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It was released on January 1, 2013. ==Back cover== ''"On the Valiant's maiden voyage in space, it encounters a swarm of brains drifting quietly among the stars. Little does the crew know these strange creatures have the ability to control the minds of anyone they touch. The ship is quickly taken over by the hostile life-forms, and the Valiant begins rocketing through space on a collision course with one target: the Hero Factory in Makuhero City.'' ''It's up to Stormer, Rocka, and Breez to stop the ship, and prevent the destruction of their home world. If they fail, then it's up to the rest of the Hero Factory team to destroy the spaceship—at any cost."'' ==Timeline== The events of "Collision Course" take place shortly after the events of [[Mission: Catch 'em and Cuff 'em]]. ==Summary== The new ship the Valiant is speeding through deep space on its maiden voyage captain by Aquax to patrol the deep space frontier in places Heroes don't normally go. The chief science technician, Xera detected a very strange sight floating in space, an array of floating Brains. Xera wanted to bring one on board the Valiant, but Aquax and Kirch, the security chief, didn't allow it. Despite this, Xera took a shuttlecraft out into the Brain swarm. At the Hero Factory, Natalie Breez found Rocka working on the sensors, and brought him to a meeting where Preston Stormer discussed the status of Mission: Catch 'Em and Cuff 'Em. The major villains were recaptured and law enforcement was scooping up the minor ones, in addition William Furno and Dunkan Bulk had retrofitted the prison. After Rocka's sensors glitched, Stormer gave him a lecture and told him to wait until Jimi Stringer arrived from his complicated mission. Furno stopped Breez from doing a hard training exercise alone and Stormer had her monitor deep space frequencies. She then picked up Aquax telling Xera to return to the Valiant. Despite Aquax's rage Xera arrived and had him study it while Kirch guarded it. When Xera left Kirch shot at the Brain, freeing it from its containment and it attached itself to Kirch. Kirch had now become the swarm leader, and let the Brains infest the ship. At Hero Factory the monitors showed the Valiant moving at excessive speed straight for Hero Factory. Breez and Rocka were equipped with new tools and sent with jetpacks to the Valiant. As they were approaching, the ship seemed unstoppable, and Furno and Bulk elected to destroy despite it costing Rocka and Breez's life. Stormer refused and went to jetpacked himself to the Valiant. Breez and Rocka had boarded and detected organic lifeforms, and split up. Rocka went to engineering and disabled the door with an auxiliary control system, and avoided being attacked by Brains. Breez met Xera who told her of the Brains and was on the run, and told Breez to head into the vents. Stormer contacted Aquax and lied that the Valiant had not been boarded and Aquax seemed cordial, but forgot crucial details of a story of his and Stormer's past. Stormer then came under fire from Kirch on the Valiant but used meteors to block his signal. Kirch detected Rocka in the Valiant and went to capture him, instructing Aquax to continue firing upon Stormer. Aquax disobeyed and let Stormer board to gain credit for bringing the legendary Hero under the swarm's thrall. Without Stormer, Bulk made the call to send Drop Ship's including Nathan Evo's to destroy the Valiant even if it would mean destroying his teammates. Bulk gave the orders and then left Furno to write his resignation. Rocka entered engineering and fought against many Brain controlled crewmembers until Kirch captured him. Breez found a Brain in the vents. Managing to destroy she freed some crew-members until getting attacked by some under Brain control. Stormer backed her up but they were confronted by Aquax until Xera saved them. Kirch announced he had Rocka hostage until Evo's Drop Ships arrived with new orders Furno had came up with: to use their tractor beams to slow the ship. Kirch was forced to report to the command chair, where he met the Heroes. Xera betrayed Breez by explaining he was going to be the Brains' ambassador to the world, but Breez stopped him. The ship was reprogrammed to fly into the sun, and Bulk and Furno arrived to stop Kirch from firing on Evo's Drop Ships. Kirch was forced to leave with the Brains (save Aquax), and promised Stormer they would meet again. Bulk destroyed the Valiant's engines to stop it, but as evidenced by Kirch and the Brains being vaporized by the heat of the star upon leaving, no one could leave or save them. Using galedanium, explosives on the ship, Aquax helped deploy them in front of the Valiant, sending it away from the sun of Makuhero City. The Heroes were rescued, and Aquax promised Heroes would guard the outer rim of the galaxy. Stormer refused to accept Bulk's resignation, calling him a good Hero, but told him that the Valiant was likely just an opportunity the Brains took, not their true plan. He then guessed that the Brains would be seen again. ==Characters== ===Heroes=== *[[Natalie Breez|Breez]] *[[Rocka]] *[[William Furno|Furno]] *[[Dunkan Bulk|Bulk]] *[[Preston Stormer|Stormer]] *[[Nathan Evo|Evo]] *[[Jimi Stringer|Stringer]] ''(Mentioned only)'' *[[Julius Nex|Nex]] ''(Not mentioned by name)'' *[[Mark Surge|Surge]] ''(Not mentioned by name)'' *Upsilon Team ''(Mentioned only)'' ===Valiant Crew=== *[[Aquax]] *[[Xera]] *[[Kirch]] ''(Deceased)'' *Several Crew Members ===Villains=== *[[Brains]] ''(Separated from the main swarm; all deceased)'' ==Trivia== *It is hinted out that Nex and Surge probably were the other Heroes of the Alpha Team that attended a meeting with Alpha Team leader, Stormer. *It is revealed that Breez 'growl' when she get frustrated or if she stays in the Hero Factory too long without an assignment/mission. *It is also revealed that Evo owns a pet wolf-lizard that one day escaped and feasted on the comm system's wires which took three days for Stringer to repair it. 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I don't look at the example page, I just follow the user stories:
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you were transferred to your own twitter account. And from there, everything works like twitter should.
I uh, used it as a placeholder, before users click the new quote button. I'll see about fixing that Ben.
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Is Captain America really a Sikh?
A Sikh man in his 40s been seen talking to strangers in New York while dressed as Captain America!
"I want to challenge people's perceptions, I want them to have a mind freak when they see me."
So says Vishavjit Singh, a mild-mannered software engineer by day and passionate cartoonist by night.
"When I first put on the suit, it was one of the most amazing days of my life. It was like a switch had been flicked. Strangers were embracing me, cops were asking me for photos, I was being dragged into weddings."
The 43-year-old's fellow Americans have not always been so welcoming. A devout Sikh, complete with traditional turban and flowing beard, Vishavjit – or Vish as he is known – has always attracted attention.
"I'm still seen by many as the 'ultimate other' in American society – a radical Muslim. Harassment goes up and down depending on the news," he says.
He turned to his hobby of drawing as an outlet, creating cartoons depicting what life in America was like for Sikhs – focusing on the patriotism he felt for the country he was born in and the pride for the religion he belonged to.
"I realised I had to draw something fresh and the new Captain America film gave me an idea. How about a superhero who has a beard and a turban and fights intolerance?"
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Then things changed. In August 2012, six people were killed after a US Army veteran with ties to white supremacist groups opened fire on worshipers at a gurdwara in Wisconsin while preparations for a service were under way.
The incident forced Singh to once again reassess the way minorities like himself were being perceived in America. His cartoons were a way of tackling the stigma faced by Sikhs, but the self-confessed introvert felt he still had to do more.
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"I was trying out the uniform at home for the first time, stuffing sports pads in to make myself look bigger and trying to work out a plan," he says.
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Singh said he was nervous about wearing the costume on the streets of New York for the first time, but has been "stunned" by the reception since then.
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#Transfer Gossip
# transfer-gossip - Saturday 16 May, 2020
Willian denies Spurs link as Lampard pledges to offer him and Giroud new deals
The winger and striker are out of contract at the end of next month but Lampard wants them to stay.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 29 January, 2018
City in for Hazard, League of Ireland youngster set for Championship move and all today's transfer gossip
Limerick's Chiedozie Ogbene is closing in on a switch to Brentford.
# transfer-gossip - Friday 26 January, 2018
Real Madrid in for Neymar, Chelsea target out-of-favour Arsenal star and all today's transfer gossip
Olivier Giroud could be set to leave the Emirates.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 25 January, 2018
Euro 2016 winner on his way to London from Inter and all today's transfer gossip
Lazar Markovic could finally end his nightmare at Liverpool, while Southampton are looking to spend big before the window closes.
# transfer-gossip - Tuesday 23 January, 2018
Man City close in on £50m Brazilian midfielder and all today's transfer gossip
Also, could Daniel Sturridge be off to Italy with an Inter Milan striker joining the Premier League?
# transfer-gossip - Friday 19 January, 2018
Peter Crouch emerges as shock Chelsea target and the transfer window has gone mad
The Stoke City striker, who turns 37 next month, is believed to be on the reigning champions' radar after Andy Carroll's move was ruled out.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 18 January, 2018
Liverpool reject Sturridge offer, Real target attacking trio and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, Juventus are considering moves for either Tottenham's Christian Eriksen or Arsenal's Mesut Ozil.
# transfer-gossip - Tuesday 16 January, 2018
Former Chelsea target on his way to China for €50m and all today's transfer gossip
Meanwhile, the Blues want to hijack the Alexis Sanchez transfer to Man United and Emre Can may now be staying at Liverpool after all.
# transfer-gossip - Friday 12 January, 2018
Man United and Arsenal target Napoli star, Sturridge valued at £30m and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, could Javier Hernandez be set for a shock return to the Red Devils?
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 10 January, 2018
Man United keen on PSG's Brazilian winger and all today's transfer gossip
There's news regarding exits and arrivals at Arsenal, while a Chelsea forward could be off to Spain.
# transfer-gossip - Tuesday 9 January, 2018
Sanchez to forgo £25m signing-on fee to complete City deal, Liverpool eye Barca star and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, Man United may move for £25 million-rated Celtic defender defender Kieran Tierney.
# transfer-gossip - Friday 5 January, 2018
Juve reach agreement for Liverpool midfielder and all today's transfer gossip
Meanwhile, Everton are close to securing the services of a Champions League striker.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 4 January, 2018
Monaco star to replace Coutinho at Liverpool, Man City eye duo and all today's transfer gossip
Could Thomas Lemar be set for a switch to the Anfield club?
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 3 January, 2018
Coutinho chooses Barca shirt number, United want PSG winger and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, Juventus' £50 million-rated Alex Sandro is understood to be close to joining Chelsea.
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 30 August, 2017
Liverpool eye Oxlade-Chamberlain, Van Dijk latest and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, Sergio Aguero could leave Man City in January.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 24 August, 2017
Willian on Barcelona's radar, Spurs near deal for PSG defender and today's transfer gossip
Meanwhile, Jonny Evans appears to be on his way to Man City and Watford are signing a winger from Benfica.
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 23 August, 2017
Chelsea close in on Leicester pair Vardy and Drinkwater plus today's transfer gossip
Elsewhere, Liverpool look to a German defender as the pursuit of Virgil van Dijk shows no signs of paying off.
# transfer-gossip - Tuesday 22 August, 2017
Mbappe to PSG on loan initially with Lucas Moura part of the deal and today's transfers gossip
In other news, AC Milan have added a former Premier League striker to their ranks.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 21 August, 2017
Barca turn to Di Maria as Coutinho alternative and today's transfer gossip
Elsewhere, Manchester United and Tottenham are considering bids for Fulham's teenage sensation Ryan Sessegnon.
# transfer-gossip - Friday 18 August, 2017
Spurs agree £28m deal for Sanchez, Everton open to Costa loan and today's transfer gossip
Arsenal are getting rid of Gabriel, while AC Milan looks set to add another striker.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 17 August, 2017
Chelsea's €80m bid for Juve star rejected, Barca and City eye Alli and all today's transfer gossip
Antonio Conte's men are hoping Alex Sandro will bolster their squad.
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 16 August, 2017
Burnley want to add Shane Long to their Irish contingent and today's transfer gossip
Meanwhile, Tottenham are after a PSG full-back and Ajax's Colombian centre-half.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 14 August, 2017
Chelsea want €55 million Van Dijk, United close in on Portuguese prodigy and all today's transfer gossip
Meanwhile, Liverpool are weighing up a move for Napoli's Lorenzo Insigne.
# transfer-gossip - Tuesday 8 August, 2017
Sneijder joins Balotelli in France, Saints line up Van Dijk replacement and today's transfer news
Elsewhere, Brighton make a club record signing with the capture of PSV Eindoven midfielder Davy Propper.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 7 August, 2017
Man United bid for Barca star rejected, Coutinho latest and all today's transfer gossip
Meanwhile, the Catalan side are eyeing Tottenham's Dele Alli.
# transfer-gossip - Friday 4 August, 2017
Real Madrid to offload Bale to fund €190m Mbappe deal and today's transfer gossip
Elsewhere, an unhappy Arsenal striker wants out.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 31 July, 2017
Matic medical completed, Neymar tries to woo Coutinho, and all of today's transfer gossip
The Chelsea man's move to Old Trafford moves ever closer.
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 19 July, 2017
Chicharito close to Hammers move, Reds signing full-back and today's transfer gossip
Alvaro Morata could find a new home in the Premier League, while Ross Barkley wants to be Tottenham's highest-paid player.
# transfer-gossip - Friday 14 July, 2017
Liverpool midfielder off to Serie A, Ireland keeper could join Magpies and today's transfer gossip
The Reds have reportedly agreed to sell Lucas Leiva to Lazio for £5 million.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 13 July, 2017
Inter rule out Perisic to Man United, Chelsea close in on Real Madrid defender and today's transfer gossip
Olivier Giroud is also a wanted man and Leicester City are planning a clear-out.
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 12 July, 2017
Chelsea offered £70m Aubameyang, Celtic sign Man City midfielder and today's transfer gossip
In other news, Adnan Januzaj is off to Spain while PSG have won the race for Dani Alves.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 10 July, 2017
Swansea star valued at €56 million, Man United target Monaco midfielder and all today's transfer gossip
The Welsh side are reluctant to part with Gylfi Sigurdsson, while the Red Devils want Tiemoué Bakayoko.
# transfer-gossip - Friday 7 July, 2017
Man City starlet set for €28 million Leicester move, Alexis' exit strategy and all today's transfer gossip
Kelechi Iheanacho looks set for a move to the Foxes.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 6 July, 2017
PSG launch big-money move for Coutinho, England star joins Barcelona and all of today's transfer gossip
Plus, Barcelona's pursuit of former Tottenham midfielder Paulinho.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 30 January, 2017
Brady in line for €15m move, all quiet on the Liverpool front and the rest of today's transfer gossip
Plus, Southampton are close to signing Napoli striker Manolo Gabbiadini for €20m.
# transfer-gossip - Thursday 26 January, 2017
Chelsea target €66m Vidal, Chinese club want Leicester star and all today's transfer gossip
Meanwhile, Real Madrid defender Pepe may also make the move to Asia in the summer.
# transfer-gossip - Tuesday 24 January, 2017
Keane linked with Premier League return, Chelsea consider Hart and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, Aston Villa are reportedly closing in on a deal for Irish midfielder Conor Hourihane.
# transfer-gossip - Monday 23 January, 2017
United eye €30m Benfica winger, Rooney ponders China and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, Bournemouth and AC Milan are both understood to be interested in signing Jack Wilshere on a permanent contract.
# transfer-gossip - Wednesday 18 January, 2017
Luke Shaw set for United exit, Chelsea target Lukaku (again) and all today's transfer gossip
Plus, Scott Hogan's move to West Ham is reportedly close, after the Hammers increased their bid for the Irish-qualified Brentford striker.
# transfer-gossip - Tuesday 17 January, 2017
Man United chase Celtic teenager, City hold talks over Messi and all today's transfer gossip
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Exciting news! I know, I'm late to it because I'm trying to stay off social media when I can. Bahahaha! Well, like I said, I'm trying. (I'll let you know how this is going in my review of Machina). La Boite announced the appointment of Chris Kohn as their new AD & CEO at 8:41am this morning so naturally, I'm feeling a little behind the eight ball! Apparently, contrary to what I've told Sam, I DO need to get up and check the news feeds first!
The Chair of La Boite Theatre Company, Professor Paul Makeham, announces that Chris Kohn will succeed David Berthold as the company's new Artistic Director and CEO.
Chris Kohn is highly respected nationally as a cultural leader, and he brings an extensive professional network to the role. He has an excellent track record both as an artistic director and sector leader. He was the selection panel's unanimous choice.
Mr Kohn has previously been Artistic Director of acclaimed Melbourne-based Arena Theatre Company; and he was co-founder and Artistic Director of leading independent company Stuck Pigs Squealing. Under his directorship, Stuck Pigs Squealing received six Green Room awards, four Fringe Festival awards and two New York International Fringe Festival Awards.
Mr Kohn has also been recognised with numerous industry awards and nominations including: a number of Green Room Awards for Direction and Writing; an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Fellowship; the George Fairfax Memorial Award, a State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowship; and the Sidney Myer Fellowship.
Mr Kohn moved to Brisbane n 2012 to take up the role of Queensland's Theatre Diversity Associate, a position created by the Australia Council which has enabled him to establish strong local relationships, particularly with La Boite, Queensland Theatre Company, Metro Arts and BEMAC.
Mr Kohn said he is honoured to lead a company such as La Boite which has always embraced reinvention throughout its almost 90 year history.
"I am absolutely thrilled to be presented the opportunity to lead one of Australia's most dynamic and nationally significant theatre companies. La Boite is a company with a unique and adventurous audience, committed staff and deeply invested supporters. It is a particular privilege to be building on David Berthold's work to cement La Boite's place in the national arts landscape."
Mr Kohn will commence as Artistic Director and CEO at La Boite in late May.
In 2012, Chris Kohn told Directions (National guide to tertiary education n the arts) about the drawbacks of working in the Performing Arts.
"The money is bad. Building a career is hard, as there are not always clear pathways. Often your success or failure is dictated by other people's decisions, like whether you get funding for a project or whether you are asked to work at a particular theatre. And that can be dictated by a range of factors, including change in programming staff, fashion, luck."
Lucky for us, Kohn's pathway led to La Boite Theatre Co. Congrats, Mister! Now, who will we see step into the role of Theatre Diversity Associate (no, don't apply yet; note the date on the PDF!)


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LONDON – December 14, 2004 – As part of its effort to make offline information searchable online, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it is working with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google.
"Even before we started Google, we dreamed of making the incredible breadth of information that librarians so lovingly organise searchable online," said Larry Page, Google co-founder and president of Products. "Today we are pleased to announce this programme to digitise the collections of these amazing libraries so that every Google user can search them instantly."
"Our work with libraries further enhances the existing Google Print programme, which enables users to find matches within the full text of books, while publishers and authors monetise that information," Page added. "Google's mission is to organise the world's information, and we are excited to be working with libraries to help make this mission a reality."
Today's announcement is an expansion of the Google Print™ program, which assists publishers in making books and other offline information searchable online. Google is now working with libraries to digitally scan books from their collections, and over time will integrate this content into the Google index, to make it searchable for users worldwide.
Reg Carr, Director of Oxford University Library Services, said, "Making the wealth of knowledge accumulated in the Bodleian Library's historic collections accessible to as many people as possible is at the heart of Oxford University's commitment to lifelong learning. Oxford is therefore proud to be part of this effort to make information available to everyone who might benefit from it."
"The Bodleian's 19th century collections, which include many out-of-print titles which otherwise would be incredibly hard to find, will be scanned as part of the Google Print programme. We hope that Oxford's contribution to this project will be of scholarly use, as well as general interest, to people around the world," said Carr.
"We believe passionately that such universal access to the world's printed treasures is mission-critical for today's great public university," said Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan.
For publishers and authors, this expansion of the Google Print programme will increase the visibility of in and out of print books, and generate ook sales via "Buy this Book" links and advertising. For users, Google's library programme will make it possible to search across library collections including out of print books and titles that were not previously available anywhere but on a library shelf.
Users searching with Google will see links in their search results page when there are books relevant to their query. Clicking on a title delivers a Google Print page where users can browse the full text of public domain works and brief excerpts and/or bibliographic data of copyrighted material. Library content will be displayed in keeping with copyright law. For more information and examples, please visit print.google.com/library.
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Dude. Gaetard is my irl last name that we decided to use and now you saying it like "Gaytard" makes me feel bad.
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New report asks: how can we pay for the housing we need?
Published: 1 November 2011 | Author: Bernard Clarke
With the government expected to publish its housing strategy later this autumn, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a timely paper on the challenges facing the housing sector and what can be done to increase the supply of homes. Called Build now or pay later? Funding New housing supply, the paper sets out to answer the key question: "If we are to increase housing supply, how are we to pay for it?"
The paper shows how the number of new homes built in the UK has dwindled in the past 20 years, even though demand for housing has continued to rise. It predicts there will be "four million additional households in England by 2025 as a result of population growth (for example, through immigration), demographic change (such as an ageing population) and social change (for example, an increasing divorce rate)".
The IPPR believes these changes will contribute to a shortfall of 750,000 houses in England by 2025, with the worst mismatches between supply and demand in the greater south east, and particular pressure on social housing.
The report goes on to say that increasing the supply of housing is necessary to provide "secure, decent, affordable homes for the whole population" and that the only way to ensure we do not end up with the predicted shortfall would be to build 250,000 new homes – of the right sort and in the right place – every year for the next 15 years.
We agree with both the report's analysis that there is an acute shortage of housing and with the assertion that the key challenge is to increase the supply of new homes.
The report looks at how the country could pay for what would amount to almost four million new homes over 15 years, and looks at some of the suggestions put forward to accomplish this. These include:
- increasing government investment in new homes;
- allowing local authorities to borrow off-balance sheet so that it does not add to the public sector borrowing requirement or count towards the national deficit;
- reforming housing associations;
- continuing private sector cross-subsidy of affordable homes;
- releasing land owned by central government;
- promoting community-led models; and
- reforming tax.
The report also suggests a reform long favoured by lenders, namely that "stamp duty could move from a slab system that bunches transactions to a marginal rate slice structure, similar to income tax." The IPPR believes this would be fairer and generate greater tax revenues that could be channelled into new house-building.
The IPPR believes that three ideas for financing new housing, in particular, are worth exploring, considering the current political and economic environment:
- promoting institutional investment in building new homes;
- expanding the role of local authorities; and
- re-capitalising government spending on housing.
We agree with the IPPR that there is "no one silver bullet" to finance the building of enough new homes to guarantee that housing aspirations are fulfilled. Each of the measures referred to in the IPPR report has the potential to make a contribution. Ultimately, however, we need policy initiatives that enable lenders to contribute to the funding of housing, whether in owner-occupation or the private and social rented sectors.
The issue is a crucial one for lenders, and will be explored further in our mortgage lending and affordable housing conference, held in conjunction with the Homes and Communities Agency, on 29 November in Leeds.


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Holiday Help in the Classroom
- By Tammy Dunbar
- 7 December, 2012
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Bring some Holiday realia into the classroom with technology!
* The Holiday Time Machine app is $0.99 in the App Store. It's like a way-back machine that aggregates Holiday videos from the late 1800s to 2012. You can randomly go through them, or go methodically year-by-year. We had been discussing the evolution of sound reproduction in our Language Arts curriculum, so we extended it by looking at an evolution of moving pictures, including animation that used to be drawn by hand!
* Holiday Times Tables is a fun website for students at almost any level to practice their multiplication facts while creating a beautiful holiday landscape. Once students get the requisite number of questions correct, they get to decorate their own Holiday house. One given in mathematics is that students will always need to know their times tables, and any extra practice is good!
* It's a perfect time of year to teach a little Dickens. If you enjoy sharing "A Christmas Carol" with your class, check out the wealth of information at David Perdue's Charles Dickens website, an interactive online quiz, a fun trivia quiz, a Big Fish game which retells the story inbetween levels, and even the complete book is available at Literature.org.
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text: Pubdate: Tue, 03 May 2016 Source: Prince George Citizen (CN BC) Copyright: 2016 Prince George Citizen Contact: http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/350 Author: Gerald Klassen Page: 6 BIBLE AGAINST POT LEGALIZATION In the late sixties, I remember Pierre Trudeau walking along the West Coast Trail on the west side of Vancouver Island and he was approached by a group of hippies. They were badgering him about the possibility of legalizing marijuana. And Mr. Trudeau gave a very good reply, probably the smartest thing he ever said. He questioned them by asking them why he should do that. He referred to the fact that one can get a natural high by relishing the pristine beauty of the West Coast Trail. Enough said. Fast forward to 2016 and we have Pierre's son, Justin, advocating the legalization of marijuana. Ravi Zacharias, the eminent Christian apologist, in one of his talks on drastic change in society, quotes G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." You know, the Bible is a very relevant and up-to-date book. There is mention of hallucinogenic drugs in Holy Scripture. The word "sorceries" in the Bible comes from the Greek "pharmakeia" and this word is explicitly magical arts, spells, etc. Some scripture verses that refer to sorceries are: Acts. 8:9, Acts 19:19, Galatians 5:20 and Revelation 18:23. Today we take pride in being a very informed society but we would be particularly wise in heeding important and life-changing issues. Gerald Klassen Prince George - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom


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Pat McGrath has been creating jaw-dropping beauty for the biggest names in fashion for over a decade. Each season she works on makeup direction for dozens of fashion shows: Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Prada, Versace, Dolce&Gabbana are just some of the names where she elevated the concept of catwalk beauty.
Pat McGrath is the first make-up artist ever to receive the CFDA's Founder's Award, and that made her undeniably one of the most influential creatives in the industry.
She is known for perfectionism and preparedness. Drawing inspiration from various sources, you will also often find art and fashion reference books backstage with her team. She loves to experiment(her mediums include rubber, vinyl, feathers, you name it) and encourages playing with makeup colors especially color blocking. McGrath's particular magic lies in how she treats the skin. She draws out incandescence, even when the colors and textures of the rest of the makeup are theatrical. She prefers fingers over brushes anytime and also never puts too much foundation. And every makeup artist will tell you that is an art to keep the texture of the skin naturally. Working the highlight like a Dutch painter, she is, again, a skilled Artist we can learn much from about sophistication and beauty.
Her knowledge and experience are now materialized in her makeup brand Pat McGrath Labs. Few times a year she has new limited edition makeup kits, that are really worth the price. Furthermore, she owns the developing process, always searching for perfect color and texture that can't be found on the market.
Her makeup brand tagline is: "Where unadulterated experimentation meets raw glamor. If you want to see more from Pat McGrath Labs inspiration, then check out her secret stash of conceptual brand videos on Vimeo.
The latest launch is irresistible matte lipsticks, launching the 12th of July.
Here, we look back at some of her most mesmerizing catwalk creations throughout the years.


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The definition of this sales funnel (also referred to as a marketing funnel or earnings process) refers to this buying process that firms lead customers through when buying products. Sales funnels are broken up into several steps, which differ based on the specific revenue model. sales funnel flow chart
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- Repurchase Phase " where a customer repurchases a product or service.
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Nabil Ayouch's latest film, Much Loved (Zine Liffik 2015), is like no other movie the Arab world has ever seen. A semi-pornographic account of the lives of three prostitutes in the city of Marrakesh, it can easily mislead the viewer by the profusion of cheap and expensive sex, scenes of a nightlife brimming with sex parties in private homes and orgies in lavish villas, all in a medieval town turned into a modern hub of sex tourism; fun times with call-girls, homosexuals, and transvestites. Today's Morocco and much of the Arab world is a tale of many cities, the most mediated of which shows cities in turmoil, in destruction, in despair, children crying, women wailing, parading young men Kalashnikovs in one hand and brandishing the Koran in the other. The other tale, the concealed one, is what Ayouch purports to show; Much Loved constitutes a filmic rendition of a social phenomenon that, to some, is nothing more than cheap pornography with the ultimate aim to tarnish the image of the country. Even before its release, a version of the movie circulated quickly on the internet and drew the wrath of many Moroccans who denounced the movie, its producer, and cast and, as if the denunciation was not enough, the government joined in with a ban against its commercial distribution. Things did not stop there; Ayouch would receive death threats and the "heroine" of the movie, Noha (Loubna Abidar), suffered beatings by a street mob and fled to France. It is no surprise that a movie of this type occasioned so much drama; it aimed to put an end to a cycle of masquerades and denials. It forced a mirror to a cultural system that evades introspection and self-mirroring. Things exist but their realities are repressed by a society still ashamed of its own body, presumably protective of its so-called dignity and honor, and resolute in disguising the hard truths to the world. Ayouch had a different opinion and he knew, well enough as a repatriate to the country of his Moroccan father, that unquestionable norms and taboos define the work of artists and infringe on their donnée. He had to practice his art with this caveat in mind.
Without the deployment of figurative tropes or a literary technique that would have served to mitigate the intensity of the narrative, as it is customary for artists facing adversity in inimical environments, Much Loved hits, and hits hard at the beginning of the opening scene. It lays out the scourge of prostitution bare-naked, without prelude or introduction, and with a complete and yet calculated disregard for social conditions or reasons that may have accounted for it. This is no Moll Flanders. The first scene strikes like a thunderbolt and it is meant as much to fluster as to jolt the viewer in her comfortable seat. Around the dinner table, three young women are sitting, rolling joints, cracking jokes about their male clients, gulping Vodka, pouring it in water bottles to carry with them for later on at night. Other than showing women in this way in a country deeply entrenched in its religiosity, it is their language, the dialogue unimpeded and free flowing, full of profanities and foul words that stun the viewer. To add to the intensity of the scene, the discussion is ongoing in the presence of their male driver, Said, a stout middle-aged man, taciturn and with downcast eyes, the hen-pecked type of guy who will go the extra mile to please his partner; he is the one who is waiting on them and serving them dinner. In a country supposedly ruled by men, the roles have suddenly been reversed, or so it seems. Not quite, at least not for Ayouch who entertains a different view of society, a daring view informed by the social and cultural upheavals that have shaken, to the displeasure of many, the cultural pillars that kept impervious the hierarchical order of millennial traditions.
It is this calcified order that has become one of Ayouch's target in almost all of his films to date. In Much Loved, the women appear to be in control; in a society that expects of them to be subdued and silent, they speak their minds, express their love; they are on a mission to strike it rich, quickly before their prime fades away. "A prostitute resembles a candle," said Noha, "it's slowly dying out day by day." Everything they do is done with the intention to make money, a lot of money; they are the bread winners not solely by selling their bodies to the highest bidder, but also by selling drugs, and setting up each other for deals and encounters with potential clients.
By comparison, Said appears to be a dwarf. He is dependent on their perversion and generosity; his taciturnity conceals his disagreement with everything they do, including when they flirt with him, but that concealed sentiment of a relegated male who has lost the privilege of oriental virility and masculine superiority is redeemed at the time of payment. In Said's world things have changed, fallen apart and other realities have taken their place. Since the death of his mother, he admits that he is a loner and the three prostitutes are his family. The days of severe morality, chastity, and abstinence have since long gone. He has no qualms losing his true self for the sake of easy-earned cash. He knows he is much better off financially offering his services as a taxi driver and a pimp to "his" women than if he were one of the many disgruntled hacks burnt by the sun in interminable waits for passengers.
The other Moroccan male, Kattib, Soukaina's "boyfriend," does not fare any better. Although he truly loves Soukaina (Halima Karaouane) and dreams of a future together with her, he lacks the financial means to make his dream come true. As it turns out, it is Soukaina who provides for him and tips him; ironically this happens once after he has his way with her. Unable to relieve her from the world of prostitution, he has to accept the little attention he gets from her if he still hopes to see her. Eventually Soukaina falls in love with Ahmed, a Saudi businessman she met in a party; he shows her love and "respect" and promises to take her as his second wife until, to her misfortune, she finds male porn on his laptop. Suddenly, she is able to solve the puzzle of this man who has been so much drawn to her but only in platonic ways.
Randa, a cocaine sniffer, seems to be the unhappiest of the three and lives on a dream to join her dad abroad who abandoned her at age four to her mother, now incapacitated and alone in a village in the outskirts of the city. Noha's story is no less tragic. Aside from leading a life of debauchery, she has a toddler out of wedlock in the custody of her mother; she pays them occasional visits in a house deep inside the old quarter of town where her sister and her brother also live. Like Soukaina with her boyfriend, Noha dispenses money to her needy mother and promises to move them to a better place. When finally one of Noha's French clients/boyfriends buys her a spacious apartment in a good neighborhood in the ville nouvelle, her mother snubs her offer, requesting her to stop visiting them.
As an interpreter of the social dynamics of a culture under multiple threats, Ayouch avails himself of prostitution as a taboo theme in order to draw attention to the status of a country in pursuit of the values of western modernity. He had to create two cultural worlds and pin one against the other; their values naturally clash in their fight for power and legitimacy. The world of tradition still sacredly preserved inside the walls of the old quarter, as if protected from the so-called material culture of the West, is what Noha's mother represents, and the other world, out there in the open, intentionally in the new quarter, or ville nouvelle, is what the three prostitutes symbolize. Prostitution provides here the occasion to mediate a relationship between two worlds, usually antagonistic and suspicious of each other, and there can be no better example to characterize this relationship than to invest it with a forbidden element, licentious sex, that Islamic orthodoxy usually associates with what it calls the "decadent" West.
Harshly sanctioned, prostitution is the symbol of the unattainable ideal of modernity, the taboo that is actively seeking a space in an inhospitable cultural field. The women who symbolize the nation offer themselves as guinea pigs, as a field of experimentation that enables an intercultural dialogue of sorts to take place and through which also appears the unequal standing from which third world subjectivity negotiates with the supposedly superior Other. In a world ruled by global interests and material currencies, women are used here to show what it is like to navigate the hazards of modernity and the world of wealth and power. They go in and out of the old quarter, as mediators between two spaces, in search of a hybrid identity that can harmoniously unite the values of abnegation and restraint with those of self-spiritedness and adventure. The transfer of the cultural and financial capital that they acquire is where the problem lies; Noha cannot penetrate the old quarter with her skirt; instead, she has to wear the traditional Moroccan garb and veil her head; her mother shuns her help that only brought shame and unwanted attention and gossip to the family; her brother ignores her despite her reminder that she provides for him through the tips she gives the mother; her sister Sarah avoids her, although she is also on her way to becoming like Noha. On the opposite side of the spectrum, we have the world of the ville nouvelle, the world of endless possibilities, the space that allows Ayouch to show the viewer a glimpse of repressed realities, realities that everyone knows exist but defiantly denies, realities that acquire even more power when transformed into artistic representation. It is those realities, which have angered the masses, that truly convey the civilizational quandary facing a country torn between its unavoidable legacy and the exigencies of the modern world.


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Starbucks plans new location in Florence
By: Andrew Boardwine, Morning News
FLORENCE, S.C. — Starbucks officials said Wednesday that the company would be expanding its reach in Florence with a new store.
The company, based in Seattle, Washington, now has three locations in Florence: one with a full-service drive-thru at W. Palmetto Street, one inside McLeod Health Hospital and one inside Target at David H. McLeod Boulevard.
Starbucks will expand to the south side of town with a location at Pamplico Highway across the street from Carolinas Hospital. The new store will be a full-service drive-thru.
The coffee shop will be part of a four-store development by the Shopping Center Group. Starbucks will take up a space of 2,274 square feet. According to records, Firehouse Subs will join Starbucks with a 1,738-square-foot spot. Two remaining spaces, one at 5,230 square feet and one at 1,392 square feet, are available for retail.
"Starbucks is always looking for great locations to better meet the needs of our customers," a Starbucks representative said.
Officials said the new Starbucks plans to open this winter.
On Tuesday, May 29, Starbucks closed more than 8,000 stores across the nation, including the one on West Palmetto Street, in an effort to train employees and reflect on the realities of bias in society.
The decision was made after an incident in which a Starbucks manager in Philadelphia called the police a few minutes after two black men arrived at a store and sat waiting for a friend. When police were called, the men had not yet purchased anything. They were arrested after police arrived at the store.
"May 29 was a day of open and honest conversation starting with our partners," a Starbucks representative said. "Our decision to close stores for racial bias learning and education was sparked by Philadelphia, so we wanted to engage in race first. Over the next months and years, we will go into different forms of bias by adding more learning sessions on understanding bias, inclusion, use of the third place and leadership among other topics."
Officials said that Starbucks will be attending a meeting this summer, hosted by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, in an effort to take the next steps toward understanding how to address other forms of bias and how companies can best implement these lessons.
Starbucks offers more than 30 blends and single-origin premium coffees, fresh-brewed coffee, hot and iced espresso beverages, Frappuccino coffee and noncoffee blended beverages, such as Starbucks Refreshers beverages, smoothies and teas.


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I finished Deus Ex: Human Revolution. After a bad beginning, I found myself hankering for some Deus Ex action and, well, it turns out there's only about 41 hours of it total, so I'm done. It's a pretty good game, with some flaws.
On the plus side: there's usually multiple ways to do something. You can shoot your way through, or you can try to sneak by, or you can knock people out. There's opportunities to use almost all of the augmentations, and you're rarely forced to use a particular one.
You should get the robot control aug, because then you can do this:
If you want to compare notes, here's what I ended up doing:
- This was on the medium level, Give Me a Challenge.
- Did a lot of hacking: level 4, all the hacking stealth upgrades, got to the turrets, never messed with Fortity, barely used Stop or Nuke.
- Got all the fun augments: lift weights, punch through walls, no-damage falls, invisibility, jump. Ended up with typhoon & the ones removing electricity/gas damage mostly to fight bosses.
- Didn't bother with stealth & sprint augments, extra energy bars, aiming stuff.
- Mostly used sniper rifle, tranq/stun guns, 10 mm pistol (surprisingly lethal when upgraded). Laser rifle is great for final two bosses.
- Talked Sandoval out of suicide; let Zelazny go; saved Malik.
- As for the final choice, I went with Sarif. After playing as a superhero, it didn't make much sense to try to hit the brakes on augmentation. Sarif is still an asshole, though.
The main negative: stealth is really really unforgiving. I got tired of skulking around, moving an inch forward to get a better look or move toward someone, and getting shot to death. Or running into one last unexpected guard. Or forgetting that flashing red lights could be a mine. Or just alarming a passel of enemies, spoiling a good sneak.
I messed up often enough in the Batman games, but in general you can sneak much easier there: there are more back routes, you can escape suddenly, and it's a lot easier to get thugs alone. And there's half a dozen ways to take someone down. In DEHR all you get is the takedown-from-behind, and it's rationed. I have a lot of patience (I spent approximately 12 hours as Catwoman in vents at the top of Wonder Tower), but I mostly ended up using cover to shoot dudes.
The inventory system is not on my friends list. I kind of get the reasoning behind making players mess with inventory: you force making choices, and you make scrounging for ammo meaningful. But inventory wrangling is not a lot of fun, and running out of space is obnoxious. Plus I never knew what I'd be needing next, so I'd conserve stuff as much as possible… I ended the game with a mess of unused ordinance. There's a reason Mass Effect 2 threw out almost all of the inventory management of ME1.
The social analyzer stuff is an interesting though not really successful attempt to deepen dialogs. I like the idea of deducing personality types… on the other hand, if you fail a conversation, repeating it is tedious and generally makes me reach for a walkthrough.
I don't like most boss fights… I got killed a lot till I studied tactics online, after which most of the fights were probably too easy (but I was too relieved to be bothered by that). You don't get to use any stealth, though that was normally the case in Batman too. (Dr. Freeze was an exception.)
As for the story… well, I could have done without the Illuminati. Massive conspiracies are cheesy and this one was particularly unnecessary– there was plenty of motivation for the major characters, and each of them would have been more interesting without the conspiracy stuff.
The actual augmentation stuff… well, as I said before, the battle was lost when someone invented eyeglasses. I completely lack whatever geek gene goes crazy for the idea of replacing your body parts with metal and plastic, I find the Singularity to be bonkers, and I'm not sure the writers realize that if everyone is augmented, then augmented is the new normal. But I don't think we're playing God, and Adam's final monologue about getting past morality made no sense.
If you're wavering, I think it's worth picking up… just persist past the horrible tutorial and the somewhat mediocre first city hub, Detroit. It's much more fun once you have a few augments; also the other cities are all better done.