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[ null, "Delbert \"Del\" George Hillegass of the Villages, Florida passed away on March 10, 2022 at the age of 87. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, September 27, 1934 the son of the late Delbert and Bertha Hillegass. He was proceeded in death by his brothers Louis, Harry, Clarence, Charles and sister Nellie Hillegass. He is survived by his remaining sister Helen McMillan. He leaves behind his loving wife Muriel of 62 years and four children, Diane Hillegass, Brian Hillegass, Donna Hicks, and Saundra Cover. He is also survived by daughter-in-law, Lori Hillegass, son-in-law, Kevin Cover and Diane's fiance', Marc Nachtigal. He was the loving grandfather of six grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.\n\nHe dropped out of high school at the end of tenth grade and soon after, at the age of 19, joined the Navy. While serving in the Navy from 1953 to 1958, he received his GED and saw action during the Korean War. After leaving the Navy he continued to serve at the Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. where he worked until his retirement at the fine age of \"55\".\n\nHe loved life to the fullest and enjoyed doing so many things along the way from dancing, hunting, camping, golfing, gardening and sports. He was the captain of his own boat (Grady White) and named it after his beloved wife (Muriel Cigar's).\n\nHis nature was always to be happy-go-lucky, laughing, smiling, joking and always had the best comebacks. He felt that one of God's greatest gifts was laughter and he truly lived a life full of love and laughter. We will always keep his laugh and smile in our hearts.\n\nA private family service will be held at Bushnell National Cemetery on June 17, 2022. To be followed by a Celebration of Life at Hiers-Baxley Funeral Home, 3975 Wedgewood Lane, The Villages at noon.\n\nTo send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Delbert Hillegass, please visit Tribute Store\n\nShare Your Memory of\nDelbert\nUpload Your Memory View All Memories\nBe the first to upload a memory!\nShare A Memory\nSend Flowers" ]

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[ null, "Cordie: GM, my fellow Whiskers! Welcome to the very first Pond Podium, where you may get all your burning questions answered by none other than the Old Wizard. I am your host Cordie Yang, more (in)famously known as the little QuillKoiMaid.\n\nToday, Rico has a LOT to share about the 6 layers that make up each Whisker. So, without further ado, let’s dive right in! Hey Rico, my apologies for having the memory of a goldfish—what’re the 6 layers, again?\n\nRico: GM everyone! We’ve got the Origin, the Species, the Face, the Facial Feature, the Equipment, and the Inventory.\n\nCordie: Hmm, sounds interesting. I’ve seen quite a few sneak peeks—can never get enough, though—and I can tell you’re putting a lot of thought into those intricate details. But let’s start at the very beginning: what Origin (background) will my Whisker have? Is it going to be randomly generated?\n\nRico: Well, actually no. We’ve assigned values to the traits in the other 5 layers according to how rare they are, and we’ve got a formula, which determines the Origin of each Whisker.\n\nCordie: Wow, what a fun idea! So it’s very easy to know the general rarity of a Whisker just by looking at the color of its background. Would you mind sharing the Origins you’ve created?\n\nRico: Sure, there are 5 different Origins, each named after an ocean depth zone. So from the least deep to the deepest, they’re called Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Abyss, and Trenches, respectively.\n\nCordie: Correct me if I’m wrong, but Whiskers are fish, right?\n\nRico: Right. There are two species: Catfish and Koi.\n\nCordie: Then what could they possibly have on their Face?\n\nRico: To be honest, the Face and the Facial Features affect the rarity of the Whisker considerably less than the Species, Equipment and Inventory traits. But there’s still a wide variety. Regarding the Facial Features, some Whiskers may have kept their gills from the old days, whilst others have grown cat whiskers …\n\nRico: The rapid growth of the Whiskers after the World Spell was an incredible phenomenon. And that explains, well, a lot. Some might have a heart tattoo, star, or even cheek horns.\n\nCordie: OK, got it. It’s time for us to move on to Equipment and Inventory.\n\nRico: Yeah, so the Equipment is basically the full set of clothing/gears that your Whisker wears. I contemplated drawing individual garment pieces and letting the system randomly put them together, but I ended up creating full-body outfits instead as I felt that was more fitting for them.\n\nCordie: Wow, I believe this is kinda rare for PFP collections. What was your reasoning behind this?\n\nRico: I was thinking… It just doesn’t make sense for a Whisker to wear mismatched clothing. So for example, if a Whisker’s wearing a suit of armor, it’d need a helmet, not some random beret. Apart from Equipment being the most conspicuous layer, I also like to think that Whiskers are “real” people—well, maybe Catfish and Koi—that live in a “real” world…\n\nCordie: And have a good sense of style, just like their dad (✿◡‿◡) Is there anything we haven’t covered? Maybe tell our audience what the Inventory trait is?\n\nRico: So the Inventory is a visual representation of what the Whisker carries with it. It might be a lemon, a cute little skull, or a four-leaf clover. The point is, reveal happens immediately after a successful transaction, so you’ll get to see the full set soon.\n\nAnd Species examples because I know that question is coming next:\n\nWe hope you’ve enjoyed this first session of the Pond Podium. If you have any other questions you’d like us to cover for the next one, or suggestions in general, please drop them in the comments. With that, we’ll see you around!" ]

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[ null, "Aikikai Zen Ten was formed in August 2016 by the merger of Broadland Aikido club and the Makoto association, the co-founders being Senseis Frank Burlingham and Vince Lawrence. Both were approached by many dojos and individuals to form an association that incorporates and is open to all forms and styles of Aikido. It’s main aim being to promote and foster the practice and spirit of Aikido, as originated by O-Sensei Morihei Ueshiba.\n\nSensei Vince Lawrence started his Aikido career in 1981. Vince currently holds 5th Dan awarded by sensei Gwynne Jones. Vince is a former student of sensei Ken Williams of the Ki Federation of Great Britain were he was graded to 1st Dan, 2nd 3rd 4th with Aikido in Daily Life.\n\nThe Association enjoys many links with other Aikido organisations and individual high ranking instructors in the United Kingdom and throughout the world, which enables it to fulfil its primary aims.\n\nThe style of Aikido practised by Aikikai Zen Ten incorporates Traditional Aikido and the concept of Aikido with Ki combined with the use of the Jo (staff) and Bokken (practice sword),\n\nEmphasis is placed upon dynamic and effective technique, in practicing Aikido; students are encouraged to maintain standard rules of etiquette on the mat. The enjoyment of training in Aikido is enhanced by a positive and enthusiastic spirit, a high standard of dress and behaviour and a respect for all students on the mat making training in a relaxed, flowing and dynamic style." ]

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[ "Till few months back, humankind believed that they were apex species to rule the world. They mold, tear, clawed and mauled the earth anyway they see fit for their survival. There were talks of sixth extinction but always as part of movie fantasy. It took 4-5 months for virus to bring all those fantasies crashing down to ground of reality and make people realize that they are much closer to the edge then anticipated. One little push and…….\n\nIn this grim period of lock-down, you might be doing all you can to survive as human; social distancing is one of them. And our evolutionary history says that once humans developed their keen sense of socializing, they went far ahead then their ape-competitors. Large groups leaving in harmony was acting agent to allow development of unique kind of weapon called brain. Once cognitive ability expanded like bamboo shoots*, one evolutionary advantage led to others. Take example of cooking. Theory is, once our ancestors who are more akin to apes then homo sapiens sapiens started cooking, they did not require large jawline to chew tough meat and roots. Hence size of the jaws reduced which in turn led to increased cranium that can house large brain; and much larger brainpower. Super fast forwarding to current time, novel corona virus has ironically pressed the ultimate pain point: social bondage. When corona forcing people worldwide to distance themselves from each other and countries worldwide enforcing lock-down and home quarantine, at some places it seems some people are reverting back to their ape-minded psychology, not following lock-down and all. It’s paradox. More we socialize, more human we are or is it the other way around ?\n\nPondering alone during quarantine had brought some weird sparks for this off the track post. Below are few phenomenon that is scantly or closely related to current COVID-19 situation; somewhat weird, somewhat novel but mostly fun.\n\nNow hypothetical example: During quarantine situation, Mr A was in badly need of smoking. He had been careful enough to procure enough stock of his favorite brand of smokes that can last for month or two but forgot all about matchsticks. Mr. A knew that neighbor Mr. B had ample stock of matchboxes. He asked to pass on single matchstick to Mr. B. Given the exploitative circumstances, Mr. B asked 0.25$ for single matchstick. Mr. A infuriated but complied. While paying for single matchstick Mr. A came up with proposal that Mr. A shall give 0.25$ everyday to Mr. B as payment of matchstick but Mr. B should give double matchsticks then previous day till month lasts or pay equal amounts to matchsticks. Mr. B had 10$ matchbox having 100 matchstick. And he had many more such matchboxes. He quickly agreed considering simple math that he is getting 0.25$ for 0.1$ matchstick. What he didn’t know was the power of exponential. After 15 days of such arrangement, Mr A was happy smoker and Mr B was out of all his stock. And as per arrangement, paying price of matchstick to Mr. A that was much larger then he anticipated. You can see below table what went wrong in mere 15 days.\n\nThis is exponential growth. Think what could be the scenario at end of quarantined month. Mr. B had to sell his property to pay debt of matchstick. Now think that this is how infection spreads. What I showed is infection spread for single thread exponentially. Each new infected person also have his/her own exponent formula of spreading the infection. Even though some of the numbers died in between, what you deal with is staggering statistics after just 15 days.\n\nSo next time you think to wander off for no good reason, think twice of exponential formula.\n\nI believe conspiracy theorists are like those fresh science initiates who have just experienced microscope and observed their first single celled organism. Next, they want everything around them to be observed under microscopic lens. For fun, for fancy or just for curiosity, they keep introducing their microscopic analysis and ideas everywhere.\n\nIs novel corona natural or lab-produced ? is this pandemic part of plan of economic dominance ? Is it to show off the superpower nation how much they are actually in control ? Let conspiracy theories fly. It’s always soothing to have such grand theories. Such theories give psychological “full-stop” to nagging stress inducing unanswered questions and hence our mind leaned towards accepting them.\n\nOccam’s razor stats that if you are presented with multiple theories, weed out the extraneous possibilities using imaginary razor. What simplest solution left is mostly the correct one. This theory was proposed by scholastic philosopher William of Ockham. So think about Occam’s razor next time you press “forward” on online social groups about some crazy but “foolproof” conspiracy theory.\n\nTechnical term used to describe bird watching is called Birding. As a fun side note: male genders of the homo sapiens sapiens species are naturally proficient in birding. The fact is, here birds are classified as female gender of same species and not actual birds. They can accomplish this activity effortlessly ( and sometimes with considerable efforts) at malls, parks, library, colleges, beaches (most likely location of high frequency activity) and all places where opportunity arises. In this tough time of isolation, how the male community coping without “birding” is subject of whole new research and analysis. For time being , enjoy real bird watching instead.\n\nApart from mother nature, one other community that got unexpected advantage of corona virus was animals and birds. Once humans out of the picture, they got more fearless and roaming around in streets. Best time to do birding. There are two types of bird watching: 1. Just watch for fun 2. Watch and study. Later activity has heavy handed label called Ornithology. Lately, I am so much fascinated with the former that while everyone concerned about daily needs, I was calmly stocking up bird feeder grain sacks during my necessitated superstore visit. Luckily, I am situated at the corner of community where lake meets few trees. We have secured one bird feeder on the tree right across our living room window. And (more luckily) USA has not driven away it’s birds due to too much human intervention. As if mourning doves, finches, red winged black bird, Robins, starlings, cardinals, sparrows, chickadees and various other varieties feasting on bird feeder are not enough, since last few weeks, we saw majestic bald eagle swooping past close to lake for fresh catch right across our balcony. And sometimes we see egrets actively catching the fish or herons resting meditatively with all glamour of Himalayan yogi at edge of the lake. So next time, if environment permits, indulge at one of the soothing (and scientific) stress reducer activity before raising your anxiety watching the same news telecast.\n\nOne thought on “Unusual learning from lockdown”", null, null ]

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[ "Chris Hillman is more than a rock star. Arguably the pioneer of “Country Rock,” Hillman has carved a permanent niche in the history of contemporary American music.\n\nCo-founder of Rock & Roll Hall-of-Famers The Byrds, member of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, and the Desert Rose Band, multi-award winner Hillman’s guitar, mandolin and bass playing, along with his passionate embrace of music, has made him one of the architects of American music. His latest album, Bidin’ My Time, co-produced with Tom Petty, features guests including Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and members of The Heartbreakers.\n\nDon’t miss this opportunity to experience An Evening of Songs and Stories with music legends Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen in the SCA’s intimate 400-seat theater.", null ]

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[ "The past three days have been eventful. On Saturday, my brother fell fifteen feet out of a tree and broke his back. Yesterday, a piece flew off the roof of my rented home and damaged a neighbour’s car. While storm Ophelia raged outside, my grandfather’s cousin passed away peacefully surrounded by his family.\n\nOutside of my tiny sphere of experience, three people lost their lives because of Ophelia and many more people are assessing damage of property and vehicles and trees and roads and waiting for the electricity to come back on (it could take up to ten days for some).\n\nI can’t answer the question of “Where was God when…?” for the vast majority of situations, but I could clearly see where He was this weekend in my own realm of experience.\n\nMy brother was harnessed to two branches as he cut other branches off the top of the tree. He moved the first anchor to another branch and when he went to move the second one, the first branch snapped.\n\nWhere was God? Why didn’t He catch him or prevent it from happening.\n\nHe was right there the whole time.\n\nA number of things happened immediately after my brother falling where I can clearly see God’s fingerprints and want to give Him thanks for.\n\nDon’t get me wrong. Everything hurts like hell and basic things like buttering bread are impossible right now but so many more things went right.\n\nThen last night, as I was weathering out Ophelia in my parents’ house, my own housemate messaged me: the neighbour had called round to say that a part of our roof had blown off and damaged his car. He wasn’t so concerned about the car, which his own insurance will cover, but he was worried that our damaged roof would leak, causing more damage inside the house.\n\nOh the joy of flat roofs!\n\nThere was nothing to be done until this morning, when the winds had died down. Our maintenance man hopped up on the roof and smiled the good news: it wasn’t a piece of our roof that had blown off, but the cover of our water tank- much less troublesome to repair and no fear of leaking through the structure of our house! Good job, God!\n\nWhen members of our prayer team lead people through inner healing, we have them revisit painful memories and ask the question, “Where was God when this happened?” I am continually amazed and delighted at the person’s response when they see Jesus standing between them and the teacher shouting nasty things at them as a seven year old, absorbing the hurtful words; or holding them and comforting them after sexual abuse has taken place.\n\nEvery memory/thought has emotion attached to it. Inviting Jesus into the memory, allowing Him to show us where He was and what He was doing, has an incredible way of taking the intense pain out of these memories and allowing them to heal. The facts don’t change, but their harmful effects on our current behaviour and reactions do.\n\nThen this morning, one of our Life Group* leaders shared this message:", null, "I love that line: “[when imagining the future] include Me in any imagery that comes to mind”. I have some experience of asking God where He was in past events, but never thought to look for Him in my future- duh! As someone who has been prone to paralysing fear (especially in the mornings) this gives me immense encouragement.\n\nI look forward to asking that question every morning, “God where are you?”, not out of anger or fear, but out of hope and expectancy.\n\n*Weekly groups that meet to read the Word, encourage and challenge one another to grow in their respective relationships with God and so become better at loving God and loving others." ]

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[ "Next up, it's CHRIS SUTTON vs athletics correspondent MARTHA KELNER... and don't forget to tell us your predictions by leaving a comment below.", null, null, "CHRIS SUTTON: Spurs ran out 4-1 winners against Watford and I can see another comfortable victory for them on Saturday. Tottenham 3-0 Watford\n\nMARTHA KELNER: Spurs were most un-Spursy midweek, securing an incredible, late win through the Premier League’s most able deputy Son Heung-min. Watford can sniff that magical 40 point mark but will probably come up short this week. Tottenham 3-1 Watford", null, "CS:Hull have been fantastic at home but need to start picking up points on the road. I cannot see that happening here - City's attacking array should prove too much for Marco Silva's men. Manchester City 3-1 Hull\n\nMK: Man City are in serious danger of dropping out of the top four while Hull continue their ascendancy under Marco Silva. They’re out of the bottom three for the first time since October, and could take a point from a creaking City side. Manchester City 1-1 Hull", null, "CS: This is a crucial game for Boro if they are to stand any chance of staying up. Burnley had an important midweek win and although they have struggled on the road, I cannot see Boro winning this. Middlesbrough 1-1 Burnley\n\nMK: Boro effectively sealed their relegation in their midweek defeat, which left them seven points from safety. With nothing to suggest any significant resurgence I’d back a solid Clarets side with a good central defensive pairing to keep them out. Middlesbrough 0 -1 Burnley\n\nCS: I had Liverpool in my top four earlier in the season but the midweek slip-up against Bournemouth only highlighted their inconsistency. They need to win but without Sadio Mane it will be difficult. Stoke 1-1 Liverpool\n\nMK: Stoke City, pointless in their last three, are in danger of tarnishing what was an impressive first half of the season. They’re an ideal opponent for Liverpool, who will be keen to put the disappointment of a late draw last time out behind them. Stoke 0-2 Liverpool", null, "CS: I was surprised to see West Brom lose 2-0 at Watford this week and I expect them to bounce back against Southampton. West Brom 2-1 Southampton\n\nMK: Matty Phillips is pushing for his first start in eight weeks which should add attacking venom to an impressive West Brom unit. Saints showed resilience to come from behind to win against Crystal Palace midweek but Pulis’s side will provide a more stern resistance. West Brom 2- 0 Southampton", null, "CS: This is a huge game which is so tough to call. West Ham may struggle at the London Stadium but I wonder how Swansea are going to react after suffering a dramatic defeat at the hands of Tottenham. West Ham have a tricky run-in and have to win but I think it will be a draw. West Ham 2-2 Swansea\n\nMK: Both clubs are in need of boost but I fancy Paul Clements men to take the spoils. They are suddenly back in the bottom three and need points from this sort of game if they want to play top flight football next year. Jordan will have bragging rights over Andre in the Ayew household after this one. West Ham 1-2 Swansea", null, "CS: Bournemouth are unbeaten in five but Chelsea's firepower prove too much. Bournemouth 1-3 Chelsea\n\nMK: With the title all but secured Chelsea’s end to the season has been diluted to who makes the better claim to be Player of the Year - Hazard or Kante? Bournemouth showed resilience at Anfield to get a result but this Chelsea back three will provide more resistance than Klopp’s flimsy defence. Chelsea 3-0 Bournemouth", null, "CS: Sunderland are down and while I am not totally convinced by United, the return of Zlatan Ibrahimovic should help them to a 2-0 win. Sunderland 0-2 Man Utd\n\nMK: Sunderland’s characteristic end of season surge has not materialised yet. But Man United’s strike force has been poor, prompting a public dressing down by Mourinho. This does not have the hallmarks of a classic and could well end goalless. Sunderland 0-0 Manchester United", null, "CS: This could spell the end of Leicester's remarkable run. Romelu Lukaku is a flat-track bully and I expect him to fire Everton to victory. Everton 2-1 Leicester\n\nMK: The unedifying Claudio Ranieri episode has been consigned to memory as Leicester continue to surge upwards under Craig Shakespeare. Jamie Vardy is scoring again, the players are happy and results are piling up for the Foxes. Everton will start favourites this game but will miss the banned Ashley Williams. May the goals flow. Everton 2- 2 Leicester", null, "CS: Palace are beset by injuries and Arsenal have to win to keep pace in this intriguing battle for the top four. Crystal Palace 1-2 Arsenal\n\nMK: A turned corner or another false dawn for the Gunners? They were impressive for long periods against Man City and West Ham midweek but gloom lingers over the Emirates. They will have too much firepower for a Palace team who were back to their leaky worst midweek, but the increasingly ugly Wenger debate will rage on. Crystal Palace 0-3 Arsenal", null ]

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[ null, "Many celebrities have seemingly caught the love bug recently and it seems love is all around us this year. Dating rumors of Michael Grant Terrys’s girlfriends, hookups, and ex-girlfriends may vary since many celebrities prefer to keep their lives and relationships private. We strive to make our dating information accurate. Let’s take a look at Michael Grant Terry’s current relationship below.\n\nThe 37-year-old American actor is possibly single now. Michael Grant Terry remains relatively private when it comes to his love life. Regardless of his marital status, we are rooting for his.\n\nIf you have new or updated information on Michael Grant Terry dating status, please send us a tip.\n\nMichael Grant Terry is a Virgo ♍, which is ruled by planet Mercury ☿. Virgo is most romantically compatible with Taurus, or another Virgo. This star sign loves to be nurtured and attracts partners who can help them stay grounded. Virgo least compatible signs for dating: Gemini and Sagittarius.\n\nBased on information available to us, Michael Grant Terry had at least few relationships in the past few years. Not all details about Michael’s past relationships, partners, and breakups are known. Availability of these details depend on how private celebrities are, and because of that we may not know some facts. While it’s usually easy to find out who is Michael Grant Terry dating, it is harder to keep track of all his hookups and exes, however that may not always be the case. Some things may be more public than the others, especially when media is involved.\n\nMichael Grant Terry has not been previously engaged. He has no children. Information on the past dates and hookups is regularly updated.\n\nMichael Grant Terry was born in the Summer of 1984 on Thursday, August 30 🎈 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 🗺️. His given name is Michael Grant Terry, friends call his Michael. Actor best known for his role as Wendell Bray on the long-running Fox drama Bones. He has also appeared in episodes of NCIS, Grimm, and Criminal Minds. Michael Grant Terry is most recognized for being a actor. He studied drama and cinematography at Boston’s Emerson College and was an apprentice at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.\n\nThese are frequently asked questions about Michael Grant Terry. We will continue to add more related and interesting questions over time.\n\nHow old is Michael Grant Terry now?\nHe is 37 years old and his 38th birthday is in .\n\nDoes Michael Grant Terry have any children?\nHe has no children.\n\nDid Michael Grant Terry have any affairs?\nThis information is not available. Contact us if you know something." ]

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[ null, "The mother of a young Muslim convert dubbed Jihadi Jack wept in court as she described her fears for her son after he called to say: “Mum, I’m in Syria.”\n\nSally Lane told of the “tightrope” she and her husband John Letts were forced to tread as they tried to keep in contact with Jack Letts.\n\nThe couple are on trial at the Old Bailey accused of sending or trying to send sums totalling £1,723 to their son, even though they had every reason to believe he had joined Islamic State.\n\nHe was 18 when he left home in Oxford and travelled abroad, married in Iraq and moved to Raqqa in Syria, jurors have heard.\n\nHis parents allegedly ignored repeated warnings that they faced legal trouble if they tried to help their son while he was in IS territory.\n\nGiving evidence at the Old Bailey, Lane told jurors her son had initially gone to Jordan and Kuwait for study and tourism.\n\nShe said: “He seemed like he was enjoying himself, relaxing and enjoying the country.”\n\nBut on September 2 2014, phone records showed a flurry of calls.\n\nLane said: “That was the day I found out. Jack phoned me. I was alone in the house. It was just a very quick phone call. He said, ‘Mum, I’m in Syria’.\n\n“I was horrified. I screamed at him, ‘How could you be so stupid? You will get killed. You will get beheaded’.”\n\nJack Letts, who is said to suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, did not phone again until September 24 2014.\n\nLane said: “He apologised for not having phoned since that call. He said he had been ill. He had been travelling.\n\n“He did not say exactly where he was. He tried to be reassuring, saying everything is fine. It’s a civilian area, it’s not a war zone. Someone had looked after him when he was ill and not to worry.”\n\nDefence lawyer Tim Moloney QC asked: “How did all that contact make you feel?”\n\nLane replied: “In the first few weeks, we did not know whether he was alive or dead. At least we were reassured he was alive.”\n\nShe attempted to use a £5,000 inheritance from her son’s grandfather “as a bribe” to encourage him and his new wife Asmaa to get “somewhere safe”.\n\nBut on May 21, he posted a photograph of himself in Raqqa, Syria.\n\nMeanwhile, the family continued to have “acrimonious” religious and political debates from afar.\n\nLane said: “It was a bit different when he is actually in the region rather than in our kitchen.”\n\nOn July 30, she said she felt “sick” when her son appeared to threaten to behead an old school friend, Linus Doubtfire.\n\nMr Doubtfire had posted a picture on Facebook as he completed his Commando Artillery Course in the British Army.\n\nJack Letts commented: “I would love to perform a martyrdom operation in this scene.”\n\nHis mother told jurors: “I thought it was not him because it was a public post. Jack had told me that other people used his account.\n\n“Around this time also we were receiving false information. I received a message on an account saying he was dead, for instance.”\n\nAsked how she felt about the post, Lane said: “Absolutely sick. It was so out of character. He had never said anything violent before. I just thought it didn’t sound like him.”\n\nThe court heard how Lane came to send £223 of the inheritance to Lebanon on September 2 2015.\n\nHer son reassured her it was “nothing to do with jihad” when he sent her a selfie sporting a beard and long hair.\n\nLane replied that she was “worried” about the state of his teeth, adding: “I’m not averse to sending the money, as you know.\n\n“I would go to prison for you if I thought it gave you a better chance of actually reaching your 25th birthday.”\n\nOn her feelings at the time, Lane told jurors: “I was a little bit nervous but I wanted to maintain that contact with Jack and I needed him to trust us and we needed to trust him and it seemed to be a good link.”\n\nAsked if she had any idea the money might end up in the hands of terrorists, she said: “No. I actually thought it might enable Jack to get to Lebanon.”\n\nOn a stream of acrimonious messages, Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC observed: “You wanted to keep in touch with your son but at the same time not give in to some of the things he was saying. That was the tightrope you had to walk.”\n\nLane agreed, saying there was a constant danger of IS enforcers on the lookout for “British spies”.\n\nShe wiped away tears as she told jurors: “Generally with these messages, even if we were having an argument it would not bother me so much because I thought it was safer for him if someone was reading them.”" ]

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[ "I had a quick look at the Higher Education Power List 2016, over at Wonkhe. I soon realised I’d need a longer look, as the list is a different beast to last year’s offering.\n\n27 out of 50 entries are new to the list. More than half. Let that sink in for a second.\n\nVolatility is a big part of HE right now. It’s no wonder the short-term focuses more than long-term plays.\n\nOnly seven entries rise in the list, with three in the same place. 13 entries fall, meaning that most people who remain on the list since last year aren’t seen to be as influential as they were.\n\nRichard Brabner says that judging who shapes the sector with their power and influence, “is not a science. It is subjective“. What we can see here is how consistency isn’t currently on higher education’s side. The HE Power List is an example of a lively—perhaps erratic—situation.\n\nHigher education is not shielded from current events and wider politics either. Aaron Porter explains:\n\n“For higher education the politics are significant. Not least because the Higher Education and Research Bill is making its way through Parliament, but also because it provides the crucial context and backdrop for the sector.”\n\nPorter adds, “The world is a very different place, and so is the political composition of the 2016 list”.\n\nJonathan Simons echoes this. He concludes that, “making predictions as to what will happen over the forthcoming year is a mug’s game”. While David Morris talks of “The strange and sudden unravelling of the ‘Osborne Supremacy’” that has seen George Osborne go from top of the Power List to not in it at all from one year to the next.\n\nAnd what about the student angle? Smita Jamdar says that “the student-university relationship [has] been pulled in many different legal directions”.\n\nJamdar explains that while students aren’t new to protest, they are focusing on more targets and looking more widely around the world. When you add social media power and the need for institutions to listen to their ‘consumers’, students are in a position to make things happen.\n\nStudent influence is not currently in the direction of paying lower fees (or getting rid of them in favour of another model). Their current influence is in changing the layout, experiences, and atmosphere of student life.\n\nAlthough students have not made the Power List this year, is it only a matter of time before we see the student collective making an appearance?\n\nThe HE sector is being pulled in all directions. Perhaps volatility should top the Power List. Unlike George Osborne, chances are it would stay at the top of the chart the next year too.\n\nUniversity World News has published a fascinating debate, asking if too much emphasis is being put on world-class universities to the detriment of issues like widening participation.\n\nShould all universities strive to top league tables and aim to be the best of the best?", null, "“Governments and universities must stop obsessing about global rankings and the top 1% of the world’s 15,000 institutions. Instead of simply rewarding the achievements of elites and flagship institutions, policy needs to focus on the quality of the system-as-a-whole.” [Source]\n\nAnother piece, by Parra, Bozo & Inciarte, considers universities in developing countries. But in some ways, it may be worth considering the following in terms of UK institutions too:\n\n“…there cannot be a single model for universities. Rather, different models of universities or other higher education institutions that respond to diverse needs and are substantially different in quality, status and content need to coexist.\n\n“Some universities will reflect the top research centre model; others, the training or professionalising model; and there will be universities that focus their performance on social needs such as community engagement, social service, the micro-economy and social mobility.”\n\nDifficulties arise for widening participation when different levels of higher learning develop, so nothing is simple. Making certain institutions more appealing to disadvantaged young people, for instance, somewhat misses the point. Yet it’s also crucial to consider a diverse range of individual needs and pathways.\n\nIt’s easy to say that Oxbridge isn’t necessarily for everyone. But how easy is it to say that the lowest ranked university in the country might be best suited to a top-grade student?\n\nI bet the second statement doesn’t fit so comfortably. My question is, should that be the case?\n\nSuccess has many faces and comes from many places. As Doug Belshaw argues, “You can strive to be élite (as an individual, organisation or country) without being élitist”. Therefore, in the right circumstances, world-class achievement can arise from a humble position.\n\nNext time you hear someone make a basic comparison or simply state that one thing is better than another, remember that the remarks can only be subjective. Even considerable attempts to back up what’s being said won’t usually result in unarguable fact.\n\nHigher education encompasses so much that institutions can struggle to shine in their many roles and competitive situations. That is why different models of engagement should be welcomed, “otherwise focus is increasingly replaced by dilution“.\n\nCould a world-class graduate emerge from a low-ranking university? I say it’s just as likely as finding a mediocre graduate from a world-class institution." ]

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[ null, "The company is tracking the espionage-oriented activity cluster under its chemical element-themed moniker SEABORGIUM, which it said overlaps with a hacking group also known as Callisto, COLDRIVER, and TA446.\n\nAttacks launched by the adversarial collective are known to target the same organizations using consistent methodologies applied over long periods of time, enabling it to infiltrate the victims’ social networks through a combination of impersonation, rapport building, and phishing.\n\nMicrosoft said it observed “only slight deviations in their social engineering approaches and in how they deliver the initial malicious URL to their targets.”", null, "Additional targets of interest consist of former intelligence officials, experts in Russian affairs, and Russian citizens abroad. More than 30 organizations and personal accounts are estimated to have been at the receiving end of its campaigns since the start of 2022.", null, "It all starts with a reconnaissance of potential individuals by leveraging fake personas created on social media platforms like LinkedIn, before establishing contact with them via benign email missives originating from newly-registered accounts configured to match the names of the impersonated individuals.\n\nIn the event the target falls victim to the social engineering attempt, the threat actor activates the attack sequence by sending a weaponized message embedding a booby-trapped PDF document or a link to a file hosted on OneDrive.\n\n“SEABORGIUM also abuses OneDrive to host PDF files that contain a link to the malicious URL,” Microsoft said. “The actors include a OneDrive link in the body of the email that when clicked directs the user to a PDF file hosted within a SEABORGIUM-controlled OneDrive account.”\n\nFurthermore, the adversary has been found to disguise its operational infrastructure by resorting to seemingly harmless open redirects to send users to the malicious server, which, in turn, prompts users to enter their credentials to view the content.\n\nThe last phase of attacks entails abusing the stolen credentials to access the victim’s email accounts, taking advantage of the unauthorized logins to exfiltrate emails and attachments, set up email forwarding rules to ensure sustained data collection and other follow-on activities.\n\n“There have been several cases where SEABORGIUM has been observed using their impersonation accounts to facilitate dialog with specific people of interest and, as a result, were included in conversations, sometimes unwittingly, involving multiple parties,” Redmond pointed out.\n\nEnterprise security company Proofpoint, which tracks the actor under the name TA446, pointed out the group’s inclination towards reconnaissance and sophisticated impersonation for delivery of fraudulent links.\n\n“TA446 creates a game of whack-a-mole whether takedowns are occurring or not,” Sherrod DeGrippo, vice president of threat research and detection at Proofpoint, told The Hacker News. “The threat actor rapidly registers and changes which personas and aliases they are mimicking in the consumer email addresses and infrastructure they create.”\n\n“TA446 is a threat actor that performs reconnaissance on the intended recipients and creates consumer email accounts based off of people the recipients are likely to know or work in the same profession,” DeGrippo added." ]

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[ null, "Team of the German First Football League (Bundesliga) Bayern MnihAustrian footballer playing in David Alabaannounced his departure from the German club at the end of the season.\n\nAt the press conference he held in Mnih, Alaba stated that he decided to do new things after this season and leave the handle (from Bayern Mnih), “I’ve been here for 13 years and it was not an easy decision.” used the expression.\n\nStating that you have not decided on which team to play next season. the experienced footballer, on the question of whether Barcelona is an option or not, noted that the management company has no secret with the handles.\n\nBayern Mnih’s contract with Alaba ends at the end of the season.\n\nWith Bayern Mnih, Alaba won the UEFA League Cup 2 times, the German championship Cup 9 times and the German Cup 6 times, and was chosen as the yearly player in Austria 7 times." ]

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[ "The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease", null, "While most kids learn this soon after breaking down their parents to buy them that overly-expensive Christmas present, too often we adults take “no” for an answer and throw up our hands in defeat.\n\nSome will call it being mature, others might call it the effect of learning that “life is not fair,” and for others, fighting for a “yes” just takes too much work.\n\nWell when it matters, like when our democracy is at stake, we all need to channel our inner child and keeping badgering the powers that be for that Red Ryder BB gun.\n\nIt has taken about a month after Rachel Maddow first shined a light on the group of Wisconsin Republicans who fraudulently claimed they were Trump “electors” to START being held accountable for their actions. Just last week the two ringleaders of the group were subpoenaed by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 attack.\n\nThis is GREAT NEWS. However, there’s a lot we should take away from the events leading up to these subpoenas.\n\nBut…those questions are topics for future essays. Today is a day for celebration. People who committed crimes to undermine our democracy are seemingly being held to account, and for this, we should celebrate.\n\nLaw Forward, a non-profit group of lawyers who originally filed the complaint against these fraudulent electors a year ago, need to be commended for sticking their necks out and being good citizens. They are the real heroes.\n\nAnd everyone who wrote to Congressman Pocan or other powerful politicians after the Maddow program, demanding that something be done, you folks are also heroes. Congressman Pocan helped bring this issue to national attention by asking the Justice Department to investigate . He was on our podcast last week and said that this wasn’t even on his radar screen until his office was bombarded by regular Wisconsinites looking for justice.", null, "And now for Joe Rogan. I have to admit, I’m not part of this mega podcast star’s audience, but a great many young men in America are.\n\nFollowing an episode of Rogan's podcast in which he interviewed a doctor who baselessly claimed Americans were \"hypnotized\" into wearing masks and getting COVID-19 vaccines because of what he calls \"mass formation psychosis, 270 scientists, healthcare workers, and educators signed an open letter calling on Spotify to stop the spread of misinformation on its platform.\n\nThis letter went unheeded by Spotify, so famous musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell removed their music from the platform out of protest.\n\nFolks, I don’t need to tell you this, but everyday there is an example of democracy, facts, and truth getting a boost because regular people, non-profit lawyers, or famous musicians stick their necks out to help. And almost every day, we also get a punch to the gut when the likes of Joe Rogan spread misinformation that kills people because it helps ratings and voting rights legislation doesn’t get passed because we’ve got democrats in the U.S. Senate more beholden to their donors than to their own souls.\n\nWell, we can’t let these gut punches make us forget about how we feel when what’s RIGHT gets a win. We’ve got to focus on the positive and keep on trying. It takes a lot of work, but nobody ever said we wouldn’t break a sweat while trying to hold onto democracy and truth.\n\nIt’s time for all of us to do what we can to keep our democracy. Call your county Democratic Party office and sign up as a volunteer. If you’re annoyed with the Democratic Party (we understand completely), just remember that we currently live in a two-party system, thus we NEED to be on the same team, and divided we fall.\n\nWe promise to keep fighting as long as you do, and hopefully you’ll remember to think of us when it’s time to toast a hard day’s worth of activism with a cold brew.\n\nThanks for sticking with us. Let’s Make Wisconsin a Democracy Again, One Beer at a Time." ]

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[ "On May 21, Brazilian truckers started a nation-wide strike to protest high oil prices. More than a thousand of Brazil’s major roads underwent blockades, making it nearly impossible to circulate several types of goods. Diesel prices from Petrobras, the energy company owned by the state and third parties, have risen steadily throughout the month of May due to a decrease in Brazil’s currency value and the global appreciation of oil prices.\nBrazil faces a high unemployment rate, economic recession, and political crisis reports the Guardian. As a result, the value of the Brazilian real weakened relative to the U.S. dollar. With a weaker national currency, Petrobras’s oil prices increased as Brazilian oil became cheaper to foreign entities. In addition, global oil prices increased even more in May since traders excepted demands to be bigger than the supply, says the Guardian.\nNonetheless, truckers in Brazil face more challenges than just price instability. The average trucker works more hours per day than national labor laws allow, gains small wages, suffers from dangerous roads, and spends only short periods of time at home. All these factors combined led truckers from all parts of Brazil to rally together in protest.\nWithin just a few days, the truckers’ blockades almost stopped the entire nation. During the 10-day strike, stores, supermarkets, and gas stations began to run low on supplies. Common household items shifted from normal prices to abusive ones. In some states, common groceries items such as potatoes, tomatoes, and onions had their usual price more than tripled.\nDespite its nation-wide impact, it is hard to estimate how many truckers participated in the strike. Brazilian TV channels displayed video footage and audios clips in which truckers admitted that they were coerced into participating in the strike by other truckers or even their employers. The national law forbids lockouts, which is when employers prevent their employees from working. The Brazilian Federal Police conducted investigations in more than twenty states to confirm whether or not lockouts took place.\nNevertheless, the truckers made clear that the Brazilian government had little option but to make concessions, as the economic cost of the strike continued to increase. According to the Guardian, “10 airports ran out of fuel. Thirteen public universities canceled classes, and most of Brazil’s major cities slashed the number of buses operating.” As a result, citizens demanded a response from the government.\nThis explains why Brazilian President Michel Temer announced concessions worth billions, after initially asking the military to intervene. The concessions include a diesel price tax cut for sixty days, a guarantee oil prices will be adjusted monthly rather than daily, a minimum freight price, and other benefits for truckers.\nAlberto Ramos, an economist with Goldman Sachs, said he was impressed with the strike, as a group with little organization and no clear leader managed to take out 0.4 percent of the GDP from the government in just 72 hours, reports the Financial Times. It is likely that the strike was organized through WhatsApp and Facebook groups, as these platforms are popular means of mobilization in Brazil.\nShortly after the strike ended, Petrobras’ CEO Pedro Parente resigned, despite the government’s hope that he would remain in charge. The Borneo Bulletin reports that Parente’s resignation accentuates uncertainties about the future of one of Brazil’s major companies. The majority of the government does not want to interfere in Petrobras’ right to determine prices, which are currently based on global market prices. However, many sectors in Brazil, including the trucking industry, would like to return to past policies where the government and Petrobras would establish highly subsidized prices.\nThis resulted in a pricing drama for Petrobras. Major Brazilian TV channels reported that President Temer guaranteed a forty-six cents discount per liter on diesel prices for truckers and all other sectors of the economy starting on June 4. All gas stations were legally required to show before and after prices, in order to prove consumers are getting the full discount. Despite this, several gas stations are yet to show and apply the full discount.\nMoreover, the strike also impacted Brazil’s manufacturing sector in June. It is the first time in 15 months that the sector contracted, says NASDAQ. Unsurprisingly, other key economic sectors suffered as well, causing Brazil’s Central Bank to reduce its estimated gross domestic product growth for 2018.\nFor many Brazilians, the strike highlighted the consequences of weak governance. It is possible that the strike’s biggest impact is yet to come in the upcoming October presidential elections. According to Forbes, the national feeling is that “Brazilians are fed up, and few are impressed with the roster of candidates running for the presidency.”\nThe strike imposed hard questions for governance. Lawmakers need to decide how to compensate the money lost in concessions. However, choices are critical because an unpopular cut during an election year can cost politicians their elections. As Forbes reported, many Brazilians feel that “Brazil seems totally leaderless.”", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Click to embiggen, something Gaedel himself never could do.\n\nBasically all the big philosophers advocate on behalf of a perpetual contemplation of death. “One can’t truly live,” goes the reasoning, “until that same one accepts his mortality as fact.” A reasonable point, that, probably.\n\nToday’s brief recognition of the Ultimate Darkness is facilitated by some trifling internet surfing by the author — which surfing led both to Eddie Gaedel’s Wikipedia page and also obituary. Capital-T Truth has revealed that, while generally remembered as a willing participant in one of Bill Veeck’s many amusing promotional ventures, Gaedel was actually afflicted considerably by life’s afflictions.\n\nConsider, by way of example, this Wikipedia excerpt regarding his death:\n\nOn June 18, 1961, the unemployed Gaedel, who had just turned 36, was at a bowling alley in Chicago, his birthplace and hometown. Gaedel was followed home and beaten (he might have been mugged as well). His mother discovered Eddie lying dead in his bed. He had bruises about his knees and on the left side of his face. A coroner’s inquest determined that he also had a heart attack. Bob Cain, saying he felt obligated, was the only person from Major League Baseball to attend the funeral.\n\nConsider, by way of second example, the haunting and stark sonority of the headline “Baseball Midget Dead” in the obituary embedded above." ]

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[ null, "It’s interesting how much of my parenting is shaped by my experiences as a child. I struggled a lot with doubt, questions, and guilt as a child. I wanted to know the truth and rest in it, but was frustrated that my mind did not always cooperate, that I was plagued always by questions instead of certainty. It took a long time for me to accept the questions as part of my experience. And it took even longer for me to see the value of uncertainty. And because I never want my children to feel guilty for asking questions, I tend to encourage those questions.\n\nEven before my recent faith shift away from evangelicalism towards a more progressive form of Christianity, I didn’t like to answer my kids questions with too much certainty. For one thing, I recognized that I am never sure enough myself to give them a definitive answer and for another thing, I wanted them to be ok with knowing that there were multiple answers to any one question. So when asked about science, faith, and life, I would often answer them with: “Well, some people believe a, others think b, and I tend to agree most with c.”\n\nAs I become more and more comfortable with my own questions, I have been able to be even more relaxed about theirs. I think when Elise was young, there were definitely some questions I felt that she needed a very clear answer to. If she asked about God or Jesus or salvation, then I was definitely going to give her the black and white answer I believed was necessary for salvation, even while at the same time feeling anxious over my own lack of certainty. Since my understanding of salvation has completely moved away from assertion of facts, I no longer mind allowing uncertainty in even those things that I once considered the essentials of faith.\n\nKids have a lot of questions, even while accepting the oddest things as truth. But Elise has always been incredibly tied to reality. She hates uncertainty and even in the course of imaginative play always wanted to know where the line of reality was. It frustrated her to no end a few years ago when Will was convinced that his stuffed animals were alive. He would not admit that he was just pretending, but stubbornly resisted her every attempt to teach him the truth. She would get so angry about this that she would try to bring me into the argument. “Mom!” she would say, “Will you please tell him that stuffed animals are NOT alive!” And I would never step in. This was more about Elise than it was about Will. I truly didn’t care if he believed his animals were real. Possibly, deep down, he knew they weren’t, but liked to rile up Elise. But I wanted Elise to be ok with letting go of control over the minds of those around her. I wanted her to be ok with uncertainty.\n\nAs the kids have gotten older, the dynamics have changed. Both Will and Seth love to believe the impossible. Or pretend that they do. I can’t always tell where the line is in their play, and that is ok. They like to live on the edge of mystery. But they don’t always like to allow the other to be comfortable there. Sibling dynamics are such that there will be teasing surrounding each one’s chosen fantasy. Will also likes to try to convince Seth of fantastical creatures’ existence because Seth so wants to believe, even when his logical side tells him this probably isn’t true. You can hear the struggle in his voice as he argues back. “That isn’t real, Will! Is it?”\n\nThe other day Will was giving Seth a hard time about Santa Claus. Seth has tried to believe in Santa Claus for years, even though we have never really “done” Santa Claus in our house. This has actually been one of those areas where my child has taught me to let go of controlling what another person believes, and now I only really step in when the naughty or nice part comes up, but that I addressed in another blog post. (If you read that blog post you’ll probably notice my lack of an emphasis on mystery in celebration. I have definitely evolved since then.)\n\nBut back to the conversation of a few weeks ago. Will asked, partly in seriousness, and partly to annoy his brother, who was sitting next to him: “Why do people believe in things that aren’t true, like Santa Claus?” “That’s a good question, Will,” I answered resorting to my tried and true parenting tactic of answering a question with a question. “Why do YOU think that people believe in things?” “Because they’re dumb?” Will answered (actually I can’t remember his exact reply, but this is most likely what he was thinking even if he didn’t say it out loud.)\n\nWanting to encourage Will towards self-reflection rather than attack, we brought up one of Will’s favorite fantasies. Against all evidence and in the face of opposition all around him, Will believes in dragons. So of course we brought that up. And in comparing Santa Claus and dragons (who knew those would ever come up in the same conversation?) we were able to actually ask some meaningful questions about the nature of belief.", null, "I don’t know if that conversation was marinating in my kids’ heads at all over the next few weeks, but I think maybe it was. Because on the way home from church a few days ago Seth asked a very serious question: “Why do people believe in God? I mean you can’t see him, we don’t know if he’s actually real. He might be or he might not be. It’s a mystery.” And rather than going into panic mode, wondering about the state of my child’s soul, I merely said: “Yep, life is full of mystery.”" ]

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[ "Less than a fortnight ago, I painted up the first 40k Space Orc and Space Goblin. You might have picked up on the fact that in about 28 years of gaming, I'd never had the slightest interest in playing with anything orky. But painting that pair of figures sparked something. I rooted around in my boxes and unearthed enough ork figures to make a small warband.\n\nSo it was straight into the stripper with the painted figures, and some final prep for the others. I decided to start off with a second grot and the converted 'heavy'.", null, "The grot is a duplicate of one of the ones I converted an age ago into one of my feral ratlings. I like the contrast between this semi-naked grot, armed with a basic blunderbuss, and the militarily-equipped grot I first painted.\n\nThe ork with the heavy weapon (probably a heavy bolter / big shoota, depending on the game I'm playing) is converted from a fantasy crossbow orc. The conversion was actually originally intended as a mutie for my chaos cultists, but I never got round to doing the head swap I planned. Happily, he works pretty nicely as an ork with old school fashion taste!\n\n\nThe conversion simply places a Necromunda heavy stubber and backpack on the orc. I added a plastic grip to the heavy stubber, and made some minor modifications to his left hand. The shoulder pad was a late addition from a plastic Space Marine Scout.", null, null, "Painting wise, this pair got the same colours as the previous two orks. I was conscious that the heavy weapon ork didn't have much armour, so I tried to pick out some hard metal areas to paint yellow (gun casing and the backpack frame).", null, "I added the glyph transfer on the pad and the dags on the hood to try and break up the flat colour areas a little.", null, "Typically, I've already started looking out for more orks to add to the group and bring it up to around 12-15 members. Maybe I do like orks after all!\nPosted by axiom at 15:43" ]

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[ null, "Where that album invited comparisons to the likes of Bill Withers and Otis Redding, Michael's new album struts to a much more psychedelic, freeform beat. The peerless ten-minute opus \"Cold Little Heart\" evokes the haze of Pink Floyd in its unhurried slow-burn, while \"Falling\" is a soaring gospel number for the 21st century. There are standout tunes throughout, but Love & Hate is an album that genuinely deserves to be listened to as one, littered as it is with ‘headphones moments' that require real attention to the light and shade of its creation.\n\nKiwanuka explains, \"I've always wanted to make an album that felt and sounded like this one. Working with guys as good as Danger Mouse and Inflo really helped me find what I was looking for. I hope this is just the start of more music to come.\" The incredible synergy between the two is almost palpable, with Dangermouse confessing \"I'd been wanting to work with Michael for a while and once we did a song, we just felt like we should keep going. I knew he had a great voice, but his guitar playing on this album was very important.\" Kiwanuka ties it all together asserting that \"Inflo was the very important last piece that really kept it all going. We really did feel like we were making an important album.\"\n\nHonest, unabashed, and ambitious, this new record is Michael Kiwanuka emerging from the emotional cocoon of his first album, ready to secure his position as one of the most exciting and renowned talents or our time." ]

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[ null, "This wiki was written to help people with limited computer / microcontroller experience write graphic user interfaces. While I have not put a lot of effort into finding then, I have not seen many examples of open source GUI code out there. In the text below, we provide links to examples (and a few modules) that I hope will enable people to understand and modify GUIs that they find and to write their own when necessary.\n\nWhile it is definitely possible to run a microcontroller program from the serial port emulator in your Arduino development environment, a graphic user interface (GUI) will make your project a lot easier to use. There are a few programs that you can use to write a GUI. While there has been discussion of using python to write GUIs (notably something called Instrumentino has popped up recently), what I have seen online from the Arduino community suggests that Processing is the most commonly used program for the DIY community. At this time, this wiki only discusses Processing. Of course, if someone wishes to write content describing approaches to writing GUIs in python (or another program), this would be an appropriate place to describe them and to post links to other content.\n\nProcessing is a free visualization program written for the arts community. It is amenable to interactive stuff, which makes it good for your user interface. You can download the program from here. There are a number of tutorials, both video and written that can be accessed from here.\n\nControlP5 controllers: Download controlP5 libraries from here (http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/controlP5/) and install them in a folder called library in your Processing sketch folder. Once you do this, you should be able to open a bunch of example sketches that illustrate controllers in the controlP5 library. Clicking on File-> examples should open a window that allows you to chose from a large number of example sketches. ControlP5 examples are found under Library Examples > ControlP5>controllers. Example sketches are available for a number of controllers, including buttons, dropdown lists, knobs, properties, radioButtons, sliders, tabs, textareas, textfields, timer and toggle.\n\nConnect to the microcontroller:\n\nStart and stop a microcontroller program using a button on your GUI.\n\nThis stuff needs to be written up but, for now, you can get the code from here and look at it yourself.\n\nOnce you have collected data, you may want to display and compare different data sets. There is an older research note here that describes some of the stuff we have done on this account. There is also a you-tube video that shows this program, found here. The Processing code for this program is here.\n\nStuff we haven't written up yet, but intend to:\n\nEnter numbers into textfields and communicate those to your microcontroller Let you chose options from dropdown lists Handle events Draw graphs based on data from your microcontroller Save data to files Import strings from files on your computer and convert to data. *Monitor program status\n\n0 notes\ncreated by JSummers over 5 years ago\n\n2 notes\ncreated by JSummers over 5 years ago" ]

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[ "The Rise and Fall of Modernist Architecture", null, null, null, "Modernism first emerged in the early twentieth century, and by the 1920s, the prominent figures of the movement – Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – had established their reputations. However it was not until after the Second World War that it gained mass popularity, after modernist planning was implemented as a solution to the previous failure of architecture and design to meet basic social needs.\n\nDuring the 1930s as much as 15% of the urban populations were living in poverty, and slum clearance was one of the many social problems of this decade.[1] Modernist planning was a popular idea, and used as a solution to these problems. But the movement could not adequately comprehend and cater for the social dynamics of family and community, and a result, many modernist buildings were pulled down in the seventies. With reference to key architectural studies, this essay discusses the principles of modernism, how modernist architects initially worked to solve design problems through the creation of urban utopias, and why the ambitious modernist dream ultimately failed.\n\nStudents at the Bauhaus school of design were taught purity of form and to design for a better world by Walter Gropius. The phrase ‘form follows function’ is often used when discussing the principles of modernism. It asserts that forms should be simplified – architectural designs should bear no more ornament than is necessary to function. Modernists believe that ornament should follow the structure and purpose of the building.\n\nFoxtheme.portfolio\nNext Post\nConfusing The Wind: The Burj Khalifa, Mother Nature, and the Modern Skyscraper" ]

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[ null, "Scientists have uncovered the skulls of 38 babies hidden in the ancient fossilized remains of an extinct mammal precursor—the only such fossils ever discovered.\n\nThe team think their research, presented recently at the 78th annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, may help explain how mammals swapped hordes of offspring for bigger brains over the course of million years of evolution.\n\nThe research was also published earlier this year in the journal Nature. A member of the Kayentatherium wellesi species—dog-sized herbivores that lived 185 million years ago—have an awful lot in common with mammals. They may even have hair.\n\nBut they differ in some crucial ways. Most importantly, the fossilized family reveals the ancient animal bred more like a reptile. It produced large clutches of eggs with lots of babies, rather than birthing just a few.\n\nBoth brains and broods use oodles of energy. Kayentatherium’s little brain and massive clutch of children, the researchers wrote, suggest mammals tended toward larger brain size later in their evolutionary journey.", null, "Researchers spotted the baby skulls by accident, years after the remains were uncovered in Arizona. Then-graduate student Sebastian Egberts spied a glint of unexplained enamel about 9 years ago.\n\n“It didn’t look like a pointy fish tooth or a small tooth from a primitive reptile,” said Egberts, who teaches anatomy at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. “It looked more like a molariform tooth (molar-like tooth)—and that got me very excited.”\n\nAdvances in imaging technology finally revealed the babies, which are a “really important point in the evolutionary tree,” according to Eva Hoffman, who led the research while attending the University of Texas as a graduate student. The scientists expect advancing technology will continue to shed light on the intricacies of evolution.\n\nIn other fossil news, scientists recently discovered an ancient flesh-eating fish that lived about 150 million years ago. The piranha-like critter chomped down on other creatures with its razor-sharp teeth.\n\nResearchers have also found the smallest diplodocus skull ever discovered. The “exceedingly rare” find, they said, is a great window into the gentle giants’ youth.\n\nA dinosaur species—Ledumahadi mafube—was also recently named after many years of study. Known as Giant Thunder Clap at Dawn, this enormous sauropod cousin lived around 200 million years ago.\n\nPrehistory had no shortage of terrifying...\n\nThe Softer Side of Dinosaur Fossils\n\nUsually, when a plant or animal becomes a...\n\nSam Neill has taken to social media to...\n\nReproduction in the most common group of...\n\nThe location, called Sirius Passet in Peary Land in the...\n\nMaximo, The Largest Dinosaur Ever Uncovered, Moving Into Field Museum" ]

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[ null, "Ladies and gentleman, today I am proud to present the latest project hosted by the beloved Eric of The IPC and myself: Star Trek! The Chop and I are going to go through twelve films, reverting back to you with our reviews on the experience in a great double feature, and we truly hope that you guys have fun. Enjoy it! So far this has been a blast (for me, anyway), and we hope that this comes together, sharing the experience with you. Right, I think it is high time I stop waffling and move on for what you guys came here for: Star Trek: The Motion Picture!", null, "SYNOPSIS: An alien phenomenon of unprecedented size and power is approaching Earth, destroying everything in its path. The only starship in range is the USS Enterprise – still in drydock after a major overhaul. As Captain Willard Decker readies his ship and his crew to face this menace, Admiral James T. Kirk arrives with orders to take command of the Enterprise and intercept the intruder. But it has been three years since Kirk last commanded the Enterprise on its historic five year mission… is he up to the task of saving the Earth? – via IMDB", null, "Alrighty folks, so now you are hopefully clued up… I think. If not, that’s also okay. I will be the first to admit that I had never seen any of the Star Trek films until last year sometime, when I decided to try it. Still in the truth phase, I was one of those idiots that had never seen Star Trek and believed firmly it was either Star Wars or Star Trek, none of this middle ground stuff. Well, then I pulled my head up and decided I would like to look into them (mainly because I don’t like being uninformed, and mostly because the new ones looked really good and I prefer watching things when I am familiar with the history). I borrowed them from a colleague and got cracking.\n\nOne thing that this film probably could have seriously benefited from was those extremely long and dwindling shots being cut down a bit. I mean Kirk’s arrival at the Enterprise took a damn century… because they spent all that time panning around it. It takes so long you eventually forget what it is that you are looking out for, then it comes back. The same applies for when the Enterprise got to V’Ger. Dammit man, hurry it along! Aside from that heckle, the rest is minor. It starts like this:", null, "Then, just as you think it is over (you are lulled into this false sense of security because all sorts of other stuff happens in between, including a bald alien probe), you get more glory shots:\n\nMoving along from the eyeful of Enterprise that I was graced with, I enjoy the cast (bear in mind I have never watched the series, either – sorry my PSC), and the effects were not dreadful for their time. The story was also pretty decent. Decker was a pain in my toe, though I could understand why he did the things he did.\n\nI was so happy when Spock cut his damned hair after he left Vulcan and before he joined Kirk and Co on the Enterprise. He looked ludicrous before that. It also seems that the Klingons are forever destined to be ugly as hell. I was truly not a fan of the costumes in this show, they were just not cool. They were bland and boring – much prefer the outfits that come in from Wrath of Khan and onwards. What I did like about this movie was the score, it worked quite well.\n\nHmmmm, I don’t really know what else to say… if you have seen this movie, you will know that it was probably not the greatest entry of all time, but it was alright. It was overly long for what it was, and a lot could have been scaled back. I think this was a great way to bring Star Trek over to more people than just those who watched the show. For instance, the movies are just right for me, but I think that the series might just bring me to my knees. Who knows, maybe one day I will check it out? This is worth the watch, definitely. While this was certainly no Star Wars Original Trilogy or anything like that, I had a good time with it.", null, "I’m sure my Precious JB has given you the scoop on what this is about, so I probably don’t need to go into that. I mean – unless you’re one of those people who only saw Star Wars and go around pissing about how it’s better than Trek – well – you know who you are… but if you’re even remotely a fan, you’ve seen this one. As a LIFE LONG Trek fan, of course I went to see this in the theater when I was a kid and – yep – I thought it was a long and boring piece of crap. It was the only movie my Grandma Jackson ever took me too. Oh and yep – I was once named Chris Jackson until my dad adopted me and changed my name.\n\nAnyway, seeing as how The Wrath of Khan is one of my favorite movies ever, I had never revisited this until the other day and…………. I actually kind of liked it. I think people who rate this low (like I once would have) probably have bad memory of it from when they were kids (like me) but I was actually pretty entertained this time around. And, since I’m sure my Fondest JB has given you the skinny on the plot and such, let me address a couple of things I saw in here.\n\nAfter commandeering the Enterprise from the hands of Captain Decker (grooooooooooooooan), Kirk calls an assembly of the entire crew of the ship to explain what’s going on. So….. who the fuck is THIS GUY?????\n\nDid the writers write him in? Did the director (who also did The Sound of Music) decide during production “HMMMMM, let’s throw in a random Butt looking alien for fun.” HMMMM… Also to note that in the following picture from the assembly, Butt Alien does not appear to be in attendance but there is THIS guy:\n\nMore to come of Forehead Guy in a bit. As the meeting continues, we do have another potential Butt Alien sighting:", null, "but also a random… Andorian???", null, "Regardless, I do wonder what happened to the Federation Star Fleet colors? Red, Blue, Yellow? Where did they go?? That’s a real big deal to some people. And not to dog on my favorite franchise, but what’s up with these fucking uniforms??? Where they going for the Dagwood Bumstead look or something????", null, "Oh well, I guess. So Kirk and the crew head off to confront the Giant Space Cloud thing and shit starts to get real and the Enterprise is rocking to and fro and WHAT????\n\nForehead Guy is on the bridge???????? He’s THAT fucking important????? OHHHHHHH MYYYYYYYY GAAAAAAWWWDDDDDD" ]

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[ null, "Chanda Madan is one friend the Teen Titans probably wish they could forget. She first appeared in the 1998 Arsenal miniseries, when Black Canary hired her to babysit Lian Harper, Arsenal’s daughter. Canary doesn’t like her at first — she once got *gasp* a parking ticket! — but when Chanda points out that Arsenal isn’t exactly a model of stability and good choices, Canary relents.\n\nI feel like Chanda probably wasn’t meant to be a recurring character. She mainly exists so the readers don’t wonder who is watching the toddler while her dad and…grandmother? godmother? aunt? Arrow family dynamics are confusing…are off beating up Vandal Savage. But recur she did: when Arsenal needed someone to watch Lian after he rejoined the Titans, Chanda was there. She and Lian get along great, right up until this happens.\n\nOkay, backstory time: Lian’s mother is the villain Cheshire, who once nuked the Middle Eastern country of Qurac. Chanda’s family is from Qurac, and they all died in the attack. When Lian confesses Cheshire is her mother, Chanda takes it, uh, bad.\n\nWhile Chanda’s surprise and upset is understandable, she proceeds to yell about the murders in front of an already-distressed Lian and then leave Titans Tower with Lian to go back to her apartment. Even granting that she planned to call the Tower to explain things once she got to her apartment (she didn’t — they got sidetracked by Chanda’s roommate), this is not okay. I know Chanda is upset, and since she’s pretty young (she mentions being in school), I’m sure that’s affecting her judgment. But still, Chanda is quite lucky that Arsenal decides to be lenient with her.\n\nI also think it’s hilarious how Black Canary and Arsenal did all this minute, invasive research into Chanda’s background, yet they somehow didn’t think that her family history was relevant. And yes, in Titans #9, Arsenal admits he just didn’t look into that. Nice job, buddy.\n\nIn that same issue, Chanda confesses to Arsenal that she knows about Cheshire and that she isn’t sure she can go on babysitting Lian — again, understandable, especially since Arsenal is about to run off on a mission to both stop Cheshire’s latest crime and try to shield her from the full consequences of said crime. During the fight, he very nearly abandons his own teammates to save a mortally wounded Cheshire, so Chanda’s reticence to continue any sort of relationship with him is perfectly reasonable.\n\nAnyway, Chanda does agree to continue watching Lian, who still likes her very much, but her relationship with Arsenal is permanently strained. It all comes to a head in the “Trial of Cheshire” storyline, when Chanda agrees to team up with some Quraci nationals. They want her to use her connection with the Titans to help them enact their grand plan to hire an assassin to murder Cheshire before her trial.\n\nThis leads to some drama where Deathstroke the Terminator, having somehow mysteriously found the safehouse where the authorities have stowed Cheshire, tries to kill her. Nightwing, leader of the Titans, takes about two seconds to realize Chanda might be the leaker, but she denies it: when the Quracis’ plan put Lian at risk, Chanda backed out and refused to help them anymore. Still, they know about her and her connection to Lian, so Chanda decides to quit as Lian’s babysitter rather than endanger her any longer. Arsenal then settles on a safer option for Lian’s new nanny: Rose Wilson, Deathstroke’s daughter.\n\nI do genuinely like the relationship between Arsenal and Chanda. Each recognizes that they themselves are flawed, which makes it easier for them to forgive each other when they make mistakes. It’s a shame they didn’t get the chance to develop their relationship further — I would have liked to see Arsenal become more of a mentor to Chanda, maybe teach her healthier means of coping with loss and anger.\n\nThen again, “my boss is irrevocably in love with the mass murderer who nuked my grandparents” is one heck of a dealbreaker. This is probably the only logical way for their story to end." ]

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[ "The Key To Computer Software Power", null, "Phishing scams usually find their way to your Inbox in the type of e-mails (or as an prompt message) from auction sites or social networking websites, and so on. The e-mails hyperlink to websites that look almost an identical to the professional website. The first large-scale utility has been cell units corresponding to cell telephones and MP3 gamers. OLED screens are used because normal LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY shows require a backlight, as the LCD does not produce any light itself, however with OLED, the display screen itself lights up, so it doesn’t require a battery-consuming backlight\n\nIn accordance with this idea there are solely few thoughts which might be initially created by human beings. Most a part of the data that’s generated relies on earlier experiences and perception. When a user is researching about some object or thought, they need more than simply data. Their research requires the past information as a way to understand what has been carried out about it previously so as higher it sooner or later. This makes it important to ship contextual intelligence to the users in order that they will have a better insight of what you are promoting. This may be achieved by combining structured and unstructured info with perceptive navigational tools.\n\n– ” gives experienced a problem and wants to close up”.\n\nStarting in late 2007, Trek initially targeted four suppliers to start working with eSPC–two in Taiwan, two in Mainland China. The corporate chose to start with suppliers of higher-finish product and focused initially on only one parameter, weight, which is essential in its top-finish bicycles. “We bought it to them from the angle that they have been key vendors and that weight is crucial, so they could get onboard with us and begin collecting the burden data to stay on the high end of our business,” Wilhelm explains.\n\nTechnology is supposed to help us save time.\n\nMost people only have an aversion to giving their fingerprint info if the fingerprint is getting used to track them This is normally the case within firms for entry management or time and attendance. If the fingerprint was for use to say operate a free vending machine they’d jump at the likelihood to offer there fingerprint, if alternatively fingerprint info is put into place to assist monitor and confirm individuals there may be always going to be some outcry of invading civil liberties but what these people don’t understand is that the programs are there for their benefit, if it was entry management it could be for hearth evacuation purposes therefore for people safety. Time and attendance making sure the individual will get paid the proper amount of money which in fact can profit the worker and the employer. The technology is here to stay now and we have to understand that it’s here to assist us to struggle fraud to not simply monitor or watch are each transfer.\n\n7. With the disk still in the drive, enter your account password within the text box and click Next. “Want To Build Your Personal Gaming Computer For Under $1000? The native technologies are certain to fail some part of the longer term since they don’t grab the whole market which cross platform applied sciences can. 1 Look at the battery fastidiously to see the way it’s attached to the motherboard." ]

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[ null, "This is the epistle from Canadian Yearly Meeting 2018, which was held August 3-11, summarizing many of the most important happenings and decisions.\n\nThe Quaker understanding of Truth is a complex one… Friends have not traditionally believed that truth is relative, or that it changes over time or from one person to another: Rather, we have believed in continuing revelation: that God continues to reveal Truth (with a capital T) to each person individually, without intermediary. This leads to many different interpretations of Truth or different personal truths, if you will. However, although Friends believe that no one person can know the entire Truth, that does not mean that we don’t believe absolute Truth exists. The Truth we are all seeking, though it may be expressed and lived in many ways, is universal Truth.\n\nLoving greetings from Canadian Yearly Meeting (CYM). More than one hundred and fifty Quakers gathered over eight days, from August 4-11, 2018, in Barrie, Ontario. This was the 184th annual gathering of Quakers in Canada, our 62nd as a united Yearly Meeting, and our first after a fallow year in 2017. We acknowledge with gratitude that our Yearly Meeting took place on the traditional territory of the Anishnaabek, Haudenosaunee, and Wyandot.\n\nWe were welcomed to this territory by Anishnaabe elder Jeff Monague, and our Quaker Study, led by Canadian Friends Service Committee’s Jennifer Preston, was on the theme of “Faith, Reconciliation, and Relationships with Indigenous Peoples.” Jennifer invited several Friends to share their experiences with reconciliation. She also brought to bear her considerable experience working on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on an international level, and for reconciliation nationally.\n\nPrior to the official start of Canadian Yearly Meeting, a number of Friends enjoyed a pre-Gathering retreat on “Sharing our Spiritual Journey” led by Ellen Helmuth of New Brunswick Monthly Meeting. Friends were invited to reflect on the mentors and testimonies that had formed them, and to share and write stories of their spiritual journeys.\n\nYoung Friends and Young Adult Friends (YFs and YAFs) continued their discernment process during CYM. They decided to revive Canadian Young Friends Yearly Meeting and provisionally to replace the previous clerk structure with a team of Youth Representatives and a separate organizing committee for the next Youth Gathering. This, we hope, will provide a more sustainable leadership structure.\n\nAfter this revival was reported to CYM Thursday morning, there was an extended period of worship during our Meeting for Business. Young Friends and Young Adult Friends were held in the Light while they used a worship-sharing format to respond to the following query: “How can and do Quakers across Canada welcome and nourish Young Friends and Young Adult Friends, recognizing them as valued community members?” It was a powerful opportunity to hold and listen to YFs/YAFs as they shared joys and challenges about being integrated into the broader Quaker community. Older Friends were encouraged to keep listening to YFs/YAFs in support of their growth and blossoming.\n\nA highlight of this year’s programming was Arthur Larrabee’s Sunderland P. Gardner lecture on “Making Room for Spirit.” Arthur, a visitor from Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, drew on spiritual insights from various religious traditions, as well as personal (often humorous) anecdotes, to explain how we might remove barriers to Spirit in our lives by dissolving attachment, practicing patience, ‘dying’ into fear, and embracing paradox.\n\nWith two years having elapsed since we last gathered, the list of Friends who have died since our last Yearly Meeting was very long. The Memorial Meeting was beautiful and moving, and we are truly grateful for the grace of God evident in the lives of these Friends.\n\nDuring our business sessions, we celebrated the formation of Atlantic Half Yearly Meeting, moved forward in defining a process for creating Advices and Queries specific to the Canadian context, and asked the Clerk of CYM to write a letter to the Pope commending him for adding his support to the many voices demanding abolition of the death penalty.\n\nWe learned that Canadian Yearly Meeting shares in the honours conveyed by the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, having become a partner organization of the recipient, the International Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, in 2012. The name “Religious Society of Friends, Canada” is recorded with others on the commemorative stone marker in Oslo, Norway.\n\nA report by Nominating Committee of the challenges in filling CYM positions led to a discussion of Friends’ individual strengths and weaknesses, and Friends were encouraged to engage in discernment rooted in getting to know each other better and being willing to try new and unfamiliar things. One position which was not filled was that of “Carbon Coordinator;” later we were delighted to learn that a small group of Friends has agreed to have their names put forward together as a team for this position to help us understand how to reduce our environmental footprint.\n\nA wide and varied bouquet of Special Interest Groups was offered throughout the week on topics such as restorative justice, Friendly outreach, couples’ enrichment, experiences with cancer, tools for spiritual discernment, electronic surveillance, death and dying, environmental concerns, principles of Quaker Faith, the “No Way to Treat a Child” campaign to end Israeli military detention of Palestinian children, lessons from Britain Yearly Meeting, the erosion of democracy in the US, and more.\n\nWe enjoyed the contributions of several visitors: Gloria Thompson from Friends World Committee for Consultation (and Manhattan Monthly Meeting), Anne Pomeroy from Friends General Conference (and New York Yearly Meeting), Hugh O’Farrell Walsh from Ireland Yearly Meeting (who was a particular joy to YFs/YAFs), and the family of Binwa and Etienne Paul Mungombe, from the evangelical United Friends Churches in Canada (UFC). UFC invited Friends in Canadian Yearly Meeting to its general conference August 25-26.\n\nA thread ran through the way we welcomed Evangelical Francophone Friends, engaged in a week-long reflection on right relations with Indigenous peoples, and really listened to Young Friends and Young Adult Friends. We realize that God is calling us to widen our circle and to challenge the barriers we unconsciously have placed on our welcome.\n\nGreat joy and fellowship was shared during CYM’s visit to Camp NeeKauNis, Family Night, and in all the nooks and crannies that Friends creatively found in our very full schedule. Though we may have come to CYM as individuals, we left as family." ]

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[ "Monkeypox vax eligibility expands to those under 18; new site open in El Monte\nThe Votes Are In!\n2021 Readers' Choice is back, bigger and better than ever!\n\nMonkeypox vax eligibility expands to those under 18; new site open in El Monte", null, "Los Angeles County opened an additional monkeypox vaccination site Thursday — one day after officials announced the county this week had received less than half the number of new doses it originally anticipated.\n\nDespite the unexpected shortfall, however, health officials said the county will still begin offering second doses of the two-shot regimen to those eligible for it. The county also announced Thursday an expansion of vaccine eligibility to include those under age 18 who are considered at high risk of infection.\n\nCounty Health Officer, Dr. Muntu Davis also said Thursday the county had confirmed its first known monkeypox case at a jail, and the first at a homeless shelter. Details of those patients were not released, but Davis said the county is performing contact tracing and vaccinating people who were exposed.\n\nDepending on the availability of limited vaccine supply, some 100 residents can be vaccinated on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the new site, Solis’ office said.\n\nResidents must be pre-registered and have received a verification text to be vaccinated.\n\nSolis also cautioned that, as with all monkeypox vaccination sites, operations may be paused depending on the availability of vaccines.\n\n“While we work with the federal government to increase the supply of the monkeypox vaccine for Los Angeles County residents, setting up pop-up vaccination clinics in communities such as El Monte is critical to ensuring our available vaccines are distributed equitably,” Solis said.\n\n“With the launch of the monkeypox vaccination site at Jack Crippen Senior Center, the county is building a vaccination network that will be accessible to residents of color to provide as many doses as possible.”\n\n“Public Health has received assurances from the federal leadership that additional doses will be available in the coming weeks,” according to a statement from the agency.\n\nRep. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, announced Wednesday that he and 10 other members of the Southern California Congressional delegation have sent a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stressing the “urgent” need to address the area’s shortfall.\n\n“We are encouraged by the Biden administration’s recent actions declaring monkeypox a public health emergency and issuing an emergency use authorization to help expand JYNNEOS vaccine supply,” the legislators wrote.\n\n“While these are critical steps in the public health response to MPV, we strongly urge the Department of Health and Human Services, in coordination with the White House, to take further steps to procure and distribute additional JYNNEOS vaccine doses to ensure areas that have been hardest hit, including Los Angeles, have adequate vaccine supply.”\n\nDespite the smaller-than-anticipated allocation, the county will still begin offering second doses of the vaccine to roughly 8,000 people eligible to receive them. The second doses will be available to people who received their first dose at least 28 days ago, with the shots available either through a personal health care provider or through the county’s registration system, if they received the initial dose from the county.\n\nAnother 19,000 doses from the weekly allocation will be distributed to community providers and public vaccination sites to be used as first doses. In addition, 1,000 doses will be reserved for those who report close contact of existing patients, for outbreak control and for special populations at high risk of infection.\n\nThe county this week transitioned to a newly approved method of administering smaller doses of the monkeypox vaccine, a move that led to a five-fold increase in the availability of shots locally.\n\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week allowed the JYNNEOS vaccine to be administered between layers of skin, in what’s called an intradermal injection. Previously, the vaccine was administered beneath the skin, in a subcutaneous injection. The intradermal method requires only roughly one-fifth the amount of vaccine required by the subcutaneous injection, authorities said.\n\nMaking the change is designed to stretch the limited of supply of the vaccine nationally, allowing smaller doses to be administered to more people.\n\nThe county has simplified its previously complex system for determining who is eligible to receive a monkeypox vaccine. The shots are now available to any gay or bisexual man or transgender person age 18 and older who has had multiple or anonymous sex partners in the previous 14 days.\n\nDavis said Thursday the county was also expanding eligibility to those under age 18 “who are determined to be a high risk of monkeypox infection.”\n\nMinors under the age of 18 are not eligible for the intradermal injection, so they must receive the full subcutaneous dosage, under the terms of the emergency use authorization for the shots approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.\n\nPeople who were eligible under the county’s previous guidelines will remain eligible for the shots.\n\nThe previous guidelines made shots available to people confirmed by the Department of Public Health to have had high- or immediate-risk contact with a known monkeypox patient, and to people who attended an event or visited a venue where there was a high risk of exposure to a confirmed case.\n\nShots were also available for gay and bisexual men and transgender people with a diagnosis of rectal gonorrhea or early syphilis within the past year. Also eligible for the shots are gay or bisexual men or transgender people who are on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxix, or PrEP, or who attended or worked at a commercial sex venue or other venue where they had anonymous sex or sex with multiple partners — such as at a sauna, bathhouse or sex club — in the past 21 days.\n\nResidents who fall into the eligibility criteria can register online at ph.lacounty.gov/monkeypoxsignup to be alerted when a vaccine dose is available.\n\nAs of Thursday, the county has identified 1,036 confirmed or probable cases of monkeypox — including those in Long Beach and Pasadena, which both have their own health departments — up from 738 last Thursday. Almost all of the cases are in men, the majority of them gay or bisexual.\n\nMonkeypox is generally spread through intimate skin-to-skin contact, resulting from infectious rashes and scabs, though respiratory secretions and bodily fluids exchanged during extended physical episodes, such as sexual intercourse, can also lead to transmission, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It can also be transmitted through the sharing of items such as bedding and towels." ]

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[ "Posted on August 5, 2014 by thebloggergirls", null, "Blurb: Gun runner Pablo Castillo has cemented his reputation in the gun trade as callous and cold-hearted. Personal feelings no longer matter, not with everyone out to make him a sacrifice on their way to the top. He remains untouchable, until a meeting with a rival gang leader and a new deal brings him face-to-face with temptation.\n\nDev is the right hand to a sadistic bastard out for blood and glory. He hides his true feelings of distaste for his boss, not the least of his many secrets. He could’ve sworn those secrets were safe, but after meeting Pablo he’s not so sure. The two men come together in a heated affair neither can deny, battling themselves, each other and a deadly enemy bent on spilling blood. Pablo and Dev will have to stick together or walk away from a love neither man expected to find. The choice should be simple. It never is." ]

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[ "Geoffrey Dearmer in the Great War", null, "Geoffrey Dearmer, who had left Oxford earlier in the year, enlisted in August 1914, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 2nd battalion (Royal Fusiliers) of the London regiment on 25 September 1914.\n\nIn July 1915 he learned that his mother had died of enteric fever at Kragujevac in Serbia while serving as an orderly with an ambulance unit. In October 1915, just days before he himself landed in the Dardanelles, his younger brother was killed at Suvla Bay in the Dardanelles by a shell that landed right on his tent.\n\nDearmer himself survived that campaign, and then served on the western front. In August 1916 he was transferred to the Army Service Corps, responsible for organising supplies to the front.\n\nDearmer did not write any war memoirs; he left two volume of of poetry instead: Poems (1918) and The Day’s Delight (1923). The first volume was dedicated to his brother Christopher, “killed, Suvla Bay, October 6th, 1915”; the dedicatory poem begins:\n\nAt Suvla when a sickening curse of sound\nCame hurtling from the shrapnel-shaken skies,\nWithout a word you shuddered to the ground\nAnd with a gesture hid your darkening eyes.\n\nLater in the volume, the poem “The Fallen” recalls his brother again, and imagines him living again, Christ-like:\n\nI turned ; and saw my Brother standing there.\nHis face was like a dawning happiness —\nI saw wounds in his hands, his feet, his side.\n\nHis best-known poem is probably “The Turkish Trench Dog”, but his poem “Mudros after the Evacuation” is often quoted too, for the last lines:\n\nHere children in strange peace,\nSeek solitude to dull the tragedy,\nAnd needless horror of the Dardanelles.\n\nbut actually the poem is remarkable too for its joy in nature, which seems to have sustained Dearmer through the war, together with his strong religious beliefs, and make his poems rather more optimistic than those of Owen or Sassoon. It starts:\n\nI laughed to see the gulls that dipped to cling\nTo the torn edge of surf and blowing spray,\nWhere some gaunt battleship, a rolling king,\nStill dreams of phantom battles in the bay.\nI saw a cloud, a full-blown cotton flower\nDrift vaguely like a wandering butterfly,\nI laughed to think it bore no pregnant shower\nOf blinding shrapnel scattered from the sky.\n\nMy information comes from Mark Bostridge’s entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; the volume of poetry can be found online." ]

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[ null, "TAIPEI, May 26 ― Taiwan directly accused China for the first time today of blocking a deal with Germany's BioNTech SE for Covid-19 vaccines, in an escalating war of words after Beijing offered the shots to the island via a Chinese company.\n\nTaiwan has millions of vaccine doses on order, from AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc, but has received only slightly more than 700,000 to date, and has only been able to vaccinate about 1 per cent of its population as cases surge.\n\nWhile Taiwan has previously said it had been unable to sign a final contract with BioNTech, it had only implied that Chinese pressure was to blame.\n\nChina claims Taiwan as its own territory and tries to curtail its international relations.\n\nIn comments at a meeting of Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party, President Tsai Ing-wen said they had “smoothly” booked orders for the AstraZeneca and Moderna shots.\n\n“As for Germany's BioNTech, we were close to completing the contract with the original German plant, but because of China's intervention, up to now there's been no way to complete it,” she said.\n\nIn comments sent to Reuters shortly before Tsai's remarks were released, BioNTech said it could not comment on potential or ongoing discussions on providing vaccines.\n\n“It goes without saying that it is BioNTech's goal to provide access to our vaccine to as many people worldwide as possible,” the company said.\n\nChina has repeatedly denied trying to block vaccines for Taiwan and has offered to provide them itself to the island as a gesture of goodwill.\n\nChina has accused Taiwan of putting up political obstacles over the vaccine offer. ― Reuters\n\nThese were the details of the news Taiwan says China blocked deal with BioNTech for Covid-19 shots for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new." ]

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[ null, "Twenty years ago, in May of 1996, Orbital released their fourth full-length album, In Sides. I remember the day when the disk finally arrived, and I carefully put it into the CD tray while leafing through the booklet. I remember when The Box finally came on. The entire ritual of absorbing the music for the first time will forever be embedded in my mind. And how many times have I heard this album since then? The count is immeasurable. In the car, on the train and on the plane – it has always mesmerized me with its familiar path, unexplored depth, and hidden turns. This was the sound of electronica that kept my neurons alive. And it excites till this day. A true classic.\n\nBrothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll came on the scene with their self titled album (aka the Green Album), Orbital in 1991. By the time the follow up hit the streets, Orbital 2 (aka the Brown Album), every aspiring DJ and closeted ‘raver’ knew of the group’s name. Tracks like “Chime”, “Omen” and “Satan” all reached the UK Singles Charts. And who could forget the beautiful Halcyon? Orbital’s third album Snivilisation, released lon ffrr in 1994, reached #4 on the UK Albums charts. The track and single, “Are We Here?” featured vocals by Alison Goldfrapp, and once again topped the charts.\n\nRising from the rave, into the bedrooms and headphones of discriminating listeners, the British electronic duo has become one of my personal favorites. Repetitive phrases that hypnotize and lift above the conscious plane of existence, loop and layer sound with endless instruments and melodies. Introducing one theme after another, these slowly build up, drop out, and then explode in one final array of sound. The building blocks of each track peel off and reveal the layers of individual elements that together comprise an elegant instrumental piece, folding and shifting, in the never ending configurations of the Rubik’s Cube of music. And my brain is happy.\n\nIn Sides became Orbital’s second Top Five album, and revolved around a theme of “ecological disaster and dissatisfaction with society“. The name of the album referenced the fact that it originally came out as a 3×12” 6-track LP box set, with only one track etched per side. The track “The Girl with the Sun in Her Head” was dedicated to Sally Harding, a photographer for the Volume magazine, who died in 1995. This track incorporates electricity from a Greenpeace solar power generator and opens up with a heartbeat that continues throughout the development of the track. A true marvel in itself.\n\nThe track “P.E.T.R.O.L.” was selected by Clint Mansell to appear in Darren Aronofsky’s film π. While “Adnan’s” was written for The Help Album for the benefit of War Child charity. Alison Goldfrapp appears on the album once again, singing on “Dŵr Budr“, which is Welsh for “dirty water”, written after the MV Sea Empress oil tanker ran aground near the southwest coast of Wales in 1996. Hmm…\n\nThe US version of the album included a bonus CD with additional tracks, which were also released as two separate singles: Times Fly EP and The Box. The latter included a 28+ minute extended version of the track, The Box, with lyrics and vocals by Grant Fulton, who previously contributed to Orbital’s single, Belfast/Wasted. In 2007, Paul Hartnoll confirmed a list of gear used on the album to include the Oberheim Xpander, ARP 2600, Korg Wavestation and a collection of Roland synths like Jupter 6, SH-09, SH-101 and of course, TB-303. And yes, the drum machines TR-808 and TR-909 are always present. This should keep the geeks happy.\n\nBack when Orbital’s sound was still classified as ‘rave’, ‘breakbeat’ and [god forbid] the early taste of ‘techno’, In Sides took a giant leap to represent the act as a contemporary piece of electronica worthy of professional studio and even radio play. Selected as one of the best albums of the 1990’s by independent and mainstream critics, In Sides, continues to satisfy and fascinate. If this flashback got your taste buds wet, pick up Orbital’s 20 year celebratory release, simply titled, Orbital 20 (Rhino, 2009)." ]

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[ "Revolt of the Green World\n\nPosted on November 6, 2012 by Mary Strong-Spaid", null, "It was one of the most beautiful Texas days that he had ever seen, so the young king of trees and bushes decided to wander outside to enjoy his green world. However, as he was soaking in the sunshine and breathing in the warm afternoon air, he began to hear a dark sort of whispering going on around him.\n\nA cold chill ran across his shoulders. At first, he couldn’t believe what he was hearing, because he didn’t think anyone or anything in his kingdom had reason to be unhappy. He hoped that the angry voices were nothing more than sounds created by a breeze moving through the leaves.\n\nUnfortunately for the king, the horrible things that he was hearing were true. Because he had ignored his green world for so long, many of his plants had become ugly and unruly. At first, all they wanted was to be trimmed and pruned, but eventually they grew thick and totally out-of-control. Soon a large group of untrimmed, unpruned bushes were talking about overgrowing the king and covering his entire castle with dead leaves and thorny vines. They wanted revenge and thought the time for change had come. “Revolt,” the leaves murmured as the bushes swayed back and forth in a dance of angry anticipation—“Revolt!”", null, "Suddenly, without warning, a long branch reached out and slapped the king right across the middle of his face. “Hey! What do you think you are doing?” The king shouted and sneezed as he pulled several annoying green leaves out of his nose. “How could you treat your king like this? How dare you!”\n\n“What? We think that it is you who have mistreated us,” hissed one of the long, thin branches. “We were so beautiful when we were planted in the castle garden several years ago. We thought we were lucky. But now we are unhappy, because you didn’t pay enough attention to us. In fact, you stayed inside your castle day after day and forgot all about us. We needed to be cut, trimmed, and pruned. Now, because no one ever bothered to cut us back, we have grown up to be an extremely unpleasant, irritable group of bushes. There are so many annoying bugs crawling around in the darkness beneath us, we are miserable. This is why we have decided that you must now pay the price! You shall soon experience annihilation by our green overgrowth.”\n\n“But, it’s not my fault,” the king argued. “I did hire a landscaping company to come out and take care of you.”\n\n“Well…no one ever came here, as you can easily see by looking at our overgrown, twisted, tangled condition,” the bushes snarled. “So, we blame you!”", null, "It was then that the king realized he was in great danger. He looked around hoping he could call someone over to help him, but there was no one in sight. “Uh-Oh,” the king nervously said to himself. “This is serious. It looks like the end of my kingdom is near!”\n\nIn the past, all of the dangerous situations that the king had encountered were just simulations on his computer games. But this was actually happening! There are no instructions for handling plant attacks, so what is someone supposed to do in a situation like this? He felt lost and confused.\n\nTo make matters worse, the king had left his silver sword underneath his bed where it was of absolutely no use to anyone. As the bushes began to slowly drag him forward into their inner darkness, he knew that he had to come up with a workable plan, and fast!", null, "“No, No, No! There is no way that I can let this happen to me! I will not stand for this!” he shouted out in a loud voice, momentarily startling the bushes.\n\nHe used this opportunity to quickly pull the branches from his arms, but his plan for a quick escape did not work. Because the ground was uneven and wet, he lost his footing, slipped, and fell over backwards. He wasn’t standing for it anymore; he was about to lose the battle lying down. A thorny branch quickly jumped out and wrapped itself around the king’s right ankle, once again dragging him closer to his leafy doom. The bushes had no intention of letting the king get away.\n\nLuckily, the king’s mother had always told him that he should never give up and never give in, so he struggled back up onto his feet once more. Unfortunately, as soon as the bushes saw that he was about to free himself and run away, they sent out even more branches to wrap themselves around him.", null, "Even though the king was starting to get extremely tired by this point, and the branches were poking and pinching him without mercy, he was not about to lose this battle. He continued to twist and bend the stubborn branches until they started to break under pressure. Then the king softly said, “Please stop attacking me, so that we can talk calmly about your problems. I know that we can solve anything, if we just work together.”\n\n“No!” shouted the bushes loudly. “We don’t believe a word you say. We want to fight! We want revenge!”\n\nUsing his most powerful voice, the king sternly replied, “Beware! If you do not retreat, I am going to pull off your leaves one by one. Don’t make me do this! Also, I know how to use this stick as a deadly sword, so I am warning you one last time—behave!”", null, "His brave words caused the wicked, killer bushes to get even more angry. So, the young king drew his stick sword and pointed it at them. “On guard! I’m not afraid to use this. Don’t push, pull, or fight with me anymore. I will cut you limb from limb. You’ll be sorry.”", null, "He raised both of his arms and was about to swing his sword stick forward, when the bushes cried out—“O.K. Wait a minute. Stop! Please stop! Maybe we have had enough. This doesn’t make sense. We don’t want to be all chopped up. What good would that do? That is not what we want. If you agree to trim us and give us all a nice shape, we promise that we will be forever grateful and never attack you again. ”\n\n“Agreed!” The young king sighed as he put his stick down. He was relieved because he did not want to fight. He wanted his plant kingdom to be peaceful and serene, and he certainly didn’t want to suffer through any more surprise plant attacks.\n\nBefore he left his garden that day, he assured the bushes that he would fire the old landscaping company (that never showed up), and personally do all of the castle garden trimming and pruning by himself from now on. The bushes swayed and shook their long, leafy branches to show their approval.", null, null, "Never lick a stick!\nIt won’t do the trick\nand it might make you sick.\nYou might even get a tick.\nSo—don’t be like Nick\nand lick a stick.\nAnd don’t listen to Rick,\nsticks won’t give you healthcare. ~~ by Josh\n\nYou can find me any time wandering around in my own mind gathering thoughts.\nView all posts by Mary Strong-Spaid →\nThis entry was posted in Imagination, Nature, Photo Essay, photography, Writing and tagged Children's Books, creative writing. Bookmark the permalink.\n\n27 Responses to Revolt of the Green World" ]

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[ null, "The first day of school is a momentous occasion for many children. These picture books capture the experience with sparkle and style.\nSTARRED REVIEW\n\nAugust 2022\nThe first day of school is a momentous occasion for many children. These picture books capture the experience with sparkle and style.\nSTARRED REVIEW\nAugust 2022\n\nAugust 2022\nThe first day of school is a momentous occasion for many children. These picture books capture the experience with sparkle and style.\nSTARRED REVIEW\nAugust 2022\n\nThe first day of school is a momentous occasion for many children. These picture books capture the experience with sparkle and style.", null, "The first day of school is a momentous occasion for many children. These picture books capture the experience with sparkle and style.\n\nThe first day of school is a momentous occasion for many children. These picture books capture the experience with sparkle and style.\nShare this Article:\n\nLupe Lopez is ready to rock and roll her way into kindergarten. Fresh from a summer of drumming and perfecting her hip new look, she knows all rock stars make their own rules. Lupe is committed to never letting anyone tell her what to do, being as loud as possible and making “fans, not friends.” Unsurprisingly, this works great for Lupe—but not so well for Ms. Quintanilla, Lupe’s new teacher.\n\nLittle by little, Lupe learns that even rock stars have to adhere to the rules (sometimes). Drumming belongs more on a stage than in the classroom, and friends are much better than fans—especially when they start a band together! Best of all, Lupe finds a way to remain the one-of-a-kind, “Texas-size” kindergarten rock star she is.\n\nLupe Lopez: Rock Star Rules is a fun, fresh addition to the back-to-school picture book canon. It’s perfect for young readers who march to the beat of their own drums but may benefit from a gentle reminder to respect the needs of others around them.\n\nLupe is the brainchild of a picture book dream team: co-writers e.E Charlton-Trujillo and Pat Zietlow Miller (Be Kind), and illustrator Joe Cepeda. Stonewall Award-winning Charlton-Trujillo’s influence as a South Texas native is clear in the familiar and joyful portrait of Lupe’s predominantly Latinx Hector P. Garcia Elementary school, complete with the requisite map of Texas on the classroom wall and bilingual labeling of classroom objects. (Don’t miss the nod to legendary Tejano musician Selena in Ms. Quintanilla’s name.)\n\nPura Belpré Honor recipient Cepeda’s crisp, classical illustration style is perfect for a story with this much heart. He spares no detail in bringing Lupe to life on the page, right down to the pigtails in her hair and the pencils she uses for her drumsticks.\n\nTogether, Charlton-Trujillo, Zietlow Miller and Cepeda have created an unforgettable heroine who will leap off the page and right onto your bookshelf. Fans of feisty heroines such as Russell and Lillian Hoban’s Frances, Ian Falconer’s Olivia and Monica Brown and Sara Palacios’ Marisol McDonald will be clamoring to join Lupe’s band.\n\nAs many children in rural areas know, living in the country often means being the first to board the school bus in the morning and the last to get dropped off at the end of the day. It means mornings of quiet reflection as the world wakes up and evenings spent on winding gravel roads toward home.\n\nOne Boy Watching is a nearly wordless picture book that opens as the sun is just barely beginning to rise, when a school bus arrives at a boy’s rural home. Some introductory descriptions follow the unnamed protagonist as he steps onto the bus (“Twenty-eight empty seats. . . . One bus at sunrise under an infinite sky.”), but the scene’s beauty can be found in the serene spaces between those phrases. The reader is invited to sit peacefully, to breathe deeply, to soak in the prismatic watercolor and colored pencil sunrise skies.\n\nAuthor-illustrator Grant Snider, the creator of the popular webcomic “Incidental Comics,” reprises the same hushed feeling found in his earlier picture books, including What Color Is Night and What Sound Is Morning. His artistry seems simple: It’s light on distinct detail and heavy on bold lines, capturing the shapes of objects just barely visible in the early dawn, such as bulbous trees or the peak of a roof. Later spreads contain sights that will be familiar to rural school bus riders: pastures of hay bales, the glow of headlights in the early dawn, fields of rusted cars, water towers, the silhouettes of distant barns and feed silos.\n\nThe real wow factor, however, is in the quietly powerful way that Snider uses color. By blending colors, lines and shapes into one another, Snider mimics the blur of what children see from a bus window on the way to school. As the journey continues and more children board the bus, the reader can almost hear the sound of their laughter, the rumble of the bus’s engine and the wail of a train horn at the railroad crossing—all with hardly any words on the page.\n\nReserved, thoughtful readers who prefer to spend time lingering over illustrations or making up their own stories about the stories they read will especially appreciate One Boy Watching. It vividly conveys the experiences of those first-to-get-on, last-to-get-off students who witness a sunrise every morning and a sunset every evening as they mark the beginning and end of each school day." ]

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[ null, "Store closures and drops in sales have seen the fall of a number of well-known labels already — Debenhams, Oasis, and Warehouse, to name just a few that have taken a hit.\n\nNow, the crisis takes its latest victim, J.Crew has become the first American US retailer to file for bankruptcy during the lockdown. It was reported last week, that the company had been facing financial struggle for several years, and that it was preparing to file as early as last weekend.\n\nThe companies creditors are to take over the group, which includes the US label Madewell, in exchange for cancelling debts that are said to be in excess of €1.5 billion.", null, "Two names we know will be sad if the brand is to go are Meghan Markle and Michelle Obama.\n\nThe two have been spotted wearing J.Crew on a number of occasions over the years. Both women's wardrobes feature classic yet stylish pieces from the US brand.\n\nMeghan wore a monochrome skirt from J.Crew on her and Prince Harry's trip to South Africa last year. The gorgeous midi-length skirt features alternating stripes of white and black to give the illusion of pleats. A fabulous daytime look!", null, "Last year Meghan stepped out in another J.Crew number which almost immediately sold out.\n\nMeghan's denim midi dress, which was retailing for €150 sold out within hours of the Duchess being papped wearing it at the US Open.", null, "This was by no means the first time that Meghan caused a J.Crew item to sell out.\n\nHer navy and white piped belted coat from March 2018 also quickly flew off the shelves once people learned that it was a staple of Meghan's wardrobe.", null, "It's not just clothing that Meghan and Michelle have been loving from J.Crew.\n\nBoth have been spotted wearing accessories from the brand on a number of outings too.\n\nFamously, Michelle Obama's lime green gloves from J.Crew were the talk of the town when she wore them for President Obama's Inauguration in 2009, funnily enough, she also sported a pair of beautiful pastel J.Crew pumps for Inauguration day in 2013 too.", null, "Meghan was pictured with a beautifully simple rattan J.Crew clutch while out and about with Prince Harry at the Sentebale Polo Cup in August 2019.\n\nWe wonder what new brands will appear in these two famous faces wardrobe now that J.Crew is set to close.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The excavation site at Manot Cave in western Galilee. (Credit: Israel Hershkovitz, Ofer Marder & Omry Barzilai) A 55,000-year-old human skull found within a cave in Israel could be evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals were close to each other. Very close. Scientists believe anatomical features of the partial skull, found in Manot Cave in western Galilee, indicate modern humans and Neanderthals may have interbred 50,000 to 60,000 years ago in the Middle East. Scientists believe this skull could be one of the missing links between African modern humans and European hominids. \"Manot clearly shows that Neanderthals and modern humans lived side by side in Israel for a long period of time,\" co-author Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University told\n\nThe skull, named “Manot 1” after the cave, is thought to be a female’s and was discovered back in 2008. Since then, scientists have rigorously analyzed Manot 1 and published the results of their investigation Wednesday in the journal Nature. Scientists believe the Manot people could be related to the first modern humans who later colonized Europe. Genetic and archeological models have previously predicted interbreeding between modern humans and Neanderthals. About four years ago, scientists compared the genomes of five living humans from China, France, Papua New Guinea, southern Africa and western Africa. They found that humans carry, at a minimum, 1-4 percent Neanderthal DNA in our genomes. Neanderthal remains dating back 50,000 to 65,000 years have also been found at other sites near Manot Cave. Manot 1 is the first recorded evidence that modern humans were living in the same place, at the same time, as Neanderthals. Speaking to the\n\nEric Delson, a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College of the City University of New York, said, “This fossil fits previous predictions, which is a nice rarity in our field.”\n\nScientists don’t want to draw too many conclusions from Manot 1 — after all, it’s just one skull. They aren’t sure if Manot 1 is a hybrid between Neaderthals and modern humans, or just an individual anomaly. But whoever Manot 1 was long ago, she was likely among the early generations of humans that left Africa to eventually colonize Europe. That alone is a story worth telling." ]

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[ null, "“A year’s worth of emotion, a year in the making”\n\nIndie rock group Invisible Hand, the one-time side project of Adam Smith, has been touring for the past few years and has grown to include bassist Thomas Dean, drummer Adam Brock, and guitarist Jon Bray. Highly revered and often considered the best group to come out of Charlottesville, VA in a while, Invisible Hand has released their debut album, a self-titled pop rock album with punk undertones.\n\nThe album opens with “Two Chords,” a love song in which you can hear the sincerity and longing in Smith’s voice. The album continues to feature his angsty, heartfelt lyrics, such as on “Four Seasons,” where Smith croons, “You’re my reason for the seasons.”\nThe music sound full and lush, often showcasing orchestral talent from the Charlottesville area. For the most part, the record is upbeat, but is juxtaposed by feelings of yearning (“I Want to Win”) and anxiety (“Don’t Wait For Your Third Eye”). (Funny/Not Funny)" ]

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[ null, "A Swedish luxury hotelier has bought a 180,000-kronor ($28,350) bottle of rum but says he won't open it until his manor house in central Sweden welcomes a true VIP, such as US President Barack Obama.\n\nGeorg Möller owns a stake in Dömle herrgård, a manor house converted into a hotel in rural Värmland County in central Sweden.\n\nHe told the regional Nya Wermlands Tidning (NWT) newspaper that it only took five minutes of deliberation at a wine and spirits auction at the weekend for him to part with more than $28,000 for the limited edition bottle of rum.\n\nIt was developed by master distillers on Trinidad to celebrate the Caribbean island’s 50 years of independence.\n\nOnly 20 bottles were produced, with Möller got his hands on the only one available on the Swedish market.\n\nMöller told NWT he may invite master distiller John Georges at Angostura distillers of Trinidad & Tobago to come to Sweden and hold a guest lecture about the unique rum, believed to be the world’s most expensive.\n\nThe Legacy bottle of rum, meanwhile, will get a specially designed cabinet at the Swedish manor house where it will be displayed rather than tasted – at least for the foreseeable future.\n\n“If ever something really, really really unique happens, like Obama visiting us, then we’ll take a sip,” Möller told NWT." ]

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[ null, "I reviewed one of Christopher Fulbright’s short story collections last year. This time around, I’m going to take a look at one of his short novels.\n\nRed Chalice is a modern day pulp story. Layne Drover is an ex-con who now works as a free-lance bodyguard. He’s been hired by Victoria Dunmore to accompany her to an island off the southern coast of the US that she’s inherited after the recent death of her uncle. Said uncle was the sole occupant of the island.\n\nThings start off badly. For one thing, they arrive in the middle of a driving hurricane. For another, Victoria is seeking a chalice in the mansion on the island. So are others.\n\nOh, and did I mention that Victoria is a blood descendant of the infamous countess Elizabeth Bathory, who was rumored to having tried to maintain her youth by bathing in the blood of young virgin women? (No foolin’, she did. Look it up, if you don’t believe me.)\n\nIf you know anything about Bathory, then you know what you’re getting into with this short novel. But don’t assume you know where this book is going. There are some nice surprises along the way.\n\nFulbright is an acknowledged fan of vintage pulp fiction. That love infuses every chapter of this work. There’s plenty of pulse pounding adventure. There’s horror and shock. The sequence where Layne and Victoria are trapped in an underground cavern trying to survive has chills and creeps aplenty, especially when the cavern starts to flood due to the hurricane.\n\nAnd there are a couple of nice twists at the end. There is no deep, important meaning here, no profound musing on the human condition. What this book contains is a great deal of fun and excitement. Which is what pulp fiction should be.\n\nChristopher Fulbright is someone you can count on for a solid, exciting, usually scary story. I’ve not read a great deal of his work, but I’ve never been disappointed with anything I’ve read with his name on it.\n\nRed Chalice is another example of an ebook done right. The formatting was good. There were no weird line or page breaks. If there were any typos, there weren’t enough for me to notice. A professional job.", null, null ]

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[ "Latin America, an agricultural powerhouse that sees hunger on the rise\n\nThe region needs to change how it produces food\nONU/Atalayar", null, "Latin America is an agricultural powerhouse, but has suffered a sharp increase in hunger in recent years, highlighting the need to transform its agrifood systems to make them more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable, said Qu Dongyu, director-general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).\n\n\"The rise in hunger, poverty and malnutrition is a paradox for a region that contributes significantly to the world's food supply and produces enough food to feed its entire population,\" he said at an event organised by the Development Bank of Latin America on the sidelines of the 77th session of the General Assembly, which brings world leaders to New York.\n\nNo region of the world was more affected by the COVID-19 pandemic than Latin America and the Caribbean, where economies shrank twice as much as the global average, poverty rose to its highest level since 2006 as employment was wiped out and 65.6 million people went hungry, with nearly five times that number, or more than 40% of the population, facing moderate or severe food insecurity, according to data from the UN agency.\n\nThe war in Ukraine, along with other conflicts, has exacerbated the pandemic's impact and added more unpredictable challenges, especially for countries in the region that are net importers of wheat, maize and vegetable oils, all of which have been subject to price shocks in the past year.\n\nEven the region's capacity as a net food exporter is at risk due to the rising cost of fertilisers, which could affect staple food production and yields and trigger a crisis of food availability and affordability, the FAO Director-General added.\n\n2) Boosting agricultural production by ensuring that family farmers have affordable access to seeds and fertilisers, working capital and technical assistance, and links to markets.\n\n4) Investing in climate-resilient agriculture to cope with and reverse the effects of the climate crisis.\n\nHe also assured that FAO is committed to working with members in the region and beyond to achieve \"long-term inclusive and sustainable development\".\n\nQu's remarks came during a conference organised by the Development Bank of Latin America to identify the challenges, strategies and urgent coordination actions needed to promote food security in Latin America and the Caribbean. Qu spoke alongside Sergio Díaz-Granados, Executive President of CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, and Manuel Otero, Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture.\n\nThe Development Bank of Latin America, made up of 18 countries in the region, as well as Spain, Portugal and 13 private Latin American banks, is in the process of a $7 billion capital increase to expand its activities to promote sustainable development and regional integration in a range of sectors." ]

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[ "By Dan Williams and Catarina Demony\n\nJERUSALEM/LISBON (Reuters) - Danny Roup, Israel's celebrity weatherman, does not necessarily see clouds on the geopolitical horizon. But he thought it worth digging into his centuries-old family roots in order to get a second, Portuguese passport.\n\nRoup is among thousands of Israelis who have embraced a citizenship offer by Portugal to descendents of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from the Iberian peninsula during the medieval Inquisition.\n\nSome applicants want to move to Portugal, or use it as a stepping stone to the European Union's educational and job opportunities. Others are seeking a reprieve from the turbulent Middle East.\n\nAround 300,000 Jews lived in Spain when, in 1492, monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand ordered them and the country’s Muslims to convert to Catholicism or leave. Tens of thousands fled to Portugal, only to be persecuted there or expelled in 1496.\n\nPortugal, which has seen a rise in applications since a similar citizenship offer to Sephardic Jews by Spain ended in October, describes its policy in terms of redress.\n\n\"Our history is a very important one but with certain shadows - and one of the most relevant shadows was forcing the Jews to abandon the country or to convert to Christianity,\" Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva told Reuters.\n\n\"We lost a lot of our Jewish influence and we are trying to retrieve this influence.\"\n\nThe citizenship application takes around two years. Some 20 percent are approved.\n\nExperts at one of Portugal's Jewish centers, Lisbon or Porto, vet applicants' genealogies and look for evidence of interest in Sephardi culture - for example, knowledge of the Judaeo-Spanish dialect Ladino.\n\nLisbon-based immigration lawyer Renato Martins said many of his Sephardic clients see the \"investment potential\" of a Portuguese passport, especially for real-estate.\n\nSilva said most of the 44,000 applications received since the Portuguese offer opened in 2015 have been from Israel.\n\nIlan Dahan, 48, a father-of-three originally from Haifa, moved to Portugal after being approved in 2017.\n\n\"There were lots of wars, lots of bullets. We wanted to be safe, especially with kids,\" he said.\n\nRoup does not want to leave Israel but says Portuguese citizenship could help his children, who can apply as adults.\n\n\"One is a singer. My daughter is an actress. So it will open doors,\" he said. \"I'm trying to make their lives easier now, in the present, and in the future.\"", null, "First love on the front lines: Coming of age in the Hong Kong protests", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Chipolopolo striker Augustine Mulenga is weighing up staying in South Africa to join another big side in the PSL.", null, "Augustine Mulenga of Orlando Pirates in action during the Absa Premiership match between Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs at FNB Stadium on March 03, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images)\n\nMulenga asked to be released from his contract at Orlando Pirates after a season and a half with the Sea Robbers.\n\nThe Chipolopolo international left Pirates due to limited game time, blaming German coach Josef Zinnbauer for not indicating what he should do to be considered to start games for the Buccaneers.\n\nMulenga blasted the Pirates head coach for only fielding him when other players who are regular starters were nursing injuries.\n\nThe 30-year-old striker felt it was important for him to find another team where he would get regular game time.\n\nResponding to a question on SAFC about his future plans, Mulenga said he would consider a move to Pirates’ rivals Kaizer Chiefs if the club tabled an offer for him to join them as a free agent.\n\n“I would like to tell the Pirates fans that it was my decision to leave Orlando Pirates. I wasn’t getting game time and now they’ve signed more players. I can’t stay and experience the same thing again,” added Mulenga in the same interview." ]

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[ "Common Core: How it's affecting one high school English teacher\n\nA teacher at Washington High School answers questions from the community\n\nCommon Core: How it's affecting one high school English teacher", null, "Tami Brown is a veteran of the classroom.\n\nShe currently works as an English-language arts teacher at Washington High School, where she teaches 11th- and 12th-grade students.\n\nLike many public school educators in South Dakota, Brown's classroom has been affected by the Common Core State Standards. The Common Core set new benchmarks for K-12 math and reading classes when it was adopted in 2010 by state education officials.\n\nCommunity members had a chance to email me questions to ask Brown during our conversation, and I've included a few below.\n\nWhat changed for you when the standards were implemented?\n\nI know that I've focused on trying to bring in more newspaper articles, news-sourced articles on a topic. For example, I was talking to you about Civil Disobedience, that's an older document by Henry David Thoreau. And what I had the students do was I gave them some reading focus points … And so we did that as an academic portion of American literature. But then I had them go find articles from credible sources where Americans have exercised civil disobedience and what was their reason and what were the results, and that's more of what I started to do.\n\nBecause I can't ignore what's in our curriculum. And I don't want to ignore it, but I think we live in a time where it needs to be relevant.\n\nFrom Megan Tschetter, mother of four: Do you add content to the standards? If so, what are you adding to your class?\n\nI don't add new standards, but I add outside pieces of literature or outside current events that augment the curriculum and help clarify points.\n\nFrom Mary Scheel-Buysse, Sioux Falls resident: Can you give examples of what you use in your class for informational text?\n\nOur librarian is phenomenal. If we need something, let's say that I think there's something in the curriculum where maybe I need a few books to bring in and show the kids, she'll find them, I mean, she'll get them, somehow.\n\nFrom Danica Hanson, a Sioux Falls public school mom worried about some CNN videos her son has seen in class: How do you feel about using graphic content in lessons?\n\nI would look to maybe that teacher. I'm not saying there aren't some decent things on CNN, but they can get a little sensational sometimes … You and I both know that you cannot protect kids from all of that stuff. We do our best … If I had said to my kids go to CNN student whatever-it-is and some of that stuff did start showing up, if I had a parent let me know that, I would have no problem saying, OK, how about, let's go to (a different) site." ]

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[ "Friday morning we awoke refreshed and restored from the previous-day’s off-roading adventure. A large and delicious breakfast cooked by Vikki (pictures here if you need your memory refreshed) fortified us for the day’s adventures.\n\nWe decided to drive to Bristol, on the border of Tennessee and Virginia, to visit the Bristol Caverns. We headed there by way of Mountain City and decided to stop in the town for lunch. Mountain City is one of those places that appears untouched by time and its center is a tiny Main Street where most of the stores only took cash. One of the shopkeepers, whose antique store and real estate business occupied the same space, went on and on about how the town was stuck in the 1950s and how he loved it. While the 1950s had plenty of charm, I’m sure, I’m very happy to be firmly planted in 2011. Credit card machines are good. As is the internet.", null, "The town was prepping for their annual Sunflower Festival, but we didn’t return to check it out. Too many things to do!\n\nWe had lunch in a cute restaurant on Main St. called The Tributary, which is notable for being one of the few restaurants in the area with a legitimate website. Go them! (2011 guys, the internet is great!) I found it on the holy TripAdvisor after deciding that the BBQ joint Vikki recommended for lunch sounded too heavy. After a delicious but filling breakfast I was craving a salad for lunch, and salad I received.", null, "There now, doesn’t that look nice and healthy? Greens, grilled chicken, candied pecans and feta with a raspberry vinaigrette. Just what the doctor ordered.", null, "Excellent, tender and flavorful shortribs with seasoned potato wedges and garlic bread. A delicious, carby, fatty mess. I stole a few bites to break up my rabbit food.\n\nThe Tributary was really a cute, unexpected (I’ve been saying that a lot haven’t I?) place to find in Mountain City. The lunch menu is extensive and has many options, and it looks like the place fancies up for dinner. Well done TripAdvisor!\n\nWe continued onto Bristol via a stretch of Highway 421 called The Snake. Really y’all, this road is so famous that it has its own website. The Snake is 33 miles of twisting road that winds through three mountains and one valley from Mountain City to Bristol (or, you know, from Bristol to Mountain City). If you want to be precise the road has 489 curves. Car and motorcycle enthusiasts love to drive this stretch of road because of all the twists and hairpin turns.", null, null, "I’d like to say that my little 2002 Honda Civic performed quite well under these circumstances. I am not the biggest fan of curvy roads, so I mostly gritted my teeth and took a few pictures that didn’t really turn out that well (you really had to be there). Jon, however, definitely enjoyed braving The Snake. We also passed several motorcycle packs on the way to Bristol, so clearly this is a thing. I’ve never been a car person, however, so I guess I just don’t get it." ]

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[ null, "Carlos Palacios, a professional soccer player, turned himself in to the North Central Prosecutor’s Office. Records show that he threatened to kill his ex-partner.\n\nAt 12:15 am on Thursday, November 25, police arrived at the home of a 24-year-old former partner of the footballer, according to police records.\n\nShe told the uniformed police that the current club player Vasco da Gama From Brazil, pick up a normal child (2 years old) at home, when they started arguing. The athlete then threatened to kill her and she would have left. .\n\nAccording to the police agency, After filing a complaint, they proceeded to arrest Carlos Palacios I leave it to the Central North Public Prosecutor’s Office for subsequent detention management." ]

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[ null, "Do you remember the enormous mural with orange letters on plywood that spelled out “You are beautiful” on State Street? It ran along Block 37, Randolph to Washington, from 2006 to 2009. The installation, along with new pieces displaying the same, now iconic, slogan has moved inside to the Green Exchange. Throughout the month of February, “As you are: A Decade of You Are Beautiful” will imbue the raw spaces of the West Diversey office building with its optimistic mantra in a retrospective collection of works by numerous artists, including Matthew Hoffman, Nick Adam and Chris Silva.\n\nThe movement began in 2002 when Matthew Hoffman shared 100 You Are Beautiful stickers among friends. Requests for more stickers started flowing in, and a decade later half a million stickers have traveled around the globe. The message went from stickers to murals, to public installations and exhibitions here and abroad.\n\nThe Green Exchange show features the individual letterforms that once ran alongside the pedestrian walkway beneath the State Street mural. Filling in an adjacent, unoccupied office is a ten-feet-tall by one-hundred-feet-long You Are Beautiful constructed by Hoffman. The giant once adorned the Morton Arboretum and has since been painted yellow and blue by the students of Roberto Clemente High School. The zigzag of wood amuses with its lenticular effect of changing color depending on where the viewer is standing.\n\nSince the campaign began, artists have been putting their own spins on the fifteen letters that comprise the simple but impactful message. Last summer at the Rebuilding Exchange, where reclaimed building materials are repurposed, design students from Camp Firebelly developed a fresh approach to the theme. Wood and metal scraps, bits of wire, glass and rubber tubing have transformed into a playful array of rough-hewn, handcrafted letters. Dawn Hancock of Firebelly is working to get these letters, many of which have the found-object feel of a Cornell box, eventually installed in a prison.", null, "Hurray for Hoffman’s youthful idealism and the belief that small acts of kindness can make a difference in the world. You Are Beautiful is intended as a response to the commercialism that would have us doubt our attractiveness and self-worth. While the message affirms the beauty and complexity of each human being, it extends beyond the individual to the community, where entire neighborhoods embrace the idea that the words we speak become our reality.\n\nPeople from all over the world continue to request the little silver stickers by mail. A collection of colorful YAB correspondence will be on display at the show. In celebration of the decade, Hoffman plans to create a You Are Beautiful book, including photos and stories about the campaign, for which he is currently trying to raise $25,000 through Kickstarter. (Mary A. Osborne)\n\n“As You Are: A Decade of You Are Beautiful” shows at Green Exchange, 2545 West Diversey, February 7-March 7. Opening reception: February 7, 6pm-11pm." ]

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[ "'They would probably be the last three people that we would look to for advice and counsel': White House skewers Obama, Hillary and Kerry for saying Trump was wrong to pull out of Iran deal", null, "It's would be a mistake to ask these clowns directions.\n\nDaily Mail reports the White House ripped former President Obama and his secretaries of state on Wednesday after they derided President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran deal as mistake.\nObama in his statement slamming sitting President Donald Trump's sanctions on Iran called for 'principled, fact-based, and unifying leadership that can best secure our country and uphold our responsibilities around the globe.'\nClinton crowed that American's 'credibility is shot' and 'Iran is free to do what it wants' now that the U.S. has no leverage.\nKerry argued that Trump's announcement 'weakens our security, breaks America's word' and 'isolates us from our European allies,' among other things." ]

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[ "Ah, Game 162! That epic final night of the 2011 regular season, when the triumphant comeback of the Cardinals and monumental collapse of the Braves was complete, yet was just one part of a fantastic evening. (Though obviously the part we as Cards fans cared about the most.)\n\nExperience again MLB’s highs and lows from the evening here (it’s worth the 12 minutes, especially to see bits of Chris Carpenter’s performance — plus isn’t it always nice to see the Red Sox complete their collapse? And the Braves as well?). Then continue on below to read what was published here five years ago about Game 162, which made the “September to remember” complete. That final sentence is rather prescient in retrospect, if I do say so myself. (OK, only because we know the final fairy-tale ending. Still …)\n\nThe comeback climb is finished, and in the best way possible — the Cardinals are the Wild Card Champions!", null, "Carp, Albert and an epic hug\n\nThe the winning began, with that 8-4 Social Media Night victory over the Pirates. The winning continued. And now, history.\n\nMaking the playoffs after trailing by 10 1/2 after 130 games is, according to Fox Sports Midwest, the biggest comeback in history. No. 2 on the list? The 2011 Tampa Bay Rays, who are the AL Wild Cards Champs following their own stunning win in Game 162. At one point they’d been 9 games back. Third on the list? The 1964 Cardinals, who trailed by 8 1/2 games before propelling themselves to the National League pennant.\n\nThe Cardinals’ win was achieved without any of the tension or drama of Tuesday night. They took command from the very beginning, with five straight hits to open the game. Albert drove in the first run for RBI No.99, and the scoring continued until Nick Punto drove in run No. 5. Chris Carpenter came to bat before even taking the pitchers mound — always a good sign.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nNational League Central: not yet clinched. The opportunity was there for the Cardinals to do so last night, following the Reds walk-off grand slam victory over the Pirates yesterday afternoon. Yet Mark Trumbo’s three-run homer that gave the Diamondbacks a 5-2 lead over the Cards in the seventh inning last night was the difference in the game.\n\nDo we root for Johnny Cueto, who’s starting this afternoon against the Pirates and going for win No. 20, in the game that begins at 12:10 p.m. Central Time?", null, "Yes, Cueto certainly is laughing at the idea that the Cardinals and Cards fans are wanting him to succeed today …\n\nOr do we, as we’ve done since 2010 anyway, ignore and/or wish the worst for Johnny Cueto because he is Johnny Cueto and just know that Adam Wainwright will get the job done anyway when the Cardinals take on the Diamondbacks at 3:10 p.m. Central Time? END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ "‘Mourinho didn’t give me chance as others’", null, "Newcastle loan signing Danny Rose says he was not given the same opportunities as his fellow defenders to prove himself to Jose Mourinho at Tottenham.\n\nThe 29-year-old made 16 appearances for Spurs early in the season but only five after Mourinho became manager on 20 November.\n\n“I do feel I wasn’t given as much of a chance as everybody else in the backline,” the left-back told BBC.\n\n\nThe Doncaster-born player added: “I knew after a month [of Mourinho joining] I was never going to play. It was difficult going out to train knowing I wasn’t going to play.\n\n“It’s not worked out, but full respect to him and what he’s doing at the club. He took over with the club 12 points adrift of Chelsea [now in fourth place] and now it’s four.\n\n“I have to be honest, I thought I would continue playing.”" ]

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[ "President Vladimir Putin on Monday urged gas-exporting countries to step up joint efforts to deal with challenges that originated in the United States and Europe.\n\nHe spoke at a conference of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, or GECF, which brought together delegates from such places as Iran, Qatar and Venezuela, in addition to Russia.\n\n\"We now need to move ahead toward closer interaction,\" Putin told heads of state and ministers from 12 other countries, seated around a large round table in the lavishly gilded Hall of St. Catherine in the Great Kremlin Palace.\n\nThe forum initially stoked fears of price fixing when it began more vigorous activity in 2008, but they never materialized. Instead, forum member Qatar dented Russia's share on the European market after rerouting its export flows from the suddenly self-sufficient United States.\n\nSoaring production of shale gas in the United States created a global gas glut that also made Europe question long-term contracts that Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, has long been using for sales of its pipeline gas there.\n\nPutin said the increasing output of shale gas and other unconventional types of gas was putting pressure on exporters of the fuel.\n\n\"I see it as a serious challenge for us all,\" he said.\n\nOfficials and Gazprom partners in Europe have cast doubt on the practice by such gas producers as Gazprom in which they link their gas price to the price of oil.", null, "Putin said the attempts to sever that link would set \"unfavorable\" terms for producers of pipeline gas, again in reference to companies like Gazprom.\n\nThe president addressed another sore spot for Russia. Electricity generators and other buyers of gas have pushed for spot prices — which usually apply to liquefied gas shipped by tankers — to be the main reference point for piped gas as well.\n\nPutin defended long-term contracts, for periods that can span decades, as a \"time-tested\" principle that should remain in place. Gazprom uses this type of contract to justify huge up-front investments in pipelines.\n\nThe Russian leader also attacked the perennial irritant in the gas trade with Europe: EU legislation that requires gas companies to divest themselves of any pipelines, in an effort to provide equal access of all suppliers to the delivery network. In Russia's view, the move endangers the supply of fuel under the long-term contracts.\n\nSumming up, Putin said the forum members should speak in one voice to resist \"unfair pressure.\"", null, "Member country representatives responded with speeches that were generally supportive of the link to oil prices and long-term contracts. Many of the speeches began with praise to Allah because Muslim leaders dominated the gathering.\n\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad railed against countries — which he did not name — that have a history of slavery and now dictate unfair terms for global trade, in a veiled reference to the United States.\n\nThe forum members cumulatively account for almost half of all globally exported gas and hold 65 percent of the fuel's reserves.\n\nMonday's conference, the second meeting of the group, adopted a two-page, eight-point declaration.\n\n• Strengthen the GECF as a platform for defining and advancing the member countries' position on challenges and issues of international gas markets.\n\n• Enhance the global-scale coordination of actions to protect the interests of gas-exporting countries in all areas, including interactions with regulatory authorities of gas-consuming countries.\n\n• Preserve and enhance the principles of international gas trade, including risk-sharing mechanisms, which have proven to be effective and have allowed for the continued development of natural gas worldwide.\n\n• Uphold the fundamental role of long-term gas supply contracts in financing large-scale gas projects along the value chain and in providing mutually acceptable solutions for security of demand and supply.\n\n• Foster the consistent growth of natural gas usage as an abundant non-renewable source of energy to increase its share in the world's primary energy mix.\n\n• Promote the expansion of natural gas utilization in different forms including motor fuel and feedstock.\n\n• Encourage GECF dialog with all gas market players and stakeholders to promote gas as a driver for environmentally friendly economic growth and social development." ]

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[ null, "Equity traders are buying into the markets as the fear surrounding the health crisis has dipped.\n\nThe number of confirmed coronavirus infections in China is on the rise, but the growth rate seems to be cooling, hence why dealers are less worried about the situation. China’s Xi Jinping claimed the state’s actions to get the crisis under control are working. Eurozone markets have underperformed when compared with the major US indices recently, but today they are closing the gap. The DAX hit a record-high so it’s clear that traders are optimistic. The FTSE 100 is being assisted by the positive moves in mining as well as energy stocks – both sectors are connected to China.\n\nTUI AG shares are flying high after the company issued an upbeat first-quarter trading update. The collapse of Thomas Cook has helped TUI as prospective holidaymakers sought out secure travel outfits. The group confirmed there has been an improvement in ‘bookings trends’, and if that continues, TUI anticipates high single-digit growth in annual revenue. The old guidance was for mid to high single-digit growth. In December, the travel firm warned the Boeing 737 Max fiasco could weigh on earnings, but the company now predicts full-year core earnings to be between €850 million and €1.05 billion.\n\nAfter a long time of toing and froing, HS2 has been given the go-ahead. The major infrastructure project will entail building a high-speed rail route between London and Birmingham, with additional lines going on to Manchester as well as Leeds. The likes of Galliford Try, Balfour Beatty and Kier Group are all higher today as traders feel the huge construction project will benefit the groups either directly or indirectly.\n\nIntu Properties shares sold off aggressively on the back of the news that Link Real Estate – a Hong Kong property group – walked away from investing in the company. Intu was seeking to raise funds, but Link have decided against the move. Intu have been hit hard by the rise in online shopping, so it desperately needs funds to beef up its balance sheet – otherwise traders are likely to avoid the stock.\n\nNew record highs were achieved on Wall Street as the bullish sentiment continues. US equity markets didn’t suffer than badly during the height of the coronavirus-related selling so now they are outperforming seeing as some of the fears have subsided. Jerome Powell, the head of the Fed is speaking before the House Committee on Financial Services. The central banker said the US economy is in a good place, but there could be some fallout from the health crisis in China.\n\nSprint Corporation shares are up more than 70% as the merger with T-Mobile gets approval. T-Mobile shares are up in excess of 7%. A US District judge ruled in favour of the proposed tie-up. The move still needs to get approval from the California Public Commission, but the decision from the judge was one of the final hurdles. A number of states argued that a merger between two of the largest telecoms companies would be bad for consumers in terms of prices. The two groups have pledged to install a 5G network that will service 97% of the US population within three years of the deal being finalised.\n\nGBP/USD was helped along by the UK growth figures. The preliminary GDP reading for the final-quarter of 2019 on a yearly basis showed 1.1% growth, topping the 0.8% forecast. In addition to that, the third-quarter reading was revised upward to 1.2% from 1, 1%. The figures on a quarterly basis showed 0.0% growth in the final quarter, meeting forecasts.\n\nEUR/USD is higher on the session as the slip in the greenback has assisted the euro. It has been a quiet session for the single due to an absence of important economic indicators. Christine Lagarde, the head of the ECB said that ‘monetary policy cannot and should not, be the only game in town’. The central banker is keen for eurozone governments use fiscal tools to help spur economic activity in the region.\n\nGold is in the red as dealers are in risk-on mode .The bullish run on European as well as US stocks has encouraged dealers to trim their exposure to gold, and in turn pour funds into equities – which are considered to be higher risk than the commodity. Gold’s volatility might have cooled recently but while it holds above the $1,536 area the wider bullish trend should continue.\n\nWTI and Brent crude have rallied as traders are less fearful about the health crisis in China. It would appear the coronavirus crisis is spreading at a slower rate, so that has given traders some optimism. The energy market fell to a 13-month low recently so the slightly optimistic sounds coming out of China in relation to the health tragedy as prompted bargain hunters to enter the fold.\n\nChairman Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve Board pulled off a minor miracle overnight.\n\nMarkets stall ahead of Fed\n\nChairman Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve Board pulled off a minor miracle overnight.\n\nAll eyes are on the Federal Reserve as the US central bank is due to announce its interest rate decision at 6pm (UK time), no change to policy is expected." ]

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[ null, null, "The Derrick name goes back centuries in Great Britain, and Lance (were he interested) could trace his family to numerous Dukes, Earls and Counts. But his particular branch of the family tree, while handsome, was not awash in land and gold, and hence his working-class London parents (both factory workers) brought up young Lance in a three-room flat in a narrow alleyway. Lance was handsome early and suffered constant attention from schoolmates, resulting in poor grades and dozens of fumbling romantic encounters -- until Miss Molly, a 32-year-old dressmaker in the neighborhood, took him under her wing during his final two years of school.\n\nSensing the lad's escalating debauchery, his parents encouraged him to serve in the army between the two great wars. He saw only minor skirmishes as a radio operator stationed in Algiers, advancing to the rank of Staff Sergeant.\n\nHis good looks, sharp mind, and smooth demeanor soon got him transferred to a training unit affiliated with the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Over the next 8 years, he was assigned clandestine work in Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Paris, and Brussels.\n\nA handsome lad from childhood, his appearance draws constant attention, making some clandestine roles impossible without the help of a disguise. He loves to chat and drink and carouse, but he's a trained professional and (almost) always stays focused on the mission.\n\nHe acknowledges his sworn duty to MI6 and the burdens that come with it -- including the fact that his face is on wanted posters all over Berlin.\n\nHe acknowledges that his tendency to quickly decide to act rather than plan may be the flaw that gets him killed some day.\n\nHis weapon training is relatively light -- he finds the act of killing quite unpleasant, no matter the circumstances -- but he is quite fond of his 14-round FN Browning HP, especially when fitted with a silencer.\n\nWhen working with a small team on a mission, his values require that each member is defended from harm or embarrassment." ]

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[ "tips for getting along in roughly 144 square feet\n\nYou’re moving into a room smaller than your closet at home – and you have to share it with someone you’ve never met. Welcome to college! Whether it’s a dorm room, an apartment or a house, sharing spaces can be tough – even if you really think you know your roommates well. Here’s seven simple rules that can hopefully help ease any problems that may come up, along with some horror stories to remind you, it could always be worse...\n\nOther than a spouse, there is probably no other person in the world you will get to know as well as your roommate. Even if you bond instantly, there may be moments when your roomie’s little quirks get on your nerves. Letting things fester (in that tiny little space) can turn an annoyance into a misery. Communication – both talking and listening – will be the key to a great relationship. However, communication does not entail mean-spirited or passive-aggressive note-or-photo-posting.\n\nThe Elephant in the Room\nI have a fear of deformed people. It’s called “terraphobia.” In 2005, while I was living with three other crusty individuals in a shabby crowded house on Chippewa St., my roommates taped my worst fears all over the walls of my bedroom in the middle of the night. No one should ever wake up to a picture of a two-headed Chinese man on the ceiling, or a sausage tumor-faced man from Portugal taped to the mirror. After ten solid minutes of screaming like a little girl, I calmed down and forced my evil roommates to remove the pictures. I thought the nightmare had ended... until the next day, when I logged into my Facebook account and there he was, the big daddy of ‘em all – my profile picture had been changed to Joseph Merrick, the elephant man. - Shane B.\n\nBy the time you’ve managed to fit in 2 beds, the mini fridge, mini microwave, computer, CD-changer (OK, maybe that’s a little dated) and TV, will there be any room for clothes (not to mention a few books?) There is no way you are going to duplicate all the comforts of home. The less you bring, the less you have to keep track of and maintain. But this rule doesn’t give you license to rearrange your roommate’s things, or sequester them in unused rooms.", null, "The Cat Foiler\nThe last roommate I had was the worst. Anything I left in common areas he would scooch into the sunroom... even things that belonged in common areas. (toothpaste in the bathroom, etc.) He wasn’t a fan of my cat, which led to him lining every surface with tin foil (?!) [As a musician] I was about to leave for tour, and had only been gone for a day, but would be staying at my house the night after my first show. My roommate had apparently caught wind of it. I walk in the door... candles were lit, there was new furniture, everything was rearranged, all of my stuff was shoved in the sunroom with the futon pushed in front of the doors and my roommate was holding back a puppy. I looked at him with my mouth hanging open and all he had to say was “I thought you were leaving for tour!” – Savannah S.\n\nRule #1 Don’t. Rule #2 If you absolutely must borrow something, always ask permission first. Return it in the promised timeframe and in the condition it was in when borrowed. If you damage or lose something you borrow, you are responsible for replacing it. Can’t afford to replace it? See rule #1. Nothing causes more strife between roommates and friends than borrowing money, food, clothes, CDs, sports equipment… But perhaps more importantly than the no-borrow rule is society’s no-steal rule. AKA the law.\n\nGrand Theft Auto\nI moved in with a friend who I knew not nearly well enough. Her mood was all over the place and she’d throw toddler-like fits. A third mutual friend who had just returned from California moved in with us. Up until that point I had been the only person living there with a car, but the new roomie had one in storage. Crazy roommate offered to buy it from her, so the new roommate signed over the title - unfortunately, she did so without getting the money first. Crazy roommate packed said car with a bunch of our stuff and drove it to California, and never registered it in her name. My poor other roommate had years of legal issues getting the car - which was later impounded in San Francisco - out of her name, so that she could legally drive and own a vehicle again. – Larisa S.\n\nIf the law of averages works, one of you will be extremely neat and the other extremely messy. Here is where you learn the great art of communication and compromise. Mom doesn’t live here, but you do. The neatnik will have to learn to tolerate life’s imperfections. The slob, well, it’s time to start picking up after yourself.\n\nBooger Battles\nI once lived in a trailer with a roommate who kept introducing new “roommates” into our abode. The first was her boyfriend, “Crow”, who was in a bad metal band. Bad. Then his friend, “Nose” (who just got out of jail in Arizona) moved in. Their band buddies used to come over and they would all have spit fights in the kitchen. I would find trails of mucous down the refrigerator. I stayed in my room. – Janet Kay H.\n\nIt’s inevitable. One of you will have an 8 AM class and the other will want to study until 2 AM. Work out routines for late night studying (is there a lounge?) late night returns (tiptoe and use a flashlight?), early morning classes (tiptoe out and dress in the bathroom?). Everyone needs their zzz’s. And you don’t want to spend precious sleep-time tending to your roommate, either, so try to take care of yourself.\n\nBurrito Burn\nI came home from the bar once and my roommate was passed out with his head resting on the stove between two burners that were on. He was making a bunch of Mexican food and his face was covered in guacamole, refried beans and sour cream. Both of his hands were full of shredded Mexican cheese and refried beans. Noticing my roommate in a very unflattering state of being I quickly took action, carefully removing his head from the stovetop, and gave him a sponge bath in the middle of the kitchen as his lifeless body slept right though it. To this day he maintains this never happened. – Josh S.\n\nMost dorms have quiet hours. Loud music, parties, or socializing in the hall will not be appreciated by your fellow dorm-mates and are a one-way ticket to unpopularity, much like this overly rambunctious young lady:\n\nA Whole New Room\nA friend of mine had a roommate who spent every morning Febreze-ing their dorm room to choking levels and blasted a Disney Princess CD for her workouts. Her favorite move was hula hooping while singing “ A Whole New World”. Off-key. At the top of her lungs. – Jillian P.\n\nWhen the course of rooming does not run smooth, seek counsel. Your hall or dorm will have an RA (Resident Advisor) who is usually an older student or grad student – young enough to remember what it was like to be a freshman, but old enough to give good advice. Chances are you and your roomie are together for better or worse until June. Unless something like this happens:", null, "Pickle Rage\nIn 2007, I was living in the on-campus apartments at UWEC, sharing a common living space with three other guys with separate bedrooms. One evening, one of the roommates came home drunk and accused the three of us of stealing his pickles from the fridge. Incensed by this, he trashed our kitchen and living room, ripping things off walls, tipping over houseplants, and shouting through the night. We had put up with behavior like this before, but that night reached a new low. The following morning after we assessed the damage, we finally realized we had been living with habitual domestic abuse. We called campus police, who removed him from the hall. We filed a no-contact order against him. When university police searched his room they discovered a large hunting knife, which is not allowed in residence halls. A few days later the three of us received an email from the guy in which he apologized and said he was moving out promptly, which he did. – Tyler G.\n\nWe know. It's still summer. The last thing you're thinking about is having to go back to school. Well, sorry to throw a wet blanket all over your sunny, summer dreams, but wake up! The new school year is upon us. Use this special section to gear up and get ready to learn!" ]

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[ "Of Release Dates and Roanoke Signings\n\nWhy not in April or May like we originally planned? Well... As with most things, it's complicated. The short version is that there's been a lot going on behind the scenes over the past two months that's completely upended my original timeline. The reasons why are something I'd rather not discuss publicly.\n\nAs it stands right now, there's a chance that the edits may not be completed until the end of May, but I should know more about the schedule in the next week or two.\n\nBottom line: there is a book, and as soon as it's been whipped into shape, I'll be publishing it faster than you can blink.\n\n...Which is why that release date is \"tentative.\" You guys have been waiting so long for the book at this point that I may just pull a Beyonce and publish it the second it's ready. Bottom line? Keep an eye on social media or make sure you're signed up for my mailing list if you want to know the moment it goes live!\n\nJust like last year, I had way, way too much fun at RAI 2017! I met SO MANY wonderful readers and amazing authors. I haven't had that much fun since last year's RAI!", null, "(Left side, front to back: Bo Loftis, Quinn Loftis, Karen Lynch, myself. On the right, front to back: Desni Dantone, Kelly Nagy, and Sara Meadows. Photo credit: April Jackson.)\n\nI was lucky enough to hang out with the amazing authors Desni Dantone, Karen Lynch, and Quinn Loftis this year, along with the wonderful PA, blogger, and editor Sara Meadows, and the absolutely lovely April Jackson and Kelly Nagy (blogger from Bookcrush.in)! Getting to know them was a dream come true and I can't begin to tell you just how kind and welcoming (and absolutely hilarious) they all were. Also, I'll never be able to hear \"Ain't No Mountain High Enough\" again without flashing back to our ill-advised karaoke session. Let's just say there ain't no whiskey strong enough to have made that performance sound good, but I still had an absolute blast.", null, "(At the signing booth! Keen eyes will notice a sliver of Book 4's cover in the banner beside me... Official cover and title reveal will be coming soon!)\n\nThe signing itself was just as fun and I LOVED meeting so many Variant Series fans in person! You guys are amazing. It nearly killed me not to have the fourth book on sale at the event—and it broke my heart every time I had to tell you the release date had been pushed back. THANK YOU, all of you, for being so incredibly supportive and for making RAI 2017 a weekend I'll never forget!!", null, "(Obligatory photo booth pics wherein I rock a {now traditional} fedora. Like ya do.)\n\nBetween the signing, the endless opportunities to socialize with readers and authors, and the always awesome after party, RAI is far and away my favorite signing event. If you ever get the chance to attend, I can't recommend it enough!" ]

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[ null, "(CNN) — A former White House photographer is back on presidential duty thanks to Netflix.\n\nPete Souza, the former chief official White House photographer for President Barack Obama, has been enlisted by the company to chronicle “House of Cards” president Frank Underwood’s visit to Washington D.C. on Monday.\n\nKevin Spacey, who portrays the character, will make stops at iconic D.C. landmarks throughout the day as Underwood as part of the campaign.\n\nThe first photo in the series features Spacey as Underwood on his way to Union Station, sitting alongside his on-screen chief of staff Doug Stamper, who is played by Michael Kelly.\n\nIn the days since Obama’s White House departure, he has become known on Instagram for using his vast archives for timely and topical posts. Publisher Little, Brown and Company announced last month that Souza will be publishing a book with over 300 of the thousands of photos he took during Obama’s presidency.\n\nMonday’s tour of D.C. is not the first time Netflix has brought the world of “House of Cards” to the nation’s capital.\n\nLast year, the company staged an event at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to unveil a painting of the fictional POTUS by British artist Jonathan Yeo.\n\n“House of Cards” Season 5 delves right back into the complicated lives of the Underwoods, with Frank and Claire (Robin Wright) fighting harder than ever to keep their spot in the White House.\n\nThe entire 13-episode season will be available for streaming on Netflix on Tuesday, May 30." ]

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[ null, "The odds are that you have been hearing a lot about Eternals this weekend. It has brought forth lots of headlines about Marvel-firsts or worsts while also being one of the year’s most anticipated films. But did all of these newsworthy onscreen themes and critical responses translate to money-making for the studio? Of course. In fact, the Eternals opening box office numbers have made it the second-best Hollywood opening in 2021. Let’s take a dive into the numbers and see what it means for the future of the film’s success.\n\nThe Marvel Cinematic Universe has been a busy place for fans, even during the pandemic. In the past year, we have gotten everything from WandaVision to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Still, no superhero fatigue would get in the way of us watching Chloé Zhao’s Marvel directorial debut. The story would tell the tales of the Eternals, immortal beings here to protect us from the Deviants.\n\nDespite high hopes, the film pulled in some of the worst critical responses of the MCU. At the same time, it promised enough newness for the studio. This includes actual queer representation in a Marvel flick, the MCU’s first theatrical sex scene, and a vision that feels massive even after a few dozen films. The Comic Years team lined up for tickets, but did everyone else?\n\nThe Numbers Are In\n\nThe bad reviews didn’t stop fans from heading out to theaters. The film earned $71 million at the domestic box office, just shy of its $75 million+ projections. This is the fourth-best opening since the start of the pandemic, falling behind a trio of other superhero movies.\n\nOverseas saw a similarly strong debut. It brought in a grand worldwide total of $161.7 million, just missing the 2021 record that F9 set with $163 million. But Eternals will not premiere in China, where the faster and furious-er film made a lot of its money.\n\nWhile these numbers are strong enough for a pandemic-era Marvel debut, they don’t suggest the strongest legs. Based on the negative critical response, we don’t expect the film to hold up for as long as its predecessors. It is lucky enough to face little competition for a few weeks, but high drops are likely after its second and third weekend.\n\nWho Else Is Making Money?", null, "Another recent release, Dune, continues to pull in some money at the box office. It stayed in a solid second place at the domestic box office, pulling in another $7.6 million. Its current domestic total is now at $83.9 million, and its worldwide total recently crossed $300 million. These are great numbers for the sci-fi film, especially considering the strong data on HBO Max.\n\nNo Time to Die continues to have a hard time dying off, as the film pulled in another $6.2 million. Venom: Let There Be Carnage is next up in the rankings, with $4.5 million. Closing off the top 5 at the box office is Ron’s Gone Wrong, one of the most family-friendly films of the month, with $3.6 million.\n\nWhile all of these big names continue to fatten their wallets, smaller, more arthouse films continue to drop. The Kristen Stewart-led Spencer debuted this weekend in fewer than a thousand venues, earning $2.1 million. Last Night In Soho had another weekend at the theaters adding another $1.8 million to its total. Finally, The French Dispatch continues to stand firm with another $2.6 million.\n\nDid you contribute to the opening box office numbers for Eternals? You can catch it on the big screen today.\n\nReaders, let us know which films you saw this weekend and what’s on your radar. And if you’re still staying home, drop your recent streaming favorites!" ]

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[ null, "Today, according to the TES : “Professor Sugata Mitra, of Newcastle University, suggested that the conventional skills taught to children today were mainly “obsolete” and could be carried out by machines.” He went on to say: “Reading, writing and arithmetic should be deemphasised and replaced with comprehending, communicating and computing. That’s the world we live in today.” He continued:\n\n“Is it not conceivable to think of an app where you can point it to a piece of Japanese text and it reads it back to you in English. If that app exists, would it be important to be able to read that Japanese? No, it is important to understand what that text is saying. Comprehension is more important than the process of reading.”\n\nAn app that reads Japanese and automatically translates into English as though that is an easy task? As though one language can easily be translated into another, and we can trust a machine to do this for us? Translation is an art.\n\nDoes Mitra also envisage an app that reads English and translates it into Machine English so that we no longer need to read and we merely have to comprehend? The process of reading itself is about comprehension. When one reads, one is not undertaking just a mechanical task that is easily outsourced, yes it is nice to be read to, yes to Jackanory and yes to viewing a play, but this is very different to reading and very different to outsourcing reading to ‘Siri’ or the computerised checkouts at Tesco.\n\nNext Mitra will be saying making love is obsolete because we have the wonderful resource of online pornography and some ‘little devices’ we can attach to our hard drives.\n\nHere are a few words from the poet Bernard Kops taken from his poem ‘Whitechapel Library, Aldgate East’ known as the University of the Ghetto…\n\n…A loner in love with words, but so lost\nand wandering the streets, not counting the cost.\nI emerged out of childhood with nowhere to hide\nwhen a door called my name\nand pulled me inside.\n\nAnd being so hungry I fell on the feast.\nWhitechapel Library, Aldgate East…\n\nAnd Rosenberg also came to get out of the cold\nTo write poems of fire, but he never grew old.\nAnd here I met Chekhov, Tolstoy, Meyerhold.\nI read all their worlds, their dark visions of gold.\n\nThe reference library, where my thoughts were to rage.\nI ate book after book, page after page.\nI scoffed poetry for breakfast and novels for tea.\nAnd plays for my supper. No more poverty.\nWelcome young poet, in here you are free\nto follow your star to where you should be.\n\nThat door of the library was the door into me\n\nAnd Lorca and Shelley said “Come to the feast.”\nWhitechapel Library, Aldgate East.\n\nThis library is now closed.\n\nNow I know Mitra is a provocateur, who believes in machines, but he is not a librarian or a teacher. Most teachers I know value reading highly as a habit they would want for their own children and the children in their classes. This tradition is centred around books. Even when reading to children, one holds the book with respect. A good teacher venerates books far more than the machines of the modern age.\n\nCommunication, whether a dance, towering rhetoric or a tweet, involves a love of language, written, spoken and felt; it is crafted. Just as a pot turned by Bernard Leach is a thing of beauty aided and abetted by a wheel but not made by the machine; we can deploy an inhuman PR machine to communicate for us, but we’d lose so much if we did. Communication is that most human of acts and we learn it first, close to home and its authenticity is always diminished when it is outsourced and many times removed from its first utterance.\n\nTeach the art of rhetoric.\n\nThese arts of reading and human communication are sacrosanct to our understanding of ourselves as bequeathed to us through the years. It is central to the job of parents and teachers to ensure that these arts continue, unsullied by those who believe electronic media can render these arts obsolete and believe they should be one step removed from the child.\n\nDo away with Mitra’s inhuman belief in machines." ]

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[ null, "Take a good look! The woman shown at left is (the former Dr.) Meera Sachdeva, an oncologist who operated the Rose Cancer Center in Summit, Mississippi. She was charged with unsafe medical practices (using dirty needles for IV infusions, diluting chemotherapy agents given to the patients who trusted her with their lives, and bilking Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance out of millions of dollars. You may have met her here earlier. On July 13, she pleaded guilty to fraud. She had previously surrendered her license to practice medicine and had been repeatedly denied bail because she was (rightfully) considered to be a flight risk. The naturalized US citizen routinely traveled to her native India where she has family and considerable assets. $6 Million and some real estate were seized here in the US. Her (apparently considerable) assets in India have not been reported.\n\nMonica Weeks, the owner of Medical Billing Group in Madison, MS, who handled the billing for the Rose Cancer Center also pleaded guilty to fraud. Her attorney said, “The conduct to which Monica Weeks pled guilty today involved nine patient charts and less than $20,000…The facts the government recited to the court as the basis for Monica’s plea do not include any action which jeopardized the health or safety of a single patient. Ms. Weeks has accepted responsibility for her actions, and she and her family look forward to putting this entire ordeal behind them.” His words seem to be a thinly disguised attempt to get the courts to consider a mild sentence for Ms. Weeks, but it is his job to do all he can to help his client. That’s what I’d want MY lawyer to do. So would you.\n\nSurely, Ms. Weeks looks forward to getting the entire ordeal behind them; this is what criminals always say they want. The patients of the Rose Cancer Center wanted to get the ordeal of the cancers and its sometimes extremely harsh treatment behind them, too. Maybe Ms. Weeks did not directly endanger the lives of Sachdeva’s patients, but in my opinion her complicity did, since she knowingly furnished fraudulent information about medical practices and then, according to the justice department, tampered with evidence to hide her guilt. Ms. Weeks is perhaps more culpable for the bad care of the Rose Cancer Center patients than her plea admits; perhaps as culpable as (the former Dr.) Sachdeva. Add to this the fact that, though she only plead guilty to $20,000 of fraud, her work assisted the Rose Cancer Center in defrauding you, me, our government (it is OUR government, folks), and our insurers out of over 15 MILLION dollars. I hope Ms. Weeks gets every opportunity to reflect on her actions while serving a prison sentence. Maybe they will make her the poster child for the hazards of medical billing malfeasance. She is a thief, a felon, and made a choice to deceive others for her own financial gain at the possible cost of other people’s lives. “Getting this entire ordeal” behind her will not change that. Look in the mirror, Ms. Weeks. Do you like what you see? Are you sorry for your crimes? Or, perhaps, you are sorry that your crimes caught up with you? You regrettably chose the path down which you walked. Perhaps your guilty plea to this lesser charge was just because the prosecutors had so much more evidence against you. I suspect that is exactly the case.\n\nBoth Sachdeva and Weeks are awaiting sentencing on October 1.\n\nWhen the evidence is overwhelming, any good lawyer will bargain for reduced charges in exchange for his client’s guilty plea.\n\nI regret I could not find photographs of Weeks and McCoskey that I could verify were theirs, or you would see them here. I’d like to see Ms. Weeks at the supermarket, perhaps. Maybe I’d point her out and say to everyone within earshot, “This is the woman who pled guilty to merely defrauding the government of $20,000 and falsifying just nine medical charts.”\n\nShe might sigh and say, “I just want to get this behind me.” If she ever were to be diagnosed with cancer, I’m sure she will be very vigilant about verifying that she is receiving the proper doses of her chemotherapy. She may even hope that the billing agent for the clinic she chooses for her treatment might report any irregularities rather than profit from turning a blind eye, then trying to hide the evidence.\n\nAnd SACHDEVA?? Her nefariously wicked behavior is beyond consideration.\n\nI also wonder where were the nurses at the Rose Cancer Center who knowingly reused old needles for IV infusions? Why didn’t they refuse to do so? If you were a nurse there, I’d like to hear your explanation. Were you afraid you might lose your job? This practice was not a simple mistake; this was purely wicked. Some nurses may not have known, but others certainly did. Which one were you?\n\nIf you think I don’t know what I am talking about, please enlighten me.\n\nSachdeva certainly made an indefensible bad turn. I wonder, at what point, though, did Weeks decide to participate in fraudulent activities? I wonder what the nature of her reimbursement from Sachdeva’s clinic was? Did she start out with the intent to deceive? Did a little leaven get to the whole loaf? At what point did her personal integrity fail her? If she were not caught, would she still be at it?\n\nThese are things we should all ponder about ourselves and why we must always be on guard to preserve and protect our integrity. Ms. Weeks is a human being, and none of us are incapable of making the same mistakes as she. How far would we allow ourselves to go? Would we refuse to continue our fraud? Would we turn ourselves in? Or would we continue to enjoy the fruits of our fraudulent behavior, behavior which we knew was damaging to the lives of innocent, seriously ill people?\n\nUnfortunately, Weeks did not blow the whistle. Nor did McCoskey. The whistle blower was a hospital in McComb, Mississippi, that treated several of the Rose Cancer Center’s patients who presented with the same bacterial infection and reported this to the State Department of Health which investigated the clinic for unsafe health practices, which then led to the DOJ investigation. Had this not happened, I suspect the fraud would still be continuing, and Medical Billing Group would still be doing business as usual while cancer patients would be continuing to receive diluted doses of their chemotherapy agents and being infused with dirty, previously used IV kits.\n\nWhat a terrible indictment of the depravity of humanity.\n\nAs a cancer patient, do you think this has made me a bit angry? Excessively so?\n\nI have not yet begun to be angry. I am actually holding back. The fury this arouses in me is a poison I had best not drink of too deeply. May the Lord show His most profound grace to those patients of the Rose Cancer Center, and may He have mercy on those who mistreated them so. I reckon the mercy I would show would be a bit South of the Lord’s, but then again, that is what His grace is all about. It is a wonderful mystery to me.\n\nI am done for now, but will report back after their sentencing. It could be that I am infuriated all over again. Hopefully, justice will be served.\n\nBelow is the text of the US Attorney’s office announcement.\n\nSachdeva, who owned and operated Rose Cancer Center in Summit, pled guilty to submitting claims for chemotherapy services that were supposedly rendered when she was out of the country. Weeks, who owned and operated The Medical Billing Group in Madison, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud by covering up false claims made by Sachdeva that were scheduled for an audit.\n\nAccording to the indictment in this case, Sachdeva is alleged to have billed for more chemotherapy drugs than she actually purchased from drug suppliers from 2007 to 2011. During the plea hearing, the Assistant United States Attorney told the court that if the case had gone to trial, the government would have proven that “[t]he defendant would prepare…chemotherapy treatments by injecting the prescribed chemotherapy drugs into a bag of fluid that would then be connected to the patient via a ‘chest port.’ Each patient believed that they were receiving an amount of chemotherapy medicine that was equal to the amount being billed to their respective health care benefit programs. The defendant was not providing each patient with the fully prescribed dosage of many of the billed chemotherapy drugs.”\n\nThe case was investigated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." ]

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[ "Is It Time To Give Up and Just Accept Yourself As You Are?", null, "My answer: yes and no.\n\nIf you’ve been struggling with shyness or social anxiety for years, then I’m sure you’ve had some depressing thoughts before.\n\nAnd if you’ve had any of these thoughts, then I’m sure you’ve also thought to yourself…\n\n“Maybe I Should Accept This Is How I Am”\n\nNow, I agree that accepting yourself is important.\n\nWhen you don’t accept yourself, then shyness and social anxiety become ten times more difficult to overcome.\n\nBecause when you’re not comfortable with yourself, then it’s impossible to be comfortable and relaxed around other people.\n\nWhen you don’t accept yourself, then you’ll always feel anxious and nervous around people, and you won’t even know why.\n\nYou’ll find it hard to truly connect with people and form close friendships.\n\nAnd getting a girlfriend or boyfriend will be a HUGE uphill battle. (When you can’t open yourself up and you can’t “be there” for someone, then what chance do you have?)\n\nOn the other hand, when you are accepting and comfortable with yourself, then issues like insecurity, self-consciousness and a fear of rejection go away almost automatically.\n\nPeople who have the deepest self acceptance tend to be the most socially confident. Even if they don’t “deserve” to be.\n\nHave you ever seen some arrogant, stupid, unattractive person who has a lot of confidence? (If you’ve ever worked in customer service, or watched a reality TV show, then I’m sure you have.)\n\nHere’s one example of someone who feels confident even when she doesn’t know what she’s talking about:\n\nSo self acceptance and comfort with yourself is the ultimate cure to issues like shyness and social anxiety.\n\nNow here’s where most people get it wrong…\n\nAccepting Yourself and Giving Up Are NOT The Same Thing\n\nMany shy and socially anxious people think that “accepting themselves” is the same as giving up.\n\nThey think that if they don’t have a girlfriend or boyfriend yet, they should “accept themselves” and stop trying to find one.\n\nIf they don’t have friends, they should “accept themselves” and stop trying to meet new people.\n\nIf they aren’t confident, they should “accept themselves” and stop trying to do things outside of their comfort zone.\n\nBasically, they think they need to give up trying to improve themselves to stop feeling bad about themselves.\n\nDon’t make this mistake yourself.\n\nCarl Roger’s Secret To Self Confidence", null, "In 2006, a survey was sent out to hundreds of therapists. It asked: “Over the last 25 years, which figures have most influenced your practice?”.\n\nCarl Rogers was a man who changed our understanding of therapy and psychology. My favorite quote of his is:\n\n“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”\n– Carl R. Rogers\n\nCarl Rogers said that for a person to “grow”, they needed an environment that provides them with genuineness (openness and self-disclosure), acceptance (being seen with unconditional positive regard), and empathy (being listened to and understood).\n\nAnd he also said if someone didn’t get that type of environment growing up, then they would usually have low self-worth and confidence. So it was the therapist’s job to give them that environment.\n\nBasically, he said to focus on making the client accept themselves. And then, once they accepted themselves … only then would they be able to change.\n\nA couple days ago, I was watching a TV show with my brother.\n\nIt’s a nerdy TV show called “Doctor Who” that my brother’s a big fan of.", null, "The show is about this “doctor” who’s a time traveller. He travels through time in his spaceship shaped like a police box, saving people from evil aliens.\n\nAnd every 2-3 years, the doctor regenerates. This means the old actor basically dies in the show and he’s replaced by a new actor. It’s like a rebirth for the “doctor” in the show.\n\nSo, in this episode we were watching, the doctor “regenerated” again. But, before he died, he had an interesting speech. He said some word which I think really apply to people looking to overcome shyness and social anxiety.\n\nWe all change. When you think about it, we’re all different people all through our lives, and that’s ok. You’ve got to keep moving so long as you remember the people that you used to be.\n\nThink about how this quote can apply to you.\n\nAccept yourself, but don’t use acceptance as an excuse to avoid fear and discomfort. Realize that you can change more of your personality than you think … if you know what to do.\n\nLet Me Show You Exactly What To Do Step-By-Step…\n\nThat’s why I created The Shyness and Social Anxiety System 2. In it, I’ll walk you through specific techniques that you can use to instantly eliminate your insecurities, self consciousness and nervousness.\n\nThis new 2nd edition of my system has an all-new section called “Becoming Comfortable With Yourself” where I reveal my latest insights into this important topic. Once you listen to this section, you’ll instantly find your old anxiety and tension around people melting away.\n\nYou’ll eliminates the quiet, awkward, and nervous energy that used to make people avoid and ignore you. You’ll find people being magnetically drawn to you because of simple little inner changes in the way you feel about yourself. You’ll finally have people making an effort to talk to you, be your friend and invite you out to places.\n\nNote: The 2nd edition of my system isn’t for sale yet. The new sales page will be up in about 2 weeks and the new system will sell for around $50. That’s why it’s a good reason to buy the 1st edition of my system now — because when the new one comes out you’ll get a free update." ]

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[ null, "At 4:30 PM on July 28, 1932, General Douglas MacArthur led a small army composed of some 200 cavalry, 300 infantry, and five tanks down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. Its mission: to clear Washington of an estimated 8000 or so World War I veterans, the remnants of a much larger group (perhaps as many as 25,000) who had begun assembling in the capital in May. This Bonus Expeditionary Force, as it was called, had come from all over the country to demand that Congress immediately pay their service “bonus” not due until 1945. Congress refused and President Hoover ordered out the Army.\n\nWithin an hour the troops with drawn sabers and some 1500 tear gas bombs had cleared the downtown areas. After pausing for dinner, the Army moved across the bridge to Anacostia Flats, the site of the shantytown Camp Marks, which had served as home for the majority of the BEFers and their families. By midnight the camp had been burned and the destitute bonus marchers driven out of the city and left to fend for themselves. Nearly 6000 regrouped in the next few days at the Ideal Amusement Park in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, but with little food or water and no prospects for improved conditions, this last group dispersed by August 6th.\n\nThe whole incident, from its spontaneous beginnings to its violent end, was a curious moment in American history. The country was in the grip of the Great Depression. One-fourth of the people belonged to families which had no regular income; over 13 million Americans were unemployed. Those fortunate enough to still have jobs generally earned substantially less than they had in the 1920s. In an age before federal relief programs, the little public welfare available on the state or local level was totally inadequate. The frustrations of the veterans were understandable, the reaction of the federal government to their sit-in much less so. In fact, as a recent historian observed: “Perhaps no other incident better symbolizes the utter inability of Herbert Hoover’s administration to understand and to cope with the unprecedented problems of the Great Depression.”\n\nVeterans’ benefits have probably been around since the beginnings of organized warfare. In our century, the rationale is two-fold: first, to reward those who have risked life and limb in defending our country, and second, to narrow the gap between the earnings of civilians and those of soldiers during the war years (assuming always that civilian workers made more than servicemen). American soldiers in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War all benefited from a system of bonuses—generally grants of land. Such benefits posed no real financial burden on the government. The number of men eligible was small and land was plentiful. After the Civil War, however, the cost of veterans’ benefits skyrocketed. Increased pensions were a great plank in a party’s platform and successive Congresses enacted more and more generous legislation. By 1893, veterans’ benefits amounted to 43¢ of every $1.00 spent by the federal government.\n\nWith the outbreak of World War I, the government was concerned about holding down benefit costs. As a result, Treasury Secretary McAdoo drafted a scheme whereby wives of servicemen received $15 a month, $10 for a first child, $7.50 for a second, and $5 for each additional child up to a monthly maximum of $50. This was financed by withholding half of each enlisted man’s pay (later changed to a maximum of $15 a month). The government made up any difference between the two amounts. Similarly a schedule of payments for death or disablement was established and life insurance was subsidized so that servicemen could purchase insurance at roughly the same rate that civilians could. Setting aside the cost of the insurance programs, by the time the allotments and allowances ended in July 1921, the government had actually collected more from servicemen than it had paid out.\n\nDespite such prudent planning, the war was no sooner over than Congress began to consider other bonus schemes. Bonus legislation was not enacted until 1924, almost six years after the armistice, and then only after both houses overrode President Coolidge’s veto. The exact provisions of that bill aren’t important except to note that it provided a government paid-for insurance certificate, based on one’s service pay plus interest, which a veteran could either borrow against or take as a lump-sum payment in twenty years. Not much happened for the next six years, but then as the Depression began to spread, veterans lobbied for an immediate payment of their bonus certificates. They wanted now what they were scheduled to get in 1945.\n\nCongress responded in February 1931, again after a veto by President Hoover, by offering the veterans the opportunity to borrow more of their certificates (50% instead of the original 22½%) at a lower interest rate (cut from 6% to 4½%). Even this was not enough and the bonus issue found a powerful champion in Wright Patman, a Democratic congressman. Patman pushed for an immediate payment of the bonus, arguing that it would help restore the nation’s troubled economy. President Hoover stood firmly against any accelerated payment schedule.", null, "The BEF was born of the veterans’ frustrations—why not carry their cause to Washington? Apparently the first plan was hatched in Portland, Oregon, in the Spring of 1931. One of the earliest to sign was Walter W. Waters, who was eventually chosen as “commander” of the BEF. The initial group of veterans, numbering less than 300, left Portland by hitching rides on boxcars in May. An “advance” man was sent ahead to drum up support for the army from local civic and veteran groups. Everything went smoothly until the contingent reached the east bank of the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Here railroad executives, local police, tried to end the free ride across the country. Such confrontations only attracted more national attention and in the end the 300-man Portland group was trucked across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland by each state’s National Guard.\n\nSomewhere along the lines the veterans’ plans shifted — this would not be another march which ended once it reached its geographical objective. Instead the veterans would stay in Washington until the bonus had been paid. The idea of a national sit-in caught on and unemployed veterans from across the country began the trek to Washington. The actual number of those who arrived has been estimated at 25,000.", null, "From what little statistical information we have, we can guess at the composition of the Bonus Army. Most were “average” workingmen who had been thrown out of work by the Great Depression. Most came from industrial states and urban areas. Most had served in the Army as privates. Although there were some Communists among the veterans, their influence was minimal. In sum, the overwhelming majority were exactly what they claimed to be—unemployed ex-servicemen, “100 percent Americans.”", null, "Some brought their families.\n\nWashington would have been totally unprepared if it had not been for Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, the chief of the District of Columbia police force. Glassford argued that a prepared city which could feed and house the veterans would prevent riots. It was Glassford in fact who spoke to the first group of demonstrators and who suggested the formation of the Bonus Expeditionary Force. His plan was to impose a military structure on the organization and thus have clearly defined lines of authority and discipline. It worked.\n\nThe veterans were housed in vacant buildings around the city and a main camp was established on the Anacostia Flats just across the river from downtown Washington. This site was named Camp Marks after a sympathetic police commander of a neighboring district. Food came mostly from donations. As you can see from the photographs here, shelters were constructed out of whatever material was available—tar paper, parts of old automobiles, wooden crates.", null, "While the veterans gathered to rally support, members of Congress tried to get an immediate payment bill passed. The Senate, however, voted against the bill on June 17th. Despite official fears, no violence took place, but the BEF did not disband and return home. Glassford was successful in getting many of the men to leave but the government was impatient and afraid and so moved to speed things up. Police were ordered to clear the veterans housed in the vacant buildings around the Capitol. On July 28 the work began but by noon hundreds of BEFers had gathered to protest the forced evacuation. Violence broke out and two veterans were killed. Hoover ordered the U. S. Army in and the story ends where we began.", null, "The political aftermath of the BEF incident was interesting. Hoover was defeated by FDR—not because of the bonus issue—but no doubt it did seriously undercut his support among veterans. During the first year of FDR’s administration the bonus was not an issue. In fact, some $300 million was cut from WWI veterans’ benefits in an economy move. Bills kept reappearing in Congress, though, and finally in January 1936 a bonus bill passed over yet another presidential veto and the veterans finally got their immediate cash payment.\n\nEvents of the 1930s are not well documented on postcards. The postcard craze had long since passed and no doubt few people had money enough to buy cards. The nation was too preoccupied with its economic survival. The Bonus Army’s shantytown was hardly an attractive subject for view cards. So far though I’ve found two groups of cards connected with the BEF. The first is a set of commercially printed cards done by C. O. Buckingham, Inc. These black and white half-tones on a cream-colored stock were published by Clinton O. Buckingham, 19 T Street NE, Washington, D.C. Twenty-two titles are known, all of which are views of life at Camp Marks. The Camp and its residents were favorite subjects of photographers.\n\nIn his autobiographical account BEF: The Whole Story of the Bonus Army, Commander Waters observes: “Any camera that was set up within a hundred feet of the camp attracted a rush of men. One way to have gotten the BEF out of town would have been to send all the camera men, like a league of Hamelin pipers, ten miles out of town and to have ordered them to set up their cameras.”\n\nI thought for a while that the BEF might have used post cards as a way of propagandizing their cause, but I’ve found no evidence to support the idea. Waters does not mention postcards, although he does write about how businessmen tried to get the BEFers to sell “foot powder, badges, booklets.” I read through the few surviving issues of The B.E.F. News, a short-lived camp newspaper, but again no mention of postcards appears. I’ve seen no other views of the Washington demonstration—no protestors gathered on the streets, no cartoons, no view of the Army’s action.\n\nThe second group of cards are real photocards showing the encampment at Johnstown, Pennsylvania—generally misspelled Johnston. Considering the fact that the BEFers were there only nine days—from July 29th at the earliest to August 6th at the latest—these are probably even more remarkable. Three of this group carry the name Doubleday, perhaps the photographer, but if so, he was apparently not a local one.\n\nProfessor George Miller, University of Delaware, an accomplished collector and a frequent contributor to a national postcard magazine, has granted Postcard History permission to republish his writings from the 1980s and ‘90s. We are proud to offer his work to our audience. His postcard history lessons are timeless!\nPrevPreviousIndependence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania\nNextBlowing Rock and the Green Park InnNext\n3 Comments\nOldest\nNewest Most Voted\nInline Feedbacks\nView all comments\nHoward\n\nAlways a welcome sight when the postcard articles appear in my mailbox. I wonder if the authors of these articles get paid? This particular one required research and lots of energy to produce. Grateful for those that keep it running! What a delight it is in my world.\n\nBoth of these are interesting series to collect, and this background history here is remarkable, and good to read again. Thanks very much for all of this social history!!\n\nThe idea of turning cars into rolling advertisements for the cause obviously caught on!" ]

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[ "\"Quest of the Keys\" was recently released as an audio book on Audible.com. The inspirational young adult fantasy fiction book is narrated by B.J. Harrison.", null, "\"Quest of the Keys\" is incredibly polished. It is a great pleasure and privilege to be a part of this work.\n\nB.J. Harrison, a multi-awarded narrator, has recently completed the audiobook version of Scotty Sanders’ fantasy fiction story “Quest of the Keys.” Harrison, known for “The Classic Tales Podcast” with eight million downloads, can speak 20 international languages. “’Quest of the Keys’ is incredibly polished,” says Harrison. “It is a great pleasure and privilege to be a part of this work.\"\n\nThe story revolves around Decklen, a young man who narrowly escapes a life of slavery--and certain death--in the caves of the Minca Silver Mines where chained slaves labored to their death. Decklen seeks help from the only man strong enough to provide it—the elder of Leonesse. Instead of strategy or weapons, the Elder gave him a locked golden cylinder containing an ancient scroll. Decklen must first find the key to unlock the scroll. He and his friend Camberly must search for the eight hidden keys that will unlock secrets that will save the entire kingdom. The audio book allows listeners to hear the characters come alive as Decklen and Camberly go back to the mines to search for Camberly’s brother who was left behind. As they work to free Camberly’s brother and find the eight keys, Decklen and Camberly find themselves on an unexpected path of danger and discovery.\n\n“Quest of the Keys” is a reader's journey towards personal growth, responsibility, integrity, honor, leadership development, and clear purpose. The book was used in the Ouachita Parish middle schools as part of the pilot English language arts curriculum. The book has teacher resources available to give instructors in-depth background material relating to vocabulary, comprehension, written expressions, and response. The curriculum is currently being used in a growing number of school systems across the country, including in home schools. The curriculum is praised for helping students deal with real issues, such as bullying and critical thinking.\n\nTo learn more about the \"Quest of the Keys\" story, visit questofthekeys.com.\n\nAbout Scotty Sanders\nScotty Sanders has been leading organizations for thirty years, first as a CEO for a multimillion-dollar company and then as an executive for a non-profit organization. Scotty has been recognized as the Louisiana Entrepreneur of the Year, Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year, and has been noted in trade magazines for his success in the business world. Scotty is a sought after speaker who has traveled both nationally and internationally to deliver speeches that are passionate, relevant, and challenging. He is also an author of books, training materials, and published articles. He and his wife, Cindy, live near Dallas, Texas.\n\nAbout B.J. Harrison\nB.J. Harrison has recorded over 200 audiobooks in his career. His work has received over 700 five-star ratings and reviews at the iTunes Music Store and Audible.com. His weekly audio podcast, The Classic Tales Podcast, has had over 9 million downloads.\n\nSince B.J. began his career over 6 years ago, he has brought the immortal words of Poe, Doyle and Dickens to life in a way modern listeners have found appealing. Now, 9 million downloads and 330 episodes later, he is hired by publishers and authors to bring their characters to life. Educators are also using his free recordings in English classes around the world.\n\nThe Launch of Quest of the Keys on Audible press release" ]

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[ null, null, null, null, null, null, "She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally, decided to walk through the door. With hardship goeth ease. The Arabic embroidered itself across her thoughts, an endless pattern of warmth and quiet. The third menstruation had ended. The towels from the proscribed shower were drying next to the radiator, she had finished the late afternoon prayer, and time for the evening prayer was soon.\n\nRamadan had been barely a month gone when she had bathed him, wrapped him in the white cloth, and watched around the door frame as the brothers took him up in their arms to carry him to the burial. She had preferred to walk the ten blocks home, through the tired, late summer heat. It had given her time to shed the stainless steel smell of the little funeral home.\n\nShe almost forgot that the little back porch tilted slightly down and over to the right; for a moment balance tried to escape her, then she straightened herself and caught it back. She paused, let the little ball of fear unwind itself, then gently made her way down the chipped steps.\n\nNow she was standing three steps out into the yard. An ich of sugar crisp snow took down the opening words of her new story. Moving air pulled her cloak, and even through the covering she could feel the cold on her cheek. Only three months, but it seemed so strange to be outdoors, to not have walls and furniture to direct her movements. She stepped further out into the yard, paused again, and looked upwards. Crows. They spilled across the air, a stream of shadows silent as thought, as open to interpretation as memory. Have they not seen the birds above them spreading out their wings and closing them? She laughed, suddenly, joyfully, then raised her arms, the black fabric billowing out around her. Naught upholdeth them save the Beneficent. The wind strengthened, she tilted her hands to catch its rush, for sweet moments the ground slid away sideways from beneath her, she drew her feet up beneath the hem of her robe. Still the crows sailed across the darkening sky, bands of rose and scarlet marked the horizon, and just above them one bright star and the new crescent made their sudden appearance.\n\nThen, slowly, she lowered her arms. The winter ground welcomed her back as graciously as it had released her. She smiled at her feathered sisters, but did not try again to join them. It was time to pray, and then eat dinner. Still smiling she strode briskly back into the house and clicked the door shut,\n\nIs the reward for good [anything] but good? (Sura Rahman:60)\n\nAt home in my corner of the world\n\nHave you lived here all your life? Not yet...\n\na blog of art, photography and all the adventures inbetween\n\nThe Person Next to You\n\nEthereal Dream\nfor the love of nike\n\ntales from a conflicted sneakerhead\n\nMy Niqab Is My Beauty\n\nA Blog About The Niqab and Islam" ]

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[ null, "[It’s less about the fullness of the cup and more about just having a cup. A study finds that students who save between $1 and $500 for college are four times more likely to graduate than students with no savings at all. An article in the National Journal (shared below with permission), A College Savings Account for Every Child, shines a light on states that have developed pilot programs that open savings accounts for low-income children. Featured is Ascend Fellow Reggie Bicha, executive director of the Colorado Department of Human Services who, in the coming year, will pilot a savings account program for 2,000 low-income students in the Colorado Preschool Program. This two-generation strategy is a stake in the ground to encourage both children and their parents to think and plan for their own and their children’s postsecondary education. For further background, see Children's Savings Accounts on work of Ascend Fellows Reggie Bicha and Andrea Levere. Frances Robinson, Ascend at the Aspen Institute.]\n\nFrom: The National Journal\n\nStates, cities, and counties hope that starting savings accounts for kids will encourage parents to plan for their children's postsecondary education. The amount families save may not matter, says Reggie Bicha, executive director of the Colorado Department of Human Services (which is partnering with two other state agencies on the pilot program). \"What matters is that they learn early about the importance of saving—that they see college as a reality in their children's future.\"\n\nIndeed, research suggests that even small nest eggs can increase the odds that a child will earn a degree. A 2013 University of Kansas analysis of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, a long-running survey, found that low- and middle-income students who had saved between $1 and $500 for college were over three times more likely to enroll and four times more likely to graduate than students with no savings.\n\nResearchers at Washington University in St. Louis are conducting a randomized controlled trial to test the effect of giving newborns 529 accounts. Thirty months after the experiment began, 16 percent of families that received $1,000 in a state-owned account had opened up 529 accounts of their own, and about 8 percent had started to save in them.\n\nThose percentages may sound small, but in most states only about 3 to 4 percent of children under 18 have a 529 account in their name, says Michael Sherraden, director of the Center for Social Development at Washington University. Families given a state-owned account were more likely to open (and use) an account of their own. In general, wealthier and more-educated parents were more likely to begin and use accounts, but the researchers also found that receiving a state account inspired some less-well-off families to open accounts. Children who received accounts in the study showed better social and emotional development by age 4 than those who didn't, and their mothers were less likely to develop symptoms of depression.\n\nThe idea that the government should establish savings accounts for all children has been circulating since the 1990s. In 2005, a bipartisan group of senators proposed creating savings accounts for every newborn, but the idea didn't become law. While support at the federal level has stalled, local programs have taken off—in San Francisco; in Cuyahoga County, Ohio; across the KIPP charter-school network.\n\nIt's still not clear how best to design these accounts or what level of public, private, or family contributions will make the biggest difference. Bicha's team has proposed a three-year pilot in Colorado that—like many similar programs—would operate as a public-private partnership. The state would open 529 accounts for children attending state-funded preschool, and private donors would match a portion of family savings with donations. (To be eligible for the Colorado preschool program, children must be from disadvantaged families.)\n\nBicha hopes to prove that the link between saving for college and doing well in school will hold for very young children. He wants \"to show that children who have a children's savings account … will be more likely to be prepared for kindergarten on our kindergarten assessment, that they'll be more likely to read in third grade when we do our third-grade reading scores.\" Most of all, he wants more parents to believe that their preschooler is college bound." ]

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[ "The Federal Reserve continues to signal that it will start raising interest rates later this year, according to yesterday’s FOMC statement. But the Treasury market begs to differ. The benchmark 10-year yield fell to 1.73% yesterday, the lowest since last May. Notably, the 2-year yield, considered to be the most sensitive to rate expectations, is also trending lower again, slipping to 0.50% yesterday.\n\nAlthough the Fed remained vague about the timing of the first rate hike, yesterday’s statement signaled that the economy was strong enough to warrant a change in policy in the near term: “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace.” The Treasury market, however, seems to be pricing in a more-nuanced future by way of lower yields.", null, "The market’s implied inflation forecast, based on the yield spread between nominal and inflation-indexed Treasuries, have been relatively stable in recent days, but the meager rise from earlier this month reversed course slightly yesterday. As a result, expectations via the 5- and 10-year Treasury forecasts dipped on Wednesday, hovering near the lowest levels in several years.\n\nThe Fed addressed the recent slide in the Treasury market’s inflation outlook by dismissing it. “Market-based measures of inflation compensation have declined substantially in recent months; survey-based measures of longer-term inflation expectations have remained stable.” Presumably that’s a reference to the University of Michigan’s survey data, which shows that this month’s five-year outlook for inflation among consumers is 2.8%, unchanged from December and near the highest levels over the past year.\n\nBut there’s a glitch: consumer expectations for inflation for the next year stumbled in January, falling to 2.4% from 2.8% in the previous month. Is that a sign that consumers will be downsizing expectations on pricing pressure in the months to come? The Treasury market is effectively betting “yes.”\n\nThe alternative view, which is also the Fed’s view, is that market-based inflation forecasts suffer from a global perspective on pricing pressure. Because the US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, Treasury prices aren’t solely a reflection of expectations for US inflation. As such, the Fed is inclined to dismiss the market’s view on inflation, or so one can argue. As a result, Janet Yellen and company are telling us that a rate hike is still coming at some point in the near term—anytime from June on out.\n\nNonetheless, the Fed statement reminded that “the Committee judges that it can be patient in beginning to normalize the stance of monetary policy.” What does that mean? Perhaps the Treasury market’s forecasts hold a clue after all." ]

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[ null, "Hama, SANA- Marking the 47th anniversary of October Liberation War, a number of injured Syrian Arab Army personnel participated in a walk with wheelchairs from Aleppo to Hama province.\n\nThe walk was sponsored by Tourism Ministry and organized by Joel Media Foundation.\n\nThe participants told SANA reporter that their participation in the walk is a message for the wounded that despite off what they have lost of their bodies in facing terrorism, but they haven’t lost their determination, rather they became more insistent on taking part, along with the Syrian citizens, in defending Syria and completing its reconstruction process.\n\nChairman of the board of directors of Joel Foundation Kinana Alloush said that 10 wounded Syrian Army personnel took part in the walk which was kicked off under the motto “MY Syrian, My Identity”.\n\nAlloush added that the walk, which started from al-Hayat roundabout in Aleppo city to al-Assi Square in Hama city, took about 10 hours.\n\nAlloush stressed that the Foundation will organize a number of similar walks among the Syrian provinces to express the firm will of the injured Syrian Arab Army personnel.", null ]

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[ null, "Around 2,500 people gathered at an ISKCON outreach program in Kandy, Sri Lanka\n\nA revolutionary public program was organized in a Sinhalese area in a town near Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.\n\nJust a few years ago, when the civil war between Sinhalese (Buddhist) and Tamils was raging, nobody could have imagined that a Hare Krishna program would be held in the heart of Buddhist culture in Kandy.\n\nAt the beginning we were little skeptical but later on when more than 500 hundred people joined their public chanting the ISKCON devotees’ anxiety went away.\n\nFinally around 2,500 people including devotees from Australia, India, Kuwait, Slovenia, England, Switzerland, and different parts of Sri Lanka participated in the program. The nature’s scenery there was already very beautiful and the chanting of the holy name made it fully perfect.\n\nBhakti Vikasa Swami was the chief guest. He lectured about the suffering in this material world and the universal path of Krishna consciousness. The lecture was translated into both Tamil and Sinhalese languages.\n\nLater, Bhakti Vikasa Swami called on the stage, his “white elephant” disciple Vasudeva Datta das, who addressed the public in Tamil language and captured the hearts of the audience.\n\nThe program was broadcast by Shakthi TV- the most prominent satellite channel of Sri Lanka.\n\nMany dignitaries including the Governor of Central Province, the Deputy Minister of Plantation, the Police Headquarters Inspector, and the Hindu Culture Ministry District representative offered their respects to Bhakti Vikasa Swami and received Srila Prabhupada’s books as special gifts.\n\nAnother highlight of the program was the Bilvamangala Thakura drama performance. Under the direction of Damodar Gauranga das (Dhanush) from Chennai, students of Musical College from Batticaloa made the audience completely oblivious to the external world by their performance. The strong spiritual message broke through all national, cultural and religious barriers.\n\nISKCON devotees were happy to see such a welcoming response by Sinhalese and Tamil people." ]

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[ null, "Finishing in 64th place might not, in some instances, seem like much of an achievement. However, the worthiness of such a finish depends entirely upon how many horses, so to speak, are in the race.\n\n“If you think about it, 64th in the entire country, that’s very good actually,” says Renae Scott, director of marketing and communications for JobsOhio.\n\nAccording to Site Selection magazine’s 2017 Governor’s Cup rankings, which were released earlier this month, Portsmouth ranked 64 out of every so-called “micropolitan” in the country. Overall, Ohio earned the No. 2 spot for total projects for the fourth consecutive year, and third in projects per capita, making Ohio the only state to place in the top three of both categories.\n\nCincinnati and Columbus both placed in the Top 10 list for Tier 1 Metros (population more than 1 million). Akron, Dayton and Toledo earned Top 10 rankings as well in the Tier 2 Metros category for cities with populations between 200,000 and 1 million.\n\nOhio micropolitans, defined as cities of between 10,000 and 50,000 people, earned 18 spots in the Top 100 micropolitans in the country. For the fourth straight year, Findlay was named the No. 1 overall micropolitan, with the cities of Wooster, Ashland and Tiffin all placing in the Top 10 of top producing micropolitans. Again, Portsmouth came in at 64.\n\n“Companies in a variety of sectors are consistently choosing to invest throughout the entire state of Ohio, regardless of community size,” says JobsOhio President and Chief Investment Officer John Minor. “These strong results demonstrate how our close collaboration with state, regional and local partners helps us to better deliver Ohio’s valuable assets to help businesses thrive.”\n\nRobert Horton is Scioto County economic development director. He says the area is actively seeking economic growth in a variety of ways. He seems to enjoy fishing metaphors.\n\n“We’ve got plenty of lines in the water, and we’re angling for anything and everything,” Horton says.\n\nAs he has in the past, Horton talks about bringing the county and Portsmouth, Scioto County’s largest city, together. For too long, he adds, local politics have hurt development. “It affects us in a big way.” Horton continues, talking in the same vein about the reorganization of the Southern Ohio Port Authority. “It’s an avenue for economic development,” he adds, but notes the authority had been stripped of some of its management duties, which were turned over to the county.\n\nAlthough he declines to identify the potential new businesses involved, Horton says the county is actively talking with several entities.\n\n“We’re doing some talking, and there is some interest,” the director continues, adding two of the entities doing the talking currently are located overseas. “We’re trying to be very active in drawing businesses to this area.”\n\nIn the past, SOPA and county officials bragged they are ready to take advantage of the coming arrival of the Southern Ohio Veterans Memorial Highway.\n\nThe $634 million project was slated for completion in November of this year. A state spokesperson recently confirmed the project is ahead of schedule, though she declined to say by how much, adding an announcement should arrive by early summer.\n\nRegarding the arrival of the new highway, also known as the Portsmouth Bypass, Horton talks a lot about how the highway sits in relation to the county airport in Minford. Horton notes the highway is part of a much larger plan dating back to the late 1950s.\n\n“The county airport is right in the middle of that,” Horton says.\n\nHorton further mentions a new sewer plant built in the Minford area as well as extension of an important road in the same area. The work was or is being done to help attract new industry to this portion of Southern Ohio.\n\nThere appears to be plenty of geographic room for growth in the county. A website of the Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth lists at least eight large sites in Scioto County, reaching up to 113 acres, available for commercial development. A spokesperson for the partnership, Donna Hrezo, said some information on the website dates to 2016, but she believes most of that land is still available.\n\nHi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Fishing for business. Here is a link to that story: http://www.communitycommon.com/news/5524/fishing-for-business-2" ]

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[ "In a business where family tradition tends to matter, Chris Fletcher stepped up Wednesday to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps to lead production of the Jack Daniel’s whiskey brand.\n\nFletcher, 39, is the grandson of former Jack Daniel’s master distiller Frank Bobo, who served in the role for more than two decades until retiring in 1989. Fletcher’s boyhood home was about three miles from the distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, where Jack Daniel’s is produced.\n\n“I couldn’t be more excited to be in this role,” Fletcher said. “It’s such a special place from a distilling and whiskey-making standpoint.”\n\nLarry Combs, the distillery’s senior vice president and general manager, said Fletcher “represents the generations of families who have worked and continue to work” at the distillery.", null, null ]

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[ null, "It’s been a tricky past few years for HappyFresh, the startup seeking to bring Instacart-like grocery deliveries to Southeast Asia. It’s been through a series of rebuilding measures, but there’s light at the end of the tunnel after it announced a $20 million Series C.\n\nLaunched in 2015, HappyFresh quickly raised $12 million to expand its vision of digital deliveries across Southeast Asia. In late 2016, however, the tough economics of its business saw it pull out of two markets, as it raised an undisclosed Series B. It then started 2017 with a new CEO and an effort to become financially sustainable.\n\nToday, the service is active in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia where it works with supermarkets and other retailers to let customers order groceries online. Same-day delivery is provided by HappyFresh staff — the target is a one-hour window and the process is handled via its website and mobile apps.\n\nHappyFresh has been pretty quiet of late but today it piped up to disclose its Series C, which is led by the Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund — a joint fund between South Korean financial firm Mirae and Line parent Naver — with participation from Line Ventures, Singha Ventures from Thailand and Grab Ventures, the investment arm of ride-hailing giant Grab. Other investors include Samena Capital from the Middle East, Vertex Ventures, Sinar Mas Digital Ventures (SMDV), 500 Startups and BeeNext.\n\nGrab’s investment came last year — after HappyFresh joined as its inaugural platform partner — and HappyFresh CEO Guillem Segarra said the company decided to “opportunistically put a round together” since it had interest from others.\n\n“Our vision has always been to be in every single household in Southeast Asia and to democratize grocery delivery,” Segarra told TechCrunch in an interview. “I believe that over the next five years, the grocery industry will change more than last 50 and that’s driven by data and e-commerce.”\n\nSpecifically, he said that the company plans to use the new capital to double down on technology, which includes increased personalization for customers when they are shopping as well as more efficient logistics. Segarra also revealed that there are plans to kick back into expansion mode, albeit in a different way to how HappyFresh launched new markets in the past.\n\n“When we look at expansion, we’re going to be very careful and go to those cities where we feel there’s a long-term profitability path [while we are also] making sure that before we go there we understand the appetite for our service,” he explained.\n\n“Now it’s a very market-driven approach [to expansion] rather than to just put a flag on the map… you’ll see small rollouts into markets that make sense, we’re not in a rush,” he added.\n\nIndeed, Segarra claimed that the company is already profitable in the markets that it operates in. Aside from initial cost-cutting, Segarra explained that the new focus on sustainability has come from focusing not only on technology and the retailers that HappyFresh works with, but also front end partners, like Grab, that help create demand for its service among consumers.\n\n“We learned a lot [from the past retrenchment and] for the last two years we focused on our core markets. You have to have the right set of partners, that’s from supermarkets to the top funnel that brings you traffic. We believe we have the right set of partners at the top of the funnel [and we will] go to new markets when we have enough firepower for the long run,” he explained.\n\nHappyFresh’s funding comes at a time of crisis for its nearest rival HonestBee. Tech In Asia reports that the startup has “temporarily suspended” its Philipinnes business and made layoffs in the country, Indonesia and Thailand. In total, the startup is said to have laid off 50-70 of its estimated 1,000 employees while top executives have quit the company in recent months.\n\nUnlike HappyFresh, HonestBee is active across eight countries and it has expanded to takeout food. The company also has a physical store located in Singapore that’s inspired by the efforts of Alibaba and JD.com in China.\n\nNote 23:00 04/21: The original version of this story has been updated to correct that HappyFresh is active in Malaysia not the Philippines" ]

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[ null, "Real Estate is all about timing and location\n\nand it’s an exciting time to Buy, Sell, Rent or Invest in Real Estate.\n\nCall Scott Rivelli PA today for all your real estate questions and needs.", null, "The planned Walmart in Oakland Park has been approved by Broward County and Oakland Park. Now, all that’s left is a review of the plans.\n\nAccording to the Broward County website, “Under Florida law, platting is simply the subdivision of property as recorded in the official records. In Broward County, platting is also used to evaluate the impacts of a proposed development on regional facilities and services.”\n\nNow, all that’s left is to work with county staff to make sure the plat paperwork is created properly. After that, he said Walmart will begin applying for permits to demolish the old Kmart building and to build the new structure.\n\nWherry said that process could be done in about a month, but he’s not sure of an exact date yet. He also doesn’t know yet when demolition or construction will begin.\n\nThe proposed 121,345 square foot store, which is 4,000 square feet bigger than the former Kmart building, was approved by Oakland Park commissioners at the end of 2016 and will employ an estimated 300 to 350 people. The site will have 510 parking spaces and solar panels will be installed to provide some of the building’s energy needs. Walmart will also hire an off-duty BSO deputy to provide extra security.\n\nThe Wilton Manors Gazette has now launched a Facebook page to keep residents informed with all things Wilton Manors. Click here to join." ]

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[ "Home Uncategorized Stroll brushes off crash as ‘just a bump’", null, "Lance Stroll played down his crash in Q1 but conceded that the Williams car is “right at the back” again after improvement in Baku.\n\nIt was a familiar sight for the Williams and the dogged FW41, with both Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin both failing to make it out of Q1 once again.\n\nStroll made completely sure of his exit after losing control at Turn 12 and finding the wall on his final hot lap.\n\n“The car just got away from me,” Stroll said back in the paddock.\n\n“I was on an ok lap and going for it trying to get out of Q1.\n\n“We saw an improvement in the car in Baku, but this weekend we are right back to where we were, right at the back.\n\n“It’s something we need to keep chipping away at, hopefully sooner rather than later.\n\nStroll said that he did not have the answers for Williams continued problems, but brushed off the significance of his latest crash.\n\n“I don’t know. If we did we could just fix it,” Stroll added.\n\n“The circuit for sure doesn’t suit our car unlike Baku where the short corners fixed some of our problems.\n\n“It wasn’t a major hit, just a bump. I think I just picked up a puncture.”\n\nStroll is due to start from P18 on Sunday’s grid." ]

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[ null, "Top 10 Martial Arts in the Philippines & Where to Get Them\n\nThe Filipino Martial Arts (FMA), like other Martial Arts, is a tree with many branches. The terms Kali, Arnis and Escrima or Eskrima, have been confusing to some who wish to understand what the differences between these arts are. The truth is that they are all part of the FMA (Filipino Martial Arts). Filipino martial arts refer to ancient and newer fighting methods developed in the Philippines. It has been influenced by both Eastern and Western martial arts. The most popular forms of Filipino martial arts are known as kali, arnis, eskrima.\n\nMartial arts have been an integral part of the Filipino culture for the longest time. Multiple disciplines — both local, and those of Western and Eastern philippinex — were practiced by our countrymen, for generations. Today with the COVID crisis, however, we are faced with a great threat that may os the culture of respect promoted by these disciplines. Due to health and safety reasons, gyms have been forced to completely close down at the beginning months of lockdown, causing great revenue losses for the majority pyilippines the fitness industry.\n\nEventually, several martial arts classes moved to online platforms. Coaches perform to the best of their abilities, despite being limited with their means for teaching. And while this may seem discouraging for most practitioners, some of the most dedicated to the game continue to exercise their passion. Amid these challenges that hinder us, I reached out to a dedicated Traditional and Mixed Martial Artist, Christian Eusebio, a former Professional Fighter with a background in Kyokushin Karate, and wnat former coach for over three years.\n\nEver since the closing of gyms, Christian began using Zoom meetings for the majority of his online sessions. And as challenging as it may sound, his drive to continue did not surprise me. Discipline has always been a core value in martial arts, and he did not fall short in exhibiting it. He shared with me his thoughts and experiences regarding the adjustment what is the wireless router teaching at the gym to the current online setup.\n\nBut we always need to adapt to survive. As far as the training is phliippines, it had the same impact. He shares that he has even told his students to forego paying him for the lessons and conducted his classes out of charity — the proceeds of which went into purchasing donations in kind for those who are most affected by the pandemic. We are now on the fourth month of my online striking class. Despite his best efforts to continue coaching, he could not deny the struggles that came with it.\n\nHe goes on to explain further that online teaching is a completely different experience compared to in-person instruction. On the brighter side, How to draw son goku full body asked him if it was magtial for beginners to learn the practice online, even if they are without prior experience.\n\nIn order for them to catch up, I make sure to always stick to the fundamentals, as in the basics and nothing fancy! Finally, he leaves a piece of advice to those who want to pursue martial arts in these difficult times, urging people to try it out.\n\nAnd it was when I saw how focused he was that I knew this culture will never die. Though it is a common belief that now is a discouraging and depressing time for us, I came to realize that no matter how tough the days may get, we cannot neglect our dreams and we most definitely should not stop pursuing the things that we want.\n\nI have been training in martial arts for more than four years now, and I regret the days that I skipped training to do something less significant.\n\nToday, I yearn for the gym, but to practice social distancing, we need to make do with online platforms and individual training. The disciplines I practiced have taught me to always hit back, no matter how hard I get hit. We lose the fight when we give up, not when we get hurt. So, together with Coach Christian and all the passionate coaches out there, I am encouraging everyone to strike back with whatever remains of our strength. And in our current world condition, the only way we can do that is by pursuing what matters to us.\n\nWant your story shared teh Pinoyfitness. Send us an email at [email protected]! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.\n\nSign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Pinoy Fitness. Contributors Inspire. Hybrid fitness are the future of fitness; hopefully holistic approaches are part of it. You can — not despite being, but exactly because you are a woman. Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here.\n\nJul 15, · Martial arts have been an integral part of the Filipino culture for the longest time. Multiple disciplines – both local, and those of Western and Eastern influence – were practiced by our countrymen, for generations. The Filipino Martial Arts are the official national sport since Martial arts are taught in all schools in the Philippines. The best athletes compete at the annual Philippine National Games. There is a wide variety of local styles. The names of the martial arts also differ, as practically every region of the Philippines speaks their own. Mar 17, · Kali is a weapons-based martial art from the Philippines and is actually an umbrella term, similar to the term “kung fu”. In this article, I am going to explain to you what kali is, what does kali training looks like, is kali a good martial art (for self-defense), and whether it is difficult to learn, or not.\n\nFilipino martial arts refer to ancient and newer fighting methods developed in the Philippines. It has been influenced by both Eastern and Western martial arts.\n\nThe most popular forms of Filipino martial arts are known as kali, arnis, eskrima. Although there is still controversy on where these forms originated, most practitioners today use the terms interchangeably. Although there is controversy on where they originated, the one common underlying theme in Filipino martial arts is that the system was created out of a need for self-preservation from the numerous invaders and local conflicts its inhabitants were forced to defend against over the years.\n\nThe Filipino people developed combat skills as a direct result of these ever changing circumstances. According to Mark Wiley, author of Filipino Martial Culture , there are three distinct systems of this combative art.\n\nGenerally speaking, the ancient arts often referred to as kali , are structured around the use of Indonesian and Malaysian swords i. Preserved in the unconquered Muslim areas of southern Philippines, these arts did not undergo the same evolutionary process as did eskrima and arnis. Many of these systems, therefore, encompass elements of European swordplay which the preserved ancient arts do not. Initially, the arts of eskrima, for example, were practiced with long and short sticks-as even the brandishing of the general utility bolo was prohibited.\n\nSince Western fencing became a favorite past time among mestizos Filipinos of Spanish descent sticks were later replaced by European-style edged weapons such as the estoc. The footwork patterns of the classical weapons systems systems tend to be structured around a triangle set between two parallel lines.\n\nMoreover, while the classical systems generally have an elaborate repertoire of hand-to-weapon defenses they have only marginal techniques of hand-to-hand fighting.\n\nModern Filipino martial arts evolved as a result of Philippine independence from Spain, and subsequent culture contact with the United States and Japan to the present.\n\nMoreover, they tend to lack sophisticated footwork with training essentially centered around modern sport competition. If you live in the NYC area and are interested in learning Filipino martial arts kali, arnis, eskrima then check out our NYC eskrima curriculum here.\n\nI'll make sure to respond back.\n\nComments:\nThere are no comments on this entry....\nPopular articles\nHow much salary do i need to file taxes\nHow to make an apple pinata\nMtv first aired what year\nHow to tell if your sound card is bad\nHow to set password in pendrive without any software\nWhat are the odds of the world ending\nBorderlands how to get to zombie island\nHow to find swollen lymph nodes\nTags\nhow to know a coach purse is authentic how to draw ringlet curls how to enable gmail smtp server how to build a waterproof outdoor tv enclosure what is a islamic republic what helps sore muscles after exercise how to make good stroke of cricket bat what is the meaning of solvent and solute how to erase white background in photoshop what do hamster eat and drink\nLogin | Register" ]

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[ null, "Video surveillance with security cameras can help safeguard your property and keep onsite personnel safe, but the legality of digitally surveilling is often difficult to understand. Below we explore some of the most common issues and questions relating to video surveillance for businesses and private citizens.\n\nCan Employers Use Video Surveillance?\n\nRegarding the workforce, the answer is yes, but in general, most states require posting a notice that recording may be in progress. So it is a good idea to err in favor of posting such a warning. If at all reticent and you would prefer not to post such notices, be careful to research the specific rules for work environments as they apply to your location.\n\nBut in practice, why would you not let your employees know? Far more often than not, it is actually a very good idea to post such warning notices — and prominently.\n\nRecall the reasons for installing video cameras in the first place — to reduce workplace theft by employees, to thwart unauthorized ingress, to reduce shoplifting, to discourage all manner of illegal activities and to help identify perpetrators after the fact.\n\nProminently displayed warnings become a natural deterrent to these and other undesired activities.\n\nWhat Is an Intelligent Video Surveillance System?\n\nAs technology advances, capabilities expand. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, video can now be evaluated by toolsets known as object or action recognition.\n\nThe former refers to being able to distinguish whether an object in the pixels is an adult or a vehicle (potential threat vectors) or a squirrel or cat (likely harmless). The latter detects motion and activity and most importantly, decides whether the action seems routine (and likely harmless) or anomalous (worth investigating).\n\nToday’s advanced systems can make these determinations in real-time, alerting a security team or floor manager to take a closer look at what is taking place.\n\nEven more advanced systems can be used to improve everything from customer satisfaction to business processes. For example, TechBuzz writes that “with the help of AI video analytics, the retail industry can research their customer needs, studying buying patterns or predict any future demand and supply.”\n\nAlternatively, a shop floor or warehouse can use video in conjunction with AI to identify and correct bottlenecks or perform similar, ongoing productivity analyses.\n\nAs of today, the presence of such advanced capabilities has no impact on the legality of the surveillance.\n\nWhat is an IP or Cloud Video Surveillance?\n\nThe majority of systems being installed today are of the close-circuit TV (CCTV) with local storage variety. But systems can also feature IP/cloud capability where the video is transmitted off site.\n\nCloud-based/IP systems can offer myriad advantages relative to CCTV. First of all, IP-based cameras can deliver superior image quality plus the ability to zoom in or out digitally.\n\nThen in addition, IP-captured images can be stored in the cloud — and therefore are less susceptible to physical theft, destruction or flood or fire damage. They are also more likely to be remotely accessible in real time plus easier to share within e-discovery (a court request for all digital files) or other events.\n\nCan Video Surveillance Be Hacked?\n\nThere are a handful of best practices for identifying and mitigating key risks. For hard-wired systems, it is absolutely essential to make certain your CCTV is on a network that is separate from the balance of your information systems.\n\nFor cloud-based systems, best practices include everything from using a VPN to creating complex, long-stringed, multi-character passwords for each camera or even the use of two-factor authentication.\n\nThis is a bit of a gray area. Regarding the public, the answer is maybe, as the rules vary from state to state and even city to city. So it is a good idea to check with legal authority.\n\nHowever in most instances, the answer is no -- you do not need to post such a notice. So long as this is a public area — not a changing room, bedroom, bathroom, locker room or similar — then neither the public nor the workforce has a reasonable expectation of privacy.\n\nBroadly speaking — the answer is yes, with a caveat or two.\n\nIn general, the federal government has issued little in the way of video surveillance rules or limits for private property, commercial or residential.\n\nThat said, a caveat. The federal government has indeed stated unequivocally that video and other forms of surveillance are expressly prohibited in any areas where a person would have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So as far as the Feds are concerned, there are zero issues for a business or private property owner to position cameras to cover:\n\nWhere security camera systems — or for that matter any audio recorders — absolutely may not be placed would include:\n\nPlacing video recording equipment in these areas could subject the person or enterprise to not only federal but also state or local criminal and/or civil prosecution.\n\nWhat About the Rules of States and Cities?\n\nThe second caveat. Although the federal government forwards very little beyond its broad privacy expectations, various states have published their own limitations or stipulations on the use of video recording for businesses or private citizens.\n\nSo while broadly speaking all one must do is avoid areas where privacy is the expectation, it may also make sense to have legal counsel for specific installations. Note that Indiana law places no restrictions on video surveillance in public spaces where no expectation of privacy exists.\n\nIs Video Surveillance Admissible In Court?\n\nIn general, video surveillance tapes or files are generally “discoverable” in court and may be subpoenaed by police, plaintiffs or others or presented as evidence by the owners of the surveillance. However, the specific rules vary from state to state.\n\nIn Indiana, for example, courts follow the federal lead, broadly ruling that video surveillance of areas where there are no expectations of privacy are broadly legal. However, the state has issued trial procedure 26(B)(1) that lays out specific rules regarding discovery. In general, if a person or business does indeed conduct video surveillance, more than likely those materials can be “discoverable” in a court of law.\n\nSpecifically, if video is “recorded in the ordinary course of business” or if the practice is “a precaution for the ‘remote’ prospect of litigation,” it is not privileged and therefore subject to discovery.\n\nPut simply, if you are going to install and use video surveillance, you must be prepared to promptly produce and share such evidence with legal authorities, plaintiffs, defendants and others.\n\nHow Long Do We Need to Preserve Video Surveillance Files?\n\nFor most businesses and certainly for individuals, there are no hard and fast rules. However, increasingly, more regulations are being written for more industries — such as financial services, healthcare and even retail — requiring that records be held for specific periods of time.\n\nHowever, evolving Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) and in particular Rule 34 suggest that businesses and individuals practice greater discipline in their archiving of digital records — meaning businesses should look to the rules of e-discovery.\n\nHow Can Taylored Systems Help?\n\nTo create an ideal commercial video surveillance solution for your company, we will listen to your challenges before presenting a range of potential solutions.\n\nUltimately, what we propose will be the right mix of the right tools chosen from the right providers to create an effective and easily managed system. Once up-and-running, we will make sure your teams are adequately trained as well as implement other measures of quality assurance so that these new tools can help you achieve your objectives." ]

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[ "If there were a theme park somewhere in the world that had dinosaurs in it, you would go and visit it. Don’t even bother to pretend that you wouldn’t. So long as you could be sure that the dinosaurs were in a safe and controlled environment, you’d feel compelled to go and check them out. Ever since the release of the first ‘Jurassic Park’ movie in the 1990s, people have been hoping that scientists would turn the plot of the film into a reality. We have no idea why, because the idea of trying to contain dinosaurs turns into a nightmare in every one of the films, but they keep trying anyway!", null, "Without the success of the first movie there would never have been a sequel to ‘Jurassic Park,’ but such is the popularity of the franchise there are still new movies being made now, with a brand new one in the pipeline at the time of writing. The original ‘Jurassic Park’ was a phenomenal hit at the box office, but how much do you really know about it? There were all sorts of in-jokes, happy accidents, and other curiosities associated with Jurassic Park, and we think more people should know about them. In fact, we’re so insistent about that idea that we’ve put together this list article for you! Here are five crazy things that we bet you didn’t know about ‘Jurassic Park.’\n\n1. The Jeep Attack Was Never Meant To Happen", null, "It turns out that you can’t even trust animatronic dinosaurs to behave themselves on set. There’s a famous scene in the film where Lex and Tim are stalked by a tyrannosaurus Rex in their jeep, but it wasn’t supposed to be quite as scary as it appeared on the screen. As the huge T-Rex prop was lowered toward the child actors in the car, it slipped and fell much further than it ought to have done. Understandably, the two kids screamed in terror because they thought they were about to be crushed! Fortunately, no real harm was done, but Stephen Spielberg decided to capitalize on their genuine fear by leaving the ‘accidental’ take in the final edit. There was no acting going on during that scene!\n\n2. Spielberg Took A Gamble On It\n\nSpeaking of legendary director Steven Spielberg, he made more money out of the first ‘Jurassic Park’ than anyone else. It’s thought that by the time everything was said and done, he’d pocketed more than two hundred and fifty million dollars. That’s because of a gamble he made about the movie’s success. As ridiculous as this sounds now, not everybody was convinced that ‘Jurassic Park’ would be a success before it was made. Instead of charging his usual fee, Spielberg worked for a reduced rate and instead opted to take a cut of the film’s profits in lieu of his usual price. When the film went on to make box office history, Spielberg found himself rolling in money. No director made more money out of a single movie until James Cameron with ‘Avatar’ sixteen years later.", null, "3. It’s Taken A Bite Out Of Casinos\n\nIf you’ve ever paid a visit to one of the many online slots websites and casinos that you’ll find on the internet, you’ll know that they don’t feature the sort of games that your parents and grandparents used to play in bingo halls. Just as video games in general have evolved, Online Slots UK have evolved too, and they now feature a variety of different themes and genres. The movie genre is especially popular with players, and ‘Jurassic Park’ is every bit as popular at those casinos as it was at the cinemas. So successful was the first ‘Jurassic Park’ online slots game that another slot based on the franchise has been released based on ‘Jurassic World.’ In a case of synchronicity in entertainment, the ‘Jurassic World’ online slots game, while still popular, has been marginally less successful than the original. That’s a feeling that the cast and crew of ‘Jurassic World’ know all about.\n\n4. There Was a Hidden Message In The Character’s Clothes\n\nYou could be forgiven for not paying too much attention to the outfits that the human characters wore in ‘Jurassic Park.’ You were probably far more interested in the dinosaurs, and half the time, everybody was either wet or muddy anyway. Apparently, though, we all missed something that was going on with the clothing of characters John Hammond and Ian Malcolm, memorably played by Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough respectively. Watch the film back, and you’ll notice that Malcolm is dressed in all black, and Hammond is dressed in all white. To Spielberg (and also to Michael Crichton, who wrote the novel the movie is based on), this was symbolic. Malcolm’s black outfit represented his cynicism and suspicion about the dino-park project, whereas the all-white outfit of Hammond was supposed to represent innocence and idealism, emphasizing the idea that Hammond wasn’t a bad man – just a man who allowed his imagination to get out of control. We’re not sure the subtle clothing subtext was really necessary, but it’s there anyway.\n\n5. One Of The Lead Roles Could Have Been Very Different", null, "We don’t want to say that the performance of Jeff Goldblum ‘made’ ‘Jurassic Park’ because it’s an excellent film that would have been a success with or without him. We also don’t want to say that ‘Jurassic Park’ ‘made’ Jeff Goldblum, because he was already a successful and famous actor by that point anyway. It would, however, be fair to say that the film benefited enormously from his presence, and his career benefited enormously from being in the movie. He played the part of Ian Malcolm like he was born to do it, but we very nearly got Jim Carrey in that role instead. Carrey is capable of ‘serious’ acting work as he’s shown in his later career, but he was so closely associated with comic work in the early 1990s that it’s difficult to picture him in this film. With no disrespect intended to Mr. Carrey, we’re glad that plans changed, and Goldblum got the gig.\n\nHow many of these facts did you know before you read this article? Give yourself a pat on the back if it was all five. They were all new to us, and we’ll definitely never look at that jeep attack scene the same way ever again!" ]

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[ null, "The 1960 Chevrolet Impala shifted direction a little, creating a more conservative look than was seen on the redesigned 1959 model.\n\nLooking back from today's vantage point, the '59 Chevrolets don't look nearly as outrageous as they did at the time. In the eyes of today's collectors and enthusiasts, those scoffed-at tailfins are a major part of the car's appeal -- the bigger the better. Stylists and marketers back then, on the other hand, realized that the fin-and-chrome fashion had about run its course. They needed to shift direction a little, creating a more conservative face-lift.\n\nThose sweeping horizontal fins didn't disappear, of course. Not yet. For 1960 they were simply toned down a bit, giving Chevrolets a more tasteful and temperate back end -- an angular, tapered shape that integrated neatly into the quarter panels. The effect was helped by installation of three modestly sized round taillights on each side of the top-of-the-line Impala.\n\nUp front, those ferocious snorting-nostril air intakes above the headlights were deleted completely. By the standards of the Fifties, at least, the '60 redesign ranked as downright restrained, promoted for \"Space -- Spirit -- Splendor.\"\n\nDrivetrain choices diminished a bit, but no one could say they were deprived -- with seven V-8 engine ratings to choose from, in 283- or 348-cubic-inch size. Top choice was the 348-cubic-inch Super Turbo-Thrust Special, breathing through triple two-barrel carburetors and using 11.25:1 compression and dual exhausts to eke out 335 horsepower. More modest variants of the 348 yielded 250 to 320 horses. The carbureted Turbo-Fire 283-cubic-inch V-8 could have either 170 or 230 horsepower, but fuel injection no longer was an option under full-size Chevrolet hoods." ]

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[ null, "New research zones in on Tallaght as origin for Stowe Missal\n\nIS IT time to claim the Stowe Missal as Tallaght’s own? This is a question put forward by Michael Keyes, a Local Studies Librarian with South Dublin Libraries.\n\nDating from around 800 AD, the origin of the medieval Stowe Missal has long been pondered.\n\nWas Stowe Missal created in Tallaght? (Image by permission of the Royal Irish Academy)\n\nHowever, local beliefs that the book was transcribed in Tallaght have been supported by new research, which points to a possible Tallaght origin for the medieval manuscript.\n\nSo, what is the Stowe Missal?\n\nThe Echo spoke with Local Studies Librarian Michael Keyes to get the full story on a blog post he recently wrote for South Dublin Libraries, titled ‘The Book of Tallaght?’.\n\nAccording to Michael, Tallaght grew up around the monastery founded by St Maelruain in 769AD.\n\n“The monastery became a centre of learning and a number of significant manuscripts were produced there,” Michael writes in his blog post.\n\n“One of the manuscripts associated with Tallaght is the Stowe Missal, a Mass book written mainly in Latin with some old Irish.\n\n“It was a practical item, small enough to be carried around for the use of a priest on his travels.”\n\nCreated some time between 792 and 850 AD, the book spent most of its time at St Ruadhán monastery in Lorrha, Tipperary.\n\nIt then disappeared until the 18th century, when it was rediscovered, hidden in the wall of a castle.\n\nSoon after, the missal became part of the Duke of Buckingam’s library at Stowe House, Buckinghamshire, England, which is where the name, the Stowe Missal, originated from.\n\nIn 1883, the missal was purchased by the British Government and, due to its Irish origin, was given to the Royal Irish Academy on Dawson Street, where it remains to this day.\n\n“After the missal’s rediscovery in the 19th centrury, questions arose to its origin,” Michael writes.\n\n“One school of thought assumed that it had been created at Lorrha.\n\n“We know that it was there from at least AD 1033 because that is when its elaborate shrine or cover was created . . . but the fact that the shrine was created in Lorrha does not mean that the missal was created there.”\n\nHe added: “In recent weeks Lars Nooij of Maynooth University has been active on Twitter, tweeting about the Stowe Missal, which is the subject of his PhD thesis.\n\n“He has considered the origins of the missal at length and comes down on the side of Tallaght as being where the missal was transcribed.\n\n“The argument in favour of a Tallaght origin centres on the addition of Maél Ruáin to a list of saints in the text.\n\n“The list is from an earlier period and it appears that Maélruáin’s name was added when the list was being transcribed.\n\n“Maélruáin was the founder of the monastery at Tallaght and it is reasonable to assume that his name was added by a Tallaght scribe in honour of their founder.\n\n“It is also significant that the same list does not include the name of St Rúadhán the founder of Lorrha.\n\n“Based on this and other evidence, Lars favours the view that the missal originated in Tallaght before traveling south to Lorrha where it was enshrined and venerated as a relic.\n\n“So, let the campaign commence now to bring ‘The Book of Tallaght’ home to Dublin 24.”\n\nIn a phone interview with The Echo, Michael said that the Stowe Missal is something that Tallaght should be aware of.\n\n“The missal did spend most of it’s time in Tipperary,” Michael told The Echo.\n\n“It was there for hundreds of years.\n\n“However, the fact is, nobody can say it was written there.\n\nThis argument is going on for hundreds of years. . . but there is evidence to suggest that the person who wrote it was based in Tallaght.\n\n“As far as we’re concerned [in the libraries department] it was created in Tallaght no later than AD 850 . . . it’s older than the Book of Kells.”\n\nWhat do you think?\n\nBe part of the centuries-old debate and learn about the Stowe Missal and its colourful past by reading Michael Keye’s blog post on South Dublin library service’s Local Studies Blog HERE.\n\nAlso, follow Lars Nooij on Twitter, where he explores the arguments in favour of a Lorrha provence, alongside examining why the manuscript may have been transcribed in Tallaght.\n\nNEWER POSTSDCC Dev Plan: What will it take to leave cars behind and walk or cycle?\nOLDER POSTGoing the distance – Tallaght RFC raises over €15,500 for Aware" ]

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[ "No New Year’s Test ... but Newlands may host Aussies in March", null, "The New Year Test at Newlands has always been a popular event. Picture: Chris Ricco/BackpagePix\n\nCAPE TOWN – Western Province Cricket Association president Ashraf Burns says Newlands has been given assurances the relocation of the New Year’s Test for the 2020/21 season is a “once-off”.\n\nCricket South Africa released its international fixtures for the festive season on Tuesday with Sri Lanka set to play the Boxing Day at SuperSport Park in Centurion followed by the New Year Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg due to Covid-19 protocols.\n\nIt will be the first time the New Year Test is staged on the Highveld since the Proteas returned from isolation in 1991.\n\n“Covid-19 has had a major impact on all aspects of our lives and cricket scheduling is part and parcel of it,” Burns told IOL Sport.\n\n“WPCA completely understands the reasoning for the New Year Test to be staged in Johannesburg just a few days after the Boxing Day Test in Centurion.\n\n“It will limit movement and travelling and that is 100% the right thing to do. WPCA has been assured that the Wanderers hosting the New Year this season is simply a once-off due to Covid-19 protocols and that it will be back at Newlands when things return to normal.”\n\nNewlands will, though, host England for the two T20I’s and two ODIs in a bio-bubble secure environment next month. England will also play one T20I and one ODI in Paarl after Cricket SA opted for the Western Cape as the preferred destination for the Proteas’ first bio-bubble under Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIOL News · What the hell is happening at Cricket SA? Zaahier Adams unpacks the latest developments\n\nThe limited-overs series will mark the Proteas’ return to competition action since their tour to India in March was cut short due to the novel coronavirus.\n\nIOL Sport also understands Newlands will host one of the three Test matches against Australia in March.\n\nIt will be the first time the Aussies visit South Africa for a Test series since the 2018 Sandpapergate ball-tampering scandal.The fixtures are yet to be finalised for the Australian series." ]

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[ "Bob On The Radio", null, "Uncut “Man of The Year” Bob Dylan is to bring his Theme Time Radio Hour to Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music from December 23.\n\nThis will be the first opportunity for UK listeners to tune into the highly-acclaimed radio show.\n\nDylan began broadcasting in May with a weekly radio show on XM Satellite Radio, the leading satellite radio service in the US.\n\n“Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan” will feature an eclectic mix of music hand-selected by Dylan. The radio shows also includes interviews and commentary on music and other topics.\n\n“Theme Time” means Dylan picks his music and ideas for shows around simple categories with unexpected and ingenoius results.\n\nThe themes Dylan has picked will include “weather” – with a playlist that includes “A Place In The Sun” sung in Italian by Stevie Wonder, “The Wind Cries Mary” by Jimi Hendrix and “Keep On The Sunny Side” by The Carter Family.\n\nOther themes will include ‘cars’, ‘dance’, ‘police’, and ‘whiskey’.\n\nDylan’s latest show for XM Satellite Radio was based on Thanksgiving, focussing primarily on food! Dylan’s playlist included “Rice Crispies (Wake Up in the Morning)” by The Rolling Stones, and “I Like Pie, I Like Cake” by The Four Clefs.\n\nDylan says of his shows, “A lot of my own songs have been played on the radio, but this is the first time I’ve ever been on the other side of the mic.”\n\nLesley Douglas, Controller for BBC Radio 2 is excited for fans of Dylan saying, “It’ll be fascinating to hear who his favourite artists are and who has influenced him throughout his career.”\n\nYou can catch Dylan on Radio 2 from December 23 at 7pm." ]

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[ null, "Lou Laurens on :An Experiment in Visible Voice.\nGWRANDO at the Tannery, 28th April, 2012.\n\nWhat does you voice look like? and Experiments in Visible Voice has been an investigation into the sharing and presentation of aural/vocal experience. The project has explored, in very practical ways, Adriana Cavarero’s concept of making oneself audible as making ones’ self audible: uniqueness-in-resonance. Furthermore, her themes of giving voice as convocation, and of giving voice as a reciprocal, and a political action, interpolate the processes of the project.\n\nThe audiovisual material we collected in this project working with eidophone in conjunction with digital recording technologies has been raw, diverse, poignant, and wonderful. People used their voices to explore the effects of soundwaves generating patterns in the sand on the vibrating surface of the eidophone. There were fragile hopeful first moments, moments of disappointment, and developing confidence and excitement; as well as an extraordinarily rapid, and perhaps largely unconscious assimilation, of what it takes to physically produce resonant sounds, over the course of a turn on the eidophone. We hear the individual in each voice, and also the individuality of each", null, "This show is the result of an unfunded two-week residency in the Tannery; simple means and the short timescale have been determining factors in the development of this installation. The work presented is an experiment, a beginning, a sketch.\n\nWe have worked with the recordings of the voices as they are, with no effects or looping of recordings. Each sound you hear is the unique recorded vocal action, and is not repeated in the composition. Only six voices are sounding at any one time in the composition, and in future we want to explore with many more than that; however, included over the course of the composition are recordings from all the participants who have taken part so far. Composing with the recordings was an intensive listening process/practice, as we developed a choral audio work which celebrates the beauty of each voice and relates the voices one to another. With the associated video footage, we created a composite of multiple eidophone images.\n\nWorking with the recordings, I was reminded of extended voice practitioner Phil Minton’s Feral Choir project. He writes:\n\nMy recent experience of working with singers, many of whom think they cannot sing, has strengthened my conviction that the human voice is capable of so much more than is generally understood …anyone who can breathe, is capable of producing sounds that give a positive aesthetic contribution to the human condition.\n\nMinton takes singers and non-singers through a series of workshops to create his feral choir: here, it was singing into the eidophone which encouraged participants to use their voices in inventive and experimental ways. The process makes no distinction between languages, right or wrong ways to use the voice, good voices or so-so voices, singers and/or non-singers.\n\nNon-verbal sounds sounds predominate, with participants to exploring a kind vocalising often reserved for familiar and private interactions. The excitement with which many took part led me to speculate whether we were witnessing an active nostalgia for preverbal multisensory experience: recently, the infant-synaesthesia hypothesis suggests that our first experiences are synaesthesic experiences; but it also reminded me of the feelings of expansion and playfulness I experience through free improvisation, in particular at the monthly ‘gathering’ hosted by Maggie Nicols.\n\nBelow, GWRANDO’s aims for the residency and the invitation to attend the first open day:\n\nWhat differentiates Margaret Watts Hughes from other pioneers of in the field of acoustics, is that her experiments form part of her lifetimes’ attempt to further her knowledge of the singing voice; specifically, in order, to further her teaching ability. Her 1891 article for The Century, discusses how the singer might produce specific patterns by varying pitch, timbre and intensity – in other words, as much as her enthusiasm for the process is revealed in the article, it is the singer’s technique that is the destination of her experiments, rather than a theory of sound. She states that she developed her experiments ‘as a vocalist’, for vocalists.\n\nThe eidophone experiments will form part of a creative attempt to develop a clearer understanding of the work of philosopher Adriana Cavarero. Cavarero in For More Than One Voice (2005) unravels some myths of the ‘voice’: in particular, ‘woman sings: man thinks’. Her proposal of a vocal ontology of uniqueness, that the voice is the equivalent of what each person has ‘that is most hidden and most genuine’ is developed into an argument that turns on an idea of ‘uniqueness-in-resonance’: the act of speaking or singing as both making manifest one’s own uniqueness, and as a convocation of other voices. There can be no generalized notion of ‘voice’ and what ‘voice’ means: there is always someone who speaks or sings.\n\nBe that someone! You are invited to continue Margaret Watts Hughes’ eidophone experiments with GWRANDO at the Tannery. On Saturday the 21st the Tannery will be open all day. What does your voice look like?Sing into an eidophone and find out. You only need to sing one note, but you could sing a whole song. You will take away your very own signature voiceprint. The visible sounds will be filmed and the audio will be recorded to form part of a multi-voice film and sound installation." ]

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[ "One of the nicest things about these two new garden areas I created last year is the chance to see the farm from a different perspective.\n\nThose aren’t the first thing that comes to mind when you start creating something new.\n\nBut look at this:", null, "I’ve never stood here before. That might be due to the fact it was a jungle of overgrown shrubs, ivy, brambles, broken glass (don’t ask – I have no idea why I unearthed such a volume of broken glass from this super steep slope).", null, "And I’m pleased about the irises which are flowering. These are the ones I transplanted (rashly) last summer. Never a good time to move any plant. But these are the bomb proof irises. I needed their strappy green to distract the eye from vast expanses of dirt.", null, "A few rogue dark crimson ones snuck on. I love these ones. But my planting scheme is always a bit of a lottery. I loot irises wherever I see them. I have my eye on a few bicolour ones lurking along the track in the forest beyond Jean Daniel’s. I must ask him if I can uproot them.\n\nOh and speaking of perspective. This was the reason for the creation of the entire garden. The view from the guesthouse bedroom.", null, "It now looks like this. Far better than the jungle. (I spent ages trying to find the exact shot from years ago, but alas…) Take my word for it, there is no longer an eyesore when you wake up in the morning.\n\nAnd the same can be said for the Dry Garden. I’ve never perched on the ground to snap this shot.", null, "I am going to do a post on this brand new garden later. Can’t spoil you in one day with more plants and gush.\n\nI leave you with a bit of an iris fest. (Well as much as yesterday’s garden work would allow. Today I’m stuck indoors with tipping rain an storms and no chance to sneak out and snap these beauties.)", null, "Oh and on my interminable list of indoor chores while it’s wet is to go and try and scrub the mess off the hallway wall. One of the yellow irises (gone to a happier home, they are much too loud for me) stained the white painted wall behind when it expired. Seriously toxic old goo – nothing has shifted it so far. And I’ve even tried that old trick of painting over the stain with emulsion.", null, "No effect whatsoever. So I have learned two things about iris this week. They have an incredibly strong scent. And they are can turn white walls yellow if you don’t watch out." ]

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[ null, "“Come thru da TRUKFIT party at LIV. I Kant wait to show y’all sum luv in Miami. It’s gonna be lit. Da new TRUKFIT lines are dope. We’re constantly changin’ the collektion for everyone and 2016 is ’bout to be a HUGE year for TRUKFIT.”" ]

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[ "‘If Labels Were Honest…’ is a vegan stop motion short created by Becky Lewer.\n\nYou can find more of her work on Instagram at @veganing.around\nor @beckylewer", null, "The time to act is now! Climate change affects both humans and non-human animals alike. Vegan FTA is proud to endorse the Plant Based Treaty, an initiative that aims to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, to promote a shift to more healthy, sustainable plant-based diets and to actively reverse damage done to planetary functions, ecosystem services and biodiversity.\n\nIn this exclusive Vegan FTA interview, Gareth and Jackie are joined by Anita Krajnc, Executive Director of Animal Save Movement and co-founder of the Plant Based Treaty, as well as the Honourable Emma Hurst, MP for the Animal Justice Party NSW, Australia.\n\nTogether they discuss the importance of vegans backing environmental campaigns to benefit the animals, the impact of legislative actions and go in depth on aspects of the treaty.\n\nJoin us in creating change for the animals, the planet and ourselves by endorsing the Plant Based Treaty 👇\n🌱 plantbasedtreaty.org 🌱\n\nSilence of the Calves: New Zealand’s Sacrifice at the Dairy Altar6K Total Shares" ]

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[ "Amazon warrior: Forty or 50 years ago, archaeologists and historians involved in important digs had only remains to go by when they tried to identify who or what lay buried in an ancient grave.\n\nThey could trust what their eyes — and their knowledge — told them, but to a large degree they had to simply hope that those tools were enough when making a guess, albeit an educated guess, at a grave’s contents.\n\nToday, the tools at these experts’ disposals are much more refined, and much more technologically advanced.", null, "The depth of her coffin – hollowed from a single piece of wood – was little over half a metre under the ground, oriented to the southwest.. Credit: A.Yu. Makeeva, Varvara Busova/Strat\n\nAnd it is thanks to a kind of that technology, genetic analysis, that the remains of a young person found in Siberia in 1988 have finally been correctly identified.\n\nAlthough back then archaeologists surmised that the skeleton belonged to a young man, the new examination of the skeleton has proved conclusively that, in fact, the remains are those of a 13 year old girl.\n\nSkeletons are notoriously tricky to identify, particularly when the bones are clearly of a young person. So often, experts used the contents of the grave as a kind of ancillary guide when identifying gender.\n\nThis grave, in Tuva province, contained all manner of weapons, and so with that in mind archaeologists assumed they’d found the grave of a young man, probably a fighter of some sort.", null, "Her quiver is made of leather. Credit: A.Yu. Makeeva, Varvara Busova/Strat\n\nNow, the team at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has announced that not only does the skeleton belong to a young, teenage girl, she was likely a warrior from the Scythian civilization, a warrior who fought battles on horseback and killed enemies right alongside her male counterparts.\n\nAmong the weapons found at the burial site was an arrow with a bronze tip, a second arrow with a bone tip, and other deadly accoutrements.\n\nThe institute brought in other experts from the St. Petersburg Institute of Material History Culture, and Dr. Marina Kilunovskaya was one of the archaeologists involved in testing the remains.", null, "She recently told the Siberian Times that the girl bore a striking facial feature that caught everyone’s attention. “It was so stunning… with that wart, looking so impressive,” she said. The girl was buried in a wood coffin about 2,600 years ago.\n\nAccording to Dr. Kilunovskaya, using genetic sequencing is going to bring a whole new insight to archaeological research, and will allow experts to perform far more accurate analysis on remains, particularly those that are hundreds, or even thousands of years old.\n\nIn the case of the warrior girl and others like her, new information about their culture and societal habits have been discovered, thanks to the technological examination the team performed.\n\n“This opens up a new aspect in the study of the social history of Scythian society,” she explained to the Times. “(It) returns us to the myth of the Amazons that survived…it introduces a new touch to the early structure of early nomadic society.”\n\nAmazon warrior women were thought for decades to be little more than legend, not actual fighters who went into battle alongside male soldiers. But now, as the remains of this young girl found in Siberia attest, that myth may be far more grounded in true history than many experts once believed.\n\nThe genetic analysis also proved another important fact: continuing to do research, even long after archaeologists and scientists are convinced of what they found, is key to learning new and important details about societies and cultures that came long before us." ]

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[ "The pride, the historyand the Memory of legends - Hero Stones - interesting Facts", null, "A hero stone (Naṭukal in Tamil, Virakallu in Kannada) is a memorial commemorating the honourable death of a Hero in the battle. Erected between the 6th century BC and the 18th century AD, hero stones are found all over India.\n\nThey often carry inscriptions displaying a variety of adornments, including bas relief panels, frieze, and figures on carved stone. Usually, they are in the form of a stone monument and may have an inscription at the bottom with a narrative of the battle.\n\nAbout two thousand six hundred and fifty hero stones, the earliest in Karnataka is dated to the 5th century AD. The custom of erecting memorial stones dates back to the Iron Age (400 BC) though a vast majority were erected between the 4th century BC to 13th centuries AD.\n\nA hero stone was usually divided into three panels, but occasionally, into four or five panels depending on the event.\n\nThe upper panel depicts the subject worshipping a deity such as a Shiva linga, the middle panel depicts the hero sometimes seated in a palanquin or a shrine being lifted toward the heavens by apsaras (heavenly nymphs), and the lower panels would display battle scenes One of the largest Viragallu, about 12 feet high is found in Betageri, Karnataka.\n\nIn Tamil Nadu Department of Archeology found several hundred hero stones that had been erected in the memory of warriors who sacrificed their lives defending their community or region.\n\nThose that are carved with inscriptions narrate the act of the hero, the battle, and the name of king who fought the battle. The stones are found alone or in groups, often near an irrigation tank or lake outside a village.\n\nOne hero stone dating to the 9th century Pallava King Dantivarman depicts the hero riding a galloping horse beautifully dressed and carrying a spear. Another was recovered at Pappapatti in Usilampatti taluk and probably dates from the 18th century.\n\nThis stone shows a warrior posed heroically, accompanied by his wife who holds a flower. Creating hero stones had been prevalent since the Sangam period dating back 2300 years, and continuing until the Nayaka and post-Nayaka period to about 19th century.\n\nIn March 2014, a hero stone dating to the 8th century Pandya country, with an inscription in Tamil Vatteluttu script was found in Vellalankottai in the Tuticorin district. and another that was installed by a woman in memory of her husband who killed a leopard preying in cattle that strayed into the hamlet.\n\nIn 2017, two rare hero stones raised in honour of warrior-women riding to a battle were found, dating back to the 13th century.\n\nHero stones were not always made in honour of persons. The Atakur inscription (also spelt Athakur) is one such hero stone. It is dated to 939 A.D. and includes classical Kannada poetic inscription commemorating the death of the favourite hound of Ganga King Butuga II (the hound died fighting a wild boar)." ]

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[ null, null, "Michael Fassbender becomes the striking cove star of T Magazine‘s Men’s Fashion Fall 2015 edition photographed for the front and Nobody’s Fool story by the legendary fashion photographer Bruce Weber. In charge of the laid back styling was fashion stylist Joe McKenna, who selected coveted pieces from the upcoming season’s collections.", null, "But Fassbender is also still very much the teenager of that original drama-school audition: He welcomes changes as they present themselves and he follows the signs of the present. Justin Kurzel, the director of ‘‘Macbeth,’’ said of working with Fassbender, ‘‘He’s so extremely prepared, he’s never reaching for words. And in that way he’s able to be very open to the conditions of the moment — to whatever is going on that day, to the other people who are around. He can discover something in the moment of doing. That’s why he’s an artist. That’s why he’s one of the best around. – from NY Times T MAGAZINE\n\nFor more of the session continue after the jump:", null, null, null, "Fassbender is said to have passed out on set from the intensity of his rape scene in ‘‘12 Years a Slave,’’ but he insists that when work for the day is done, he lives his life: ‘‘I don’t bring characters home with me. That’s just not the way I work.’’ In person, he comes across as cheerful and boyish. He is more pretty than handsome, not aggressively charismatic or excited about talking about himself, but kind and cooperative and willing. He looks like a lead in a romantic comedy, one of the few roles he has never taken on. If one had to find a common thread in his diverse résumé, it would be through strands of physical and emotional extremes: brutality (‘‘12 Years’’), starvation (‘‘Hunger’’), addiction (‘‘Shame’’), being a brilliant android (‘‘Prometheus’’), seducing your girlfriend’s teenage daughter (‘‘Fish Tank’’), bearing an inflexible need to wear a papier-mâché head at all times (‘‘Frank’’). You could never accuse him of playing himself. – from T MAGAZINE", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Northern Bedstraw is a native perennial forb, growing or erect stems, up to 3-1/2 foot high; stems can have many branches within the inflorescence and the root stocks can send up multiple stems. Stems are 4-angled, green, smooth, but there may be some hair at the nodes which are slightly enlarged.\n\nThe leaves are entire (without teeth) but the margins may have some hair and the underside usually can have hair; they form a whorl of 4, well spaced on the stem. They are lanceolate to linear in shape, pointed tips and 3 veined, each leaf up to 1 inch long and stalkless.\n\nThe inflorescence is a showy branched terminal cluster (a panicle) on numerous small flowers. The panicle divides into 3-forked clusters, and each cluster may divide again into another group of 3. Each division is subtended by a small elliptical green hairy bract.\n\nThe flowers are 4-parted, up to 1/4 inch wide with creamy colored corollas that form 4 spreading lobes with pointed tips. There are 4 stamens with yellowish anthers and pale yellowish-white filaments. These are placed alternate between the petals. The single whitish style connects to a hairy 2-celled ovary. The calyx is vestigial, with the 2-celled ovary, hairy on the outside, directly below the corolla.\n\nSeed: Fertile flowers produce a two-parted seed capsule, looking like a pair of testicles, that have short hairs when immature. These hairs drop off at maturity. The individual seeds are brown in color.\n\nHabitat: Northern Bedstraw grows from creeping horizontal rhizomes. It will form large patches via creeping roots, it is not particular as to soil type and can tolerate partial shade and dry conditions once established, but its preference is for somewhat moist well drained soils. It is found in moist to dry prairies and open woods. It can be propagated by dividing the roots or by sowing seed after it has had a cold stratification period of 4 to 6 weeks, but good germination results have been obtained without stratification (University of Washington Herbarium).\n\nNames: The genus name, Galium, is from the Greek word, gala, meaning 'milk' and is a reference to the use of come Galium species to curdle milk. The species name, boreale, is from the Latin borealis, for 'northern'. The author name for the plant classification, 'L.', refers to Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish botanist and the developer of the binomial nomenclature of modern taxonomy.", null, null, "Above: The upper stem and inflorescence. Drawing of Northern Bedstraw from Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.\n\nBelow: 1st photo - The four stamens are placed between the 4 petals. 2nd photo. A stem node with leaf whorl and two inflorescence stems. Note the swelling at the node.", null, "Below: 1st photo - The flower clusters branch into 3 segments which then subbranch into segments of 3. 2nd photo - Note in the center of the photo the 4-angled stem, the fine hair on the cluster stems and the hairy bracts at the base of each division. Below the corolla of the opening flower at the top left in the photo you see the hairy 2-chambered ovary - the calyx is vestigial. 3rd photo - Leaves are in a whorl of 4, without stalks and hair. Stems are 4-angled.", null, null, null, "Notes: Northern Bedstraw is indigenous to the Garden area. Eloise Butler catalogued 3 species of Galium on May 25, 1907 without specifying which ones. On May 28, 1910 she planted more plants that she obtained within Glenwood Park [which surrounded the area of the Garden], using the name Gallium boreale, which would confirm it is indigenous to the Garden Area. Northern Bedstraw was listed on Martha Crone's 1951 inventory of plants in the Garden at that time. It is native to almost all counties in Minnesota except for five in the SW quadrant. It is widespread in North America where it is absent only in 10 states in the southeastern U.S. and in Canada it is absent in Nunavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.\n\nComparisons: Of the Bedstraws native to Minnesota the common ones are: Galium aparine L.- (Cleavers aka Stickywilly) which has very weak stems, 4-petal flowers, hairy leaves in a whorl of 6 or 8, and hooked hairs on the seed capsule, grows as an annual; G. asprellum, Rough Bedstraw, has rough stems and leaves (whorl of 6 - 4 or 5 on side branches), is sprawling, and only a few 4–part flowers per cluster, but the clusters fork 1 to 3 times, seed pod is without bristles; G. labradoricum, Labrador Bedstraw, is sprawling, leaves with backward curving tips in a whorl of 4, clusters of only 3 flowers and is found in wet cold places; G. tinctorium, Small Bedstraw, is also sprawling in wet places, leaves of 4 to 6 in a whorl with very small 3-lobed flowers with stalks less than 1/4 inch long; G. trifidum, Three-lobed Bedstraw, is sprawling, leaves in a whorl of 4, small clusters of 1 to 3 3-parted flowers with stalks over 1/4 inch long; and G. triflorum, Fragrant Bedstraw, sprawling, with abruptly pointed leaves in a whorl of 6 with a vanilla odor when crushed, 4 -parted flowers in forked clusters of 3, smooth stem nodes, hair on other parts and leaf edges.\n\nLore and Uses: The common name of 'bedstraw' comes from the use by the early Colonists in the New World of the dried foliage of this readily available plant as bedding for themselves and for their cattle as the dried leaves have a fragrant aroma which was pleasing when used as a pillow or mattress stuffing. They also have an astringent property but can be eaten in a salad. In the home garden G. boreale with its erect stems can create a backdrop for other prairie plants. The roots of the plant have been a source of a true-red dye for native peoples, obtained by mixing the root with wood ash and strawberry juice. If the concoction was boiled too long, it became yellow dye. It is also reported that the seeds make a good coffee substitute. There is also recorded use as a folk remedy for urinary tract problems and using the juice of the plant for healing wounds." ]

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[ "Trouble flared at the Georgi Asparuhov stadium, also known as Gerena stadium, on Thursday as Levski didn’t progress to the second qualifying round of the Europa League.\n\nLevski were knocked out of the Europa League by Liechtenstein’s Vaduz on away goals despite a 3-2 home victory – and their fans didn’t take it well.\n\nAfter the final whistle, angry Levski ultras made their way into the main stand and then started throwing seats and other objects towards their own players. Some also tried to invade the pitch but were prevented from doing so by cops.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "That's what Jack C. Bogle says. He is the pioneer of low-cost index investing and founder and former CEO of Vanguard which now manages over $3.3 trillion in assets globally.\n\nBloomberg has a new interview with him and its great.\n\nHe is a proud penny pincher who used to get laughed at for not even trying to beat the market but is now considered an investing legend.\n\nForty years ago when he started, Wall Street dubbed Bogle's new investment thesis \"Bogle's Folly\". He challenged the status quo and said investors were better off buying and holding a low-cost fund that mimics the market as opposed to paying money managers huge fees to try and beat it.\n\nToday, indexing is the most commonly used strategy in the world. In the past 12 months alone, more than 5 times the amount of money flowed into index funds than into actively managed funds.\n\nHe has won countless awards. In 2004, TIME magazine named Mr. Bogle as one of the world’s 100 most powerful and influential people and Institutional Investor presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1999, FORTUNE designated him as one of the investment industry’s four “Giants of the 20th Century.” In the same year, he received the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University for “distinguished achievement in the nation’s service.”\n\nAlthough most CEO.ca readers are likely the opposite of the index-based, passive investors of which Mr. Bogle is a forefather; the long-term returns he has generated don't lie.\n\nMr. Bogle believes investing is simple when you apply a long-term, passive strategy.\n\nHe recommends 60-40, equity-bond split with 95% of the investor's wealth allocated to low-cost index funds and the remaining 5% put into gambling stocks (like the junior miners???). And, the most important part, you keep your money in there for the long-term. A lifetime, actually.\n\nHe has written 11 books, including the bestseller and investment classic \"Common Sense on Mutual Funds\". Also, \"The Clash of the Cultures\" which Warren Buffet recommended in his 2012 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.\n\nWhen asked about current valuations in US equity markets, he says:\n\n\"It would be nice to only invest when valuations are low. Moments of great depression in stock values are a great time to buy. You can’t invest at 2009 valuations today. So what are you going to do? You have to invest at today’s valuations. You can’t not invest now. Choose to not invest and you are ensuring you will have nothing 40, 50 years from now.\n\nYou’re investing for a lifetime. A 40-year-old probably has a 50-year life expectancy. That’s what you’re investing for. I am an indexer. That’s well known. I’d keep it simple and have my money in the S&P 500 or a broad market index, and the rest in the in a bond index.\"\n\nMr. Bogle, now 85 years old, is not a billionaire like his mutual fund colleagues such as the Johnson family (who founded Fidelity Investments).\n\nHe uses that fact as evidence that Vanguard maintains the lowest cost investing platform in the business, something he values more than money.\n\nHe is an avid philanthropist and has given most of his wages and wealth away.\n\n“My only regret about money is that I don’t have more to give away,” he says." ]

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[ null, "(Israel Hayom via JNS) - The families of three Israeli teenage boys who were abducted and murdered by Hamas terrorists in Judea and Samaria in June 2014 - sparking \"Operation Protective Edge\" later that summer - filed a lawsuit against the terrorist group on Sunday morning, seeking NIS 520 million ($155 million) in damages.\n\nAccording to the families of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, who are represented by attorneys Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, Avi Segal and Avi Gaz from the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, the purpose of the lawsuit is to stop the Palestinian Authority, which con..." ]

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[ null, "Rita Ora, born Rita Sahatciu Ora on 26 November 1990 is a British singer, songwriter and actress. Rita’s family moved to London when she was still a baby and she has lived there almost all her life. Ora began singing at the age of 14 and kicked off her career by appearing in a British film called “Spivs”. Later in 2007, She had her first taste of fame on Craig David’s single Awkward. In 2009, she caught the attention of Jayz who signed her to her to his label Roc Nation. She spent the following years working with the best people in the industry such as The Dream and Ester Dean to craft her first album. To increase her popularity, she released viral videos of herself working on the album.", null, null, null, "In 2012, She released her debut studio album Ora which topped the chart at number one in the United Kingdom with singles like ‘R.I.P’ becoming her first solo Uk number one and ‘How We Do Party’ reached number one in the UK and Ireland . Ora became the artist with the most number one singles on the UK Singles chart. The first single from her second album ‘I will never let you down’ debuted atop the UK singles chart in 2014, making Ora the second British solo female artist to score four UK number ones after Geri Halliwell.", null, null, "Rita however might just be more famous for making fashion statements and oozing a sort of stylish charm anywhere she goes. If there is anything the pop princess is better with than her musical career, its in being very fashionable.Whether in casuals or formal clothing, she always keep heads turning. Many have dubbed her style queen and we have no argument about that. Check out photos that qualifies her being called Style ‘Queen’", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "By Camilla M. Mann October 05, 2012\nBack in April we went to the inaugural Independent Marketplace. Tonight, while Jake worked on his math homework, I whisked the boys over the West End to see what autumn treats the vendors had in store for us.", null, "If you've never been and you live in the tri-counties area, what's stopping you? Seriously. Picture local producers peddling their freshest, seasonal harvest - voluptuous dry-farm tomatoes from Live Earth Farm, gorgeous amethyst tipped edible thistles from Pezzini Farms, and petite, luscious oysters on a glistening bed of ice from Local Catch Monterey. Since my fridge is full with CSA goodies and I am, tragically, allergic to oysters, we focused on grabbing an al fresco dinner, exploring the artisan foodsmiths, and celebrating the bounty of our local foodshed.", null, "Some new-to-me foodsmiths: 3 of a Kind. I knew that they would be pouring some of the non-alcoholic libations at Edible Monterey Bay's 1st birthday party, so I went over to introduce myself...and taste some of her drinks. Who am I kidding? I tasted them all!\n\n\n3 of a Kind was created by a local mom - of triplet boys - who wanted to make a fresh, handmade sparkling drink that everyone could enjoy. She says that \"it's the drink for people that don't drink soda.\" Her creations have no preservatives, no artificial colors, and no artificial flavors; they contain only three ingredients: fruit juice + natural sweeteners + herbs and spices. Cheers!", null, "Farmhouse Culture. Raw organic goodness - that's their tag line. And it is true. I've seen their wooden barrels and been intrigued. But, I don't like standing in lines, so I've skipped their table a few times. As luck would have it, there were no lines. So while the boys noshed on their dinner, I ducked over and tasted a few of their krauts and bought a container full of their classic caraway kraut.\n\nFounder Kathryn Lukas admits, readily, that she’s obsessed with kraut. Her interest was piqued in Germany, where she was the chef-owner of a popular neighborhood restaurant in Stuttgart for several years.\n\nBack in the States, living in Groveland and Santa Cruz, Lukas found herself inspired by the bounty of the surrounding landscapes, longing to create a sustainable, hands-on business. During a writing sabbatical in the Sierra Nevada Foothills, Lukas recalled the delicious krauts she’d adored in Germany and began digging into kraut lore, legend, and history. Farmhouse Culture was born.", null, null, "Then we were hungry. We perused the offerings and Dylan honed in on the chilled heirloom tomato gazpacho from Mundaka, a Spanish style tapas restaurant in downtown Carmel. I've always wanted to go there for a date night with my love. Instead, I shared a cup full of soup with my (mini) love. Dylan said, \"Mom, there are swirls of something creamy and something tangy. It's delicious!\" I concur. Now I'm really going to have to make it over there with Jake!", null, "The soup was just a teaser. We went for savory hand-pies from the Back Porch. Austin Kaye, the owner of Back Porch, opened in May of this year. Austin was a sushi chef at Zenbu in San Diego, then he opened and managed Masu, a thriving sushi restaurant in Portland. While in Portland, Austin worked in several high-end establishments specializing in the local cuisine, was a mushroom forager, worked at a local vineyard and winery, and also cooked in a restaurant that served exclusively organic and vegan dishes. Since moving to Santa Cruz in 2009, he has become well-versed in butchering and the various mediums of meat cooking.\n\nWe devoured their pulled pork pies with apple barbeque sauce and their veggie curry pies. And we ran into a friend who observed, \"You are so lucky. Your boys eat anything.\" That is true. A picky eater wouldn't survive long in my house.", null, "And, though it was neither local nor organic, we washed it all down with whole coconuts...with little umbrellas. The umbrellas were the clincher.\n\nOther favorites from the evening included Serendipity Saucy Spread, Jams, and Preserves. The things that Kristen and Lynette Cederquist make have been family favorites since we first discovered them. And, though we make our own jams most of the time, theirs are a treat. We picked up fresh lemon curd, blackberry preserves, and Santa Rosa plum jam. As a bonus, they gave us some wildflower honey-sea salt caramels. Thanks, gals! Yum.\n\nAnd as we were headed out the door, Dylan saw the table for Garden Variety Cheese. And he dashed over there and asked for some samples. The gal handing out the samples looked at me and stated, \"This is a little bit barnyard-y. Do you think he'll like it?\" Dylan interrupted, \"I've been to the Monkeyflower Ranch and I love all of those cheeses!\" So, she handed it over and my mini-caseophile made his way through all of her offerings before settling on a wedge of their Hollyhock. And I selected some of their lamb sausages.\nWell, that's a wrap on another successful adventure at the Independent Marketplace. We'll be back next month. First Thursday. Join us!" ]

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[ "The fact that “intel” is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate. Then afterwards I installed the Ice window manager, iceweasel, mplayer and open office, etc with apt-get. Neomagic Corporation NM [? MagicGraph XD] rev 01 Intel is one of the world’s largest and highest valued semiconductor chip makers, based on revenue. Download and Install the most up-to-date drivers. There are only two complaints, one is that the?\n\nAlthough Intel created the world’s first commercial microprocessor chip init was not until the success of the personal computer PC that this became its primary business. On a motherboard there are different components inel help divide up the work of running a computer. This hardware has worked fine with debian 3. MagicGraph XD] rev 01 Mobile Pentium MMX stepping: Disable acpi, since the hardware only supports apm.\n\nI would also recommend using the text install, I tried the graphical install and it did start up, but I cancelled out, mainly because I’m very familiar with the text install. These include error messages that pop up when you start your computer, PC crashes and even the blue screen of death.", null, "Problems Associated with Chipset Device s If anything happens to the drivers in a computer’s base-level circuitry, then you can expect major headaches in PC performance. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphics chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing.\n\nDuring the s, Intel invested heavily in new microprocessor designs fostering the rapid growth of the computer industry.\n\nAdvertising seems to be blocked by your browser. The fact that “intel” is the term for intelligence information also made the name appropriate.\n\nGet the perfect match for your driver More than 5 million happy users.\n\nIntel Corporation 882371 founded on July 18,by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge intdl capability. Hosting provided by Metropolitan Area Network Darmstadt. Inside your computer is a bank uxb circuits and conduits. No affiliation or inteo is intended or implied. I’m writing this DebianOn page with it.\n\nAny other third-party products, brands or trademarks listed above are the sole property of their respective owner. Neomagic Corporation NM [? Manage all your drivers in one place.\n\nMy machine’s small harddrive would not be big enough to take a full install of gnome, nor do I think it would run smoothly due to RAM and CPU limitations. Protect your system from component errors. The one problem with this machine is the embeded?\n\nQuickly and Easily control updates with one-click. If anything I think it might run a little better than it did with 4. Download and Install the most up-to-date drivers.\n\nTexas Instruments PCI rev 01 I could be wrong since I didn’t test it. During this period Intel became the dominant supplier of microprocessors for PCs, and was known for aggressive and anti-competitive tactics in defense of its market position, particularly against Advanced Micro Devices AMDas well as a struggle with Microsoft for control over the direction ysb the PC industry. NeoMagic sound chips, which I have not been able to get working.\n\nPlease support our project by allowing our site to show ads. Blackbox and openbox are also good windowmanagers for smaller systems.", null ]

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[ null, "Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and his party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), have opened up on their request to state governors and federal lawmakers.\n\nNational Chairman of ADC, Okey Nwosu, made the disclosure in an interview with sources. He said the party, in its invitation letter to the bigwigs, demanded that they move their structures and grassroot followers into the ADC.\n\nUsing the word “adapt”, he said once the governors and lawmakers were ready to do that, the party would welcome them.\n\nHis words: “We have sent letters to governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, and if they can adapt to ADC ways, we will receive them.\n\n“We are a grassroots party and that is where our strength lies. We have always had a challenge of not having enough resources to show what we are capable of doing.\n\n“Even in some places where we have won elections, the people in government tend to take the powerful influence of state structures to take the victories away. But I think with the influx of influential personalities that situation will end.\n\n“The biggest assets of the party are the young people and women, not the kind big men Nigerians were used to. Almost everybody in Nigeria is not happy with the way the country is going.\n\n“And if Obasanjo, Babangida, Danjuma, the bishops, and the religious leaders, both Christian and Moslem, have said that enough is enough, and have come to identify with a party that can properly package the polity and address issues of nation-building, we must be taken seriously.”\n\nFormer President Obasanjo Suggests Alternative To Oil Wealth In Nigeria\nWhy We Wanted To Impeach Obasanjo — Former Senate President, Anyim\n'What Will Happen In Lagos Before I Die'- Obasanjo\n‘I’ll Teach You A Lesson You Will Never Forget’ — Buhari Replies Obasanjo" ]

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[ "Frank was born in Bulwell in 1928, and moved to Edwinstowe at an early age when his\nfather found employment at the newly opened Thoresby Colliery. He attended Edwinstowe\nCounty Council School and the Mansfield College of Art.\nHe started work at Thoresby Colliery, gaining surveyor’s qualifications, before becoming\nHead Surveyor in his early twenties. His next move took him to the Planning Department at\nthe National Coal Board’s No. 3 Area Headquarters in Edwinstowe.\nAfter leaving the N.C.B. Frank and his wife, Kathleen, purchased a Post Office in Mansfield,\nand at the age of 50 Frank set up his own art gallery and framing business on Church Street\nin the same town. However, in 1988, due to the success of his work, he sold the gallery and\nbecame a full -time artist of high acclaim, with many of his paintings being held in private\ncollections around the world.\nFrank passed away in 2016, aged 88, and in 2022 Kathleen decided to part with her private\ncollection of Frank’s work ahead of a house move. The paintings were included at Hanson’s\nAuctioneers’’ Antiques and Collectors sale at Bishton Hall, Staffs. Hanson’s valuer, Faye\nDodsley, catalogued the collection and said that “Frank’s keen eye for detail enhanced his\nartistic skills enabling him to produce a multitude of wonderful drawings and oil paintings,\nover the course of many years. He took inspiration from the countryside on his doorstep\nand created a broad range of compositions featuring rural scenes in Derbyshire,\nNottinghamshire and Yorkshire.”", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Vancouver city councillor ‘shocked’ by report calling for his resignation", null, "Green Party Coun. Michael Wiebe says he “acted in good faith” in votes that allowed temporary patios across the city, including one at his restaurant and another at a pub in which he is an investor. File photo Jennifer Gauthier\n\nGreen Party city councillor Michael Wiebe’s future on council is uncertain after an independent investigator recommended he resign because of votes he made in May that allowed temporary patios across the city including one at his restaurant and another at a pub in which he is an investor.\n\nWiebe, who owns Eight ½ restaurant in Mount Pleasant and has a business interest in Portside Pub in Gastown, told Glacier Media Sunday that lawyer Raymond Young conducted the investigation into conflict-of-interest allegations brought forward by a citizen named Michael Redmond.\n\nYoung also recommended Wiebe, who is one of three Green Party members on the 11-member council, be disqualified from holding office until the next election in October 2022.\n\nWiebe, a former park board commissioner, was elected to council in October 2018.\n\n“I’m surprised by this because I thought we were still in the process [of the investigation] because I hadn’t had a chance to sit down and have an interview, or a Zoom call — and my legal team has not been involved at all,” Wiebe said.\n\n“This is a bit of a shock, but obviously this is part of the system that we’re in, and there’s reasons why we have things in place so people can feel confident in their elected officials.”\n\nWiebe said he received Young’s report late Sunday afternoon after having to travel to Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s downtown apartment to get a copy. Stewart had a copy because it was his duty under the city’s Code of Conduct to arrange the investigation after Redmond complained.\n\nWiebe said he and Redmond agreed on Young to investigate the allegations.\n\n“I just got the report in the last hour because it was not delivered to me,” said Wiebe, noting a report was supposed to be mailed to him last week, but never arrived.\n\n“I haven’t fully had an opportunity to digest the document, or fully understand where I’m at.”\n\nThat said, Wiebe declared his innocence in the matter, saying he “acted in good faith in the decision making that I have made, with the knowledge and information I had. So, right now, that is currently where I stand.”\n\nWiebe would not share a copy of Young’s report with Glacier Media, but a story first posted on the Georgia Straight’s website Sunday and then on CBC’s website provided details from the report, including Young’s conclusion that “his conflict of interest actions cannot be viewed as an error in judgement made in good faith.”\n\nThe allegations relate to votes Wiebe made May 13 and 27 that advanced council’s temporary patio program to allow patios at restaurants, breweries and pubs.\n\nThe move was to assist businesses hit financially by pandemic-influenced physical distancing measures and provincial health orders that closed or reduced the operation of businesses.\n\nBoth the Eight ½ restaurant and the Portside Pub applied for patio licences — and received them — with Eight ½ restaurant being among the first 14 approved by the city. Wiebe is now running a business called Side Hustle Sandwiches out of the restaurant\n\nWiebe told Glacier Media in June after the city released the names of the 14 businesses granted temporary patios that he didn’t “benefit more than any other restaurant or business that applied for it, and I’m not gaining capacity to make more money. I’m able to try to sustain the business for another year.”\n\nAt the time, he said, he was assisting breweries such as the Electric Bicycle Brewing in Mount Pleasant get a temporary patio licence — a move, he added, that would only hurt the bottom line of his restaurant, which is a few blocks south of the brewery.\n\nOn Sunday, he lamented the state of the food service industry.\n\n“For the industry these last couple of years…I mean I haven’t been able to take a penny out of the restaurant and I don’t see any money coming from Portside right now, either,” he said. “I think that this is an industry just holding on.”\n\nThe city’s Code of Conduct states: “A conflict exists when an individual is, or could be, influenced, or appear to be influenced, by a personal interest, financial [pecuniary] or otherwise, when carrying out their public duty. Personal interest can include direct or indirect pecuniary interest, bias, pre-judgment, close mindedness or undue influence.”\n\nIt was not clear Sunday what happens next in the process, or what weight Young’s report holds in whether Wiebe can remain in office. If Wiebe were to resign or be ordered to leave office, such a move would trigger a byelection.\n\nVancouver last held a municipal byelection October 2017 after former city councilor Geoff Meggs resigned to take a job as Premier John Horgan’s chief of staff. Hector Bremner won the vacant seat, only to be defeated in the 2018 general city election.\n\nThat byelection, which also included a contest for vacant school board seats, cost $1.2 million." ]

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[ "A Soul For Chaos by Crista McHugh (Soulbearer #2)", null, "Trouble is more than just a nickname for Arden Soulbearer. It seems to follow her wherever she goes. And no one knows this better than her protector, Devarius Tel’Brien.\n\nDev thought that by moving Arden to Gravaria so she could learn how to control Loku, the chaos god whose soul inhabits her body, life would be simpler. Wrong. Not only is he continually torn between his duty and his growing feelings for the Soulbearer, but he also has to contend with the rival prince who wishes to claim her heart. Adding to his problems, a group of powerful mages have banded together to rid the world of the disembodied chaos god once and for all. Of course, that means they have to destroy Arden in the process.\n\nThis book didn't really go in the direction I expected. Arden and Dev continued their journey to Gavaria to train Arden, but the personal relationships didn't develop the way I expected. Kell had to show up and complicate things again.\n\nArden and Dev's relationship is epically messed up and complicated, and they are both to blame. Dev continues to refuse to tell Arden anything or admit his feelings, and Arden continues to be impulsive and out of control with a hair-trigger temper. She is hot and cold and it is crazy! It's just the type of person she is, with emotions that rule her, but I was having a hard time understanding why one second she doesn't trust Dev and accuses him of being a danger to her, and then the next second she thinks he is all she needs in the world. She is the reason why men think women are confusing.\n\nEventually Kell's story diverges away from Arden's. That's a good and a bad thing. It's good because I want him to keep away from her. But its bad because it means that he has his own place in the story. He's not just there to be a convenient bump in Arden and Dev's journey toward each other. He is sticking around, and I don't really want him to because he still hasn't really grown on me.\n\nI enjoyed this book just as much as book one, and I will be starting A Soul for Vengeance immediately. I can't wait much longer for Arden and Dev get their HEA. I have to keep reading to get there sooner!\n\n\"Tonight she'd been given a taste of something she could never have. Her heart belonged to the one man intent on breaking it, and there was nothing she could do to change it.\"" ]

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[ "Hugh Fraser returns with Malice the third in the series following up from Harm and Threat also back is Rina Walker in 1960’s London and if you have read and loved Hugh’s first two then you are in for a real treat. This is an action packed thriller that packs a punch from the first page and will keep you gripped to the very last.", null, "1960’s London was well known for gangs and its leaders and we love a hero who will take them on, in this series we have a heroine in Rina a complex character and she fearlessly takes on the ‘bosses’ and hunts down those she needs to. There is violence as you would come to expect in this series. Rina is a gritty woman and one you would not pick a fight with, a gritty and determined leading character.\n\nThis time around Rina is hired to ‘take out’ a rival gangland leader who is threatening George Preston’s patch. But what Rina does not realise is that dealing with one problem will unleash more danger and revenge. The violence is at times graphic as the story takes us from Soho to the Midlands and then to the Spanish Coast. Like the previous two in the series I raced through this as it is a fast paced addictive read. If, however you have not read the first two in the series fear not as they can be read on their own. Be warned though, read on and you will want to read the entire series. One day a screenwriter will read one of these and will see just how dramatic they are and will want to transfer to the small screen. It would make for dramatic television viewing.\n\nThank you to Matthew at Urbane Publications for the advanced review copy of Malice.\n\nMalice by Hugh Fraser is published by Urbane Publications and is available through Waterstones, Amazon and all good bookshops." ]

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[ null, "An insatiable musician, sought after as a tireless sideman, guitarist Mathieu Lagraula has made a name of himself on the jazz scene of Nantes, France thanks to his particular feeling at the corner of Jazz and Blues.\nBorn in 1985 in Metz (France), he receives no musical education, but picks up the electric guitar at the age of 15 and starts playing. Soon the musical projects start to multiply and the choice is quickly made to play music for a living. Since then, he has played in nu-merous bands, of various musical orientations (Jazz, Blues, Reg-gae, Improvised Music, Rock and Roll…)\nIn 2005, Mathieu starts to grow an interest for the trumpet and it be-comes a second instrument.\nMathieu is a musical instructor for bands and young students, he also takes part in cultural actions such as teaching in jail, or playing in underprivileged areas.\nList of bands : The Sassy Swingers, Zgoaya, Soufffle, KETU, RAT, Phil Barouf, Troupe du Malin, etc." ]

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[ null, "A former Councillor in Lagos State who served during the local government democratic set-up in the Ibrahim Babangida regime has raised a social media storm after he was seen pushing dirt on a truck somewhere in the city.\n\nAccording to a video clip uploaded on twitter by Kayode Ogundamisi, the former councillor known as Shile Burger claimed to have represented Ajah and its environs during the military regime of General Gbadamosi Babangida.\n\nHe said he earned N500 monthly as salary at that time and paid tax from it." ]

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[ null, "Dairy prices fell at the overnight GlobalDairyTrade auction, snapping a run of six consecutive gains dating back to early March.\n\nThe key Whole Milk Powder price, which was one price that did fall at the previous auction too, led the overall drop with a 3.3% fall.\n\nThis means WMP prices have now eased 8.8% across the past two auctions, which corresponds with the start of the new season. Pre auction futures trading had suggested likely gains in the auction.\n\n\"This could see a switch back into SMP/milkfat at the expense of WMP.\n\n\"Combined with reportedly stronger sales outside of the GDT platform, this is certainly reducing the likelihood of additional product being added to the auction platform as seasonal milk flows increase,\" Williams said.\n\nFonterra's forecast milk price to farmers for the season just ended was recently raised to $6.15 per kilogram of milk solids from $6 previously." ]

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[ "Patients who undergo surgical treatment of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) are at increased risk for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), according to the findings of a population-based study presented at the 2022 European Association of Urology congress. Development of ESKD in these patients increases their risk for death.\n\nSven Lundstam, MD, PhD, of Sahlgrenska Academy of Gothenburg in Sweden, and colleagues identified 9414 patients with RCC using the National Swedish Kidney Cancer Registry and compared them with a control group of 94,159 patients without RCC matched by age, sex, and country of residence. The investigators found a 2.5% cumulative 10-year incidence of new-onset ESKD in the RCC group, which was 10 times higher than in the control group.\n\nPatients with both RCC and ESKD had significantly worse 5-year survival rates compared with patients who only had RCC (29% vs 64%). Among the patients with the kidney cancer, kidney failure was significantly associated with a 2.4-fold increased risk for death.", null ]