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Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands CD key Reviews
"Clearest example of open world's needlessness in a game. We probably would've rate it higher if it was a linear TPS or if the map was two times smaller. But for now you need to spend too much time in your vehicle to get to something interesting or fun."
70/100 - Алексей Лихачев
"If we scrap the "Ghost Recon" out of the title, it makes Wildlands a bit more tolerable or at least doesn't ruin the name of the brand. Wildlands is a humongous game and this has spread the game thin, making its playability only f a couple of hours. If the game's scale in levels and design was a bit smaller and the narrative more comprehensible, the game on our hand would at least be enjoyable rather than the mess it is now. But with the giant amount of great games out there, spending 60 Dollars on GRW isn't so logical."
65/100 - Sina Rabiee
"The collective Ubisoft studios have done a fantastic job in certain aspects of the game, but fallen well short in others. Ghost Recon Wildlands could have been much more than what it is. With some more thought going into the mission and voice scripts, this really could have been the Game of the Year in my opinion. It combines all the aspects of fan-favourite game: an open world, lots of customisation options, and the freedom to complete your task in whatever order you would like to."
65/100 - ItsJack
"Overall, Ghost Recon: Wildlands is a solid sandbox adventure for groups of up to four friends. In solo play, Ghost Recon: Wildlands loses a bit of its mojo, but the game's unprecedented scale and piles of content should prove euphoric for fans of open world games."
70/100 - Jez Corden
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If you want the latest news and updates from the RVHA, why not follow us @RVHARaglan.
Don't worry, if Twitter's not your thing, we are also on Facebook and produce a print newsletter, Raglan Hub News for residents.
If you want the latest news and updates from the RVHA, why not follow us @RVHARaglan.
Don't worry, if Twitter's not your thing, we are also on Facebook and produce a print newsletter, Raglan Hub News for residents.
Bev Jones organised a hugely successful morning of coffee, cake and chat at Raglan Old Church School, raising an incredible £600 in memory of Michelle Burgess.
Thank you to everyone who came along, baked cakes or helped run the event. Thank you to MCC Leisure for their support – Michelle is warmly remembered by their staff.
The winners of grand draw prizes were announced at our race night on Saturday 24 September 2016:
Congratulation to all of our winners, and a thank you to everyone who supported the RVHA by buying tickets and raising an impressive £847. A big thanks goes to all the wonderful Raglan businesses who donated prizes and sold tickets, and to Allens Printers for producing the tickets.
Thank you to everyone who supported our race night on the 24 September 2016, you raised a brilliant £873.
The popular event sold out in record time, and we are very grateful for the support and sponsorship from many local businesses and individuals.
Congratulations to winner of the best hat competition, Kirstie Pope.
We were delighted to be announced as one of the 25 worldwide winners of designer Annie Sloan's 25Project competition.
The project, celebrating 25 years of the designer's chalk paint, awarded the RVHA £250 to go towards revamping our current community space, ROCS.
To raise additional funds for refurbishments and to learn more about Annie Sloan paint and painting techniques, we've teamed up with local Annie Sloan stockist 'That's Lovely That' in Abergavenny to offer an Annie Sloan paint workshop during October.
Martin Hall, from award-winning architects Hall + Bednarczyk, will be giving a presentation on community spaces and taking your questions on Wednesday 19 October, 7pm at Raglan Baptist Chapel.
As we start to develop our design plans, we'd love to hear from you. Share your ideas or expertise at one of our upcoming consultation events, or get involved in the project anytime by joining our open committee meetings.
Our aim for the new hub is to create a permanent home for local activity, bringing people, services and businesses together.
You're also invited to a final consultation event on Thursday 1st December at Raglan Old Church School at 7pm. All are welcome, we hope to see you there!


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From all roads leading to Turnhout one can see the church of the Sacred Heart with her spire (92 m), the highest tower in town, and her four white angle towers. The church of the Sacred Heart was built in a very pure neo-gothic style between 1903 and 1907 by the architects Petrus and Jules Taeymans. Furniture and decoration of the church are also neo-gothic. The church is located near the hexagon between the railway station and the market-place of Turnhout. She was thoroughly restored between 1982 and 1985. At the same time she was made accessible for disabled persons.
The church is lit by over twenty beautiful stained glass windows. The oldest glass windows are dated 1906 and were made by the firm Dobbelaere from Bruges. In the left aisle one can see the five Works of Mercy by Elaerts, Calders and Bary. Other glass artists are: Crickx, Steyaert and Asperslag.
The walls of the choir are covered by 'The resurrection of Lazarus' by L. Asperslag.
Some very beautiful and colourful procession banners.
All over the church magnificent copper work is to be seen: numerous chandeliers, a beautiful communion rail and the fourteen stations of the Cross. The high altar is quite special. Part of the sculptures were made by Napoleon Daems, parishioner around 1900. It is also quite exceptional that the sacristy furniture was made by parishioners.
Four confessionals with fine sculptures.
The lacework collection mainly consists of Turnhout lace, of a very delicate kind and in the past exported to England, America, Russia and Scandinavia. The Sacred Heart parish did run its own lacework school with up to 280 students. The parish bought lacework up to during and even after World War II.
The main organ with close to 4000 pipes was built by Stevens from Duffel. It was inaugurated in 1909. Flor Peeters, when aged 16, gave his first concert on it.
The tower can be visited to up to 71 m (adults), where children easily reads the clocks at 40 m. from there you can see Hoogstraten, Mol and even up to far beyond the Dutch border. The church attics reveal remarkable joinery from times when mainly wooden joints were in use. Even hand-made nails were found here.
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The Chicago Bears fourth-year running back is a special player. Matt Forte is not merely on the cusp of elite status, he exploded through that door weeks ago.
Personally speaking, I take great pride in boasting my early predictions that this guy was going to be great. I've never doubted Forte's abilities, and I don't argue that he is currently earning close 10 or 15 times what he's actually being paid.
All we've ever seen from this guy is improvement, drive, motivation and a work ethic even the late, great Walter Payton likely would have endorsed.
But there's an inherent problem with ever-growing the "Pay Forte" movement. Simply put, it wrongfully paints the Chicago Bears as the bad guy.
The truth is there is no "bad guy" in this discussion. And those of you who would like to couple your "Pay Forte" sentiment with an "Occupy Halas Hall" movement are building an argument atop sandy shores.
Please, don't misunderstand the impetus of what I'm trying to convey here. If there was ever a guy in today's NFL that you want associated with your football team and on the field come Sunday afternoon, it's Matt Forte.
Forte has continually and repeatedly represented himself, and the Chicago Bears organization, in exemplary fashion, and he's displayed the utmost professionalism throughout the arduous process of coming to terms on a much-deserved contract extension.
Forte is not to be blamed for publically expressing his discontent with his current deal. The fact of the matter is that he's vying for his future and not just as a football player.
Matt understands what every owner and general manager in the NFL also understand; his career could be peaking as we speak. In his fourth season, Forte has already outlived the average life-span of an NFL running back.
But the reason why there is truthfully no real story in all of this is because there is nothing overly unusual about the situation.
It seems many fans have already forgotten that the Bears DID in fact offer to "Pay Forte." They DID value him much higher than his current rookie salary. In fact, they offered him a very fair deal; a deal similar to those garnered by similar players at the time.
Because, what fans also have to understand is that the Bears were negotiating with a pre-2011 Matt Forte. And prior to 2011, many were still unsure of what they really had in number 22.
Just for some perspective, what the Bears will have to pay Matt Forte in 2012—assuming they do not agree to a long-term extension, choosing to franchise tag the back—is between seven and eight million dollars, guaranteed, on a one-year deal.
That tag is figured based on the five highest paid players at the position.
What did the Bears offer the pre-2011 Forte? A deal worth six million annually—increasing after each season—and $13 million in guaranteed money. That, my friends, is a smart deal that an organization can live with, and a deal that is VERY fair to a running back who was not a free agent, was not—at the time—a superstar, and was still under contract.
It was Matt Forte who made the decision to walk away. Forte took a gamble that he would increase his value in 2011. He has done that. And, when all is said and done, he may walk away with the deal he was originally looking for.
Forte's real hope is that the Chicago Bears—not some other team—will recognize his increased value in 2012 and sign him to a more lucrative, multi-year extension and NOT use the franchise tag. Personally, I think the Bears will do that.
The franchise tag is more or less an insurance policy should the Bears find themselves in a bidding war they don't intend to be a part of. But Forte remains insistent that he wants to stay in Chicago, despite comments that may suggest otherwise.
Just seven games into the season, and Matt Forte has remained healthy. But, imagine a scenario in which the Bears did "Pay Forte" in an offseason when they did not have to. Now imagine they gave him the kind of money he was looking for. Now imagine Forte being carted off the sideline in week two with a season ending injury.
In a scenario like that—a scenario other teams HAVE faced this season—fans would have been jumping all over the train aimed at criticizing the Bears front office for dulling out stacks of guaranteed cash to a guy on injured reserve. Or even worse; imagine the injury was not just season ending but career ending.
So far this year, 13 of 32 starting NFL running backs (41%) have missed at least one regular season game due to injury. Two of them—Tim Hightower (Redskins) and Earnest Graham (Buccaneers)—suffered season ending injuries.
Graham was actually placed in the starting role due to a previously existing injury to Tampa Bay RB LeGarrette Blount.
And we're not even through the first half of the NFL regular season yet.
—41%, folks—
The Kansas City Chiefs signed running back Jamaal Charles to an extension, including $13 million guaranteed, this offseason. Charles hasn't played a game since week two.
How can the Bears be faulted for offering a fair—and financially sound—deal to a pre-2011 Matt Forte? Again, the problem with the "Pay Forte" talk is simple: THEY DID OFFER TO PAY HIM.
Forte took the gamble. And so far, it's paid off. Or has it?
Given the usually short career life-span of NFL running backs, what if the Bears do in fact franchise tag Matt Forte and he goes on to another great season in 2012? He'll have made between seven and eight million.
Go back to the Bears prior offer and he'd have made six million, while still having a safety net of another seven million guaranteed.
So, now imagine that he does not have anywhere close to a season like 2011, or that he gets injured and can't play in 2012. In that scenario, if he had accepted the Bears offer, he'd be approximately five million dollars richer.
Surely, it's still possible—and in my opinion probable—that the Bears will work out a multi-year extension for Matt before having to tag him in 2012. I don't think they will do so during this season, however.
The sad truth is that the insanely bad deals given to guys like Chris Johnson and Adrian Peterson give a false illusion of worth to other backs around the league. And smart owners and general managers realize that.
No, I'm not campaigning Jerry Angelo for GM of the year. In fact, my frustrations with the Bears GM are great. But you give credit where credit is due.
Johnson, whose deal is worth $53 million—$30 million guaranteed—is currently tied for 34th in the league among running backs.
That bad decision on behalf of the Titans holds no weight in Forte's argument as far as 95% of teams in the NFL are concerned. And it shouldn't.
Adrian Peterson, you ask? Why did I mention his deal? Because the $100 million dollar quarterback-esque deal the Vikings gave him unfortunately has not helped their team win football games at 2-6 on the season. It's the reason why money like that is reserved for quarterbacks, who can make that difference in the win, loss column.
Unlike Johnson, Peterson continues to perform and show why he is still the best back in the league. But that doesn't preclude the Vikings from criticism when it comes to the deal they handed out.
Perhaps the biggest conundrum for me is exactly why Bears fans so desperately want to see Forte get paid right now; to the point that I've had more than a few tell me it's actually bothering them personally.
Where's the issue, folks? You explain to me how the Chicago Bears organization did the wrong thing. When Forte asked for an extension, I was in complete support of it. So were the Bears. He deserves more than the close to $600,000 he will make this season, and the team did offer him an extension; and they offered him a fair one. Bottom line is that it was Matt Forte who chose to play for $600K.
And he's playing like an absolute superstar. Again, where's the issue?
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Every year the seasonal flu kills about 36,000 people today and sends 200,000 towards the hospital, as outlined by the U.S. Centers for Illness Manage and Prevention. Each year in the course of "flu season" (ordinarily beginning around Thanksgiving and peaking about Christmas) there's a rush to acquire flu shots; specially among the elderly, the ill, and the very young, the concern is well-grounded.
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Rumor of a pandemic flu outbreak has brought enhanced concern. It's significant to understand precisely what this indicates, instead of just getting fearful of some thing arriving in the nearest airport to which you have no defense.
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Morphological and Morphometric Study of Variations in the Shape and Size of the Foramen Magnum of Human Skulls
Raveendranath Veeramani, Ky Manjunath, Umamageswari Amirthalingam
1. Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India. 2. Professor, Department of Anatomy, Vinayaka Missions University, Tamil Nadu, India. 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute Puducherry, India.
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: The shape of the Foramen Magnum (FM) is variable and the incidence of the variants in shape vary in different ethnic groups. Such morphological and morphometic measurements of the FM are of forensic and anthropological importance.
Aim: The present study was aimed at documenting frequency of the various shapes of FM, and to calculate the FM Index (FMI) and the surface area of FM using the sagittal and transverse diameters of FM, in male and female skulls of South Indian origin and finally to look for correlation between the cephalic index, the FMI and its surface area.
Materials and Methods: One hundred skulls (81 male and 19 female) of South Indian origin were studied for the variation in shape of the FM. In all the skulls cephalic index, surface area of FM and FMI was calculated.
Results: An irregularly shaped FM was found to be of maximum in occurrence (32%). The mean sagittal diameters in males and females were 37±0.3 mm and 35±0.23 mm respectively. The mean transverse diameters in males and females were 33±0.35 mm and 32±0.43 mm respectively. The mean surface area ranged from 788-1113 mm2. The mean FMI of male and female skull was 1.13±0.11 and 1.09±0.15 respectively. The cephalic index did not show any significant correlation with the surface area of the FM and the FMI.
Conclusion: The FM, plays an important role as a landmark because of its close relationship to key structures such as the brain stem and the spinal cord. FM The sagittal and transverse diameters have been reported to be larger in male skulls than in female Size of the FM cannot be a completely reliable indicator of sex; however, it can be used as a supplement for preliminary identification
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Now, certainly you could say that I take Star Wars to seriously. Okay. Okay, I'll give that too you. To me this is somewhat serious business because this series defined my childhood, but it wouldn't be so bad if people (George Lucas) would just accept that the prequels were bad and move on. Maybe plan a re-write of the scripts at some point and just remake the hell out of them... but I'm realistic, okay. Kids like these movies. People who were kids when the prequels came out like them. (Not me though.) People who don't think about Star Wars as anything but a bunch of movies might not worry about the implications here, but think about The Phantom Menace as a movie. Think about it as a fun, enjoyable movie, one that has adventure, action, characters, a great plot... and then you realize: HOLY CRAP, The Phantom Menace has none of those things.
I heard this movie called a "classic" this morning, in utter honesty. Wait for that to sink in. A "CLASSIC". CLASSIC. I'm even going to up the font size so you can understand the implications of that word:
Okay, do you see what's wrong here? Despite the FACT that The Phantom Menace is only thirteen years old and has NO right to be called a classic in sheer terms of WHAT? The Phantom Menace is also a very bad movie. I mean seriously, don't go on any tirade telling me to mind my own business or that I'm wrong. It is objective fact that Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace is a freaking terrible movie, or maybe more accurately, it is an incredibly mediocre movie that is either defended to the death by fans or blasted beyond any semblance of reason by those who feel as if it is a personal affront to them.
And you know what? This movie is a slap in the face to every thinking person who fell in love with the original Star Wars trilogy once upon a time. Yes, there will be a ton of people flocking to the theaters to see this movie in glorious 3D, but that's the model, folks. George Lucas is a businessman and he has made it his business to sell his bitter and broken wears to the public just itching for that much more mediocrity. Once upon a time, George Lucas was a visionary, he was the man of the moment, creating classics because he had visions... but as time grew so did his greed, his need for absolute power. He has become his own Emperor Palpatine, desiring control, money, and the finer things in life rather than focusing on the art.
Look at The Phantom Menace. Really look at it. Where is the artistry? Where are the fantastic lines? Where are the memorable and wonderful characters you could love so much? Where are the sensical plots? Where is the story that has sense and has MEANING? They are all gone, like bitter tears in the pouring rain. The Phantom Menace was and still is a cash in on the hearts and minds of those who still believe in the magic of Star Wars, who still want to hold onto the dreams that the franchise gave us so long ago. Yes, we all wanted to be Jedi or Sith or Imperials or Rebels or anything and everything else... smugglers, stormtroopers, bounty hunters... the list goes on and on, and that's why we hold onto these movies. We want them to be good. We want the prequels to continue the magic when all the magic that is left is from the original trilogy.
I never wanted to be Qui-Gon Jinn or Obi-Wan Kenobi, or little big-headed Anakin Skywalker. I never wanted to beat down faceless droids and believe that I was in some kind of cartoon world. I wanted to have an adventure, face peril, understand what my motivations were. I knew the Empire was bad in Star Wars: A New Hope, but I also saw that not all of them were. In The Empire Strike Back I saw humanity from both sides, and I saw darkness on both sides. Yoda was a hermit, not helping in the war effort at all, sending an untested man, barely out of boyhood, against the entire might of a galaxy of evil. But was Admiral Piett evil? Was Boba Fett doing anything but his job? Did Darth Vader truly wish for his son's death or did he truly care about him?
The Phantom Menace is so one-sided. Good versus evil and nothing in between. One of the greatest pieces of Star Wars is seeing the conflict in human nature, that even someone committed to "evil" can be swayed to see the good in things. Even the Emperor was never anything but a politician who only grew fangs when he couldn't convince first. But then we see "Darth Maul" and what the hell kind of name is that anyway? I guess it's better than "Count Dooku" which just sounds like somebody pet-naming a piece of crap, but it's still horrendous. Darth Vader's name had meaning. The word "Vader" did not mean "Oh my God that is a synonym for bad stuff!!!!!" It was a foreign word for "father" and had meaning. Darth Maul had no meaning, he was simply there to look intimidating, to show that good versus evil is VERY clear cut, and that's never been the case... or at least rarely is.
And then we get "Darth Sidious", General Grievous, and Darth Tyrannus and everything flies out the window when you finally see that George Lucas has lost his mind.
I keep hearing fans of this film call me out as being a "hater", usually in poor grammar with even poorer spelling. I keep hearing them say that I shouldn't complain about this movie if I don't like it, that I should simply forget it exists and move on with my life. Sound advice, I suppose, but absolutely wrong. Things should be called out for being wrong. People should be vocal about what they enjoy and do not enjoy. That is the nature of debate, even if debate can be heavily opinionated and subjective. I do not like the prequels, but I will give them their due when I see things that aren't bad. I liked Kamino in Attack of the Clones. I liked the look of Obi-Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith and I liked the acting of both Liam Neeson in The Phantom Menace and Ewan McGregor in any movie that was not The Phantom Menace. And... um... there might be more? I don't know.
My point here is that I am absolutely entitled to bash any series or anything in general that I want to bash. I have done over 130 reviews on this blog, sometimes harshly criticizing, sometimes bashing, sometimes praising up and down, and I will continue to speak my mind and put my opinions out there. Yes, they are opinions, but they are also backed by facts most of the time. Go and watch Red Letter Media's review of all the Star Wars prequels. In many ways they do a better job than I do at putting the negatives of the prequels out there. Mostly it's the format, seeing these things in a video is much easier than reading about a dude on the internet's complaints about stuff.
I guess this all comes back to George Lucas, his desire to remake the series, to have us forget that one time long ago he worked with other people and made something great... but now he can't make anything at all worth any sort of damn. He had other writers working on the dialogue, actors willing to call him out on some of his decisions, a team of cinematographers and editors working tirelessly against him, hardships, money problems... "art from adversity" is a key point here. The settings were all constructed, not CGI, and they felt real, used, workable... the X-Wings had weight to them, they had history. The whole galaxy felt old, felt like it had been running for much longer than humans on earth had been sentient. The lightsabers were silly, seldom used, relics of bygone days... not flashy props for doing silly overchoreographed movesets, not hacking swords that could slice robots like swiss cheese... it was an "elegant weapon" from a "more civilized age".
All the prequels are are flash, like tacky Christmas decorations all over someone's house. There are no characters to relate to. Why did Anakin have to build C-3P0? Was that a good plot decision? Did it make the movies flow better? Did it make them make more sense to you? Because to me it was dumb, even when I first saw it, it was dumb. Why couldn't Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon be one character? Why couldn't Boba and Jango Fett be one character? Why couldn't the clones make more sense? Why did the romance have to be so painfully horrible? Why is Jar Jar the only thing about these movies that anybody ever thinks of as wrong when he is the only character who actually experiences a freaking character arc in the movie? Yes, he's comic relief, and no, he was never fun to watch, but why is he blamed for the failure of the movie when if everything else went right he'd be remembered like the Ewoks, maybe not ridiculously fondly all the time, but as a cute sidekick that kind of work and was all right, I guess.
The point is that nothing worked. Nothing. Everything was done terribly. The podrace was unneeded and terrible, the plot contrived and ridiculous. They could have pawned off their own ship and bought a new one. Or for another idea hired someone to take them to Coruscant... I mean, come the hell on. Why go through all of the confusion when simpler ideas were out there. The answer: flash and spectacle. Story never mattered only the look, only the CGI, only how far they could make this movie look like a cartoon rather than like Star Wars. And in the end it is a cartoon, a cartoon with some live action actors who do terrible jobs all around.
Star Wars gave life to an entire genre. It made people believe in something fantastical. It brought people together as both fans and lovers of the movies... and then the prequels shattered the illusions... it broke the piece. George Lucas took a bat to my dreams, to the ideas that I once held. I could have always believed that the prequel trilogy would have been great and epic, the fall of a Republic and the beginning of an Empire. The Jedi, an order of monks bent on studying the religion of the Force, falling into darkness one-by-one. A terrible galactic conflict involving clones that tore families apart... and the ending of an age. Religion was gone, replaced with confidence in machines, in the work of man. This was a fascinating idea, but one that never came because of flashing lights, cartoon characters, lacking plots and dialogues, and a man in charge who only cares for money, not for the art, not for the fans who made his movies the powerhouses they are today. Every word out of George Lucas' mouth is venom of the worst and most vitriolic kind. He hates those that question him, that deride him, that speak against the perfection that he MADE with his blood, sweat, and tears... and he can change what he wants. They're his films. He owns them. He made them. He acts like a spoiled child, one that cannot see why people loved his films and why they are so upsettingly bad now. He cannot see that we have great criticisms here, that we call him out on these bad ideas because we care, because we love the movies and cannot understand why they have to be changed every five years. Why does George Lucas' "vision" of Star Wars have to impede the movie that I originally saw? Why do I have to see the spectacle, the flash, of these movies rather than just enjoy the stark reality that I fell in love with so much the first time I saw them?
George Lucas, please stop. I know you'll never read this, and I doubt even if you did you would even understand a single argument that I make here, but as a fan of the series, as a person who lost all faith in Star Wars after Revenge of the Sith, I beg you, as one writer to another, as one person to another: do not ruin this.
The problem is, you already have ruined it. I simply have chosen to ignore everything you've changed or done over the last however many years. And that, to me, is victory enough.


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We all have had to sit through the dull airline safety videos that are played whenever we fly. Air New Zealand has taken their newest video to another level.
The creative airline had Hollywood actress Anna Faris, of Scary Movie fame, partner with New Zealand comic, Rhys Darby, to film their latest safety video. Take a look at their work below, and see if you agree with me that this may just be the best airline safety video ever!


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By Aleksandra Serebriakova, a 3rd year International Relations student at King's College London with a strong interest in post-Soviet Union space and Russia in particular.
On the 6th January the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released the unclassified report that openly accused Russia of interfering in the U.S. presidential elections. The report argued that findings were based on the "understanding of Russian behavior" in its "longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order" and preconditioned by Russia's "clear preference for President-elect Trump", but nevertheless did not argue that hacking affected the election results.
The whole language of the Report was supported by the logic of 'judgements' rather than hard evidence through analyses of the CIA and two other agencies (FBA and NASA). This absence of strong evidence was explained by inability to "reveal sensitive sources or methods and imperil the ability to collect critical foreign intelligence in the future". Thus, the Report has stated that the campaign to undermine U.S. presidential elections was ordered directly by Vladimir Putin who wanted to "denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency". What is more, Russia's military intelligence agency and its Main Intelligence Agency of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU) has been accused for directing the hacks into the emails of Democratic Party officials and released them with a help of Guccifer 2.0 hacker through Wikileaks and DCLeaks.com beginning in March 2016. Notwithstanding the fact that this kind of reporting would be ridiculous in any other democratic country, as it would confirm that administration itself had a "clear preference" for the Presidential candidate ignoring the desires of its own population, two interesting points can be picked up from this Report: U.S. open advertising of 'Russia Today's' (RT) ability to influence American population and reaction of Russia's officials to these findings that has often been sarcastic and undiplomatic.
Firstly, due to inability to provide strong evidence the Report had to explain Russia's alleged influence through its 'covert intelligence operations' and 'over propaganda efforts' with a help of Russian Government agencies, paid social media users (internet 'trolls') and state-funded media, with RT and Sputnik news outlets being examples of this 'propaganda machine'. Seven pages of unclassified version of the Report were devoted to assessing RT America TV's activities in relation to "undermine faith in the US Government and fuel political protest". Without profoundly discussing RT's efforts to meddle in the current election and only briefly touching upon its 'negative' portrayal of Hilary Clinton and open support for Donald Trump, the short Report devotes a substantial part to the discussion of the channels attempts to "fuel political protests" during Occupy Wall Street movement and rise criticism on the U.S. economic and political systems. Overall, the Report presents RT America as some kind of international criminal syndicate with enormous power and financial connection to Russian Government. The argument that "RT recently was the most-watched foreign news channel in the UK" and the tables of comparison that present this channel as the most popular on YouTube out of foreign broadcasting companies (image 1) has caused a stream of comments and jokes from the Russian officials.
Image 1: Comparative Tables from ODNI Report, Appex A
Thus, the Russian Embassy in London claimed that the Report findings have been the best advertising for RT (image 2). Indeed, RT preferences for Trump were clear from the start but how can the coverage of one channel that has a clear connection to the foreign government be argued to have such an enormous power to indirectly influence election process in a sovereign country? While RT should definitely be grateful to this Report for its promotion, we still should be willing to get some more evidence in support for the existing accusations. Otherwise, it all too sounds more as a Cold War scare.
Image 2: Twitter of the Russian Embassy in London, 7th January 2017
What is more, the reactions of Russia's officials to this Report were not at all surprising. Seen as another groundless attempt to discriminate Russia in the eyes of international community following the traditions of doping scandal and McLaren report, CIA report was met with sarcastic comments from Russian officials. Thus, Dmitry Peskov, the Press Secretary of Putin, called the accusations on Russia's involvement in hacking a "witch hunt" and said that Obama's administration is "behaving like an elephant in china shop"; while Maria Zakharova, a Director of the Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, called Obama's team in Facebook "a group of foreign policy losers, anxious and short-sighted". At the same time, Russian Embassy in the UK called the Report a "pathetic attempt at tainting American's vote by innuendo coached in Intel new-speak" (image 3) but also posted a bunch of memes in Twitter mocking the Report and Obama administration for its efforts to unleash the Cold War.
Image 3: Twitter of the Russian Embassy in London, 7th January 2017
What is so telling about such an active engagement of Russian officials with Twitter and Facebook in such an 'undiplomatic' way? In 2015 Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin have argued that Russia was one of the most successful countries to accommodate the chaotic dynamic of social media and user-led content that for some time upset policy-makers ability to influence and control information. In particular, they argued that Russia was successful in "arresting the mainstream media" through its engagement with Twitter, Facebook and VK by allowing only certain parts of the conflict, such as the one in Ukraine, to be visible and framed in a certain way. Russia's open engagement with social media allows mediatization of conflicts and disagreements and is trying to be especially proactive in promoting its own definitions of how certain disagreements should be seen and which side should be blamed for their existence (well, definitely not Russian). The Twitter and Facebook comments of Russian officials on hacking claims has signified a change in the platform for diplomatic exchanges and showed how influential it might be for promoting a particular view especially when sarcasm, the competition of memes and social media logic of shareability are present.
Image 4: Twitter of the Russian Embassy in London, 29th December 2016
All of these raise a question over the prospects of future Russia-U.S. relations. While during the last press-conference Barak Obama called Russia "a smaller and weaker country", which nevertheless was able to meddle with the U.S. elections through hacking processes, new sanctions against Russian officials and diplomats summed up the last two years of Obama's administration unsuccessful politics towards Russia. At the same time, Trump's position over Russian involvement into the election process was ambiguous. While his Twitter praised Putin's decision not to expel the U.S. diplomats in reciprocal measures by tweeting that he always knew that Putin was very smart, at the same time condemning findings of the hacking report, his positions somehow changed after few days when he actually agreed that the hacking took place, but due to the "gross negligence by the Democratic National Committee" that would never happen again when he becomes the president. Russian press such as independent Novaya Gazeta news outlet has suggested that such change in the rhetoric is occurring mainly due to the pressures Trump is experiencing from his own Republican party and other officials that take hacking report seriously and do not share his admiration for Putin. Overall, it is clear that unpredictability of the next American president and the pressures he will be experiencing in the White House might force him to completely change the rhetoric in a more anti-Putin and anti-Russian way that will definitely be followed by reciprocal tweets and Facebook posts from Russian officials in even more sarcastic manner.
- BBC, 2016. "Trump condemns CIA Russia hacking report". Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38292392
- Donald J. Trump. Twitter. Available at: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
- Hoskins, A. and B. O'Loughlin, 2015. "Arrested war: the third phase of mediatization". Information, Communication & Society, 18:11, 1320-1338, [pdf], Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1068350
- Mirzayan, G., 2017. "CNN was not given permission to talk: what we have learned from the first press conference of Trump", Ria Novosti, 12th January. Available at: https://ria.ru/analytics/20170112/1485563230.html
- Panov, A., 2016. "New Year's cyber-sanctions". Available at: https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2016/12/31/71053-novogodnie-kiber-sanktsii
- Panov, A., 2017. "Trump agreed with the intelligence findings on Russian hackers" Available at: https://www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/01/09/71077-tramp-soglasilsya-s-vyvodami-razvedki-otnositelno-russkih-hakerov
- RT, 2017a. "RT stars in ODNI report on 'Russian activities and intentions' in US presidential election". Available at: https://www.rt.com/usa/372864-odni-report-russia-hacking/
- RT, 2017b. "'Witch hunt': Kremlin slams ODNI report claiming Russia hacked US elections". Available at: https://www.rt.com/news/373049-witch-hunt-kremlin-slams-odni/
- Russian Embassy, UK. Twitter. Available at: https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy


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Gunn Margit Andreassen
|Medal record
|Women's biathlon
|Representing Norway
|Olympic Games
|2002 Salt Lake City
|4 × 7.5 km relay
|1998 Nagano
|4 × 7.5 km relay
|World Championships
|1995 Antholz-Anterselva
|Team event
|1997 Brezno-Osrblie
|Team event
|2004 Oberhof
|4 × 6 km relay
|1997 Brezno-Osrblie
|4 × 7.5 km relay
|1995 Antholz-Anterselva
|4 × 7.5 km relay
|2003 Khanty-Mansiysk
|15 km individual
Gunn Margit Aas Andreassen (born 23 July 1973 in Kristiansand) is a former Norwegian biathlete.
Biathlon career[edit]
She won two Olympic medals, bronze in Nagano 1998 and silver in Salt Lake City 2002, both in the relay. From the World Championships she has the following results:
- 1995 - 1.pl (Team)
- 1995 - 3.pl (Relay)
- 1997 - 1.pl (Team)
- 1997 - 2.pl (Relay)
- 2004 - 1.pl (Relay)
In cross-country skiing she participated in one World Cup race, in which she finished 46th, in Beitostølen in November 2003. She represented Ringkollen SK, the club of her husband, in this sport.[1]
Personal life[edit]
She is a daughter of Ivar Andreassen and niece of Reidar Andreassen. Both were skiers and runners.[2] She was born in Kristiansand, but lived in Birkenes and represented Birkenes IL. She lives with fellow former biathlete, Frode Andresen, and they have three sons together, David, who was born around Christmas 2004 - now deceased, Nicolai, who was born in 2008 and Elias, who was born in August 2010.
- ^ Gunn Margit Andreassen at the International Ski Federation
- ^ Thoresen, Thore-Erik (10 January 1992). "Mester med syv bom". Aftenposten (in Norwegian).
External links[edit]
- Old IBU profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-03-04)
- Gunn Margit Andreassen at BiathlonResults.com and BiathlonWorld.com from IBU
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- Sportspeople from Kristiansand
- Norwegian female biathletes
- Biathletes at the 1994 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 1998 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics
- Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics
- Olympic biathletes of Norway
- Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
- Olympic silver medalists for Norway
- Norwegian female cross-country skiers
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- Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
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Service Recap - 11/14 - 11/15/15 - Fellowship Bible Church
This weekend, we continued in our Rebuild series and began looking at rebuilding a heart for our city from the book of Nehemiah.
Here are our songs from this weekend:
"Lead Me to the Cross" [Brooke Ligertwood]
"Jesus!" [Zach Bolen, Brian Eichelberger]
"How Can It Be" [Jeff Thomas, Jason Ingram, Paul Mabury]
"God of This City" [Aaron Boyd, Andrew McCann, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, PeterKernoghan, Richard Bleakley - Bluetree]
In the wake of the events in Paris Friday night, some of these songs became especially poignant, such as "God of This City." It is a song we haven't sung in a while, but the lyric was timely:
You're the God of this city
You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of this nation
You are
You're the light in this darkness
You're the hope to the hopeless
You're the peace to the restless
You are
There is no one like our God
There is no one like our God
Greater things have yet to come
Greater things are still to be done in this city
It is a song that encourages me and gives me hope, pointing me to the One who can, and will, right all wrongs and draw the lost to Himself. His greatest enemies can become His allies, just like Saul became Paul and helped turn the world upside down for the gospel. May we trust Him all the more, and may we all recognize that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers (Eph. 6:12). May we fight the good fight in faith, and spread the gospel far and wide with our lives and our words. He is worth it, and He isn't done using us yet!
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Fish 2009 - The Debris
Dear FishHeads, freaks, fans and the Company,
I have literally arrived home about an hour ago and am in some pain as you might expect! X;{
This is a quick little hello and a statement about the weekend,
Firstly to all of you who attended I want to offer a huge thanks from everyone who performed and was involved in my immediate side of the operation for providing an amazing experience and a distinctly memorable weekend. I think it worked as a whole.
I am due a couple of apologies,
The after show party? When we booked the venue I was told we had a bar until 2am on the Sunday.
I didn't know that the circumstances had changed until far too late in the day and after performing the 2hr 45 minute set on the Sunday I wasn't capable of thinking on an organizational front.
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The venue staff were fantastic and I don't want to place any blame on them.
My call. I screwed up, sorry! :-[
After all Doc Bob put into the Penguin hunt I never announced the winners on stage. Again sorry! :-[
To my American friend who is the New York Rangers, ice hockey fan.
Don't burn your CDs. It's not a Wuss game and American football is a tough sport and I didn't mean to offend you.
It was backstage, you had a shirt that said "Rangers" in blue, white and red, a week before our soccer season starts, I was 4 sheets to the wind and Scottish comedy is brutal! :-!
And I am sorry that
I didn't spend as much time with some people that I should have, but.............
I screwed up the "13th Star" section on the Saturday.
I couldn't hear anything out the monitors, the light was dim, I didn't have my glasses on and couldn't read the lyric sheets, I couldn't hear the band, it all went tits up and I lost it. Three weeks of rehearsals screwed up by technology :-!
I didn't play "Grendel"! :-D
I am happy that
We brought together some of the finest human beings on the planet and created a piece of magic in this shadowed World that can be locked in our memories and which we can hopefully cherish for years to come.
You are the Company I choose! ;-)
lots of love and heartfelt thanks for a great weekend @>----
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We've found the whole thing, the earth
and taken pictures that show it all
you can pinpoint your own rooftop
zoom out to include Greenland
and Australia all on one screen.
We found an old rainforest a few weeks ago
while looking for coal to mine
under Illinois
a mud preserved cavern
the size of San Francisco and they keep finding ruins
they sought
of Aztecs and Greeks
artworks forgotten
surface in blackmarket sting operations
(or on ebay).
We've found music and painting and
everything but Atlantis
and their kitchen sinks.
Pompeii and porcupines,
dolphins and stingrays
jellyfish and coral colonies
bugs and frogs that numb your tongue so don't lick them
soil and dirt and rocks and gems
and crude sludge of lives long gone to decay
(it makes our cars go real fast to this day!)
and ice
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(chunks of it fall into the sea now, on and on).
We have found everything we have needed to find
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Yesterday we blogged from the buyers' side of the transaction, today it's the sellers'.
Yesterday we blogged from the buyers' side of the transaction, today it's the sellers'. It's biblical wisdom, you can't serve two masters but that's not what the real estate industry wants you to believe. In 1993, the industry went state to state changing laws to paper over conflicts of interest. Twenty years later, dual agency practitioners and consumer advocatesare still fighting this "holy war."
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When the renowned chef Kristian Baumann asked Magdalena Kałużna if she would make the tableware for 108, his new restaurant in Copenhagen, she just said yes. "But I'd never made a plate for a restaurant in my whole life," Kałużna giggles.
Co-owned by René Redzepi, the restaurant 108 is called Noma's little sister. Ambitions are high, and the tableware had to go along with the restaurant's casual approach to fine dining and reflect the feeling of terroir cuisine.
Having just majored in fine arts at the University of Technology in Poznań, Poland, Magdalena Kałużna made sculptures. She had decided to follow her boyfriend, whom she had known for four months, to Copenhagen. But Magdalena Kałuzna hardly knew anyone in Copenhagen, much less what she would do, and her boyfriend was often working 16 hours a day as a chef.
"I made my sculptures in clay and started to look for at job that had something to do with ceramics. I got a part-time job at the ceramist studio and shop Uh la la, where I could fire my own things after work," 24-year old Kałużna recalls.
Magdalena Kałużna learned to shape porcelain and how to fire it, but that was about it. "All ceramists keep their little secrets to themselves. That's just how it is, and I'm not sure I would tell exactly how I make the glaze if an assistant came to work with me," Kałużna says.
And then Kristian Baumann turned up and asked for his new tableware. Before being able to present anything to him, Magdalena Kałużna spent hours in front of her computer screen watching YouTube videos of how to work with the glaze and how to shape the plaster moulds. And she needed her own working space.
Kałużna shows us around in her little workshop in Copenhagen, pointing out the help she got from friends. "A ceramist I knew had heard that they were throwing this potter's wheel out. This table I got from a friend, and another friend lent me the money for the kiln."
Soon, Magdalena Kałużna was able to present her first plate to Kristian Baumann, a simple, pale plate with a deep-blue back. The feeling is rustic yet delicate. He liked it immediately.
"This blue is made especially for 108 and corresponds with the colouring in the restaurant. That specific glaze is only for them," Kałużna says.
So far she has made over a thousand plates for the newly opened restaurant, working night and day in the heat from the kiln. A plate takes time. Shaped, fired, polished, glazed and fired again, it might easily take a week. If there are no surprises, that is.
"You never know how it will turn out. Maybe I fired it too hard or the glaze didn't react the way I thought it would. A part of the process can't be controlled," Kałużna recounts. The final result of the process is out of her hands.
"Sometimes Kristian Baumann tells me about a dish he wants to make and which shape he would like the plate or the bowl to have, but that's about it," Kałużna says.
Kristian Baumann was not the only one looking for a special way to present his cuisine. So did the barista Mikaela Wallgreen from the café chain The Coffee Collective. She was competing at the World Brewers Master Cup and was searching for a cup to present her coffee in. She had seen Magdalena Kałużna's work and together they came up with a handy, elegant cup of porcelain. This year Mikaela Wallgreen won a silver medal at the World Brewers Cup. At the moment Magdalena Kałużna is working on a special edition for The Coffee Collective. The Coffee Collective plans to serve its gourmet coffee in the handmade cups and eventually sell them.
And what's next? Magdalena Kałużna shrugs, taking a look at the load of tableware in the oven. The plates are being made for a private client, especially designed with and for him. "I don't know. So far I'm really, really busy," she says.
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At one point in the civil proceeding in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, Mr. Abbott, who is acting as his own lawyer, glared angrily at the widow, Ricci Adan, who was sobbing in the witness chair under his cross- examination. Mr. Abbott then asked acting Justice Carol H. Arber to declare a mistrial on the ground that Mrs. Adan's tears were prejudicing the jury against him. The judge refused.
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Desiigner's latest single, "Tiimmy Turner" is already a cautionary banger but DJ Premier decided to add a little more thump with his Preemix of the track.
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Our final night in the campervan was relatively uneventful. We woke up this morning in Stockton Beach and had breaky and showers, did a quick load of laundry and emptied the black and grey waters one last time before pulling out of the caravan park.
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We headed further south and had lunch at the Wildflower Garden just outside of Mona Vale (a northern suburb of Sydney). At about 2:00, we met Rob's colleague and one of the prime encouragers of this adventure around Australia, Michael Pain, at his beach house in Avalon.
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Back at their place, the kids played some more and we eventually put them all to bed. Devon and Oscar bunked up together in Oscar's room, which Devon loved because, for the past six weeks he's only had his sisters to play with and the boy company was much needed. The girls slept downstairs with Rob and I in the guest apartment.
We enjoyed some adult conversation and Australian and New Zealand pinot noir before retiring ourselves.