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[ null, "1. Film speed a measurement of much light is needed to make a usable image on light-sensitive material such as flim –in other words a measure of sensitivity\n\n2. There are currently two numbering systems in use ASA /ISO and DIN but there have various other predecessor.\n\n3. we don’t put film in cameras any more but understand film speed will help you to take better photos.\n\n4. flim speed went up to iso 6400 –incredible fast film using this film would allow you to take photos indoore with no flash and just a few candles for light .\n\n5. The higher ISO will be more sensitive to light than a lower\n\n6. The film speed is determined with a calibration number than can be used to compare different film and the capture an image when expose to minimal light\n\n7. The sensitivity of a photographic material as rated by a standard method of exposure and\n\ndetermination such as ISO speed and DIN\n\n8. Slow film speed is grain of light sensitive material in the flim are very small and work well for creating larger prints from thesmall negative\n\n9. Faster speed film is motion blur is minimize and often yield a great depth of field as shutter speeds are faster and the aperture remains somewhat closed.\n\n10. High speed flim of this film requires minimal light to make an exposure and may be useless in sunny conditions .The bright light of sunny day will require very fast sutter speeds and apertures that will only result in frozen in fronzen motion and greatb depth of field." ]

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[ "MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota. According to CNN, 2.6 million GM cars have been recalled, and at least 13 people have died due to GM’s faulty ignition switch. While GM takes responsibility for 13 deaths, the New York Times reports that the number may be much higher—at least 124 deaths. It’s a case of the worst in car manufacturer negligence. As early as 2001, car manufacturers may have been aware of the problem. In 2003, a GM service technician witnessed a car stall when other keys were in the ignition. Still, GM did nothing to correct the problem. The weight of the keys may have worn out the ignition switch. Over the years, GM continued to get reports of cars stalling when the keys were bumped or moved accidentally, something which can happen easily while driving. In 2006, GM proposed making design changes, but the proposal failed to result in action. The company later heard of airbag deployment failures due to ignition switch problems. By 2014, regulators were investigating GM to determine whether it responded in a timely manner to the ignition switch failure.", null, "Why did it take 10 years for GM to complete its recall? Many cite the company with negligence and neglect and internal failures that resulted in defective cars remaining on the market, putting millions at risk. According to the New York Times, GM has paid more than $2 billion in settlements and fines. The Times notes that the company may face additional litigation in the future. GM tried to avoid being held accountable by claiming that any claims prior to its bankruptcy would be cleared by the bankruptcy. However, the Supreme Court found that the company could still be held liable for injuries it caused to victims before its bankruptcy.\n\nAccording to the Times, there remain at least several hundred wrongful death and personal injury claims that have not been resolved or gone to trial. One lawyer claims that as many as 1000 unresolved cases may be out there.\n\nThe defect was mainly found in the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion models. The cars would turn off by themselves, potentially disabling airbags and leaving the cars without power. There have been cases where individuals were even charged with manslaughter for reckless driving only to later learn that the faulty ignition switch was responsible. If your car turned off, or if your airbags didn’t deploy properly, you may be entitled to seek a recovery from GM due to the defective switch. The Law Office of Martin T. Montilino is a personal injury lawyer in Minneapolis, Minnesota who is watching these cases closely.\n\nThere is currently a multi-million-dollar compensation fund set up by GM to compensate victims for their losses and injuries. Victims will still need to prove that the faulty ignition switch resulted in injuries or losses. It can be helpful to have a lawyer on your side because cases can be dismissed if the courts believe that human error or other factors may have been involved. If you’ve been hurt, contact the car accident lawyers at the Law Office of Martin T. Montilino today at 612-236-1320." ]

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[ "The Terra Cotta Invitational had hoped to put off making a decision on its prestigious men's amateur tournament to March 31. But Tuesday afternoon, tournament director Denny Glass sent an emailing saying the April 17-19 event was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak.\n\n\"While it is an unfortunate decision, it is a necessary one,\" Glass said in the email. \"We know things will return to normal, hopefully sooner than later.\"\n\nGlass said in the email that all players who had paid will receive a refund.", null, "The Terra Cotta Invitational has been played since 1996, and features such notable past champions as Matt Kuchar, Peter Uihlein, Bud Cauley, Justin Thomas and Emiliano Grillo. Alex Vogelsong won in 2019.\n\nMore: Former Naples club pro returns to work in China as life starts to get back to normal from COVID-19\n\nTo provide our community with important public safety information, our newsroom is making stories related to the coronavirus free to read. To support important local journalism like this, please consider becoming a digital subscriber.\n\nCharity events postponed, rescheduled: A handful of area charity events are having to make the choice to cancel or postpone.\n\nThe Breaking Par at Grandezza scheduled for this Friday and Saturday has been canceled. It benefits Junior Achievement of Southwest Florida and its flagship program, the CEO Academy at Florida Gulf Coast University.\n\nThe Big Ten Golf Challenge set for Saturday hasn't been postponed, but will not be played as a tournament. The event gave the 80 golfers who had signed up to support seven different Big Ten universities the option of going ahead and playing at Quail Run Golf Club.\n\n\"The golf course will remain open and some of you may still choose to play, but we will not have the event,\" an email sent to players read. \"If you still want to play, call Tammy at Quail Run and she will not send your check out and you can play and have lunch for the same amount. She will turn you over to the pro shop to make a reservation.\n\n\"Some of you may choose to donate all or some of your payment to your respective alumni clubs scholarship fund. Call or email this information to Tammy also.\"\n\nThe Lucas Cup Pro-Am, the annual charity fundraiser named after former tour pro Mark Lye's son, was scheduled for Monday, March 30 at Bonita Bay Club, but will be postponed and may be rescheduled for November. Proceeds support the Lucas Cup Foundation and money is disbursed to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Help A Diabetic Child, and other local youth organizations. Lucas Lye has Type 1 diabetes.\n\nThe Queen of the Green event scheduled at PGA Tour Superstore Naples that celebrates women's golf, with food and entertainment, that was scheduled for Wednesday, March 25 also has been postponed.\n\nThe PGA said in a release it was unable to reschedule at this point because of the fluidity of the coronavirus outbreak, but a new date would be shared when it becomes available.\n\n\"While no decision has been made concerning the upcoming PGA Championship, which is May 11-17 at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco, PGA of America leadership remains in close coordination and communication with representatives from San Francisco and the state of California, evaluating plans on an ongoing basis with the health and well-being of all involved as the highest priority,\" the release read.\n\nThe Club Pelican Bay's Justin Bertsch would qualify under those guidelines. He was fifth in the standings.\n\nIf you have participated with The First Tee of Naples/Collier previously do not create a new account.\n\nIf you have questions about which program level your child is in or need login information, email [email protected]\n\nTo learn more or to schedule a fitting, email [email protected]." ]

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[ null, "A biological male who identifies as a transgender woman won a women’s world championship cycling event on Sunday.\n\nRachel McKinnon, a professor at the College of Charleston, won the women’s sprint 35-39 age bracket at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Los Angeles.\n\nOkay, all you transgendered activists. Should we hold our breath until the first biological woman who identifies as males beats other (real) males? Nope. Because there is a difference inherently between men and women. That’s why there is such a thing as women’s sports, so that the female athletes won’t be dominated by men. But apparently, identity politics trumps everything else now in this world, including common sense.\n\nIt’s very sad. So much work to give them equal space, equal credit and equal pay…\n\nThis is worse than when the East Germans used to give their female athletes high doses of anabolic steroids which caused masculinization and horrific health effects. Now, these athletes don’t even have to do that. They just have a dude say he’s a woman and use the language of “identity” and no one has the guts to call him out on it.\n\nOops! But the male-posing-as-a-female disagrees with my assessment. By the way, he identifies as a “woman” as well as “an internationally recognized expert on the science and ethics of transgender inclusion in sport.” Ha! I bet he’s the only internationally recognized expert, because no one else thinks this is a good idea, he can probably dominate that “field” just like he dominated the female cyclists.\n\n“We cannot have a woman legally recognized as a trans woman in society, and not be recognized that way in sports,” McKinnon told USA Today.\n\nAnd — wait for it — he compared his “struggle” to racial segregation. Because, of course he did.\n\nI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The people who should be most upset over the rush approve of all things transgender are women. How long before feminists gather their courage to call out these phonies? They better do it now, before all of women’s sports is decimated." ]

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[ "The principle of “furcation” provided a basis for the concept of this project. Furcation originates from the Latin name furca – fork, it indicates the branching of rivers into two or more creeks with almost the same profile.\nThe new access to the castle and the internal circulation was all carried out in accordance with this principle. Also corresponding to the furcation principle is the coverage of the building and the route organization, which is based upon the definition of one main path. This starts at the beginning of the bridge, splits up inside the building, and eventually comes together again in the courtyard.\nRamps along the path guide visitors, both in terms of where they walk and where they look. The ramps help to accommodate level changes between the inside and the outside of the building and generate areas where visitors can sit and relax. The “vista” staircase visually completes the courtyard.\nThe most obvious indication form the outside is the aforementioned newly constructed access to the castle. The clients required a kind of gate to the national park which would be visible from far away. Coming from either direction on the main street the access is clearly perceived as a new element, and generates interest. It begins as a kind of optical illusion formed from the entrance canopy and develops in height as it leads away from the street and approaches the castle. Handrails have been included which appear at intervals as the pathway rises and falls and snakes its way towards the castle.\nThe design of the entrance construction, clad in perforated steel sheets, serves as an indication, focusing the gaze and framing the surrounding nature for the visitors.\nUnder an tight budget the architects were able to produce an eye-catching introduction to this beautiful national park, thereby encouraging visits here.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Handy hint: Always make sure to use the correct picture of your guest", null, "Singing legend Bonnie Tyler is one of this country's most recognisable stars.\n\nBut that proved not to be the case when she appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain earlier today.\n\nThe Neath-born entertainer sat down for a chat with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, only to point out an embarrassing gaff the show's hosts had made.\n\nBoth presenters were left red faced when the Total Eclipse of the Heart vocalist spotted that they'd actually used a picture of someone else as the backdrop for the interview.\n\n\"That's not me,\" pointed out Bonnie, who's currently celebrating 50 years in show business.\n\nThe blushing hosts then tried to explain away the gaff by guessing at who, if not Bonnie, the person in the photo could be, with various attempts including Page Three model Samantha Fox during the height of her '80s pop fame.\n\nHowever, as the interview continued, the penny finally dropped in the studio as to who the impostor actually was.\n\n\"We have solved the mystery, the photo is of a Bonnie Tyler tribute act,\" explained Piers, causing everyone to start laughing.\n\nThe 68-year-old from Skewen also spoke of her excitement at being picked to perform for the Pope at the Vatican this Christmas, having previously admitted to it being one of the highlights of her career so far.\n\n\"You can’t get much higher than the Pope,\" she said, adding that she still gets the jitters before performing.\n\n\"I have Jack Daniel’s and Red Bull and it gives me wings. But I only have one.\n\n\"Everybody thinks they can sing when they’re p***ed but it's not true... I get nervous before I go on stage.\"" ]

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[ null, "About two dozen people, including a group of students from Clark Middle School, gathered for a constituent meeting with state lawmakers at the Mountain View Community Center Saturday afternoon.\n\nAnchorage Sen. Johnny Ellis and Rep. Geran Tarr spent about two hours giving updates on the session’s legislative work and answering questions from the audience, which was made up of residents of Mountain View, Russian Jack, Airport Heights and Fairview.\n\nEllis said multimillion-dollar state budget cuts continue to be the Legislature’s biggest piece of work, and that he is fighting to avoid decreasing public safety and education spending. The senator said rules and regulations surrounding the recent vote to legalize marijuana are also a priority this session.\n\nConstituent concerns ranged from the minimum wage to food-labeling legislation to a municipal sidewalk project along Penland Parkway.\n\nWhile summer construction widened the sidewalks and repaved the roadway, residents voiced their worries about a new ramp directly across from the mobile home park. Located in front of the Northway Mall, the sidewalk access ramp spills out into the road and faces another ramp on the other side — only there’s no crosswalk connecting the two, and no stop signs blocking traffic. People wondered: Is it a design flaw or faulty construction?", null, "The new ramp on Penland Parkway.\n\nAfter a question-and-answer period, the two lawmakers presented a legislative citation to the Clark Middle School Informers; a group of students who research various civic topic and present speeches sharing what they’ve learned.\n\nLegislators praised the students’ community engagement, and Clark eight-grader Julian Rivera-Brown accepted the citation on behalf of his club.\n\n“It’s an honor to be part of it,” he told the roomful of people at the neighborhood community center. “We learn valuable skills and public speaking.”\n\nThis year’s legislative session is scheduled to end April 15." ]

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[ "Sources say there’s a split within the government over how to proceed.", null, "The last week has been a rollercoaster at the highest levels of the Nigerian government, as key figures grapple internally with a brazen attempt by some senior officials to enforce control of social media in the country.\n\nThe decision to suspend Twitter was swift, according to two highly placed sources in the presidency, who spoke to Rest of World on condition of anonymity because they are not speaking on the government’s behalf. Both suggested that the current clampdown is being engineered by Lai Mohammed, the country’s minister of Information and Culture. Despite his mandate to promote better delivery of information to the public, Mohammed has been a keen proponent of social media restrictions in the country.\n\n\"I have always advocated for the regulation of social media because of the harmful effects of fake news, and I am still of the same view that social media must be responsible,\" Mohammed told the BBC last week.\n\nAlthough the sources indicated that president Buhari was informed of the move to ban Twitter ahead of time, they say he was not personally involved. They also suggest there was a clear split among the president’s advisors over the decision.\n\nWithin hours of the Twitter ban announcement, the country’s major telecommunications companies, regulated by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, complied, blocking millions of Nigerians from accessing the social network. In addition, attorney general, Abubakar Malami, announced the government would prosecute anyone who violated the Twitter ban by using VPNs, which many Nigerians have been using.\n\n\"Twitter want to flag a tweet, but then they want some random person in Silicon Valley to decide whether that tweet violates their policy or not. But this person doesn’t know anything; he doesn’t understand the context.\"\n\nEarlier this week, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), controlled by Mohammed, started drafting new rules for social media platforms, including two major provisions that would require social networks and internet streaming companies like Netflix and YouTube to get a license and a local team to operate in Nigeria.\n\nInternally, officials are divided on the recent crackdown. One source told Rest of World that some government officials are working to roll back recent declarations such as demanding social media licenses, which they consider overzealous. Officials are currently having internal conversations about whether these plans are legal and are contemplating how to slow down any hasty decision. A second source corroborated this account.\n\n\"The mood at the top is still gearing for war,\" said a source in the presidency. \"We’re still looking for a way to douse the tension.\"\n\n\"The federal government can handle this a lot, lot better,\" said Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos state, Nigeria’s commercial capital, and a member of the president’s political party. Over the last decade, Lagos has become Africa’s fastest-growing tech hub, with hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into the country to back local startups. The move to ban Twitter could hamper that growth.\n\nDespite the internal divisions, there is consensus within the government about one thing: the government would like more say in how Twitter operates in the country.\n\n\"Many of those misbehaving today are too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the Nigerian Civil War,\" the president posted in a thread. \"Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will treat them in the language that they understand.\"\n\nNigerian social media users reacted angrily to the post, reporting it to Facebook and Twitter as threatening genocidal violence. Moderators at both platforms swung into action; however, their approaches were significantly different.\n\nTwitter did not attempt to engage the government, both sources confirmed. They claim the Jack Dorsey–led company simply deleted the tweet via its usual mechanisms and did not respond when contacted by government officials on several occasions. A Twitter spokesperson said the company would not be commenting on the issue. Facebook did not respond to queries before press time.\n\nA small group of officials, led by Lai Mohammed, pushed to ban Twitter in response to the platform deleting the president’s tweet.\n\nA government source indicated Twitter has reached out numerous times in the last week, but no official meeting has taken place with the company, as of press time.\n\nMohammed and other Nigerian government officials have previously decried Twitter’s \"double standards\" regarding content moderation in Nigeria. Officials point to Twitter’s treatment of posts from the separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu, head of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group. Based in the U.K., Kanu uses Facebook, Twitter, and internet radio streaming to broadcast his separatist messages to Nigerians in the country’s Southeast region. The Nigerian government has complained that IPOB’s \"hate messages\" have been flagged consistently, but Twitter has said the tweets do not violate Twitter rules.\n\nThere is a growing consensus within the government, calling on Twitter to establish a local presence in order to grasp local context. The concern was exacerbated in April when Twitter announced it was opening its first African office in neighboring Ghana. Some in the Nigerian government saw that as a snub, given Nigeria’s much larger economy and thriving tech scene. Although the jobs advertised were based in Accra, several of the key roles were focused on covering Nigeria.\n\n\"There is the general feeling at the fact that they [Twitter] have so many users in Nigeria, their users can sway opinions and lead to carnage, but they do not have a local presence that gives them context,\" said one of the presidency sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.\n\nNow, Mohammed, through the NBC, is mandating that Twitter, and other platforms, hires a local team and secures a license to remain accessible within the country.\n\nGovernment officials told Rest of World that they want the platform to create a back channel for government requests to delete tweets from specific users and accounts. One Aso Rock insider specifically suggested Nigeria should have a similar model to India.\n\nEarlier this week, the Silicon Valley–based company disclosed it had blocked four accounts in India in compliance with a new legal request from the Indian government. Twitter also said it would review content under its own rules and local laws, and \"if it [a tweet] is determined to be illegal in a particular jurisdiction, but not in violation of the Twitter rules, we may withhold access to the content in India only.\"\n\nA few days after Nigeria implemented the Twitter ban, an account designated as the \"Government of Nigeria\" was created on Koo, an Indian social media app that embraces looser moderation practices and wants to fill the vacuum left by Twitter. The company has doubled down on growth plans in Africa’s largest country by population. Koo CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna has also indicated that he is considering enabling local Nigerian languages for faster adoption.\n\nAbubakar Idris is a reporter for Rest of World. He is based in Lagos, Nigeria.\nYinka Adegoke is Rest of World's Editor for Strategic Initiatives\nRead more stories", null, "Ideas\nThe conspiracy theories Myanmar’s paranoid generals use to justify the coup\nThe Burmese military has used myths of foreign interference, from George Soros to Facebook, while maintaining its grip on power.\nBy Aye Min Thant", null, "News\nThe limits of Modi’s power to control Twitter\nIndia’s courts, not the government in New Delhi, have the authority to end ‘safe harbor’ protections for the platform.\nBy Nilesh Christopher", null ]

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[ "The sinking of HMS Aboukir, Hague and Cressy September 1914\n\nIn the early hours of 22 September 1914, about forty miles off the Hook of Holland; three Royal Navy cruisers H.M.S. Aboukir, H.M.S. Hogue and H.M.S. Cressy were torpedoed and sunk by a German Submarine. The submarine was Unterseeboot U9, under the command of Kapitanleutnant Otto Weddigen, who just a month before had married his childhood sweetheart. There were only 837 survivors and of the 1459 drowned (62 of which were officers) many were cadets and reservists. There was a public outcry at these losses and a court of inquiry was held. The senior officers of all three ships were censured.\n\nDeemed by many sea going officers to have been avoidable, the incident eroded confidence in the government and damaged the reputation of the Royal Navy.", null, "Three of the lives lost that day were:\n\nTheir names are recorded on the 1914 Memorial in St Nicholas Church. The memorial is situated just inside the entrance of the church.\n\nMore about the men, their naval careers and their families can be read HERE.\n\nWhen World War 1 first broke out, the Royal Navy assigned a patrol of old Cressy class armoured cruisers to the south coast of England. These vessels formed part of a force of smaller destroyers and submarines stationed at Harwich. The job of this force was to block the eastern end of the English Channel and protect ships carrying supplies between Britain and France.\n\nDue to rapid advancements in naval engineering leading up to the war, the Cressy class vessels were considered by many to be obsolete. They were designed for a speed of 21 knots but wear and tear meant they could only manage 12 knots, 15 at best. Manned for the most part by reserve sailors, their ships complements of 700 men plus officers were only brought up to full strength for manoeuvres or mobilisation. These nucleus crews were expected to keep the ships seaworthy the remainder of the time. In bad weather the destroyers could not sail, so the cruisers would often form the front line alone. They maintained a continuous patrol with some ships on station while others returned to harbour for refuelling of coal and renewing supplies.\n\nThere had been much opposition to this patrol from senior officers, including Admiral Jellico and Commodores Roger Keyes (commander of a submarine squadron stationed at Harwich) and Reginald Tyrwhitt (commander of a destroyer squadron also operating from Harwich). They considered the ships to be at risk of attack and sinking by modern German surface ships. In their opinion the ships were too old and the crews too inexperienced to put up a decent fight. Submarine threat was not considered a possibility. So great did they deem the cruisers vulnerability that the patrol was nicknamed the ‘Live-Bait Squadron’.\n\nOn 21 August Keyes wrote to his superior, Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, warning him of the possible risks to these cruisers. By 17 September the note had reached the attention of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty. He met with Keyes and Tyrwhitt on 18 September whilst travelling to Scapa Flow to visit the Grand Fleet. In consultation with the First Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg, it was agreed that the cruisers should be withdrawn. A memo was drawn up stating:\n\n“The Bacchantes (the lead ship) ought not to continue on this beat. The risk to such ships is not justified by any service they can render.”\n\nVice Admiral Frederick Sturdee, chief of the admiralty war staff, objected to this, stating that while the cruisers should be replaced, there were no modern ships available that could operate during bad weather. An agreement was therefore made between Battenberg and Sturdee to leave the cruisers on station until the arrival of the new Arethusa class light cruisers of which only one had been completed and the remaining seven were still under construction.\n\nOn 17 September four cruisers, H.M.S. Euryalus, H.M.S. Aboukir, H.M.S. Hogue and H.M.S. Cressy, continued their patrol without destroyer escort. Bad weather had forced the destroyers to return to port. The patrol was normally under the command of Rear Admiral Campbell aboard H.M.S. Bacchantes but in his absence the command fell to Rear Admiral Christian on H.M.S. Euryalus, which he undertook along with his other duties. By 6:00 a.m. on 20 September H.M.S. Euryalus had to drop out and return to port due to lack of coal and weather damage to her wireless. The weather was too bad for Christian to transfer to another ship so he passed command to the next senior officer, Captain John Drummond on H.M.S. Aboukir. He failed to inform Drummond that he would have authority to order the destroyers back to sea if the weather improved.\n\nAt 6:30 a.m. on the morning of 21 September the weather had calmed and the ships were patrolling at 10 knots (19 km/h), line abreast, two miles apart. Patrols were meant to maintain 12-13 knots and zigzag. These old cruisers though were unable to maintain such a speed and the zigzagging order was widely ignored as there had been no submarines sighted in that area. Lookouts were however posted for submarine periscopes or ships and one gun either side of each ship was manned.\n\nEarly on 22 September 1914 the German submarine U9 sighted the Cressy, Aboukir and Hogue steaming NNE at 10 knots without zigzagging. U9 had a crew of 29 and was the most famous German submarine of the First World War. The U-boat’s commander, Kapitanleutnant Otto Weddigen, joined the German Navy in 1901 and became commander of a U-boat in 1911. Weddigen, had been ordered to attack British transport ships at Ostend, but had been forced to dive and shelter from the storm. He had passed by several British ships, including torpedo boats, as he was looking for “bigger game”. He could hardly believe his luck upon espying the “grey-black sides” of the cruisers “riding high over the water”.\n\nThe three cruisers formed a triangle and Weddigen could easily manoeuvre the U9 in to the centre, thereby enabling the submarine to strike any one of them.\n\nAt 6:25 a.m. the U9 fired a single torpedo at H.M.S. Aboukir from a range of 550 yards. This struck the cruiser on her starboard side, under one of her magazines which then exploded, hurling part of the vessel into the air. She suffered rapid heavy flooding and despite counter flooding developed a 20 degree list and engine power was lost. Captain Drummond assumed the Aboukir had struck a mine and so signalled the two other cruisers to close and assist. It was too late to order them away once he realised his mistake. When it became clear Aboukir could not be saved, Drummond ordered all hands to abandon her. Unfortunately only one boat had survived the attack so the crew were forced to jump into the sea. Less than half an hour after being attacked, the Aboukir capsized and sank. 557 men were lost.\n\nThe U9 fired two torpedoes at H.M.S. Hogue. They hit her amidships and her engine room was rapidly flooded. Her Captain, Wilmot Nicholson, had stopped the ship to lower rescue boats to aid the crew of the Aboukir. He had thought the Hogue would be safe in its position on the other side of the stricken Aboukir. The U9 had unfortunately moved around the Aboukir. It attacked Hogue from a range of only 300 yards.\n\nHaving fired a second torpedo, mortally wounding the Hogue, the U9 was forced to surface for a brief time. It was fired upon by the Hogue but received little damage. It took less than 20 minutes for the Hogue to sink and the U9 turned its attentions on H.M.S. Cressy.\n\nWeddigen described the men of the Cressy as being “brave and true to their country’s sea traditions”. The crew under Captain Johnson remained at their guns for as long as they could, searching the water for the U-boat and even attempting to run it down. Johnson ordered his crew to zigzag the Cressy as a defence, trying at the same time to assist the crews from the Aboukir and Hogue. The crew threw overboard all the loose timber on the Cressy to provide support for the men in the water.\n\nAt 7:20 a.m. the U9 fired two torpedoes at the Cressy from her stern torpedo tubes at a range of 1000 yards. One, of which the crew of the Cressy plainly saw the trail of as it approached them, struck on the starboard side. The other torpedo missed its target, so the submarine turned to face her one remaining bow torpedo towards Cressy. The remaining cruiser was listing but holding steady. The crew had already closed the watertight doors and scuttles when the U9 fired again at a range of 550 yards. This third torpedo proved fatal. It struck by the boiler room, which exploded. Within 25 minutes “in a cloud of dense black smoke” the Cressy rolled over to starboard and floated upside down until 7.55 a.m.\n\nDistress calls had been received by Commodore Tyrwhitt, who with the destroyer squadron was already at sea returning to the cruisers with the improvement of the weather. At 8.30 a.m. 286 men were rescued from the scene by ‘Flora’ a Dutch steamship which had seen the sinking of the cruisers. A second steamer ‘Titan’ rescued another 147 men. More were picked up by two trawlers ‘JGC’ and ‘Coriander’, before the destroyers arrived at 10:45 a.m.\n\nAfter the events of 22 September the remaining Cressy class ships were dispersed away from the British Isles and later disbanded. The reputation of the British Navy was badly shaken. It was hard to believe that such a thing could have been achieved with just one submarine. Admiral Christian was suspended on half pay for failing to make it clear to Drummond that he could summon the destroyers. He was later reinstated by Battenberg. Captain John Drummond was criticised for sailing in straight lines rather than zigzag and for not calling for destroyer support as soon as the weather improved. Rear Admiral Campbell was criticised for not being present and for a very poor performance at the inquiry at which he stated that he did not know what the purpose of his job was. The stopping of major ships in dangerous waters was banned and the order to steam at 13 knots and zigzag was re-emphasised.\n\nIf you can add anything to this story, if you knew the men or have photos please contact us." ]

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[ null, "Last week, it was reported that Apple had gained a number of allies in its battle against the US government over the San Bernardino iPhone. Many giants of the tech world, including big rivals Microsoft, are planning on filing a joint amicus brief supporting Apple in court. Yesterday, the Cupertino company got another boost when, in a similar case, a New York judge ruled that authorities can’t force Apple to unlock a suspect's iPhone.\n\nThe ruling, by US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein, comes as part of a separate trial that has been ongoing for the last few months. It involves Queens resident Jun Feng, who pleaded guilty to drug charges and had his iPhone 5s taken by DEA agents. Apple feared that the Department of Justice would invoke the All Writs Act to break Feng’s passcode, much like it intends to do in the San Bernardino case, but the judge ruled otherwise.\n\n“This matter [involving the San Bernardino shooter] is therefore one of a dozen pending cases in which the government and Apple disagree as to the court’s authority to command Apple to assist the government in defeating the passcode security of devices Apple has manufactured,” Judge Orenstein wrote.\n\nEchoing the views of Tim Cook and the many other tech names that are standing side-by-side with Apple, Judge Orenstein warned of the dangerous precedent that would be set if the DoJ did get its way. He also warned of the privacy issues that could arise in today’s connected society.\n\nIn a world in which so many devices, not just smartphones, will be connected to the Internet of Things, the government’s theory that a licensing agreement allows it to compel the manufacturers of such products to help it surveil the products’ users will result in a virtually limitless expansion of the government’s legal authority to surreptitiously intrude on personal privacy.\n\nOrenstein also rejected claims that Apple’s only concern in the case was public relations. He added that he found no limit on how far the government would go to require a person or company to violate the most deeply-rooted values.\n\nThe US government was, as you would expect, “disappointed” with the ruling. \"Apple expressly agreed to assist the government in accessing the data on this iPhone — as it had many times before in similar circumstances — and only changed course when the government's application for assistance was made public by the court,\" said Justice Department spokesperson Emily Pierce in a statement, quoted by USA today.\n\nWhile the San Bernardino case won’t be bound by the New York ruling, Judge Orenstein’s decision will no doubt have a huge influence on proceedings." ]

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[ "My grandmother is not well. Last week, her doctor told her she had only a few days to live. My mom immediately hopped on a plane to be with her. She’s still here, and for that I am thankful, but the thought of losing her led me to reflect on the ways she has touched my life. Grandparents, I’m sure we can all agree, are pretty amazing. I have three sets so I consider myself pretty lucky in that department. The way I see it, the world would be a much better place if we saw each other the way our grandparents see us. This post is dedicated to my grandmother.\n\nIf we saw people for who they really are", null, "My Oma and Opa are very Catholic. I remember going on camping trips with them and finding a nearby church on Sundays so we would not miss Mass. When I was ten, my Opa taught me prayers, in English and in German. You would think that very Catholic grandparents would have a hard time with a granddaughter who is gay. I certainly thought so. That is why I made my step-dad break the news without me. But my Oma and Opa surprised me. As my step-dad tells it, they didn’t even bat an eye. They said something like, “well that’s her business isn’t it” and then moved on. I don’t doubt that that is the truth because they have completely embraced by wife and tell everyone what nice young women we are after we visit.\n\nUnlike so many of us, my Oma and Opa didn’t see me as a collection of labels. They saw me as the girl they have known and loved for 21 years. And to them, being gay did not change who that girl was.\n\nThe world would be a better place if we too could see people for who they really are, and not a collection of stereotypes.\n\nWe all know that prejudice has a negative impact on those who experience it, so I won’t get into that. What I do want to share with you is a study that found that even “benevolent stereotypes” can cause harm. By benevolent stereotypes I mean the stereotypes that ascribe positive characteristics to certain people, like “poor but happy” or “women are nurturing and kind.” Researchers found that these positive stereotypes actually sustain the perception that inequality in society is fair and justified. For instance, after hearing positive gender stereotypes, women subjects were more likely to unconsciously justify gender inequality on the basis that each gender is “well-suited to specific roles.” In this way, benevolent stereotypes actually stifle social change and help maintain existing systems of inequality. Who knew?1\n\nIf we truly listened\n\nWhen I was 16, my parents got jobs in a new city. They planned to move the summer before my grade 12 year. For a 16 year old, this was the worst thing that could possibly happen. I had excelled at school and was highly involved in extra-curricular activities. I had a great group of friends and I was in love (high school is where I met my wife). I was also pretty shy back then so the thought of moving to a new school in a different city where no one knew who I was was terrifying. I was devastated to think that I would be eating alone in the cafeteria the year I should have been celebrating my graduation.", null, "That spring my grandmother came to visit. In the few days she was with us, I spent hours confiding in her about the move. I told her about my dreams of university and scholarships and how I didn’t know if they would come true in a new school. I told her about my sadness to leave my friends and community. I told her about my fear of eating alone in the cafeteria. And she listened. And then she went to my mother and made the case for me to stay behind. Ultimately, my mother agreed and I had a wonderful graduation year.\n\nMy grandmother could have easily dismissed my concerns as silly or childish, but she didn’t. I will forever be grateful to my grandmother for listening to me without judgment. Not only do I have wonderful memories to thank her for, but I also have my wife who may not have stayed in my life had we not had that extra year together.\n\nThe world would be a better place if we too could truly listen to each other without judgment.\n\nWhen we listen with an open mind we build trust and respect, reduce tension and create a safe environment that is conducive to collaboration and problem-solving. We increase the speaker’s self-esteem and confidence and we elicit openess.2 I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that listening is essential for community building and positive social change.\n\nIf we were generous", null, "My other grandma, the one on my father’s side, is one of the most generous people I know. When my sister and I were kids, she would bake dozens of cookies before every visit in each of our favourite varieties. She would keep them in tins on the lowest shelf so that even as kids, we could always reach them. She and my grandpa would also stock their kitchen with all our favourite treats, even the gross ones that they would be stuck with after we went home. We never left their house without twice as much luggage as we came with, whether it be treats, canned goods, knitted clothes or crafts.\n\nMy grandma is also generous with her time. She is the one who taught me how to knit three times and crochet twice because I kept forgetting the technique between visits. When my grandpa got dementia, she took care of him from home until the end, despite the toll it was taking on her own physical and mental health.\n\nThe world would be a better place if we too could be so generous.\n\nThe research is clear that generosity makes people happy. Giving has been linked to the release of oxytocin, a hormone that induces feelings of warmth, euphoria, and connection to others. It is also linked to the feeling of empathy toward others. And generosity is surprisingly contagious. Studies show that when one person behaves generously, it inspires observers to behave generously later, toward different people. This can spur a ripple effect of generosity through the community. Because of this effect, each person in a network can influence dozens or even hundreds of people, some of whom he or she does not know and has never met.3\n\nA teacher in Coquitlam decided to test these theories in her classroom. The result was beyond her wildest dreams. The experiment is summed up in this short video. If you have a few minutes to spare, I highly recommend watching it. I cry every time.\n\nI still have five of my six grandparents and I know that makes me luckier than most. But lately I’ve been so involved in my own life that I’ve forgotten to be grateful. The news about my grandmother was an abrupt reminder that my grandparents won’t be around forever, so I need to appreciate them and learn as much as I can about the special way they see the world.\n\nI’m sure everyone has stories about how their grandparents have touched their lives, so please share, I’d love to hear them.", null, "Hi, I’m Kaity and this is my social justice blog. I decided to start writing this blog to draw attention to pervasive inequalities in Canada and to inspire positive social change. Feel free to read more about me on my About and My Story pages." ]

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[ "Who are the two witnesses, and what is their purpose?\n\nWhat happens to the two witnesses in the book of Revelation.\n\n1. John was instructed to measure the temple and the altar, but not the outer court, meaning he was to measure the holy place and the holy of holies. While others could come into the outer court, only priests could enter into two temple rooms. The explanation was given that this would be under the control of the Gentiles, who would trample on the holy city for 42 months. The times of the Gentiles (Luke 21:24) will not end until the second coming of Christ to the earth to set up His Kingdom. Though Jews may possess Jerusalem temporarily, as they have in this century, they will lose possession in the Great Tribulation.\n\n2. At the same moment of the rapture of the two witnesses an earthquake occurred in Jerusalem, with 1/10 of the city collapsing and 7,000 people being killed. The survivors were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. So ended the second woe, leaving only the seventh trumpet, the final and third woe, to come. Though the full results from the sounding of the seventh trumpet are only introduced here, and not brought to finality (as they will be in chap 16), the introduction of the seventh trumpet is dramatic. As the trumpet sounded, voices were heard in heaven: “the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever. (Cf. predictions of the earthly kingdom of Christ in Ezek 21:26-27; Dan 2:35, 44; 4:3; 6:26; 7:14, 26 -27; Zech 14:9). The fact that this will be fulfilled at the Second Coming makes it clear that the period of the seventh trumpet chronologically reaches to Christ’s return. Therefore, the seventh trumpet introduces and includes the seven bowl judgments of the wrath of God revealed in chapter 16. In contrast with previous trumpets where a single voice was heard, here a mighty chorus from heaven joined in the proclamation.\n\nA. 11:1. “the temple of God.” Apparently the temple that will be built during the Tribulation, in which Jewish worship will be carried on during the first part of that seven-year period and in which, at the midpoint, the man of sin will exalt himself to be worshipped (2 Thes 2:4).\n\nB. 11:2. “forty-two months.” This equals 3 1/2 years and probably refers to the last of the tribulation period during which Jerusalem will be under some sort of Gentile (the nations) control. Thus, “the times of the Gentiles” (see Luke 21:24) will not conclude until the end of the Tribulation.\n\nC. 11:3. “1260 days.” This also equals 3 1/2 years and refers to the period of the ministry of the two witnesses. Whether the two witnesses will prophesy during the first half or the last half of the Tribulation is not stated, though the first half seems more likely, since their termination by Antichrist (v 7) fits better at the midpoint of the Tribulation than at the end.\n\nG. 11:8. “the great city.” I.e., Jerusalem, which in these coming days will be like “Sodom” (filled with perverted sex) and “Egypt” (persecuting God’s people).\n\nH. 11:9-10. So corrupt are peoples’ hearts that they will refuse burial and have a 3 1/2 day celebration of Antichrist’s victory over the two witnesses.\n\nI. 11:11. “and they stood on their feet.” Imagine the effect the resurrection of these two men will have on those who, only the moment before, were viewing their corpses in the street or were watching TV news!\n\nK. 11:15. The end is near enough now that the announcement of it can be made.\n\nL. 16-19.The announcement evokes praise from the “elders” (vv 16-17) and anger from the “nations;” and soon will come judgment on the “dead” and the rewarding of the “saints.”\n\nV. My Bucket List shows the references, of people and documents, that I use when I write my articles; you can find it in my list of Pages.", null ]

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[ "Participatory Planning Around the World: Part 3 of 3\n\nIn order to have a coherent ecosystem, there needs to be porosity in the interactions between different communities. You know city planning is moving in the right direction when the immediate challenges of the locals are addressed, by understanding them at a grass root level.\n\nPlanners are experts in design with technical knowledge. Citizens are experts in local experiences and living environments. By mixing these two types of knowledge we can attain the sweet spot of relevant planning.\n\nPreviously we talked about the basics of participatory planning, its importance and challenges. We also threw light on how we, at UDC, go about practicing it; and the numerous participatory workshops conducted in collaboration with several agencies.\n\nThere is no single way to go about it. And there is no right or wrong, as long as the method involves immersive community engagement, and the objective is planning through local empowerment.", null, "For example, The Montreal Urban Ecology Center was founded to enable participatory sustainable development. The center works towards raising awareness among citizens about urban issues like urban planning, neighbourhood revitalization, community and economic development, etc. In turn, it initiates various green and urban development projects that encourage active citizen involvement. One such initiative is the Quartiers Verts, Actifs et en Santé (QVAS) project, launched in 2008. The objective was to transform four Montreal neighbourhoods into safer, warmer places, with active transportation and ease of traffic, and overall better quality of life. They approached this project through a three-planning process – understanding the issues and limitations, exploring the possible development solutions, and creating a vision for the neighbourhood. Citizen participation was promoted by providing relevant data like statistics, surveys, plans, knowledge of best practices, etc. And the citizens and stakeholders were encouraged to contribute.\n\nThe project brought about positive sustainable development to the neighbourhoods and saw hundreds of active participants.\n\nBut participatory planning and development can also be implemented on a larger scale. In Indonesia, it is the national government that is driving citizen involved development.\n\nEarlier in Indonesia the planning development process was highly bureaucratic. After reforms to the process in the late 1990’s, it was opened up to the people, making development more inclusive. The objective behind this shift was to make governance transparent, accountable and effective, and promote active citizenship. Musrenbang (participatory planning and budgeting) was first launched in 2000 as a pilot project in two cities and one municipality. After observing fairly positive results Musrenbang was implemented across Indonesia. The process is applied broadly in the same way with a similar approach. But from city to city the method varies depending on the local context and requirement. The fundamental process includes identifying cities for Musrenbang, informing and inviting the citizens, setting up participatory forums to understand the priorities, discussing the various proposals based on the needs, reviewing the proposals, and gaining approval from the local bodies. Since Musrenbang is led by the national government, many innovations and steps are taken to improve the functionality and effectiveness. For example, an E-Musrenbang website was introduced that not only provided information, but also showed the list of proposals being made. Even the challenges with participatory budgeting were tackled in various ways. One method was giving the community a block grant, a small amount of the budget, allowing the people to decide how to utilize it to develop their neighbourhood. This mechanism helped empower the citizens and improved the confidence in the government. Another method is Indicative Budget Ceiling, which is a predetermined budget set for a certain district. The community is informed of the ceiling before the participatory forum begins. This helps keep the discussions and proposals realistic and prioritizing the immediate needs.\n\nIn spite of these efforts, both top-down and bottom-up, there have been proposals that did not reach fruition. One of the reasons is that some of the proposals were not in synchrony with the greater vision of development. Due to lack of awareness and knowledge many participants could not recognize the priorities and immediate need. Another reason is the lack of clarity in the procedure after the Musrenbang. Sometimes after the approval of the proposal, it simply fizzles away with time due to inaction. Apart from these roadblocks, the participatory process has been making slow and steady change.", null, "The Epworth upgrading in Zimbabwe is another example of development through the participatory approach. Epworth is one of the largest informal settlements in Zimbabwe. And the task of upgrading it through the involvement of the communities has been taken up by Dialogue on Shelter for the Homeless in Zimbabwe Trust. The objective is to formalize the settlement by in-situ slum upgrading and with as little disruption as possible, through the process of community engagement. What makes this project interesting is the use of GIS for participatory mapping. With the help of GIS systems the locals are encouraged to map their areas. The members from the Epworth Local Board help the locals or educate them on how to use these maps. Some of the aspects taken into account are the orientation of buildings, existing physical conditions, density of settlements, socio-economic situation, etc. The map also allows the community to develop a proposed infrastructure layout that superimposes on the existing scenario to keep disruption at minimum.\n\nThe Epworth project is still underway. But the success of this approach will see it being replicated in other parts of Zimbabwe as well.\n\nParticipatory planning, as utopian is it may seem in theory, is not all hunky-dory in practice. Having said that, in the broader spectrum, the struggle and effort is worth it because it takes into account the best interests of all the stakeholders. And this will only lead to relevant and sustainable development in the long run.\n\n« Building Capacity for Participation: Part 2 of 3\n“Your Fly Is Down!!!” – That & Other Important Things You Should Know While Teaching A Class… »", null, null ]

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[ null, "OK, please help me out on this one! The U.S. Justice Department strips a white man [former Bosnian Serb Soldier] of his U.S. citizenship because he served in a Bosnian Brigade. The former military soldier has been forced to leave America because he unlawfully procured U.S. citizenship and made false statements to gain entry into U.S.\n\nWell if that doesn’t beat all! What the hell kind of government do you people in America operate? You let over fifty million illegal mexicans walk into the United States over the past twenty four years [after Reagan Amnesty 1986] without being questioned and given a job. What the hell is that all about?\n\nGood Help for America deported!\nTo add insult to injury [illegal alien invasion] illegal mexicans are shooting and killing Americans almost everyday on the border. Well, if not everyday at least more than we want to bear. But the United States is ashamed of the Bosnian Soldier for killing people in a real war and deports him. This is an amazing and illiterate action by the Justice Department to go after “one” former soldier of war instead of going after a pool of millions of illegal mexicans. If there was any intelligence on the part of the Justice Department they should enlist this Bosnian soldier as a border patrol officer on the U.S. –mexico border.", null, "So what are you going to do America? Send away those who want to help build America for America, or continue to honor those who will kill, cheat, steal, lie, bribe and break every federal law possible to gain entry into the American system of resources. Anchor babies on the left, Jackpot babies on the right, and illegal mexicans pouring in from the middle. But the U.S. Department of Justice would rather turn a blind eye to illegal mexicans who may very possibly be low paid terrorist than to allow real legal immigrants to earn their citizenship and help protect America.\n\nReally Dumb Leader!The oval office clown of 2008-2016 didn't have the intelligence needed in the area of national security for America, or rather was complicit in allowing his Islamic cousins to cross the southern border with illegal mexicans. Proof of national security neglect of the 2008-2016 oval office muslim was easily illustrated in his decision NOT to AUTHORIZE a mere additional 1,200 military soldiers to our southern border which is venerable to infiltration of millions of illegal aliens each year. There are a couple of million American volunteers that would secure the border for free if given the authorization. I’m sure the Bosnian soldier would be grateful also for the opportunity to earn his citizenship in serving on the U.S. mexican border as an official border patrol sniper. He could easily prove his worth to America a thousand fold.\n\nFuture Enemy?Now America has created a double dilemma by denying the Bosnian soldier American citizenship. He will now offer his services [mercenary] to the enemies of the U.S. and reenter the U.S. through the Mexican border and carry out terrorist actions. In addition he will be bringing his new found illegal mexican friends with him. Can you blame him?" ]

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[ null, "Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Britain's Prince Charles arrive for the formal opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace in London on April 19, 2018. (AFP Photo)\nby reuters\nApr 19, 2018 12:00 am\n\nBritain's Queen Elizabeth said on Thursday she hoped her son and heir Prince Charles would take on leadership of the Commonwealth, answering some who argue the position should be rotated around member states.\n\n\"It is my sincere wish that the Commonwealth will continue to offer stability and continuity for future generations and will decide that one day the Prince of Wales should carry on the important work started by my father in 1949,\" the queen said at the formal opening of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.\n\nThe meeting, taking place in Britain for the first time in 20 years, is seen as a chance to reconnect with former British colonies and revitalize the loose alliance of 53 Commonwealth countries ahead of Brexit.\n\nThe Commonwealth evolved out of the British empire in the mid-20th century, and the Queen has been its head since her reign began in 1952.\n\nThe question of who will follow Britain's 91-year-old monarch into the role was raised in the run-up to the summit. The leader of Britain's opposition party suggested on Sunday the position should be rotated around the members.\n\nPrime minister Theresa May also spoke at the opening ceremony and paid glowing tribute to the queen's \"service, dedication and constancy\" in the role. May will lobby for Charles to be the queen's successor when the issue is discussed over the next two days.\n\nPrince Charles, 69, also made an informal pitch for the role in his remarks at the event in Buckingham Palace: \"For my part, the Commonwealth has been a fundamental feature of my life for as long as I can remember.\"" ]

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[ null, "Human beings have different psychological setting and this is the primary reason to their different interpretation of information. The Bible is read by many people and each of them has different and unique interpretation of the content. This paper will examine the different genres and figures of speech as discussed in the Introduction to Biblical Interpretation chapter 9 and 10.\n\nThe Bible is a book yes but it is more complicated and if not well interpreted it can lead to misinterpretation of the message intended. Narrative is one of the genres found in the Bible. Kaiser in Richard W. Engle (2000) suggests some of the primary elements to be considered while analyzing the biblical narrative. According to Kaiser, analysis of biblical narrative should be based on the following elements; scene, plot, point of view, characterization and the setting (Dr. Richard W. Engle 90).\n\nScene: a scene is defined as a frame (Richard W. Engle, 2000). It shows and defines what characters do and it also explains the words used by the characters. Just like any other literary work, the Bible also has scenes. The bible has various characters and God included as He is mostly mentioned in the Bible. The interpreter should identify the scenes and propose a summary statement for each of the scenes (Richard W. Engle 90).\n\nPlot: each and every story narrated by a narrator must have plot. Every story develops into various stages that make the plot of the story. According to Richard (2000), the plot of a story is developed into; comparative serenity, conflict and lastly the climax of the story where the conflict is resolved. For example, Richard states that the hero in the story enhances the resolution after which the story returns to serenity (Richard W. Engle 90). Richard gives an example from the book of Genesis from the story of Abraham and his son Isaac. The story begins with God demanding a sacrifice from Abraham and not only any animal but his (Abrahams) son. The climax of the story develops when Abraham is shown the lamb to sacrifice instead of his son. The conflict is resolved when Abraham offers the lamb provided to him by the Angel and returns home with his son (Gen 22:5, 19).\n\nThe Bible is made up of different authors and at different times. Some of the books were meant to praise God and a good example of the book is the book of psalms is majorly songs. According to Richard W. Engle (2000) Psalms 22 shows the dramatic moods. Verse 1-22 show many marks common to many complaint or lament psalms (Richard W. Engle 96). These verses were mostly used by people to show their appreciation to God. Most of people refer to these verses as songs of individual thanksgiving (Richard W. Engle 96). Songs are mostly identified by the moods and the atmosphere of the text. Richard (2000) states that the public and private reading should offer the audience the opportunity to join in the reading with the moods and atmosphere of the psalms.\n\nProphecies were written in the Old Testament. According to Richard (2000), the prophecies in the Old Testament took various forms of expression. This includes; the autobiography form which gives the visionary reports. Another form that the prophecies take includes prophetic sayings. According to Richard (2000), the prophetic sayings can be divided further into judgment oracles that can either be directed to an individual; examples of the books addressed to individual include 1 king 21:18-19 and Isaac 22: 15-25 or nations; an example of the books addressed to the nations include Amos 4:1-2 and Micah 2:1.\n\nMost of the scholars have always tried to separate Apocalyptic as a single and distinctive genre of literature in the Bible. Apocalyptic shows the dreams and visions given to people by God. In determining Apocalyptic as one of the literary genres, one must consider the characteristics associated by the genre. These features include; metaphor, simile, hyperbole and repetition.\n\nRichard gives some of the examples of the Biblical books that are associated with the apocalyptic genre. These include: Daniel 7-12, Ezekiel 38-39, Joel 2:28, Zechariah 1-6, 12-14, Mathew 24 (Richard W. Engle 93). However, Richard further argues that all the apocalyptic features cannot be found in a single passage.\n\nThe Bible has been viewed as literary work and therefore it has literary elements such as figures of speech. These include: metaphors- these compare two different ideas by stating the difference between the ideas or things. For example, Anne W. Stewart (2015) states that proverbs 11:30 gives an example of the metaphors, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. Metaphors are mostly known to explain meaningful information.\n\nSecondly, personification is another figure of speech employed in the Bible. It is more evident in the book of proverbs. For example, Proverbs 1-9 explains feminist feature through poems. Personification helps to develop wisdom and values that is highly acceptable in the society such as love, determination and hard work.\n\nAnother figure of speech is simile. Similes are types of figure of speech that compares two ideas or two things with use of like or as. For example, in the book of proverbs 1:3 compares the wickedness of people with wind that blows away. The teaching of God is like a tree planted by stream of water, (Ann W. Stewart 2015).\n\nWord play is another figure of speech evident in the Bible. Word play is the repetition of certain words or sentences to appeal the readers eye. Word play is mostly used to show the ironical point of view. For example, proverbs 12:5 explain the two ironical terms deceit and justice. One must be careful in reading to avoid misinterpretation of the information intended.\n\nIn conclusion, most of the genres in the Bible mostly used in the Old Testament and mainly consisted of hidden meaning and most of these contradict the New Testament. Therefore, it required high attention and keen synthesize of the message to avoid misinterpretation of the message.\n\nLiterary Essay Example: Biblical Genres and Figure of Speech. (2019, May 15). Retrieved from https://speedypaper.com/essays/biblical-genres-and-figure-of-speech\n\nPeople also read\nNeed an original essay on Literary Essay Example: Biblical Genres and Figure of Speech?\nOur professionals\ncan write it for you!\nOrder now\n24/7 online support\nNO plagiarism" ]

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[ null, "GCC and Saudi nationals and residents can buy shares\n\nArab Drilling Company’s IPO has generated an order book of SR162 billion ($43 billion) and resulted in a subscription of coverage of around 61 times of the total offered shares.\n\nIn September, the leading oil and gas drilling contractor in Saudi Arabia, announced its intention to offer 30 per cent ($712 million) of its issued share capital to the public through and listing its shares on the Saudi exchange Tadawul.\n\nSaudi nationals, foreign residents in the Kingdom and GCC nationals were allowed to subscribe for shares in the retail offering between October 18 and 19 at the final price 100 riyals ($26.6) a share, implying a market capitalisation of SR8.9 billion ($2.4 billion) at listing.\n\nThe company along with Goldman Sachs Saudi Arabia, HSBC Saudi Arabia and SNB Capital Company, as joint financial advisors, has announced the successful completion of the participating parties’ book-building process in compliance with the guidelines of the Capital Market Authority (CMA).\n\nGhassan Mirdad, CEO of Arabian Drilling, said the investment case was robust, and the demand for company shares had ensured a successful institutional fundraising phase. \"We now look forward to onboarding the retail investors, who make up a core and important element of our offering and shareholdings.\"\n\nArab Drilling Company’s specialises in both onshore and offshore drilling with a fleet size of 45 rigs serving four key clients and operating principally in KSA.\n\nThe company has plans to grow and expand further into the GCC.\n\nTrading of the offer shares will commence after all relevant legal requirements and procedures have been fulfilled.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The last of England\n\nOut of 5 stars The book 'the last of England' by Derek Jarman Reviewed in the United States on June 3, It is important to distinguish the book (excluding the soft cover book, as it lacks The last of England book photos that bring the text to life) from the by: 7.\n\nLast of England. London, Oxford U.P., (OCoLC) Document Type. Get this from a library. The last of England?. [Randall Stevenson] -- \"English Literature in the s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade.\n\nJulian Rathbone's The Last English King () is probably the most memorable historical fiction I’ve ever read. 'The last English King' of the title is Harold Godwinson, of course, but Rathbone tells the story of the Norman Conquest of England (in AD, for our overseas readers) from the point of view of Walt, a simple member of King Harold’s personal bodyguard/5.\n\nThe Last of England also tells the story of the artist, Ford Madox Brown. Inhe was \"intensely miserable, very hard up and not a little mad\". The main figures are portraits of Brown and his.\n\nThe Last of England is an oil-on-panel painting by Ford Madox Brown depicting two emigrants leaving England to start a new life in Australia with their baby. The painting has an oval format and is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Buy That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket by Henderson, Michael (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store.\n\nCreate Book: All Authors / Contributors: Ted Walker. Find more information about: ISBN: OCLC Number: Description. The Last Kingdom is based on a series of novels by Bernard Cornwell.\n\nHis 11 books tell the story of Uhtred of Bebbanburg; a part Saxon/part Viking character who's fictional in all but name and title. Uhtred was a name found in the ancestor’s family tree and little.\n\nDescription The last of England EPUB\n\nA film by Derek Jarman Starring Tilda Swinton. The book and to a lesser extent the film are very much in the tradition of Roland Barthes Camera Lucida, Susan Sontag's On Photography, Jeanette Winterson's Art Objects and to a lesser extent John Berger's Ways of Seeing in that he has used the deeply familiar and personal as a vehicle for dialogue about art and contemporary by: Simon Fisher Turner, Andy Gill.\n\nHardcover edition. It covers the period from to in /5. Buy The Last of England 1st by Jarman, Derek, Hirst, David L. (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible : Derek Jarman.\n\nBuy The Last Of England New edition by Walker, Ted (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. If you want to get a sense of the larger patterns to be found in the kaleidoscope of recent and contemporary writing then this book is a very good place to start.\n\n* Stefan Collini, The Guardian Review * The Last of England. is serious, thoughtful and useful. Thomas Costain 4 book series on England's Plantagenet Dynasty is a must read for history enthusiasts.\n\nI would go so far as using it as an introduction to English history. Why. these books,of which The Last Plantagenets is the fourth, read more like novels than a dry chronicle of events. Many accuse the author of bias. This is true to an by: 2. The Netflix series seems to follow the same philosophy.\n\nUltimately, The Last Kingdom's primary goal is to entertain and remain faithful to Cornwell's book series. Cornwell is passionate about. The House of Plantagenet (/ p l æ n ˈ t æ dʒ ə n ɪ t /) was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France.\n\nTo really get an idea of what a country is like you need to meet the locals, explore your surroundings and experience daily life. But if you’re planning a trip to England and want a taste of what to expect, there is another way – through the pages of a good book. England has been inspiring writers forever, so whether it’s a celebration of the beautiful countryside, social commentary on.\n\nDirected by Derek Jarman. With Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur. The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose.\n\nA dark meditation on London under Thatcher. The book is only described as a second edition if significant changes are made to the copy.\n\nDetails The last of England FB2\n\nIn collecting terms, a general definition of 1st edition book would be a work's first commercially available appearance in book form, printed with the original setting of type. The first time a publisher releases a new book, all copies of that book.\n\nBefore \"The last of England\" there was \"The Angelic conversation\", with mesmerising music by Coil, showing in slow motion young men, lovers perhaps, walking, watching, touching, carressing, ultimately just being together, with well-voiced actress Judy Dench dropping a Shakespeare sonnet every now and then.\n\nThis show is Violent, Gritty, Dark, Exciting. Follow the show. Cast. The thirteenth book of The Last Kingdom series will be published in the UK on 15 October and in the US on 20 November An extract of the book is available below. An impressionistic portrait of decaying lates Britain by avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman, THE LAST OF ENGLAND is an obscure and highly personal mixture of poetry, music, overlapping dialogue 60%.\n\nThis book was entitled \"The Last Englishman\" because he was the last Englishman of the season to leave the PCT.\n\nThe book is pretty well written. Very few editing errors as in previous ebook versions of these PCT and AT books/5().The Last Family in England by Haig, Matt and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at Directed by Michael Mann." ]

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[ null, "A new Post in Connecticut is stocked with young vets. It could be, as its commander claims, VFW’s youngest.\n\nWhen Charlie Pickett moved to Connecticut in 2011 to attend college, the veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan wanted to transfer his VFW membership to a Post in New Haven, the state’s second-largest city. Surprisingly, there were none.\n\nPickett says past and current Department commanders Greg Smith and Bob Bailey, respectively, encouraged him to start one himself. After a 10-week recruiting drive conducted earlier this year during Pickett’s spring college semester, the Post was chartered in April.\n\nNow, Post 12150 counts 46 members, and it may be the prototype VFW Post of the future. Only three of its members are older than 50. Two of those are Vietnam War vets and one is a 1991 Persian Gulf War vet. The rest are all Iraq and/or Afghanistan veterans.\n\n“Many of our members are still serving in the Connecticut Army National Guard,” Pickett said. “Arguably, the VFW Post in New Haven is the youngest Post in the oldest major war veterans organization in America.”\n\nPickett, 48, served as a staff sergeant with the 814th Multi-Role Bridge Co., 46th Engineer Bn., in Iraq in 2007 and Afghanistan in 2010. He has a master’s degree in English from Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU), a school from which the Post has recruited several members. Pickett says that connection helped with recruiting.\n\n“Then the New Haven fire and police departments jumped in, then I made contacts with the other local colleges and they sent out an e-mail blast. So it was getting the word out, marketing to different groups and having a message that resonated with younger veterans.”\n\n“Sgt. 1st Class Michael Finnegan seemingly recruited half of the state’s Guardsmen this way,” Pickett said. “The best way a college with veterans, a friend of the Post or a member can support a forming Post is to spread the word through personal contact or an e-mail blast to a group.”\n\n“SVA is conduit to vets who might not realize VFW’s value to them,” he said. “Offer to address the weekly SVA meeting even if it’s only three undergraduates. Leave business cards and a poster. Make sure to take a selfie and post your visit on Facebook.”\n\nAs commander of a new Post with many young members, Pickett says he is confident VFW will “evolve to avoid extinction.”\n\nHe wants his own Post to eventually provide “a strong volunteer presence” at the West Haven VA Medical Center, “embrace” VFW youth and education programs like Patriot’s Pen and support veterans and their families.\n\n“I would like to see VFW New Haven as a fully-realized Post, one that is very much a part of New Haven,” he said. “I would like to see it as a destination Post, one that draws members from Connecticut and the Northeast to partake of some camaraderie, share a meal and perhaps enjoy the view of New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound. We know we have to offer a real value to active and passive members so they will continue their support.”\n\nFor now, Pickett is establishing the Post’s non-profit and tax-exempt status, bonding the quartermaster and raising money for a Post flag to display in next year’s greater New Haven St. Patrick’s Day Parade.\n\nHe says he’s learned a lot while establishing the Post.\n\n“The ‘friends network’ was the best way to reach young veterans,” said the aspiring high-school teacher. “By leveraging traditional and social media, as well as targeted online advertising, we were able to reach this segment.”", null, null, null ]

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[ null, null, "Sony is preparing a surprise for fans of racing simulator Gran Turismo 5 . January 18 the company plans to release not only update the game to version 2.03, but a couple of downloadable add-ons.\n\nAs for the update 2.03, it adds to the game to new versions of Paint and wallpaper, as well as fix minor bugs. No major innovations can be expected." ]

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[ null, "Over the years, I have often heard and read about the benefits of a juice cleanse. All this time, I’ve dismissed it as simply too mar fan (troublesome) – after all, I could just eat healthier or just have fruit and veggies directly for most of the day.\n\nStill, when I heard about the popular 3-day juice cleanse from Punch Detox that’s designed for our busy city lifestyles, I was intrigued.\n\nThe benefits of clearing out the toxins of overindulgence sound great – and I definitely overindulge on an ongoing basis – meat aplenty, cakes in abundance, desserts, pasta and lots of thick (white) toast. In fact, I have to force myself to bring a little box of steamed veggies to work almost every day, otherwise I’d never have vegetables since I’d generally avoid ordering them when I go out for meals. Some of the more well-known cleanse benefits include clearer skin and more energy, increased sensitivity in taste buds and a boost to the immune system and – some weight loss. I didn’t need further convincing – while I could fit into all my pre-preggie clothes, being thinner is always an ongoing agenda.\n\nAll in all, Punch’s proposition of having prepared-for-you, completely organic and utterly nutritious juices delivered to my doorstep and emerging with a better (inside and hopefully outside) body after three days was definitely appealing.\n\nI planned the cleanse for the week after my weekend holiday in Bangkok (which meant non-stop noshing for 72 hours) – a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday cleanse. On Monday, the bottles arrived in three grey cooler bags – one for each day – promptly in the late afternoon. There are six different bottles of juice a day across the three days of the cleanse.\n\nDay 0 – Monday\nPunch recommends that you ease into the cleanse with cutting out meat, caffeine and booze a couple of days before. I don’t do alcohol or coffee so that was a breeze, but had to cut down on my several tea lattes and black teas that I usually have over the course of a day. Now, meat – that was going to be harder, so I had to force myself to have a veggie wrap (haloumi, portobello and rocket) at lunch and went home for er… chicken curry (but tried to have only a few pieces…) with lovely crusty bread… white bread….\n\nDay 1 Tuesday\nI always have great timing, and thus, it turns out I’d completely forgotten that the first day of my cleanse was a public holiday, and a family day at Lamma island with the kiddo had been planned. Not the best day to kickoff a cleanse considering there would probably be several large meals… but I was committed and feeling determined. Brought the juices along for the day with extra ice packs to ensure their freshness – the cooler bags provided were handy indeed. I was able to easily resist the large lunch complete with dim sum and several snacks over the course of the day that everyone else was happily tucking into – and busied myself with feeding the boy his very healthy home-prepared meals instead.\n\nStrangely, my stomach felt empty-ish, expectedly, but I wasn’t craving any particular foods, although we passed by lots of stalls hawking all manners of snacks. I did find myself very very looking forward to the next juice, and to the next juice – generally 2.5 hours apart.\n\nI did do a permitted “cheat” with fresh coconut juice from a kiosk on the island, and it tasted soooo good.\n\nLong day, and Punch recommends that early sleep is important during the cleanse, so after the kiddo went to bed at 7pm, I called it a night shortly afterwards.\n\nDay 2 Wednesday\nBack at work.\n\nInterestingly, by day two, I already found that the day had acquired a bit of a rhythm – I’d wake up, have a cup of warm water with lemon and then start on the first juice on the way to work around half eight in the morning. I was able to make it from juice to juice quite easily without feeling terribly hungry, with plenty of water and herbal tea in between. I must have had at least ten toilet breaks! which was great as it meant the toxins were hopefully being flushed flushed flushed out.\n\nTo distract myself from potential hunger pangs and beckoning food during lunch, I took a stroll across Victoria Park instead of wandering around the many eateries in the vicinity.\n\nDay 2 Thursday\nThird and last day! I wasn’t hungry, and didn’t miss food from a hunger perspective. But – I definitely missed eating, and I missed the social-ness of eating. I kept on drinking the juices the same way like the previous two days, with plenty of (warm) water and herbal tea in between.\n\nA rumble or two emitted from my tummy but otherwise, I simply moved from juice to juice and time flew by as I busied with work.\n\nI still tried to go to bed early, and managed to do so before 10pm. Nice.\n\nDay 4 Friday – the day after the cleanse\nYay! The day I get to chew again!\n\nThe emails from Punch that arrive regularly in your mailbox with cheery encouragement and details about the benefits you’re experiencing advise that on Day 4, the first day after the cleanse, one should be vegetarian – vegan, really, as dairy shouldn’t be introduced until a couple of days later. So I went to Mana! and picked up the Bliss flat, which I had mid-morning and early afternoon. Had a light dinner of steamed egg and vegetables (no rice), and went to bed feeling virtuous.\n\nHow the juices tasted\nI found all the juices pretty palatable – if not downright delicious. The Green Punch (Parsley, cucumber, green apple, kale, celery, bitter gourd, spirulina) was the most vegetable based one and I often have beetroot juice straight up so the Red Punch (Beetroot, carrot, red apples, ginger, orange, goji berries) was pretty much familiar. I enjoyed the bits of watermelon pulp in the Fruit Punch (Pineapple, watermelon, lime, acai berry), which was really nicely rounded out by the tartness of the pineapple and lime.\n\nThe last two juices were my favourite, and I found myself looking forward (somewhat rather obsessively as you can imagine) all day to them – Gazpuncho (Tomatoes, cucumber, garlic, cilantro, cayenne pepper, sea salt, apple cider vinegar, extra virgin cold-pressed olive oil) was the only savoury juice. It was a chilled tomato soup, chunky and tangy with bits of lovely cilantro and cucumber that added a nice crunch and I had that from a bowl as Punch suggested.\n\nThe last one of the day – Nut Punch (Raw cashews, raw almonds, agave nectar, sea salt, filtered water) was a creamy, nutty one with a deliciously grainy texture that I savoured greedily two hours before bed – hey, even though I was filled with the goodness of juice, it’s definitely not the same as having a full dinner of meat and carbs.\n\nAnd afterwards\nA flatter tummy, new bounce in my step and my skin had a subtle glow to it. It felt great that I made it through the three days without having to constantly yank my heart and mind away from cheese, pasta and meat. And cake.\n\nThe main takeaway I experienced is really just being a whole lot more cognizant about what goes into my mouth. I was actively reminded of how much food – the eating and thinking and planning – features obsessively in my everyday life. Very essentially for me, the cleanse made me realise how little it takes to feel, if not full, then no longer hungry. For someone who overeats on an ongoing basis because I’m madly in love with food and eating (and that isn’t going to change), it was an important learning.\n\nI’m now thinking of doing a cleanse on a regular basis; if not a full 3-day one, then at least several days’ worth of replacing at least a meal a day with my favourite Punch juices.\n\nCharmaine considers gluttony the most beautiful sin, and enjoys exemplifying it as she goes about her daily activities. Luckily for her, she currently lives in Hong Kong, the purported greatest city in Asia for everything to do with food (it’s a close fight with Singapore, where she was born and bred). These days she can be found (over)eating, thinking of what and where to eat next, and attempting various recipes in her kitchen." ]

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[ "Last month it was announced that Picnik – the online photo editing software that Google bought in 2010 – was closed. No more could you enjoy the special tools it brought to the table like framing your pictures or adding ‘stickers’ (little clip art) or wrinkle removal, or shine-be-gone. Picnik fans were very disappointed.\n\nBut wait … reports of Picnik’s death may have been greatly exaggerated! Have you noticed the extra 2 tabs of effects in Picasa 3.9? Most of those features were taken from Picnik. And, if you use Picasa Web Albums, or Google+ to share your photos online you have the online editing features called ‘Creative Kit.’ Creative Kit is Google’s reincarnation of Picnik – for Google photo products. They’ve reorganized it, streamlined it, and made it faster.", null, "The surprising thing is that the Picasa desktop software still has an Edit in Picnik button – and it works! It sure looks exactly like Creative Kit to me (the 3 stars is the logo for creative kit), but all the labels still read ‘Picnik.’ So, if you have resisted upgrading to Picasa 3.9 because you didn’t want your ‘Edit in Picnik’ button to go away – fear not! It is still there, and it works better (faster) than ever. (5/17/12 note: I just downloaded the latest update to Picasa and the button now correctly reads “Edit in Creative Kit” – that’s build 136.02)", null, "It doesn’t have all the features that Picnik had. For example, I know a lot of people liked the special redeye removal for furry friends – I can’t find that feature anymore. But, other things, like ‘Wrinkle removal’ have just changed names … it’s ‘airbrush’ now. And, ‘Teeth whitener’ may be gone, but you can accomplish the same thing with ‘Face Paint’ using the white color and a high level of transparency.\n\n6 Responses to “Is Picnik Really Dead?”" ]

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[ "A female student of the University of Ghana has been captured in a viral video lying on a bed and crying herself to death over broken heart.\n\nThe slim-looking young lady rolled on her hostel bed and shed uncontrollable tears as she mentioned a guy’s name, Bernard continuously.\n\nHer roommates were heard in the background of the video consoling her but she kept crying over the guy who has lost interest in her.\n\nKasatintin.com gathers that Bernard dumped her on Thursday, 3 days before Valentine’s Day.\n\nAccording to information, they have dated close to 2 years. She is in level 200 while Bernard is in his third year.\n\nA source told Kasatintin.com that the two lovebirds are coursemates and live their life on campus as a husband and wife.\n\nThe unfortunate news is that Bernard has found a new lover who is in level 100 at the same University.\n\nThe gist is that, this new girl is fresh, comes from a rich family and has bigger hips and b00bs than the dumped chick.\n\nIt emerged that Nana Ama dumped Sammy after he received a bl0wj0b from another lady at Wendy Shay concert held on campus.\n\nA very gossipy friend hinted Nana Ama about the incident through WhatsApp:\n\n‘On Saturday der was a show going on at Indece hall and Wendy Shay was performing. So most of de girls went. So he went to our girl’s syd wid de some level 100 girl n dey did bl0wj0b.Wen he came bck he started telling our boys n I tink some 1 told his GF.’\n\nSammy later regretted the ‘sweet mistake’ and rendered an apology to his girlfriend saying ‘Nana Ama please forgive me…the past is not the present’.\n\nCatch up with the details of Sammy and Nana Ama broken heart story in the video below.\n\nBREAKING:Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Flown To US Today For An Urgent Medical Care", null, null, null, null, "Angry Wife Storm Ashawo Joint, Beat Up Prostitute For Having Sex With Her Husband\n\nBREAKING:Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta Flown To US Today For An Urgent Medical Care\n\nLatest research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Journal reveals that the female snake has two...\n\nSerwaa Amihere Drop Hints About Getting Married This Year\n\nGHOne TV presenter Serwaa Amihere has begun the new year on a good note. She seems to have fallen in...\n\nYour most gossipy news website, Kasatintin.com has sighted former President John Dramani Mahama in a hot video taking care of...\n\nA pregnant woman has died after eating a meal from a popular waakye joint at Oyibi Bush Canteen..." ]

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[ null, "One of the three remaining sisters has a line in Greta Gerwig’s movie version of Little Women, saying Aunt March would probably roll over in her grave if she knew Jo had turned the old woman’s fine mansion into a school. Another sister comments Aunt March would maybe only turn slightly, not completely roll over. Maybe Louisa May Alcott’s dead body would also only make a slight turn at the changes made to her classic tale.\n\nIf you haven’t read the book or seen the many movie versions of Little Women, from Katherine Hepburn to June Allyson to Winona Ryder, the nonlinear story line and Saoirse Ronan as Jo in the 2019 film will not bother you with comparisons. If you are a purist and don’t like modern versions of old stories (I always have trouble with the Hawaiian versions of Shakespeare and the Nutcracker), you can draw from your memory to connect the plot lines, as you wait breathlessly hoping those key elements and famous lines made the movie cut. They did, and when you hear Jo holding Professor Bhaer’s hands in the rain, saying “They are not empty now,” you will be relieved.\n\nDespite the changes, Gerwig steadfastly retains the most important pieces of the novel, and despite my trepidation, I liked the movie. At times. I almost thought Gerwig’s version was an improvement on the book as she refreshingly drew out the adult lives of the sisters.\n\nOn my trip to Bath long ago, someone on my tour asked who was Jane Austen, so I wouldn’t be surprised if some had never heard of Louisa May Alcott or Little Women, but certainly none among you, dear readers. If you were completely oblivious to the classic, Gerwig’s movie version would provide enough sound material to give you the flavor and theme of the story about four sisters in the nineteenth century but might be a problem if you were trying to see the movie instead of reading the book for a discussion or a book report. Wouldn’t it be fun to include this classic in a book club, comparing notes from book to movie? Marissa Martinelli gives a detailed comparison of book to movie, character by character, in Slate.\n\nIf you are fan of PBS’s Grantchester, you might recognize Mr. Brook (John Norton) as the minister detective from the first series. Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame plays Meg, and other familiar faces will nudge you but you may not be able to quite place them – Chris Cooper as Mr. Lawrence and Tracy Letts as the publisher – and, of course, there is Meryl Streep as Aunt March.\n\nThe book recently celebrated its 150th anniversary and its characters still have a universal appeal. Many readers identify with Jo, the feisty writer, tomboy, adventurer, or maybe many just wish to have her gumption. As for me, I like Amy best.\n\n“You are hosting a dinner party for three writers? Who’s on the invite list?”\n\nWhen Kristin Cashore, author of young adult novels, was asked this question in the New York Times book review interview By the Book, she answered:\n\n“Louisa May Alcott, Madeleine L’Engle, and Hildegard von Bingen…hopefully one of them can cook and wouldn’t mind coming early to take care of that.”\n\nWhen reluctantly participating in a get-to-know-you exercise and asked for one author, my response – Steve Martin – was met with disdain (they were all academics.) Having dinner with the prolific wild and crazy guy who’s written novels (Shop Girl), plays (Picasso at the Lapin Agile), can talk about art (has a private collection), and can play a mean banjo – not to mention his sense of humor – has the potential for good dinner conversation. Calvin Trillin could add a little spice, and if I were to add one more, of course, Julia Child (to cook).\n\nTours that follow an author can be inviting. Literature tours in England follow Austen and Bronte; New England in the United States attracts followers of Emily Dickinson,", null, "Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. A friend gave me an article from the Wall Street Journal – Going By the Children’s Book – with Liam Callahan’s suggestions for touring Paris through children’s book authors. Although I have often dreamed of following Julia Child through France, his itinerary also has appeal:\n\nCallahan provides a map with tangential adventures, the possibility of buying a book store, and additional books to inspire your literary trip:", null, "My favorite is Rupert Kingfisher’s Madame Pamplemousse and Her Incredible Edibles – “selling all kinds of rare and exotic delicacies” – a culinary adventure – but Julia Child would wonder over the cobra brains in black butter.\n\nThanksgiving has been fictionalized as fulfilling and filling family fun. Sustaining the fiction in reality doesn’t always work, but Louisa May Alcott does just that in her short story, An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving. Read it online…\n\nKelly O’Connor McNees imagines an alternative life for Louisa May Alcott in her historical novel – The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott. Imitating recent speculation about other famous women writers – Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte – that they wrote convincingly about love because of some secret episode in their lives, McNees creates one for LMA.\n\nJust as Alcott used her own family for the inspiration of Little Women and mirrored herself in her feisty character Jo, McNees follows the same storyline in recreating the four Alcott sisters’ lives – with Louisa May reliving many of the familiar adventures of Josephine March. In McNees’s version, however, the brilliant yet misunderstood “philosopher” father, Bronson Alcott, whose high-minded ideals often failed to provide for his own family, is closer to the real person than Father March.\n\nWalt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Thoreau all make cameo appearances in the book, reflecting their real influence on Alcott’s thinking and writing. And McNees neatly ties in hints of Alcott’s future involvement in reform movements as well as her determination to make her own way – what could be classified as feminist in those days.\n\nMost readers will know that Louisa May Alcott never married, but she comes close in this version, and the summer romance makes for good reading, especially for fans of Little Women. You’ll be cheering for Joseph Singer to convince Louisa May to run away with him and test the possibility of being married, but still free and independent. No wonder this book became an Oprah pick.\n\nThe ending is a little stale in McNees’ attempt to add credibility to the fiction, but her imagination leads you into the consequences of choice, and a good summer read." ]

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[ "Warning: fopen(/home/ofrench/tmp/style.instances-zu8ayK.tmp): failed to open stream: No space left on device in /home/ofrench/web/ofrench.com/public_html/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php on line 185\n\nThere is no doubt that French cheeses are one of the most popular cheeses in the world which are known for its delicious taste and diversity. There are a lot of varieties in French cheeses but do you know what is the most popular one? Nowadays, the blue cheeses, also known as blue-veined cheeses hold the top position. There are also a variety of blue cheeses just waiting for you to discover them. Keep reading while we’re sharing top 9 varieties of Frech blue cheese.\n\nHave a look at these delicious cheese: the “Bleus\n\nAlso, know as AOC (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée), this is the most famous French blue cheese. it is also awarded as a “king of cheeses by Philosopher Diderot. awarded it the title of “King of cheeses”. it’s made from sheep’s milk and has a strong smell and strong tangy flavor. According to legend, when some youth was eating bread and ewe’s milk, he saw a gorgeous girl in the distance. He so impressed with her beauty that he stopped eating and ran to meet her. When he returned back to the cave, he discovered that the ewe’s milk curd he left on the rye bread has caused mold to form and that’s how Roquefort came to be. This cheese is brittle but melts smoothly in your mouth. This delightful cheese was first mentioned in the Carolingian period’s context in 1070. Charles VI put the caverns of Roquefort under secured status amid the fifteenth century, giving local people imposing business model to the cheese’ creation. In 1666, the Parliament of Toulouse under Charles VII voted in favor of the endorse of any individual who produces counterfeit forms of the Roquefort.", null, "It’s a parsley cheese with cow’s milk unlike its cousin the Roquefort made from sheep’s milk.\n\nThe 19th century saw the birth of the Bleu d’Auvergne, thanks to a local farmer, Antoine Roussel, who was eager to develop the “blue” cheese. He though it brings a “special taste, with a pleasant fragrance”. Several experiments later, based on rye bread’s mold and artificial holes, the Bleu d’Auvergne was born!\n\nAccording to the director of the school of dairy industry of Aurillac, Georges Mathieu, Antoine Roussel has just made “a microbial seeding and a culture in the organic field” (1854).", null, "(Formerly known as Aveyron’s blue) calls for an origin designating blue veined cheese from raw cow’s milk from the center-south of the Massif central.\nIt has a long history with Roquefort, before the introduction of AOC separated them. The refining in the naturally thermoregulated cellars is the major element that gives it its particular aroma.\n\nThe “Bleu des Causses” shares a common ancient history with the Roquefort, at a time when cheese was made from mixed or pure milk (cow or sheep) according to the seasons and the mode of operation of the cheese makers.\n\nIts surface has an ivory white without stains. A little smear (yellowish ooze) is allowed without excess. Inside the dough is ivory white, veined with blue-green molds distributed homogeneously. Its is less pungent than that of Bleu d’Auvergne.", null, "“A fourme a means a cheese has a high cylindrical shape, there are several in France” said Marc Janin, a cheese maker in Jura and member of the red-white-blue collar family for two years. This blue belongs to the family of the blue-veined cheeses. The artisanal production of this Ambert’s specialty is only produced in the high mountains of Auvergne, and more precisely in Puy-de-Dôme.\n\nFourme d’Ambert has been using AOP since 1972. “This regional product has a soft and letting taste with a powerful mushroom flavor explains one of our expert. Refined in the cellars for a month, its texture is supple and hides a tender heart. Accompanied with a few slices of gingerbread, its tasting only gets better!”", null, "5) Bleu Termignon: the only blue with spontaneous seeding.\n\nUsually, to get the tasty edible mold that dies the marbled cheeses, they are seeded with a tiny fungus from the penicillin family: Penicillium Roquefort or Penicillium glaucum. Delicious exception to the rule: The Bleu Termignon, also called the Bleu Mont Cenis or Bleu Bessans. Here in this case, the mottling blue-greens are spontaneous, even if their proliferation is sometimes accelerated by pricking the cheese, as in other blues. Particularly rare and sought after, this Savoyard cheese is now only made by a handful of producers, between June and September, mixing the curd of the day and the day before. The milk from Tarine and Abundance cows grazing quietly on the pastures of Termignon, Haute Maurienne. The ripening lasts several months. Beware,\n\nOnly a few hundred pieces of Termignon blues are available every year and most are sold before they are even made!", null, "Produced on the ile de France, near Paris, by a unique producer, this cheese is both original in its composition, one of the only French cheese of the blue family produced from goat’s milk, and by its shape, which looks like a small mountain tome, with a gray crust, which darkens when ripening is prolonged.\n\nIts texture is supple, its dough is ivory color dotted with blue spots. Its taste is a good balance between slightly acidic goat flavors and the power of blue. A very nice introduction for new flavor lovers.", null, "Calls for an origin designating a cheese from the Loire department with marbled paste elaborated with raw or pasteurized cow’s milk, benefiting from AOC since 1972 and AOP since September 2010.\n\nIt’s a cheese from cow’s milk, with marbled paste, with an average weight of 2 kg. After salting it molding, the fourmes are lying on spruce wood gutters and turned by hand a quarter turn every twelve hours.\n\nDuring this ripening, they are pricked with long needles to favor the development of bluish mottling. In farm production, the cheese is always made with raw whole milk, not standardized in proteins and fats. Its flavor is slightly salty with a good taste of milk, and fruity.\n\nOne of the creamiest French bleus. The history is Bresse bleu® is closely tied to the Italian immigration in the Lyon region. When the Gorgonzola stopped coming to France, several Bressane dairies, at the initiative of Italian cheese makers who had crossed the border, undertook the area to fill this gap. They created the “saingorlon” a marbled cheese inspired by the Italian cheese recipe. After buying and consolidating dairies, this cheese gave birth in the earl 1950s to the Bleu of Bresse, name now generic, then Bresse Bleu in 1952, quality mark. Made with whole cow’s milk, Bresse Bleu shares with its Italian cousin, the same creamy texture and the same marbled blue. Bleu Bresse cheese is however more convenient to consume: its crust is covered with a white down and is presented in different formats “by the pieces”.", null, "Bleu de Gex AOP was born in the highlands of southern Franche-Comté. Its manufacturing area corresponds to the mountainous part of the Ain and Jura departments, at around half a mile altitude. A cheese from France, with marbled paste and cow’s milk, it is distinguished by its great sweetness.\n\nOf the four AOP Franche-Comté cheeses, it is without a doubt the least known and the most discreet. Its taste is very sweet and well balanced. Its pale blue is disseminated in the dough by small flecks. Its texture is slightly friable. In its region or origin, it’s also consumed rather young: the AOP provides a minimum duration of 3 weeks. It is also called “Bleu de Haut Jura” or “Bleu de Septmoncel”. Only four workshops produce it.\n\nFinally, the cheese accompanies us every day. Whether it’s for a festive evening or just to have fun, cheese is one of the most consumed food and is always present in our daily life. So why not try new ranges that have a special texture such as marbled cheeses?", null, "Itinerary for a beautiful tattoo in France" ]

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[ "As an aspiring journalist, Keith has already completed internships with media outlets such as Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine and the DeKalb Champion Newspaper. By writing the August 2003 and October 2003 cover stories while interning at Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine, Keith become the first intern to ever write a cover story in the 10 year history of the internship program. He also writes for the campus publication The Hilltop, serving as a columnist and editor of the Life & Style section.\n\nIn addition to being a budding journalist, Keith excels academically. He has been on the John H. Johnson School of Communication’s Dean List in each of his semesters at Howard and is also a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society.\n\nKeith also finds time to give back to the community. He has worked as a tutor in the Rising Stars After School Program at Hyde Leadership Public Charter School, a local school where he mentored middle school students and he is a regular volunteer at Project Open Hand Atlanta when he returns to his hometown. Also, every year he takes part in charity events in the District such as the AIDS Walk and the Homeless walk with fellow students.\n\nHis campus involvement also includes being a two-term president of the Howard University Georgia Club, which under his leadership has grown into one of the largest and most recognizable state clubs at Howard. Keith is also a member of the Cover 2 Cover Magazine Group and the College Democrats.\n\nKeith A. Laing’s career objective is to become an accomplished news reporter. Yet, his plans don’t stop there. After graduating in May 2005, Keith plans to continue his studies by pursuing a Master’s of Business Administration (M.B.A) degree and ultimately intends to take the world by storm as an entrepreneur and launch a successful niche magazine.\n\nPhoto courtesy: washingtoncitypaper.com The D.C. community is no stranger to new housing and constant construction, but how does it deal with vacant houses? Howard…", null, null, "Alumni Group of Brown University Gives Back to Community\n\nFor many alumni, it is a struggle to give back to their school, even though that institution has given them so much. Yet, a group of African-American…" ]

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[ null, "A video of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan scoring an improbable three goals in just 15 minutes as he took to the field in a football friendly to mark the opening of a new stadium in Istanbul has gone viral.\n\nDuring the game, the 60-year-old prime minister, who is standing in presidential elections on Aug. 10, made sure no one forgot his candidacy by wearing the shirt number 12 as he would be the 12th president of modern Turkey, if elected.\n\nErdogan, an avid football fan who played as an amateur in his youth, took part in a match to mark the opening of the new stadium of the Istanbul Basaksehir team.\n\nDressed in a bright orange football strip, Erdogan saw his team fall behind 0-3 in the opening minutes of the game late on Saturday.\n\nBut then with almost his first touch of the ball, he smashed a shot past the goalkeeper and into the net with an impressive right foot strike.", null, "Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters during an exhibition match at the Basaksehir stadium on 26 July, 2014 in Istanbul. AFP b\n\nThen even better was to come, when he sent a deft left-footed chip flying over the goalkeeper's head.\n\nSome 15 minutes after the first goal, Erdogan completed his hat-trick with a somewhat easier shot after being given almost all the time in the world by the opposing team's defenders.", null, "Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters during an exhibition match at the Basaksehir stadium on 26 July, 2014 in Istanbul. AFP\n\nErdogan was given a rousing reception on the pitch where supporters held up adulatory placards like “As long as you live, Turkey will remain the champion.”\n\nTurkish state television covered the game live with the commentator yelling with excitement as Erdogan scored his goals, according to Agence France-Presse.\n\nErdogan declared that the new stadium would be named after Turkey's national football coach Fatih Terim.\n\n“A president who sweats, runs and scores goals. Just as he has been throughout his political life,” Yusuf Yerkel (@YusufYerkel), an adviser to Erdogan wrote on twitter.", null ]

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[ "The volume of early voting in the states where sports betting questions are on the ballot suggests the votes may have already been decided.\n\nEarly voting is a feature of this year’s Presidential election and ahead of the vote today, it seems likely the sports betting questions on the ballot in three states have may already have been decided.\n\nMaryland, Louisiana and North Dakota each put questions to the voters on sports betting.\n\nAccording to data from the New York Times, early voting in each of these states – strongly Biden in Maryland and strongly Trump in Louisiana and South Dakota – are at historically high levels.\n\nIn the case of the latter, 41% of the total vote in 2016 have been cast while in Louisiana the percentage that have already voted stands at 37% and in Maryland the total is 34% of the votes.\n\nAt national level, a record 97.6 million people have already cast their ballot by mail or in person, according to the Times.\n\nEarly voting is no guide to which way the vote is going to go, but it does however indicate a degree of engagement with the process.\n\n“I think punters may have used it to latch onto the strength of Biden’s lead,” suggested William Kedjanyi, political betting specialist at Star Sports. “However, it can’t be taken as absolute gospel – unaffiliated voters aren’t being accounted for in these tallies.”\n\nThe result is almost certain in one gaming state at least. According to analysis from John Ralston, President Trump would have “less of a chance to win (Nevada) than he does of getting a gaming license in Nevada”.\n\nThough Trump has an eponymous hotel in Las Vegas, he famously failed to gain a casino licence.\n\n“The Democrats have banked so many votes (in Nevada) in early voting that it is almost impossible for the Republicans to overcome it on Election Day,” said Ralston.\n\nRalston predicts a blue wave will follow in Biden’s wake in Nevada, despite the unpopularity of the Democrat Governor Steve Sisolak, who is seen as having mishandled the pandemic response.\n\nTo counter the news from Nevada, DraftKings updated on its $100,000 election pool yesterday, showing that a majority of fantasy players in every state bar Colorado believe Trump will be the winner today.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Conrad Black's estate at 26 Park Lane Circle in Toronto was originally built by Mr. Black’s father, George Montegu Black II, and has been in the family for 65 years. (J.P. Moczulski/The Globe and Mail)\n\nThe sale of Conrad Black’s Toronto mansion has been put on hold after the Canada Revenue Agency placed liens against the property for $15-million in unpaid income taxes, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail.\n\nThe liens against the former media magnate’s mansion at 26 Park Lane Circle in the upscale Bridle Path neighbourhood were registered on May 6.\n\nThe second lien is for unpaid income taxes of $2,771,196.84. The lien was filed by the Canada Revenue Agency on behalf of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service through the Canada-U.S. tax treaty, according to the documents.\n\nNo other details were provided in the documents. In an e-mail late Thursday, Mr. Black said: “It’s nonsense, but a legal matter we’ll work out judicially.”\n\nMr. Black’s home, which rests on 6.6 acres of property, was sold to an undisclosed buyer for $16.5-million, according to the Multiple Listing Service website. It was originally listed at $21.8-million.\n\nMr. Black and his wife, the writer Barbara Amiel-Black, planned on continuing to live in the home, which was sold as part of a lease-back deal.\n\nThe estate includes nine bed-rooms and 11 bathrooms along with a pool and spa. It was initially supposed to be auctioned off, but that was cancelled when a pre-emptive offer was made by a wealthy undisclosed buyer.\n\nMr. Black has three mortgages on the property amounting to $15.5-million. Two mortgages totalling $12-million are to the Hudson Bay Fund LP and the third mortgage that amounts to $3.5-million is with Hollinger Inc.\n\nThere is also a caution registered against title in favour of Hans G. Abromeit, which means the property cannot be sold without the consent of Mr. Abromeit.\n\nThe 23,000-square-foot property was originally built by Mr. Black’s father, George Montegu Black II, and had been in the family for 65 years. At one time, Mr. Black controlled Toronto-based Hollinger International, once one of the world’s largest English-language empires whose flagship publications included Britain’s Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun Times, the Jerusalem Post and the National Post.\n\nFrom candy king to president; the financial reality of Gen Y; a ‘heart-wrenching’ love story" ]

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[ null, "The Legend of Comics is a collection of drawings and short comics I posted on Tumblr between 2014 and 2018. This zine is 32 pages long, standard half-letter size, and filled with my love for the Zelda series.\n\nI sold several dozen copies at the DC Zinefest this summer, and I also took a few copies to my local comic book store, Fantom Comics. I put the remaining copies on Etsy, and they sold out quickly.\n\nThis zine was fairly successful, but I don’t think I’ll do another print run. I had little to no idea what I was doing on Photoshop until relatively recently, and my art has evolved significantly since then. The way I drew Ganondorf in particular makes me cringe.\n\nI also had a strange experience on Etsy in which someone bought this zine as a present for their six-year-old child. My understanding of both zine culture and Tumblr culture is such that I never would have expected someone to associate either of those things with the notion of “kid-friendly,” and the parent was (understandably) offended that the zine contains adult humor. I therefore had to put a disclaimer on the Etsy listing that reads “The zine contains two instances of strong language and one mildly risqué allusion to an old internet meme, and it’s probably not suitable for young children.”\n\nThis incident helped me realize that presentation and curation are important, even for an amateur fanzine. I think it might also have been good to include captions for some of the comics whose humor is closely tied to my specific corner of Zelda fandom. I printed this zine in February; and, after six months of reflection, there’s a lot I would do differently now. Instead of trying to revise this zine, I’m looking forward to implementing my ideas into a new Legend of Zelda fanzine that I’m planning to publish next January.\n\nThis comic was drawn by Barbwalken (@barbwalken on Tumblr) and written by me, Kathryn Hemmann (@kathrynthehuman on Twitter).\n\nFor me, there have always been two major mysteries at the heart of Twilight Princess. First, why does Ganondorf feel the need to possess Princess Zelda at the end of the game? Second, how does he manage to put his hair up in such an elaborate style? When these two questions are viewed side by side, the answer to both becomes obvious." ]

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[ null, null, "Results often improve after a new manager arrives at a football club that has been struggling. The challenge for the new boss is to maintain that improvement over a more extended period.\n\nUwe Rosler had made an impressive start to his reign at Wigan Athletic. He has already shown himself to be more tactically astute than his predecessor and he has quickly gathered an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of his squad. He lost his first match in charge at Maribor, when a ‘dubious’ refereeing decision against Chris McCann was pivotal. Since then Latics have been unbeaten, winning three and drawing three.\n\nRosler will be keen to show that the upturn in results since his arrival has been no fluke. Bournemouth stand in 16th place and are the kind of team Latics need to beat if they are to make a serious challenge for promotion. Callum McManaman will be keen to get his revenge on the Cherries after being sent off against them in the 1-0 defeat at Dean Court in August.\n\nLatics will go into the match fresh, not having played a midweek match – a rarity so far this season. They will be keen to put last week’s blip of a 3-3 draw with MK Dons behind them.\n\nRosler has said that the injury situation is improving. Therefore we can expect Ivan Ramis to come back into the centre of defence with Leon Barnett. Ramis is a central defender of Premier League quality and will be outstanding in the Championship if he can maintain his fitness. Barnett has already proved to be one of Owen Coyle’s best signings, solid in defence and dangerous in the opposition penalty area. If he has a main area of weakness it is in his distribution, but Rosler will surely be working with him on that.\n\nWith Ramis and Barnett in the centre, Emmerson Boyce can be employed in his best position at right back. James Perch may well be switched to the left flank, providing defensive stability. However, Rosler might go for the attacking option with Jean Beausejour.\n\nIn midfield Ben Watson might be fit to return, but if so, will have to fight for a place with James McArthur, Chris McCann and Roger Espinoza. Espinoza has been left out in the cold for so long, but his ‘Man of the Match’ performance last weekend will help his chances. Jordi Gomez also comes into the reckoning.\n\nIf fit, Nick Powell will probably occupy the lone centre forward role. Rosler might be tempted to play the two wide men – Callum McManaman and James McClean – although there have been times when the presence of one has possibly inhibited the other. Both thrive on receiving the ball and if the midfield is stretched neither is going to get the service he needs. The other option is for Rosler to play a midfielder – such as Espinoza – in a wide position and to bring the other flanker on later in the game as the opposition tires.\n\nThe club’s official site has announced the signing of 19 year old defender Tyias Browning from Everton on a one month loan. Such short term loan signings can be questionable, but it could be that Rosler is looking for cover at centre back until Gary Caldwell is match fit.\n\nMoreover Rosler has tried various formations, including 3-5-2. Playing three central defenders cannot be ruled out given the quality that Wigan possess in that department. A back three of Barnett, Ramis and Rogne would be formidable at Championship level, let alone the prospect of a return for GC.\n\nWhichever formation Rosler decides upon, Latics have much more quality than Bournemouth.\n\nA resounding win for Latics is on the cards." ]

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[ null, "The first entry in the trilogy, Remothered: Tormented Fathers, was honored as the Best Italian Video Game of 2018 at the eighth annual Italian Video Game Awards ceremony in Rome on April 11. It is available now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and is coming to Switch in 2019.\n\n“We’re very excited to be bringing Remothered: Going Porcelain to fans of the genre,” said Modus Games CEO Christina Seelye. “The first game captured the attention of horror fans, and the second will have them anxiously awaiting the third!”\n\nDarril Arts creative director Chris Darril added, “I am immensely proud of the success gained by Remothered: Tormented Fathers and even more proud about the collaboration that will give life to the second title of the trilogy. Get ready for something new, something mad, something to be scared of and to cry for at the same time. Get ready to enter a tragic love story.”\n\nStormind Games CEO Antonio Cannata commented, “It’s an incredible honor to receive recognition amongst Italian developers as being the best in horror and indie today. We can’t wait to surprise and terrify people all over again in Remothered: Going Porcelain.”" ]

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[ null, "With Ving Rhames taking over the role of Kojak on USA Network’s newly configured version of the original cop series, there’s been newfound interest generated in the pioneering seventies drama and the actor who made bald cool and classy. Back during the polyester decade, the term “Who Loves Ya, Baby?” – one of Kojak‘s trademark expressions – took its rightful place alongside other beloved cultural perennials as Charlie’s Angels, pop rocks, air hockey and The Partridge Family. Acclaimed Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Telly Savalas (who had previously been best known for his role – with hair! – as Pontius Pilate in the biblical epic The Greatest Story Ever Told) inhabited the role of a lifetime as Lieutenant Theo Kojak, a wise cracking, thrill-seeking detective manning the mean streets of the Big Apple.\n\nA new 3-DVD set, Kojak – Season One (Universal) assembles all 22 episodes from the show’s first season. It unravels the compelling story of this wily detective’s valiant attempt to fight crime in the mean, mean streets of New York during the era that the city was at its most out of control. Handling himself with smooth, steely aplomb, signature lollipop permanently pursed between his lips, (apparently Savalas took on the lollipop as an affectation because he didn’t want to be seen as promoting smoking) Lieutenant Theo Kojak has his work cut out for him. Prowling the city limits, Kojak has constant run-ins with NYC’s most notorious bad asses including drug addicts, jewel thieves, pimps, murderers, street urchins, kidnappers, hookers, low life vigilantes and sundry street scum. A hardened detective with a heart of gold, Kojak is a master investigator, ensuring no homicide is left unsolved.\n\nThe stories found on Season One are captivating and handsomely constructed; packing enough excitement, thrills and pathos to keep you on the end of your seat. Watching these episodes now, you can’t help but have a few minor quibbles. Sometimes the tough street vernacular is a bit dated (though, amazingly for a show from the heart of the seventies, the fashions aren’t all that outmoded.) The plot lines are often a tad predictable. For example, the pilot episode had Kojak in the middle of a big police stand-off with a group of gun-toting bank robbers (including a very young Harvey Keitel) holding a group of innocent (and ethnically diverse – this is the seventies) hostages. The bad guys insist on a plane to fly them out of the country or else they will start to kill. The story is obviously based on the real-life incident that also inspired the classic Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon; though in all fairness to the makers of Kojak, they did beat that film to the punch in telling the story by almost two years. Besides, as the Law & Order franchise keeps proving today, you can do a lot worse than scouring the newspapers to come up with interesting story ideas.\n\nHowever, even if some of the stories were a little familiar, all 22 episodes on hand stand up as a result of Savalas’ impeccable acting chops. Unpretentious and unpredictable, Kojak means business, whether viciously jacking up a criminal against a wall or mowing down his prey by blazing a trail of fiery gun shots. Adding to the fun, there’s a whole bunch of famous faces you’ll recognize in this first season including acting icons Harvey Keitel, James Woods, Hector Elizondo and Jackie Cooper, song-and-dance legend Scatman Crothers, and past and future television stars like John Ritter (Three’s Company), Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky & Hutch), Isabel Sanford (The Jeffersons), Ann Jillian (It’s A Living) and Yvonne Craig (Batgirl on the campy sixties series Batman).\n\nDirected by Sean Penn’s father, Leo, the episode, “Die Before They Wake” includes not one, not two, but three sitcom stars; the luscious Tina Louise, Ginger from Gilligan’s Island, who portrays a whore with a drug problem, minor parts are handled by Ann Jillian and Isabel Sanford. John Ritter is particularly outstanding in the episode “Deliver Us Some Evil,” going way against his later type by playing a bad guy. It’s fun to see Ritter acting convincingly as a slimy thief who is on the run after committing a vicious murder. In “Web of Death,” a nicely jaded Hector Elizondo plays a good cop who goes bad – really bad – when his wife (played by ubiquitous 70s TV sexpot Barbara Rhoades) has an extramarital affair.\n\nChampioned by People Magazine as “a TV classic, slick, well-plotted and entertaining,” the first season of Kojak turns out to all that and more. “Who Loves Ya, Baby?” We do, Telly, we do." ]

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[ null, "The writer Elif Shafak has actually claimed she believes “there is actually a howl developing” inside several youngsters, since they experience their potential “is actually being actually formed through more mature creations”.\n\n“It is actually tough to become younger, within this grow older especially,” the Turkish-British writer informed the Hay celebration. “It’s their future that is actually been actually damaged through previous ages,” she stated, pointing out Brexit and also the weather unexpected emergency." ]

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[ null, "The name \"Muristan\" refers to the approximately square-shaped area to the south of the Holy Sepulchre up to the David Street. At its centre is now the Greek bazaar, in its northeastern corner is the Church of the Redeemer.\n\nThe Muristan was up to the first century BC a quarry that had filled with silt and humus to become garden land in Jesus' time. The place gained special importance by its proximity to the presumed site of the crucifixion of Jesus. It was here that the Roman emperor Hadrian built a podium temple to Aphrodite in around 135 AD – perhaps as a deliberate covering of a Christian place of worship. The valley to the south of it was filled in. In the 4th century AD, the Emperor Constantine built the central Christian sanctuary, the Holy Sepulchre, in place of the temple. Pilgrims now increasingly flocked to Jerusalem.\n\nEven after the Islamic conquest in 638 Christian pilgrims could travel to Jerusalem. In the 9th century, Charlemagne founded a hospice for pilgrims and a church of St. Mary in the Muristan. In the 11th century merchants from Amalfi refounded St. Mary's Church and the hospice, which had apparently been destroyed. In the Crusader period (1099-1187) the Muristan had its heyday as a centre of pilgrimage. It was here that the Order of St. John was established, which until 1188 ran the huge complex with hospice and hospital for hundreds of pilgrims and which rebuilt the Abbey of St. Maria Latina in 1150. A mosaic floor of the church is still visible at the Church of the Redeemer. The original cloister is included in today’s complex.\n\nAfter his victory over the Crusaders (1187), Saladin founded a hospital on the site, which has since borne the Persian name \"Muristan\" (\"Hospital\"). The Christian pilgrims had to stay away from Jerusalem for some time, but in the 14th and 15 century the former St John's hospice was once again in operation. From 16th century onward pilgrim numbers decreased significantly as a result of the Reformation. The former monastery of St. Maria Latina may have been made into an Islamic law school (madrasa) in the 13th century. The decaying church later housed a prison and simple housing and workshops. The cloister was used partly as a caravanserai. The gradual decline of the Ottoman Empire from the 17th century onward also brought about the decline of Jerusalem. In the 19th century a large part of Muristan was in ruins and buried under rubble.\n\nThe exhibition traces the history of the \"Muristan\" up to the 19th century. Objects found in excavations under the Church of the Redeemer and the cloister and architectural fragments tell the story of the medieval abbey of St. Maria Latina and later life in its ruins. Crusader-period maps illustrate pilgrim life. Photos and drawings from the 19th century show the state of \"Muristan\" in that period." ]

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[ null, "Katie Gardella has joined Monadnock United Way as the Resource Development Director. Gardella’s role will be to grow MUW’s fundraising capabilities, helping address the region’s most pressing needs for children, education and financial stability.\nGardella, who was on the MUW board of directors for several years, stepped down from that role in July to serve as Interim Resource Development Director. This month she takes on the position full-time.\n“Katie is adept at translating her national fundraising expertise into systems that are highly successful at the local level,” said Liz LaRose, president of Monadnock United Way. “Since becoming interim director of resource development last July, she has played an invaluable role in developing fundraising strategies that will support our mission and growth. We are thrilled to have Katie join MUW as a permanent member of our team!”\n“I am so pleased to be taking on the role of Resource Development Director!” Gardella said. “I have had many roles with MUW – volunteer, allocator, board member – and now I get to continue to make an impact by helping MUW raise and diversify funding. My goal for the next year is to meet and thank as many donors and supporters of MUW as possible and to let them know how their support makes a difference in our community.”\nPrior to joining MUW, Gardella served as a fundraising consultant for many years, founding Prosper Fundraising Strategies in 2008. Her clients included Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Mariposa Museum and World Culture Center and The River Center. Previously, Gardella was a senior consultant with the fundraising consulting firm MajorGiving.com, located in Winchester, VA, where she helped public radio stations across the country launch and grow major gift programs. Her non-profit experience includes work as Major Gifts Director at KPLU Public Radio in Seattle, WA, and as Major Gifts Director at the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, WA. She also worked on the development staffs of the National Parks Conservation Association and the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.\nGardella has taught numerous fundraising sessions on major gift fundraising and development planning. She has also been a presenter at numerous fundraising and development conferences.\nGardella is on the board of the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship. Previously, she was on the board of Giving Monadnock and chaired the organization’s development committee.\nShe lives in Jaffrey with her husband, Peter Straus, and two cats Pierre and Aster." ]

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[ null, "Kathmandu, May 25. Chiribabu Maharjan, candidate from Nepali Congress has managed to secure victory for the position of Mayor for Lalitpur Metropolitan City. He has been elected for the second time.\n\nMaharjan won by a total of 42,722 votes while his competitor Hari Krishna Byanjankar of CPN-UML got 24,560 votes.\n\nHowever, to publish results of Lalitpur Metropolitan City, it took 11 days.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "How The Airborne Internet Will Work", null, "The internet is literally in the air, and with the recent advancement of laser-based data transfer systems, we will soon be able to have access to a more powerful, faster internet connection than ever before. This technology is still in its experimental phase, but some experts believe that it will soon be in use.\n\nWhat is the Airborne Internet?\n\nThe Airborne Internet is a proposed project that would use airwaves to create a broadband network. The network would travel in the air and be able to connect different parts of the world.\n\nHow the Airborne Internet Will Work\n\nThe Airborne Internet will work by creating a network of Global Positioning System satellites that will be able to transmit data at speeds faster than the current internet. This new system will allow for instant communication between people all over the world.\n\nThe Cost of the Airborne Internet\n\nHow It Will Affect Your Current Technology\n\nThe airborne internet will work like this. You will be able to use it to browse the internet while you are in the air. This will be a great way to keep up with your work and your social media without having to worry about the internet being slow or not working at all.\n\nWith the advent of the airborne internet, we are entering a new era where communication and transportation will be faster and more efficient than ever before. The internet is already changing the way we live our lives, and this next step in its evolution could not come soon enough. With technology advancing at such a rapid pace, it’s important that we keep up with the latest changes so that we can continue to enjoy all the benefits that come along with it. If you use Airbone Internet, we recommend that you use a dedicated server to protect your laptop data.\n\nTips On How To Secure Your Devices\n\nWhat Does SSID Stand for?\n\nWhat’s the Difference Between a Modem and a Router?\n\n6 Reasons Your WiFi Keeps Disconnecting and How To Fix It" ]

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[ null, "This is Sunder. He is an organic farmer near Mysore and a friend of several people at Jag Therapy. We visited his farm one afternoon and he told us about his farming methods and many of the issues facing small farmers in India. Food production is a major issue in India because there are a lot of people to feed, but the government does not always provide support for its millions of farmers. For example in the state of Karnataka, where Mysore is located, the government only keeps the power on for three hours in the countryside. They change the times weekly. The week that I visited Sunder it was on from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It is also too costly for most small farmers to be certified organic and the label is practically meaningless anyway because there are so few inspectors to regulate the lable.", null, "Banana Flower on an Organic Farm\n\nCow fertilizer and urine are the basis of organic agriculture in India, providing compost, fertilizer, and pesticide. Sunder explained how he makes “tonic” from cow urine, water, and other natural ingredients to make a potent fertilizer. A mixture of chili powder and cow urine is an effective pesticide. At another farm we visited it was inconvenient for the family to keep cows, but they bought manure and urine from nearby farms to use.", null, "Last year when I came to India to research cows, my guide in Varanasi, Ashok, explained to me that Hindus worship things that are essential to sustain life. Cows are worshiped not because Hindus believe in reincarnation, but because they nourish humans. They are considered mothers because they give generously and get very little in return. The cows have been an important part of Indian life for thousands of years for many reasons. The provide milk, which is the only source of animal protein that Hindus ate (now some people live by more relaxed rules eating unfertilized eggs, chicken, fish, and goat), but it is the cow’s role in agriculture that has made it an integral part of human survival in India. Cattle were the first tractors and are still used in farming todayand their manure fertilized the fields and provided material for cooking fuel. After a cow died then it was used for leather. For Indians to move away from traditional farming methods will mean a move away from people’s relationship with cattle. Many farmers that are choosing organic farming over conventional methods are consciously choosing to farm with cattle as a way to live sustainably and reduce the dependence on fossil fuels which are used in petrol, but also in fertilizers and herbicides.", null ]

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[ null, "The problem with how we celebrated #WomensEqualityDay\n\nCan we really call it a celebration of all women?\n\nWhat does “equality” mean, anyway?\n\nAugust 26 was #WomensEqualityDay, an event celebrated widely on social media to mark 95 years of gender no longer being a barrier to voting rights—otherwise known as suffrage. Virtually every non-profit that cares about women’s issues participated in the online campaign, taking the opportunity to highlight the many causes women still fight for today. But, as usual, tech companies and major brands got in on the action as well.\n\nThirsty as ever to remain hip to social media trends, Facebook plopped a commemorative graphic at the top of everyone’s news feeds Wednesday, with a celebratory, yet inaccurate phrase: “On Aug 26, 1920, women achieved the right to vote in the U.S.” To make matters worse, the image included women of many racial and ethnic backgrounds posing in homage to the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter, to the backdrop of a patriotic “We Voted!” button.\n\nThere’s just one problem: August 26, 1920 was the day that white women achieved the right to vote in America. For women of color—many of whom were silenced, ignored or racially discriminated against within the early feminist movement—white supremacy still reigned supreme at many ballot boxes; their right to vote was far from achieved.\n\nIf we’re being historically accurate, the hashtag would instead look something like this instead: #WhiteWomensEqualityDay. And the observance is an important reminder of the need to have racially inclusive, intersectional approaches to political issues.\n\nRetweet to show your support. pic.twitter.com/PmrkjHdlst\n\nToo many women still earn less than men on the job—and women of color often lose out the most. This needs to change. #WomensEqualityDay\n\nThe notion of “equality” remains the focal point of many social movements, including the push for the equal rights of women. But equality means different things for different people, depending upon each person’s collection of identities—which include race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, faith, nationality, among others. The notion of womanhood and who gets to appreciate that identity fully, per the ideologies of the time, was limited by the racism and bourgeois politics of white feminists.\n\nBefore the 19th Amendment eliminated the gender barrier on voting, it was originally limited to white, landowning men. Naturally, for many of white women leading the movement, the right to vote was a next step toward equal rights to the ruling class, one that could ultimately prove beneficial for all women. In theory, fixing a problem that cut across lines of gender was still a net gain. But in reality, the vote was an issue that only a specific set of women could enjoy.\n\nEven with the elimination of the gender barrier, people of color—including women and men—still were subject to racialized voting taxes, voter literacy tests, or roves of vigilantes using violent force as a deterrent against their vote. Even further, racial segregation was still legally enforced. These two issues, among others, catalyzed the Civil Rights Movement, as led by many black Americans, because their political disenfranchisement made it all the harder for them to be recognized as full-fledged citizens under the law.\n\nAnd that movement, as Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated film Selma shows in part, had plentiful leadership and strategy from black women—even if most historical accounts paint black and white men as the primary force in achieving civil rights, including the Voting Rights Act. Even to this day, as Time‘s Heather Jones and Charlotte Alter note, there’s still a dire gender imbalance in Congress, with an overwhelming majority of men representing a country that has a roughly equal split of men and women.\n\nIf they don't give you a seat at the table, bring in a folding chair. #WomensEqualityDay pic.twitter.com/alnKEc5L9h\n\nWhen we mark occasions like #WomensEqualityDay, it’s important to not take a revisionist approach to history. But even further, flaps like the Facebook graphic (among many other social media posts) show why it’s all the more important to learn about how social and political movements have evolved in America. Without learning how we’ve arrived to the current era—and using that knowledge to informed how we fix contemporary problems—there’s a credible risk in leaving many important struggles only solved for people who already have a great deal of privilege in society. That includes not only feminism, but also many other ongoing political movements.\n\nFor example, many activists and writers long decried the push for equal marriage rights, but not because they hate LGBT people. Instead, they highlighted many of the same pitfalls evinced by the women’s suffrage movement. Instead of prioritizing and primarily funding issues that cut across a variety of sexual orientations and gender identities—such as employment non-discrimination, youth homelessness, the decriminalization of sex work, and the rights of transgender people—marriage became the focal point. And those politics left too many people out.\n\nHaving non-heterosexual relationships recognized by the law remains important for families of many backgrounds. Yet there’s also a need for the state to support families outside of the nuclear model—because single people, networks of chosen families, and other non-traditional relationships also deserve many of the benefits otherwise reserved to married couples. With a different approach—and the inclusion of people beyond affluent (and often white) gays and lesbians into the mainstream movement—change could’ve worked from the bottom up, rather than functioning as a trickle down.\n\nCelebrate #WomensEqualityDay with us by sharing the words of the fierce @Lavernecox! pic.twitter.com/m6xS5cjJ0H\n\nFor some people, the recent SCOTUS ruling is indeed equality. But it’d be disingenuous to ever declare the day of the 5-4 decision as #LGBTEqualityDay—because it wasn’t the end of the battle for justice for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities. Rather, even with the widespread celebrations, rainbow-filtered photos on Facebook and even the colors of the flag illuminated on the White House, the ruling was still just the beginning.\n\nIf there’s a lesson to be learned from the #WomensEqualityDay celebrations on social media, it’s that “equality” shouldn’t necessarily be the goal. Rather, justice should be the goal, an approach that ensures everyone in shared community—in our neighborhoods, cities, states, and even as a nation—can enjoy the civil rights and freedoms that each person needs to survive and thrive.\n\nOtherwise, an approach that doesn’t emphasize the need for intersectionality is just a waste of our time, efforts, and political energy. And, even worse, it leaves people we know and love behind.\n\nEditor’s Note: As a gender non-conforming, gay person, the writer of this piece acknowledges that they do not identify as a woman, and also embodies identities subject to gender-based discrimination, from a distinct, different vantage point." ]

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[ null, "Wounded Warriors and their families on a weekend visit being greeted by local Fredericksburg, Texas, folks in the Market Square.\n\nMemorial Day is here again and in our home it is a day with lots of memories. I really think I processed this year’s Memorial Day a few weeks back when I went to a Wounded Warrior event in the Marktplatz ( Market Square) of Fredericksburg, Texas.\n\nMy husband sings in a Fredericksburg chorale with a group of very talented locals. They were asked to be part of the program in the park for Wounded Warriors and their families who were visiting Fredericksburg for the weekend. For me, seeing military members and their families is a very meaningful way of visualizing what Memorial Day is all about today, as well as in the past.\n\nI married into a family where my husband, his father, and his brother served in the Navy. My husband was a Hospital Corpsman assigned at a Marine Corps Air Station. I went to work as a civilian there and then worked for the Army at Fort Riley, Kansas, while he was in college (again). From there we moved to Denver where I worked for the Air Force for 11 years. I figure between us, my husband and I have all the services covered and I am familiar with all their songs; well except that Coast Guard one which I only recognize through the process of elimination\n\nAs the chorale practiced before the guests arrived on a bus, they sang a medley of the songs from each branch of the military services. The Army’s song was first. I remember some of the words from their song, but the musical experience I remember from my time at Fort Riley occurred when I was probably around 26 years old. I was walking on Post to go to a meeting at a building down the street from my office. As I looked up I saw some troops in formation out for a morning run. As they got near, they all looked straight ahead, didn’t miss a step and loudly shouted a cadence directed at me. In unison they sang, “Hey girl—Looking Good— You Belong in Hollywood. Then they continued down the road passing by buildings which had once been horse stables for the Calvary. That was a memorable moment and one which probably wouldn’t be appropriate anymore, but these were infantry soldiers. I have often wondered how many came home safely from their deployments and assignments.\n\nThe chorale next sang the Marine Corps hymn which I recognized from having lived on a Marine Corps installation and hearing it on the radio over the years. Then the Coast Guard song followed and I listened carefully in effort to familiarize myself with it in hopes of recognizing the tune in the future.. The Navy song came next. With all the Navy folks in our lives, that one was easy to sing along with and to think back on wars won and peace enjoyed, because of the contributions of sailors like my husband and his family.\n\nAs the chorale moved through songs for the different military services, I remained seated. Then the Air Force song started. My body reacted instantly. I had spent ten years working in an Air Force headquarters level organization which served the Air Force worldwide community of active duty and retired military members. This meant that over the years, I and some of my co-workers, logged a lot of hours in meetings, ceremonies, and events listening to the Air Force song. So, I knew I was supposed to stand up, clap and start singing to “Off we go into the wild blue yonder…”. I considered staying seated so I would not be noticed by a crowd of people I didn’t know. My instincts and years of training overtook my body and I stood up moved to the side of the picnic area and sang away. I reminisced, cried a few tears, and smiled a lot. As the Wounded Warriors arrived and the chorale sang the medley again, it was exciting to see the military members and their families sing along and stand up to recognize “their” branch of service. On the way home my husband and I talked about how unexpectedly emotional the day had been for us.\n\nAs I have grown older, or clearly past middle age as my son tells me, I now understand that some people have never experienced working in a place where Reveille is played in the morning and the flag is raised, Taps are played at the end of the day during retreat as the flag is lowered, and that driving or walking during these times is not respectful or acceptable. Yes, sometimes we were tempted, but we knew better! I came to enjoy those few minutes of Taps at the end of the day before I dashed off into rush hour traffic. It was tranquil and inspirational.\n\nAs I said, Memorial Day came early for me this year.\n\nDebra Hadsall has been involved in the financial management business in both public and private sectors for most of her adult life. For more than a decade she has concentrated her efforts on working with women and coaching them on how to be financially free by teaching them how money works and getting them involved in taking charge of their finances. She holds a degree in business administration from Regis University, Denver, Colorado. She retired as a financial advisor in 2012 to focus on promoting the second edition of her book, Financial Freedom Party for Women®, A Little Book about Money for Women, now available in workbook format. Debra created the Financial Freedom Party for Women® with the support of other women who recognize the importance of providing information and tools to allow women to become financially confident. She currently resides with her husband in Port Isabel, Texas. View all posts by Debra" ]

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[ null, "The third collaboration between Jessica Hagen Fine Art + Design and the Hammetts Hotel in Newport will feature the exhibition of Elliott Landy Photographs at the hotel’s Sarah Langley Gallery. Called Newport Curates, the collaboration features the work of Landy, who has been with Jessican Hagen’s gallery since his first solo exhibition at the Newport Antiques Show in 2017.\n\nThe exhibition runs February 12th through March 31st. A Preview event will take place Thursday, March 3rd from 6 to 8pm.\n\nThe Hotel is at 4 Commercial Wharf, in Newport.\n\nElliott Landy began his photographic career in the late 1960s, working with underground newspapers to express his own “visual voice” in support of the rising tide of antiwar sentiment in the U.S. at that time. His press pass and camera not only gave him access to the political scene but also provided him a personal entry into the new rock music counterculture.\n\nElliott Landy photographed the Newport Folk Festival in 1968, capturing music legends Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Janis Joplin, to name a few. Landy’s iconic photographs of Bob Dylan and The Band during the years they resided and recorded in Woodstock, New York, and his coverage of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, captured the attention of a new generation seeking spiritual and artistic freedom. Landy’s celebrated works include portraits of Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline), The Band (Music from Big Pink, The Band), Janis Joplin (Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cheap Thrills), Van Morrison (Moondance), Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and many others. Elliott Landy’s photographs have been exhibited and published worldwide.\n\nBest known for his classic “rock” photographs, Landy was one of the first music photographers to be recognized as an “artist.” His celebrated works include portraits of Bob Dylan (Nashville Skyline), The Band (Music from Big Pink, The Band), Janis Joplin (Big Brother & the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills), Van Morrison (Moondance), Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and many others.\n\nSince 1967, Landy’s work has been exhibited and published worldwide. He is the author of eight books and is the architect of a new software system and app, LandyVision, that blends moving imagery with music to create an interactive sound and visual experience that has never been seen before.\n\nJessica Hagen Fine Art + Design was founded in 2005 and features contemporary American art, including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textiles, and jewelry. Located in the historic Point section of Newport, the gallery’s winter hours are Thursday and Friday 11:00- 4:00 and Saturday 11:00- 5:00, as well as by appointment.\n\nART! is sponsored by…." ]

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[ null, "The flag of Kuwait was adopted in 1961 and consists of three horizontal stripes of equal width. The sequence of stripes: a strip of green color is located on top, then white, below it – red. A black trapezoid extends from the base of the flag, occupying 1/2 of the width of the flag. The ratio of the flag’s width to length is 1:2. White color symbolizes the desire to work, black – battlefields, red – blood shed in battles with enemies, green color symbolizes pastures. The flag is used on land and at sea as a state, civil and military flag.\n\nWas adopted in 1963. It is a round shield, in the center of which is a symbol of the maritime traditions of the inhabitants of the country – a dhow with the flag of Kuwait against the background of white clouds in the blue sky and white-blue waves. A white ribbon is depicted above the ship, on which the name of the state “الكويت دولة” is written in black letters. The coat of arms is framed by a golden falcon, a symbol of the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad, on the chest of which there is a heraldic shield in the colors of the state flag of Kuwait.", null, "Precious pearl of the Arab world\n\nAccording to Franciscogardening.com, Kuwait is an urbanized and dynamically developing emirate, which is conveniently located in the northeast of the Arabian Peninsula and on the nearby islands of the Persian Gulf. In the north and west, the state borders on the Islamic Republic of Iran, in the south – on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This is a country of deserts with moving dunes and rare oases.\n\nThe tropical dry climate of Kuwait does not differ from the climate of neighboring countries of the Arabian Peninsula. The temperature in summer can reach here up to + 47C, in winter – up to + 18C. There is little precipitation – up to 175 mm per year, and from June to August there may not be any at all, and the northwestern winds “shimal” bring sandstorms that can last for several days.\n\nThe local nature is scarce and unpretentious: camel thorn, kermek, sometimes comes across an acacia. Another thing is the oases glorified by ancient travelers, in which modern Kuwaitis successfully grow date palms, millet and corn.\n\nMore than 30 species of reptiles, about 50 species of mammals and more than 270 species of birds live on the territory of Kuwait, most of which are migratory. Coastal waters of the country are rich in fish and seafood. Sardine, tuna, sea turtle and marine predator – shark are found here.\n\nFor more than a hundred years, Kuwait was under the protectorate of Great Britain, and at the beginning of the 20th century the country was recognized as one of the poorest in the world.\n\nKuwait gained its independence in June 1961, and twenty years later, thanks to oil production, the standard of living here became one of the highest.\n\nA difficult period in the history of the country began on August 2, 1990, when Saddam Hussein occupied Kuwait and declared the country the nineteenth province of Iraq.\n\nThe United States intervened in the situation, creating an international coalition, the actions of which were supported by the Soviet Union. As a result, in February 1991, Kuwait was liberated, but the occupation practically ruined the country. During the retreat, the Iraqi army completely destroyed the infrastructure, blowing up oil rigs and oil pipelines – and Kuwait was literally in ruins. But already in the 2000s, the country recovered. In 2007, the emir took an unprecedented step in world history, forgiving the citizens of the country loans totaling one billion dollars.\n\nMany ancient Arab traditions are still alive, especially in family life and everyday life. Among them – marriage ransom and polygamy.\n\nInteresting fact: Kuwait is one of the few countries in the Arab region where divorce is legal. Until a divorced woman gets a job, she will receive a monthly allowance of 1.5 thousand US dollars from the state.\n\nIndigenous Kuwaitis make up about a third of the country’s population, they originate from the nomadic Beni Athaban tribe, who came from Central Arabia at the beginning of the 18th century. It is the descendants of this tribe that are citizens of the country, and the remaining 2/3 have the status of non-citizens. As a rule, these are foreign specialists and workers who live in the country on work visas or with a residence permit. Kuwait is one of the few countries whose citizenship cannot be obtained by people from other countries.\n\nThe sights of the country are primarily the capital of Kuwait with excellent museums and mosques, the most majestic of which is Al-Khalifa, built in 1714. The architecture of the Emir’s Old Seif Palace, built in 1880, and the Great Kuwait Towers are interesting. The latter have become a real hallmark of the country.\n\nEducation in Kuwait, from school to higher education, is free. And if in 1936 there were only 2 schools in the country, now there are more than 1000. Kuwait University, opened in 1966, is rightfully considered the best educational institution in the Gulf countries.\n\nAn interesting fact: A Kuwaiti who wants to study abroad can count on full state support. The country’s budget guarantees him a scholarship, pays for tuition and flight to the place of study.\n\nMedicine in the country is also free and of a fairly high level – like education. In situations where local doctors are powerless, all expenses for treatment abroad are covered by the state.\n\nSport is very important in the life of Kuwaitis. The inhabitants of the country are massively in love with football, water sports and the traditional Arabs – falconry and camel racing. The latter are held from October to April.\n\nInteresting fact: In camel racing, everything depends on the weight of the jockey – the lighter it is, the more likely it is to win. Therefore, for more than one century, almost everywhere in the East, boys from 4 years old were used as jockeys. In the 21st century, they found an alternative – small robot jockeys. They are fixed on the back of animals, and the owner controls such a “miracle of technology” using the remote control.\n\nKuwait is not one of those countries that you aspire to for the sake of works of art and the ruins of ancient cities. But if you want to see the civilized Arab world, then Kuwait should be on the list first. Here, a five-star hotel is adjacent to an ancient mosque, and in a modern supermarket you can buy haute couture and oriental sweets.\n\nOne of the best resorts in the country is Khiiran. It is located 120 km from the capital. Resorts in the area of ​​Ardiyah and Safat are in demand among tourists. In Salmiya, under the guidance of an instructor, you can try your hand at searching for pearls. All beach areas in Kuwait are good for swimming and diving.\n\nWhen visiting Kuwait, you need to stock up on international health insurance. However, first aid to foreigners will be provided free of charge, but you will have to pay for subsequent visits to the doctor.\n\nIn Kuwait, you can buy almost everything that you like and that you have enough money for! There are no railways in the country at all, but public transport is well developed and consists of numerous buses and taxis.\n\nInteresting fact: There are three types of taxis in Kuwait: orange cars that can be “caught” on the street, as well as taxis and minibuses by telephone order.\n\nThe metropolitan area of ​​Havalli is sure to attract the attention of tourists with many jewelry stores, and jewelry here is sold by weight. In the Salmiya area, you can find both modern shopping centers and ordinary markets where you can buy everything at times cheaper. The main thing is to observe the first rule of the East – bargain!\n\nThe national cuisine of Kuwait is traditional for the Arab countries. A lot of different meat (except pork), fish and seafood, vegetables and, of course, spices. The basis of many dishes is khomus pasta.\n\nAll public holidays are celebrated here according to the traditions of Islam. Among the main ones are the holy month of Ramadan, Eid al-Fitr, Ghadir-Hom. Kuwaitis also celebrate February 25-26 – Day of Liberation from Iraqi Occupation." ]

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[ "A takeaway owner was caught dumping rubbish outside a waste recycling site - after a council official marked it during an earlier visit to his shop.\n\nMohammed Ahsan, who runs the Little India takeaway in Skelmanthorpe , was suspected of fly-tipping.\n\nKirklees magistrates were told that food waste and packaging was found dumped at the side of a recycling point in Emley Business Park.\n\nThis is meant for members of the public wanting to recycle their household waste and not commercial recycling.\n\nThe rubbish appeared to be from a food business and 40-year-old Ahsan was suspected of being responsible.\n\nDavid Stickley, prosecuting on behalf of Kirklees Council, told magistrates: “He marked some items of waste left outside the business premises.\n\n“Then he spoke to the defendant and asked him how he deposited waste.\n\n“He stated that he shared a trade waste bin with the premises next door but the owner of that business said that there was no arrangement in place.\n\n“The following day the officer from the council visited the recycling point and the marked waste was identified and photographed as fly-tipped.”\n\nAhsan, of Moorbottom Road in Thornton Lodge, pleaded guilty to depositing controlled waste without an environmental permit and failing to produce waste transfer notes for the rubbish to the council when requested.", null, "He was issued with a £100 fixed penalty notice for littering previously which he did pay, magistrates were told.\n\nAhsan, who was not represented, said that not all of the rubbish dumped outside his shop was his.\n\nHe claimed that the owner of the toy shop next door to his takeaway did share a bin with him and offered to write him a letter should he need proof for the council.\n\nThe businessman told magistrates that he wanted to recycle his waste - but admitted that he just put his waste to the side of the land and so didn’t recycle anything.\n\nMagistrates handed Ahsan a 12-month conditional discharge meaning that he has to remain offence free for the next year." ]

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[ "A man who was accused of pirating Adam Sandler movie, The Cobbler, has been awarded $17,000 by an Oregon judge in compensation for the aggressive tactics by the production company that tried to take him to court. The monetary award will cover the man’s legal fees accrued throughout the process, as well as other expenses.\n\nIn 2015, Thomas Gonzales, the operator of a foster care home for adults, was accused by the makers of The Cobbler (it’s not clear which production company was behind it, as the legal junction lists them as Cobbler Nevada LLC) of pirating the movie. Instead of paying a small settlement fee as was likely expected of him, Gonazles complained to the courts and ultimately won.", null, "Considering many people had access to the internet through the foster home, the judge ruled that there was no way to prove that Gonzales was responsible for downloading the movie. They chided the movie makers for taking the case as far as they did and awarded Gonzales $17,222 for legal expenses and a further $255 for miscellaneous costs.\n\nIt is hoped that with this decision, the court will dissuade anti-piracy lobby groups and production companies from taking legal action against individuals without evidence of wrongdoing beyond basic IP address tracking. It should also act as precedent for any future defendants who find themselves accused of piracy despite being innocent.\n\nAs TorrentFreak points out, this case should also offer moral support to those accused of piracy. It’s not always worthwhile to ignore or pay up when faced with settlement figures.\n\nKitGuru Says: Of course it’s worth bearing in mind that had Gonzales lost, he would be thousands of dollars in the hole and potentially facing fines, so it’s risky taking such accusations to court, but at least in Gonzales’ case, it worked out well." ]

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[ null, "Ken had worked for Bremer Manufacturing for over 35 years and had previously been employed by Ralston Purina in Fond du Lac for 10 years.\nKen was an active member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Marytown where his faith was nurtured and grown.\n\nSummers often times brought Ken the joy and relaxation of raising and tending to his vegetable garden where he was best known for the potatoes he harvested. He appreciated taking time to drive around the countryside, and attending the sporting events of his grandchildren every chance he had. His love of sports led him to be an active member of the Marytown Athletic Club. During his retirement, Ken enjoyed bowling on a senior league. He always enjoyed watching and listening to his beloved Milwaukee Brewers, watching the Green Bay Packers, and he watched the birds outside of his house to the very end of his days.\n\nKen was preceded in death by his parents; an infant brother: Gerald Mueller; his father-in-law and mother-in-law: Bruno & Eleanore Keuler; a brother-in-law: Herbert Keuler; and a sister-in-law: Mary Mueller.\n\nMass of Christian Burial will take place at 12:00 Noon on Friday, June 4, 2021 at St. Mary Catholic Church in Marytown with Rev. Gary Wegner OFM Cap. officiating, assisted by Rev. Carl Diederichs. Burial will be in the Parish Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 9:00 am until 11:45 am on Friday, June 4, 2021.\nKen’s family would like to thank Dr. Dellaria, Dr. O’Brien, and the entire staff from Calumet County Hospice, especially Nicole for all of the compassionate care that was given to Ken. They would also like to extend a warm thank you to the neighbors & friends who have offered their love, support and prayers during this difficult time.\n\nA memorial fund has been established in the name of Kenneth G. Mueller.\n\nThose who wish to watch an archived video of the service may do so by clicking HERE.\n\nKen you were a part of the Sippel Family back in the early days. You were friends with my brother Harold and you helped my father(August Sippel) by picking up feed on your way home when you were employed at Ralston Purina in Fond du Lac. Thank you for helping August get the feed when he was unable to get the feed himself. Thank you from our family. May you rest in Peach!!\n\nSuzy, am so sorry for the loss of your husband, you are in my prayers." ]

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[ null, "Tony was born September 27, 1942 at Jamestown, ND the son of Anthony and Nellie (Wolf) Klose. He attended Woodbury Township School and graduated from St. John’s Academy in 1960; he attended NDSCS for one year for mechanics.\n\nHe entered the US Air Force February 15, 1961 and was stationed at McGuire Air Force Base, NJ, also stationed in England where he met Valerie and also Toul Rosiere Air Base in France where he was a mechanic for the Air Force. He was honorably discharged September 15, 1964 at, with the rank of A2C.\n\nHe and Valerie Hall were married December 22, 1962, they made their home at England, France and settled in rural Jamestown. He and Phyllis Glowac (Christ) were married April 13, 1998 at Jamestown, ND. Tony worked for Fredrick’s Garage, farmed and has been a mechanic at Central Sales in Jamestown since 1999. He enjoyed building with steel and wood.\n\nHe was preceded in death by his parents his wives, Valerie and Phyllis and 1 sister, Charlotte Anderson.\n\nTo order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Anthony L Klose, please visit our flower store." ]

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[ null, "The motions of finite encounters\n\nMarc Aran Reyes addresses the gentle sadness of things / 物の哀れ (Mono No Aware) in \"Finite Encounters,\" a series of six oil-on-canvas works that illustrate the ephemeral nature of life. People come and go from our lives. Creating finite moments of engagements regardless of its length.\n\nAs each encounter plays out its course that begins with a connection, peaks with affinity, and ends as a memory. The ephemeral nature of encounters leaves us with a gentle sadness that reminds us that the transient state of things is a reality of life. This concept is best communicated in the Japanese Philosophy \"Mono no Aware\" (a sensitivity to ephemera).\n\nReyes' use of photorealistic figures clings onto notions of real people or strangers whose affinities are built on memory. Each figuration becomes an incarnation, a person whom the artist has once come in contact with, perhaps in a chance meeting, in a dream, or possibly imagined. Each canvas is minimally composed to emphasize the significance of encounters. This overshadows the brevity of life and its mundane trials inviting viewers to momentarily forget the pain of being human and appreciate the subtleties of fleeting moments experienced through acts of arriving, lingering, and departing. Reyes' characteristic style is apparent in his female figurations set against barren landscapes - sceneries that are evident throughout his oeuvre - afloat or in the midst of vaporizing into nothingness. These works collectively orchestrate the feeling of surrender to the idea of impermanence. His monochromatic palette compliments this message as an earnest approach to the gentle sadness epitomized in this philosophy.", null, null ]

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[ null, null, "Australian Punk Rockabilly outfit The Living End had formed in 1994 in Melbourne.In 1997, they had achieved mainstream success with their EP Second Solution / Prisoner Of Society, peaking at No. 4 on the Australian Singles Chart. More singles followed, which can be found on their self titled 1998 debut: \"Prisoner of Society\", \"Save the Day\", \"All Torn Down\", \"West End Riot\" and the US-only single \"Trapped\"." ]

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[ null, "Noted attorney-at-law Bert Samuels has expressed concern that a video now circulating on social media about his client, Popcaan, has tarnished the deejay’s image. Samuels was referencing a 30-second video that shows police searching a car in which the entertainer was travelling.\n\nA gun was in the car, but Samuels said it was licensed to one of the occupants who had declared to the cops that he had a weapon on his person.\n\n“The incident was borne out of a road traffic violation. The driver of the car, who is a non-resident, had made a wrong right turn. During the stop, a licensed firearm holder, who was also an occupant of the car, declared that he was in possession of a licensed firearm, and thereafter the police asked that he leave the car,” Samuels said.\n\n“The firearm was looked at and returned, and nothing else happened at the scene,” the lawyer added.\n\nIn the video, which is making its way around social media, a female ‘narrator’ made much of the fact that a weapon was found in the car. However, it is not illegal for any person for travelling in a vehicle, or being around a person who has a licensed firearm.\n\nSamuels said that the circulation of the video has caused people to rush to unfortunate and incorrect conclusions that have the potential to hurt the megastar’s image.\n\n“I am particularly concerned that Popcaan’s image has been tarnished out of a simple road traffic violation by another person,” the lawyer said.\n\n“I have spoken with Mr (Andre) Sutherland and he feels disappointed that an incident-free encounter with the police is being turned into a story with no foundation.”\n\nThe police, through the head of its communication arm, Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay, said the fact that no one was arrested at the scene indicates that there was no breach, except for the road traffic violation.", null, "“I have seen the video and I have made several checks with various police departments but there are no records of any arrests being made from the incident,” she said. “It was a routine stop and search and once the firearem was properly accounted for, no reports would have been made,” she said.\n\nMeanwhile, in a post made on his official Instagram page yesterday, the deejay briefly addressed the incident.\n\n“Yea man, me a watch unu style man. Me see unu a try tarnish me name and dem sittin’ deh man. We outside thou, don’t?” he said in a video, which was captioned: ‘Great is he that trust the Most High.’\n\nHis sister, Annalecia Sutherland, commented on the post saying, no weapon formed against the deejay would prosper.\n\n“Cover him under the blood of Jesus father God, no weapon formed against him shall prosper! God got u Pops, blood of Jesus against who wanna see u fall.”\n\nIn a series of what could be referred to as subliminal posts, Popcaan has been seen vibing to his track, Father God Ah Lead.\n\n“Dem nah see Popcaan inna di back a no jeep,” a line from the song reads.", null, null, null, "Sean Paul Turned Down The Chance To Work With Cardi B" ]

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[ "January 28, 2022\nLatest News\nHome *Copy Half of adults who felt heightened feelings of ‘unease’ during the last 18 months admitted they found their PARTNER the hardest person to open up to", null, "A study of 2,000 adults found three-quarters have struggled with worry and apprehension – with 18–24-year-olds suffering the most.\n\nAnd 71 per cent have also experienced greater stress levels, although this rises to 86 per cent of young adults aged 18-24.\n\nBut 49 per cent of those who felt uneasy found it difficult to talk to their partner about the way they were feeling, while another 45 per cent struggled to share their thoughts with friends.\n\nOthers have found it hard to open up to their parents (40 per cent), colleagues (37 per cent and employers (34 per cent).\n\nThe study, commissioned by cannabis healthcare company CiiTECH, found 45 per cent of those who have felt worried have been unable to go about their day-to-day lives while 51 per cent claim ordinary tasks have seemed bigger than they really are.\n\nOthers said their unease has led to problems sleeping (51 per cent), a churning feeling in their stomach (37 per cent), feeling restless or unable to sit still (31 per cent) and sweating or hot flushes (25 per cent).\n\nIt also emerged the average adult has experienced six days of unease a month – equating to 108 days over the last 18 months.\n\nClifton Flack, CEO of CiiTECH, said: “The research shows that Brits have been experiencing lots of unease and greater levels of panic, amplified by the pandemic.\n\n“But it’s very hard to understand if you have never experienced it.\n\n“We want to try and make these feelings more visible and accessible to all, so those experiencing unrest feel they have a support network around them.”\n\nThe study also found that these feelings of unease have been made worse for some, as 62 per cent feel there is a lack of understanding among friends and family.\n\nAnd 65 per cent feel like they are misunderstood by those around them, with a quarter (24 per cent) ordered to “cheer up” and 40 per cent told that they “will be fine”.\n\nBut two thirds (66 per cent) are also unable to describe their anxiety, despite ‘how are you feeling?’ being one of the most frequently asked questions by friends and family (35 per cent).\n\nThis ‘explanation burden’ adds to the discomfort for 68 per cent of those polled.\n\nIt also emerged that of those who haven’t felt unease, 27 per cent admitted to finding it difficult to empathise with those that have.\n\nAnd 30 per cent struggle to understand what they’re going through.\n\nThe study, carried out via OnePoll also revealed that three quarters of adults are actively looking for ways to promote calm in their lives (75 per cent).\n\nThis includes regular exercise (55 per cent), introducing new daily routines (39 per cent) and trying new products that have calming properties (27 per cent).\n\nFollowing the findings, CiiTECH, the consumer-focused cannabis healthcare company behind UK CBD brand Provacan, teamed up with Britain’s Got Talent artist Nathan Wyburn to bring these feelings to life, visually showcasing the transition from unease to calm through the medium of art, to help those who suffer share with friends and family.\n\nThe digital artwork, ‘The Journey to Calm’, has been inspired by real life stories of those seeking more-calm in their life.\n\nIt used colours and textures named by those polled to express their feelings, with 27 per cent of adults believing their heightened levels of unease was best represented by the colour black, while 28 per cent used the word ‘knotted’ to describe the feeling.\n\nThe artwork took seven hours to complete and incorporates materials such as charcoal, paint, cassette tape, nails and bottle tops.\n\nThe multiple colours and textures used were voted by over 1,000 people to represent and express their own feelings.\n\nArtist Nathan Wyburn said: “It’s been an honour to use my experience of suffering with personal anxiety to create this Journey To Calm.\n\n“The series of images are a mixture of textures, feelings, colours and emotions to attempt a visualisation of what it feels like from one extreme to the other.\n\n“Sticking to my niche of using everyday materials such as bottle tops, cassette tape, nails, cotton and sun scream it’s also a nod to my previous work and style.\n\n“Art helps me feel calm, it’s my release, so I hope this piece can bring clarity and help explain the journey to you – the viewer.”\n\nThe artwork is available to view at [artofprovacan.co.uk]" ]

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[ "On This Date: Carrie Underwood Releases Her Smash Single “Before He Cheats”", null, "Carrie Underwood may be America’s sweetheart, but she knows how to sing a cheatin’ song, too.\n\nOn this date in 2006, she released the monster hit “Before He Cheats” from her debut studio album Some Hearts. It would go on to become a massive crossover hit and a #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for five straight weeks, and even a top ten hit on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 charts.\n\nWritten by Josh Kear and Chris Tompkins, it actually started out as a song for Gretchen Wilson, but ultimately, that didn’t work out.\n\nAccording to Josh, Carrie was on the American Idol tour at the time the song was written, and somebody from her label played the demo for her while on the back of a plane waiting to takeoff to the next tour stop:\n\n“She listened to it once and said, ‘I’m cutting that song.’ There was no discussion of putting it on hold or just letting us know they would sit with it.\n\nIt was just one listen and knowing she would record it.”\n\nIt was the third single from Some Hearts, which also included three other #1 singles in “Jesus, Take the Wheel”, “Don’t Forget to Remember Me” and “Wasted”.\n\nThis track was a huge departure from her “good girl” image in country music, but Carrie admits it payed off big-time in the long run:\n\n“I was a little nervous about just the content and kind of the aggressive nature of the song, because I was on ‘American Idol’ and like I am kind of a… I am a nice person.\n\nAnd I was thinking about all the grandmothers that sat there and voted for me on ‘American Idol’ and like, ‘What are they going to think?’ We took a chance and it opened up so many doors for me, just to be strong and sassy.”\n\nI remember hearing this song constantly back when it came out 15 years ago now. Me and my friends would legitimately scream it at the top of our lungs (as if any of us had ever had our heart’s broken or been cheated on before).\n\nI was older than 8 at the time, but definitely not old enough to drink, and I clearly remember thinking that the other girl in the song was a little bitch for not being able to shoot the whiskey straight:\n\n8 yr old me: wow how embarrassing\n\nThe song only catapulted Carrie further into the world of elite mainstream artists in country music, and she’s become a household name in the genre ever since.\n\nThe iconic YouTube video, which now has over 137 MILLION views, is also a fun trip down memory lane to watch today.\n\nAnd, I even found a great piece of advice down in the comments in case it ever comes in handy for you:\n\n“Tip, ladies: don’t slash all four tires. Insurance pays for that. Just slash three, and he’ll have to pay for them himself.”\n\nHave a shot of whiskey today for Carrie:" ]

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[ null, "Iria, the intergalactic bounty hunter, arrives on Earth with her erstwhile partner, Fujikuro, to recover an artifact called the Kamarite. Her agency dispatches another partner, an android, for a test run. When Iria goes to meet the android, alien thugs appear to try and take back the Kamarite. The android mercilessly slaughters them all, against Iria’s orders. Disgusted, Iria disables the android. Meanwhile, Fujikuro betrays Iria by destroying her transporter, stranding her in the wilderness, so that he can make off with the Kamarite. However, Fujikuro realizes that Iria has the Kamarite with her, and now he must find her on foot. He abducts Teppei, a human who has encountered Iria before, and has him take them both to Iria. Teppei’s co-worker, Kamiya, stumbles upon Iria and Fujikuro’s den, and establishes contact with Iria.\n\nIria subdues Fujikuro and Teppei is freed. However, the android revives, and traps them all in a zone, an alternate dimension from which they cannot escape. It is revealed that the android had a biological unit installed, which is none other than Zeiram, the same alien Iria, Teppei and Kamiya fought before. Zeiram hunts down Iria and they battle. Kamiya enters the zone to help, but Fujikuro steals his transporter and tries to escape with the Kamarite. Iria thwarts Fujikuro, forcing him to lose the Kamarite and transport into a holding cell.\n\nWith the transporter unit gone, Teppei and Kamiya must recover the Kamarite, which can also function as a transporter, in order to escape the zone. Iria and Zeiram follow, and the duel climaxes at the head of a Buddhist statue. As the zone begins to disintegrate around them, Kamiya activates the Kamarite and tries to warp them out. However, Iria and Zeiram were pulled in together, and are trapped in limbo while Kamiya and Teppei are reconstructed. Kamiya and Teppei try to bring Iria through, but Zeiram tries to force its way through, too. Iria destroys Zeiram before it can fully reconstruct, and comes out of the zone.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Gentamicin is a commonly-used antibiotic, considered an essential medicine by the World Health Organization (WHO). But antibiotics of this kind (aminoglycosides) cause kidney damage in up to 25% of hospitalized patients. This is a major problem for more than 37 million Americans who suffer from chronic kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The American Federal Drug Administration (FDA) considers the development of antibiotics for patients with chronic kidney disease to be a national priority.\n\n\nA group of researchers led by Professor Yaakov Nahmias, Director of the Grass Center for Bioengineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and founder of the biotechnology startup Tissue Dynamics, discovered a new mechanism of antibiotics-induced kidney damage, never identified before.\n\nTheir paper (Aminoglycoside-induced lipotoxicity and its reversal in kidney on chip) was published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal’s Lab on Chip, and featured on the front cover showing an artificial intelligence artistic rendition of a bionic microtissue, dramatically fusing art and science.\n\n“Most work in the drug development field is being carried out in mice, and the mechanism we found is human-specific,” said Prof. Nahmias.\n\nThe academic team partnered with Tissue Dynamics––a groundbreaking biotechnology company owned by Nahmias that develops drug toxicity and efficacy screening tools for the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries––to develop a bionic micro-kidney in which electro-optical sensors—roughly half the width of a single human hair––are embedded in human kidney tissue.\n\n“This is a dramatic demonstration that bionic technology, which blends sensors with human tissue, could rapidly propel drug development forward,” said Nahmias, whose Tissue Dynamics was recently selected as one of the top 5 organ-on-chip companies in the world.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "'Peacocking' is in our genes", null, "Scratch a red-blooded male near a pretty woman and you find not a mass of testosterone, but a calculating machine.\nImage: THINKSTOCK\n\nThe news that men are more likely to perform good deeds when watched by members of the opposite sex - disclosed in a study published in the British Journal of Psychology- is unlikely to surprise anyone of either sex.\n\nWhat? Men act like show ponies, even when they are being goodie-goodies? Well, surprise surprise.\n\nThe further news that, if a man is sexually attracted to a woman he is more likely to act in an ostentatiously altruistic way than if he is not attracted to her, is another classic from the Bumper Book of No-Brainers. A study finding that men were stimulated by pictures of naked women would have more novelty value.\n\nThe researchers reached their conclusions after studying how men and women performed at a specially designed computer game in which participants had the opportunity to keep money or share it with others. But they could have saved their energy.\n\nTen minutes of watching men and women interact in a pub, or on a train, or in an office, would have led them to the same conclusion.\n\nSt Francis of Assisi may have done a few women a good turn without an ulterior motive. Possibly also St Thomas More and St Bob Geldof. But they were the exception that proved the rule.\n\nMen in general are far less scrupulous - and have been since their ancestors crawled out of the primeval swamp.\n\nMost men have such embarrassingly obvious ulterior motives that they can no longer be called ulterior.\n\nScratch a red-blooded male within sniffing distance of a pretty woman and you find not a mass of crude testosterone, but a remorseless, calculating machine. If I do A, will it lead to B? That same question, again and again, since the dawn of time.\n\nThe next time you see a man helping a woman get her suitcase off a luggage rack, don't look at the suitcase. Look at the woman - the grateful audience for whom this little act of chivalry is being performed.\n\nThe researchers call this ''peacocking\", drawing parallels between the good deeds that a man does to impress women and the extravagant display of tail feathers with which the peacock tries to impress a mate.\n\nBut there is no need to give a fancy name to something that men and women alike instinctively understand. A man doesn't have to be a millionaire, or win Wimbledon, or become President of the United States to attract women: he just has to show that he is a good person, capable of behaving decently.\n\nObviously, the Good Samaritan who overdoes it and wants the world to notice that he is a Good Samaritan is shooting himself in the foot. But a man who knows what's good for him does not go to the opposite extreme and behave like one of those shy philanthropists who give millions to starving orphans without a soul knowing.\n\nIf he does something even faintly gallant, like giving up his seat on a train, he will cast a quick look over his shoulder to see if his efforts have been noticed - preferably by the most beautiful woman in the carriage.\n\nIf there weren't 1000 different ways into a woman's heart, all equally valid, the species would have died out years ago.\n\nAs a gawky teenager in the 1990s - blessed with little by the way of good looks, inherited wealth, bulging pecs or flowing locks - I realised there was much to be gained by simple acts of kindness towards the opposite sex.\n\nFrom helping with the washing up to mending plugs and offering to walk dogs, I earned a ridiculous amount of appreciation for what felt like pretty footling gestures of goodwill. Was I being cynical? Were the women being gullible? Of course not.\n\nWe were simply performing an age-old sexual dance in which both partners understand the moves perfectly: give-and-take elevated to an art form.\n\nA man who acts considerately, demonstrating that he is sensitive to the needs of others, will always trump one who spends hours in front of the mirror. Don't study the research. Just look around you. - The Daily Telegraph" ]

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[ null, "Today, I’m THRILLED to feature my first “Preschooler-Approved Picture Book” review. And, there’s no better book to start with than Elaine Kiely Kearns’ debut, NOAH NOASAURUS (illustrated by Colin Jack), which will be published on April 1st (no fooling!) by Albert Whitman Company.", null, "Elaine is graciously giving away a SIGNED copy of NOAH NOASAURUS to one lucky reader. For a chance to win, comment below or retweet this post from my Twitter handle (@kateallenfox) by Friday, March 8th.\n\nSo, what is a preschooler-approved picture book?\n\nMy preschooler is a certified book monster–gobbling down every book he can. But, he finds some books tastier than others. This is the first post in a new series where I’ll profile books that receive his highest seal of approval: endless begging for seconds.\n\nI’ll tell you what he likes about the book and what I like about it as the person who reads it umpteen-and-a-half times a day.\n\nBefore we dive in, here’s a quick synopsis of the story:\n\nNoah Noasaurus woke up feeling very No. No to brushing his teeth. No to eating breakfast. And definitely No to playing with his little brother. Things only get worse when Noah goes for a walk and relentlessly cheerful Toby Rex, Brian Brontosaurus, and Ava Ceratops follow him. Together, the group starts a bona fide dino parade that even Noah can’t resist. This lighthearted, whimsical story will have readers laughing along at Noah and his friends—as well as at their own bad moods\n\nWhen NOAH NOASAURUS landed in my inbox, the kid-appeal was evident at first click. Let’s start with the obvious: dinosaurs. Now, my kid isn’t particularly into dinosaurs (trucks are more his jam), but I’d be hard-pressed to find a child under 5 who is anti-dinosaurs.\n\nColin Jack’s colorful and inviting illustrations make the most of this perennially popular topic. Noah and his friends are so visually appealing that, despite Noah’s titular grumpiness, I’d invite them in for dinner before even thinking of running away in terror.\n\nThe upbeat visuals marry perfectly with the delightful story that follows Noah as he tries to stay in a bad mood, despite the warm support of his family and friends. Small kids are able to follow the story due to its preschooler-friendly word choice and brisk pacing. The narrative arc is also wonderfully applicable to kids in the 3–5 age range, who often find themselves wrestling with their own emotions.\n\nBut, what my kid LOVES most about this story is right in the title: the NOs! The repetition of the simple word “no” gives him the opportunity to identify a word. He feels like an active participant in the story’s creation. And, let’s be honest: the kid loves a parent-sanctioned opportunity to yell “NO!”\n\nSo, why do I love this book? For many of the same reasons my kid does, but from a slightly different angle. I love that:\n\nNOAH NOASAURUS fires on all cylinders for preschoolers and their grown-ups, and I’m certain would appeal to older kids as well. Heck, I still wake up feeling very “no” a few times a week.\n\nLearn more about Elaine and NOAH NOASAURUS on her website. You can see other reviews and find pre-order info on Goodreads.\n\nLet me know in the comments what makes your favorite picture book particularly kid-friendly. And, don’t forget to enter the giveaway for a SIGNED copy of NOAH NOASAURUS by commenting below or retweeting!\n\nHave a book that you’d like my book monster to devour and review? Send me a note through my contact page!" ]

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[ "Devastate,\nBook #4 in the Deliver Series", null, "“What is the price you’re willing to pay?”\n“Money isn’t an issue.”\n“I’m not talking about money.”\n\nTate is on the hunt to find his best friend’s sister.\nEleven years ago, Lucia Dias was abducted. Presumed dead. He never met her, so why does he care?\nSome might call his efforts noble, but his motivation is more perverse, bordering on obsession.\n\nWhen he follows a chilling lead to Venezuela’s Kidnap Alley, what he finds is neither a corpse nor a captive.\n\nAmid poisonous lies and crippling depravity, the price of love is devastation.\nAnd he pays.\nWith his body, his blood, and her life.", null, null, "His name was Joshua Carter. Now it’s whatever she wants it to be.\n\nShe is a Deliverer.\n\nAs long as she delivers, the arrangement that protects her family will hold.\n\nDelivering is all she knows.\n\nThe one thing she can’t deliver is a captive from slavery.\n\nAnd her stubborn slave thinks he can deliver her…from herself.", null, "Her life is like a prison cell.\nA self-made, to-hell-with-the-free-world existence that locks from the inside.\nStop judging. Her agoraphobia doesn’t define her. It simply keeps her safe.\n\nHe belongs in a prison cell.\nThe 6×8, make-me-your-bitch variety that locks from the outside.\nBut he’s free. To hunt. To take. To break.\nAnd he just found a sexy new toy.\n\nCapturing her is the easy part. Her fucked-up mind, however, makes him question everything he does next.\nBut he’s a determined bastard. If all goes his way, this will hurt like hell.", null, "Camila was seventeen when Van Quiso kidnapped her. Ten years after her escape, the shackles refuse to release her. Not while there are still slave traders preying on her city.\nShe will stop at nothing to end them.\nEven if that means becoming a slave again.\n\nReturning to chains is her worst fear—and only option. They won’t know who she is or what she intends to do. She’s prepared for every complication.\nExcept him.\nThe one who decimated her sixteen-year-old heart.\n\nMatias is charming, gorgeous, and dangerously seductive. He’s also untrustworthy and enshrouded in secrets. After years of no contact, he finds her—on her knees, wrists bound, in the clutches of her enemy.\nWill he sabotage her mission by needlessly saving her?\nOr will he keep her in chains and never let her go?", null, "New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Pam Godwin, lives in the Midwest with her husband, their two children, and a foulmouthed parrot. When she ran away, she traveled fourteen countries across five continents, attended three universities, and married the vocalist of her favorite rock band.\n.\n\nJava, tobacco, and dark romance novels are her favorite indulgences, and might be considered more unhealthy than her aversion to sleeping, eating meat, and dolls with blinking eyes.\n\nPosted in About the series, Authors & Books, Blurb, Cover Reveal, More in the Series, Other Books by the Author, Pre-order links" ]

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[ "While many cigar manufacturers aim to make packaging that is retail friendly, there is something to be said for those that aren’t and that stand out from the standard boxes on store shelves. Such is the case with the El Güegüense 5 Year Anniversary from Foundation Cigar Co.", null, "Drawing on the design of the 2017 Foundation Chest Collector Humidor, this design features artwork by Thief Operandi that depicts the legend of El Güegüense, which is an integral part of Nicaragua’s cultural heritage. Beyond the art, the box is best known for two wings that fold out and get the chest to its full width. Inside the box is a new cigar that is known as the El Güegüense 5 Year Anniversary, a 4 3/4 x 60 perfecto that uses a Nicaraguan corojo 99 wrapper, Mexican San Andrés binder and fillers from Nicaragua’s Estelí and Jalapa regions. Each chest holds 20 of the cigars.", null, "The El Güegüense 5 Year Anniversary is a wonderful combination of a distinct form, displayable art and a new cigar, and thus worthy of being recognized. — Patrick Lagreid." ]

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[ "Last year, tech billionaire Sean Parker made headlines with his latest startup: a streaming service called Screening Room that would give users the ability to watch major movies still in theatres for $US50 from the comfort of their homes.\n\nInstantly, people online were declaring that Parker was about to change the movie business as he did with the music industry 18 years ago, when he helped create Napster. Hollywood power players began to take sides: Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, J.J. Abrams, and Peter Jackson have all praised the forward-thinking philosophy of Screening Room (they all also happen to be stakeholders). Meanwhile, other filmmaking giants like Christopher Nolan and James Cameron, along with Warner Bros. chairman/CEO Kevin Tsujihara, have spoken out against it, voicing the importance of an exclusive theatrical experience.\n\nBut since the initial rush of news and analysis about the venture, buzz around Screening Room has nearly disappeared — on the internet but also, more importantly, in Hollywood. And now it looks like the project may be a flop.\n\nThough Parker and cofounder Prem Akkaraju have promoted the company in the last two years at CinemaCon — an annual event where studios and exhibitors get together in Las Vegas to showcase top titles and innovations — it’s gotten little traction due to a naivete of the industry, competitors, and studios’ and theatre chains’ decade-long discussion about how to move forward on Premium VOD (PVOD), Business Insider has learned.\n\n“Everything you’ve heard in the press about studios and theatres wanting to explore a PVOD window, nothing about that revolves around Screening Room,” a source close to the talks told Business Insider.\n\nHollywood has its own big ideas\n\nScreening Room’s main pitch to studios and exhibitors has been that it can bring added revenue to all sides of the equation. (Peter Jackson has said that Screening Room could bring in $US8.5 billion a year to the film industry.) Out of the proposed $US50 rental fee (which would make a movie available to the viewer for 48 hours), 20% would go to the movie’s distributor, and a participating theatre chain would get up to $US20 of the fee, plus each customer receives two tickets to see that rented title at their local theatre. Screening Room would take 10% of each fee.\n\nSources told Business Insider that all of the bells and whistles Screening Room is selling don’t matter until the studios and theatres can agree on a Premium VOD (or PVOD) window.\n\nWe’re not going to share anything with the theatres.\n\nPremium VOD is a term for titles that would be available to rent or buy before they are made available on most streaming services or through Blu-ray and DVD releases. Industry players don’t want movies to be available on PVOD simultaneously with theatrical release dates because the first two weeks of a theatrical run are still when studios and exhibitors get a majority of a movie’s income. It’s more likely that a PVOD window would be put in place in the period when movies are out of most first-run theatres and haven’t shown up on streaming services yet, known in the industry as “the dark zone.”\n\nThough PVOD hasn’t happened yet, many insiders believe it’s only a matter of time. (The only service that streams movies while they’re still in theatres is the ultra high-end Prima Cinema, which costs $US35,000 to install and $US500 per movie rental.)\n\n“Eventually I would imagine, I’m speaking as an observer, the studios will need to find their own platforms and create our own direct-to-consumer opportunities,” 20th Century Fox studio head Stacey Snider said at a conference at UCLA in March.\n\nFox and Warner Bros. have reportedly considered a $US30 rental fee for streaming movies after they have been in theatres for 30 days, while other studios have suggested slightly different options. Disney has said it’s not interested in shortening the theatrical release window.\n\nThe holdup is the debate between studios and exhibitors on some major issues, specifically what the price point for PVOD will be and how soon after a movie opens it will be available to stream. Once those questions are answered, Screening Room will be on the minds of those in the industry.\n\nBut there’s another hurdle: Parker’s company isn’t the only game in town.\n\n“There are about three other systems out there that are doing similar things and going around talking to theatre owners and studios,” a source said.\n\nAnd some studio executives aren’t too keen on Screening Room trying to muscle in as the exclusive streaming destination when a movie hits the PVOD window, or its plan to split sales with theatres.\n\nAccording to one source, a studio head reacted to Screening Room’s proposal that theatres would get up to $US20 of each rental fee by saying, “If Screening Room wants to pay it out of their cut, go ahead. We’re not going to share anything with the theatres.”\n\nScreening Room was frozen out by theatre chains\n\nThen there are the struggles Screening Room has had trying to build relationships on the exhibition side. According to sources, the company no longer has a deal with multiplex giant AMC Theatres (AMC did not return Business Insider’s requests for comment). And an attempted meeting with the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), which would be a huge ally in starting a dialogue between Screening Room and the major theatre chains, stalled after Screening Room wanted NATO to sign an NDA, which the organisation declined to sign as the only reason it would want to meet with Screening Room is to relay the information it received to theatre owners (NATO had no comment for this story).", null, "“It seems to me it’s often an individual company that comes along and believes it has figured out how to make all the money in the theatre space,” Barbara Twist, managing director of the Art House Convergence representing smaller theatres (which sat in on a Screening Room presentation at CinemaCon in 2016), told Business Insider. “Personally, I have yet to see a new version that ensures that everybody keeps making the amount of money currently being made.”\n\nTwist also questions how beneficial Screening Room could really be for theatre owners.\n\n“There’s obviously the piracy issue, but also the economics,” Twist said. “They say we’ll give the person who rents a title two movie tickets, but how would they determine the person’s main theatre they go to? Commercial multiplexes and art houses occasionally show the same titles — who are they going to preference? Same for the rental-fee split. Moviegoers are often loyal to multiple theatres.”\n\nHowever, Twist admits her organisation, which is made up of a community of 400 independently owned theatres across the country, would be open to sitting down with Parker and Akkaraju.\n\n“We would welcome a discussion along the lines of them saying, ‘We have this idea, we would like to help the moviegoing population see more movies, how can we work with you?’ Rather than a PowerPoint presentation,” Twist said.\n\nThe elephant in the room: ‘iTunes is the logical choice’\n\nSo studios don’t want to share any of the money they get from Screening Room, exhibitors aren’t feeling the love, and there’s that issue of piracy (though Screening Room reportedly touted “refined” security measures at CinemaCon this year). But that’s not all: iTunes might make Screening Room obsolete.\n\nFor years, iTunes has gotten first dibs on movie titles for home viewing before all other providers. Sources believe that whenever studios and exhibitors want to go down the PVOD path, they would likely put their trust in a service they already work with like iTunes (or they would build their own PVOD streaming service internally), rather than a newcomer like Screening Room.\n\n“If an earlier window gets put in place, iTunes would probably have some say in being part of the earlier window,” a source said.\n\nApple has been in talks with studios about making movies available on iTunes two weeks after theatrical debuts, Bloomberg reported in December. (Apple did not respond to Business Insider’s numerous requests for comment.)\n\n“I think iTunes is the logical choice,” Exhibitor Relations senior box office analyst Jeff Bock said. “It’s what everybody has, and if the price point is right, Screening Room is cut out. Nobody needs them. And to build that infrastructure with Screening Room would take a long time. Screening Room has a really tough hill to climb.”" ]

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[ "I recently received glowing reviews for my book, Glazed Man & Rat Girl that I am proud to share with my blog readers. These 2 reviews are especially meaningful because they come from two people who are complete strangers to me. One of them is even one of the Top 500 Reviewers for Amazon. You can read the full reviews here.. Below are a couple of excerpts.", null, "Reviewed by Tvtv3: “…. This unlikely duo makes an interesting team and join forces to stop the evil RoboCreep and his fiendish plans. The book is filled with illustrations (about one on every other page). It’s also really funny and somewhat endearing. Glazed Man is an everyman that most readers can really relate to. He has some of the same foibles and frustrations that most of us do, but despite this, he keeps persevering. Overall, GLAZED MAN & RAT GIRL is a very entertaining, witty, and charming young adult novel. I enjoyed it much more than the dystopian fiction that is currently all the rage in young adult publishing.”\n\nReviewed By Trishaa: “…. Johnny Crumb is known as Glazed Man for his ability to shoot sugar glaze from the palms of his hands and Martha is known as Rat Girl because she can turn herself into a ferocious rat. They team up as a do good force. Add to this humorous group a growing mass of Johnny’s dirty laundry that grows and grows and moves around (reminiscent of the Blob) and you have a hysterical story that any young boy would delight in.", null, "This story is accompanied by cartoons with language bubbles on almost every page and are quite well done. I know our son would have loved this book when he was 8 or 9 as we always had a long book going that I would read to him in the evenings. This would have produced many giggles from him and an anticipation for the next installment the next night. Dog poop and farts always would illicit gales of laughter from him.”" ]

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[ null, "Strangers, Hali and Terry, and a cute but mischievous Samoyed puppy are stranded in the Alaskan bush. Due to a freak snowstorm, Terry is forced to land his small Cessna on a frozen lake. From the beginning, Hali’s never known a man so independent and rigid in his need to have things done his way. And Terry’s never known a woman so willing to help, stepping on his pride in such a lovable way that he can’t take offense. The frigid temperatures are brutal and when Terry falls through the ice to save a puppy, the stakes for survival become enormous. Can their blossoming mutual attraction withstand their multiple challenges?" ]

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[ null, "Nick (Hugh Jackman) is a memory detective in a dystopian, flooded Miami of the future, using chemicals and a hologram machine called reminiscence, to transport clients back into past memories. When a new client (Rebecca Ferguson) disappears, his obsession to find her uncovers a deadly conspiracy in this sci-fi/romantic mystery.\n\nDirector Lisa Joy (Westworld) and husband Jonathan clearly intended to one-up his brother, director Christopher Nolan (Inception, Interstellar, Tenet) in the nonsensical plot department – creating a stylish, weirdly confusing, film noiry-type detective thriller. It borrows heavily from Blade Runner and Minority Report. But what it really is, with its embarrassingly awful dialogue, is a pretentious, tedious hot mess. It literally makes no sense.\n\nThe only two bright spots in this low wattage extravaganza are Thandiwe Newton, as Jackman’s assistant, and wide shots of flooded, climate-distressed Miami. The bizarre story finally gets back on the rails ever so slightly in the third act – but with such a repellent first hour and a half, it is highly unlikely you’ll still be watching.\n\n• Thandiwe Newton formerly went professionally by the name Thandie, but decided to re-add the “w” in 2021.", null ]

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[ null, "If you were to search “Things to do in Eustis, FL,” you would likely receive results such as “Have a picnic at Trout Lake Nature Center,” “Pay a visit to Ferran Park,” or “Tour the old Clifford House.” There’s nothing quite like strolling through charming southern towns. In fact, the only thing that could make exploring Eustis better is a cup of Ellianos coffee in your hand – and soon, that will be a reality! Ellianos Coffee has announced its plans for a new store location in Eustis, Florida.\n\nKaren and Rich Weber, Ellianos franchise owners, are excited to be bringing Ellianos Coffee to Eustis. No strangers to owning a business, the Webers previously owned a donut shop where they served fresh, homemade donuts, as well as two Checkers franchise locations before they decided to step into the world of coffee. The Webers were attracted to the Ellianos double-sided drive-thru design, building pattern, efficiency, and the coffee, of course! Truly, ‘Italian Quality at America’s Pace®’!" ]

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[ null, "In a transfer to purge civil management and police, the Jammu and Kashmir executive has begun investigation into the credentials of 168 workforce for his or her alleged involvement in subversive, felony and corrupt practices.\n\nPaperwork in ownership of Information 18 display that the native station area officials around the Jammu and Kashmir were requested to offer record inside shortest time frame concerning the officers.\n\nAmongst 168 Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) workforce, 161 belong to the Valley and best 7 are from the Jammu area. In Jammu department, two every are from Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch districts and one in Kishtwar.\n\nOfficers were advised to offer an in depth record concerning the law enforcement officials. And if discovered in charge, executive will take motion. Those that have finished 22 years of carrier or attained 48 years of age may have very slender probability of staying put if their credentials aren’t discovered as much as mark.\n\nThe proposal to get the accused law enforcement officials out of services and products has despatched shockwaves a few of the police cadre, resources disclose, including that there appears to be “0 tolerance in holding those that are discovered tainted.”\n\nThis is for the first time that such a huge action is being mulled against police officials who were otherwise – barring a few cases – well protected under various laws while dealing with militancy.\n\nThe Jammu and Kashmir police last year dismissed Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Davinder Singh from services for his involvement in terror activities. Singh was arrested while driving two militants of Hizbul Mujahideen on the Srinagar-Jammu highway.\n\nThe LG administration has been very severe on government servants who were found involved in terror, corruption or criminal activities. Only last month, two Kashmir administration services cadre officers were shown the door and before that many teachers were asked to go for absenteeism.\n\nKashmir regional parties like NC and PDP have often criticised the government for disempowering and disengaging Kashmiris from government services." ]

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[ null, "The event was organized by Jitta Balakrishna Reddy and other Telangana activists. The case was registered at Hayathnagar police station. Even state BJP President Bandi Sanjay Kumar was summoned for questioning in the matter. The complaint was filed by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) social media (SM) convenor Y Satish Reddy.\n\nA report by The Indian Express in the case says:\n\nIn a statement, the police said, “On June, under the leadership state BJP president Bandi Sanjay, Jitta Balakrishna Reddy and Rani Rudrama organized an event in view of Telangana Formation Day and misused the dais for performing a skit (hate act) with the help of BJP cultural team member Daruvu Yellanna and insulted a person who is holding a constitutional post being democratically elected by the people of the state and the same was telecast on a Telugu TV news channel.”\n\nBased on the written complaint, a case was registered against Bandi Sanjay, Jitta Balakrishna Reddy, Rani Rudrama, Daruvu Yellanna, and his team. An officer said that during the skit, actors made derogatory comments and personal attacks, depicting the chief minister of the state as a drunkard, cheater, and so on. The FIR said the act was against the democratic ethos and hurt public will by personally targeting and defaming the elected government and the state’s Chief Minister.\n\nBandi Sanjay Kumar and other BJP leaders condemned the arrest. “What is the reason for the arrest? Did he commit a heinous crime? Is he a murderer? Why such a hurry to arrest him at midnight,” Kumar asked.\n\nThese ‘secular’ parties always talk about freedom of speech (FoS) but when it comes to their own they make up excuses to muzzle the same free speech they claim to advocate. The same TRS was advocating free speech for Munawar Faruqui and Kunal Kamra who keep insulting Hindu deities and Dharma time and again. Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao had invited Faruqui and Kamra to Hyderabad saying “we don’t cancel shows”.\n\nThat ‘secular’ FoS is all about supporting Hinduphobia has been evident from the manner in which political parties have supported Faruqui, be it Congress and NCP in Maharashtra or TRS in Telangana, or TMC in Bengal. The KCR-led TRS government has time and again targeted opposition leaders.\n\nThis incident yet again makes it clear that political parties that claim to champion FoS are the ones to suppress it when it doesn’t suit their agenda. According to them only the Hinduphobic section of the society has the right to free speech." ]

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[ "4 edition of The Status of African-Americans in the Third Millennium found in the catalog.", null, "\nCollective behavior and social movements are just two of the forces driving social change, which is the change in society created through social movements as well as external factors like environmental shifts or technological ially, any disruptive shift in the status quo, be it intentional or random, human-caused or natural, can lead to social change. Check the MSU Online Catalog for books, videos, and more. Note that the MSU Online Catalog is a union catalog which includes the holdings of the Library of Michigan, the MSU College of Law Library, and other branches on our own campus.\n\nAfrican-Americans may have benefited more than white residents from the massive investments in water supply and waste removal that transformed American cities. The book’s approach offers an exemplary contribution to the economic history of American cities. Water, Race and Disease focuses primarily on the period from to the early s. African Americans in the Twentieth Century. Thomas N. Maloney, University of Utah. The nineteenth century was a time of radical transformation in the political and legal status of African Americans. Blacks were freed from slavery and began to enjoy greater rights as citizens (though full recognition of their rights remained a long way off). Book Description: The civil rights movement of the s improved the political and legal status of African Americans, but the quest for equality in employment and economic well-being has lagged behind. Blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be employed in lower-paying service jobs or to be unemployed, are three times as likely to.\n\nSome African Americans were critical of the Japanese empire, especially after Japan’s invasion of Nanjing. These thinkers looked to China rather than Japan, forging a connection between China’s national struggle, black resistance in the United States, and . Diabetes in African Americans. Data from studies of nationally representative samples indicate that as compared with their white counterparts, African American men are 20% to 50% more likely and African American women more than % more likely to develop diabetes.[]In the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study carried forward on 15, adults aged years . Daniel Geary ▪ Ma \"Chicago Ghetto on the South Side,\" (John H. White / National Archives). Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Mitchell Duneier Farrar, Straus and Giroux, , pp. The word “ghetto” landed Bernie Sanders in trouble.", null, null, null, "The Status of African-Americans in the Third Millennium by Aldene, F. Gordon Download PDF EPUB FB2\n\nSyntaxTextGen not activatedAfrican Americans and Latino/as are more likely pdf be portrayed on news shows as perpetrators rather than victims of crime. True According to the text, discriminatory treatment and the unequal social and political status of some racial groups is more of a function of social class than race.This is the most important book of the twenty-first century.\n\nE. Michael Jones has thrown down an intellectual gauntlet that cannot honorably be ignored. He has written the definitive defense of logos, and for half a century anti-logocentrism has been the veritable shibboleth of the cultural left.African Americans are ebook a homogeneous group. Inthe ebook of the first national census, the term \"Negro\" was current, and the majority of Negroes were slaves." ]

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[ null, "Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism\n\nJournalist Seyward Darby's \"masterfully reported and incisive\" (Nell Irvin Painter) exposé pulls back the curtain on modern racial and political extremism in America telling the \"eye-opening and unforgettable\" (Ibram X. Kendi) account of three women immersed in the white nationalist movement.After the election of Donald J. Trump, journalist Seyward Darby went looking for the women of the so-called \"alt-right\" -- really just white nationalism with a new label. The mainstream media depicted the alt-right as a bastion of angry white men, but was it? As women headlined resistance to the Trump administration's bigotry and sexism, most notably at the Women's Marches, Darby wanted to know why others were joining a movement espousing racism and anti-feminism. Who were these women, and what did their activism reveal about America's past, present, and future?Darby researched dozens of women across the country before settling on three -- Corinna Olsen, Ayla Stewart, and Lana Lokteff. Each was born in 1979, and became a white nationalist in the post-9/11 era. Their respective stories of radicalization upend much of what we assume about women, politics, and political extremism.Corinna, a professional embalmer who was once a body builder, found community in white nationalism before it was the alt-right, while she was grieving the death of her brother and the end of hermarriage. For Corinna, hate was more than just personal animus -- it could also bring people together. Eventually, she decided to leave the movement and served as an informant for the FBI. Ayla, a devoutly Christian mother of six, underwent a personal transformation from self-professed feminist to far-right online personality. Her identification with the burgeoning \"tradwife\" movement reveals how white nationalism traffics in society's preferred, retrograde ways of seeing women.Lana, who runs a right-wing media company with her husband, enjoys greater fame and notoriety than many of her sisters in hate. Her work disseminating and monetizing far-right dogma is a testament to the power of disinformation.With acute psychological insight and eye-opening reporting, Darby steps inside the contemporary hate movement and draws connections to precursors like the Ku Klux Klan. Far more than mere helpmeets, women like Corinna, Ayla, and Lana have been sustaining features of white nationalism. Sisters in Hate shows how the work women do to normalize and propagate racist extremism has consequences well beyond the hate movement." ]

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[ null, "The United Kingdom (UK) is supporting Ghana with 70 Husky armoured vehicles for security operations in the northern parts of Ghana.\n\nThe UK Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford has arrived in Ghana to announce the new UK-Ghana defence deal.\n\nThe Husky is a medium-armoured high-mobility tactical support vehicle.\n\n‘See something, Say something’\n\nGhana has launched a public campaign on terrorism alertness dubbed, “See something, say something” as part of efforts to help deal with the terrorists threat in the West African sub-region.\n\nWithin the first quarter of 2022, the African continent has experienced about 346 terrorists attacks in various countries.\n\nOut of these, 49 per cent of them have occurred in the West African sub-region.\n\nThis clearly indicates that the sub-region has become a hotbed for terrorism.\n\nIt is following this that the public campaign has been launched for any person who notices anything unusual about the security situation, to inform the various agencies by dialing 999 (toll free) or use any of the security agencies phone numbers or social media handles.\n\nFor those who don’t want to be identified for fear of being labelled as snitchers, the complaints can be lodged anonymously too, the security agencies have announced. You can as well report to assembly members, District Chief Executives, chiefs, opinion leaders, presiding members and community leaders.\n\nTerrorists recently killed 10 soldiers in neighbouring Togo on May 11, 2022.\n\nAbout 15 assailants were killed during the “terrorist” attack last week in the north of Togo that also killed the 10 soldiers.\n\nThis is why the UK is supporting Ghana with the 70 Husky armoured vehicles for security operations in the northern parts of Ghana and the UK Minister for Africa, Vicky Ford is in town to announce the new UK-Ghana defence deal.\n\nIt is the UK Minister’s second visit to Ghana in 2022 following the success of the first UK-Ghana Business Council (UKGBC) held in-person since 2019.\n\nThe Council was held in the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in the heart of London with the senior Government of Ghana delegation led by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen.\n\nArriving in Ghana for the second time in 2022, Minister Ford’s visit signals the importance the UK places on the deep and broad bilateral partnership.\n\nWith almost a billion dollars’ worth of trade between Ghana and the UK, the British Government is committed to growing this by the end of 2024.\n\n“It is fantastic to be back in Ghana, to continue the conversations, decisions and opportunities discussed both at UK-Ghana Business Council and during my visit in February. It’s also been fantastic to meet colleagues from the African Development Bank in-person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nI am proud to use my visit to announce a successful deal between our nations that will see 70 armoured Husky vehicles deployed to Northern Ghana to ensure the safety of vulnerable communities.”\n\nDuring her visit, the UK Minister for Africa will attend the African Development Bank’s meeting of Governors where Minister Ford is expected to sign a climate finance deal worth up to $2 billion. Announced at COP26, at least half of the ‘Room to Run’ guarantee will unlock support for countries across the Continent to manage the impacts of climate change. The signing honours the global commitments made at COP26 by leaders from around the world including His Excellency President Nana Akufo-Addo.\n\nWelcoming Minister Ford to Accra for the second time in 2022, British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson said: “Ghana is a beacon of security, stability and democracy in a troubled region. Its role in ECOWAS and membership of the UN Security Council means that Ghana has a vital role in safeguarding democratic principles and defending freedoms across West Africa and beyond. We strongly support Ghana’s leadership in this.\n\nOur partnership in recent times includes the fight against the impact of climate change and, of course, global health security. Minister Ford’s return to Ghana will reinforce this partnership through the signing of a climate finance deal, to ensure the safety of vulnerable communities.”\n\nMinister Ford will pay tribute to the enduring UK-Ghana security and defence partnership, announcing the completion of a deal between our nations that will see 70 armoured Husky vehicles arrive in Ghana. These vehicles will be used to bolster security along the country’s Northern border, protecting communities from the threat of extremists inciting violence across the border.\n\nLinked to the deal, worth more than $10 million, the UK armed forces will provide training for Ghanaian troops, including training of Ghanaian instructors to teach the operation and daily maintenance of the vehicles.\n\nDuring her previous trip, the Minister also visited the West Africa Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), based at the University of Ghana. Now, with vital UK-backing, the centre is supporting the country and the region on COVID-19 genome sequencing. Minister Ford also met with the scientists working on antimalarial drug resistance and new malaria vaccines in partnership with UK research institutions including Edinburgh University, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Francis Crick Institute." ]

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[ "Cybercriminals with alleged ties to ISIS recently tried to spread malware onto a Syrian citizen media group after posing as Syrian-Canadian citizens, according to a report from Citizen Lab. The social engineering attack took place in late November, and shows the group is continually putting more effort into its cybercriminal abilities. The attempted malware attack was targeted to the Raqqah is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS) group, and the email was worded in a manner to trick organization members.", null, "\"This bears little resemblance to anything we've seen from the usual suspects,\" said John Scott-Railton, the report's co-author, noted in a statement given to CBC. \"That, combined with who they are targeting... gives us pause and makes us think that maybe we're looking at ISIS malware.\"\n\nISIS has used the Internet, specifically social media, as a tool to recruit and spread propaganda. However, the group has run into problems, as the Anonymous hacker collective and other groups have disrupted their online operations." ]

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[ "President Barack Obama recently took a night off from his political duties to treat Michelle to dinner -- and \"Extra\" spoke to Chef Michel Richard about the First couple's romantic night!", null, "Richard, Chef of D.C. hotspot Citronelle, tells \"Extra\" that he learned that the President and the First Lady were coming to his restaurant only an hour before they arrived! \"We had a reservation for two people from the White House... but did not know who it was,\" Michel explained. \"At five to six, forty secret service were all over. They blocked the street.\"\n\nThe Obamas ordered an appetizer of soft shell crab tempura and eggplant shortly after sitting down for their meal. For their entrees, Michelle requested a lobster burger -- and despite it not being on the menu, the chef complied! \"She asked for it and it was impossible to refuse to the queen of this country, so we gave it to her!\"\n\nThe Commander-in-Chief kept things light with 72-hour aged beef and only one French fry. Richard says, \"He wants to stay skinny, you know?\"\n\nThe Obamas also enjoyed drinks and dessert! Both Michelle and Barack Obama drank a martini, straight up and garnished with an olive. The couple indulged in crème brûlée, but skipped the pastry that came with the dish.\n\nRichard also confirmed that the Obamas are good tippers, leaving a 20% gratuity! Michel told us that Michelle even planted a kiss on him when the first couple left dinner! \"When she said goodbye to me, she talked to me in French. She kissed me and grabbed me. My wife was right there. No fight,\" Richard adds, laughing.\n\nSo, how much will Richard charge for future patrons to sit at the Obama table? \"Zero...Zero.\" On second thought, \"Maybe we are going to charge. Make them order a bottle of Cristal.\"" ]

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[ "SHANGHAI -- China's government on Monday offered public encouragement to state-owned companies challenging foreign banks over huge losses from derivative contracts, a move that bankers say has raised the risks of dealing with some of China's largest enterprises.\n\nSome of China's biggest airlines and shippers lost hundreds of millions of dollars last year on derivative trades when the price of oil plunged. They are now seeking to claw back those losses.\n\nIn a statement on its Web site, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said it supported moves by unnamed Chinese enterprises to seek recourse for their losses in structured financial derivative contracts tied to the price of oil and reserved the right to file lawsuits itself...\n\nWith concern already rising in recent weeks that Beijing might challenge the fuel-derivative losses, bankers have been scurrying to protect themselves. One day last week, trading in certain contracts all but shut down in China, bankers say. Now, bankers are discussing how to impose stiffer collateral requirements for Chinese airlines and other companies that seek derivative contracts.\n------------\n\nHere is the link for the English version of China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.\n\nIsn't it amazing that no-one reports how Goldman Sachs screwed the Chinese? So I will! (And what is more amazing, is that Goldman Sachs reputation is so tarnished that they and the Chinese are mentioned in the same breathe!)\n\nGoldman Sachs Singapore commodity unit, Aron & Co. was the counterparty to Shenzhen Nanshan Power Station Co., which refused to pay Goldman Sachs tens of millions of dollars. They said the transactions were unauthorize. People probably forgot about this story, because it happened last December:\n--------\nHONG KONG -- A face-off with a small Chinese power company over its losses on oil-related derivatives is turning into a big headache for Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a counterparty for a number of such trades in China.\n\nArguing that the transactions with the Wall Street firm were \"unauthorized,\" Shenzhen Nanshan Power Station Co. is refusing to pay Goldman for the losses it has incurred, which people familiar with the situation said amount to tens of millions of dollars.\n\nThe sum at stake is small compared with losses at some other companies that hedged their oil exposure, but the downside could be significant for Goldman. Its Singapore commodities unit, J. Aron & Co., has acted as counterparty for several Chinese companies that are claiming bigger losses from oil hedging, including Air China Ltd. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. Although these companies aren't disputing their recent losses, offering Shenzhen Nanshan a break could set a precedent for Goldman if ever confronted in the future by other corporate clients.\n-----\n\nNotice what Goldman Sachs had to say: \"We are confident that these contracts are valid, and that we will reach a resolution with the company.\"", null, "Goldman never fesses up, until they are forced to. Now the Forbes article indicates that China Eastern Airlines had a loss of $906 million. Their counterparty? Goldman Sachs.\n\nA few days ago, I had a story on this blog called Conspiracy Theory. Part of my postulation was that Goldman was pimping oil prices higher, because they knew they were the counterparty on bad derivative transactions.\n\nNow we know that they are the party of bad derivative transactions.\n\nAnd we also know, the Goldman had pimped oil down, after they facilitated the transactions, but they pimped oil up, before they sold them. Now we know that Goldman is pimping oil up, coincidentally, at the same time, they are facing billions of losses from soured derivative transactions.\n\nWhen AIG's bets went sour, Goldman Sachs was paid back by Treasury, and you the taxpayer, paid Goldman Sachs back at the behest of Treasury.", null, "So China should go and tell Goldman to go and f*ck themselves. Let Goldman sell the futures and hedges on the exchange to drive down the price of oil, and give the taxpayer a break.\n\nAnd what does it say about financial markets, when we have to turn to the Chinese, in order to reign in Goldman Sachs and their unbridled greed and egregiousness?\n\nMaybe because China has the world's largest bird nest!\n\nIs this why oil prices have came down a couple bucks the past few days?? So Goldman and friends are dumping their oil contracts in order to limit their losses on doing business with the Chinese?\n\nI don't understand why these airline companies even hedged oil at the high prices?? When oil reaches a point, the entire airline industry is history anyways...\n\nGoldman helped UAL hedge oil at over $127 a barrell!\n\nI bet Goldman didn't even buy the oil to store to deliver to these firms, haha!\n\nis GCI still a buy? low 8s right now or is the run over?\n\nBreaking a contract on a hedge is never a good thing and shouldn't be condoned or celebrated. Not even when goldman is going to get a well deserved two by four up the ass.\n\nNobody forced any retard to put on a long oil \"hedge\" at $100plus. Look up the term \"hedgulation\".\nWe're all grown ups here, and the chinese are historically decent traders. If they fucked up this time, tough shit. Panic has consequences.\nYou either believe in free will and free markets, or you don't.\n\nI don't think that it's as clear as that. Whatvwechave found out is that the investment banks have made a habit of using asymetrical information in their derivative pricing. I'd like to see, just for once what happens when one of these guys decide to back out of their contracts. We always hear that it wil be the end of the world. I just don't think it will be. And if Goldman is the guinea pig so what. Maybe they should know their customers better. But really, isn't China just barking on this issue? They never show their cards when they are playing poker\n\nI bought more GCI Friday at the close option monster advertised huge buying of puts in GCI FRiday as smart money betting on weakness in that number. I'm not buying that poker hand either\n\nwhat's your target of GCI?\n\nLike I said, I couldn't care less about Goldman. But I like to see contracts upheld. Just look at your post today about the Mexicans--they obviously played this right. If their counterparties were trying to stiff them, that would be wrong as well.\nThe fact is, 'asymetric info' aside, when you are putting on a collar, you either like the offered price/range or you don't. If not, don't do the trade. Walking on it afterward isn't good for markets at all." ]

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[ "Because those are just staples, n’est-ce pas?", null, "I’m participating in a 30 day challenge that my friend Ellen Olson Brown has been kind and ambitious enough to host. So this print is day one- a print a day. My gelatin plate is old and grungy- I’ve been using it all Summer and it even has bits of fern stuck in it from trying to add plant matter to a card for a friend the other day. The purple ink behaved in a surprising manner with the stencils, as if the water in the plate resisted the ink a bit. This did not happen with the scarlet red, which I attempted to damp down with some yellow ochre.\n\nI’ll be making a new plate shortly but as I’m helping install a multi-media exhibit tomorrow (Mutherer by Denise Dumas), I won’t get to it until Friday. If I can squeeze it in on Thursday I could at least print on Friday with the new and larger and hopefully cleaner plate, we’ll see." ]

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[ null, "Fr. Dan Lydon, CSV, made good on his promise to be a visible presence at Saint Viator High School. On the first day of school, Fr. Lydon was out in front greeting students and posing for photos with its mascot, the lion.", null, "Fr. Lydon was named the new president in January and he took over July 1. The new assignment returns him to his alma mater, where he graduated in 1973 and returned to teach and ultimately serve in its administration as assistant principal.\n\n“Fr. Lydon’s experience in education, administration and his relationship as an alumnus of Saint Viator will prepare him to take on this important responsibility,” said Fr. Dan Hall, CSV, Provincial. “We are very pleased to welcome him home.”", null, "In assuming his new role, Fr. Lydon says he wants to have a visible presence throughout the building, much like the Viatorians did when he was a student.\n\n“I intend to have an open office,” Fr. Lydon says. “I want to get to know the students – and have them get to know me.”\n\nWelcoming students on their first day was just the beginning, he says.\n\n“I am humbled to be presented with this opportunity to lead a community that has meant so much to me throughout my life,” Fr. Lydon said. “I look forward to leading this outstanding institution as we prepare for the continued challenges in providing a community of faith formation and academic excellence.”" ]

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[ null, "The government is constantly striving to make all the villages of India digital. But the government’s plan to connect millions of villages in 16 states with internet broadband is currently hanging in the balance.\n\nState-owned Bharat Broadband Nigam Limited has canceled a tender worth Rs 19,000 crore to connect villages in 16 states with the optical fiber-based high-speed broadband networks. The project was approved in June last year under BharatNet to launch an optical fiber network in 16 states in a public-private partnership model with a total outlay of Rs 29,430 crore.\n\nCenter had approved a Viability Gap Fund of Rs 19,041 crore for the project, which aims to connect 3.61 lakh villages in 16 states. The project was divided into 9 packages and separate tenders were floated for each package. For each of the 9 tenders, BBNL stated on 8 February that the tender for the respective package was canceled as none of the bidders participated. An e-mail query sent to BBNL did not elicit any response.\n\nHowever, an official source told PTI that there was the participation of some firms, the bids were evaluated, but the participants failed to qualify. The source, on condition of anonymity, said that the tender would be floated again after taking feedback from the industry. The government is committed to connecting the villages with broadband at the earliest.\n\nThe government opted for a public-private partnership after the state-owned firms faced several issues and missed several deadlines in expediting projects. The BharatNet project was approved as a National Optical Fiber Network in 2011, with an aim to connect all 2.5 lakh panchayats with optical fiber networks by 2013. The project has now been extended till 2025. According to official data, more than 1.69 lakh Gram Panchayats have been made ready for broadband service under BharatNet till December 31, 2021.\n\n“The tender will be floated again after taking feedback from the industry. The government is committed to connecting villages with broadband at the earliest,” the source, who did not wish to be named, said.\n\nThe government opted for a public-private partnership after state-owned firms faced several issues in expediting the projects and missed several deadlines. The BharatNet project was approved in 2011 as the National Optical Fibre Network with an aim to connect all 2.5 lakh panchayats with the optical fiber network by 2013.\n\nThe project now has been extended to 2025 now. According to official data, over 1.69 lakh village panchayats have been made service-ready for broadband services under BharatNet as of December 31, 2021.\n\nTips To Use Fast Broadband Plans" ]

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[ "4 edition of Approaches to the study of contemporary Germany found in the catalog.", null, "Published 2002 by University of Birmingham Press in Birmingham, U.K .\nWritten in English\n\nStart studying Psych Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Gestalt psychology, school of psychology founded in the 20th century that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. That is, the attributes of the whole are not deducible from analysis of the parts in isolation. The word Gestalt is used in modern German to mean the way a thing has been “placed.\n\nThis study aimed to find out the approaches of academic staff towards Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) in a developing university in Northern Cyprus by . Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, and decorative arts, yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes related to an ever-evolving definition of art.\n\nPsychology Emerges as a Separate Discipline. During the mids, a German physiologist named Wilhelm Wundt was using scientific research methods to investigate reaction times. His book published in , \"Principles of Physiological Psychology,\" outlined many of the major connections between the science of physiology and the study of human thought and behavior. and interpretation. The selection of a research approach is also based on the nature of the research problem or issue being addressed, the researchers’ personal experiences, and the audiences for the study. Thus, in this book, research approaches, research designs, and research methods are three key terms that represent a perspective about.", null, null, null, null, "However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied.\n\nApproaches to the study of contemporary Germany: research methodologies in German studies. [Jonathan Grix;] -- \"This is the first German-specific methodology book for scholars, undergraduates and postgraduates in German and European Studies.\".\n\nThe study of German culture has often focused on literature, thought and the political landscape. This innovative book offers a fresh approach by focusing on different German cultural phenomena, such as language, nationhood, food and drink, film and material culture, and interpreting them using different cultural studies : Alison Phipps.\n\nEngages readers with a narrative, problem-focused approach. Covering the entire period of modern German history—from nineteenth century imperial Germany right through the present—this well-established text presents a balanced, general survey of the country's political division in and runs through its reunification in the present/5(6).\n\n26 Contemporary Books That Should Be Taught In High School This book is cleverly narrated during Nazi Germany and quite poetically tells the story of a young girl named Liesel who steals. of theology and law, as in the Middle Ages, or in the study of nature and politics, as in modern times.\n\nDo not take any of my suggestions as writ in stone. They are meant to help you in your preparation for the examination and to explain to you what I expect students to know about early modern European history unless I am told Size: KB. A Practical Guide for International Students opportunities to study in Germany.\n\nLesson Objectives: describe scientific racism. explain the role of anthropology and the social construction of race. recognize the role of ‘social hygiene’ and the eugenics movement in human rights violations and the holocaust.\n\nformulate a position on the role of contemporary anthropology and research on and about race. A holistic approach to the study of humans means that anthropologists: study all varieties of people and all aspects of their existence.\n\nThe study of other cultures and other ways of life should lead us to an understanding that. Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, gerontology, geriatrics, pharmacology, law, geography, design, engineering, policy and media studies.\n\nHistoriography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians have studied that topic using particular sources, techniques, and theoretical approaches.\n\nFrom North America to Japan, within Germany, Austria and Switzerland, scholars are increasingly applying post-colonial questions and methods to the study of Germany and its culture. However, no introduction on this emerging field of study has combined political and cultural approaches, the study of literature and art, and the examination of both metropolitan and local discourses and : Paperback.\n\nIn the book \"Comparative Education Research: Approaches and Methods\", by Bray, Adamson and Mason () an entire chapter is dedicated to comparative studies. Experimentation was not the only approach to psychology in the German-speaking world at this time. Starting in the s, employing the case study technique, the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud developed and applied the methods of hypnosis, free association, and dream interpretation to reveal putatively unconscious beliefs and desires that he argued were the underlying causes of his patients.\n\nAlles klar: An Integrated Approach to German Language and Culture, by Karl Otto, Wolff von Schmidt, et al., 2nd ed. ().Informed by a variety of approaches and techniques, Alles klar? offers a careful balance of communicative activities, cultural information, and contextualized grammar practice using a variety of sources such as realia, authentic texts, and audio-visual materials.The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies defines the field as a set of various, and in some cases independent disciplines for the study of the collection of ancient texts generally known as the Bible.\n\nThese disciplines include but are not limited to archaeology, hermeneutics, textual criticism, cultural anthropology, history, sociology and theology [1], patristics and related thomistic philosophy.Books shelved as modern-european-history: The Guns of August by Barbara W.\n\nTuchman, The First World War by John Keegan, To Hell and Back: Europe" ]

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[ null, "In the present day and age, no blockbuster movie can escape the fate of being pirated. However, the popularity of the various rips and titles can differ drastically, and a recent leak of a high quality version of Sci-Fi thriller District 9 might become a record breaker.\n\nTwo weeks ago a Telesync version of District 9 already found its way onto the Internet, but the rate at which the freshly released R5 release is being downloaded easily beats all other titles released in 2009 to date.\n\nAt the time of writing the movie has been downloaded over a million times on BitTorrent alone, less than 24 hours after it first surfaced. There are a few dozen torrents out there already, and the most popular one has over 50,000 people downloading the movie simultaneously.\n\nAt the US box office District 9 has grossed a mediocre $100 million since its official release three weeks ago, which puts it in the 20th spot of all movies released this year. In comparison, the latest Transformers movie grossed a similar amount in its opening weekend. Whether the pirated versions of District 9 will slow down the sales of theater tickets remains to be seen.\n\nIn the comment section of the torrents some people say they’re not going to download the movie before they’ve seen it on the big screen, while others who’ve already seen it in theater justify the download because they can’t wait for the DVD to come out. We’re pretty sure though that the execs at the movie studio won’t be as excited about the movie’s online availability as some of the downloaders are.\n\nTop 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent" ]

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[ "Schumer: We Will Help Restaurants", null, "U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer told members of the press and representatives of the Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association during a virtual meeting May 27 that he realizes the industry needs federal assistance — and needs it in a hurry.\n\nActually, Schumer acknowledged an immediate need for funds to stabilize many restaurants that for whatever reason didn’t qualify for stimulus money the first time around or were passed over for businesses with better banking contacts.\n\nHe said restaurants “are the heart and soul of New York. We have to save this industry by getting you back on your feet.” Schumer pointed out because so many businesses have part-time employees, many didn’t even qualify for unemployment. The senator said the first stimulus package provided a lot of money for hospitals, offered eviction protection, but provided little for small businesses.\n\nSchumer said the second round of stimulus money was distributed differently, and that 58 percent of the applicants got some financial help. He urged those in need to continue to apply. “There is more set aside,” he said.\n\nThe senator said there is a sentiment in Washington more assistance is still needed, especially in the House. However, the Senate has been hesitant. U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell wants to assess the initial rounds of financing, Schumer said.\n\nHe promised to set aside more for businesses with less than 10 employees and expand the bill so more companies are eligible. Schumer also said he would press for business interruption insurance.\n\nHe cautioned the recovery was contingent on many other factors, including, of course, relaxing laws that limit social gatherings. Scott Wexler, executive director of the Restaurant & Tavern Association, said he is urging leniency for sidewalk dining and a quicker reopening for restaurants in general.\n\nSchumer said the coming years would bring prosperity to the industry.\n\nThose in the business hoping for better news may have been disappointed, however. Schumer said it could take three years for restaurants to reach pre-pandemic levels." ]

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[ null, "Note: This interview is the first of a two-part series, and it contains mild spoilers for the first volume of Spectacle.\n\nAt Emerald City Comic Con I had the opportunity to sit down and chat with Megan Rose Gedris about her ongoing series Spectacle. Spectacle is a webcomic and is also being released in collected volumes by Oni Press. WWAC contributor Kat Overland first interviewed Gedris about this project back in December of 2017, but now that the first collected volume is out (and the first nine issues on the webcomic website), it was the perfect time to get some more information about how the series is progressing.\n\nSpectacle is a beautiful comic. The world, from the setting to the characters, is as richly saturated with complexities as the color palette. The lettering is also unique. “The rest of the art is fairly cartoony, lots of organic wavy lines. I didn’t want to have that swoopy art and a stark font,” Gedris shared. She also mentioned that it’s a font based on her handwriting—which was borne out of necessity rather than a desire to avoid hand-lettering. “I used to hand letter all of my stuff, but I injured my wrist, and lettering is the hardest part on an injured wrist, and I had to just make a handwriting font and call it good. I wanted to hand letter the whole thing but it just wasn’t physically possible.”\n\nGedris weaves different generic elements together in a way that makes the world feel fresh and yet also familiar. It’s a ghost story, a murder mystery, a historical story, a YA story, and a sister story, but with a hint of the carnivalesque and a few elements that I call soft steampunk. “I like ‘soft steampunk,’” Gedris laughed. “It was originally going to be a lot more steampunk and as I developed the story, a lot of the other steampunk elements sort of fell by the wayside.”\n\nThe main character of Spectacle is Anna, who Gedris describes as aro-ace. “There’s not as much representation for aro-ace people,” Gedris shares. “And I know that as a person who is not ace I’m never going to give her story the full depth that someone who is ace might, but at the same time I’ve been given the opportunity to write a story, so I want to create characters that other people might be looking for.” Gedris, like many up and coming writers, doesn’t view this kind of inclusion as pushing an agenda but writing stories that reflect reality. “I write about the kinds of people that I know. I know people that are ace. It’s just a thing. It seems weird that more stories don’t have them. Because I feel like they’re everywhere. I feel like I know so many ace people and I never see them in media. And the absence of them is far more remarkable to me than the presence of them in the rare stories that they get.”\n\nTo see an aro-ace protagonist in a YA comics series is still a rarity these days, and it’s wonderful to be able to recommend a series like this to younger readers who are longing for that representation. But Spectacle has more than its diverse cast to recommend it. Volume one, which collects the first five issues of the webcomic, was just released in March of 2019, and Gedris anticipates that Spectacle will be at least five volumes, or 25 issues. “I like to plan stories in their entirety,” Gedris said. “Or at least have an idea of where it’s going and how to pace things out. I don’t want be like, oh it turns out it’s only going to be three volumes and now I have to rush to finish this and try to cram lots of stuff in.”\n\nThe first volume contains hints of that depth of narrative from the very first pages, and the weaving of those generic elements mirrors the narrative elements that propel the story forward. It’s Anna’s story, but Anna’s story cannot be removed from the context of the setting. “All those sort of elements sort of happened at the same time when I first created the story,” Gedris confided. “The idea of this prediction machine being invented at the same time as this character is also discovering that the supernatural IS real and she could actually use tarot cards to do that instead.” Anna’s world shifting on its axis in many different way after her sister’s murder—physically, emotionally, socially, and supernaturally. “Her whole world view being shifted, like, dramatically turned on its head,” Gedris explained. “Like, from science is the only thing that’s real, to well, maybe magic is science? I guess?”\n\nAnna’s story is, in many ways, also the story of Anna’s twin sister, Kat. “Kat has always been protective of Anna in ways she never realized until she was gone, and she’s definitely been—she’s tough on Anna but it’s what Anna has always needed.” That sister relationship is wonderfully developed and rich. “Sister relationships are very complicated, and it’s not always fun and games and loving happy times.” Gedris said. “I don’t have a twin sister, but I have a sister very close in age, and women are complicated. I mostly write about women. We don’t get space to really be so complicated a lot of times and have multiple layers to our relationships with other people and be complicated and have it not just be catty. I wanted to give them conflict without them being catty.”\n\nA lot of the story is about Anna learning how to be around other people besides her sister. She’s very much like, as much as she and her sister fight, her sister is basically her only friend until her sister dies and she’s forced to suddenly develop relationships with other people and she’s not very good at it yet.\n\nOf course, Anna’s relationship with Kat is even more complicated, since after her sister is murdered, her sister’s ghost appears, and the ghost is able to possess Anna’s body, causing her physical distress. “A lot of the body stuff that’s happening to her is less about the psychic powers and more about how Kat’s ghost is affecting her,” Gedris explained. “It is two people sharing one body. Two sisters who are not even the best at sharing the same room, suddenly in extremely close quarters.” And of course, Kat’s death affects their relationship in other ways. “She doesn’t know how long she’s going to be a ghost. She doesn’t know if she’s going to move on at some point. So she’s trying to help Anna as much as she can before she leaves.”\n\nAnna is suddenly faced with learning how to interact with people after years of being in her sister’s shadow—voluntarily. Gedris pointed out that, “A lot of the story is about Anna learning how to be around other people besides her sister. She’s very much like, as much as she and her sister fight, her sister is basically her only friend until her sister dies and she’s forced to suddenly develop relationships with other people and she’s not very good at it yet.” Anna’s also forced to face the prospect that many people face after the loss of a loved one—especially a loved one you’ve been especially close to. Gedris related the realization to moving to a different town. “It’s like—if you move towns, you have one friend in that town when you move, and this isn’t enough, but how do I make other friends. It’s very isolating and on top of mourning her sister she’s got to realize that she is so very alone and having to fix that before she really is alone forever.”\n\nAnd in Spectacle, Anna’s first friend is Flora, a bubbly snake charmer with the carnival. Gedris described Flora as “ not maybe the greatest with boundaries in the way that she’s constantly just like, picking Anna up physically and bringing her to places. I also just wanted her to be like this sweet, sexy character who is also extremely strong.” Flora plays an important role in Anna’s social development. “I essentially sent Flora to Anna like, she’s going to latch onto her and not let her be alone,” Gedris confessed. “Like, Anna needed someone to be like, I’m not going to let you be alone.”\n\nAnna’s story is just beginning, but the depth of the world she’s built makes me excited to follow her along this journey. Gedris puts an incredible amount of detail into even the everyday and mundane aspects of life on the road, due to her experience as a burlesque performer who traveled with a troupe. “What’s funny is I came up with Spectacle before I started doing burlesque and started going on tour,” Gedris laughed. “Touring and being a regular performer has filled in a lot of the details of the story. Like I always had the bones of the story from the beginning. But like, actually having the experience filled so many little bits. Just like, unexpected things that you wouldn’t think about without having done it. On tour, your main concern suddenly just becomes, when is my next bathroom break, when is my lunch break, when do I get to sleep. Just very like primal needs on the road. You don’t have space to really think about a lot of other things sometimes. And living in close quarters with all of these big personalities—it makes for a lot of interesting interpersonal times.”\n\nAnd while life sometimes imitates art, art can also imitate life, as Gedris explained. “The version that’s in print now is like the third or fourth version that I started working on. I’d get a little ways into it, and be like, this isn’t the right time yet and start over. The first chapter has always been the same with the train being broken down in the desert, everyone being very upset about it, and then the murder happening. So then I wrote all this, and then like, a year or two later I started touring with this burlesque show and we found ourselves–our bus broke down in the middle of the desert, and we were all very grumpy. Luckily no one got murdered, but it seemed pretty touch and go there for a minute.”\n\nIt’s all these details that make Spectacle such a fun and engaging story, and Gedris such a fun and engaging storyteller. And while the craft of Spectacle is evident in its depth, its rich world setting and cast of characters, it’s that construction that depth makes it such great escapism. “I like worldbuilding a lot,” Gedris said. “It’s definitely one of my favorite parts of the process. I have pages and pages and pages and tomes of notes on this world that will never—no one will never see, but I know it’s there. I’ve always compared it to like, when you build a good house, no one ever sees the plumbing, but you know that there is plumbing because the sink works when you turn it on. Like if you show people the plumbing. if you have guests over and you open up the wall to show them the plumbing, that’s not actually the best way to show off your house. You want to show off the art on the walls and the nice tile in the bathroom, but you don’t need them to see every nail and stud in there. I try to construct a story like I construct a house.”" ]

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[ "\nTommy Sheppard will have the interim title pulled off and be named general manager of the Washington Wizards, the Washington Post reported on Friday.\n\nSheppard, who joined the organization in 1994, has been serving as the fill-in general manager since Ernie Grunfeld was fired in early April.\n\nSheppard was the team’s senior vice president of basketball operations for most of the 2018-19 campaign. He handled the salary cap and contract negotiations while in that role.\n\nThe Wizards were just 32-50 last season after making the playoffs in four of the previous five seasons.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Camp Orlando is a legend in the yearbook community. Schools from all over Florida and as far away as Pennsylvania attend. Advisers and students receive top-notch yearbook training, develop and refine their theme package, design their cover and build their yearbook skillset. For students Daniel Coulson from Zephyrhills High School and Emily Patterson from Hagerty High School, they also walked away as published writers when they had a story featured in The Orlando Sentinel.\n\nCoulson and Patterson were part of guest speaker Rick Brunson’s writing class during camp. Brunson is a professor at the University of Central Florida and a writer for The Orlando Sentinel. He makes use each year of his contacts at the newspaper to have the best story from his class published.\n\nTo teach students about interviewing, Brunson brought in SJ Touhy, UCF’s associate athletics director and chief of football operations. Some may recognize his name from the movie The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock. The movie told the story of Touhy’s family, including his adopted brother Michael Oher who played eight seasons in the NFL.\n\nStudents spent one day researching Touhy and creating a list of 10 interview questions. They then worked closely with Brunson to finetune and select the best questions to ask Touhy. Touhy talked to students about his job preparing UCF’s football team to enter the Big 12 conference and about his well-known family. After students interviewed him, they each wrote a story. The winning article was printed in The Orlando Sentinel, a well-respected and widely circulated newspaper, on the front page of the sports section.\n\nBrunson recalls Coulson and Patterson’s story immediately stood out, and he worked with them to tailor the message to their audience by focusing on the UCF angle. Since the story was for the Orlando-based newspaper, the angle resonated with the paper’s readers.\n\n“During the interview with SJ, Daniel was able to ask really great questions. The answers to those questions resulted in really great quotes,” Brunson said. “They did a really good job of capturing the essence and the soul of what SJ’s all about. That was all there in the story. SJ came up to me afterward and told me, ‘I deal with the media all the time. These were some of the most prepared and sharpest questions I’ve ever been asked.’ That’s because I work with the students so closely.”\n\nThat level of preparation is one of the goals of Camp Orlando. Walsworth Yearbooks sales representative Tracy de la Feuilliez, CJE, a former student journalist herself, is the driving force behind organizing the experiential camp, which she has run for the last two years and worked with since 2013. She wants to see students empowered to become leaders in tomorrow’s world of professional journalism by giving them real-life experience. Having published work for a portfolio is a beneficial asset as students apply to colleges, build resumes, compete for scholarships and consider job opportunities.\n\n“We work so hard to make camp a valuable experience and give students an out-of-classroom environment where they can learn from people they are not used to learning from. It’s rewarding to us because we can see that the students coming up are going to be fantastic journalists, and if we had a really small part in that, it just makes us really happy and really proud,” De la Feuilliez said.\n\nThe opportunities presented at Camp Orlando, like Coulson and Patterson’s published article, are one of many reasons why De la Feuilliez advocates for schools to attend.\n\n“I love getting so many schools from around Florida together to share in the spirit of what is yearbook and what is journalism,” De la Feuilliez said. “It gets them reenergized and excited about the coming year, and it gets me excited to see what they are going to produce. It’s also about their buy in of students and our instructors. The students and advisers who give up their summer to learn more about journalism and the instructors who give of their time is what really makes this amazing.”\n\nInstructors like Brunson are just as enthusiastic about the camp experience as De la Feuilliez.\n\n“Camp Orlando is one of the highlights of my year. I eagerly await the email from Tracy saying we’d love to have you come back. The reason I enjoy it is the energy of the camp. These are kids who are giving up their summer to go to a school by a different name. Anytime I find kids who want to pursue journalism, I’m all about that. Every kid who came through the door wanted to be there…As an educator, why would you not want to be around kids like that?” Brunson said.\n\nWhile attending the powerhouse camp, students also spent time in design, photography, coverage, sales and leadership sessions in addition to writing courses. It was a weeklong, journalistic immersion.\n\n“I think Camp Orlando gives everyone a chance to immerse themselves in their craft,” De la Feuilliez said. “We have tracks for every interest – newspaper, yearbook, marketing, etc. When you attend, you become and expert in that craft. You also can learn from many people around you.”\n\nWhile the extensive training excites educators, it’s important to recognize that one of the important benefits of attending a yearbook camp is the relationships it builds. Not only do students and advisers bond with each other as a staff, but they also have the opportunity to network and collaborate with other yearbook enthusiasts like Coulson and Patterson did\n\nIf you are looking for additional training and workshop opportunities for you and your staff, talk to your Walsworth Yearbooks sales representative. You can also visit our Training Events page here." ]

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[ null, "With the America’s Cup first-to-seven showdown about to begin, Suzanne McFadden of Newsroom.co.nz asks a six-time winner how much could it come down to the helmsmen.\n\nMurray Jones knows the exact essence of what makes an America’s Cup helmsman great. A phenomenal Kiwi sailor in his own right, Jones has worked alongside some of the most masterful drivers to have ever fought over the 170-year-old trophy.\n\nKnown as “Captain”, Jones has won the Auld Mug six times. This is the first America’s Cup since Team NZ’s historic victory in 1995 he hasn’t been caught up in a campaign. “I miss it a little bit,” he admits.\n\nThen he was called into Team New Zealand for the final six months of their 2017 campaign, as the performance coach to helmsman Burling and his crew. Burling – who at 26 became the youngest helmsman to win the prized silver ewer – credited Jones as being crucial to New Zealand’s success in Bermuda.\n\nJones rates all three helmsmen among the very best this competition for the world’s oldest sporting trophy has seen. He’s witnessed their genius, and their shortcomings too.\n\nHe ranks Coutts as the best helmsman he’s ever sailed with, and sees many similarities in fellow Olympic gold medalist Burling (who in his fledgling Cup career has notched up eight wins and one loss).\n\nThere are parallels, he says, in the way they make quick decisions – and frequently the right calls – while still being able to see the bigger picture. There’s their shared understanding of the mechanics and fluidity of a boat, borne out of their engineering backgrounds. And their vital ability to communicate with their crew.\n\nHis America’s Cup record equals Coutts’ 14 wins, but the Aussie battler has also suffered 16 race losses (remember the America’s Cup matches are much longer these days). He’s aggressive, fiercely competitive, yet cool and calm under pressure. He knows how to niggle off the water and he knows how to win on it.\n\nBut just how important is a helmsman’s role in winning the America’s Cup? Will a two-helmsman set-up be better than one in the first-to-seven match, slated to start on March 10?\n\n“I think the helmsman is really important,” Jones says. “But it comes down to their attitude and their communication. It’s not just about driving a boat.\n\n“When Russell was helming, we had an exceptional team that worked exceptionally well together and we developed fast boats. We had a package that was good in every respect.\n\n“That’s not to say it can’t be done now. I believe Team New Zealand has the same formula.”\n\nBefore there was Coutts and another Cup legend, Dennis Conner (with 13 wins at the wheel), pint-sized Scotsman Charlie Barr (above) was the most successful America’s Cup helmsman – almost a century before them.\n\nTough and fearless, Captain Barr steered American boats to victory for the New York Yacht Club in three consecutive Cup regattas – Columbia in both 1899 and 1901, and Reliance in 1903.\n\nThey were all 3-0 whitewashes, and all over another Scotsman, tea magnate Sir Thomas Lipton and his fleet of Shamrock yachts.\n\nThen moustachioed and bespectacled, Barr was described as “a formidable skipper, an adroit strategist, exploiting the weaknesses of his adversary relentlessly.”\n\nHe was aggressive at the startline, knew every sailing rule, and he took chances with the boats in his care. No helmsman rivaled him during his reign.\n\nCoutts equalled Barr’s record of nine straight wins during the 2000 America’s Cup in Auckland, and could have claimed the record outright the next day, but instead handed the wheel to a young Dean Barker for the final race against Prada that kept the Auld Mug in New Zealand – until Coutts took it to Switzerland in 2003.\n\nThere are good helmsmen, and then there are great ones, Jones says. “It comes from the person themselves as much as their skills as a sailor.\n\n“Some of the qualities I see that make a really great helmsman is an ability to think and process information very quickly, and then be able to prioritize and make an instantaneous decision. But still keep the big picture in mind; the overall picture of what you’re trying to achieve.\n\n“In a match race, when things happen quickly, it was like Russell was viewing it all from above, watching the whole thing play out. He had the ability to see it all in his mind.”\n\nA top helmsman needs to be calm and communicate clearly with the crew, and generally has the best feeling of the boat – feeling its power or balance through the wheel. “If they have a really good feeling of that and an understanding of the design of the boat, they should be able to communicate that well to the crew,” Jones says.\n\nThat’s an area where 30-year-old Burling has an advantage over his rivals. Although he only completed half of his degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Auckland, he’s built on his knowledge considerably by contributing to the design phase of Team NZ’s campaign.\n\n“That’s one of the things that makes a big difference,” Jones says. “When you have guys like Peter and Russell, who are both motivated to understand all the design aspects of the boat, that really helps them to make the boat faster on the water. And they can channel good feedback from sailing the boat back to the design team.\n\n“That’s probably one of the biggest factors in the success of a campaign.”\n\nSpithill, in his seventh Cup campaign, also has a huge interest in boat design. “You have to, these days,” Jones says. “But I would say that aspect isn’t Jimmy’s passion, and he doesn’t have the engineering background.\n\n“But he’s very, very good. Jimmy is an athlete and a really fierce competitor. He’s super motivated, dedicated, and he has the ability to be fairly calm under pressure which I think helps him.”\n\nA two-time America’s Cup champion, Spithill is also a master of the mind games. Media savour his appearances at the press conferences, where he sometimes slips in the odd jab at his adversaries.\n\nBut Burling proved in Bermuda that he wasn’t fazed. “Someone else might go away and think about it all night, but for Peter, it just doesn’t bother him all,” says Jones. “Last time he held his own; he’s a very quick thinker. I think he finds it all amusing.”\n\nOf course, Spithill isn’t always the envoy for Luna Rossa in Auckland. Bruni – a versatile and hugely respected sailor the world over – is also an eloquent speaker. And neither men are the skipper – a role reserved for veteran Max Sirena, who’s on the Luna Rossa chase boat, not the AC75.\n\nIn the time between the PRADA Cup and the America’s Cup, Burling and sail trimmer Glenn Ashby have been replicating Luna Rossa’s model of dual helmsmen – particularly in the pre-start box.\n\nHaving Spithill on the starboard wheel and Bruni on port – one trimming the foils while the other steers – paid dividends, but only after they realized they needed to communicate better with the rest of their crew.\n\n“It feels like in close combat situations, we may have a small edge there,” Bruni said on their way to a 7-1 PRADA Cup victory over INEOS TEAM UK (who had only skipper Sir Ben Ainslie steering).\n\nJones believes there are advantages and disadvantages: “But there may not be a right or wrong.”\n\nThe disadvantage is in the tactics, he says. “The helmsman tends to be a tactician too, but on just one tack which is pretty limiting. It’s important to see the whole picture. But that’s where time and trust comes in.”\n\nBut he can see why Emirates Team New Zealand have been trialing the set-up and will likely stick with it for at least the start of races.\n\n“There are a few maneuvers which I think we’ll see Emirates Team New Zealand do more in the pre-starts that will be too quick for Peter to change sides. So you will find Glenn will steer the port side and Peter will steer on the starboard side in the pre-starts – and in some of the really tight maneuvers around the course,” says Jones. This week they were spotted staying in their spots in tacks and gybes during training.\n\nStarts are an area Emirates Team New Zealand have done a lot of work on since they won the America’s Cup World Series before Christmas, which Jones says has led to some “alternative strategies”.\n\nJones doesn’t hesitate to predict a winner in the best-of-13 race match, that must finish by March 21.\n\n“I think Emirates Team New Zealand will win easily. I think they will be significantly faster,” he says. “They’ve had a massive advantage – they really haven’t missed a day since they left Bermuda, while the others had to rebuild or start from scratch. I just hope it’s not a complete whitewash.”" ]

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[ "by thomas pecora\nin World News\nReading Time: 1 min read\nA A\n464\nSHARES\n1.8k\nVIEWS\nShare on FacebookShare on Twitter\n\nDuring this week’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Night in America,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) weighed in on whistleblowers within the FBI, alleging that top brass were working to discredit allegations against Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden.\n\nGrassley, who penned a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland saying that sources within the bureau showed him evidence of attempts to downplay or discredit information about Hunter Biden, said the effort to label reports about the younger Biden as “disinformation” was “political interference” by the FBI.\n\n“We had concrete information about of lot of things of Hunter Biden has done, and he stopped that and labeled it as disinformation,” Grassley stated. “Now, that is political interference in the FBI. And it is going to cause people to lose credibility in the FBI, and every citizen ought to have the most confidence you could ever have an agency like the FBI.”\n\n“Now, we’re going to have … Director Wray before our committee on Thursday, and he is going to get a lot of questions about this,” he continued. “And he ought to know that he is going to have to show us concrete information and plan that he is going to be able to change this culture in the FBI where there is a power or party makes a decision of whether or not investigations go ahead. It has got to be no political bias whatsoever in any of these decisions.”", null ]

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[ null, "A viral video filmed back in September at Arizona State University’s “multicultural center” ignited a firestorm over on social media.\n\nThe video showed a confrontation where two white students studying in a school building with a ‘Police Lives Matter’ laptop sticker and an anti-Joe Biden t-shirt were confronted by two other ASU students named Sarra Tekola and Mastaani Qureshi. Quershi and Tekola can be seen repeatedly harassing two students throughout the video, throwing numerous insults and even insulting them solely on the basis of their skin color. The two women now claim they are facing discipline from the school.\n\n“ASU is on fire. I cannot continue. I cannot continue creating pathways to help black students get into ASU if ASU is going to attack, harass, and not support Black students,” said Sarra Tekola, who recorded the video. The video has accounted for millions of views following her recording and posting of the incident.\n\nTekola and Queri both say they have been the targets of threats ever since.\n\n“The worst part is, we did not expect that we were going to receive thousands of rape, death, and lynching threats on every social media platform and our personal emails,” said Tekola.\n\nAccording to the two students, ASU officials instructed them both to write a statement outlining how they would be more polite in the future.\n\nBig League Politics covered the racist incidents levied against white students at ASU in the past, including the school at the time quietly deleting the profile of BLM activist Sarra Tekola immediately following the incident.\n\nThe ASU website describes Sarra as a “climate and racial justice activist” and details further political involvement of her’s, including that she help co-founded the group Women of Color Speak Out, a far-left organization that appears to have since disbanded.\n\nTekola’s history of political activism seems to be quite multifaceted, with a Fox News report detailing an event in which Sarra and others were arrested at a BLM rally in Downtown Phoenix following their refusal to clear blocked intersections that were causing delays to emergency service vehicles. One of the protestors arrested at the same rally was found to have two loaded guns upon the arrest.\n\nThe BLM activist and PhD candidate has also been seen making presentations on her far-left activism within academia, including an anti-capitalism speech she gave at the University of Washington, Seattle on behalf of her now failed “Women of Color Speak Out” organization.\n\nOther ties previously exposed include Tekola’s involvement as a fellow at the Ford Foundation.", null ]

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[ null, "Whether you have been riding, running or skiing for a while, an essentially part of every workout these days is to make sure you spend most of the post-workout time reviewing/bragging about the workout itself. I have been using the Polar FT4 which has now been replaced with the FT7 that also includes a new EnergyPointer feature that visually indicates when you are in your fat-burning range or aerobic fitness range. It’s been a pretty robust watch, I’ve been wearing it for over 212 workout hours and the zone feature is pretty good at telling you when you have to pick up your pace a little more or slow it down so you don’t pop a gasket", null, "However if want to go a little more Pro and compare your heart rate to your speed, elevation, and power output, then Garmin Forerunner 410 is a pretty good deal right now at only $200 for either Amazon or Costco. (We’d prefer if you went with Amazon of course, link below). And it can sync right up to the Strava web site so you can go crazy studying you power output without spending thousands on a SRM. The nice thing about the Forerunner series over the Edge is that it’s an excellent unit for anyone who does more than just cycle. Being a skier I am really consider picking one up soon. Of course it is my Anniversary and 40th Birthday coming up. Hint Hint.", null ]

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[ null, "It’s amazing how different Torchwood is right now than it was a year ago. I got through the first season through sheer force of will. There were some good moments, and Captain Jack Harkness is always fantastic, but the season overall was lacking some essential elements. Additionally, I pretty much hated all the regular characters and thought they were a bunch of inept, whiny losers. Flash forward to the season two finale, “Exit Wounds,” and every bit of that has changed for the better. The review (with spoilers) is after the jump.\n\nPreviously: The previous episode had the Torchwood team blown up in a building, thanks to the handiwork of one Captain John Hart (James Marsters, in his brilliant recurring role). The last time he was on the show, Hart very nearly killed Gwen, and this time he’s attacked the whole team. Everyone survived, albeit injured, to see a holographic message from Hart taunting them and showing Jack that he had captured Jack’s long lost brother Grey. This episode opens directly after that scene as the team springs into action.\n\nSynopsis: Immediately, the Rift opens in targeted spots across Cardiff–in a hospital, at the police station, and in the main server building for the city. Jack delegates the rest of the team to handle the Rift openings. Jack insists that he go to Torchwood on his own to find Hart, as he’s the only one who would be able to deal with him. Gwen is able to deal with Weevils that were loosed up the police station, Owen takes down a voracious alien in the hospital, and Tosh and Ianto handily dispatch a team of reaper-like aliens in the server building.", null, "Upon arriving at the Torchwood hub, Jack is shot and tied up by Hart, who is hard at work on some nefarious plan. Hart radios the rest of the team with a final taunt before Cardiff is rocked with a series of explosions. Mass panic descends upon the city, and it’s up to Gwen to coordinate the police response. Meanwhile, Hart and Jack disappear in a flash of light. Jack and Hart reappear in a field in 27AD. We learn that this is the location of the future city of Cardiff. Jack threatens Hart, who reveals that he has a bomb molecularly bonded to his arm. It is then that Jack’s brother Grey appears. Jack is astounded, having not seen his lost brother since they were children. He goes to embrace Grey, but the reunion is not about the warm fuzzies. Rather, Grey sticks a knife in Jack’s gut and dumps him into a grave.", null, "It turns out that when Jack lost Grey, Grey was abducted by a race of sadistic aliens who tortured him and kept him on the verge of death in the midst of corpses for a very long time. Hart managed to find Grey and rescue him but quickly learned that the experience had twisted Grey into a vicious and revenge obsessed man. Grey blames Jack for what happened to him and wants nothing more than to put Jack through the same torture he endured himself. He has forced Hart to act against Torchwood and to bring him Jack. Hart is obviously wracked with guilt over what is happening, and he manages to drop a tracker into the grave where Grey is burying Jack. Jack lies underground, dying over and over again, for more than 1800 years, until Torchwood tracks Hart’s device and digs him up in 1901. Jack then has himself placed in the Torchwood morgue until 2008 so as not to cross his own timeline. He emerges from the morgue in the present to a baffled Grey and tells him he forgives him. Grey is not satisfied, and Jack has to knock him out before eventually cryo-freezing him in the morgue.", null, "Prior to Jack’s return, Grey has been up to no good in the present. His explosions in Cardiff have triggered an impending meltdown at the nearby nuclear power plant. Grey also has summoned the Weevils up from the sewers, and they are rampant in the city. Due to his being “King of the Weevils,” Owen is the only one who is able to make it to the power plant in time to try to avert the meltdown. Tosh is back at the hub on the radio with him and is going to assist him with her remote computing. Before she can do anything, though, Grey shoots her and leaves her for dead. She manages to crawl to her transmitter and help the nuclear situation, but by the it’s too late; the meltdown is imminent, and there’s no way to stop it. Tosh only can contain it by flooding a chamber in the plant with the radioactive material. Tragically, Owen is now trapped in that chamber. And so it ends for the two; Owen rapidly decomposes as he is irradiated in the chamber, and Tosh bleeds to death just after Jack, Gwen, and Ianto find her.", null, "Analysis: “Exit Wounds” had the biggest emotional impact of any episode so far in the series. As I said before, I would have said you were crazy if you had told me last year that I’d actually be caring about these characters. I’m still not too wild about Gwen, but I definitely had warmed to Owen and Tosh, and losing both of them was a surprise and a big gut check for the show.\n\nI’m still not completely convinced that Owen is completely gone, though. When Owen died and was brought back to life earlier in the season, it was established that some sort of nebulous and mysterious energy was sustaining him. He was still dead, but he had consciousness. Basically he’s been an incorporeal entity driving around a sack of flesh for a good portion of the season. The meltdown destroyed his body, but there’s no reason to think that also got rid of the energy that housed his essence. I tend to think that Owen’s still floating around somewhere without a body, despite Burn Gorman’s IMDB entry that shows that he’s already signed on for a different new TV series after Torchwood.\n\nTosh does seem to be a goner, sadly, but anything’s possible in the Whoniverse. I didn’t realize prior to this episode that Naoko Mori previously appeared on Doctor Who as Tosh. She was in the episode “Aliens of London,” in which the Slitheen dropped a flying saucer on England to stage a fake alien crash while they infiltrated the government. Mori’s character is credited as Dr. Sato for that episode, and she was the doctor examining the fake pig alien that was dropped off by the Slitheen when the Ninth Doctor came to investigate. Owen and Tosh mentioned the space pig just prior to their deaths, making for a neat and poignant Doctor Who connection. It’s hard to guess where the series will go now.", null, "The Torchwood team is down to just Jack, Ianto, and Gwen, so it’d be a good guess that the cast will have some additions next season. The likeliest addition would be James Marsters as John Hart. He’s perfectly cast as a mix of diabolical and irresistible, much like Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The fact that he dresses like some hybrid of Michael Jackson’s chimp and Sgt. Pepper. Another possible addition next season could be the return of Freema Agyeman as Martha Jones. Torchwood is down one doctor, and she did a good job subbing the last time Owen died. One more possibility is Rhys, although he’d be a long shot at best. However the third season ends up, one thing is for sure… Everything has changed.\n\nJack: “You can. We all can. The end is where we start from.”" ]

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[ "Kirk Douglas, born as Issur Danielovitch on the 9th of December, 1916, is an actor of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Kirk rose to popularity after his lead role as an unscrupulous boxing hero in Champion, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.\n\nAmong Douglas' early films were Young Man with a Horn (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), and Detective Story (1951). Also working as a producer, author and director, Douglas became a leading box-office star throughout the 1950s and 1960s. He starred in more than 90 movies and received three Oscar and three Emmys nominations. Douglas also made a large contribution to the termination of the Hollywood blacklist.\n\nKirk's son, Michael Douglas, is a well-known actor, best known for producing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and his role in Wall Street.\n\nWhat are your thoughts on this subject?\n122 Comments", null, null, "Michael Weiss\nOne of the greatest actors from the 40s & 50s And the movieTough Guys 1986 with him and Burt Lancaster was priceless.\n\nScott Sumone\nI am Spartacus....", null, null, "George Moriarty\nPlayer Fred: Ridiculous! He was born in the USA, served in the U.S. Navy, and he was Jewish!\n\ntinaloflin\nBob Mason, me, either!!\n\nkerrirehl\nScott Sumone, boy u are not Spartacus so\n\nsvlindsey\nHe was one of favorite stars.\n\nnmcgirt\nGreat actor . Loved him in Spartacus which he is famous for the role and they didn't mention.", null, "mlphilpot\nHis friend in the picture would be Rita Hayworth", null ]

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[ null, "About this object\nA photograph of the Max Studio of Dancing float for the New Napier Carnival Parade, January 1933. The dance studio of Constance Macdonald, Max Studio, is represented with young dancers positioned on the float under a crescent moon. A group of girls are dressed in white costumes and star crown headdresses. Two girls at the front and back of the float are holding heraldic trumpets. The float is on Marine Parade passing the Municipal Baths which are visible at the background left of the image. Several young swimmers in bathing costumes can be seen along the footpath in front of the sea wall. The New Napier Carnival, held from 21 to 28 January 1933, celebrated the opening of Napier after the 1931 Hawke’s Bay earthquake." ]

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[ null, "“What’s this idea you’ve got then?” asked the CEO to his colleague. He raised his eyebrow intently – he’d heard on the grapevine his new assistant conservation director didn’t necessarily follow the rulebook, which was part of the reason they’d been hired in the first place.\n\n“Well, if we’re to really show some ambition,” said the new assistant director, trying their best to stamp out the nerves that threatened to crush the pitch, “to restore habitat in a way we couldn’t think was possible – and gain public awareness with a charismatic animal to boot – there’s some good research from the continent that suggests we should start seriously considering the reintroduction of the, uh, the reintroduction of the beaver.”\n\nThere was silence, followed by laughter, followed by words from the CEO as to how that should never be considered as a serious proposal. That it was make-believe, better suited to over-ambitious undergraduates who romanticise the reality of wildlife conservation. The stakeholders would be aghast, the funding wasn’t there, and anyway: not only was this animal extinct, but so was the Britain it lived in. The beaver would never be a native again.\n\nThirty years later, Scottish Natural Heritage declared the beaver was officially a native once again, and was here to stay.\n\nThe hypothetical situation in the first three paragraphs is unlikely to have been far from the truth. Until recently, even considering releasing a giant tree-felling rodent would’ve been deemed reason to go home and think very carefully about what you’ve done. Conservation in Britain has a very good habit of limiting its scope to what would’ve been in an area a few decades ago at best. There has been a sub-conscious mantra that the countryside our parents knew is what we should aspire too; the trouble is, as nature degrades with each subsequent generation, how depleted does something have to become till you stop believing it’s a paradise?\n\nBut thankfully, we’ve changed our outlook. Our wildlife has been battered beyond recognition. We’re commonly told of how devastating the post-war industrialisation of farming was for nature, but the truth is its been battered into a shadow of its former self since we started farming in the first place. From the extirpation of the top predators, to mass drainage of the wetlands when the Romans arrived, to Henry VIII’s Preservation of Grain Act that called for the extermination of everything from sea eagles to kingfishers, to the rise of the Victorian shooting estate and the predator genocide that came with it. A real wildlife-rich nation is way beyond the parameters many strategic documents set, and can nowadays only be glimpsed in areas such as Transylvania’s Tanava Mare, where land use is nowhere near as intensive.\n\nBy accepting we can have beavers back, we’ve shown that we’re just beginning to understand some of the broken links in our countryside; it isn’t about going back in time, but gradually putting back the lost pieces of a jigsaw.\n\nEqually, it’s a move that’s been rooted in pragmatism. The SNH, the Scottish Wildlife Trust et al have rightly stated that all current and future populations in Scotland will be closely monitored and managed; if there are conflicts with people, they will be mitigated, or relocated if issues can’t be rectified (as a last resort is extermination – but Britain’s current population size is likely to mean we’re a long way off requiring this). The likely alternative would be something akin to the literal massacre of beavers on the River Tay, where some individuals, frustrated by the lack of official decision-making, have undertaken an inhumane slaughter about as far removed from any population science as you can get. Having management plans built into legislation can hopefully go some way to ending this. What experience in Europe has shown is that with these caveats built into the system, beavers can live quite contently in a highly modified landscape.\n\nWhen I was maybe about six or seven, I found out that beavers were once a wild British animal. Naturally, I was disgusted we’d gotten rid of it in the first place, and while other kids might’ve dreamed of owning a sports car one day, I just wished that when I was grown up the beavers would be brought back! Maybe one day, when I was an old man.\n\nIn the three years between starting an undergraduate and where am now at the beginning of an MSc, I have worked first-hand with a group working to reintroduce them, seen the first wild English beavers in 500 years on the River Otter in Devon, and witnessed the historic rule-making this piece is all about. Right now, the prospect of my children growing up in a country where beavers seem as commonplace as badgers and bees doesn’t seem very remote at all.\n\n2 thoughts on “Scottish Beavers are here to stay – and we’re finally showing some ambition in UK conservation.”" ]

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[ null, "A woman identified as Bruna Fonseca has been found dead in a flat at Cork city on new year day.\n\nThe 28-Year-Old was strangled & beaten by man she knew on New Year’s night.\n\nThe Brazilian woman’s body was found in the apartment in Liberty Street, within metres of the Washington Street courthouse and a short distance from the city centre.\n\nA man had given the report early this morning.\n\nA 29-year-old suspect has been arrested and is being held at nearby Bridewell Garda Station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.\n\nThe emergency services were notified and they rushed to the scene but efforts to resuscitate the woman were unsuccessful and she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe apartment was sealed off for a full forensic and technical examination by Garda forensic experts.\n\nGardai were carrying out door-to-door enquiries in the area yesterday and on the street in which St Francis Church is located.\n\nThey will also be harvesting CCTV footage from the street which houses a number of business premises.\n\nThe woman’s body was taken from the flat at noon and transferred to Cork University Hospital where a full post mortem examination was performed by assistant State Pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster.\n\nGardai say the results of the post mortem examination will determine the nature of their investigation.\n\nThey are not releasing details of the results, but according to sources the woman was beaten and strangled.\n\nA source said that Gardai station were called to the upstairs flat which is located over a number of businesses. There was a report of a disturbance earlier on New Year’s Eve but when officers arrived there was no indication anything serious was happening.\n\nA second call was received after 6am about another disturbance and when they arrived they were met by a man, also believed to be Brazilian, who took them upstairs to the flat where they discovered the woman unconscious in bed.\n\nGardai arrested a man in his late 20s at the scene and took him to Bridewell Garda Station.\n\nThe university-educated woman who was employed as a librarian and worked as a cleaner in the Mercy University Hospital with a contract cleaning firm.\n\nA large number of revellers were also in the area last night as people celebrated New Year’s Eve with the general vicinity having a number of pubs, clubs and restaurants.\n\nGardai station have appealed to anyone who was in the area on New Years night and morning and who might have seen anything to contact them.\n\nGardaí also want to confirm the last known movements of the deceased and people she knew.\n\nIt is expected there will be a court appearance on Monday." ]

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[ "The NMoto Golden Age Concept Will Go Into Production", null, "NMoto, who brought us the Nostalgia concept, has downsized a bit with their latest project, the appropriately named Golden Age Concept. It blurs the line between motorcycle and scooter with its unique styling, while based on the modern BMW C 400 X scooter under its Art Deco exterior.\n\nThough it has a BMW heart and certainly some BMW styling cues, designer Alexander Niznik is not trying to evoke an antique BMW model in this concept. Rather, his inspiration was the Courtney Streamline concept. Orley Ray Courtney had bought a 1930 Henderson KJ Streamline, decided it wasn't streamlined enough for him, being a fan of the unusually aerodynamic Chrysler Airflow. Courtney gave the bike his own unique bodywork that was even more swoopy than before, a project he finished in 1935.\n\nMany of these styling concepts come through on the Golden Age. The teardrop faux \"wheel wells\" are still there, as well as the headlight in front of the curved windshield, flanked by teardrop-shaped turn signals, and a comfortable-look leather seat. The Golden Age seat is larger than the Henderson, but that just means you can take a friend along for the ride—likely a side effect of the scooter the bike is based on.\n\nOther positive effects of the scooter it's based on are a low center of gravity and low weight of around 450 pounds. With 34 horsepower and a continuously variable transmission, the Golden Age will be easy for anyone to ride, and practical for zipping around town while looking slick at the same time. Someone needs to ride one of these in the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride.\n\nNMoto may claim the Courtney Streamline to be the main design influence on the Golden Age, but perhaps because I come from a car background, I see something completely different: the original BMW 328. This was an absolute supercar of its time, the same era as the Courtney Streamline, with countless race wins. The Golden Age's tall, slender kidney grill just screams 328, and while the teardrop \"fenders\" are meant to evoke the Streamline, I think they resemble those of the 328 as well.\n\nNMoto is building the prototype Golden Age right now and expects to show the finished product in spring 2021. After that, it will be available for purchase in a variety of retro-themed liveries. I'll take mine in white, not black like the prototype, and go all-out on the pre-war BMW race car theme." ]

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[ "10 Rock Urban Legends That Turned Out To Be Lies", null, "When it comes to fallacies spreading in the name of being prominent, the world of rock and roll is not immune to such. Generating from the smallest to the biggest controversial mysteries that circulated towards the legends of rock, it shows the unrewarding context of being a popular human being trampled with a lot of fake news throughout your life. Yet as bizarre as it may seem, after all, what makes a person legend is because of its myths surrounding them.\n\nOne of the most controversial urban legends that surrounded the king of rock was during the height of his death in 1977. While the media alerted the people ASAP, a lot of people seem to brush the notion and believed his death to be a hoax. What he “allegedly” did was fake his own death to escape the limelight, and settled in a place where nobody can recognize him. The rumor got crazier when an audience noticed a look-alike of Presley from the movie, Home Alone (1990).\n\nWhat made the early 70s so unforgettable is that the people in this era seem to be obsessed with a lot of backmasking; the term which refers to a recording technique of a song to be played backward, instead of being forward. A lot of songs were deemed as “satanic” because the message it portrays in the backward motion is chilling and drastic. While of course, this is not true, other bands, however, took this as an opportunity to mock the frenzied community. Ozzy Osbourne from Black Sabbath, in particular, said, “Your mother sells whelks in Hull” from the 1988 song, “Bloodbath in Paradise.”\n\nAnother rumor that circulated from this late start was that he did not die. It started when the conflicting stories of media surrounding the singer’s death can be noticed. Also, no police investigation nor autopsy was done for his body, and there are few instances that the singer was “spotted” by fans in different places.\n\nRobert Stewart had his Stomach Pumped\n\nThe rumor was spread by Stewart’s old publicist Tony Toon when the singer caught him bringing a man inside the room that Stewart’s 7-year old stepson was sharing. Of course, this led him to be fired, thus provoking Toon to make a fake story about Stewart. Allegedly the singer was rushed to the hospital to get his stomach pumped after a night of performing oral sex to sailors. The singer did not address the issue up until he released his autobiography in 2012, where he talked about the incident as Toon’s act of revenge.\n\nLike a vampire, rumors about Keith Richards and his “experimental replacement of blood” in Switzerland have become immortal as well. What he only did was to check-in for a Swiss Clinic to treat his addiction to Heroin and may have gone with a hemodialysis procedure afterward. But that did not mean that he had his blood replaced, and he needed blood as often as he can. The treatment was a bust because Richards only stopped the addiction when he was arrested for heroin possession back in 1977.\n\nApparently, ¾ of Led Zeppelin’s souls, with exemption from John Paul Jones, was sold to the devil in replacement for fame. The rumor did not help when the lead guitarist Jimmy Page revealed that he is a fan of the famous occultist named Aleister Crowley, and even brought Crowley’s house in 1970. The gossip was never confirmed nor denied by the group.\n\nThe unusual length of the Kiss’s bassist has led to people spread the news that he replaced some parts of his tongue with the cow’s one. Simmons threw light on this myth, stating that he noticed the changes in the tongue’s growth when he was 13.\n\nCharles Manson and The Monkees\n\nIt’s a fact that the leader of the Manson cult had solid ties with the rock scene through his friendships with Dennis Wilson of Beach Boys and Terry Melcher, Byrds producer. But the popular rumor was debunked when it was confirmed that Manson never auditioned for the Monkees.\n\nThe Chicken and Alice Cooper\n\nOne popular myth that surrounded Alice Cooper was during his live concert in Toronto’s Rock N’ Roll Revival back in 1969. For unknown reasons, a chicken went up onstage. Alice Cooper thought that the animal could fly, so he threw the chicken to the audience. The rumors emerged that Cooper bit its head off, and drank the blood afterward. The singer did not deny the claim, since it boosted his publicity right after.\n\nAnd the most famous rock myth of them all was Paul McCartney’s assumed death in early 1967. The rumors were pretty mild back then, with few trivial talks that if you played “Revolution 9” from the White album, you would hear the words “Turn me on, dead man.” Furthermore, the stories went berserk after the Beatles released their Abbey Road album, with the group supposedly left clues about his death from their iconic cover album. McCartney was mad with the theory, but after a few years, went along with its popularity; especially when he released his 1993 LP, Paul is Live." ]

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[ null, "Count Basie carved out a distinctive niche for himself as a jazz minimalist, and over the course of 50 years his name became synonymous with wit, concision and swing in both big band and small group settings.\nBasie's sly, laid-back piano stylings produced the greatest possible rhythmic impact with only the barest outline of notes, and within the space of four bars he could set everything to cruise control with his magical tempos and tinkling pianistic flourishes. Basie's experiences in South-Western territorial bands culminated in his leadership over what became the most swinging, influential big band of the 1930s. Basie helped usher in the modern jazz era by streamlining the music's rhythmic conventions, combining the traditional 1-3 emphasis of the Bennie Moten Orchestra with the more fluid 2-4 emphasis of Walter Page's Blue Devils (the two great bands in which he served his apprenticeship). With Basie at the helm, his All-American Rhythm Section (comprised of bassist Walter Page, drummer Jo Jones and guitarist Freddie Green) created a smooth, even groove of quarter notes that became the Rosetta stone of tune and tempo for succeeding generations.\nMAKE A BOOKING\nGO BACK" ]

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[ null, "If you’re a fan of Game of Thrones, by now, you’ve probably seen the fourth episode in what’s building to be one of the most epic seasons (season 6) since the show’s inception. Scratch that, if you’re a fan of GoT you’ve definitely tuned in to watch episode 4 of season 6. In fact, you’ve probably re-watched it, dissected it in your mind, discussed it with your communal GoTers, read about it on a blog and watched it some more. It was pretty fucking epic. If you haven’t seen it stop reading and go watch it now. Right now. At this very moment.\n\nTitled Book of The Stranger, in this latest installment we witnessed some prime awesomeness. Jon Snow reunited with Sansa, in what has to be viewed as a major emotional victory for House Stark. The “let’s fuck each other and have kids” twins, Cersei and Jaime Lannister, make moves to restore order, and ultimately privilege, in King’s Landing.\n\nTyrion is out in Meereen flexing some political wit as he looks to settle things with both current and former slavers, and consequently, The Sons of the Harpy. Theon finally returned home to the Iron Islands and a thoroughly pissed off sister, Asha. Little Finger (or Petyr, whatever you prefer to call him) is back, conniving the shit out of crazy-ass Lysa Arryn’s pathetic heir.\n\nAnd Ramsay, fresh off killing his father, and feeding his infant step-brother and step-mother to blood thirsty dogs, is still doing evil, menacing, sadistic shit, like killing more people (this time Osha, the Wildling chick who was watching over Rickon) and sending grim letters to Jon Snow at Castle Black. I definitely hate Ramsay more than I hated Joffrey. So much so I may punch Iwan Rheon (the actor that plays Ramsay) in the throat if I ever see him in these streets. Not for real though. Still, fuck this guy! (Ramsay, not Iwan).", null, "Most important, Daenerys Targaryen the First of Her Name, The Silver Queen, The Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, Breaker of Chains, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, literally burned the motherfuckin’ house down (again) enroute to strengthening her claim to the Iron Throne. This is the second time we’ve witnessed Emilia Clarke’s nude body emerge from flames and it was just as enjoyable as the first. (Side note: I wouldn’t mind if Emilia Clarke was naked amidst fire every episode. I’m certain it boosts ratings. Who needs clothes when you can survive fire? David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, make this happen!)", null, "One last moment worth mentioning: Brienne detailing Stannis Berratheon’s last moments (before subsequently beheading the life from him) to a bamboozled Davos (oh, you didn’t know this crazy motherfucker burned his own daughter, your beloved princess who taught your illiterate ass how to read, so he could win a war that he ended up dying in anyway?) and her recollection of Renley’s death while mean mugging the shit out of Melisandre. All that said, a lot of cool shit happened this week, to say the least.\n\nThis episode was a wonderful primer to what I hope will be more epic awesomeness. But while we’re all feeling great and eagerly anticipating what comes next, please do not forget what this show is and what it’s about. GoT exists to fuck with your emotions. Just when you feel like things are finally headed in the right direction, and your favorite character is catching all the momentum, and your serotonin levels are raised to monumental highs, GoT will swoop in and gift you a crushing blow to your limbic system, crumbling your happiness with annoying apathy.\n\nSomeone you love, cheer for and/or enjoy watching will die. They will die a terrible death. And this time they’re not coming back. They’re really going die (permanently). What’s worse is no one really knows who that character is yet (aside from the actors and show runners).\n\nUnlike previous seasons, season 6 does not have a corresponding book. There is no source material (at least not published) that we can use to prepare our emotional state for what comes next. Though I’ve only read through one of the five books in George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (they’re enjoyable, but also dense as hell, and laborious as shit to power through) every season I’ve usually been able to surmise the dooms of my beloved characters prior to its on-screen delineation thanks to A Wiki of Ice and Fire.\n\nAnd while there’s some material from previous books that coincide with this season’s storyline, I have a hunch that everyone, devout book readers and novice show watchers alike, will ultimately be surprised (in most cases, meteorically disappointed) once episode 10 concludes. So consider yourself warned and take this for what it is.\n\nWhile I have my own thoughts on who’s headed to meet the Lord of Light (wouldn’t it be terrible if they brought Jon back just to kill him again?), I do know without a doubt that it will be a significant loss (Sansa, Tyrion, Brine, Jaime, Cersei, Bran, Rickon or even Arya – ain’t nobody safe in the seven kingdoms no more). I say this with the utmost confidence because we’ve already lost Ygritte (Jon’s Wildling love interest), Oberyn (and also the rest of his family) and a whole gang of Starks (Ned, Catelyn, Robb and his beautiful wife). ALL PEOPLE WE LOVED!!!! Oh, also Tywin and The Hound. But nobody really cared for them. They needed to die.\n\nThe point is we’re headed to episode 5, the midpoint of the season. History tells us that episode 7 usually hosts the season’s cinematic climax, and someone usually dies either during this dreadful hour or in the following weeks (episodes 8 and 9, not 10). Thus, your favorite character only has, at most, 3 hours of screen time left before they’re dead. Enjoy them while you still can.", null ]

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[ null, "According to a recent Reuters report, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved 31 of its 38 pending small refinery exemptions (SREs) for 2018. Recipients of the exemptions are not required to comply with renewable volume obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).\n\nThe RFS exists to drive investment in American-grown biofuels. EPA, though, allows waivers exempting small refineries from the RFS and cuts demand for biofuels.\n\n“After more than a year of constant trade escalation, President Trump seems determined to destroy the United States’ reputation as a reliable supplier of quality agricultural products. At the same time, his EPA seems bent on destroying our domestic market for renewable fuels. Together, these actions are crippling our markets, creating enormous stress in the countryside, and forcing more and more farmers into bankruptcy,” said Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union. “Our farmers are growing weary of the news from this White House. They’re tired of the empty promises, they’re tired of the excuses, and they’re tired of their needs being put last.”\n\nAccording to University of Illinois economist Scott Irwin, virtually all of the demand destruction from small refinery waivers is falling on the biodiesel industry. As EPA continues to hand them out to every refiner that asks, the damage to the U.S. biodiesel and renewable diesel industry could reach $7.7 billion or 2.54 billion gallons, according to Irwin.\n\n“Biodiesel producers are already shutting down facilities and laying off workers, due to loss of demand. The ongoing demand destruction will undercut the industry’s investments and choke off markets for surplus agricultural oils, adding to the economic hardship that farmers are facing,” Kovarik said. “The Trump administration’s action represents a fundamental betrayal of previous promises to farmers and the agricultural economy.”", null, "Keeping up with all the recent RFS developments requires some energy" ]

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[ null, "The Federal Circuit recently held claims for a personalized medicine treatment were patent eligible and valid. The claims at issue were directed toward administering specific dosages of a drug in the presence or absence of a particular genotype. The Court considered these claims as directed toward a specific patent-eligible treatment, and not to claim broadly the patent-ineligible, naturally occurring relationship between the drug and its metabolism in an individual with a particular genotype.\n\nOn April 13, 2018, the Federal Circuit held in Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals International Ltd. that Vanda’s patent covering methods of treating patients with its anti-schizophrenia drug Fanapt® was directed to patent eligible subject matter and was accordingly valid and infringed by West-Ward. The decision is in contrast to the holding that claims directed toward the naturally occurring relationship between drug metabolite levels and the drug’s likely effects were patent ineligible in Mayo Collaborative Services. v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (566 U.S. 66, 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012)).\n\nThe claims at issue in Vanda Pharmaceuticals are directed to methods of treating schizophrenic patients with iloperidone. The drug dosage is based on a patient’s genotype: poor drug metabolizers, who have low liver cytochrome P450 enzymatic activity due to a specific genotype, are administered 12 mg/day iloperidone or less; other patients receive 12-24 mg/day. Poor metabolism of iloperidone can lead to a cardiac risk factor called QTc prolongation. Administering the lower drug dose to patients with the identified genotype lowers the risk of QTc prolongation compared to administering the higher dose.\n\nThe Federal Circuit’s analysis of Vanda Pharmaceuticals’ patent relied on the first step in a two-part test articulated by the Supreme Court in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International (573 U.S. ___, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014); another Supreme Court case in a recent series that effectively narrowed the scope of patent eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101) for distinguishing between patent-ineligible claims to laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas and patent-eligible applications of those categories. First, the court considers whether a claim is directed to a patent-ineligible concept. If it is, the court determines whether additional elements in the claim amount to an inventive concept sufficient to transform the claim into a patent-eligible application that amounts to significantly more than a patent on the ineligible concept itself.\n\nThe Court noted that the claims at issue in Vanda were directed to methods of treating schizophrenia using iloperidone. Although the relationship between the drug, its metabolism by P450, and QTc prolongation is recognized, the relationship alone was not claimed. Instead, a specific application of that relationship—administering iloperidone at one dose based on a particular genotype and a different dose in the absence of that genotype—is claimed. “At bottom, the claims here are directed to a specific method of treatment for specific patients using a specific compound at specific doses to achieve a specific outcome.” Vanda Pharm. Inc. v. West-Ward Pharm. Int’l Ltd., Nos. 2016-2707, 2016 2708 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 13, 2018), at 32.\n\nBecause the Court determined that the claims are not directed to a patent-ineligible concept, it did not address the second step in the Alice test. The dissent would have reached the opposite conclusion for the first step and would have failed the claims under the second step for simply instructing the application of a natural law in a routine and conventional manner.\n\nVanda Pharmaceuticals suggests that method-of-treatment claims, particularly those that recite administering a drug, and even more so those that recite administering specific doses of the drug, may be patent eligible. Patent applicants in these fields may increasingly seek to present claims as method-of-treatment claims (patent eligible in Vanda) rather than methods “of optimizing therapeutic efficacy for treatment” (patent ineligible in Mayo). Including an affirmative step of administering a drug, especially a step of administering one or more specific dosages of the drug, may help render claims patent eligible. Note, however, that the Court in Mayo cautioned against “drafting effort[s] designed to monopolize the law of nature itself.” Although drafting efforts seemed to help Vanda Pharmaceuticals in the present case, future decisions in this volatile area of patent law may come to a different conclusion.", null ]