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After a rip higher half an hour into the session, the market started falling again. This time, the low was in before lunch and then a basing pattern followed. Price went back up in the afternoon, but the bounce wasn't impressive, far from. Near the close, the major indices were still trading close to the lows of the day.
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The euro stood it's ground, holding 1.29 and trying to get back to 1.30.
Metals had a bad day, copper and silver were down 1.3%, gold 0.7%, worse than indices.
Oil found support near 91 for the third day in a row. It needs to clear 93 first and next 94 to get a rally going.
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Some dogs love to swim. After all, we've even named the doggy paddle after them.
Then there are pups that need a little more encouragement to feel comfortable in the water. For our furry friends that need some practice, using canine life jackets is a great way to make sure they stay safe while they figure it all out.
Not every dog is cut out for swimming, though. When one husky at a dog hotel in Thailand tried it out, he found that he was more about that rest-and-relaxation life.
At first, he really tried to get that dog paddle down…without a whole lot of luck.
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"The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal(maryrobinettekowal.com / Tor.com, 09-2013)
A lovely story. Set in a alternate version of the 80s, on Mars, it was not quite what I expected. The bulk of the story takes place 30 years after the titular character was on the first mission to Mars. She is mostly retired but still dreams of the stars. Her husband is terminally ill and a large part of the story deals with their life choices from her point of view. Most notably, their decision not to have children because of her career. It's nice to see a story dealing with these issues; women "sacrificing" family life for their careers is not often a focus and rarely a positive one, especially when compared with male characters making the same choices. A really great story.
"The Waiting Stars" by Aliette de Bodard(The Other Half of the Sky, Candlemark & Gleam)
Another excellent story. It follows two threads of story: salvagers trying to revive a family ship that was relegated to a ship graveyard during a war, and a group of girls who were "rescued" during the way and brought up the Galactic way. At first it was not obvious how the two threads were related — apart from both parties being Dai Viet. Once it was revealed what the connection was, I experienced a "wow" moment as everything slotted together and the thrust of the story changed. What I had been reading as a sort of war-induced Stolen Generation type of story turned into something both completely different and chillingly not.
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"The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" by Ted Chiang(Subterranean, Fall 2013)
I enjoyed this story even though it was a story in a very different sense of the word. It's told as a piece of futuristic narrative journalism, putting me in mind of #longreads type of journalistic pieces, juxtaposed with a story of the Tiv tribe in Western Africa. Jijingi of the Tiv spends time with a European missionary learning how to write. On the one hand, we have the future journalist writing about the social and personal effects of a new technology can can search ubiquitously recorded personal video logs, and on the other we have Jijingi coming to terms with the concept of writing and learning about its uses and faults as a memory aid. What starts off as an exploration of types of memory (internalised and externalised, organic and technologically assisted), turns into a discussion of the nature of truth, as the title suggests. Honestly the only slight disappointment (and I do mean slight) with this story was that the story of Jijingi was inserted by the journalist, rather than placed next to the journalist's story by the writer (if that makes sense). I think it's because it made the journalist seem a little too self-aware in the end. But it was still a good, thoughtful story.


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Discovery College at SLCC offers a unique summer camp experience with sessions in CSI investigating, video game making, robotics, STEM, drawing and painting, and ACT prep. The fun begins Monday, June 3.
Camps are designed for youth in grades 3-8, with ACT camps for grades 9-12. Weekly sessions cost $99 for ACT prep and $150 for all other camps. Included in the cost of each session is a camp T-shirt, snacks and beverages, and all materials and supplies.
Camp sessions begin on Monday and run through Friday each week during June and July (no camps July 1- 5). All camps are held on the Lafayette SLCC campus. Camps run from 8 am to 12 pm for grades 3-8; ACT camps are held in the afternoons from 12 pm to 4 pm.
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The wireless version of the DGT e-Boards for individual use was released in 2009 and uses Bluetooth to connect to the computer.
The Bluetooth e-Board is available in Rosewood and Walnut and can be used in combination with any of the DGT chess sets: Timeless, Ebony, Royal, Classic or the official FIDE set.
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You can find more detailed information in the Bluetooth e-Board installation guide.
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The wireless Bluetooth e-Board is not recommended for tournament use. For a normal tournament set-up DGT serial tournament e-Boards should be used which allow a large number of boards to be connected together either using cables or the wireless DGT Caïssa System.
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Have you ever played red hands as a kid? There are adults, people with responsible jobs and families, who still play the game from time to time. It just never gets old! Although popular as a kids' game, many parents of the modern era believe that Red hands (also known as hot hands, slapsies, slap jack, red tomato, slaps, or simply the hand-slap game) might be too violent for their kids. This is, actually, one of the main reasons why we chose to write about Red Hands – 2-Player Games rather than Clash of Clans (or any similar game). Now everyone can play red hands without their hands hurting and turning red. Available on Google Play Store, Apple App Store, Windows Phone Store and Amazon Store, Red Hands has become very popular planet-wide. However, this article will be about Red Hands on Google Play Store only.
Red Hands – 2-Player Games by PeakselGames is a simple, but very addictive game for two players and a super fun pastime activity. Android phone and tablet users find it amusing and over 6,000,000 downloads can prove that. The average rating for this mini-game is 4.0 stars. Considering the fact that slightly over 69,000 users reviewed the game, four stars rating is something to be proud of. Most bad reviews state that "the game freezes" or "it won't even start", so we decided to test the game on several different phones. It appears that the game actually does freeze on LG G2x and will not work on Samsung Galaxy Ace, but works well on several other (newer) devices we used, such as Huawei G7, Samsung Galaxy S3, Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6. This means that the problem might be the device you are using, not the app, so make sure that the app you are downloading is compatible with your device or that you have a processor good enough to start the app. The content rating for Red Hands is PEGI 3, which means that it is safe to play if you are older than 3, and the last update that has been done to improve the game was in September, 2016.
Our team had lots of fun, even organized a mini tournament while testing the game, so our personal, collective review would be 4.4 stars.
The first impression about Red Hands was the goofy, cartoon-like, cheerful music. It instantly brings you up, but also makes up for simple game design. That simplicity is not a bad thing proved the example of Flappy Bird just a couple of years ago. A brief tutorial takes you through the gameplay so you can make sure how to play the game. There are also 19 different languages in which the game is translated, so if you are Thai, Polish, Italian, French or Spanish (among others), you can play Red Hands in your own language.
Since Red Hands is a two-player game, you should find an opponent (it's more fun and less predictable than if you played by yourself) and choose your "weapon". Namely, there are 23 different arms and animal/monster limbs you can choose from and play with. This is where it gets interesting because most of them are very well designed, which makes you want to use all of them at once.
Once you are ready to play, all the fun starts. One player taps the screen to attack, while the other taps to retreat and avoid the slap. The player who reaches the score of 10 slaps wins! It can get very intense and the situation gets heated up as players get closer to the end. A very funny and, at the same time, smart feature is the penalty for chickening out. If you retreat three times in a row and the opponent does not attack, you get chained up for a punishment slap. As you slap one another (in the game, of course), the hands you chose to play with become more and more red, which is another thoughtful feature by the designers. When one of the players finally scores 10 slaps, the game is over and you want to start again.
The experience of playing Red Hands could be deranged by ads that pop up every now and then. Considering the fact that the game is free, one can expect to run into ads while playing, but there is always the option to turn off the internet and avoid the ads.
After testing the game, we organized a Red Hands Tournament to see what a mass reaction to the game would look like. There were 24 contestants and the winner won free coffee for an entire month. You could not imagine how much passion and energy the contestants invested just to win free coffee! It can be said that the Red Hands Tournament was one of the funniest two hours spent at the company.
To conclude, if you play Red Hands on your phone or tablet, no crying due to physical pain is guaranteed, you can have tons of fun and do it all for free. Red Hands – 2-Player Games is not the best Android game ever, but it is definitely worth having on your device!


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The LS2012 features a stereo preamp section with three discrete input channels: Instrument, Keyboard, and Microphone. Each has independent 3-band EQm and the Instrument and Keyboard channels feature L&R stereo 1⁄4 in. input jacks. The Microphone channel features 1⁄4 in. and XLR jacks. The Instrument and Keyboard channels include independent stereo send and return jacks for effects management.
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We are committed to making the festival as accessible as possible.
The Site
The site is predominantly grassland with some hills and gravel paths around the site which are rough and uneven. As such, it may present challenges for wheelchair users and those with serious mobility issues particularly in extreme weather. There are no steps but there are some gentle and steep slopes but all have pathways which take the most accessible route.
Your arrival
Our dedicated accessible campsite and carpark will be open from 12noon on Thursday. Please display your pass on your dashboard, this will help our stewards to direct you. All our stewards are available to provide support and information.
The route from the accessible parking to the accessible campsite is approximately 250m down a grassy slope and then a further 250m across flat grassland. There is a slightly longer hard standing route if needed. The Accessibility stewards based in the accessible carpark and campsite have a buggy so are on hand to offer you a lift with your belongings if needed. You cannot drive into the campsites at any time due to fire regulations.
Tickets for Personal Assistants / Carers
We offer a free ticket for a Personal Assistant accompanying someone who is registered disabled. Personal Assistant (PA) tickets and accessible facilities are primarily for those who are registered disabled, so you're automatically eligible if you can provide a copy of your Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance, Personal Independence Payment or Access Card (for a personal assistant ticket) or Blue Badge (for accessible camping or parking). You need to call or email our ticket agents The Ticketsellers on 0121 472 6688 or firstname.lastname@example.com to buy your ticket and vehicle pass, and to request a free PA ticket, or to arrange accessible camping or parking.
Accessible Camping & Parking
We have a designated camping area where space can be booked in advance by those who need to be closer to the festival activities or require power for specialist medical equipment.
If you have specific needs – for example you require a bed – boutique camping may be a good option. Speak to our boutique camping providers to see how they can help make your stay that bit easier.
If you are in a live-in vehicle, you are welcome to choose where you would like to camp based on your needs. The live-in vehicle field is on a slope and further away from the festival activities than the accessible campsite. The accessible shower is in the festival campsite.
Disabled parking is also available. Please book this in advance and have your blue badge with you when you arrive – a steward will direct you to the designated area.
Accessible toilets and showers
There are new and improved wheelchair/easy access toilets and showers next to the accessible campsite. There are also accessible toilets at all of the large toilet blocks across the site. These are locked with a combination code so they can only be accessed by people who need them.
Viewing platform and chairs
For the first time this year we have an accessible viewing platform at the park stage, admittance will be on a first come first served basis. You can collect a wristband for this from the info point on the HAHA. Almost all our venues do have seating available, stewards and venue staff will be very happy to help you find a seat even if none are available so please do ask.
Buggy Service
We have a designated accessibility buggy to help you around the site, it will be based in the accessible carpark on Thursday and Friday but can be contacted via the info point on the HAHA and the Bowling green.
PANTS also offer a Buggy service around the site for a donation you can find out more about their great work via their website. Look out for the stops around site.
Medical Services
The medics tent and welfare tent are located next to the Park Stage, and is open 24 hours a day during the festival. A fridge is available for storing medication. If you need urgent help elsewhere in the festival, speak to a member of security or a steward who can radio through to other members of the team.
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Assistance Dogs that are registered with an organisation that is a member of Assistance Dogs UK are welcome at the festival. Please make sure you let us know if you need to bring an assistance dog with you by emailing email@example.com
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A night at the movies, then a deadly Idaho crash for three airmen
By KATY MOELLER | The Idaho Statesman | Published: September 10, 2018
MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, Idaho (Tribune News Service) — When Keith and Daisy Johnson flew to Idaho to bring home their son's remains after a horrific June highway crash, they asked to meet with his closest friends.
Three dozen airmen turned out to share their memories of Carlos Johnson, known to his buddies as "C.J."
His devastated parents were heartened to hear how their 23-year-old son had grown and come into his own during three years at the base.
"It helped us so much," Keith Johnson told the Statesman in a recent interview from his home in Key West, Florida. "When we left there, we missed the love that his friends gave us in different stories. They are just an amazing group."
The Johnsons aren't ready now but they do plan to one day return to Idaho with their son. They want to spread his ashes in the Idaho mountains that he explored with gusto after buying a Jeep Wrangler — a place he came to love, before his life was cut short.
"Okinawa, Key West, Panama, all the different places he lived, he actually liked Idaho the best," Keith Johnson said. "We were surprised. That was where he found himself. He was even talking about buying a house."
The cause of the crash
Johnson died at the wheel of his Jeep on the night of June 16.
He was headed east on Interstate 84 to Mountain Home after seeing a late movie at The Village at Meridian with two of his friends, Senior Airman Lawrence Manlapit III, 26, and Senior Airman Karlie Westall, 21.
The Jeep was stopped in a line of traffic on the interstate due to a bottleneck caused by construction, which merged four lanes of traffic down to just one. A brand-new semitrailer driven by New York truck driver Illya D. Tsar plowed into the rear of the Jeep at 62 miles per hour, according to a preliminary crash report by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The collision created a massive fireball, and it killed all four people in those two vehicles. Idaho State Police investigators said Tsar's inattention likely was the cause of the crash. Tsar's driving record has also come into question since the crash due to a multitude of violations and 2017 suspensions.
At least one witness thought Tsar's erratic driving before the collision was a sign that he was fatigued, perhaps one of the tens of thousands of drowsy-driving crashes in the U.S. each year.
"This type of accident happens far too often," Keith Johnson said. "If anyone wants to get involved, there is an organization that tries to prevent such bad drivers — Parents Against Tired Truckers."
He and his wife have donated to the group, and they plan to get involved when they are back on their feet.
Friends went in different car
Airman First-Class Sydney Housh, 22, and her boyfriend, Staff Sgt. Jordon Weiss, 27, were supposed to be in the Jeep with their friends that night.
But Housh wasn't feeling well that day.
"At first I said I wasn't going to go, and I was going to let my boyfriend go and have guys time or whatever," Housh said. "After a while I decided I wanted to go."
She went with her boyfriend in his car.
Earlier that day, Johnson and Manlapit were playing "Kan Jam," a Frisbee game. They later rounded up Housh, Weiss and Westall to go see "The Incredibles 2," an animated movie about a family of superheroes.
Housh, who has been at Mountain Home for two years, said she met Johnson on base last year. She described him as friendly and welcoming at a time when she didn't have a lot of friends. Johnson and Weiss were already friends and later shared an apartment.
"I think my boyfriend got him into photography, and I was already into it," Housh said. "We would go to Pine and Featherville to take pictures, and go camping in the mountains. There's that hill outside the base that (Johnson) would drive up."
Johnson was good at marshaling his friends into joining him on new adventures. He brought people together, earning the nickname "The Mayor."
"He forced me to go to salsa night in Boise," Housh recalled.
Johnson's best friend, Lawrence "Pit" Manlapit, was also a high-energy, athletic person who was always game for trying new things. Manlapit was a lifelong dancer, and his mom believes he got his friends into salsa dancing.
"My son was more the fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants type," said his mother, Dorine Norko, who has become friends with Johnson's parents and talks to them regularly.
Manlapit loved the stars, and he aspired to one day work for NASA, Norko said. He was very protective of his three sisters, and he called his nephews every night.
"They would say their bedtime prayers," Norko said.
The Catholic faith was another thing that Manlapit and Johnson had in common. Johnson had three cross tattoos on his back — which were still distinguishable after his body was pulled from the fiery crash, the coroner's office told his parents. That came as an unexpected affirmation of their faith.
Westall, too, had strong faith. She was confirmed at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and she was attending church in Mountain Home.
Friends from three different squadrons
Johnson and Manlapit played soccer, and their parents believe that's where they met Westall — an animal lover who had a cat named Pong and three aquariums at her townhouse. She wanted to be a marine biologist and was excited that her next assignment would be in a coastal area.
"They were all in different squadrons," Norko said. This was unique, she said, because it's typical for airmen to hang out with their fellow squad members.
Manlapit worked on aircraft electronics with the 391st Fighter Squadron, while Westall was an air traffic controller with the 366th Operations Support Squadron and Johnson worked in operations management with the 366th Civil Engineer Squadron.
Westall was creative and artistic. Those qualities came through when she was involved in setting up decorations for a Halloween party. It turned out to be a cross between a haunted house and "Saturday Night Fever," her dad said.
Her friends framed her homemade soccer jersey — her name written in glitter pen — and sent it to her parents, they said. They remember their daughter as someone who was always willing to pitch in where needed.
She would usually talk to her parents via FaceTime on Sundays. The day after the fatal crash was Sunday, June 17 — Father's Day.
Westall's parents, who live in Sioux Falls, were out of town earlier that weekend to spend time with her grandparents. They got home very late on Sunday and expected to talk to her on Monday.
"There was a Father's Day card from Karlie to me. We were waiting to open that on FaceTime with her," Mike Westall said.
At about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, the commander and the chaplain from the South Dakota Air National Guard No. 114 Fighter Wing base showed up at their house. The men hand-delivered a letter that said Karlie was missing.
"At the time, they did not know where Karlie was. They were going through a head count," her father said. The parents did an online search and found headlines about the terrible crash in Boise.
When they arrived in Boise the following Sunday, the couple asked to be taken to the site of the crash.
"When I saw the extent of how wide it was, I thought, 'What the hell was the fuel to this thing?'" Mike Westall said.
They met and prayed with Karlie's friends at the base, including one who used to paint with her. He gave them a private letter to place in her crypt.
One of Karlie Westall's high school friends, who is serving in the Navy in Japan, traveled for nearly a full day to get to Idaho to escort her remains home.
"When we flew back into Sioux Falls, the Freedom Fighters were waiting to escort us to the funeral home," Mike Westall said.
Coming back to Idaho
After the movie on June 16, Housh and Weiss decided to get coffee at Dutch Bros. in Boise, while their friends headed back to Mountain Home via Eagle Road and the interstate. They did not see or know their friends had died in the crash until two days later, during an "all-call" on Monday at the base.
"It took maybe a whole week to piece everything together," Housh said. It's been hard emotionally — she lost a friend to suicide just four years ago — so this is another crushing blow.
Manlapit's family is Hawaiian, and he had hoped to be stationed in Japan, not Idaho. His mother recalled being happy that he was stateside rather than overseas because it felt safer: "What could ever happen to you with all those potatoes over there?"
Her son died on June 16, which also happens to be her wedding anniversary. She and Tom Norko, Manlapit's stepdad, were out of town celebrating at Rhode Island's Block Island when they got the news.
"I do want to go back to Idaho at some point, just because I want to visit it more to see exactly what my son had fallen in love with," Dorine Norko said. "In the end, he really loved being there. He loved all the friends he made."
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DeepCalpain is a web server developed for understanding the enzyme-specific cleavage for calpains including m-calpain and μ-calpain. Based on deep learning method, the predictor achieved promising performances. Four bright spots of DeepCalpain software are summarized below: i) four kinds of protein sequence features are modeled independently and then merged into one model; ii) particle swarm optimizer algorithm is used to optimize the hyperparameters; iii) the protein-protein interaction network and colocalization information are provided and visulized in the result page; iv) three fundamental properties of protein sequence are visualized in the result page, including disorder, surface accessibility and secondary structure.


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Zach Weiss with his infinite ERA belongs on the team.
Cliff Pennington and Gosslin deserves to be its bench
David Holmberg deserves to be a starter on the team worst fwar of any Reds pitcher since 2000 at -1.7
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I don't know if it's been mentioned, but Homer Bailey has to be on someone's list somewhere..
My brain isn't awake yet after last night's big win by Jared Hughes with his 1 pitch gem.. Amazing he got the win, but he did.. Reds took 47 total bases vs the Rockies 25. Somewhere there's historically bad in there too..
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2. What, Where, How
With an understanding of who your content is addressing, you can now start thinking about how you will reach them. Think about writing styles and content formats. You may end up with different formats for different types of customers. Where are your customers online? Knowing whether they use social media or prefer to read a newsletter or blog will help you work out the best places to post your content to achieve maximum impact. Finally, the big question – when to post? There is no right or wrong answer; it is totally dependent upon your customers. The key is to make sure you are consistent with the frequency of your posts. Don't be afraid to test and try different times and days of the week. Once you've found something that works well, stick with it.
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In line with the theme of the conference, Dattatreya highlighted how well the pharmaceutical industry is performing in India, proving to be a lucrative field for young researchers and academicians to work in.
"WE KEEP talking about the unemployment crisis in the country, but if more of our youngsters venture into an entrepreneurial journey, not only will they get employed, they can create jobs for ten more people," said Bandaru Dattatreya, Governor of Himachal Pradesh, who was present as Chief guest at the inauguration ceremony of the ICONICA conference- 'A Global Summit on Next Gen Paradigms'- held at Panjab University on Thursday.
In line with the theme of the conference, Dattatreya highlighted how well the pharmaceutical industry is performing in India, proving to be a lucrative field for young researchers and academicians to work in. "Young researchers should strive to take research from the laboratories to the poor people of the society," claimed Dattatreya, adding, "I am ready to give youth crores of money to fund their research and innovative entrepreneurial ideas, so my appeal to the youth is to apply themselves in this manner and bring progress to the country."
The conference, which boasts of more than 900 delegates from states across the country as well as international speakers and panelists, was also inaugurated in the presence of Dr Dinesh Dua, Chairman of Pharmexcil, the guest of honour at the event. In his address to the audience, Dr Dua provided a detailed analysis of the ways in which the Indian pharmaceutical company is growing and prospering, making its mark across the world.
Dua also stated that the conference could have not occurred at a better time. "Considering the fact that the world is in the grip of ncoronavirus now, there is no better time to discuss next generation paradigms in healthcare. By today, at least 60,000 people have been infected and more than a thousand have died," said Dua, at the beginning of his address.
Going back to developments in the healthcare industry in India, Dua stated that 40 per cent of the world's generic medicine is produced in India. "We also control 30 per cent of the generic molecules globally. Furthermore, every third medicine taken by someone in the United States of America is produced in India, that is how viable we are in the pharmaceutical market," added Dua.
Projecting economic growth in the healthcare sector, Dua claimed that Indian healthcare is set to grow to a worth of Rs 20 lakh crore by the end of the year 2020. "The sector is also expected to create 40 million jobs for Indians by the year 2030," said Dua. Further, talking about the governments flagship healthcare scheme "Ayushman Bharat", Dua claimed that the national health protection scheme added one lakh jobs to the Indian market according to data collected by June 12, 2019.
"Still, there are many more challenges to be overcome by the Indian healthcare system. For one, though the private sector is booming, public health care in India is still lagging behind in terms of significant economic progress and not everyone has equal access to quality healthcare in India," said Dua. "However, if academia and industry are strongly tied together, as is the goal of the ICONICA conference, then we will progress at accelerated levels," concluded Dua.
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Let me just get this out of the way: I have no religious affiliation whatsoever (fine if you do, it's just not for me). I'm agnostic, I have no idea if there is or isn't a god, so I believe what gives the most evidence.
However, that doesn't stop me from seeing some evidence for the supernatural. Horrors which we don't understand, and never will, lurking inside the darkest corners of the room, or perhaps waiting outside the window, ready to strike if the opportunity is given. Perhaps a voice that whispers to you through the darkness of your room.
I've had some strange experiences myself, such as hearing a voice that sounded like my sister whispering my name (Ryan...) in the middle of the night, or perhaps the time I saw a shadow flit by behi…Read more >
I've been doing some reflection lately since it's summer and there's nothing else to do (and I'm going through some weird-ass shit right now) and realized something - this is place is how I got my start as a mediocre-at-best-yet-wanting-to-improve writer.
This is old news to most of you, but I posted sub-par shit on here almost daily and got it taken down at the same rate. It got really boring to me to be trying the same shit over and over and having nothing stick, so I went over to the workshop. I had one helpful review from someone (No saying who, but his throne of salt looks bigger these days) and got back to writing.
It was around that time that I decided to rewrite something to see if I could make it better and throw it on the workshop …Read more >
This is gonna stay short since I'm on my phone, but this issue means a lot to me.
I recently learned that some large Internet Service Providers (I don't know their names) have been campaigning once again to attempt to abolish Net Neutrality in America. Net Neutrality is a set of rules that stops them from making your internet unbearably slow for certain sites (such as this one) or just block you from them altogether.
You can probably understand why this is bad, in how it restricts people from accessing and sharing new ideas, and restricting innovation. The internet was made for sharing ideas and things, such as these stories, and repealing Net Neutrality will heavily restrict this.
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I'm sure you all know how a contest like this works, but for those who don't, I'm going to outline the rules here.
To enter, make a comment below that says something along the lines of "I'm in," and then indicate whether or not you would like to receive a prompt.
If you do want a prompt, either Diexilius or I will give you one. You must incorporate the prompt into your story in some way.
Once you have entered, you will have until the deadline to complete the story. We will give out extensions, but will be somewhat sparing with them.
After you have submitted your story, Dix and…
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This is definitely one of the less looked upon issues in stories, as authors can usually figure out how they want to do it in their stories, but when done wrong, it can ruin a great idea. This is not to say that it is extremely important, but prose can really drive home the point of a story if used correctly. It can be used so effectively as to make a story scarier than it could have been had the author not considered the prose in the first place.
Prose is basically your "author's voice". It is the vocabulary you use when writing a story. For me, this is written in the prose I'm most comfortable with, and for you, starting out, your first story should be too. If you are a more seasoned author, you can experiment a lot more with the na…
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Following the declaration of 3rd June every year as World Bicycle Day by the United Nations on the 12th April, 2018 during its 72nd General Assembly plenary, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in collaboration with Cycling Federation of Nigeria (CFN) and other advocates of cycling in the country have chosen to mark the 2018 World Bicycle Day on the 4th and 5th of June with the theme, "Cycling for Fitness".
The activities lined up for the first day, 4th of June, 2018 include, a Press conference by the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi at 0830hrs, followed by the flag off of the 2018 World Bicycle Day at the FRSC Headquarters, Wuse Zone 3, Abuja. Cycling exercise will be conducted from the FRSC headquarters, to Federal Secretariat Abuja where the Corps Marshal and the Participants in the exercise will meet with the Honourable Minister of Health and proceed to Federal capital Territory Administration Area 11 to meet with the FCT Minister and then proceed to NTA headquarters area 11 where the riders are expected to meet with the Director General.
On the second day of the event, the cycling exercise takes off from the FRSC headquarters to the Federal Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Power Works and Housing where the Corps Marshal and the riders are expected to meet the Honourable Ministers of the two ministries before proceeding to the Federal Ministry of Transport to also meet the Honourable Minister.
More so, a delegation of riders will also visit Government Secondary School Tudun Wada, Wuse Zone 4 and Government Secondary School Garki, respectively. The World Bicycle Day commemoration for 2018 terminates at the national headquarters of the Commission.
According to the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, this resolution reached at the UN General Assembly was targeted at encouraging stakeholders to emphasize and advance the use of Bicycle as a means of fostering sustainable development which is in tandem with other UN Declarations such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the World Urban Agenda.
Kazeem noted that the resolution specifically states thus; "acknowledging the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the bicycle, which has been in use for two centuries, and that it is a simple, affordable, reliable, clean and environmentally fit sustainable means of transportation, fostering environmental stewardship and health."
It will be recalled that as part of campaigns and advocacies on the environmental, economic, social, health and other benefits of Cycling, the Federal Road Safety Corps has since 2011 collaborated with other stakeholders like the Cycling Federation of Nigeria to advocate and promote the cycling culture in the country its role in the reduction of emission of carbon mono oxide and other health threatening objects.
In his statement, Kazeem quoted the Corps Marshal, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi while emphasizing on the numerous benefits of cycling as saying;
"The benefits of cycling are almost as endless as the country lanes you could soon be exploring. If you are considering taking up cycling, and weighing it up against other potential activities, then we are here to tell you that cycling is hands down the best option."
Admittedly, there are an awful lot of good reasons to choose bike riding as newest pass time. Here are just some few…riding bikes boosts your brainpower, health, happiness and relationship. There are many advantages of cycling including improving your mental health and your immune system, weather its to boost your fitness, health or bank balance, or as as an environmental choice, taking up bicycle riding could be one of the best decisions you ever make.
Oyeyemi, therefore, encouraged the public to take up cycling because it helps to burn calories, reduces air pollution and eases the burden of traffic congestion.
FRSC marks 2018 World Cycling Day with Cycling Federation of Nigeria
Following the declaration of 3rd June every year as World Bicycle Day by the United Nations on the 12th April, 2018 during its 72nd General Assembly plenary, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in collaboration with Cycling Federation of Nigeria (CFN) and other advocates of cycling in the country have chosen to mark the 2018 World Bicycle Day on the 4th and 5th of June with the theme, "Cycling for Fitness".


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John Wilkes (17 October 1725 – 26 December 1797) was an English radical, journalist, and politician.
He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757. In the British Parliament. During the American War of Independence, he was a supporter of the American rebels, adding further to his popularity with American Whigs. In 1780, however, he commanded militia forces which helped put down the Gordon Riots, damaging his popularity with many radicals.
This marked a turning point leading toward him embracing increasingly conservative policies which caused dissatisfaction among the progressive-radical low-to-middle income landowners. This was instrumental in the loss of his Middlesex parliamentary seat in the 1790 general election. At the age of 65, Wilkes retired from politics and took part in progressive social reforms such as Catholic Emancipation in the 1790s following the French Revolution. During his life, he earned a reputation as a libertine.
Born in Clerkenwell in London, Wilkes was the second son of the distiller Israel Wilkes and his wife Sarah (née Heaton), who had six children. John Wilkes was educated initially at an academy in Hertford; this was followed by private tutoring and finally a stint at the University of Leiden in the Dutch Republic. There he met Andrew Baxter, a Presbyterian clergyman who greatly influenced Wilkes' views on religion.[1][2] Although Wilkes remained in the Church of England throughout his life, he had a deep sympathy for non-conformist Protestants and was an advocate of religious tolerance from an early age.[3][4] Wilkes was also beginning to develop a deep patriotism for his country. During the Jacobite rebellion of 1745, he rushed home to London to join a Loyal Association and readied to defend the capital. Once the rebellion had ended after the Battle of Culloden, Wilkes returned to the Netherlands to complete his studies.
In 1747, he married Mary Meade (1715-1784) and came into possession of an estate and income in Buckinghamshire.[1] They had one child, Mary (known as Polly), to whom John was utterly devoted for the rest of his life. Wilkes and Mary, however, separated in 1756, a separation that became permanent. Wilkes never married again, but he gained a reputation as a rake. He was known to have fathered at least five other children.
Wilkes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1749 and appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1754. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Berwick in the 1754 parliamentary elections but was elected for Aylesbury in 1757 and again in 1761.[5] Elections took place at the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury where he held a manorial pew. He lived at the Prebendal House, Parsons Fee, Aylesbury.
He was a member of the Knights of St. Francis of Wycombe, also known as the Hellfire Club or the Medmenham Monks, and was the instigator of a prank that may have hastened its dissolution. The Club had many distinguished members, including the Earl of Sandwich and Sir Francis Dashwood. Wilkes reportedly brought a baboon dressed in a cape and horns into the rituals performed at the club, producing considerable mayhem among the inebriated initiates.[6]
Wilkes was notoriously ugly, being called the ugliest man in England at the time. He possessed an unsightly squint and protruding jaw, but he had a charm that carried all before it. He boasted that it "took him only half an hour to talk away his face", though the duration required changed on the several occasions Wilkes repeated the claim. He also declared that "a month's start of his rival on account of his face" would secure him the conquest in any love affair.
He was well known for his verbal wit and his snappy responses to insults. For instance, when told by a constituent that he would rather vote for the devil, Wilkes responded: "Naturally." He then added: "And if your friend decides against standing, can I count on your vote?"[7]
In a famous exchange with John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, where the latter exclaimed, "Sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox," Wilkes is reported to have replied, "That depends, my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress." Fred R. Shapiro, in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), disputes the attribution based on a claim that it first appeared in a book published in 1935,[8] but it is ascribed to Wilkes in Henry Brougham's Historical Sketches (1844), related from Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, who claims to have been present,[9] as well as in Charles Marsh's Clubs of London (1828).[10] Brougham notes the exchange had in France previously been ascribed to Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau and Cardinal Jean-Sifrein Maury.[9]
Wilkes began his parliamentary career as a follower of William Pitt the Elder and enthusiastically supported Britain's involvement in the Seven Years War of 1756-1763. When the Scottish John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, came to head the government in 1762, Wilkes started a radical weekly publication, The North Briton, to attack him, using an anti-Scots tone. Typical of Wilkes, the title made satirical reference to the pro-government newspaper, The Briton, with "North Briton" referring to Scotland. Wilkes became particularly incensed by what he regarded as Bute's betrayal in agreeing to overly generous peace terms with France to end the war.[6]
On 5 October 1762, Wilkes fought a duel with William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot. Talbot was the Lord Steward and a follower of Bute; he challenged Wilkes to a pistol duel after being ridiculed in issue 12 of The North Briton.[11] The encounter took place at Bagshot - at night to avoid attracting judicial attention. At a range of eight yards, Talbot and Wilkes both fired their pistols but neither was hit. Somewhat reconciled, they then went to a nearby inn and shared a bottle of claret. When the affair later became widely known, some viewed it as comical, and a satirical print made fun of the duelists. Some commentators even denounced the duel as a stunt, stage-managed to enhance the reputations of both men.[12]
Wilkes faced a charge of Paris Peace Treaty of 1763 at the opening of Parliament on 23 April 1763. Wilkes was highly critical of the King's speech, which was recognised as having been written by Bute. He attacked it in an article of issue 45 of The North Briton. The issue number in which Wilkes published his critical editorial was appropriate because the number 45 was synonymous with the Jacobite Rising of 1745, commonly known as "The '45". Popular perception associated Bute - Scottish, and politically controversial as an adviser to the King - with Jacobitism, a perception which Wilkes played on.
The King felt personally insulted and ordered the issuing of general warrants for the arrest of Wilkes and the publishers on 30 April 1763. Forty-nine people, including Wilkes, were arrested, but general warrants were unpopular and Wilkes gained considerable popular support as he asserted their unconstitutionality. At his court hearing he claimed that parliamentary privilege protected him, as an MP, from arrest on a charge of libel. The Lord Chief Justice ruled that parliamentary privilege did indeed protect him and he was soon restored to his seat. Wilkes sued his arresters for trespass. As a result of this episode, people were chanting, "Wilkes, Liberty and Number 45", referring to the newspaper. Parliament swiftly voted in a measure that removed protection of MPs from arrest for the writing and publishing of seditious libel.
Bute had resigned (8 April 1763), but Wilkes opposed Bute's successor as chief advisor to the King, Samuel Martin, a supporter of George III, challenged Wilkes to a duel. Martin shot Wilkes in the belly.
Wilkes and Thomas Potter wrote a pornographic poem dedicated to the courtier Fanny Murray entitled "An Essay on Woman" [13] as a parody of Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man".[14]
Wilkes's political enemies, foremost among them John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was also a member of the Hellfire Club, obtained the parody. Sandwich had a personal vendetta against Wilkes that stemmed in large part from embarrassment caused by a prank of Wilkes involving the Earl at one of the Hellfire Club's meetings; he was delighted at the chance for revenge. Sandwich read the poem to the House of Lords in an effort to denounce Wilkes's moral behaviour, despite the hypocrisy of his action. The Lords declared the poem obscene and blasphemous, and it caused a great scandal. The House of Lords moved to expel Wilkes again; he fled to Paris before any expulsion or trial. He was tried and found guilty in absentia of obscene libel and seditious libel, and was declared an outlaw on 19 January 1764.[15]
Wilkes hoped for a change in power to remove the charges, but this did not come to pass. As his French creditors began to pressure him, in 1768 he had little choice but to return to England. He returned intending to stand as a Member of Parliament on an anti-government ticket; the government did not issue warrants for his immediate arrest as it did not want to inflame popular support.[16]
Wilkes stood in London and came in bottom of the poll of seven candidates, possibly due to his late entry into the race for the position. He was quickly elected MP for Middlesex, where most of his support was located. He surrendered himself to the King's Bench in April. On waiving his parliamentary privilege to immunity, he was sentenced by Judge Joseph Yates to two years and fined £1,000; the Lords' sentence of outlawry was overturned.[17]
When Wilkes was imprisoned in the Hugh Kelly, a prominent supporter of the government, defended the right of the army to use force against rioters, which drew the anger of Wilkes' supporters and they began a riot at the Drury Lane Theatre during the performance of Kelly's new play A Word to the Wise forcing it to be abandoned.[18]
Wilkes was expelled from Parliament in February 1769, on the grounds that he was an outlaw when he was returned. He was re-elected by his Middlesex constituents in the same month with the support of John Wheble, editor of the Middlesex Journal, only to be expelled and re-elected in March. In April, after his expulsion and another re-election, Parliament declared his opponent, Henry Luttrell, to be the winner.
In defiance Wilkes became an Alderman of London in 1769, using his supporters' group, the Society for the Supporters of the Bill of Rights,[19] for his campaign. Wilkes eventually succeeded in convincing Parliament to expunge the resolution barring him from sitting. While in Parliament, he condemned Government policy towards the American colonies during the American Revolution. In addition, he introduced one of the earliest radical Bills to Parliament, although it failed to gain passage. On his release from prison in March 1770, Wilkes was appointed a sheriff in London.
In 1774 he became Lord Mayor of London;[20] he was simultaneously Master of the Joiners' Company, where he changed the motto from "GOD GRANNTE US TO USE JUSTICE WITHE MERCYE" to "JOIN LOYALTY AND LIBERTY", a political slogan associated with Wilkes.[21] That year Wilkes was re-elected to Parliament, representing Middlesex. He was one of those opposed to war with the American colonies. He was also a supporter of the Association Movement and of religious tolerance. His key success was to protect the freedom of the press by gaining passage of a bill to remove the power of general warrants and to end Parliament's ability to punish political reports of debates.[6]
After 1780, his popularity declined as he was popularly perceived as less radical. During the uprising known as the Gordon Riots, Wilkes was in charge of the soldiers defending the Bank of England from the attacking mobs. It was under his orders that troops fired into the crowds of rioters. The working classes who had previously seen Wilkes as a "man of the people", then criticised him as a hypocrite; his middle-class support was scared off by the violent action. The Gordon Riots nearly extinguished his popularity.
While he was returned for the county seat of Middlesex in 1784, he found so little support that by 1790, he withdrew early in the election. The French Revolution of 1789 had proved extremely divisive in England, and Wilkes had been against it due to the violent murders in France. His position was different from that of many radicals of the time and was a view more associated with conservative figures, including expressed indifference as to Catholic Emancipation. Edmund Burke, who had also supported American Independence, made a similar switch.
Wilkes worked in his final years as a magistrate campaigning for more moderate punishment for disobedient household servants.
Between 1788 and 1797 he occupied a property named "Villakin" in Sandown, Isle of Wight. The site is marked by a blue plaque.[22]
He was a member of the Oddfellows[23] and today, a statue in his memory stands at Fetter Lane EC4.
Wilkes died at his home at 30 Grosvenor Square, Westminster, London on 26 December 1797. The cause of death was a wasting disease known at the time as marasmus.[24] His body was buried in a vault in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London on 4 January 1798.[13]
A radical contemporary Irish politician Charles Lucas, who sat for Dublin City in the Irish Parliament, was known as the "Irish Wilkes".[25] The Dutch politician Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol (1741–1784), who advocated American independence and criticised the Stadtholder regime, was inspired by Wilkes.
British subjects in the American colonies closely followed Wilkes's career. His struggles convinced many colonists that the British constitution was being subverted by a corrupt ministry, an idea that contributed to the coming of the American Revolution. In reaction, after the Revolution, representatives included provisions in the new American constitution to prevent Congress from rejecting any legally elected member and to proscribe general warrants for arrest.
John Wilkes's brother was the grandfather of U.S. Naval Admiral Charles Wilkes.
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Intimacy: A workshop on Couples Therapy
12 October 2019 @ 9:30 am - 13 October 2019 @ 4:30 pm$360 – $420
This 2 day informative, interactive and experiential workshop will offer therapists an understanding of working with couples from a Gestalt and Emotional Focused Therapy (EFT) perspective.
It will provide participants with knowledge on the emotionally focused and attachment oriented approaches of EFT weaved through the phenomenological, dialogic and relational aspects of Gestalt couples therapy.
Participants will be supported with practical and experiential exercises in developing their therapeutic practice. It will, furthermore, support participants in understanding how effective couples therapy can assimilate somatic, systemic and behavioural interventions in enriching a diverse approach to therapy and in working with complex couples issues.
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