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The operator will utilise SBTech's fully responsive front end solution, Chameleon360 gaming platform, and leading sports betting platform, which saw the company crowned Sports Betting Supplier of the Year at the recent eGR Nordics Awards.
The supplier's revolutionary tablet and touch screen interface, SBTech Touch, will also form part of the deal for the popular Scandinavian brand as well as its latest innovative cashout product, racing product and live streaming.
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SBTech CEO, Itai Zak, said: "The incredible growth of ComeOn! in the past few years has brought immense pride to everyone at SBTech, and we are thrilled to sign a new five year agreement with such a valued and long-term partner."
"Whether it is our award-winning sports betting platform, SBTech Touch or Chameleon360, SBTech is committed to supplying the industry with the best possible solutions to help propel operators to the very top of their game. ComeOn! will have the full weight of SBTech behind them in their quest for continued greatness."
SBTech will be exhibiting at ICE Totally Gaming on stand S3-110, where they will be joined by five-time World Heavyweight Champion Evander Holyfield.


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I have bought several Windowblinds and like a lot of them, the problem I have is that there are some readability issues for example, I can't read some text because it is the same color as the background, like a black background and black text. I have been able to fix some items but it's just going in the "modify style" and clicking on the item in the menu and hoping it's the item I need changed. applying desk top, saying a prayer and hoping it changed. I was able to fix most of the right click menu this way, but some still elude me. Is there a way that will show what each item means so I can just go in and alter that one font / type or background to what I want it to look like through the modify style option? this is one I bought, it's super cool I just can't get a couple of things to change, the biggest one driving me crazy right now is the windows 10 task bar hover menu pop up. I mouse over it and it's a black background and normally it appears with a description I can read of what it is, but I can't, I tried changing every color that is black to something else and it remains the same. Sorry for the long post, I'm pretty frustrated is all.
Sometimes a post needs to be long to understand. You did your best with that. You situation is not new. With dark skins there are usually some areas with hard to read text. You didn't mention making any changes is SKS (skinstudio) SKS is the place to make them but changing some area from black text is almost impossible.
Here is what I can do for you to try and help. If you want you will need to PM me with your email address. I prefer to work using email. I have a dark skin called Flattened. Nothing fancy pretty plan actually but maybe it can be used for you to explain any problem areas and even send screen shots. So if you are interested I'm here. Here is a simple dark skin of mine but there are also many other nice skins for you to use. https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/8765/
the one I bought is glitch, just need a copule of fixes and I very much appreciate you reaching out. Do I talk to the person that made it if they are still active? this is where I am changing the colors to 'fix' my issues, not necessarily fixes but I'd prefer some things looking different. Aside from writing down what changes when I train one by one is there a better way? I didn't try skin studio but will try that now.
If you spelled out the skin name correctly (glitch) I can't find it here on WC.
As far as how you are changing the colors I'm not even sure how to get to that window. I can't find it using WB or SKS. so you know as far as I know all us skinners use SKS. I do know that some people do like to change what they can or a couple things using WB. I mentioned email because you could send screenshots. Yes you can show them here but I prefer not to use a thread for a possible many back and fourth exchanges.
Please understand changing text colors unless you are very experienced can be hard. Do something in one area that fixes your situation later to fine out it messed with an area you didn't want to change. I also don't know what window version you are using.
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This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. I download a Windowblind, (sometimes ones that I have paid for) and there will be font color conflicts. I don't know how many blinds I have loaded where there will be a dark font on a dark background or the opposite with light colors on light backgrounds. People should not have to go into Skinstudio and mess with the color settings to get things right. Skins are suppose to be tested right? Sometimes colors will be fine on one operating system but not on another and I dual boot windows 7 and 10 so I can easily compare how skins work.
There are lots of examples that I can give but the one that comes to mind is the search bars both on the start panel and explorer. I get a lot that have black font on dark search boxes. I am getting old and on top of that diabetes has taken a toll on my eye site so I cannot read something like that, not to mention small font but that is another rant for another time.
JC. As far as the startmenu search text color. Actually it can be changed on win 10. However on 7 it can't. So on 10 you can use an image that matches the SM. However on 7 a skinner has to make a choice to match a darker skin with a darker image or use a light one that doesn't match well. You know which way that goes. I made a thread on 6/22/18 and mentioned this and asked if it can be looked into for win 7. All I received on the entire thread was the standard reply passing it on to support. Nothing. I even asked if it couldn't be done for that answer. Nothing.
Not quite sure exactly what you mean, but if I've marked the right taskbar piece in this picture, you change it in SkinStudio in the section I've marked up. Let me know if that gets you there.
I understand but its not only the search box, I have encountered the problem in other places as well. I was just giving an example because even with Windows 10 there is sometimes dark search bar font on dark boxes and I don't understand why it is up to the person who downloads the skin to edit things in skinstudio. I have been told on a couple different occasions by different people that something could not be changed or that they did not know how to change something and I went into skinstudio and figured it out myself, now when someone tells me something cannot be changed I just say OK, and do not bother using or buying the skin.
Hey Dave, it's one of Kitty's (Vampithoka) Master skin that he is trying to change text colors on.
Link: https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/search/Glitch
Ken in your reference about "Skins are suppose to be tested right?" well, we are only human, and so are those that test our skins, mistakes happen, we are not perfect. Now, if they're numerous skins of mine that are having these issues, I can't fix them, if it's not brought to my attention, believe me, I try my best to get everything.
Ken in your reference about "Skins are suppose to be tested right?" well, we are only human, and so are those that test our skins, mistakes happen, we are not perfect. Now, if they're numerous skins of mine that are having these issues, I can't fix them, if it's not brought to my attention, believe me, I try my best to get everything.
I am not singling anyone out Don, it happens with everyone and I am not about to take the time to start loading all my blinds to say which ones have issues. Yes everyone is human but maybe there should be at least 3 testers if possible. I openly volunteered a couple years back making it known in the forums that i would be willing to test blinds but no one took me up on it, I am not saying that I am a better tester than anyone else but I am one more tester and I would even be willing to pay for the blind (especially if issues I discovered were fixed) that I am testing, I am not looking for freebies but blinds I purchase I expect to work reasonably well, I just want to be able to see the font, that's all.
Guys, please this skin is great, I just would like to see different colors than the ones it came with like there is a lot of grey but I would rather it be black with the green from the skin used in things like menu's the startbar, etc. I'm kind of poking around with the change colors and I'm fixing and breaking at the same time because I don't know my targets. I don't like messing with artists work belive me, I have skinstudio and still can't seem to figure it out. @davebax I'll try PM, also Don5318 thanks for helping pointing to the skin I'm talking about.
Will see if I can help from telling me the location. Not paying $10 for a skin anyone makes.
People seem to like dark skins better so we all try to throw a few in. Text is always a problem with dark images. Make every image dark and all the text White and let me know how that works out for anyone.
If a situation of text comes up it may not be able to be fixed with a text change. Now a lighter image will work. Start putting lighter images in certain locations then people will bitch about that and why isn't it dark. I't not as easy to just change a text color as wanted in some areas.
If asked and the person who made the skin doesn't have an answer I think there is a return policy within a certain time. Not a 100% sure however but know I have heard it happen in the past. just don't know if it was an easy task or hard one to get the money back.
Wonder how many people would want a dark startmenu with a White search area and also in the frame. My guess is not many if any. Best solution is lets get another 6 or more people to start and make a WindowBlind. That is the best possible way too see how hard it actually is to make a totally perfect WB.
"stetsis" you did nothing wrong but ask a question. Just seems anytime a text color question is asked it comes down to the skinner not knowing what they are doing. Last, if SKS was ever revised many of these situations would not happen. However SKS is what it is and for the most part works fine once you figure it out.
Dave, if you were implying that I was bitching (not saying you were) than I guess I can admit that I was bitching a little. I also understand that there can be difficulties in making a blind 100% usable, I am not even talking about perfect. I think the big issue is with the color of the skins themselves. If someone makes a skin with a unique color (usually a dark color) then they have to start making all sorts of images and colors to match the skin and that is when things can go wrong. That being said I have downloaded several dark skins including some of yours that have had no color issues so I know it can be done. I also know that I have been told before by skinners that something could not be changed but I went into skinstudio and made the changes, not because I am better then the creator of the blind, (I am not), but because I am stubborn and if something bugs me I will spend hours trying to figure something out.
Actually, I am hesitate at first to write anything with regard with dark theme master skin. But since I was just recently released my dark master skin, I feel somehow, I need to say something.
1st. If anyone have any problem with any of my skin, please let me know. I would love to work with anybody to solve it within reasonable request.
2nd. As a designer of Windowblinds, I can only speak for myself, after 18+ years of it, I still find new things in Skinstudios. Sometimes rediscovering how to do things. So I am not surprise, if someone else can figure out how to do it while someone else said it can't be done.
3rd. err... I forget, never mind.
Take care everyone. Its way pass my bed time.
I prefer the phrase "selectively persistent"
I prefer the phrase "selectively persistent"
That works.
You and I both. I by accident found not long ago about the SM search text color text. Of course it only works for win 10.
No not really. What I do think however is when you find a text you can't see but know how to change it. first and yes it's not your job. But I would let the person that made it know about it. I know I would want to know. If you are brushed off nothing you can do. I think the few people actually making WB's are open people.
In fact I think it would be a good idea to point out to everyone when a very hard location to read text was available to see. Let me put it this way. You can point out and/or contact me anytime you see a situation.
Also a lot of the text problems with dark skins are the backgrounds. Images and color. Some areas it's much easier to make the BG lighter then mess with the text as messing with the text may also change an area color you really don't want to change. So if I want to leave the text Black I just make the BG lighter. I also enjoy reading text when possible.
I think there are like 8 people making WB's now. Was 7 but thank goodness Z71 started to make and upload his great skins again after time off. So there is still choice available for all.
We need to stay together and enjoy what we still have left. Think you all will agree with that.
No not really. What I do think however is when you find a text you can't see but know how to change it. first and yes it's not your job. But I would let the person that made it know about it. I know I would want to know. If you are brushed off nothing you can do. I think the few people actually making WB's are open people. In fact I think it would be a good idea to point out to everyone when a very hard location to read text was available to see. Let me put it this way. You can point out and/or contact me anytime you see a situation.Also a lot of the text problems with dark skins are the backgrounds. Images and color. Some areas it's much easier to make the BG lighter then mess with the text as messing with the text may also change an area color you really don't want to change. So if I want to leave the text Black I just make the BG lighter. I also enjoy reading text when possible.I think there are like 8 people making WB's now. Was 7 but thank goodness Z71 started to make and upload his great skins again after time off. So there is still choice available for all. We need to stay together and enjoy what we still have left. Think you all will agree with that.[/quote]
Yup, but its not like I have been silent, I have made suggestions and pointed things out before. Anyway, I guess I need to shut up now, I am sure I pissed a few people off enough and I have kind of hijacked this thread.
No I don't think anyone is pissed. As far as a hijack. Also not really as I'm working with this person another way.
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"I hope this answers your questions, this is William Kentridge in my studio in Johannesburg on May Day, the 1st of May, a quiet studio day." With these words the world-famous contemporary artist William Kentridge concludes the audio recording he sent me as a reply to my email with questions. While listening to the recording, I almost feel like I'm there in the studio as well. I hear the sound of the piece of paper crackling in Kentridge's hands, an occasional bird chirping in the background and at one point a plane is flying over.
Doing an interview via email and recorded audio might seem as a really distant way of communicating, but it can actually feel really personal and up close. The distant approach makes it possible to hear someone speak his mind directly into your ear, without any distractions a regular personal interaction can bring about. There is no response needed, there's only one open channel sending out a stream of thought-provoking ideas and stories. Below you will find the transcript of Kentridge's answers to eight questions related to the Holland Festival and the theme of 'landloosheid'. Questions about home, the politics of uncertainty, the absurd and the best advice he ever received.
What makes a place a home, where do you feel at home, and have you ever felt like your home has disappeared?
"Home is a place where when you arrive, they have to let you in. When estate agents are […] trying to sell you a home, you say to them: 'No, a home [is something] one has, what one wants to buy is a house'. So, there's a sentimentality and nostalgia implicit in the word 'home' – as I suppose shown clearly in E.T. with 'Phone Home, Phone home' – which makes me a little bit weary.
Where does one feel comfortable and at ease in the world? [For me it's in] many different places: in the physical home in which I live in, in my studio – which feels like home – and in the context of collaborators […] where there is the ease of contact, of communication and familiarity, of not being on your guard, that makes one feel at home.
Conversely of course, in South Africa one is much less at ease at home than one is when traveling abroad. There's a sense of danger at street corners, around the house at night: a product of the violent crime levels in Johannesburg. Which means there's a vigilance associated with being at home in Johannesburg […]. Which is why, when sometimes arriving in a European city where one can walk the streets at night and spend one's time in outdoor cafes, one feels: 'Ah, this is what home could be.'"
Home is a place where when you arrive, they have to let you in.
You mentioned earlier that the art of animation, almost automatically, builds in an element of uncertainty. For the films don't have a script or storyboard but evolve naturally in a process of adding, erasing and experimenting with drawings and images. They show a process of thinking. By not knowing the answer in advance, it demonstrates the agency we all have in understanding the world. Are there some certainties you can always fall back on, despite using the positive force of uncertainty?
"Yes, uncertainty is often used rhetorically. So, there's no uncertainty in what it was to oppose apartheid for all the years of my childhood, adolescence and younger adulthood. But there's a big uncertainty in how one constructs a society afterwards. Uncertainty means also leaving the space for many different possible answers and solutions. It's easier to be more certain about critiques, than positive programs. As we know, all the questions about development and foreign aid are not certainties, they're full of vexed questions: whether you give people fishing nets, whether you give them fish or whether you give them food aid – we often know the way in which food aid has destroyed farming economies of people. So, the things which one assumes should be certainties: we know people shouldn't starve and people should all have food, but the long-term ways of the consequences give us pause. They're are often different solutions to big questions and there one should try to make a space for a multiplicity of answers."
You have spoken earlier about how art reveals that we don't perceive the world as passive receivers but that we are the ones constructing meaning and are shaping the world around us. You also said that the world can be seen as a process of unfolding, the same thing can have a very different meaning or form in a different context. Politics of (un)certainty play a role here. This reminds me of the commencement speech 'This is Water' by David Foster Wallace, where he emphasizes the importance of 'learning how to think' and actively choosing what to think and deciding which things get to have 'meaning' and which don't. Wallace's point of departure is that we have to question our 'default setting', our ego, and to have more critical awareness of ourselves and our certainties. How do you choose what to give meaning?
"There's a kind of clarity of judgement in his formulation which feels very alien to me, and I wouldn't follow that. As if one decides in advance: 'these things are worthy of our attention and these things are not worthy of our attention'. My experience – and this is the experience of making art – is that there are many projects which start off as projects we should not give our serious attention to. [Projects] which are at the edges of what I'm doing, but which during the course of making them have turned into very central […] ways of working. And so, this deciding, before you are engaged with something, whether to give it any importance or not seems to me very unhelpful.
I know that of course we fall back onto our usual comforts of what gives pleasure, what gives us anxiety, and try not to work through those. But that's a real psychoanalytic question of how we challenge ourselves, how we stop repeating the symptoms of a neurosis again and again. And I'm not sure it can be solved through decision-making, saying: 'this I choose to affect me and this I choose not to affect me'. That's a little bit like Lenin saying I choose not to be affected by these people starving, because if more people starve, the revolution will get quicker. […]
Talking about giving meaning is always connected to how one responds to something emotionally [… and] how one goes through the world. And there, one's only hope is to keep track of one's emotional attractions and repulsions, which in the end will reveal who you are. It's very hard to try to decide in theory who you want to be or that we could decide that easily how to remake ourselves as human beings."
My experience – and this is the experience of making art – is that there are many projects which start off as projects we should not give our serious attention to.
The work The Head & the Load combines a horrible history of (unrecorded) death and suffering with a manner of storytelling related to Dadaism and the absurd. How did you bring these two elements together? Or how are they already related?
"The Head & the Load has both the kind of a sober history and the absurd, as you correctly point out. Our experience from working of Ubu and the Truth Commission - which was a combination of documentary evidence from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa and the absurdist form of Alfred Jarry's Ubu - was that the closer we bought the documentary material together with the comic-grotesque or Jarry, the more the comic-grotesque was given a gravitas by the documentary material and the form of the comic-grotesque made us see and hear the documentary material in a different and deeper way.
Our trouble with documentary material [is that] we're so used to documentaries and terrible documentaries on television and film, that they get glided over very easily. And the only way to try to get out of it in the film and documentary medium is through horror and shock. We were trying a different approach, an experiment - which maybe didn't work - of a different combination.
There's also a deeper answer to the question and that has to do with the belief in the absurd as a way of describing the world. The absurd as a kind of naturalism. If one wants to describe apartheid, one falls into the absurd immediately, because the whole system of the racial segregation became absurd. There's a break in logic and then you follow this broken logic to the nth degree. So, you end up testing who people are by whether a pencil or stick is in their hair or not. The absurd is not the English idea of the joke or the stupid or the silly, but the understanding of a logic that shifted out of a cartesian rationality."
If one wants to describe apartheid, one falls into the absurd immediately, because the whole system of the racial segregation became absurd.
What does 'being an associate artist' to the Holland Festival mean to you? Do you feel these kinds of roles are important to play as an artist, anno 2019, within a manifestation like the Holland Festival?
"It's the first time I've done this. I'm discovering what it is. I was interested to do it because there's a particular work from The Centre for the Less Good Idea, the small art centre we have in Johannesburg, which I thought should be seen by a wider audience than the audience we get in Johannesburg. Both in itself and for the artists involved to have a chance of showing their work more widely and hopefully getting other invitations to show that, and other work that they would make.
I see myself absolutely not as a curator of this kind of festival, although within the centre I do understand that the experience I have – having worked in many festivals and many different mediums and theatrical forms – does make it possible for me to help people jump over hurdles which seem insuperable to them within their work. So, it's more of a kind of mentoring that I see a role for myself in at this stage of my trajectory, more than becoming an artistic director of a festival."
Are there specific elements of artistic practice or approach that you share with (fellow associate artist of the Holland Festival) Faustin Linyekula?
"I think Faustin and I, we share the need and the pleasure in making studio spaces or art centres in each of our cities. As a lifesaving thing for ourselves: to find the collaborators we want to work with in other projects and to build a community of which we are part – rather than just doing something for other people. It has both a selfish and immediate element to it, but it also has a sense of helping to make a city like Johannesburg more livable. To make a space in which there is a meeting point for artists, and musicians and filmmakers to work together in a supportive and manageable way. To not having to produce a Hollywood movie or Broadway musical, but to find the pleasure of the energy that comes with different genres and different artists sparking ideas that each would not have had on their own."
I think Faustin and I, we share the need and the pleasure in making studio spaces or art centres in each of our cities.
What is the best advice you have ever received?
"I think the only advice I never received is what one kind of already knows and the advice serves to reaffirm or to confirm an impulse. […] But I think the most helpful piece of advice I got was from the great South African photographer, David Goldblatt, who died in the last six months. When I was a young artist and I asked him how he knew what to photograph, he said: 'In the end it doesn't matter what you photograph, what you'll always be photographing are your fears and your desires and whatever the subject; in the end the work will be about you. If it's pretentious, that tells you about yourself, if it's too modest it tells you who you are also.' So, in the end the work becomes a sort of self-portrait of the longue durée."
In the end it doesn't matter what you photograph, what you'll always be photographing are your fears and your desires and whatever the subject; in the end the work will be about you.
You work internationally and are a globally recognized and renowned artist. At what moment did you learn to have all this ambition?
"There are two stories here, the one where we were young students with some friends, we sat around the dinner table and I said 'All right, let's think ten years from hence, what will be the best outcome that you could imagine for yourself, what could be the worst outcome you could imagine for yourself and what do you think is the most likely outcome?' And of course, what was terrifying with that, for some people their most likely outcome was close to their worst imagining, and for others their most likely outcome was close to their best. And at that stage, with no expectation of it, I said what I would like best would be to be invited to do exhibitions in different museums and to be invited to do different projects for those exhibitions in museums.
So, I suppose that was at the age of 25, that idea of wanting the work to be seen in an institutional context with a kind of enthusiasm for new work being made.
The other story in this regard was when I did my first big, international project, which was a project at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in which I was showing a new film. Exactly the kind of dream I'd had when I was much younger. I found I was very frustrated with the projectors they bought, [they] were not the right quality and the walls weren't painted quite the colour. I was getting more and more frustrated with the specifics of the installation, which were the same as the installations in all the small galleries I'd ever done, and I don't know why I thought it was going to be different in MoMA. But at a certain point I had to step back and say: 'You're now 40, you have to imagine yourself at 18 or 25 and say to this 18-year-old self: Here you are, in the Museum of Modern Art, having you work shown next to the Picassos, the Cézannes and the Matisses. Just get a grip on yourself and enjoy the moment, not for you now, but on behalf of your 25-year-old self.'"
William Kentridge and Faustin Linyekula are the associate artists of the Holland Festival 2019. Kentridge's latest production: The Head & The Load opens the festival on the 29th of May.


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As various diseases spread around the globe, the need for reliable information has never been greater. The African Cup of Nations and Gilead Sciences used a HTML5 game to improve …Read more
As various diseases spread around the globe, the need for reliable information has never been greater. The African Cup of Nations and Gilead Sciences used a HTML5 game to improve …Read more
Games are often used to help increase brand awareness and customer engagements during events and holidays. Mostly, these games are built with HTML5 technology in order to be playable by …Read more
Most luxury brands are stepping out of the runway to find new avenues where they can market their products. Bobbies, a luxury shoe brand, have worked with developers to create …Read more
HTML5 Social Awareness Games are digital platforms that educate players in a more entertaining way. Recently, an IT organization used a game called Millionaire Human Rights Quiz to help their …Read more
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Traditional advertising strategies can burn your marketing budget, despite its effectiveness. Thankfully, the advancement of mobile devices fostered the boom of HTML5 playable ads. These ads are mini-games that give …Read more
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Kunda is a traditional sweet popularly made in Belgaum. The delectable sweet can be easily made at home, the key ingredient being patience. Pure, wholesome Sarda Farms milk creates some mouth-watering magic when combined with sugar and fresh Sarda farms dahi to make this rich Kunda.
- 1 litre Sarda Farms milk
- 1 -1¼ cup sugar
- ¾ - 1 cup Sarda Farms dahi
- (optional) Sliced almonds and or pistachios for garnish
In a heavy bottom pan boil the milk and simmer to reduce it to 1/3rd quantity.
Stir in between so that it does not stick at the bottom.
In another pan melt half the quantity of sugar and heat on medium till it caramelises.
Add about ¾ cup dahi and remaining sugar to the milk and stir.
The milk will curdle and the whey will separate out.
If you find that the whey is milky,add more dahi .
Carefully the caramelised sugar to the curdled milk. The mixture will spurt so be careful. The caramelised sugar adds a brown-golden hue to the kunda.
Stir and heat on medium-low till the moisture has evaporated
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Dear Mr. Dawkins,
This is my atheist testimony, I do hope you read it.
Your book the God Delusions states in its preface: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down". Well your goal was not quite reached, it took over 4 years in total, however I only read the first 4 chapters before my outrage overcame me, so maybe that is why. However I have to admit that it was your book that initially set me thinking critically about my faith. It made me realize that my faith was not infallible and led me to ask questions I might not have asked. You always complain that people with faith simply won't listen to the evidence. Reading your book caused me to listen to the evidence.
My conversion began when I moved to Manchester to study Theoretical Physics at the University Of Manchester. This was key in my realization that God is imaginary, constantly providing satisfying answers when my religious delusions couldn't. Attending a decent, bible teaching, certainly church did NOT help. The more I learnt about christian theology, the less comfortable I was with the answers. Every question I had was answered, sure, but I always left discontent, leaving science and reason ready to provide, not only a more logically satisfying explanation, but a more thrilling, comforting and magical one. I trust you know the definition of magical I mean. I learnt it from you.
Your debates with John Lennox perplexed me also, as did reading his book. As much as I agreed with him, I constantly found your stance more appealing.
The works of Tim Minchin and SMBC comics (and others) humourously pointed out logical flaws in my faith and Derren Brown (again, and others) enhanced my belief that the world is rational and everything has a rational explanation. These combined works, as well as James Randi and others made me remember that I firmly believe that all other magic (supernatural) phenomena are complete bullshit (homeopathy, pyschics, etc). This is not a stance that the bible takes by the way. On at least one occasion, a character in the bible (Old Testament Saul, if your interested) visits a medium for advice, who then communicates with a dead guy for him. This was a majot turning point for me, when I realized that the bible took seriously things which I completely dismiss as fraudulent.
These days, I am a changed man. I am now working through every audiobook I can find of your works. I hope you read this so you can explain to me the absence of Climbing Mount Improbable as I am anxious to listen to it. Thank you for being so instrumental in my conversion.


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"The Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) congratulates the entire team at Virgin Galactic (VG) for the first successful glide test of the VSS Unity." said Eric Stallmer, president of CSF. "This puts the VG team one step closer to their goal of making access to space frequent and safe. We are anxiously awaiting to see what great things they do in the upcoming new year."
According to the team at VG, "this marks the the first ever free flight by Unity, the first SpaceShip built by our in-house manufacturing team." Its flight was completed at Mojave Air & Spaceport, another CSF member company.
"This successful flight is a great accomplishment by Virgin Galactic, and another exciting step forward on the road to the coming era of commercial suborbital spaceflight." said Alan Stern, Chairman of the Board of CSF and Associate Vice President of Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute.
The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is the leading voice for the commercial spaceflight industry. Founded in 2006, CSF and its 70+ members are laying the foundation for a sustainable space economy and democratizing access to space for scientists, students, civilians, and businesses. CSF members are responsible for the creation of thousands of high-tech jobs driven by billions of dollars in investment. Through the promotion of technology innovation, CSF is guiding the expansion of Earth's economic sphere, bolstering U.S. leadership in aerospace, and inspiring America's next generation of engineers and explorers.


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Between the hats, misc. items, and weapon variations, has anybody gotten to thinking of their mercs as completely different characters? For instance, my Heavy (large luchador, purity fist, brass beast, warrior's spirit) has morphed into a cybernetic Russian luchador who serves a puppet of the soviet state, my scout (Mann Co. cap, Shortstop, pistol) is a no-nonsense professional merc, and my pyro (hoodie, detonator, degreaser, powerjack) is some kinda feral mutant who only fights with weapons constructed with junkyard refuse.
Who else does this? Any particularly entertaining alterations out there?
When I play the game, I'm pretty much fulfilling my shameless self insertion fantasies, and I also see my teammates as all OCs. The actual canon classes are probably playing in some Top Tier Super Serious Competitive League (though they may occasionally come down to play with us plebs for the lulz).
This is how I see it, too, more or less.
My Pyro (Gibus, Stockbroker's Tie) is a quiet guy who happens to like dressing up as if he were sophisticated and my Demoman (Scotch Bonnet/Ullapool/LnL) worked with the police at some point defusing crowds when they get too rowdy at those riots; that's how he lost his eye.
I do the reverse: create an OC, dress up like them in-game.
I was just RP'ing my Soldier, who wears the Grenadier's Softcap, and checked the Valve Store...they made two real-life versions. I need.
Just what the title says. I don't know how many of you drink, but a friend and I were trying to come up with some ideas and wanted to see what TF2chan could come up with.
So let's share ideas? Any kind of clue what an alcoholic Atomic Bonk would taste like? Or maybe a Jarate drink?
Completely forgot about Bonk! I did. Do this, but maybe use Monster Energy drinks for more fruity flavors, since you might want to offer both Cherry Fission and Blutoniun Berry flavors. Might even skip out completely on the alcohol bit and just make it the most hyped-up caffeinated drink you can manage without killing anybody.
And serving whatever the Mad Milk drink would be in an old fashioned glass milk bottle would be pretty cool.
I once made a drink called a "Flaming Sinner" for a Brimstone story I wrote. It was Goldschlager, red hots and a few hits of hot sauce. And you can set it on fire before you drink it.
It would make the perfect Pyro drink. Hot, in both senses of the word.
Jarate would be a mason jar full of warm Thunderbird Fortified Wine.
Show off your named items, boys and gals!
I start with something I really really had to do. Because Swedish Power Metal rocks. The song in question (the title means something along the lines of "Swift Victory") is about the Allies invading Berlin. Fits, imo.
Now it's your turn!
Although there's still one more reference, but you probably need to be a /k/ommando to get it.
And my Dead Ringer now has the description 'I don't know who you are, what you do, where you go when you're not around'. (It was almost 'You got the kind of eyes that do more than see', but...)
Of course, I never really play as Spy, so I never really use it, but it was worth it to me.
Haberdashery. Haberdashery never changes.
"All Anal on the Western Front"
"Kid Vegas Watch Me Camp, Bitch"
"Yank My Doodle, It's a Dandy"
"Anal Fireball" - had to throw one in there for the Pyro fans...
"1001 Ways to Eat my Jizz: Biscuits and Gravy Edition"
"Schindler's Fist"
"Crocodile Done Me"
"Three Men and a Barbie"
I was planning on doing a calendar (personal for me) with the art I have been commissioning from KG Bigelow. I have reference pics of real guys for the characters and everything (well, Solly and Engie and Medic were unreferenced), but I have my ones for Scout and Heavy ready. This one is Scout. (Dat Ass!)
and this one was/is Heavy (I dunno, I may go with the one she already did, or something else).
And this one was going to be Heavy's Dick. Yes, I posted it elsewhere in another thread.
We finally got the metal fed shotgun!
However anyone may feel about these weapons' balance, this is still introducing weapons with new concepts, especially those engie weapons.
What I'm curious about is what slot the Short Circuit will fill and how the animations would work. The secondary? If so, then how will engie hold a wrench? I'm assuming that it's a prosthetic just like the gunslinger.
Also, though one might complain that these items don't fit with TF2's original atmosphere of the 1950s, it only makes it that much easier for enterprising modders to reskin more of TF2 into a futuristic sci-fi shooter.
Not exactly update per se, but apparently the spiral sallet's an all class hat now?
I think it was supposed to be from Day 1 according to the official wiki.
If I use Steam Achievement Manager to delete all my achievements except the milestones will my achievement items be deleted?
And If they do will the items I crafted using the achievement items be deleted too?
Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
so you can't restart your achievements when you get them all (or most at least). I don't want any more items, I just wanna go for them again
Play the Beta and you can get all of them again. Not the exact same thing, but there's no chance of getting VAC banned.
Help me TF2chan!
I accidentally the world's fattest man!
Is that you, Claire
So, what do you guys think of this new promo?
Personally love it. Only problem i find with it is the item name is derpy.
>The El Jefe
>The The Boss
Still, love to hear your opinions of it.
It's okay. Much better than that other hair hat abomination.
AUGH, he reminds me of that Dance Heavy face! Gah!
But overall, it looks pretty nice. Got that European Renaissance look.
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What I wanna hear from you guys is just different ways you play with friends or on servers, to keep things interesting and fresh. Like rules that everyone abides by to make it different. To me these end up feeling just as special as the game mods out there like Saxton Hale and Zombie Fortress.
Things me and my friends have played around with:
Engie Chess - Arena mode, engineers only, frontier justice, gunslinger, wrangler.
Engie Chess v2 - Arena, engineers only, can only use Widowmaker and short circuit. (buildables are optional)
Hunters and Hunted - Arena, blue team can only be shotgun heavies(hunters), Red team is melee scouts(deer).
Hunters and Hunted v2 - Arena, Blue team can be any class with shotgun, red team can be (bull) demoman with targ and bottle, (deer) melee scout, (crocodile) Sniper with shiv and darwin danger shield, (bear) heavy with warrior's spirit.
Cowboys - Any class with pistols. Pistols only. (cowboy accents encouraged but not required)
You guys got any good ones?
Back when I use to play on console, me and 2 other friends would play a game we would like to call Engie Soccer. We usually played this on 2fort, seeing as it was the most common map when on consoles when me and my friends still played, so we would place dispensers on each side of the bridge and then have our other friend be Demoman and shoot down a single sticky. From then we would shoot/wrench the sticky back and forth until it passed one side of the bridge. The way we determined who lost was who's disperser was destroyed by the sticky first. It was a silly game but we seemed to have fun with it.
I guess you don't have any replay (or links to one) to show us?
They don't have replays on console, and either way, stickies being destroyed on hitscan was patched in long ago.
Rafflan thread.
I love you all
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Dr. Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, was sworn in as Secretary of Energy on January 21, 2009. Prior to being selected by President Obama to head a department with a $23 billion budget and over 100,000 federal employees, Chu was head of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Chu was recognized by the Nobel committee for developing methods to cool and trap atoms.
In his confirmation hearing, Chu, 60, backpedaled on previous criticisms that he had made of the coal industry and support for hiking gas prices. During his hearing, Chu said he supported the development of "clean coal" and believed that rising fuel prices imperiled the economy. Chu has stated that climate change will be one of his chief concerns as secretary, and also voiced his support for the development of nuclear power and U.S. oil and gas drilling.
At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an Energy Department research lab, Chu was credited with shifting the lab's focus to the development of renewable energies. He also served as professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Chu also chaired the physics department at Stanford University from 1990 to 1993 and 1999 to 2001; and headed the quantum electronics research department at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1983 to 1987.Chu received an undergraduate degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.


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Did you know that the Hawaiian Islands have wildfires? According to the Hawaiian Wildfire Management Organization, about 0.5% of Hawaii's total land area burns annually, as much or more than the proportion of land are burned in any other US state. In Hawaii, 98% of wildfires are human caused. These ignitions, along with increasing non-native fire prone grasses and shrubs and a warming, drying climate, contribute to an increase in the wildfire problem in the islands.
Wildfire in Hawaii, like anywhere else, threatens the safety of firefighters, residents and homes. It also causes damage to the air quality, which impacts human health, and contributes to soil erosion problems that can cause damage to sensitive coral reefs. One of the partners in Hawaii working to help lessen the loss due to wildfire in Hawaii is the Hawaiian Wildfire Management Organization (HWMO). They are a small nonprofit organization that has been working together with fire departments, the Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife, communities and others to help develop Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) and Firewise Communities. The HWMO was officially founded in 2000 by a group of South Kohala/North Kona regional experts who wanted to create a non-profit organization to serve as an arm for the fire suppression and land management agencies to conduct prevention, pre-suppression, and post-fire work. They became incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2002. Since then, they have grown to not only address wildfire issues for all of Hawaii Island, but also the entire state and some of the Western Pacific (namely Yap, Palau, Guam).
According to Pablo Beimler, Coordinator with HWMO, "Although we have a small staff, HWMO is continually able to accomplish a number of projects due to its extensive partnerships. We can't say it enough: by staying in communication with their partners on each project, and expanding partnerships where needed, they are able to ensure our projects stay grounded and effective."
The organization has helped create 12 CWPPs that include the entire island of Kauai, western Ohau, Western Maui, South Maui, Upcountry Maui, Molokai, Northwest Hawaii Island, North Kona, South Kona, Ocean View, Kau, and Volcano. The organization helped a new community, Kanehoa Subdivision in Kamuela, receive Firewise recognition in 2015. Pablo Beimler also shared that, "We are working with communities starting to become Firewise, including: Waialea, Waikii Ranch, Waikoloa Village andPuako on Hawaii Island; Pii Lani Mai and Ke Kai (Anahola Hawaiian Homes) on Kauai; Kula Hawaiian Homes on Maui; and finally Palehua on Oahu." HWMO aims to assist at least 10 communities across the state to become Firewise during 2016.
HWMO staff have been in contact with committee members from Kohala By the Sea, (a recognized Firewise Community since 2004) including their new chair, who has helped provide them lessons learned about their Firewise successes. Pablo says, "It's challenging enough to gather a community together to work for a common goal, but to continually work together for a number of years and achieve Firewise status is admirable and has become a model for the other Firewise Community efforts. We look forward to continuing to share KBS's successes with the other communities through work day events and meet-and-greets."
Pablo described other wildfire preparedness projects in which HWMO is involved. "We have a Firewise demonstration garden in Waikoloa Village, where we have a number of native, drought-tolerant plants growing strategically around a demo home to give community members an example of good defensible space practices. Our team has held a number of community events at the garden and have had a youth environmental empowerment group called the Malama Kai Ocean Warriors help be the 'stewards' of the garden. In terms of other youth outreach, we also go to numerous schools and youth programs to teach students about wildfire prevention and preparedness, including Firewise and Ready, Set, Go! principles. We also hold community wildfire preparedness workshops for various organizations/groups or for the general public where we give people a run-down on Firewise and Ready, Set, Go!."
The NFPA Wildland Fire team would like to take the opportunity to say Mahalo (thank you) to the Hawaiian Wildfire Management Organization for their enthusiastic and effective outreach and for using NFPA's Firewise Communities/USA® Recognition Program to help residents in the South Pacific understand wildfire and work together to lessen their risk of loss.


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There are many exciting things that *could* be happening with JITC's mission, but so many are in that in between phase:
I handed my book proposal into an agent, but no answer yet, so I wait….
I was offered an opportunity to write an article for a major news outlet which could be amazing exposure for JITC, but there's no guarantee that they'll publish the piece, so I wait…
A well-known Jewish celebrity has agreed to be in a JITC video, but we haven't nailed down a filming date yet, so I wait…
A national television interview looks like it will be happening – well two, actually. But they haven't been scheduled yet. Soon – I've been told. Just a little more – waiting…
I've put in my hishtadlus (effort), and now I'll daven (pray) for their success – and ask you all to do the same. And then, no matter what happens with any of these possibilities, I'll accept them with bitachon (trust in God) that it's all for the best.
But boy, do I hate waiting……..
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Malka : June 29, 2012 at 3:37 pm
Good luck! You are the best.
Reva Solomon : June 29, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Mazel Tov on all the possibilities you've put out there – I'm a very visual person and when I'm in the "waiting" position think of myself sitting in the hallway waiting for a door to open – looking forward to reading about all your good news – Reva
Fashion-isha : July 1, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Wishing you success in every single one! You've earned it and your fab!


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If a movie manages to create one relatable, compelling character, it sits ahead of the curve. If everyone on screen is a complex soul, it's nearly unrivaled.Such is the case with The Way, Way Back, the second theatrical feature from writers Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (after The Descendants, for which they won an Oscar.) The writers also make their directorial debuts here, and appear in supporting roles.Fourteen-year-old Duncan (Liam James) is in the custody of his embattled mother Pam (Toni Collette) and her new boyfriend, alpha-male Trent (Steve Carell, in a very new mode.) They're bound for Trent's beach house, sequestering Duncan in an anonymous seaside town full of adults behaving badly; with little to do, Duncan gravitates toward Owen (Sam Rockwell), the charismatic manager of a throwback water park.The Way, Way Back has aesthetic similarities with a long line of lost-summer movies, but its concerns are character-driven. Owen's Gen-X slacker-royalty act is entrancing to young teenagers, but exasperating to his loved ones; Pam's imprisoned by fears about her future. And Duncan is struggling to figure out how to act in an environment where he knows there's no one worth emulating .


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Hello All;
Due to personal reasons and Gods great sovereignty over everything in our lives;
We are homeschooling the boy this year.
So what I would like to ask you is…… HELP ME!!!!!
I have no idea what I am doing, i know there is 800 different home-school methods and ideas and factions and co-ops and and and …..
Here is a little synopsis of our situation, then please, please, please comment!
Boy: 10th grade
his scheduled classes from TBS:
Rosetta Stone (latin)
Strength and Development
English II
Bible II
Leadership (he was elected to be class secretary)
So we would like to stay with these classes in case He goes back to his private baptist school next year.
My ideas:
get him a computer, do a program that includes both computer and paper work.
someone else grading his papers and keeping his grades.
We can do a strength training program here, i have great program for him (but don't know how to make it a credited class)
We can get him a Rosetta Stone program.
Do I need to be accredited somewhere? Who needs to be contacted that he is homeschooled?
Will these credits be transferrable to either his old school or a running start program next year?
How do co-ops work?
Yeah, basically I know nothing, so use baby words when leaving a comment.
🙂 my head right now is whirling.
thanks for the help in advance.
God's Peace, Kristina
1 A good name is to be more desired than great wealth,
Favor is better than silver and gold.
2 The rich and the poor have a common bond,
The LORD is the maker of them all.
3 The prudent sees the evil and hides himself,
But the naive go on, and are punished for it.
4 The reward of humility and the fear of the LORD
Are riches, honor and life.
5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.
6 Train up a child in he way he should go,
Even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22


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From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of the mainland coast, to the biggest terrestrial machines ever built in Germany, to psychedelic potash mines in Russia's Ural Mountains, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia and surreal lithium evaporation ponds in the Atacama desert, this intersection of art and science bears witness to a critical moment in geological history.
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Campaign group Baywatch monitored parking at more than 800 stores owned by the 'big four' supermarkets - Sainsbury's, Asda, Safeway and Tesco - last month.
The results show that almost 21% of disabled parking spaces were occupied by cars without a blue parking badge - which compares with 18.5% at the same time last year.
This is in spite of a concerted campaign to tackle to the problem by Baywatch which has the support of the big four.
"Disabled people are sick to death of not being able to park," said Ed Passant, chief executive of the Disabled Drivers' Motor Club.
"Despite all the efforts of the Baywatch campaign, there remains a fundamental problem at local level which needs to be tackled now."
Sainsbury said it ran a poster campaign in December which was supported by in-store announcements and stickers placed on the windscreens of persistent offenders.
"It's a constant problem," admitted Ed Watson of Asda
"It's difficult to force people to move, but we do have people patrolling our car parks at the busiest times of day," said Mr Watson.
"We have run poster campaigns and we're experimenting with a device called 'space hog' - essentially a box that people drive over which triggers a recorded announcement asking whether they really need to use a disabled bay."
And they say the supermarkets are performing less well when rogue parking is brought to their notice: only 30% of disabled customers said stores responded well to complaints, compared with 32% last year.
"Parking at supermarkets is not a luxury; it's a basic necessity to maintain independence."
Tesco has gone a step further than persuasion - reasoning that if drivers are willing to ignore a polite request they are less likely to enjoy paying a hefty fine.
In a trial at one of its Leicester sites, drivers are fined £40 if they don't display a disabled parking badge, rising to £60 if they fail to pay within a week.
In a statement, the company said:
"With the implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act later this year we will be reviewing the allocation of disabled parking spaces in our stores and the means of managing these spaces to comply with this act."
Competition time
As a way of improving the situation, Baywatch is now running a competition in association with the big four.
Disabled customers have until mid-March to nominate their favourite store when it comes to disabled parking, customer relations as well as their worst parking experience.
"We hope in a year's time things will be different," said Tesco spokesman Steve Gracey.
Your comments
I have nothing against the disabled using Blue Badges appropriately and find it reprehensible that people block these spaces. However as a GP I find frequently that Blue Badges are used by those for whom they were not intended (at least by me), especially perfectly able bodied relatives, those trying to dodge the congestion zone etc. That is equally reprehensible.Shahid, London, UK
As person with a disability the results of this survey is not surprising. These bays are essential for people like myself, able bodied people do not seem to care about the problems thay cause by using these bays.Andrew Flavelle, Northern Ireland
I was surprised to find English fines so low. At the university where I taught in South Carolina, the fine for illegally parking in a disabled space was $500. The vehicle might also be towed at the owner's expense. This policy did seem to drive the point home. Sarah D, Tyler, Texas, United States
Most stores think that providing designated spaces is good enough. As a blue badge holder I am always complaining to security guards in stores who just don't want to know because it might upset someone. If people are thick skinned enough to park in a disabled space then they will take no notice of anything apart from a fine or a clamp. On complaining to drivers parking in disabled spaces who do not display blue badges, I have been threatened, abused and called racist. Roger Chainey, Bristol UK
It's high time something was done. Delivery vans and repair vehicles are among the worst offenders in Newport city centre. Often we cannot park in disabled bays because of them. And where there are fines, such as in Cwmbran car parks, the fine is only a measly £20.00. Make the fines really mean something. We often feel like saying to people - have my space and the disability that goes with it. I once saw an episode of HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN in which the angel, seeing a car belonging to an able bodied person parked in a disabled bay, waved his hand and the car turned upside down in the space. How often have I wished I could do that.Ann Sykes, Newport, South Wales
I completely agree. Maybe if all the disabled bays were left free for disabled people they would no longer deem it necessery to park on double yellow lines, 3 feet from the curb, in rush hour traffic.Steve Taylor, Northampton, UK
People without disabled stickers get so browned off. Because there are so many people abusing the system. I¿ve seen drivers with disabled stickers parking their cars in the best places then running to the shop at Olympic speeds to avoid the rain. Bernard Carney, Rochdale
I think that clamping with a release fee should be instigated by all the stores on vehicles which do not display a blue badge. Additionally, I feel very strongly that there are far too many child & parent bays & not enough disabled bays in supermaket car parks. Plus the child & parents bays are often near the entrance/exit to the stores & some of the disabled bays are a lot further away.Lis Spiro, Shoreham, West Sussex
Hmm, while there's certainly a problem, there are inconsiderate drivers on both sides of the disabled badge. Around here, the local supermarkets have Parent & Child spaces which are often filled with vehicles who's owners aren't entitled to be there. Unfortunately, a substantial number of these owners have disabled badges, but find the Parent & Child spaces more convienient when the nearer disabled bays are in use.Gwyn Evans, Lydney, UK
When I have challenged somebody for parking in a disabled space I have been met with abuse and the supermarkets will not intervene. I have also seen the disabled spaces most abused at my local hospital. I have seen hospital workers using the disabled spaces, without a blue badge.Lisa Pesce, Praze-an-beeble,UK
It's all very well for those with disabled badges, who are genuine! I know some people who abuse the blue badge in their cars which are meant for disabled parents who are passengers. And what about the elderly who may not qualify for disabled badges...they may need to park close too and if it means that they have to park in a disabled bay, then so be it. Are you going to fine a pensioner who can't walk far, and who may not be able to get a blue badge?T.H., UK
I'm am an able bodied driver, and find it sickening when I see perfectly fit drivers parking in or using disabled spaces as waiting areas. They should have 'spike strips' surrounding those bays that can be remotely activated in store and not retracted until a fine is paid. They'll think twice about parking there next time.Jason Sheldon, Walsall, West Midlands
I am sadly not surprised to see that your country has the same inconsiderate jerks that we do. It infuriates me when I see people illegally parked in a space that I genuinely need, when they were simply too lazy to walk a couple of extra meters. Yes, I think it is right to fine them. And possibly to tow their car away as well!Rachel, New Orleans, LA, USA
Fine everyone £50 for parking in a disabled bay without a badge on display. I'm sick of seeing fit, healthy people bounding out of their 4x4s in disabled bays. Supermarkets could pump all fines back into improving their disabled facilities, and these lazy arrogant people would simply have to walk an extra 50 yards every time they went shopping.Neil C, East Kilbride, Scotland


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This is a story that has been doing the rounds as a stage-whispered rumor for a short while, but it has now been confirmed that Benedict Cumberbatch will be taking to the London stage next year to appear in a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, at the Barbican Theatre.
It's a Sonia Friedman production, directed by Lyndsey Turner, and it will run from August until October 2015.
Sonia told BBC News that she is "thrilled" to be working with Benedict, calling him "one of the most gifted and exciting actors of his generation".
It's Benedict's first return to the boards since he alternated playing Victor Frankenstein and his Monster with Jonny Lee Miller, in Danny Boyle's 2011 production of Frankenstein.
Booking details will be announced in May (this year), and yes, we'll keep you posted.
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Parole Board Recommends Death for Ohio Stabber
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CN) – Ohio's parole board decided Friday not to recommend clemency for a death-row inmate after considering the testimony of a juror who said he voted to put the man to death based on misleading information about his fraught childhood and drug addiction.
Raymond Tibbetts was sentenced to death for the 1997 stabbing of 67-year-old Fred Hicks in Cincinnati, and was also sentenced to life in prison for stabbing and beating his 42-year-old wife Judith Crawford to death.
In February, Ohio Governor John Kasich granted him a six-month reprieve after one of the jurors at his capital murder trial, Ross Geiger, wrote a letter to Kasich arguing that prosecutors had misled jurors by downplaying the childhood abuse Tibbetts suffered and that he would not have recommended the death penalty if he heard more about Tibbetts' history of drug addiction.
"All of these things lead me to one conclusion and that is that the system was and seems to be today very flawed in this case," Geiger wrote. "Governor, if we are going to have a legal process that can send criminals to death that includes a special phase for mitigation shouldn't we get it right?"
Even though the Ohio Adult Parole Authority had voted in January 2017 to deny the 61-year-old mercy, Kasich asked it to reconsider the case in light of Geiger's letter, which urged the governor to commute his death sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Friday, the parole board published its decision after holding a special meeting on June 14 to consider Geiger's testimony, as well as the arguments of prosecutors and members of the Hicks and Crawford families.
The board again voted 8-1 to deny Tibbetts clemency, concluding that even if the jurors had a fuller picture of his tough childhood and addiction, the result would have been the same.
"While the Parole Board believes that Geiger submitted his letter with the best of intentions, members are not convinced that his decision would have been different had the information been presented in the same manner at trial, when the results would have been deliberated within the jury setting," the decision states. "The vicious and gratuitous murder of Fred Hicks immediately following the brutal slaying of Judith Sue Crawford was so heinous that the mitigation as presented does not outweigh the aggravating factors in this case."
Governor Kasich's office did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment.
The state has scheduled Tibbetts' execution for Oct. 17. It is now up to Kasich to decide whether to grant him clemency.
Tibbetts' attorney Erin Barnhart noted that Kasich was not bound to the board's decision and urged him to overturn the death sentence, which Barnhart called "unjust."
"Mr. Tibbetts faces execution because the jury did not receive complete and accurate information about his background during sentencing proceedings. This was due to ineffective representation by defense attorneys and reinforced by misleading statements by the prosecution," Barnhart said in a prepared statement. "Failing to correct the error caused by these breakdowns in the adversarial process would irreparably damage the integrity of our criminal justice system."
The parole board also attached to its report a response to Geiger's letter from the Hicks family, signed by the victim's nephew, Mark Hicks.
"My family wants justice served – so for my family I ask the board to please, please send the [sic] Governor Kasich what he needs in order to be reassured that this death warrant is the right thing to do!" Hicks wrote.


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Hrithik Roshan will star in a double role in 'Krissh'
Good news for all the Hrithik Roshan fans. If reports are to be believed then get ready to witness Hrithik playing both the hero and villain in fourth installment of popular science-fiction superhero franchise 'Krrish'. Yes, you heard that right. There are indications that the 'Kaabil' actor is indeed looking forward into plunging towards this extraordinary challenge. Director and father Rakesh Roshan recently revealed that his team is very much on the job. "It is not easy to write another Krissh film. It is taking time. But we are on it," Rakesh said, who isn't willing to reveal any more on-record at the moment. But a source very close to the upcoming project divulges that this time Hrithik will be seen as both the protagonist and antagonist. "Hrithik has wanted to explore both the yin and yang, the positive and the negative side of the personality simultaneously. This is his chance to do so," source shared. The fourth installment of Bollywood's maiden superhero franchise, Krrish 4, starring Hrithik Roshan is slated to go on floors in 2017


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I mean, hey it's great that the WaPo now sees the light and is speaking out against this disreputable behavior, but where have they BEEN since December 2005?!?! Making excuses for the Bush Administration and averting their eyes, mostly.
They're hardly the first ones to do this, they are aware that things are not the way they should be, but say nothing until the damage is long since done. I mean, it's great that George Tenet is now coming out and saying that the Iraq War was built on phony info, but the appropriate time for him to make this point was before the war was launched. As Crooks & Liars puts it:
Meet the Press continues the George Tenet buy my book traveling show. Dear Tim, please ask why Tenet felt that holding onto this information for four long years was acceptable — and how he thinks that fact ought to sit with family and friends of our soldiers stationed in Iraq and elsewhere, for starters.
I've written about David "Dean" Broder who also held his tongue just long enough for the Bush Administration to get away with what they were doing. Broder showed several weeks after the Swift Boat Vets attack on John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency petered out that he was fully aware of the dishonorable and disreputable nature of their attack on Kerry. Problem was, he was nowhere to be found when the attack was taking place, when a column by him exposing the Swift Boat Vets might have stopped them in their tracks.
As Glenn Greenwald points out, one kinda has to wonder just how long the WaPo's outrage will last. Will this be something that will shake them out of their torpor and lead them into devoting front-page stories to it, or will it be a one-day story that will never make it out of the back pages?
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Ladies Am-Am Results, Sept 5thSeptember 12, 2019
A blistering 81 points was enough to see the team of Starkie, Vorster, Pearson and Barraclough a clear point ahead of their nearest rivals in Knaresborough's Ladies Am-Am last week. The team, comprising players from Keighley and East Bierley, took the win from second place Atack, Watson, Duckett and Leake. Third place went to the Wetherby/Pontefract/Darrington group of Roe, Highley, Ludewll and Hetherington with a highly respectable 78.