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[ "“Grandpa went to the Convent to bring his younger sister home.” Mom shifted and looked away. “After that, he never stepped foot in a Catholic Church again. That’s likely the answer to why your father doesn’t come to Church with us.”\n\n“I don’t get it. What was Grandpa’s sister doing in the convent?”\n\n“She was a nun. She was very ill and Grandpa felt they were not giving her the necessary medical attention. So he was bringing her home.”\n\n“Oh. That’s weird.” At age 10, however, a surface answer was sufficient. I decided Dad lucked out having Grandpa mad at Catholics. As an Anglican, I had to go to church until I was 16.\n\nDecades later – last April, the road trip with my big brother was a perfect time to ask if he’d heard the story. “Yes,” he said, “but she was more than ill. She was pregnant.”\n\n“I don’t know much else. But I know that’s why Grandpa quit the Catholic Church.”\n\nThe story lodged in my heart like a sliver under a fingernail.\n\nI thought I had come through life unscathed by the underbelly of that particular institution. Patriarchal dominance and abuses, in any religious setting, have been under my radar most of my adult life. I’ve seen and experienced unjust domination and rejection by male clergy in Protestant Churches. However, issues within the Catholic Church could be left to Catholics.\n\nOr so I thought.\n\nLinda, of Rangewriter, wrote a post that raised the subject of family skeletons. I commented unexpectedly about Grandpa and his sister. Linda didn’t allow that to slide by. In an email, she asked if I wondered about having a family member who I didn’t know existed. Could a baby have been born?\n\nI wrote to Linda: “Yes, you bet I wondered. I do have an aunt [aged 90] – the youngest of my grandparents. She’s the only one still alive who may know. I’m going to call her and see if my big bro has his facts straight. Your comment motivates me to do it NOW…”\n\nAunt Audrey answered her phone and welcomed my interest in family history. “Yes, Grandpa did have a younger sister who was a nun. I’m pretty sure her name was Nell, but this happened over 80 years ago so I was just a little kid. She was a nun in Northern Alberta – in a very small town. The Catholic priest at their church got her pregnant.”\n\n“He told her that neither of them could withstand the consequences of the scandal if she were to have the child. He told her to have an abortion. You can imagine the draconian methods used in those days.”\n\n“Anyway, Aunt Nell died. Grandpa was the only relative she had here in Canada. The rest of the family had stayed in Iowa. Grandpa’s heart was broken. He had nothing to do with the Catholic Church again.”\n\nSuddenly, I wanted this soul, Aunt Nell, to know she was not forgotten.\n\nThe next morning, during meditation, I asked my Guides if I could receive messaging from or about Aunt Nell. The love and forgiveness, in the response, impacted transformationally:\n\nThe soul named “Nell” assures that she is very much connected with the soul she carried for those weeks – a great Love exists between them. She reminds that all souls come into the physical form with Agreements with other souls. These Agreements allow all to have the FEELING experiences necessary to evolve toward higher dimensions. So this baby’s soul had previously agreed to be an embryo so this soul named “Nell” could experience deep feelings of maternal grief, betrayal and subsequent death. The priest was as much a part of the Agreement as the baby.\n\nThere is no judgment towards the priest or the church, only acceptance in the knowledge that this experience led to the fulfillment of her soul’s purpose during her “Nell” incarnation.", null, "“A rose by any other name…”\n\nIn spite of the folds and mystery of death, Aunt Nell’s assurances plucked the splinter from my heart. The sting has lessened significantly because I trust her model of forgiveness. The wound nevertheless weeps. I am no less leery of the patriarchal thrusts and egocentric manipulations towards women and men that continue to stalk the halls of the consecrated and ordained.\n\nEven those events, however, do not diminish the Love I feel for All That Is. The magnificent energy that is called by so many different names brings endless reassurances that “no man puts asunder”.\n\nI am relieved and comforted to learn there was no family member put up for adoption who could have been overlooked. I am grateful knowing my Great Aunt Nell’s soul entwines with mine.\n\n(Thank you for the nudge, Linda!)" ]

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[ "The total activity index shows growth but gradual decline is in progress – while the UK regional index is slowly losing momentum, with the largest decline experienced in the South-east. Experian Economics reports\n\nThe total activity index for January continued to indicate growth in the sector, despite its gradual fall since August last year. It stood at 52, two points down on December’s figure. R&M activity was also down, by three points relative to last month’s levels, but remained in growth territory at 53, three points above the no-growth level.\n\nBy sector, residential activity remained in positive territory, while civil engineering returned to the black. These indices moved up by one and nine points to 55 and 57, respectively. Non-residential activity, on the other hand, fell flat dropping five points on December’s figure to stand at the no-growth bound of 50 in January.\n\nBoth orders and tender inquiries remained in positive territory, exhibiting little movement over the last three months. The indices rose by two points each on December and stood at 67 and 57, respectively.\n\nOrders in all main sectors were in positive territory, although the residential and non-residential sectors continued the slowdown seen in December. Residential ticked down by one point and non-residential orders by two points. However, civil engineering rebounded, gaining 13 points over January with a figure of 60.\n\nThe tender enquiry indices suggest growth in all sectors. The residential tender index gained four points in January and posted 59, while the gain in civil engineering was even greater – up by 14 points to 62. The non-residential sector recorded a slight deceleration as its tender index dropped three points on December’s figure to 54.\n\nThe tender prices continued expanding, with January marking the 18th month of a tender price index of above 60 points. The index gained five points over the last month and reached 66, a four-month high.\n\nEmployment prospects remained in positive territory for the sixth month. The index remained unchanged on December, at 53.\n\nThe activity index for January continued to suggest positive developments in contractors’ workloads, standing at 52 points, but it has been decelerating gradually since August last year. The Leading Activity Indicator lost two points from December’s figure and is expected to continue further down to the no-growth bound in February and fluctuate around its current level until May.", null, null, null, null, "All respondents from the residential and non-residential sectors reported an increase in labour costs in January, a slight change from 98% in October.\n\nAround 39% reported growth of labour costs exceeding 5%, which was up from 29% in December, while the share of agents facing cost rises up to 2.5% has climbed to 18%, up from 15%. Accordingly, those reporting cost rises between 2.6% and 5% account for 42% of the respondents, down from 54% in October.", null, "The UK composite index was estimated at 53 – a seven point drop on December’s figure. It has remained in positive territory since July 2017 but has been losing momentum since September.\n\nIn January, most of the regions remained in positive territory, while those in the negative in December saw a further slump. This meant a decrease in the UK composite index, although it remained above the no-growth bound.\n\nYorkshire and Humberside marked the largest increase – up by 13 points to 73, taking the lead from the North-east, which recorded no change. East Midlands was next, up four points to 56. North-west, Wales and Northern Ireland were the other three growing regions, at 56, 55 and 57, respectively.\n\nThe largest decrease was the South-east, losing six points, to 42. For the West Midlands, January marked the seventh month of an index value below 50 points, at 32, and its sixth month in last position.", null ]

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[ "The 10-year-old son of a Kansas state legislator was killed Sunday when a ride on the world's tallest water slide turned deadly.\n\nCaleb Thomas Schwab was the son of Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife, Michele, who issued a statement Sunday night.\n\n\"Since the day he was born, he brought abundant joy to our family and all those who he came into contact with,\" the parents said. \"As we try and mend our home with him no longer with us, we are comforted knowing he believed in his savior, Jesus, and they are forever together now. We will see him another day.\"\nKansas state police are investigating Caleb's death at the Schlitterbahn water park, which has been closed for the investigation, said spokeswoman Winter Prosapio.\n\nThe boy died while riding the Verrückt, the world's tallest water slide, she said. The park released no other details.\n\nAccording to the park's website, the slide required two to three riders to be strapped in a raft with a total weight between 400 and 500 pounds.\n\nThe raft then \"will slide down a jaw-dropping 168 foot 7 inch structure, only to be blasted back up a second massive hill and then sent down yet another gut wrenching 50 foot drop for the ultimate in water slide thrills,\" the website said.\n\nEach rider was required to be at least 54 inches tall. It was not immediately known Sunday whether Caleb met the height requirement.", null, "Thousands of children are hurt annually on amusement rides, according to a 2013 study by the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, which examined data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.\n\nHead and neck injuries were the most common at 28%, with 1.5% of the injuries requiring hospitalization, the study said.\n\nConsumer Product Safety Commission statistics for 2015 are not available, but a review of the raw data found 45,000 injuries associated with amusement rides and water slides nationwide; about 30,000 of these cases involved those under age 18.\n\nIts height of 168 feet 7 inches is 5 feet taller than the previous record holder, a water slide at a Rio de Janeiro country club. Verrückt was built in Kansas City because it didn't have a height restriction, its designer designer John Schooley told CNN when it opened in July 2014.\n\nJeff Henry, owner of Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts, was at a trade show and decided he wanted to build the tallest, fas\n\ntest water slide at one of his five Schlitterbahn water parks, Schooley said." ]

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[ null, "From Fish Poison to Merck Picrotoxin\n\nFor countless centuries, many fishermen in South and Southeast Asia used a stupefying fish poison derived from the seeds of the fishberry shrub (Anamirta cocculus). Picrotoxin, the active ingredient of fishberry seeds, acts as a noncompetitive GABAA receptor antagonist. A neurostimulant and occasional convulsant, picrotoxin can block chloride conductance enhanced by GABAA receptor agonists such as propofol and barbiturates. Thus, picrotoxin has been employed to investigate anesthetic mechanisms of action at the GABAA receptor, as well as used as an antidote for barbiturate toxicity. Manufactured by Merck in Germany, the bottle of picrotoxin (above) is now part of the collection of the Wood Library-Museum.", null ]

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[ "Khaligraph Jones and Rayvanny in new banger \"Chali ya Ghetto\"", null, "After months of teasing, Kenyan hip hop artiste Khaligraph and Tanzania's Rayvanny finally come through with the visuals for their smash hit \"Chali ya Ghetto\". A joint production by their two labels Wasafi Records and Blu Ink Corp, the jam details the journey and rise of the artistes from the ghetto to where they are now - at the top of the game!\n\nBoth Khaligraph and Rayvanny have also made their debut on one of Africa's biggest music show; Coke Studio Africa season 5 currently being filmed in Nairobi and we can't wait to hear the magic!" ]

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[ "Infinite durability knives are set to make their return in the upcoming Resident Evil 3 Remake game. After being missing in action in the previous installment in the series, the weapon is planned to be incorporated this time around, promising players new ways of dealing with enemies and other encounters on the streets of Raccoon City.\n\nThe information about the knife comes from an interview between Game Informer and producer Peter Fabiano. While speaking with the publication, Fabiano stated that the development team kept the knife unbreakable in an effort to have it last forever. “We’re dealing with survival horror and everything is exhaustible,” says Fabiano. “So if you did run out of everything, what would you have? The knife. The director always wanted to make it so that you at least have your trusty knife. That’s always something you can rely on.”\n\nThe concept of an unbreakable knife isn’t exactly a revolutionary idea. Since the first Resident Evil games, unbreakable knives have been a thing, and players would use them in very tight or desperate situations. In fact, some would even challenge themselves with a “knife only” playthrough where they were allowed to only use a knife and nothing else.", null, "After Resident Evil 2 Remake came out, knives became disposable and it was pretty much impossible to beat the entire game with just the knife. In other words, the knife was seen as more of a defensive tool rather than an offensive one. Although there was a way to get a knife with infinite durability in Resident Evil 2 Remake, it was really easy to lose it if a player was grabbed by a zombie, stabbed it, but forget to pick up the knife afterward.\n\nWith knifes having infinite durability in Resident Evil 3 Remake, players won’t have to worry too much about inventory management (after all, there’s no need to carry multiple knives). Additionally, the concept opens up a bunch of new ways to play the game, including the classic “knife only” run, which according to the Game Informer interview is very much possible (since some of the development team members already beat the game with just the knife).\n\nResident Evil 3 Remake will release on April 3, 2020 for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC and will be bundled with Resident Evil Resistance – a 1 vs 4 multiplayer experience." ]

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[ null, "A 600-foot long mural is painted ahead of the ABLM march.\n\nThis year’s 50th anniversary of annual LGBTQ+ Pride traditions were put on hold as a result of the pandemic. Later, the L.A. Pride organizers chose to hold a march to honor the origin of the Pride celebrations and stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement that has swept the nation—but, there was some backlash due to the way the march was initially organized.\n\nOn Saturday, volunteers painted “All Black Lives Matter” across the Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue intersection on Saturday as a way of showing solidarity and to honor black LGBTQ+ people and the fight for racial justice nationwide. This was also where the historic protest recently took place last week, where over 50, 000 people showed up to speak up about the matter.\n\nThe “all” is done in the Transgender Pride Flag colors, while the rest of the letters were painted in colors that represent the LGBTQ+ community, including the colors of the Rainbow.\n\nThis follows the bold street mural that was painted on the road leading to the White House in Washington D.C. by Mayor Muriel Bowser. She commissioned artists to paint “Black Lives Matter” just a few blocks from marches that took place recently and officially renamed the section of 16th Street Black Lives Matter Plaza.\n\nAn All Black Lives Matter march is set to take place in Los Angeles on Sunday starting at 11 a.m. at Hollywood and Highland.\n\n“The protest is in direct response to racial injustice, systemic racism, and all forms of oppression,” ABLM said on its website. “The LGBTQ+ community must extend its support to unite against oppression, police brutality, racism, transphobia, and the many other disparities disproportionately impacting the Black community.”\n\nSee more: Over 50,000 People Showed Up In Hollywood For L.A.’s Largest Protest Yet" ]

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[ null, "Howard Smith/USA TODAY Sports\nFormer 76er Evan Turner posts up his new teammate, Paul George, in a recent battle with the Indiana Pacers. Turner doesn’t have that problem anymore after being swapped for Danny Granger today.\n\nIt’s not that hard to judge trade deadlines.\n\nMix in a few recognizable names being exchanged with teams we expect to see in the postseason and you got something.\n\nThing is, this latest NBA trade deadline, which came to fruition yesterday afternoon, was looking pretty weak up until Indiana and Philadelphia’s at-the-buzzer swap between Evan Turner and Danny Granger (interior player Lavoy Allen was also involved and headed to Indy).\n\nSome would say the deadline was still weak, mostly because of those who didn’t get moved and also because prior to the Turner/Granger trade the biggest moves was Philly (in full dump mode) sending Spencer Hawes to Cleveland and Steve Blake being sent from the Lakers to Golden State. Here’s a full list of the deadline trades, full is used for lack of a better word.\n\nUnfortunate thing about those trades: of the four teams mentioned only one is a playoff team right now, one other maybe could make a final lunge at the eighth seed. As for the players — Hawes and Blake are respected professionals (though I suspect Hawes is much less respected off the court) but they both need a shot of Monstar aura in order to do anything in a game that captures our attention.\n\nThat’s not the case with Turner and Granger though, the two players seem to be at intersecting points of their respective careers and this trade reflected that: Granger is older and overpaid, once at the center of the nucleus for a team on the rise who wound up finding itself in his absence and later found out that it could leverage him for a younger boost in talent in Turner.\n\nYou can argue that Turner isn’t much, if any, of an upgrade from Granger and that this trade could upset a delicate chemistry that has helped Indiana progress to being the current No. 1 in the Eastern Conference but you’d be wrong and misguided.\n\nTurner hasn’t lit up the NBA like you’d want a No. 2 overall pick (2010) to do but he’s been more than serviceable in a franchise that hasn’t done much right beyond him, the Chicago native also has playoff experience and he’s simply more productive at this point, scoring 17.4 points a game, bringing down six rebounds and offering nearly 3.5 assists a game (per 36 minutes those numbers bump up to 17.9, 6.1 and 3.8 according to Basketball Reference, Granger has 36 minute averages of 13.3, 5.8 and 1.8 and he hasn’t been asked to be the No. 1 perimeter threat like Turner has been for his team.\n\nAnd that’s the biggest reason why Turner won yesterday — he’s right in the mix for an NBA title now, for the first time ever and he’ll at most be asked to keep things moving on offense and keep wing threats in front of him when Lance Stephenson needs a break or when Paul George has his hands full. Turner is going to be of particular help against teams with multiple threats off the dribble and if there is any trouble keeping up with Indiana’s particular brand of team defense it stands reason that Turner could make up for it on the other end of the court.\n\nSo our initial winners are — the Pacers, who gained a superior talent while giving up a more expensive (Granger is on the books for $14 million) asset. Turner is a restricted free agent still on his rookie deal and it should take no more that $8 or 9 million to keep him past this season should the Pacers want him. Can’t overlook Lavoy Allen either in this deal, he’s another playoff-experienced big body who Indy can and will throw at Miami.\n\nTurner and Allen are definite winners, they’ll get to play deep into May. The 76ers are winners as well — we all know what they’re doing here and they didn’t have much hope for the future tied up in Turner and Hawes, its more like Noel and whoever they get in the lottery in June’s draft, plus they’re not tied into Granger past the end of this season, freeing up a lot of cap space for the offseason.\n\nLosers: Granger can be classified as one, but this could be a good chance for him to showcase his skills once more and show that he can be a threatening NBA rotation player. Granger has been a somewhat-threatening go-to guy and he’s faded into relative obscurity as one of the league’s brightest young talents (Paul George) rocketed along side him. If Granger makes the most of these last couple months he’ll get picked up by a contender, not for $14 mil, but he could definitely make some Shane Battier cash, maybe even for Battier’s current team…\n\nOther winners: the Wizards did right by picking up Andre Miller, who doesn’t seem interested in giving country to dumb coaches at this point of his career. Randy Wittman should watch himself, but he did coach Miller before in Cleveland and things should be straight at least for the rest of this season as Miller offers good minutes as John Wall’s understudy and quality journeyman leadership.\n\nAt first hearing, I thought this could make the Wiz the favorite for the No. 3 seed in the East but I’m not gonna discount the emerging talent in Toronto or the steely determined grind of the Bulls, who continue to make the Chi proud. Still this makes Washington a much better No. 5 seed.\n\nLike the Nets getting a more explosive guard in Marcus Thornton and letting go of two players in Jason Terry and Reggie Evans who were just there in Brooklyn. Hopefully Thornton is more inspired to play within a system in the BK and boost his play back up to pre-Sacramento levels.\n\nGive props to Charlotte too for doing something to make itself a better eighth seed. Gary Neal and Luke Ridnour will only need to do two things — find empty spots on the court and shoot — those will be the only things they could do should the Bobcats meet up with Miami or Indiana anyway so you might as well pick up guys like that. And of course Neal and Ridnour are winning, they aren’t in Milwaukee anymore, though I’m sure they will miss Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s child-like exuberance for the game." ]

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[ "ISC DHCP offers a complete open source solution for implementing DHCP servers, relay agents, and clients. ISC DHCP supports both IPv4 and IPv6, and is suitable for use in high-volume and high-reliability applications. DHCP is available for free download under the terms of the MPL 2.0 license. The client and relay portions of ISC DHCP are no longer maintained.\n\nISC has developed a new DHCP server, Kea, which we intend to eventually replace ISC DHCP in most server implementations. We recommend that new implementers use Kea and implement ISC DHCP only if Kea does not meet their needs. The Kea distribution does not currently include either a client or a relay.\n\nA DHCP server receives clients’ requests and replies to them.\n\nIn addition to the open source server from ISC, a number of commercial products provide a management interface and/or an IP address management application that incorporates ISC DHCP as the DHCP server.\n\nISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early 2022. This client implementation is no longer maintained and should not be used in production any longer.\n\nA DHCP relay agent passes DHCP requests from one LAN to another, so that a DHCP server is not needed on every LAN.\n\nISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP Relay Agent as of early 2022. This relay implementation is no longer maintained and should not be used in production any longer.", null, "Please note that ISC DHCP is covered by the MPL 2.0 license and redistribution with unpublished modifications is restricted.\nClick here to get a DHCP Support Subscription\n\nISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R16-P1 is released under the ISC License.\nClick here to get a DHCP Support Subscription\n\nBefore submitting a bug report please ensure that you are running a current version. Then log your report as an issue in our ISC DHCP project.\n\nIt’s time once again to reflect back on our accomplishments of the past year.\n\nWith great pride, we present ISC’s annual report for 2020. The year was a terrible one in so many ways, but our organization has been fortunate.", null, "“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.\n\nThere has been much debate on various technical mailing lists about what the default prefix size should be for DHCPv6 prefix delegation." ]

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[ "Treharne Confident ahead of Wales Debut", null, null, null, null, "News in the Sevens world over the past week has been dominated by the announcements of squads ahead of the Glasgow Commonwealth games later this month. Particular attention has been paid to the surprise inclusion of Luke Treharne in the Wales squad.\n\nFor those who have followed Treharne’s development over the past few years however, this selection is not a case of surprise that he has been selected, but rather one of why it has taken this long.\n\nOver the past three years Luke Treharne has played for GB Student’s 7s, Wales Students, Exeter Chiefs 7s, been a regular for The University of Exeter 1st XV and has been playing for Samurai International 7s since the tender age of 17.\n\nTalking Rugby Union highlight Luke Treharne as one to watch at this month’s Commonwealth Games, and TRU’s Mike Stanton caught up with him following his selection.\n\n“Initially I was pretty surprised too,” Luke began. “A couple of months ago I would never of thought I would be going to the Commonwealth Games.\n\n“But the last few weeks being back in training and going to Lyon in the FIRA tournament I thought I played quite well and put my hand up for selection.\n\n“It’s going to be a pretty big step up, obviously with the GB stuff you’re playing against students whereas now it’s against professionals.\n\n“I think it’s going to be a lot more intense, a lot quicker, skills are going to have to be better. But it’s a challenge I think I’m quite well prepared for, especially playing with Samurai you play with lots of international players and against a lot of international sides so it is a big step up but one I feel I’m ready for”.\n\nWales face a tricky Pool in Glasgow, drawn against Papa New Guinea, Malaysia and Samoa - a challenge Treharne is not taking lightly.\n\n“I think with the team we’ve got we can play some really good rugby. We need to be careful of the trap that a lot of the teams may fall into, however, playing against the non-traditional rugby nations you may think they will be easy games.\n\n“But having played the GB Sevens we played the likes of Malaysia before, and they are good rugby sides, fit and quick.\n\n“I think they will all be hard games, especially with one of the toughest games against Samoa who have such a high pedigree of sevens.\n\n“Every team needs to have a bit confidence and belief but we won’t be under estimating the competition”.\n\nThis confidence is clear to see, with Luke admitting Wales have high hopes for the tournament.\n\n“Very early on the challenge was set to medal at the Commonwealth Games”, Luke admitted. “It will be tough to do, there are some really high calibre teams there but that’s our over-riding goal”.\n\nLuke’s inclusion in the squad means a chance for the young medical student to claim his first senior Wales cap, something he has been aiming for for some time.\n\n“Its massive for me”, he stated. “To be picked to play for the full international sevens is something I’ve been wanting to do for the past couple of years so I was over the moon.\n\n“It’s so special to be going to the Commonwealth Games. It’s such a big event, only happens every four years so not too many people get to play in it so it’s pretty amazing to be picked”.\n\nLuke’s selection tops off an already very successful sevens season, being part of the Samurai squad that won the GB Sevens Series, represented Wales in the FIRA Sevens event in Lyon and won the Amsterdam Sevens final playing alongside his younger brother.\n\n“The Amsterdam Final was a real highlight”, Luke began. We had a really good team with guys from seven or eight different countries. We also had Carlin Isles the American speedster playing for us which was pretty sweet.\n\n“We won in the last play of the game, I think the buzzer had already gone, so to win like that was special and Amsterdam is such a big tournament with so much history, so to win that was very special, especially with my little brother playing as well”.\n\nDespite his sevens commitments Luke still finds time to study medicine full time at The University of Exeter, for which he is very thankful to those around him.\n\n“I’ve got a really good support network around me with my family, the Med school and all the people who run the rugby.\n\n“They are all understanding from the academic and the rugby side. As long as I stay organised and on top of it it’s relatively easy to manage”.\n\nWales face Malaysia first in Glasgow in the morning session of Saturday 26 July at the Ibrox Stadium with their final pool game against Samoa in the evening session. They will be hoping to put in three good performances ahead of the finals day on the Sunday if they are to achieve their goal of medalling." ]

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[ "Do The Saturn Wave at Griffith Observatory!\n\nOn Friday, July 19, 2013, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will take a portrait of Saturn, and Earth will be in the picture!\n\nHere is what Saturn and Earth will look like from Cassini at the time of the portrait:", null, "Even though Earth will only be a one-pixel dot in Cassini’s view, you can still be part of the picture if you are outside at the right time.", null, "Los Angeles will be visible from Saturn when Cassini’s camera snaps the image between 2:27 and 2:42 p.m., PDT.\n\nJoin the crowd on the front lawn of Griffith Observatory to be part of the picture!\n\nSeveral hundred people gathered on the lawn at Griffith Observatory on July 19, 2013, to wave at Saturn as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took a photograph of the ringed planet with Earth in the background. Observatory staff presented a lecture describing Cassini’s mission to Saturn at 3:00 p.m., and Observatory telescopes featured the planet after dark." ]

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[ "MCDONALD NAMED DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS", null, "Following a comprehensive national search, La ­Salle University named MarySheila E. McDonald, J.D., as Dean of the School of Business in July 2017. McDonald joined La ­Salle in March 2011 as the School’s associate dean and served as interim dean for seven months prior to this appointment. In the interim role, she facilitated the development and launch of La Salle’s 100 percent online MBA, worked to increase undergraduate enrollment, and helped to launch a partnership with Uber, their first with a Philadelphia university, to bring convenient and low-cost transportation to students, faculty, and staff. Under McDonald’s watch, the School of Business has received several external recognitions, including The Princeton Review’s list of “Best 294 Business Schools 2017″—La Salle’s first inclusion in this prestigious citation—as well recent rankings in U.S. News & World Report: the Part-Time Hybrid MBA was included in the 2018 edition of Best Graduate Schools, and the Full-Time MBA program was ranked fourth highest in the nation for graduate employment.\n\n“I am confident MarySheila will bring strategic and visionary thinking and an entrepreneurial mindset to La Salle as we seek to grow the enrollment of the School of Business,” said Brian Goldstein, Ph.D., Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at La Salle." ]

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[ null, "A gunman who killed his three daughters and one other man in a church in Northern California was within the U.S. illegally, and had not been handed over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a previous arrest as a consequence of California’s “sanctuary state” regulation that limits cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, authorities mentioned Friday.\n\nThe Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned that David Fidel Mora-Rojas was within the nation illegally and was arrested on Feb. 23 for driving underneath the affect, assaulting an officer and medical employees.\n\nICE issued a detainer — a request that the suspect be held till the company can switch him into custody and put him into deportation proceedings. Nevertheless, as a consequence of California’s “sanctuary state” regulation, authorities say they had been barred from holding him or speaking with ICE about his launch and he left on bail on a $15,000 bond.\n\nCourtroom paperwork paint a disturbing image of verbal and bodily abuse inflicted by 39-year-old David Mora on his girlfriend, who’s the mom of their three daughters, certainly one of whom would have turned 11 on Wednesday. (Merced County Sheriff’s Workplace by way of AP)\n\nThis week, authorities say Mora shot his daughters, 9, 10 and 13, and an grownup chaperone supervising the go to within the Church of Sacramento, earlier than turning the gun on himself. He had been free for 5 days.\n\nMora had been dwelling within the church on a psychological well being maintain after April final 12 months, the place he threatened to harm himself and his spouse. He was additionally barred from proudly owning a gun underneath a restraining order, however was armed with an unregistered, do-it-yourself semiautomatic.\n\nICE didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark, however the company instructed The Related Press that Mora, a Mexican nationwide, had overstayed his visa and was due to this fact within the nation illegally. He arrived within the U.S. legally in 2018.\n\nThe case is more likely to elevate additional scrutiny of “sanctuary” legal guidelines which have emerged in cities and states throughout the nation. Defenders of such legal guidelines, which restrict cooperation with immigration enforcement, declare that they encourage in any other case law-abiding unlawful immigrants to cooperate with regulation enforcement. Critics of the legal guidelines query whether or not that profit outweighs the danger and penalties brought on by releasing unlawful immigrant criminals who might in any other case be deported out onto the streets.\n\n“This unspeakable tragedy highlights the true value, unintended or not, of sanctuary insurance policies that stop regulation enforcement from defending its residents”, mentioned Sheriff Scott Jones in an announcement. Jones is working for Congress as a Republican.\n\nAn ICE spokesperson just lately confirmed to Fox Information that it points detainers for immigrants it suspects are “detachable non-citizens” – which means those that match into these three classes. This might recommend the company believed Mora did match into these priorities.\n\nThe Related Press contributed to this report.", null, "Best Automotive Battery Charger\nWe use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. By clicking “Accept All”, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. However, you may visit \"Cookie Settings\" to provide a controlled consent.\nCookie SettingsAccept All\nManage consent" ]

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[ null, "A hotel owner identified as Kehinde Ibidunni and his wife, Elizabeth has been allegedly assassinated by gunmen in an attack Atan – Ota in Ado – Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State.\n\nIt was reported that the gunmen shot the 63-year-old man and his wife after breaking into their residence at Atan–Ota in the early hours of Tuesday.\n\nThe gunmen forced their way into the residence through a grille. The noise caught the attention of a little girl living with the couple.\n\nIt was disclosed that the girl rushed to inform the man of the development and while tried to check what was going on, he was shot in the heart and died on the spot.\n\nThe gunmen after gaining access into the building got hold of the wife, beat her before she was shot dead.\n\nThe son of the victims, Olayinka described the incident as a case of assassination. He said his parents were murdered barely a month after they attended his wedding in Abuja.\n\nNarrating the incident, he said “They (couple) stayed alone in the house. They have a little girl staying with them in the house for support. At about 3 am on April 27, the girl heard some people trying to gain access in to the house through the burglary proof. She immediately stood up, went to my dad’s room, and called him that some people were trying to gain entrance.”\n\n“When my dad showed up to ask about the people, they shot him in the heart straight up. So, he died instantly. After they killed him, they gained access to the house. They went into the room, they met my mum, they beat her, they stabbed her and finally, they shot her. They killed the two of them and after that, they scattered the whole house, they took the little money they could lay their hands on and they left.”\n\nWhen asked if it was a case of armed robbery or assassination, he responded, “From what we know and what the police are saying, it is a case of assassination. We can’t tell what type of robbery led to killing husband and wife. I think it is an assassination case.”\n\nAccording to him, the police have taken the corpses to the morgue, but no arrest has been made in connection with the crime.\n\n“The police were around all through, they were even the ones who took the corpse to the morgue. They told us that they have not laid their hands on any concrete evidence, but they are still trying to interview some people. We were even at the station as of yesterday (Tuesday),” Olayinka added.\n\nOlayinka while describing his parents as “peaceful and loving,” hinted that the family has concluded an arrangement to bury the couple on Friday." ]

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[ null, "Stratis, a blockchain platform built using C# and .NET has announced the release of a new Python SDK. Importantly, this now enables Python developers to begin utilizing Stratis blockchain technology in a programming language they are already familiar with.\n\nPython is one of the most widely used programming languages in the world. The development of the Python SDK is a vital step in Stratis broadening its reach within alternative development communities.\n\nFunctionality such as building and signing transactions, interacting with smart contracts, and obtaining a blockchain state is effortlessly performed through pyStratis.\n\nThe STRAX blockchain and Cirrus sidechain are also fully supported. Lastly, InterFlux Hub support is available for transactions between Stratis and other blockchains; such as Ethereum.\n\n“We are committed to continuing the development of the Python SDK; and encourage those proficient with Python to contribute as and where they can. Further development has already begun to extend the functionality to incorporate additional documentation, simplified wallet management and custom smart contract interaction.”\n– The Stratis Team\n\nThe official pyStratis repository can be found on GitHub.\n\nBitcoin Is Absurd, Part I: Volcano Mining And The Banana Republic" ]

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[ null, "7\nOn Sunday, Barcelona struggled their way to a 0-0 draw away from home against Athletic Bilbao, but if it weren’t for the crucial interventions and individual genius of their No. 1 goalkeeper, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Barça would have lost outright. I wasn’t the only person who came away impressed. Ter Stegen was named man of the match, and Barcelona’s own fans, of course, had plenty of praise for their keeper.\n\nTer Stegen often has opportunities to showcase his abilities thanks to Barcelona’s style of play. The Catalan club tend to sacrifice defensive security in favor of sending players forward in the attack, leaving Ter Stegen and the rest of the defense exposed at the back. This could be a frustrating prospect for many goalkeepers, but it happens to be a role in which Ter Stegen thrives, allowing him to make big, dramatic saves, just like he did on Sunday.\n\nOf the five saves Ter Stegen made against Bilbao, two in particular stand out above the rest: his top-hand save in the first half against Markel Susaeta and his point-blank stop against Iñaki Williams in the second half (both shown in the video below).\n\nThese saves were both spectacular in their own right, but I want to narrow our focus onto the diving save Ter Stegen made with his top hand in the 16th minute against Susaeta. Here he uses an interesting technique that can be tough to execute successfully because it requires a close attention to detail and perfect timing to get right." ]

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[ "Posted by: admin Categories: Genetics\nComments Off on Is United Community Banks Inc (UCBI) Going to Burn These Hedge Funds?\n\nWe can judge whether United Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI) is a good investment right now by following the lead of some of the best investors in the world and piggybacking their ideas. There’s no better way to get these firms’ immense resources and analytical capabilities working for us than to follow their lead into their best ideas. While not all of these picks will be winners, our research shows that these picks historically outperformed the market when we factor in known risk factors.\n\nUnited Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI) shareholders have witnessed an increase in hedge fund sentiment in recent months. Our calculations also showed that UCBI isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings).\n\nWe leave no stone unturned when looking for the next great investment idea. For example Europe is set to become the world’s largest cannabis market, so we check out this European marijuana stock pitch. One of the most bullish analysts in America just put his money where his mouth is. He says, “I’m investing more today than I did back in early 2009.” So we check out his pitch. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. We also rely on the best performing hedge funds‘ buy/sell signals. Let’s go over the key hedge fund action encompassing United Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI).\n\nHow have hedgies been trading United Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI)?", null, "More specifically, Renaissance Technologies was the largest shareholder of United Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI), with a stake worth $29.1 million reported as of the end of September. Trailing Renaissance Technologies was Elizabeth Park Capital Management, which amassed a stake valued at $7.6 million. D E Shaw, GLG Partners, and Mendon Capital Advisors were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Elizabeth Park Capital Management allocated the biggest weight to United Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI), around 2.99% of its 13F portfolio. Mendon Capital Advisors is also relatively very bullish on the stock, designating 0.33 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to UCBI.\n\nConsequently, specific money managers were leading the bulls’ herd. Weld Capital Management, managed by Minhua Zhang, assembled the most outsized position in United Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI). Weld Capital Management had $0.5 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Israel Englander’s Millennium Management also made a $0.4 million investment in the stock during the quarter. The only other fund with a brand new UCBI position is Joel Greenblatt’s Gotham Asset Management.\n\nAs you can see these stocks had an average of 16.25 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $216 million. That figure was $51 million in UCBI’s case. The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAIN) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand TTEC Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTEC) is the least popular one with only 14 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks United Community Banks Inc (NASDAQ:UCBI) is even less popular than TTEC. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. A small number of hedge funds were also right about betting on UCBI, though not to the same extent, as the stock returned 9.3% during the fourth quarter (through 11/30) and outperformed the market as well." ]

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[ null, "As many of you know, my dad died two weeks ago today. In the time since, I've fielded a lot of questions about how I'm doing.\n\nThe truth is, I'm doing just about as well as can be expected. While it's true that you only get one dad and it's also true that I am now an orphan with both parents gone, Dad's dementia meant we had been losing him incrementally for years now.\n\nAnd so, when he took his final breath that evening, it was just the last step on an long march we've been witnessing for so long. My wife, two of Dad's sisters and I were sitting in his room, telling stories and laughing, when we realized he wasn't breathing anymore.\n\nWhile there was an initial shock of the new reality, as I walked down the hall to get a nurse, a sense of relief washed over me. It was relief for Dad that his suffering was over, but also relief for those of us who loved him that the countless hours of worrying were over.\n\nAnd what better way for my old man to go than to be in a room filled with kind voices and laughter. That was his element. He would have loved the stories of that evening.\n\nSince his passing, I've certainly shed my share of tears, both for Dad and my grandma (Mom's mom) who passed away a few days later.\n\nWhen people learn that we lost both of them, I think they assume that I'll be a wreck. I feel a little guilty that I don't feel all that bad.\n\nThere comes a point when quality of life has deteriorated to the point that we no longer try to hold on to our loved ones. In a sense, they've already passed away.\n\nBesides all of this, I believe there is a reward in the next life. I believe my mom claimed that reward nearly seven years ago and I believe that she was recently reunited with her husband and mother in a matter of days. I'm so happy for all of them that I can't waste my time on being sad for me.\n\nWith all of this in mind, my song selection for today is a song that makes me happy and makes me think about Dad. It's only incidental that \"El Paso\" is also about death. It's a classic country story song, how could there not be a body count?\n\nI suppose that for Dad, any Marty Robbins song would have done, but this was at least always my favorite. I don't know if Dad had a favorite, but I do know that there was one particular Robbins concert that he raved about for decades afterward, and I don't remember Dad ever talking about any other concerts.\n\nApparently Marty was really feeling it that night, because he kept doing encores even though he needed to get going. Dad recalled him coming out for the last time and saying, \"They're telling me I gotta go so I can make the next show, but you've been a great crowd so #$%* 'em!\"\n\nAnd then he played a few more songs.\n\nI don't get the impression that this particular evening at the Grand Ol' Opry was quite that wild, but it's still a good performance of a great song." ]

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[ "Home » Uganda: Kabaka Of Buganda Summoned To Appear In Court.\n\nThe Kabaka of Buganda in the East African country of Uganda has been summoned to the High Court in Mukono, National Telegraph has learned. Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II would have to defend himself against accusations of land grabbing, a source has said.\n\nKabaka is a tittle given to a King in Buganda, a kingdom within Uganda. Buganda is one of the largest traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda. Together with the colonisers, Buganda grabbed land from neighbouring kingdoms a source told National Telegraph.\n\nThe Kabaka is sued together with three other persons including; Elbright Ssemboga Kalule, a city businessman, David Nsereko, a Buganda Kingdom official and the Mukono District registrar of titles.\n\nNsereko, one of the defendants and an adviser on Kabaka’s private land in Buganda Kingdom said they are ready to defend themselves in court.\n\n“We are ready to defend ourselves in court because the piece of land we sold belonged to the Kabaka and we followed all processes, he said in an interview, Tuesday July 9, 2019.\n\nThrough the lawyers of Baganda and Ssekatawa Advocates, the family claims to be the rightful owners of the contested land, which they inherited from their grandfather, Yosufu Mukasa who was working in Kabaka’s palace back in the days.\n\nThey claimed the original duplicate of title got lost and the family tried to apply for a special certificate of title but failed because Kalule and Kabaka had already claimed ownership of the same land.\n\nThey want court to issue an eviction order against Kalule from the land and cancel titles issued to him, a source said, adding they also want a declaration that the family is the rightful owner of the land until the main suit is heard and disposed of.\n\nThe Kabaka and other defendants have Thursday July 11, 2019 to file in their defense, said a source to National Telegraph.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Madeleine L’Engle’s award-winning 1962 science fantasy novel “A Wrinkle in Time” has become a beloved children’s classic in the five and half decades since its release, often being taught in schools as a prime example of mid-20th century imaginative fiction. This week, Disney is releasing its second attempt at a feature-length live-action adaptation of the classic work– after a poorly-received made-for-television version aired on ABC in 2004.\n\nDisney’s new “A Wrinkle in Time,” directed by acclaimed filmmaker Ava DuVernay (“Selma”), pulls together an all-star cast and surrounds it with breathtaking vistas and jaw-dropping visual effects. It’s also apparently a relatively faithful adaptation of the original story, and while it contains a number of memorably-staged scenes, it doesn’t ever quite gel into a cohesive whole. The obviously dreamlike narrative of the novel was perhaps never suited for live-action (or visual storytelling at all, for that matter) but it wasn’t difficult to hope the pedigree of those involved with this go-round would help congeal the proceedings for a new medium.\n\nInstead, we get a 110-minute parade of very pretty-looking scenes that don’t have a whole lot of substance behind them, which doesn’t necessarily disqualify “A Wrinkle in Time” from being a good movie, but suggests that it might be the type that plays a whole lot better with the dialogue turned down.\n\nThe plucky Storm Reid (“12 Years a Slave”) leads the ensemble as Meg Murry, a 13-year-old social outcast whose scientist father (Chris Pine) disappeared years earlier while breaking ground on an experiment in the family garage. Her precocious younger brother Charles Wallace (newcomer Deric McCabe) introduces Meg to a trio of eccentric otherworldly beings named Mrs. Who (Mindy Kaling), Mrs. Which (Oprah Winfrey), and Mrs. Whatsit (Reese Witherspoon) who set the siblings– along with love interest Calvin (Levi Miller)– on a journey across the universe to rescue their dad.\n\nAlong the way, the gang visits fantastical worlds, meets quirky benevolent characters like the prognosticating Happy Medium (Zach Galifianakis), and confronts an evil presence known as IT (no relation to that pesky Pennywise). The whole adventure is assembled in a loosey-goosey, stream-of-consciousness method that I can only assume reflects the bold, impulsive nature of its 1960s source material. Only problem is live-action cinema often demands stories be more grounded, and less haphazardly-constructed. What likely worked in the book, plot-wise, doesn’t necessarily translate to the big screen.\n\nStill, there are a handful of impressively-rendered setpieces that will be difficult to shake from my mind’s eye– Meg’s disorienting trip through the tesseract (a fold in the fabric of space and time that gives the story its name), a stop at an uncannily placid faux-suburban neighborhood on the dark planet of Camazotz– complete with dozens of synchronized dead-eyed children bouncing identical balls on their identical driveways– and the final showdown between our heroes and IT at the movie’s climax. The latter is sure to give younger children nightmares, but what good kids’ movie doesn’t?\n\nI left my press screening of “A Wrinkle in Time” impressed with DuVernay’s eye for striking ethereal imagery, but disappointed by the hasty, ramshackle groundwork laid by screenwriters Jennifer Lee (“Frozen”) and Jeff Stockwell (“Bridge to Terabithia”) that served as the insufficient intermediary between L’Engle’s cherished work and the movie’s capable director.\n\nWATCH “A WRINKLE IN TIME” TRAILER:\n\nDisney’s “A Wrinkle in Time” will be released into theaters nationwide this Friday. March 9th.\n\nComments Off on REVIEW: Disney’s “A Wrinkle in Time” is a trippy, mind-bending visual feast that falls just short on story" ]

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[ null, "On Wednesday, Bill Clinton-appointed Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia issued a take-down of the state’s Save Women’s Sports Bill and ordered the state to allow 11-year-old transgender student Becky Pepper-Jackson to try out for a girl’s middle school cross-country team.\n\nGoodwin claimed that the law is not valid while it faces a pending case against it, and the transgender student must be allowed to compete as if the law does not exist. “While this case is pending,” the judge wrote, “[the student] will be permitted to sign up for and participate in school athletics in the same way as her girl classmates.”\n\nThe law states that “[a]thletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport.” The law maintains that students will compete only on teams that correspond with their “biological sex.”\n\nGoodwin excoriated the law as a “malignant harm” to transgender people and insisted that it violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.\n\n“A fear of the unknown and discomfort with the unfamiliar have motivated many of the most malignant harms committed by our country’s governments on their own citizens,” the judge wrote. “Out of fear of those less like them, the powerful have made laws that restricted who could attend what schools, who could work certain jobs, who could marry whom, and even how people can practice their religions.\n\n“Recognizing that classifying human beings in ways that officially sanction harm is antithetical to democracy, the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment. It ensures that no state may ‘deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,'” Goodwin continued. “Accordingly, the courts are most dubious of any law–state or federal–that treats groups of people differently.”\n\nGoodwin added that as far as he is concerned, the law did not address any real problems.\n\n“At this point, I have been provided with scant evidence that this law addresses any problem at all, let alone an important problem,” Goodwin exclaimed. “When the government distinguishes between different groups of people, those distinctions must be supported by compelling reasons.”\n\nWest Virginia is only one of at least half a dozen other states that have passed similar laws limiting transgender students to playing sports only in categories corresponding to their biological gender. Other states include Mississippi, Montana, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Alabama." ]

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[ "\"He who sings prays twice\"\n\nToday's guest post comes from Jennifer Callaghan, a doctoral candidate in Religious Studies at Northwestern University. Her dissertation, Mass Effect: The fall and rise of Latin in the long U.S. Catholic liturgical movement, tracks the various ways that English and Latin figured in articulations of American Catholic identity before and after the Second Vatican Council.\n\nU.S. religious communities have frequently adapted popular technologies to their own projects. They've done so in ways that pushed forward those technologies as much as their own group aims. Yet this cooperation can seem counter-intuitive. In an Introduction to Religion course this summer, several of my students expressed surprise that religious groups made apps - that Muslims received notifications about the call to prayer on mobile phones, or Catholics used their phones to guide them through the examination of conscience that precedes Confession. Religions are traditional, my students said; they don't like modern technology or culture.\n\nOf course they do, though. From Tona J. Hangen's work on evangelical Christians and the radio, to Fred Nadis' study of spiritualists and the \"technological sublime,\" historians of American religion have shown how productively religions engage with the methods and media of modernity. By the mid-1960s, albums were hardly a new media; Lerone A. Martin's Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion demonstrates the use African American preachers and congregations had made of records for decades already. Still, the intersection of religion and the record album created interesting possibilities for the U.S. Catholic Church in the 1960s.\n\nAmerican Catholics encountered the 60s as the overlap of two significant social revolutions. Their American society broke and then reconfigured the shared set of political and cultural norms, both of which were reflected in popular music. The Second Vatican Council, a meeting of their global Church in the early 1960s, sparked developments in theology, ritual, and religious culture. These changes, too, had musical effects, especially on the Mass. New liturgies needed new musical settings, and the Council's call for opening the Church to local cultures meant those settings bore the influence of a variety of musical styles.\n\nMusical settings for the Mass were familiar to classical music audiences. That is, the Mass had long been both a religious practice and a subgenre of art music. But increasingly, popular musicians reconfigured the Mass for their times. Simon and Garfunkel's 1964 album for Columbia Records included a setting of the Latin Mass prayer Benedictus. Two rock bands, the Exceptions and the Electric Prunes, released full Mass scores. The former's 1966 album, released on Chicago-based F.E.L. (Friends of the English Liturgy) Church Publications Ltd., was advertised as \"an example of what some young people find to be a meaningful expression of worship.\" The Prunes' 1968 Reprise Records release made no such claims, and the inclusion of their Kyrie Eleison (another prayer from the Mass) as a track on the 1969 Easy Rider film soundtrack may have put further distance between the album and a classically liturgical setting. These releases varied in popularity; but as a trend, they both expanded and exceeded the territory of sacred music, widening the reach of the Catholic Mass while denaturing its connection to strictly Catholic expertise.", null, "At the same time, albums provided the institutional church with a medium through which to pursue thoroughly parochial projects as well. Churches and parish schools throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago, for example, purchased albums to learn about and practice the music for new Sunday worship possibilities. Many of these records were available for both institutional and personal use. But some were produced more or less exclusively for official Catholic educational work. One of these was the 1968 album and accompanying filmstrip sold by Thompson - O'Shea Associates to help Catholic educators introduce the 'new' liturgy. Let Us Give Thanks! walks listeners through the whole history of the Catholic Mass until they arrive at an appreciative new understanding of their central public worship.\n\nThe album, filmstrip, and a printed script were available for $20.00 to churches and dioceses. Rev. William H. Thompson and Rev. William J. O'Shea wrote the narration for Jim Gannon, and Walter J. Bernadyn provided their script with vivid and stylish illustrations to flash in succession across a projection screen. The presentation was designed \"to show that the 'new Mass' now celebrated in Catholic churches is not really new at all. It is a restoration of important features of the original Eucharist which were lost in the course of centuries.\" Despite the obvious changes to public worship over the past five years, the narrator urged listeners to focus on this unchanging core. The script booklet included a series of discussion questions which it encouraged event organizers to use \"RIGHT AFTER VIEWING LET US GIVE THANKS!,\" as \"Adult Catholics have many misgivings about the modern changes in the Mass. This program is designed to get you talking honestly about worship!\" Catholics who were uncomfortable with the obvious changes, especially those whose age might put them at odds with the folk Mass music that F.E.L. and other publishers were distributing to the parish youth, would be relieved to find that what seemed jarring was, in fact, a natural progression.", null, "The presentation ends with a discussion of the 1960s liturgical reforms, celebrating the way they ensured \"a healthy flexibility, plenty of room for new ages to express themselves in new ways.\" As the narration comes to a close, Gannon's voice fades into a selection from Ray Repp's 1966 album Allelu!, reproduced with the permission of F.E.L. Church Publications Ltd., which had released the Exceptions' Rock 'N' Roll Mass the same year. New ages and the religious communities they foster express themselves through engagement with and negotiation of popular fields and technologies. The Catholic Mass moved between liturgical, educational, commercial, and artistic settings in the 1960s with the energy produced by leaping over the gaps between them." ]

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[ "loading...\nNational\nPerth man not so keen on clubs reopening after paying $25 for shot of Jim Beam\nJune 29, 2020", null, "Perth nightclubs reopened this weekend with thousands of excited partygoers lining up for their first chance to get publicly shit-faced since lockdown began. A local Perth man, Jim Daniels, has however expressed his disappointment at the nightlife scene some 25 minutes into lining up at the bar.\n\n“I guess I romanticised the whole thing in my head because what I’ve experienced so far has been a total let down!” he snapped while having a red cocktail accidentally splashed on his white shirt from a passerby. “Somehow there’s vomit in every toilet already,” he continued “plus pints still cost a kidney and I’m not even drunk yet!”\n\nCatching up with Mr Daniels in the morning, he seemed to echo his sentiments from the night before. “I’ve basically blown all the money I saved during the lockdown and I feel worse than the Adelaide Crows are performing on the field. Now I remember why I hate going out in this town! But will I do it all again next weekend? You bet.”" ]

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[ null, "Two candidates with Linn County ties are running to be Iowa’s Secretary of State, a job that includes serving as the state’s top elections official.\n\nDemocratic Linn County Auditor Joel Miller, 67, a former mayor of Robins, is challenging incumbent Republican Paul Pate, 64, who is looking to be reelected to his third consecutive term.\n\nMiller has been Linn County’s auditor since 2007. Pate is a former mayor of Cedar Rapids and state legislator, and held the secretary of state position once in the 1990s.\n\nPate originally ran for office because he was frustrated with the state government and he’s running for re-election now because ‘the job’s not done.’\n\n“We have a misinformation battle we are facing right now,” Pate said. “We are making sure people are getting the facts.”\n\nMiller said he was motivated to run after being sued by former President Donald Trump’s campaign during the 2020 election campaign. A judge sided with the Trump campaign, invalidating about 50,000 absentee ballot request forms that Miller had mailed to voters\n\n“I’m running to make voting easy again,” Miller said. “I believe every other business and industry is trying to make their products and services more convenient so people will use them, but the Republican-controlled Legislature decided to make voting inconvenient for early voters and vote by mail.”\n\nIn March 2021, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 413, which shortened the early voting period from 29 to 20 days; added rules about how absentee ballots can be returned and limited county auditors’ authority within the election process.\n\nIowa Republicans, who control the Legislature, had previously shortened the early voting period from 40 days to 29 days in 2017 with passage of a voter ID law that requires voters to present an approved form of identification at the polls. Pate had presented the ID bill to the Legislature to consider.\n\nBoth Pate and Miller said it’s important for Iowa’s secretary of state to put voters first and to be consistent with messaging about elections being safe, secure and not stolen.\n\n“I’m going to continue to give Iowans the information they are going to need so they’re confident in the election process, and give them the transparency of the process,” Pate said. “I’ve been working on that. They need to know their vote counts and have confidence in it.”\n\nWhile some, including Miller, have said that Pate wasn’t very vocal during election law changes, Pate said that his role is to administer the laws and be “a referee.”\n\n“I think I’ve been very consistent and out front on those issues that I think are important to get done like voter ID,” Pate said. “I’m the referee, administering the rules. I don’t get to wear a team jersey. But I have a significant amount of dialogue with the legislators and the governor and I’m giving them guidance and my advice on election law. And at the end of the day, it’s my job to make the election laws work.”\n\nMiller said if elected, he would continue to be vocal about election laws.\n\n“You have to be laser-focused and take a stand on these things,” Miller said. “You can’t act like you’re not involved as a third-party administrator.”\n\nAlong with administering elections, the Iowa secretary of state also handles the state’s business filings.\n\nIn 2018, Pate’s office implemented the Fast Track filing system for businesses with the goal of making the registration process faster as well as reducing filing fees.\n\n“We’ve come a long ways,” Pate said. “When we first came back into this office, it seemed like we missed the whole Bill Gates era. Our technology was outdated. Now, if you need something, you can get it 24/7. But we’re working more on real customer service and putting people on the phone for the tougher questions.”\n\nMiller said if elected, he would like to bring more transparency to the business side of the office as well as create an office of Small Business Advocacy.\n\n“We could create a framework for people to form the LLC that would eliminate the cost,” Miller said. “I also think there should be an easier way to search conflicts of interest with businesses. It applies to elections and business filings. You should be able to pluck in a name and see what businesses people are affiliated with.”\n\nVanessa Miller Things To Do 3h ago3h ago" ]

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[ null, "On the two occasions when Eilish McColgan has tasted European medal success, there has been something missing. She hasn’t been able to share that special medal-winning moment with any of her family.\n\nWith her brothers, sister and father Peter based in Scotland while mother, coach and former 10,000m world champion Liz lives in Qatar, the messages of congratulations came in the form of phone calls rather than celebratory trackside hugs.\n\nThe fact that the 2019 European Indoor Athletics Championships are being staged in Glasgow, however, means the two-time Olympian and recent Simplyhealth Great South Run winner shouldn’t have far to go to find familiar faces in the crowd. As she puts it there’s “no excuse” for her siblings not to make it there this time.\n\nIt will be very different from the immediate aftermath of McColgan’s bronze medal-winning run in the 3000m at the European Indoors in Belgrade last year or the European silver she won outdoors this summer at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, where there was an unexpected reminder of home.\n\n“I was obviously over the moon with my performance in Berlin but none of my family and friends were in the stadium,” says the 27-year-old. “It is not really an anti-climax but you are so excited by it, yet you run around and there was no-one really there for you to run to or to hug.\n\n“Weirdly enough, there was a girl I used to train with at Dundee Hawkhill, who was there in the crowd. I just saw her face, out of all those thousands of people, and she was just standing on the stairs, cheering me on. And I almost started crying.\n\n“I hadn’t seen this girl in years, it wasn’t like we were really close, but we went to school together and she was a couple of years above me in my club. Just seeing someone who reminded me of home, I got quite emotional about that, and having that in Glasgow will be pretty special.”\n\nShe adds: “Glasgow 2014 (the Commonwealth Games, where she finished sixth in the 3000m steeplechase) didn’t go the way that I wanted, so I never got that opportunity. It was great to be with my friends and family afterwards but I was disappointed with my performance so I didn’t have the same buzz and excitement afterwards.\n\n“To have what I had in Belgrade and Berlin, but actually have my friends and family there, rather than having to scramble to a phone to call them, it will be so much better having them there in person.”\n\nRemarkably, that run at Hampden Park four years ago was the last time McColgan raced in Scotland, due to a combination of injury and illness rather than by design. And despite an athletic education which involved regular visits to Glasgow’s famous Kelvin Hall track in her younger days, not once has she been able to set foot on the 200m oval at its successor, the Emirates Arena – venue for the European Indoors in March.\n\n“I haven’t even seen it,” admits McColgan, speaking at an event at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum – which sits directly across the road from the Kelvin Hall – to mark the passing of the 100 days to go landmark for Glasgow 2019.", null, "“We don’t get many opportunities on the track to race in Scotland. We have that indoor meet (the Muller Indoor Grand Prix) but if you miss it that’s it for a year and then it alternates between Birmingham and Glasgow.\n\n“I’ve only raced in the Kelvin Hall. I wanted to go and train one day (at the multi-sport Emirates venue) but the time I was there there was badminton or something on indoors so I have only ever trained and raced at the Kelvin Hall. That track was an experience, it was more like a velodrome, but I have heard that the Emirates is a lot fancier than that.\n\n“The Scottish Schools, Scottish Unis, British Unis – all those events for me were at the Kelvin Hall. For me, the only chance I have ever had (for competing at the Emirates) are those Grand Prix events and I missed it.\n\n“I was gutted because I remember saying to my mum ‘I can’t wait to go and race at the Emirates’ then I missed that one opportunity and it has just not come around. Fingers crossed, I get to see it and compete in it this time around.”\n\nThough McColgan would never say never to the 1500m and has ambitions to break the four-minute barrier over the distance, she feels her ‘best chance’ of medal success in Glasgow will come in the 3000m – the event which brought her the first major podium appearance of her career last year.\n\nUpcoming training spells in Kenya, Doha and South Africa will lay the groundwork for what she dearly hopes will bring another honour and that chance to celebrate with her family.\n\nThough she will be up against fearsome opposition there won’t be any fear on McColgan’s part, given her recent championship performances and another chance encounter on that night to remember in Berlin which highlighted just how far she has come.\n\n“I didn’t know that girl was in the crowd,” she says of the unexpected reunion. “And when I got to the bottom corner, there was another girl I used to race cross country against, Laura McCord. We used to race against each other at under-13s. Again, I hadn’t seen her.\n\n“But I saw her face out of the whole crowd, it was bizarre. Two girls I used to run against. Myself and Laura were always battling against each other in cross country and I think she now lives in Germany.\n\n“She messaged me on Instagram afterwards and I even said to her ‘you have no idea how much that meant to me, just to see someone’s face’ and it did. You think of how many years you spend running around Scotland – cross countries in Livingston and Alloa – when it is freezing cold and muddy. To have someone else there who has been through all that with you and cheering you on was pretty special.\n\n“You are so stuck on your training that you don’t think about the overall thing of it. She messaged me to say ‘I’m so proud of you, because you have stuck at it’.\n\n“Even though you have had some pretty s****y times when it hasn’t gone to plan, you’ve still stuck at it and trudged along and I’m so happy to see you reap the rewards.\n\n“They appreciate how hard it is to keep going when times are tough. It has taken me from the age of 12 to 26 to get my first medal, so it certainly doesn’t happen overnight. That was the first time I was able to step back and say ‘yeah, I am proud of myself for what I have achieved’. It has taken me a long time to get to this point. But we’ve got there.”" ]

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[ "One of many hardest things on this planet to do is to hit a spherical baseball coming at you at 95 miles per hour with a round bat, squarely enough so that you can send it off into the sphere forward of you in such a manner that it goes far enough you can get on base. A year ago, on the All-Star Game in San Diego, MLB introduced that the National League and American League batting crowns can be named for the late Tony Gwynn and Rod Carew, respectively. Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport performed between two teams of nine gamers each, who take turns batting and fielding.\n\nThe entire above data that Musial held, the titles he received, and the moments he had occurred with the same uniform on. Another of the data that Musial still owns is the three,026 games he played with one membership, the Cardinals. a hundred seventy five Alternatively, the proportion of American sports activities fans polled who named baseball as their favorite sport was 16{873040ab8769ecbbe38292ef543841de1de3b53fbbb72a8a742fe22e3262a31b}, in comparison with professional soccer at 31{873040ab8769ecbbe38292ef543841de1de3b53fbbb72a8a742fe22e3262a31b}.", null, "Alex Rodriguez believes that the Cleveland Indians are the category of baseball, and everybody else has their work cut out for them. The Nationals knew all about Scherzer’s bulldog mentality, as a result of basic manager Mike Rizzo had overseen scouting when the Arizona Diamondbacks made him the No. 11 overall decide in the 2006 draft.\n\n118 A manager with several left-handed batters in the common lineup who is aware of the staff will be dealing with a left-handed starting pitcher could respond by starting one or more of the right-handed backups on the staff’s roster. Baseball endures because of its historic reference points, and Baseball Almanac has devoted itself to preserving the historical past of our national pastime.\n\nSeems like a great time to be a free agent. Major League Baseball fines Arizona’s coach for sporting a sensible watch in the dugout. But … Musial did win the MVP 3 times in his career. The USA Baseball Collegiate Nationwide Staff hosted the Cuban Nationwide Group in the sixth USA vs. Cuba International Friendship Sequence in 2017." ]

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[ "Riot Games is expanding again, with its latest acquisition being Hypixel Studios. The small independent outlet known for Hytale will now be joining the Riot family while pushing ahead to release its game next year.\n\nRiot had already been an investor in Hypixel, helping to fund the development of Hytale, which is currently in closed beta. Apparently the millions of beta sign-ups and growing community behind the game were convincing enough for a closer partnership between the two companies.", null, "Riot President, Dylan Jadeja, commented on the acquisition in a press release this afternoon: “We've known the team behind Hypixel Studios for several years, and from the start they've been the kind of visionaries that we aspire to support; a passionate studio committed to delivering a groundbreaking, genre-defining experience for players”.\n\n“Over the last 18 months, we've been fortunate to advise Hypixel Studios as they build toward their vision for evolving a game genre that reaches an incredibly diverse range of players around the globe. Now, as they prepare to enter the next chapter, we're thrilled to take our partnership to the next level through this acquisition.”\n\nKitGuru Says: This is likely something we'll see a bit more of, as Riot develops more partnerships with smaller studios. It is certainly a busy time there too, with a slew of first and third party games coming under the Riot logo. Hytale will now join that growing group." ]

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[ null, "These sneakers were made to honor the Jordan Brand Quai 54 festivities in Paris. Another variation will be releasing to the public but these are exclusively for friends and family members of the Jordan Brand.\n\nThe Quai 54 is the only streetball tournament worldwide sponsored by Jordan Brand. Founded by Hammadoun Sidibe, it has historically been held the last weekend of June every summer in Paris since 2002.\n\n20,000 fans are granted free entry and watch the two-day basketball tournament, including a slam dunk contest.\n\nThe venue each year is the Place de la Concorde, Paris which is very close to the Eiffel Tower in the city's eighth arrondissement.", null, null, null, null, null, "For those who want the public pair here is a look:", null, null, null ]

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[ "NEW YORK (PIX11) — Is remote work going away? According to a survey of 160 major employers in New York City, it’s not likely.", null, "Nearly 80% of city employers told The Partnership for New York City that they intended on using a hybrid work model for employees. Only 38% of Manhattan office workers are back in the office on the average weekday, with 28% still fully remote.\n\nA significant amount of employers — 91% — are encouraging employees to return to the office despite hybrid flexibility, the report found. Of those, 64% are using incentives, including social activities and transportation subsidies, to sweeten the deal." ]

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[ null, "I love lists of things and I found another good one this morning. It is “18 Films You’ll Never Watch Again”, courtesy of the folks at movieseum.com. It’s not that the films that make the list are poorly done; they are not. They are by and large wonderfully done, but their subject matter is of the type with which you don’t want to deal, unless you have a half-gallon or so of bleach to pour into your sulci when you’re through. There is plenty to agree with (Bad Lieutenant made the list, as did Sophie’s Choice to name but two) and with which to disagree (The Devil’s Rejects? Are you kidding?!) but the list is worth perusal when you get a moment as it is wide-ranging and lists a few films that even the most ardent film buff might have missed.\nSo. Where is the list of books that are worthy of being read but, topic-wise, were more than could handle? I imagine that a number of folks would put THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy on that list (the film version had its own entry) because of the dark, unrelentingly grim, subject matter. I would not, even though there are passages in that book which in their entirety haunt me still. No, my entry is PET SEMATARY, by Stephen King, the novel, which, according to King himself, the novelist Tabitha King begged him not to write. I agree with her; while I was reading the book, I screamed, I cried, I through it across the room, I stomped it, and then I finished it. The book concerned two things that I handle: the death of children and the death of pets. That PET SEMATARY deals with those subjects (and I’m not going to tell you how, if you haven’t read the book; no spoilers here, Bucko) would have been bad enough, but then King, God Bless him, takes things a step further with a very subtle, brilliantly conceived and wondrously executed “what would you do” scenario. I know what I would do, in a circumstance similar to that which confronted Louis Creed: I would do exactly what Creed did, even knowing what would happen, on the chance that something different might occur. And that, my friends, is what I can’t deal with. I have more stories unpublished than otherwise, with mayhem and mortality and violence visited upon the innocent and the guilty alike, but I have never harmed a child or a pet in any of them. It’s someplace I can’t go.\nIf I may, then: what book did you find fearfully and wonderfully written that you nonetheless refuse to ever read again? Why? What elements of that book for you are the spiders in the shoes at the bottom of the closet, those shoes you won’t wear anymore? And can you write about your fears in your stories, or do you leave them unspoken, so as to rob them of life?", null, "Do you remember Archie comics? I can’t remember a time when they weren’t around. The first Archie comic was published in…1944. I have, until recently only read a couple of them, but the characters — Archie, Betty, Veronica, Reggie, Jughead, and Midge — were of a type with which any high school student could readily identify. I always skipped over Archie titles, moving quickly to The Flash, Green Lantern, Fantastic Four, Tales of Suspense (which introduced Iron Man), Daredevil, and Justice League of America, to name but a few. I continued to read and collect comics for four decades, giving it up in 2000 when it seemed as if the plots were beginning to repeat themselves and my collection was becoming more of an accumulation. The new move toward digital comics didn’t bring me back to the fold, either, despite some attempt to update and “modernize” the titles I used to love. I also peripherally noted, from a seat on the sidelines in the peanut gallery, that the Archie books tried an update or two — Archie at one point had to choose between Betty and Veronica, among other things — which didn’t really sit well with the old fans or bring in any new ones on a long term or permanent basis.\nI thought I had bought or read my last comic book until a lifelong friend of mine, a 64 year-old fan boy, brought a new Archie series to my attention. It’s Afterlife with Archie, and you besides being a really good comic book, it contains a lesson for writers, published and otherwise. The Archie characters we all know are basically the same; Jughead isn’t a rocket scientist; Reggie is still kind of a d.b.; Moose is still athletically inclined to the exclusion of his intellect; and Archie, Betty, and Veronica are still caught in that love triangle of several decades. The story, however, is much, much darker. It begins when Jughead’s loyal pet Hot Dog is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Jughead takes Hot Dog to Sabrina, the teenage witch, who brings Hot Dog back to life with a spell. Hilarity ensues. Not really. Hot Dog is…different now. The resurrected Hot Dog bites someone — something that the Hot Dog we know would never do — turning them into a zombie, and within a few pages the town of Riverdale is a very, very different place. Yes, the story does tip its fedora to PET SEMATARY by Stephen King, but only a bit. There there are enough twists and turns to keep even the oldest and most jaded comic reader (me, for one) interested. The art, which is less cartoony than what you might be used to, is inked in dark shades to match the mood of the storyline, which spirals ever deliciously downward. The series is a huge hit; it takes place outside of the regular Archie universe and within its own unsettling continuity. Each issue is selling out at the comic book stores either in spite of that or because of it. Or both.\nWhat does this mean for you or for me? I daresay that every one of us who has ever attempted to put story to page has any number of abandoned efforts on files languishing on hard drives (or in paper file folders) that are based upon good or even great ideas but somehow failed in the execution or otherwise died aborning. What I would like for you to do — and what I am going to do myself — is take one of those efforts and dramatically change one thing, and only one thing, within it. Everything wild that happens in Afterlife with Archie proceeds from one element that differs from the series proper: Hot Dog BITES someone. Chomp. It changes everything. So go ahead. Take that nice woman in your story and turn her into a killer. Or how about that ten year old boy who got kidnapped in your Chapter One? Make your kidnapper wish they had taken anyone but him. Try it, and see how that old, forgotten project works. And tell us: have you tried this before? How did it work for you?\nI have been a bit off of the radar this week, and it is just as well. If there was a way to hit the reset button beginning, oh, about 5:20 AM on last Sunday morning and moving forward up until about right now I would do it. There is a rock band named “We Were Promised Jetpacks;” we were also promised transporter beams and time travel too. Where’s my time travel? Regardless, one cannot drive forward with their eyes glued upon the rearview mirror so we are going to talk about something pleasant, like what scare the hell out of me. And you.\nDark genre fiction is driven by fear. Stephen King was motivated to write PET SEMATARY by the fear of losing a child to the grim reaper. Authors who write what I call “fish out of water” books (think A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT or, perhaps, THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, and keep reading from there) often are motivated by fear that they will find themselves suddenly thrust into a situation where they are powerless; maybe they feel that way all of the time. They are what they fear; they write what they fear.\nI’m working on a project dealing with fear —watch this space later this year for more on that — but I thought I’d give you my three biggies and ask you for yours. Here are mine, in descending order:", null, "Spiders: My earliest experience of spider-fear occurred when I was four years old on a Saturday morning. I woke up with my nose about an inch from the wall and a black widow spider was staring back at me. I screamed, jumped out of bed, and ran from the room. My dad came in and dispatched the evil thing, but the damage was done. Talk about your psychic imprints. In my house, a Taurus Public Defender is considered a defense de rigueur against arachnids.", null, "Narrow, tight places (no, I don’t mean that): I was in kindergarten when I discovered that I was claustrophobic, though I didn’t know the word. I was with a couple of classmates building a fort out of oversized blocks when they thought it would be funny to wall me up, Edgar Allan Poe style. I went crazy. I was actually rescued from that entombment by a classmate named Beverly d’Angelo, who went on to become an actress, but that is a whole different story. Anyway, this one has gotten worse over the past several years. It’s ironic, given that I grow ever closer with each day to being placed into one of those small boxes and surrendered back to the earth. I wonder if one is related to the other.", null, "Heights: I get a nosebleed on a stepladder. I actually am not as bad as I used to be, to the extent that last summer I was able to stand on the observation deck of the Louisiana State Office Tower without shutting shut my eyes once.\nStrange? Yes. I’m not chicken-hearted. I have faced down evil people on the street with less fear than I experience when I catch a spider in the basement. Snakes and rats (of the two or four-legged variety) and the like hold no terror for me. I don’t have a significant gag reflex or a fear of choking or the like. But fears? Oh yeah. I’ve got more than my share.\nI’ve bared my soul. Please bare yours. What scares you?" ]

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[ null, null, "Pitfalls and Opportunities: Israel is hardly involved in the revolutionary events in Syria. Yet, because Syria is politically and historically the most central of the Arab states, the fate of the revolution there could affect Israel in many ways. Image by getty images\n\nOf all of Syria’s neighbors, Israel is the least involved in the revolutionary events there, and wisely so. Turkey is arming and training an opposition army; Lebanon is the main avenue for smuggling weapons to the rebels; Jordan is sheltering refugees and may be supplying arms to the opposition; Iraqi Sunnis are helping Syria’s Sunni opposition, while the Shi’ite-dominated regime in Baghdad tilts toward the Alawite regime in Damascus. Kurds in Syria, Iraq and Turkey are weighing their options. Iran is actively aiding the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nYet, because Syria is politically and historically the most central of the Arab states, the fate of the revolution there could affect Israel in several significant ways.\n\nOne is by absorbing refugees. Israel understands that it is not a candidate even for humanitarian intervention on the ground in Syria, simply because its motives would be, in every conceivable instance, interpreted by its neighbors as malevolent — that is, to conquer Arab territory. But Syrians fleeing for their lives may not have the time or opportunity to weigh the pros and cons of choosing the Israeli Golan.\n\nAnother possibility for Israel’s involvement — highly unlikely, but ominous — is Syrian aggression against it. In the current situation of growing anarchy, the Assad regime could conceivably decide to attack Israel, using its own missiles or a Hezbollah proxy from Lebanon, in the hope of distracting regional and international attention from the domestic situation in Syria and rallying Arab public opinion to its side. Assad, his influential cousin Rami Makhlouf and Hezbollah leaders have all threatened precisely such an attack in the event of a deteriorating situation.\n\nA more likely worst-case scenario in which Israel could feel impelled to intervene proactively involves Syrian strategic weaponry. Syria has a huge stockpile of chemical warheads and missile delivery systems. If the Assad regime is losing its grip on vital ordnance that could be captured by Al Qaeda forces or some other radical Islamist rebels or breakaway military faction and used irresponsibly, Israel might feel impelled to bomb these installations.\n\nAt a broader strategic level, the impact on Israel and the region depends on two different sets of very broad and uncertain circumstances. First, will the Alawite/Baathist regime headed by Assad prevail or be driven from power? And second, will there be outside intervention beyond the limited scale we are aware of thus far?\n\nAs matters stand, the regime in Damascus remains fairly united, enjoying the loyalty of most of the army, while the opposition appears to be hopelessly splintered and unorganized. Thus the possibility of regime survival must be taken very seriously.\n\nA post-revolution Alawite-ruled Syria (the Alawites are an offshoot of Shia Islam) would be able to rely on only Iran for support, and to a lesser extent on Shi’ite elements in Iraq and Lebanon, as well as on Russia and China. The rest of the world, and especially the Sunni Arab world and the West, would condemn it and deny it aid. The regime would be more isolated than ever if and when it triumphs, and would be impoverished and torn by societal strife.\n\nMost significantly for Israel, successful suppression of a Sunni-dominated revolution would strengthen the Alawites’ ties with Iran and its proxies and allies. This could only impact negatively on the broader issue of Iran’s nuclear program and growing tensions within the triangle of the United States, Israel and Iran. From this standpoint, Israel has every reason to desire the downfall of the Alawite regime in Damascus: It would constitute a major blow to Iran’s prestige and its penetration into the Levant.\n\nMoving to the possibility of outside intervention and its effect on Israel’s interests, the only real option for an increasingly concerned international community is to use force — despite the disunity of the Syrian opposition. Under present circumstances no international diplomacy, including that by former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan, can succeed. The Alawite regime in Damascus is fighting for its life and clearly believes that any serious concessions in favor of political reform or power sharing could spell disaster for its interests and even death and persecution for Syria’s 2 million Alawites.\n\nEven an attempt to provide large-scale humanitarian aid would ultimately require force. France and Turkey have reportedly proposed creating “safe zones” and “humanitarian aid corridors” linking up from the Turkish border with Syria to besieged Syrian cities. Unless the regime’s armed forces have collapsed, they are likely to oppose such an initiative. And it would quickly turn into a bloody military invasion.\n\nOver the past month, the regime has successfully thwarted, in Homs and Idlib, opposition attempts to create geographic enclaves capable of hosting an intervention or anchoring a humanitarian corridor. Moreover, thus far all concerned in the international community have rejected the option of armed intervention. The Saudis, Qataris and Turks suffice with the supply of funds and weapons, and the Americans and the West shun even that possibility.\n\nAnother option might be attacks from the air on military and other strategic sites inside Syria. In the United States, Senator John McCain and others are advocating that Washington adopt this strategy as it did in Kosovo and Libya. This would require extensive air cover to neutralize the Syrian Air Force and air defenses, which would fight back.\n\nAny of the options outlined above could lead to a regional Shi’ite-Sunni Cold War. Iranian, Iraqi and Lebanese Shi’ites would actively support Assad, while Iraqi, Turkish and Jordanian Sunnis would aid the opposition. Indeed, the conflict in Syria could “go regional” even without external state intervention and already may be heading in that direction.\n\nThis could mean, in effect, the fragmentation of Syria into ethnic enclaves — Sunni, Alawite, Kurdish, Druze and Christian — that merge with the surrounding region, and the erasing of Syria’s borders as boundaries of the conflict. Tension over influence in Syria and Iraq and among the region’s Kurds could pit Iran against Turkey. Once again, political Islam would claim it has the solution, while Al Qaeda and like-minded jihadist groups would exploit the anarchy to create even more.\n\nIsrael might benefit from some of these developments and be hurt by others. It would definitely be heavily affected.\n\nGiven this huge potential for escalation and regional chaos, it is not hard to understand why intervention does not seem desirable. It is also easy to appreciate why Syria’s non-Sunni ethnic and religious minorities tend to prefer the “stability” of Assad’s rule over the alternatives, and why even neighbors such as Israel, with its vested interest in pushing Iran out of the region by witnessing Assad’s defeat, are not of one mind about the direction of the bloody events in Syria." ]

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[ null, null, "The Kid LAROI revealed he’s been locked in a room for 7 days because he has COVID … only to scrub that announcement from his social media a short time later.\n\nThe teenage singer revealed the news in a now-edited Instagram caption Monday in which he was celebrating his #1 hit with Justin Bieber, “Stay,” and thanking all of his fans for their support.", null, "LAROI, who hails from Australia, wrote that all he ever wanted was to “make it big” in America and show everyone what folks Down Under have to offer.\n\nHe then said he hasn’t been home in awhile because of COVID, adding … “which I currently have rn and have been locked in a room for the past 7 days.”\n\nThe singer quickly deleted that line in his IG caption, but if it’s true — it means he could have performed at the huge July 29 concert at Lollapalooza in Chicago with Miley Cyrus while infected — or contracted it while at the festival.\n\nWe’ve reached out to LAROI’s rep for some clarification … so far, no word back." ]

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[ "‘Protecting the environment’ is the most important issue to young people in Wigan and Leigh according to the results of a recent ballot.\n\n13,641 local young people voted in the Make Your Mark ballot, which is led nationally by the UK Youth Parliament and facilitated locally by Wigan and Leigh Youth Cabinet.\n\nThe ballot, which runs every year, aims to discover what young people’s biggest concerns are.\n\nThe borough’s results mirrored the national ones, with the issues of most concern to young people emerging as:\n\nWigan and Leigh Youth Cabinet will continue to work on improving mental health support for young people, which was the top concern voted for in the Make Your Mark ballot last year.\n\nThe group has been working with Future in Mind, a panel of professionals from Wigan Council, Wigan Borough CCG, schools and lots of local health organisations, to improve young people’s mental health support. Their joint plans will be announced in February.\n\n46% of 11-17-year olds from Wigan and Leigh voted in the latest Make Your Mark ballot, placing the borough 11th in the UK for percentage turnout and 8th in terms of the number of votes generated.", null, null, null, "Order to curb anti-social behaviour in town centres extended for another...", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Canadians who’ve been relying on the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to make ends meet during COVID-19 say there’s a sense of desperation and panic as the program nears its end later this month.\n\nStephanie Cohen was receiving EI payments before the pandemic as a result of losing her job as a copywriter at a digital marketing agency in Montreal. She transitioned to CERB in May and the $2,000 has kept her going since then.\n\nThe money has helped her pay basic bills and assisted her mother in buying groceries and other home necessities. Even though it’s less than what she was making at her work, it provided a much-needed financial boost and a little bit of “peace of mind” during a difficult period. Having zero income “would have been devastating,” she said.\n\nAs others do, she knows very little about the new benefits that will be offered to jobless Canadians starting Sept. 27.\n\n“It is a pretty big concern, considering I’m in the category of people who exhausted their previous EI benefits,” Cohen said.\n\nShe’s especially worried new recovery programs, which are just proposals at this point and won’t be solidified until after the government’s Speech from the Throne on Sept. 23, will ignore people such as she, who were job-hunting prior to COVID-19. The pandemic, she said, put her hunt on hold and the economic hit to business across a variety of sectors makes it hard to know when people will start hiring again.\n\n“I haven’t been able to receive a clear answer as to how I move forward,” she said about the lack of information on the upcoming benefit programs. “If I am not eligible to re-apply for EI, I’ll have zero income coming in, which would be a hard blow for me financially.”\n\nA recent analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives warned millions of Canadians who depended on CERB will be hard hit by the upcoming change.\n\nCERB had been instrumental in helping Jordan Troy, a Guelph resident who had just completed college and was looking for a job as an elevator mechanic when the pandemic hit. The 23-year-old said he recently started working a few hours a week at local restaurants when they reopened, but still makes less than $1,000 per month.\n\n“I’m worried, of course. I don’t know if I will qualify for EI or any of the new programs, and there is no information right now,” he said. “At least with CERB, you knew you weren’t going to go hungry or miss a rent payment. Now everything is up in the air.”\n\nNick Cunningham had been working in the live music industry at a Toronto talent agency, helping with the booking of venues and organizing tours for Canadian artists. For the first few months of the pandemic, his agency managed to keep a small group of employees at work as they helped artists run virtual concerts and drive-in shows. But he was laid off last month.\n\n“Everything was so sudden. I was working one day and the next day I wasn’t,” said Cunningham. “These past six months have been incredibly stressful, with so much uncertainty and repeated work, it felt like groundhog day every day, until I lost my job.”\n\nCanada’s new COVID-19 emergency benefits: Which one is right for you?\n\nSo far, Cunningham has collected the CERB just twice. While he said he’s grateful for the support, he is “scared” that the switch to EI and other programs could leave him short of what he needs to get by.\n\n“It’s already hard to survive in Toronto on $2,000, and I feel like it’s about to get even harder with these new changes,” said Cunningham, who says special support for people in the live music industry is needed.\n\n“Our government is not doing anything to address this industry’s shutdown, and I am getting anxious. I have spent my entire life getting to where I am now, and unfortunately things feel bleak with the soon-to-be removal of CERB.”\n\nHave you been relying on CERB? What will you do once it ends?" ]

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[ null, "Fox News is a professional media outlet with a fairly massive reach. But even the pros get a little trolled sometimes.\n\nThis account, @_brettkavanaugh, has since been suspended by Twitter support–and after Law&Crime‘s article was published, Fox deleted their tweets referring to said account. The account didn’t tweet much (about five times total) before being suspended and some of the tweets were fairly anodyne; but there were plenty of clues that Kavanaugh wasn’t actually the person behind the digital Twitter mask.\n\nFor one, the account’s timeline history only went back to around 9 p.m. on Monday night–almost the exact time President Donald Trump made the Kavanaugh selection announcement on live TV.\n\nThe first post on the account’s timeline (no longer extant but a retweet survives here) was a copied-and-pasted recitation of Kavanaugh’s odd initial statement upon receiving President Trump’s rose:\n\nI am grateful to President Trump and I am humbled by his confidence in me. Thank you President. No president has ever consulted more widely or talked with more people from more backgrounds to seek input about a Supreme Court nomination. #SCOTUS\n\nKeep on barking. Teefa will be a smash hit. And Meesha will lose court case. I wonder what you are going to tweet after these 2 scenario? Poor girl😂😂", null, "One of the last tweets posted by the since-suspended account was a recycled version of another actual statement from Monday night’s ceremony, “Tomorrow I begin meeting with members of the Senate. I will tell each senator I revere the Constitution. If confirmed by the senate I will keep an open mind in every case.” The use of this statement obviously confused many Twitter users–and apparently some in the media.\n\nBut one particular tweet from the account–this one easily visible on the timeline–should have put any journalist on red alert as to @_brettkavanaugh’s authenticity (or lack thereof). This tweet was culled straight from the ultra-current culture wars of civility and protest that have erupted in the wake of President Trump taking office:\n\nAnother tweet–which was quickly deleted and noted by Twitter user @Irma_Squirrel–should have made the account’s falsity fairly obvious due to its off-beat syntax and spelling errors. Yet another tweet–also quickly deleted–somewhat implausibly offered a Twitter poll asking users if they were “happy” about Kavanaugh’s nomination; this one prompted a direct reply to Fox’s Twitter account, which apparently didn’t take the skepticism that seriously.", null, "Another tweet offered a defense of Kavanaugh from right-wing attorneys John Yoo and John Delahunty. Here’s a screengrab of that tweet:", null, "The third tweet offered reassurances from the First Liberty Institute’s Kelly Shackelford that Kavanaugh was a strong supporter of “religious liberty.” The final screengrab:", null, "As noted, most of the fake Kavanaugh tweets were simply rehashed versions of various public statements and positions Kavanaugh has made or holds. Others were probably a bit too silly for much comment. But the culture war tweet was an obvious and arguably dangerous falsehood which was heavily retweeted before the account went dark. The content of that falsehood spread like wildfire across Twitter.\n\nLaw&Crime reached out to Fox News for comment on this story, but no response was forthcoming at the time of publication. After this story was published, Lynne Jordal Martin, senior editor of FOX News Opinion released the following statement to Law&Crime, “The tweets have since been deleted on our FOX News Opinion Twitter account and we regret the error.”\n\nEditor’s note: this story has been amended post-publication to include a statement from Fox News and to reflect said statement." ]

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[ null, "Cryptocurrency exchange BITpoint has become the latest victim of a hacking attack. The Japan-based exchange stated that it discovered an unauthorized withdrawal of $32 million from its hot wallet. The incident came into light when BITpoint tried to make a payment using the cryptocurrency Ripple and got an error message.\n\nBITpoint held five cryptocurrencies in its hot wallet- Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple. However, the company clarified that its cold wallet and cash holdings were not affected in the incident.\n\nBITpoint halted all the payments In and Out of the exchange temporarily. “To prevent any harm to customer assets, we will handle this responsibly, for example in terms of compensation from Bitpoint,” said the company in a statement. “We regret to inform you we terminate all our services immediately due to Securities Commission Malaysia didn’t permit us to operate as Digital Asset Exchange. We start to return all our existing customer asset. Please note, we are keeping customer asset safely.”\n\nIn a recent cyber-attack, popular cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb lost around three million EOS (worth $13.4 million) and 20 million Ripple coins (XRP) of worth $6 million. In an official statement, Bithumb stated that on March 29, 2019, at around 10:15 pm the company detected abnormal withdrawals of its cryptocurrencies from its hot wallets. Bithumb stated that it secured all the cryptocurrency during the detection time and confirmed that the customers’ assets are safe under the protection of a cold wallet.\n\nDescribing the incident as an “accident involving insiders”, Bithumb said “we are conducting intensive investigations with KISA, Cyber Police Agency and security companies. At the same time, we are working with major exchanges and foundations and expect to recover the loss of the cryptocurrency equivalent.”\n\nThis is a third cyber-attack the company revealed in the past three years. The first hack happened in July 2017, when hackers stole $7 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum, while the second incident took place in June 2018, when hackers stole hackers stole 35 billion won ($31 million). Bithumb released a list of 11 cryptocurrencies lost during the hack as well as the corresponding amounts." ]

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[ null, "The Ballaja Infantry Barracks Building (El Cuartel de Ballaja) in San Juan, Puerto Rico was constructed between 1854 and 1864 by the Spanish Corps of Military Engineers in the Ballajá Quarter of Old San Juan. The building is one of Spain’s most impressive buildings in the New World; it stands as the last example of large-scale military architecture by the Spanish Monarchy in the Americas. The building was transferred to the Government of Puerto Rico in 1976 through the Historic Surplus Properties Program. Restoration planning for the Barracks began in 1986 and the work was completed in 1993.", null, "The Beneficencia Building (Asilo de Beneficencia) was the first large-scale building constructed in the Ballajá Quarter of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Initially proposed in 1838, construction began in 1841 to provide a general establishment for public welfare. In November 1978 the U.S. General Services Administration transferred the building to the Government of Puerto Rico through the Historic Surplus Properties Program. The building was rehabilitated during the early 1990s and presently houses the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.", null, null, "The Old Navy Arsenal (Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina) is a complex of buildings and courtyards which contributes to the Old San Juan (Puerto Rico) National Historic Landmark District. In 1791 the Spanish Colonial government, began the construction of the Arsenal as a naval station to counter British attacks on the city. In 1957 the Government of Puerto Rico acquired the majority of the complex from the federal government of the United States through the Historic Surplus Properties Program. The remainder of the property was conveyed through the same program in 1975." ]

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[ null, "Wellington-based communications advisor Ben Jamieson, 33, has shocked and appalled his health and safety rep at the Ministry of Education, after a zoom call revealed his brazenly non-compliant work-from-home workstation.\n\n“He was slouched on the couch, with his neck curled forward in a very tense position, shoulders hunched as he typed on his laptop keyboard. It’s like he hasn’t even bothered to book a virtual home workstation health and safety assessment!”, said Thompson as she blinked in disbelief.\n\n“He’ll have a repetitive strain injury before he knows it. God, that’s the problem with this whole “work-from-home” nonsense, how are we supposed to manage every micro-detail of people’s work lives if they’re not in the office??”, asked the exasperated control-freak.\n\n“So not only is he in a completely unergonomic position on the couch, then I notice he’s holding a coffee with no lid! What if he spilled it!”\n\nJamieson was not particularly phased by Ms Thompson’s protestations. “Yeah I told Gemma I’d sort out an assessment next week. But I mean she’ll probably get into a flap about something else by then and forget that she’s annoyed at me.\n\n“I mean, this is a cushy work-from-home job tapping away on a laptop. It’s not like I’m working in a coal mine or anything”, Jamieson mused.\n\n“To be honest it seems like the Ministry of Education are more obsessed with health and safety than most of the building contractors I’ve done labouring for.”" ]

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[ null, null, "It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen. They are literally marching through the streets, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear.\n\nThese medals are made of 23-karat gold. They are heavy to handle, and being shiny and inscribed, they are noticeable. The Nazis have declared no gold shall leave Germany, but two Nobel laureates, one of Jewish descent, the other an opponent of the National Socialists, have quietly sent their medals to Bohr's Institute of Theoretical Physics, for protection. Their act is probably a capital offense — if the Gestapo can find the evidence.\n\nInconveniently, that evidence was now sitting in Bohr's building, clearly inscribed \"Von Laue\" (for Max von Laue, winner of the 1914 Prize for Physics) and \"Franck\" (for James Franck, the physics winner in 1925) — like two death warrants. Bohr's institute had attracted and protected Jewish scientists for years. The Nazis knew that, and Niels Bohr knew (now that Denmark was suddenly part of the Reich) that he was a target. He had no idea what to do.\n\nHow To Get Rid of A Nobel Prize Medal\n\nOn the day the Nazis came to Copenhagen, a Hungarian chemist named Georgy de Hevesy (he would one day win a Nobel of his own) was working in Bohr's lab. He wrote later, \"I suggested that we should bury the medal(s),\" but Bohr thought no, the Germans would dig up the grounds, the garden, search everywhere in the building. Too dangerous.\n\nI decided to dissolve it.\n\nSo Hevesy's thoughts turned to chemistry. Maybe he could make the medals disappear. He took the first one, he says, and \"I decided to dissolve it. While the invading forces marched in the streets of Copenhagen, I was busy dissolving Laue's and also James Franck's medals.\"\n\nThis was not an obvious solution, since gold is a very stable element, doesn't tarnish, doesn't mix, and doesn't dissolve in anything — except for one particular chemical emulsifier, called \"aqua regia,\" a mixture of three parts hydrochloric acid and one part nitric acid.\n\nAs you can see in this video from the University of Nottingham, dissolving gold is a slow business. The narrator (who looks like he was cast by Mel Brooks, but is presumably, the real deal) explains that nitric acid loosens the gold atoms, after which hydrochloric acid moves in, using its chloride ions to surround and transform the gold. While the video shows the reaction in sped-up form, remember, in 1940, they weren't dissolving little bits of gold. Hevesy's beaker contained two hulking gold medals ...\n\nIt must have been an excruciating afternoon. De Hevesy, in his autobiography, says because gold is \"exceedingly unreactive and difficult to dissolve,\" it was slow going, but as the minutes ticked down, both medals were reduced to a colorless solution that turned faintly peach and then bright orange. By the time the Nazis arrived, both awards had liquefied inside a flask that was then stashed on a high laboratory shelf. Then, says science writer (and Radiolab contributor) Sam Kean, in his book The Disappearing Spoon:\n\n...When the Nazis ransacked Bohr's institute, they scoured the building for loot or evidence of wrongdoing but left the beaker of orange aqua regia untouched. Hevesy was forced to flee to Stockholm in 1943, but when he returned to his battered laboratory after V-E Day, he found the innocuous beaker undisturbed on a shelf.", null, "Back in Denmark, de Hevesy did a remarkable thing. He reversed the chemistry, precipitated out the gold and then, around January, 1950, sent the raw metal back to the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. The Nobel Foundation then recast the prizes using the original gold and re-presented them to Mr. Laue and Mr. Franck in 1952. Professor Frank, we know, got his re-coined medal at a ceremony at the University of Chicago, on January 31, 1952.\n\nNiels Bohr also had a Nobel medal, but he'd put his up for auction on March 12, 1940, to raise money for Finnish Relief. The winning bid was anonymous, but later, Mr. Anonymous gave Bohr's medal to the Danish Historical Museum of Fredrikborg, where it can be seen today.\n\nThree winners, three medals — each of them sold or dissolved, then replaced. In wartime, it seems, Nobel medals get around.\n\nSam Kean's book is The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements, (Little Brown, 2010). He also was just on Radiolab telling tales of Lincoln Beachey, aviation pioneer." ]

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[ null, "Strange and disturbing, Transfiguration combines the vampire film and the social realism in a beautiful way.\n\nWe thought we had already seen it all in terms of vampire movie. But with TRANSFIGURATION, the first long-feature film, Michael O’shea, the genre deviates into something unexpected. Impossible to catalogue only the film in the fantasy, or horror, or see a movie social, a witness to the situation in the ghettos of New York – the film takes place in a city of Queens. A bit like the excellent It Follows (even if it remains far on many points) O’shea blends the two, matching perfectly the one in the other to cause a strange feeling, an uneasiness indescribable, where the real merges with dreamlike atmosphere.\n\nMilo, a teenager from Queens who lives alone with his big brother, is a vampire. At least according to him. Obviously Michael O’shea casts doubt. Likely to be disrupted since the suicide of his mother, Milo could not be “just” a serial killer, too much influenced by the countless films of the genre as it looks. Until the end, it would be difficult to say the choice of the director, the latter being careful to always leave both doors open – the doubt, mainly coming from the rejection of food of Milo, but that can be put on the account of the blood as much as a power “normal”.\n\nThis being the case, there is a reality that the viewer can not deny. This boy kills strangers. The report with this character obviously becomes complex. But with Sophie, a girl from his apartment building just as destroyed as him – being beaten by her father-in-law, she finds a time a form of liberation in scarifiant arms – the director creates a duo touching. Two young (very well played by Eric Ruffin and Chloe Levine) who are doing as they can in the midst of daily violence and misery. The developer key as well to a social cinema without falling into the obvious, the already seen or the film-to-speech.\n\nSee Milo and Sophie discuss films of the vampire, Nosferatu (Friedrich Murnau, 1922) to Twillight passing by Morse (the principal reference for O’shea), or Dracula Untold, something of a comic emerges sometimes even TRANSFIGURATION. In particular, with the point of view of Milo, who prefer films with ” vampires are realistic and that do not shine “. A certain pleasure of film for the director, but that makes it especially beneficial to the creation of a complicity between the protagonists, then more and more endearing, and the viewer. TRANSFIGURATION avoided until after any loss of credibility. Surprising, it puts obviously uncomfortable and inconvenient – through the choice of staging, and a subtle use of music, but manages to impress at the highest point and leaves no one indifferent.", null, null ]

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[ "Those clamoring to see Finn and Poe hook up in Star Wars are bound to be disappointed since it’s already been made clear that as much as they want to see it happen, the two men are going to be strictly platonic from this point on as the story will feature LGBTQ characters but it will not be these two. For some that might seem a bit hard to accept since from the first movie there have been certain tensions that have been building between the two men, but any arguments that might stand in favor of this relationship developing into something more are bound to those that have a desire to see it on the big screen. Oscar Isaac and John Boyega have both voiced their own opinions on the matter as per Ryan Scott of MovieWeb. Oscar had this to say:\n\n“Personally, I kind of hoped and wished that maybe that would’ve been taken further in the other films, but I don’t have control. It seemed like a natural progression, but sadly enough it’s a time when people are too afraid, I think, of… I don’t know what… But if they would’ve been boyfriends, that would have been fun.”\n\nWhile John had his own statement:\n\n“They’ve always had a quite loving and open relationship in which it wouldn’t be too weird if it went beyond it. But at the same time, they are just platonic at the moment.”\n\nObviously neither actor had an issue with taking this relationship further for the sake of the story, though to some it still might have felt as though it was forced and not quite as natural as the bond they do share came from their mutual need to escape the First Order and survive. There are many arguments for and against this idea that can be presented in a way that makes sense, but in the end it comes down to what the writers and the directors are going to allow into the movie and, as a result, how people are going to react. If there is any issue with an LGBTQ presence in Star Wars, and the opposition is becoming less and less in recent times, it is that there are moments when the idea feels like an intrusion for the sake of being recognized instead of a request that another lifestyle be introduced in a natural and seamless manner. While there is no true opposition to LGBTQ characters there is still a desire by many fans to see it fold slowly into the story and not be jammed into the main portion without much more than a hurried greeting followed by a swift demand for acceptance. Calvin Freiburger of Life Site has more to say on this matter. One reason for this bromance to develop would be that it could possibly bring a new dimension to Star Wars and allow the franchise to become more inclusive. Yet a definite negative would be that it could lose fans and possibly alienate others that are not ready for Star Wars to become too much like real life.\n\nThat might sound like a weak argument and in some ways it is, yet at the same time simply demanding that something take place when it wasn’t the original plan for the movie based on ones feelings and need for representation is also a much weaker argument than some might believe. How a movie is perceived is a big part of what makes it popular, and as many people saw it, the bromance was just that, a bonding between two men that didn’t go any deeper. To others however there were hidden cues that some might not have picked up on, signs and portents that Finn and Poe might be ‘meant for each other’. Any argument that’s to be made for this, regardless of whether the actors would go through with it, becomes a very personal matter between those that perceive one thing and those that perceive another. When it comes down to what we see the possibility of agreeing on one thing or another becomes very low indeed. Poe and Finn are not going to be hooking up in Star Wars, that much has been made plain, and considering that The Rise of Skywalker is the last time we’ll be seeing these characters a lot of folks might be disappointed. Unless someone writes a fan fiction novel concerning this matter, and don’t rule it out since it could happen, you won’t be likely to see Finn and Poe share anything but a love for freedom from tyranny and the First Order.\n\nHollywood is certainly changing, though not fast enough for some people and too fast for others. What we’ll see in the next decade is already beginning to intrigue many individuals as LGBTQ representation is continuing to change the landscape just a bit. Dustin Diehl of Pride has more to offer on this subject.", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, null, "Rumors have been circulating for most of this year about when Apple will switch its iPhone line from Lightning to USB-C, a divisive move that is now expected to take place in 2023. Even so, owning one is still beyond the reach of the average person.\n\nIn 2018 the iPad Pro got USB-C; The iPad Air followed in 2020; And the iPad mini switched to 2021. Now Apple is ready to update its 10.2-inch iPad and, according to the 9to5Mac formula, drop Lightning completely from its tablet line-up.\n\nAs the cheapest tablet Apple sells, the 10.2-inch model tends to end up getting the desired features. In addition to a USB-C port replacing the current Lightning port, the 10th-gen iPad (which 9to5Mac says codenamed J272) will also complete the conversion to Apple’s 5G.\n\nThis may be over, but the standard iPad changes are significant. It’s Apple’s most popular iPad, and draws a large segment of the tablet-user population to USB-C and 5G standards.\n\nA transition that will not join, however, is to switch to Apple Silicon. The current iPad Pro and Air models will have an A14 bionic processor instead of the M1 chip, the report said. The entry-level iPad will probably have to wait until the iPad mini gets an M-Class chip; The 6th-gen Mini has an A15.\n\nFor the rest of the spec, 9to5Mac’s formulas say that the screen size could increase from the current 10.2 inches to 10.5 or even 10.9 inches and will have the same resolution as the current iPad Air. However, they are not sure if there will be a major redesign to move the home button and the Touch ID sensor to the top power button.\n\nWe hope to announce the new iPad with the iPhone 14 earlier this year: For the latest rumors, check out our 2022 iPad 10.2 Superguide. If you can’t wait that long, make a bargain in the current range with our guide for the best iPad deal." ]

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[ null, "An artist’s impression of Kepler 452b (right). Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle.\n\n\nIn recent years, NASA has been busy looking for alien life. Every now and then it has announced the discovery of something very spectacular.\n\nIn 2010 it was the discovery of a bacterium that was supposed to thrive on arsenic. It was a false alarm.\n\nNASA has a rather suspicious record of “firsts”. Two of its life-friendly exoplanets (Gliese 581d and Gliese 581g) might not even exist though this hasn’t kept artists from imagining what they might look like.\n\nIt reminds me of the hype that often follows the discovery of a fossil that is supposed to belong to one of our long-lost ancestors. However, once more facts start coming in, the discovery turns out to be a disappointment. Ida was presented as our grand aunt, but it soon became obvious that she was something entirely different.\n\nThis time NASA announced the discovery of Kepler 452b that orbits its sun in the constellation Cygnus some 1400 light years away. Assumed to be a rocky planet, its diameter is 60 per cent larger than the Earth's.\n\nWith a year lasting 385 days, it seems to resemble an oversized Earth. However, we know next to nothing about what the planet is really like. Life needs a lot more than a place in a potentially habitable zone.\n\nAfter all, Venus and Mars are in the Sun’s habitable zone and look how habitable they are.\n\nObviously, much more is needed, such as a big moon to keep the oceans alive. The Earth is fine-tuned for life in every way.\n\nIn contrast, many exoplanets are weird. They are not at all like Earth.\n\nEarth was made to be habitable. As we know, life only comes from life. It does not pop into existence by chance from non-life anywhere in the cosmos." ]

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[ "The segregation of communities on the premise of earnings happens in nations worldwide and has a significant impression on quality of health as a result of a lower in social capital for those trapped in poor neighborhoods. Social interventions, which search to enhance healthcare by enhancing the social assets of a community, are therefore an effective element of campaigns to enhance a group’s health. A 1998 epidemiological examine confirmed that group healthcare approaches fared much better than particular person approaches in the prevention of coronary heart disease mortality. Health equity, sometimes additionally referred to as health disparity, is defined as differences within the high quality of health and healthcare across different populations. Health equity is totally different from health equality, because it refers to the absence of disparities in controllable or remediable elements of health.\n\nAdditionally, among African American and Latino infants, mortality rates are 2 to three occasions greater than different racial teams. The position of socioeconomic status in health equity extends past easy monetary restrictions on an individual’s purchasing energy.", null, "It just isn’t attainable to work towards complete equality in health, as there are some components of health which might be beyond human affect. Thus, if one population dies youthful than one other because of genetic differences, a non-remediable/controllable issue, we tend to say that there is a health inequality.\n\nIn truth, social capital plays a significant position in the health of people and their communities. It has been proven that those who are better connected to the sources supplied by the individuals and communities round them (these with more social capital) stay longer lives.\n\nDue to an absence of affordable health care, the African American death price reveals that African Americans have a higher fee of dying from treatable or preventable causes. According to a study performed in 2005 by the Office of Minority Health—a U.S. Department of Health—African American males were 30{d130b390b2639d89b4bb3eeaa56129ab8396fb1f131fc19963fcf3930573f4ce} extra doubtless than white men to die from coronary heart illness. Also African American women had been 34{d130b390b2639d89b4bb3eeaa56129ab8396fb1f131fc19963fcf3930573f4ce} extra more likely to die from breast most cancers than their white counterparts.\n\nMichael is a two-time graduate of Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and a Master’s in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in Counseling. He has been proud to sit down on the board for the Maricopa County Reentry Program and was a member of the Coconino County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. Currently, Michael is associated with the Maricopa County Correctional Health Coalition, is an government board member for Hushabye Baby, and was just lately appointed as a board member to Arizona Governor DougDucey’s Substance Abuse Task Force.\n\nA 2002 examine in the Journal of the American Medical Association identifies race as a big determinant in the stage of high quality of care, with blacks receiving lower quality care than their white counterparts. This is partially as a result of members of ethnic minorities corresponding to African Americans are both earning low incomes, or residing beneath the poverty line. In a 2007 Census Bureau, African American households made an average of $33,916, whereas their white counterparts made a median of $54,920.\n\nIn South Africa, the legacy of apartheid still manifests itself as a differential entry to social services, including healthcare based mostly upon race and social class, and the resultant health inequities. Further, evidence suggests systematic disregard of indigenous populations in a number of nations. The Pygmys of Congo, for instance, are excluded from government health packages, discriminated against throughout public health campaigns, and obtain poorer general healthcare. Along with the socioeconomic issue of health disparities, race is one other key factor.\n\nWe do all this because we care passionately about serving to folks lead more healthy lives. Supporting our interconnected methods is crucial for the public’s health past the instant provision of medical care. In reality, the information show that drugs accounts for less than 20{d130b390b2639d89b4bb3eeaa56129ab8396fb1f131fc19963fcf3930573f4ce} of a population’s health status." ]

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[ null, "The beholder is a fictional monster in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Its appearance is that of a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth, single central eye, and lots of smaller eyestalks on top with deadly magical powers.\n\nIn a recently published article, FAIRLDS.org (renamed FAIRMormon and still not sued for it despite it being far more often taken as church sponsored when it isn’t than a dating site ever would be) contributor Kevin Christensen attacks Jeremy Runnells, the author of the CES Letter.\n\nHe asks a pertinent question and then uses his own thoughts mingled with Christ’s parables to answer it: Runnells is to blame. He wasn’t good ground. Or he didn’t look at it right.\n\nThe question he asks: In his Letter to a CES Director, Jeremy Runnells explains how a year of obsessive investigation brought about the loss of his testimony. In an LDS FAQ, LDS blogger Jeff Lindsay deals with all of the same questions… has not only an intact testimony, but boundless enthusiasm. What makes the difference?\n\nIt is interesting how he decides to immediately invoke “God is on my side” logic, rather than actually review the issues and how the bloggers approach them. The parable of sewer clearly says that Jeff Lindsay is the good ground, whereas a Minister of a Christian faith might see the reverse; that the good word finally hit Jeremy Runnells, whereas Kevin and Jeff are the thorns ensnaring people.\n\nHow can we get past our own personal biases and know what really made the difference?\n\n1. Jeff Lindsay started with the conclusion. Jeremy Runnells attempted to prove his hypothesis, that the church HAD to be true, false. Jeff reviews all information and applies the test of “Does this match my conclusion that I have already determined”. Why this matters: This is explained far better by Staticticians than myself. Basicially all of science and how we “Know things” is around trying to prove what we believe false, because otherwise our bias will cause us to only review the things that confirm our beliefs. It’s not that Jeff and Kevin are evil, bad, or try to mislead people, they just fall into their own biases.\n\n2. How do you know they fall into confirmation bias? Well I’ve actually spoken with Jeff Lindsay and read his blog. His post about DNA and the Lamanites requires that the lamanite genetics are not wide spread. In other words it must take place in a small location. His post about Quetzalcoatl requires the Lamanites/Nephites to be in a particular location and to be wide spread. Yet he doesn’t even hold his own theories against each other to make sure they don’t contradict. In other words, his research shows a history of not trying to falsify his suppositions. When I challenged him for example to review all of the times God said in revelation to Joseph Smith that the Lamanites were in Missouri, and asked him how he reconciled his beliefs with contrary evidence he replied back with Silence\n\nNow maybe he was very busy, but the conversation went very well until he was asked what he did with conflicting data and then poof… no more conversation.\n\nThe idea that they accuse Jeremy of this very thing, that it was the context and how he read the scriptures or history that caused him to come to his conclusions is almost humorous. Pot, this is the kettle and it might be black.\n\n3. The FAIRlds/FAIRmormon aren’t looking for truth, they are looking for faithful answers. Jeremy wanted to know what was true, wherever it took him. FAIR members know they only get published if they come to the right conclusion. That’s not science, that’s peer-driven confirmation bias published to make people feel better.\n\nIf Mr. Christensen wants to do an unbiased evaluation of the two, I suggest he leave his scriptures at home, and talk about methods of approach, such as how Jeremy sought out authority to answer his questions, and when Authority did not reply he asked FAIR contributors who contradicted each other and why Jeremy took the actions he did as compared to Jeff. Perhaps we could delve into Jeff’s background with the church, and his ties to how he was published. Maybe we could just discuss the scientific method and see who used it better. Regardless, simply lobbing “Parables justify us, and not you” at someone who seriously wanted answers… not cool, nor productive.\n\nBelow this line comes sarcasm\n\nThe comparing of Mr. Runnells to Chicken Little is a straw man argument. Jeremy picks out the Isaiah being exactly in the Book of Mormon as it is in the bible because it is evidence of plagiarism. It is not a acorn falling from the sky, it is something that any high school English teacher, if they noticed, would flunk a student for doing. It is a red flag (and there are many others) that he copied the work from somewhere else.\n\nWhat does Nibley and the others reply… that he had no bible to copy from. Well, I’ve seen Joseph’s Uncle’s Bible myself which is the type that Isaiah was lifted from (Utah Daughters of Pioneer’s Museum in Utah) and Joseph himself explains he read from the bible (remember that whole Jacob 1:5 thing?) so he clearly had access to bibles.\n\nIf we’re going to compare allegories with Chicken Little, then I’d suggest the title of his article is very apt. One eye, large mouth monster that uses tiny eye-stalks to spread its chaos… describes FAIR pretty well to me.\n\nThis entry was posted in Current issues. Bookmark the permalink.\nLast edited by Mithryn on June 27, 2014 at 3:38 pm" ]

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[ null, "I was raised in a Christian home and I gave my life to Christ at the age of six. However, in the years that followed, I went the way of the Prodigal Son and turned away from God. Several years of substance abuse culminated with my body packing up and I almost died. Through a dramatic series of events, I ended up visiting a church ‘once’ to see whether God was real. During this church service, I encountered Christ in a life-transforming way! My substance addictions were taken away and I was healed. I was born again and received Christ as my Lord and Saviour.\n\nSince this encounter, I have been on a very real ‘adventure’ as a follower of Christ, which has helped to shape and form my life, leading to a recent appointment as an accredited Baptist Minister in Edenbridge in South-East England. I have travelled various parts of the world and witnessed many different expressions of Christian faith – from eighty thousand people worshipping in a stadium (Bogota), groups people ‘drinking shots of the holy spirit’ (Toronto), and worshipping in a church where the meeting place was on a ‘hit-list’ to be bombed (Sweden).\n\nMy number one purpose is to live for Christ and His Kingdom, releasing and freeing lives to an authentic faith with Him.\n\nIt is an awesome privilege to be a part of the DHM team, helping to share God’s love with the people of Ukraine and seeing the God’s Kingdom become a visible reality in this beautiful country!", null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Frk has very special day off this past Tuesday", null, "SUNRISE, Fla. -- It appears that the Red Wings will get another veteran defenseman back for Saturday night's game in Florida.\n\nJonathan Ericsson has not played this season due to an upper-body injury but is likely to draw into the lineup against the Panthers.\n\n\"We're hoping that he's ready to play,\" Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. \"We'll see how he is. He's going to do a little extra battling after practice. As long as all goes well than he would go in.\"\n\nEricsson has been practicing with the team for some time now so his conditioning is still there but it will be an adjustment.\n\n\"Everything is not going to be 100 percent right away, I can't expect that,\" Ericsson said. \"It's hard to practice conditioning for game situations. It's always different. I can skate however much, then you come out in the game and you're still exhausted after the first shift. It's a totally different thing. But I've prepared myself and they prepared (me) as good as they could.\"\n\n\"I think sometimes in people's absence, you appreciate them more. You realize the real positives they do when they're not there,\" Blashill said. \"(Trevor) Daley coming back was a big plus, I think Johnny coming back, he's a big man who knows how to play against real good players and is a good penalty killer. He makes mistakes like everybody else but he does lots of good things that, at times, haven't been appreciated enough. I think the size factor hasn't been appreciated enough. If he can get back and ready to roll tomorrow, it would be good to have him to be able to play at times against (Florida's Aleksander) Barkov.\"\n\nOnce they determine Ericsson is ready to go, the Wings will have a roster move to make.\n\nABDELKADER BACK ON PP: The Red Wings have been solid on the penalty kill, currently ranking seventh in the NHL at 82.1 percent.\n\nBut the power play is still not clicking enough. The Wings are 15th in the league at 22.7 percent.\n\nSo during Friday's practice at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla., Abdelkader was on the unit with Tyler Bertuzzi, Dylan Larkin, Gustav Nyquist and Niklas Kronwall.\n\n\"Abby's been a good power play guy,\" Blashill said. \"I thought the little bit he was on - Bert had the penalty last night and he went on it last night and did a good job with poise, he's a good net-front guy, he's been good around the net.\"\n\n\"I think we just got to get a shot mentality and continue to make it harder around their net and on their goalie and just even out our chances,\" Abdelkader said.\n\nRASMUSSEN'S RETURN: After sitting out the game in Montreal, Rasmussen returned to the lineup against the Tampa Bay Lightning.\n\n\"I thought Ras played better last night than he had previous,\" Blashill said. \"I thought it was a much better game against a real good team. My plan is to keep him in the lineup and play him again tomorrow night and hopefully he takes another step in the right direction. If at some point he doesn't then we'll go back to the drawing board and try to help him keep getting better.\"\n\nRasmussen played 13 shifts for 9:56 and had a blocked shot, finishing even.\n\n\"I felt pretty good. I think I improved on a couple of things and made some positive plays,\" Rasmussen said. \"I think I made a couple of good plays on the power play, but there's still some things I have to clean up, so I think overall it was a pretty good game for me. I just have to keep going.\"\n\nThe Red Wings do have the option to play Rasmussen in nine NHL games and then send him back to his junior team without burning a year of his entry-level contract.\n\n\"It's coming up and we're aware of it and it's something that (general manager Ken Holland) and I have talked about and that's why if we need to take a break we'll take a break and try to get him up to speed through some drills in practice if we need to,\" Blashill said. \"But I'm hoping he plays even better tomorrow night and keeps taking steps in the right direction. I like him a lot as a player, I hope he can keep going in the right direction.\"\n\nCONGRATULATIONS IN ORDER: After the Red Wings returned from Montreal, they had a day off Tuesday and no one had a better day than Martin Frk.\n\nFrk, 25, took his longtime girlfriend, Kennedy Braun, to Cranbrook House and Gardens for a surprise proposal.\n\nInstagram from @frky91: I could not wait for this day to come and it finally came! I'm very excited to spend rest of my life with my best friend and my love ❤ I love you Kennedy 😘\n\n\"Yeah, she didn't know,\" Frk said, smiling. \"I guess she was quite a lot surprised when I look at the pictures when the photographer took the pictures. She was kind of surprised, you can see it on her. It was good. It was a nice day, too, it was sunny so that was perfect.\n\n\"It was a special day for me in that moment, a big day, one of the biggest days I ever had.\"\n\nFrk said it took about two months to get the ring and then a little over a week to set up the photographer and the place for the proposal.\n\nFrk and Braun met in Halifax when he played for the QMJHL's Mooseheads and she was in school there. Braun is originally from Calgary.\n\nBraun's brother is getting married next summer so Frk said they will wait and plan their wedding for after that one.\n\n\"We're not in a rush right now. A lot of time,\" Frk said. \"We have two dogs, we are not thinking about kids right now since we have two dogs. Right now we are just going to enjoy this part.\"\n\nBIG GAME: The Red Wings are not holding a morning skate Saturday, which is a good thing for Dylan Larkin, Luke Glendening and Justin Abdelkader.\n\nAll three will likely be watching as the Michigan football team takes on Michigan State in East Lansing.\n\nLast year, in a surprising twist, Glendening, who went to Michigan, picked the Spartans to win, which they did.\n\n\"Michigan, I've got Michigan this year,\" Glendening said. \"Just think it's their time, they've struggled long enough in these games, it's time to go.\"\n\nLarkin, another Michigan alum, was taken aback to hear that Glendening picked MSU the previous year.\n\n\"He picked MSU last year?\" Larkin asked. \"I do think Michigan is going to win, but I don't know what the score is going to be. Coming off a big win, a solid win at Wisconsin. I like that it's a road game, a little pressure off. We'll be going in there fired up.\"\n\nNaturally, proud Spartans alum Abdelkader had a different take on the rivalry game.\n\n\"I say Michigan State wins by a touchdown,\" Abdelkader said. \"I think we're at home and that's always an added weapon in a rivalry game like that. They come off a big win and I think they'll carry the confidence over.\"" ]

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[ null, "On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court released a decision on the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the controversial 1973 decision Roe v. Wade. Roe legalized abortion on demand in the United States. The Dobbs case has now sent that decision back to the states. It also overturned the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision.\n\nThe decision is 79 pages and there is an appendix. The ruling read, in part, “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”\n\n\nThe Court’s opinion was 6-3, with Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor dissenting.\n\n“We end this opinion where we began. Abortion presents a profound moral question. The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. We now overrule those decisions and return that authority to the people and their elected representatives,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court’s opinion.\n\nProtesters descended upon the Supreme Court Friday anticipating the ruling. There was a large police presence at the Court, with a line of police officers on bicycles surrounding the building. The strong police presence departed around 10:00 a.m. ET for unknown reasons.\n\nPro-abortion rights protesters held signs reading “abortion-on-demand without apology” and “I will aid and abet abortion.”\n\nPro-life protesters had bull horns and repeated, “abortion is murder,” “Black babies matter,” among other chants. They also held signs reading, “make abortion unthinkable,” as well as many signs that featured illustrations of unborn babies.\n\nRadical pro-abortion rights group Jane’s Revenge is amping up threats of violence amid the Supreme Court’s imminent reversal of the 1973 decision Roe v. Wade. Now, across Washington, D.C. posters are being pasted on light poles threatening “riots” via a “night of rage” to protest the Court’s decision.\n\nThe Catholic Church has already prepared for radical pro-abortion rights proponents to vandalize Churches during a “Night of Rage” planned by Jane’s Revenge.\n\nAn internal document obtained by Newsweek outlines intelligence shared by the Department of Homeland Security with the Catholic Church of a planned “Night of Rage,” targeting churches and pregnancy centers over their opposition to abortion rights. The document sheds light on how law enforcement and the church are bracing for backlash after a leaked opinion showed the Supreme Court preparing to rescind federal abortion rights.\n\nLabeled an “urgent memo,” the document is from the Diocese of Stockton, California, and is directed to all clergy, as well as parish and pastoral staff. The memo states that Jesse Rangel, a DHS agent, told the diocese that federal law enforcement has discovered a manifesto from an “extremist group” calling for attacks on churches beginning at 8 p.m. the evening the court issues its opinion.\n\nThis is a developing story, and it will be updated.\n\nI applaud the SC decision. Roe has long been regarded as an unconstitutional ruling that exceeded the court’s authority. This should not be seen as my being anti-abortion. Nor is it. It returns the decision of them back to the States, their legislatures and voting citizens. Just as with the Civil War and slavery, the issue is something that the States should decide for themselves…. and not have those in favor forcing their viewpoints on States who disagree.\n\nIt’s a great day for Life\n\nRoe v Wade was a horrible decision in the first place, based on the flimsiest argument ever put before the Court." ]

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[ null, "NEW BRITAIN – The New Britain Golden Hurricanes took a massive step in the right direction with a 38-25 win over Middletown in Week 1, but they have an even larger task in front of them in Week 2 as they welcome the Windsor Warriors into Veterans Stadium this Friday night.\n\nWindsor is coming off a 21-20 loss at the hands of Wethersfield in a top-25 matchup. In this week’s GameTimeCT Poll the Warriors tabulated the 17th most votes and Wethersfield came in at 22. Windsor slotted in at No. 5 in the preseason poll prior to their Week 1 loss.\n\nThe Week 1 loss came down to a failed two-point conversion with 2:45 to go in the fourth quarter.\n\nThe Hurricanes’ top-two running backs rushed for 343 yards in their win highlighting the things that New Britain head coach Isaiah Boddie thought the team did well. The tandem is running behind a veteran offensive line which will serve as the strongest facet of their offense early on.\n\n“We had a lot of spurts where we did a lot of positive things, but when we look back on the film, I’m already thinking we made a lot of mistakes,” Boddie said.\n\nNew Britain allowed touchdowns on four straight Middletown possessions last week amid a stretch of nine consecutive drives that ended in scores for both teams.\n\nAlthough New Britain and Windsor have not faced since 2010, the Hurricanes did face three teams a season ago who at least received votes in the final poll of the 2021 season: Maloney, Hall and Southington. In those games, New Britain was outscored by an average of 44.67-10.\n\nAlbeit the Hurricanes also lost by 23 to Middletown a season ago and proved to be a much different product in the 2022 rematch.\n\nThe Warriors have had a lot of turnover on their roster from a season ago. They only returned four starters on each side of the ball after an 11-2 season including a perfect 7-0 in league play. Last year’s version of Windsor scored an average of 35.4 points per game and allowed 19.7 to opponents.\n\nThe Hurricane’s slow start and inability to slow Middletown’s offense a week ago is reason to have pause when looking at New Britain lining up against a top-25 team in Windsor this Friday. If the Golden Hurricanes are able to score first and play from ahead with Cam Bond and Cayden Hill this game could be closer than it may have originally looked when the schedule was released. Week 1 proved that New Britain is improved from a 1-9 season in 2021. Week 2 is a big test in terms of the type of resolve Isaiah Boddie and his team has this season. A little could go a long way for both teams in this matchup. After dropping 12 spots in the poll, Windsor could be in position to fall even further if they allow New Britain to hang around in this game." ]

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[ null, "In the lab of Myeong-Je Cho, the director of plant genomics at the Innovative Genomics Institute at Berkeley, cacao plant seedlings are being grown with the hope that they will thrive as climate change warms and dries the rainforests they thrive in. The genes of the plants have been changed slightly, using CRISPR, in hopes they’ll better withstand the new conditions, according to a story in Business Insider. Without such changes, cacao grown in the world’s major cacao-producing areas will be forced uphill into new terrain or could die out.\n\nTo help cacao survive, the genomics institute is working with food and candy company Mars, as part of the candy company’s $1 billion commitment to reducing its carbon footprint.\n\nJennifer Doudna, the UC Berkeley geneticist who invented CRISPR, is overseeing the collaboration. Doudna has said her invention’s most profound applications won’t be on humans but rather on the food they eat." ]

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[ null, "Chrissy Lampkin is an American Fashion Designer and reality star. She is famously known for Love & Hip Hop and Chrissy & Mr. Jones reality shows. Below are details of her age, net worth and wiki-bio.\n\nWho is Chrissy Lampkin?\n\nChrissy Lampkin is an American fashion designer and reality star. She is famous for her appearances on her VH1 reality show, Chrissy & Mr. Jones. This show is a spin-off of Love & Hip Hop: New York. The show premiered on 24th September 2012 featuring Chrissy Lampkin and her lover, Jim Jones.\n\nJim Jone’s son, Joseph “Pudie” Jones II, joined the cast during season 2. Besides Joseph, LaToya “Sassy” Everett and Deb Antney also joined the cast. However, the show aired for only two seasons and did not return for a third season.\n\nThree years later, Chrissy Lampkin and Jim Jones were back on screen. They returned with a six-part series, Jim & Chrissy: Vow or Never. Their new show made debut in WE tv on September 1, 2016. This too had a very short life span on the screen. It aired for just one month until 6th October 2016.\n\nJust like the first show, this too mainly focused on Chrissy Lampkin and Jim Jones. The only difference was that it was produced by a different company. And also, it was not a spin-off of Love & Hip Hop. The show followed the lives of these two characters as they lived in Miami, Florida.", null, "Similar to the Chrissy & Mr. Jones’ series, this too had supporting cast members. Jim Jone’s mum, Nancy was not left out. Alongside her were two other new casts, Tiffany Barnes and Freekey Zekey.\n\nReportedly, Chrissy Lampkin first appearance in Love & Hip Hop show was in 2011. At this time, she was introduced to the show as Jim Jones girlfriend.\n\nBesides being a reality star, Chrissy Lampkin’s first love career is fashion design. Currently, she is the head of Lady Vamp. Lady Vamp is a clothing line that is a subsidiary of her boyfriend’s Vampire Life clothing line. This has significantly boosted her net worth.\n\nReportedly, the celebrity also manages some real estate property she inherited from her grandfather.\n\nChrissy Lampkin, like the majority of other celebrities, has been on-and-off relationships. Surprisingly, at her age, she is not married. She is currently engaged to her fiancée, rapper Jim Jones. Reportedly, she got engaged to her lover way back in 2011.", null, "Five years after their engagement, the duo was not yet married. In 2016, they were captioned in a YouTube video as they talked of their future. Specifically, they were discussing their dream wedding and children. It is in this video that Chrissy revealed that Jim has a son.\n\nIn 2017, there were rumors that the two exchanged vows in April at South Beach. However, neither of them has talked about their married life. Therefore, it is still uncertain as to whether they are a husband and wife already.\n\nPreviously, Chrissy Lampkin reportedly dated rapper JayZ when she was 23 years of age which is presumably the main cause of the existing rivalry between Jim Jones and JayZ.\n\nAlso, Chrissy Lampkin used to date another man in the past whose identity is concealed. The man cheated on her and as a result, she stole $32,000 from him. This man retaliated by knocking off some of her teeth but he also paid for her medication. This is how they parted ways.\n\nChrissy Lampkin’s net worth is approximated to be $700,000. The reality star has multiple sources of income. First, she made a good net worth from the reality shows she hosted. Secondly, she gets her income from her career as a fashion designer. Her clothing line has contributed much to her net worth.", null, "Finally, the celebrity sources her income from real estate property she inherited from her grandfather. This is also a plus to her net worth.\n\nHow old is Chrissy Lampkin? Her Birthdate\n\nChrissy Lampkin is presently 50 years of age. Wiki-bio indicates that her actual birthdate is 27th April 1971.\n\nChrissy Lampkin was born in Harlem, New York City in the United States. The reality star comes from a family that has Cuban and African-American descent. Therefore, her ethnicity is also of mixed races.\n\nWiki-bio has revealed that she has one sibling, a sister, whose name has not been mentioned. Reportedly, Chrissy Lampkin shares an amazing bond with her sister. She recently uploaded a photo of herself and her sister on social media as they happily hugged.\n\nSeemingly, the reality star has kept most of her personal life details away from the media. However, she recently hinted via her Instagram page that her father passed away. Wiki-bio reveals that at an early age, she lived with her grandmother.\n\nSurprisingly, Chrissy Lampkin has not also disclosed any information about her educational background." ]

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[ "Mental Health vs FIFA Funding: As of Thursday 1/20, reports have emerged from London where FIFA President, Gianni Infantino has addressed the footballing fraternity about reshaping the international calendar. This may need some major ‘reshaping’ now that it has also been reported that majority of FIFA members are pushing for a biennial World Cup. (Mental Health vs FIFA Funding)\n\nFIFA World Cup – arguably the biggest sporting event in the World, which for some, even trumps the Olympics is believed to bring in a revenue of US $5.2 billion. If we continue following the trends that have been set, finance gurus believe the revenue increases by 8% every event which does not include the revenue generated by broadcast rights.\n\nTo the struggling nations, FIFA may be doing them a massive favor by increasing the frequency of this event. While the event’s general aim may be to provide entertainment to the fans world wide, its commodification has brought everlasting effects to several countries’ economies. (Mental Health vs FIFA Funding)", null, "Focusing the attention towards UEFA, a governing body that focusses on Europe, that currently is in charge of all the top leagues in Europe and most importantly the coveted Champion’s League. UEFA generates an annual revenue between US $3.5 billion and US$ 5.0 billion. The revenue generated from them get redistributed among the top playing European nations and the winnings are redistributed based on the table standings or the competitions that the teams are a part of.\n\nThe average football season with the domestic league cups and other cups all can account to around 50 odd games for a mid-tier team and between 55-60 for the teams that manage to go further in the tournaments. (Mental Health vs FIFA Funding)", null, "Now we throw in the World Cup, an average 45 day event in the mix and we end up with a ‘off-season’ period of 6 weeks for the players. In these COVID stricken times, when players have complained about mental issues, and spending times in a bubble, the timetable with an additional 45 days of football in years when they do not have the Euros may very well be an overkill.\n\nUltimately, the balance may have to be struck whether we wish to see a Quality game of football or just an immense Quantity of Football? (Mental Health vs FIFA Funding)\n\nAs much as we believe Gianni Infantino speaks in the best interest and general welfare of the players as he addresses the masses, all we can do is wait and watch how FIFA balances this act. Personal cheque books vs mental sanity – that is the question." ]

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[ "The Practice of Seeing Through New Eyes (Proust + LSD)\n\nWe’ve read a number of permutations of this quote from Marcel Proust and thought it correct until we stumbled on the real thing, via Craig Thompson of Clearing Customs Blog. According to him, the original source is from volume 5 of Proust’s seven-volume Remembrance of Things Past, originally published in French in 1923. Here’s the much more nuanced original:\n\nAnd that reminded us of a stunning video we stumbled on some time ago, of a 1950’s housewife who took part in an early LSD experiment. As the drug takes hold, she glories in the colors she sees and says “Everything is one. Can’t you see it?” (Video link HERE.).\n\nWithout taking LSD, we find there is still a great deal of unexpected beauty to see IF we practice noticing what’s around us. Walking through the park on a cold day recently we were stunned to hear a symphony of birdsong (no exaggeration). We stopped and looked around, and found ourselves staring at the big pine tree, still adorned with Christmas lights. As our vision deepened, we saw, “Where’s Waldo-like”, dozens of birds hidden in tree.\n\nAnd in the foreground, we realized a bush full of green buds in the deepest moment of winter.\n\nCan’t you see it?", null, null, null, "scroll to top\nSend this to a friend\nI invite you to read The Practice of Seeing Through New Eyes (Proust + LSD) on Improvised Life! Take a look at it here: https://improvisedlife.com/2015/01/08/practice-seeing-new-eyes-proust-lsd/" ]

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[ "Antivirus softwares are indeed a life saviour for computer systems, especially one which runs Windows Operating Systems. Most of the viruses target Windows OSes compared to other operating systems.\n\nAVG is one of the free but reliable antivirus software available in the internet. It has been ranked 2nd in CNET based on the number of downloads. It has adopted the Windows 8 metro UI style for its latest antivirus, AVG Antivirus 2013. AVG has improved their performance in 2013 version compared to previous versions. Also, there has been a remarkable reduction in the setup size, current antivirus setup size is around one third of the previous versions. Download AVG Antivirus.", null, "Avira is another free antivirus which regained its popularity and momentum after staying stagnant for a while. If you keep it updated with latest virus definitions, Avira also deserves a respectable position in your Windows PC for protecting your computer from virus attacks. Download Avira Antivirus", null, "Avast is the most popular antivirus software as per the CNET team, based on the number of downloads reported. Avast doesn’t hog up the resources for enhanced protection. Download Avast Antivirus.", null ]

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[ null, "Another writer gave his pen to me,\nSaid he wanted to “swap energy”.\nSo I took his and he took mine,\nAnd I tried to imagine all the things it’d seen.\n\nWhat kind of clubs had it been in.\nWhat words had it written.\nWas there ever a time when he\nWished it wasn’t missing?\n\nWhere had it been. Was there ever\nA city that us two had visited?\nOr had the same spot in a place\nWhere the only thing to do was write,\n\nAnd right we were, because apparently\nOur pens weren’t just similar.\nIdentical, the model, and each had\nInk drained like a number of bottles.\n\nHow many things had burned in his mind,\nWhen he whipped it out and uncapped\nAnd set to immortalize – it on paper,\nAnd how long later did I see\n\nA pen sitting on the counter\nWhen I said to he,\n\n“I’ve got one just like it”\nAnd he said “We should swap,\n‘Cause I’d like to have your energy\nQuite a lot”.\n\nSo a pen was pocketed, but for once,\nNot my own.\nSo I’ll sit down and write a song\nAnd put on a little show\n\nUsing that energy he mentioned.\nThis time not Red Bull, but a power.\nGoing to turn it to eleven\nWith his trusty Pilot V7.\n\nConcerned with memory, currency, and destiny, I strive to capture each one as they happen. Join me and consume reality! Radio Reality. City! View more posts\n\nThis site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed." ]

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[ "Mexico warns US it will refuse non-Mexican deportees\n\nAn estimated 11 million illegal immigrants live in the United States, many of them from Mexico.", null, "Mexico will not accept deportees from the United States unless they are Mexican nationals, Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong declared on Friday, a day after meetings with top US officials.\n\n\"As for other migrants, we cannot accept them,\" Osorio Chong said in an interview on Mexican radio station Radio Formula.\n\n\"We were very clear about this: We are not going to accept them. They (the US) cannot leave them here on our territory because we will reject them,\" the Mexican official said.\n\n\"There is no possibility that they'll be received by Mexico.\"\n\nThe meeting came amid heightened tension over US President Donald Trump's plans to impose stricter immigration laws, including deportations of undocumented residents.\n\nAs part of an immigration crackdown, Trump, who took office on January 20, ordered a wall built along the US southern border to stop undocumented migrants from entering the United States, a plan that outraged its neighbor.\n\nOn Tuesday, the US Department of Homeland Security issued new orders to step up the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants. The government warned it could apply sanctions to a country if it refuses to cooperate.\n\nIn Thursday's meeting in the Mexican capital, Kelly and Tillerson sought to calm tensions, pledging there would be no mass deportations or use of military force to expel illegal immigrants.\n\nBut Osorio Chong appears not to have been persuaded.\n\n\"We cannot be a waiting room for those wanting to reach the United States,\" he insisted.\n\nAn estimated 200,000 undocumented migrants, most from Central America, try to cross from Mexico into the US each year.\n\nThe migrants often suffer abuse and violence, including death, from people smugglers and corrupt officials.\n\nTrump has vowed to crack down on \"bad dudes\" illegally residing in the United States, and branded those from Mexico as rapists and criminals during his presidential campaign." ]

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[ null, "If you were to Google the 'godfather of Korean hip hop' one name would pop up – Tiger JK. Born in Seoul, raised partially in the US, his duo Drunken Tiger dominated the fledgling Korean hip hop scene in the late 90s. They changed its dimensions, which had revolved around pop-centric, choreographed acts like Seo Taji and the Boys, by throwing down old school vibes, chopped up samples and JK's own NSFW outlook on life. Hugely instrumental in solidifying the scene, he brought up other underground rappers as he went, who commonly became known as the Movement crew.\n\nSince those early, controversial days much has changed; alongside chart success, awards, wedding Korea's acclaimed female rapper Tasha (Yoonmirae), and becoming a parent, Tiger JK formed MFBTY (My Fans Are Better Than Yours) in 2013 with Tasha and long-time [Drunken Tiger] collaborator and rapper Bizzy. He then split with the seminal label he'd founded, Jungle Entertainment. For a moment it seemed the 'godfather' was now more out than in, even by hip hop standards. The genre was fast becoming a seriously commercial venture through TV talent shows and MCs teaming up with idols to ensure their music gained mainstream traction, and JK, and indeed MFBTY, were merely standing on the fringe.\n\n'Wondaland', MFBTY's second full length album, is the first material since JK lost his father to cancer. It's an almost a shocking turnaround in terms of music - an eclectic, pop friendly album at odds with their ride or die hip hop credentials. Love songs sit alongside choppy, aggressive hip hop, while reggae tinged grooves nestle next to EDM remixes. There's tracks with Rap Monster (BTS) and Junhyung (Beast), both 'idol rappers', a breed of artist MFBTY had once shunned. It's a wild, unpredictable ride (perhaps emblematic of Tiger JK's career), but the raw, spitting honesty remains untamed even as they bravely kick the stocks from under their wheels to move forward into a new era with a new audience.\n\nWhile Bizzy is a reticent interviewee (“You're making me sweat,” he protests at anything directed towards him), Tasha and JK are as forthcoming as ever. Though the wisdom that comes with age has made them aware of the repercussions of their words, the notoriously fickle and complicated Korean music industry, and their place in it, continues to provide fuel. And where MFBTY's music is concerned there's many truths still to be told." ]

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[ "Season 1 points can be found at – http://goo.gl/aSqUHw – congratulations to everyone who completed the season without a DNF and the prize giving for all classes was done on the day.\n\nWith Season 1 done and dusted the BBQ committee and a few invited members had a recap of the season and what could be done to make it better for next time, for the rules a lot of tweaks have been made (a link can be found later in this email). To see our notes from the get together you can have a look at http://goo.gl/dJBzIV – In saying that this document should be taken as discussion and not anything official.\n\n2014-2015 Dates have now been set, we will still be sticking to the single day format for next season, but whether it is a Saturday or Sunday race is TBC for the two day rounds:\n\nEntry for season 2 will be done via a google form, conformation of entry will be sent if all the fields are filled out correctly, if we require any additional information we will contact you. The link will be released in June.\n\nCome the 2014-2015 season there will be many changes to the rules, many minor but some major. A change log can be found at http://goo.gl/cNHfVl with the changes highlighted in red. The most notable being:\n\n2.9: Petrol engines must be Naturally Aspirated. Diesel powered cars can either be turbo or naturally aspirated.\n\n6.4: “Final Warning” is when a driver has no chances left, any contact with another car will result in exclusion for the rest of the season. This can be appealed to the 2KCUP committee.\n\n6.5: The BBQ Committee can put any driver on “final warning” at any time, this is enabled by putting upside “L” plates upside down in the front and rear of the car, the plates can only be removed by the BBQ committee.\n\n8.6: BBQ Flame Grilled – Any car seen shooting flames can be put on a BBQ warning by the BBQ committee (or 2KCUP committee) and the competitor is given the rest of the round to resolve the problem. If your car shoots flames at any round following the warning you will be asked to leave the series.\n\nI am currently planning to have a 2KCUP only trackday sometime in August/September for us sort out all the loose ends and for everyone to get their eye back in, this will be confirmed in the next few months.\n\nI will send out an email with details about entering the 2014-2015 season in a few weeks. At the same time I will include a poll about the rules once you have all had a chance to mull them over.", null, null ]

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[ "Star Shortstop to undergo TJ surgery on his elbow…\n\nMy words yesterday morning didn’t age very well. I had said that shortstop was firmly set, yet here we sit today searching for Plan B at the position. I was as surprised as anyone to hear yesterday after my post that Didi Gregorius needed Tommy John surgery on his throwing arm after an apparent injury suffered during the recent ALDS against Boston. When Didi was acquired from the Arizona Diamondbacks, he apparently had a partial tear in the elbow that was asymptomatic. In a way, we’ve probably been living on borrowed time, much like we are with Masahiro Tanaka. While Gleyber Torres was able to bounce back fairly quickly from the same surgery, his surgery was on his non-throwing arm so the rehab for Didi will be longer than it was for Gleyber. Some have said that Didi could be out until after the All-Star Break. Plus, there are no guarantees with the surgery.\n\nFor those of us still trying to recover from the disappointment of losing the ALDS, these were not the words we wanted to hear. The immediate option is to slide Gleyber to short and play someone like Tyler Wade at second or re-sign Neil Walker to do it. Daniel Burch, the fearless leader of The Greedy Pinstripes, has cited second baseman D.J. LeMahieu as someone the Yankees could pursue. LeMahieu, who helped the Colorado Rockies reach the NLDS before their ouster by the Milwaukee Brewers, will be a free agent after the season. I think most Rockies fans would prefer for him to stay in the Mile High City. Some have mentioned him as a possible solution at third for the inevitable departure of the Rockies’ great third baseman Nolan Arenado, who will be a free agent after the 2019 season. I like LeMahieu but I am not sure he’s the best solution for the Yankees. Sometimes it takes a while for an idea to warm up for me, so if the Yankees do sign LeMahieu, maybe I’ll come around. Credit to Daniel for his “outside the box” thinking.", null, "The obvious answer, for me, is to sign Manny Machado to play short until Didi can return, then slide him to third, pushing Miguel Andujar to left (or trade Andujar for much-needed pitching). I wanted Manny before the announcement of Didi’s surgery yesterday so this only reinforces the desire. Manny was 2-for-4 and had a homer and 3 RBI’s last night for the Los Angeles Dodgers in their 6-5 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. Manny was the lone star on a night Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal tried to do his best Gary Sanchez impersonation with two passed balls and a couple of errors.\n\nI am worried about the future of Didi Gregorius. He is scheduled to be a free agent at the end of the 2019 season. Facing a potentially lost season, it’s not outside the realm of possibility the Yankees decide to move on. I personally hope the surgery does not prevent the team from looking into a long-term deal for the Yankees shortstop. I wouldn’t wait until next November to discuss dollars with Didi’s agent. The time is now. I would prefer Didi is not facing the pressure of playing for a new contract when he returns next June or July.\n\nIt was funny when GM Brian Cashman mentioned Sonny Gray during yesterday’s press conference. I didn’t reference Gray at all in my post yesterday which shows how much I’ve moved on from the guy. I’ve been absolutely convinced that he cannot pitch under the pressure of New York, and Cashman reaffirmed it when he said that “probably to maximize his abilities would be more likely best somewhere else”. Cashman had to back-pedal a little but it was only because he needs to protect potential trade value for Gray. Gray is as good as gone, and I am glad. I think he’ll prosper someplace like Pittsburgh or Milwaukee or even back in Oakland. But he was never going to be “the man” in New York. It happens. Just ask Ed Whitson or Javier Vazquez. New York is not for everybody. I do not wish any ill will toward Gray. I hope he goes on to have a very fine career…in a different uniform.", null, "It was also revealed CC Sabathia had surgery on his right knee, but realistically this is just an annual thing with Sabathia at this stage of his career. It should have no bearing on whether or not the Yankees try to lock up CC on another one-year deal. Sabathia is expected to be ready next Spring, regardless of whether he is in Tampa, FL for training camp or elsewhere.\n\nFormer Yankees manager Joe Girardi interviewed with the Texas Rangers yesterday for their open managerial position. I could see Girardi in Dallas/Fort Worth. I’d probably prefer to see him resume his managerial career in the National League but if he was to go anywhere, the Rangers are fine. It’s better than seeing Girardi show up in the AL East with Baltimore or Toronto.\n\nWhile I wish Girardi the best, I don’t look back and wish he was still the Yankees manager. In an interview yesterday, Yankees Managing General Partner Hal Steinbrenner said that the decision to move on from Girardi was years in the making. I trust Yankees Leadership for the reasons they felt a change was necessary. I remain supportive of Manager Aaron Boone, but I am slightly disappointed that the team intends to stand pat with the coaching staff. I think Josh Bard will be an improved Bench Coach in 2019 unless he snags a managerial gig before then, but probably the one position I’d look closely at is pitching coach. Larry Rothschild is revered as one of the best pitching coaches in the game, yet when a Yankees pitcher makes an adjustment that results in success, the player compliments are generally directed at other guys like Pedro Martinez or Andy Pettitte. I’ll use Hal Steinbrenner’s words from yesterday, “look, I am not a baseball guy”, but from afar I really haven’t been all that impressed with Rothschild. It’s very possible that I don’t know “shit from Shinola” on this topic but it’s just a casual observation from a fan. I can’t really recall a time when I heard a pitcher say that their success is attributable to Larry. Maybe it’s been said and I just haven’t heard it. Whatever. When Mel Stottlemyre, Sr was the Yankees pitching coach, you clearly knew the impact he had on the pitching staff. I just don’t have that same confidence with Rothschild.\n\nAdeiny Hechavarria is a pending free agent, but I hope the Yankees find a way to bring him (and his glove) back. I know that everyone loves Ronald Torreyes, but I’d prefer the defensive wizard in Hechavarria over Toe even if it means the team parts ways with Aaron Judge’s little buddy. With Didi shelved, the Yankees could certainly use the defense lost with his absence.\n\nI guess the Yankees will be giving us blog writers plenty to write about this winter. Never a dull moment in the Bronx. As long as it culminates in a World Series championship next year, all is good." ]

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[ null, "Is Biohackers on Netflix?\n\nYes, Biohackers is on Netflix. You can stream Biohackers on Netflix starting Friday, July 23, 2021, at 12 AM PT / 3 AM ET. Discover all series and films released on July 23rd and check out what’s new on Netflix in July 2021.\n\nBelow you can view Biohackers plot, streaming info, reviews, and much more about the series.\n\nA fast-paced thriller following medical student Mia Akerlund who discovers the use of highly advanced biohacking technology in her university town.\n\nBiohackers is a Netflix Original series released in 2020. Netflix uses the term \"original\" to present movies and series that are exclusive to Netflix - cannot be watched anywhere else. About 85% of all new spending on content goes toward original programming. You can view the official website and Biohackers on Netflix for more information.\n\nBiohackers is a drama series with a N/A score on Rotten Tomatoes and an IMDb audience rating of 6.8 (7,232 votes). The ratings are accurate at the time of writing and are not updated in real-time, but we continue to update Biohackers’s ratings frequently.\n\nHere is what parents need to know – Biohackers parental rating is TV-MA. A TV-MA content rating means that material is unsuitable for children under 17. The program is specifically designed to be viewed by adults. This program may contain one or more of the following: crude indecent language (L), explicit sexual activity (S), or graphic violence (V). R and TV-MA are about equivalent ratings content-wise.\n\nDon't forget to check out what's new on Netflix in July 2021. You can also view Biohackers poster on the next page ⏭️." ]

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[ "I have some very basic questions here. This is probably because I didn't read the relevant documents closely enough. If I used some terminology incorrectly, please point them out. Thank you!", null, null, "[Are] units/neurons in the hidden layers ... referred to as memory blocks and each memory block can contain multiple memory cells?\n\nAlthough an early guess at the way biological neurons work inspired the Perceptron design that later became multilayer (MLP) and then recurrent (RNN), these artificial network building blocks are not very much like biological neurons. The term is still used by some, but, because of this increased interdisciplinary awareness, the more common terms are cell, unit, or block.\n\nThese last two terms can be a little ambiguous when entire networks are used as building blocks in larger AI architectures. This is not a show stopper and also occurs in other engineering disciplines where sub-circuit blocks are components in more complex blocks, and sub-assemblies can be parts of larger mechanical assemblies.\n\nThe images in the questions aren't clear representations. This visualization of an LSTM cell1 shows the attenuation parameters, each labeled with a capital W.", null, "For units in the input and output layers, they are simply regular neurons, like those in a feed forward network?\n\nThey can be, but there are many topological designs in use that use LSTM cells in some layers and Perceptrons in others, along with side-by-side networks, bi-directional designs, recursive topologies, and completely different cell types, such as the very popular GRU cell.\n\n[Is] the structure of an RNN essentially like that of a feed-forward network, except the neurons in the hidden layer have been replaced by neurons with recurrent connections ...?\n\nLSTM RNNs then replaces those neurons in the hidden layers with memory blocks (which contain memory cells that have recurrent connections) ...?\n\nNo general rule can be assumed, especially since new designs emerge nearly every week, and significant topological advancements occur about once every one or two years. This is an example2 of a topology organized to support a specific processing use case.\n\n[1] Visualizations of RNN units — Diagrams of RNN unrolling, LSTM and GRU, by Jakub Kvita, 2016, and inspired by Oinkina\n\nin the diagram each cell is one lstm unit , this did not show forget gates though.\n\n3.For units/neurons in the input and output layers, they are simply regular neurons? Like those in a feedforward network?\n\n4.*Regarding the network structure, the structure of an RNN essentially looks like that of a feedforward network, except the neurons in the hidden layer have been replaced by neurons with recurrent connections. Is this an accurate description? *\n\nyeah but this is for vanilla rnn in lstm/gru variants gating mechanism is introduced.\n\n5 *LSTM RNNs then replaces those neurons in the hidden layers with memory blocks (which contain memory cells that have recurrent connections). Is this an accurate description? *\n\nthe main motivation behind this is to eradicate something known as \"vanishing/exploding\" gradient problem . which tends to either make the gradients explode or make them zero as the gradients flow through the layers.\n\nNot the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged neural-networks recurrent-neural-networks long-short-term-memory or ask your own question." ]

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[ null, "Like many Queen Creek families last year, Tori Shank, her husband Nathan, and their infant daughter Kayleen didn’t have a lot of interactions with other families due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nAs restrictions lessened, it wasn’t until her family met with relatives over the Thanksgiving holiday that Kayleen, who was 17 months at the time, was able to play with a group of cousins similar in age. As a first-time mom, Shank noticed her daughter’s speech appeared to be behind the other children.\n\nSeveral people tried to convince Shank that Kayleen’s speech delay was nothing to be concerned about. But Shank’s mom, who works as a dental hygienist for the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension in Pinal County, knew the Cooperative Extension offers free sensory and developmental screenings.\n\nHave your child checked for vision, hearing or developmental concerns (including communication, social-emotional, problem-solving and motor skills) and, if needed, get a referral for further evaluation or support.\n\nFind similar programs near you\n\nShank jumped at the opportunity to have her daughter screened.\n\nFor many families with young children, it is difficult to know if a small delay is possibly something more significant. Regular screenings can help ensure that a child is meeting their developmental milestones. For those who are behind, the screenings can address a delay before it develops into something bigger.\n\n“If we know there is an issue that needs to be addressed, we can address it early in life, so when kids get to kindergarten, they are going in on the same level as other children,” said Esther Turner, senior program coordinator for the UA Cooperative Extension in Pinal.\n\nSensory and developmental screenings can be conducted in a variety of ways, from in-person screenings, traditional mail, live video chat or phone conferences. Using the online screening tool, Shank discovered that her daughter’s speech was delayed. Kayleen was going to need some additional supports. The program arranged for Shank and Kayleen to connect with a speech therapist and set up a schedule of care.\n\nSensory and developmental screenings do not diagnose, but as in Kayleen’s case, they are an important indicator if further evaluation is needed. Following up with providers can be a big hurdle for parents, which is why such wrap-around services are essential, Turner said. If additional follow-up is needed, the program will help the family find a provider.\n\n“We want to help with that navigation,” Esther Turner said, “so we know that they are not going to fall through the cracks.”\n\nWhile sensory and developmental screenings are an essential resource for families,\n\nTurner noted that many families are intimidated from participating. Many parents are worried about the potential results and don’t want their child labeled. Turner noted that screenings determine that the majority of children are determined to be on track, and that the process of screening is an excellent way for parents to learn what milestones they should be looking for and what to expect, and not expect, from their little one.\n\nKayleen is now in speech therapy bi-weekly through live video chat, FaceTime and both mom and daughter couldn’t be happier.\n\nKayleen just turned age 2 in June, and while her speech is still behind, she is making progress with her ability to communicate with her family.\n\n“I understand what she wants,” Shank said.\n\nAnd for that, she’s grateful.\n\n“I don’t know how well I’d be able to communicate with [Kayleen] if we hadn’t done it,” Shank said." ]

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[ "Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer my Ravenwing Talonmaster. I have, but technically these are not what I painted. These parts were painted of July last year and for reasons I can't recall I didn't share the progress.", null, "Having completed the fussy bits of blessed verdigris and orange glow FX I was left with highlighting the black which killed my progress stone dead.", null, "In fairness I was building a lot of stuff and finished off my Macragge Tactical Squad, which was a challenge in itself. But something about the prospect of the black highlights did nothing for my mojo. Luckily I did have plenty of projects to keep me busy, it's just a shock when you realise this has been on hold for 9 months!", null, "Now, I went a bit overboard on the blessed verdigris, far more than I previously added to my Land Speeders, but this is a special one, so deserves more blessing.", null, "It looks worse than it does in reality actually, but even so I was shocked how generous I'd been with the AP Hydra Turquoise.", null, "But it works on angel 'hood ornament'. I was dubious about using it but I think it works, so I'm happy now.", null, "I know I'm a little inconsistent with my plasma, jet and maglev glows. Actually I'm consistent as I use orange for all of them when they're different tech, but it looks cool and I'd rather not have loads of blues, purples, reds and green glows [he says with red light glows].", null, "Whatever, the palette didn't need a load more colours and I surprise myself sometimes with how this orange comes out.", null, "Of course, it's underneath so you're not really going to see it, which is a shame as I think it's pretty good.", null, "Anyway, I have started the black highlights so we'll be more up-to-date with our pics next time\nPosted by 40kaddict at 12:00" ]

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[ null, "Between the early 1930s and his death in 1953, Joseph Stalin had more than a million of his own citizens executed. Millions more fell victim to forced labor, deportation, famine, bloody massacres, and detention and interrogation by Stalin's henchmen. \"Stalin's Genocides\" is the chilling story of these crimes. The book puts forward the important argument that brutal mass killings under Stalin in the 1930s were indeed acts of genocide and that the Soviet dictator himself was behind them. Norman Naimark, one of our most respected authorities on the Soviet era, challenges the widely held notion that Stalin's crimes do not constitute genocide, which the United Nations defines as the premeditated killing of a group of people because of their race, religion, or inherent national qualities. In this gripping book, Naimark explains how Stalin became a pitiless mass killer. He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace - the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror - and examines them in light of other genocides in history. In addition, Naimark compares Stalin's crimes with those of the most notorious genocidal killer of them all, Adolf Hitler.", null, null, "Stalin and the fate of Europe" ]

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[ "First I have to say, I am so excited because last week I received two emails from mothers who saw my work on the internet and wanted to hire me to take photos of their families. Yay for the internet, and yay for internet savy mothers.", null, "Now back to this week, these photos are from the photo shoot I did this morning, for one of those mothers. Growing up as the baby of her family, she wanted to be sure her own baby had the same amount of photos as his big sister. So we decided the earlier in the day the shoot was, the better, because having two young nappers, it is hard to coordinate happy moods later in the day. Since my favorite time of day, the late afternoon, was out of the question, I was worried, because to get good sunlight in the morning, you have to start really early, and there was no way any of us wanted to think about photos before 7 am, so we decided on 7:30…. which for those of you who know me, that’s still very early.\n\nBut I managed to get there, with even enough time to look around for a good outdoor spot… which happened to be the dirt bike course near their house. So we played in the shade there for awhile, and then we came home and played downstairs for a bit…. and right before I left I decided, just one more… just one more spot…. and so we all went back to bed.", null, null, "And as a kid, there is nothing better than cuddling with your parents in their big comfy bed… so it is not surprising that these are a few of my favorite photos of the day…. although it was really hard to choose." ]

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[ "Do you have a vintage-looking Woodstock t-shirt with an Anvil care label?\n\nCurious if it’s authentic, or rather an original t-shirt?\n\nIs this an original Woodstock t-shirt.\n\nOr should I just “goodwill” it?\n\nIt was given to me by my brother-in-law who would have been in his late teens-early twenties at the time of Woodstock.\n\nI don’t know that he ever attended though.\n\nHe is no longer alive, so I cannot ask him where he got it from or when.", null, null, null, "Good to hear from you and thanks for your question!\n\nOnly a small number of them were issued, and given to Woodstock staff only. You can learn more about that here in this article.\n\nThose t-shirts were a different color, and the decoration was on the back, not the front of the t-shirt.\n\nOf course, there were street vendors reportedly selling Woodstock t-shirts, but I don’t recall exactly if anyone has confirmed any specific design that those t-shirts had imprinted on them.\n\nPer the information over at defunkd, the Anvil knitwear brand itself was not created until the late 70s.\n\nAlso, while the shirt itself is likely from the early 90’s, the printing looks new or very well preserved.\n\nMeaning, it’s possible someone had some deadstock Anvil t-shirt blanks from the early 90’s, and then did printing on them at a later date.\n\nSo, the Anvil t-shirt itself is likely considered “vintage”, being over 20 years old.\n\nBut, it doesn’t have any notable value, unless someone is sentimental over old Anvil t-shirts (:\n\nHope the above information helps!" ]

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[ null, "36 M €. This summer, Liverpool have already raised 36 M € with the departures of Harry Wilson (Fulham), Marko Grujic (FC Porto) and Taiwo Awoniyi (Union Berlin). This is good, but it is not enough for the management of the Reds, which strongly hopes for other departures to reduce the payroll on the one hand and allow progress on recruitment. Indeed, for the time being, only Ibrahima Konaté (22 years old, ex-RB Leipzig) has arrived.\n\nSo, to speed up the arrivals plan, the La Mersey club put 6 players on the transfer list, explains the Mirror. Defenders Ben Davies (25) and Nathaniel Phillips (24) as well as winger Sheyi Ojo (24) are notably mentioned. But the residents of Anfield mainly rely on three sales to glean precious additional money.\n\nTen days to clean up\n\nThey thus wish to sell Divock Origi (26 years old), hero of the victorious Champions League campaign in 2019. Its price, to be discussed of course, has been set at nearly € 20 million. Wolverhampton and Naples have recently come forward, but the price seems high for the time being. A loan could be considered if no dry transfer offer arrives at the Scousers’ offices. He announced it himself recently, Xherdan Shaqiri (29) has an exit voucher.\n\nLazio, as explained again this Wednesday on Corriere dello Sport, is on the spot, just like Naples. The Swiss are estimated at nearly 15 M € by their bosses. Finally, Liverpool are also looking to get rid of Loris Karius (28), their German goalkeeper. But the suitors are not really jostling … Ideally, Jürgen Klopp hopes to have sold these six players within ten days, to have time to reinject fresh money into the transfer window. The countdown begins.", null, "How to watch an ice hockey game in New York?", null, null, "The CH season will start on October 13" ]

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[ null, "Daughter of a wealthy London merchant, Alice catches the eye of Janyn Perrers and the two marry despite her mother’s rather irrational objections. The marriage is definitely a love match, but Janyn and his mother have a deep dark secret that has something to do with the dowager Queen Isabella and while it has brought them great wealth, it also brings great danger to those who keep the old Queen’s secrets. When Janyn mysteriously disappears (no spoiler, that’s on the book jacket) Alice seeks protection of Edward III and his queen, Philippa. A commoner, the noblewomen at court shun her, but the Queen loves Alice’s knowledge of clothing and fabric, and as for the King? I’m guessing the book’s title will indicate to you where the rest of the story goes, no?\n\nIf you are familiar with the period you know what happens next and if not you don’t want me spoiling it for you. While I appreciated the author’s effort to portray one of history’s most vilified women in a more favorable light, I think she did herself a disservice by doing a complete 180 and turning Alice into something a wee bit too sugary sweet. Would someone with her business acumen really worry much over a profitable wardship offered by the King because people might think ill of her? The first person narrative (admittedly not my favorite) doesn’t help much either and I felt the author painted herself into too many corners trying to justify events so that all the bad things that happened were always someone else’s fault. I’d rather see a more well-rounded character, warts and all.\n\nAs for the story and pacing itself? IMHO too much time is spent on Alice’s marriage with Janyn, along with all those pages upon pages of oohing and aahing over the fabrics. I would have liked to know more about the merchant’s role in purchasing and marketing cloth rather than hearing about the next pretty dress and headdress. Better yet, fast forward to Alice entering the royal household and then give us a few flashbacks to flesh out the back story. I also found myself scratching my head when the Big Mystery is finally revealed, why anyone would be so hell-bent on murder because of *that* I can’t quite fathom.\n\nIn the end, this was on OK book, good but certainly not great, with very little character development and far too much telling instead of showing. Since the story is told from Alice’s point of view and she’s not always in the thick of things some of the more important events in this period are skimmed over a bit too quickly, i.e. the Peasant’s Revolt was over and done with in three pages. Kudos to the author for attempting to shed new light on such a heinous woman, but in the end just too much sugar for my tastes. 3/5 stars and I recommend getting it from the library first and then buy it if you love it." ]

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[ "Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the Nexus S 4G for Sprint’s WiMax network.\n\nThe, third, the Galaxy Nexus, is arguably the best of the three and we argued, in our review of Verizon’s 4G LTE Galaxy Nexus, that it’s the best Android phone ever made.\n\nI even bought one after months of debate. Still, there is room for improvement and I have come up with a few things that I would love to see happen when the next Nexus is released a year or so from now.", null, "One of the biggest grips I have with the Galaxy Nexus is that it has poor battery life. I know quite a few of you are having a rough go of things as well. On a good day, with the extended battery attached, I get somewhere around 15 hours of battery life. As I’ve argued, I feel like that’s unacceptable with all of the money I’ve plopped down for this thing.\n\nAnd keep this in mind. I am an average smartphone user. I am not a power user. I just do normal things on my phone. I make the occasional phone call, text, play music and check out sports scores. I also, once in awhile, stream something from Netflix or play a game.", null, "But I would trade a couple of millimeters in thinness for a bigger battery any day. Just look at what Motorola was able to do with the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX.\n\nHopefully Google and the next Nexus manufacturer realize that many people would be willing to do the same and design the next Nexus in a way that allows it to set the battery life standard for Android phones.\n\nHeck, maybe even for all phones.\n\nThe iPhone 5 might have something to say about that though.", null, "Overall, I like the Galaxy Nexus’ design but I really could do without all of the plastic. It just makes it feel, well, cheap. And again, I don’t think Android’s most recognizable device should feel cheap.\n\nWhy not use something like aluminum on the next Nexus, something that I loved on the older iPhones. It feels great in the hand, it looks good, and best of all, it seems to belong on an expensive phone.\n\nI dislike the glass on the iPhone 4S but at least it feels like you’re getting what you paid for.\n\nAt CES 2012, we used the mobile hotspot feature on our phones quite a bit. And oddly enough, the HTC ThunderBolt, a phone from back in March of 2011, has a hotspot that absolutely blows the hotspot on the Galaxy Nexus out of the water. Far less drops and often times, better connectivity. I should also point out that it’s a pain to access on the Galaxy Nexus.\n\nOn the next Nexus, make it more accessible and make it better.\n\nI shouldn’t be paying extra money for a service that works as advertised 75-80% of the time.\n\nThat launch will likely take place six months after the launch on Verizon which means that the phone will be six months old, an eternity as far as smartphone lives are concerned.\n\nJust think, six months off into the distance, the next Nexus will be hitting shelves.\n\nWell, Google can avoid it by launching the Nexus on several different carriers this go-round. Why not do what the iPhone did? Have a Nexus for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon.\n\nBy the end of 2012, when the new Nexus arrives, AT&T, Sprint and Verizon will be competing in the 4G LTE realm and releasing a Nexus on all three would be good for both business and customers alike.", null, "I would absolutely love to see Motorola given the opportunity to make a Nexus device. HTC and Samsung have done stellar work but I think Google should allow Motorola a stab at it.\n\nThe company has proven that it can make solid hardware and I would likely be toting a Motorola handset right now if it weren’t for MotoBlur and the locked bootloaders that come with Moto-made phones.\n\nA Droid with an unlocked bootloader and a vanilla version of Android?\n\nThat’s something I could certainly get on board.\n\nAs usual, I’d love to hear from you guys.\n\nWhat would you like to see come with the next Nexus device?" ]

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[ null, "BRIEF HISTORY\nIn 1955 a biological experiment took place in Czechoslovakia, namely the crossing of a German Shepherd Dog with a Carpathian wolf. Experiment has shown that the offspring of a dog and a wolf and a wolf and a bitch can be bred. The overwhelming majority of puppies from these pairings had the genetic basis for continued breeding. In 1965, after the experiment was finished, a plan of breeding a new breed was worked out. It consisted of a combination of the functional characteristics of the wolf and the dog. In 1982 the Czechoslovak Wolfhound was recognized as a national breed by the General Committee of the Breeders’ Association of Czechoslovakia.\n\nHEAD\nSymmetrical, well muscled. When looked at from the side and from above forms a wedge shape. Distinctive sex characteristics.\n\nUPPER PART:\nSkull: When viewed from the side and from the front a slightly convex forehead is visible. Frontal furrow not marked. Occipital bone well visible.\nStop: Moderately marked\n\nTHE FACIAL PART OF THE SKULL:\nNose: Oval shape, black.\nMuzzle : Dry, not broad, nasal bone straight.\nLips: Well-fitting, corners closed. The edges of lips are black.\nJaws / Dentition: Jaws strong and symmetrical. Well developed\nTeeth, especially the canines. Scissor or claw bite with 42 teeth\nas a rule. Regularly spaced teeth.\nCheeks: Dry, sufficiently muscled, not caught in the eye.\nEyes: Small, slanting; amber-coloured. Eyelids well fitting.\nEars: Standing, thin, triangular, short (i.e. Not longer than 1/6th of height at withers); the outer point of the base of the ear and the outer corner of the eye are on the same line. A perpendicular line from the tip of the ear passes along the entire head.\n\nNECK\nDry, well muscled. In statics forms an angle of up to 40 with the horizontal line°. The neck must be so long that the dog can effortlessly get its nose to the ground.\n\nTAIL\nHigh set, straight hanging down. On excitation\ncarried in an upward curve.\n\nFORELEGS:\nFront legs are straight, strong, dry and set fairly close together with paws slightly angled outwards.\nShoulders: Shoulders placed rather in front, well muscled. With the horizontal line They form an angle of about. 65°.\nShoulder: Strongly muscled, forms an angle with the shoulder between 120° i 130°.\nElbows: Well-fitting, not bent either inward or outward, marked, movable. Arm and forearm form an angle of about. 150°.\nForearm: Long, dry and straight. The length of the forearm and the carpus makes 55% of the height at the withers.\nKnee: Strong, mobile.\nWrists: Long: form an angle of at least 75 with the ground°. In movement slightly springy.\nPaws: Large; set slightly outside; with long, rounded toes and strong, dark claws. Clear, flexible, dark pads.\n\nHIND LIMBS\nStrong. Hind legs stand parallel to each other. A perpendicular line drawn from the tip of the ischium runs through the middle of the hock. Wolf-claws are undesirable and should be removed.\nThigh: Long, well muscled. With the pelvis forms an angle of about 80 degrees°.\nHip joint stable and mobile.\nKnee: Strong, mobile.\nShank: Long, dry, well-muscled, with the midfoot forms an angle of about 130°.\nHock: Dry, strong, mobile.\nThe metatarsus: Long, dry, set almost perpendicular to the ground.\nPaws: Long, rounded toes with strong, dark claws. pronounced pads.\n\nMOVEMENT\nHarmonious, light, ground covering trot with limbs as close to the ground as possible. Head and neck positioned almost horizontally. He strides at the tarsus.\n\nSHAPE\nHAIR: Straight, close fitting. Winter and summer coat are very different. In winter the dense undercoat prevails which together with the coats forms a dense covering over the whole body. The hair should cover the belly, the inside of the thighs, the scrotum, the inside of the ears and the space between the toes.\nNeck heavily haired.\nCOLOUR: Yellowish-gray to silvery-gray with a distinctive light mask. Lighter hair also on lower surface of neck and chest. Dark gray color with light mask is acceptable.\n\nFAULTS\nAny deviation from the above points is considered a fault, the assessment of which should depend on the degree of occurrence.\n– Heavy or light headed.\n– Flat forehead.\n– Lack of two P1 or both M3 is not judged as a fault. If two P1 and one M3 or two M3 and one P1 are missing at the same time, this is considered a fault.\n– Dark brown, black or unevenly coloured eyes.\n– Thick, high or low set ears.\n– High carried neck, low carried neck.\n– Unmarked withers.\n– Unusual topline.\n– Long croup.\n– Long, low set and badly carried tail.\n– Too strong or too small angulation of forelegs.\n– Weak wrists.\n– Too poorly angulated or diagonal hind legs, poor muscling.\n– Little marked mask.\n– Short, swaying step.\n\nAny dog clearly showing physical or mental abnormalities shall be disqualified." ]

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[ null, "The GT7 Legends Car Dealership features the Hagerty Collection of cars to buy in-game. With historical insights for each vehicle and updating pricing based on real-world valuations.\n\n“One of Hagerty’s goals is bringing the love of driving to all ages in engaging and interactive ways,” said President of Hagerty Media & Entertainment Paul Rehrig. “The release of Gran Turismo 7 has been long-awaited for gamers and car enthusiasts alike, and we’re proud to bring the Hagerty community to it in such an innovative and compelling way.”", null, "Used car dealers have long been a part of the Gran Turismo franchise. In the original, it was limited to Japanese makers and the availability changed every 10 in-game days. By Gran Turismo 5 it was the only place to buy many standard cars, with cars being replaced every single in-game day, meaning you needed to be equal parts patient and quick to get the wheels you wanted.", null, "This time, a list of more than 70 cars will be part of the collection, including muscle cars, rally racers, movie cars, and even Group C endurance racers. While the full list hasn’t yet been revealed – the game just dropped today – we can see vehicles like the Lamborghini Miura, Dodge Charger, Aston Martin DB5, Shelby Cobra Daytona, Fairlady Z, and Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ in the released images.", null, "Making these cars even more interesting, company CEO McKeel Hagerty will be an avatar in the game. His avatar will work as a guide through the Legend Cars selection. Historical and informational tidbits for each car will also be available. It looks similar to the Autovista feature of the rival Forza series, which briefly used (then) Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson to narrate select vehicles.\n\nThe Hagerty Collection cars can be bought with in-game credits and acquired by progressing through the game. A cool feature is adding real-life pricing to the cars by using 15 years and 40,000 vehicles worth of data from the Hagerty Valuation Tools. Prices will update through the year, so if a car’s value climbs in the world, the price will climb in-game.\n\nCustomers who are part of the Hagerty Drivers Club can sign up for an in-game benefit that will let them drive one select car (with a custom Hagerty livery) for a year. This will renew with a different car each year.\n\nMeanwhile, if you’re still waiting for your copy of Gran Turismo 7, or just to manage to bring home a Playstation 5, Playstation has a bit of a treat. It’s the opening movie for the game, a full eight minutes of historical and in-game footage. Loaded with history and context for the game and for the car itself.\n\nFollowing three minutes of history including icons like Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, The Beatles alongside the Beetles, and a credit to “The Maestro” Lewis Hamilton, we get an inside look at a Porsche Taycan EV on the assembly line. After a minute of Taycan assembly intercut with game footage, it’s time for four minutes of Gran Turismo 7 racing footage. Set, of course, to Moon Over the Castle, the audio hallmark of the franchise.\n\nSo set aside a few minutes and get ready to get hyped. Just don’t blame us if you spend your entire weekend with a controller in your hands.\n\n\nThe World’s Most Copied Cars\n18 of the Weirdest, Wildest Rat Rods From Around the World\nThe Greatest Hits In Floyd Mayweather's Car Collection\n10 Best Daniel Craig James Bond Cars\nThe 7 Ugliest Ferraris of All Time\nThe 11 Best 2 Seater Cars to Drive Off The Dealer Lot Today" ]

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[ "'The Vampire Diaries' casting for 4th season in L.A. and Atlanta\nposted by oncameratalent\n\nCanadian beauty Nina Dobrev plays dual roles as Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce.\nCW 电视 Network's mega hit 邪恶力量 drama 电视 series \"The Vampire Diaries\" is now in production on season number 4 in Atlanta, GA. The casting directors are auditioning actors for guest starring, recurring and 日 player roles in both Los Angeles and Atlanta. In addition to the 表演 roles, extras are being hired in Atlanta throughout the season. The network has ordered a full 22 episodes that will begin airing in October, 2012. \"The Vampire Diaries\" is based on the book series of the same name written 由 L. J. Smith.\n\nThe series has an impressive cast that stars Nina Dobrev in a double role as Elena Gilbert, a beautiful young girl caught between two vampire brothers, and as Katherine Pierce, the ruthless vampire the brothers knew and loved in the nineteenth century. Ian Somerhalder plays Damon Salvatore, the elder of the two vampire brothers, and Paul Wesley is Stefan Salvatore, the younger brother. Dobrev, Somerhalder and Wesley have each won Teen Choice Awards for their roles, among other award nominations and/or wins.\n\n\"The Vampire Diaries\" is from Bonanza Productions, Alloy Entertainment and Outerbanks Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. 电视 and CBS 电视 Studios. The executive producers are Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, Leslie Morgenstein and Bob Levy. Williamson and Plec created the series based on L. J. Smith's 图书 which were initially commissioned 由 Elise Donner, editor of Alloy Entertainment in 1990. Canadian film and 电视 director Chris Grismer has been at the helm on several episodes of \"The Vampire Diaries\", and also serves as the show's Supervising Producer\n\nDetails on how talent can 提交 for 表演 roles, and registration information for extras can be found on the following casting post:", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Wow, when did THAT happen??\n\nSo, I admit, I’ve neglected things here of late. And yes, my house does kind of look like that picture at the moment. But you know something? I don’t care. I don’t care, because I have now finished the main draft on a book I’ve been waiting nearly twenty years to write.\n\nI had my doubts about whether I could get my mind from its current place back to the entirely fictional world I had created all those years ago. It had been such a unique experience, (more about that in later posts) one that I sometimes called channeling, because it was the only way I could explain how that first book came to me. Would that they were all so clear and sharp and quick!\n\nIn this case, I wasn’t just starting with a blank, earthbound landscape like this:", null, "Hmm, that’s quite a moon there. Picture fits better than I thought!\n\nNo, I had to get my head not just back in the clouds, but back into space. Into the proverbial galaxy far, far away. And frankly, it had been so long I didn’t know if I could do it. At least, not with the completeness this particular book would demand. Because this was one of two books that readers have been asking me for for all of those two decades. And I take that very seriously. That people would remember so clearly, for so long, and bother to write me and ask, even beg me to revisit this place, was so incredibly moving and inspiring. But the stars (pardon the phrase) seemed to conspire against it. Until now.\n\nSo I re-read the original two books that led to this. I loved them as much as I always had. This was a good sign. And it got me here, about halfway there:", null, "I can see it, I just have to get there!\n\nBut I needed to be out there, no longer earthbound. And the only way to do that was to jump in. And find out once and for all if this was going to work. So…I took the leap. And to my thankful surprise, the story took off like a runaway one of these:", null, "Whoa, this thing is going FAST!\n\nIt was going so fast, I couldn’t help thinking that trains that go too fast often end up like this:", null, "But I was having too much fun to worry about it, and before long, I was so completely in this Other Place that it was hard to come back to reality. Old and new (and boy was one of those a pleasant surprise!) friends, old and new enemies, I lived in their world(s) and loved it for 125,000 words.", null, "It’s as much fun as ever!\n\nIt’s nice to know I still have a “big book” or two left in me. That part of my career got derailed (again, pardon the phrase) a while back, but it’s back on the tracks (oh, dear, there I go again) now. And thanks to a great new publisher (Bell Bridge Books, more about them later, too) this story people have asked for for all these years will finally be done.\n\nAnd leading up to that day, Bell Bridge will be releasing in both print and as ebooks the two books that led me to this one, LORD OF THE STORM and THE SKYPIRATE, beginning this June.\n\nI hope you’ll join me on this adventure!\n\n20 thoughts on “Twenty years in the making”" ]

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[ "Prices on the Dow dropped over 260 points in the last 90 minutes of trading on Friday, as institutions decided not to hold stocks over the weekend.\n\nThe sell-off caused The Tide to turn negative. So now, all of my Lists and indicators are negative. I’m negative.\n\nThe Dow still hasn’t broken below the 17,000 level which would confirm that wave 3 down of Major wave 1 down has started, but with negative indicators all across the Board, it’s not something I want to bet against.\n\nThe Dow closed at 17,165, which on the positive side is still about 80 points from where the 200-day moving average sits. But given Friday’s late sell-off, I would expect the decline to continue into Monday to test the 200.\n\nFriday’s decline also caused the 35-period CCI on the Dow to re-enter the Trend Mode, so IF the 200 doesn’t hold, we will likely see additional selling start to develop.\n\nAnd because Monday will be the first trading day in February, the positive end-of month bias will no longer be in effect. As a matter of fact, we will likely see the Mutual Funds start to dump the stocks they just purchased a few days ago when they did their end-of month ‘window dressing’.\n\nAnyhow, Monday could be a very bad day.\n\nI originally had planned to use a good portion of this WSR to discuss the question on the dollar that Brad R. asked during my webinar on ‘Sticks in the Sand’. But after watching the market go into free fall late Friday, I changed my mind. So I answered Brad’s question off line, basically talking about how ordinary Russians were loosing faith in their government, and how they were talking their money out of the bank ATMs and using it to buy dollars, gold, TV sets and appliances. Anything but rubles.\n\nWe’re seeing the same thing happening with the Russian oil oligarchs. They sell their oil for dollars. But despite what the Russian government would like them to do, they are keeping their dollars. They didn’t become oligarchs buy being stupid!\n\nBrad reported that he saw exactly the same thing on a recent trip to Argentina. He had no problem exchanging his dollars for pesos, and was getting rates from people on the street that far exceeded the ‘official’ government exchange rate.\n\nThis is what falling oil prices are doing. Like I said in my webinar, oil and the impact it’s having on the dollar is the Big Elephant in the room for 2015.\n\nOk, so if I’m not going to talk about the dollar this weekend, what do I really want to talk about? Hmmm? Well, let’s start with some of the emails I have received during the week. Several of them asked about what they should do (or not do) with a particular stock or ETF. Or which ETF they should pick if the market is going down.\n\nI ALWAYS respond to these types of questions with the same answer. I cannot and do not provide recommendations to individuals about specific stocks or ETFs, or do I provide comments on an individual’s decision to buy or sell. I don’t!\n\nThis is a teaching web site. It’s an extension of my Classroom. I’m not going to tell you to buy or sell a particular stock or ETF. That’s what other newsletters do. But when you rely on newsletters that just give you lists, you will never understand why you are making a particular trade. Newsletters like this are just ‘tips’. I don’t do that.\n\nOn this website, I provide you with several Lists and indicators to help you learn how to make intelligent investment decisions by yourself. Or, IF you use a financial advisor, give you the tools so you can ask intelligent questions about what he is doing with your money.\n\nFor instance, In early January, we saw many of our indicators start to turn negative. Back then I kept pointing these out to you, saying that it was NOT a good time to buy stocks. What was your advisor saying? Ok, so now the Dow is down about 900 points from its 26 December high. What’s he saying now? Is he managing your money. Is he taking steps to protect you? Or is he just watching your portfolio decline? Remember, you are paying him to manage, not watch!\n\nAlso, what tools is he using to manage your money? Is he using technical indicators and Lists, similar to the ones we use or is he doing what so many other advisors and commentators are doing now…talking among themselves? Does he have anything like The Tide? Of course he doesn’t. So maybe you ought to tell him what The Tide is doing now and what you learned in The Professor’s Class at UNF about how a market turns. Maybe you should let him borrow your book.\n\nNot using technical tools and ‘just watching’ is exactly what happened during the crash of 2007-2008. All of the signs were there. It’s not like the crash came out of the blue. No! The volume indicators started to turn ugly, just as they are doing now. BTW, I’m re-posting them again this weekend so you can see what they’re doing. If you have a financial advisor, show them to him. Ask him what action he’s taking to protect your money. The numbers are scary!\n\nOk, so if you agree that the volume numbers look like something might be going wrong with the market, what can we do to protect ourselves?\n\nWell, even though I cringed when my student asked me for a specific ETFs to trade, here’s what I will be doing.\n\nFirst of all I’m going to lighten up. Right now the only stocks I’m holding are energy related. And with March only a month away, I’m still very interested in energy. I’m holding my energy stocks as long as the PT indicators remain Green.\n\nHowever, now that The Tide has turned negative and is supported by the Dean’s List and the PT indicators, I’m going to start looking for a few inverse ETFs to trade. I want to use inverse ETF now instead of shorting stocks because they a bit more conservative for my purposes.\n\nSo I will start by going to the Dean’s List and picking high rated inverse ETFs and using the P-volume as a screen. For instance, right now DXD, the inverse ETF for the Dow is currently on the Dean’s List with an RS rating of 4. It is currently showing positive divergence on the P-volume. It’s also coming off a TLB pattern with Green PT indicators. DXD is definitely a candidate.\n\nSame for QID, the inverse index ETF for the Nasdaq100 tracking stock, QQQ. It’s also showing positive divergence on the P-volume. But if you look at the Dean’s List, you will see that QID has a RS rating of 2. This is likely because Apple (AAPL) is fairly strong now, and is one of the dominant forces behind the Nasdaq. So If you choose QID over DXD, you’re gonna have to fight Apple.\n\nAlso, the reason I have been talking about the dollar lately is because it is mostly impacting the large cap internationals. We saw how Caterpillar, Microsoft and the Big Banks got hammered this past week. It’s because a strong dollar makes them less competitive overseas.\n\nAnd even though TWM, the inverse ETF for the Russell 2K, is on the List with a #2 RS rating, the P-volume is not showing positive divergence. Actually, it’s still negative. This tends to confirm what I have been saying about the dollar, and its impact on smaller companies. Most of the smaller companies on the Russell 2K do not do a lot of business overseas, so they are less impacted by a strong dollar.\n\nAnyhow, you get the point. The Dean’s List will always tell you where the strength is. And right now it’s telling me to be wary of international companies that rely on foreign markets for their sales and revenue. It’s also telling me to stay long the dollar and short the Euro as UUP and EUO remain on the List.\n\nEEV, the inverse Emerging Market ETF, had a nice pop on Friday. The ETF appears to be completing a wave 2 pullback and is now in an Uptrend. It too is currently showing nice positive diverging P-volume.\n\nI’m still watching gold from the sidelines. I don’t see anything special about the P-volume on any of the gold ETFs I’m looking to trade.\n\nBTW, IF you do decide to put your foot into the water on Monday, just remember that the Dow is still in an Uptrend. The 50 is still above the 200. So with an inverse ETF like DXD that is just coming off the bottom, remember the rules. As long as an inverse stock or ETF like DXD is still in a downtrend, the most that can be invested is a half position. Full positions can only be taken once the ETF starts to move into an Uptrend (50>200). Until this happens, the position is only a trade.\n\nHave a great weekend.\n\nBTW, IF your financial advisor has NOT called you recently, I would strongly recommend that you talk with him very soon. This is NOT the time to be shy about using the telephone.", null ]

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[ null, "It’s a cool time for young people interested in changing health care. Tech is more accessible, and it no longer takes multiple degrees to make a difference. That’s certainly the case for a team of University of Maryland bioengineering undergraduate students, who just took home the top prize—a $20,000 award—in the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) competition by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).\n\nThe team—which was made up of seven students in UMD’s class of 2020—were up against 41 entries from teams across the country that had designed prototypes of products to “advance technology and improve human health.” UMD’s winning prototype, a wearable EEG monitor, is intended to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease.\n\nDhruv Patel, who led the UMD team along with Chris Look, says that he was inspired to look for innovation in Alzheimer’s after his grandfather was diagnosed with the disease.\n\n“I pursued research into the disease and how current mechanisms fail to diagnose it in an earlier stage,” says Patel. “I saw there was improvement to be made, and so I set out to make that improvement.”\n\nTo create their prototype, the students used an OpenBCI portable EEG monitor as their base, then plugged in clinical data obtained from international medical institutions into machine learning tools to enable the device to tell healthy brain waves apart from an Alzheimer’s patient’s brain waves. In one of the tests the students designed, the monitor-wearer hears two different tones—one at a high frequency, the other low—and then the EEG monitor reads their responsive brain waves to determine whether they are reading as an Alzheimer’s patient would.\n\nThe device—which won first place ahead of a brain surgery mapping tool by the second place team from Arizona State University and a cornea transplant device by the third place team from Johns Hopkins University—caught the attention of the judges because it both addressed a widespread problem in health care and has the potential to make a big difference in how that problem is approached in the future.\n\n“Such a device that can easily be used by a clinician to determine that an individual is inflicted with Alzheimer’s disease before the patient displays clinical symptoms can both guide the clinician in the treatment of the patient and allow the patient and their family time to prepare,” says NIBIB’s program director for interdisciplinary training Zeynep Erim. “The impact for society is immense.”\n\nPatel says that the $20,000 award will be invested in their newly filed LLC, Synapto. Patel and his Synapto co-founder, Look, are planning to pursue a patent for their technology within the next year. They also plan to continue collecting data from medical institutions around the globe to improve their device’s accuracy in identifying Alzheimer’s brain waves, before eventually moving into clinical trials." ]

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[ "Steve Pimental does a deep dive into the offseason of the Minnesota Lynx including their acquisitions and losses and what the fantasy outlook is like for key players.", null, "The start of the WNBA season, like everything else in the world right now, is up in the air. Even so, we expect the season to begin at some point, and when it does, we will be ready. Before coronavirus dominated the news, the WNBA experienced its most exciting offseason ever. Nine former All-Stars changed teams, and all of the contenders made significant moves in an arms race that rivaled the NBA’s 2019 offseason. Since we’re all socially isolating anyway, now seems like a perfect time to continue our look at what each team did this offseason and how they are looking for 2020.\n\nMinnesota has gotten a lot of criticism for doing so little this offseason, and some of that criticism is justified. The Lynx had a pretty glaring need for guards with the departures of Siemone Augustus and Danielle Robinson and the absences of Maya Moore and Odyssey Sims. They are attempting to fill the hole in their lineup with Rachel Banham, Lexie Brown, Shenise Johnson, Cecilia Zandalasini and Linnae Harper, and it is understandable that some observers would be underwhelmed by those backcourt options.\n\nIt’s even easier to be critical of Minnesota for getting so little done after they pursued DeWanna Bonner and Kristi Toliver but came up short. The Lynx balked at the price of three first-round picks for a free agent in Bonner, and it’s easy to argue that holding onto a few picks that are unlikely to be great anyway is a mistake when you have a chance to add one of the ten best players in the league. If you can add Bonner and Toliver to your team, the argument goes, you just do it and figure out the rest later.\n\nI get that argument, but I think it is too harsh. Three first-round picks is a lot to give up for a player who is leaving anyway. Connecticut only got one first-round pick last offseason for Chiney Ogwumike, and she was still under contract for a year. I also think it is fair for Minnesota to value draft picks a bit more than most after they drafted the 2019 rookie of the year, Napheesa Collier, with the sixth overall pick. Their second-round pick, Jessica Shepard, also played very well as a rookie before she suffered a season-ending ACL injury. It’s not unreasonable for Minnesota to think they can get cheap, productive players with their first-round picks, even if those picks are late in the round.\n\nI also think Minnesota’s guards are pretty good. They may not have anyone who’s going to breakdown a defense and create shots, but they do have players who can space the floor around Minnesota’s bigs. Cecilia Zandalasini is just 24 years old, and she shot 37.5 percent on threes for Fenerbahce between the Turkish league and Euroleague. Lexie Brown shot 38.5 percent on threes after coming over from Connecticut last season, and it is not unreasonable to think Rachel Banham could improve her three-point shooting after making the same move a year later.\n\nShenise Johnson struggled last season after returning from a knee injury, but she averaged 11.3 points, 3.4 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.2 turnovers in 24.9 minutes in 2017. If she is healthy and can return to her old form, she will be a solid point guard, either starting or off the bench. I also think Linnae Harper, if she makes the team, is a fine backup point guard. I would much rather sign her for the minimum than give out a big contract to Tiffany Mitchell, Kahleah Copper or Bria Hartley.\n\nIt’s also too soon to assume the Lynx are done making moves. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the Lynx are active in the trade market around the draft or during the season. If there’s a smart deal to be made, I trust Cheryl Reeve to get it done.\n\nIf the Lynx are drafting for need and/or think they can win this season, they will take either Chennedy Carter or Tyasha Harris with the sixth overall pick, assuming Carter declares for the draft and one of them falls that far. If not, the Lynx will probably wind up reaching for a guard or drafting a very good forward without an obvious path to playing time. Minnesota could split the difference by drafting Ruthy Hebard or Megan Walker and then taking Crystal Dangerfield in the second round, if she falls that far.\n\nThe only starting spot that is really unsettled at this time is point guard. Shenise Johnson has the most starting experience of the group, though she came off the bench in all 17 games for Indiana last season. If she is completely healthy and at her best, this job is probably hers to lose. I just cannot predict that will happen after she has dealt with major injuries in each of the last three seasons.\n\nCheryl Reeve hinted on her podcast that Rachel Banham would get the first shot at the starting point guard spot, and Banham asserted on another episode that she is a better ball handler than she was able to demonstrate in Connecticut. If that is truly the case, I could see Banham getting the first crack at the job and holding onto it for the season.\n\nCecilia Zandalasini might turn out to be the best point guard of this group, but her lack of experience with the Lynx could hurt her. If the WNBA has a full preseason and Zandalasini is able to participate, I could see her beating out Banham and earning the starting job. Those are both big ifs.\n\nLexie Brown appears pretty locked in at shooting guard to start the season, though Reeve could legit play any combination of her guards together. That could include Brown getting more minutes at point guard, but her best fit likely remains spotting up off the ball, knocking down threes and attacking closeouts off the dribble.\n\nIn yet another interesting reveal from her podcast, Reeve said she saw no reason to break up her starting frontcourt from last season, and it is easy to see why. The Lynx had a 6.5 net rating with Damiris Dantas and Napheesa Collier both on the floor, and a 1.7 net rating in all other lineups. The Lynx got a lot of mileage out of posting up Collier when she was defended by small forwards, and they will likely lose that option when they play Collier and Karima Christmas-Kelly together. In fact, Minnesota had a -7.9 net rating with both Collier and Christmas-Kelly on the floor last season, though they only played 41.5 minutes together. I like the idea of using Christmas-Kelly as a super sub and staggering minutes so that she or Collier are on the floor at all times, so long as the veteran buys in.\n\nOf course, one of the reasons Collier and Dantas were so good together last year was that Dantas shot 39.3 percent on threes. If she falls back to her 33.1 percent career average, it could make sense to start Christmas-Kelly, who provides more shot creation and versatility. I’ll be keeping an eye out all season to see if and when Christmas-Kelly can play her way into the starting lineup.\n\nMinnesota finished one game over .500 last season, and on paper, it is reasonable to expect them to finish there again. Minnesota has one of the strongest frontcourts in the WNBA with Sylvia Fowles, Damiris Dantas, Napheesa Collier, Karima Christmas-Kelly and Jessica Shepard, but they might have the weakest backcourt in the league. That could certainly add up to a .500 record, but I think the Lynx will be better than that.\n\nMinnesota was tenth in the WNBA in three-point attempts last season and ninth in three-point percentage, and both of those should improve in 2020. Perhaps as a result of their poor three-point shooting, Sylvia Fowles scored the fewest points per game of her Lynx tenure. She shot her lowest percentage from the field since 2015 and had her fewest free throw attempts per game since her rookie season. With better shooting and better health around her, I would not be at all surprised if she and her team both perform significantly better than last season.\n\nMinnesota is 40/1 to win the NBA finals, and this is my favorite bet, at least among the longshots. Minnesota hovered a bit above .500 for most of the season and never really challenged the top seeds, but I blame some of that on health. They have an MVP candidate in Sylvia Fowles, the best coach in the WNBA in Cheryl Reeve and the reigning Rookie of the Year in Napheesa Collier. Add in more than six games each from Karima Christmas-Kelly and Jessica Shepard, and that’s a team that has a chance to contend.\n\nThe other reason I like this bet now is I think Minnesota could be best positioned among the playoff teams to add a big piece if one is available. If they could swing a trade for Tina Charles or someone of her ilk, their championship odds would improve quite a bit.\n\nSylvia Fowles averaged 31.5 fppg last season, her lowest since 2009. Some of that could have been due to the absences of Maya Moore and Lindsay Whalen, but I blame her struggles on Minnesota’s lack of outside shooting. It was easier than ever to crowd Fowles in the paint since Danielle Robinson and Odyssey Sims were not threats to shoot from outside. I would take the over on 31.5 fppg for Fowles this season, and if she can get back to the 40+ fppg she averaged in 2017 and 2018, she could be a nice bargain early on.\n\nSimilarly, whoever emerges in Minnesota’s backcourt could provide a good amount of value. Shenise Johnson averaged 23.2 fppg in 2017, and she could do that again if she starts. Lexie Brown is probably the safest bet among the Lynx guards, but her ceiling could be limited if she continues to spend most of her time off the ball.\n\nI think Cecilia Zandalasini has the highest fantasy upside in this backcourt, and selfishly, I want to see her take the starting point guard job and run with it. I don’t know that she’ll ever be a 20-point scorer, but she has a chance to have the ball in her hands a lot, throw a lot of entry passes to Slyvia Fowles and contribute at least a little bit in every counting stat. She’s someone to keep an eye on, and she’ll likely be in some of my DFS lineups the first time she starts for Minnesota.\n\nThe biggest mystery for fantasy is how Collier will perform with Karima Christmas-Kelly back in the fold. If Christmas-Kelly is healthy and plays close to her career average of 23.0 minutes per game, she could take minutes, rebounds and offensive touches from Collier. Collier was great last season, but she averaged 35.9 fppg after the All-Star break and 28.3 fppg before it. With Christmas-Kelly back, there is a chance Collier returns to her early-season fantasy production. I doubt I’ll fade her altogether, but she may be a GPP-only play early on.\n\nChristmas-Kelly has a chance to make Damiris Dantas irrelevant for fantasy once again. Even if Dantas does continue to produce, that could change if/when Jessica Shepard returns to the court. Dantas has reached 16 fppg twice in her seven-year WNBA career, and I will be just fine fading her this season." ]

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[ null, "Phillip James, a senior Communication Arts major, was named Best Director for his work on “Finishing School,” a movie produced for The 48-Hour Film Project.\n\nJames headed up In Focus, a production group made up of 12 actors and seven crew members, four of whom are UIW students. UIW students included Christine James, a sophomore majoring in fashion design who led casting, recruiting and creative design, and theatre arts students Ysenia Anais and Miranda Gonzaba, who contributed stellar performances on camera.\n\nThe 48 Hour Film Project invites filmmakers from around the world to produce a complete short movie including writing, shooting, editing and scoring in just 48 hours. On Friday night, teams receive a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre that must be included in the movie. Two days later, the movie must be complete. Movies are then shown at a local theater the following week.", null ]

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[ null, "Lizzo has revealed how Queen Latifah became a major inspiration and influence on her music career during her childhood years.\n\nSpeaking to eclectic Canadian-based music media personality Nardwaur, the “About Damn Time” singer talked briefly about how important representation is to her and her journey as an artist.\n\nDuring the chat, Lizzo explained how Latifah was one of the first female artists she saw as a child that empowered her to love herself due to how fearlessly she conquered multiple industries from film to television as a full-figured woman.\n\nAround the nine-minute mark of the interview, Lizzo explained how she felt when she first identified someone who “looked like” her in mainstream media when Nadwaur gifted her a 12′ vinyl of Queen Latifah’s 1990 record “Come Into My House,” in addition to a cassette tape of her 1991 album Nature of a Sista’.\n\n“Queen Latifah is like the first person that I saw in media that looked like me — I mean literally to the point people where people were like, ‘You look like Queen Latifah,’ when I was a kid,” Lizzo said. “It was very important to see someone like her be a mogul, rapper, singer, actress, TV host, clothing line, all of it. Look how beautiful she is.”\n\nIn 1995, Queen Latifah won the Grammy for Best Rap Solo Performance for her track “Go Head,” and has delivered seven studio albums to date, in addition to staring in several films such as the 1996 classic Set It Off and 2003 comedy Bringing Down The House with Steve Martin.\n\nLizzo went on to discuss her love for Southern rap music from the early 2000s by detailing her love for music from groups such as Atlanta collective Crime Mob and snap music innovators D4L, who she believes created dance trends in rap music before today’s TikTok challenge era with their hit record “Laffy Taffy.”\n\nOn the heels of Lil Baby’s acclaimed Amazon documentary Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby, Lizzo is preparing to tell her own come-up story via the release of her own HBO Max special Love, Lizzo.\n\nOn November 10, the official trailer for the documentary was released featuring exclusive footage from the Detroit native’s sold-out live show, The Special Tour with Latto, coupled with commentary from the Lizzo herself as she details the hard work she put in to break the glass ceiling in the music industry as a plus-sized instrumentalist and rapper.\n\n“Nobody was trying to sign a fat, Black girl that rapped and sang and played the flute,” she said in the trailer. “It took so much hard work to get to where I am today, but I found my voice. Now, when people see me on stage, they see themselves.”" ]

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[ null, "When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West\n\nAn astonishing array of Italy’s finest films are comedies. Some of the most memorable performances by actors like Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Giancarlo Giannini, and Roberto Benigni have been in comic roles. The humor in these comedies harks back to the commedia dell’arte street performers of the Italian Renaissance and, before that, to the Roman plays of Plautus and Terrence. At the dawn of cinema, stock figures like the wily servant, the braggart soldier, or the pompous cuckold moved from the streets and theatres to the screen, where they continue to delight film audiences today. Italians still like to root for the trickster who outsmarts his social betters or the hapless underdog trying to get by. They are also endlessly amused by regional caricatures—with their local accents and peculiarly provincial traits—reminders that Italy is still a harlequin patchwork of niche cultures.\n\nSix great comedies perpetuate this grand tradition, inviting us to laugh along with Italy at the human flaws and duplicitous behavior that bind us all together.\n\nThe English-language trailer announces “the crime of the century!” Then the soundtrack of ominous violins shifts to a mischievous medley of brass, and the exclamation point becomes a question mark. “The crime of the century?” Like the film itself, this preview turns the heist genre on its head. A motley crew of aspiring would-be thieves decides to rob a neighborhood pawn shop. They case the joint, assemble their tools, and plan a daring midnight raid across the roof and through the window, all under the supervision of a retired safecracker. The result is predictably, deliciously disastrous.\n\nMario Monicelli’s parody of heist films ushered in the era of commedia all’italiana. This “comedy Italian style” featured time-tested ingredients of commedia dell’arte—local types, regional accents, feats of startling ineptitude—brilliantly interpreted by talents like Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassmann, and Totò. But there was also something unpredictable in Monicelli’s Big Deal, a dark strain of cynicism that runs throughout the film and through many of the comedies that followed in its wake. Instead of a conventionally happy ending, the conclusion is more bittersweet, even catastrophic for many in the group.\n\nWe see this in the ambivalent humor of Pietro Germi’s celebrated satire on love and matrimony in southern Italy. The film’s premise is based on an article of the Sicilian penal code that was still in effect when Germi began directing. In a land where divorce was illegal, this relic of feudal law allowed anyone to kill an unfaithful spouse and receive a relatively light sentence. This gives Cefalù, a world-weary aristocrat played by Mastroianni, the solution to his problem: how to get rid of his wife so he can marry a pretty young cousin. Cefalù talks to his image in the mirror, admiring his elegant moustache but lamenting the bulge of his belly. That’s when his cloying spouse arrives with the afternoon tea, adding extra spoons of sugar. “Would you give me a little sip?” she asks, a little too sweetly, then abruptly turns into a screaming scold. Cefalù begins to daydream about her death. We see his fantasies enacted as mock murder scenes: she’s drowned in a pot of boiling soap, buried in quicksand, launched by rocket into orbit. So when the real murder takes place, we’re not sure how to take it, as comedy or tragedy. There’s no doubt, though, about Germi’s view of Sicilian justice. The outrageously high-blown rhetoric of Cefalù’s attorney in the final courtroom scene makes an operatic mockery of it all.\n\nMarital mischief assumes a lighter form in Vittorio De Sica’s Marriage Italian Style. This time Mastroianni is a wealthy businessman who refuses to marry his long-time mistress, Filomena (played by Sophia Loren). Having given him the best years of her life, she tricks him into marriage by pretending to be fatally ill. He sneaks off from the deathbed to telephone his pretty young accountant, not noticing the figure of his new wife standing behind him and very much alive. Her miraculous recovery and the riotous scene that follows is one of the funniest in Italian comedy. While Mastroianni rants, threatening to get his gun, Loren grabs a plate of pasta from the fridge and calmly replies, “It’s in the dresser. Don’t make a mess. I just ironed your shirts.” Her Neapolitan accent adds a touch of class to her composure.\n\nThe battle of the sexes becomes a more pointed issue of class conflict in Lina Wertmüller’s Swept Away. Here the roles of power and privilege are reversed. Mariangela Melato plays the part of an idly rich woman who lords it over her social inferiors. On board her yacht, she snipes and harasses the hired help (Giancarlo Giannini as a “primitive” southerner). Melato whines about the Communists with her friends or tans herself half naked on the deck while Giannini watches through a half-open hatch in smoldering silence. But when a storm strands them on a deserted island, it’s payback time, time for the macho male to dominate. Like Wertmüller’s earlier satires (The Seduction of Mimi/Mimi metallugico ferito nell’onore, 1971; Love and Anarchy/Film d’amore e d’anarchia, 1972; All Screwed Up/Tutto a posto e niente in ordine, 1973), Swept Away brazenly courted controversy by exploring sexual politics as well as the limits of laughter.\n\nFranco Brusati’s title contrasts the basics of life with the luxuries. By the 1970s, Italy’s post-war economic boom had collapsed into the “years of lead.” Unemployed Italians headed north looking for work and a better life. Nino Garofalo (Nino Manfredi) goes to Switzerland. As the opening credits roll, we see him seated against a tree in an idyllic Swiss park while the locals enjoy their picnic lunches and the music of a string orchestra. Nino unwraps a sandwich and takes a bite, crunching down on the hard crust. Immediately, the music stops. People glare. It’s a preview of the problems that await him, the odd man out in a land of blond-haired children and abundance. We’ve seen this kind of misfit in comedy before–Charlie Chaplin’s immigrant, for example—but Manfredi’s performance is distinctively Italian. What might be normal in Rome or Naples is treated here as unsocial, even criminal behavior. He’s arrested for peeing in public and booed in a sports bar when he roots for the Italian team, even though he’s dyed his hair bright yellow. And while many of his adventures are played for laughs, the dark streak of commedia all’italiana clouds moments like the scene when he encounters a family of compatriots living in a chicken coop. The feathers fly and we may laugh, but we also feel the sadness and the shame.\n\nItaly’s greatest living comic, Roberto Benigni, understands this duality of comedy more than most. He can play the goofy, loveable clown or the sinister foil, often in the same movie. In Johnny Stecchino (1991) he is both the Mafia assassin and the assassin’s luckless lookalike who gets tangled in a case of mistaken identity. In The Monster, he’s mistaken for a perverted serial killer. Watch the trailer for The Monster, a montage of slapstick sight gags. When a lit cigarette falls into Benigni’s pants, he fumbles with his crotch to put it out. His manic performance is funny enough, but it’s even funnier when the police watch it on surveillance video and decide that he must be the pervert. Like many comic heroes, Benigni’s Loris has a bit of larceny in him. Watch the supermarket scene when he orchestrates a minor heist by slipping produce into all the shoppers’ pockets, bags, and baby carriages. For non-Italians who may not know this early work, The Monster offers insights into Benigni’s most famous film, Life is Beautiful (La vita è bella, 1997), when his funny little guy confronts the monstrosities of the Holocaust and tries to pretend that it’s all a game.\n\nWith so much emotional dissonance in Italian comedies, dark and light mixed together, it’s not surprising that the country’s greatest philosopher of humor is Luigi Pirandello. In his 1908 essay On Humor, he theorized that a “perception of the opposite” is the essence of the comic. He likened humor to a shadow following close behind the body of ordinary feeling. What gives Mastroianni, Manfredi, or Benigni their comic vision is an ability to see, and be, both the preposterous self and the shadow in the midst of everyday experience.\n\nWilliam V. Costanzo is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English and Film who has taught writing, literature, and film courses since 1970. A graduate of Columbia University with a Certificate in Film from NYU, Dr. Costanzo has published six books ranging from writing and computers to world cinema and film genres, including World Cinema through Global Genres and When the World Laughs: Film Comedy East and West.\n\nSix French comedies you should see" ]

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[ "Home » World News » Horrifying moment girl, 15, plunges to her death from roof ‘after trying to catch phone she dropped during selfie’ | The Sun\n\nTHIS is the horrifying moment a teen plunged to her death from a roof after she tried to catch her phone.\n\nMelike Gun Kanavuzlar, 15, died after falling off the top of a four-storey building, as she attempted to grab the phone she dropped during a selfie.", null, null, "Distressing footage captures the moment she plummets through the air and lands on the ground in front of a stunned onlooker.\n\nThe girl tragically lost her life in the town of Ortaca in Mugla, Turkey.\n\nThe incident was filmed by security cameras from neighbouring buildings in the area.\n\nMedical workers and police rushed to the scene and the teen was taken to a state hospital in critical condition, according to local reports.", null, null, "The 15-year-old was then transferred to an Intensive Care Unit in the city of Mugla in southwestern Turkey where she fought for her life for 18 days before she died.\n\nLast week a tourist filmed himself plummeting to his death after the zipline he was on snapped.", null, null, "Previously a mum plunged 100ft to her death in front of her horrified family after climbing over a safety railing at a popular selfie spot.\n\nRosy Loomba, 38, was visiting the ­picturesque ­Boroka lookout with her family when she plummeted over a cliff edge in front of her young children.\n\nAnd a man plunged to his death in front of his horrified girlfriend after he fell from a 330ft cliff.\n\nAndrea Mazzetto, 30, tragically died after he reportedly lost his balance while trying to retrieve his phone." ]

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[ null, "It’s not an exaggeration to say that 3D World was a vast improvement over 3D Land in every way. Basically everything 3D Land did, 3D World did way better, and brought with it a bag of its own tricks as well. And while the final boss in 3D Land was great, 3D World’s was all the better.\n\nNow, 3D World also incorporated the whole three Bowser rule, but in a nice change of pace, the third and final battle is wildly different from the first two.\n\nThe first two battles – oddly spaced in the first and seventh worlds – see Bowser riding a sweet cadillac as he chucks bombs at Mario and friends. Naturally, you have to lob the bombs back at him, eventually destroying his sweet ride and sending the Koopa king, once again, down a pit.\n\nThose fights are great and all, but the third is something else. With its final battle, Super Mario 3D World answered an old question: If Mario, Luigi, Peach and even Toad could gain super powers with power-ups, could Bowser? The answer is yes!\n\nSuper Mario 3D World introduced two new power-ups to the series: The Super Bell, which grants Mario and friends the Cat Suit, and the Double Cherry, which creates clones of whatever character grabbed it. The final battle sees Bowser take advantage of both new power-ups, using the Super Bell to transform into the tiger-like Meowser, and the Double Cherry to create a small army of such Meowsers.\n\nThe heroes have no choice but to run. The action takes place on a skyscraper during a stormy night (being one of the most beautiful showcases of the Wii U’s graphical powers to date), adding a nice atmospheric touch. Mario must also use the power-ups to keep ascending the skyscraper, and the action becomes so intense it feels like something out of a Platinum game.\n\nShould Mario reach the top of the skyscraper, he meets up with the largest POW block in the series’ history, and he must hit it repeatedly before the Meowsers unleash a devastating final attack. When the POW block is destroyed, it creates a quake that makes every Meowser disappear, and the original Bowser is sent plummeting to another defeat.\n\nIf Galaxy’s Bowser combined the weird with the epic, than 3D World took that same ideology, and cranked it to eleven.", null, "Super Mario Galaxy 2 puts up a huge argument to being the best Mario game ever made, and it appropriately includes some of the best Bowser fights in the series.\n\nBowser is much bigger here than he was in the first Galaxy, using the power of the stars to grow to an immense size. He’s so big in fact, that this time around Bowser doesn’t share a planetoid with Mario during their battle. Instead he hovers ominously above the planetoid, covering it in flames and electric shockwave before he flat out punches it with his giant fist! He punches planetoids! Put that on a t-shirt.\n\nSo how can Mario combat Bowser and his newfound size and strength? Why, by stomping small moons and sending them crashing into his face, of course! While the first Galaxy took advantage of gravity to create an epic battle, Galaxy 2 has Mario and Bowser manipulating gravity itself to one up each other. The third and final fight once again takes things to another level, with Mario and Bowser seemingly taking their fisticuffs into an interdimensional vortex. And somehow, the accompanying music goes toe-to-toe with that of the first Galaxy.\n\nThose simple battles from the 8-bit days certainly have come a long way. No axes, no bridges. These are battles of cosmic proportions.", null, "When it comes to the title of most iconic Bowser battle, the final boss of Super Mario World might just take the cake.\n\nBy this point, Mario had seemingly seen it all: flying raccoon tails, rideable pet dinosaurs, Goombas bouncing around in shoes, the list goes on. But Super Mario World provided the culmination of the weirdness of Mario’s early adventures.\n\nAfter a hard fought adventure, Mario finally makes it to the end of Bowser’s castle, ready to face the villainous Koopa and rescue the fair princess yet again. But as Bowser descends onto the battlefield, looking scarier than ever with sharper teeth and horns, and eyes that lack pupils, there is a brilliant juxtaposition. Bowser may look scarier, but he’s now piloting a round, bouncing, smiling flying machine. The “Koopa Clown Car” became so iconic that it is now a recurring aspect of Bowser’s character.\n\nBowser would toss Mechakoopas at Mario, drop giant, iron boulders onto the battlefield, and try to squish the plumber by bouncing around in the Koopa Clown Car itself. But Mario could combat Bowser by tossing the Mechakoopas back at him. In between rounds, Princess Peach would emerge from the Koopa Clown Car to aid Mario with a power-up.\n\nSuper Mario World may not have the toughest final boss in the series. But if it isn’t the wackiest, I don’t know what is.", null, "Super Mario 64 is not only one of the best Mario games ever, but also one of the most influential video games of all time. Its understanding of 3D game design was far ahead of its competitors, and despite being an early title in polygonal gaming, it was so intelligently structured and designed that Super Mario 64 remains timeless.\n\nThis understanding of 3D space could be summed up with Mario’s encounters with Bowser. Mario and Bowser fought in a circular arena. Mario would need to run around Bowser, grab his tail, and swing the Koopa King 360 degrees, and throw him into one of the surrounding bombs.\n\nSuper Mario 64 also established the unwritten rule of three Bowser fights for the 3D Mario titles (Sunshine didn’t get the memo). The first two Bowser fights in 64 were something like warmups, with Bowser only needing to be thrown into a single bomb before Mario would wrest one of the castle’s keys from him. But the third fight, with Bowser’s full arsenal of attacks and draculian music, is as epic as it gets.\n\nSuper Mario 64 is a legendary video game for how it paved so many roads for 3D gaming and wrapped it up in a timeless fairy tale. This combination of gaming excellence and fantasy is personified with Mario’s trio of clashes against Bowser." ]

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[ null, "The first outreach effort from the Brewers for Clean Water campaign calls on America’s most visible home brewer—President Obama—to move forward long-delayed safeguards under the Clean Water Act. The campaign is a partnership between the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and some of the nation’s most respected craft brewers aimed at protecting and bolstering America’s bedrock water protection law. Twenty brewers signed onto a letter sent to the White House today in favor of protecting American streams, wetlands and headwaters.\n\n“You can’t keep our biggest sources of water, and beer, clean if polluters are allowed to dump into the streams and wetlands that that our larger waterways depend on,” said NRDC Water Program Senior Policy Analyst Karen Hobbs. “But that’s what has been allowed to happen since the Bush Administration. The brewers are telling President Obama that they need their number one ingredient protected to maintain their business and slake the American thirst for tasty brews.”\n\nThe brewers’ letter calls upon the administration to release Clean Water Act policy updates that have been delayed for more than a year.\n\nFew small businesses depend on clean water as much as craft brewers. While hops and malt can be sourced elsewhere, breweries are reliant on their local water supplies. Whether drawn from lakes, rivers, groundwater or a local water system, breweries rely on the protections of the Clean Water Act to ensure the quality of their main ingredient. Beer is 90 percent water. Small streams and wetlands help ensure a safe and sufficient water supply, but they’ve been vulnerable to pollution and destruction since the Bush Administration.\n\nIn April, NRDC announced the Brewers for Clean Water partnership to leverage the compelling business voice of nearly two dozen of the nation’s most respected craft beer makers in advocacy around water protections. In their first public messaging outreach on behalf of the Clean Water Act under the campaign, the following breweries signed on to the White House letter:\n\nThe letter focuses on White House delays in clarifying which water bodies are covered by the Clean Water Act. Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 created uncertainty about what types of waters are protected by the law. Agency “guidance” issued under former president George W. Bush further limited the ability of pollution control officials to protect waters, making implementation of the law difficult, time consuming and expensive. As a consequence, it became unclear whether the law protected a variety of waters, especially those that are geographically isolated from others, or that lack permanent flow. More than 117 million Americans depend on these water bodies for their drinking water. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released draft guidance in 2011; they received more than 230,000 comments, the vast majority of which were positive.\n\nFollowing are quotes from brewers signed onto the letter:\n\n“By protecting our nation’s waterways, we are protecting our beer,” said Jenn Vervier, director of strategy and sustainability at New Belgium Brewing Company, Fort Collins, CO. “America’s waterways are critical to our environment, our economy and our health. Not only does the great-tasting beer we brew depend on it, but so do the communities in which we operate.”\n\n“Chicago is a big beer town, so the President should know what’s at stake,” said Josh Deth, head brewer and “Chairman of the Party” at Revolution Brewing, one of the most beloved breweries in President Obama’s hometown. “Chicagoans rely on Lake Michigan for more than source water for our beer—it’s where our drinking water comes from and where our kids swim. There’s far more than beer at stake.”\n\n\"As breweries, we have a voice that can be heard by thousands. As citizens, we have a responsibility to use that voice to improve the world around us. And, as Michiganders, we must do whatever we can to protect our pristine rivers, streams and lakes,\" said Russell Springsteen, owner of Right Brain Brewery, Traverse City, MI.\n\n“Every living being has a right to a clean and abundant source of water. Brewers are no exception, and across the country they rely on clean water to create the libations enjoyed by so many. Protecting our waterways from pollution protects a growing American economy and the health of our communities,” said Cheri Chastain, sustainability coordinator at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, Chico, CA.\n\n“Water is our most precious natural resource, nationally and especially in New York, the only state that touches two Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Whether New Yorkers swim in Lake Erie, kayak in the East River or draw their drinking water from the Catskill Mountains, they understand the importance of protecting our water resources vigorously,” said Kelly Taylor, co-owner of KelSo Beer Company in Brooklyn, NY.\n\n“Breweries have always been a key public meeting place in our communities and we wouldn't exist without the support of our patrons. Because of this, we feel it's of utmost importance to do what we can to give back to our community. Our support of the Clean Water Act is an important component of this desire to be a responsible business,” said Kris Spaulding, sustainability director and owner of Brewery Vivant, Grand Rapids, MI.\n\n“Wisconsin residents have a special relationship to our water resources, which our state constitution holds in trust for all. By moving forward with this long-delayed action to protect headwaters and wetlands under the Clean Water Act, the administration will help protect Wisconsin’s water resources, as well as our economy. About 10 percent of our beer is currently exported and this guidance will help ensure the highest quality of our products here and for export,” said Russ Klisch, owner of Lakefront Brewery, Milwaukee, WI.\n\n\"Our mission is improving the quality of life for our neighbors. In order to continue that mission, the nation's waterways, including Lake Michigan, must be protected,\" said Greg Shuff, owner of DryHop Brewers, Chicago, IL. \"Clean water is critical for the wellness of communities across the country, in addition to the quality of the beer we brew for our neighbors in Chicago.\"\n\n“In Northern Michigan, we are surrounded by water. That fact has shaped our beer and brewing philosophy. We recognize the urgent need to clean and sustain our water resources, not just for our beer, but for our way of life,” said Joe Short, owner of Short’s Brewery, Elk Rapids, MI.\n\n“Beer is an excellent megaphone, which is why we’re calling on our nation’s most visible home brewer, President Obama, to release this important guidance,” said Ian Hughes, environmental and safety coordinator for Goose Island Beer Company. “No one can afford to take clean water for granted, even those of us who live in the Great Lakes watershed and use its great water for brewing.”" ]

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[ null, "This article about a group of downtown Winston-Salem condos going up for auction at potential bargain basement prices was no big surprise. The project involved struck me as a little bit questionable right from the start. It’s sort of far-removed from the “action” and it’s one of those generic, tacky, cheap-looking (and overpriced) developments that you’re seeing downtown in almost all cities now, with a barely-concealed first floor garage and some pitiful and essentially useless street-level retail that’s included because of zoning ordinances rather than because anyone really wants it. These types of developments invariably look almost more like subsidized housing than the “luxury” units they’re supposed to be.\n\nSelling the remaining 17 residential units, along with one remaining commercial space, has become a sticking point that’s holding back future phases for the project, Furman said, which led to the idea for the auction.\n\nLet me get this straight. They’re auctioning these things off for next to nothing so that they can move on to the next phase of the project and build even more of the bloody things even though they couldn’t even unload the first group?\n\nMeanwhile, of course, actual downtown housing that people might actually buy has languished for two years across from the new downtown stadium (which itself displaced a whole downtown neighborhood), so that it can eventually be bulldozed to create parking lots or sports bars or whatever the hell is planned for that area.", null, "Of course, building additional housing in the stadium area might have (gasp) involved working within the existing urban framework rather than wholesale clearance (and wouldn’t have resulted in government subsidies for the stadium). Even worse, the existing residents of that area were insufficiently upscale and white, which doesn’t look good when you’re doing “”Emerald City” planning, which is apparently the only kind that’s been considered in most inner-city areas for the past decade or so.\n\nRight now, this (lack of) planing has resulted in Winston-Salem getting two blighted areas for the price of one: the one that was built and then abandoned for no good reason and the one that probably shouldn’t have been built to begin with." ]

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[ null, "I once worked in an executive assessment centre with a very accomplished manager who was a co- assessor with me. One night we were chatting after dinner and he mentioned a mutual acquaintance.\n\n“Of course,” he said: “Alan is the kind of guy who should be locked in a small room with no windows and only one door. Every morning a piece of paper with a problem on it should be posted under the door and every night he should be asked to post it back under the door. This should go on for a whole week and at the end of it Alan will have produced great answers.”\n\nMaybe misleaders would like to do this with some of their subordinates but mostly they have to work with them in some sort of a team or at least a meeting setting to sort out problems and issues. Here is a partial list of tried and true behaviours misleaders adopt to ensure that they get alienated people and sub-optimized results:\n\nI am sure you have come across this Misleader before. These people are not only painful to deal with but they can have damaging outcomes as a colleague once related:\n\n¨The CEO had all the answers. He paid lip service to the ideas of his subordinates. However, he was dependent on them to implement his views. Accordingly, they paid scant respect to both him and his ideas. The ideas never came to fruition. No matter how loud he ranted and raved, nothing they implemented worked – and more to the point, the staff let it be known whose ideas they were implementing and why they were not working. Key members of his organisation found other jobs where they were actually valued for their ideas, skills and knowledge. The organisation went pear-shaped rapidly”.\n\nThe lesson? Listen to your subordinates – they have valid and valuable ideas, skills and knowledge – use them to your advantage, and allow them to benefit as well. Your organisation will grow, and your staff will support and go the extra mile.\n\nAuthor: This post is by Ian Sampson (B.Comm., LLB., FAICD, FAIM). Ian is a Cause and Effective Associate (www.causeandeffective.info). He is a Strategic Advisor to Boards, an Executive Coach and a Facilitator of our Powerful Leadership in Action Program. He can be contacted here." ]

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[ null, "In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station, GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge spoke about the importance of social media both as it relates to promoting his band and his personal need — or lack thereof — to stay connected to the outside world. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): \"As a person, I've never had a Facebook account other than what I had to have in order to go into our own Facebook at a certain point, but I gave that up a long, long time ago. I've never had Instagram, I've never had Twitter or anything. I already felt in 2008, when all that stuff sort of appeared, that that was not for me. So I just live a lifestyle that is a little bit more old school, if you will. But I also understand the meaning and the mechanisms that drive people to use that and why it's important and all that, and why it's important for us. So I do not criticize it from that standpoint. And Spotify, the same thing. Yeah, of course, I wish it was 1985 — that would be fucking phenomenal — but it's not. And specifically Spotify and similar services definitely drew the music business out of the dark ages it was [in] about 10, 12, 15 years ago, where there was nothing; it was just a big decline. And now at least it works. Spotify gave the investors, for lack of a nicer word — the record labels and music labels, whatever — they gave the labels an incentive to invest in bands again. And that is what was going out the door in 2007. They were leaving; they were not doing it anymore, because everything that they invested in was a loss. So I'm really happy about that, and I am happy about TikTok even though TikTok was something… I mean, I do have kids and I know that TikTok existed but TikTok is something that I learned in the last month what it was, basically. I quickly had to sort of, like, 'Just tell me what the fuck is going on. I don't get it. Okay. Okay. Cool.'\"\n\nForge previously discussed his lack of interest in social media earlier this year in an interview with Metal Hammer magazine. At the time he said: \"I don't go on social media unless there's something that someone is pointing at. 'Look at this thing!' 'Oh, crazy....' I'd say that over half the time, it's my wife showing me some artist who's done something cool. It's very little. I don't get my updates from social media. I had a feeling 15 years ago, around the time that Facebook arrived. I said, 'That is not good.' Of course, I didn't foresee all of the ways that it would destroy mankind and politically or all of those other things that it was going to be used for.\"\n\nHe continued: \"I read a long time ago that our mind — our psyche — has a limited amount of space. You mind's RAM, basically. There's a limited amount of megabytes in your head and from what I read, you have space for roughly three thousand people in your head and you can have eight relationships. So there are eight chairs around your table and you're sitting at the head. Four and four. And you have three thousand people in your gallery. That worked perfectly fine in the old days because three thousand people was just about how many were in your village and eight people were probably your family; whereas now, the fucking Kardashians take up space in my head! Why? I don't give a fuck about them! Why do I know...I can't really tell who's who, but why do I fucking know this?\"\n\nEarlier this month, GHOST scored its first-ever Top 40 single in the U.K. with the 2019 song \"Mary On A Cross\" after a TikTok user used a slowed down version of the song to soundtrack a short video about the Netflix show \"Stranger Things\". Since then, the \"Mary On The Cross\" hashtag has amassed over one billion TikTok views and the song was used to soundtrack tens of thousands of videos on the platform. GHOST later released the official slowed down version of \"Mary On A Cross\" with added reverb." ]

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[ "In a victory video posted on his official Facebook account following the results, Bolsonaro announced, “We have everything we need to become a great nation. Together we will change the destiny of Brazil.”\n\nBolsonaro’s victory amounts to a dramatic shift to the right for Brazilian politics, which has been dominated by centrists and left-leaning parties since the creation of the New Republic in 1985. Bolsonaro has promised to restore the military to power in his cabinet and has openly advocated for a return to the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil between 1964 and 1985. He’s stated he would give the police carte blanche to use lethal force, cancel all funds to NGOs, and strip away workers’ rights. He has made dozens of misogynistic and homophobic comments, including wishing his son would die in an accident if he turned out to be gay and telling a reporter she didn’t deserve to be raped by him.", null, "Bolsonaro rises to power in a nation engulfed in chaos. Operation Car Wash, a criminal investigation into Petrobras and their bribes allegedly paid to top politicians in exchange for lucrative contracts, has tarnished the reputation of nearly every major Brazilian party and top politicians, including Lula, who was sentenced to twelve years in prison for corruption as a result of the investigation. Brazil is now in the fourth year of a deep economic recession, with growth stagnant and unemployment above twelve percent. If that weren’t enough, 63,880 Brazilians were murdered in 2017, by far the highest number in the nation’s history. Only seventeen percent of Brazilians have faith in the national government, down from fifty-one percent in 2007, and Bolsonaro’s victory signifies the citizenry may be willing to embrace conservative populism to solve its downward spiral.\n\nBolsonaro ran a whirlwind campaign, branding himself as an untarnished political outsider ready to crack down on crime by militarizing the police and easing firearm restrictions. Reactions to his candidacy were polarized- hundreds of thousands of Brazilians rallied against him in the #EleNao movement, marching in several major cities in protest of his hateful rhetoric. Bolsonaro was stabbed last month at a campaign event by Adelio Bispo de Oliveira, who claimed to have been sent by God to assassinate him.\n\nInternational reactions have been mixed. President Trump tweeted a message of support shortly following the result, saying the two leaders have agreed to work together economically and militarily. Many have compared the two leaders, Bolsonaro himself expressing his affinity for the American leader and reveling in the nickname, “Tropical Trump”. Media organizations, IGOs, and NGOs have lambasted the president, decrying his victory as a stepping stone to the return of Brazilian fascism. Harvard professor Scott Mainwaring said of Bolsonaro, “I can’t think of a more extremist leader in the history of democratic elections in Latin America who has been elected.”\n\nTime will tell whether Brazilians chose wisely. Until then, the international community watches with dread and hopes the better angels of democracy prevail." ]

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[ "Global Elites Started The Russia Nonsense. – “Attorney General William Barr has turned the attention of the Russia probe to its origin. Who started this and why? The answer, as in all the best crime dramas, is probably hiding in plain sight.” -Thomas Farnan\n\nHow You Can Be 100% Certain That QAnon Is Bullshit – “It is not good that a vocal and enthusiastic part of Trump’s largely anti-interventionist, pro-WikiLeaks base has been propagandized into consistently stumping for longtime agendas of the CIA and the Pentagon. Someone’s benefiting from this, and it isn’t you.” – Caitlin Johnstone\n\nFIRED UP, READY TO GO? Angry Hillary energizes 1,500 Dems in Texas – “Is Hillary Clinton waiting for Joe Biden to collapse so she can launch another yet campaign for president?” – Kyle Olson\n\nAnti-Venezuela Propaganda Some of the Worst in Memory – “Fake news on the country has been at a fever pitch since Trump regime designated puppet Guaido illegally self-declared himself interim Venezuelan president, a flagrant constitutional violation — establishment media going along with the ruse. Activists visiting Venezuela see firsthand how followers of establishment media are lied to about the country.” – Stephen Lendman\n\nRoll Over, Jay Nordlinger! Ilhan Omar Is NOT “Classically American.” and She Never Will be. – Washington Watcher\n\nBipartisan thirst for more war: 75% of Congress calls on Trump to boost intervention in Syria, to ‘pressure’ Iran and Russia – “While Trump threatens Iran and Venezuela with new wars, 400 Congress members, including leaders from both parties, want to intensify the eight-year war on Syria, to weaken Iran, Russia, and Hezbollah.” – Ben Norton\n\nIran Is a Danger to No One – Doug Casey\n\nMacron and Le Pen in battle for EU’s soul – “The fight between President Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s European election in France mirrors a larger battle across the continent between competing visions of bloc’s future. Macron, France’s youngest ever president, and Le Pen have a lot riding on the results of the polls which both have pitched as a re-run of their duel for the presidency two years ago.” – France 24\n\nThe Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses a Clear and Present Danger to Journalism, the Freedom of the Press, and Freedom of Speech – David Greene and Kurt Opsahl\n\nYou Know Things are Falling When… – David Haggith\n\nAvenatti, Wohl and the Krassensteins Prove Political Media Is a Hucksters’ Paradise – “In the Trump era of cartoon politics, the world’s biggest jackasses have an easy highway to fame and fortune” – Matt Taibbi\n\nThe Militarization of America’s Police: A Brief History – “As the police have militarized, focus has shifted from one who keeps the peace to one who enforces the law—an important difference. Get the weapons of war off our streets!” This may sound familiar, as it’s often heard from those attempting to pass more gun control legislation. But what you don’t hear is that it’s simply untrue that “weapons of war” are available to the general public. What is true is that you’d last about three minutes in a conventional war with an AR-15, even with one of the most aggressive builds you can get your hands on. The only people with “weapons of war” on America’s streets are, increasingly, the police.” – Brian Miller\n\nProverbs 10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.\n\nWe sick an’ tired of-a your ism-skism game –\nDyin’ ‘n’ goin’ to heaven in-a Jesus’ name, Lord.\nWe know when we understand:\nAlmighty God is a living man.\nYou can fool some people sometimes,\nBut you can’t fool all the people all the time.\nSo now we see the light (What you gonna do?),\nWe gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)\n\n( Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh )", null, null ]

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[ null, "A day or two after the fact, it does not fully register that Kobe Bryant passed away. I, like many, woke up on Monday morning expecting Bryant’s death to have been a tragic dream. It had seemed like a hoax when TMZ reported it on Sunday afternoon. In terms of pure shock, and considering the eternal cultural relevance of Kobe, this is one of the worst sports tragedies in our collective lifespans. We lost an icon who uniquely symbolized so many sporting and human ideals.\n\nEven more tragic, we lost Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna, who along with three other daughters and wife Vanessa was the light of Bryant’s life. We can’t talk about Bryant’s passing, and his legacy, without also talking about Gianna’s. She was certainly her father’s daughter. She was going to star in the WNBA. She asked her dad to buy her League Pass. She pulled her jersey up to her mouth during games. It is a testament to her and the Bryants that I, a person who has never met or even seen them in person, am able to sing her praises from afar.\n\nBryant is one of the most revered athletes of the 21st century, and one of its most famous. We all know the relevance that he holds. Whether that’s shouting “Kobe!” when shooting anything anywhere, posting up and shooting fadeaway jumpers at every opportunity, or proclaiming “Mamba Mentality” when you’re persevering through any sort of personal difficulty, big or small, he seemed like he would have an omniscient presence forever. He should be too unbreakable to die.\n\nSo, then, what is Kobe’s legacy? Almost every retrospective seems to emphasize the “complicated” nature of it. I do not disagree that it is complicated. Kobe contains multitudes, and to fully understand the man and why he is significant, we have to consider all of them. His sexual assault case from 2003 can’t be an afterthought. Another life was affected forever.\n\nMuch of the discussion over the years about that case has centered on its place in Bryant’s career, and its status almost as a personal obstacle for him. We shouldn’t gloss over it or mention it in passing before going back to basketball. I recommend reading Zito Madu’s Twitter thread on this issue, the gist of which is that we can grieve and honor Kobe while also considering, with full mind, the other side of the coin.\n\nWe try our best to fit people into satisfying categories. We want them to nestle into particular archetypes. Famous people are good or evil, positive or negative. It is simpler when we can judge people solely by their work, and simply discuss whether you liked watching Kobe or LeBron more, but that is not always the case. You can certainly debate Kobe’s place in basketball history to your heart’s content, but as Zito noted, Kobe’s situation epitomized the flaws with how our culture treats rape. There are multiple angles to Kobe Bryant, and it is easier when you accept that those sides do not have to offset each other. They can both exist, positive and negative, and we can think about them both.\n\nIn a similar vein, Bryant deserves to be praised for everything that happened after the case. He was a devoted and loyal husband. His daughters were everything for him. Their influence is clear. He was a prominent advocate for women’s sports, the WNBA and women’s college hoops in particular. When he started the Detail series on ESPN+, he alternated between analyzing NBA and WNBA players. You know Gianna loved watching those episodes.\n\nKobe’s retirement could not have been set up better. He was doing everything he wanted to do outside of basketball, writing bestselling children’s books and making an animated short called Dear Basketball that won an Oscar. After working so hard for so long to become a basketball legend, he was able to settle down with his beloved family and enjoy the fruits of his labor. It is sad that he won’t be able to see it out.\n\nAs a basketball player, Bryant was the platonic ideal of pure competitiveness and will to win. He was, more than anyone else, a product of the Michael Jordan era. He is so beloved by a section of NBA fans because his successes stand out so much. When he hit clutch jumpers late in games, and poured in 40 points in solo efforts to pull out wins, it was obvious that he was someone who could not handle losing, and did not tolerate those who couldn’t match his level. He had a way of overshadowing his failures.\n\nThere are fans who see Kobe as a symbol of a bygone era. Complaints when LeBron James rests on defense, or when Kawhi Leonard load manages, originate in nostalgia for Kobe and MJ. I don’t think there is any reason to doubt the competitiveness of today’s stars, but Kobe was on another level in terms of pure fire and drive. There aren’t many who give off the sense of competitiveness that he did. We want our hero athletes to be like that, and Kobe certainly lived up.\n\nThus why it is so difficult to see Kobe go. He had an enduring, everlasting quality.\n\nAlong with LeBron and MJ, Kobe Bryant the guy people come up with when they think of basketball. As we look back and mourn Kobe with a wide lens, we can remember one thing: That kind of fame does not truly go away." ]

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[ "Only After Dark: One Man’s Descent into Obsession and Madness (Illustrated)\n\nHome » » Only After Dark: One Man’s Descent into Obsession and Madness (Illustrated)", null, "“Ghosts and goddesses are foolish things to believe in.” So one successful American author claims as he rents an abandoned crumbling palace in post-Revolution Portugal in the late 1970’s, eager to make progress on his next bestselling novel. A chance encounter with an unnamed, yet shockingly sensual woman pulls aside the veil of the world to reveal an alluring existence defined by unnatural delights and mind-twisting hedonism. As his mysterious lover draws him further into her realm of shadows and ultimate pleasure, how much is he willing to sacrifice to keep hold of her? And will there be anything left of his sanity when his would-be goddess is through with him?\n\nAn illustrated tale told in the vein of Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe." ]

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[ "Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, 31, has sued a woman who accused him of sexual assault after what he insists was gross sex with consent.\n\nNone of them have commented on the allegations they now face.\n\nThe case was brought two months after Los Angeles prosecutors said they would not prosecute the athlete even if he remains suspended from his team while an internal Major League Baseball investigation continues.\n\nBauer and his lawyers have not specified the amount of damages they are seeking, with a price likely to be decided during the trial if they win.\n\nThe one-time winner of the Cy Young Award has long denied any wrongdoing in his sexual encounters with Bauer, which took place in April and May 2021 at his home in Pasadena.\n\nTexts obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show that Hill texted him after their first meeting, urging Bauer to ‘suffocate me out’ and ‘give all the pain’.", null, "Trevor Bauer steps down from the courthouse after the last day of the hearings in August 2021. During those hearings, a restraining order imposed on Bauer against Lindsey Hill was lifted", null, "Bauer says Hill fabricated her story of sex without consent along with her lawyer Fred Thiagarajah. Thiagarajah told The Washington Post in February 2022 that his client had been ‘brutalized’ by Bauer", null, "The lawyer for Bauer’s alleged victim, Bryan Freedman, asked TMZ Sports to publish an unedited photograph showing his client’s alleged injuries, saying the injury could NOT be part of a meeting with consent.", null, "Hill’s attorney Fred Thiagarajah, pictured, is also being sued for allegations that he lied on behalf of his client\n\nAt the time of the sexual encounters, Lindsey Hill was 27 years old.\n\nBauer has been suspended from playing in MLB since July 2, 2021.\n\nThe latest suspension expires on April 29. At the time of writing, MLB is continuing to investigate the allegations against Bauer.\n\nIn his lawsuit, Bauer admits the sexual encounters with Hill, but says she gave him consent to sodomize, be strangled and beat her.\n\nBauer’s case accuses Hill of persecuting him after their first sexual encounter to catch him in a ‘harder sexual experience’.\n\nTexts obtained by DailyMail.com in July 2021 showed that Hill told Bauer how much she had enjoyed hard sex with him after their first meeting\n\nHe claims she did, ‘so she could later claim that this sexual experience was not what she asked for, thereby laying the groundwork for a financial settlement.’\n\nThe trial says Bauer sincerely believed that Hill merely expressed sexual preferences during his persecution of him.\n\nBecause of Hill’s claims, Bauer said his relationship with the LA Dodgers was damaged, thus costing him millions of dollars.\n\nBauer was barred from playing shortly after joining the Dodgers from the Cincinnati Reds.\n\nAfter their connections, Bauer claims that Hill fabricated a story for police about sexual assault for financial gain. The case says Hill ‘generated a media flash based on her lies’, reports ESPN.\n\nHer lawyer, Thiagarajah, is accused in the trial of having helped Hill create her story.\n\nBauer goes on to say that the graphic images of Hill’s face that were apparently beaten and bruised were edited to appear worse, he says Hill deleted phone records during the investigation and also to make inconsistent statements.\n\nInitially, Hill claimed she woke up after her second dalliance with Bauer with a bruised vagina and buttocks, black eyes, swollen and cut lips, scratches as well as bruises on her gums.", null, "Hill said that after her second meeting with Bauer, she went to a hospital where she was diagnosed with an acute head injury, while he says she walked away with a slightly swollen lip.\n\nIn the latest lawsuit, Bauer says Hill only had a slightly swollen lip when she left his home in May 2021. While Hill claims she went to a hospital where she was diagnosed with a head injury.\n\nPart of the case read: “At all times during both sexual encounters, Mr Bauer respected the boundaries established and agreed with [the woman]. ‘\n\nThe lawsuit cites alleged text messages Hill sent to her friends about a potential financial mishap stemming from her relationship with Bauer.\n\nThe Los Angeles County District Attorney announced in February 2022 that no sexual assault would be prosecuted against Bauer.", null, "Bauer’s most recent exclusion from the match expires on April 29. He has been out of action for the Dodgers since July 2021, shortly after joining the Cincinnati Reds team\n\nAt the time, Thiagarajah told The Washington Post that it would be ‘disgraceful’ for prosecutors to pursue charges against Bauer.\n\nHe said the decision not to proceed with the charges’ was not a declaration of innocence; it is a statement of “I do not have enough evidence to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt.” And there is no doubt that Mr Bauer has just brutalized [the woman]. ‘\n\nThe new trial states that ‘At the time Mr. Thiagarajah made these statements, he knew that his client had filed a’ substantially misleading ‘petition with the California Superior Court for a restraining order, “USA Today reports.\n\nEarlier, in August 2021, the restraining order that Hill had implemented against Bauer was lifted after a judge ruled that he posed no threat to the alleged victim. The same judge rejected Bauer’s legal team’s request for access to Hill’s phone records in April 2022.\n\nThis trial is the most recent trial that Bauer has taken in relation to the allegations.\n\nIn March 2022, Bauer sued online publishers Deadspin and The Athletic as well as the latter’s former reporter Molly Knight over articles written about the original allegations." ]

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[ null, "CASPER, Wyo (WBTW) – A radio operator blames President Joe Biden and “Democrats Who Cheated in the Elections” for the death of their Navy son in Afghanistan.\n\nKathy McCollum – who claims she is the mother of Rylee McCollum – called on the Wilkow Majority Show on SiriusXM. In a clip posted on the show’s website, she accused “dementia” Biden and said her son would still be alive if Donald Trump were still president.\n\n“I just want you Democrats who cheated in the election or who legitimately voted for him just killed my son,” said Kathy McCollum. “With a dementia-ridden bitch who doesn’t even know he’s in the White House. He still thinks he’s a senator. “\n\nAmerica’s longest war is over: Biden defends handling of US Afghan withdrawal\n\n“For every Democrat who cheated on or voted for Biden, who put my son in danger and allowed this dementia-ridden crap, who is a traitorous man who just got into office because he ran out of money for his family – You did that to “my son,” said Kathy McCollum.\n\nThere was no widespread electoral fraud, as confirmed by a number of election officials and William Barr, who resigned as attorney general in December.\n\nRylee McCollum, 20, was among 13 soldiers killed in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport on Thursday. They kept the airport safe when the airport was overcrowded with people trying to leave the country during the US withdrawal and the Taliban takeover." ]

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[ null, "AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas senators started a debate Tuesday that will likely last for weeks as lawmakers try to decide how many standardized tests students must take to graduate from high school.\n\nAfter the disastrous introduction of a new testing regimen last year, the Legislature is anxious to overhaul what parents, teachers, students and business leaders all consider a flawed system. Texas law currently requires some high school students to take 15 exams to graduate, though the state education commissioner has waved a requirement that exam results count toward 15 percent of the final grades in core courses.\n\nSen. Dan Patrick, chairman of the Senate Public Education Committee, laid out a proposal Tuesday to reduce the number of tests to either four or five, depending on what kind of diploma a student is pursuing. The tests also would no longer count toward students’ grades — something testing supporters had said was needed to make students take the exams seriously.\n\nPatrick announced an ambitious schedule, aiming to move his bill out of committee and to the full Senate on Thursday. But fellow Republican Sen. Kel Seliger, of Amarillo, put on the brakes, pointing out that Patrick had shared the bill with his fellow lawmakers only an hour before the hearing.\n\nThe Houston lawmaker’s bill also would allow students who graduate with only the most basic diploma to compete for admission to public universities, something not allowed under current law. Seliger said he was concerned that some students may avoid difficult courses and then apply for college under a law that grants the top 10 percent of every high school class admission to college and access to financial aid.\n\n“The law is silent on this issue, and therein it is flawed,” Seliger said.\n\nAs chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, Seliger expressed concern that too many Texas high school students already are taking remedial classes in college and the change could put more stress on that system. He said high schools need an accountability and testing system that makes sure graduates are ready for college or a job upon graduation.\n\nBill Hammond, president of the Texas Association of Business, said he opposed loosening the testing standards because he believes they are the only way to improve schools. He said that according to ACT college aptitude tests, only 23 percent of high school graduates are ready for a career or higher education.\n\nParents and school officials, though, testified that while tests are necessary, they don’t need to carry such high stakes. Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, said he didn’t mind students taking 15 tests, but agreed that a student shouldn’t have to pass all of them to graduate.\n\nSen. Royce West, D-Dallas, complained that the Legislature cut spending on programs to help disadvantaged students pass the test from $300 million to $50 million.\n\n“Minority kids and socially-disadvantaged kids are normally at the bottom, and if there are going to be high-stakes exams, we should make certain these (programs) are there in order to assist them. To do otherwise would be a dereliction of duty,” West said.\n\nEvery senator on the committee joined the discussion, and it became clear there was no consensus on what a final law should look like.\n\n“Now you see why I wanted to start this process, because this is going to be a long discussion we’re going to have,” Patrick acknowledged.\n\nOn the other side of the Capitol, the House Public Education Committee approved a version of the bill, reducing the number of required tests from 15 to five, while allowing school districts to decide whether the results should count toward grades. The measure also would allow students to earn special endorsements on their diplomas to show they did extra work.\n\nThe Senate and House versions will need to be reconciled before the session ends on May 27.\n\nPatrick’s committee approved another law that would ban Planned Parenthood from participating in sex education courses at public schools. Conservatives oppose the group because it supports abortion rights, but a small number of schools have used the group’s materials for classes on birth control. The measure now goes to the full Senate.\n\n“If legislators really want to stop abortions in Texas, then they should stop making it harder for school districts to teach students responsible sex education that helps keep them from getting pregnant in the first place,” said Kathy Miller, president of the liberal Texas Freedom Network." ]

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[ null, "Can you believe January is already OVER?! I don’t know about y’all, but that went by so fast. And the end of January means… I’ve also gone an entire month without refined sugar!\n\nIn case you need a refresh, read my intro post for why I did this and my week 1 recap first\n\nToday we’re going to dive into my observations & thoughts on how it went!", null, "I think the most surprising thing in all of this was how much… easier it was? I’ve thought about cutting out sugar before, but I never went through with it because I dreaded how difficult I thought it’d be. What I learned was that, although I really like sugar, I don’t actually consume that much in my daily life. It turns out (surprisingly? probably not by now) that most of the sugar I was consuming was in the form of soda in mixed drinks.\n\nI talk about this more below, but the hardest thing wasn’t cravings, or feeling deprived; but rather how my body responded to not having refined sugar & grains — and adjusting to that.\n\nHaving a ready excuse made it really easy to say no to various sweets and things that I would have otherwise been tempted to have a little of. Other than that, daily life was surprisingly easy!\n\nIn my original post, I explained that I’d be allowing myself a small amount of dark chocolate, so I wouldn’t feel so fed up that I’d have to “cheat,” and in general I took a pretty flexible approach to this whole thing. We did visit this super authentic Italian restaurant one night, and while I was in the bathroom Marc ordered some gelato. Which I obviously couldn’t let him eat alone! But seriously, I didn’t beat myself up or feel guilty about it. Life happens, and overall I’m really proud that I did this at all!\n\nAlso, for sanity’s sake, I wasn’t super strict when eating out, and I’m sure some sugar did make it into my body in the form of a sauce or dressing. Mostly I tried to stay away from things that were obviously going to have sugar, and tried to be mindful about what I was choosing.", null, "Alright, let’s talk about what actually happened! Remember (this is for myself as well), CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION — as in, just because something happened in January doesn’t mean that no sugar was the cause. There were some notable observations though!\n\nLike I mentioned in my original post, one of my main reasons for cutting out sugar was to see if it cleared up my cystic hormonal acne. After I complained in my first week recap that I’d broken out a bunch, a friend assured me that, in her experience, it got worse before it got better. So far it seems like she was right — I haven’t had any major breakouts since then. 🙏 Not trying to jinx it though, and my skin does tend to go in bouts where it behaves – before breaking out all at once again. The jury is still out on this one, but overall I would say that my skin looks healthier and brighter (it was looking pretty dull and sad prior to January).\n\nIf you want to, read more about my acne journey\n\nI had gotten pretty used to eating something sweet after dinner (and sometimes lunch…), but that craving / habit pretty much disappeared after the first week. There was one moment last week when a co-worker brought cookies to work and my body legit flipped out when I smelled them and was like “WHAT IS THAT SMELL I WANT IT” which was really weird. But overall I feel like I can really appreciate sweets as a treat now and not a necessity which is great! 🙌", null, "A lot of people report increased energy when they give up sugar, so I was curious to see if I would also experience this. Short story: no, not really. The long story is a bit more complicated. I actually felt less energy the first week or two. At first I thought it was just the remnants of a cold, but when it persisted (and Marc was sick of me complaining about it), he suggested that perhaps I wasn’t consuming enough energy.\n\nThis is where I make a little disclaimer: I’m notoriously bad at conducting proper scientific experiments, and this one was no different. I just get really excited / impatient and end up changing a bunch of variables at once 😂. Like, oh we’re trying to clear up our acne? LET’S DO ALL THE THINGS! Which, as Marc always reminds me, means that I can’t determine which variable caused the effects…\n\nSoooo… I also changed my workout regimen starting in January. I’m doing more weight training and less cardio, and basically doubled the number of days I work out in a week. Which (duh Maria) was probably contributing to my lack of energy.\n\nSo about the middle of the month I started adding in more [healthy] fats & protein to make up for the lack of simple carbs & to give my body more energy. And my body has absolutely loved it. I’ve always struggled with my blood sugar being a bit unstable — nothing diabetes level, but it was prone to dropping suddenly and making me super hangry. Also, when I was doing more cardio-based workouts, my body really craved those simple carbs for energy. (This is where I jump in and note CARBS ARE NOT THE ENEMY. In fact, lots of nutritious fruits and veggies are full of them. I’m talking about simple carbohydrates that come from refined grains and sugar — the ones I cut out this month. Ok rant over 😃)\n\nSo while I didn’t really experience an increase in energy, per se, I definitely noticed having more sustained energy — versus the ups and downs that were part of my life before. I’m still getting used to / figuring out what my body wants to eat & how much of it, but I think incorporating more fats & protein in my diet and avoiding those simple carbs is going to be really great for me.", null, "Ok that’s great and all, but what now?\n\nAh, the million dollar question. Over the course of the month – and especially these last few weeks – it’s become clear to me that I can’t just go back to eating like I had been before, because A) I’m still not sure if cutting out sugar has helped my acne or if it’s just behaving at the moment and B) My body has really been loving more fats & protein and I’m not about to end a good thing.\n\nSo I think the plan moving forward is to continue, with a little more flexibility. I really missed fancy cocktails, and so I plan on letting myself enjoy one as a special treat now and again. On the other hand, while avoiding soda in mixed drinks was slightly inconvenient, it made a huge difference in my sugar consumption and I don’t plan on going back to the land of whiskey & ginger filled weekends.\n\nUm, also? I’m treat myself to a chocolate chip cookie this weekend. It’s going to be awesome. 🍪", null, "Ok, if you’ve been following for any time at all, you should know by know that I take breakfast seriously. And by seriously, I mean I seriously hate making decisions in the morning! This is why you’ll usually find me eating a bowl full of…", null, "Week 1 of sugar free January is complete! In case you missed it: during the month of January I’m giving up added sugar (inspired by the folks at Pinch of Yum). This is less of a strict diet or a new years’ resolution, and more of an experiment to see how sugar affects my body. Let’s go!", null, "Hi and happy new year! I hope the holidays treated you well and you didn’t go too overboard on the food and drinks. If you did, no worries, we’re here with a fresh new start…" ]

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[ "What began as just rumours now appear to be gathering pace, and it does seem that Cristiano Ronaldo will leave Juventus at the end of the current season.\n\nA mixture of his astronoomical wages combined with the bianconeri going through a transitional period under Andrea Pirlo suggests that a break in the relationship in summer 2021 makes sense for all parties.\n\nIt’s a given that there will be no shortage of takes for the Portuguese, although Troy Deeney has suggested a surprise Premier League destination should Ronaldo be interested in moving back to English shores.\n\n“I would more look at a club like Wolves with the Portugal connection – that would work,” Deeney said on talkSPORT.\n\n“Whoever is getting him is still getting an unbelievable talent.\n\n“You’re not going to get the same Ronaldo you had at Man United. That’s always going to be the comparison.\n\n“You look at Gareth Bale now, for example, he’s gone back to Tottenham and you’re already comparing him to the one that left.\n\n“You’re still going to get goals from Ronaldo, but he’s got to get a season of 30+ plus goals [like he did at United previously] – that’s always going to be at the forefront of everybody’s mind… can he reach that level again?\n\n“[…] Wolves are creating something there with the players they have and are really going to push for the top six in the next couple of years.\n\n“The Portugal connection, as I said, is so positive too. If they’re trying to go to that next level that’s the kind of player you need to get.”\n\nSuch a move does make an awful lot of sense, given that Ronaldo’s agent, Jorge Mendes, holds huge sway at the Midlands-based club.", null, null, "Not only do they have Nuno Espirito Santo as their manager, but Wolves can also boast of having nine Portuguese players on their books too.\n\nIf the club can afford him, there’s little doubt he’ll feel right at home, and his signing would also propel Wolves to the next level." ]

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[ "Is UHD TV on the rise or stalling?\n\nOvercoming a fragmented technology eco-system will be key to widescale take up of advanced formats such as UHD, writes Dr. Hans Hoffmann, EBU.", null, "Consumers get Ultra HD content mostly on Ultra HD Blu-Ray, via pay TV operators such as Sky or via OTT providers such as Netflix and Amazon, who “own” their ecosystem.\n\nFor broadcasters, there are several factors that are slowing down broader market adoption. Even though there is now a consensus that high dynamic range (HDR) is a must-have for any new service in Ultra HD and that it adds significant value even to HD TV, broadcasters are concerned about the operational impact and unsure about what the right investment decision might be.\n\nIndustry players are being short-sighted in the belief that pushing individual HDR solutions will drive market adoption more quickly and to their own benefit.\n\nBut the opposite has been the case: investments and new service roll-outs have been put on hold until the industry stabilises.\n\nGreat hopes were placed in two associations designed to avoid this situation: the Ultra HD Alliance, “created with the consumer in mind” and focused on quality of experience; and the Ultra HD Forum, which is meant to “bring together market leaders from every part of the industry – broadcasters, service providers, consumer electronics and technology vendors – to collaborate”.\n\nThe EBU became a member of both associations to ensure that broadcasters’ requirements would be taken into account, but rested its membership in the Ultra HD Alliance in July 2017 following a decision of the EBU Technical Committee.\n\nCurrently there is a lot of discussion about cross-conversion between different HDR standards, support for HDR in end-user devices, backwards-compatibility and whether to use static or dynamic metadata or no metadata at all.\n\nIn similar situations in the past, forward-looking and unique logos, such as Digital Europe’s HDTV logos, have served as useful orientation points for the market.", null, "For Ultra HD, several logos are currently competing. The current Digital Europe Ultra HD Logo concentrates on resolution only and a long-awaited update is pending. The Ultra HD Alliance has created a Ultra HD Premium Logo and maintains a short list of compliant products on its website. HDR10+, issued by Samsung and Amazon, uses dynamic metadata, based on a SMPTE standard, similarly to Dolby Vision. And Eurofins has defined another scheme called 4K HDR Ultra HD.\n\nStudies conducted by the BBC, EBU, the 4Ever project and NHK have proven the perceptible value of higher frame rate (HFR) television (for HD and Ultra HD), especially for fast motion genres.\n\n“The industry has created a very fragmented environment, which made it difficult for public broadcasters to jump on the Ultra HD train.”\n\nConsidering the cyclical nature of feature roll-outs by the consumer electronics industry for their large screens (from 3DTV, to 4K resolution, to wider colour gamut and today HDR), it would seem that HFR could well be the next big thing. It would also seem to be an easier transition, since there are only two main choices: 100 or 120Hz (120/1.001).\n\nIn reality, a number of questions are still unresolved: will CE devices apply simple or more sophisticated frame rate conversion algorithms, or will they depend on a true higher frame rate broadcast signal? And what about interfaces such as HDMI to carry HFR signals?\n\nIn distribution, the bitrate increase of an HFR signal would be moderate due to entropy gain. But backwards compatibility issues with legacy standard frame rate (SFR) systems need to be solved.\n\nOn the production side, HFR capable camera systems are available, but handling the huge uncompressed bitrates is challenging and requires costly high bitrate IP networks for live production.\n\nHFR-suitable mezzanine compression systems are an option, but they will require standardisation and add complexity in the production chain.\n\nWith all the technology options of BT.2020, ideally, the industry would aim for an adaptive TV system that chooses the appropriate resolution, dynamic range and frame rate based on the suitability for a certain content genre.\n\nThe industry often asks the EBU for clear signals about when public service broadcasters will be rolling out Ultra HD TV services.\n\nThe EBU, however, is obliged to act in the interest of its members by jointly working towards a manageable number of open and stable standards, by providing market guidance and by developing operational best practices.\n\nThe industry has created a very fragmented environment, which made it difficult for public broadcasters to jump on the Ultra HD train.\n\nIf the industry really wants to introduce large scale innovations such as Ultra HD TV and have that followed by rapid investments from broadcasters and content providers, then a different approach is needed: an alliance between users and industry around a limited number of clearly defined standards and logos.\n\nThe opportunity is still there for the next big thing – HFR television or even an adaptive TV system." ]

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[ null, "Given that we cover a lot of news on Facebook’s ad product developments, I thought I’d provide some tips on how to run an effective ad campaign and how to get the best return on your advertising spend. Optimising your ad campaign once it’s been set up is incredibly important and is often something advertisers overlook, as it’s tempting to throw a couple of ads up there and let them do the work for you. This will only get you half the real results of an effective ad campaign however.\n\nEdgerank is the formula by which Facebook determines the likelihood of your updates to appear in someone’s ‘Top News’ section on their newsfeed. While some people choose to access content via latest news, which means they see latest updates as they come in, the majority choose to access content via their Top News feed. This is where Edgerank comes in, as Facebook selects the stories that appear in here based on what it deems to be the connections you’re most interested in – i.e. Pages, groups or people that you interact with most. If you’re investing in ads but not running an engaging Page, you could have a low Edgerank score, which means you’re paying for the fans at one end, but they’re not actually seeing your updates at the other end – the free part where you get to continually engage with your fans. You should use this free Edgerank checker to measure the score of your Page and work to continually improve this. Look for engaging updates, the days of the week when fans are engaging with you most for example, and tailor your activity off the back of this.\n\nFor everything you need to know about Facebook’s EdgeRank, read here.\n\nWith the new ad report tool, you’re able to see how many times the average person has seen your ad. This is shown in the ad report under ‘frequency’. If you have a larger ad budget, or you’re targeting a very specific audience, the chances are the same people are going to see your ad again and again. So while you might think you’re continually targeting the right people for your ad spend, you could actually just continually targeting the same people with the same message, and they could actually start to get annoyed by your brand if they see it popping up all the time in their newsfeed. You can try and avoid this by regularly changing the text and image of your ad, if you are targeting the same people all the time, so that it appears fresh and you might eventually convert them into a click. It might also be time to review your campaign if you’re continually gaining impressions for the same people, but not generating clicks. A new tactic might be required, such as changing the target audience completely.\n\nWhen running an ad campaign on Facebook, it’s advisable to run different ads within the same campaign, so you can effectively optimise it after and see what’s working. We would generally recommend around 10 ads for each campaign, though this can vary of course if you have a particularly large budget. To get an effective view of how they’re performing, try just changing one thing between each ad. Whether it’s the ad copy, image, or target audience, if you change just one thing then you can see what the difference is when it comes to reviewing which ad is performing better. You could find that just changing the image in the ad doubles the click through rate. If this is the only difference between one ad and another that’s performing poorly, you know that image works and you can then roll it out for other ads. When making changes as well, try to leave them for a minimum of 7 days if you’re running a longer campaign, so you build up enough data to analyze for the ad, and you know it’s a fair test as you’ve accounted for all the days of the week, which can affect how an ad performs.\n\nThis is an option that not many people actually know about within Facebook ads. When setting up your campaign you have the option to choose to only show ads to friends of connections. This applies for Page ads, not ads that you’re sending directly to a website. What this means is that the only people that will see your ad, are those that already have at least one friend who is a fan of the Page. And while this works for allowing you to target similar audiences, it also guarantees that every time your ad is shown, it will display the name(s) of friends who Like the Page as well. This makes the ad appear instantly more engaging and the user is more likely to be drawn to it and click. This is incredibly effective and we’ve run ad campaigns before where we only have this option selected, with great success.\n\n5. Go for little and large\n\nWhile the targeting options available within a Facebook ad campaign allow you to select niche audiences for your product, I recommend running this strategy alongside an ad that targets a much wider audience. If you’re looking to create brand awareness, you can benefit from a lower cost per click for broadly targeted ads, and you can potentially reach new audiences that are relevant for your brand. Of course, the niche ads will bring you traffic that is more likely to convert, but try running a broadly targeted ad to see how this traffic is performing. This should only really be run alongside niche ads (unless you have a significant budget and are on a brand awareness exercise) that target lots of different niche audiences. So don’t just target 25-35 y/o interested in cooking, but try an older age range with the same interests. Don’t forget that with Facebook’s ad report you can see how many of your clicks are actually converting into connections (i.e. Likes), so you can effectively review how this ad is working for you.\n\nRead next: The Helpdesk of the Future" ]

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[ null, "“Implementing the ASRS has set us up for the future. And I certainly am proud of what we have achieved here together with Dematic”—Nathan Lucinsky from Asahi.\n\nAsahi Beverages is a leading beverage company that produces and distributes alcoholic and non-alcoholic products in Australia and New Zealand. With a rich and varied history, Asahi markets quality beverages, boasting a strong portfolio of established household brands and innovative, new-to-market products.\n\nMoving On From A Manual System\n\nAsahi has a number of distribution centres (DCs) located across Australia. Previously in Brisbane, Asahi operated across multiple locations and used manual forklifts for block stacking, which they found came with a lot of disadvantages and challenges.\n\nAsahi recently consolidated their multiple Brisbane sites into one DC. With the development of the Heathwood DC, Asahi decided to upgrade to an automated warehouse solution, as they previously had a very labour-intensive system in place.\n\n“Every truck that came in had to be unloaded by a forklift, then we had to receive the paperwork manually, check the pallets manually, move the pallets into the storage location and then do all that in reverse to pick them,” said Nathan Lucinsky, Heathwood DC Manager, Asahi.\n\nIn making the decision to consolidate its sites into one DC and upgrade to an automated solution, Asahi wanted to achieve a number of benefits, including reducing costs, improving efficiency and productivity, and being able to better meet the needs of its customers.\n\nA key factor in Asahi’s decision-making process when looking for an automated warehouse solution that met the needs of their Heathwood DC was working with a company that understood the local market. Asahi chose Dematic, as it has a demonstrated capability in delivering similar projects within Australia.\n\n“As the new automation solution would be a first off implementation, it was critical to Asahi that they get it right,” said Dominic Figliano, Project Manager, Dematic. “During the initial design and concept development phase, Dematic considered a number of low bay and high bay warehousing alternatives, but after assessing Asahi’s warehouse requirements, we knew that the best solution for them was the six-deep satellite Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS).”\n\nThe high bay racking at Asahi Heathwood DC is 13 levels high, 34 bays deep, and the ASRS extends to six pallet positions deep on either side of the six cranes, which are accessed by satellite carts. In total there are approximately 31,500 pallet storage positions.\n\n“The ASRS we built for Asahi uses Dematic’s newest and fastest crane, the 1200-1. This is also the tallest satellite system we have built in Australia,” said Dominic.\n\nThe journey of a pallet commences at one of Asahi’s two production sites in Queensland. The product is then transported to the Heathwood DC by truck. When the truck arrives on site, the driver backs onto the skate dock and then triggers the automated device to align the trailer and commence the unloading process. Skates extend into the back of a trailer, the airbags fire and lift those pallets off the floor of the trailer.\n\nAt this point the skates then retract back onto the dock, the airbags deflate, chain conveyors then carry the pallets onto our main conveyor loop in warehouse.\n\nThe pallets then go through an automatic profile check where they are validated against the specification requirements of the ASRS system. The conveyor loop delivers the pallet to the drop station where the ASRS system takes over.\n\nThe crane lifts and drives the pallet to the assigned put away location, and then a Supercap cart takes over and it drives that pallet out into the satellite and stores the pallet.\n\nThe ASRS is directed by Dematic WCS software. In the auto control room and also at workstations out in the plant, operators interact with WCS GUI system and they also have the benefit of a SCADA system, which they can use to monitor the real-time health of the system.\n\nIn addition to the ASRS, Dematic also integrated third party equipment including the skate docks, a stretch wrapper machine, automated label applicators, and a pallet inverter.\n\nPrior to construction of the Heathwood DC, Dematic was involved with the process of choosing a new site for the new DC to ensure the location would fit Asahi’s warehouse requirements, as well as the requirements of the new system Dematic had designed.\n\n“Asahi’s DC was a greenfield site when we started working on the installation of the ASRS, which involved a number of challenges,” said Dominic. “Because the DC was still a building site there were builders, electricians, concreters and other contractors and workers on site that we needed to coordinate with and work in conjunction with. For example, we had to closely coordinate with the fire sprinkler installation to ensure sprinklers fit within the racking and met requirements.”\n\nClose coordination and scheduling was also crucial to coordinate the various equipment being used by all the different workers so that the project deadlines stayed on track. Dematic had two crews on site, using up to two 80 tonne cranes, four boom lifts and two scissor lifts.\n\n“We had up to 50 people on site and completed part of the installation during the night in order to ensure we maintained the schedule and delivered the project on time.”\n\nAnother key aspect of the system roll-out was the training that Dematic provided to the Asahi team once installation was completed.\n\n“We provided superuser training to Asahi, which involved taking small groups and providing both theory and hands-on training on how to use the new system. Those superusers were then able to go on to train other Asahi DC workers in the future,” said Dominic.\n\nDue to the Heathwood DC having high bay racking, additional focus was put on safety in working with heights.\n\nThe rollout of the new system was successfully completed in May 2019.\n\nThe standout benefits of the Dematic system are the high storage density and the reduced footprint that the ASRS occupies, which allows Asahi to consolidate all their operations into a single site. This unlocks cost savings from reduced rental, less complexity in servicing its customers, less shuffling pallets which can lead to damages and errors, lowered transport costs, and faster truck turn times.\n\n“An automated system such as this eliminates a lot of the manual handling of pallets,” said Dominic. “This not only creates efficiencies and a high productivity boost of 250 percent for the customer, but also increases safety for workers in not having as many forklifts.”\n\nIn a DC such as Asahi’s Heathwood site, each manual touch of a pallet represents a cost to the business and comes with the risk of human error.\n\nSince automating its warehouse processes and only using manual process where it makes sense, most of Asahi’s pallets won’t be touched by a human until they get to the customer DC.\n\n“When we think about the amount of touches that go on within a warehouse process, each touch is a cost to their business,” said David Rubie, Industry Manager F&B Manufacturing, Dematic. “So, having that process automated and using manual labour work only when most makes sense is a really great way of actually running a logistics enterprise.”\n\n“When we were designing the facility for Asahi and looking at that the expected occupancy, Dematic calculated that we should be choosing an overall operation occupancy of about 89 percent,” added David. “We’re pleased to see that Asahi are exceeding that now with a 90 to 92 percent occupancy across the facility.”\n\nSet-Up For The Future\n\nDematic has provided Asahi with ongoing support with onsite service technicians to ensure the success of the ASRS system at the Heathwood DC.\n\n“The resident Dematic technicians have been critical to the success and the smooth running of our site,” said Nathan. “The relationship they have with our Asahi shift teams is fantastic. Their communication and working towards understanding our operational constraints have been first rate.”\n\nHaving the Dematic support throughout the project has helped Asahi to build on their own knowledge of how automation works, especially ASRS. This has enabled them to get the most out of their new solution and ensure the Heathwood DC continues to run as efficiently as possible.\n\n“One of the things that excites me about systems such as the ASRS is that it’s going to be safe for our DC workers,” added Nathan. “With the automated system, our warehouse operations run like clockwork, there is no longer the need for so many workers doing manual labour.”\n\n“Implementing the ASRS has set us up for the future. And I certainly am proud of what we have achieved here together with Dematic.”", null, null, "Is Automation Only For Large Companies? 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[ null, "The iOS 14 was a unique arrival for the Apple brand. This was one of the few iOS releases that showed up at a time that did not coincide with a new iPhone model release. So the primary focus of this release was all about the software.\n\nThe last few iOS releases were focused on improving system stability. iOS 14 goes beyond that by making some fundamental and notable alterations to the system, including the home screen.\n\nIn many respects, it is building upon the improvements brought forth by iOS 13. But interestingly a lot of the new features iOS 14 brings forth provide users the option to try them out or to keep them disabled.\n\nWe’ve listed the 9 best iOS 14 features that will take your iPhone to the next level. Click the links below to jump ahead\n\nOne aspect of iOS that has been a mainstay since the early incarnation of the iPhone has been the home screen. It has always featured a row based array of app icons matrixed in a grid format.\n\nWhile you could move these icons around, they couldn’t float on their own. Pure left-aligned, largely unexciting icon positioning was the inherent home screen law.\n\niOS 14 however, imitated the Android model of introducing home screen app drawers that allow users to sort the app library inside of more sensible, categorical stashes.\n\nRemoving apps from the home screen to avoid clutter has become easier. The apps remain on your phone, and you can still find them in category app drawers. This makes the home screen looking cleaner and less clunky.\n\nClicking on apps now provides a chance to just relegate the app back to the app library, without the need to delete it entirely.\n\nSo now you have cleared all the apps you didn’t need from the home screen, what do you do with the empty space? While iOS has largely avoided Android-style widgets on screens in the past, iOS 14 introduces this concept, in a sense.\n\nFor the time being, the widgets are standard apple offerings like music, podcasts, calendar, etc. but third party apps are slowly trickling into the selection pool.\n\nThe iOS 14 app library similarly sorts apps inside of sensible folders. This makes it easier for users to find particular apps without the need to look for them across multiple app list-out pages.\n\nAt this point, the categories are largely self-tuned, deciding where the app belongs in the app library, but improvements in this regard will surely arrive in subsequent releases.\n\nThe utility of widget “smart stack toggle” is another key feature of iOS 14, allowing you to toggle through widgets on the home screen without having them occupy the whole of the home screen.\n\nThe toggle will cycle through the widgets automatically based on the time of day and what Siri has thus far learned about your typical iPhone usage.\n\nSpeaking of Siri, the suggestions from the AI counterpart of the iOS have also improved, with the applicable apps being suggested at appropriate times.\n\nIn fact, you can place a Siri recommendation app right on your home screen. It will contain your most commonly used apps, which will be curated based on your usage and even time of day.\n\nIn terms of phone calls, iOS 14 brings an interesting change. Instead of taking up your whole screen, or even half of the screen invasively, the calls now come in in a slight bar towards the top of the screen in order to not interrupt your current on-screen activity.\n\nOn the messaging front, iOS 14 brings inline replies, which allows to create sub-threads from any message. You are also able to create a chat group and give it a particular name.\n\nMany of the added features have already been introduced in various third-party messaging apps, but they are finally relevant in the iOS world now.\n\nYou can now pin up to nine message conversations to the top of your conversation priority listing to promote easy access to the people you want or need to speak to most frequently.\n\nTyping someone’s name also highlights the name of the person you are trying to get the attention of, making the easy specific message in a potential group conversation stand out.\n\nOne of the coolest and most useful new features is the capability of picture-in-picture video playback.\n\nThis means that instead of occupying the entire window, you can pop the video player out and watch a smaller version of it while working on your device.\n\nYou are also able to maneuver and reposition the picture to wherever on the screen is most convenient for you, and even resize it to best suit your screen choice parameters.\n\nUp until this update, Apple users were tethered strictly to the Safari browser, but no more after iOS 14 comes around. In the setting, you can now choose your default browser app to be either the Apple native Safari, Google Chrome, or Firefox.\n\nWith emails, besides the native email client provided by Apple traditionally, Gmail, Spark, and several other email clients are now provided as options for the default email client.\n\nNeither of these things should be understated, as this is the first time Apple has reached a proverbial olive branch out to super-user who have been long awaiting the ability to use browsers and emails outside of the confines of Apple-specific products.\n\nWhile initially there was an error in the iOS 14 where the Safari browser was auto-reset as the default once you reboot your phone, that is no longer a problem. No word on when this type of liberating choice tech will reach out to other aspects of Apple devices, like maps.\n\nSpeaking of Maps, iOS 14 has added plotting trails to their maps feature. For instance, you can now track and plan a bike path allowing you to circumvent busy streets, stairs, and difficult areas.\n\nThere is also a method of routing your electric vehicles as opposed to traditional ones, plotting a route with charging stations along the way.\n\nOne of the best features added with iOS 14 was the Translate app. The app can translate among 11 different languages and turns conversations in any language included.\n\nJust turning your phone to landscape mode and tapping on the blue microphone button is enough to activate the app, then just speak your desired translation phrase, and Translate will quickly analyze and prepare it for you in the language of your choosing.\n\nThe best part is that the translations are all private as you don’t even need to have to enable your internet connection on your device to use it.\n\nThe Translate app will save some of your most common phrases. It will also enlarge the translated text in case you need to display the phone to a person on the street with who you are trying to communicate.\n\nThe app will make suggestions as to what useful features you are most likely to use, and displays the statuses in visual icon form, prioritizing those accessories most needing attention for simple control.\n\niOS allows the phone to connect to other smart devices around the exterior of the home as well, such as cameras and smart doorbells.\n\nEven more interesting is that based on people tagged in your Photos app, the smart tech can now notify you about who specifically is at your door.\n\nA running thing you may have noticed is the heavy lean by Apple’s iOS 14 into privacy and security.\n\nAccessing the App store now delivers you the information you need to know about what type of data the app collects, allowing you to make an informed decision before downloading it.\n\nThere is also a new indicator that appears as a small orange dot if your microphone is in use and a green dot if the camera is being utilized on the device. From the app control center, you can even see if an app has used the microphone or camera recently.\n\nYou are also able to now share only your approximate location, not the specific coordinates. This is great for the acquisition of regional news feeds and local new information.\n\nThere are a lot of new finds in iOS 14, so while it is largely building on the enhancements of iOS 13, it certainly stands out on its own. If you like iOS 13 more, most of the features that distinguish iOS 14 from it can be toggled off.\n\nWhile there are still some features to be added, tweaks to be made, and issues to work out, iOS 14 seems like a solid successor of Apple’s iOS platforms." ]

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[ null, "Lou is my best friend, well next to my husband. I have to admit he sees things and hears conversations my husband doesn’t.\n\nLou is a Seventy-five-pound boxer. I don’t need to worry about him finding me at my worst, nor does he care if I walk around the house complaining. He just looks at me with love in his eyes.\n\nLou’s the kind of dog that makes you feel like a queen. His human “mommy” can do no wrong.\n\nHe can be scary looking to others. All the elementary kids on the bus call him Vampire Dog, but he’s a baby. There’s nothing he enjoys better than climbing on your lap for a nap. Yes, all seventy-five pounds of him.\n\nThe house is never boring with Lou around and he’s too smart for his own good.\n\nOne day, he mastered the art of ringing the doorbell. It didn’t take Lou long to learn that when the music plays, someone opens the door. At first, I’d go to the front door, and no one was there, except Lou. He’d look back at me on his way inside as if to say, “thanks Mom.”", null, "Finally, one day we caught him in the act of standing on his hind legs and pressing the chime. One afternoon Hubby and I came home. We walked into the house to an odd smell. Upon investigating hubby found that the doorbell was stuck. He had to undo the electric wire to the ringer. That day was rainy, so we figured Lou was tired of being outside. His constant pounding of the bell made the button stick, burning the motor out.\n\nLou is adventurous. He discovered that if he stands (again) on his hind legs, and the wooden door is open. He came hit the handle on the storm door with his paw and open it, and then run outside. If only, I could teach him to grab the handle from the outside and let himself back in! He runs to investigate every sound, and then when he’s satisfied the noise isn’t threatening he wants back in, usually five minutes later.\n\nWhen I’m on the couch and Lou is cuddled beside me, I think back to the day we brought him home. Up until Lou, I must admit I didn’t know much about dog breeds and the dogs I have had were pocket pouches. Hubby and I were out enjoying a warm February 14. We stopped at a flea market, and there he was; the cutest little brindle colored puppy I have ever seen. I glanced at Hubby with my, Oh it’s cute. I’ve got to have this, expression. Hubby said, “You know this is a boxer.” I shook my head. In my mind, a Boxer would grow to be about thirty pounds. On the way, home my husband explained that my cute little puppy was going to be a seventy-pound dog.\n\nSeventy-five pounds later, I still wouldn’t take anything for my Valentine.\n\nHere is a link for Mary’s new book! Stone of Destiny", null, "Taylor has given up on everything but her work. After becoming the youngest CEO of Mugful’s Beverage Company, she believes life is complete–until her grandmother asks her to oversee the renovations of the family home, in addition to searching for a missing heirloom.\n\nHer first contact with what she believes is an insignificant ring, lost for fifty years, sends her life spinning. Taylor experiences strange. Unexpected feelings surface that she doesn’t understand. Thoughts that should remain unspoken are voiced.\n\nTaylor’s emotional journey begins, testing a heart as cold as the ring itself and forcing her to question everything she believes. Is this a fairytale, or simply her soul reaching out for a different world–a life she can only find through faith and a divine trust in God?" ]

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[ null, "The consequences of a hacker attack on June 27 can come back to haunt Ukraine’s economy in the second and third quarters of this year, said a senior analyst at GK Forex Club Andrey Shevchishin. According to him, the losses will be associated with prolonged downtime companies suffered from virus attacks.\n\nIn the case of a complete outage of the economy, it would have been a drop of around 0.27 percent of GDP a day.\n\n“Of course, hacker attacks affected the entire economy, but only part of it, but quite active. So the losses will be. It’s not just about the suspension of economic activity, but also on the suspension of a number of compulsory payments, the disruption of contracts and other things that threatens reputational risk and penalties,” said Shevchishin.\n\nAs suggested by the analyst, about 30% of the active enterprises in the sphere of trade, services and Finance has suspended work on the wave of hacker attacks.\n\n“It is possible to consider 30% as the number to stop the work, or the total losses from idle sectors, because the shops worked part of the operations available to clients, etc. About 10% of the enterprises and companies of other sectors of the economy were “immobilized”, Presumably, the problems only affected the financial and administrative part. As a result, a loss from a stop of work of these entities could amount to 0.05%-0,075% of GDP or about 335 million UAH. Accordingly, each additional day will increase loss of GDP”, calculated Shevchishin.\n\nDay off, which was in Ukraine after the first virus attack on June 28, according to the expert, eased the situation and gave the opportunity to restore part of the system. However, not all were able to earn in full.\n\n“As a result, direct losses could amount to 0.1% of GDP. Other types of losses, the reputational penalty associated with the need for recovery systems, purchasing new equipment, etc., can also vary within 0.05-0.1% of GDP or more than UAH 300 million.”, – said the analyst.\n\nExactly how many have lost business, it will become obvious after the publication of macroeconomic statistics in June-July. “Potential losses we estimate to 0.2% of GDP,” the expert concluded.\n\nNumbers may change with repeated attacks and delays elimination problems." ]