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[ null, "Magic mushrooms or “shrooms”, as they are additionally known as, are a comparatively new, polyphyletic group of fungi which comprise psilocin and psilocybine. As an exception to its name, the mushroom isn’t a sort of mushroom but the species that may be harvested and eaten. The word “magic” in the title is as a result of it produces results with no use of drugs. It was first described in an 1855 paper, and it has been gaining popularity ever since. The most typical mushrooms are the Penicillium species, that are the most often used by users of magic mushrooms.\n\nIf you beloved this article so you would like to obtain more info concerning Eid gifts https://eidcollective.com please visit our web-site.\n\nPsilocins are present in all mushrooms. They are small, aromatic compounds present in all mushrooms. They’re a naturally occurring aspect of mushrooms, particularly the mushrooms from Australia and New Zealand. There are other mushrooms that are rich in psilosans, together with Asparagus, Portobello, and even some species of mushrooms used in Chinese medication. Some of the mushrooms which can be rich in psilosans embody oysters, butternut squash, spinach, radishes, cauliflower, cucumber, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, kale, and plenty of others.\n\nThe lively ingredient in magic mushrooms is psilophyll. Psilophyll is a dimerized model of the pterocarpic principle in plants: an natural compound of pterine (a carbon-based ring) and procyanidin (a cyclic peptide). The mushroom psilophyll consists of two parts: the amyloid portion (the mushroom psilophyll), and the peptide portion (the mushroom procyanidin). Procyanidin is the half that is most important in mushrooms. Its structural structure and function in magic mushrooms are carefully related to the actions of magic.\n\nMagic mushrooms produce their results via the motion of psilophyll on certain brain cells that create modifications in the way the brain interprets visual info. This alteration in perception is what leads the consumer to have a way of altered actuality, a feeling of floating, and an altered state of consciousness. The modifications produced by magic mushrooms are identified to produce emotions of being transported into alternate worlds, an altered state of consciousness, and a feeling of being connected with nature, or with one’s spirit.\n\nFor some people, magic mushrooms seem to have a definite spiritual expertise, or they may have a feeling of being transported to another realm. Some reviews of the effects of mushrooms indicate that they can understand and work together with spirits.\n\nSome reports additionally indicate that some customers experience altered states of consciousness, a way of consciousness and consciousness that is absent from their regular waking state. Others report changes in notion of time, comparable to being able to feel time passing faster or slower than normal or feeling like time is operating out.\n\nThere are some people who report that mushrooms make their lives easier and happier and assist them with everyday duties. They report increased power levels, greater mental alertness, higher concentration and clarity. Others report an increase in physical health, an improved temper, and an increased sense of wellbeing, together with better sleep.\n\nUsing mushrooms should not be taken with out the supervision of a doctor. When taking mushrooms, it is recommended that they be used under the recommendation of a professional well being care supplier, as there is a danger of some adverse reactions. Within the case of serious unintended effects, patients should seek the advice of with their physician before use.\n\nMagic mushrooms aren’t a substitute for prescription medications. While there may be a chance that mushrooms may have the same or related effects as medicine, they aren’t FDA-accepted for medicinal purposes. Although mushrooms may be efficient in treating certain situations, they shouldn’t be used as a stand alone therapy because their effectiveness will rely upon the person.\n\nFor some people, mushrooms may assist them with emotions of euphoria, a sense of wellbeing and relaxation, and a common feeling of properly-being. These can result in hallucinations or delusions and can result in psychotic disorders.\n\nThe severe unwanted effects that will happen if magic mushrooms are taken incorrectly include loss of life. or severe liver harm, intestinal blockage, or bleeding, or even hallucinations, seizures, coma, and heart assault. It is extremely essential to seek medical recommendation in case you think that you are having an adversarial response to these mushrooms.\n\nWhen you have any kind of concerns relating to where and tips on how to utilize Eid decorations https://eidcollective.com, you can e mail us in our web-page.\n\nSimilar content articles mentioned by viewers of the web page:" ]

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[ null, "Computers Tech in the Past\n\nTHE YEAR WAS 1981, the US defeat in Vietnam was six years previously, while many people had only hazy memories of the majority of the 1970s with its drugs, bellbottom trousers and disco craze. Ronald Reagan was US President, and it was”Morning in America” once more.\n\nThe first IBM PC was not much by today’s standards. It had an Intel 8088 processor that ran in the blazing speed of 4.77MHz.\n\nA computer keyboard and 12in monochrome monitor were included, with a colour monitor optional. The 5150 conducted IBM BASIC in ROM and came with a PC-DOS boot diskette put out by a previously unknown startup software company based out of Seattle called Microsoft.\n\nThe IBM PC was intended to be sold to the general public, but IBM did not have any retail shops, so the business sold it through the US catalogue retailer Sears & Roebuck stores.\n\nIBM tried to maintain the PC market for itself by introducing its Micro-Channel Architecture, but the buying public refused. Soon other sellers joined the PC hardware market, software like Visicalc, Lotus 123 spreadsheet programs as well as the Wordperfect word processing programs appeared, The IBM PC based personal computing industry took off and never went backwards.\n\nBut now, after 30 years of growth and countless billions of dollars in hardware and software sales, it was probably time we remembered this important date in 1981.", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Lucius have released their new video for the track “Gone Insane”. Of the video, vocalist Jess Wolfe says, “The video was inspired by a dream I had… In short, Holly was sitting across from me moving my face, as if it were clay. The idea of perception and illusion and perspective, dysmorphia…All driving me a bit crazy. She took that concept and added to it… a mannequin, a spinning room, and thousands of photographs later with the incredible work of Nathan and Katie Johnson, our vision came to life.” Director Nathan Johnson adds, “It basically turned out to be a month-long project that included 20 hours in a makeup chair and 4 grueling days in front of the stop-motion rig. In the end, we used a combination of stop-motion, go-motion, and intervalometric photography to capture everything… All told, we shot more than 20,000 photographs, which were eventually edited down to the final 3,000 images you see in the film.” The song appears on their new album Good Grief, out now via Dine Alone Records and Mom + Pop Records.\n\nGood Grief was produced by Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Weezer) and Lucius with Bob Ezrin, and mixed by Tom Elmhirst (Adele, Beck). Of Good Grief, vocalist Jess Wolfe says, “When we started writing for this record, we had been away from home for nearly two years. We had just returned from tour, having gone through such varied emotions—loneliness, sadness and exhaustion alongside excitement, fulfillment and some of the most joyful moments in our lives…Whenever one of us had an idea or a feeling, the other was already a witness to it and could help navigate through it—for the two of us, this usually came in song form.” Vocalist Holly Laessig adds, “…When considering titles, we wanted to be sure to acknowledge any serious subject matter, while simultaneously allowing ourselves a comic sigh of relief from any personal turmoil. Ha! The yin and yang of the record naturally unveiled itself and, so, Good Grief.”\n\nLucius is led by its co-founders and vocalists Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig accompanied by multi-instrumentalists Andrew Burri, Peter Lalish and Dan Molad." ]

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[ null, "BNP on Friday alleged that the government is 'mocking with the hunger of people\" at this time of dangerous coronavirus pandemic.\n\n“Ministers and MPs are harvesting raw paddy to show that they’re with farmers. This not the way of serving people. The government is mocking with the hunger of the poor instead of tackling the famine-like situation caused by the pandemic,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.\n\nHe came up with the remarks while distributing relief materials among the destitute in the city’s Modhubagh area at the initiative of Future Bangladesh, a pro-BNP social organisation.\n\nThe BNP leader called upon the government to take effective steps to assuage the sufferings of the needy people and save them from starvation.\n\nThough BNP has not been in power for a long time, he said their party leaders and activists have continued distributing relief materials among the poor as per their ability.\n\n“We’re standing beside the poor only to ease their sufferings, not to brighten our image,” he observed.\n\nRizvi claimed that their party is working for the poor irrespective of their political identity. “But the government has formed relief committees at every ward comprising the ruling party leaders and activists. Only people belonging to Awami League are getting the relief as they politicised the relief activities.”\n\nAs a result, he alleged, thousands of people are crying out for the relief and passing hard days without food. “Many people who become jobless are going through a serious ordeal, but the government has no initiative to remove their sufferings.”" ]

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[ null, "Alfie Doughty was on target as Charlton's U18s extended their unbeaten streak to seven league games at Burnley on Saturday morning.\n\nThe left-sider put the Addicks ahead after 36 minutes and the strike looked as if it would earn Sergei Baltacha and Hamza Serrar's side a seventh successive win in Professional Development League 2 South, only for a stoppage time penalty to snatch a point for the Clarets.\n\nThe result leaves Charlton fourth in the table and one point shy of an end-of-season play-off place.\n\nThe Addicks had a good chance to break the deadlock early on when Luke Carey glanced on a delightful Ben Dempsey cross, but Burnley goalkeeper Conor King was able to save.\n\nDoughty forced King into action again when he drove forward from the half-way and fired into the keeper's arms and, on 36 minutes, the Addicks wide-man would get his goal.\n\nHe cut in from the left flank and, after having a look up, picked out the bottom corner with his weaker right foot.\n\nAfter the break, Harry Pollard put Kareem Isiaka in on goal, only for King to rush off his line and stifle the danger, and the stopper then got his palms in the way of a powerful Brendan Sarpong-Wiredu strike.\n\nThe Clarets snatched a point in stoppage time when they were awarded a penalty. Jordan Cropper stepped up and fired his spot-kick underneath goalkeeper Joseph Osaghae and the points were shared." ]

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[ null, "This full-length portrait of Alderman Amess, mayor during 1869–70, was one of the few that survived the Town Hall fire of 1925. Samuel Amess was born in Scotland in 1826, where he was apprenticed as a stonemason. In 1852, he was attracted to Victoria by the promise of gold. He was so successful on the gold fields that early in 1853 he returned to Melbourne to establish a business as a building contractor. By the 1870s he was regarded as one of Melbourne’s foremost builders. The contracting firm he established undertook many of the large government projects. Amess built several of Melbourne’s notable 19th-century buildings, including the General Post Office, Customs House, the Government Printing Office, the old Exchange Buildings in Williams Street, the Gold Treasury and the Kew Lunatic Asylum. He also built several country train stations, including the Ballarat Station. Amess was mayor in the year the new Town Hall was officially opened. He personally organised and paid for a celebratory fancy dress ball and commissioned a cantata by Kendall and Horsley, which was performed at a concert for 4500 people. Amess described his 'sparing the corporable funds' as 'a simple act of duty'. In fact, 20,000 people were invited to the various celebrations, all paid for by Amess. Tom Roberts (1856–1931) is one of Australia’s best known artists. He was a founding member of the Heidelberg School and organised the groundbreaking '9x5' Impressions exhibition. His work includes the famous 'Shearing the Ram's and the official group portrait of the opening of the first Federal Parliament in Melbourne. When renowned contemporary artist Callum Morton was commissioned in 2013 to respond to the Art and Heritage Collection, he was so taken with this Tom Roberts painting that he used its form for one of his ‘cover ups’, an artwork that he titled ';Mayor';." ]

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[ "The design of the “first” coat-of-arms was the product of a group of young men from Indiana University, Wabash College, and Miami University. Several had been soldiers of the recently-concluded War Between the States and some elements of the design were a result of the lingering military sentiment which was dominant throughout the country. J. F. Gookins, Indiana Beta, created the artwork for the engraver of a copper plate for the program at the installation of Illinois Beta at the University of Chicago on January 11 and 12, 1866.\n\nThe blazon, or formal description, of this design reads: “The design was composed of the shield, charged with the eye and scroll, the latter bearing the Phi Delta Theta letters; also, a sword attached to the shield by a chain, a larger scroll rolled so as to conceal both ends, a parchment bearing on one end Φι and on the other Κια, a helmet with closed visor, two styli, a laurel wreath and a double headed serpent.”\n\nDuring the next several years, each chapter operated on their own in a nearly autonomous manner and designed similar “arms” which reflected their own schools. It seemed to become a competition between different chapters to out-do other chapters by way of these designs. There was not the centralized control by the “National Grand Chapter” that began to develop near the turn of the century. An example of one of these designs appeared in the Cornellian in 1874, where they added 1848 beneath the helmet and the Phi Delta Theta monogram behind the sword and shield.\n\nThis competition was fed by the college annuals who wanted images of the fraternities that were no longer sub rosa on their campuses. As a result there were many different designs which built off of one another. These designs were very detailed with equally detailed blazons to describe them.\n\nMeanwhile, at the meeting of the General Council of 1888, a committee was appointed to have a plate engraved for the purpose of issuing duplicate charters to a growing number of new chapters. That plate was created by Louis Dreka, a Philadelphia stationer. It consisted of a separate plate of the “arms” and another more elaborate plate which included the arms with the name of the Fraternity on a streamer above.\n\nAt the Convention of 1889, the Fraternity decided not to elect any official stationers and chose a course which they felt would end the competition among chapters and result in a single image that would reflect recognized symbols in which the sword and shield would bind together for the use of all good Phis.\n\nThe Constitution of 1898 contained the blazon of a new coat-of-arms which reads:\n\nThe arms described by this blazon were the result of painstaking consultation with heraldic authorities, and they conformed to the fixed requirements of heraldry. The new design was simple and avoided the over-crowded appearance of the designs created by the various chapters. The Phi Delta Theta character of the emblems is obvious to all, while to the initiated, the armorial bearing symbolizes the cardinal principles of the Fraternity.\n\nThe two Fraternity colors are displayed, the fine horizontal lines denoting azure. The two chief emblems of Phi Delta Theta are the two most prominent emblems of the arms, the sword being “charged:” a heraldic term meaning an item placed upon the shield, or rather a bend argent, which divides the azure field of the escutcheon. This charge is most appropriate as the original badge was in the form of a shield, the sword being added later. The escutcheon is of a conventional heraldic shape, instead of the badge form of shield, and the eye of the scroll bearing “Phi Delta Theta” are omitted from the new design. Instead of two javelins there is but one which is in the crest.\n\nThe features of the new arms which were not in the old arms are the six stars, the open motto, the mantling (the backdrop behind the shield, often depicted as a fabric or foliage), the wreath (twist of ribbons which the crest rests on) and the mailed arm which hurls the javelin.\n\nThis coat-of-arms was copyrighted by the Fraternity in early 1899 and based upon a preliminary engraving by R. B. Lockwood of New York and prior to acceptance and approval by the Fraternity, impressions were made from Lockwood’s plate and made the frontispiece of The Scroll, February 1899. However, the engraving was not satisfactory. The shading was not perfect, and the accent of the last word in the motto was not correct. The Lockwood did not follow directions in regard to the upper part of the visor, and without authority placed a small crescent on the front of the helmet.\n\nConsequently, The Convention of 1902 ordered that the coat-of-arms should be engraved by some well known engraver, that the plate made by him should be the standard plate, and that chapters might have reproductions of the design made in conformity with the standard plate. The General Council decided upon the Dreka Company of Philadelphia to do the work. This company finished the plate in August 1903 and impressions from it made the frontispiece of The Scroll, October, 1903. (The frontispiece of W. B. Palmer’s The History of Phi Delta Theta was also printed from this plate.) The plate was also made larger than the one made by Lockwood.\n\nW. B. Palmer proposed, and it was accepted by the Convention of 1900, that when the coat-of-arms was depicted in colors, the bend should be in silver, the field above and below blue, the stars silver, the sword, helmet, mail on the arm and the javelin gold, the hand flesh color, the mantling silver and blue and the motto of black letters on a white scroll.", null ]

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[ null, "With voting officially closing on 29th July, the countdown is on to find out which of the Cadbury Inventor finalists will be crowned the winner. Bars have been filling supermarket shelves across the UK and Ireland and now these three stars are rallying the nation to get behind their local heroes, with the winning bar joining the Cadbury Dairy Milk to sit alongside iconic bars and family favourites including Caramel, Fruit & Nut and Whole Nut.\n\nKeith Lemon says, “I want you to support Neelam because she is putting Leeds on the map and she has come up with the most incredible thing- Cadbury Dairy Milk SIMPLY THE ZEST. It’s such a party in your mouth because you get a fruity tang of orange and chocolate – mix them together and it’s like all your dreams come true! We’re both from Leeds which is why I am involved in the campaign. Please let her win, this is her dream but this is also my dream – Leeds Power!”\n\nEntertainment manager and X Factor Judge Louis Walsh says, “Cadbury has always been very near and dear to my heart, so I am thrilled to lend my support to Callum and his brilliant creation. It’s a million percent yes from me. Callum looks like an inventor, he sounds like an inventor, he is an inventor. Callum really made this bar his own and I am calling on people across the country to get behind him and log on to vote. Callum’s bar is delicious and everyone should try it for themselves, so get out and buy the Cadbury Dairy Milk CHOCA-LATTE today.”\n\nTake That’s Howard Donald says, “Anyone for Melanie’s Cadbury Dairy Milk THE RASPBERRY SHORTCAKE? I’ve always been a Cadbury fan and I want the nation to get behind Melanie’s bar. You can’t beat the mix of milk chocolate and crunchy taste of shortcake against the raspberries. Come on Manchester – we need your vote!”", null ]

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[ null, "Nyles Gaddy arrived at Tennessee as a walk-on linebacker before the 2018 season. Since then, he’s played sparingly, and after Tennessee’s loss to Kentucky on Oct. 17, he left the team. Ten days later, he entered his name into the transfer portal.\n\nOn Saturday, Gaddy announced his plans to join Jackson State. Deion Sanders is the new head coach of the Tigers, which offered Gaddy a scholarship as they start to put together a roster for 2021 after the 2020 season was postponed.\n\nWhen any coach or player leaves Tennessee, The Athletic makes an attempt to interview them about their experiences, their next steps and where they think the Vols are headed.\n\nOn Monday, Gaddy took some time to talk with The Athletic about his time inside the program and what’s next for him\n\nTo start, why are you leaving?\n\nWhen did you know you were going to leave?\n\nI’m not gonna lie, it’s been something that’s been on my mind, but I figured I was going to give it until like the fourth week of the season. And I knew after that time came up.\n\nWhen did you actually step away from the program?\n\nI stepped away after the fourth game, the Kentucky game.\n\nWere you still a walk-on?\n\nI was still a walk-on, yeah.\n\nWhen did Jackson State come into the picture?\n\nJackson State, I had talked to (interim head coach Otis Riddley) because he’s the only one on campus right now and the only one that can really recruit. I talked to him a few times after I hit the portal and had a few more folks hit me up. I didn’t really want to rush nothing. I wanted to take my time. I was talking to WKU and all of them, so I had a few offers come through, but I wanted to take my time and make sure it was really what I wanted to do.\n\nWhy go to Jackson State?\n\nI feel like they’re up to something big down there. That was my whole thing with Tennessee, that it was going to be something big. That’s what I understood going into it. With Jackson State, I feel like it’s going to be a different type of show. I want to stand for something. They want folks to come back to HBCUs, show love and turn up. So that’s what my plans are.\n\nHave they given you a scholarship?\n\nHow involved was Deion Sanders with bringing you in?\n\nHe can’t get involved right now. He’s not on campus, so he can’t do anything right now. It’s just Coach O.\n\nHow would you describe this season at Tennessee?\n\nIt was crazy with all the COVID stuff. That definitely played a role in it, all the COVID stuff going around. That kind of hurt us in developing, but shoot, you can’t give excuses. Everybody had the same things going on. I don’t know, it was very different than in the past few seasons we had, in terms of prepping for the season.\n\nThings were kind of lighter. They were trying to make things lighter. They wanted folks to understand things, but I feel like it could have been done a little different. Everything played out as good as it possibly could.\n\nWhat did you feel like could have been done differently?\n\nWhen it came down to certain things like in camp, while we were in camp, there were a lot of instances of like, “Well, these players are out.” Or: “These guys are out.” It’s gotta be a next man up mentality and you gotta stay ready. And I feel like in a lot of cases, a lot of people were ready. You say they’re ready to go and people are ready to grind, but I saw a lot of situations where guys could come back for COVID and it wasn’t a situation where, “OK, this is your backup, let’s do this or that.” It was more like, “OK, you come back and there you go,” and guys were right back in there.\n\nI felt like in a lot of instances, there was no competition. It was really hard. I’m not just speaking for me personally. This is me personally, but I know I’ve got a voice for a lot of folks on this, too. A lot of folks who worked hard for what they were supposed to be getting. Guys were out there grinding, and you could probably interview a lot of dudes on the team and they’d say the same thing. A lot of people were out there grinding every day and they had their chance taken away from them.\n\nHow did the team deal with all the circumstances in camp?\n\nIt wasn’t really a real camp. It was light. We couldn’t be in there all day, so it wasn’t like a real camp. It was very different. I felt like everybody handled it pretty well, other than folks still moving around, doing things we can’t do right now because of the situation we’re in with the pandemic. Other than that, everybody handled it good. Folks were still locked in, doing film, getting extra work in even though we couldn’t get extra work in as a team.\n\nWhat were coaches saying about how to handle that situation?\n\nThey were just saying it’s gonna be different. The messages from them were things will be different this season. Like I said, they were saying it’s going to be a “next man up” mentality, like everybody’s gotta be ready because you never know when the guy ahead of you was going to drop. We’re playing a 10-game season this year, straight SEC play. There’s no BS. It’s going to be real. Everybody’s gotta stay ready, be physically ready and stay mentally ready.\n\nThere was a lot more involvement, they were coaching plenty of people up and there’s always coaching up, but they were telling a lot of players “stay ready” because we’re going to play a lot of people this year. We’re going to rotate a lot, because not only is this a free year, it’s a crazy year. COVID could take somebody out, an injury could take somebody out. You never know. But it’s the perfect time to get people better and build up your program.\n\nHow would you describe the program Jeremy Pruitt runs?\n\nIt’s different. He wants it to be a hard-nosed program and wants folks to be a football player. That’s his No. 1 thing. You gotta be a guy who just wants to come in and play football. If you’re mind ain’t on football, you ain’t got no business being at Tennessee. That’s the biggest thing. That’s the biggest thing we agreed on and everybody on the team agreed on. You’ve gotta be locked in. If you’re not, Tennessee’s not the place for you.\n\nHow would you describe the environment in the program after the Kentucky loss when you were still there?\n\nI stopped really being in the facility after that. I was trying to get my papers signed at that point. So I can’t really explain. I can tell you, team-wise, I was still getting messages since I’m still in the group chats and all that stuff.\n\nAll I’m seeing is guys saying like, “Hey, we gotta talk.” They’re having team meetings. I’m pretty sure everybody attended. They were addressing problems in the room. I wasn’t in the meeting room with them, but I’m sure that’s how everything went out.\n\nAmong the messages you did see, who spoke up the most?\n\nKivon Bennett, Deandre Johnson are the guys I saw who were pushing the most for meetings. There were probably a lot more guys, but those are guys you can for sure rock with. They were in my position room, so I can always see when they step up and say something.\n\nWhat’s been the difference in Tennessee from the back half of last year to what’s happened this year?\n\nLast year, the seniors stepped up. Darrell Taylor, Daniel Bituli, Nigel Warrior, all those guys stepped up and put the team on their back and they became playmakers. They took the game into their own hands.\n\nCoaches can’t do anything about that. We can have all the coaching in the world, but if we don’t step up and take over that ourselves, it’s on us.\n\nBut it’s on the coaches, too, because the coaches have to put the right people in leadership roles. Folks can take over leadership roles, but in a lot of cases, UT is set up to where like, the coaches have who they want in leadership roles already. They try and make leaders when the team, we can feel the fake vibes, the fake love. We can feel all of that. We’re going to naturally be behind who we know are our leaders. It can be whoever they want as the leaders, but we say, “These are our leaders.” If this guy says this, then we’re going to do that. We’re gonna get right.\n\nWere there guys who weren’t effective leaders who were put into leadership roles?\n\nI wouldn’t say they weren’t effective, but I’d say they might not be ready yet. You know? A lot of stuff that comes with time and experience. It comes with character too, that’s a big thing.\n\nIt goes the same way outside of football. We can all go together, but some of the guys who you see doing this or that, you can’t get together as a team because we see their character. We see how they act. We see the things they do outside of football. So we can’t really get behind them.\n\nI ask this question to just about everybody who leaves the program. Where is this program five years from now?\n\nEverybody wants to talk about recruiting and all that. It doesn’t have anything to do with recruiting. You can recruit all the players, all the guys you want in the world, and it’ll come down to what type of players you’re getting. You’ve gotta get the right guys, the right mentality. I feel like there’s a lot of people whose heads are in the wrong place. They’re coming here for the wrong reasons. I don’t know, I think it can be something great. UT is meant to be great. That’s just how it is. That’s in cement. UT is supposed to be great. In these next few years, they can really run for some stuff and be contenders for some really good stuff, and of course that’s their goal, too. But it’s going to take some work. I don’t want to throw any shade at any coaches or anything like that, but it’s going to take the right guys all over the program to get that right." ]

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[ "By Skygist (self media writer) | 9 months ago\n\nThe 2023 presidential election has caused a lot of arguments within the country because many regions are claiming that it's their turn to produce the next president of Nigeria.", null, "Also, some Northern groups are claiming that they have the capacity to win the presidential election in 2023.\n\nRecently, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed (NEF Director of Publicity and Advocacy) insisted that the Northerners have the numerical strength in any election within the country. He disclosed that those doubting the north’s voting power should evaluate the previous elections in the nation.\n\nApart from the population of the north, here are 2 good points Northern Elders made about the 2023 presidency.", null, "Northern Elders through their spokesman (Hakeem) said that neither the north or south can produce the next president without the the help of other regions within the country. The spokesman of NEF (Northern Elders Forum) made these statements on tuesday during a program on \"Arise TV\".\n\nAlso, Northern Elders revealed that Northerners has the constitutional right to vote for any candidate during the next election in Nigeria. They said that no region has the right to force others to vote for them during the 2023 presidential election.", null, "Therefore, I believe that Southern leaders should accept these two strong points made by NEF (Northern Elders' forum). Southern leaders should work together with other regions within the nation if they want to produce the next president of Nigeria. They should not claim that it's their right to produce the next president because it's not constitutional." ]

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[ null, "Winfred Rembert is a remarkable artist who lives in Connecticut. He creates his art out of leather, having learned his leather working skills in a Georgia prison in between shifts on a chain gang. Born in 1945, Rembert grew up in Cuthbert, the county seat of Randolph County in southwest Georgia. As a teenager, he got involved in the civil rights movement. He told Greg Cook of WBUR in Boston the rest of his story.\n\n\"I ran away from the cotton fields and I started hanging out at Jeff’s Pool Room on Hamilton Avenue. All the civil rights work was based on Hamilton Avenue. I was 14. They was doing street protesting for different things, trying to get equal rights in restaurants, theaters, all over Georgia and Alabama. … I wasn’t a big part. I was just making up the numbers, just being part of the body...Among the protests he participated in was one in Americus, Georgia, in the mid 1960s against blacks receiving much harsher sentences than whites for similar crimes. “It was a kind of big demonstration, bigger than usual. They had the fire department deputized and they had citizens deputized. And things got out of hand. White people started shooting. And we started running and everything. So I ran down this alley trying to get away and these two white men were running behind me. There was this car sitting there and I took that car and got away.” Within hours, police caught him: “They just pulled up behind me. And they put me in jail in Cuthbert.”\n\nRembert managed to overpower a deputy and escape. Then things got worse.\n\n“I went to some people’s house who I thought I could get some help from. But they went in the next room and called the police. They threw me in the car. First, they put me in the back seat and escorted me to the jail. Then two, three hours later, they threw me in the trunk [of a police car] and drove me out to an isolated place where they had these noose hanging from a tree. Then they took me out and hanged me upside-down. Then the same guy that I locked in the jail, in the cell, he tried to castrate me. Until another man, a white man, came up and stopped him and saved me from being castrated. Then they cut me down and took me back to the jail bleeding like a pig...There was no new trial. One day they took me to a kangaroo court. They had a judge, but there was no plea, guilty plea, and all that kind of stuff. They just gave me some time. Judge gave me five years for escape, two years for pointing a pistol, and he gave me 20 for robbery. And I asked him, ‘Who did I rob?’ He says, ‘You robbed a man of his pistol.’ I said, ‘Well, he was pulling the pistol to shoot me.’ He says, ‘Well, you should have let him shot you.\n\nRembert went to prison, got out and moved to New Haven, where he has worked at his leather crafts ever since. But Randolph County, where he nearly was murdered in custody, is back in the news again, with history echoing loudly through the years back to the time when Winfred Rembert grew up there. From The New York Times:\n\nThe Randolph County elections board is scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss a proposal that would eliminate seven of nine polling locations in the county, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia. Included in the proposed closures is Cuthbert Middle School where nearly 97 percent of voters are black. \"There is strong evidence that this was done with intent to make it harder for African Americans,\" ACLU of Georgia attorney Sean Young said. The ACLU has sent a letter to the elections board demanding that the polling places remain open and has filed open records requests for information about the proposal to close the polling places.\n\nThis is appalling enough on its face, but the sheer brass it takes to make this kind of decision right out in the open is testimony to the success that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has achieved at rolling back the hard-won blood-gains of the civil rights movement, a project that truly has been Roberts's life's mission ever since he was a young lawyer in the Justice Department under Ronald Reagan.\n\nUnder the old Voting Rights Act, gutted by the Roberts Court in Shelby County v. Holder, the decision in which Roberts declared the arrival of the Day of Jubilee, nobody would have dared pull a stunt like this. The pre-clearance provisions of the VRA would have kicked in. The DOJ would have been breathing down their necks within the hour.\n\nAccording to the latest census figures, Randolph County's population is more than 61 percent of black, double the statewide percentage.The median household income for the county was $30,358 in 2016, compared to $51,037 in the rest of the state. Nearly one-third of the county's residents live below the poverty line, compared to about 16 percent statewide, according to U.S. Census figures. The closure of polling places will affect those who lack reliable transportation, the ACLU says. Public transit doesn't exist in much of the rural county, and 22 percent of the county's residents have no car. People who currently vote at the polling places that would close under the proposal would have to travel an additional 10 miles to vote, the ACLU says. With no car or bus to reach a different polling location, this predominantly black, Democratic county will not be able to fairly vote, ACLU of Georgia executive director Andrea Young said.\n\nIt shouldn't be this easy to do this kind of thing in 2018. People shouldn't feel comfortable doing it so plainly in the open. It shouldn't be such a simple job to dress up the evil ghosts of the past in modern clothes and parade them down the rural highways where Winfred Rembert once broke rocks because he \"stole\" a gun from a white man who was trying to shoot him. The bastards at least should have to work harder for it." ]

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[ null, "A frog that weighs up to 1.5 pounds?!? Read on to learn more about the frogs and toads that can be found in Iowa:", null, "The Fowler’s toad is usually brown, grey, olive green and rust red in color with darkened warty spots. As these toads become adults, a pale stripe will form down its back. The belly is usually whiteish with one dark spot. These toads are only found in southeast Iowa.", null, null, "The grey treefrog may range in color from green to brown to grey (as shown above). During the day, they may be found sleeping on tree branches or leaves. Their toes have a sticky pad which allows them to easily climb vertically up windows, siding, trees; etc. They may be found in the eastern half of Iowa.", null, "The spring peeper is one of Indiana’s smallest frogs measuring from 1″ to 1-1/2″. It can be distinguished by it’s dark colored “X”across its back. This frog is uncommon except in counties near the Mississippi River. They can be found in a variety of habitats and breed in almost any freshwater source.", null, "The Green Frog is abundant on the eastern half of Iowa. It is typically greenish-brown with dark mottling on its head, chest and under its legs. The throat color ranges to yellow for a male to white for the females.", null, "The southern leopard frog is a greenish brown color and has 2 yellow lines down the back and one above the lip. These frogs can be found in shallow freshwater or slightly brackish water. They are usually found a powerful jump or two away from the water, however in summer they may be found far from the water where they venture for insects. Due to their name, it is not odd that they can be found in the extreme southeastern corner of Iowa.\n\nThe Pickerel frog looks very similar to the Leopard frog; however the pickerel frog has 2 parallel rows of squareish spots down its back.", null, "These frogs are common in the eastern 1/3 of Iowa. They are often found near ponds with dense vegetation.", null, "These frogs can be found in the south west portion of Iowa. They could easily be found throughout the state of Iowa, as it was previously assumed that Cope’s gray treefrogs and eastern gray treefrogs were the same.\n\nThe Northern Leopard frog has 2-3 unevenly spaced rows of irregular oval shaped dots on its back.", null, "The northern leopard frog can be found almost statewide in Iowa. At one point this frog was very abundant throughout the United states, however since the 1970’s the number of northern leopard frogs has drastically declined. These frogs were widely collected for dissection and frog legs which has not helped the population. These frogs are opportunistic feeders, meaning that they will eat anything that fits in their mouth including beetles, ants, smaller frogs – including their own species, birds and even garter snakes.\n\nIt’s call is like a low and rumbling snore and grunt sound. It has also been known to scream loudly when grasped or frightened by a predator. Listen below to their call.\n\nThis frog is brown with large rounded dark spots with light borders. As you can see from the photo above, the ear drum is very distinct. The plains leopard frog can reach 3″.", null, "They can be found near streams, ponds, creeks and ditches. In wet, mild weather, they may be found far away from water. The plain’s leopard frog can be found in the southern half of Iowa.\n\nThis frog has a large and stubby body with a distinct humped back while it rests. It is covered in many irregular shaped spots and its belly is solid white. It gets its name from its diet which consists of nocturnal beetles, small amphibians and reptiles and crawfish. The crawfish frog can be found in low lying areas including meadows, prairies, brushy fields and crawfish holes. In Iowa, the crawfish frog was last seen in the 1940’s in the southeastern portion of Iowa. The crawfish frog is endangered in Iowa and it is illegal to kill or collect this species.", null, "The crawfish frog has a loud and deep call which reminds me of a hog. Listen to them below:", null, "The Blanchard’s cricket frog is a small treefrog that’s skin color is quite variable. The skin color can range from brown, green,grey or reddish tan and may change based on environmental conditions. The cricket frog is found throughout the state of Iowa. During the 1980’s the population dwindled from the north to the south; they are now starting to recover again. They can be found near ponds, lakes and adjacent streams and tend to breed in quiet water. The cricket frog cannot withstand inundation for more than 24 hours and are not freeze tolerant, which may help attribute to their short lifespan.\n\nTadpoles typically have a distinct black tipped tail and can reach 1.9″ in length. Breeding occurs between June and mid-August. The Blanchard crickets call resembles the sound of 2 ball bearings clinking together. Listen to the video below to hear them!", null, "The Boreal Chorus frog is brown with 3 dark lateral stripes or spots down its back with a white upper lip and measures only 1″ long. The species is found statewide.", null, "The American Bullfrog is the largest frog in North America. They can grow up to 8″ in length and weigh up to 1.5 pounds. The bullfrog is unique as it can be found in freshwater ponds, lakes and marshes throughout Canada, United States and as far south as Mexico and Cuba. They are typically green or gray-brown with brown spots. The bullfrog emerges from hibernation in May and typically does not start calling until its breeding time in July.\n\nIt has a very deep call which resembles the mooing of a cow. Watch the video below to hear! Both genders of the bullfrog croak. Their calls may be heard day or night.", null, "The Great Plains toad has a long trill call that lasts several seconds long and can vary depending on the size of the male and the temperature. Some people have compared this toad’s call to a jackhammer, but go ahead and listen to it for yourself below:", null, "Woodhouse’s toad can vary in color from yellowish brown to greenish grey with a light stripe down the middle of its back and can reach up to 5″ in length with the males being smaller than females. These toads can be found primarily in deep soils in river valleys and flood plains. They burrow into soil to escape drought and cold. Woodhouse’s toad can be found only on the western edge of Iowa.\n\nThe Plains spadefoot is known for its vertically elongated pupil and markings similar to a hourglass on its upper sides. The plains spadefoot spends most of its life buried in the soil, but will emerge to breed after heavy rains in spring or summer. They can be found in sandhills, grasslands on the western edge of Iowa as shown below.", null, "2 thoughts on “Frogs and Toads of Iowa”", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Phones that announce the name of the caller\n\nA new telephone device not only identifies the number of the\nperson calling you, but also shouts out the name of the caller.\nThe gadget, patented by United States phone company AT&T, uses the\ncaller's number to consult a central database of subscribers' names.\n\nOnce the name is found, it then activates a voice synthesiser on\nthe phone to announce -- like a butler at an embassy reception --\nthe name of the caller.\n\nThe invention also works the other way, by announcing to you the\nname of the subscriber whose number you have dialled.\n\nMany phones already provide caller ID in the form of a phone number.\nBut the new-fangled service will let a user screen out undesirable\ncalls, such as from salesmen, heavy-breathing stalkers and creditors.\n\nAnd it could save money on misdialled numbers too, because you could\nring off before the call is answered.", null ]

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[ "New Albany /ˈɑːlbəni/ is a city in Floyd County, Indiana, United States, situated along the Ohio River opposite Louisville, Kentucky. The population was 36,372 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Floyd County. It is bounded by I-265 to the north and the Ohio River to the south, and is considered part of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area. The mayor of New Albany is Jeff Gahan, a Democrat; he was re-elected in 2015.\nThings to do in New Albany", null, "This establishment is a fine dining place. It has it all, bar, outside seating, relaxing, spacious and quaint. However, the food and drinks are pricey althought they are good. I enjoy this location once in a great while, but can't afford to frequent it. If you can afford to slurge, go here, it most likely won't dissappoint you but i like to get more for my money.", null, "This place has a big following, so obviously most people think it's a great breakfast spot. However, while I am not picky, I found their Mediterranean Omelet to be dry and bland, My son ordered a spinach omelet, and was upset when red onions were added, My other three guests thought that their orders were OK. The staff is friendly and prompt. I give credit to New Albany for preserving so much of their old down town.", null, "Located in the restored historic Baer Building, River City Winery features award winning wines paired with a menu that includes soups, salads, gourmet pizzas, appetizers, entrees and locally made deserts. The wine production area is located onsite below the tasting room and restaurant. Our 2011 Vignoles was named Wine of the Year at the 2012 Indy International Wine Competition. A first ever for a midwest winery!\n\nOne of my all.time favorites for the several years it has been open, RCW has failed me my last two visits. Environment still great, and the wines are among my favorites anywhere, but the kitchen has developed issues. Limited selections hamper what should be a great experience.\nIf you go there for food, be sure to check the menu beforehand. If you don't like what's listed among the approx 8 entrees, and aren't in the mood for pizza, you should go elsewhere. The kitchen shows no willingness to accomodate simple requests and given the very limited selection will cause some disappointed diners. Any request for anything from the lunch menu will be denied. It's almost as if either the cooks can only cook what's on the menu, or they have been forbidden to diverge. This visit, after much wrangling to find something I liked, the filet arrived undercooked and asparagus stringy. Corn risotto oversalted. Wife's gnocchi was oversalted and undercooked. Kids pizza soggy in middle.\nThe presentation is still very good, and the pizza is usually good. However, you can get as good pizza for much less at other pizzarias locally. There is no kids menu.\nI don't feel that I will return.", null, "We went to New Albany for an outdoor concert and thought we would have to eat in the more built up Jeffersonville but took our chances. We found great food and live entertainment but a unique Cubin tradition was what we got. Tapas style allows you to try multiple receipts in smaller amounts to share. It is well priced for quality food.", null, "Stopped in and ordered two rib baskets for takeout. Service was quick and friendly. Server asked if I’d like a soft drink or tea while I waited. My order was ready quickly and the server went over the order to ensure it was right. Food was well prepared. I can highly recommend Mark’s Feed Store.", null, "Over the past few months, I have read many positive TripAdvisor reviews of the New Albanian, and have seen dozens of mouthwatering photos. I was determined to try the place, but remained skeptical that it could be as good as the reviews and photos indicated. I was correct...it was BETTER! Unbelievably good, in fact! From the well-prepared side salad to the final bite I was able to take, this was one of the best dining experiences I have had -- period!\nThe upside-down pizza, with sausage and spinach, must be experienced. My words can't do it justice! Accompanied by a creamy Hoosier Daddy ale...I am already planning my return trip!", null, "Handmade dough prepared fresh daily. Loads of cheese. Piled high toppings. No wonder we've won Best of Louisville Pizza for more than 10 years! Wick’s Pizza is a concept started over 25 years ago at the kitchen table of Michael Wickliffe’s mother. Meredith and Mike put all the money they had, and borrowed a little from their parents, to open a pizza place in the Highlands at the current location. 25 years later, they have four locations with hundreds of employees and they wouldn’t change a thing!", null, "Went with family. It is Unbelievable place. If you love Mexican,Sushi. You gonna love Dragon King Daughter restaurant. I order Drunken chicken tacos, Black & Bleu roll. I never had Drunken chicken tacos before. It was so Amazing. Love sushi. I fell head over heels over Black & Bleu roll. Everything was Awesome. Ambiance, the food. This restaurant comes very Highly recommend! I wish we had one at home. You need try this. Hopefully that won't be my last time there.", null, "BBQ is our passion. We strive to produce the most consistent smoked meats possible and scratch made sides. This takes time, dedication, and the constant pursuit of perfection. It takes us a long time to cook our food and we hope you can taste our patience. Seating and food is first come, first serve. We do not take reservations. Ordering and service is at the front counter. Vegetarian, gluten-free, and soy-free options are available, but there are no true vegan options. Sorry, kind of; we are a BBQ place after all.\n\nWe were lucky to walk in off the street on a Friday evening and get a table at this restaurant, right next door to the packed Exchange Pub + Kitchen. The BBQ selection and sauces were tasty and the bourbon and beer selection attractive.", null, "Ate there last night. Nice atmosphere, cute restaurant. Food was mediocre at best. Service was nonexistent. Had rservations. Waited a considerable time before drink orders where taken. Did not receive the complimentary bread or REASON for no bread while others around us were getting it...had to ask someone else running by about it; no refills offered on water, coffee, or tea; there were no salt/pepper shakers on our table AND several other tables around us...had to ask someone running by and wait. Marinara sauce was very watery and lobster ravioli needed salt. Had to wait...AND wait for our check; then had to wait and WAIT for the server to return. I finally took the check up to the manager myself.\n\nAstounded by the events tonight considering all the positive previous reviews." ]

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[ null, "The history of digital film making is an over long commercial for the joys of digital.\n\nYes, its great to see all of the directors, editors and directors of photography talking about the differences between film and digital, but its more a hard sell then an unbiased look. Almost everyone interviewed says how great it is, now that many kinks have been worked out.\n\nSadly no one really talks about digital's drawback, that while digital is great in cost and picture quality, there is a problem with long term storage. It seems, and its only briefly mentioned, that the only way to store digital images long term is actually on celluloid because technology is advancing so fast that formats are becoming unreadable forever-as David Fincher has found out. Unless digital files are constantly updated and watched over there will come a time when some films are lost simply because the we can't read the files.\n\nAs for the rest of the film, I was ready to bail twenty minutes in because it wasn't anything I, who only has a cursory knowledge of the subject prior, hadn't heard before. Its the same talk we hear and see in all the press releases on the next digital leap. It makes me think what anyone who really knows about the move to digital will know more than is revealed here and anyone who doesn't will be bored rather quickly especially since at 100 minutes this is twice as long as it should be. Sure the quips are great, but I'd rather see the full interviews rather than how they were assembled here.\n\nThe film also has one other problem, many of the film clips used to illustrate how good digital is look terrible. On the basis of what we see here I'd only want to see Avatar and nothing else." ]

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[ "When it comes to cycling, southern British Columbia offers some of the world’s best terrain. Here are four regions to hit the trails:", null, "With camera, guidebook, snacks and water in place, my two daughters and I set off on our 150-kilometre cycling route – an idyllic three days, free-wheeling through forests, beside flower-filled meadows and above crystalline lakes. We loved the easy incline of 2.2 percent grade which is the steepest a railway can be.\n\nConstruction of the Kettle Valley Railway (KVR) began in 1910 over some of BC’s most rugged terrain; today the abandoned corridor offers 600 kilometres of wilderness cycling.\n\nBetween Beaverdell, a wink of a community along Highway 33 to Naramata, a vineyard-rich region on the eastern shores of Lake Okanagan, we spotted wildlife, picnicked in shady spots above sunny lakes and visited wineries. The first night – after about 55 kilometres – we spent in charming McCulloch Lake Resort, the second night in the historic and rustic Chute Lake Resort, famed for home-baked pies.\n\nThe highlight of the trip is easily Myra Canyon, a plunging, horse-shoe shaped gorge laced with eighteen, picturesque trestle bridges. Cycling beside burnished cliffs above the deep chasm is a thrill. The original trestle bridges were destroyed by fire in the summer of 2003. They have recently opened to once again allow two-wheel and foot traffic to experience the phenomenal landscape. www.myratrestles.com\n\nThe province’s capital, located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, has been recognized by Statistics Canada as having the highest per capita bicycle usage in the country, and with good reason. With its temperate climate and vast network of bike-friendly routes, who wouldn’t want to hop onto a bike saddle?\n\nProbably its best known route is the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, used by commuters and pleasure pedallers, it take you along woodsy trails, over trestle bridges, through bird sanctuaries, beside cattle grazing and pretty farmland, past a marsh and through rainforest. It is well marked, scenic and offers dozens of options for an easy few hours cycling or an overnight weekend excursion — cycle to Sooke for an overnight. It is about 40 km each way from Victoria. The trail’s intriguing name is after a 1920s rail-car once used to transport passengers between Victoria and Sooke.\n\nDon’t leave Victoria without following my favourite — the Seaside Touring Route. It fringes beaches and takes you through pretty neighbourhoods where you gape in wonder at gardens prolific in blooms; you pass scenic bays and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. At Oak Bay Marina, you drool over expensive yachts, as well as people-watch as strollers enjoy the waterfront.\n\nThis coastal cruise is tailor-made for rest stops. For example, at Gonzales Bay, I discovered a historic Chinese Cemetery and a peaceful bluff that overlooks the water. You can hop off at beaches where families romp and follow a wilderness trail in vast Mt. Douglas Park. This route showcases the outdoor lifestyle in this western city as well as astounds with the scenery.\n\nWhen you visit Vancouver, it is a rite of passage to hop on a bike and cruise the Stanley Park Seawall. While the 8.8 km seawall is hardly a day trip when it comes to distance, you can spend hours taking in the 400 hectare park’s highlights. On a designated paved path, head east near the Vancouver Rowing Club and enjoy the cityscape across the water. Yes, that is a cannon along the shoreline, better known locally as the Nine O’clock Gun. Pause at Brockton Oval to enjoy the totem poles, then pedal past the small lighthouse to catch your first glimpse of Lion’s Gate Bridge.\n\nAs you continue, don’t miss the Girl in a Wesuit statue out in the harbour. Next you will come upon the Empress of Japan, the figurehead of a trading vessel that sailed from Asia at the turn of the 19th century. After you pass under Lion’s Gate Bridge you soon see a famous, natural landmark. Siwash Rock, a jagged pinnacle jutting out of the water is named after a Native legend.\n\nKeep pedaling for lovely views of English Bay and, look across the water to the trendy neighbourhood of Kitsilano. Past Ferguson Point, keep left to visit Lost Lagoon. Pedal where Weeping Willow trees drape over the lush lagoon that was named by the famous Mohawk poet, Pauline Johnson. Stop to admire wildlife – heron, trumpeter swans, mallards and wood ducks, call the picturesque lagoon home. You’ve completed the seawall; head to the West End for ice cream or other treats. This is possibly one of the world’s best urban cycle routes. There are a number of bike rental places at each end of it.\n\nKeen cyclists, who love to put in lengthy days in the bike saddle, pass through incredible landscapes and bed down in quaint towns, take on the Sunshine Coast Vancouver Island Circle Tour. With panniers bulging, you catch the ferry from Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver to Langdale on the Sunshine Coast. The latter is a bucolic, green belt along BC’s west coast that can only be reached by ferry.\n\nDeparting the ferry, it is a long uphill slog; even though you’ve only had a 40-minute voyage, you may wish to detour into Lower Gibsons, a pretty waterfront town made famous by the Beachcombers television series. Or you may choose to keep traveling as you are at the beginning of a 250 some kilometer journey that, for most cyclists, is at least a five-day trip. After all, you don’t want to rush through the sleepy towns and tranquil bays.\n\nFrom Gibsons, pedal on to Roberts Creek – another detour possibility or perhaps to camp out in Roberts Creek Provincial Park. (The Sunshine Coast has more than 100 B&Bs and small inns to choose from as well as camp grounds.) Sechelt, the largest and busiest town on the Coast is an ideal place to stretch your legs and chow down, perhaps at the neighbourhood Italian — The Old Boot.\n\nFrom here, the highway (yes, there are hills), weaves through rainforest, tiny communities that boast marinas, and gives glimpses of the great Pacific Ocean on your left. It is about 84 km to Earl’s Cove where you hop another ferry to Powell River. This bustling oceanfront town is an ideal place to spend some time, stretch your legs in a park, stroll some galleries and perhaps spend the night before taking a ferry across the Strait of Georgia to Comox on Vancouver Island.\n\nPedal south through the picturesque Comox Valley, to the pretty oceanside towns of Qualicum Beach and Parksville. Stay at a resort, walk a beach, book a whale watching tour – there are endless add-ons to your bike trip along this route. About 84 km later, you arrive in Nanaimo, a busy city with a trendy waterfront scene.\n\nTo complete your tour, spend another day cycling to Victoria to enjoy the capital city and then, from nearby Sydney, take BC Ferries back to Vancouver.\n\nJudi Lees is a BC-based Travel writer and a long time contributor to Travel to Wellness.\n\nKayaking the Gulf Islands of BC", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The inspiring ‘Rhythmatist’ Stewart Copeland, drummer with The Police, went on to compose film scores. My preferred ones are the rock masterpiece Rumblefish (1983) and his score for Oliver Stone’s Talk Radio (1988) with its MIDI toccatas. When playing kit, I enjoyed the unorthodox way he’d place the downbeat on the 3rd of the 4/4 instead of on the usual 2nd and 4th. His precision, his quantum, filigree hi-hat work and his polyrhythms made me experiment with rhythm and computers in my own scores. I was lucky enough to meet and talk with Stewart Copeland at St John’s, Smith Square, London in the 1980s at a concert of electroacoustic music. He was dressed in silver boots and a jump suit.\n\nI found the picture above inspiring. It comes from the back of the Rumblefish album. Copeland stands in lab coat as a scientist, in front of an unplayable and therefore musically-symbolic lyre (under what looks like a working marimba). The image mixed the freedom of rock, with a (tongue-in-cheek) ‘scientific’ approach to music and a representation of the history of music: freedom, symbolism, history and science all merged into a picture, decorating a fantastic, original score.\n\nIn Rumblefish, Copeland uses sound metaphors in fascinating ways, e.g. heartbeats, pounding industrial pile-drivers, scooter exhausts, car horns, beggar-man solo violin and alarm clocks – his own ballet méchanique accompanied on drum kit! The film opens with the sounds of tiny struck bells over Francis Coppola’s images of sped-up cloud formations: precision + cloud. I loved also the way he used (what sound like) reversed sounds for the cue Father On the Stairs. – They come across as a fusion of traditional music and floorboards creaking.", null, "Stewart Copeland in the studio\n\nNo-one plays kit like Stewart Copeland. He treats notes like drums, being more interested in their triggering and rhythmic patterns, than the harmony they produce. It’s as if he’s playing a keyboard with a pair of sticks." ]

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[ "Home / News-en / Guilty without intent or how large families are “helped” in Mari El Republic!\n\nGuilty without intent or how large families are “helped” in Mari El Republic!\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El took the side of a large family. Legal protection to the family was provided by human rights defenders of the organization “Man and Law”.\n\nThe Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of Mari El Republic commuted the sentence against a resident of the village of Yurkino in the Yurinsky district.\n\nA man convicted of illegal logging has been exonerated from recovering large-scale damages and court costs. In addition, the Supreme Court lifted an attachment of the part of the felled forest that had been paid for according to the contract concluded with the forestry enterprise.\n\nIn July 2020, by the decision of the Gornomarisky district court, a resident of the village of Yurkino of the Yurinskiy district was convicted of committing a crime under part 3 of article 260 of the criminal code (illegal felling of forest stand), sentenced to 2 years imprisonment and recovering damages in the amount of 168 277 RUB in favor of GKU “West interdistrict forest management” and payment of court costs amounting to around 20 000 RUB. Also, 236 logs were seized from him, which had been paid for and cut down for the restoration of the house.\n\nAs it turned out during the appeal, such a severe punishment was received by the person, including because of an error of the state institution “Western interdistrict forest management”!", null, "Instead of repairing the house – a criminal case\n\nIt all started with the fact that in 2019, a large family of residents of the village of Yurkino decided to improve housing conditions — to restore the house. In a friendly family, three children of 13, 10, 8 years old were already growing up, and a fourth child was soon to be born.\n\nTo get wood for the restoration of the house, the head of the family applied to the forestry department. They signed a contract, according to which 40 cubic meters of wood were allocated for their own needs to improve housing conditions. The cost of the forest was 25 000 RUB, the amount had to be borrowed. For a large family, this is a lot of money. Let’s explain. Yurkino is a remote village. Among the advantages there is wild nature and the picturesque river Vetluga. But there is no job. Nevertheless, the large family was not going to leave their homeland. While the wife was keeping the house and taking care of the children, the husband was working on a rotational schedule. In the subsidized republic of Mari El, many families live like this.\n\nFor New Year’s holidays 2020, a man just returned from the rotation shift and planned to devote the weekends to logging. The forest was allocated, and it was necessary to cut it before his next rotation shift. Together with the foresters, he went to the forest tract, measurements were made, marks were put… But, as it turned out later, the foresters made a mistake in the measurements and, as a result, incorrectly installed sight lines!!! Later they realized it, and the size of the forest tract was reduced, but only in documents, not in practice. The wrong marks in the forest were not changed. The team of loggers, hired by the family, cut down the forest strictly according to the marks. The cut of 8 cubic meters was discovered after the man himself had applied to the forestry enterprise with a request to double-check the correctness of the cutting and give permission to export the forest.\n\nAs a result, with the filing of the state institution “Western interdistrict forest management”, a criminal case was initiated against the man for illegal logging. The amount of damage was determined at 168 000 RUB.\n\nThe only breadwinner of a large family was forced to return from the rotation shift on his own recognizance.\n\nSix months of despair, hopelessness and complete disillusionment with the fairness of the judicial system\n\nTo this day, the man does not work, as he cannot go to work – at first there was an investigation, and in July he was found guilty and suspended for 2 years. The Gornomarisky court recovered damage in the amount of 168 000 RUB and expenses for the imposed “free” advocate. The felled forest was seized to pay off the damage.\n\nAccording to the convicted man, the period of investigation and trial was a time of despair, hopelessness and complete disillusionment with the fairness of the judicial system.\n\nAnd no one cared that the family where the fourth child had been born was left without means of support and driven into poverty, it was literally on the verge of survival!\n\nThe family appealed to the human rights organization “Man and Law”. The man was helped to write and send an appeal. The chairwoman of the organization Irina Protasova was allowed to participate in the trial as a defender together with an appointed advocate.\n\nOn October 19, 2020, the Criminal Division of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mari El reviewed the case, and the sentence was commuted. The court completely released the man from court costs, lifted an attachment of the forest and canceled the recovery of damage in the amount of 168 000 RUB.\n\nIn the near future, the family will be able to use the forest for its intended purpose. The head of the family is going to return to work with the permission of the inspector of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Then he will be able to apply for parole.\n\nThe family members and the main character of this story told that they were waiting for the review of the case with great excitement. On 19 October, for the first time in almost six months of ordeal, they breathed a sigh of calm.\n\nThe point of view of human rights defenders: “For us, the most important thing in this story was and is the interests and rights of children”\n\nThe chairwoman of the human rights organization “Man and Law” Irina Protasova says:\n\n“For us, the most important thing in this story was and is the interests and rights of children, which no one paid attention to. Unlike the prosecutor’s office, which defended only the law, we defended the interests of a particular person, his family. We thoroughly studied all aspects of this case. These 8 cubes of wood were cut down without intent, and it would still be transferred for personal needs to another family. The real cost of an excessive cutting is no more than 5000 RUB. But, since the felling turned out to be illegal, they counted a huge amount of damage, which, in fact, was not. The government should help people — to explain, to suggest and not to drive into “debt trap”. Our client was not an expert in forest rules, but he signed a contract with a state government institution, where specialists work, who should not provoke crimes with their actions, but on the contrary, prevent them and help people.”\n\nOur mission is to help people affected by the arbitrariness or inaction of the authorities on the territory of Russia.\n\nIf you are in trouble – come to us!" ]

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[ null, "Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey) is a very popular girl at college she has 800 friends on Facebook and she enjoys life with her friends and family. However, one day, a girl named Marina (Liesl Ahlers) sends her a friend request on Facebook in hopes to becoming best friends. Not knowing anything about Marina, Laura accepts the request and becomes friendly with her, but when Laura does not invite Marina to her Birthday dinner, Marina becomes upset when she sees pictures posted on Facebook and angrily confronts Laura in college, publicly the following day. In the confrontation, Marina states she will seek revenge on Laura and when Laura unfriends Marina, Marina commits suicide via webcam video and sends it to her. After that Laura finds herself being stalked and harassed by Marina's demonic spirit.\n\nThis film was interesting. I enjoyed it although it was predictable. There were a few jump scares involved and a few things that creeped me out a little, but nothing to really write home about. The film was most likely made for the price of a boneless bargain bucket from KFC and is likely to make soo much more money back as these films do well in the cinema, but with that said, we will see what it does and if it becomes the new SAW series and spawns countless more other films. Watch if it is your thing or want to know how not to treat others." ]

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[ null, "Tipu, a young lad who is fed up living with his parents. His father wants him to look after the plastic factory as his successor. But Tipu wants to fulfill his dreams, be with beautiful girls just like the macho man / his older brother Ali. But Ali is himself having problems with his girlfriend Rani who wants to settle down with him but he is not taking marriage into consideration.\n\ni – The performances by everyone except Irma’s were greatly executed. Haris Khan was easily being judged as the best performer for this play. He showed everyone that he has the chops to do a brilliant performance. Haris Khan, you proved me right in front of my friends.\n\nii – As for Ahmer Hussain, it seems that he was born to do comical roles. Such a confidence level by this actor when he is performing; there is saying for him ‘Acting to os k nus, nus meh behri hai’ (Acting is filled deep into his veins). He is the ‘Akshay Kumar of the Stage’.\n\niii – The characters of Najma Kifayat and Owais Mubbashir were not as interesting as their performances. Both of them performed very well and due to their performance, the audience attention was magically fixed on them. Even as the play had ended and curtains were closing in, Owais refused to come out from his character.\n\niv – Naz is a wonderful actress and I must say she is gem of the new comers. It’s really hard to ignore those plays when she is performing in them. Although all the plays that I have attended of hers, she has played an older aged character. I personally refuse to believe that she is unable to play younger roles. I would prefer if in next upcoming plays she takes a role which is not only challenging for her but of a younger age character. I as well as the audience would be very interested to see her in a new kind of role.\n\nv – The director did a good job in directing this play. With restricted comical moments, he still able to bring smiles and laughter on audience faces.\n\ni – This play had light touch of humor. The comical performances especially by Haris Khan took this play towards the success otherwise there were hilarious moments in some parts of the play.\n\nii – It is a mystery for me whether Irma Ali is unlucky for getting dull roles or that she is an under performed actress.\n\niii – The character written of Owais Mubbashir could have improved; written it as interesting as Amma character played by Zarqa Naz. His character was too serious for a play like this.\n\niv – The set design was mild yet could be improvised as it did not look like a house of a bachelor and playboy type personality.\n\nv – The transformation of Haris Khan did not create the level of interest as everyone was waiting for and was for short time only.\n\nHoran Deke Paas Karo created such hype but did not meet its high expectations. Although, it is a good play but felt short of humor. Most of the characters were not as interesting as it promised it to be. The writing definitely needs improvisation while the performances by many were almost perfect." ]

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[ null, null, null, "The HKU team, conprising of Tiffany Wu, Crystal Chan, Jennifer Fan, and Joshua Kanjanapas and coached by Kelvin Kwok and Thomas Cheng, took part in the inaugural Herbert Smith Freehill Competition Law Moot held at King’s College London in mid-June. The moot was announced in early December and the team was selected in late January. The team only had two months to put together their written submission, but even under great time pressue, the team has eventually produced an excellent written submission that earned us a place in the oral round.\n\nIn the preliminary oral round, all four team members performed very well and won both of our ties, which took us to the elimination round. The HKU team had a very close quarterfinal tie which we managed to win and proceeded to the semi-final against the University of Amsterdam. The judges in the quarterfinals were surprised to discover that most of our team members had not studied EU competition law! The semi-final was again very close. The judges deliberated for half an hour and unfortunately, awarded the tie to our opponents. Despite that, our team received the award for the Best Written Submission and came No. 1 in the ranking compiled by the host based on the performance in both the written and oral rounds.\n\nOur team and coaches should be commended once again for taking the first important step in making a mark on international competition law moot. The Faculty will no doubt strive to achieve even better results in the years to come." ]

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[ null, "Police in Minneapolis released a CNN reporter who was led off in handcuffs while reporting live on television early on Friday following a third night of violent protests in the city over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody.\n\nOfficers gave no explanation as they escorted CNN reporter Omar Jimenez and his camera crew away. His crew had just shown a protester being taken into custody when about half a dozen police officers in gas masks surrounded Jimenez. The journalists were released about an hour after being arrested.\n\n\"What gave me one bit of comfort was that it happened on live TV,\" Jimenez told viewers after he was released. \"You don't have to doubt my story. It's not filtered in any way; you saw it with your own eyes.\"\n\nThe striking footage of the arrest could add to racial tensions in the city and across the country over the death on Monday of George Floyd, who was filmed crying out for help as a white police officer pinned him to the ground with a knee to his neck. Jimenez is black, while most of the police officers who arrested him appeared to be white.\n\nUS President Donald Trump weighed in on the unrest on Friday with incendiary language, saying he had offered Minnesota Governor Tim Walz military assistance to deal with the protesters. Twitter hid the tweet behind a warning that accused him of \"glorifying violence\" in violation of its rules.\n\n\"These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen,\" Trump said in the tweet. \"Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!\"\n\nThursday marked a third night of arson, looting and vandalism in Minneapolis, sparked by outrage over Floyd's death. Cell phone footage from a bystander to Floyd's encounter with police shows him repeatedly moaning and gasping while he pleads, \"Please, I can't breathe.\" After several minutes, Floyd, 46, gradually grows quiet and ceases to move.\n\nMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said on Friday that he expected charges to be filed soon against the officers, with prosecutors taking the time to make sure they have a \"strong and airtight\" case.\n\n\"Everybody believes that this is a violation of Mr. Floyd. And I believe that everybody wants to see these charges filed as soon as they can be,\" Ellison said in an interview on CNN.\n\nCNN anchor John Berman told viewers about an hour after the arrest of Jimenez that CNN President Jeff Zucker had spoken with Walz, who apologized for the incident.\n\nJimenez said his crew had been standing on a street for about an hour and a half before police activity kicked up. They moved onto a corner to get out of the way, he said. On air, Jimenez told the officers wearing gas masks and face shields that he wanted to know where to move to get out of their way and explained he was a member of the media.", null, null, "At the end of a stressful day, Sara Sidner seeks the friendly wag of a dog’s tail. Shaquille Brewster turns to sports on TV, and Julia Jenae talks things out with colleagues." ]

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[ null, "By Paul Blest\nJanuary 29, 2018 - With controversy still raging over memorials to the Confederacy, some state legislatures are taking steps to protect them — while some cities are finding creative ways to skirt those laws.", null, "By Rebekah Barber\nMay 5, 2017 - Southerners on New Ground is standing up against a money bail system that hurts the poor by organizing an effort to pay the bail for Black women who are being held in jail solely because they could not afford to pay bail themselves.", null, "By Allie Yee\nAugust 22, 2014 - While anti-immigrant sentiment has flared up in the South in response to the flood of Central American children seeking refuge in the United States, some Southern leaders have set a different tone by welcoming children from the border to their communities.", null, "By Chris Kromm\nMay 30, 2013 - Each year, cities and counties give more than $25 billion in tax breaks and other subsidies to lure businesses. What happens to the money? In most areas, it's hard to find out.", null, "By Joe Atkins\nAugust 1, 2012 - Organizing projects underway in Nashville and Memphis bring together labor, community and faith groups to challenge a status quo that keeps the state and region near the bottom of the economic ladder.", null, "By Joe Atkins\nJune 7, 2012 - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's victory in this week's recall election is being called a crushing blow to organized labor, but the grassroots are stirring across the land -- even in the anti-union South.", null, "By Joe Atkins\nDecember 7, 2011 - The Occupy movement proves the spirit of protest against economic injustice is alive and well in the South.\nBy Chris Kromm\nApril 4, 2005 - On April 4, 1968, a shot rang through a throng of striking garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Who fired the gun is still being debated, but the result is not: Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed at the young age of 39 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel." ]

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[ "European history is riddled with edicts, decrees, and encyclicals banning and condemning gambling, which indirectly testify to its popularity in all strata of society. http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&contentCollection&region=TopBar&WT.nav=searchWidget&module=SearchSubmit&pgtype=Homepage#/우리카지노 *The better paytable is only available on the ‘Without House Edge’ version of the game. It should be noted that at the end of any winning session the casino charge a 10% of win fee when playing Without House Edge games. To reduce the potential opportunity for switching dice by sleight-of-hand, players are not supposed to handle the dice with more than one hand (such as shaking them in cupped hands before rolling) nor take the dice past the edge of the table. In 1999, sales and revenue from pachinko parlors contributed 5.6% of Japan’s ¥500 trillion GDP and over 330,000 people were employed by pachinko parlors, 0.52% of all those employed in Japan.", null, "gambling (or gaming), as a culture-loaded but controversial human activity, can have major impacts. A casino, which is a place that legally allows people to engage in the activities of gambling and recreational consumption, can also directly and indirectly cause impacts. Why, well simply because bets start at 25.00, an amount you don’t bet with when you have absolutely no clue this game is all about. Bets can be lost easy you know, if you are not familiar with the Caribbean Stud Poker game rules. And even though no knowledge is required when it comes to winning the Caribbean Stud Poker Jackpot, it definitely does regarding the general winnings. This is the earliest point any player could have a valid bingo. Evidence shows that Spanish cards made the earliest appearance in the US, but Dutch and English cards appeared soon after. In 1757, the first American playing card company, the Ford Playing Card Manufactury, was founded.\n\nIf, with a point established, a 7 is rolled before the point is rolled again (“seven out”), the bet wins. The nine regions designated under this tax regime were Paris, Bourgogne, Lyonnais, Auvergne, Daulphiné, Provence, Languedoc, Guyenne and Limousine. These remained in place until the 1790s when the tax was repealed by the States General. If the casino allows put betting a player may increase a Come bet after a point has been established and bet larger odds behind if desired. Put betting also allows a player to bet on a Come and take odds immediately on a point number without a Come bet point being established.Machine-based gaming is only permitted in land-based casinos, restaurants, bars and gaming halls, and only subject to a licence.\n\nSince a card-counting scheme is easily devised to make use of the information of cards that have already been dealt, a relatively small portion (less than 50%) of each shoe is usually dealt in order to protect the house. few studies have compared similar ethnic populations from different sovereign regions in Asia. As McMillen indicated, “despite its apparent universality, the concept of gambling has no intrinsic meaning; rather, its meaning always depends on the socio-historical context in which it occurs”. There are many people who are looking to find the right period their own.When the player and dealer both have a pair, the higher-ranked pair wins. Ranking is determined not by the sum of the tiles’ pips, but rather by aesthetics; the order must be memorized.\n\nIndividual casinos (and sometimes tables within a casino) vary greatly in the maximum odds they offer, from single or double odds (one or two times the pass line bet) up to 100x or even unlimited odds. Play on any one machine within the group causes the jackpot to increase. Casinos use sophisticated marketing and design to get gamblers into their facilities and keep them gambling as long and as happily as possible.Legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.\n\nThe don’t pass bet pays even money. According to The Tech of a Casino (TechTV, June 2002), casinos use a variety of tricks to attract gamblers. According to Bloomberg, accumulated revenue of the biggest casino operator companies worldwide amounted to almost US$55 billion in 2011. SJM Holdings Ltd. was the leading company in this field, earning $9.7 bn in 2011, followed by Las Vegas Sands Corp. at $7.4 bn. The third-biggest casino operator company (based on revenue) was Caesars Entertainment, with revenue of US$6.2 bn.It is the (probability for winning * gain) – (probability of loss * stake). In this article, expectations are far more interesting than probabilities.\n\nThe company only had $5,000 in its coffers when Frederick Smith decided to fly to Vegas in 1973 and risk it all. The same is true, to a smaller extent, of dog racing. The emergence of satellite broadcasting technology has led to the creation of so-called off-track betting facilities, in which bettors watch live telecasts at locations away from the racetrack. This number then permits calculation of rate of loss per hour, and per the 4 day/5 hour per day gambling trip:사설바둑이사이트Games of pure chance." ]

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[ "Some good news for Instagram users! The block feature is finally getting relevant upgrades and becoming more robust.\n\nThe popular photo & video-sharing social networking platform is now coming up with upgrades that will make blocking abusive account holders easier. As per the latest official Instagram blog post, now when a user is blocking one account they will have the option of blocking other accounts that the same user may already have. This small feature will ensure that the abusive user once blocked cannot interact through their other account also.\n\nIn its quest to provide more safeguards to its users against hateful and abusive interactions, last year Instagram released an update that made blocking new accounts of an old user easier. Last year’s update also facilitated\n\n“Based on initial test results from this new change, we expect our community will need to block 4 million fewer accounts every week since these accounts will now be blocked automatically,” Instagram stated in a blog post.\n\nThe social media company also highlighted the improvements being made to its Hidden Words features specifically designed for the Creator’s account holders. The feature protects users from facing scammy message requests or witnessing offensive stories.\n\nThe blog post revealed that since making the Hidden Words feature live on the platform, more than one in five big influencer accounts on the platform has switched on the feature. Switching on the Hidden Words feature on their account gives power to the account holders. It ensures account holders “see 40% fewer comments that might be offensive,” on average.", null, "Interestingly, the Hidden Words feature has now also extended to several other new languages. These include many widely used regional and international languages such as Farsi, Russian, Turkish, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu and Tamil.\n\nThe platform undoubtedly received enough encouragement from the positive results of the Hidden Words feature for them to work on the expansion of the feature. Instagram is also contemplating switching the feature automatically for all creator accounts.\n\nRevealing more about the Hidden Words feature, the blog post mentioned various other improvements that the company is planning. It includes “improving our filtering to spot and hide more intentional misspellings of offensive terms, for instance, if someone uses a “1” instead of an “i”. And Adding new terms to filter message requests that might contain scams or spam. We’ll start doing this in English in certain countries, with more languages and countries coming soon.”\n\nIn addition to this, the company is also working on expanding the reach of its very interesting Nudge feature. The Nudge feature encourages more and more users to pause and reflect while using the platform. The idea is to encourage the users to be more respectful in DMs and comments, reminding them that there is a real person sitting on the other side of the screen. This is facilitated by nudging the users before they write something hurtful or offensive to others on the app.\n\nAt present, the nudge feature is live for those who are using Instagram in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Chinese or Arabic. And the company has lined up a global release of the feature in the coming weeks.\n\nPrevious articlePOCO India’s Gift to the Police Force; Details Inside\nNext articleNokia Phones for Diwali" ]

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[ "FOREMOST EXPONENTS OF SOULFUL SINGING HAS TOUCHED MY INNER SOUL...\n\nThe moment I reach the foot hills of Himalaya, the soulful Sufi songs of Abida Praveen turns into a pulsating sphere of earth colors, submerging all my consciousness into the vast sea of joy and happiness. The effect of her songs, the words of Sufi saints and the pure mountain air of Himalaya is such that all my worldly worries retreat into oblivion and only the ‘now’ exists, to be cherished as in eternity. The queen of Sufi Songs, Abida Praveen, remains to be my favorite of all times and when the chance came to meet her and hear her soulful singing, I was blissful.\n\nAbida Praveen : A brief note\nAbida Parveen (born 1954) is a Pakistani singer of Sindhi descent and one of the foremost exponents of Sufi music (Sufiana kalaam). She sings mainly ghazals and her forte, Kafis, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets. Parveen sings in Urdu, Sindhi, Saraiki, Punjabi and Persian, and together with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is considered one of the finest Sufi vocalists of the modern era.\n\nAbida performed on the internationally acclaimed Pakistani show Coke Studio, on which she sang three songs, including Ramooz-e-Ishq, Nigah-e-Darwaishaan, and Soz-e-Ishq\n\nA legend both at home and abroad for her grace and soulful Sufi strains, Parveen over the years has stayed true to her classical origins, which she mastered under the tutelage of Ustad Salamat Ali Khan. Having started off her career from Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad, she credits her husband, late Ghulam Hussain Sheikh, a respected director of music at Radio Pakistan, for its success. A recipient of the 1982 President's Pride of Performance Award and the 2005 Sitara-e-Imtiaz, Parveen is indeed one of the foremost exponents of kaafi poetry and ghazal singing in Pakistan.\n\nHere is one of her sound at the Coke Studio and hope you will enjoy her singing as deeply within as I do.\n\nA BOOK MAKER WHO USES PHOTOGRAPHY AS HER VOCABULARY…\n\nDAYANITA SINGH is the first Indian to have a solo show at London's famous Hayward Gallery in 2013, who vehemently refuses to use Digital Cameras and computers to design and create her books. She loves making her books by her own hand, armed with scissors, knives of various form and sizes with scotch tape, instead of Cntrl+C and Cntrl+V, which is the usual way the 21st century world works in almost every field now.\n\nHer latest book FILE ROOM is, in my opinion, symbolizes the Digital divide that’s making creativity into something common and superficial. Now you find smart phones capturing images, in every situation, instead of living those moments of 'now'. And as she says, in introduction for the book…\n\nFILE ROOM\n… is an elegy to paper in the age of the digitization of information and knowledge.\nWhen I got invite from Sharan Apparao of the famous Apparoa Gallery in Chennai, for the launch of the book – File Room by Dayanita Singh, I had no clue that I am going to have an ecstatic journey through the labyrinths of creative minds. Minds? Well, I did forgot to mention that I actually went to hear T M Krishna, the famous Carnatic music vocalist, who was launching the book “File Room”.\n\nI have had heard of Photo journalists, Photographers of different genre like Fashion, Sports, Digital etc. but I had absolutely no idea what is photographic artist is, till the time I heard Dayanita Singh talk about her journey. From studying to become a script designer at NID, to Documentary Photography and finally to creating books with the script of analog images (for those, who have not used or even seen those big bulky camera’s with actual ‘physical’ film rolls and the infinite wait to see the results, it’s like the difference between e-book and physical book that you can hold close to your heart, while you dreamily fill your vision of love mixed with sighs of the characters from the book).\n\nBut before I go about sharing my impressions from the talk by those two amazing artists, let me give you a brief bio…", null, "T. M. KRISHNA\nT.M. Krishna (born in 1976) is a Carnatic music vocalist. Krishna's first concert was at the age of 12, at the Spirit of Youth series organized by The Music Academy, Madras. Since then, he has travelled widely in India and abroad and given over 2000 concerts all over the world, performing regularly in major international music festivals. He has performed at prestigious venues including the Kennedy Centre, Theatre de la Ville, The Esplanade, Sydney Opera House, Chowdiah Hall Bangalore, and The Music Academy, Madras.\n\nThen moved on to highlight, probably the best impressions that captured the essence of the book “File Room”. He says that as he went through the images, it represented something like his mind, where if you open one file, many different files opened simultaneous (just like the synaptic connections of nerves firing within) and left the viewers with a feeling of finding that story which is unique to him or her.\n\nAs Dayanita Singh rose to speak, she was visibly happy to see that some one at least know what’s her book is all about. She spoke about her incredible journey to be what she could be. Her creative journey started with an accident as for her class project, she was asked to capture different moods of a person and she chose to shoot Zakir Hussain, who was performing in a concert at IIM Ahmadabad. As she prepared to take her first picture, she was pushed by the security in the jam-packed hall and fell on her back, which fortunately did not broke anything other than her pride. As she went out to give vent to her frustrations, she found Zakir Husain, walking around (at the time he was not so famous). She reached out to tell him, ‘Some day I will also be a great artist and then no one will be able to push me’. And Zakir Husain calmed her down and asked to her come to his morning riaz (practice) and take as many pictures as she wants. Dayanita said that night was the life changer for me and made me realize what I want to do in life. From this encounter, and travelling with his troupe for 6 winters as a student photographer her first book came out in 1986 …\n\nZAKIR HUSSAIN\nA teacher, as she said, who instilled in her, a desire to work 18 hours a day and stay focused.\n\nThe other teacher that influenced her life was an eunuch, Mona Ahmed, who was staying in a cemetery. A work assignment for London times (which eventually never happened as Mona Ahmed thought that she is from New York Times and felt that if it gets published in London, where many of her friends are, will find it not in good taste, so took all the rolls from her and dumped it in trash) got them together, which lasted a lifetime. But eventually Dayanita created an amazing visual biography of a double outcast Mona Ahmed through the words written by herself and portrayed by the analogue images from Dayanita Singh, known as...\n\nMYSELF MONA AHMED\nA mix of photobook, biography, autobiography and fiction, Myself Mona Ahmed (Scalo, 2001) keeps renewing its importance in Dayanita Singh’s oeuvre because of the direction in which her work is evolving.\n\nAnd throughout her lectures she kept the audience enthralled with her easy talk and ready wit, interspersed with her fine, overpowering images being displayed on the projector.\n\nAt the end of the launch, as an amateur photographer myself, I tried to capture her through my smart phone (hated it, when I realised that I forget to bring my camera). But then how do you go about taking photographs of someone who is the world’s renowned photographer herself… well here are the results.\n\nFinally I leave you with some of the books and photographs of Dayanita Singh that captured my imagination.\n\nGO AWAY CLOSER\nGo Away Closer is a novel without words. It concerns series of opposites in Singh’s India: presence and absence, reality and dreams, tradition and progress. She is able to express the emotion underlying these often abstract concepts, because her photography springs from her own intimate experiences.\nHOUSE OF LOVE\n\"House of Love\" is a work of photographic fiction that takes the form of nine short stories. Working closely with writer Aveek Sen, whose prose follows a journey of its own, Singh explores the relationship between photography, memory, and writing.\nDREAM VILLA\nIn Dream Villa Singh explores how the night transforms what seems ordinary by day into something mysterious and unsettling.\n\nBLUE BOOK\nBlue Book is a series of images made during Dayanita Singh’s wanderings in the industrial landscapes of India. Presented by Dreamvilla Productions, India (an alias and nom de plume designed to mask Singh’s authorship), the book will be displayed in galleries and museums as a work of art.\n\n\nWhat can a photographer in India capture on film other than disasters or the exotic? Dayanita Singh was preoccupied by this question after she had spent many years documenting the poverty in her homeland. Her answer was a return to the world from which she came, to India’s extended, well-to-do families and their fine homes.", null, "Text and image curtsy for the books - Dayanita Website\n___\n\n\nPosted by Shashidhar Sharma No comments:" ]

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[ null, "SMS\nTrump Goes After Former Members Of His Advisory Council\n\nPresident Donald Trump seems to be trying to discredit some former members of his manufacturing advisory council.\n\nSeveral stepped down after Trump was slow to name and denounce white nationalist groups involved in a deadly weekend rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.\n\nTrump made broad statements blaming \"many sides\" shortly after the incident, then specifically chastised white supremacists and other hate groups in a statement two days later.\n\nBut at an infrastructure press conference Tuesday, Trump seemed to double down on his original statement. Shortly afterward, two top labor leaders resigned from his council.\n\nAFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and his deputy chief of staff, Thea Lee, both resigned from the council Tuesday. Trumka said: \"We cannot sit on a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism. President Trump's remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis.\"\n\nTrump claimed the CEOs who left his council \"weren't taking their jobs seriously\" and that some were leaving in embarrassment because they manufactured their products outside of the U.S.\n\nHe also called the moves to step down \"grandstanding.\"\n\nKenneth Frazier, CEO of Merck, said when he left the council that American leaders need to \"clearly [reject] expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy.\"\n\nAnd another departing CEO, Kevin Plank of Under Armour, tweeted: \"There is no place for racism or discrimination in this world. We choose love & unity.\"" ]

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[ "TV Review: ‘You’ S3 on Netflix pivots perfectly to satire\n\nTV's most romantic serial killer struggles with marriage and early parenthood and it's loads of fun to watch.\nAnthony Morris", null, "Penn Badgley and Victoria Pedretti in YOU S3. Image via Netflix.\n\nWhat happens to a romantic when they’re faced with the drudgery of family life? For Joe Goldberg (Penn Badgley), charming bookish nerd, firm believer in love and unrepentant serial killer, it’s a living hell. And for once, he can’t murder his way out of it.\n\nFor one, his new wife Love (Victoria Pedretti) knows (literally) where the bodies are buried, and she isn’t above adding another one to the pile. For another, they now have a son to go with their suburban white picket fence lifestyle, and Joe won’t let him go through the childhood abandonment he suffered… even if his wife keeps calling the baby by the name of her dead brother and the infant bursts into tears every time Joe picks him up.\n\nAt the end of last year, pseudo-vigilante revenge thriller Promising Young Woman grabbed praise for casting a string of former TV heartthrobs as sex pests not all that different from their iconic TV roles. You got in on the joke years earlier by casting Badgley, AKA generational heartthrob Gossip Girl’s Dan Humphries, as its lethal lead.\n\nSeason one showed what seemed like a perfect romance, only Joe’s typical rom-com attentiveness and refusal to be deterred masked his stalker mentality and a willingness to kill. Season Two saw Joe trying to start over, only now the archetypical New Yorker was in LA and loathing every superficial minute of it. Both seasons ruthlessly used a dark streak of humour to dissect the cliches around romance while presenting a chilling look at a superficially charming psychopath obsessed with his fantasy version of ‘love’ no real woman could ever live up to.\n\nThe end of season two blew all that up, trapping Joe in the kind of happily ever after that kills romance – or at least, his idea of it, which is basically pop culture’s idea, because the central joke of You is that our society’s romantic cliches are literally psychopathic. Where could a show about the toxic side of romance take things when marriage and children is already the place where those cliches go to die?\n\nSeason three picks up a few months after season two, and good news: Joe’s ongoing suburban nightmare turns out to be the perfect excuse for You to pivot to social satire, as his loathing for everything around him spills out in his hilarious – and not entirely inaccurate – narration. It doesn’t take too long for plot threats to entangle him (You is also a thriller, after all), but his brutal distain for married life and the early, exhausting days of parenthood is comedy gold.\n\nRead: TV Review: Frayed S2 has lost none of its edge\n\nWhile Love is struggling with motherhood, Joe’s trying to be a good (non-murderous) guy. In reality, that means he’s checked out and staring over the fence at his sexy next-door neighbour Natalie (Michaela McManus), already imagining (or is he?) that she’s flirting with him. The wider situation isn’t exactly smooth sailing either. Their neighbourhood is a picture perfect hell of mommy bloggers and social climbers, Love’s hippie mother (Saffron Burrows) is still on the scene, and there’s just enough references to dangling plot threads from last season to leave the door open for Joe’s murderous past to catch up with him.\n\nIt’s no surprise that it doesn’t take long for the body count to once again start ticking upwards. Death and suburbia is a potent comedy combination on television whether it’s Desperate Housewives or Santa Clarita Diet, and corpse disposal has always been a great way to build tension. But it’s the balancing act with Joe himself that makes You so much fun to watch. He’s an often despicable character, an unrepentant self-serving creep, and yet sharp writing and a great performance from Badgley make him one of the more entertaining characters on television." ]

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[ null, "I know you know\nIn this world you gotta pay\nIt's all for sale\nWhat's your side, you couldn't say...\nNo, doesn't matter anyway\n\nThe story begins in the center of Bosnia's capital Sarajevo, in a Medieval town square where a gargoyle is perched on the church belfry. This gargoyle has been watching humanity for a thousand years but still has never learned what human emotions really are. He has a perfect eyewitness position to observe the coming events...\n\nIt is 1990 and the Cold War has ended. The Soviet Union has collapsed and for the first time in centuries Yugoslavia is an independent nation. It's a time of celebration and optimism and a Serbian man, Serdjan Aleskovic, considers himself damn lucky to be young and alive during this period of hope and prosperity. Unfortunately, even during the celebrations there are selfish, hate-filled men sowing discord and turning Yugoslavia's ethnic factions; the Serbs, the Croats, and the Muslims against each other for their gain. Serdjan and his friends end up in a Serbian militia and soon take to the hills to fire mortars nightly into Sarajevo to chase out the groups who \"don't belong\" in Bosnia. A Muslim girl, Katrina Brasic, becomes one of the many people seeking out arms dealers and buying the weapons needed to protect themselves from their neighbor's aggressions. A brutal Civil War begins.\n\nIn November of 1994 an old Yugoslavian man returns to his hometown and is dismayed. Sarajevo is in ruins, the once-hopeful Yugoslavia lost its bright future and now a war zone. He turns to the heavens and begs God to understand: when Yugoslavians prayed for change in the past they weren't asking to war against each other. The sun sets as he prays and the nightly shelling of the city begins. Defiant, the old man doesn't take shelter but instead climbs a ruined fountain with his cello and begins to play Mozart with mortar shells shrieking and explosions rocking the city. It becomes his nightly ritual and from their fortifications across the city both Serdjan and Katrina find themselves listening to the old man's protest in the heart of the conflict.\n\nThe titular winter rolls in and the fighting escalates. Serdjan is on patrol and is horrified to see a schoolyard full of dead children from a mortar round. Wracked with guilt, he finally realizes that he and his friends are being used; the war isn't the glorious birth of a nation but self-destructive slaughter. Refusing to be part of it any longer, he decides to desert at the first opportunity.\n\nChristmas Eve comes, Serdjan and Katrina are at their respective posts listening to the cello player's Christmas carols between the gunfire and explosions. Suddenly the music stops. Both Serdjan and Katrina abandon their positions to investigate the old man's fate. They arrive at the square at the same time and after a moment of tense fear realize they've both come for the same reason. Together, they find the old man is dead in the snow and the cello smashed. A single drop of liquid falls onto the old man's face, they look up to see a cloudless sky and a stone gargoyle in the church belfry. Serdjan can take no more of the war and explains to Katrina that he intends to escape, offering her a chance to come along. She refuses at first because all she sees is his enemy uniform. He pleads with her, explaining that there's more to him then his misguided and renounced faction, and eventually she understands and joins him in exile from their fallen home." ]

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[ null, "The American and Japanese warplanes that were shot down or destroyed on the ground sit rusting in the Yap jungle more than 70 years after World War II ended. Craters can be seen through the undergrowth where bombs exploded and sent locals scrambling to caves and bunkers where they lived until the war's end, tending their taro patches in between bombings and crashing warplanes.\n\nThe battles on Yap are often overlooked despite losses of more than 150 men and nearly 40 planes. Considered a backwater in the overall Pacific theater, Yap’s strategic importance is nonetheless unquestionable for Patrick Ranfranz, founder of the Missing Air Crew Project. Ranfranz began the project to find the remains of his missing uncle, Tech. Sgt. John R. McCullough.\n\nMcCullough was among ten crew members aboard a B-24 Liberator bomber that was shot down on June 25, 1944.\n\nIn 2005, Ranfranz and his wife, Cherie, made their first trip to Yap to search for his uncle’s missing plane. Having begun his research into his uncle's death while still in college in the 1980s, Ranfranz began working closely with the Yap Visitors Bureau to preserve the World War II history of the islands, returning several times over the years. Through the partnership, a dozen planes were recovered from the undergrowth and the landfill and became memorials near their crash sites throughout Yap.\n\nPlaques noting the coordinates of the original crash, the date of loss, the type of plane and its unit, and personal stories about the pilots stand next to the twisted, rusting planes and near the shore for some of the warplanes downed into the reef.\n\nWorld War II was not the first time foreign powers had come to Yap. The Spaniards arrived in the 17th century in search of copra for highly prized coconut oil. The Germans came next, in 1899, pushing the Spaniards out when they discovered there had been no official flag-planting by the King of Spain. Under the Germans, Yap became a central hub for naval communications when they laid cable telegraphy and followed that with a wireless station.\n\nThe Japanese landed on Yap in 1914 and took over officially, when, at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson was unsuccessful in his push to internationalize Yap. The islands were awarded to Japan.\n\nWhen the second World War began, the Japanese were using Yap as a strategic naval base. They began construction of their primary airfield in early 1944. Yap became a crossroads for many of the Pacific battles and an essential transit point for air reinforcements as the Allies advanced westward.\n\nFinishing construction of the large airfield, the Japanese began working on a second airfield when the United States began regular attacks in June 1944. For 13 months, Yap was bombed almost daily as the warplanes engaged in dogfights in the sky.\n\nThe second Japanese airfield never became operational. The U.S. needed to make sure Yap remained isolated from the Japanese supply chains and could not be used as an offensive forward-operating base. They wanted to keep Yap out of the war, a major factor for success in the rest of the Pacific theater. Nonetheless, attacks that destroyed much of the island were launched through long-range B-24 bomber raids, carrier raids, ship-to-shore bombardments, and land-based Navy and Marine planes and submarines.\n\nOn September 5, 1945, one month after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the Japanese surrendered to the Americans aboard the USS Tillman in Yap harbor.\n\nThe Yap Visitors Bureau continues to maintain the more than a dozen WWII memorial sites, welcoming visitors who are interested in the history of the war in the Pacific, as well as relatives of the airmen who fought there. “Too many people have forgotten the men who gave their lives during World War II to preserve freedom,” notes Ranfranz.\n\n“Approximately 78,000 servicemen from that war alone are still missing in action. Their bodies have never been found and their families have never known the peace of closure. The memorials on Yap Island immortalize the forgotten and bring meaning to their sacrifices every day of the year.” The wreckage of his uncle’s plane is still among the missing. As National POW/MIA Recognition Day approaches on Sept. 15, Ranfranz’s search continues to this day.\n\nFor more information, go to www.visityap.com or contact Tom Tamangmow, Yap Visitors Bureau, by email at [email protected] or by phone at (691) 350-2298. For more information about the Missing Air Crew Project, visit the project's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/missingaircrewproject." ]

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[ "We would like to thank the wonderful speakers for this the first series of 'By Design' talks in partnership with the Sir John Soane's Museum. And a very special thank you to BBC arts correspondent Will Gompertz and writer and critic Alice Rawsthorn for co-hosting the series which explored how design has impacted the lives of six internationally-renowned designers, framed around one item which has informed their careers.\n\nEach speaker brought expertise from different backgrounds and disciplines.\n\nSir David Adjaye OBE who's Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in fall of 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by the New York Times. In 2017, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognized as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME magazine.\n\nEs Devlin is an artist and designer known for her recent large scale collective poetry work in Trafalgar Square: PLEASE FEED THE LIONS, 2018. Her stage sculptures include collaborations with Beyonce, Kanye West, U2, The Weekend, Adele, The Royal Opera House, The National Theatre and the London and Rio Olympic Ceremonies.", null, "Edmund de Waal is an artist and writer, best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels. His interventions and artworks have been made for diverse historic spaces and museums worldwide, including the V&A Museum, London; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna.", null, "Olga Polizzi Director of Design at Rocco Forte Hotels and Deputy Chairman of the company. Her latest works for Rocco Forte Hotels include The Savoy Hotel in Florence, Villa Kennedy in Frankfurt, The Balmoral in Edinburgh and Brown’s Hotel in London.", null, null, "Peter Saville founder and art director of the legendary independent UK label Factory Records he designed a series of record sleeves he created for Joy Division and New Order between 1979 and 1993. His achievements were celebrated in The Peter Saville Show at the Design Museum in London in 2003.", null, "If you missed any, or all , or simply want to revisit these talks we will be releasing the series in podcast format over the summer.\n\nSimply register with us to be the first to know." ]

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[ null, "In existographies, Adam Smith (1723-1790) (IQ:170|#324) (Cattell 1000:318) [RGM:80|1,500+] (GEE:#) (CR:56) was a Scottish social philosopher and political economist noted, in human physics, for his 1759 Theory of Moral Sentiments—the first chapter of which described as \"striking\" by Charles Darwin (Descent of Man, 1871)—a book conceived as a prelude to his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), in which he describes his \"invisible hand\" notion, conceives of people as atoms or particles in a system held together by enforced natural justice.", null, "Smith’s formulation of justice, supposedly, is seen as a negative formulation of Vilfredo Pareto's optimality. (Ѻ)\nEducation\nSmith, whose father died (dereacted) before he was born, was supposedly a sickly child, who at the age of 3 was kidnapped from his uncle’s porch by gypsylike vagrants known as “tinkers”, albeit later rescued by his uncle. Thereafter, Smith was known as a bookworm with a spectacular memory, who entered the University of Glasgow at age 14, then Oxford University at age 17, then became appointed professor of “moral philosophy” at the University of Glasgow.\n\nIn 1764, Smith left Glasgow for London and then to France as he tutored the young Duke of Buccleuch, during the course of which he began to familiarize himself with the new economic ideas of the physiocrats, especially with the work of French physician turned economic theorist Francois Quesnay. Smith, supposedly, agreed with Quesnay in all respects except that whereas Quesnay argued that the source of economic strength or wealth was “land”, Smith reasoned that the source was “labor”. [7]\n\nHumans | Atoms or particles\nIn his 1759 The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adams declares that man is an atom or particle of the system and that justice is the main pillar that keeps humans as atoms bound together into a fabric: [6]\n\n“A wise man never complains of the destiny of providence, nor thinks the universe in confusion when he is out of order. He does not look upon himself as a whole, separated and detached from every other part of nature, to be taken care of by itself and for itself: he regards himself in the light in which he imagines the great genius of human nature, and of the world, regards him: he enters, if I may say so, into the sentiments of that divine being, and considers himself as an atom, a particle, of an immense and infinite system, which must and ought to be disposed of according to the conveniency of the whole.”\n\n“Justice, on the contrary, is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice. If it is removed, the great, the immense fabric of human society, that fabric which to raise and support seems in this world, if I may say so, to have been the peculiar and darling care of nature, must in a moment crumble into atoms. In order to enforce the observation of justice, therefore, nature has implanted in the human breast that consciousness of ill-desert, those terrors of merited punishment which attend upon its violation, as the great safe-guards of the association of mankind, to protect the weak, to curb the violent, and to chastise the guilty.”\n\nThis work is said to have formed the basis of Smith's later 1776 Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.\n\nInvisible hand | human molecules\nSmith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, also famously introduced the theory of the invisible hand: [3]\n\n“Led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention, by pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.”\n\nHerein, Smith describes a selfish landlord as being led by an invisible hand to distribute his harvest to those who work for him.\n\nThe “invisible hand” model was later said to have been carried over into the social mechanics models of Leon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto, both of which employed human molecule models. This human molecule based invisible hand social mechanics logic thus slowly was carried over into economics. An example of this is the following 1967 usage by Spanish economist Jose Sampedro: [4]\n\n“Initiated by the physiocrats and was finally popularized in Adam Smith’s formula of the invisible hand … making it easy for each man to satisfy his own egoism. Once this idea had become generally accepted capitalism had defeated the attitudes that hindered its early advance. This implies the theoretical negation of the social structure in a radical way since the doctrine of capitalism conceived the economy as a cluster of human molecules related to each other on a purely economic basis.”\n\nAnother version of this is found in a 1999 summary of neoclassical economics, by Robert Costanza and Thomas Prugh, who give the following position:\n\n“The welfare of human society is best served by the view of people as ‘human molecules’ who, by pursuing their own interests through the market, inevitably promote the general good. There is little need to consider things from the ecological point of view and embrace the notions of interaction, interdependence, community, and the noneconomic relations people enjoy with each other and with the natural world.”\n\nalbeit only to argue that this so-called neoclassical economist position is a questionable viewpoint to adhere, in their view. [5]\n\nQuotes | On\nThe following are noted quotes on Smith:\n\n“In 1776, Adam Smith published his Wealth of Nations; which, looking at its ultimate results, is probably the most important book that has ever been written, and is certainly the most valuable contribution ever made by a single man towards establishing the principles on which government should be based. In this great work, the old theory of protection as applied to commerce, was destroyed in nearly all its parts; the doctrine of the balance of trade was not only attacked, but its falsehood was demonstrated; and innumerable absurdities, which had been accumulating for ages, were suddenly swept away.”\n\n“Adam Smith inspired belief in the merit of melding the Newtonian physics of the material world with the science of human behavior.”\n\nQuotes | By\nThe following are quotes by Smith:" ]

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[ "Major Coins See Mix of Red and Green as BTC Price Stays Above $8,000\n\nMajor Coins See Mix of Red and Green as BTC Price Stays Above $8,000", null, "Bitcoin continues to trade above $8,000, with other top-20 coins reporting mixed signals\n\nTuesday, Oct. 8 — The top-20 digital currencies are reporting a mix of green and red after a tide of green earlier in the day, with Bitcoin (BTC) trying to keep above $8,000, according to data from Coin360.\n\nEarlier today, Cointelegraph reported that Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell had criticized the “attractive mystery” that fear of a 51% attack on Bitcoin entails, arguing that it betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about the cryptocurrency.\n\nEther (ETH) is slightly up as well, by 1.26% over the day, and is currently trading at around $179.4. The altcoin has not registered notable price fluctuations today, generally staying near the $180 price mark.\n\nConversely, the second-largest altcoin XRP has registered a drop of 2.02% on the day to trade at around $0.273 at press time. On its weekly chart, XRP is reporting 7.73% growth and a 5.81% increase over the past month.\n\nMeanwhile, Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of blockchain payments network Ripple that stands behind the XRP token, argued that Facebook will fail to launch its Libra digital currency before 2023.\n\nNone of the other coins on the top-20 list is showing double-digit growth today, however, some of them have outperformed BTC and ETH. Cosmos (ATOM), Tron (TRX), and Dash (DASH) are major gainers, being up by 7.05%, 3.04% and 2.87% over the day respectively.\n\nDigital asset custodian of software firm Anchor Labs has stated that it became the first entity qualified to support institutional custody for Telegram’s Gram (GRM) token. Investors will reportedly be able to purchase existing Grams on the open market as well as new Grams from the Telegram Open Network (TON) Reserve.\n\nThe European Union’s finance commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis pledged to propose new rules to regulate cryptocurrencies such as Facebook’s Libra. “Europe needs a common approach on crypto-assets such as Libra. I intend to propose new legislation on this,” Dombrovskis said.\n\nBitcoin continues to trade above $8,000, with other top-20 coins reporting mixed signals" ]

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[ "Most Wanted U ?? So is this the trend now, adding ‘U’ to the Wii U games? I hope not as it’s going to get annoying really fast… So for $59.99 North American residents can pick up NFS:Most Wanted, but everyone in Europe will have to wait until the 21st.", null, "Designed specifically for the Wii U, Need for Speed Most Wanted U delivers gameplay mechanics built for the unique features of the Wii U™ GamePad controller. The local co-op mode, called Co-Driver, allows one player to drive using the Wii Remote™ controller or Wii U Pro Controller while another player uses the Wii U GamePad to provide control and navigation assistance on an interactive real-time map. Using just their fingertips, the partner can distract pursuing cops, switch from night to day or activate enhanced performance for any car and even control the amount of traffic on the road. For another competitive edge, players can switch into their favorite cars, track milestones, uncover the city’s hidden gems and more, all on the fly with the Wii U touch screen, ensuring nothing ever slows them down.\n\nNeed for Speed Most Wanted U brings the blockbuster action of the open world racer to players’ fingertips. The entire game is playable off-screen using the Wii U GamePad, so gamers never have to put the game down.\n\nFinally with Need for Speed Most Wanted U, gamers are competing against the people they want to defeat most – their friends. With EA’s innovative online technology Autolog 2, the game automatically tracks and compares best race times, high scores and more. These stats are broadcast throughout the open world, fueling friendly competition and rivalries. Need for Speed Most Wanted’s online multiplayer also ups the ante for social competition. Gamers pick a car, meet up with their friends and are immersed in a non-stop playlist of action-packed events. Whether it’s competing for the best starting position, the ultimate jump, or finishing first place, if there’s something to do, there’s someone to beat. Any Speed Points earned on Wii U will add to your existing total if you are playing the game on any of the other available platforms through CloudCompete." ]

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[ null, "Most of you Volvo fans should remember back when we had some issues with major backfires while cranking it. Well, it all started on this day filming Princess. We had 2 customs to knock out and we made a short drive to a parking lot to film them. Well, we got done and were ready to leave but the Volvo had other plans. I called Scarlet to come pick us up but had her film a bit while I looked under the hood and Princess kept trying to work her magic.\nThe problem ended up being a shattered drive gear for the distributor.\nDownload\nLeave a Comment" ]

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[ "Early last year, Scotty McCreery nearly hailed what he thought was a new album. Then most of the world took a break.\n\nMcCreery instead started strumming his guitar during the weeks when COVID-19 derailed his touring plans. He co-wrote a collection of thoughtful new songs, revamping his so-called fifth studio album with material born from his time at home.\n\n“I only had time to sit there and pick up a guitar and write songs,” McCreery, 27, told the Tennessean. “My state of mind and my headspace, I think I was more thankful for the little things and looking back over the last 10 years of doing that, that I didn’t have time to sit still and do this since I was 15 years old.\n\n“This is all what you hear”\n\nListeners find the result on “Same Truck”, a 12 song collection by McCreery that begins with the small town unifier “Same Truck” and ends with the prayer question “How Ya Doin ‘Up There”.\n\nFOLLOWING:Keith Urban helps “every dreamer” learn to play the guitar\n\nOn his classic country influence\n\nMcCreery walks a sonorous tightrope that delves into his country influences without abandoning the modern hitmaking of Music Row.\n\nHe grew up with Ronnie Millsap, Conway Twitty and Randy Travis. Listeners hear his retrospective influences – like ’90s’ It Matters To Her’ – through a crisp, modern production filter and McCreery’s inviting baritone voice.\n\n“It’s not necessarily something that I set out to try and do,” McCreery said of his sound, adding, “My thing is telling stories through a country song. My thing. favorite to do is tell stories. We have the songs that might work best. [with] the country today broadcast on the radio, but my heart always brings me back to that classic sound. ”\n\nWriting about the house\n\nMcCreery remains unabashedly dedicated to her original North Carolina scene on the album, co-writing the standout song “Carolina To Me” as a nod to her Wolfpack roots.\n\nOn the number he sings: “You think of the pearly doors / You think of the streets of gold / And I think of those long pine leaves lined with Tobacco Road … all that is heaven for you / Is Carolina for me.”\n\n“I love North Carolina,” McCreery said. “My drummer… always jokes like, ‘Dude, once you get out of country music, you don’t get into tourism in North Carolina anymore. “So I could do that.\n\n“[The song] is my love letter to North Carolina, and I’m letting people know that. ”\n\nBy being at ease\n\nOn “Same Truck,” listeners hear an MCCreery that “got comfortable in my skin,” he said. A decade after entering the limelight as a teenager on “American Idol,” he has taken on personal stories that seem natural to a married 27-year-old dog father.\n\n“Going through your awkward teenage years in front of the nation was a little unsettling,” McCreery said. “It was great to be able to do all these crazy cool things at such a young age … but it all came to me so quickly. I didn’t have time to figure out what I was doing. How to make a record. . How to write a song. ”\n\nHe continued, “Now it’s like, hey, I’m 27. I’ve been married for three years, have a beautiful wife and a dog that we love. I love telling these stories. writing songs, instead of running away from my personal life, I embrace her. ”\n\nOn his song about George Strait\n\nMcCreery winks at George Strait on “Damn Strait,” a song written by Trent Tomlinson and Jim Collins that compares the great singer’s discography to a lost lover.\n\nOn the track, McCreery sings, “Damn Strait, I loved your songs / But now every time we come in / My heart breaks in two.”\n\nMcCreery grew up as a Strait fan; his first country concert was a double program with Texas legend and Reba McEntire.\n\nHe added, “I listened to it and freaked out a bit for a little while. I loved it from the start.”\n\nPrevious RAADR, Inc. announces that its audit that will enable it to become a fully reporting company will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2021\n\nNext How to Watch, Listen and Follow Virginia Tech Football in West Virginia", null ]

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[ null, "Charles III, defender of all religions in the ‘multi-confessional’ UK\n\nIn a quiet environment, about ten Muslims of all ages wait to sign a book of condolences for Queen Elizabeth II during a multi-faith ceremony held at the great Baitul Futuh Mosque in south London.\n\nSome children run among the adults, but the atmosphere is respectful.\n\n“I am a first-generation Muslim in this country” and “here we can practice our faith under the protection of our” monarch, said 19-year-old Danial Saeed.\n\nIn the UK, the king is not only head of the Anglican Church, but also a “defender of the faith”.\n\nThis title originally addressed Christianity, but Charles III, proclaimed King on Saturday, had already said that by taking the throne, he would defend all religions in the United Kingdom, which had become much more multicultural during his mother’s reign.\n\n“Our loyalty to the king” will be “as strong as the one we show to the queen”, says Rafiq Hayat, president of the British Muslim community Ahamdiyya, in the act, which includes a prayer.\n\n“We live in a country where freedom of religion is real. (…) Both the monarch and the government perpetuate this freedom of expression, of belief,” he later told AFP.\n\nIn Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign “we have seen our society become multicultural and multi-confessional,” Charles III said in his first speech as king on September 9, the day after his mother’s death.\n\nThis Friday, the monarch would receive representatives of the main religions of the United Kingdom at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe British monarchy has its roots in Christianity. This religious character is strongly represented in the coronation ceremony – whose date has yet to be set – in which the king will be anointed with oil by the Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\nHowever, Ian Bradley, professor of theology at St Andrews University, told AFP that “the monarch’s role is to hold the nation together in every way possible, especially in terms of faith.”\n\nRami Ranger, president of the British Sikh Association, believes that as a monarch, regardless of her subjects’ political parties, religions or backgrounds, Queen Elizabeth gave everyone “an enormous sense of security”.\n\nThe British monarch has a role as the nation’s “spiritual heart” and this “somewhat unconscious” spiritual bond manifested itself, according to Bradley, in “religious terms often chosen by many to express their feelings towards the Queen”.\n\nThe UK may have become “a very secular post-Christian nation, but many people still appreciate that the sovereign has a religious aura,” he adds.\n\n“Some of the strongest supporters of the monarchy are members of religious minorities such as Jews, Sikhs, Hindus,” Bradley insists. And remember that while Charles III is a practicing Christian who “goes to church every Sunday,” he is also “interested in Islam and spirituality in general.”\n\nJust as his advocacy for the environment accompanies the concerns of younger people, this interest in religions could connect Charles III to Britain today.\n\nAmong Christians, he showed a special predilection for the Orthodox religion, making several retreats to monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece. He moved the British Jewish community by visiting Israel – something his mother never did – even if it wasn’t on an official visit.\n\nHe also had “a wonderful relationship with the Muslim world as a prince, praising the teachings of Islam and often referring to verses from the Quran,” says Hayat.\n\n“We believe that he will be a very good leader for Muslims and that he will bring together the different confessions”, not least because given his importance “when he speaks, people listen” and “this will have a lot of weight in the relations between the Muslim world, the Christian world and Jewish world”, he concludes." ]

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[ null, "A Kenyan woman has sent cold shivers down the spines of netizens after she revealed on live radio that she used to eat human flesh and make love to snakes.\n\nThe 26-year-old lady identified as Cecilia Wambui, Emmanuel Mwashumbe confessed on Radio Maisha Morning Show that she got into this strange practice as a form of voodoo to attract rich men.\n\nATTENTION: It’s time for women to speak up for women – Sanwo-Olu’s wife\n\nHere is her full story.\n\nShe said, “I was 17 and in fourth grade when I met a driver who hit on me. Since he came from a very poor family, I was impressed that he had a TV, a gas stove and a radio. I ran away with him, but we broke up within three months. I was pregnant by him, but I terminated the pregnancy.”\n\n“I tried to get saved and was introduced to a fake church where I slept with ghosts. I could just find myself in morgues and funerals.\n\nIn February, I joined the church and no longer felt the need to sleep with men because the spirits were satisfying my needs. It got to a point where I was addicted and wanted to see bloody images, like bodies being washed in the morgue.”\n\n‘They had brainwashed me; the pastor told me to give him all the household items because they were bought by ‘sponsors.’\n\nATTENTION: Fulani Herdsmen Strike Again As They Attack Igangan; Kill Over Twenty People\nThey arranged for me to marry one of the church members, saying ‘heaven decided I should marry him’ – we had known each other for three weeks.\n\nWhenever I slept, I dreamed that the pastor told me to touch his privates and a black snake would appear. I enjoyed this and thought it was okay.\n\nThe snake appeared whenever I closed my eyes; I dreaded sleeping in matatus (Kenyan commuter omnibuses). I started getting sick, but the pastor told me not to go to the hospital because “God would heal me.”" ]

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[ null, "The purchase of land and buildings will also be eligible under the new initiative, the government said.\n\n“No Canadian should ever be without a place to call home,” said Trudeau. “By making smart and substantial investments in affordable housing and providing funding directly to municipalities, we’re creating jobs, strengthening our communities across the country, and helping the most vulnerable.”\n\nFunding for the Rapid Housing Initiative will be equally divided into two streams, and will work to eliminate chronic homelessness in Canada, Trudeau said.\n\nUnder the Major Cities Stream, $500 million will immediately go to support 15 municipalities, including Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Vancouver, that are facing the greatest need and the highest population of homeless residents.\n\nFunds will be distributed within the next few days, said Ahmed Hussen, the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development.\n\nThe remaining $500 million will be used for the Projects Stream. Applications can be provided by provinces, territories, municipalities, Indigenous governing bodies and organizations, and non-profit organizations. Applications are open and will be accepted until December 31, 2020. Each one will be reviewed within 30 days of submission to speed up development.\n\n“More than ever before, we have to assure that each and every Canadian has a safe and affordable place to call home,” said Hussen. “The government’s new Rapid Housing Initiative is doing exactly that. It is an urgent response.”" ]

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[ "“An absorbing, highly entertaining novel about family secrets, The Never Never Sisters introduces you to the strong-willed and big-hearted Reinhardt women, as they reunite one summer in New York. Gifted storyteller L. Alison Heller has written another witty and moving page-turner that will captivate readers and keep them guessing right up until the satisfying end.\n\nSometimes you just need to get away….\n\nMarriage counselor Paige Reinhardt is counting down the days to summer, eager to reconnect with her workaholic husband at their cozy rental cottage in the Hamptons. But soon a mysterious crisis at Dave’s work ruins their getaway plans. Paige is still figuring out how to handle the unexplained chill in her marriage when her troubled sister suddenly returns after a two-decade silence. Now, instead of enjoying the lazy summer days along the ocean, Paige is navigating the rocky waters of a forgotten bond with her sister in the sweltering city heat.\n\nAs she attempts to dig deeper into Dave’s work troubles and some long-held family secrets, Paige is shocked to discover how little she knows about the people closest to her. This summer, the self-proclaimed relationship expert will grapple with her biggest challenge yet: Is it worth risking your most precious relationships in order to find yourself?”\n\nThey say relationships with siblings is a bond that passes time and will always bring your back to the ones that know you best, however, sometimes those bonds can be severed or strained. Personally, I am the oldest of four siblings, two brothers and a sister – my sister and I have never been particularly close – we have always managed to butt heads and never see eye-to-eye, even after living together for the bulk of our lives. We’re both very strong minded women who have set ideas of how we want to live our lives and seemingly know how to go about getting what we want. I have always told my husband that its taken two very special men to bring us both back to a level playing field especially when we’re strung-out stressed, overly emotional about something, or just in general are going off on some kind of tangent. For my husband all he has to do is listen and let me talk myself down, for my sister all my brother-in-law needs to do is grab her, look at her and that brings her back down to earth. He, like my husband seem to understand our inner workings better than we understand them ourselves.\n\nIt is for this semi-strained relationship with my sister that allowed me to somewhat understand where Paige was coming from – she so longed to build a relationship with her sister, Sloan, however, after her being gone for the better part of her life she was no more than a stranger to her – gee that sounds familiar – my sister is no better than a stranger to me who knows my history – it’s kind of strange if asked I’d tell someone that straight out! So reading Paige’s story was like taking a walk down memory lane for me, with the exception that my sister never bailed ship on me, we just both grew in very different directions in our lives and never once came back together to develop a sisterly relationship. For Paige her life takes an unexpected flip flop twice over – first her husband is suspended from his job and brings his workaholic life home with him and locks himself up in his home-office while Paige is left wondering what exactly happened – then bing-bang-boom her Mother drops the bomb that her stranger-sister is coming into town for an undetermined period of time, just dropping back into her life after a twenty some odd year absence. The narrative takes the reader through the past, to the present, to the possible future to develop clearly what happened in the past that sent Sloane running, to figuring out the strained relationship Sloane has with her and Paige’s mother, to building a new relationship with her sister all the while trying to determine what exactly is going on with Paige’s husband, Dave.\n\nEvery family has its secrets, Paige’s is no different, only the secrets do not come out as clearly as a narrative normally would, and instead they surface through the inner-thoughts of her Mother. This story hits home clearly for anyone who has any kind of relationship with their siblings, spouse, parents, you name it. I found the story intriguing and clung to the pages of this novel with hopes that Paige, Sloane, Dave, and the whole family could come to some kind of resolve!\n\nFour of our Five Stars for Never, Never Sisters because some of the narrative did leave me trying to follow the author’s stream of thought.\n\nObtain Your Copy of The Never Never Sisters from these Partners:", null, "L. Alison Heller grew up in Connecticut and attended Bates College in Maine. After graduation, she wandered dreamily around the eastern seaboard, temping and interning and shelving books, trying a little of this and a little of that, before landing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Having hit her limit for dreamy wandering, she enrolled at the University of North Carolina School of Law. In 2000, she graduated from UNC with honors and moved to New York City, where she toiled in several law firms, growing increasingly nostalgic for those days of dreamy wandering. Alison opened her own family law and mediation practice in 2006 to help couples divorce with their sanity intact.\n\nAlison’s first novel, THE LOVE WARS, will be published by Penguin (NAL) in May 2013. Her second novel, as of yet untitled, is scheduled for 2014.\n\nAlison currently lives in Brooklyn with her family and is right now probably working on someone’s divorce or her next novel or riding on the New York City subway, dragging or being dragged by at least one child on a scooter. (Don’t be fooled by Alison’s modest blush–the subway dragging is every bit as glamorous as it sounds.)" ]

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[ "However the british was not able to control singapore in the same way as it was before war people lost trust in the british government as they saw how the. December 11 1950 maria hertogh riots 18 dead 173 injured. 5 june the first cabinet is sworn into power.", null, null, "Pin On History Of Singapore", null, null, null, null, "8 june a campaign against decadent lifestyles is launched.\n\nWhat happened in singapore from 1945 to 1959. As the desire of the people to manage their own affairs grew singapore s prime minister lee kuan yew was convinced that complete independence could only. When singapore attained self government in 1959 it symbolised the culmination of a momentous period of political awakening that had begun in the aftermath of the japanese occupation in 1945. 1945 1959 ministry of information and the arts collection courtesy of national archives of singapore. During world war ii singapore was conquered and occupied by the japanese empire from 1942 to 1945.\n\n25 april the 1959 general elections was held. Singapore straits settlements 1826 1946. They were held under the new constitution and the first in which all 51 seats in the legislative assembly were elected. 1922 singapore becomes main british naval base in east asia.\n\nWhen the war ended singapore reverted to british control with increasing levels of self government being granted culminating in singapore s merger with the federation of malaya to form malaysia in 1963. General elections were held in singapore on 30 may 1959. 3 june the 1958 state of singapore constitution is adopted allowing for self governance in singapore. February 15 20 1851 anti catholic riots 1851 anti teochew catholic riots 500 dead teochews may 5 17 1854 hokkien teochew riots 200 480 dead 222 injured crown colony of singapore 1946 1963.\n\nIn 1945 to 1959 singapore continue to be under the british rule. Lee kuan yew was elected as prime minister of singapore. 1959 encik yusof bin ishak became singapore s prime minister 1959 lim yew hock gained full self government for singapore 1959 lee kuan yew became first prime minister after people s action party pap won general election 1961 fire broke out in squatter settlement of bukit ho swee four died 85 injured 16 000 homeless 2 200 homes. This was the first election victory for the people s action party pap as they won a landslide victory with 43 seats and the party has since remained in power after the elections.\n\n1942 singapore falls to japan which renames it syonan light of the south. 1 in a bid to check the growing influence of the communist party of malaya in singapore lim initiated a series of arrests and banning of pro communist groups between september and november 1956.", null, null, null, null, "A History Of Singapore A Timeline Of Events", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "One of my favorite cartoons when I was a kid was the amazing Dungeons & Dragons cartoon that aired in the early 80s. The main characters were transported via an amusement park ride into \"The Realm of Dungeons & Dragons\" where they met Dungeon Master, a small, wise, almost Yoda-like character who gave them mysterious clues in their quest to get home. The Realm an amazing place with some incredible visuals of fantastic locales. A prison held aloft over bubbling lava by massive chains. A Dragon's Graveyard filled with draconic skeletons and magic items. A floating castle and magical islands - all suspended by some arcane power in midair, some stationary and some slowly traveling across the landscape.\n\nThis is where I am going to set the DCC game I plan to run for Extra Life. But have no fear, the PCs will not come from Earth, and the kids who are desperately trying to get home will not make an appearance. Rather, we are going to explore the fantastic elements of the Realm in a way Saturday Morning TV did not make possible. Never once did a sword find its' mark. Never once did one of Hank's arrows pierce an Orc, nor Venger's magical spheres immolate a foe. Standards and Practices, dontcha know. Can't have that kind of violence on Saturday Morning TV.\n\nBut the Realm existed offscreen. It existed before Hank, Sheila, Bobby, Diana, Eric and Presto arrived. If they ever made it home, it presumably continued to exist after they left. So let's talk about The Realm of Dungeons & Dragons. It's a much darker place than we are shown onscreen. The Orcs employed by Venger are fearsome warriors. Villages like Pendrake do enlist adventurers for their own protection, since farmers banding together into militia can only barely hold their own against the Orcs, or Bullywugs, or giant Scorpions, or the Beholder... The Realm is fraught with danger, and many free cities like Tardos close their gates to outsiders. Other settlements, like the Queen Zinn's realm, are under curses or worse. Venger teeters on the edge of ruling all of the Realm, held back only by some stalwart enclaves and the depredations of Tiamat, who would be no more pleasant an option than Venger as an overlord.\n\nThe heroes of the Realm, like Strongheart, Ringlerun and Melf are certainly outnumbered by the forces of evil. But we know there are settlements that remain free, like Helix. And this is how we will begin our story, by mixing the Realm of Dungeons & Dragons with Dungeon Crawl Classics. DCC has a reputation for gritty, and unpredictable magic, and evoking late 70s RPG tropes. So to merge the two...\n\nA great darkness is descending upon the Realm. Magical energies are surging, causing the spells of even well-meaning magic-users to result with unpredictable effects. The very fabric of reality seems to be unraveling, and none can understand why. Several settlements send representatives to seek the counsel of Dungeon Master, who has been stricken just as others have by this world-bending malady. Dungeon Master meets with the PCs in the Forest of Know Trees, who reveal to Dungeon Master and the PCs that the Magical Malady is caused by a massive influx of pure magic from other Realms. This concentration of Magic is causing a similar problem in many other Realms- Magic is behaving erratically, or perhaps draining from a Realm. In fact, players who wish to have a PC hail from any other D&D setting could conceivably be transported to the D&D Realm as they search for the answer to their own world's problems.\n\nOnce so informed, the PC group must quest for the source of this Magical Malady, and find out who or what is behind it. Then they must figure out a plan to defeat or destroy it to return all the worlds to normal, before the gathering of the magics of countless realms destroys them all.\n\nThe PCs will visit some of the exotic locales of The Realm in their quest. The spired city of Kadish, the Slave Mines of Baramore, The Great Glaciers... They may run into some of the more iconic Bad Guys of the D&D Realm. But the kid gloves that defined the TV series are off. This is a Realm where magic is unpredictable, death extremely possible, and even Dungeon Master has no idea what is really going on.\n\nTo donate to our Extra Life efforts for this year, click HERE.\nPosted by The Old Dragoon at 17:44 No comments:\n\nThe Old Dragoon has just completed his first tour of duty as a college professor. All that work getting my MA paid off. I have been hired as an adjunct faculty member in our Student Development department, and I am currently teaching my second crop of students in the Effective Learning course, EDUC 1300. It's incredibly satisfying work, my students wrapped up our 8-week double speed semester by bringing donuts and a card in which they wrote some wonderful commentary on how my efforts have helped them become better students. It's moving to know that I've actually made a difference for these kids, and that I've taken a course none of them actually wanted to take and made it interesting and even a bit entertaining.", null, "So teaching is now my secondary gig on top of my 40/wk as a senior IT technician. It's hard to find time to keep the dice rolling, but now that my first go-round is over, and I'm repeating the material for new students, things are easing up a bit. I've been running some D&D about once a month for my son and my goddaughters, and that's been a blast.\n\nMy son Zane is shaping up to be a pretty good combination of the geek I was growing up and the sportsman my dad and stepdad wish I'd been. The kid has an amazing arm for football, and is now a yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do. I'm so proud of him. My daughter Kaylee is pretty awesome, too. I can't wait to post a picture of her in her Rey costume for Halloween. It's now been five years since I've been their dad - we fostered and adopted - and it's been a crazy adventure, but the best one yet. The only thing I love more than a good tabletop game is my wonderful little family - my wife, my kiddos, and the den of geeks we've assembled into our community.\n\nSo... what's this about Extra Life? Well, our gaming club is going to be undertaking a 24 hour game to raise funds for Extra Life in support of the Children's Miracle Network hospitals. It works like a charity race, people sponsor others to play. But in this case, we're challenged to play for 24 hours. Since we have a couple of members who've requested we break the 24 hours up, we've elected to do it in a six hour session on Friday, 11 November 2016. We'll hit a twelve hour session on Saturday, 12 November and wrap up with another six hours on 13 November.\n\nPosted by The Old Dragoon at 16:54 No comments:" ]

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[ null, "Governor Bello Muhammad Matawalle said for some days now he has been under intense pressure to remove some of his political appointees who are not members of the ruling people’s Democratic Party.\nHe said he resisted the pressure because he has given the appointments not because of any political reason but because of his believed that the persons he has appointed have something positive to offer for the rapid transformation of the state.\nThe Governor who made the declaration when he paid a visit to Zamfara State FM Radio Station on Saturday said, those who feels they don’t want to continue with the government for the reason that their political masters have taken another political path they can humbly resign noting that he is ready to accept their resignation and wished them well.\nHe noted that the leader of the Senator Kabiru Marafa political movement Alh Surajo Maikatako intimated him that he is going to resign his appointment and told him that there was no cause for alarm noting that, as a Governor he is not going to remove anybody for any political reason but explained that anyone who believes he wants to take a vow he is free to do that.\nHe further said he has given appointments to those from opposition considering their capacity and what they can do to contribute to the development of the state not because of the influence of any political god-father.\n“I know they are not active members of the PDP, but I decided to delegate them with a responsibility so that they can contribute to the development of the state and also protect the integrity of their political followers”.\n“I am a Governor of Zamfara State not a Governor of PDP or APC or APGA and I have pledged to my God that I will appoint those I believed have the capacity to effect the needed changes for the progress of the state”.\nMatawalle noted that, the government of national unity had not started in Zamfara State because during the reign of Yar’adua in Nigeria, people have witnessed how opposition were given appointments as Ministers noting that even in Zamfara Hajiya Saudatu Bungudu was picked for ministerial job while she was still a member of the APC.\nRelated Topics:" ]

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[ "Manchester United believe interest in Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho and Chelsea's Callum Hudson-Odoi will have to be shelved with their respective clubs maintaining they do not wish to sell.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer wants a right back, two midfielders and a right winger for his summer rebuild.\n\nEngland internationals Sancho and Hudson-Odoi have been discussed but there is a growing air of realism around the United camp that both will be extremely difficult to prise away this summer.", null, null, "Dortmund have already stated they are planning for Sancho to stay with sporting director Michael Zorc underlining 'it will be very difficult even for the biggest of clubs' to buy the former Manchester City winger, particularly with Christian Pulisic leaving for Chelsea this summer.\n\n\nCity negotiated a matching rights clause in Sancho's contract which enables them to offer the same amount as rival suitors, should Dortmund agree to sell, but the German club have proven stubborn in the past once they make such a declaration.\n\nThey know clubs may be willing to offer up to £100m for the 19-year-old but point to the fact he is tied to a contract until 2022 and could improve again by playing more regularly next season.\n\nChelsea have less security over Hudson-Odoi as he has just one year remaining on contract but they still plan to reassure him he will feature more regularly and are reluctant to allow him to join Premier League rivals.", null, "They also point to the fact that other suitors Bayern Munich, while offering a lucrative contract, do not have a track record for giving teenagers greater game time.\n\nThe risk for Chelsea is he could go abroad for relatively low compensation next year while United could be asked to pay up to £20m at a tribunal here.\n\nChelsea's appeal against their transfer ban will be heard next Thursday, April 11, and they are exploring whether taking their fight to the Court of Arbitration will still allow them time to conduct transfer business.\n\nReal Madrid are expected to improve their offer for Eden Hazard while Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain and Chinese clubs remain interested in Willian. As such, losing the much younger Hudson-Odoi is not in their interests.\n\nUnited want Crystal Palace right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka as a replacement for Antonio Valencia, who has interest from West Ham and MLS clubs, while United have also been offered Atletico Madrid midfielder Thomas Partey among others.\n\nUnited were staying at the four star Mount Hotel Country Manor, Tettenhall, prior to their Premier League game with Wolves.", null, null, "Players checked in at 9pm on Monday evening for their overnight stay but as they prepared themselves for the match at Molineux with an afternoon sleep on Tuesday, their peace was disrupted by the hotel fire alarms going off twice.\n\nStriker Marcus Rashford was sent home from the hotel suffering from a heavy cold as well as needing further treatment for his ankle injuries.\n\nDefeat at Molineux left the United dressing room in sombre mood as they contemplate missing out on a top-four place." ]

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[ null, "Anna grew up without a mother. Her daughter, Abi, has never known a world without her mother in it. But Anna and Abi’s relationship is not affectionate. Now, as cancer erodes Anna’s mind and body, she speaks nonstop, hoping that her memories and experiences will enrich her daughter and grandson’s lives long after she is gone. Her tumultuous life story is the basis for the book’s emotional saga.\n\nThe family’s lives are intertwined with major events in Cameroonian history, from the war of independence that nearly separated Anna from her husband before they could marry, to the contemporary religious extremism that destroys her grandson’s friends in the most intense portions of the novel. Throughout, Anna tries to reconcile her traditional, rural upbringing with the European-sponsored education that allowed her to break the cycle of poverty. Meanwhile, Abi copes with the consequences of her extramarital affair; the devastating effect that the affair had on her son, Max; and the impending loss of her mother, whom she is just now growing close to.\n\nThough it records family scars, this is a novel about resilience. Anna’s family’s greatest failings have been rejecting the past and refusing to face up to what’s obvious. They allowed danger and bad feelings to fester. Now, having endured more trauma than anyone should ever have to, they know all too well the cost of their willful ignorance.\n\nFollowing as three generations work to leave their painful legacies behind for the sake of their progeny, Days Come & Go is a multigenerational story about lost innocence—and about perseverance." ]

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[ "Here we have some of Dean Karr’s photographic artwork created for the metal band Union Underground’s album An Education in Rebellion. Band member John Moyer, in an interview, elaborates on the model:\n\nHer name is Anna Belise, she’s a New York child model and we found her in a model search in a magazine…she had this real unique look of defiance and we did the shoot…the actual picture that made it to the record was her in total rebellion of what was going on and I can show you some video of her just sitting there in the freezing cold, it was in New York, she was in a short sleeve shirt, wearing practically nothing and doing a 3 hour photo shoot and it was really intense and she looks blue on the cover…some people think that’s makeup, she’s freezing cold. In addition to that the writing that’s on the cover is actually her writing, that wasn’t done on a computer or anything like that, that was her writing it on a chalkboard and we took it right off the chalkboard and used it on the front of the record.\n\n(I took the liberty of correcting some spelling and grammatical errors in the above quote, of which there were many. Note also that the image of the girl writing on a chalkboard referred to by Moyer is actually not on the front cover. The front cover is directly below.)", null, "Here’s the chalkboard image referred to by Moyer:", null ]

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[ null, "It is necessarily different in South America, as the southern hemisphere has opposite seasons from the northern. This means that Christmas falls in the middle of summer rather than the middle of winter.\n\nChristmas trees in Argentina are sometimes decorated with cotton balls, to simulate snow, and they are not always pine trees. Most homes include a nativity scene near the tree. The globos, or paper lanterns, that are launched into the air on Christmas Eve are a fun tradition that is unique to Argentina.\n\nAt midnight on Christmas Eve, firecrackers are set off by many Bolivians. Following a midnight mass (sometimes called “Misa del Gallo” or “Mass of the Rooster”), the people of Bolivia eat their large Christmas meal. Employees often receive a gift from their employers called a “Canaston.” This is a large tub or basket that has food items like biscuits, bread, rice, sugar, and such in it.\n\nA Nativity play called “The Shepherds” is often performed in north Brazil. In this play, there are shepherdesses and Baby Jesus is in danger of being kidnapped by a gypsy.\n\nFather Christmas, or “Papai Noel,” wears clothes of silk because of the heat. He brings presents to the children.\n\nA secret friend tradition is a fun tradition for Brazilian friends and family. Names are written on slips and taken by others, and the people exchange messages with the person on their slip of paper, using false names to keep people from knowing. A final special present is given on Christmas Day, when the “amigo secreto” is revealed.\n\nIt is common for cities in Brazil to have large Christmas trees festooned with lights.\n\nThe traditional holiday treat that is particularly Chile’s is the beverage known as Cola de Mono, which means “Monkey’s Tail.” It is made from coffee, alcohol, and sugar, along with milk and spices like anise.\n\nSanta is called “Viejito Pascuero” which is Old Man Christmas, and he is small so he can fit through the chimney.\n\nDecember 7th begins the Christmas season in Colombia. The day commemorates Mary, “the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception.” Also known as “The Day of Candles,” it is a day when candles are lit everywhere, anywhere people are, including homes, churches, and more. They eat pastries filled with meat, potatoes, or other fillings, called empanadas or buñuelos.\n\nFireworks and paper globe lanterns are seen throughout December in the skies over Colombian homes.\n\nEcuador sees processions of the people from homes in the mountains leading llamas that they have decorated for the season. They carry fruit and other treats to their employers’ ranches. They place them by the nativity scene and poems are recited to the Holy Infant. This is followed by employers giving the employees presents, followed by a big party with a feast.\n\nGuyana starts the Christmas season with deep cleaning. Some refer to this as “breaking up of the house.”\n\nAbout two months before Christmas, people make “black cake” which is a dense, dark cake of which bits are sent to cousins that do not live nearby. It is a form of fruitcake, which includes soaking the fruit in rum for several months.\n\nParades that include drummers and dancers that are wearing masks of characters such as Long Man, Long-lady (or Boom Boom Sally or Mother Sally), and Cow take place during the holiday season.\n\nGift-giving in Paraguay is often done on Epiphany (January 6) rather than Christmas Day. While trees with lights on them are a common decoration, the real importance of the season is family. Santa Claus is known as Papa Noel, but the main focus of Christmas in Paraguay is the birth of Jesus. There are many nativity scenes (presebre) around town and in homes.\n\nMany of Peru’s traditions come from the Incas and the Spanish that conquered their nation at some point. The Roman Catholic influence results in a proclivity for celebrating the Christian holidays such as Christmas, with traditional celebrations included from the other cultures.\n\nNoche Buena (“good night”) is the term used for Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve at midnight is when the celebrations begin in most Peruvian families. An evening mass begins the celebration for many people, beginning about 9 or 10 pm. Following that, Peruvians return home for the biggest party of the year. They have a meal and presents, a toast at midnight, and a huge fireworks display. The fireworks are set off by nearly every family, who purchase them in the weeks leading up to Christmas. The whole sky will have fireworks exploding as most people are sending fireworks into the sky above them.\n\nOne of the treats at the Christmas meal is the traditional paneton – an Italian sweet bread that is sold nearly everywhere.\n\nThe week before Christmas, organizations and communities organize what they call “chocolatadas” for the children who might not get presents, offering a cup of hot chocolate and sometimes a little gift.\n\n“Goedoe Pa” or “Dearest Daddy” is the name given to the one who delivers presents in Suriname.\n\nOn December 6th, children may find presents and poems in their shoes. This tradition began in 1975. Prior to that, Suriname was a colony of the Dutch, and many of the traditions were the same as the ones generally practiced in the Netherlands. This included Saint Nicholas who arrived by ship and rode a white horse.\n\nAs in Paraguay, Santa is called Papa Noel. Christmas trees are often in houses, but are usually artificial, as live pine trees are difficult to find. A small nativity scene is found in most homes. The baby Jesus is left out of the scene until Christmas morning. Families enjoy dinner together on Christmas Eve. When midnight hits, adults will point children toward a star in the sky or do fireworks, while another adult slips presents under the tree. The children are delighted and amazed to find that the presents have appeared.\n\nMusic is a large part of the Venezuelan Christmas. Traditional songs are played on guitar, maracas, and drum while people sing.\n\nFor nine mornings before Christmas, the church has mass. Some people may roller-skate to the church.\n\nThe traditional feast includes “hallaca” which is a mixture of meat, capers, olives, and raisins filling a dough made from cornmeal and steamed or baked inside plantain leaves, a ham-and-raisin bread, and a sweet treat made of brown sugar and papaya." ]

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[ null, "2) Has Judaism influenced your work?\n\nAlthough I come from a non-religious Jewish home, my extended family consists of Orthodox and conservative Jews. Consequently I’ve felt the necessity to live something of a double life for fear of being “disowned”. Until my grandmother passed away, absolutely no one in my extended family knew anything about my career. Most of them are still unaware of my successes and for all they know I’m a lazy underachiever. It frustrates me because I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished and wish I could freely share my work. Since my grandmother passed away, I’ve been able to open up to some of my less conservative cousins and aunts with mixed reactions. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to reconcile my more exploratory personal views on sexuality with my learned religious and cultural expectations of how a nice, Jewish girl should behave. I’ve decided that so long as there is love and respect for both oneself and one’s partners that sex can truly be a mitzvah, even outside of the heterosexual, marriage bed.\n\n3) Do you find that religion has an influence on the perspectives of your readers?\n\n4) Is Jordan your real name?\n\nNo, it’s my pen-name. In high school Samantha and I were so obsessed with Anne Rice’s Vampire Lestat books that we took on vampiric alter egos. We would write each other cryptic letters. When we started our business we resurrected these old fantasy names. I added the last name LaRousse because it means “the redhead” in French. I’m a redhead and a total francophile. (My real name is a Hebrew one, but I’m not telling what!!)\n\nThanks, Jordan! Have a Sexy Shabbos!\n\nJenni Skyler, PhD, MSEd is a sex therapist and board certified sexologist. She is the Director of The Intimacy Institute for sex and relationship therapy in Boulder, Colorado. She holds a doctorate in Clinical Sexology and a Master of Education in Counseling Psychology - Marriage and Family Therapy track. She has worked in the field of sexual health as a therapist, educator, and public health consultant since 2005. In addition, Jenni is a PAIRS® certified instructor and hosts workshops and retreats to help couples emotionally enrich their relationships.\nPrevious Maccabi Games Scholarships Deadline Monday\nNext Week in Review: March 12, 2010" ]

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[ "The LEGO Super Mario collection started last year with the #71360 LEGO Super Mario Adventures with Mario Starter Course. The highlight of the set is the LEGO Mario figure with integrated color sensors, LCD screens, and a speaker that give instant expressive responses as you move the character through the buildable course from the Start Pipe to the Goal Pole while collecting virtual coins and avoiding obstacles. The game can be played solo or with friends, and the course can be rearranged and combined with various expansion sets to create more challenging levels. It’s a highly interactive game experience that has been super popular with younger fans, and some older ones too.", null, null, "Another set Mario can interact with is the #71374 LEGO Nintendo Entertainment System set, which is considered one of the most advanced, complex, and fun set LEGO ever released. We already discussed this set several times, and you can learn about it via the links at the end of this post.\n\nSo far, the only interactive character in the LEGO Super Mario line has been Mario, but this summer another starter set is coming, this time with an interactive Luigi.", null, null, null, "In the video below, LEGO and Mario fan just2good with discuss the upcoming set in more detail.\n\nWhat do you think? How do you like the idea of a second LEGO Super Mario Starter Course? Do you have any of the already released sets? Are you excited about adding Luigi? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below!" ]

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[ null, "Alpheus Thornton is a second quarter student from Independence, Oregon, who is studying to become a Doctor of Chiropractic at Life University.\n\n“Both my parents are chiropractors, so I got to grow up around the chiropractic atmosphere and see health from that different perspective,” he shared. “That definitely influenced where I am today.”\n\nThornton was originally going to attend Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, where both his parents studied.\n\n“After doing some research I kept hearing from other people that I had to go to Life U, and I went to check it out.” Life U’s dedication to Vitalism resonated with Thornton, and he chose to study Chiropractic there instead.\n\nThornton is a member of the bible study club and the Torque Release club on campus. “I dipped my toes in quite a few clubs to try them out, but not all the technique clubs were for me. Eventually, I want to join the Functional Neurology Club, but as a first quarter student, I’m still getting the hang of my schedule.”\n\nBecoming a chiropractor was not always the plan for Thornton. “I always saw Chiropractic as something my parents did. I originally wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon up until my junior year at my undergrad,” he shared. “But, as I began to evaluate my options in health care, Chiropractic became more and more appealing.”\n\nAfter graduation, he plans to go back to Oregon and take over the family business.\n\n“My father is starting to get to retirement age, and I know he is probably already getting patients ready for me. So, I’ll go back and integrate into the family practice and go from there.”\n\nThornton’s advice to other students is to get a core group of friends.\n\n“Find people to study with and intentionally get involved in the community. It’s not something you can build overnight; as an introvert, I know how difficult it can be.”\n\nFaces of LIFE is a story campaign that showcases members of the dynamic Life U community, including faculty/staff, students, alumni and health science professionals. Interested in being featured or nominating a candidate? Email [email protected]. Read more Faces of LIFE stories." ]

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[ null, "More than 100 million Americans were under some form of heat warning or advisory Monday as a withering, potentially record-breaking heat wave made its way toward the central and eastern USA.\n\nThe heat moved east after scorching portions of the West late last week and over the weekend. Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver were among cities posting record temperatures.\n\nSoutherly winds were expected to push hot and humid air into the eastern two-thirds of the nation through Wednesday, and temperatures could top 10 to 30 degrees above normal, forecasters warned.\n\nTemperatures in Chicago could reach 100 degrees by Tuesday, along with “oppressive humidity,” the weather service warned.\n\nIf Chicago hits the century mark, it would be the first time in nearly 10 years that the Windy City has seen a high temperature that extreme, AccuWeather said.\n\nMemphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis could set record highs and were under “excessive heat warnings.” Heat index values – what the weather feels like when humidity is factored in – could approach 110 degrees this week.\n\nSuch conditions are dangerous, and the weather service said heat-related illnesses are possible.\n\n“This is serious heat so don`t underestimate it,” the weather service in Memphis said. “Stay indoors if possible. Check on neighbors, especially the elderly and check the back seat for kids and pets.”\n\nHEAT WAVE: Historic heat wave sweeps across much of US\n\nRecord heat for many cities\n\nAccuWeather meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said, “Even cities as far east as Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, will be flirting with record high temperatures and triple-digit readings this week.”\n\nMinneapolis and Tulsa, Oklahoma, were under excessive heat warnings.\n\nAbout 100 cities could see record highs through Wednesday, the weather service predicted.\n\nExcessive heat causes more deaths in the USA than other weather-related disasters, including hurricanes, floods and tornadoes combined.\n\nThe heat results from a large area of high pressure, known as a “heat dome,” Pydynowski said. High-pressure atmospheric conditions combine with influences from La Niña, creating vast areas of sweltering heat that gets trapped under a “dome,” according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.\n\nThe heat dome will expand across the central and southeastern USA over the next few days, Pydynowski said.\n\nCooldown, even snow in the West\n\nIn the West, after a weekend of record-breaking heat, a strong cold front was expected to bring cooler temperatures across much of California and the Great Basin on Monday.\n\nTemperatures could drop by as much as 40 degrees across the Southwest early this week as a new weather pattern ousts the intense heat, AccuWeather said.\n\nDaytime temperatures across the Northwest into the northern Rockies are expected to be 10-20 degrees below normal, the weather service said.\n\nWinter storm warnings and advisories were in effect for the mountains of northwest Montana, including the Glacier National Park area, where several inches of wet snow was expected for elevations above 5,000 feet, according to the weather service." ]

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[ null, "Like, many modern African states, Nigeria is the creation of European imperialism. Its very name – after the great Niger River, the country's dominating physical feature – was suggested in the 1890s by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later became the wife of colonial governor Frederick Lugard.\n\nThe experiment had started. The country's groups of different beliefs, cultures and languages were merged together, to form a country.\n\nA country they were never consulted, it's been a bittersweet experience. I will highlight some reasons, why the Nigerian Experiment may fail.\n\nCLASS DISCONNECTION: Very many Nigerians live in poverty atleast 86 million people live in extreme poverty in Nigeria. The country’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is said to earn 8,000 times more each day than a poor compatriot would spend on their basic needs in a year. This disconnection, fueled by poor leadership and infrastructural failure is seriously destroying this Lugard's experiment.\n\nETHNICITY: The current level of mistrust, and contempt among various tribes in Nigeria is alarming, this is driven by the body language of people in high places. If this continues, we may not get the results we want from this experiment.\n\nLEADERSHIP FAILURE: Leaders in Nigeria, have failed to inspire and motivate the masses, except, but a few. The majority of our leaders are greedy, unintelligent and without vision, with this, the disconnection continues.\n\nCAN WE GET THIS EXPERIMENT RIGHT?" ]

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[ null, "American cars are in a class of their own. The American market itself is a long-term and multi-generational history of the automotive industry, which cannot be ignored. The most famous car brands, the largest corporations known all over the world are Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler Group. Who of us has not heard of them? That is why they are very eager to import them to Poland and other countries. Many fans prefer to drive these cars rather than others. On Polish streets you can see brands such as: Jeep. Dodge, Chrysler, Chevrolet, Mustang or the more luxurious Corvette. Some belong to the cheaper ones, others to the more expensive ones, but generally they are better American cars. People who invest in such do not regret it. That is why you can buy original US car parts in many stores. It is important that they are original, because fakes can be harmful to the car and quickly break down. The best suppliers of American car parts have access to all possible, matching each model.\n\nWhat to look for when buying an American car?\n\nImporting a car from overseas still seems to be a very interesting and attractive option for all those who are thinking about buying a new car. Not only private individuals but also car dealers benefit from this solution. However, as you can guess during such an operation, there may be several pitfalls that we have to watch out for. One of them is the current availability of parts for cars from the USA. Admittedly, as in Europe as in the United States, some models are more popular, while others are slightly less. Therefore, when we import American cars, either for private use or for trade, let's do some research first, where and how quickly we will be able to get individual parts for them. Of course, it should be noted here that, in general, the growing popularity of American cars on Polish roads has caused that an increasing number of stores with parts are equipped with such elements. However, when it comes to the prices of individual components, they are usually not very excessive, taking into account, of course, some additional payments for their import.\n\nWhen deciding to buy an American car, we must consider first and foremost the cost of bringing the car to Poland. That is why many people use companies that import American cars. This is a much more beneficial option that allows you to save a lot of time and spend less cash. Of course, not every company has original parts for cars from the USA. Therefore, you should be guided primarily by the opinions of other drivers who have had the opportunity to use the services of the company. Unfortunately, logistics services that rely on importing cars cost a lot of money and that is why the prices that shops suggest are also high. However, the independent cost of bringing a car is much higher. This is due to the fact that stores often offer various attractive promotions and discounts. Organizing everything ourselves, however, we cannot count on such perks. Individual benefits and bonuses are much smaller and can not compete with those that receive large stores.\n\nThey are often cheaper to buy\n\nAmerican cars are very popular in Poland, willingly imported by Poles. They are often cheaper to buy than in the country, and even the price of import is not so high, especially if you live in a port city, e.g. in the Tri-City. Of course, to maintain American cars in Poland you need good services, trusted cars that know the specifics of US cars. Therefore, the service must have easy access to parts for cars from the USA. The service must also guarantee that the parts are original. Counterfeits can quickly break down and their final cost can increase significantly. It is worth buying American cars because they are of high quality, look good, make a really good impression and if you take care of them well, it can definitely be enough for many years. The most famous models from the USA are big SUVs. Big cars, roomy and high are very popular in this country because of the long distances that you have to overcome even when going to the supermarket, not to mention work." ]

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[ null, "What’s that excavator doing in the Norwalk River?\n\nThat’s a question some Wilton residents may be asking right now as they pass through Wilton Center. A glance over at the Norwalk River as it winds through town near Schenck’s Island reveals some heavy duty machinery at work moving large boulders and digging into the river banks and river bed.\n\nThe Mianus Chapter of Trout Unlimited, in partnership with the Town of Wilton, Wilton Land Conservation Trust, and Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT-DEEP) is working on a habitat enhancement project along a half-mile stretch of the Norwalk River at Schenck’s Island Open Space this month.\n\nThe project goal is to enhance the conditions of the location by creating a narrower and deeper river channel, improving the variety of habitats for fish and insects. The heavy equipment is being used to excavate the stream bed, build channel features and place boulders, all of which will improve the stream bed stability. Large trees and their root balls are being installed into the riverbank to prevent future erosion and increase bank stabilization.\n\nTrout Unlimited began planning and fundraising for this project over two years ago. They have retained Troutscapes River Restoration out of Bozeman, MT to design the project plans and execute the construction work. According to Trout Unlimited’s conservation chair Jeff Yates, this company has a proven track record of completing successful river enhancement projects across the United States.\n\nTrout Unlimited secured permits for the work not only through the town’s Inland Wetlands Commission but also with CT DEEP and the US Army Corps of Engineers.\n\nAccording to Yates, there’s a limited time window to complete the work, as the group doesn’t want to impact spawning and the fish life cycles. Changes last year to a section upriver–a dam removal–changed the portion of the river closer to Merwin Meadows, making it now a sea run fishery, and keeping that window very narrow.\n\nThe project includes building 20 different deeper pools in the river, while also creating other shallow areas by narrowing the river path, providing an improved habitat for spawning and rearing. Deeper pools allow fish to survive the heat of the summer in deeper, while shallow riffles allow better spawning.\n\nYates explains that these areas have changed and disappeared over centuries–historical development when trees were cut down 300 years ago with the regional move to agriculture; then later industrial changes, as sewage and pollution were introduced into the waterway; even later residential impact, from parking lots and other man-made factors; and more recently climate change, as frequent, heavier rains have altered the ecosystem. All of those factors have combined to create more flashy river system–as heavy rains fall in quick bursts, the rain runs off all of the developed spaces and flash floods the rivers. This contributes to significant erosion, widening the stream channel and depositing sand on the river bottom which instead should be clean gravel and cobblestone with more gaps.\n\n“This is what we’re trying to restore, at least a half-mile of a good mix of features that aquatic life needs,” Yates explains. “At the end of the day, while we’re focused on trout, these changes benefit all fish and it also includes improving the life of the aquatic insects, the bottom of the food chain,” he says.\n\nSomething else that was done this year in the river to help restore it was that about 80 adult lampreys were reintroduced to the river between Cannondale and Dana Dams. Environmental experts hope that the lampreys will spawn, and the young will migrate to the Sound–and return next summer to the place they were born to repeat the cycle–for the first time in 200 years.\n\nThe behavior is connected to trout health as well–Yates explains that the lampreys bring nutrients from the ocean back into the fresh water, as well as stir up the gravel in the river bed, which help the trout not have to work so hard to spawn. “There are all these little connections,” he says.\n\nPeople can see the lamprey–they grow to about two- to three feet long, and look like eels with a much thicker body. They may be more visible in the area of the Wilton Family YMCA and on the NRVT and are most active when they’re spawning in the early morning and late evening hours.\n\nCompleting the work is expensive–in the range of $100,000 per project, with three other half-mile sections planned after the stretch along Schenck’s Island is completed. Trout Unlimited welcomes donations via its website, and volunteers–contact Yates for more information.\n\nThe work is scheduled to begin during the last few weeks of August and is expected to last approximately 10 days. Portions of Schenck’s Island will be closed to the public during the work, but the trails away from the work zone will remain open for public use.\n\nTown and Trout Unlimited officials are excited about what the changes will do to improve the resource, as the Norwalk River continues to take a prominent role in Wilton’s present and future. Yates reminds everyone that the objective of the 10-14 days of construction followed by careful, thoughtful planting, is to build a half mile of “excellent habitat that models what the river should look like.”", null ]

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[ null, "Today marks the 40th anniversary of the band’s first show–April 5, 1980–at a deconsecrated Episcopal church, St. Mary’s, on Oconee Street in Athens.\nSandra-Lee Phipps‘ amazing photos of the band from that night inspired the following memories:\n“I look the youngest!!” – Bill\n“I bought that jacket in New York when Michael and I went there right before our first show.” – Peter\n“I look like I should be in the Yardbirds!” – Mike\n“Jawline jawline cheekbone cheekbone” – Michael\nHappy anniversary guys–thanks for all the great music and memories through the decades!! — the crew at REMHQ" ]

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[ "The popular crossover finally gets updated.\n\nSpy photos, patent images, and leaks have all but spoiled what the 2021 Nissan Rogue will look like when it arrives later this month. The Japanese automaker is giving its popular crossover a much-needed makeover, and it will reveal the updated model next week on Monday, June 15. Nissan also released a teaser image of the next-generation Rogue, and it confirms a lot of what we’ve seen already.\n\nThe teaser shows quite a bit of the 2021 Rogue. We can see the V-Motion grille continues as prominent as ever, just as we’ve seen in the leaked images. The split-headlight design with the daytime running lights sitting above the headlights, which sit lower in the front bumper, is present as well. The teaser image shows off a much more aggressive and rugged crossover than the one it replaces, eschewing the current-gen crossover’s softer shape for an angular one.", null, "Next Nissan Rogue Going On Sale This Fall Despite Coronavirus", null, null, null, "While Nissan will update the Rogue’s look inside and out, it’s still unclear what changes will happen under the hood. There’s a good chance the current crossover’s 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine will carry over with minor tweaks. The latest rumors suggest the mill will get a slight power bump, making 180 horsepower (134 kilowatts) and 175 pound-feet (237 Newton-meters) of twist, which is a gain of 10 and nine, respectively.\n\nThe Nissan Rogue, despite its age compared to its competitors, still sells well, often landing a spot as one of America’s best-selling vehicles. It was the sixth best-selling vehicle in the US in 2019. The updated exterior will also come with a revamped interior with a design that mimics other recently updated Nissan models. It’ll be packed with tech and tablet-sized screens and the latest smartphone integration technology, including wireless Apple CarPlay. The redesign should help it stay near the top of the sales chart.\n\nA first look at the all-new 2021 Nissan Rogue" ]

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[ "By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com\n\nHailey Bieber shared a photo of herself and her husband Justin sharing a passionate kiss in an elevator while enjoying a fun getaway to Las Vegas.\n\nAs she packed the PDA for her over 35.9 Instagram followers, the 24-year-old model looked utterly smitten with her 27-year-old boyfriend.\n\nThe happy couple, who tied the knot in 2018, looked lost in the moment as they pursed their lips with friends at the new 1920s-inspired lounge and restaurant Delilah at the Wynn on Saturday evening.\n\nAs the hazy snap focused on Hailey, all that could be seen of singer Yummy was her side profile, including the signature tattoos on her neck.\n\n“Hats + Vegas,” she captioned a slideshow of photos of herself in the same outfit, which included a cropped white crop top and slightly faded jeans.\n\nThe only difference was that she had swapped an olive green bob for a neon green baseball cap, which she wore inside out.\n\nEarlier that night, she layered a colorful geometric jacket over her white top and posed for a photo of herself next to a giant golden conch shell.", null, "Best friend: At one point, Hailey shared a glamorous photo of herself with Kendall as she wore a black sequined dress\n\n“The group arrived at Delilah together after playing pre-game on a party bus that took them to the Strip and then to the venue,” a source told E! New.\n\nThe insider added: “They arrived around 11:30 pm and were escorted to their own private table. The club was packed and many people were trying to approach their tables.\n\nJustin performed for the crowd as his wife and friends had a “fun girls’ night” as he entertained them on stage.\n\nThey finally left the scene around 2 a.m., according to other participants.", null, "Stunning: The runway star wore her blonde hair swept off her face and pouted at her followers on social media\n\nAt one point, Hailey shared a glamorous selfie of herself with Kendall as she wore a black sequined dress.", null, null, "Wow: Kendall Jenner, 25, took to Instagram on Saturday night to share footage of her getting ready for a crazy night out", null, "Party bus: In one clip, Justin could be seen dancing on a party bus surrounded by friends" ]

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[ "Just days after announcing that it would acquire Finnish firewall maker Stonesoft for $389 million, McAfee on Thursday released a new network intrusion prevention system (IPS) appliance based on technology from its parent, Intel.\n\nMcAfee Network Security Platform NS-series is a high performance IPS with throughput of up to 40 Gbps, and offers increased scalability and more capacity to run next generation IPS services, McAfee said.\n\nTeaming up, Intel and McAfee engineers worked closely to develop a hardware platform that maximizes the efficiency and amplifies the performance of the new hardware design, resulting in McAfee’s first IPS hardware platform based on Intel technology.", null, "“Although the raw throughput of the new McAfee NS-series is impressive by any measure, the real story is the full next generation IPS services at those throughputs,” said Pat Calhoun, senior vice president and general manager of network security at McAfee. “The IPS industry has been talking about next generation IPS functionality for several years now, but when scalability tests are run, these services are almost always disabled, sacrificing security to boost throughput. These next generation IPS services, such as application visibility, situational and behavioral analysis, are needed to address today’s advanced threats.”\n\nStarting with a MSRP of US$165,000.00, the NS-series delivers 40 Gbps of performance with all of the NGIPS services running, according to McAfee’s metrics.\n\n“Security buyers seek more application visibility, more situational or context awareness of network interactions, and greater control over the content coming into and out of their organizations,” according to Eric Ahlm, research director at Gartner in a recent report on Next-Generation IPS technology. “For IPS providers that offer such functionality, they stand to capture those additional security budget dollars.”" ]

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[ null, "Around two and a half billion years ago the Earth was an alien world that would have been hostile to most of the complex life that surrounds us today. This was a planet where bacteria reigned, and one kind of bacteria in particular – cyanobacteria – was slowly changing the world around it through photosynthesis.\n\nThe atmosphere of the early Earth lacked oxygen. This began to change during what’s known as the Great Oxidation Event, or GOE. At its broadest definition, the GOE refers to a series of chemical changes that geologists and geochemists have observed in rocks that are between 2.5 and 2.3 billion years old. These changes were the result of oxygen given off by ancient cyanobacteria. Communities of this bacteria lived in shallow seawater and were preserved in rocks as structures called stromatolites.\n\nWe know that the GOE was associated with a series of glaciations on Earth, at least one of which was thought to be the first “snowball Earth” event – a glaciation so severe that ice sheets extended as far as the tropics. Though this glaciation has now been dated to approximately 2.42 billion years ago, uncertainty about the exact timing of the Great Oxidation Event has meant that it has not been possible to say which came first; was it the oxidation or the snowball Earth glaciation?\n\nThere have been hypotheses and arguments supporting both scenarios. If the glaciation came first, it is possible that it was because nutrients that were derived from rocks ground up by glaciers were washed into the oceans by rivers and floodwaters when the ice sheets melted. Once in the ocean these nutrients could have stimulated a cyanobacterial bloom thereby increasing oxygen production.\n\nConversely, oxygenation of the atmosphere during the GOE would have destabilised methane, a greenhouse gas that is thought to have been present in greater concentrations in the early atmosphere. A rapid drop in methane levels would have caused a collapse of the greenhouse effect, therefore triggering a sudden and severe cooling of the climate.\n\nTo investigate the timing of the Great Oxidation Event, colleagues and I examined two rock “cores” drilled from the Kola Peninsula in the far north-west of Russia, not far from Finland and Norway. These sedimentary rocks were deposited in shallow seawater between 2.50 and 2.43 billion years ago. We analysed the sulphur they contained using a new state-of-the-art technique developed at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.", null, "We looked at sulphur because sulphur isotopes – that is, atoms of sulphur with different atomic masses – are the most robust “fingerprints” of the GOE. The relative amounts of each of these sulphur isotopes is usually predictable. However, in rocks more than 2.5 billion years old this rule does not hold true, and certain unpredictable ratios, caused by photochemical reactions in the atmosphere, are preserved in rocks if the atmosphere at the time lacked oxygen. Therefore we can use the point at which sulphur with this sort of unpredictable isotope ratios vanishes from ancient rocks to pinpoint the GOE.\n\nWe found evidence in the older Russian rocks we looked at, but in the younger rocks it was absent. This is strong evidence that the GOE happened in a 70-million-year interval between 2.50 and 2.43 billion years ago. This is earlier than previous estimates of the GOE, but we argue that it is consistent with sulphur isotope records from South Africa, North America and Australia.\n\nImportantly, given the age constraints on the snowball Earth deposit, we can now say the GOE preceded the most severe of the glacial episodes. We conclude, as others have argued, that it is likely that rising atmospheric oxygen concentrations lowered methane levels and weakened the greenhouse effect thereby pushing the planet into a period of major glaciation.\n\nSo, why does this matter? As we take greater steps to evaluating the habitability of other planets and moons in our solar system, and exoplanets beyond, it is vitally important that we understand the evolution of life in the context of the geological changes that have happened on Earth. If we were to view the ancient Earth through a telescope would we recognise a habitable world?\n\nFurther, as we continue to change our atmosphere through rising anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and consider schemes to mitigate climate change by directly removing greenhouse gases from the air, it is important that we understand the extremes of how Earth’s climate has shifted in the distant past. The Great Oxidation Event reminds us of a time when life on Earth pumped uncontrolled levels of “waste gas” into the atmosphere. While this facilitated the eventual evolution of complex life like humans, it changed the course of Earth history forever." ]

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[ "- Manchester United will play away to Everton and Stoke host Tottenham\n\nCarabao Cup quarter-final matches have been scheduled for December this year and fans will be treated to mouthwatering fixtures as last eight clubs battle for the coveted trophy.\n\nArsenal have drawn Manchester City in a game that will see Gunner’s manager Mikel Arteta square-up against his former boss at the Etihad Pep Guardiola as he was his assistant before he took the coaching role at the Emirates Stadium.\n\nArteta guided Arsenal to victory over Liverpool in the fourth-round via penalties after the game ended goalless as the Gunners now face the Citizens for a chance to reach the semis.", null, "Recall that the Citizens were knocked out of last season's FA Cup semi-final by Arsenal on their way to winning the title and Arteta will be hoping for a repeat.\n\nThe final draw saw Stoke City pitched with Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham and all quarter-final matches will be played on December 22/23, 2020.", null, "\"Great draws. The one that stands out is Pep Guardiola vs Mikel Arteta - Arsenal are in really good form,\" SkySports pundit Jamie Redknapp said.\n\n\"It depends on what teams are put out but anything can happen and at this stage you're really close to a major trophy.\n\n\"I've been very impressed with Arsenal and it's going to be a very good game against City. Arteta was smiling about the draw - they're good friends but he'll still want to win!\"\n\nMeanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Manchester United are likely to miss the services of Bruno Fernandes and Harry Maguire for their Premier League clash against Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford this weekend.\n\nThe Red Devils head into the fixture on the back of their back-to-back victories over Brighton and Hove Albion in the EPL and EFL Cup competitions.\n\nAfter inspiring his side to victory over The Seagulls last weekend, the Portugal midfielder was missing in the squad that commanded a 3-0 triumph in the cup competition.\n\nIs the old national identity card truly an alternative to NIN? Here is what NIMC...\n53 minutes ago\n\nThinking outside the box! - See the 3-room house this Nigerian man built with 14,800 plastic bottles, social media reacts (photos)\n5 hours ago\n10 Nollywood actresses who have relocated out of Nigeria\n5 hours ago\nPretty Nigerian lady braids her 'natural' hair, surprises people with its length (see photos)\n5 hours ago\nNigeria police arrest pastor who said he would raise dead bodies on January 28\nan hour ago\nSee the big family compound of 100 rooms with hospital Nigerian man built for kinsmen in his village (photos)\n5 hours ago\nQuit notice: Sunday Igboho sends message to herdsmen, reveals next southwest state on his list\n53 minutes ago\nThese generals will retire from the military because of the appointment of new service chiefs\n18 minutes ago\nNIMC: FG finally orders MTN, Glo, others to provide NIN for subscribers as deadline approaches\n52 minutes ago\nJoy for Mourinho as Tottenham reach agreement with European giants to sign top striker" ]

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[ "SAULT STE. MARIE, ONTARIO — Think about the Group of Seven, those iconic Canadian artists whose work can be seen everywhere from postage stamps to gallery walls, and visions of craggy outcroppings, winding rivers, cascading falls, endless forests and spikey evergreens come to mind. This is exactly what you’ll find in the northern Ontario region of Algoma — along with fabulous fresh-water fishing and delicious food.\n\nAlgoma spreads north of Sault Ste. Marie, west along Lake Superior and east along Lake Huron. If you’re headed up that way, a trip to Agawa Canyon on the historic Algoma Central Railway is a must. Not only is it stunningly beautiful, it’s where members of the Group of Seven went to paint many of their remarkable works including “Little Falls” by J.E.H. MacDonald, “Fire-Swept Algoma” by Frank Johnston and “Above Lake Superior” by Lawren Harris. The artists, who began frequenting the area after the First World War, travelled in a custom-made boxcar rented from the railway. This became their home once they reached their wilderness destination and started to paint. In Sault Ste. Marie there is a replica of the boxcar by the train depot, plus you can see the painterly fruits of some of the collective’s expeditions at the Art Gallery of Algoma.", null, "The Agawa Canyon is lush with colour and inviting lakes that create picturesque vistas. (Photo courtesy of Algoma Country)\n\nSault Ste. Marie is a thriving northern community with plenty of activities to keep visitors busy. At the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre you can admire 27 heritage aircraft including a Canadair CL-215 water bomber made by Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal and used to fight forest fires in southern France and Corsica. There is also a flight adventure simulator with three different four-minute flights and a Women in Aviation exhibit highlighting the careers of women in flight, including Eileen Vollick, the first Canadian female pilot, and astronauts Dr. Roberta Bondar and Julie Payette.\n\nThere is also the city’s Heritage Discovery Centre with an exhibition covering the War of 1812, plus a gift shop. If you have a group of 10 or more, the site offers a Group of Seven dinner theatre option. Moments in Algoma is a 25-minute, one-man show inspired by the letters and reflections of the founding members of the Group of Seven during their first visits to Algoma in 1918.", null, "Batchawana Bay is situated in a provincial park with beachfront along waters that adjoin Lake Superior. (Photo courtesy of Algoma Country)\n\nOne thing I love about the north is the proximity of clean, refreshing streams, rivers and lakes. Drive 20 minutes west of Sault Ste. Marie and you can dip your toes in the water at Pointe des Chenes, where St. Mary’s River meets Lake Superior. Travel northwest for an hour along the shores of Lake Superior and you’ll find Batchawana Bay and Pancake Bay Provincial Park with 3.5 kilometres (2.2 miles) of sandy shore and 325 campsites. There’s a viewing platform where you can see the spot where the ship that singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot memorialized, the Edmund Fitzgerald, sank in 1975.\n\nThese days, most destinations have a distinguishing craft brewery and Sault Ste. Marie is no exception. Northern Superior Brewing Company produces signature suds and its tap room offers an “After Work Party” with local entertainment every Friday. Another hot, hipster hang out is OutSpoken Brewing’s Taphouse where you can sample Rabbit’s Foot India Pale Ale or some of the Reserve Batch.\n\nThen there’s the region’s food. At Frank and Gail O’Connor’s Voyageurs Lodge & Cookhouse in Batchawana Bay, people line up regularly for the Friday Night Fish Fry. A summer tradition, the locally sourced white fish and lake trout is wrapped in bacon and served with a wild blueberry horseradish dipping sauce made by Algoma Highlands Wild Blueberry Farm. If you go, make sure you try some of Gail’s oven-baked bannock that comes with all the entrees. “I learned to make it when I was in Girl Guides,” Gail told me. Since her oldest child is now 30, I figured she’s been perfecting the flatbread recipe for a few years.\n\nAround 45 km (28 miles) east of Sault Ste. Marie is St. Joseph Island with 15 maple syrup producers. For those of us with a sweet tooth, the good news is that key ingredient is used in many local dishes. “I’ll let you in on a secret, it’s what we use in our butter tarts instead of corn syrup,” Heather Bot, who works with the Algoma Country tourism office, told me. Some of her favourite spots to indulge in the gooey treats are Bobber’s Restaurant in Bruce Mines, Joanna’s Bakery in Thessalon and the Butter Tart Shack in Echo Bay.\n\nAnother regional, summer treat is blueberries. Algoma Highlands Wild Blueberry Farm grows a mighty annual crop and stocks many of the area’s gift stores and other outlets with delicious jams, sauces and syrups. Plus, the company will be producing blueberry wine soon.\n\nWhen it comes to walking off the calories, there are loads of hiking trails to choose from. Right in Sault Ste. Marie the 191-acre Fort Creek Conservation Area has wetlands and paved paths, popular for jogging, biking and dog walking. A little farther out, Hiawatha Highlands offers 35 km (22 miles) of hiking trails winding under fragrant pines.\n\nThe Algoma region is laced with memorable scenery, outdoor activities and tasty bites. A Northern Ontario summer paradise that inspired the Group of Seven 100 years ago, the area is filled with a natural beauty that is likely to refresh and inspire you, too.\n\nGetting There: Sault Ste. Marie Airport is serviced by Air Canada, Porter, Sunwing and Bearskin Airlines. Non-stop flights from Toronto take a little over an hour. If driving, go north on Highway 400 (turns into Highway 69) to Sudbury, then west on Trans-Canada Highway 17. Distance from Toronto is 691 km (430 miles) and the drive takes approximately eight hours. If you’re driving from Thunder Bay, take Trans-Canada Highway 17 east, distance is 700 km (435 miles).", null, "At Halloween, Canadians Embrace Traditions that Originate in Ireland", null, null, "Finding Inspiration in a Laundromat and Other Reasons I Miss Travel\n\nSpring is almost near and so are those nature treks. They're especially helpful to ease stress in pandemic times. Here are 4 trails near Kingston, Ontario to explore.\nhttps://vacay.ca/2020/10/4-southeastern-ontario-trails-enchanted-with-fall-colours/\n\nThe Diefenbunker and the Legends of Carp. A tour of the @Diefenbunker via @VacayCanada ➡️ http://bit.ly/3uduQIC #MyOttawa\n\nAs we mark #WomensHistoryMonth we celebrate a #Canadian who soared with a story from our archives: \"Honouring Captain Jenn Casey and the Fabulous #Snowbirds\"\nhttps://vacay.ca/2020/05/honouring-captain-jenn-casey-and-the-fabulous-snowbirds/ @CanadianForces #CFSnowbirds" ]

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[ "Viau slaughterhouse & butchery; four generations of a family, serving the area\nby Benoît Bleau, translation Nushin Nakhjavani\nIn 1951, paternal grandfather Siméon Viau who farmed in the region and would slaughter animals for his own family’s use, decided to set up a butcher’s shop. He did this with the help of his seventeen year old son Lucien as apprentice butcher. Initially, they would work on one single animal each week but as the years passed, they modernized the operation and expanded the business to meet increasing demand.Today, Viau handles 15-30 steers (beef), around 100 pigs (pork) and several sheep (lamb), each week.\n\nCome 1975, Lucien’s brother Paul joined the business and then in 1979, Lucien’s eldest son Richmond, 18 years old at that time, joined to make up the third generation of the family. Lucien sold his share of the business to his 3 children, so Danielle and Benoît joined Richmond as partners in 1985. In 1991, Paul handed over to a new partner in the firm, An- dré Bolduc, a friend and longstanding employee at Viau`s.Then in March 2010, Danielle bought out her two brothers plus André and together with her husband Christian Barbeau and their son, Jean-François carried the business into the fourth generation of the family.\n\nThe slaughterhouse, inspected and classified as an `A` category establishment since 1979, has in succes- sive stages come to include a butchery, a food processing operation and a smoke house. Viau is well known for blood sausages (boudin), hams, traditional smoked bacon, sausages bursting with an array of flavours, cooked meats and prepared dishes such as baked beans (fêves aux lard), meat sauces, kebabs and much more…This year, Viau and all its 20 employees will celebrate 60 year of ongoing success, both in Quebec and across the border to the south. Given the current trend in over-specialization in this type of industry, the citizens of Hemmingford are extremely fortunate to have such a fine example of so much delectable variety, close by. Also, the current owners of the business have made it a point of pride to exclusively handle locally raised animals, from small scale livestock farms, free of hormones and antibiotics.\nCongratulations and a long life to the entire team!", null ]

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[ "The prophecy of Pandaria", null, "This bundle is marked as approved. It works and satisfies the submission rules.\nView usage Statistics Legacy download\nReactions: syponis and deepstrasz\nA strange thing happened today, while I was browsing for a map I bumped into this map. Into my old campaign submitted by another person. Afterwards I transfered it to my account and packaged it up.\n\n\nThis campaign was a very old project of mine, and it was my dearest project. For the todays standards the map isn't much, but still I do like it. Unfortunately it never got finished, so if anyone has the will to do so, he has my full permission.\n\nThe campaign contains eight chapters, while chapter VI is missing and can be downloaded here.\n\nThe campaign contains 5 playable chapters and 3 cinematic maps.\nIt was made by me, bounty hunter2 with the help of Lord Manroot, aradmilo and Clan Bloodfeather.\n\nI also thank Tiberius_XXVII for the only model used, the goblin riflemen.", null, null, null, "The prophecy of Pandaria (Campaign)\n\nFilename\nThe Prophecy of Pandaria.w3n\n\nMap Info View Resources In Use Download\nReviews\nVGsatomi: Approved. This campaign has all the essentials. Cinimatics, quests, and well designed and laid out maps. However I don't think I've played a campaign that had more spelling errors and typos then this one. We're talking every other word in...\nRead full review...\n\nVGsatomi: Approved. This campaign has all the essentials. Cinimatics, quests, and well designed and laid out maps. However I don't think I've played a campaign that had more spelling errors and typos then this one. We're talking every other word in some parts. Strongly recommend doing some touchups on the text.\n\nIcons 1 Packs 1 Maps 5\nHey, an classic! I already played this before, and it's a good campaign for being old. The terrain lacks improvement and uses a lot of (OMG) blizzard cliffs...\n\nI liked the story and the characters, but there are a lot of typos and some triggering errors.\n\nOverall, an well-rounded campaign. Even being old, it's still worth a try.\n\nNote: This is my review for the old version that was here before. I don't know if you made any significative modifications in it.\n\nIcons 3 Maps 5 Tutorials 1\nThanks on the comment. I actually did some polishing, typos, loading screens and such. Nothing major. I hope to add the RPG chapter to this ones soon enough.\n\nIcons 1 Packs 1 Maps 5\nSo, it's basically the same? Well, now that it's already here, why not work on it more and improve the terrain, add custom models and musics?\n\nIcons 3 Maps 5 Tutorials 1\nI might, but I don't think I will. It is really old and I don't know is it worth it.\n\nIcons 1 Packs 1 Maps 5\nYou know: With hard work you can turn this old campaign in a totally new one. And this campaign isn't bad, just old and outdated.\n\nIcons 3 Maps 5 Tutorials 1\nI know I can, but I just don't have the will nor the time.\n\nIcons 3 Maps 5 Tutorials 1\nI actually decided to bother with it, starting today, I shall be constantly updating chapters.\n\nbounty hunter2 said:\nI actually decided to bother with it, starting today, I shall be constantly updating chapters.\nClick to expand...\n\nAmazing. I'll be waiting for the full revamping.\n\nIcons 3 Maps 5 Tutorials 1\nGreat, however it may take awhile.\n\nHey i found a weird bug in the first chapter.\nSamaro says evretime ''Oooh,like it\".\nWhatever i do he says only that\n\nCool Map for sure\n\nI did like campaign and Chars, but there's still some little terrain bugs etc.\nBut anyways it was good story and How long it took to make whole campaign?\nCuz im doing one by myself_\n\nAnd Samaro says all the time ''Oooh, like it''.\nIn Chapter l\n\nbounty hunter2 said:\nI did, but it's too big in size. Thanks thou.\nClick to expand...\n\nToo big? But this is a campaign, and so filesize is not an issue, as it won't be hosted over Battle.net. Or, too big as in just way too big for any normal person to want it?\n\nMaps 1\n1.66mb isn't big. I have maps bigger than it. Oh, and the chapter titled Yourny to Magico? I don't even have to say it.\n\nMaps 1\nlisten dude i love it. i saw the screen shots and i like it dude. its cool. and i just might get the balls to finish it. =)\n\nMaps 3 StarCraft II Resources 1\nMaybe I can help u finish if u want i'll try anyhoo. Lemme play it tho goodstuffs\n\nBetter Holaaa amigo or is hello my friend! this very good your campaign I eat Latin fodder that I give 5/5 you: P\n\nCan you make the Campaign longer? And also make the story sensible\n\nI have to say... I found this to be... difficult to play. I mean, I don't want to offend you, but the typos were too often to be \"typos\", they were just terrible spelling, and grammar.\nAnd, you have it set so mobs just charge in your base every 10 seconds... in the second map that can be a real b*tch. The only way to survive is to hope you get at least three friggin' Rebels out of the war tent before the second group arrived, and with the time for each rebel set for about 18 seconds, that's a difficult thing to do. I also managed to get all heroes to level ten, each mission (Didn't make it past Mission 3, I'm not including interludes as missions.).. because the friggin' mobs are givin' a crapload of XP, or heroes earn XP too fast. Either way.\nShould you decide to take the public's opinion, I'd like to set mine in:\nI'd like to have a few less typos, I could hardly understand what you said!\nI'd like to have unit construction time reduced, or mob arrival time lengthened.\nFix the Hero XP/Reduce XP mobs give out.\nYour campaign is otherwise okay.\n\nI'm sorry, i was wondering if could borrow your campaign and improve it, i guess i could make a great work on it, i wanted to do one on my own, but i realized it will take more practice, i've seen your work and the story and maps seemed to me really good but there were some things that didn't cought my eye, and some others that did caught them but in the sense that needs a remod. All credits will remain the same, and will add new credits if necessary.\n\nIf you don't answer by tomorrow i guess i'll take it and mod' it (in all aspects, camp' duration, wrong typo, play difficulty, etc.) I'll leave more enjoyable for those who haded any kind of complain. Reply - All credits as it was + me.\n\nMaps 4\nNot great plenty of errors\nA. Spelling\nB. No Hero Cache\nC. Confusing Storyline\nD. In Level 2 The Undead Walk into a triggered position before attacking, block em and they can't get ya.\n2/5\n\nOh thank you so much! Love stories with pandas on it\n\nYou needed use in place of pandaren brewmaster earth pandaren\n\nthere is missing chapter IV\n\nMaps 4\nNot really much happening. It tries to mix melee with wannabe RPG but in the end it kind of fails due to many other unpleasantries.\n\nchap1:\n-units selected during cinematic mode\n-what's the point of saving the night elves if they don't help you afterwards or if the player doesn't gain anything at all?\n-well, going left/west on the path into a cave is considered finding a secret?\n-so, the village wasn't attacked until Samaro got there?\n-the defense lasted about 1 minute, I think....\n-return to the campaign menu instead of loading the next level\n-there's not enough money to buy something useful from the furbolg camp\n\nchap2:\n-the two combatants have their animation frozen; there's no visible spear hitting Joe\n-holy light disappeared and another spell took its place\n-I guess, an error (patch or not), the hero has 2-12 damage; actually all heroes have that low damage\n-text missing in one of Samaro's transmissions after the bandits are killed\n-killing the bandit boss will result in the immediate death of his minions\n\nAt its current state it's hardly 2/5.\n\nthe link for chapter 6 is not working, can someone fix it or re-upload it?\n\nanduin lothar said:\nthe link for chapter 6 is not working, can someone fix it or re-upload it?\nClick to expand...\n\nWhat patch/game version did you play it on?\n\ndeepstrasz said:\nWhat patch/game version did you play it on?\nClick to expand...\n\ni haven't play it yet, i read in the description that chapter 6 was missing and i open it with WE to check if they fix.\nwhen i try to get chapter 6 from the link, the link wasn't working\ni have 1.27 something\n\nanduin lothar said:\ni haven't play it yet, i read in the description that chapter 6 was missing and i open it with WE to check if they fix.\nwhen i try to get chapter 6 from the link, the link wasn't working\nClick to expand...\n\nAh... oops, @bounty hunter2 should upload it on the site in this thread's map description :\\\n\nThis campaign was... meh, I forced myself to finish it, the story seemed interesting but the bugs, for example the enemies only walking to the base and doing nothing, heroes with no damage, the grammar errors.\nThe final mission was boring, but you could fix the campaign overall and I guess it can be played\nYou must log in or register to reply here." ]

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[ null, "Heading back to Thackerville, Oklahoma, for the fifth time in a year, Bellator MMA on Friday brought wild action and a title fight to the Winstar World Casino. Bellator 202 featured the continued dominance of a powerful female champion, the United States debut of a dynamic Ukrainian prospect and the return of the most active female fighter in Bellator history.\n\n\nWINNING AT WINSTAR: Bellator since 2013 has held 17 events at the Winstar World Casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma, tying it with Uncasville, Connecticut -- home of the Mohegan Sun Arena -- for the most events held in one city.\n\nSTEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION: Bellator 202 was the promotion’s first card since Bellator 190 in 2017 to feature no fights at a scheduled catchweight or a fighter that missed weight. However, Bellator 190 only staged five MMA fights.\n\nCROWN JEWEL: Picking up her sixth win in Bellator, Budd moved into a tie with Zoila Frausto for the second-most wins by a female fighter in the promotion’s history. Frausto and “The Jewel” both trail Ilima-Lei Macfarlane with seven.\n\nYOU’RE GETTING YOUR GRINDER ON MY GRINDER: Winning by technical knockout at 4:07 of the third round, Budd’s victory over Talita Nogueira was her quickest since she submitted Mollie Estes in the third round at Invicta Fighting Championships 5 in 2013. Budd has fought into the third round in her last eight fights.\n\nMISS BELLATOR: Fighting under the Bellator MMA banner for the eighth time since her debut in July 2016, Emily Ducote has made more appearances than any other female fighter. She has also fought more times in Bellator since July 2016 than any other fighter on the roster.\n\nYOU’VE GOT TO SEE THE SHOW, IT’S A DYNAMO: After defeating Ultimate Fighting Championship veteran Gerald Harris by decision in going the distance for only the third time in his career, Yaroslav Amosov pushed his undefeated record to 20-0.\n\nTHUNDERBEAST AND LIGHTNING, VERY, VERY FRIGHTENING: Steve Kozola knocked out Ryan Walker in 105 seconds, scoring his eighth career knockout. All nine of his wins have come by stoppage within the first two rounds.\n\nRU-DY! RU-DY! RU-DY!: Raising his undefeated record to 5-0 with one no-contest, Rudy Schaffroth knocked out Jon Hill in 42 seconds. All six of his bouts have ended in the first round. His no-contest was the result of a malfunctioning cage door.\n\nHOOKED UP: Scoring a first-round heel hook submission over Luis Evires on an untelevised preliminary bout, Nation Gibrick picked up the 15th heel hook victory in Bellator history. Thirteen of the 15 heel hooks performed in Bellator have taken place in the first round.\n\nIn its fourth trip to Italy, Bellator touched down in the city of Rome for the first time and held an event at the Il Centrale Live outdoor coliseum. On a card populated by mixed martial arts and kickboxing bouts, the MMA portion of Bellator 203 on Saturday featured a knockout tied for the fastest in the company’s history, a champion seeking the all-time wins record and an incredibly rare and devastating spinning back kick knockout.\n\n\nPITBULL THE CONQUEROR: Winning a close split decision over Daniel Weichel, Patricio Freire picked up his 15th win under the Bellator banner, tying him with Michael Chandler for most on the organization’s all-time list.\n\nTHOUGHT WE WOULDN’T NOTICE, BUT WE DID: Although the tape-delayed broadcast on the Paramount network showed the bout between “Pitbull” and Weichel as the final fight of the event, the promotion actually shifted the contest between Alessio Sakara and Jamie Sloane to the end of the card to keep local fans in the crowd for the duration.\n\nTRULY AN APOCALYPTIC FIGHTER: Scoring his 13th career first-round finish, Sakara handed Sloane his fastest stoppage loss to date with a 79-second TKO. Sakara has stopped his opponent in 16 of his 20 career wins. All of his recorded finishes have occurred in the first two rounds.\n\nMACEDONIAN IN FULL BATTLE ARRAY: Knocking out the previously undefeated Will Fleury in 99 seconds, Alen Amedovski improved his own undefeated record to 6-0, with all six of those wins coming by knockout within the first two rounds.\n\nYOU CAN’T DO THAT ON TELEVISION: In an untelevised preliminary bout, Michele Martignoni scored a knockout that tied him with Hector Lombard for the fastest in Bellator history, as he knocked out Simone D’Anna with a head kick in a remarkable six seconds." ]

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[ "A search has been launched to find relatives of a soldier awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Battle of Passchendaele in the First World War.\n\nOfficials hope to have family members present at a ceremony to honour the bravery of Robert Shankland, which will take place in Ayr on October 26, 100 years since the heroic acts took place.\n\nMr Shankland was born on October 10, 1887 at 6 Gordon Terrace in the South Ayrshire town and emigrated to Canada in 1911.\n\nAt the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted and returned to Europe as part of the 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.\n\nOn 26 October 1917, during the Battle of Passchendaele, the 43rd Battalion was among the units of the Canadian 3rd Division which attacked the heavily fortified Bellevue Spur where concrete strongpoints bristling with machine guns had repelled all previous assaults.\n\nLieutenant Shankland braved enemy lines to take new information back to command, before returning and helping to capture the Bellevue Spur.\n\nFor his actions that day he was awarded the Victoria Cross, with the citation stating that his courage and his example ‘undoubtedly saved a critical situation’.", null, "Commemorative paving stones are being laid across the UK to honour the 628 Victoria Crosses awarded during the conflict as part of the national programme to mark the centenary of the First World War.\n\nSouth Ayrshire Provost Helen Moonie said that despite an extensive search no surviving family members had been found.\n\nShe said: “We’re preparing a permanent memorial to mark Robert’s valour in the Battle of Passchendaele, and we’d dearly love to have family members present at the ceremony.”\n\nThe stone will be laid at the First World War Rozelle Remembrance Woodland at Rozelle House and will be set in a tree trunk to help it blend in with the other sculptures that are already there.\n\nAfter the war Mr Shankland married Anna Stobo Haining, the younger daughter of the stationmaster at Prestwick Railway Station, and the couple went to Canada to resume civilian life.\n\nHis last visit to Ayr was in 1964 when local press coverage of his visit noted that in addition to two sons he now had a grandson.\n\nAnyone who thinks they may have a family connection is asked to contact the Civic Office at South Ayrshire Council on 01292 612 474 or email [email protected]." ]

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[ "After two decades, Thailand has discovered the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles on its now-empty beaches.\n\nAccording to Reuters, the 11 turtle nests authorities have found since last November, were the highest number in 20 years, said Kongkiat Kittiwatanawong, the director of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre.", null, "“This is a very good sign for us because many areas for spawning have been destroyed by humans,” he said. No such nests had been found for the previous five years.\n\n“If we compare to the year before, we didn’t have this many spawn, because turtles have a high risk of getting killed by fishing gear and humans disturbing the beach.”\n\nSusanta Nanda of the Indian Forest Service tweeted a video of leatherback turtles with the caption, '11 leatherback turtle nests for the first time in two decades in deserted Thai beaches. The tourism has collapsed but freed up the beaches for WL. Leatherback is the largest sea turtles, endangered in Thailand. Listed as vulnerable by IUCN'.\n\n11 leatherback turtle nests for the 1st time in 2 decades in deserted Thai beaches.\n\nThe tourism has collapsed, but freed up the beaches for WL.\n\nLeatherback is the largest sea turtles, endangered in Thailand. Listed as vulnerable by IUCN. pic.twitter.com/0Lokk7a0nA\n\nLeatherbacks are the world’s largest sea turtles. They are considered endangered in Thailand, and listed as a vulnerable species globally by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.\n\nThey lay their eggs in dark and quiet areas, which were scarce when tourists thronged the beaches. People have also been known to dig into their nests and steal eggs.", null, "Late in March, staff at a national park in the southern province of Phanga Nga, bordering the Andaman Sea, found 84 hatchlings after monitoring the eggs for two months." ]

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[ null, "Delegates attending Sinclair Pharma’s World Expert Meeting in Barcelona were invited to submit a case which exemplified the results they were achieving with the company’s portfolio of products. River Aesthetic’s Dr Victoria Manning, a Silhouette Soft trainer for Sinclair Pharma, put forward a case which was singled out from the 1,300 entrants. The judges commented on the impressive results which were achieved using a combination of both Ellanse and Silhouette Soft. The case study and treatment are detailed below.\n\nHeather Bell, 65, was keen to ensure that she looked the best version of herself on her daughter’s ‘big day’. She had been thumbing through the bridal publications researching elements for the wedding and her attention was drawn to an article in Brides magazine which described the latest approach to non-surgical anti-aging and included Silhouette Soft and dermal filler Ellanse. Heather approached River Aesthetics to learn more about the treatment and her suitability as the clinic was featured in the article and following a consultation with Dr Manning was excited and eager to begin treatment.\n\nShe voiced her requirements:\n\n“I was concerned that I had lost volume in my midface, and was keen that I looked my best self at my daughter’s wedding. When Dr Manning explained that she was able to treat my concerns non-surgically, and most importantly that the results would look natural, and not like I had had major work ‘done’ I was keen to progress. I was also really pleased to learn that I had approached Dr Manning at a great time, several months before the wedding, as she had explained that the treatment actually got better with time as it stimulated my body’s collagen production, meaning I would look at my best for the actual day.”\n\n“We were keen to achieve a natural and subtle look Heather wanted for her daughter’s wedding and chose to treat her using a phased approach to ensure the peak result coincided with the wedding date. In the initial phase 2ml of Ellanse M was used. Heather presented with sub-zygomatic hollowing which was treated using a cannula in a retrograde fan technique, under zygomatic to soften her contours. Biostimulation was delivered to the upper and lower face in a more superficial plane.\n\nAround four months later, Heather was treated with Silhouette Soft to her midface and jawline. A total of ten threads were used, four per side, positioned in a fan for the midface and one per side, to the jawline in the submandibular plane.\n\nThe two non-surgical treatments used in Heather’s treatment come from the Sinclair Pharma portfolio. Ellansé is the first dermal filler which provides both instant and gradual results; increased volume occurs immediately post-treatment, however volumisation continues to develop for up to four months as the initial carrier gel is absorbed by the body, but not before microscopic spheres suspended in the gel have stimulated the body to create its own healing collagen. The results can last for up to four years.\n\nSilhouette Soft threads initiate a unique two-stage process – an immediate skin lift and gradual collagen regeneration. Think of it as the creation of scaffolding for drooping areas of the face. The threads, which are dotted with a series of tiny cones along their length, are introduced just under the top layer of the skin. The cones are bi-directional which secures the threads in place in the subcutaneous layer and allows them to be pulled in two directions to lift the skin.\n\nThe threads and cones are made from polylactic acid which is the same material as dissolvable stitches and in the ensuing three months before they are absorbed by the body they bring about the process of collagenesis. This is the method the body uses to repair a damaged area – in this case created by the agitation of the cones. This brings about a biological lift, where the skin becomes firmer and tighter as a result of the augmentation from newly laid down collagen underneath the surface to fill it out naturally.\n\nOn being awarded her accolade at the World Experts Meeting Dr Victoria Manning was justifiably proud:\n\n“I was absolutely delighted to win first prize as the standard of the 1,300 entries was extremely high, and it was an honour to be chosen. We were equally proud of the results we were able to achieve for Heather so this was the icing on the cake. It was also the culmination of our most successful year which saw us opening our third clinic in London and launching the River Training Academy to pass on our skills and our knowledge to other doctors”.\n\nDon’t forget, you can be one of the first to receive news and updates from the River Aesthetics team, including exclusive offers and events.", null ]

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[ "By: Money Morning\nLa Quinta Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LQ ) stock was down in its first day of trading today (Wednesday) after the company's IPO price disappointed early investors. The company announced late Tuesday that it was offering 38.3 million shares at $17 each. The company had estimated offering 37.2 million shares at a price range of $18 to $21. The post La Quinta (NYSE: LQ) IPO Price Disappoints, but Bullish Indicators Remain appeared first on Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From .", null, "The $650 million the company raised through its IPO was well below the $725 million it would have raised at the mid-point of its initial range. The terms of today's IPO give La Quinta a market value of approximately $2.1 billion.\n\nLQ is backed by The Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) and is the third hotel company that Blackstone has taken public in the last six months, following the IPOs of Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HLT) and Extended Stay America Inc. (NYSE: STAY).\n\nWhile the La Quinta IPO price and early trading action came as a disappointment to shareholders, there are still bullish indicators for LQ and the hotel industry...\n\n\"We sold more rooms than ever before in 2013,\" Freitag told Bloomberg. \"We're seeing demand holding up pretty well. Unemployment is coming down slowly, personal income is going up and debt-service ratios for private consumers are at an all-time low. A lot of people had to cut back and now might be the time for travel again.\"\n\nAnd the bullish industry indicators don't stop there...\n\nWhile LQ stock opened the day down on news that its IPO price hadn't met projections, it rebounded in the afternoon and was up as much as 3% Wednesday.\n\nIt may not have gotten off to the hottest start, but LQ has reported revenue growth in the last year and is operating in an industry that has been growing steadily since the end of the recession.\n\nDid you get in on the La Quinta IPO, or are you investing in any other IPOs this week? Let us know on Twitter @moneymorning using #IPOs.\n\nChange can be disrupting, but it can also be hugely profitable. The number of double-digit profit opportunities in this controversial market is about to soar...\n\nThe post La Quinta (NYSE: LQ) IPO Price Disappoints, but Bullish Indicators Remain appeared first on Money Morning - Only the News You Can Profit From." ]

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[ null, "Varun and Kriti in the video. (courtesy: kritisanon)\n\nWhen Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon get together you can bet there is going to be a whole lot of fun. And this is exactly what happened on the sets of an advertisement that the two actors were shooting for recently. In a video shared on Instagram, Kriti Sanon can be seen saying, “Varun, I think it is going to be a full moon tonight.” In response, Varun Dhawan imitates the howl of a wolf. For the unversed, the conversation between the two is related to the actors’ upcoming film,Bhediya, in which Varun is reportedly playing a werewolf.\n\nSharing the video, Kriti Sanon said, “Just Wolfing around on an ad shoot!” tagging Varun Dhawan. Varun Dhawan too shared the same post on his timeline.\n\nVarun Dhawan shared the first look of the film on Instagram in November, last year. The poster shows the actor looking fierce with his eyes shining bright in the dark. The poster also features an eerie jungle in the background. Sharing his first look from the film, Varun Dhawan wrote: “Bhediya #bheidyafirstlook. In cinemas November 25th, 2022.”\n\nEarlier in July 2021, Varun Dhawan shared a photo on the last day of the shoot, showing off his ripped physique as he posed in front of a mirror. In the caption, he wrote, “Last day. Filming our last key scenes on Bhediya in the next 24 hrs. Since we are not allowed to put out any stills from the film this was the last time I starred in the mirror and kinda had to say it’s time to say goodbye to my long hair, beard and the changes my director Amar Kaushik has made me make for this character. Although something tells me this is not the end but a new beginning.”\n\nThe film marks Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon’s second collaboration as co-stars after their appearance in Dilwale. Bhediya is directed by Amar Kaushik and is produced by Dinesh Vijan. The film will release on November 25, 2022." ]

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[ "The Hate U GiveFilm is a reactive medium, but because it is expensive and time consuming to make it’s also often a slow one. The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 but this year we seem to have seen a glut of films that feel like they are responding to that movement and the […]", null, "The Hate U Give\nFilm is a reactive medium, but because it is expensive and time consuming to make it’s also often a slow one. The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 but this year we seem to have seen a glut of films that feel like they are responding to that movement and the reasons it exists. The Hate U Give, based on Angie Thomas’ 2017 novel is perhaps the most direct of these films, as it spotlights how Starr’s (Amandla Stenberg) life is affected when she witnesses a childhood friend’s death in a Police shooting.\n\nFrom the very beginning, the film hits you hard with harsh realities, as we see Starr and her brother, at 10 and 11, getting “The Talk” about how to behave when the Police pull you over or stop you on the street. It’s a shocking sequence for so many reasons, because it brings home not just the privilege we have as British people, largely not having to fear being killed by Police but also the level of white privilege inherent in this being a shocking conversation to see a man have with his children. That’s something that comes home over and over in the film, in the overarching story of how Starr presents herself as a different person for the largely white audience at her prep school and right down to the tiniest details of interactions.\n\nWhile it is highly politically charged, The Hate U Give also makes its story work at a personal level. Stenberg, an activist off screen, clearly feels this role deeply and she plays it with exceptional nuance, initially drawing a bright line between how Starr presents herself at home and at school and making the journey that blurs that line ever further one we with. This, and the equally excellent performances from Regina Hall and Russell Hornsby as Starr’s parents, help the film get over its bumpier when for a moment the ideas overtake the story rather than the story embodying them, and it can feel a little like being lectured. These moments are rare though, and these ideas important enough to justify the film shouting them at the top of its voice. That said, the film also finds time to locate chinks of light in the darkness. Starr is still just a normal teenage girl, and the lovely prom scene in which she makes up with her (white) boyfriend reminds us that life goes on, while still keeping the film’s politics an integral part of the moment.\n\nI’m glad this film is a 12A in the because it presents some urgent issues in a way that is accessible to young people who are perhaps on the cusp of having them, but it should resonate with audiences of all ages and backgrounds and give everyone something to think and to talk about.\nGrade: 4/5 – A provocative and political film that doesn’t talk down to its young audience.\n\nManta Manta\nA cult classic in and the first film of their industry’s biggest star, Til Schweiger. Wolfgang Büld’s comedy of a weekend in the lives of young, working class, kids hadn’t seen the inside of a cinema anywhere but Germany, until Henning Wehn chose it to show at the BFI’s currently running Comedy Genius season as a counterpoint to the question ‘are Germans funny?’ On this evidence, yes, but that’s probably quite often lost in translation.\n\nThere are several prongs to the story. Bertie (Schweiger) is trying to avoid the issue of moving in with his girlfriend Uschi (Tina Ruland) and bets their deposit money that he and his Manta (a fairly crappy, but then fashionable, souped up car) can outpace a rival’s Mercedes. It’s Klausi’s (Michael Kessler) birthday, so Gerd (Stefan Gebelhoff) has lent him his Manta for the day and his friends have arranged for Angie (Nadja Naidenow) to ‘babysit’ him and Gred has fallen for a woman (Sabine Berg) and is dragging Bertie around trying to find her.\n\nThat doesn’t cover all of the storylines, but they and other elements in entertaining fashion before coming to a head at or around the climactic race. There are teen movie elements at work here, beyond a structure and approach to the film’s soundtrack that echoes that of American Graffiti, and the coming of age elements work pretty well. Alongside the story and comedic elements, Büld and his team mount some effective chase and race sequences for a film that was shot on a quick schedule and a low budget. The centrepiece chase between Klausi and a club owner is particularly good fun, and the final race has a proto Fast and the Furious feel (from when those films were still about racing).\n\nYes, the subtleties of the verbal gags are almost certainly lost in translation and possibly also in cultural references, but Manta Manta still scores a good few laughs, especially with Klausi and Angie’s story. If it’s not quite a lost classic, that’s fine, it’s good fun and a time capsule of what appears to be a very specific moment in German culture.\nGrade: 3/5 – Germany does a teen comedy with great car stunts. Fun, if not a laugh riot if you only speak English.\n\nThe Final Year\nI was never the biggest fan of Barack Obama, not because I bought into the many conspiracy theories about him, but because he was never quite the liberal he campaigned as when he was actually serving as President, but perspective is everything.\n\nThe Final Year follows the foreign policy side of the last twelve months of the Obama administration, focusing not so much on the man himself as on members of his team: secretary of state John Kerry, UN ambassador Samantha Power, deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes and national security advisor Susan Rice. Structurally it’s a fairly unremarkable and disappointingly uncritical film, preferring to document than to probe, but that’s not the most notable thing about it. Over the past two years, American politics has become more like a reality show than a sober talking heads documentary like this one and for me the greatest interest in The Final Year is not the minutiae of the work going on behind the scenes or the glimpses of home life for these people, it’s the palpable difference in the fundamentals of their approach.\n\nEverything in a documentary must be taken with a pinch of salt, because the very imposition of a narrative shapes reality, but the impression here is that the people we see are earnestly trying to deliver ideas they think will do good, both for Americans and for other countries. That’s not something I’ve ever seen reflected in the administration that followed them. This is very much felt in the discussion of how difficult several landmark deals were to make and how they might need to be protected if Republicans won the election. Every one of these, the US/Cuba deal, the Paris climate accords and the Iran nuclear deal has been either torn up or heavily altered since this film was released.\n\nContext has, I suspect, changed The Final Year. If Hillary Clinton had won it might have felt like a valedictory film, a goodbye to a regime that tried, but could have done more. Now, with each passing day, it looks more nostalgic, like a dream about when things mattered.\nGrade: 3/5 – Unremarkable, if informative, filmmaking that has taken on a haunting quality because of what has happened to these offices since it was made.\n\nThe Foreigner\nFew actors have a more definable niche than Jackie Chan. He may not have invented the kung fu comedy, but no filmmaker has done more, over the years, to define it. It has though been 40 years that Jackie has largely been confined to his lane and, as he gets older, both the exertion of these films and the inevitable desire to do something different have led him to take a few darker and more dramatic roles in recent years. The Foreigner certainly fits this pattern, finding him as a vengeful ex-soldier pursuing the IRA terrorists who killed his daughter in a bombing.\n\nThe Foreigner has plenty going for it. Director Martin Campbell has successfully relaunched James Bond twice, with Goldeneye and Casino Royale and here he’s reunited with his first Bond, Pierce Brosnan (playing, to all intents and purposes, Gerry Adams), and the film fits squarely into the current fashion for the genre, spearheaded by Liam Neeson’s post Taken career. The story, too, could be interesting, with plenty of political intrigue behind the action. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work.\n\nJackie Chan, while , is largely a peripheral figure. In fact, if his character weren’t in the film it wouldn’t particularly matter, as the political side of the storyline would still be complete without him. While in recent years Jackie has explored drama, rebooting the Police Story series with a scowl rather than a smile and giving his best dramatic performance in the remake of The Karate Kid, he can’t do morally ambiguous. Rooting for his character as he sets bombs and injures people who, while not pleasant, haven’t directly hurt him, is problematic. In the hands of a more rounded actor (and a deeper this could be interesting, but Jackie just doesn’t have the chops. Happily, though it’s more heavily edited than it was in his heyday, he still delivers some spectacularly nimble, and in this film pretty heavy hitting, martial arts.\n\nThe action, sadly, is about all that is worth seeing here. The weak screenplay is full of eminently guessable twists and the actors have little to work with. Brosnan does his best, but there’s just not enough for him to hold on deliver anything more than a solid Gerry Adams impression. With its straightforward writing and direction and a plot about IRA terrorism, to say nothing of the many uncomfortably casual uses of the term ‘Chinaman’ (it was the title of the novel the film is based on), The Foreigner feels like a refugee from the early 90s and, a few fun bits of martial arts aside, I’d have been okay with it staying there.\nGrade: 2/5 – Watching Jackie Chan fight is always fun, but this underwritten drama plays to his weaknesses." ]

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[ null, "As most of you have probably heard, there is growing evidence that the death of a Virginia female firefighter may be the result, in part, of bullying by fellow firefighters. If that turns out to be true then it is scary, sad, shameful to all who bullied her and the profession. There is no reason for it! If it turns out not to be the case, we should not dismiss the subject. Instead, we should have a very clear and lengthy dialogue about the subject of bullying and the treatment of, not only females, but anyone who doesn’t fit the “mold” in our department.\n\nAs a former Fire Chief, I ask myself “why does it have to be that way”? I have witnessed first hand what female firefighters go through and I took swift action in cases involving my department. However, I have close friends that are female firefighters and I hear about the terrible things they go through. They continue to be bullied or simply treated much differently because they aren’t male. It’s absurd and needs to be addressed. The problem in most situations is that the department leaders are part of the problem or that are to inept as leaders to handle it. The leadership in a lot of departments are part of the “old order” in that they think a females place is to be an auxiliary member, a supporting member, a secretary or in the kitchen making sandwiches. They don’t believe or understand that female firefighters are capable of doing this job and doing it well!\n\nA article by CBC News Canada notes that almost every female firefighter in Canada has been bullied in some form or fashion. I would argue that the same goes for the US. The opportunity for this type of situation to happen is staggering and it needs to be addressed at all levels. Sexual harassment, verbal abuse, sexual abuse and hazing are four of the most unprofessional things that could go on in the fire service. Why, if we are the professional firefighters or leaders in the community, should we even consider putting up with that type of activity. Are we turning a blind eye to it like we do other things? Are we saying that it’s not our problem? Or are we telling ourselves that it’s not happening or won’t happen in our department? All of those things may help you sleep at night but they are the cowards way of handling the problem and they will not promote any real progress on the issue.\n\nSo what can we do? Lets mull over a few things and see where it takes us:\n\nOne of my favorite Lieutenants was a female. She taught me a great deal about this job and how to do it well. She was also a role model of how to be a good leader. We had many discussions about being a female in a male dominated profession. She didn’t take any crap from anyone and admitted that it was never easy. “Sometimes you need to be more of a man than they are” she would say. I found it humorous at the time but it made sense. She had to teach quite a few firefighters how to be men and how to do this job. She knew that some of them where scared to work with or for a woman so she would show them that it could be done and how to follow a female leader.\n\nI am sure that most of you know a female firefighter and have heard about what they go through. Someone very close to me is a female firefighter and she has dealt with harassment for many years. Most of her department leaders have brushed off her complaints as “business as usual” in the fire service. Subsequently, she is looking to leave this line of work. She is tired of the macho neanderthals treating her like a second class citizen even after she has proven herself to be as good, if not better than they are. It is sad to see it happen because she had a real passion for the job that got snuffed out by weak Chiefs or department leaders who didn’t have the stones to take on the problem. I wonder how many other great firefighters have given up and left the business because of bullying.\n\nSo what are your thoughts? Do you have the ability to see a problem and fix it in your own department or are you among those who take the cowards way out and ignore it?\n\nTalk to your female firefighters about bullying. You will be surprised what you hear!" ]

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[ null, "Valerie Plante leading with at least 51 per cent of the vote and has been elected as the 45th mayor of Montreal. She is the first female to ever fill the role.\n\nThere were eight candidates in total running for mayor this year. The leader of Projet Montréal has beaten the incumbent mayor Denis Coderre who was looking for a second term in municipal politics. Valerie Plante, 43, promises to improve public transit to traffic woes while keeping taxes down. She wants to make the city more family friendly. Here’s a brief rundown of her platforms:\n• Cheaper Public Transit For Low-Income Earners.\n• Free STM Use For Kids, Students And Elderly.\n• A New Pink Line On The Metro.\n• 300 Hybrid Buses On The Streets.\n• No Tax Hikes For The Metro.\n• Better Construction In Montreal.\n• No Taxpayer Money For A Baseball Stadium.\n• More Room For Families.\n• No More Caleches.\n• More Transparency From City Hall.\n\nMontrealers listen and voted Valerie Plante to become the first woman to be elected mayor of Montreal.\n“We’ve made history,” she tweeted. “Thank you, Montreal.”\n\nCalling Out The City Of Montreal for Unacceptable Snow Removal Response Time!" ]

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[ null, "STUDY: Is it worth paying to protect nature?\n\nDo you think it’s worth paying to protect nature? ...\n\nWith our planet’s wildlife and ecosystem facing a major extinction crisis, a number of economists and scientists are hoping to convince and educate governments that it’s worth paying to protect nature. To be exact, expanding areas under conservation and giving nature more room to thrive could result in a yield return of at least $5 for every $1 spent.\n\nThat in turn would have numerous benefits, from improving freshwater supplies, boosting agricultural and forestry yields, preserving wildlife and help fight climate change – all of which would boost global economic output on average by about $250 billion annually, according to a group.\n\nThe work represents one of the most comprehensive studies of the potential economic benefits from protecting nature – a research area fraught with best-guess estimates on the monetary value of animals, plants and ecosystems left intact.\n\nReleased as the United Nations lobbies governments to set aside 30% of their land and sea by 2030, the report focuses on challenging the notion that conservation is costly.\n\n“You cannot put a price tag on nature, but the economic numbers point to its protection,” said Anthony Waldron, an ecologist at the University of Cambridge who lead the group examining the economic implications of designating a third of the Earth as a nature reserve.\n\nOthers question how precise accounting for nature’s economic contribution is even possible, said Bram Büscher, a political scientist at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.\n\n“What are two ducks worth? And would these ducks in the U.S. be the same as in Latin America? And how would you compare those things, and what would be their role?” Büscher told Reuters.\n\nLeaning too heavily on economic arguments could also backfire, if governments end up opening areas deemed valuable to the highest bidders, warned Julia Steinberger, an environmental economist at the University of Leeds.\n\n“All it takes is one lobbyist to come along and say, ‘This programme is no longer economically viable,'” Steinberger said. “That’s the risk we see when we tie environmental protection to economic performance.”\n\nHowever, the report’s author argued that even a rough estimate of nature’s economic value is better than nothing, given the scale of what is at stake. Scientists estimate that at least a million species are facing extinction in the next few decades, largely due to human-driven activities including habitat loss, pollution and climate change.\n\nHoping to reduce and hopefully halt .the global die-off, more than 30 countries are already backing a draft document pledging to conserve 30% of the Earth’s surface by 2030, which will be discussed at the U.N. Biodiversity Convention next year in Kunming, China.\n\nAt this moment in time, only a small number of land (15%) and ocean (7%) is protected to some degree.\n\nA 30% conservation goal, aside from producing natural resources like fish stocks and timber, would help to guarantee healthy ecosystems massively, providing an additional $350 billion a year in services that are essential to life, including filtering water, clearing air pollutants or preventing coastal erosion, the report said.\n\nSuch a goal would require an average annual investment of roughly $140 billion by 2030, the researchers estimated. Currently, about $24 billion is spent globally per year on protecting natural areas, they said.\n\n“The well-being of humanity and global economic prosperity depends on us fixing our broken relationship with nature,” said report co-author Enric Sala, an ocean explorer in residence at National Geographic Society.\n\nThe report said that a major expansion in protected areas would have to be managed carefully to ensure that the economic benefits were spread evenly throughout populations.\n\nBut first, countries have to join the effort. And even then, compliance is not guaranteed. Despite having more than 190 countries pledge to fight climate change under the 2015 Paris Agreement, emissions of heat-trapping gases continue to rise.\n\nNevertheless, with some U.S. states pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, there is growing interest in finding ways to account for the economic benefits provided by forests and other ecosystems, said economist John Talberth at the Center For Sustainable Economy in Portland, Oregon.\n\nUnderstanding these economic benefits can also help policymakers decide, for example, whether a forest can be felled for timber or better left untouched to absorb carbon dioxide and support wildlife or water cycles. “The climate crisis has put a foot on the accelerator of getting this done,” Talberth said.”" ]

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[ null, "In 2016, Manny Pacquiao ignited an outrage among members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or LGBT community after his homophobic statements became viral to the public. The senator reiterated that “man is worse than animals” when engaging in intimate relationships with the same sex.\n\nIn 2013, Russia’s so-called gay propaganda law banning the promotion of homosexual behavior among minors was implemented. It was not until June 2017 when judges of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled it as a violation to the right of freedom of expression.\n\nIn the late 1960s, the first Gay Liberation marches took place in a period when homosexuality was believed to be linked to “mental illness” or “psychological defects.”\n\nBut even today, societal pressures mixed with harsh familial standards continue to force gay individuals to continuously live in the closet. In the most subtle ways, we still allow prejudice and discrimination into our day-to-day behavior, which is precisely the reason why we should be asking ourselves this question: “Why do we build walls instead of bridges?”\n\nWith the Dumaguete Pride Month just around the corner, we have undoubtedly come a long way from our earlier efforts to promote gender sensitivity and equality. The positive changes we have brought to the table have led to a gradual change of perspective and fostered a sense of acceptance of and comfort for members of the LGBT", null, "Despite these recent developments, however, it’s still important to recognize that our mission towards LGBT equality is not yet over. We bear witness to a more accepting society, yes, but we still are experiencing discrimination and social stigma against LGBT. It goes without saying that although LGBT equality has gone through gradual progression; it has remained to be inadequate. Once again we are back to this particular question: “Why do we build walls instead of bridges?”\n\nThe next time you attempt to utter an insensitive remark or discriminatory comment towards the gay community, go ahead and ask yourself this: “Why do I build walls instead of bridges?”" ]

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[ "Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020 has been a quiet month for the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Disney and Marvel pushed Black Widow and Eternals to 2021 and halted production on Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. But Marvel fans did get quite a shock in the fall as one of the MCU’s biggest names created quite a stir.", null, "Of course, we’re referring to the nude photo that Captain America himself, Chris Evans, posted to social media. The actor regularly shares photos of his dog, throwback pictures of Marvel co-stars, and the like. But Evans is probably the last MCU actor fans expected this from.\n\nBy all accounts, the image — which was included in a screenshot of photos on Evans’ phone — was released purely by accident. After all, the actor — who recently exited the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is typically private about his personal life. For instance, Evans remained mum about rumors he was dating actor Lily James (Baby Driver).\n\nAfter the post went viral, Evans waited three days to acknowledge it. And when he did, he shrugged it off and implored people to vote in the upcoming presidential election. As such, Kelly Clarkson thinks this was the Marvel actor’s plan all along. The topic came up on The Kelly Clarkson Show as she chatted with Evans’ Knives Out co-star Jamie Lee Curtis.\n\n“I was just like ‘Was it an accident?’ And then all of a sudden, I love that he turned it into ‘Now that I have your attention…’ That was awesome. … I kind of think it was planned just cause he was trying to get people to vote.”\n\nBoth Clarkson and Curtis pointed out the possibility Evans planned to release the revealing photo as a publicity stunt. Curtis even referred to the Marvel actor as “an unbelievably beautiful human being,” believing he would put the greater good ahead of his own potential embarrassment. Sure, Marvel fans might be thrown for a loop, but is it all worth the risk?\n\nBut would Chris Evans’ release such a controversial photo on purpose?\n\nPerhaps fans will never know if Evans purposely leaked the graphic image. But if the goal was to boost voter engagement, that certainly fits within the Marvel actor’s recent actions. In 2020, he launched A Starting Point, an app intending to start the conversation between both parties and voters. Evans is very politically vocal, lending some credence to Clarkson’s theory.\n\nEvans also knows — thanks to his movie career — everything he does draws attention. And few efforts at going viral pay off as much as seemingly unintentional nudity. The Marvel actor knew everyone would be watching his social media accounts. Instead, fans discovered a hearty reminder to do their civic duty and make their voice heard in the upcoming election.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\nRecent Posts\nWe and our partners use cookies on this site to improve our service, perform analytics, personalize advertising, measure advertising performance, and remember website preferences.Ok" ]

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[ null, "Damaged homes in Ochre Beach, Man. are seen on Saturday, May 11, 2013. Strong winds on Friday evening pushed the ice on Dauphin Lake ashore onto Ochre Beach, a summer community about 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. (The Canadian Press)\n\nCHRE BEACH, Man. – One minute, cottage owners on the southern shore of Manitoba’s Dauphin Lake were cooking on their barbecues, admiring the views across the still-frozen ice.\n\nThe next minute, that ice was rumbling up the shore like a giant nine-metre-high bulldozer, tearing apart their decks, then slicing through some homes and tipping others on their sides.\n\n“The whole thing happened in about ten minutes,” said Clayton Watts, the deputy reeve of the Rural Municipality of Ochre River.\n\n“We had people barbecueing on their decks. They turned around to go inside to get something, they came back out and their decks were ripping apart,” he added.\n\n“It was like a freight train coming through, they say.”\n\nWatts said strong winds with gusts up to 90 kilometres per hour forced the ice onto the shore at Ochre Beach, one of a couple of beaches that make up the summer community that’s about 200 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.\n\nMore than two dozen structures were damaged and about a dozen of those were completely destroyed, he said.\n\nThere were no reports of injuries.\n\nWatts said people were trying to salvage what they could on Saturday.\n\n“They’re in, whether it be with shovels and rakes and wheelbarrows, they’re trying to get ice out of the houses and we’ve got heavy equipment in trying to remove all of the ice from the front of the cabin so it doesn’t cave back in on them,” Watts said.\n\n“The cabins and houses that are still standing, a lot of them have living rooms and kitchens and bedrooms full of ice that was smashed through in the front.”\n\nA news release from the municipality said RCMP, as well as local EMS and firefighters swept the area and went door-to-door. Everyone has been accounted for, the release said.\n\nThe municipality has declared a local state of emergency.\n\nWatts said many property owners suffered severe flood damage two years ago and had recently rebuilt, in some cases raising their homes and land.\n\nHe said no one was even thinking about the ice yet, because it was still almost a metre thick with no open water.\n\n“We thought we were over the hump on everything. We had no flooding. We had nothing. And suddenly this has just come up. It was totally unexpected.”\n\n“We just pray that the ice doesn’t move out and come back in again with the wind.”\n\nThe Manitoba government said one family was assisted by provincial emergency social services, while other displaced people have gone to stay with family and friends.\n\nThe municipality says damage to one structure knocked out power to the community, but electricity was restored by midnight.\n\nThe last time there was ice damage like this in the community was in the 1960s, Watts said, although it wasn’t as severe and the damage was limited because the cabins were much smaller and more rustic at the time.\n\n“There’s no stopping ice once it gets moving. It’ll take out everything in its path.”" ]

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[ "Krishna (Krsna) the eighth incarnation of vishnu. The Hindus regarded Krishna as a 'God by Himself', a fuller incarnation of Vishnu. In the gita, Krishna tells Arjun that he is Vishnu and that he appears on earth at different times to destroy the forces of anti-religion and evil and protect religion and those who are virtuous. He is sometimes reincarnated as a human being and sometimes as an animal as well. The oldest reference to Krishna is in Vedic literature. The Rg Veda, which mentions Krishna more than once, depicts him as a non-Aryan warrior opposed to Indra. At places he is also shown as a sage or a demon.", null, "Krishna has been described as the son of Devaki in Chhandogyopanisad and Kausitakibrahmana. His guru was Ghora-Angirasa. Krishna, as described in the mahabharata, different puranas, Shrimadbhagavata and Vaishnava lyrics, appeared during the Dvapara Yuga, or the third age of the world. According to legend, Krishna was born on the eighth day of the lunar month in Bhadra in his maternal uncle Kangsa's house, where his parents had been imprisoned. The day of his birth is celebrated as janmastami.\n\nKrishna has been described by some as a non-Aryan deity who was worshipped by the early communities and later became associated with the religion of the Brahmins. The Vaishvava faith developed around him. There are also differences of opinion as to whether Krishna was a historic figure. Some say he was an imaginary character who never existed except in the imagination. According to some others, however, Krishna was a historic person, of high moral character and a religious reformer. In course of time, he was deified. But there is no historical evidence about his life. Sri Krishna is a multifaceted character with different stories woven around him. One of the stories of his early childhood describes how he saved the children of Gokul from death. Kamsa, his maternal uncle, had become king of Mathura after deposing his father and imprisoning him.\n\nA fortuneteller had told Kamsa that a child named Krishna would kill him. To prevent this, Kamsa imprisoned his sister, Devaki, and her husband, Vasudeva, and killed his sister's sons. Shortly after Krishna was born, his father sent him to Gokul. Kamsa learned about this and used Putana, a female demon, to kill the children of Gokul. Putana started to kill the children by nursing them at her breasts to which she had applied poison. She started to feed Krishna, but was herself destroyed.\n\nWhen Krishna was a little older, he killed Kamsa and freed his grandfather and his parents. Thus he restored peace in Mathura. In due course Krishna killed the evil forces of Vatsasur, Aghasur and Vakasur. He also destroyed the poisonous snakes at Kaliyadaha, ate up the forest fire to save Vrindavan and held the mountain of Govardhan in his hand to save the community of milkmen from the rage of Indra.\n\nHarivangshapurana and Srimadbhagavata etc depict him at Vrindavan, as the lover of radha and the sweetheart of the gopis (milkmaids). Krishna's love for Radha, the daughter of a milkman and the wife of another milkman, was later to be the main inspiration of vaisnava literature. His affairs with the gopis contain the essence of Indian Vedanta philosophy of love and eternity. According to this philosophy, the jivatma (literally, living or mortal souls), separate human souls, and the paramatma or eternal soul are one and the same. This is why human souls constantly desire to unite with the eternal soul. Krishna is the eternal soul and the gopis symbolise the human soul. Krishna is also depicted as a friend. Apart from Shridam, Sudama and Uddhav, Arjun was his friend and also a relation. In his relationship with his friends, the human side of Krishna is revealed.\n\nThe mahabharata gives an account of Krishna's qualities as a statesman and philosopher. He has been depicted as a king (king of Dvaraka), politician, diplomat, warrior and philosopher. He acts as an emissary for the Pandavas and recommends the return of their kingdom. He also advises the Pandavas in the war at Kuruksetra and helps them to win it. He destroys the evil forces of Duryodhan and puts Yudhisthira on the throne. In this way he wins victory for the forces of goodness. At Kuruksetra Krishna himself does not use a weapon but aids the Pandavas and thus influences the course of the war. One of the most famous parts of the Mahabharata is Shrimadbhagavadagita or in short Gita where Krishna instructs Arjun about the duties and obligations of a ksatriya and about the soul. In this way Krishna helps to destroy evil and nurture virtue. Some time later evil appears in Krishna's own Yadu dynasty. He destroys the dynasty. Krishna then plans his own death, succumbing to an arrow shot by an animal catcher.\n\nKrishna's story has had a deep impact on Hindu society and culture as well as on sanskrit literature and medieval bangla literature. jaydev's Gitagovindam, baru chandidas's srikrishnakirtan and a large segment of the Vaishnava literature of the Middle Ages were based on Krishna and his deeds. Padavali kirtan, pala gan, Vichchhedi Gan and other folk songs were composed on the story of Radha and Krishna. These were very popular in Bengali society in the past, and even today they can entertain audiences. [Dulal Bhowmik]" ]

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[ null, "Apple’s special “Spring Loaded” event is already scheduled for Tuesday, April 20. And as the date approaches, the company has been promoting its presentation live on social media. This time, Apple promoted the April event with a short advertisement on TikTok.\n\nAs noted by The Apple Post, the ad began showing up for some TikTok users on Friday. In a 10-second video, Apple uses the animated version of the event invitation image to ask people to join the live presentation on the 20th. Interestingly enough, the ad promotes the live streaming of the event on YouTube instead of redirecting users to Apple’s official website.\n\nSpring loaded. Join us for a special Apple Event. 20 April at 6 pm on YouTube Live.\n\nAlthough Apple has never been as active on social networks as other companies, the company has been doing a good job of investing in fun campaigns for the online audience — which should probably reach younger users.\n\nApple created its official TikTok account almost a year ago, but it only used the account for the first time in November 2020 with a new iPhone 12 mini campaign made on the social network with fun videos from popular influencers. The company later launched another campaign on TikTok last month to promote the Apple Watch with a new dance challenge in Brazil, following a challenge that highlights the AirPods Pro.\n\nSpring loaded. Join us for a special Apple Event. 20 April at 6 pm on YouTube Live.\n\nStay tuned to 9to5Mac for more coverage of Apple’s April announcement on Tuesday." ]

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[ null, "She’s all alone in the darkness.\nHe’s lighting up the stage.\nBut not even the brightest spotlight can reach the shadows of a broken soul.\nDeclan\nEvery wanna-be rocker dreams of the day when crazed fans will pack their shows. But the more people worship me as some kind of musical god, the more I realize why singers are called “performers.” I’m just a pretender. A fake.\nI need something real. Something to break through the revolting glamour that’s bled into every part of my life. And for one perfect night, I found that in Sara.\nThen she ran.\nSara\nNo sane woman would’ve ever walked away from Declan Hollis after only one night. But\nwalking away from him was the safest move for both of us.\nI’ve spent so much time burying my old self in the past, trying to erase the vulnerable person I used to be. I’m smarter now—men are dangerous, and relationships are doubly so.\nBut the more time I spend away from him, the more I want to go back.\nI may end up shattered all over again. Or maybe, just maybe, he’ll be the one to help me pick up the pieces.\n\nMy bandmates and I grabbed a couple of burritos in the Mission District—cheap, delicious, and as gigantic as Pete claimed his dick was. A fun fact that ruined everybody’s appetite and no one believed. No one was willing to verify Pete’s claim either.Somehow, our conversation maneuvered to the sad state of my love life. I’m fairly sure Trevor had guided us there, if for no other reason than to give me shit about how pathetic it was.I sighed and pushed my food away, almost untouched. “If five years ago, anyone had said, ‘Hey, Dec. How would you like it if every woman you met wanted to sleep with you, just so she could tell her friends she’d banged the lead singer of a band?’ My response would’ve been: ‘Did you say something after ‘every woman I met wanted to sleep with me?’ And I wouldn’t have cared what the answer was. Now, knowing women are using me is just depressing.”“Fuck that,” Trevor said. “I swear to the gods of music, if a woman wants to use me for sex, you sure as hell won’t hear me complaining about it.”“That’s the difference between you and Declan,” Pete said, already smiling. “You said, ‘if a woman wants to use you.’ And that’s a pretty good-sized ‘if’.”Everyone other than Trevor laughed. It made sense—he couldn’t see his own expression.“Shit,” Pete continued. “No shame in it—none of us sees the amount of action Declan could.”“If he weren’t such a pussy, you mean.”“Obviously.”“Hey!” I said it loud enough to know that they’d all heard me. So they were just pretending not to.There was no way to explain it so they’d understand. Or not think I was insane. I’d guess that would be the natural reaction to a guy talking about how he feels like he’s two separate people—the one he’s always been and the one everyone expects him to be. It’s even sadder when the guy realizes that almost everyone he meets nowadays likes the fake him more than the real one.Trevor would’ve gone cross-eyed if I told him that, until that night with Sara, sex just wasn’t as good as it had been before anyone knew who we were. It was a conclusion I didn’t come to without a lot of rigorous testing, by the way. My folks didn’t raise a quitter. But it became a little unpleasant when every time I fucked someone, I couldn’t get over the idea that it wasn’t really me who was getting laid. It was the guy I played onstage. We might have looked the same, but every day he seemed more and more foreign to me. We didn’t wear the same clothes, use the same words, share the same values. I felt more like an actor now than a musician. Slipping into a role as I slipped into a costume that had been picked out and prepped by someone who’d barely ever spoken to me.That was what made my one night with Sara stick with me. Not only was it physically amazing, Sara hadn’t met Declan Hollis, the lead singer of Self Defense who someone else had designed. She’d met Declan Hollis, the man who just wanted to be normal, get a house somewhere quiet where my dog didn’t have to run on concrete and shit on a four-by-four square of fake grass.And she’d liked that Declan. She’d reminded me that he was enough, that he was attractive and could make someone laugh.“Wait a sec. Does that shit really bother you?” Trevor asked. “Seriously? Fuck, that’s the only reason I’m here. If women didn’t want to use me to say they’d fucked a rockstar, I’d be sitting in front of a bonfire on the beach somewhere, drinking beer and playing somebody else’s tunes.”“First of all, you’re not a rockstar.”“Not yet. And luckily, these girls don’t think that far ahead.”I grumbled but couldn’t disagree. “Secondly, you’d be playing someone else’s tunes? What the fuck is wrong with our tunes?”He laughed. “Don’t worry, bro. The writing is flawless. It’s just not really my style.”Again, I couldn’t disagree, at least with the second part. It wasn’t my style either. I’d stopped writing and doing what I wanted to a while ago.", null, null, "Lauren Stewart grew up reading Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, James Clavell, Piers Anthony, and Agatha Christie, which explains why she can’t seem to stick to one genre at a time.\nShe got to the more romantic stuff pretty late, but paranormal romance was what changed her from an obsessed reader into an obsessed reader and writer. Her writing style comes from a mash-up of all her early favorites and her new ones, women like JR Ward, Karen Marie Moning, Alice Clayton, Emma Scott, and Janet Evanovich. Wow, how much would you pay to be invited to that dinner party?\nLauren wants to make people think, cry, and giggle, not necessarily all at the same time (although it’s great when it happens). In every one of her books, you’ll find elements of other genres – fantasy, mystery, romance, paranormal, suspense, YA, women’s literature, all with a touch of humor.\nBecause what doesn’t kill us should make us laugh.", null ]

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[ "I’ve gradually been experimenting further with portraiture using a Sinar F2 large format camera. This is a very slow form of photography and can take an hour or more to make two images (well until I’m more confident using the camera). The speed of using large format is part of the appeal! There’s a lot to think about and a lot that can go wrong. But when it goes right, it looks really good.\n\nI had the help of my test subjects Simin (in the throes of PhD madness), Tim (a colleague from work), and Simon and Cilla (my landlord and his partner).", null, "Simin in the throes of a manic PhD episode……..", null, null, "Tim: a fastidious collector of books and vinyl.", null, "The Bad and the Ugly\n\nI usually aim to take two portraits of each person using a single film holder (to make the film go further in terms of the variety of images I can create with one box of film). One of the steps when using large format is to prime the mechanical shutter on the lens before taking the shot. I was distracted chatting with Simon and Cilla and could not remember if I’d primed the shutter at the time of making their portrait. It turned out I had……and I therefore did this step twice, creating a double exposure………", null, "For the second shot, I had problems with the darkslide sticking after making the exposure and it could not be closed fully. Two weeks later I discovered that the sheet of film and fallen inside the camera! I learned the hard way that the darkslide has to be removed from the film holder in a slow and steady manner otherwise the darkslide can pull the film out of the rails which keep it in place inside the film holder.\n\nThis entry was posted on May 2, 2015 by Antony Kitchener. It was filed under Personal Works and was tagged with 4x5, B&W, Black and White, Film, large format, New Zealand, Photography, Portraits, Portraiture, Sinar F2, Wellington." ]

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[ null, null, null, "Iterations of the 5er have had their moments, but it’s always worn hand-me-downs from the 7-Series and, quite frankly, we would’ve rather played with the 3-Series on a Saturday afternoon.\n\nYou can imagine how hard this 2017 BMW 5-Series will need to shout to get attention.\n\nIts first task will be to convince mid-size luxury buyers that it’s up to the high (tech) expectations of others.\n\nThe new Mercedes-Benz E-Class and Volvo S90 are technological warships, banks of self-driving tech and touchscreens wrapped around an engine and four wheels—five if you count the steering wheel, for now.\n\nFor that nerd duty, the BMW 5-Series comes to the table armed to the teeth.", null, "The 5-Series’ infotainment system features no fewer than five different methods for input, including touchscreen, voice control, rotary knob, touch input, and Gesture Control, which was borrowed from the 7-Series. The team of sensors in the latter watch for fingers to change radio stations, turn up the volume, or skip tracks by waving, wagging, dragging or winding fingers near the touchscreen.\n\n(It’s normal for people give me crazy looks while I’m seemingly shouting at the windshield while talking on a Bluetooth-connected phone. The looks while I’m apparently waving home a runner from third for no real reason pale in comparison.)\n\nCHECK OUT: BMW M2 vs. Ford Focus RS: Have turbos, will travel\n\nFar more useful is the 10.2-inch touchscreen buried into the dash that displays navigation, media, car settings, and Apple CarPlay, if connected. BMW’s capitulation that its iDrive touchpuck needs additional help makes a world of difference, and the touchscreen is sharp, responsive, and the only way to run Apple CarPlay—Audi, we’re looking at you. Coincidentally, the 5-Series also is one of the first cars to run CarPlay wirelessly, which sets it apart from other systems in ease of use. However, BMW doesn’t let the interface use all the screen’s real estate; there’s dead screen space to the right.\n\nBeyond what’s at hand, the 5-Series upgraded its head-up display to be 75 percent larger than the last version; apps are integrated into the infotainment system far better than any other automaker’s efforts so far; and active lane control will keep the 5er in line for more than 30 seconds hands off (closer to 45 seconds, really) before chiding you back into attention.\n\nDespite all that, we’d prefer that you drive the 5er instead.\n\nLooks that can chill\n\nBMW isn’t wasting time showing its hand early with the new 5-Series. Launch models such as the 530i and 540i won’t wait long for company. Two months after the 2017 models go on sale, they’ll be joined by a plug-in hybrid 530e iPerformance model and a M550i xDrive—complete with a V-8—as 2018 models.\n\nAll models ride on a modified skeleton borrowed from the 7-Series. That flagship sedan provided many of the weight savings and more efficient tools for the 5-Series, but none of the carbon fiber.", null, "Like the “Star Wars” movie franchise, the middle of the 5-Series hasn’t changed much for a decade or so—but the beginning and end are what we’ll be talking about for a while.\n\nUp front, the taller nose and pronounced grille are more recognizable this time around. Bigger kidney grilles and standard adaptive headlights won’t generate much buzz on their own, but as part of the larger package of 5-Series improvements, they're much more welcome.\n\nAlong the sides, the 5-Series borrows much from the 7-Series, but a distinctive and sharper belt line will stay the domain of the smaller sedan. Another pinch right below the windows is the indication to BMW cognoscenti that this is the G30—not the F10.\n\nA more expressive lower rear bumper and taffy-pulled rear taillights finish off the new 5-Series yielding a look that’s more evolutionary this time around, but still manages to smooth over the unfinished corners of the last generation.\n\nInside, the 5-Series is awash in sometimes-conflicting leather, piping, and stitching. Every material is soft and pliable without feeling thin or cheap. A grippy polyurethane texture around door handles and some switches is a stellar touch.\n\nBMW has selected two approaches to transport all that leather and tech for starters.\n\nThat engine is far from anemic and sounds somewhat pleasant pushing the 5er through the hills of northern California. If anything, it lacks top-end ambition—once it’s up to highway speed, it prefers to stay there and chew up the highway miles at a steady beat.\n\nFor more animated highway sprints, the 540i packs an uprated turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 that makes 335 hp—up 35 hp from the last 535i—and 332 lb-ft. While the 540i badge was normally reserved for V-8s, its absence isn’t missed here; the turbo-6 spins its rears up just fine without additional cylinders and makes passing maneuvers faster than a creepy uncle.", null, "Both engines are teamed to an 8-speed automatic transmission that’s smooth on the way up, and crisp on the way down with a blip of throttle in sport modes. Pull back on the column-mounted shifters to pick your own, if you like, but it’s not the best way: the logic in the 8-speed can keep up with any side road hustle just fine, provided you're in one of those sport modes.\n\nAll-wheel drive (which BMW calls xDrive) is available for both models and for the first time can be paired with adaptive dampers or rear-wheel steering, which BMW calls Integral Active Steering.\n\nTwo words on IAS: skip it—at least for now. At low speeds, the rear-wheel steering can aid in maneuverability around town, but at higher speeds it can feel like an unnaturally quick grocery cart ripping around the frozen pizza aisle. Sharper turn in may sound more appealing, but the overall sensation of having your back end do something that your front end may not be expecting is probably how my 2-year-old dog feels turning the corner in my kitchen at full speed.\n\nRather, the base suspension setup—and the adjustable dampers—are plenty to make the 5er feel fun on twisty roads. Even with a light steering feel in the middle and a softer tune for 18-inch standard run flats, the BMW’s wheel builds up around corners nicely and holds a line. Although the weight loss may seem marginal, the new 2017 BMW 5-Series feels more athletic than the outgoing model, and more excited to hustle around side roads.\n\nIts identity now may be more of a tech sedan than a sports sedan. On the tech front, the new BMW feels a half-step behind others in what you can see (what you can't, namely app integration is another story.) On the performance front, the BMW may be a half step ahead once more potent versions arrive later this year.\n\nBut like any good middle child knows: it has dirt on both sides and can play both siblings from the middle." ]

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[ null, "In 1950, Mexico completed its stretch of the Pan-American Highway. To celebrate, the government organized La Carrera Panamericana, a race running south to north along the new stretch of road–and a race which quickly established itself as the most dangerous race of any kind in the world. For five years, drivers like Juan Manuel Fangio, Bobby Unser, and Felice Bonetto competed in the race until it was shut down due to safety concerns following the disastrous crash at Le Mans in 1955.\n\nRevived in 1988, today’s Carrera Panamericana is still dangerous, fast, grueling, and addictive, as driver Conrad Stevenson can attest. Stevenson got his first taste of the race in a friend’s Studebaker in 2001. After a couple more years of participating in friends’ cars, Stevenson decided it was time to build a car of his own, in this case a 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale.\n\nThe Giulia SS, which Stevenson describes as a “patchwork quilt” of his own metalwork, was never intended to be a concours queen. It is, as he points out, a purpose-built race car, built to go fast and hard, over speed bumps at eighty miles per hours and across 2,200 miles of Mexican countryside. Still, it is a beauty to behold.\n\n“I’ve taken liberties with this style,” says Stevenson, who modeled his nose for his car after the earlier, lower SS noses that were known to provide better downforce. “I’m not presenting this car to Pebble Beach, it’s not an authentic ’65 car. But it is true, I believe, to what the designer, Bertone, intended.”\n\nWhatever he did, it worked. Not only did he finish the race (a feat in itself), his Alfa took 21st place overall and first in the Historica A Plus class in 2013. Perhaps more importantly, the car enabled Stevenson to sate his Carrera addiction for one more year.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Glassing the bottom and getting some gunnels on the boat.\n\nHere are links to other steps of the Puddle Duck Build\n\nThe Bottom gets some fiberglass", null, "Although it is not necessary to glass the bottom of the PDR I plan to use it where concrete ramps and steel beamed docks are the norm so I put a thin layer of fiberglass. This is 4 ounces weight. I looked at the 2 oz cloth and found it too thin. I had sanded a very small radius on the edges and the 4 corners. I'm using slow epoxy and have lots of time to spread the resin. I'm finding that after wetting the cloth the plywood started absorbing resin and I had to add some more.\n\nMany people only add epoxy tape on the edges and not everywhere. It saves money and makes a lighter boat.", null, "In order to get the fiberglass cloth to turn the corner and stick to the sides of the boat, I had stretched and stapled the cloth. This worked very well. It was tricky to do because the cloth seemed animated with an evil spirit, but eventually I had it stretched and fastened. When I put the resin on I did not cover the staples. I only turned the corner and glassed for about an inch. After the resin had had a chance to set somewhat but was not rigid yet, a couple of hours later, I went and cut the cloth and removed the stapled and the sticky extra cloth. It just pulled off nicely. The staples came off with pliers, it was easy because they had not really gone in very far. The cloth was nicely stuck to the side even though my radius is not very big, less than a quarter inch for sure. Later, I added another coat of resin to fill in the weave better.", null, "Detail of staples holding the cloth to the boat hull while the resin sets. The staples were not in very deeply and pulled out easily. I did not worry too much about the width of the glass on the side. It is important to protect the edge from concrete but I expect the sides will be fine. I just ran my knife about an inch from the edge and pulled off the strip of extra glass and many staples as well. The rest came off with pliers.", null, "After cutting a whole lot of bias strips I stuck these to the edges of the boat. They went on with no argument and stuck down well. I am now confident that I can grind my little PDR against the ramp and not kill it completely. I suppose I will keep a jar of paint handy for touch ups. The boat is carefully levelled and will sit for a day or so. I checked my measurements and found that the diagonals were a very slightly off. Annoying because I though I had been careful. Sigh! Oh Well!", null, null, "I cut a mahogany board in three quarter inch width and glued them to the side. The mahogany did not bend at all. In thinner strips I had to force the curve but it worked. All together it is a bit thicker than 3/4 inches and very stiff. I'm using epoxy thickened with silica, cabosil.\n\nOne trick I learned while building my Skerry sailboat is to use cut up water pipe as clamps. Here I've got them just keeping the gunwale from falling to the floor while I work on the other end. It allows me to work solo rather than need another set of hands.\n\nI was careful not to clamp too tight because if the joint is starved of glue it is not strong.\n\nI also placed some gunnels on the inside (inwales). The inside and outside gunnel act to stiffen the boat and also as a platform on which I can glue the side decks. The edge of the plywood is very thin and the gunnels add some gluing area.", null, "Inside gunnels (inwales) also need to be added. This is to support the side decks. The plywood edges are only a quarter inch thick and the extra width of the gunnels/inwales gives a wider gluing area.\n\nThis web site reflects my personal ideas and doesn't represent anyone else's point of view.\n\nHOME Puddle Duck Racer Wikipedia entry Article on Puddle Ducks in Sailing Magazine Michael Storer Oz Version Nicely detailed build photos for his version (slightly different and not class approved but perfectly good) of the Puddle Duck, I think he calls it the OZ racer. His plans include a particularly successful daggerboard/rudder shape. He also has a number of really nice video of Ducks sailing. Polysail has a nice very detailed instruction page for making puddle ducks. They also supply polytarps and kits for making PDR sails. Polysail Leg of Mutton sail instruction. My Boat Page" ]

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[ "Security module for a RISC processor\n\nThis project tries to implement a strategy to prevent unwanted snooping on physical memory.\n\nWith the world becoming increasingly IoT-driven, it is crucial to ensure that the data in lower-end processors is safe from external threats. Attackers can steal data without even accessing the processor by probing the memory bus. This project tries to implement a strategy to prevent unwanted snooping on physical memory. A simple 32-bit RISC processor, the ‘β’, is implemented from scratch to demonstrate this strategy. This processor supports arithmetic, bitwise, comparison, and branching operations and can handle loads and stores. Every transaction to the memory is secured with an AES encryption block.\n\nAES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard, and is a specification standard by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the security of data. AES is a widely recognized and adapted cryptographic module used in the U.S., Canada and worldwide by military, government, financial institutions, and organizations all around the world as the standard for encrypting and decrypting of data. There are different degrees of AES hardware encryption, for example 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit, with each key size providing an increased level of protection and complexity. Essentially, AES encryption is a block of algorithms that “scrambles” the data into unreadable code for transport, then when reconnected to the user, is unscrambled again by the same algorithm when the right keys are provided.\n\nThere are two main kinds of physical memory attacks: snooping on a live RAM bus or modifying data on the bus, and dumping the RAM content. With hardware encryption on microprocessor chips, the AES encryption process is handled automatically, built right in with a hardware module inside the core itself. Once original data is encrypted, it becomes undecipherable in the background and is locked away under encrypted storage. If a thief were to try to gain access to the data without knowledge of the key, the attempt is by all practical means impossible.\n\nWe plan to demonstrate this strategy using toy examples. We have implemented a RISC processor which is discussed in this course. We have then built a hardware encryptor-module using AES with 128-bit key and integrated it with the β processor. A simple assembler is also built for easier machine code generation.\n\nThe whole project was implemented using Verilog. The source files can be found here.\n\nThe RTL design is illustrated below.\n\nThe assembler in action for a simple program which calculates the sum of the first ‘n’ integers.", null, "The generated machine code will be 128 bits long, as shown below. This will be stored in the physical memory, not the actual instruction.\n\nThe following waveform is obtained when the above code is run on the processor.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "On June 30, the cricket board announced men’s central contract lists for 2022-23, which came into effect from Friday, 1 July.\n\nFor the first time, the PCB has introduced separate red and white-ball contracts, while four more players have been added to the Emerging Category. This means a total of 33 players, 13 more than the previous season, have received contracts for the next 12 months.\n\nPlayers included in categories A, B, C, D and E will receive equal fees for red and white ball matches.\n\nAmongst the 10 players who have received red-ball contracts, Azhar Ali has been promoted to Category A, Abdullah Shafique, Naseem Shah have been placed in Category C for the first time along with Saud Shakeel, who has been awarded Category D.\n\nFawad Alam and Nauman Ali have been retained in Category B and C, respectively, whereas Abid Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shan Masood and Yasir Shah have been handed Category D contracts.\n\nFakhar Zaman and Shadab Khan, who were in Category B in 2021-22, have been awarded Category A contracts, while Haris Rauf has been promoted to Category B. Mohammad Nawaz has been retained in Category C.\n\nShahnawaz Dahani and Usman Qadir have been promoted from Emerging to Category D where they are joined by first-timers Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Wasim Jnr and Zahid Mehmood." ]

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[ "How much in allowances is Cllr Luke Spillman entitled to ?", null, "WHEN our blogger, Mr Perrin, wrote a piece on the defection by the leader and deputy leader of Thurrock Independents (TI) to the Conservative group, he made reference to the size of their councillor allowances. Mr Perrin said they were on “£8,000 plus”.\n\nSo we went to the Thurrock Council website to check our facts but when we looked at cllr Spillman’s allowances, it led us to more questions.\n\nAccording to Thurrock Council, he has been paid as follows.\n\nSo what has confused us?\n\nSo we wondered, why he was paid that much?\n\nWe asked Thurrock Council’s communications team, whether they could clear it up for us?\n\nNeedless to say, there has not been a reply.\n\nOne Response to \"How much in allowances is Cllr Luke Spillman entitled to ?\"" ]

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[ "Bastion of the First Amendment\n\nI love a college campus where students and others openly advocate their beliefs.\nConsider these photos from today.\nI don't buy extreme right wingers bashing \"liberal-left wing academia\" that people gripe about. We have many different groups from all beliefs here. It's great.\nI'm especially proud of our editors at the student newspaper The Vista, hosting public forums...this week's by the Muslim student association, We Are America.\n\nWhen the sun stands still--equinox\n\nIf you're up at sunrise and heading east this week, the sun seems to stand still straight east.\nEquinox, when the day and night are of equal length, the signal of a new season...yet so much more.\nAs I pull out of my neighborhood heading west, the glare in my mirrors blinds you. If you're driving home in the evening, the same is true. While the official day is only one 12 hour period this week, the sun barely moves.\nThe ancients knew and accurately measured it, whether at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, or at Stonehenge or in many other sacred sites. Why? More in touch with the seasons and nature than us, they took years to be able to mark these days, days critical to their livelihoods and religions.\nThose are my thoughts this week--having camped at Chaco on equinox, and having pulled out of my subdivision heading to work. The sun seems to just sit on the middle of the road on the horizon, not moving north or south for a few days.\nToday's watercolor, what I saw, in fact, and in imagination, this morning.\nNo comments:\n\nDon't be a sucker for \"fake\" news--guidelines\n\nAre you skeptical? I hope so.\n\nSo I tell my students. Challenge everything you hear or read—including this sentence. Don’t take anything without checking it out.\nAn old copy editor’s maxim—“If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out.”\nMaybe not that extreme, but with all the talk of “fake news” these days and trust in the news media at a low, intelligent citizens need to be more vigilant about their news sources.\nWith the current occupant of the White House labeling everything he disagrees with as “fake,” and the verbal vomit of “social” media, this is more critical than ever.\nSo here are my thoughts that appeared in my column in this month’s Oklahoma Publisher.\nA reader’s guide to getting factual news\n\n\n(Don’t be a sucker for fake news)\nYou can easily look up the ownership of your local newspapers, television and radio stations.\n\nThe Llano Estacado of the Texas Panhandle. Big, empty, wide open spaces where the wind never seems to cease.\nFences are few and far between, and the old ones have the character of the land...rugged and ragged as the land and the posts. The wind rustling and grass on the fence lines and singing through the old rusting barbed wire.\nThis old one is long gone now, replaced by more efficient steel posts and new wire but it was just up the road from my daughter and son-in- law's house near Canyon, Texas.\n1 comment:\n\nAbandoned cabins and farmsteads dot the Great Plains, testaments or tombstones to the people who tried to scratch out a living where only nomads belonged.\nI am always attracted to them, imagining the lives and ghosts that inhabit them, the stories untold, beckoning of love and loss.\nThe prairie wind and grasses and open skies breathe \"lonesome.\"\nHave we not all been lonesome at one time or another?\nInspired by a black and white photo by HrSchmitt.\n\n\nFlowering redbud trees stand out like brilliant lace in early spring against other still leafless trees, even on a cold, gloomy day such as this.\nThey hold the promise of even more beauty, when the sun shines and the humid air and breezes lift clouds through the blue skies, and stir their branches into a melody of motion.\nThey're difficult to paint, with varying colors and infinite forms, so any attempt is just a representation of shapes and colors. Thus today's painting, an image sealed in my mind from a 20-year-old-story by journalist Rick Bragg, describing dogwood in Alabama.\nBelow--the stages of the painting.", null, null, null, null, null, "Mountains are music to me, and thoughts turn to cabins and aspen in tn the high country. The first snowfall on the high peaks, the brilliant, if brief, colors of aspen--changing seasons, changing memories and years.\nIf I can't visit in person, at least I can with my paintbrush...finding people and memories and travels and adventures in imagination as the image takes shape.\nNo wonder I love painting mountains and cabins.\nNo comments:" ]

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[ "Day 2 - Friday, August 28th - As often the case things were a bit slow getting started. This first day it rained much of the day, though I don't think that effected much. Some of the members of the beekeeping class assembled briefly to sort things out but it was generally understood we would start the next day. Fortunately we did go out and open some beehives to get an idea of what we'd be dealing with, which was nice because last year we didn't get around to actually opening any beehives until several days in.", null, "A major highlight was that evening, as we're sitting in the flashlight-light after dinner, my phone rang, my phone from home. It was a (530) area code, which is the Davis (Nor Cal) area where I went to school. I sometimes get wrong number calls from that area code since my phone is also still (530). Anyway I almost didn't answer it, thinking it was likely another wrong number and would cost me over a dollar a minute, but decided \"who was that\" would bother me too much if I didn't pick it up.\nAs it turns out it was UC Davis itself. I had applied for a job as the head beekeeper basically, managing the beehives belonging to the honeybee research lab there. They were calling me back for an interview!!!\n\"So let's see, you're about seven hours south of here aren't you\" she said, referring to where I live in California.\n\"hahaha oh no I'm about 6,000 miles away at the present moment -- I'm in the middle of Guinea.\" Anyway, reception wasn't great, there was a lot of \"what was that again?\" so it was agreed that a phone interview probably wouldn't work where I was, but she said they could wait until I get back for an interview. I tried to say I'd drove up when I got back but I don't think that got through, reception was really bad.\nAnyway, this development made me really excited.\n\nDay 3 - Saturday, August 29th - I never set an alarm clock the whole time I was there, relying on roosters crowing and voices outside reaching a certain level. Typically around 4am the rain would pour down with a roar (see also: aluminum roof), around 5am the first call to prayer would warble out through the darkness. I always love to hear the meuzzen, though I wouldn't savor the idea of having to get out of bed and pray every morning at 5. Sometime between 7:00 and 7:30 I'd get out of bed and have breakfast of a piece of fresh baguette. They tried to ply me with butter, mayonaise, or honey but I liked to just tear off as much of the baguette as I wanted and sit on the veranda eating it with no further adieu. At first I tried to drink the accompanying nescafe but after a few days I realized I was barely drinking any of it and switched to tea. At some point Kamera (the driver) would turn on the land cruiser to warm up the engine and I'd jump up to go plug my phone in to the car charger, like a chicken seeing chicken feed being tossed out. If the car was at all dirty Kamera would also start cleaning it at this time, truly he takes his charge of the vehicle seriously.\nFinally at, I really don't know what time, about an hour and a half later maybe, we would begin every day when a critical mass of people had arrived, the African way of doing things. (:\nA portable generator had been acquired and positioned just outside out building and it would be turned on at this time, and as always people would flock to the power plugs like pigeons on bread crumbs to charge their phones.", null, "That evening there was an important soccer match being televised between two European teams, which Kamera in particular wanted to watch, so in the evening Damba, Kamera & I went to the karafou (crossroads), where for a few thousand francs a person (ie less than a dollar) we were admitted into a little room that I guess would be the Doumba cinema -- it had benches set up so we could all watch this small TV that was affixed to the wall and had the game on (powered by a generator just outside). There were at least a dozen men in there to watch the game. I wasn't so into the game, even soccer (the One True Team Sport) I can't really get into unless it's the world cup (and national honor is therefore at stake), but it was an interesting cultural experience watching it in this rudimentary fashion.", null, "Much Later - Sept 14th - Despite the initial assurance they'd wait to interview me for the bee lab job, which I confirmed later in the week by email, and had then emailed them again a few days before my return to my states expressing my eagerness to come up there to interview ... upon my arrival in the states I received an email saying they had filled the position. Broke my little heart, as the job would have been absolutely perfect. ):" ]

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[ null, "On 3rd June 2020, following mass protests against racism in the US after the death of George Floyd, a Black man, by a Minneapolis police officer, thousands peacefully gathered in Helsinki for a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest. However, 16 complaints were filed against the police for double standards as some officers took part in the protest and allowed people to gather despite COVID-19 restrictions. The protest came to an end after an hour as authorities had requested and smaller groups made their way through the city under police supervision. The matter is currently being investigated by the parliamentary ombudsperson.\n\nFreedom of expression and immunity from prosecution of Finnish Members of Parliament has been the topic of public debate since the Prosecutor General requested the immunity of MP Juha Mäenpää to be lifted. In June 2019, Mäenpää, a member of the right-wing populist Finns Party, made comments about asylum seekers on the floor of the chamber which the prosecutor considered ‘incitement’.\n\nFreedom of expression of Finnish MPs is highly protected in the Constitution; lifting an MP’s immunity requires a 5/6 majority in parliament. Mäenpää avoided prosecution as only 121 of the required 167 MPs voted in favour of lifting his immunity. Nonetheless, the case has sparked discussion about the fine line between free speech and hate speech. The case of MP Mäenpää is rare, as the last time the immunity of an MP was put to a vote was in the 1970s." ]

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[ "Who Makes Southgate’s Squad For March", null, "England manager Gareth Southgate has now confirmed his squad for the upcoming games in the month of March.\n\nThe next break of the 2017/18 campaign in March sees England face friendlies against the Netherlands on Friday March 23 and Italy on Tuesday March 27.\n\nThere are a couple of fresh faces, as well as some omissions, but I doubt his squad is going to please everyone, as fans are already questioning four goalkeepers for friendly games for example.\n\nAmongst a host of familiar names, we do have the uncapped quartet of Nick Pope, James Tarkowski, Alfie Mawson and Lewis Cook who come into the group, and there are recalls for Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck but Gary Cahill is left out, as is Harry Kane following his injury." ]

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[ "In terms of popularity, Criminology is the 23rd most popular major in the state out of a total 174 majors commonly available.", null, "In Delaware, a criminology major is more popular with women than with men.", null, "The racial distribution of criminology majors in Delaware is as follows:", null, "Jobs for Criminology Grads in Delaware\n\n900 people in the state and 465,550 in the nation are employed in jobs related to criminology.", null, "Wages for Criminology Jobs in Delaware", null, "Most Popular Criminology Programs in DE\n\nThere are 2 colleges in Delaware that offer criminology degrees. Learn about the most popular 2 below:\n\nThe student loan default rate is 2.20% which is lower than average. Seeking financial aid? At this school, 84% of students receive it. 15 to 1 is the student to faculty ratio.\n\nOf all the students who attend this school, 99% get financial aid. 15 to 1 is the student to faculty ratio. A typical student attending Del State will pay a net price of $13,789." ]

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[ null, "The Institution for Boys, Tamworth, was established by the Child Welfare Department in 1948. Originally a colonial prison the Institution for Boys was a place of secondary punishment for boys aged 15 – 18-years-old who had absconded from Mittagong Training Home or Mount Penang or had been convicted of offences in those homes.\n\nHowever, for almost all of the boys, the punishments at the institution were far too harsh. Many former inmates said there was a “kill or be killed” culture within its walls. From day one, the boys were beaten, starved and had to fight for their lives every single day.\n\nBob McCluland, who was sent to Tamworth for five months in 1962, walked away from the institution with a “killer instinct”.\n\n“Anyone crossed you, you’d just cut their throat,” he said.\n\nHe’s not the only one. ABC News interviewed six former inmates who did not go on to commit violent offences but agreed with Bob’s sentiment.\n\nThey all agreed time spent at the Institution for Boys in Tamworth could turn a man into a killer — and that it did.\n\nAlumni of the Institution for Boys in Tamworth include some of Australia’s most notorious killers and criminals, including:\n\nWhat happened between the walls of this brutal — often deadly — institution? What caused so many boys, now men, to become violent criminals and get locked up behind bars?\n\nIn this article, we expose the horrific punishments the boys were put through and how this impacted their lives so heavily.\n\nThe boys were not allowed to look at each other — if they did, they were forced to wear a box on their head\n\nKeith Kelly was sent to Tamworth when he was just 16-years-old. In an interview with ABC News, Keith said the inmates were not allowed to look at each other and had to keep their distance at all times.\n\n“Can you imagine trying to eat with a box on your head?”\n\nHowever, this was one of the better punishments for the teens at the Institution for Boys in Tamworth. Keith told the ABC that starvation was their main punishment apart from solitary confinement.\n\n“You had what you call a ‘bounce’ and three-quarters of your meal was taken away from you. If you had three bounces in one day, they would turn around and give you a boob meal — half a glass of water and milk and a slice of bread,” Keith said.\n\n“You can’t live on that, you can’t treat kids like that. Do it today and you’ll be charged.”\n\n“The only difference between Tamworth, Norfolk Island and Port Arthur is that in Tamworth, you never got the cat o’ nine tails. When you go to Tamworth and you come out, you’re never the same.”\n\nKeith also claims he was beaten twice for rejecting the sexual advances of one of the guards at the institution.\n\n“Please don’t send me there, I’ll do anything you want”\n\nIn 1971, Peter Solway was living at the Church of England Charlton Boys’ Home in Ashfield, Sydney. He was charged with being “uncontrollable” and lived among 19 other boys. There, he suffered from ongoing physical and sexual abuse, alongside his fellow inmates.\n\nShortly after his arrival at Charlton Boys’ Home, he went on a camping trip with the homes’ executive officer, Ray Menzies, to the Blue Mountains. Solway says he witnessed Menzies sexually abusing another boy there.\n\nTwo months after being placed at the home, he landed a job in Stanmore where he was sexually assaulted by his supervisor. He was just 16-years-old.\n\nPeter told a visiting child welfare officer that he had been sexually assaulted by one of the supervisors. However, the welfare officer was sharing a room with Menzies who was allegedly already abusing the other boys.\n\nPeter was forced by the home’s administrator to lie to the police and confess to what was then a crime or be transferred to Tamworth.\n\n“I was shaking like a leaf and Ray Menzies said to me ‘I’m going to send you to Tamworth boys’ home for this behaviour’,” he said.\n\n“I would meet kids when I was on remand who had come down from Tamworth to go to a dentist or whatever, and you could see they were hardened,” Solways says.\n\n“I’m pleading with Menzies, ‘please don’t send me there, I’ll do anything you want.’”\n\nInstead, Menzies sent Solway to the local police to have him charged with the “abominable crime of buggery”. At this time, homosexuality was still a crime in Australia. According to court documents, the perpetrator of the abuse was also charged with the same offence and Peter was framed.\n\n“Solway was approached by the foreman and then during the course of employment, the various acts of oral intercourse and buggery took place between them,” the documents read.\n\n“This lad eventually became worried by his conscience and then he reported it to his housemaster at Charlton.”", null, "The Institution for Boys in Tamworth manufactured a slew of violent and ruthless criminals: rapists, murderers, bank robbers and more. One of those boys, now a man, was William “Billy” Munday who grew up to become part of the Grim Reapers gang.\n\nIn 1978, he was sentenced to 58 years in jail and convicted for a slew of crimes including rape, kidnap and armed robbery. He was later sentenced to life in jail for killing fellow inmate Stephen Shipley in Parramatta prison.\n\nConvicted bank robber, John Killick, has even expressed a deep fear of Munday. After meeting Munday in prison, he told News Corp that “Billy Munday was a mad crim and killer”.\n\n\n“He was in for murder. He used to stand over and rape boys in Goulburn prison,” Killick said.\n\n“He used to work as a sweep and he’d see who was coming, say ‘I like that one’ then he’d go to the screw and say ‘put this bloke in my cell’.”\n\n“He was a psychopath. I played him in chess one day because I was a champion and he said he was a good chess player. I beat him. I didn’t know how bad he was at that stage. He got up and shook hands and said ‘good on you John, too good’ and went away.”\n\n“Then everyone came and told me later that I was lucky to be alive.”\n\nLater, Munday released an autobiography about his time in the underworld, time in prison and his time at the Institution for Boys in Tamworth. Reflecting on his time at Tamworth, Munday said “I can almost lay blame there for what I’ve done”.\n\n“I came out of there a hardened but scared boy on the verge of manhood. I left full of hatred,” Munday wrote.\n\nIt seems that hatred manifested into real-life violence. Sharing characteristics with one of America’s most notorious serial killers “Son of Sam”, Munday would cruise parks looking for lovers sitting in their cars.\n\n“We’d sneak up behind them and put a gun to their heads and take them to some hide-out. Then we’d bash the guy and rape the girl,” he said.\n\n“I used to tell them after we finished that we were going to kill them, just to see the looks on their faces. There had been so many times I had been that scared of death, I just wanted to see their reactions.”", null, "George Freeman, the alleged underworld kingpin of Sydney, also spoke out about his time at the Institution for Boys in Tamworth. He was there in 1952 before inmates started to report regular bashings.\n\nHowever, he says his introduction to the place was being punched in the head by one of the institution’s officials. From then on, he (alongside the other boys) was put under psychological pressure and described it as “torture”.\n\n“I think the Tamworth boys’ home was probably the toughest, most damaging institution I ever saw the inside of,” Freeman wrote in his autobiography.\n\n“They could break kids in there. They would torture your mind with the pressure. It was mindless discipline, unproductive and cruel. I don’t know anyone who came out of Tamworth in those days who didn’t go on with a life of crime. It was them or us. It had to be to survive.”\n\n“All Tamworth did was ingrain the bitterness. They created the ultimate finishing school for crims.”\n\nThe late Freeman has since been dramatised as the grey-haired star of one of the Underbelly television series and over the decades, 35 violent deaths have been linked to the inmates of the Institution for Boys in Tamworth.\n\n“I suppose if you knock around with violence long enough, you become violent yourself”", null, "The stories coming out of the Institution for Boys in Tamworth has seen psychologists and wardens weighing in on the topic of corporal punishment in government-run homes throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe chairman of the Australian Psychology Society College of Forensic Psychologists, Michael Daffern, says the treatment doled out at Tamworth probably intensified the boys’ capacity for violence.\n\n“If we’ve got a group of people who are high risk already and then we’re going to expose them to punitive treatment and not provide the sort of intervention, the sort of psychological intervention that we know can have a positive impact on their life course, then we do create an environment in which individuals might worsen as a consequence of their incarceration,” Dr Daffern said.\n\nFormer prison warden Des Drury, who also grew up in boys’ homes, has also weighed in on the topic.\n\n“Prisoners who had been in Tamworth boys’ home said (other homes were) a walk in the park compared to Tamworth. This is some of the reason why some of these blokes went the way they went,” he said.\n\n“All their dignity was gone, it was bashed out of them. They had nothing left, they were just walking bodies with no mind. They get money where they can.\n\nThe former inmates of the Institution for Boys in Tamworth have suffered enormously since their time at the school. Struggling through starvation, beatings, sexual harassment and abuse, solitary confinement and more, the boys left the institution far worse-for-wear than when they entered.\n\nMore than a few ended up in prison. The institution was renamed Endeavour House in 1976 and closed in 1990 after a slew of suicides.\n\nThere is no doubt the abuse the boys suffered impacted their adult lives. While some may have committed some of Australia’s most heinous historic crimes, they are still entitled to the justice they deserve. Their childhood — their innocence — was taken from them, and we’re here to fight for their right to compensation.", null, null, null ]

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[ "Pizza—that gourmet Italian food that the world goes crazy for.\n\nThat’s so because Pizza Hut and Dominos ruined pizza for me. And I realised this only a couple of weeks ago.\n\nWhen it comes to food, I like mine with a lot of spice. I cherish the steam that the heat invokes in my tongue. I love it when my taste buds tingle and I have to curl my lips and inhale a whiff of air to cool down the heat. However, nothing of that sort happened when I tried pizza for the first time. Instead, a mass of ooey-gooey cheese burst into my mouth, thrusting through my teeth a mesh of coldness, milk that felt like jelly and tasted a bit sour. It was nothing to die for. And a couple of pieces later, I couldn’t get the rubbery, sticky sensation off my teeth.\n\nNot to mention, the cheese sat on half cooked and flaky bread that tried so hard and failed to taste sour. It didn’t help that the bread was called fiery crust while it felt like a feathered crest.\n\nAnd that’s why I hated pizza.\n\nAnd then I went to a place called Cafe Xtasi in Pondicherry. The restaurant came with a high recommendation and a higher Zomato reputation. I didn’t feel too keen since it was famous for its wood-fired pizza and I—among myself—am famous for hating all things pizza. It didn’t mean much to me, because, well, it’s just bread and bland cheese. But I decided to give it a try anyway. At least to make a post on Zomato, my rational voice piped.\n\nThe first thing that admired me was the menu, not with variety but with creativity. I scrolled through a list of pasta dishes, when one, in particular, caught my eye: Bad Idea. It was the name of the pasta dish and below it read a small description, “Fresh garlic, garlic sauce, feta in white sauce.” Ha, bad idea indeed.\n\nI wanted to try it. But a friend had already advised me against the pasta and told me to go for the pizzas, instead. They are better, he had said. And since it was my first time there, I took the expert’s advice.", null, "The pizza menu boasted names like Chukini, Lambretta, and Harem. I had my eye on Iron Pie, but when our waiter told me Shekchilli would be spicier, I chose that one. “Chicken, capsicum, onion, garlic, and chilli,” the description read. Yum.\n\nThe pizza arrived in about 10 minutes taking me by surprise. All the Dominos outlets I’ve been to take at least 20 minutes. And it was steamy, too. It remained warm for about 5 to 10 minutes in that air-conditioned hall—that’s a big deal. However, something else about the pizza caught my hungry eye more than my timekeeping mind: The crust was crusty. It was less than half of the thickness of every other pizza I’d had before, and what’s more, it even had a mild burnt edge to it.\n\nWhen I picked up a piece and bit into the crust, I bit into a crust and not just a ball of cooked flour. I felt the crunch in my teeth, while spicy sauce seeped into my tongue through the holes in between my teeth. The chicken was tender, sauce splendour, and the cheese just right. The crunch and munch blended, bombing my mouth with tangy, garlicky, and a bunch of pungent flavours.\n\nAnd that’s when I fell in love with pizza." ]

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[ "Stuff You Will Hate!", null, "Sgt. D: I'm sure these indie jerks think this annoying video is very clever, and I get the joke: \"This video is BAD ON PURPOSE! For example, look how absurd their outfits are! The people are extremely unfashionable and lack the self-awareness to know it, which makes it that much more amusing! And look at how bad the dancing is! It breaks from the convention of putting talented dancers in music videos! Instead, they're deliberately using extremely amateurish dancers for comedic effect. Get it?!\" I think Spike Jonez did the whole \"ironic dancing\" thing a long time ago. Just a heads up, kids: if you're stealing ideas from fucking Fatboy Slim, it's official that you are creatively bankrupt. At that point, the only way you could stoop any lower would be to borrow lines from Crazy Town (RIP DJ AM).", null, null, "GD: Back in 1991, these guys faced the same obstacles as YACHT. They didn't have enough money to afford anything but a plain white backdrop for the majority of their video, and they couldn't muster enough musical ability to create anything but an extremely basic and repetitive song. But instead of winking about their shortcomings until blood trickled from their eyes, they just went about their work. They even let a dog run around the set, which really boosted their likability, mostly because it didn't feel like a calculated dogs-boost-likability gambit. Mucky Pup sucked, but at least they didn't seem desperate.\n\nMucky Pup sounded like The Offspring in wacky novelty mode, except Mucky Pup's singer was even dumpier looking and occasionally sang in tune. You don't see many unselfconscious ugly dudes like this in bands anymore, let alone upbeat ones. But really, they had a dog, they had dancing girls -- what did Mucky Pup have to mope about?" ]

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[ null, "Jodie Sweetin is adamant ... she's NOT currently being treated in a rehab facility -- but tells TMZ she currently WORKS at one.\n\nWe spoke to the former \"Full House\" star ... who tells us reports that she's in treatment for substance abuse are \"such bulls**t ... I am absolutely NOT in rehab.\"\n\nJodie -- who once battled with a meth addiction -- says she currently works as a clinical logistics coordinator at an L.A. rehab center, and her employer has allowed her to live in a studio apartment on the property while she deals with her divorce from husband #3 Morty Coyle.\n\n\"I work for the center and they have been really generous in helping me with a place to stay as Morty wanted me out by the end of the month,\" Sweetin says.\n\n\"The owners of the facility said I could stay here as I got things figured out.\"\n\nJodie also says she's decided not to pursue full custody of the couple's 2-year-old daughter Beatrix -- and wants joint custody instead -- because she wants the kid \"to have both of her parents in her life.\"\n\nJodie and Morty were married in 2012.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Over the past month, Sachi and I have been neck-deep in ideas surrounding explanation, and it has been one of the most creative times in our lives. As you may remember, I'm writing a book called The Art of Explanation that will be out in October of 2012. To make our deadlines with the publisher, we took time this month to focus almost solely on the book - and that we did. I've written and Sachi has edited almost 60,000 words in the last month or so, which is much more than will appear in the book. In a lot of ways we've been writing this book for years, so this was our time to bring it all together.\n\nHere is the spot where those words were typed. It's in a house we rented for a writing retreat.", null, "I'm feeling like the major part of the writing is finished. The big ideas are in-place and the table of contents is pretty much fleshed out. Something we did last week, which was incredibly helpful, was to take the big ideas and arrange them in vertical rows by chapter. This created a visual way to see the book as a package. As soon as we put up the notes, it highlighted gaps and showed how the book could be better organized. Thanks to Dan Roam for his advice on this exercise.", null, "Right now we're working with a development editor at Wiley (the publisher) who is helping us make sure that the overall structure and flow of the book is working for our goals. So far we've sent her two of the three parts of the book, so we are mid-stream. Her feedback on Part 1 and it was encouraging and we have high hopes for Part 2. The final manuscript is due in late May.\n\nNow more than ever, we have a clear vision of the book's intent. The Art of Explanation is based on the idea that explanation is a powerful skill- and one that is often taken for granted. We want readers to see that explanation can be defined, understood, improved and put to work in solving problems. In this way, the book is for anyone who wants to become better at explaining their ideas, whether it's in the office, a classroom or home. The book is based on our work at Common Craft, but isn't about making videos. It's bigger than that. At heart, it's about effective communication.\n\nWe still have a long way to go and because this is our first book, we're learning as we go. If you're interested in tracking our progress, The Art of Explanation Facebook and Twitter accounts have more regular updates. Of course, the Art of Explanation website will be the home of the book in the future." ]

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[ null, null, null, "With a view to the future\n\nVolkovysk (Belarus). Direct foreign investment is not uncommon in Belarus. Especially in the area of renewable energies, the country is reliant on financial support from foreign companies in order to achieve its ambitious climate protection targets and to reduce its import dependency in the energy sector. The JC JSC RindiBel company has chosen precisely this route and has successfully established itself in the forest harvesting and woodchipping production sectors since its founding in 2008.\n\n\"Our shareholders include two Belarusian and three foreign companies who are mainly based in the Scandinavian area\" explained Vadim Kondratenko, CEO of RindiBel. The young company profits from direct investment in more ways than just financially. \"Our foreign partners have a lot of experience and know-how in the forestry and renewable energy sectors\" he explained. This has resulted in the setting of a common aim of developing the forestry industry in Belarus through the introduction of new technologies and knowledge from the Scandinavian countries. RindiBel has been offering services in the timber harvest sector throughout Belarus since 2009. The timber is used for in-house production or sold on the inland and foreign markets for the manufacture of a range of timber products. Demand is high. \"That's why we increased the size of our machinery fleet in 2010\" explained Mr Kondratenko proudly \"now we harvest an average of 70,000 m³ of timber every year.\n\nThe company began to consider further utilisation possibilities for the raw material due to the increased quantity of timber available. \"We decided to incorporate woodchipping production as an additional service within the company range\" stated the RindiBel director. Which is why JENZ made an appearance. Initially a used HEM 420 DQ was purchased in 2010, and three years later this was replaced by a new HEM 561 DQ for reasons of increased demand. \"We decided to buy a JENZ again for several reasons, partly due to the excellent service in Belarus and the price to performance ratio\" explained Mr Kondratenko.\n\nThe larger chipper also provided further earning potentials. \"Our company headquarters in Volkovsysk City (Grodno region) was strategically chosen to be near the Polish border on purpose\" said Mr Kondratenko. This is now paying off. RindiBel set up its own woodchippings production for export to Poland and uses the rail connection between the two countries for this purpose. Last year, a total of 65,000 solid m3 woodchippings were produced.\n\nThe company received its newest JENZ machine in October 2015. This was a Chippertruck of type HEM 540 R. \"Our woodchipping services were becoming more in demand even in regions of our country which were further away, which meant we regularly had to cover distances of between 200 and 600 km\" said Mr Kondratenko . The new chipper truck is now being deployed in these regions due to its logistics advantages, and the previous HEM 561 DQ remains in the Grodno region. \"Both machines have different advantages which we can now utilise optimally thanks to targeted deployment.\"\n\nOverall the businessman is looking at the development of energetic use of ligneous biomasses optimistically. Both home demand and the export of woodchippings is growing. \"We currently only offer our woodchipping services in the Grodno and Gomel regions, in contrast to our other forest harvesting services, but the demand is growing. In the future we will also becoming active in various other regions of Belarus\". At the same time, however, he is aware of the challenges in his business. \"In our sector the market develops dynamically and quickly, and that can go in both directions. There are just so many influencing factors both at home and abroad. On top of this there is the price development of the fossil energy sources, the weather and, last but not least, the increasing competition\". At the moment the decreasing price for woodchippings is an example of one of the problems, but Vadim Kondratenko views this pugnaciously. \"We believe that this is only a temporary situation and we will be there as soon as the economy starts to increase again\"." ]

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[ "DUBAI (Reuters) – S&P Global Ratings said on Saturday it had revised its outlook on Oman to positive from stable due to higher oil prices and fiscal reform plans that are expected to narrow state deficits and slow a rise in debt levels over the next three years.\n\nOman, a relatively small oil producer, is more sensitive than its hydrocarbon-rich Gulf neighbours to oil price swings, meaning it was hit especially hard by 2020’s price crash and the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n“Economic and fiscal pressures on Oman are easing, as the effects of the sharp drop in oil prices in 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic abate,” S&P said in a statement.\n\nBut lower oil prices from 2023 would result in a worsening fiscal trajectory despite planned reforms, it said, adding that total funding needs — fiscal deficit plus maturing debt — would remain high, averaging about 12% of GDP through 2024.\n\nOman’s debt as share of GDP hit nearly 80% last year having been little more than 5% in 2015. The International Monetary Fund last month estimated that total government debt is expected to drop to 70% this year.\n\nThe sultanate has begun measures in the past year to fix its finances, including the introduction of a value-added tax and the decision to work with the IMF to develop a debt strategy.", null ]

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[ null, "A blockchain refers to a distributed database, or a ledger shared among nodes in a computer network. It stores the information electronically in a digital format. It is known for its crucial role in cryptocurrency systems, for instance, for maintaining a decentralized and secure record of transactions. Blockchain technology innovation guarantees the data records’ security and fidelity. It generates deep levels of trust without the supervision of a central or government authority as in traditional currencies.\n\nKavan Choksi– what is the goal of this blockchain technology?\n\nAccording to reputable business and finance expert Kavan Choksi, the purpose of blockchain technology is to permit digital information to be distributed, recorded, and not edited. Blockchain technology becomes the foundation for immutable ledgers, transactions, or records that cannot be changed, destroyed, or deleted. This is why blockchains are called DLT or distributed ledger technology.\n\nHow do cryptocurrencies work with blockchain technology?\n\nWhat is the difference between a blockchain and a database?\n\nOne of the primary differences between a database and the blockchain is its data structure, as the latter collected data in groups called blocks that contain sets of preliminary information. They have specific capacities for storage, and when they are filled, they are closed and later linked to the previous filled block creating a data chain called a blockchain. All this new information follows the newly added block, and the whole process is again repeated to increase the chain.\n\nHow does the blockchain function?\n\nThe database generally structures the data into tables where the blockchain, as the name implies, structures this data into chunks or blocks that are strung to one another. The structure makes a timeline of data irreversible when incorporated in a decentralized manner. When this block gets filled in, it becomes a part of the above timeline and receives a timestamp when it is added to the blockchain.\n\nAccording to business expert Kavan Choksi, blockchain technology is very secure and confidential, making cryptocurrency transactions safe from fraud and hacking threats. However, if you want to use cryptocurrency for your transactions, you should first educate yourself with the correct information. This will help you in the long run.\n\nThe above holds for cryptocurrency investments as well, so you must consult skilled financial advisors well versed in the field to understand your risk tolerance and how they work so that you can make wise choices without hassles! Since this is your first attempt, do not rush in. Listen to the advice of the experts and invest accordingly. They have the required knowledge to operate in this field.", null, "A Complete Guide to Forex Trading", null, null, "FXGM ZA is a reliable broker in South Africa\n\nEverything You Need to Know About Security Guards of Finance Company" ]

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[ null, "“I have friends who are superheroes.” Recently, Amazon released a new teaser for the season one return of The Tick.\n\nSeason one of The Tick will return with new episodes on Prime Video on February 23rd.\n\nWhat do you think? Have you seen The Tick reboot on Amazon? Will you continue watching season one?" ]