of 3:10pm in London.\n\n“From a global balance perspective, today’s minuscule quota increase — the smallest since 1986 in absolute terms and smallest ever in percentage terms — is noise,” said Bob McNally, president of Washington-based consultant Rapidan Energy Group and a former White House official. “Though, if pump prices keep falling, the White House will likely claim credit.”\n\nAt the end of the day, we’re not looking at numbers of barrels, we’re looking at: are oil prices coming down from their highs?\n\nMinisters endorsed the proposal at an online meeting on Wednesday, according to a statement on the Opec website. There were no discussions about whether the organisation and its allies would keep increasing production in subsequent months, delegates said. The group meets again on September 5.\n\nAfter Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia, US officials had said they were optimistic that Riyadh and Washington were on a path towards reconciliation. During his visit, when he greeted Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump, the president said he expected further steps from the kingdom in terms of oil production. Late on Tuesday, the US approved the sale of $3.05bn of weapons including Patriot missiles to the Middle East heavyweight.\n\nOpec+ had shown some goodwill towards consumers in recent months, fast-tracking the production increases in July and August that completed the reversal of their Covid-19-era curbs. The Saudis ramped up output to 10.78-million barrels a day last month, according to a Bloomberg survey, a level pumped only on rare occasions.\n\n“We saw that Opec increased their supply in July and August, quite significantly, and now they’re continuing that,” Amos Hochstein, the state department’s senior adviser for global energy security, said in an interview in Washington. “At the end of the day, we’re not looking at numbers of barrels, we’re looking at: are oil prices coming down from their highs?”\n\nThere’s been a “remarkable” drop in crude prices in recent months, but the Biden administration wants to see them go even lower, Hochstein said.\n\nOpec+ delegates said before the meeting that they saw no immediate need to replace supplies from coalition member Russia, which have proven robust despite sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine. Opening the taps freely could also have strained relations with Moscow.\n\n“There are uncertainties on the market that need to be taken into account” such as new Covid-19 strains and restrictions on Russian petroleum sales, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with state Rossiya 24 TV. “Therefore, such cautious decisions are taken today.”\n\nDelegates had also said before the meeting that the group’s limited reserves of spare production capacity were best kept for later in the year, when crude markets look set to tighten as the US winds down its release of emergency stockpiles. Idle supplies in the Middle East are down to “razor-thin” levels of about two-million barrels a day, or 2% of world demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).\n\nOpec+ ministers noted in their final communique after Wednesday’s meeting that “the severely limited availability of excess capacity necessitates utilizing it with great caution.”\n\nOpec+ sources said the group will consider keeping oil output unchanged for September, with two sources saying a modest increase would be discussed\nMarkets\n2 weeks ago\n\nThe comment comes at a time when capacity at members of the Opec oil cartel is running low, with most producers pumping at maximum capacity\nMarkets\n1 month ago\nNext Article" ]

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[ null, "Here’s an unoriginal thought: watching Takuya try over and over to save his stepmother, I couldn’t help but wonder if the original game was an inspiration for stories like Steins;Gate and Re:Zero. Well, as their potential predecessors, I guess I’m not surprised at all to see that this story is a bit rough around the edges. When you tell me that the protagonist has the ability to jump from one parallel world to the next, then you get me excited to watch exactly that. Unfortunately, Takuya doesn’t actually get to have any fun until this week’s episode is nearly over. Instead, we get a lot of rote plot and character development. Y’know, stuff like a flashback where his dad explains to Takuya how parallel worlds work. Then a small tidbit on a cockamamie idea that Japanese history undergoes a revolution every 400 years like clockwork.\n\nLast but not least, we spend a bit time getting to know Mio, the tsundere. Oooh, she’s just so passionate about Takuya’s late father’s ideas. You gotta feel for Takuya’s dopey best friend Yuki, because she’s already blushing a bit too often around the protagonist after just two episodes. Yawn. Anyways, we learn stuff like how she’s the mayor’s daughter. The construction company wants to get rid of the historically important site, and she won’t stand for it!!! I’m sure these revelations are all very important details for future plot developments, but that’s not my problem with the anime. My problem is that the storytelling is just so… lifeless and undynamic. 20 minutes of our hero walking around, chatting with different talking heads until something interesting finally happens. Yep, sure sounds like every goddamn visual novel I’ve ever played.\n\nFinally, near the end of the episode, we find Takuya attempting to save his hot stepmother from two hired thugs. Not only are they after his late father’s research notes, they might want a piece of ass on top of it… or do they? I mean, doesn’t Takuya find it peculiar when one thug says to other, “Was this guy in the script?” Then in our hero’s last failed attempt, that goon who works for Ayumi suddenly runs in with a goofy ass grin on his face. Oh my god, it’s as if this whole scenario is staged and he here to steal Takuya’s stepmother’s heart! Oh well, he’s gonna do the same to his best friend, so he can’t complain. Also, maybe it’s just me, but the stuff coming out of the thugs’ mouths just sounds like something straight out of a cheap porno, ” It’s been a while since you’ve had a man, right? I can tell by the look on your face.” Ah well.\n\nAnyways, I’m sure Takuya won’t be happy to see another man encroaching on one of his haremettes. As a result, there’s probably a good chance that he’ll do everything he can to prevent that from happening. But we’re talking about parallel words, aren’t we? Even if he stops this guy from stealing his stepmother — as ridiculous as that sounds to say out loud — there are assuredly worlds in which she does get stolen (nevermind the fact that she’s an adult woman who can make her own decisions). So I dunno, this whole thing feels like an exercise in not just futility but also egoism… kinda. There are multiple me’s. There are multiple consciousnesses of me’s. I want this me — the me that I can call myself — to experience the best possible outcome. But every time I jump to a different world, I leave the old me to deal with my (our?) poor choices. So as a viewer, what exactly am I rooting for? What am I missing here? There are going to be multiple me’s who gets screwed. What makes me special over the other versions of me by virtue of making a leap?\n\nQuick side note: a cursory research reveals that there’s a PS4 version of the original game. Unfortunately, the worldwide release isn’t coming out until much, much later. Well, it’s not like I was going to buy it… but the thought did cross my mind." ]

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[ "Bryan Caraway was once known a contender in the UFC bantamweight division, with wins over names like Aljamain Sterling and Eddie Wineland.\n\nSince being released by the promotion in 2018, though, Caraway (22-9) has barely been heard from. The exception being a lone win outside the UFC at Battlefield 2 in 2019.\n\nCaraway is back in the news, however, for all the wrong reasons. The former bantamweight is facing charges of forgery, first-degree attempted theft, filing a false insurance claim and making a false statement on a vehicle application certificate of title. The news was first reported by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner for Washington State in a press release earlier this month. At the time, Caraway was on the organization’s most wanted list, although he has since made arrangements to appear at an arraignment hearing on March 11.\n\nThe incident stems from Caraway reporting an ATV stolen, and filing an insurance claim on the vehicle. Per an investigation by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, “Caraway reported the theft of a 2015 Polaris RZR all-terrain vehicle from his property in Richland in December 2018. He bought a policy for it from GEICO on Dec. 21 and filed the claim on Dec. 24. He told GEICO that he bought the vehicle and contents, including helmets, a battery charger and spare tire, for $18,500 and provided a title showing his ex-girlfriend gifted it to him in January 2018.”\n\nThere was just one problem: GEICO’s own investigation determined that the title was forged. The vehicle was not stolen, but rather legally in possession of Caraway’s ex-girlfriend: former UFC women’s bantamweight champion and current ONE Championship executive Miesha Tate.\n\nWhen Caraway withdrew his claim, GEICO referred the case to Kreidler and the Criminal Investigations Unit of the Insurance Commissioner.\n\nNone of the allegations against Caraway have been proven in court. However, an additional report by MMA Fighting notes that Caraway was under investigation in Nevada for twice stealing the ATV from Tate’s Las Vegas residence. Caraway was charged in June 2019 following an investigation by Las Vegas police. However, those charges were dismissed this past November.", null ]

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[ "“We’re basically waiting to hear back from to see if it’s a possibility and what that would look like.\"", null, "Zagster bikes are seen at the rack on the corner of Water and Military strees Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018 in Port Huron. Starting this weekend, the bikes will be removed from the streets for the winter. (Photo: Brian Wells/Times Herald)\n\nPort Huron’s Zagster bike-share program has been in place for less than two years, but city and transportation officials are considering adding scooters to the equation.\n\nCity Manager James Freed cited stagnant ridership and the increasing popularity of scooter programs in other communities in talking about the potential change during a Downtown Development Authority meeting earlier this week.\n\n“The greatest thing I ever heard was as I was walking out the Michigan Capitol, I heard a senator go, ‘Are we scooting to lunch?’” he said Tuesday, recalling an experience in Lansing, where there is a scooter program. “Here’s the thing: We’re not going to publicly commit to a scooter program. I just want to let you know that we’re exploring it. The truth is the bikes are getting used, but … at some point, I don’t want to subsidize something if it’s not growing.”\n\nThe Zagster bike-share program, spearheaded by Blue Water Area Transit, was launched in summer 2017, leaving bikes at four docking stations — two downtown, one at St. Clair County Community College and one at the Blue Water Convention Center — for visitors to unlock and use with an app on their phone.\n\nThey don’t know, however, if it is feasible, or if they could do scooters and bikes.\n\n“We’re basically waiting to hear back to see if it’s a possibility and what that would look like,” Belleau said. “… I think we have another call scheduled with them in a month. They’re crunching numbers in the meantime.”\n\nLocal ridership under the current bike program has been consistent in its first two seasons.\n\nBelleau said they’re considering other docking stations based on use. “It’s all kind of up in the air right now,\" he said.\n\nHe said the scooter idea seemed worth investigating if the popularity in other areas could prove to be true in Port Huron.\n\nBoth Belleau and Freed said they’d anticipate such a program would be similar to a bike share with users activating use of a scooter with an app on their phone and a credit card — only there wouldn’t be any docking stations and they could, in theory, be left anywhere as long as they’re within a specified network.\n\nThe bike-share program was launched at a cost of $36,000, covered by sponsorships, including the DDA. It wasn’t clear how a scooter program would be paid for.\n\nBelleau and Freed said they will take the idea to current sponsors once they’re armed with more information.\n\nBut Belleau added scooters wouldn’t necessarily have to be sponsorship-driven, and that “it could be attached to a hotel, for example, rather than just the public.”\n\nThe bikes in the current program are maintained by Alpine Cycles downtown.\n\nOn Tuesday, DDA member Kurt Eppley, who owns the bike shop, said he has heard some issues related to its logistics.\n\nDDA officials asked if the community could give the bikes the summer to see if ridership does improve. Freed said they could, although he still hoped to bring back Zagster data to the board in a month.\n\nBoth he and Belleau said they hope to reach a decision on the scooters this summer.\n\n“We could do the bike share for another year and see. I say that and then the other night in my neighborhood I saw a couple who are not from town riding Zagsters,” Freed said. “… Right now, it’s working. But is it going to grow to the threshold we need to be sustainable?”" ]

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[ "How Blockchain can Bridge the Gap Between Online Advertising and Transparency\n\nGlobal advertising spend rose to $657B in 2021, but over $35B were lost to frauds and scams in 2020 alone. Can blockchain be the solution to ad frauds?", null, "When it comes to cryptocurrency, there are many in favor of it, considering the total cryptocurrency market capitalization currently stands at around $1.7T. However, there are also many that are repulsed by this speculative asset. Fanatics or skeptics, one thing is for certain — the brilliant technology that is the blockchain.\n\nAdvertising and its Issues\n\nAdvertising and marketing, in contrast, is a field that dates back to the printing press. The field, however, is ridden with decades-old flaws that are getting stronger with the passing day. According to a study by ExchangeWire, future forecasts predict that fraud in ads can rise up to $50 billion over the next decade while 79% of researchers voiced their concerns over the lack of transparency in programmatic advertising.\n\nFollowing are some of the most widely known issues with advertising;\n\nAdvertising is a massive industry with branches in the digital and real world. Every year, the advertising and marketing wings of corporations bring in large sums of profit. This profit, however, also requires huge sums of investments, and agencies to run campaigns for them. Their money is then prone to ad fraud, where a portion of their money does not reach the project and rather is pocketed by countless anonymous links in the long chain.\n\nA study reported that for the year 2020 alone, ad dollars worth US$35 billion were lost to frauds and scams. This heavily impacted the annual advertising profits in countries such as the United States, China, and the United Kingdom, which lost $11.4 billion, $5.2 billion, and $1.6 billion respectively.\n\nDue to the overcrowding of the programmatic trading scene with vendors and intermediaries, companies and advertisers are not entirely certain over how their ad budget is being spent. This creates an issue of transparency where those spending the money and those paying for the services do not have clear communication between them and thus, marketers are left on the sidelines in terms of exposure to where their ad money is going.\n\nThe advertising industry is swarmed by new people looking to take a bite out of the multi-billion dollar pie, which has caused for the roles of intermediaries or middlemen to become more and more prevalent with passing time. There is a lack of clarity regarding intermediary third parties in the space, as companies are unaware of undisclosed costs that can significantly decrease the performance of a campaign. Moreover, most advertisers are even left in the shadows about who they are working with when they hand their money over. The third parties are often undisclosed to the advertisers, which creates the problem of outsourcing too, where the company buying the advertising services reaches out to a firm that they consider trustworthy. However, that firm in turn hires more and more third parties to do the job that was assigned to them.\n\nThe Rapid Growth of Advertising\n\nThis air of nondisclosure, lack of transparency and mistrust is why many brands are looking to cut down their advertising budgets. However, the overall industry is still surging upwards. In mid-2021, a report by Magna Global projected that \"Global advertising spending will grow by $78bn in 2021 (+14%) to $657 billion, a new all-time high, following a decline of -2.5% in 2020. The marketplace will continue to grow in 2022 (+7%)\". This forecast was spot on, and a new projection by Zenith follows that by the year 2024, the retailer media advertising would grow from $77 billion to $143 billion.\n\nCryptocurrency isn't the only field that can benefit from the marvels of blockchain technology. Blockchain has promising potential in many other fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics and even the media.\n\nAccording to EnvisionX CEO and Co-Founder, Zheng Zhang, blockchain can solve transparency issues by creating a viewable transaction atmosphere that will significantly reduce ad scams\n\nThe following are some of the ways in which blockchain can further enhance the field of advertising and marketing.\n\nFeatures of Blockchain That Can Benefit Marketing\n\nWith the industry expanding with such vigor, there comes the threat of fraudulent actors in the market. It is therefore crucial to instill a system that will protect buyers and sellers.\n\nBlockchain can massively contribute to creating an atmosphere of clarity among buyers and sellers in digital advertising. Following are the key features of blockchain tech that could potentially revolutionize the industry.\n\nBlockchain technology follows a decentralized system, meaning that the decision-making regarding investors' money is not in the hands of only one group of people. The ledger of the blockchain is visible to all. This means that the transactions happen in the \"public eye\", leaving no room for mistrust.\n\nThere is no requirement for hidden fees, as transaction costs are laid out when dealing on the blockchain. This is especially helpful as the transactions are made between the buyer and seller directly.\n\nBlockchain are capable of eradicating fraudulent advertising as the receipts for each transaction are recorded on the ledger forever and can be accessed by any party, at any instant of the exchange.\n\nThis means that frauds or bad actors are easily traceable. Advertising fraud cuts off a major portion of the annual marketing revenue. Blockchain technology, with its transparency in keeping records visible to the consumer and for future use, helps advertising take a step forward in terms of minimizing scams and frauds. Self-executing smart contracts in the form of computer codes further enhance the security and transactions on the chains.\n\nDue to the decentralization of data in the blockchain, data storage solutions can make data collection an extremely efficient task. User data is no longer limited to only one place or area and is dispersed over different regions of the world. This form of data collection is not only more secure, decreasing chances of tampering, but also efficient. It is a perfect model for storing such large numbers of user data and can help companies keep track of their personal data collection.\n\nDue to the visibility that blockchain offers, consumers and advertisers alike can potentially have greater trust in the firm handling their money. The entire ledger being available for marketing companies will help them keep track of their investments and double-check the possibility of fraud. The contracts that take place on the blockchain are in the form of codes that will stay on a blockchain as long as it survives. This proves as a receipt that a firm has been paid by a company for marketing projects and if the firm does not act accordingly, the receipt can be a source of protection for the consumer.\n\nThe automation brought about by the programmatic advertising world has caused increased frequency of frauds in the form of hidden fees, and lack of transparency on the media buying activities of traders. This has caused buyers and sellers to be wary of the ad trading environment. Blockchain technology can effectively reduce all these issues due to a transparent, decentralized system." ]

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[ "Two transients have been charged for their alleged roles in a check-cashing scheme that netted about $109,000 in Billings.", null, "BILLINGS – Two transients have been charged for their alleged roles in a check-cashing scheme that netted about $109,000 in Billings.\n\nProsecutors say Daily continued cashing the checks after a detective told him it was illegal.\n\nOfficers are searching for four other men whose names appear on some of the forged checks." ]

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[ null, "Randolph founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters on August 25, 1925. Serving as its president, he sought to gain the union’s inclusion in the American Federation of Labor, the affiliates of which, at that time, frequently barred African Americans from membership.\n\nThe Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters struggled with the Pullman Company, which was the largest employer of blacks at that time, and finally won recognition in 1925. But Randolph had an even bigger battle to fight with the AFL and George Meany. He battled on, and in 1937, won membership in the AFL.\n\nThe Sleeping Car Porters merged in 1978 with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, now known as the Transportation Communications Union which merged with the IAM in 2012.\n\nThe IAM is also an affiliate of the A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI), the senior AFL-CIO constituency group working for economic justice and employment rights.\n\nWritten by IAM Government Employees Department Director James Price, a board member of the A. Philip Randolph Institute." ]

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[ null, "Today is Blanca Torres’ last day as an economy reporter for the Seattle Times. She leaves Washington state to return to the San Francisco Bay Area and her previous employer.\n\nShe is scheduled to start as a real estate and economic development reporter for the SF Business Times on May 23.\n\n“My husband and I decided to relocate back to the Bay Area for his job and fortunately for us, my former employer offered me the chance to return and cover real estate and economic development,” Blanca tells Media Moves.\n\n“I will miss my colleagues in Seattle, which has been a great place for me to learn and produce compelling pieces as an editorial writer, columnist and reporter. But I’m also looking forward to taking on a busy and dynamic beat in a newsroom I know well.”\n\nBlanca, who joined the Seattle Times as an editorial writer and columnist in September of 2014 and became an economy reporter in January of this year, was the first Latina to be on the paper’s editorial board.\n\nShe previously spent 6 years as a reporter at the SF Business Times. Before that, she was a business writer at the Contra Costa Times." ]

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[ "From the suite where Beatlemania was born to the room made famous by the scandal that brought down President Nixon: The 10 best history-making hotel rooms\n\nA number of events of historical importance have taken place at hotels around the world – from the birth of Irish independence to Watergate.\n\nPlus hotels have been the setting for more trivial, but nonetheless significant, moments such as an unprecedented show of pop star fandom towards The Beatles in 1964.\n\nScroll down for our pick of the 10 best history-making hotels.\n\n1. Alive with echoes of the Great War", null, "Shelter: The chapel inside Talbot House, Poperinge, Belgium. In 1915 it was used as a refuge for weary soldiers\n\nReverend Clayton established Talbot House in Poperinge, Belgium, in 1915 as a refuge for weary soldiers of all ranks. It’s now a living museum full of iron bedsteads, ancient armchairs, witty signs and the almost tangible presence of warriors past – and has seven rooms to stay in.\n\n2. Step into the heart of the Russian revolution", null, "The first Soviet government met at the Hotel National in Moscow following the Russian Revolution of 1918. Lenin stayed in room 107 and Trotsky was a guest. Some of the furniture was plundered from the palaces of Tsars. It overlooks Red Square and the Kremlin.\n\n3. Savour the birth of Irish independence", null, "Slice of history: At the Shelbourne Hotel (above), visitors can dine in the room where the Constitution of Ireland was drafted\n\nIn 1922, under Michael Collins, the Constitution of Ireland was drafted in room 112 of Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel. Now the Constitution Room, and available for private dining, it features the original antique table and chairs used for the landmark signing.\n\n4. Return to the scene of a British surrender", null, "Symbolic: The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (above) was used by the Japanese as their post-invasion HQ in 1941\n\nThe Japanese symbolically made the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong their post-invasion HQ in 1941, and Governor Sir Mark Aitchison Young signed surrender documents in room 336 on Christmas Day.", null, "Front row from left to right, Chiang Kai-Shek, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Cairo Conference in 1943\n\nPlans for the Normandy Landings were discussed. Churchill loved the view of the Pyramids from suite 623 and slept with the curtains open. From £81, marriott.com.\n\n6. Frisco bolthole where the UN came to life", null, "US Secretary of State Edward Stettinius stayed at the Fairmont in San Francisco in 1945 during the drafting of the UN Charter. Key negotiations with the Big Five happened in his penthouse suite.\n\n7. The stately home of a political scandal", null, "John Profumo met Christine Keeler, a guest of osteopath Stephen Ward, by the pool at Viscount Astor’s Cliveden House (now a hotel) in Buckinghamshire in July 1961. The resulting affair between the Secretary of State for War and the showgirl rocked the Establishment.\n\n8. A Big Apple slice of Beatlemania", null, "The Beatles were mobbed in New York in February 1964. Their appearance on TV’s Ed Sullivan Show galvanized American youth and changed the direction of rock. They stayed in the 12th floor Presidential Suites of the Plaza Hotel (rooms 1209-1216) while girls screamed from the sidewalks.\n\n9. Hotel that gave its name to a crisis", null, "In 1972, the Democratic National Committee was famously burgled for secrets, leading to President Nixon’s downfall. The theft was orchestrated from room 214 of the Watergate Hotel in Washington. The Watergate Scandal Room comes with a 1970s typewriter and a key card reading No Need To Break In.\n\n10. Surrounded by peace in bustling Jerusalem\n\nAn oasis of tranquillity in Israel’s tumultuous city of Jerusalem, The American Colony Hotel has hosted distinguished visitors from Lawrence of Arabia to Tony Blair. In 1992, members of the Israeli government met the PLO in room 16 to thrash out the Oslo Accord.", null, null ]

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[ "Since dawn, passengers in limited numbers arrived at the Pandit Nehru Bus Station (PNBS) in Vijayawada to reach their hometown and workplaces.\n\nVIJAYAWADA: APSRTC buses rolled out of the depots after a gap of 58 days and received good response from passengers in some districts, while not many opted for the services in some other places. The RTC resumed intra-state services from its 128 bus depots across the State at 7 am on Thursday. As many as 1,683 buses were run on 436 routes across the State. A total of 7,123 seats were reserved by people through the Online Passenger Reservation System in 1,380 bus services operated out of the total 1,683. The RTC earned `19.5 lakh revenue till 3 pm.\n\nPassengers in limited number started arriving at Pandit Nehru Bus Station (PNBS) in Vijayawada from the early hours of the day to reach their hometowns and workplaces. In Krishna region, 110 buses were run on 35 routes. Only non-AC buses are being operated now. The RTC authorities assigned duties to the bus crew after examining their health condition. At 7:30 am, the first Super Luxury bus to Visakhapatnam left from PNBS with modified seating arrangement to ensure social distancing. As many as 26 passengers travelled in the bus against its seating capacity of 36.\n\nUnlike railways, the RTC authorities didn’t screen any passengers with thermal scanners before they boarded the buses. Instead, they deployed staff at bus stations to ensure that passengers follow hand hygiene by using sanitisers. Face masks were supplied at `10 each for passengers arrived at the bus station without wearing it. To avoid crowds at booking counters and encourage cashless transactions, the RTC made the Online Passenger Reservation System (OPRS) available for passengers to book their tickets from Wednesday evening itself. However, several passengers at PNBS complained that they faced technical issues in reserving their tickets a day before their journey.\n\nBalaram Swamy, a passenger from Vizianagaram, said the RTC authorities should issue tickets offline at the bus station for the benefit of layman. M Sampath, an IT professional travelling to Visakhapatnam, urged the authorities concerned to rectify the technical glitches in the OPRS at the earliest. According to official sources, advance ticket booking for Visakhapatnam was almost full till May 27. A section of passengers objected to operation of RTC buses as non-stop services. After 8:30 am, RTC services to Kakinada, Amalapuram, Srikakulam, Machilipatnam and Ongole resumed. With a number of passengers standing in the queue, the RTC authorities issued tickets for them at the bus.\n\nMeanwhile, the RTC cancelled bus services in Guntur as part of precautionary measures to contain spread of coronavirus. It was decided to resume limited number of bus services in 13 depots of Guntur district, but the RTC authorities took a decision to stop plying of buses in between the towns and cities of Guntur and Vijayawada. They decided to operate 99 buses from 13 depots of Guntur district initially, but cancelled the services after observing alarming situation due to increasing number of corona positive cases. RTC Regional Manager STP Raghava Kumar said they decided to operate six buses from Chilakaluripet to Macherla, but due to lack of commuters they plied only three buses. As majority of routes in Guntur, Tenali and Narasaraopet are in containment zones, the RTC higher authorities directed them to cancel buses.", null, "In East Godavari, just a few passengers boarded a bus on the first day of resumption of RTC services. The first bus left for Visakhapatnam from Kakinada depot. From the nine RTC depots, a total of 157 bus services to various districts were operated. The resumption of bus services evoked a poor response from people in Kurnool. Not even a single passenger used the RTC bus services from Koilakuntla to Allagadda, from Nandyal to Atmakur and from Nandyal to Bethamcherla. Though they planned to operate 126 buses, due to poor response from people only 118 buses were run, said RTC Kurnool Regional Manager T Venkata Ramam. About 1,200 passengers travelled in the RTC buses on the first day. Buses were also run to Anantapur, Kadapa and Vijayawada. In normal times, 850 buses out of the total 897 are operated across Kurnool region and around 20,000 passengers travel in the RTC buses a day. About 25-30 passengers were allowed to travel in each bus ensuring social distancing, the RM added." ]

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[ null, "SmokeLoader backdoor is a malicious application that aims at giving the attacker remote access to your PC. The general purpose of such access in the case of this backdoor is to download different other malware. Despite being very old, it is still a tough nut, and remains active and popular in attacks of different profiles. Let’s check out why SmokeLoader is so potent despite its venerable age.\n\nWhat is backdoor malware?\n\nBefore getting into SmokeLoader analysis, let’s have a look at what backdoors are. This malware type has a long and curved story, and these days is an eminence grise. The key target of backdoor malware is to create a way for cybercriminals to remotely connect to the target PC and perform any possible actions. For that purpose, they never disdain to use vulnerabilities in the targeted system, along with injecting into the system as a trojan.\n\nThe main use for backdoor-infected computers is their participation in the botnet. Huge networks of zombie systems that perform DDoS attacks, send spam emails and do other nefarious activities are well known over the last decade. For that purpose scoundrels use automated backdoors – the ones which require minimum commands from the command and control server and may run on their own. The other application of a backdoor – exactly, the manually-controlled one – is data stealing and malware implementation. As in the latter case backdoor acts as a locomotive for malicious payload, it is sometimes classified as a worm.\n\nSmokeLoader backdoor first appeared in 2014 – at the very beginning of the ransomware era. Only a few other malware can boast of remaining active through 8 years after their launch. This backdoor has a lot of features that allow it to remain actual despite being so old. First and foremost, it is extremely small – the payload is only about 30 kilobytes. Regular malware of that type usually has a file size of at least 100 KB, usually around 150-200 kilobytes. That already makes it way easier to handle in a protected system, as some YARA rules used for malware detection pay attention to the file size.", null, "Offer to purchase SmokeLoader on the Darknet forum\n\nAnother feature, that distinguishes it among others, is that it is written in C and Assembly languages. Both of them are low-level, which points to their ability to dig very deep into the system. The exact code of this backdoor is heavily obfuscated. It was an effective measure against anti-malware programs, but these days any kind of obfuscation detected is considered hazardous. These days, it just makes reverse engineering this malware much more difficult.\n\nKey features of this backdoor are wrapped around its loader functions, as you may have supposed from its name. The vast majority of time, SmokeLoader is used to deliver other malware to the infected system. Still, it is not the sole purpose of this malware – continuous development brought the ability to use it as a stealing tool. It also suits botnet deployment – but there are only a few cases of such usage. It still receives updates each year, so its functionality may extend in future.\n\nThe initial package of SmokeLoader malware contains only basic functionality – providing the remote connection to the infected PC. Data grabbing, process monitoring, DDoS module and so forth should be installed afterwards. Overall, reverse engineering shows that there are 9 different modules that SmokeLoader can handle simultaneously.\n\nPayload of this malware always comes packed in a unique way. A single sample is used by a small group of its users, hence meeting the same samples in the real world is not that easy. Still, that technology is not something new – most malware does the same thing, and some even generate a uniquely-packed sample for each attack. Moreover, over the initial packing, there is a requirement from its distributors to make an additional compression or encryption before injection. That is, exactly, the other chain of anti-detection measures.\n\nTarget system receives the fully-packed SmokeLoader sample – it is what is on the disk. All following stages are executed in the system memory, hence the scans with legacy anti-malware software will only detect a deeply-packed sample. The first stage of SmokeLoader execution includes an important obligatory checkup – the location of the attacked system. This malware cannot be run in the Commonwealth of Independent States, regardless of the settings you did before the injection. Other checkups include scanning for virtual machines and sandbox detection. If all things are passed, the malware gets completely unpacked and launches in its usual manner.\n\nWhile running, SmokeLoader applies a pretty unique technique of obfuscation. It holds almost 80% of its code encrypted over the entire period of execution. Once it needs to use another function, it deciphers it while ciphering the element it used previously. YARA rules, along with classic reverse engineering, are rendered to be almost useless against such a trick. It has 32-bit and 64-bit payloads that are loaded in the systems with corresponding architectures during the checkup from initial stage to final execution.", null, "The exact file which is kept in the memory while executing the SmokeLoader is not a valid executable file, as it lacks the PE header. In fact, the backdoor’s code is represented as a shell code – and thus should find a way to get executed manually. Generally, the routine commands executed by SmokeLoader, such as calls to C&C or downloads are made through the DLL injections. Obviously, that is required to retain stealthiness. Most often this step includes DLL injection or console calls that are made from the name of another program. Hackers who manage the SmokeLoader may either send the .exe file of malware they wish to install and just specify the URL where the backdoor can get this file.", null, "The header of SmokeLoader .exe file is absent – it is not a valid executable file\n\nSmokeLoader’s key spreading ways rely upon email spam, pirated software and keygens. The former is prevalent, as it is much easier and still pretty effective. In that case, malware hides inside the attachment – usually an MS Word or MS Excel file. That file contains macros, and if you allow macros execution as requested, it will connect to a command server and receive the payload (actually, only a SmokeBot). However, analysts say that SmokeLoader appears more often through the malicious link attached to such a message. The site by that link may contain an exploit, in particular a cross-site scripting technique.", null, "Hiding malware inside of cracked applications or keygens/hacktools is slightly harder but has way wider potential. As unlicensed software usage is still widespread, a lot of people may be endangered. Not each cracked app contains malware – but all of them are illegal, for both users and creators. Using it, you may end up facing lawsuits for copyright violations. And being infected with malware in that case is even more unpleasant.\n\nWhen it comes to malware infection, SmokeLoader appearance usually leads to the installation of various other malicious apps. Crooks who managed to create a botnet then offer other malware distributors to infect those computers with whatever they want. That can be adware, browser hijackers, spyware, ransomware – there are literally no restrictions. Behind a huge pile of viruses, cybersecurity experts often miss the origin of all this mess – thus SmokeLoader remains undetected.\n\nSmokeLoader is offered as a malware delivery tool on forums\n\nA separate spreading case, where SmokeLoader acts not as a precursor, is its combination with STOP/Djvu ransomware. Exactly, the bundle of malware delivered to the device includes RedLine and Vidar stealers. The former aims at banking credentials, the former – cryptowallets info. This or another way, Djvu generates a significant share in SmokeLoader prevalence, since it is one of the most widespread ransomware in its class.\n\nSTOP/Djvu ransomware is a long-time leader of ransomware that attacks individual users. It adopted the tactic which allowed it to cover as many users as possible – and it brought that ransomware to the first place, taking around 75% of an entire number of submissions. Throughout the second half of 2022, however, its activity shed, so its developers began to compensate for that drop with the efficiency of their payload. SmokeLoader, together with two stealers – Vidar and RedLine – fulfill the role of additional income sources. They grab the credentials of infected users, so the crooks can sell that data in the Darknet marketplaces.", null, "Protect yourself from backdoor malware\n\nBackdoors are extremely cunning and stealthy, so even the most meticulous users will not find them on their own. And that is the least to say – you could see that backdoors can easily evade basic anti-malware tools. That’s why the key point here is staying away from typical ways of backdoor spreading. Giving it no chance at all is much better than searching for ways to make it less effective once it is inside your system.\n\nEmail spam, as the most popular, is the first point of interest. Fortunately, you can easily recognise it – spam always has signs which differ from the original mailing. Some common spam letters usually have typos, poor grammar, extremely strange topics and disgusting design. More sophisticated spam messages may be very convincing, but there are always signs of counterfeiting. For instance, crooks will never be able to use the corporate e-mail address, so they try to use a similar one instead, or even a random mailbox. Additionally, links in the message will likely lead to external resources – ones that are barely related to the company used as a disguise.\n\nCracked software, keygens, and similar outlaw stuff is the other kind of things you should avoid. Using them is outlawed in the vast majority of cases, and the possibility of malware introduction makes things even worse. Authors of such stuff usually seek ways to monetise their job – and only the same outlaw things come into view. Thus, don’t have a choice other than add malware to the program they crack. And in the case of a backdoor, you may not notice its presence even long after its appearance on your device. Free cheese is only in the mouse trap – remember that easy rule.\n\nUse a decent anti-malware software. Least pleasant thing is to face an enemy being naught on weapons. Proactive measures may be good and effective, but sometimes malware comes from an unexpected side. For that case, you should use anti-malware protection – an advanced program that will be capable of detecting the most recent and most complicated threats. GridinSoft Anti-Malware will be the best for that purpose – as a complex app that features a detection mechanism of 3 independent parts. Its low resource consumption and small size makes it ideal for PC protection." ]

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[ "All Male Characters Wiki\nRegister\nDon't have an account?\nSign In\nAdvertisement\nin: Villains, Characters, Cartoon Characters,\nand 13 more\n\nNooroo is a knowledgeable, helpful, and empathetic kwami. He shows a bit of his curious side in \"Gorizilla\" when Gabriel thought Adrien might be Cat Noir. Like Wayzz, Nooroo has a formal side, calling his holder Master instead of his real name.\n\nThough he reluctantly succumbs to Gabriel's demands to help him get the Ladybug Miraculous and Cat Miraculous, Nooroo is distressed that he is helping someone use the Butterfly Miraculous for evil reasons. When Gabriel later learns that there are more kwamis and tells him that he wants to find them all, Nooroo is scared and concerned for his friends.\n\nIn addition to this, Nooroo is sometimes scared of Gabriel and is quite meek with him, such as in “Syren”, when Gabriel interrogated him on how to obtain more powers. In “Sandboy”, when he attempts to sneak away but is caught by Gabriel, he appears frightened and meekly tries to explain his motives.", null ]

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[ "Italy celebrates the birthday of its most famous fictional character: Pinocchio\n\nThe story of Pinocchio and his growing nose is one of the most famous fairytales around the world.", null, "A depiction of Pinocchio and his father, Gepetto the carpenter", null, "A depiction of Pinocchio and his father, Gepetto the carpenter\n\nThe Adventures of Pinocchio was written by Italian author Carlo Lorenzini – under his alias, Carlo Collodi – and published in 1883.\n\nThe author’s nom de plume was chosen in honour of his mother’s hometown, which held a special place in his heart.\n\nCarved by his loving father Gepetto, Pinocchio is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.\n\nHe has the endearingly unfortunate curse of a nose that gets longer every time he tells a lie.\n\nThough more than 100 years old, the tale of Pinocchio is just as popular today as it was back then, and continues to be adored by generations of readers.\n\nThe character’s adventures have since inspired books, movies, cartoons and musicals.\n\nThe original is also one of the most translated Italian books and has been published in 240 languages.\n\nA true celebrity in his own merit, Pinocchio is celebrated on his birthday, May 25, to this day.\n\nThe medieval village of Collodi comes alive at the end of May with festivities in honour of the puppet.\n\nSeveral events revolving around Pinocchio’s adventures are organised, including games, shows and banquets, as well as a competition rewarding the best drawing of Pinocchio.\n\nSpecial events are also held at Pinocchio Park, a complex entirely devoted to the adventures of the little wooden character and his array of peculiar friends.\n\nOpened in 1956, Pinocchio Park tells Collodi’s version of the story of Pinocchio through sculptures along a special trail, mosaics, exhibits, and puppet shows.\n\nWhat better way to celebrate Pinocchio’s birthday than with a visit to this magical place!" ]

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[ null, "Last year, Alexander called for a New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy - a five year project with Ten Grand Challenges that will use American research and technology to combat climate change and put our country and the world firmly on a path toward cleaner, cheaper energy. This bill contains several provisions that would help achieve the goals of the Ten Grand Challenges.\n\nAlexander continued: \"This bill provides strong support for advanced nuclear reactors, which, at a time when Americans are increasingly concerned about climate change, will be an extremely important part of our carbon-free energy future. If we want a large amount of clean, cheap, reliable electricity available to power our 21st-century economy, then we need to do everything we can to make sure nuclear power continues to provide it.\"\n\nAlexander cosponsored several provisions included in this legislative package, including the ARPA-E Reauthorization Act, which will increase the agency's authorization level to $750 million by fiscal year 2024, and the Vehicle Innovation Act, which aims to reduce petroleum use and reduce carbon emissions through research and development. The Senate will consider the legislation this week." ]

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[ null, "Barry Herem: A Passion for the Coast\n\nOn the traditional Northwest Coast a native family often kept its crest and lineage valuables in a carved chest or box, especially those special items – clan hats and staffs, etc. – designed to be brought out on important social occasions. As a measure of esteem and spiritual security such containers were customarily carved with protective figures on the sides.\nThis chest design features a mythical human face as protector which, to further mark its importance, is inset in the forehead with what is known as a “copper” – made of hammered copper – which itself symbolizes the wealth and high status of the lineage. The small ovular openings represent areas that were also traditionally inset with decorative shells or otter teeth.\n-Barry Herem" ]