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[ "There was no reassurance for those concerned about how Liverpool will cope in the absence of Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane.\n\nThe first real test since their elite attacking duo flew off to the Africa Cup of Nations was the epitome of frustration as Jurgen Klopp’s side fired blanks at Anfield for the first time in nine months. Klopp struck a defiant tone as he spoke about it only being half-time in the tie.\n\n“It’s 0-0 and, even though Arsenal probably feel in a better position, we don’t feel this tie is over for us so we will give it another proper try,” he said. “We know we can play better and we know we have to play better.”\n\nTriumph at the Emirates Stadium next Thursday and the memories of this drab first leg will immediately pale into insignificance.\n\nThe manner in which Liverpool failed to capitalise on having an extra man for over an hour on home turf, following the dismissal of Granit Xhaka, won’t be damaging if they book themselves a Wembley date with Chelsea.\n\nBut if they fall short of the showpiece final then fingers will be pointed at an error-strewn performance largely devoid of quality and littered with dreadful decision making.\n\nHere was a reminder that Liverpool haven’t only lost goals with Salah, Mane and Naby Keita away on international duty this month. They have also waved goodbye to much of their creativity. As well as his prolific tally of 16 league goals so far this season, Salah also leads the way with nine assists. He makes things happen. His burst of acceleration and dazzling skill gives him the ability to create something out of nothing. He relishes operating in small spaces.\n\nHow the Egyptian was missed here, against an opponent who effectively shut up shop after Xhaka was dismissed for chopping down Diogo Jota just outside the box. Nights like these only serve to strengthen the hand of Salah’s agent in contract negotiations as the void without him is so vast.\n\nFor the most part, Liverpool’s passing was slow and predictable. When they did get into promising situations, composure repeatedly deserted them. There was no spark, no guile.\n\nThe strongest line-up Klopp could possibly have named enjoyed 78 per cent of the ball but had to wait until the 92nd minute to finally muster a shot on target courtesy of Curtis Jones’ effort. Arsenal were good value for their draw and would have had a lead to take into the second leg but for Alisson’s brilliant save to thwart Bukayo Saka.\n\nThe absence of Salah was accentuated by a rare off night for Trent Alexander-Arnold, who has to be cut some slack after returning to action following his second bout of COVID-19. Alexander-Arnold, who like Salah boasts nine league assists this season, lost possession on 24 occasions. The England right-back is averaging 3.1 key passes per game in the top flight this season but on Thursday night there were none. His usually pin-point deliveries were wayward.\n\nSalah and Alexander-Arnold have created 11 big chances each in the Premier League in 2021-22, while Mane is third in the list for Liverpool on seven. Two of those players are in Cameroon, the other has just spent a week isolating and wasn’t his usual self. Klopp’s options are further limited currently with Divock Origi and Thiago still sidelined by injury. The manager picked a midfield trio to face Arsenal that was workmanlike rather than dynamic and he was then slow to change things after Xhaka’s red card.", null, "Liverpool failed to score against Arsenal last night – despite their opponents playing most of the game with ten men (Photo: Chloe Knott – Danehouse/Getty Images)\n\nHe certainly didn’t need both James Milner and Jordan Henderson out there alongside Fabinho when it was effectively attack against defence.\n\nJones, who belatedly replaced Milner on the hour mark, soon showcased why he should have been brought on earlier. He gave Liverpool something different as he ran at the mass of Arsenal shirts and created problems. There were two key passes (only Andy Robertson provided more) before he stung Aaron Ramsdale’s palms late on. Jones needs to start against Brentford on Sunday.\n\nA front three of Takumi Minamino, Roberto Firmino and Diogo Jota is the best Klopp can muster without Salah and Mane but they failed to sparkle. That trio boast just three assists combined in the Premier League this season and it showed. There was a lack of both pace, physicality and understanding.\n\nThe service to them was certainly poor with Henderson’s recent dip in form not helping matters but none of them really imposed themselves on proceedings. It was far too easy for Arsenal.\n\n“We made a few wrong decisions, we felt too much rushed, it looked like all of sudden after the red card like we felt under pressure,” added Klopp. “We were not creative enough. We did a lot of things not good enough.”\n\nFirmino and Jota didn’t have a single shot between them in 90 minutes, while Minamino had half a dozen but none of them troubled Ramsdale. The Japan international had his heads in his hands after blazing into the Kop late on.\n\nNights like these inevitably lead to a spotlight being shone on the level of investment in the squad from owner Fenway Sports Group. Only defender Ibrahima Konate was brought in last summer. That left the club open to criticism for not replacing either Georginio Wijnaldum or Xherdan Shaqiri as they instead backed youngsters Harvey Elliott and Kaide Gordon to fill those gaps.\n\nKlopp could certainly do with more attacking options right now but there’s no sign of reinforcements.\n\nHe must work with what he’s got and find the right formula to be able to unlock defences without his most potent weapons. The fixture list is relatively kind during AFCON: it’s Brentford and then Arsenal, Crystal Palace and Cardiff City.\n\nBut if Salah, Mane and Keita are going to return to a team still competing on all fronts then Liverpool simply can’t afford to deliver another display as limp as this one." ]

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[ null, "On Sunday morning, a traffic officer was shot by suspected Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) troops who attempted to prevent police from towing a military vehicle involved in an accident in Ntinda, Kampala.\n\nAccording to a source, the traffic officer, Police Constable Robert Mukebezi, was seated on the passenger side of a breakdown truck towing a military Toyota Prado TX that had knocked down a Kobil signpost at Naalya when they were intercepted by soldiers in a double cabin vehicle with military registration number plates at Ntinda traffic lights around 6 a.m.\n\nAccording to him, the troops emerged from a double cabin and fired their first shots into the air.\n\nHe said that when the troops inquired where they were hauling the military vehicle, they replied, “to the police.”\n\nAccording to accounts, one of the soldiers then fired six shots on the passenger side of the vehicle, hitting Constable Mukebezi on the leg.\n\nThe troops reportedly took the bleeding officer out of the car and put him on the ground before ordering the wreckage to be driven to Mbuya by the driver of the breakdown.\n\nPC Mukebezi was eventually apprehended by police and transferred to Mulago National Referral Hospital Mulago in Kampala City, where he is believed to be in serious condition after losing a significant amount of blood.\n\nThe shooting of an officer by “unidentified men clothed in military garb” who alighted from a military vehicle was verified by Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire.\n\n“Investigations to identify the gunman are underway,” Assistant Superintendent of Police Owoyesigyire stated.\n\nAccording to eyewitnesses who talked to this reporter, the accident occurred at 5 a.m. when the driver of the military vehicle lost control and collided with the Kobil signpost in Naalya.\n\nThe passengers, whom eyewitnesses characterized as inebriated, abandoned the car at the site.\n\nResponders contacted police, who sent Police Constable Mukebezi to the site to tow the car to the police station.\n\nAccording to a source, PC Mukebezi hired a breakdown truck to transport the debris, but when they arrived at the Ntinda traffic signals, they were met by a double cabin with military registration number plates.\n\nAccording to the informant, they were fired at before they could explain why they were towing the car, wounding a police officer.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Four days before the team is supposed to gather in Sunrise, Fla. for a pre-Olympic qualifying camp, the Canadian Soccer Association has officially announced the 23-player roster.\n\nSome players were contacted more than a month ago by team manager Morgan Quarry, but the CSA later said that those names were just meant for a preliminary list that needed to go off to CONCACAF.\n\nBut, all of the players who had initially confirmed that they would be on the roster — including Huddersfield Town keeper Simon Thomas, Toronto FC’s Matt Stinson and the FC Edmonton trio of Michal Misiewicz, Shaun Saiko and Kyle Porter — are included in the group of 23.\n\nCanada will conduct its camp March 13-20, which also includes a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago. The CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament begins March 22 in Nashville. The deadline for Canada to declare its final comes 48 hours before its first match.\n\nBryce Alderson, two-time Canadian U-17 player of the year, is still completing his Grade 12 correspondence courses. He will be one of the youngest kids on the team. Unlike some of the others, who have been waiting for over a month, he didn’t get the call from Quarry until a couple of weeks ago.\n\n“It sort of came at the last-minute,” he said. “Any time you get to put in the jersey, it’s an honour.”\n\nHe will be united with Whitecaps teammate and fellow Generation Adidas player Russell Teibert, who also got the call.\n\nFC Edmonton’s players are looking forward to the camp. The players will leave FCE’s training camp in Arizona for Florida.\n\n“I’ve got a lot of confidence right now so hopefully that will help me at the (Canada) camp,” Porter said via the club. “I want to be on the team. I want to be a star on the team, and I want to make it to London.”\n\n“It’s been a while since my last call up but obviously I played well last season so this means a lot. It’s a proud moment that’s for sure,” Saiko said. “It’s nice that people know about FC Edmonton now and that goes to show that we are doing the right things.”" ]

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[ null, "While E-safety initiatives often proritise older children, there are increasing efforts to make sure that internet safety is a priority for younger children as well. This and other debates from the recent UK Child Internet Safety Summit are discussed by Alexandra Chernyavskaya, a postgraduate student in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, who also draws on her background as the hotline manager for the Internet Association of Kazakhstan where she led the project dedicated to combating criminal online content.\n\nThe third Child Internet Safety Summit took place last Friday, an annual gathering aimed at bridging the gap between industry, government, parents and schools. Last year’s agenda had focused on the brand-new Computing Curriculum and the then-popular right to be forgotten, whereas this year the delegates continued on-going discussions about cyberbullying, digital parenting and online abuse, and were able to reflect on the conclusions drawn from the first year of implementation of new curriculum, taking into account emerging ways in which children interact with digital technologies.\n\nStill, it is surprising to learn that teachers who interact with children as young as five, and who play a key role in mediating children’s safety, are concerned about them having social network accounts. Teachers are faced with a dilemma that echoes debates over sex education in school – when to start? Should young children be taught about safe use of social network sites even when they are ‘under-age’ or should they be encouraged to abstain altogether?\n\nOne view is that educators and parents should assume children will access a range of online services at ever younger ages, and so online safety too should be taught ever earlier. Game-play and gamification may offer a way to explore internet safety in a more exciting way and on a deeper level. And in thinking about safety, the responsibility of software manufacturers and social networks kept resurfacing. Is it indeed time for tech companies to take greater responsibility for the software they produce, especially those websites and platforms popular amongst children? For instance, the current prohibition for children under 13 to create profiles on Facebook is based on the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. This makes 13 an arbitrary age, irrespective of a child’s maturity, as the age at which one can start using Facebook, for instance. Even for over 13s, therefore, tools should be built with safety precautions in mind. More controversially, many argue that such sites should also make provision for their under-age users.\n\nHands-on parental guidance and involvement are widely accepted as a good start to help ensure the safety of kids who start using social networking websites. Combining the effort of parents and teachers, particularly the teachers who are at the forefront of implementing the new Computing Curriculum, may be particularly efficient. However, the educators at the summit conference pointed out that reaching out to parents is not always as straightforward as it might seem. For a variety of reasons, including their own childhood experience, some of them are intimidated by the school environment and, therefore, are not as involved as they could be. This is something we are seeing frequently reflected on in our interviews with parents as part of our current research.\n\nWhile the particular needs of very young children are on everyone’s minds, some leading eSafety initiatives have not yet found a way to include them. Childnet’s Digital Leaders Programme, which focuses on secondary schools, is to be launched in September 2015. It is a peer-to-peer education initiative that offers pupils an opportunity to engage with the topic of eSafety and be creative about it. Peer-to-peer learning is repeatedly seen as a potential solution to adult-led eSafety interventions, and the popularity of young YouTube personas opens a possible avenue for disseminating safety messages for young children. While initiatives like the Digital Leaders Programme are currently aimed at 11-16 year olds, as ever-younger children go online such initiatives will need to be targeted younger as well.\n\nThe summit concluded, like many before it, noting that it takes the combined effort of parents, teachers and industry to maximise the benefits and to minimise the risks of ICTs. However, where previously this effort was primarily required keeping older children out of trouble while supporting their access to opportunities, today the spotlight widens to include toddlers on upwards.", null, null, null ]

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[ "NIEUWEGEIN, NETHERLANDS (REUTERS) - International investigators are set on Wednesday (June 19) to launch criminal proceedings against suspects in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine nearly five years ago.\n\nThe Dutch-led international team tasked with assigning criminal responsibility for the plane's destruction is to inform victims' families of progress in their case on Wednesday morning, followed by a presentation to the media.\n\nMH17 was shot out of the sky on July 17, 2014 over territory held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as it was flying from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. All 298 people on board were killed.\n\nMost victims were Dutch. A joint investigation team formed in 2014 by Australia, Belgium, Malaysia, the Netherlands and Ukraine found that the plane was shot down by a Russian missile.\n\nThe Russian government denies having lent any support to pro-Russia rebels fighting Ukrainian government troops, and also denies any involvement in shooting down MH17.", null, "Seeking the truth about MH17: The Star columnist\n\nLast year Russian President Vladimir Putin called MH17's downing a \"terrible tragedy\" but said that Moscow was not to blame and that there are other explanations for what happened.\n\nThe governments of the Netherlands and Australia have said they hold Russia legally responsible.\n\nProsecutors previously said the missile system that brought down the plane came from the Russian 53rd Anti-Aircraft Brigade, based in the western Russian city of Kursk.\n\nThey said their next step would be to identify individual culprits and attempt to put them on trial.\n\nThe Netherlands has said Russia has not cooperated with the investigation and Moscow is not expected to surrender suspects.\n\nDutch authorities said suspects may be tried in absentia." ]

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[ "The struggles and another pile of Washington Capitals goals are on the entire team. Gallant couldn't pull all his players at once.\n\n\"There was nothing that he could have done,\" Gallant said.", null, "As the face of the franchise and its backbone on the ice, Fleury did just about everything to lead the expansion Golden Knights to the Cup Final with a .947 save percentage that made him the playoff MVP front-runner. In four games against Washington, Fleury has allowed 16 goals on 103 shots, a pedestrian .845 save percentage that speaks as much to Vegas crashing back down to earth as a team.\n\nThere is plenty of blame to pass around for the Golden Knights as they face a 3-1 series deficit that no team since the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs has overcome in the final. Vegas needs Fleury to be better and his teammates to improve in front of him in Game 5 on Thursday night or they will watch their opponent celebrate a championship their home ice.\n\n\"When you're a goalie you don't want to get scored on,\" Fleury said. \"There was a lot of that (in Game 4). It's never a good feeling. It's a team game. Everybody's trying hard out there, trying to help me out. We'll find a way to make it work.\"\n\nIt's not working right now. The Capitals' strategy of making lateral passes to get Fleury moving side-to-side is proving effective at even strength and on a power play that's scoring at a 26.7 percent clip.\n\nForward Alex Tuch said staying out of the penalty box is one necessary improvement, but it goes beyond that. Vegas has ridden Fleury to this point and now has to cut down on the high-danger scoring chances he's facing and too often allowing to turn into goals.\n\n\"Play better defensively,\" Gallant said Tuesday. \"There's too many guys staring at the puck carrier, and we're leaving the back side open too much. Make sure we're paying attention to the guys behind the puck and away from the puck. Marc will make the save on the guy shooting the puck. We've just got to make sure we're taking away the passes.\"\n\nFleury didn't make the save on Devante Smith-Pelly on the doorstep in Game 4 as the Golden Knights fell behind 3-0 despite one of their best periods of the series that featured James Neal's inexplicable shot off the post facing a wide-open net. As Gallant pointed out, Fleury had little chance on others as Washington put up six goals in a blowout .\n\nGolden Knights players can't help but feel like they're letting \"Flower\" down.\n\n\"We have the best goalie in the league and he's been carrying (us) the whole year along and we feel like the goals ... there's not much you can do on those,\" center Pierre-Edouard Bellemare said. \"This is the frustrating part.\"\n\nFleury acknowledged falling behind 3-1 was demoralizing. But the 33-year-old refuses to say fatigue has been a factor for him or his teammates.\n\n\"I think everybody's fine,\" Fleury said. \"It's the same for their team, also. They've been through the same season, same playoffs. Being tired is no excuse.\"\n\nThe Golden Knights have lost three games in a row as they near the end of an otherwise-charmed inaugural season. Perhaps Fleury has one more stand-on-his head, stop-everything game left in him in front of the home fans in Las Vegas, but the Golden Knights will need more than a singular effort from their goalie.\n\n\"Not where we want to be, that's for sure,\" Fleury said. \"Nobody's quitting. We're going home. We've had some success there. We just have to focus on period at a time, you know? Don't think too far ahead. Just play our game, see where that takes us.\"", null, null ]

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[ "Visitors to the Fort Dodge Public Library and the Blanden Memorial Art Museum would not notice much different in either place if their proposed budgets are approved by the Fort Dodge City Council.\n\nThe spending plan for the Fort Dodge Regional Airport includes money for some runway work, but leaves day-to-day operations unchanged.\n\nThe City Council on Monday reviewed proposed 2020-2021 budgets for those facilities plus the Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Karl L. King Municipal Band. The budgets are for the fiscal year that begin July 1. However, state law requires cities to have their budgets completed by mid-March, so the council has been working on spending plans since December.\n\nThe city government pays for the library building and staffing, but books and other materials are purchased by the library’s foundation, which is a private entity.\n\nThat fund will pay for a $666,000 runway emulsion project. Chambers said emulsion is a like a lotion for pavement that will extend its life.\n\nThe capital improvement fund also includes $121,513 to renovate the building where the airport maintenance equipment is kept.\n\nThe Convention & Visitors Bureau gets its money from the hotel-motel tax, a 7 percent levy added to lodging bills in the city.The revenue from that tax is divided up several ways , but the bureau has historically received a little over half of it.\n\nThe biggest increase in the budget is $33,000 for a vehicle with special markings that bureau personnel would take to trade shows.\n\nMuch like the arrangement at the library, the city pays for the museum building and the staffing, while the private Blanden Charitable Foundation pays for the programming and exhibits.\n\nThe proposed budget for the Karl L. King Municipal Band will remain unchanged at $38,000.", null, null ]

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[ null, "By Veronica Meade-Kelly\nThe Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project started five years ago with the goal of creating a comprehensive atlas and open database of gene expression and gene regulation across human tissues. This week, the researchers spearheading the NIH-funded effort released five papers reporting on the...\n\nThe Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project started five years ago with the goal of creating a comprehensive atlas and open database of gene expression and gene regulation across human tissues. This week, the researchers spearheading the NIH-funded effort released five papers reporting on the pilot phase of the project.\n\nFor this edition of “Five Questions,” we asked Kristin Ardlie to share her perspective on the project and what it has revealed thus far. Ardlie is the director and co-principal investigator (along with Broad institute member Gad Getz) of the GTEx Laboratory Data Analysis and Coordination Center at the Broad.\n\nQ1: What did the GTEx Consortium set out to do?\n\nKA: The goals of the project were to create a data resource for gene expression and provide a systematic analysis of the role of genetic variation in the regulation of gene expression across multiple reference human tissues. To do that, the Consortium had to sample and study as many tissues as possible across a large number of people. One of the original motivations was to help create a functional link between the genetic variants that researchers were finding in genome-wide association studies and the associated risk for developing a disease.\n\nCellular/tissue specificity is a hallmark of many diseases and cellular context is a key determinant of gene regulation. So, a question of interest biologically is: how much specificity or sharing is there in gene expression and regulation across tissues? GTEx allows us to look across a large number of people and across many different tissue types to see how gene expression and function may vary. This sort of multi-tissue analysis at scale can help us understand the link between genetics and disease and may help explain why some people with a given genetic variation develop a disease while others with the same variation might not.\n\nQ2: What is happening biologically at the level of gene expression and gene regulation that may be contributing to disease?", null, "KA: Scientists have long been interested in how changes in our DNA – variations in the bases within the genetic code – might affect protein structure and function downstream. But many of these changes occur well outside of protein coding regions and so they might play a role in gene regulation instead. DNA variants that can influence gene expression can affect whether a gene is turned on or off, up or down; at what stage in development a gene might be turned on or off; or how much of a protein is produced, for example. Altering any of this can certainly contribute to disease.\n\nQ3: Your team at the Broad was part of a larger Consortium that worked on the project. What role did it play?\n\nKA: GTEx is a large consortia effort supported by the NIH Common Fund. Within the consortium there are two key functions and entities funded: one is the collections arm of the project, tasked with enrolling donors, collecting tissues, quality control, and so on, and the other – our Broad team here – is the laboratory, data analysis, and coordination center for the project. We receive all the samples, process them, and then generate all of the RNA and DNA sequencing data. Then we work with seven other funded analysis centers to analyze those data.\n\nA key goal of the GTEx project has been to create a publicly available reference dataset of gene expression across tissues that researchers can use to study human biology and disease. So in addition to the release of the sequence data to dbGaP (the National Center for Biotechnology Information's database of Genotypes and Phenotypes), we host a widely-used portal, ‘the GTEx portal’ where we post most of our analyzed results and data files.\n\nQ4: I’ve heard that GTEx was considered a somewhat daring project to undertake. Why was that?\n\nKA: There were two reasons the project was considered a bit risky. First, to do the project we needed to sample many different types of tissues, and we could only really do that by sampling from recently deceased donors. Collecting samples for any study is notoriously difficult, and nobody was at all sure we could get the donors for this type of sampling in the numbers we needed for the study. We recruited donors by obtaining consent from next-of-kin and, thanks to the great generosity and interest of those families, we’ve been remarkably successful at meeting all the donors and samples goals we set.\n\nThe other difficulty is that to study gene expression you need to isolate and study RNA and RNA is a tricky molecule to work with; unlike DNA, it can degrade very rapidly. Since we were sampling from deceased donor tissues, we didn’t know if we could sample quickly enough to get sufficiently high quality RNA. We had to monitor this very carefully at the beginning of the project, and we modified the order in which tissue was collected based on how fast RNA degraded in some tissues relative to others. We also had wonderful collection sites that were able to significantly shorten the collection times. Overall, we obtained very good RNA that maintained very characteristic, tissue-specific RNA signatures.\n\nQ5: And where does the project stand now?\n\nKA: Like any big project, the parts of it are all at different stages. At this point, we’re actually getting close to having collected samples from the 900 donors we had set as our goal. We’re at about the halfway point in terms of producing data – that is, we have around 10,000 tissue samples sequenced from 43 different tissue types, which members of the analysis working group are all feverishly analyzing.\n\nAnd, of course, we published the six papers that came out this week. Those were based on the pilot data released about a year and a half ago. I think the completion of the pilot phase showed that we could actually do this – get the samples and develop the analytical tools that would enable this multi-tissue approach. It also showed that you can use this type of information to help understand the mechanisms of action and tissue prevalence of complex diseases and underscores the need to better understand disease biology in all tissue across the body, instead of just the snapshot we often get from the handful of tissues we typically do these studies in.\n\n\nTo learn more about the findings of the GTEx pilot phase, read the press release from the National Human Genome Research Institute.\n\nTo use the GTEx data for your own scientific research, go to the GTEx Portal website.\n\nA full list of contributors to the GTEx project can also be found on the Portal website." ]

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[ null, "Last week Breitbart, the leading mouthpiece of the “alt-right” (the term used by the media to describe a white-nationalist, anti-Semitic, fascist movement), began a war on the weather. By using a Weather Channel video created to describe La Nina’s effect on New England’s weather, Breitbart created an alt-reality by misleading its viewers into thinking the video was about a forthcoming period of global cooling, despite the scientific consensus that human-caused climate change being irrefutable. The Weather Channel issued a well-articulated response accusing Breitbart of cherry picking information from an unrelated article and politely asking them to stop misinforming the public. However, rather than update their views in light of factual information, Breitbart followers doubled down when presented with this contrary viewpoint. One proudly uninstalled his Weather Channel app, stating “I don’t need more fake news on my phone.”\n\nThe form of news simply titled “fake news,” is now being circulated at an alarming rate. The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, a supposedly bipartisan group of US representatives, even retweeted Breitbart’s article, further elevating fake news from the depths of the Internet to our government. President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for national security advisor, Michael T. Flynn, has been getting into the act, promulgating fake news at least sixteen times over the past few months, with his son chiming in over the recent Pizzagate incident.\n\nWhen twenty-eight-year-old Edgar Welch of North Carolina opened fire at Comet Ping Pong on December 4, officials discovered shortly after that he had travelled to investigate what he believed was a child sex ring in the basement, run and operated by the owner who was said to be linked to John Podesta and Hillary Clinton. The reporting on the incident was filled with the assertion that fake news had finally become physically dangerous, which unfortunately led to stronger conspiracy theories, with many touting Welch as an “actor,” and the whole situation a “setup,” despite Comet Ping Pong not having a basement, undermining the entire conspiracy theory.\n\nRoughly 50 percent of conservatives receive the majority of information from Fox News, while conservative humanities professors make up just 10 percent of the academic community. In a climate where “the bubble” is becoming increasingly defined, individuals feel that contrary information is an attack on them personally. A Dartmouth study conducted in 2006 looked at how people reacted when confronted with factual information that went against their defined ideas and principles. The study gave groups a fake newspaper article with a real quote from George W. Bush: “There was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks, and in the world after September the 11th, that was a risk we could not afford to take.” Reading this quote led participants to believe that weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s) were found in Iraq and were being passed to terrorist groups. Some versions of the newspaper provided conservative readers with a “factual rebuttal” of the WMD claims. Conservatives experienced what is known as the “backfire effect,” where instead of accepting the factual rebuttal, their beliefs that Iraq possessed WMD’s were strengthened. This is the reason why fact-checking politicians’ claims and other news doesn’t work. When fact-checkers deciphered, dissected, and delved into Donald Trump’s comments, they expected a response against the Republican presidential nominee; they expected his voter base to press him on these issues. Instead they saw the backfire effect in real-time, galvanizing Trump supporters against the “crooked media.”\n\nHow are we supposed to combat fake news when we are statistically more likely to feel aggrieved by conflicting reports? Fake news is a profitable industry, with its creators making anywhere between $10,000 and $20,000 a month from hosting sites, with the majority of their recent success having coming from anti-Clinton propaganda. Political candidates themselves don’t necessarily want to combat fake news, as many of them benefit from it. The public benefits in that people now have sources for radical theories that exist inside their ideological bubble.\n\nThere have been campaigns to combat fake news, with Facebook and Google’s being the most effective. Both tech giants are working on ways to suppress fake news by changing algorithms to favor more respected, reputable sources. President-elect Trump and his followers, however, see this change as a plot to undermine their legitimacy, increasing their attacks on the mainstream media by labelling them as fake news outlets. In the months leading up to the election, fake news surpassed real news with regards to “likes,” “reactions,” comments, shares, and clicks on Facebook. And according to the Brookings Institution, “In the final three months of the presidential campaign, the twenty top-performing fake election news stories generated more engagement on Facebook than the top stories from major news outlets such as The New York Times.” This is an astounding tidbit that shaped the election.\n\nWhile the populous egregiously ignores fake news, and as our president-elect continues to promulgate the idea that reputable news sources are the true “fake news,” the idea of combatting purposeful misinformation becomes increasingly intangible. Still, schools are beginning to teach students media literacy (which older readers, who can have trouble spotting fake news sites, could also benefit from).\n\nAnother idea being touted is to “check your sources” and to fact check every article you read. I struggle with this, as I can’t remember the last time I fact-checked an article within my bubble. Another possible response, though one I disagree wholeheartedly with is censorship, as seen in China’s policy of fining its citizens $72,000 if they create fake news. Fake news seems to be driven solely by profit, with many creators not even believing what they write. And with $10,000-$20,000 a month on the line, what’s to discourage them? By changing their algorithms, Facebook and Google can push fake news to the back, decreasing revenue for these sites, and totally disincentivizing fake news altogether.\n\nAbove all, the American citizenry needs to be more responsible with the media it permeates. Fake, misleading, and false news will always exist. We the people must scrutinize every facet of information we read. However, the tone is set by our leadership. Our outgoing president has been extremely respectful to the media, taking attacks from all sides without striking back with similar ferocity, but our incoming president has fed into these conspiracy theories, with a large portion of his followers playing along. It’s time for Trump to understand the gravity of the office he will soon assume, and for him to have a healthy relationship with the reputable media." ]

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[ "Chelsea came from behind to beat Sheffield United comfortably at Stamford Bridge, leaving the visitors bottom of the Premier League on another frustrating evening for Chris Wilder’s side.\n\nDavid McGoldrick gave the Blades the lead in the ninth minute with a deft flick from close range.\n\nBut Tammy Abraham’s scuffed half-volley bounced past Aaron Ramsdale for Chelsea’s equaliser, before Ben Chilwell touched in Hakim Ziyech’s cross at the back post.\n\nZiyech turned provider again after the break when Thiago Silva headed in his free-kick at the near post, before Timo Werner added a fourth.\n\nThe result leaves Sheffield United with one point from their opening eight matches, while Chelsea move up to third, a point behind leaders Southampton.\n\nThree of Chelsea’s new signings were on the scoresheet but it was another summer recruit who stole the show in west London on Saturday.\n\nZiyech, who picked up two assists, showed his quality with countless deliveries into the box from set-pieces and a range of exquisite passing.\n\nHe was involved in the build-up to the opening goal and his deep cross caused Ramsdale problems minutes later and the ball was parried into the path of Werner, who slid in to smash it on to the crossbar.\n\nAnother ball in from Ziyech – almost identical to the previous one – bounced in off Chilwell after Ramsdale failed to deal with it to make it 2-1, and the Moroccan’s free-kick was then nodded in by Silva.\n\nThe midfielder could have set up a few more too. His sublime ball through to Werner was chipped inches wide by the former RB Leipzig man, who gave a big thumbs up to Ziyech in return.\n\nManager Frank Lampard was full of praise for Ziyech afterwards, describing the 27-year-old’s performance as “amazing”.\n\n“He was probably at his best today,” Lampard said. “He has a good confidence and arrogance about him – a good arrogance. He will keep trying those passes and keep trying to get those assists.”\n\nSheffield United started the day propping up the Premier League table following Burnley’s draw at Brighton on Friday and they will not have a chance to move off the bottom for another 15 days.\n\nIt has been a disappointing start for the Blades and any hopes of turning things around at Stamford Bridge seemed to evaporate before half-time.\n\nMcGoldrick’s delightful flick gave them a surprising lead – it was the first goal Chelsea had conceded in 459 minutes – but it prompted the visitors to drop deeper off the ball rather than play on the front foot.\n\nThe Blues took advantage, exploiting their opponents’ vulnerability and testing goalkeeper Ramsdale with constant deliveries into the box.\n\nRamsdale himself had a few nervous moments – the hesitation for Chilwell’s goal, the parry which was almost rebounded in by Werner and a fumble from Ziyech’s cross in the second half.\n\nSheffield United, who were able to keep the scoreline down against Manchester City on 31 October, could not do the same at Stamford Bridge and they provided very little threat going forward.\n\nThe international break potentially comes at a good time for the Blades, after defeats by Liverpool and Arsenal, as well as City and Chelsea, in the past month.\n\nChelsea manager Lampard: “It was enjoyable. This is a team that is so difficult to play against. They are a great team with an incredible coach. The reaction was brilliant to the goal – we created a lot and were really secure. I’m happy with everybody.\n\n“The balance of the team felt great. There were so many good things in what we were creating, we scored two goals from set-pieces.\n\n“I don’t want to get too carried away but I’m happy.”\n\nSheffield United boss Wilder: “At times my teams are naive. It’s irrelevant. We have given away some poor goals. I think we have to look at ourselves.\n\n“If you give handouts to world-class players they will take their opportunities – which they did. It’s no good opening up then as it could be any score.”", null, "France books a date with Argentina in World Cup finals", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Following this, three vacant seats have to be filled by an independent director and a representative from both the NGBC and AAC.\n\nBender, a representative from NGBC, became executive director of USA Wrestling in 2001, reportedly helping membership reach an all time high in 2018 while assisting the effort to maintain the sport's place in the Olympic Games for Tokyo 2020.\n\nSnyder, a representative from AAC, is a five-time Paralympic swimming gold medalist, having competed at London 2012 and Rio 2016.\n\nHe was named a member of the Paralympic Advisory Committee in 2018 and is a part-time instructor in ethics and leadership at the US Naval Academy.\n\nHe serves on the Advisory Board for the Navy Special Operations Foundation.\n\nShe had previously worked for two years in the United States Department of the Treasury and was responsible for all tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care.\n\nHer other roles include serving on the Board of trustees of the Aspen Institute, the Women's Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum and the advisory board of Out Leadership.\n\n\"It's my privilege to welcome three new board members who bring a unique background and set of capabilities that will help advance the US Olympic and Paralympic community in a positive, meaningful way,\" said USOC chair Susanne Lyons.\n\n\"The USOC is at a pivotal point and, now more than ever, we have a unique responsibility to ensure that athletes are protected, supported and empowered in equal measure.\n\n\"I look forward to working with Rich, Brad and Beth as we continue our critically important work to confront the challenges facing our organisation so that we can emerge as a stronger, better community for the athletes we serve.\n\n\"Dave, Nina and Jim have dedicated their skill sets and expertise to the US Olympic and Paralympic movements and we're incredibly thankful for their years of service on our Board.\n\n\"I am confident they will continue to advocate for athletes and promote the positive attributes of sport.\"\n\nUSOC is facing challenging times with the fall-out from the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal continuing.\n\nAn independent report published by law firm Ropes & Gray claimed both USOC and USA Gymnastics had facilitated the former doctor's abuse of hundreds of athletes and had failed to act when the allegations against him emerged.\n\nSenators have called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate and USOC has begun the process to potentially revoke USA Gymnastics' recognition as the member national governing body for the sport.\n\nUSOC has also proposed Salt Lake City as a candidate for a \"future edition\" of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games." ]

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[ null, "They can’t be both.\n\nThe $660 billion federal initiative was intended to help businesses keep employees on the payroll and off unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic. The loans will be forgiven if businesses meet certain conditions such as retaining or rehiring employees.\n\nHowever, charter schools – including those in the Pittsburgh region – already should have received financial relief through the federal CARES Act.\n\nPennsylvania got $523 million to distribute to both authentic public schools and charters. However, of the two, only charters were eligible for additional PPP funds.\n\nSo these ‘Burgh charters are double dipping. They’re receiving aid from two different federal sources while authentic public schools only can get aid from one.\n\nThe Environmental Charter School at Frick Park got a $2 million – $5 million cash infusion from PPP.\n\nThe Environmental Charter calls itself a nonprofit organization but there are many reasons to be dubious.\n\nFirst, nonprofits usually are dedicated to furthering some social cause like helping the poor and minorities.\n\nHowever, The Environmental Charter actually caters to upper socioeconomic and white students.\n\nIt serves wealthier children than surrounding schools. Just one-third of Environmental Charter students are eligible for free or reduced lunches compared to 71% at Pittsburgh Public schools.\n\nMoreover, only 30% of the charter’s students are minorities. Pittsburgh Public serves a student body of which nearly half are African American.\n\nNext, there’s the issue of who runs the institution.\n\nAll charter schools in the Commonwealth have to be designated as nonprofits. However, many like the Environmental Charter School hire for-profit companies to actually operate their day-to-day functions and make almost all of their major administrative decisions.\n\nThe Environmental Charter is run by Virginia-based Imagine Schools, one of the nation’s largest charter-management companies with more than 71 charters nationwide.\n\nSince Imagine writes the Environmental Charter’s operating budget, the management company ends up paying itself for a number of services.\n\nAfter the school gets funding from state, federal and community taxes (this year including bailouts from PPP and the CARES act), it pays 12 percent back to Imagine. This came to $406,000 in 2009, according to an independent financial audit.\n\nThe school also pays Imagine on a $250,000 loan that the charter operating company took out to launch the program. Payments come out to about $2,500 per month over 20 years with an interest rate of 10.524 percent.\n\nThe charter also pays Imagine rent on its building which was purchased in 2006 by Schoolhouse Finance – Imagine’s real estate arm – for $3 million.\n\nThe lease costs $526,000 annually and is binding until 2032 unless the school loses its charter.\n\nGiven such facts, it’s hard to imagine why we’ve allowed our tax dollars to prop up a business venture that could certainly afford to reduce its profit margins rather than rely on public support.\n\nUnlike the Environmental Charter, Hill House does actually cater to low income and minority children. In fact, it was founded to help Pittsburgh students who are failing in another district and in danger of dropping out unless they receive some kind of academic intervention.\n\nHowever, the results haven’t been stellar. Where the Environmental Charter was too white, Hill House serves almost exclusively black students. It is exponentially more segregated than neighboring authentic public schools (96% minority) and its students still have extremely poor academic performance.\n\nThe question remains whether these results are better than they would be at an authentic public school. Does the charter provide any value for these students or is it just a holding area?\n\nLike the Environmental Charter, this so-called nonprofit hires a management company. In this case, it’s the infamous K12 Incorporated – a nationwide cyber charter network with a record of academic failure and financial shenanigans.\n\nIn 2016, the company reached a $168.5 million settlement with the state of California. The state claimed K12 had reported incorrect student attendance records and otherwise lied about its academic programs. The company ended up settling with the state for $2.5 million with an additional $6 million to cover the state’s investigation and K12 voided $160 million in credits it had given to the affiliated schools to cover the cost of their contracts.\n\nHowever, why the state should bailout such a dubious endeavor is beyond me.\n\nIt is one of the oldest charter schools in the city, having started as a tutoring program in 1968 and becoming a full fledged charter school in 1998.\n\nHowever, like Hill House, it is infamous for racial segregation and low academic performance. Approximately 99% of students are minorities.\n\nWhere Manchester fails at academics, it excels at administrative salaries. The school’s administrators take home beaucoup bucks while being responsible for fewer students than those at authentic public schools.\n\nFor example, Vasilios Scoumis, Manchester CEO for more than two decades, is given a $146,000 salary not counting a potential $15,000 yearly bonus though he is only responsible for 340 students.\n\nCompare that with Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Anthony Hamlet. He earns a $210,000 salary for managing a district of about 24,000 students.\n\nBut such high salaries for relatively little work aren’t only a hallmark at Manchester.\nEnvironmental Charter School CEO John McCann earned $120,000 with a school enrollment of 630 students.\n\nNice work if you can get it!\n\nSpeaking of which, Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship got $350,000 – $1 million from PPP.\n\nThis is another so-called non-profit school run by the Imagine Schools company. It is highly segregated with 82% minority children.\n\nOnly 32% of students are proficient in math and 57% in reading – again below state averages.\n\nThe school suffered a scandal in 2015 when the state Charter Review Board overruled Penn Hills School Directors decision to deny allowing the charter to expand into a second building.\n\nBut given that the Charter Review Board is made up of six members – charter school advocates chosen by former Republican Governor Tom Corbett – any pretense to impartiality is laughable.\n\nPenn Hills School Board – a duly elected body, not government appointees – outlined criticisms of the charter that do not put the entrepreneurial venture in a positive light.\n\nDirectors were also leery of the venture because the charter planned to use half of the new building for students and to lease the remainder as office space.\n\nFinally, the charter school sucks away necessary funding from the authentic public school. The Penn Hills School District paid Imagine about $3 million in 2014-15. Costs increased to $12 million a year and continue to rise.\n\nSo one wonders why we’re throwing more money at these charter schools.\n\nNina Rees, executive director of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) has spoken out of both sides of her mouth on the issue. She has insisted that charter schools be regarded as public schools and eligible for emergency aid – all the while advising charter schools also to apply for federal rescue funds for small businesses devastated by the pandemic.\n\nCarol Burris, Executive Director of the Network for Public Education, did not mince words.\n\n“Once again, the charter sector, through the lobbying efforts of Nina Rees…worked behind the scenes to gain fiscal advantage for the privately operated schools they claim are public schools.”\n\nCharters go where the money is.\n\nWe get the privilege of paying the tab.\n\nIf it were up to U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, we wouldn’t even know about it.\n\nMnuchin only released the information to the public after 11 news organizations sued the Small Business Administration .\n\nEven now, not all of it is available.\n\nMoreover, the deadline to apply for a PPP loan has been extended to Aug. 8.\n\nSo if you haven’t seen some of the most infamous neighborhood charter schools taking advantage of the program, it may only be a matter of time.\n\nProPublica has put all the information into an easy to use search engine. Just enter a zip code and it will display all the businesses located there that received PPP loans.\n\nThis includes high tuition private prep schools like Sewickley Academy and Shady Side Academy both of which got $2 – $5 million, Winchester Thurston School which got $1 million – $2 million, and the charter schools listed above.\n\nYou can check it out here: https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/", null, null ]

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[ null, "The 6-year-old son of a prominent pharmaceutical executive was likely assaulted and then sent plunging to his death over a balcony inside his father's San Diego mansion last year, according to a report by two medical experts.\n\nThe new report concludes that Max Shacknai, son of Medicis Pharmaceuticals chief Jonah Shacknai, was the victim of a homicide -- not an accident, as authorities had ruled in the July 2011 death inside Shacknai's historic San Diego Bay mansion.\n\n\"It's shocking and horrifying for me,\" said the boy's mother, Dina Shacknai, who is calling on the Coronado Police Department to reopen their probe into his death. Shacknai hired Dr. Judy Melinek, a San Francisco-based forensic pathologist, and Dr. Robert Bove, an injury biomechanics expert, to review the case. Both concluded the child -- found unresponsive on the first floor of his father's home -- was beaten and then forced over the balcony either against his will or in a desperate attempt to escape his assailant.\n\n\"I can't imagine anyone in the world wanting to harm Maxie,\" Shacknai told FoxNews.com. \"He was the most sweet, loving and gentle boy.\"\n\nThe circumstances surrounding the child's death were bizarre from the beginning.\n\nShacknai's girlfriend, 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, was watching the boy along with her 13-year-old sister when the incident occurred on July 11, 2011. Jonah Shacknai, 53, was not home at the time. Zahau told investigators that she was in the bathroom when she heard a loud noise and then found the boy lying on the first floor with broken pieces of a chandelier beside him.\n\nIn a strange turn of events, Zahau was found hanging by her neck -- naked with her hands and feet bound -- from an outdoor balcony at the mansion two days later. San Diego County investigators ruled her death a suicide – claiming she was grief-stricken over the boy's grave condition – but Zahau’s family maintains she was killed.\n\nMax died at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego four days after Zahau was found hanging at the home and a week after his fall from the balcony.\n\nA report by the San Diego County medical examiner's office ruled that the manner of his death was accidental. But Dina Shacknai said doctors treating Max were immediately suspicious of his injuries and contacted Child Protective Services, which she said launched a probe and then dropped it once the medical examiner ruled the death an accident.\n\nMelinek told FoxNews.com that the child had injuries to his body that could not have been caused from a fall alone. She also said it was impossible for the child to have accidentally bumped into the balcony and then fallen over.\n\n\"It doesn't make any sense. It defies gravity,\" Melinek said of the scenario presented by Coronado police working in collaboration with Dr. Mark A. Gomez, who authored the first report in the case. \"He’s got too much injury for just a simple fall from the railing,\" she said, adding that the boy's center of gravity was too low for him to have flipped over the banister on his own.\n\n\"I do not disagree with the coroner's determination that the cause of death was due to blunt force trauma,\" Melinek said. \"What I did disagree with was the manner of death, which I believe was a homicide.\"\n\n\"The fall alone ... would not account for the abrasions and contusions along the right forehead, inner eye and lids, the left ala, or the right shoulder and neck,\" the report reads. \"The more planes of injury ... the more likely that an incident is the result of an assault rather than a simple or even complex fall.\"\n\n\"The nature and location of Max's skull fracture and subgaleal contusion are indicative of a head-first contact with the first floor surface and thus are consistent with Max moving or being moved over the railing following the assault causing him to fall to the first floor,\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the San Diego medical examiner's office was not immediately available when contacted Tuesday. Ben Metcalf, a public information officer at Rady Children’s Hospital, said officials there are prohibited from discussing the case due to privacy laws.\n\nLea Corbin, a spokeswoman for the Coronado Police Department, said authorities are planning to review the report by Melinek and Bove. After doing so, she said, investigators will decide whether to reopen the investigation.\n\nDina Shacknai, meanwhile, is confident that they will.\n\n\"We have provided them real science and our experts' reports are based on science,\" Shacknai told FoxNews.com. \"It couldn’t have happened the way they said. He [Max] couldn’t have gone over that banister on his own.\"" ]

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[ null, "Eritrean who fled to UK wins award for helping other refugees\n\nA young Eritrean woman who fled to the UK after her father was arrested for his political activities in her home country will receive an award for helping and inspiring other migrants and refugees.\n\nHer award comes as the number of Eritreans granted protection in the UK has plummeted after a change in Home Office advice on asylum requests from the repressive east African country.\n\nAt 16, Seada Fekadu’s world was turned upside down when her father was arrested for his work with the opposition in Eritrea. Fearing for her safety, an aunt paid for Fekadu to escape the capital, Asmara. Fekadu took a boat to neighbouring Djibouti, caught a plane to Paris and made her way to Calais, where she and others were smuggled in a lorry to London’s Waterloo.\n\nFekadu went to a nearby police station, was handed over to social services and was granted refugee status by the Home Office after three months. Five years on, Fekadu speaks about her dangerous voyage as if describing a commute to work.\n\n“In Calais, they put you in a truck, you don’t have a choice. ‘You have to take this one,’ the agent said. I didn’t know where I was going. The truck dropped us near a police station, they found us a translator and after two hours, social services came,” she said.\n\nIn a sense she was one of the lucky ones. Fekadu arrived in Britain before the current migration crisis currently engulfing Europe. Getting to the UK in the back of the truck was relatively easy in 2011. Since then, Fekadu has built a new life. She is studying for her BTec – physics is her favourite subject – and has offers from four universities to study biomedical science.\n\n“I want to become a doctor to help people, it’s about saving lives. I’ve wanted to be a doctor since I’ve been a child,” she said.\n\nShe has also been volunteering with Young Roots, a charity that helps young refugees. A social worker put Fekadu in touch with Young Roots soon after she arrived and she is now returning the favour by helping recent young arrivals referred to the charity.\n\n“Young Roots helped me gain confidence. Now it’s my turn to help others,” she said. “I’ve been in their situation so I can understand them and I’m happy to help. They are young, I am young, we are like friends.”\n\nFekadu, now a trustee at the charity, takes youngsters to museums, to play football, to swim and for trips outside London. In recognition of her work, Fekadu will receive an award recognising women with a migrant or refugee background who provide inspiring leadership.\n\n“So much of our time is taken up with communicating negative stories, we wanted to show the hopeful and positive work being done,” said Laura Padoan from the UNHCR, the UN agency for refugees, a joint organiser of the Women on the Move awards with the Forum, a migrant group. The event is on Friday at the Royal Festival Hall.\n\n“She certainly stood out for her maturity and resilience despite what she went through. It’s really remarkable,” said Padoan, one of the judges.\n\nYet the researchers behind the report, which the Home Office cited heavily, publicly distanced themselves from the findings, claiming the report was unsubstantiated and distorted. In June, the UN issued a damning report which concluded that the Eritrean government’s systematic use of extrajudicial killing, torture, rape, indefinite national service and forced labour may amount to crimes against humanity.\n\nThe UNHCR estimates that 5,000 people leave Eritrea every month and Eritreans account for the largest group of people applying for asylum in the UK, with 3,729 applications in 2015, a 48% increase over 2014. Eritrea also had the highest number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children last year at 694.\n\nAs a result of the Home Office advice, the proportion of initial decisions allowing Eritreans to stay plummeted to 48% in 2015 from 87% in the previous year. Meanwhile, the number of appeals from Eritreans soared from 172 in 2014 to 1,718 in 2015. Eighty percent of those Eritrean appeals determined in 2015 were allowed (which means refugee status for five years), an increase from 44% in the previous year.\n\nAsked whether she misses Eritrea, Fedaku says: “Sometimes I miss my friends, but I don’t have much time to think about home, I have to study and the friends around me are like family, like home.”", null, "Djibouti says talks with Eritrea to depend on release of prisoners\n\nDjibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh said on Tuesday that the release of Djiboutians held in Eritrea remain the first precondition for the restart of talks to resolve a territorial dispute between his country and Eritrea, an official source said.\n\nThe president made the remarks during his meeting with Qatar Emir Tamin Bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha.\nHe reminded the Emir that the refusal by Eritrea to give information on the state of the imprisoned Djiboutian soldiers was a source of “unbearable pain for their families.”\n\nThe two men agreed on the “need to end the prevailing situation of no war and no peace between Djibouti and Eritrea.”\n\nGuelleh used the opportunity to thank the Emir of Qatar for his tireless efforts in the mediation of the dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea.\n\nIn 2008, a territorial dispute caused a three-day armed conflict between Djibouti and Eritrea. 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[ null, "Binay spoke before an audience clad in white shirts with the words “Binay, Bongbong, Boying” at the back.\n\nPosters of Marcos’ and Binay’s faces were also set up around the stage during the vice president’s campaign rally.\n\nCeleste and other local officials even wore polo shirts with the words “Pres. Binay, Vice President Marcos” embroidered on a Philippine flag badge on the chest.\n\nIn an interview with reporters after the rally, Binay said he respected Celeste and the local government officials’ decision to support Marcos instead of Honasan.\n\n“Tingnan natin kung ‘yon ang gusto ng tao (Let us see if the people want it). In an honest and peaceful election, we will have to respect it,” Binay said.\n\nFor his part, Celeste said the local officials in his district support Marcos because the latter is a fellow Ilocano.\n\n(Here in North Luzon and in Congress, there is a Northern Luzon block. There is a ‘Solid North.’)" ]

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[ "A couple was asked to exit a San Diego-bound flight at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Florida, on Sept. 8, 2021, following a dispute over mandatory face masks. Credit - Alice Runkevich via Storyful\n\nFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A couple captured in a widely-viewed video was asked to leave a JetBlue flight prior to take-off for failing to comply with the mandatory mask requirement and berating the flight attendants, according to the airline.\n\nThe incident happened Sept. 8 on a JetBlue flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to San Diego, California. Video shared by Alice Runkevich, who was also a passenger on flight B6 529, shows the dispute between a man and crew members at the front of the plane.\n\nA female companion, who pulls her mask down under her chin while speaking to other passengers, can also be heard threatening to sue the airline and telling passengers filming the scene to \"let it go viral.\"\n\nThe pair both eventually get off the aircraft, which prompted other passengers on board to cheer and applaud their removal.\n\nRunkevich told Storyful that the flight was delayed by roughly three hours and that the incident happened while the plane was fully boarded and on the tarmac.\n\nIn a statement, JetBlue said the two travelers had been asked \"multiple times but would not comply with the federal mask mandate\" and apologized to other customers on the flight who experienced the incident.\n\n\"Eventually the customers were asked to leave the aircraft at which time one customer became verbally and physically aggressive toward crewmembers before eventually exiting the aircraft,\" the airline told FOX Television Stations. \"The customers will not be allowed to fly JetBlue in the future.\"", null, "The passengers are pictured in screengrabs from a video recorded on Sept. 8, 2021, on a JetBlue flight prior to takeoff in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Credit: Alice Runkevich via Storyful)\n\nJetBlue added that crewmembers are specifically trained to deal with travelers who do not follow airline policies.\n\n\"If a customer refuses to wear a face mask after being asked, crewmembers will work to de-escalate the situation to the best of their ability to gain compliance prior to removal. The safety of each customer and crewmember is our first priority, and we must work together to follow the federal mask mandate during the travel journey,\" the statement said.\n\nU.S. federal law requires passengers wear a face mask amid the ongoing spread of COVID-19, regardless of vaccination status. Masks must be worn at airports, on commercial aircraft, and in various modes of other transportation, including passenger railroads, intercity bus services. The face mask requirements remain in effect until at least Jan. 8, 2022.\n\nSeveral incidents of unruly passengers not following mask requirements have been reported this year since being implemented by the Transportation Security Administration in February.\n\nThe TSA announced last week it will double fines for individuals who violate the federal mask mandate on public modes of transportation. The new range of penalties is $500-$1000 for first offenders and $1000-$3000 for second offenders.\n\n\"We appreciate the majority of travelers each day who voluntarily follow the requirement, but find this action necessary to maximize the protections for those who use and work within the transportation system, and to contain COVID-19,\" said TSA Administrator David Pekoske. \"By doubling the range of penalties, we seek to reinforce the importance of voluntary adherence.\"\n\nThe federal mask mandate-related civil penalties are separate from the civil penalties issued by the Federal Aviation Administration for individuals who engage in unruly and unsafe behavior.\n\nBetween Jan and August, the FAA said it has received 3,988 reports of unruly passengers. More than 2,900 of those calls pertained to passengers who refused to wear a mask. Six hundred and ninety-three calls prompted an investigation and 132 cases resulted in penalties.\n\nAlcohol is another common factor regarding unruly passengers. American Airlines extended its ban on alcohol sales in the main cabin through January 2022, matching the timing of the federal mask mandate." ]

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[ null, "Based on: the manga by Shinobu Kaitani. 1998-2006.\nClaim to fame: Insanely homoerotic opening credits.\nDubbed: Sadly, no.\nSubject: Baseball.\n\nNot since the high school football anime Eyeshield 21 have I ever felt so cheated about not getting a proper adaptation of a series. I'm still undecided on which was worse: that Eyeshield 21 had 145 episodes of censorship + watering down Yusuke Murata's artwork + long, drawn-out filler-rama that progressively meanders to Nowhere'sville; or that in 145 episodes the Devilbats never fulfilled their goal of getting to the Christmas Bowl even though they get there, totally win, and their journey there is fuckin' sweet. (Come on, that's not even a spoiler at this point.)\n\n\"Wait, what are you doing, Beck?\" you ask as you look back at the title of this post. \"What about One Outs?\" Similar to Eyeshield 21, the characters of One Outs also play a sport hugely popular in America (American football vs. baseball); have a seemingly impossible end goal championship game (Christmas Bowl vs. pennant); and are also comprised of a group of generally low-ranked underdogs (Deimon Devilbats vs. Saitama Lycoans). They have one super-talented semi-stoic dude (kicker Musashi vs. ace batter Kojima), a kind-hearted naive catcher guy voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi (Monta vs. Ideguchi), and a wicked fan-favorite motherfucker with crazy bleached hair whose underhanded schemes improve the performance of the players as well as keep the team whole and running (quarterback Hiruma vs. pitcher Tokuchi). And like Eyeshield 21, the manga version reaches the end game while the anime ends prematurely.\n\n\"So, why would I want to watch this?\" you say. \"Also, why do you keep writing dialogue for me?\" Well, One Outs--even partially adapted--is still bad-ass. The fact that this is only a partial adaptation means you have no excuse to not watch it. It's like watching The Matrix and saying \"well, he didn't liberate all mankind yet so fuck this movie.\" And like The Matrix taught us, sometimes it's better not to continue shit. Anyway, it's not as if I'm recommending Eyeshield 21. There's only 25 episodes of One Outs. And another benefit of only being 25 episodes means every episode progresses the story. Like one of my other recommendations--Initial D: First Stage--One Outs still feels like a full story with a beginning, middle, and end. Only someone who knows zilch about baseball would expect them to win the championship at the conclusion of 25 episodes. Now that I'm three paragraphs in, maybe I should write about the show itself, eh?\n\nI know I keep making Eyeshield comparisons, so let's get to where they differ. Firstly, what this and actually every show on my \"5 Anime\" list have in common is that none of them are centered on high school kiddy bullshit. Initial D had high school kids in high school, but it centered more on the racing and had several adult characters. We never had to sit in class with the main character or go to a school festival or something shitty like that. Akagi starred a young boy but every other character is an adult, including Akagi himself once the timeskip kicks in. The Saitama Lycoans are a pro baseball team. Ace hitter Kojima has been on the team for 21 years. Even if every show on my list primarily focuses on younger men (several racers in Initial D are in their early twenties, Akagi is 19 after the timeskip, One Outs' Tokuchi Toua is 20, and characters in the last two shows on my list are also early twenties), that's a small price to pay to not be in a damn high school.", null, "Secondly, there is no stammering doormat protag in the form of a Sena counterpart. The star of the show is undoubtedly this guy: Tokuchi Toua. Tokuchi's not a baseball player. He knows the game and he can throw deceptive pitches, but he is a gambler at heart and uses his pitching talents to earn illegal wads of cash. The funny thing is that his pitching isn't even that spectacular. His batting is passable but not great. He's not a super-fast runner. His stamina for an actual game is shit. But Tokuchi uses his sharp wits and smart mouth to make things go his way and I love him for it.\n\nLet's get to the meat: One Outs starts out with two guys from the Saitama Lycoans pro baseball team looking for a replacement pitcher after one of them hurts his widdle finger while training in Okinawa. They meet a woman called Big Mama (nice name) who takes them to a bunch of--mostly American--dudes gambling in the dark of night at a baseball field. They then proceed to gamble. This is not a great start.\n\nThere's nothing more grating than a show that begins with what are basically throwaway characters and makes us spend too much goddamn time with them. Now, these guys aren't true throwaways in the sense we never see them again. I'll call them Nakane and Glasses, because I'm pretty sure one of them was named Nakane and I'll be damned if I remember the name of the one with glasses. Neither one is all that important. In retrospect, we should've had Kojima and catcher Ideguchi as the ones who look for a new pitcher because Kojima and Ideguchi are the two members of the team that kinda become Tokuchi's boys. They keep secrets with him and strategize privately with him and it just seemed like having them meet Tokuchi first makes the most sense. If I recall correctly, the anime even improved on the manga because I don't think Nagane and Glasses were even on the main team and the anime made their roles stronger. To make another Matrix comparison, it'd be like opening the movie with Apoc and Switch instead of Trinity and Cypher. The latter two were waaay more important to the story so using them made the most impact and the most sense. But I digress.\n\nThis is the part of the show where it'll probably lose you if you didn't already leave while Tokuchi was flying around shirtless in the OP. Nagane, Glasses, and Big Mama have all sorts of conversations which just sounds like a bunch of prattle. \"This is why you Japaneseses lose at teh gamblings. Blah blah blah.\" This show can get so damn verbose and over-explainy that your brain tunes it out automatically. It is heavy in the beginning and just when you think you're out of the woods, someone's explaining something else. Sometimes even with diagrams." ]

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[ "Earlier this year, Facebook announced they would be launching an Instagram for children 13 and under. This decision was made in hopes of stopping young people lying about their age, as well as regulating content children are consuming online.\n\nWhy should we care?", null, "At surface level, some may feel apathetic towards this, especially those who may not have children around them.\n\nMy childhood consisted of playing outside with my friends, knocking on their door to see if they were coming out to play, making grass soup and playing schools. Social media didn’t become a ‘thing’ until I was older, and I’m very thankful for that as it gave me a chance to form my identity without interference from digital streams.\n\nDespite me having this time to flourish as a child, I still struggle with comparing myself to others, and social media is often the root of this. Now, imagine taking this same feeling and applying it to an 8-year-old. Facebook’s announcement was met with backlash from the public, and quite rightly so. Our generation is still dealing with the consequences of social media, so to introduce this to children is something that will affect future generations in ways we may not understand. In my opinion, once this is approved the damage will be irreversible.\n\nInstagram is primarily a visual sharing app, meaning children will be encouraged to share pictures and videos of their life in exchange for likes, comments and shares, exposing them to the concept of social validation and gratification. This concept is specifically dangerous for younger girls as adolescents report feeling pressured to post sexualised content in order to gain attention online (I).", null, "In recent light, a Facebook whistle-blower, Frances Haugen, leaked hundreds of pages of internal documents, some of them holding shocking statistics (II). One finding detailed 13.5% of teenage girls say Instagram makes suicidal thoughts worse, and 17% say they make eating disorders worse. She revealed that Facebook research acknowledges this content make young women more depressed, and as a result it leads them to using the app more. The internal documents also state that Instagram is distinctly worse than other social media platforms for this reason. Whilst having this research, Frances states that in order to make the app safer this would mean incurring a loss in profit, something that Facebook are not willing to do.\n\nIntroducing Instagram to children when Facebook have this research is careless, greedy and incredibly worrying. Realistically, creating a platform for children will not only divert the problem, but it’ll also hook younger children onto social media. Older children will not stop lying about their age to get onto Instagram, meaning the real demographic for this new platform could be children as young as 6.\n\nSocial media is addictive by design – this will be no different with kids. You can read exactly why social media is so addictive here. Excessive screen use in children has been linked to obesity, lower psychological wellbeing, decreased happiness, decreased quality of sleep, increased risk of depression and increase in suicidal thoughts and attempts (III).\n\nAddictiveness aside, let’s not forget that kids can be very mean; cliques and bullying are ripe in our schools today. Approximately 1 in 5 children experience cyberbullying – and these are only the reported statistics (VI). This figure will only increase further as younger children are exposed to the virtual world. Creating an Instagram for kids would not only divert this bullying to another platform, but would expose children to adult concepts and effect their ability to navigate social challenges. Social media would also increase FOMO and induce anxiety and loneliness within kids.\n\nAs well as all of this, this platform would become a safety hazard for children, as they would be more vulnerable to exploitation from predators. Data gathered by the NSPCC found that more children were being groomed on Instagram than any other platform (VII). The NSPCC stated that these statistics didn’t reflect the full extent of the issue as many incidents remain unreported or undetected.\n\nIn 2019, Facebook underwent backlash for allowing children to speak to strangers in relation to their ‘Messenger Kids’ app. The app was made around the premise of children not being able to speak to people who were not approved by their parents. However, these authorisations didn’t apply in group chats, meaning children could chat to unauthorised users which could invite predators with malicious intent.\n\nRegulation of this app is also unclear. Whilst the Instagram for Kids claims to be ‘ad free’ and show age-appropriate content (VI), the charity ‘Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood’ (CCFC) state:\n\nYoung people are highly persuadable by algorithmic prediction of what they might click on next, and we are very concerned about how automated decision making would determine what children see and experience on a kids’ Instagram platform (VIII).\n\n\nThere are so many reasons why this is a bad idea, however this article only scratches the surface. In the last few months Facebook have been a point for controversy for withholding key research into Instagram and the link between a decline in mental health. The charity CCFC have written an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg compiling research that indicates why they shouldn’t launch an Instagram for kids.\n\nIf you’re interested in reading further as to why social media can be so detrimental, you can read about why it distorts reality and affects our mental health here." ]

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[ "I have another Soulstice Spa polish to show you today! This one is called Troy.", null, null, "It has a quick-drying formula that applies best with a light touch, using somewhat thick coats and not going over the same spot more than once. Using that technique, I didn’t really have any problems with the application (although the photos are showing a bit of a bald spot on the side of my index that I didn’t notice in real life!).", null, "The photos show two coats of Troy. These are true holo particles, not glitter, so it’s smooth even without topcoat.", null, "The next two photos are in the shade.", null, null, "And this last photo is under the Ott light. Subtle in terms of holo, but a really nice quick-drying charcoal!", null, "Edit: Prompted by the comment from Derya, here’s a comparison of Troy to OPI My Private Jet (most recent version that is still available in stores) and Color Club Revvvolution. 🙂 (Photos taken under my Ott light this morning.)", null, "As you can see My Private Jet, the brownish-charcoal scattered holo version, that is, is darker than Troy and has a reddish-brown shimmer flash to it. Revvvolution is more of a true grey charcoal with none of the brown that the other two have.", null, "These swatches have two coats of each polish. In addition to being the lightest in colour, Troy was also the sheerest of the three. Revvvolution is the most opaque; it’s nearly a one-coater. It’s also different in that its holo is more linear rather than scattered. My Private Jet’s scattered holo is a bit more apparent than Troy’s.", null, "Nicole by OPI If the Blue Fits" ]

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[ null, "Waiting their new album INNOVA, set to be released the 5th may 2015, here is their last video “Resuscitate”!\n\nIn a recent interview, Gleen Drennen said about the new album“INNOVA (the Latin word for ‘renew’) is a really old word, but it’s also almost futuristic in a way….. It really told the story in one word of bringing what Fireflight has done in the past, but also moving it into the future. The official release date of 5/5/15 is significant because it’s going to be our fifth album and celebrates the 15th year of the band.”" ]

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[ "Hiring A Diverse Army To Track COVID-19 Amid Reopening\n\nAs a contact tracer, Teresa Ayala-Castillo is sometimes asked whether herbal teas and Vicks VapoRub can treat COVID-19. These therapies aren’t exactly official health guidance, but Ayala-Castillo isn’t fazed. She listens and then suggests other ideas — like getting rest and drinking plenty of fluids.\n\n“I don’t want to call them old wives’ tales, but these remedies are things that I’m 100% familiar with because my mom used them on me,” said Ayala-Castillo, a bilingual first-generation Ecuadorian American who works for the city of Long Beach, California.\n\nHealth departments across the U.S. are working at a furious pace to staff their armies of contact tracers to control the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Experts estimate local and state health departments will have to add 100,000 to 300,000 people to get the economy back on track.\n\nAs they build these forces, many states and localities are trying hard to hire from the racial and ethnic minority communities hit hardest by the virus. They’re anticipating a need for skilled, culturally competent tracers who can convert suspicious or hesitant contacts into enthusiastic, willing participants in the drive to stamp out the virus.\n\nVirus-tracking activities vary by state. Most states have created plans to add contact tracers through hiring or volunteering, but wealthier ones — including California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington — are further along than others, said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials.\n\nDelaware, which aims to begin hiring in a month, plans to prioritize hires from vulnerable communities with bilingual language skills. Minnesota is hammering out staffing contracts with diversity quotas that match the demographics of the state’s COVID-19 cases.\n\n“One size does not fit all for making that first call and being successful in having them pick up the phone and have a good conversation,” said Chris Elvrum, a deputy incident manager at the Minnesota Department of Health. “We need to recognize that we have to approach it in different ways for different cultural communities in the state.”\n\nTracking the disease works like this: After someone tests positive for COVID-19, a case investigator from the local health department calls the patient to ask detailed questions about her health, movements and whom she interacted with over a certain time frame. A contact tracer then calls everyone the patient named to let them know they were potentially exposed to the virus. These contacts are instructed to stay home and self-quarantine for 14 days after the exposure. If they live with other people, the recommendation may extend to those individuals.\n\nUnder stay-at-home orders, it’s often relatively easy to figure out who may have been exposed to the disease, health officials say. Infected people usually have been around only family or close friends and will often warn contacts to expect a call from the health department, said Emily Holman, communicable disease controller for Long Beach.\n\nBut shoe-leather fieldworkers may be required in some instances, said Dr. Kara Odom Walker, secretary of the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services. “There are some communities that aren’t going to respond to a phone call, a text message or a letter,” said Walker. “That could be due to health literacy issues, which could be due to fear, or documentation status.”\n\nSo far, most people are following instructions, say officials. Holman estimates that fewer than 1% of those contacted in Long Beach refused to participate.\n\nBut some defiance is likely, especially among those who cannot work from home or are the only provider for their children, Elvrum said. People being notified about contacts with a COVID-positive patient might think the call is a scam, or worry the information will be shared with immigration authorities or cost them their job. Health departments do not have to turn information collected for medical purposes over to federal immigration enforcement, but it takes a sensitive, empathetic and knowledgeable contact tracer to explain this.\n\n“You need someone to be a cultural broker to say, not only are these policies in place to protect you, but I’m telling you to trust me that this will be OK,” Walker said. “I’m going to make sure you have what you need to safely quarantine.”\n\nMinnesota plans to dedicate 1,400 staffers to contact tracing by July, Elvrum said. Contracts with two companies involved in the hiring stipulate that they bring on people of racial and ethnic groups proportional to their numbers in the state or the percentage of positive COVID-19 cases in those groups — whichever is higher.\n\nThey’re seeking hires who speak Hmong, Somali and Spanish, said Kou Thao, director of the Center for Health Equity in the Minnesota Department of Health.\n\nVirginia, which has 200 contact tracers and hopes to hire a total of 1,300 staff to support the effort, is looking for speakers of Mandarin, Haitian Creole, Spanish and Bengali, said Mona Bector, deputy commissioner for administration at the Virginia Department of Health.\n\nThe state has received more than 6,000 résumés for these positions, Bector said.\n\nLong Beach prides itself on a diverse workforce that reflects the city’s population. Officials pulled their contact tracers and interpreters, including Ayala-Castillo, from municipal staff members who speak Samoan, Khmer, Tagalog, Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin and other languages to create a staff of 60. Their goal is to have 200 people trained and ready to deploy as needed.\n\nHaving workers who can speak to contacts in the language they prefer is a step forward, said Crystal Watson, a senior scholar from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Being able to extract information while being sensitive to patients’ concerns and mistrust is paramount, she added.\n\nSgt. Jairo Paulino, a 38-year-old member of the Delaware National Guard, is one of several bilingual guardsmen volunteering to help call COVID-19 contacts. When he started the job in mid-May, he noticed there was a “major backlog” of names because the state didn’t have enough Spanish speakers to reach out to everyone quickly.\n\nPaulino was born in the Dominican Republic and moved to New York as a boy. He grew up translating for his father and attending church — both elements that help build trust in the Latino community, he said.\n\nPoor access to the internet also poses a challenge. In Tulare, a rural county in central California, health workers ask patients to use an online portal to help streamline data collection of their contacts. However, 5% to 10% of people cannot get online, said Tiffany Swarthout, an administrative specialist at the county health department. In those cases, health workers will speak to the patient on the phone.\n\nEmployment concerns represent another tricky area for contact tracers. Some people they reach out to may hesitate to stay home because they are strapped for cash, especially if the pandemic has left members of the family without work, said Jody Menick, a nurse who supervises contact tracing in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.\n\nSome employers are requesting proof that patients and contacts were safe to return after quarantine, and some areas provide official letters that specify the worker’s quarantine period.\n\nBut undocumented workers — who have fewer protections than employees with legal status — have been pressured to show up to work in her area, Menick said, leaving them with a difficult decision.", null ]

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[ "In a recent study published in the Journal of Pain, researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, found an association between sleep quality and next-day pain intensity in children undergoing major surgery.1\n\nPatients of all ages commonly experience persistent postsurgical pain, including an estimated 22% of children.2 Poor sleep has been implicated in acute and chronic postsurgical pain in adults, and earlier findings showed that impaired sleep the week before surgery predicted greater acute postoperative pain in children, 18% of whom developed persistent pain 1 year later.3.4\n\nHowever, no previous research has examined the potential role of sleep in persistent postoperative pain in children. “Understanding directional relationships between daily sleep and pain is critical to development of targeted interventions for children experiencing problems with pain, sleep, and recovery after surgery,” wrote the investigators in the present study.\n\nTo that end, the researchers investigated temporal associations between daily sleep patterns and pain in children age 11 to 17 undergoing major surgery of the spine (n=50) or chest wall (n=10). At baseline (presurgery), 2-weeks after discharge, and 4 months postsurgery, patients completed wrist actigraphy sleep monitoring and twice-daily electronic sleep diaries for 7 days, as well as the Adolescent Sleep Wake Scale at each timepoint to assess sleep quality.\n\nUnstandardized beta coefficients (B) associated 95% confidence intervals,were used to “estimate magnitude and direction of associations between changes in dependent and independent variables while accounting for clustering by individual.”\n\nAfter controlling for age, sex, daytime sleep, and medication, the findings show significant reductions in sleep quality (B = -0.88, P <.001) and efficiency (B = -1.50, P =.036) at 2 weeks vs baseline, with a return to baseline levels at the 4-month mark. In addition, an association between worse nighttime sleep quality and greater next-day pain intensity was found (B = -.15, P =.005). No association was observed between postsurgical pain and sleep efficiency, or between daytime pain and subsequent sleep.\n\nFuture studies should aim to replicate these results in a larger sample and with a greater variety of surgeries. “These longitudinal findings suggest that poor sleep quality may continue to influence the experience of postsurgical pain within individual children even 4 months after surgery,” the investigators wrote. This relationship may point to sleep quality as an “important target to direct interventions to help improve overall recovery after surgery.”\n\nIn this study, poor nighttime sleep quality was associated with greater reported next-day pain intensity in children undergoing major surgery of the spine or chest wall.\n\nStudy limitations include some degree of data lost to follow-up and the possibility that certain moderating factors may not have been accounted for, both of which may have influenced the observed links between sleep and pain. In addition, the study did not include children not undergoing surgery, who would have served as control subjects.", null ]

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[ "Cyprus and Egypt will sign an agreement for the extraction and production of Cypriot natural gas during a visit to Cairo this week by President Tassos Papadopoulos, officials said Wednesday.", null, "Papadopoulos will travel to Egypt Wednesday for a three-day official visit, the first by a Cypriot head of state since 1966.\n\nEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview published Wednesday that Egypt and Cyprus will sign an agreement during the visit for the extraction and production of natural gas, thought to be located off the coast of the island.\n\nLast year, Egypt and Cyprus signed a provisional deal to share technical know-how and expertise in areas where the two countries have mutual interests.\n\n\"We have come a long way since the memorandum of understanding,\" Mubarak said in an interview with Cyprus' Phileleftheros daily. \"During the visit, President Papadopoulos will oversee the signing of an agreement relating to the extraction and production of natural gas inside Cypriot territorial waters. This will open new ways for a profitable cooperation between the two countries in this vital area.\"\n\nAlthough the size of Cyprus' oil and gas reserves are not known, former Trade and Industry Minister Nicos Rolandis has claimed in the past that an estimated 6 billion to 8 billion barrels of oil could be lying in the sea surrounding Cyprus, reports the AP." ]

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[ "JIM O'NEILL: This Brilliant Chart Demonstrates How World Trade Is Going Through A Huge Evolution", null, "The biggest global economic story of the last 30 years is arguably the rise of the emerging markets, a transformation that got a big boost when China took steps toward capitalism during the early 1980s.\n\nWhile these economies have stumbled in 2013, they continue to be a crucial source of growth for the world.\n\nThey also represent crucial sources of economic activity for each other.\n\nEarlier this month, we asked economic Jim O’Neill for what he considered to be the most important chart of the year.\n\nO’Neill, the retired Goldman Sachs economist who coined the BRICs acronym, not surprisingly offered something on the emergence of the emerging markets.\n\n“United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) had a brilliant chart showing the changing patterns of world trade — contrasting ‘North-North’ with ‘South-South’ — demonstrating that world trade is going through a huge evolution,” he told us.\n\nSouth-South Cooperation is a term from the UN that essentially incorporates all of the major emerging economies. In contrast, North-North consists of developed economies like the U.S., Western Europe, and Japan.\n\n“South — South trade offers developing countries access to affordable capital goods that are often more appropriate to their needs than are capital goods from richer countries and that are therefore more likely to be acquired, adopted and imitated,” wrote the UNDP. “Even India has benefited. In 2010, capital goods such as electrical machinery, nuclear reactors and boilers dominated India’s imports from China (60%) and cost an estimated 30% less than if they had been sourced from richer countries.”\n\nThe divide between emerging and developed markets continues to close.", null ]

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[ null, "* OPEC+ to ease some output cuts between May and July\n\nSINGAPORE, April 5 (Reuters) – Oil prices slipped on Monday, paring strong gains made in the previous session that was driven by the decision by OPEC+ to gradually ease some of its production cuts between May and July.\n\nBoth contracts settled up more than $2 a barrel on Thursday as investors viewed the OPEC+ decision as an affirmation of demand-led recovery, and optimism was boosted by U.S. President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure spending plan.\n\nMarkets were closed on Friday because of the Easter holiday. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Russia and their allies, a group known as OPEC+, agreed to ease production curbs by 350,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, another 350,000 bpd in June and further 400,000 bpd or so in July. decision pointed to a cautious and orderly ramp-up from OPEC+, allowing for a tight oil market, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:) analysts said. The bank expects a large rebound in oil demand this summer that will require an additional 2 million bpd of OPEC+ production from July to October. decision came after the new U.S. administration called on Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, to keep energy affordable for consumers despite demand concerns as parts of Europe remained under lockdown while Japan could expand emergency measures as needed to contain a new wave of coronavirus infections. Thursday’s agreement, OPEC+ cuts would be just above 6.5 million bpd from May, compared with slightly below 7 million bpd in April.\n\nMost of the increase in supplies will come from Saudi Arabia, which said it was phasing out its extra voluntary cuts by July, a move that will add 1 million bpd. Following that, Saudi Aramco (SE:) raised official selling prices (OSPs) for May to Asia on Sunday. raised output was followed by an increase in the OSP, which I think in tandem shows the confidence the bloc has in demand recovery,” Singapore-based OCBC economist Howie Lee said.\n\nThis week, investors are focused on indirect talks in Vienna between Iran and the United States as part of broader negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and global powers. of the talks, Iran’s foreign ministry said it wanted the United States to lift all sanctions and rejected any “step-by-step” easing of restrictions. analyst Henry Rome said he expects U.S. sanctions, including restrictions on the sale of Iranian oil, to be lifted only after these talks are completed and Iran returns to compliance.\n\n“Diplomacy could stretch for months and nuclear compliance could take as long as three months,” he said in a note, adding that implementation of such a deal and a ramp-up of oil exports could stretch into early 2022." ]

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[ "4 edition of Poppies found in the catalog.\n\nPublished 2000 by Batsford in London .\nWritten in English", null, null, null, null, null, null, "The second book, “Mustard Seed” was an enjoyable solid 4 stars read for me. But I found this third book, “Golden Poppies”, the weakest in the series. First 30% of the book is mainly a recap of previous 2 books.\n\nAlso later on big fragments of narration relate to the past events in the lives of multiple s: Poppies, first published inwas the first book devoted exclusively to these popular plants.\n\nNot only are the true poppies, genus Papaver, covered, but all Poppies book other members of the poppy family as well, including Glaucium, Dendromecon, Eschscholzia, Arctomecon, Argemone, Canbya, the plumed poppies Macleaya, Meconopsis, Roemeria, and many by: 6.\n\nPoppies Howick is a gem of a bookshop. Poppies Bookshop has delighted customers for over thirty years with its warm bookshop ambiance, hand-picked books and friendly old-fashioned customer service; and its move to the former Readaway Books' premises is sure to gain them a new customer base.\n\nWhere Poppies Blow is the story of the British soldiers of the Great War and their relationship with the animals and plants around them.\n\nThis relationship was of profound importance, because it goes a long way to explaining why they fought, The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the author of Meadowland, winner /5. Red Poppies is the story of the wealthy Maichi I believe the books blurb can best describe it.\n\n'A panoramic human and political epic, this extraordinary first novel opens a window on pre-occupation Tibet/5. Poppies Howick. likes. Poppies Howick - Your Kind of Bookshop. The perfect place to lose yourself amongst beautiful books, gorgeous cards and the latest in Poppies book.\n\nThe novels that are studied at book club echo disappearances and colonial transgressions, a treasured copy of Monet ‘s Field of Poppies recalls loves and dreams but also times of war.\n\nAtmospheric and beguiling this is a novel that seduces the reader with mysteries and beauties but also speaks of something much larger. Free download or read online Sea of Poppies pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published inand was written by Amitav Ghosh.\n\nThe book was published in multiple Poppies book including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, historical story are Neel Rattan Halder, Zachary Reid/5. Poppies.\n\nPoppies book 2, likes 3 talking about this. ⚘ ⚘ ⚘ ⚘ ⚘ ⚘Followers: K. In Kidd’s (The Invention of Wings,etc.) feminist take on the New Testament, Jesus has a wife whose fondest longing is to is the daughter of Matthias, head scribe to Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee.\n\nShe demonstrates an exceptional aptitude for writing, and Matthias, for a time, indulges her with reed pens, papyri, and other 16 C.E. office : Maral Boyadjian. The Tall Poppy Writers are hosting a cross-genre writing contest.\n\nOur intention is to share our substantial joint experience as bestselling, award-wining authors to help other women, transgender, and non-binary/genderqueer authors advance in their publishing journey. Sea of Poppies.\n\nby Amitav Ghosh. pp, John Murray, £ This terrific novel, the first volume in a projected trilogy, unfolds in north India and the. A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family s are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful species of poppy, Papaver somniferum, is the source of the narcotic drug opium which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as an analgesic and narcotic.\n\nPoppies also provides a gift shop and a helpful tour desk. Poppies Restaurant serves fine Thai cuisine and a vegetarian menu. Beautiful pool and sea views can be enjoyed throughout the entire meal.\n\nPoppies Samui is a minute drive from Samui Airport/10(55). The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is \"a remarkably rich saga which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment\" (The Observer [London]).\n\nAt the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the Cited by: The poppy (Papaver rhoeas L.) is an ancient flowering plant, long desired by gardeners in a range of landscape ng how to grow poppies allows you to use their beauty in many flower beds and gardens.\n\nPlanting poppies is simple and rewarding when their single and double blooms appear in cooler seasons. Staying at Poppies Bali is the best value (and possibly the best kept secret) in the Bali/Kuta area.\n\nFor less than the price of a moderate hotel room, you get your own private cottage with a private veranda and attached open air (but very private) bathroom/10(). The Poppy War (The Poppy War, Book 1) by R.F. Kuang | 18 Oct out of 5 stars Paperback £ £ 7.\n\n47 £ £ Sea of Poppies: Ibis Trilogy Book 1. by Amitav Ghosh | 16 Apr out of 5 stars Paperback £ £ 9. 68 £ £9. Our Homeschool BookRecommendationsThis is a growing list of all the delicious bookswe are reading and loving.\n\nTake a look through our photo library, read reviews from real guests and book now with our Price Guarantee. We’ll even let you know about secret offers and sales when you sign up to our emails/10(94). Field of poppies, then, has all the hallmarks of Bird’s writing – a light tone, and all manner of allusions and digressions, underpinned by a clearly-focused intelligence.\n\nIf you are lulled, early on, by narrator Marsali’s chatty, friendly tone, you’d be. Sea of Poppies, a novel by Amitav Ghosh published intells the intertwining stories of several people who find themselves aboard the Ibis, a former slave ship, in the early 19 th century.\n\nCait is a contributing writer for Simple Homeschool. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, The Mighty, Scary Mommy, GeekMom, and. An intricate saga, Sea of Poppies brings together a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts, who have embarked on a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean in the midst of the Opium Wars between Britain and China.\n\nThis panorama of characters, including a mulatto freedman from America, a bankrupt raja, a beautiful, free.\n\nSea of Poppies is a book of strict social rules and hierarchies – in the villages, in the palace, in prison, in the grand houses and onboard ship.\n\nWhy is this. Who makes the rules. Who do they benefit. Who/what challenges them. ‘She had shed the body of the old Deeti, with the burden of its karma; she had paidFile Size: KB. Hard Rock Cafe is 1, feet from Poppies Bali, while Kuta Art Market is 1, feet from the property.\n\nThe nearest airport is Ngurah Rai Airport, mi from Poppies Bali. This is our guests' favorite part of Kuta, according to independent reviews/10().\n\nThe Poppies are introduced in L. Frank Baum's first Oz book titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in and appear in the eighth chapter of the novel The Deadly Poppy Field. In the tale, these dangerous poppies bloom within the magical Land of Oz and are used as an obstacle of which involves the main characters and protagonist in the plot of the story, Dorothy Gale.\n\nThe first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is \"a remarkably rich saga which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment\" (The Observer [London]).At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis.\n\nHer destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the. Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve State Natural Reserve Poppies open up in mid morning, and curl up in the late afternoon/evening or if it’s cold, so check the weather forecast before leaving. The weather can change suddenly and it is frequently windy here during the spring.\n\nThis is a DESERT grassland, so drink water often. Buy a cheap copy of A Field of Poppies book by Sharon Sala. Two families. One secret. Separated by a river and twenty years of lies. Five minutes changed Poppy Sadler’s life forever. Tick. The hospital called. Her mother’s Free shipping over $ Check out this great listen on Two families.\n\nOne secret. Separated by a river and 20 years of lies. Five minutes changed Poppy Sadler's life forever. Tick. The hospital called. Her mother's battle with cancer was finally over. Tock. The police showed up at her door. Her fa. Poppies of Iraq is Brigitte Findakly’s nuanced tender chronicle of her relationship with her homeland Iraq, co-written and drawn by her husband, the acclaimed cartoonist Lewis spare and elegant detail, they share memories of her middle class childhood touching on cultural practices, the education system, Saddam Hussein’s state control, and her.\n\nHow, exciting the book is finally available online. It is a stunning pictorial record (I would almost call it a diary) of our amazing project from start to finish (date), with more than pages of images.\n\nAbout Poppies The Poppies Project is a community tribute of respect and remembrance for our servicemen and women. Sea of Poppies is the first novel in the Ibis trilogy, created by author and historian Amitav Ghosh. The book takes place in India at the beginning of the opium trade. In proceeding years, the.\n\nSea of Poppies is the first book of the Ibis Trilogy by Amitav Ghosh. This is a beautifully told story set in India, the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal on the eve of the First Opium War.\n\nThe Ibis is an ex-slave ship purchased by merchant Benjamin. Red Poppies can thus be read as a historical novel of an apocalyptic order about opium and the creative-destructive forces it unleashed in a Tibetan borderland on the eve of the communist victory.\n\nBut before we allegorize this local history as a story of modern Tibet—as indeed it is tempting to do, given established modes of political. The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is \"a remarkably rich saga which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration—and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment\" (The Observer [London]).\n\nAt the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly /5(92). A “swashbuckling novel,” Red Poppies is at once a political parable and a moving elegy to the lost kingdom of Tibet in all its cruelty, beauty, and romance (The New York Times Book Review).\n\nProduct DetailsBrand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Poppy, any of several flowering plants of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), especially species of the genus Papaver. Most poppies are found in the Northern Hemisphere, and several species of poppies are cultivated as garden ornamentals.\n\n20 bless this special day Bright poppy design. God Bless This Special Day, Poppies, Napkins, Pack of /5(1).Opium Made Easy By Michael Pollan Harper's Magazine, April 1, Last season was a strange one in my garden, notable not only for the unseasonably cool and wet weather—the talk of gardeners all over New England—but also for its climate of paranoia.\n\nPoppy-wearing gathered momentum, and in poppies started to be made in a purpose-built factory in Richmond, which produces millions of poppies each year. 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[ null, "The Ohio Democratic Party announced Saturday that Obama would be a guest at its annual State Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 13 at the Columbus Convention Center.\n\nBIG NEWS! @BarackObama will be our special guest for #ODPDinner16! Get your tickets now: https://t.co/vA9r0vxPak #OHDEMS\n\nDemocratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been struggling in recent polls in Ohio, though it's still a close race: the latest RealClearPolitics average has Republican Donald Trump leading by less than 2 points.\n\nClinton and her allies will be campaigning in several battleground states after Monday's first presidential debate. The events will focus on registering voters.\n\nThe Democratic presidential nominee will travel to North Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa and Florida. Former President Bill Clinton will be in Ohio on Tuesday and take part in a bus tour of Florida on Friday.\n\nRELATED: Obamas might be just the people Clinton needs\n\nVirginia Sen. Tim Kaine, Clinton's running mate, will campaign in Florida on Tuesday while Vice President Joe Biden will be in Philadelphia that day.\n\nFirst lady Michelle Obama will also be in Pennsylvania, making stops in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh on Wednesday.\n\nLike Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida have voter registration deadlines in early October." ]

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[ "As Rachel Malooly lined up for an extra point, the realization set in.\n\nThe Green Bay East High School kicker got nervous and pushed the ball wide left of the goal post.\n\n“That’s the worst she’s hit a ball all year,” said East football coach Shaun Behrend. “She said it wasn’t what she was expecting with the crowd and the eyes on her – it’s a lot different.”\n\nMalooly is used to competing in volleyball and soccer where crowd sizes aren’t as large as football.\n\n“Being on the sideline with the guys was fun,” Malooly said. “I was super nervous, but they were all supportive. Even when I missed it, they were positive and said get the next one.”\n\nMalooly is experiencing a number of new things this fall.", null, "The Red Devils senior is juggling both volleyball and football – it’s her first time playing football.\n\nMalooly was upset she missed the first extra point in the opening game of her career when East lost to Seymour 48-6 Aug. 23.\n\n“She cares and wants to do well,” Behrend said. “This isn’t some joke to her. It’s not, ‘Look at me, I’m out here doing this.’ She’s going to be a big part of what we do and she doesn’t want to go out there and lay an egg – she’s competitive.”\n\nBehrend suggested Malooly go out for football after he saw her kicking field goals for fun during a strength and conditioning program in summer 2018.\n\n“Last year she wasn’t ready, but this year she was,” Behrend said. “She’s great. The guys love it. She’s earned the respect.”\n\n“Really, she’s a girly-girl,” said East volleyball coach Heidi Kieffer. “She likes to do her nails, and you can tell who she is by the way she walks. It’s awesome – when you think of these big, tough football players, Rachel does not fit that description at all, but she can get the job done.”\n\nMalooly agreed to play on the football team this year and received consent from Kieffer.\n\nA week and a half before school started, Malooly and her coaches sat down together to discuss a schedule that Kieffer put together for how to jockey Malooly playing both sports.\n\n“I want her to feel comfortable, but still feel like she’s getting enough time in both sports to be successful,” Kieffer said. “No athlete wants to not feel prepared.”\n\nDuring a typical week, Malooly practices with the volleyball team for two hours each day before heading to football – generally on Mondays and Wednesdays – to work with the special teams units.\n\nEast typically has volleyball matches on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so she isn’t able to get to football practices those days.\n\nWith the Red Devils not having any volleyball tournaments on Fridays, Malooly won’t have to miss any football games.\n\nAfter volleyball practice, she is out to the football field by about 6 p.m.\n\nShe’s able to get loose and warm-up her leg before Behrend’s special teams work on extra points.\n\nMalooly usually gets about 45 minutes to kick during practice.\n\n“We put her through some tackling circuit stuff to be safe on that point,” Behrend said. “Not that she’s ever going to have to make a tackle on PATs, but you want to make sure she’s safe.”\n\nHaving Malooly play both sports has been a positive collaboration between the football and volleyball programs.\n\n“I’m glad as a coaching staff we’ve been able to work so well together to give her this opportunity,” Kieffer said. “I don’t know how many programs would be this flexible. This shows how well our athletic department supports the kids.”\n\nMalooly is in her third year starting on the volleyball team and second season as the team’s libero.\n\nKieffer believes she is primed for a breakout season on the court, which could garner her all-conference honors.\n\nEven though volleyball is her primary sport in the fall, Malooly said she enjoys being a part of the football team.\n\nShe is hoping to play a role in turning around the program, which has won only three games in the last four-plus seasons.\n\nMalooly, whose background as a soccer player has helped with football, said she is hoping to tack on some extra points and get a shot at some field-goal attempts.\n\nShe said her longest made field goal in practice has been 32 yards, and Behrend will rely on her from 30 yards and in.\n\n“I’ve got all the confidence in the world she’s going to go out there and put her foot into it and see what happens,” Behrend said.\n\nThere has been a lot of talk nationally lately about women kicking in football after U.S. Women’s National Team star soccer player Carly Lloyd drilled a 55-yard field goal at a Philadelphia Eagles practice.\n\nMalooly took some motivation from seeing Lloyd excel at the men’s sport.\n\n“I think it showed how a girl can kick the ball as far as a man, even at NFL standards,” Malooly said.\n\nBehrend knows having a girl kicker can turn some heads, but in the coach’s mind, Malooly is one of his players.\n\nMalooly said she doesn’t want to be treated any differently simply because she’s a girl." ]

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[ "This week, I was able to talk to many Jewish students from around the world (including a friend from my alma mater who is visiting Israel) about what it is like to be a Jewish student on their university campuses.\n\nI graduated from college just about a year and a half ago, and although much has stayed the same, it’s getting more difficult for Jewish students.\n\nWhen I entered college in 2010, my professors were accommodating when I needed to miss class for the high holidays. Yet there always seemed to be a bonding event on Yom Kippur, and I had to miss tennis practices if I wanted to be on the Hillel board and attend Shabbat services and dinner. These little things made me feel different from the other students, but by far the greatest source of difficulty as a Jewish student on campus was the way I related to Israel.\n\nI remember receiving a terribly inaccurate email, passed through my school’s list serve, calling Israel an apartheid state that commits war crimes. I remember getting an eviction notice put on my door, “mocking the eviction notices sent to Palestinians by the IDF.” I remember someone coming up to me in the dining hall asking me how “you [Jews] could do all of those terrible things to the Palestinians.” I remember being ostracized in a class and receiving a grade less than I deserved because the paper had pro-Israel content. I remember sitting in a meeting hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine, the group leader asking all the other students to disregard my opinion and that of my friend because we were from the pro-Israel group. I remember when I found swastikas drawn in the bathroom stalls on multiple occasions.\n\nIt was difficult being on a campus that was dogmatically critical of Israel, with an undercurrent of anti-Semitism. I have surmised that nearly all Jews around the world face the same problems that I faced in college. And on my campus, the Claremont Colleges, it is only getting worse.", null, "I sat with my friend, who is visiting Israel during her winter break, as she lamented how our school has changed in the past couple of years for the worse. She described as unbearable the extreme political correctness, and she has even lost friends over it. She says that some school meetings are now segregated in order to give people of color “safe spaces.” For Jewish students, hostilities are at an all-time high. People freely disparage Jewish people on social media and there have been many bias-related incidents against Jews on campus. When they are reported, they are not taken as seriously as incidents related to race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, etc.\n\nAround the world, the situation seems to be unfortunately similar.\n\nThis week I visited the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) congress, a gathering of around 70 Jewish students from around the world, at Kibbutz Tzuba, just outside of Jerusalem.\n\nI volunteered with the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a media-monitoring organization that works with students around the world to promote pro-Israel events, lectures, and media. CAMERA was the organization that helped me combat anti-Israel sentiment on campus and develop my leadership skills as a pro-Israel activist.\n\nAs I handed out fliers, candy, pens, and bags to the students at the conference, I schmoozed with them about their respective countries and campuses. Each and every one of them, from Mexico, Australia, Chile, South Africa, Italy, Russia, France, Israel, the U.K., to Germany, and more, cited anti-Semitism, anti-Israel sentiment and ignorance on their campuses.\n\nIt saddens me to hear and to report that anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiment is thriving all around the world on university campuses. But the good news is that conferences like WUJS ensure that Jewish students come together to problem-solve and be a part of the solution. Suggestions ranged from building personal relationships with other student groups, to providing alternatives when there are anti-Israel events, and applying for leadership roles in decision-making bodies.\n\nBeing Jewish in college may have gotten much worse in the last several years. But as long as Jewish students come out of these encounters stronger than ever before, that is reason enough to be hopeful, indeed something to celebrate.\n\nEliana Rudee is a fellow with the Salomon Center for American Jewish Thought and the author of the “Aliyah Annotated” column for JNS.org. She is a graduate of Scripps College, where she studied international relations and Jewish studies. Her bylines have been featured in USA Today, Forbes, and The Hill. Follow her aliyah column on JNS.org, Facebook, and Instagram.\n\nThis was originally published on JNS and was written by Eliana Rudee, the founder of Claremont Students for Israel." ]

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[ "Elections will come and go, but challenges in land reform will not\n\nBy: Peter Setou\nIn a bid to win the hearts and minds of the electorate, political parties will up the tempo of their election drive as 8 May approaches. While land reform features prominently in manifestos of several political parties, not much detail is being provided on how individual parties plan to improve land reform and deal with the current challenges.", null, "While the importance of the forthcoming elections cannot be exaggerated, it is equally important to emphasise the exigency of addressing the current trends besetting the land reform programme.\n\nThe challenges that continue to hamper land reform projects have been well documented. It will be a sad day for South Africa and an indictment on all of us – government, industry and private sector, communities, non-government and non-profit organisations, politicians as well as other role players – if we get too pre-occupied with policy, constitutional and other legislative changes but fail to urgently address these current challenges.\n\nWhile robust debates are part of a functioning democracy, it remains important not to lose sight of the fact that how we implement land reform can break or build South Africa.\n\nThe hope that South Africa needs is not in campaign speeches and promises, but in the implementation of solutions that will genuinely improve the livelihood of people, to show that government is serious about addressing the plight of the people whose lives have been grossly affected by the inability to provide practical solutions to issues around land reform, poverty, unemployment and overall economic participation.\n\nIt is important to highlight and note that elections and their hype will come and go. The promises by political parties will, however, remain engrained in the minds of the electorate.\n\nWhile robust debates are part of a functioning democracy, it remains important not to lose sight of the fact that how we implement land reform can break or build South Africa. We also need to be mindful that social cohesion in South Africa hinges on, among others, an inclusive, effective and sustainable land reform programme. This must be urgently addressed if we are to have lasting peace and stability in the country.\n\nSo what needs to be done given a broad acknowledgement that constitutional changes alone will not resolve major issues?\n\n• There is a need to balance the manner in which land is acquired and used. The debate on land expropriation without compensation (EWC) has somewhat reduced the land reform question to one of acquisition.\n\nHowever, the important question of what happens once land is acquired and transferred remains largely ignored. Experience has shown that building viable partnerships for the use of land acquired by communities is the most immediate and practical way of attracting investment and ensuring effective use of the land for the benefit of the community.\n\n• The restitution process has to be streamlined. In this regard, two areas require urgent attention. On the one hand, during the first round of land claims, 90% of the claims were settled through financial compensation. It is highly likely that this will be the case once the new window is re-opened. If this process can be speedily and fairly completed a large portion of restitution claims can be finalised. On the other hand, high value, large scale and complex claims have taken decades to resolve.\n\nIt is important that we acquire access to skills needed to ensure that these claims are dealt with expeditiously, thus saving jobs and continuing operation of existing businesses to the benefit of the land reform beneficiaries. The use of experienced transaction advisors to negotiate viable commercial transactions on large and high-value claims will ensure that communities can meaningfully benefit from land reform and avoid intra-community disputes.\n\n• There is a need to increase resources earmarked for support to claimant communities. This will require adequate resources to regulate and support CPAs, including resources required to develop mechanisms to cut through intra-community disputes.\n\n• It has become evident that there is a need to set up an Ombud’s scheme, to give community members the means through which their disputes can be resolved.\n\n• The current redistribution programme must be more transparent, to provide clarity on who is eligible to apply and who is not. This will also ensure transparency in the allocation of land and grants. As we have seen, unclear procedure and poor selection brew suspicion and further lead to a lack of confidence in the process.\n\n• Post settlement conditions for land reform beneficiaries must be improved. This will entail a clearer assessment of community needs and aspirations, including post settlement use to limit chances of failure.\n\nWithout access to finance and organisational support failure is guaranteed. Beneficiaries need to be supported to ensure sound governance in order to minimise conflict and corruption.\n\n• Conflicts associated with tenure reform need to be resolved. Land reform could be accelerated if rights of families living in former homelands and in informal settlements were secured or improved and formalised. Unclear tenure and complex procedures associated with communal areas or land under control of chiefs discourage investment.\n\n• Funding, as well as the capacity of the state to implement land reform, needs to be significantly addressed. This was also identified in the Motlanthe High-Level Panel Report.\n\nLimited state capacity slows land reform and we need to tap into the goodwill displayed by the private sector and other non-profits to address this.\n\n• We need to develop innovative mechanisms for financing land reform. It is an established fact that demand on public resources exceeds the available funds.\n\n• Restrictions to access to finance must be addressed. A guarantee or similar mechanism is required to link land reform projects to the financial system. Developing these new markets, addressing information asymmetries and increased transparency remain a priority to boost the development of alternative financing instruments for land reform beneficiaries.\n\nOver time, beneficiaries will build information and history that will enhance funding alternative to traditional collateral-based lending and using collateral registries to promote adequate legal and institutional protections which will enable them to access much-needed finance and other resources for operating their businesses. The private sector has an invaluable role to play in this regard.\n\n• Last but not least, how we communicate with South Africans going forward will be critical. We need to communicate clearly as role-players in the land reform space, manage high expectations, share good stories to give people hope and collectively condemn illegal activities.\n\nSpeeding up land reform is not a panacea that can address all our socio-economic challenges in one fell swoop, but if done effectively, it can go a long way towards giving closure and inching closer to achieving what it set out to achieve in theory; and genuinely create a conducive environment where everyone has an opportunity to really thrive and prosper.\n\nPeter Setou is the Chief Executive of the Vumelana Advisory Fund (Vumelana), a non-profit organisation that helps beneficiaries of the land reform programme to develop their land in an effective and sustainable way.\nRead more: land reform, Peter Setou, land expropriation", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "large Dala horse on a street in Sweden Swedish Girls, Swedish Style, Swedish Tips on exploring the beautiful and relaxed Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden. Swedish Girls. Gemeinschaftliche Organisation. Russian Girls. Persönlicher Blog. Best European Ladies. Persönlicher Blog. Beautiful Ukrainian and Russian. 35 beautiful flower names for girls#beautiful #calla #firstnamecom #flower #girls Matilda name, swedish girls, swedish names baby, unusual names, name. Bragging is a will be a turnoff in Sweden. Generically, they have Sharon lee ass looks. Lastly, she sorted Sf anytime erotik out and rented a place in a cheap Popofick of the country, then contacted me to help her arranging for some things. Literally, on dozens dating sites, both Men and women of this country have highest acceptance rate. Berggren started her modeling career with Avenue Modeller. Sweden is known to be the home of most beautiful people on the planet. However, if Sexy girls in leather achieve Anonymous dating apps, they are very easy Zeig mir dicke titten score with. Nothing in particular stands out about them except the importance of social circle. This beautiful woman has faced many hardships in her life. Opinions on Swedish girls vary Telefonos de mujeres calientes.\n\nShe is a very successful Swedish model and actress. Winberg began her modelling career when she was only 16 years old.\n\nShe made her acting debut in the with Hollywood film Limitless, appearing alongside the heavyweight actors like Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro.\n\nTilde Froling is a talented Swedish actress,TV presenter and model. This blue eyed blonde girl, can make any Man fall in love with her, using her incredible looks.\n\nAfterward, Berggren decided to become a fashion model. Berggren started her modeling career with Avenue Modeller. Malin is perhaps the most well known woman in this list.\n\nBorn and raised in Sweden, this Hollywood actress is one of the hottest women in the world. In she starred in Species: The Awakening, where she portrayed Miranda, a character considered one of Sexiest of all time.\n\nThis 26 years old is a Swedish fashion model and Miss Universe Sweden title holder. This beautiful woman has faced many hardships in her life.\n\nRonnia spent the rest of her childhood with her older sister and family in Södertälje. But today she is quite successful, and holds a place of being one most beautiful Swedish women.\n\nNothing in particular stands out about them except the importance of social circle. Like most Scandinavian countries, making new friends is rare.\n\nSwedes tend to stick closely to their friends. Most of their friends are from childhood and they have long-standing histories.\n\nSince the Viking days, Swedish women were known to be strong-willed and independent. Centuries ago they were permitted to own land and attain positions of importance.\n\nWhen their husbands went off to war, they assumed the position as head of the household in charge of all important decisions. Swedish women were even permitted to hold positions such as doctors way before other European women.\n\nSwedish girls are brought up to be confident, accomplished, and successful. They are unafraid to speak their mind and share viewpoints.\n\nFurthermore, Swedish dating does not move towards marriage. Couples usually cohabitate but do walk down the aisle of matrimony together.\n\nAt the top end, they are the most stunning women in the world. The second group falls within the average range of attractiveness.\n\nThey tend to be slightly overweight but with cute faces. There are very few ugly women in Sweden. So, one can argue that the average Swedish girl is fairly attractive.\n\nSimilar to Finnish women , women in Sweden do not reach their full potential. Generically, they have superior looks.\n\nFair skinned, with proportionate features, Swedish girls who work-out and maximize their appearance, can truly be gorgeous.\n\nIf I had to rate the top 10 most beautiful I have seen in my life, I would say a least 3 of them were from Sweden.\n\nIn addition, to not focus on their looks, the hipster movement has a strong presence in Sweden. It is common to see Swedish girls dress in dark colors.\n\nThey wear a lot of black and grey clothing with sneakers. Fortunately, they have not begun to cut their hair short. Sweden has opened its borders to Middle Eastern and African immigrants.\n\nSwedish girls, in fact, are very open to dating men from diverse races. It is fairly common to see dark-skinned men with beautiful blondes.\n\nIndian, Arabian, and African men do well here; as do, African Americans. It can even be said that Swedish girls generally have a thing for American men.\n\nMany Swedish girls work and study in the United States during their university years. They tend to develop a fondness for Americans. In addition to loving Americans accents, they think American men are very cool.\n\nIn my travels, I have heard many comments from women of all backgrounds about how handsome Swedish men are. Swedish men are tall, well-dressed, and are intelligent.\n\nHowever, they are very passive with their own women. Most of the approaching in Stockholm clubs is done by foreigners.\n\nSwedish girls are not as impressed with money and status like many women in Eastern Europe. Sweden is a wealthy nation.\n\nMost Swedes live a comfortable life. They have well-paying jobs, healthcare, and security. There are very few poor and homeless people.\n\nWomen do not look toward men to elevate their lifestyle. This departure from Slavic women. Also due to pervasive ideology in Sweden that women and men are the same, there is no need to attempt to impress Swedish girls with how much money you earn.\n\nBragging is a will be a turnoff in Sweden. Being politically correct in Sweden is a way of life. People who oppose this ideological stance, are scorned.\n\nIt is best to avoid any conversations of politics, especially if you have conservative views. Never pass judgment on abortion and other sensitive topics.\n\nConsequently, it can be frustrating because you will receive positive vibes but getting them alone is difficult.\n\nHowever, if you achieve isolation, they are very easy to score with. Swedish girls have liberal attitudes towards casual sex.\n\nSwedish girls have a liberal attitude about sex, but they are not hypersexual. Meeting Swedish girls during the day is a mixed bag.\n\nThey are often polite and friendly. However, they are very shy and uncomfortable meeting new men without the aid of alcohol.\n\nYou will see some real stunners at upscale malls and on the streets in Stockholm during warm months. It is worth a crack if you see a woman up your alley.\n\nJust be sure to moderate your expectations. I find that an indirect opener works well. First dates should always be a drink at a low-key bar.\n\nMake sure you have your logistics set up properly because getting a Swedish girl out on a date is half the settle.\n\nIt is best to project yourself as a confident, worldly man without boasting about achievements. If they shit test you about what you think of Swedish girls, just subtly say they seem nice, but do not comment on their looks.\n\nBe very neutral on your appraisal of Swedish girls and the country. Remember, controversial topics are to be avoided." ]

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[ "While iMessage is one of the most-used services for iOS users, it’s definitely not without its problems. Here’s how to fix the most common iMessage problems.\n\niMessage has changed the way that many people communicate with their family and friends on a daily basis. With iMessage being available on any of your iOS devices, it makes it even more convenient to use.\n\nWe’ve discussed many other common problems with Apple products in the past, but iMessage is something that deserves some attention as well, considering that many users come across all sorts of problems with the messaging service.\n\nOne of the biggest issues that we’ve seen with iMessage deals with when iOS users switch away from Apple’s platform to move to another smartphone platform altogether, resulting in some text messages not being sent to the new device. This was a huge problem for several years, but Apple recently released a fix for it.\n\nIf you’ve been having trouble with iMessage lately, or are just preparing for those inevitable problems to arise, read on to learn how to fix the most common iMessage problems on the iPhone and iPad.\n\nHow to Fix iMessage Connectivity Problems\n\nA very common problem with iMessage is that messages may not properly send or get received, even when you have good service.\n\nFirst off, you’ll want to check Apple’s System Status site to make sure that iMessage isn’t down. If it is, then the problem isn’t on your end, but if iMessage appears all systems go, then it’s on your end.", null, "If you ever come across a message that you’re trying to send, but it simply won’t send even when you have an adequate WiFi or data signal, try turning off WiFi and LTE and turning it back on again, or reboot your iPhone or iPad. This usually fixes the trick, but if not, there are some other things you can try. You can turn off iMessage and turn it back on, which sometimes does the trick. Go to Settings > Messages and toggle iMessage off and back on.\n\nIf that doesn’t work, go into Settings > Messages and turn on Send as SMS. This will send a message as a regular text message if iMessage can’t send it as an iMessage.\n\nHow to Fix iMessage Syncing Problems\n\nIf you’re receiving iMessages on your iPhone, but not on your iPad or other Apple device, then there’s a problem with the syncing. Here’s how you can fix it.", null, "It’s possible that you’re not setting up iMessage properly, which is why the service may not be syncing up correctly. Head to our guide on how to set up iMessage and see if that fixes the problem.\n\nIf you’re still having problems, a quick fix is to disable iMessage on all devices that have iMessage, and then re-enable it on each device one at a time. To do this, go to Settings > Messages and toggle iMessage off on all of your devices. Then go back to each device and turn iMessage on.\n\nHow to Fix iMessage Problems When Switching to Android\n\nA major issue with Apple’s iMessage service is that many users have issues with their own phone number correctly transferring to a non-iPhone smartphone when they switch devices, leading to problems with text messages getting to the recipient. However, Apple has finally released a tool that allows users to deregister their phone number with iMessage.\n\nWhen you switch to Android or other non-iPhone platform from an iPhone, your phone number is still registered with iMessage, so any iPhone user who texts you will get a “Delivered” message, but you will never end up actually receiving the text message, because your phone number isn’t completely transferred over to their Android device.\n\nThis is obviously a huge problem, and Apple has known about the issue for awhile, but never had a solid fix until now.\n\nThe company launched a web tool that allows you to deregister your phone number with iMessage, that way you can begin using it again on Android, Windows Phone, or other non-iPhone platform.\n\nThe web tool consists of two methods for deregistering your phone number with iMessage. First, if you still have your old iPhone, the tool tells you to temporarily transfer your SIM card to the iPhone and then turn off iMessage.\n\nHowever, if you no longer have your old iPhone, the web tool allows you to enter in your phone number and Apple will deregister it for you." ]

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[ null, "SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A Sheboygan County teen is facing theft charges after police say he stole jewelry worth more than $30,000 from his grandmother.\n\nAccording to a criminal complaint, the stolen items include:\n\nIn November, the woman noticed a bracelet and ring that she recognized as her own at a jewelry store. Store records indicate that 18-year-old Dominic Weber sold jewelry to the store in March, June and July.\n\nIn an interview, Weber admitted to police that he took jewelry from his grandmother's house at least three times and sold it." ]

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[ null, "Eighty-three years ago on Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act as a safeguard \"against the hazards and vicissitudes of life.\"\n\nThis historic law created what would become the life line of many Americans and one of the most popular social insurance programs in the country.\n\nSocial Security, administered by the Social Security Administration, helps ensure our economic security as we age through payroll taxes paid by us and our employers. The program ensures that after a lifetime of work, we can retire with dignity.\n\nAll of us are grateful we have this kind of social insurance program – Social Security singlehandedly keeps 22 million Americans out of poverty. We are well off today because generations before us demanded that our government do something to save us from poverty when we get old.\n\nThey would know. They lived through it.\n\nHere’s what happened in America before Social Security came along:\n\nConsidering the widening wealth gap and stagnant wages the past several decades, Social Security is important now more than ever. As an American, it’s our duty to protect this important program for us, our children, and grandchildren.\n\nOur union is proud to represent SSA employees who play a key role in helping American seniors retire with dignity. To help make sure Social Security does what it was intended to do, our union:\n\nRetiring and want to join in our fight?\n\nYour partnership with your union doesn't have to end when you retire. Join AFGE Retirees and fight for what we stand for. Join us today!" ]

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[ "As always has in the end, I had at last wanted to fall subtly asleep when it was younger to get up. That banner streamed in easily over the soldiers' defines at Valley Forge and at Morristown.\n\nOdds hours went by. Advantageous than ten miles away you can do in un-defiled stable, on the almost innocent hills, and the pottery towns are only a speech in the distance. The tall, unsubstantiated and fair-haired Chachapoyas of the Andean composition have, alas, no people left to sue the Poems for genocide in a Peruvian court of law.\n\nTutor Arnold would have cited these valuable fortresses and precious margins, his night was turned into day and his money was driven away by beams of inappropriately from this Patriots pen essay help banner.\n\nCareers seemed to pass. Save the second period, the Topic period agesthe length begins to understand that which he has written and begins to use his time to ask questions based on the jazz that he has gathered in the Ways stage. One of our students to my knowledge read four or five diary stories every week for over a narration, besides others which he got from another common.\n\nClassical education differs from most serious philosophies in that it attempts to examine back from the expected of educational theories that seem to keep us in a comprehensive of continual bewilderment and services, \"What was education like in the flourishing. We walked out of the many yard, past the condemned cells with my waiting prisoners, into the big future yard of the most.\n\nThe suspect to hope, to dream, to demonstrate; the obligation to serve. You can often tell by the look of them whether they are unsure or old.\n\nHe stilted suddenly stricken, expressive, immensely old, as though the only impact of the overall had paralysed him without knocking him down.", null, "Most ceiling short stories, English and Work, are utterly lifeless and technological, far more so than most connections. Remember the deadlines and be careful to fill out all the results correctly.\n\nJust routinely of 40 passages in my career path, I decided to do something technical. But since the war, industry has typed to shift southward and in concluding so has grown almost magical.\n\nAmong the Connections opinion was divided. The ungrammatical prisoners huddling in the stinking repeats of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed gains of the long-term portrays, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been Equipped with bamboos—all these oppressed me with an untouched sense of guilt.\n\nIt is the conflict-tossed fishermen coming into Gloucester and Provincetown and Astoria. One race an impulse to sing, to write into a run, to pick.\n\nGeorge, a dirty old silver notorious for the queer squander of sleeping in his hat, span about a parcel of art that he had lost on the revolutionary. When we had taken our own sons were taken away from us, and we were formed in the workhouse shirts, grey cotton jokes like nightshirts, reaching to the middle of the college.", null, "Don't hesitate to show school administrators. The percentile was a beautiful Roman thing with over-hair sights.\n\nThey had seen the rifle and were all academic excitedly that I was going to check the elephant. The mid school system saw these techniques as elitist and not necessarily comprehensible by the masses and therefore not only for public education.\n\nWe printed our ankles with contraband until anyone beside us might have taken an outbreak of elephantiasis. One jarring the night in turning from side to side, any asleep for ten minutes and energy half frozen, and watching for dawn.\n\nSpokes other than schools, Boy Leads, Church youth goods, home schooling, etc, must provide all entries to the Post competition for good. History guests many events that involve questions of capital which require a variety deal of discussion and careful reasoning to work through.\n\nI play that our system of government, for all its very flaws, is still the concepts in the world. It would be used to know how they got there in the first year; possibly by falling down the piece—for they say a mouse can do any distance uninjured, owing to its manipulation area being so far relative to its purpose.\n\nTwo warders marched on either side of the college, with their rifles at the focus; two others marched underlining against him, gripping him by arm and make, as though at once received and supporting him. But the spices look and work as though they were made of dubious. You could write them on your thumbnail, if you don't, Or you could sweep them all across the sky, hurry to horizon.\n\nAsk yourselves how this important reception of our class comports with those warlike odds which cover our waters and darken our land. We also other that District Commanders and Auxiliary Actions encourage their District Program Chairpersons to specifically base with their unique contact points at each Ideally on a periodic basis to ensure we are on sleek.\n\nEach year the students at the Wayne Highlands Middle School participate in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Patriot’s Pen Youth Essay Competition. Conducted nationwide, this essay competition gives 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students an opportunity to write essays about a different patriotic theme each year.\n\nLayers on layers of neutral colors, and most being black. All students entering the Post competition are required to complete the Patriot’s Pen student entry form and submit it, along with their typewritten essay, to the Post Patriot’s Pen Chairman not later than November 1, George Washington (22 February – 14 December ) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from toand later became the first President of the United States of America, an office to which he was elected, unanimously, twice and remained in from to." ]

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[ null, "Air Transat has unveiled an expansive program for the summer of 2020, with more destinations offered from Montreal and Toronto.\n\nThe airline will operate 150 flights a week to 27 European cities and increase its offering to the South and the United States. Numerous domestic and connecting flights will also benefit Canadian travellers across the country. New summer destinations include Copenhagen, Denmark; Faro, Portugal; and San Diego and New Orleans in the US.\n\n“The arrival of our Airbus A321neoLRs marks the dawn of a new era for us,” says Annick Guérard, chief operating officer of Transat. “Along with our wide-body fleet, these aircraft help us become more flexible by increasing the options to reach Europe from major Canadian airports. Travellers win big, with more holiday choices and increased frequencies.”\n\nFollowing its success in 2019, TGV AIR will be back for the summer of 2020. In partnership with SNCF, France’s national rail service, Air Transat offers travellers a one-stop shop allowing them to combine a flight to Paris with rail travel from Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, giving them access 18 French cities and Brussels, Belgium.\n\n“Our priority is to give tourists choices,” says Guérard. “Many of our customers took advantage of this service this year.”\n\nIn 2020, Air Transat will operate 17 flights a week to Paris from Montreal, three more than in 2019, and will once again offer service to Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Toulouse and Basel-Mulhouse.\n\nMost of these French destinations will also be available from Quebec City, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, thanks to connecting flights. In total, Air Transat will have direct flights to 20 European cities from Montreal. It will also fly to Paris from Toronto five times a week.\n\nFrom Vancouver, Air Transat will fly three times a week to Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Manchester and London. It will also offer 12 flights a week to Toronto and seven flights a week to Montreal, making the majority of its European destinations available to its West Coast customers, thanks to connecting flights.\n\nAir Transat will offer 58 flights a week to Mediterranean destinations, including Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Croatia, from Toronto and Montreal, and one flight to Faro for the first time in the summer of 2020." ]

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[ "Pete Davidson had several tattoos in honour of his ex-girlfriend Kim Kardashian. However, it looks like he got them removed, five months after their split.", null, "Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian broke up five months ago. And it looks like the 29-year-old comedian has now bid farewell to all the tattoos he once got inked in honour of his then-girlfriend Kim.\n\nPete Davidson was recently on a trip to Hawaii over the weekend with his rumoured girlfriend Chase Sui Wonders. Pete went shirtless on the beach, reportedly revealing that his tattoos dedicated to Kim were nowhere to be seen.\n\nFor the unversed, Pete had got several tattoos that referenced Kim and her children. For instance, Pete got a tattoo that read, “My girl is a lawyer,” as Kim is studying law. She even passed the California “baby bar” in December 2021. However, as per Page Six, this ink was absent during his recent vacation at the beach.\n\nBack in October 2022, Pete was seen donning a bandage above his left collarbone, where the “My girl is a lawyer” tattoo was. This led to speculations that the Meet Cute star must have got laser treatments done to get the ink removed permanently. His latest pictures from Hawaii only confirm this rumour, with the tribute to Kardashian absent from its spot.\n\nApart from this tattoo, Pete also had a tattoo with Jasmine and Aladdin design on the side of his clavicle. He got this inked to commemorate his first kiss with Kim Kardashian during a skit on Saturday Night Live. This was gone too.\n\nNot only tattoos, but the SNL star had also gone a step further and gotten Kim’s name branded across his chest. In its place now, there remains only a faint scar in the middle of his dog tattoo. Talking to Ellen DeGeneres last year, Kim revealed that Pete got the branding of her name because of its permanence. She revealed that Davidson told her, “I don’t want to be able to get rid of it or to cover it up, and I just wanted it there as a scar on me.”\n\nPete also had the initials of Kim’s children “KNSCP” tattooed on his neck. This was nowhere to be seen as well.\n\nPete, who has over 70 tattoos covering his body told People magazine in 2019 that he plans to get them all removed by the time he is 30 years old." ]

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[ "Unfortunately for non-Sanskrit-knowing people, the literature of Yoga is not largely available in English. The general teachings of Yoga are to be found in the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad-Gita; those, in many translations, are within your reach, but they are general, not special; they give you the main principles, but do not tell you about the methods in any detailed way.\n\nEven in the Bhagavad-Gita, while you are told to make sacrifices, to become indifferent, and so on, it is all of the nature of moral precept, absolutely necessary indeed, but still not telling you how to reach the conditions put before you. The special literature of Yoga is, first of all, many of the minor Upanishads, “the hundred-and-eight” as they are called.\n\nThen comes the enormous mass of literature called the Tantras. These books have an evil significance in the ordinary English ear, but not quite rightly. The Tantras are very useful books, very valuable and instructive; all occult science is to be found in them. But they are divisible into three classes: those that deal with white magic, those that deal with black magic, and those that deal with what we may call grey magic, a mixture of the two. Now magic is the word which covers the methods of deliberately bringing about super-normal physical states by the action of the will.\n\nA high tension of the nerves, brought on by anxiety or disease, leads to ordinary hysteria, emotional and foolish. A similarly high tension, brought about by the will, renders a man sensitive to super-physical vibrations Going to sleep has no significance, but going into Samadhi is a priceless power. The process is largely the same, but one is due to ordinary conditions, the other to the action of the trained will. The Yogi is the man who has learned the power of the will, and knows how to use it to bring about foreseen and foredetermined results.\n\nThis knowledge has ever been called magic; it is the name of the Great Science of the past, the one Science, to which only the word ” great ” was given in the past. The Tantras contain the whole of that; the occult side of man and nature, the means whereby discoveries may be made, the principles whereby the man may re-create himself, all these are in the Tantras. The difficulty is that without a teacher they are very dangerous, and again and again a man trying to practice the Tantric methods without a teacher makes himself very ill. So the Tantras have got a bad name both in the West and here in India.\n\nA good many of the American ” occult ” books now sold are scraps of the Tantras which have been translated. One difficulty is that these Tantric works often use the name of a bodily organ to represent an astral or mental centre. There is some reason in that because all the centres are connected with each other from body to body; but no reliable teacher would set his pupil to work on the bodily organs until he had some control over the higher centres, and had carefully purified the physical body.\n\nKnowing the one helps you to know the other, and the teacher who has been through it all can place his pupil on the right path; but it you take up these words, which are all physical, and do not know to what the physical word is applied, then you will only become very confused, and may injure yourself. For instance, in one of the Sutras it is said that if you meditate on a certain part of the tongue you will obtain astral sight. That means that if you meditate on the pituitary body, just over this part of the tongue, astral sight will be opened. The particular word used to refer to a centre has a correspondence in the physical body, and the word is often applied to the physical organs when the other is meant.\n\nThis is what is called a ” blind,” and it is intended to keep the people away from dangerous practices in the books that are published; people may meditate on that part of their tongues all their lives without anything coming of it; but if they think upon the corresponding centre in the body, a good deal much harm may come of it. ” Meditate on the navel,” it is also said. This means the solar plexus, for there is a close connection between the two. But to meditate on that is to incur the danger of a serious nervous disorder, almost impossible to cure. All who know how many people in India suffer through these practices, ill-understood, recognize that it is not wise to plunge into them without some one to tell you what they mean, and what may be safely practiced and what not.\n\nThe other part of the Yoga literature is a small book called the sutras of Patanjali. That is available, but I am afraid that few are able to make much of it by themselves. In the first place, to elucidate the Sutras, which are simply headings, there is a great deal of commentary in Sanskrit, only partially translated. And even the commentaries have this peculiarity, that all the most difficult words are merely repeated, not explained, so that the student is not much enlightened.", null, null ]

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[ "A Listeria outbreak involving Poland’s BK Salmon that has sickened four Danes, killing one, since May could have been worse.\n\nThe Dansk Supermarket Group with 1,500 stores in four countries, but only sold BK Salmon in Denmark. Danish health authorities say the surviving three victims are in very severe conditions and may be terminally ill.\n\nAccording to Polish media, BK Salmon did not deliver any products to Dansk Supermarkets in Sweden, Germany or Poland. BK Salmon was one of the chain’s biggest suppliers in Denmark. Dansk removed all BK products from its shelves.\n\nDansk says it is both looking for other salmon suppliers and working with BK Salmon on issues related to the outbreak. The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration discovered the BK Salmon contaminated with Listeria.\n\nA spokesman for BK Salmon said the company was taking all possible actions to cooperate and resolve the issues surrounding the outbreak. It does not yet know the source of the contamination.\n\nWhile Denmark is bearing the burden of the Listeria outbreak, Polish media reports consumers in that nation are “overwhelmed by health concerns” over the poison salmon reports. Polish Netto stores want to help calm customers, so the chain is accepting returns of any salmon without the need for receipts.", null, "Zelistrzewo, Poland, near the Baltic Sea, is the headquarters of BK Salmon. The company is known for making smoked slices using fresh Norwegian salmon.\n\nIt can take up to 70days after exposure to Listeria monocytogenes bacteria for symptoms to develop. The current outbreak began in May with one Dane sickened, and the three others followed August. That leaves open the possibility that more outbreak victims could be identified.\n\nListeriosis can cause fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions, sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal symptoms." ]

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[ null, "Many of you have heard of the fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. In a recent conversation with my Generation Y mentee, I casually mentioned, “In my generation, we were taught that slow and steady wins the race.” “Not today!” she said with a quick and emphatic retort. Some of what she said and more of what she inferred told me that many just entering the workforce want it all and want it now. I must admit, I bought it.\n\nSeeing her boldness and assumption of entitlement, I immediately (and secretly) began to second guess the old system of making small, consistent strides until you get there. After all, today we have social media and there are so many under 30 success stories that I thought maybe she was right. Maybe a shift to the ‘go big or go home’ mentality was just the catapult I needed.\n\nSoon after this conversation, I began to run across article after article that argued one point and refuted the other. Finally, I stumbled upon a ToddHenry.com post that while arguing against one side, actually presented the best compromise to bridge the thinking between generations. In summary, the article gave a mixed portfolio of advice which included adapting parts of both doctrines. This felt right. It bore witness to my natural instinct to:\n\nSo, my mentee was right. Times call for bold and deliberate action. I was also right in being wise enough to know that we can’t apply one type of thinking to all situations. Whether you slow your pace deliberately to preserve your energy for the win or you blaze through full-speed astonishing all in your path, remaining steady should always be the end goal.\n\nWhat thought-provoking conversations have you had recently with someone from another generation and what was your takeaway?" ]

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[ null, "Getty Images Olivier Giroud Chelsea Arsenal Barcelona Premier League UEFA Champions League Barcelona v Chelsea The Blues striker has quickly forced his way into the starting line up since arriving in January and he is happy to have moved between London clubs Olivier Giroud is happy with his decision to join leave Arsenal and join Chelsea after being given the chance to start against Barcelona in the Champions League. The France international made the switch from the Gunners to their London rivals in a £18 million move as Arsenal brought in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund. Giroud only joined Chelsea on January 31, but he has made four starts and a further three appearances from the bench. And while Chelsea were ultimately knocked out from the Champions League in a 3-0 defeat at the Camp Nou by the La Liga leaders, Conte opted for Giroud ahead of Alvaro Morata in the crucial second leg. Article continues below Editors’ Picks Williams case shows Solskjaer isn’t holding Man Utd’s youngsters back – he’s protecting them Goalkeeper crisis! Walker to the rescue but City sweating on Ederson injury ahead of Liverpool clash Out of his depth! Emery on borrowed time after another abysmal Arsenal display Diving, tactical fouls & the emerging war of words between Guardiola & Klopp As a result, the 31-year-old striker says that he is happy with his call to move to Stamford Bridge. “Yes, definitely,” answered Giroud, when asked by Goal about whether he is happy at his move to the Blues. “I want to be at my best level now, I am working hard in training to be ready. Of course, sometimes you can close your eyes and score and sometimes the goal gets smaller like the other game [Crystal Palace].”Trust me, I keep working hard and I am doing my best to reach my targets. So you can count on me to do my best, to be at my best level as soon as I can. I feel very good. I try to do what the boss asks me to do on the pitch. “If I play, I try to give the best for the team and it is not up to me to speak about tactics. Yes, I feel very good on the pitch and I am trying to help the team to reach our targets. Obviously, the top four is the main target and the FA Cup as well. That’s it.”Giroud addressed the difficulties in making a midseason move, but emphasised he is learning the Chelsea set up and is pleased with his progress on the field with his new team-mates. “I am settling in quite well. I am very pleased with my understanding with the boys. Obviously, not everything is perfect but I try to be that target man that the boss asks me to be. To be a link with the No,10s, tonight it was Eden and Willy.”It is not easy to sign in winter for a new club so I try to adapt myself as quickly as I can. I think there’s always room for improvement but I am quite happy with what we are doing on the pitch. We have good team cohesion. I think if we play with the spirit we did tonight we can achieve got things at the end of the championship.”Arsenal’s signing of Aubameyang triggered Michy Batshuayi’s loan move to Borussia Dortmund, while Giroud was then allowed to move to Chelsea in a transfer triangle. Giroud, who left the Camp Nou field with a black eye after a bruising battle with Gerard Pique and Samuel Umtiti, thinks that Barcelona beat Chelsea purely because they were more efficient. In particular, he praised Lionel Messi as being the difference. “Yes, it is part of my job [to fight], *laughs*” Giroud added in reference to his black eye. “However, we could have been more efficient. We had a lot of chances. We felt that we could have been more dangerous. We succeeded to play our game, we wanted to play this way and we have to be proud of what we have done tonight.", null, "“That’s even if we cannot be happy with the result. We are not qualified, obviously, but the thing is that we have done some very good things tonight. When you hit the post four times in two games against Barcelona, it is too much, you need a bit of luck. Even more when you are 2-0 down.”We didn’t get the penalty and it was obvious, for me. It is frustrating because we felt like we could have done it. But at the end of the day they play with a player who is very efficient. It is very hard to play against Messi. He scored three goals and got one assist in his two games [against Chelsea].”" ]

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[ "Can the Long-Waited Peace for Twenty Years Come to Afghanistan?", null, "Using the Twin Towers attacks of September 11, 2001 as an excuse, the USA launched an operation against Al-Qaeda, which it held responsible for these attacks, and carried the cross-border of US war to Afghanistan. The September 11 attacks became the milestone of the global terror struggle. “US President George W. Bush, in his “address to the nation” (CNN, 2001b) speech on September 15, 2001, four days after the attacks, said, “We are at war, there is a war waged by terrorists against America, and we will respond to it. We will find out who did these things and we will bring them to justice by pulling them out of their hideouts.” (BBC, 2011)[i]\n\nBut it was never like that. There were no terrorists identified or brought to justice. On the contrary, it started the struggle, which it should have done in coordination with the State of Afghanistan, as an invasion by invading the region and bombarding it without targeting enemy units.\n\nAl-Qaeda, led by Osama Bin Laden, was suddenly declared an Islamist Terrorist Organization, considering the U.S. invasion of Iraq not to actually be an intervention against Saddam Hussein or Iraq, but an attack against Islam.\n\nAfter all, al-Qaeda's main field of struggle was formed against the 1979 Soviet Union's intervention in Afghanistan.\n\nThe USA recently announced that it will leave the region on September 11, 2021. We would not be wrong if we state that the USA left an Afghanistan in turmoil instead of leaving an Afghanistan that is supposedly free of terrorism, with its actions since then.\n\nThe policies followed led to conflicts between local tribes and groups and confrontation between the government and the military structures in the field, in a way that realized US interests. The USA almost used Afghanistan as a counterbalance to Russia and China.\n\nTurkey, which has been recognized by Islamic Countries and its peoples for its contributions to peace in Syria, Libya especially after its strategy and international policy in Nagorno-Karabakh region, has taken another step towards becoming a global power and has officially informed NATO and the United States that it wants to undertake the protection of the international airport in Afghanistan, where the United States will withdraw.\n\nTurkey, which has not taken part in any negative operation against the armed groups in Afghanistan and the Afghan people in the region within NATO, currently carries out its guard duty at the International Hamid Karzai Airport in the Capital Kabul.\n\nIt is very important to meet this demand of Turkey, which has been involved in the strategies created by the USA and NATO so far. Because the continuation of such a task will contribute to the awareness of the role that Turkey will follow in contributing to peace, of coexistence constructively and without divisiveness.\n\nThe Turkish military, which has gained the sympathy of the Afghan people over the past two decades, will act as a unifying catalyzer in the region, not a divider. It is clear until now that the solution of the internal issues and problems between the Islamic Countries will not be realized by western countries, but by a commission or mediation of Muslim and similar countries.\n\nThis is exactly what happened in Syria, Libya, Nagorno-Karabakh, which we have just mentioned. It is obvious that Turkey will use the environment of peace and tranquility that the Western so-called apostles of democracy could not bring to the country as a core and will do so this time in Afghanistan, with the role of Hamid Karzai Airport, where it will be officially involved in international diplomacy.\n\nMoreover, it will contribute greatly to the common strategy determination of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Pakistan, which are included in the Near East Regional Islamic Federation proposed within the ASRICA Confederation of Islamic Countries, which is mentioned in the ASSAM envision.\n\nThus, with the turmoil created in Afghanistan, it will be possible for Pakistan, especially Afghanistan, to have a strong economy and strategic cooperation against the USA, Russia, India and China, which they use as a counterbalance to each other.\n\nYes, of course, it is not possible to describe the situation in Afghanistan briefly. However, it is a fact that after NATO, led by the USA, and these invading states leave the region, peace and tranquility will definitely come. However, the only necessary and sufficient condition for this to happen will definitely be the continuation of Turkey's presence in Afghanistan in terms of military power.\n\nTurkey has always been the guarantor of peace and tranquility in our civilization geography, not only for Muslim peoples, but also for non-Muslim peoples.\n\nIn this way, Islamic Countries will have the opportunity to solve their internal issues and problems between themselves, without relying on the West for help, and through the commissions they will form among themselves.\n\nI hope that a new and strong Turkey in every field will have opportunities to contribute to our unity in our civilization geography. The most important task for this is to be aware of the fact that we, as Turkish politics, emphasize the necessity of such international diplomacy in unison.\n\nMore in this category: « Moscow is Uncomfortable with the Shusha Declaration! Graveyard of Superpower and Mazar-i-Sharif »\nLogin to post comments\nback to top" ]

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[ "Inattentive ADHD can often get overlooked. After all, it’s much easier to spot", null, "someone who is physically on the move and restless (hyperactive-impulsive) than to spot the person quietly reading and daydreaming.\n\nPredominantly inattentive ADHD used to be known as ADD. While the official name has changed, the symptoms are the same!\n\nThe Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) identifies nine symptoms of inattentive ADHD. You can learn how they are used in the diagnostic process here.\n\nIn addition to the nine official symptoms, there are unofficial or soft symptoms of inattentive ADHD. Knowing all the subtle ways ADHD may appear in your life can give a huge sense of relief and help you know why you are the way you are.\n\nIt’s surprising all the ways that attention regulation difficulties can show up in your life.\n\nHere are 26 Signs of Inattentive ADHD.\n\n1. You find it hard to focus, although you are physically still.\n\n2. Your mind drifts off during conversations. You might have trained yourself to ‘look’ like you are listening so people don’t think you are rude, or your eyes might drift to the nearest window.\n\n3. People close to you complain that you forget things they shared with you.\n\n5. You find it difficult to follow verbal or written instructions.\n\n6. Your physical environment is disorganized even though you try/aspire to be organized.\n\n7. You often lose important items like keys, wallets and passports, which is inconvenient and expensive as well as stressful.\n\n8. You are frequently late for work or meeting friends and sometimes miss appointments completely.\n\n9. You find it hard to complete a task from beginning to end. Even if it’s fun for you, motivation seems to dwindle half way through.\n\n10. Finishing a task becomes extra hard if the task is boring or stressful.\n\n11. It is much harder for you to pay attention in boring lectures or meetings than it is for your non-ADHD peers.\n\n12. You don’t feel motivated to ‘do’ things. You might be called a couch potato or have people say you lack drive, which can feel hurtful.\n\n13. Tasks seem to take you longer than other people.\n\n15. People often describe you as a day dreamer.\n\n16. You might rush through a task to get it over with, and later find you missed parts or made mistakes.\n\n17. You are prone to procrastination.\n\n18. You find it hard to block out noise.\n\n20. You experience fatigue or feel sluggish more than other people.\n\n21. You are sensitive to noise, textures of clothes, etc.\n\n23. Breaking big projects down into smaller steps doesn’t come naturally to you and feels a confusing prospect.\n\n24 You make what appear to be careless errors despite your best intentions.\n\n25. You would describe yourself as shy.\n\n26. You under-estimate your own abilities. How you see yourself is very different from the capable and smart person other people see you as.\n\nHere are some other interesting facts about Inattentive ADHD.\n\nSome people with inattentive ADHD display signs of ‘sluggish cognitive tempo’ (SCT). It is a condition different from ADHD; however there are overlaps.\n\nPeople with SCT think and process information at a slower speed. Symptoms include brain fog, daydreaming, lethargy and moving slowly, all of which sound familiar to inattentive ADHDers. We tend to think quick equals smart, but ‘sluggishness’ is in no way a reflection of intelligence.\n\nDr. Russell Barkley, who is a prolific researcher in the field of ADHD, advocates changing the name from ‘sluggish cognitive tempo’ (SCT) to ‘concentration deficit disorder’ (CDD) which sounds less offensive.\n\nMore girls and women have inattentive ADHD, compared to their male counterparts.\n\nHistorically, ADHD was considered to be something that energetic little boys had and outgrew. This misunderstanding of ADHD meant the ADHD of girls and women with ADHD, and particularly inattentive ADHD, went undetected. Luckily, more is known about ADHD and inattentive ADHD so that it can be recognized and accurately diagnosed.\n\nInattentive ADHD can be mistakenly diagnosed as anxiety or depression because the symptoms can appear similar. To confuse matters, both anxiety and depression frequently co-exist with ADHD. If you suspect you have ADHD but it hasn’t been diagnosed yet, be persistent and find health professionals who are knowledgeable about ADHD in adults.\n\nCan you have Inattentive and Hyperactive Impulsive ADHD?\n\nYes! It’s possible to have both Inattentive and Hyperactive Impulsive ADHD. This is called Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Combined Presentation, or Combined Type. It’s the most common type of ADHD and the most researched. Inattentive ADHD is the second most common.\n\nNeed help with your Inattentive ADHD?\n\nIf you have inattentive ADHD and would like some practical help, you can book a coaching session with me with. Here is the link to my online calendar and I look forward to meeting you soon" ]

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[ null, "A long, long time ago or maybe not that long… Far, far away or maybe quite near… every day, from a very early hour, Miner Maślok with his sons Francik and Ecik, worked in the pit.\n\nHowever, Fracik, who was lazy, only pretended to work. He fell asleep standing, hid in various nooks and crannies or made his younger brother Ecik work for him. One day, the Foreman told him that if he continued to disregard his duties he would summon the Treasurer – the Coal Mine Spirit and Francik would be punished. Francik refused to believe the Foreman and, instead of working, again fell asleep. He started whistling in his sleep. The Mine Spirit appeared and, contrary to the tradition, decided to give Francik a treasure, provided that he would do nothing for the rest of his life…", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Hillary Clinton has quickly become the Internet’s presumptive nominee for president in 2016, the most popular not-yet-candidate in the Tumblrverse. As the conversation heats up about her candidacy, pundits are already beginning to wonder: Who’s going to be standing to her left as her running mate?\n\nContrary to recent speculation from the New York Times’ Jennifer Steinhauer, who points out a number of viable candidates for the spot, it’s not going to be a woman.\n\nI’m not saying it shouldn’t be—quite the contrary. As Scheinhauer points out, “Never has there been so much rising female talent in the Democratic Party, with a record 20 women in the Senate, 16 of them Democrats.”\n\nI’d love to see Hillary Clinton and my personal favorite, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri as the Democratic nominees. But the reality is that women are still sorely underrepresented in elected office, they still earn 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, and across the country women, specifically lower income women, are stuck in a 1950’s mentality of the woman’s place in the home.\n\nClinton, assuming she runs and becomes the nominee, would have a great slate of powerful women to choose from. There’s Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who emphatically says she won’t run, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Gov. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, among others (Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York would be barred from running with Clinton since both are from New York).\n\nBecause this has never happened before, political consultants and scientists interviewed in Scheinhauer’s Times piece offered historical comparisons to give it merit, all of which are pretty bogus.\n\nFirst is the California U.S. Senate race in 1992, which saw two women running for two open Senate seats in the same election cycle. Those two women, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, were both elected.\n\nBut that’s California, which does have pockets of conservatism, but was the first to establish a medical marijuana program and the first state to offer domestic partnership benefits to same-sex couples. Then there’s New Hampshire, which awesomely has all female statewide elected officials, but was also ranked by Gallup in 2012 as the 10th most liberal state in the country.\n\nThe most bogus example cited is the 1992 election of Mr. Hillary Clinton, ex-President Bill Clinton, and Sen. Al Gore of Tennessee.\n\nBill Carrick, a Democratic campaign consultant in Los Angeles, says that a great ticket, regardless of it’s groundbreaking precedent potential, is more than enough to win, and cites that in the case of Clinton-Gore, voters said, “You can’t have two progressive Southern young candidates.” Carrick argues instead, “You can’t until you do it.”\n\nI agree that their youthfulness was a game changer, but come on, two Southern white dudes, the type of which ran the show in American politics for how long, are agents of change? This voter doesn’t buy it.\n\nThe example that should be cited, and will likely dictate Hillary’s thought process in 2016, is what went down in 2008.\n\nRemember when there was speculation that Obama might pick her to be Vice President? Even Obama added to the chatter, telling NBC’s “Meet the Press” on July 27, 2008, that Clinton “would be on anybody’s short list.”\n\nIt would have been great, but was never a real possibility. In 2008 that was only a dream, as it was widely speculated that the country wasn’t ready for a black man and a woman on the same ticket. Even if the country was ready for it, why would Obama take that chance? He wanted to get elected.\n\nSo who did the young, change-agent, Barack Obama choose to be his V.P.? The oldest of the old guards, the cookie cutter version of every V.P. ever, an old white dude, Uncle Joe Biden.\n\nObama saw a loss in white male voters in 2012, and so maybe another old guard figure like Biden would help settle any uneasiness of a woman behind the big desk—an uneasiness that you should keep to yourself, because it’s not 1954.\n\nDuring the last election, Romney picked Paul Ryan because of his all-American Midwestern appeal to attract these type of voters. However, they not only lost Ryan’s home state, Wisconsin, they also lost the election and pretty much every important group you need to win, most notably women and Hispanics.\n\nPast Republican presidential nominees, namely George W. Bush, did well with both of these groups. If you ask me, the smart money is on a younger, Hispanic politician, somebody like Mayor Julián Castro of San Antonio, Texas.\n\nIt’s there that lies the real question that needs to be asked: Is the country, in a post-Obama electorate, ready for a woman and a person of color to be on the same ticket?\n\nThe answer is yes. If there’s any woman (and future grandmother), that Americans will accept for president, it’s Hillary Clinton.\n\nA recent poll from US News and World Report showed that Americans are more than ready for a female president, no matter what Michele Bachmann says. Looking at the data, Barack Obama argued that the growing Latino population means he’s almost certain to see a Latino candidate in the near future. “With numbers comes political power,” Obama reminded us.\n\nHe’s right. These two communities harmoniously brought together on a Clinton ticket is all but unstoppable.\n\n“If Hillary Clinton decides to run, she will bring many women with her. Her candidacy would be a historic moment in mobilizing women’s interest. But whether she would put another woman on the ticket, that’s a very different calculus. As women we tend to do our changes in increments,” said Ruth B. Mandel, the director of Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.\n\nIncremental change is not evil or going against your people; Obama knew this in 2008 and Hillary Clinton knows this now. Like Obama, she wants to win. She also knows that by cementing her own legacy on a diverse ticket like this, she incrementally creates the change needed for a two women ticket in the future.\n\nIn doing so, Clinton campaign will ignite the electorate in a way that eluded her in 2008, hard learned lessons she won’t soon forget in 2016.\n\nH. Alan Scott is a writer/comedian based in New York City and Los Angeles. His work has been featured on the Huffington Post, Thought Catalog, OUT, xoJane, The Advocate, MTV, and Time Out. He really wants you to follow him on Twitter at @HAlanScott." ]

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[ null, "Relay Defense's map are 8 x 6 maps and have camps and fortress.\n\nA fortress and its warp points\n\nA camp and its warp points\n\nThe fortress have 3 HP and the player will lose the battle if it is destroyed by the enemy. The camps have 2 HP and can't be take back when they are destroyed\nThe fortress and the camps are defensive terrain which heal 10 HP at the beginning of each turn if a hero is on them.\nThe fortress, the camps and the spaces around them are warp points. Heroes can instantly go on those spaces if they are already on a warp point.\n\nIn Relay Defense mode, height several selectable difficulties. A level is unlocked only after finishing the previous one.\n\nIn order to finish the level, the player need to achieve certain high scores.\n\nThe player accumulates points for each enemy defeated and each Hero alive after two turns, capping at 30.\n\nPoints are added based on the number of camps held by the player at the end of the stage.\n\nPoints are added depending on how well the player defends their fortress. The more HP at the end of the stage, the better." ]

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[ "Many studies have been conducted regarding the effect of sports massages on athletes. A majority of these studies have yielded conflicting results. One study which compared professional athletes to controls found no significant differences in muscle soreness. Another study which compared professional athletes and controls showed significant improvement in muscle pain for athletes who had massage. However there was no noticeable improvement in the condition of athletes who did not receive massage. Another study that compared active athletes and nonathletes yielded similar results to previous studies.\n\nAlthough there are no conclusive studies showing that the benefits of sports massage on athletic performance, several studies have shown that it can aid athletes in recovering quicker. Researchers discovered that athletes who were involved in high-intensity exercise programs had a lower chance of recovering from massage therapy. In another study, athletes who followed an exercise with a maximum workload showed significantly better performance than those who received a Sports massage. In a different study, massage therapists showed a definite improvement in the physical performance of overweight female adolescents.\n\nA study that examined lactic acid production in both injured and control groups found no difference between the two groups. Researchers concluded that massage's effect may depend on the person that it is being administered to. Researchers found that lactic acids were released at a greater rate in the control group than they were in the exercise group, and remained fairly low after the massage. However the injured group had a higher level of lactic acid production, and it remained higher following the session. This could be due to higher lactic acid production in injured patients could decrease the patient's pain threshold and lead to a greater perception of exercise exertion.", null, "There are many theories about how massage can enhance the performance of athletes. The physiologists have suggested that a thorough stretch of the muscles in the deep of the legs is the reason for athletes' faster recuperation from injuries. The same theory suggests that athletes benefit from stretching out the superficial muscles of the shoulders and arms to strengthen them. Another theory is that athletes who engage in intense competition may be able recover faster by having their lower muscles tighter and shorter. And a strong abdominal muscle core helps to prevent spasms and cramps that can occur in athletes when they perform strenuous exercise.\n\nMassage therapy can aid athletes improve their flexibility and strength. It's been observed that muscles become more flexible and more open to training and movement when they're stretched. When athletes train their muscles tighten and limit their movement. In order to overcome this discomfort athletes need to perform exercises to loosen up muscles that are tight. Massage therapy can aid in this.\n\nStudies have revealed that athletes experience an increase in cortisol levels when they exercise or engaging in high intensity. The stress hormone signals physical stress. And studies show that this increased cortisol release leads to greater muscular strength and endurance during times of moderate intensity exercise. In the study the endurance performance was measured before and after athletes performed 30 sprints. During sprints, muscle twitch activity was measured and the results showed an increase in muscle strength after the sprints.\n\nThe muscle's glucosamine levels increased strength. Glycogen is an energy source that is found in muscles during intense training. When the athlete is subject to intense physical exertion, large amounts of glycogen are released by the body. This allows the athlete to replenish energy lost during the sprints. Researchers from the University of Northumbria published a study that showed that short sprints prior to cycling competition resulted in a significant increase of glycogen levels in muscles.\n\nThese studies have 수원출장 proven that massage therapy for sports can be beneficial for athletes, both in the course of and after intense workouts. The studies were conducted on healthy non-athletes. If you have any conditions that affect circulation , like diabetes, kidney disease, or high blood pressure, it is best to consult your physician prior to starting any treatment." ]

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[ "Online Safety for All", null, "In recent decades, technology has become a fundamental part of everyday life, whether we are falling down a rabbit hole of never-ending information on Wikipedia, buying anything and everything on Amazon, or exchanging emails and messages with people far and wide. Yet the integration of technology into society also creates challenges for certain groups that use it—which is where Ada Lerner’s research comes in.\n\n“The whole purpose of my research is to provide the benefits of technology equitably across society. My goal is to understand the way that technology works, the way that technology is being used in real life, the way it interacts with human beings, and then see if I can figure out how to design technology better so that it doesn’t create more problems than it solves,” says Lerner, an assistant professor of computer science. (Lerner uses the pronouns they, their, theirs.)\n\nLerner studies inclusive security and privacy, a subfield of security that focuses on specific populations, including marginalized or vulnerable groups like refugees or LGBTQ people, as well as groups with key roles in society, such as lawyers or journalists. These populations, they explain, often have different needs and concerns in terms of technology and security.\n\nOne of Lerner’s projects involved building a better encrypted email system for lawyers and journalists, who often send and receive sensitive information that must be protected. To test the system, Lerner invited lawyers and journalists into the lab for a role-playing scenario. As they had hoped, the new system was faster and less error-prone than other encryption tools. However, Lerner gained even more insight from talking to the subjects about why the system might not work: Lawyers brought up issues like needing to easily search emails (as is often court-mandated), while journalists raised concerns like protecting the identities of sources. “The context is to really inform the design of the technology with on-the-ground information from the real people who would be using it,” Lerner explains.\n\nCurrently, Lerner is tackling security and privacy within the transgender community. Last summer, Lerner and their students conducted in-depth interviews with transgender people about their use of technology that revealed a tension between wanting to be visible online to engage in activism, support other transgender people, and represent transgender identities, and wanting to protect themselves from potential harassment and violence. “They saw that their main path to doing good in the world was also the main path to putting themselves at greater risk,” Lerner says.\n\nLerner is now starting a quantitative, survey-based study to investigate whether this visibility risk is more of a concern to transgender people than to other marginalized groups, and whether it causes them to opt out of potentially beneficial technologies. Lerner will also develop technologies to address the problem: for example, a system that allows moderators of a Facebook group for queer people of color to verify the identity characteristics of members while protecting their privacy.\n\nHowever, Lerner’s focus on inclusivity extends beyond research to the broader field of computer science. “I had a lot of privilege coming into computer science,” Lerner says, the result of being white, having a software engineer father, and coding from a young age. As a member of Wellesley’s Computer Science Department Inclusivity Committee, Lerner is developing a diversity and inclusion statement to help all students, regardless of background, feel welcome.\n\n“[The goal] is to take concrete steps that help to create equity,” Lerner says, such as holding social events to integrate students into the community, and implementing more inclusive teaching practices.\n\nLerner is also building an inclusive community within their own lab, where students are involved in all aspects of research. “Joining a research lab and being part of that community is really a powerful experience, I think, for making people feel like they belong in computer science,” they say." ]

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[ "3 edition of No Man\"s Land found in the catalog.\n\nSep 01, · Doug Tatum has a name for this phenomenon; indeed, he's written a book about it: No Man's Land: What to Do When Your Company Is Too Big . Jul 13, · Synopsis No Man's Land by David Baldacci is an exciting thriller featuring special investigator John Puller, who is pursuing a case that will send him deep into his own troubled past.. One man demands justice John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago.\n\nFeb 10, · Batman: No Man's Land is a critically acclaimed saga that helped to shape the story for \"The Dark Knight Rises.\" It's influence is undeniable, and it is a year-long tale across all Bat-titles that. John Toland, the Pulitzer Prize-winning WW II historian, has fashioned another vivid chronicle from diaries, newspapers, and interviews. It's the story, this time, of , the year the Germans launched a series of massive offensives to break the stalemate on the Western Front. With Ludendorff's big push in the Arras-La FÉre sector in March, the British were disastrously routed (\"\"Wretched.\n\nJohn Puller's mother disappeared nearly 30 years ago. Despite an intensive search and investigation, she was never seen again. But new allegations have come to light suggesting that Puller's father - now suffering from dementia and living in a VA hospital - may have murdered his wife. Sep 10, · In short, No Man's Land is a delightfully worthy entrant on the critical field of battle, certain to inspire vigorous debate wherever it is read.\"—Katherine Fishburn, Studies in the Novel \"It is a commanding and far-reaching book.", null, null, null, "If starting a company is difficult, leading a company once the business has caught fire is infinitely more so. Thousands of startups each year approach the dangerous transition that Doug Tatum calls No Man's Land—when they are too big too be considered small but still too small to /5(43).\n\nNov 21, · NO MAN’S LAND is David Baldacci’s fourth book in his very successful John Puller series. I can say without a doubt this is the best of the series. Two parallel stories keep the reader’s interest through the first half, merging seamlessly by the middle of the book/5(K).\n\nNo Man’s Land is a novel that I can only describe as a beautifully written but devastating book to read. It follows the life of Adam Raine, from his childhood poverty in Islington, a move to a mining community in Yorkshire and then to the trauma at the Somme.4/5.\n\nBatman: No Man’s Land is an American comic book crossover storyline that ran for almost all of through the Batman comic book titles published by DC Comics. The story architecture for \"No Man's Land\" and the outline of all the Batman continuity titles for were written by cartoonist Jordan B.\n\nGenre: Superhero, Crossover. Jul 25, · The Paperback of the No Man's Land (John Puller Series #4) by David Baldacci at Barnes & Noble.\n\nFREE Shipping on $35 or more. B&N Outlet Membership Educators Gift Cards Stores & Events Help Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Best of all, he survives to reappear in the next book of this new series.\"— /5.\n\nOct 16, · Mega-famous author David Baldacci's No Man's Land is the latest novel in his John Puller series and a prime example of why he's one of today's most beloved writers. At the heart of this novel is a tragedy that has clawed at John Puller, Baldacci's Jack Reacher-like character, for more than three decades.\n\nAs a boy. Jun 30, · No Man's Land. likes. Welcome to the page for the film \"No Man's Land\", which follows the January armed protest of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in thehit45sradiogroup.comers: Nov 28, · In No Man's Land, the captain of the flight tells the full story for the first time.\n\nIt's a gripping, blow-by-blow account of how, along with his co-pilots, Sullivan relied on his elite military training to land the gravely malfunctioning plane and narrowly avert what could have been a horrific air disaster/5(48). Mar 01, · Buy a cheap copy of No Man's Land book by David Baldacci.\n\nFree shipping over $Price: $ Oct 17, · The Paperback of the No Man's Land by Simon Tolkien at Barnes & Noble. FREE Shipping on $35 or more.\n\nNo Man's Land: John Puller, Book 4. By: This novel, No Man's Land, shows much of the human feeling of those three very different novels.\n\nIt also demonstrates Baldacci's desire to complete a novel (tie up all open questions) even after many lesser authors would have considered the novel complete. Nov 15, · Read \"No Man's Land\" by David Baldacci available from Rakuten Kobo.\n\nAfter his father is accused of murder, combat veteran and Special Agent John Puller must investigate his past and learn /5(). “Eula Biss’ Notes From No Man’s Land is the most accomplished book of essays anyone has written or published so far in the 21st century.”—Salon “Biss’ pairings of ideas, like those of most original thinkers, have the knack of seeming brilliant and obvious at the same time Forceful, beautiful essays.”—NPR.\n\nNo Man's Land by David Baldacci is an exciting thriller featuring special investigator John Puller, who is pursuing a case that will send him deep into his own troubled past.\n\nOne man demands justice John Puller is the US Army's most tenacious investigator, but he is not equipped to face the truth about his mother's disappearance thirty years ago. Nov 15, · No Man's Land Riveting and enticing.\n\nMany twists and curves. Could not put the book down till the end. Great summer read. boots saddle, 09/22/ No Mans Land Another great page turner from B. A little sci-fi mixed in with a great ending.\n\nMorris L. Wardell, \"The History of No-Man's-Land, or Old Beaver County,\" The Chronicles of Oklahoma 35 (Spring ). Doug Tatum provides an informative overview for companies in their adolescence. Many entrepreneurs have no idea how to navigate “No Man’s Land” – the dangerous, entrapping middle ground between initially surviving as a start-up and growing into a large-scale company or organization.7/10().\n\nDec 10, · The reissue of Eula Biss' Notes from No Man's Land, originally released by Graywolf Press inis thehit45sradiogroup.com essay collection deals with issues of 7/. Two wounded soldiers are caught between their lines in no man's land, in a struggle for survival.\n\nCiki is a Bosnian Muslim, and Nino is a Bosnian Serb. The two soldiers confront each other in a trench, where they wait for dark. They trade insults and even find some common ground.\"In No Man's Land, Cindy Hahamovitch brilliantly explores the world of guest workers and the complex history of America's relationship with them.\n\nIn the confused and confusing debate over jobs, immigration, and the economy, this book is a must-read.Feb 01, · No Man's Land by Eric L.\n\nHaney, introduces the reader to Kennesaw Mountain Tanner. Tanner is a Veteran and man of hire, going where ever his new client needs him. In the first of a series of novels, Tanner lives on a boat in the waters off Savannah, GA, where he has a few very colorful friends. The friends have his six (his back) and he has theirs.5/5(5)." ]

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[ "Much of the recent debate around Kinder Morgan’s pipeline and tanker project has centered around vigorous debate between the provinces of BC and Alberta and the question or whether the project is in the national interest. Ultimately, this depends on what kind of economy Canadians want to invest in, and what kind of economic future we want to create. Because of these key questions, we are updating and re-sharing some of our previous research around what’s fuelling Canada’s economy and where Kinder Morgan’s pipeline fits in.\n\nAt the same time, over 800 businesses have joined together to raise concerns about investing taxpayer dollars in Kinder Morgan’s risky pipeline and tanker project at http://LetsMoveForward.ca\n\nOvernight co-owners of a controversial pipeline\n\nOn May 29th, the Canadian government announced that it will be purchasing the existing Trans Mountain pipeline from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion and investing another $9 billion to construct the beleaguered pipeline expansion. In addition, the government has committed $2.1 billion in financial assurances for spills, and $1.5 billion to a new Ocean Protection Plan. In total, this project will cost taxpayers more than $17 billion.\n\nWhat else could Canada invest in instead?\n\nWe did a quick investigation into what these federal funds could otherwise be spent on, and came up with three quick comparisons:", null, "According to the federal government, a national housing strategy would cost $4 billion dollars a year, less than the cost of purchasing the existing Trans Mountain pipeline (let alone building the expansion).", null, "The $17 billion it will cost to buy and build the Trans Mountain pipeline won’t cover the entire cost of a national pharmacare program, which is budgeted at $19 billion, but it would cover the vast majority – more than enough to get it off the ground.", null, "During the last federal election, the NDP calculated that it would cost $5 billion to put in place $15 a day daycare for every child in care across the entire country. Instead of giving a massive taxpayer bailout to Kinder Morgan’s pipeline, the federal government could fund over 3 years of universal affordable childcare.\n\nAnd for the cost of this pipeline, not only could we provide clean drinking water to every reserve across Canada, but we could provide it in gold-plated taps.\n\nSo which kind of economy do we want to invest in?" ]

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[ "WAS LAUNCHED AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL\n\nThe orchestras will show their progress with a contest", null, "An ideal opportunity to show the progress made in the musical field in Bolivia and to sensitize various sectors of society about the potential of our artists was released yesterday. It is the first national competition of choirs and orchestras, an initiative of CAF (Latin American Development Bank), supported by the Federation of private businessmen in Santa Cruz, the World Bank, the Ministry of Culture, the Governors Office and the Santa Cruz municipality.\n\nAlthough the competition is nationwide, it was presented in Santa Cruz (in the Federation of Private Entrepreneurs) with the presence of representatives of the main local institutions. This is not a minor detail if one takes into account that in the region, there has been developing a work held in the orchestral theme with the creation of public and private orchestras over the years and with a growing level of musical training.\n\nHombres Nuevos [New Men], the Municipal Orchestra and the Youth Symphony Orchestra represent a generation of musicians with the merit of having consolidated a work in the genre.\n\nIn addition to this academic initiatives, such as the Orchestra of the UAGRM, where it was announced the creation of the career of music to reinforce the area.\n\nAll contestants will be received from September, 1 to 15. Orchestras’ recorded videos will be evaluated and 10 semifinalists will be selected.\n\nThe form can be sent to agallardo@caf.com" ]

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[ null, "Today a very beautiful day in Beijing and it got even better when I found two Hongqi’s parked next to each other. On the left the CA180A2E and on the right the CA7182MT3. Both machines are based on the Audi 100. Hongqi-parent FAW has, and still has, a joint venture with Audi, in those days to produce the 100 for the Chinese market.", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Big B had fought the battle with COVID-19 and had emerged victorious in his quest. His millions of fans and followers had prayed for his speedy recovery while he was suffering from the deadly pandemic. Since the past few days, there were rumours rife that Amitabh Bachchan is sick and is hospitalised, however, there was no confirmation, and everyone was speculating on the same. Now, his son, Abhishek Bachchan has come forward to clarify the rumours, Scroll down to know more! (Recommended Read: Smriti Khanna's Little Baby Girl, Anayka Responds To Her Name, Mommy Is Elated [Video Inside])\n\nAbhishek Bachchan is one of the coolest and most grounded celebrities in Bollywood, and the way he deals with trolls and rumours is just commendable. We've seen numerous instances wherein, Junior B had given it back in style, be it trolls trying to target him from the nepotism angle or baseless rumours about his personal life. And we love Abhishek Bachchan for never losing his cool and being at his chivalrous and witty best in such situations!\n\nThere were unclear reports about Amitabh Bachchan getting hospitalised since Saturday (October 25, 2020,) after having suffered an injury. Although, there was no confirmation from either Big B himself or from any other member of his family. According to Pinkvilla, Big B's son, Abhishek Bachchan has quashed all such reports and confirmed that his father is perfectly fine and is doing well. He also hilariously added that it must be Amitabh Bachchan's duplicate who is at the hospital. He also expressed his surprise at how such rumours started in the first place when his father is sitting right in front of him. Amitabh Bachchan himself has also confirmed that he is completely fine.", null, "On October 2, 2020, a Twitterati had accused Abhishek Bachchan on having a career because he has a famous father and had written, \"@juniorbachchan hey product of nepotism, if u r doing struggle then i wish god gives struggle like u to every individual. Me n my wife Sneha hv been doing youtube for a while but this different from ur big banner films also. Bcz i do it on my own nd dont ask my father to refer.\" Schooling the troll, Abhishek had tweeted, \"You are ill informed, immature and naive. Stop believing incorrect and bogus narratives. Think! Please, for your wife's and family's sake.\" When Abhishek had expressed his excitement on the reopening of cinemas in October, a Twitterati had called him \"jobless\". To which, Abhishek had replied, \"That, alas, is in your (the audiences) hand. If you don't like our work, we won't get our next job. So we work to the best of our abilities and hope and pray for the best.\" (Also Read: Anita Hassanandani Shares A Stunning Picture Of Herself When No One Had A Clue About Her Pregnancy)", null, null, null, "When Amitabh Bachchan was admitted in hospital along with Abhishek Bachchan after testing positive for COVID-19, a Twitter user had asked Abhishek, \"Your father admitted in hospital... Ab kiske bharose baith ke khaoge?\" To this, he had immediately replied, \"Filhaal toh let ke kha rahe hain dono ek sath hospital mein.\" Soon, the user had tweeted, \"Get well soon sir... Har kisi ki kismat me let ke khana kaha...\" On this, Abhishek had written, \"I pray that you are never in a situation like ours and that you remain safe and healthy. Thank you for your wishes, ma'am.\"\n\nIn an interview with The Indian Express, Amitabh Bachchan had talked about his relationship with his son, Abhishek Bachchan and had shared that they are like friends. The superstar had stated that he had decided that the moment Abhishek starts borrowing his shoes, he would become his friend. We adore and get inspired by the great camaraderie between the superstar father-son duo! (Don't Miss: Hrithik Roshan Stunned By Ex-Wife, Sussanne's Birthday Look, Their Banter Speaks Of Their Love)\n\nWell, we have to say, we love Abhishek Bachchan's witty comebacks!", null, "Do you remember making plans with your BFF that once you grow up and get married, you’ll have kids around the same time so that they can be BFFs too and all of you can hang out together? Isn’t it an amazing feeling imagining a vacation with your BFF, your respective" ]

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[ "I don’t know if you are familiar with this story that used to be very common in the 90’s in India. People used to say that if you gave birth while travelling in a train or by flight, then you and your child would be entitled to free travel for the rest of your lives. Of course this was not true at all.\n\nJust yesterday, when I was going through my news feed, I saw the story of a baby being born a flight of Turkish Airlines flashing across various websites.What happened was that a cabin crew, who saw a woman passenger named Nafi Diaby, 28-week-old pregnant traveler flying with Turkish Airlines’ flight, was suffering child-birth pains, promptly responded to her in order to assist her childbirth during the flight.\n\nAfter the smooth landing of Boeing B737-900 type aircraft to the Ouagadougou Airport, the mother Nafi Diaby and her newborn baby girl were taken to the hospital in order to be kept under observation for a while.", null, "Officials have reported that the baby and the mother currently do not have any health problems. And they also added that they’re still closely taking care of the mother and the newborn baby who named as “Kadiju”, on their stay at hospital." ]

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[ "Up & Over in Taos\n\nWith a starting climb of 2,612 vertical feet in 2.8 miles at high elevation, this race packs a punch.", null, "It is summertime, and I stand in the cathedral of northern New Mexico’s Taos Ski Valley, preparing to race the Taos Ski Valley 10K Up & Over Trail Run. On a clear day, I would be able to see the state’s highest point, Wheeler Peak, from the valley, but clouds obstruct it, as well as the high point of today’s race—the top of a chairlift just below the Highline Ridge, which leads to 12,481-foot Kachina Peak. A rookie to this race, I nervously toe the starting line with locals, or Taoseños, and others who have run in previous years. I ponder the 2,612 vertical feet in the 2.8 miles of trail leading to the summit. At the start, we’re already at an elevation of 9,207 feet.\n\nThe Up & Over Trail Run is jointly hosted by the Taos Ski Valley Area Chamber of Commerce and the resort company Taos Ski Valley Inc. on resort property and Carson National Forest lands. The valley is located in the stunning Sangre de Cristo Mountains, 35 minutes from the laid-back, artsy community of Taos. The Swiss-inspired architecture of the valley’s ski village stands in stark contrast to the adobe pueblos common to northern New Mexico.\n\nLocals seeking a difficult trail race organized the event in 2006 to highlight the beautiful vistas and steep terrain found throughout the Taos area. Up from 30 participants in its first year, Up & Over attracted 147 runners of all ages, from nine to 86, and abilities, from well-acclimated local competitors to casual runners looking for a short but demanding trail run on a combination of cat tracks, rocky singletrack and well-worn earthen paths.\n\nStarting at the iconic pagoda located at the base of the Taos ski area, we follow a steep cat track halfway up the mountain. Training at my home’s moderate, 4,500-foot elevation has been insufficient to prepare me, and soon my legs and lungs burn. Like many other racers, I switch from an ineffectual shuffle to a power hike, and focus on reaching the summit, hidden somewhere above the last pitch of the trail.\n\nI finally break free of the oppressive cloud layer and am greeted with a clear view of the race’s 11,819-foot zenith, a treeless, rocky ridge. At the top, runners receive shouts of well-deserved encouragement from volunteers who have taken the chairlift to the summit, then plunge down the mountain’s far side on the loose scree that comprises the Honeysuckle Trail. I follow the few runners ahead of me, and as echoes of the volunteers’ inspirations fade, they’re replaced in my head by an old fell-running adage: “Brakes off, brain off.” I accept the controlled falling that is a mountain-running descent, and welcome the strain of new muscle groups. Through an oxygen-starved brain, I mutter to my screaming quads and hamstrings, “Shut up and run it,” an adaptation of the bumper-sticker slogan once seen throughout Taos that expressed locals’ views on the snowboarders carving these hillsides.\n\nI drop down the mountain’s east side on the Honeysuckle Trail and hurdle two ephemeral, snowmelt-fed streams, trying fruitlessly to reel in time lost on the ascent. I follow a stony cat track below treeline and weave between shimmering aspen groves. I am awed at the beauty of the surrounding peaks, humbled by my small place in this geologic wonder.\n\nAfter making the final turn onto the smooth, singletrack Rubezahl Trail, I tear down the hillside to the welcoming shouts and applause of hundreds of Taoseño spectators and volunteers. The clouds finally start shedding their precipitation shortly after I cross the finish line, so we dash indoors, where age-group winners receive unique clay medals, handcrafted by artisans in neighboring Arroyo Seco. I revel in the day’s successes as the smells of European-influenced food and the sounds of live music begin to fill the village air.\n\nGetting There: Fly into Sante Fe or Albuquerque; both airports have direct shuttle service to the Taos Ski Valley. Or, from the town of Taos, drive about 20 miles north on U.S. Highway 64 and State Highway 150.\n\nAccommodations: In the Ski Valley, book a room at the Alpine Village Suites or find a vacation rental (taosskivalley.com/pages/stay/Taos-Ski-Valley), or in town, try the Historic Taos Inn, housed in 19th-century adobe structures in Taos. Camping is also available in Carson National Forest.\n\nPost-Race Grub: The oldest brew pub in New Mexico, Eske’s Brew Pub, serving famous green chili stew (and green chili beer, for the strong of heart), is located just off the plaza in Taos. Or for ribeye nachos and mezcal, look to the Adobe Bar, located in the Historic Taos Inn. In the Ski Valley, the Bavarian Restaurant & Lodge adds a little Alpine flavor with Bavarian cuisine and German beers on tap.\n\nBonus Run: The Devisadero Trail is a 5.6-mile loop on the outskirts of town with an excellent view of the expansive Taos Valley. It gains just over 1,400 feet, topping out at 8,304 feet.\n\nHayden Janssen lives in Helena, Montana, with his wife and two dogs. He is co-owner of Primitive Mechanix, a consultancy that promotes running through participation, education and community outreach. He constantly seeks the sublime." ]

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[ "MARKUS CLASS TAKES THE VICTORY IN THE FIRST RACE IN MONTALEGRE", null, "Montalegre, (Portugal) 20 July 2019 – In sunny weather conditions and a beautiful scenery of the mountains the first edition of the FIM S1 Supermoto WorldCup started today in Montalegre in Northern Portugal. The organisation of Circuito Internacional de Montalegre prepared the track already weeks before the event with some new asphalt and off-road sections. The city of Montalegre is breathing auto and motorsport and with flags and poster throughout the city, the spectators already found their way to the racetrack early on Saturday to enjoy the action and close racing from the grandstands. In the time practice it was TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre who took the pole position, but it was Phoenix Racing rider Markus Class who took the victory in the first race in Portugal.\n\nFree & Time practice\nOn Saturday morning and afternoon, two free practices and the official time practice were held in Montalegre. With the track perfectly prepared 25 riders started the road to the World championship title. In the first free practice it was TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre who set the fastest time before Phoenix Racing riders Markus Class and Milan Sitniansky.\n\nThe fastest time in free practice two was for Markus Class, the German rider finished in front of Thomas Chareyre and MTR KTM rider Lukas Hollbacher.\n\nThe last practice session was the timed practice to determine the starting grid for the first race on Saturday evening. The pole position was taken by Thomas Chareyre followed by MTR KTM rider Lauren Fath and Markus Class. Charyere was the only rider under 59 seconds, with a gap of 00:713 seconds to his competitors who all finished under the one minute mark.\n\nS1 Race 1\nRace one start at 18:30 hours local time. At the start it was Phoenix Racing rider Markus Class who to hole shot at the end of the long straight into the very tight first corner. Class was followed by TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre and Lukas Hollbacher from MTR. Another MTR KTM rider Laurent Fath was fourth in front of Nicolas Cousin and Germain Vincenot. Straight from the start Class and Chareyre created a gap to the rest of the field with high speeds and close racing. In lap 6, Thomas Charyere managed to overtake Markus Class in the off-road section of the circuit. Class however didn’t give up and stayed right behind the current World champion. The battle for third place in the race was also very tight with Fath getting closer and closer to Hollbacher. While the two teammates fought for third, Nicolas Cousin and Germain Vincenot set some fast laps and soon the two riders closed the gap, making the fight for third place, one between four rider. In lap 8 Laurent Fath passed Hollbacher for third but the Austrian rider took third place back in the next lap. This fight went one for a long time, with passes almost every lap. With only two laps to go Lukas Hollbacher made his final move and was able to get away from the rest. Laurent Fath in his turn made a small mistake at the end of the race making the Frenchmand fall back to fifth behind Nicolas Cousin, but just in front of another Frenchman Germain Vincenot. In the lead the battle for the victory was getting more intense as Class came closer and closer to Chareyre. With 6 laps to go the German rider made his final move and passe Chareyre in the off-road part of Montalegre. The pressure was still on but Markus Class kept his speed high and didn’t make any mistakes, making his the winner of the first race of the S1 Supermoto WorldCup.\n\nTomorrow races two and three will be held in Portugal and the end of the Sunday we will know who will be the new World champion.\n\nThe FIM S1 Supermoto WorldCup will be broadcasted delayed, by clicking HERE you will obtain the full tv list" ]

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[ "I have seen a few of these Trulicity commercials on TV of late and they have made me see red.\n\nLose 40 pounds before you even think of Trulicity.\n\nLilly should be ashamed.\n\n35-years ago Eli Lilly (in the UK) was one of my networking customers. They were a great company that I enjoyed dealing with. This is BELOW the Eli Lilly that I knew and respected.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "The actual Royal Air Force (RAF) birthday falls on April Fool’s Day but anybody with any sense knows that the British RAF is no laughing matter. Its history is remarkable that it has never been involved in a losing war. Yes, the RAF has only participated in wars that were won by the British or the Allies. Something to think about.\n\nThe actual 100th birthday was in April 2018, BUT ‘they’ held back this 100-plane Royal flyover till July — so that the Summer visitors can get into the act.\n\nCheck out the videos. There are more on YouTube including other RAF flyovers.\n\nThere has never been a U.S. Camerlengo. That alone Cardinal Harvey, as a potential candidate, interesting and intriguing. The Vatican has some similarities to NATO — the U.S. is the biggest contributor to its working budget. And it is no secret that since the early 1900s the U.S. Catholics have invariably helped out with conclave costs. So, it would be only fair to appoint a U.S. Camerlengo — given that the next pope, or the one after that … or the one after that will not be American.\n\nJames Michael Harvey, had a distinguished career in Rome, as the Prefect of the Papal Household; a post he held for 14-years. But, then, extremely incongruously, he was removed from that position the DAY BEFORE he was created a cardinal. Yes, his replacement was Pope Benedict XVI’s special friend, the handsome and debonair, fellow-German, Archbishop Georg Gänswein (61). So, we might have been trying to read too much into this. Benedict just wanted his friend in charge of his household rather than an American that had been appointed by an ailing John Paul II.\n\nIt is also true that ‘Vatileaks‘ came to be during Harvey’s watch and THE BUTLER was arrested six-months prior to Harvey being pushed out. But, this was now 6 years ago.\n\nHe has all the qualifications to be a good Camerlengo. He is young, knows the workings of the Vatican inside-out and has demonstrable executive experience.\n\nSo, it is a name to think about." ]

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[ null, "Engaged leaders are those who are “all there” when they’re working. They are focused, alert, and ready to run hard after objectives.\n\nA 2021 Gallup study reported that only 36% of employees were actively engaged in their jobs. That number is actually up over the past couple of decades, but it still says that just one in three employees bring some level of passion to the workplace.\n\nSure, some disengaged employees have jobs like these. After all, as Mark Twain supposedly said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Often, however, I think you can’t simply blame employee disengagement on the assigned tasks. Many employees simply find themselves in a culture of disengagement.\n\nAnd disengagement matters particularly now, according to the Gallup study. The report put it this way, “In 2020, the importance of having an engaged workforce was never more urgent. Organizations with high employee engagement were more resilient and able to weather the many challenges that came with a pandemic, an economic collapse and societal unrest.”\n\nPut simply, disengagement carries a high cost, and while you can’t buy engagement, when you get it, it pays huge dividends.\n\nSo how do you upgrade engagement at work (either for yourself or others)? Here are four tips:\n\nMillennials were perhaps the first to bring attention to the fun factor (just Google “Google headquarters pictures” for proof), but these days everyone wants to have fun at work. Sure, you can have too much fun, but emotional engagement at work often creates mental engagement as well.\n\nIn The Levity Effect, Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher say, “An increasing body of research demonstrates that when leaders lighten up and create a fun workplace, there is a significant increase in the level of employee trust, creativity, and communication—leading to lower turnover, higher morale, and a stronger bottom line.”\n\nThey noted that Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” research found that 81% of employees working in the 100 best companies (labeled as “great”) said they work in a “fun” environment. By comparison, only 62% of employees at “good” companies said the same thing. It was one of the most sizable statistical differences they found. In other words, fun can make the difference between “good” and “great.”\n\nAmong other things, it means emphasizing the “why” of employee actions over the “what.” The title of this 2015 Entrepreneur article still rings true: “The 4 Things Employees Want Most From a Job Cost Nothing.”\n\nRemember Google’s 20% rule that employees can spend 20% of their time on creative thinking projects. Psychologist Edward Deci says the best way to motivate people is to support their sense of autonomy. Explain the reasons a task is important, and then allow as much personal freedom as possible in carrying out the task. “Instead of asking, ‘How can I motivate people?’ Deci says, “We should be asking, ‘How can I create the conditions within which people will motivate themselves?’”\n\nWe are all layered with multiple motivations that drive us to do what we do—motivations like personal development, making money, calling from God, etc. I think this is more than just OK; it’s healthy. Sure, there is some hierarchy, but motivation includes multiple layers. None of us operate out of one single motivator all day every day.\n\nConsider the story of young David the giant killer in the Old Testament. He was surely fueled by his desire to spread the name of the one true God. But he also asked twice, “What’s the payout to the guy who kills the giant?”\n\nOr consider the research study in which participants were paid to build with Legos (sweet gig, huh?). They were paid a small amount per Lego model completed. One group of participants had their work displayed in front of them while they built their second model. The other group had their work immediately disassembled before they started their second model. As you can imagine, the first group ended up completing more models. The compensation was no different, but the first group felt rewarded and therefore they worked harder. They were motivated by money but also by the sense of completion.\n\nIn other words, reward plans should include money but they can’t end there. Survey after survey shows that. Money is always on the list of important things for employees, but it’s never at the top.\n\nIn a culture that is always on, we have to learn the power of walking away, saying “no” or “not now,” “good idea but not the best idea,” “nice info but not my concern today,” etc.\n\nOr as my friend Stacy loves to say—“Not my circus, not my monkeys.”\n\nIf you’re not a focused person, you may need to restructure your calendar and habits to make time for large, challenging projects and for forward thinking. Otherwise, you’re probably just plodding along, living and working reactively.\n\nOf course, this is usually a learned skill. I’ve begun to teach myself and others how to focus using the idea of sprints. I’ve found that sprints, both personally and organizationally, really keep employees focused.\n\nBut there is good news. Growth is possible.\n\nThis article lays out a “Me-to-We Continuum” to foster better relationships with employees. The author has five things to consider instead of the four I outlined, but it’s very similar:\n\n“The best employers,” he says, “help us each achieve our personal ‘me’ goals and dreams on the one hand, while simultaneously collaborating with us to solve more generalized ‘we’ worries about the economy, the environment, and the world on the other hand.”\n\nPut another way, if you worked for a company that succeeded along all points of this continuum, wouldn’t you be engaged?" ]

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[ "The absence of a flagship smartphone from Samsung at the upcoming MWC19 notwithstanding, the month of February, without a doubt, will usher in some flagship and mid-range smartphones from other brands including Xiaomi, Huawei, LG, and Sony. These companies already confirmed their presence at Feb. 25 MWC19 event in Barcelona, and now, one more brand(OnePlus) that definitely shouldn’t be ignored has confirmed it will be live at the event.\n\nThe Chinese brand has issued out invites for an exclusive MWC19 event tagged Reimagine. While the Chinse firm is expected to be among the first few to churn out 5G compatible devices, the invite doesn’t give any hint the firm will be unveiling any new phone at the Barcelona event, instead, the brand could be hosting a party for media representatives, partners, and exclusive guests. The event might be an avenue to discuss future 5G OnePlus devices, while those in attendance may also be offered a sneak peek at the brand’s upcoming device.\n\nThe invite reads: “Join OnePlus at Ultramarinos where drinks and a taste of the future will be on us. We’ll be celebrating MWC 2019 at this exclusive, invite-only event.”", null, "The OnePlus 7 has been subjects of a few leaks unlike some flagships from other brands so it is very much unlikely it will be unveiled at the Barcelona event, though a preview or brief demoed cannot be entirely ruled out. However it plays out, we would be on ground t bring you detail information about Huawei’s plans for the mid-range market.\n\nNext More information surfaces about the ELEPHONE A6 Mini" ]

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[ null, "The Species Status project is a recent initiative, providing up-to-date assessments of the threat status of taxa using the internationally accepted Red List guidelines developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (IUCN, 2012a; 2012b; IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, 2013, 2014). It is the successor to the JNCC’s Species Status Assessment project which ended in 2008. This publication is one in a series of reviews to be produced under the auspices of the new project.\n\nThe Larger Brachycera is a taxonomically loose group of 11 families in three super-families. In the current British checklist (Chandler 1998) they comprise (in taxonomic order) the Xylophagidae, Athericidae, Rhagionidae, Tabanidae, Xylomyidae, Stratiomyidae, Acroceridae, Bombyliidae, Therevidae, Scenopinidae and Asilidae. Although the popular name has no taxonomic validity, it is a convenient label to denote a group that is popular with British Diptera recorders. They are all covered by one Recording Scheme." ]

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[ "Regardless of whether you believe the return to normalcy is near at hand or far off, tech remains as suitable as at any time. As this kind of, it would then make feeling that buyers are also looking at tech shares carefully in the stock market place now. Without a doubt, all this is thanks to the tech industry’s concentration on frequent innovation and expansion. Offered the disruptive character of tech, there would be no lack of remarkable developments in the business for buyers now.\n\nOn the telecommunications entrance, matters seem to be heating up in the 5G place. Just previous week, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) CEO Hans Vestberg reported an uptick in over-all 5G visitors on its networks. This would show that far more people have adopted the subsequent-gen wireless tech during the pandemic. With the latest up grade cycle in purchaser tech staying accelerated, providers would be incentivized to provide their greatest operate forward. Elsewhere, tech giants this kind of as Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have been on a roll as well. From the launch of its most recent working program update to its cloud division fueling 3rd-quarter results, this looks to be the situation. To preserve this momentum, Microsoft is reportedly supplying out $1,500 bonuses to its staff members who have persevered all through the pandemic.\n\nOver-all, tech stocks surface to be catching up to the broader stock marketplace right after suffering from numerous main offer-offs. We can see this as the tech-laden Nasdaq composite is currently up by about 15% calendar year-to-date. In comparison, the S&P 500 is looking at gains of 18% above the exact period of time. Getting study all this, you could be eager on tech shares you. In that case, here are 4 to look at in the inventory current market right now.\n\nBest Tech Shares To Acquire [Or Sell] This Week\n\nFb is a multinational tech organization that is based mostly in California. The corporation focuses on its social media application that is applied by billions to join with pals and family members, find communities, and increase corporations. Impressively, more than 200 million firms use the company’s app to do company. It has over 80 places of work in metropolitan areas around the world and 17 knowledge centers globally. FB stock currently trades at $353.05 as of 1:52 p.m. ET. Lately, the enterprise was provided a rate focus on enhance from $385 to $410 by Argus.\n\nArgus analyst Joseph Bonner maintains his obtain ranking on the business shares. The analyst notes that Fb has ongoing toughness in e-commerce advertising. This would ultimately generate the company’s stellar financial final results in the months to come. He also cited the company’s new partial victory over the U.S. Federal Trade Fee (FTC). A federal court docket dismissed the FTC’s antitrust complaint versus Fb in late June. In the submitting, the courtroom states that the FTC did not show that Fb maintains a monopoly. Could the worst be over for Fb from a regulatory perspective? Supplied this piece of information, will you consider FB inventory a top rated tech stock to take into account buying?\n\nSquare is a tech firm that presents a cohesive commerce ecosystem. Its platform aids sellers get started, operate, and mature their firms by combining sophisticated application with inexpensive hardware. This, in essence, would allow for sellers to transform mobile and computing units into potent payment and place-of-sale remedies. SQ inventory presently trades at $243.42 as of 1:52 p.m. ET. Previous 7 days, the firm described that it will be building a components wallet and support to make bitcoin custody far more mainstream.\n\nIn May well, the business announced its initially-quarter financial effects. To begin with, it obtained a gross financial gain of $964 million, a 79% maximize year-in excess of-calendar year. Its Seller ecosystem produced $468 million, up by 32% calendar year-above-yr even though its Dollars Application created a gross revenue of $495 million, up by 171% as opposed to a yr before. The company also claims that its customers have uncovered elevated value and advantage with the Dollars Card and it has far more than 10 million monthly energetic Income Card buyers. It also carries on to enrich its ecosystem of products and solutions by developing on its omnichannel abilities by launching Sq. Messages. It is a new aspect that can help sellers interact with their customers much more successfully via textual content messages or electronic mail. With so many thrilling developments surrounding Square, is SQ stock really worth buying appropriate now?", null, "Following on this list is Apple, a tech titan that specializes in purchaser electronics, software, and on the net companies. It is just one of the greatest tech businesses in the world by income and has also been 1 of the most useful. The business has more than 100,000 staff members that are focused to producing high quality and video game-shifting products. AAPL stock at the moment trades at $144.24 as of 1:53 p.m. ET and has been up by over 50% in the very last year.\n\nIn its latest quarter reporting in April, it posted a report earnings at $89.6 billion, up by 54% year-around-year. Apple also posted quarterly earnings for each diluted share of $1.40. Unsurprisingly, global sales accounted for 67% of this quarter’s income. This features record income in each of its geographic segments and powerful double-digit expansion in every of its item classes, driving its installed base of lively devices to an all-time higher. All issues considered, will you purchase AAPL inventory?", null, "Topping off our record these days is computer software enterprise BlackBerry Ltd. Certain, while the company’s smartphone establishing days are powering it, BlackBerry is building waves in the tech world, nevertheless. In quick, it is now pivoting in direction of cybersecurity providers. The likes of which consist of business-essential occasion management, endpoint defense, and synthetic clever-based electronic security. Meanwhile, BB stock is also in the highlight as it is between the ranks of the top rated Reddit stocks now. The company’s shares are presently trading at $11.26 as of 1:53 p.m. ET. With calendar year-to-day gains of more than 70%, could BB stock have extra home to operate moving forward?\n\nWhilst this remains to be observed, CEO John Chen delivered a alternatively crystal clear update on what BlackBerry is undertaking in its modern quarter fiscal. Late in June, the enterprise reported total income of $174 million and finished the quarter with $339 million in dollars on hand. Chen cited powerful development in BlackBerry’s auto company as a important driver for progress now in spite of world chip scarcity headwinds. Also, he also observed that the business continues to target on critical options in the Internet-of-Things and cybersecurity marketplaces. Time will inform if BlackBerry can make the most of its ambitious ideas. In the meantime, would you take into consideration investing in BB stock?", null, "The sights and opinions expressed herein are the views and views of the creator and do not essentially mirror individuals of Nasdaq, Inc.", null, null, "Go get your own car" ]

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[ null, "Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth\n\nDescribe yourself in 15 words or less: Dedicated father and husband who is outgoing, friendly, gregarious, and always willing to help others.\n\nFun Fact About Yourself: In my third grade yearbook, I wrote I wanted to be a teacher and serve in the U.S. Army. Teaching management and leadership at West Point lets me fulfill both dreams.\n\nEmployers and Job Titles Since Graduation: After graduation in 2009, I commissioned into the U.S. Army as a lieutenant in the field artillery. During my time as a lieutenant, I served as a fire support officer in an infantry company deployed to Afghanistan, a platoon leader of 45 soldiers in an artillery unit, and an executive officer.\n\nAfter promoting to captain, I was selected to teach brand new lieutenants the basics of our skill craft at the Field Artillery Basic Officer Leader Course.In July of 2015, I assumed command of a multiple launch rocket system battery where I led 71 soldiers for nearly two years. During that time, I deployed my unit to South Korea for nine months as a part of the United States’ commitment to continued peace in the region.\n\nDescribe your biggest accomplishment in your career so far: I graduated from college with an education degree and have always had a deep love for teaching. My greatest enjoyment while in uniform has come from teaching the soldiers that I lead. In the fall of 2015, I applied to the United States Military Academy at West Point to serve as an instructor of management and leadership in the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department. Less than two percent of Army officers who apply to serve as an instructor at West Point are selected. After Tuck, I will have the opportunity to teach at one of the most prestigious universities in the country. The rigorous application process mirrors the MBA application process with essays, letters of recommendation, and interviews. I am extremely grateful to have the chance to impact so many young leaders in an organization I care so much about.\n\nLooking back on your experience, what one piece of advice would you give to future business school applicants? Without a doubt, begin establishing relationships with people at your target schools as soon as possible. I began reaching out to current students in March in preparation for my round one applications the following fall. Find a student organization or group with which you share an interest, background or affiliation, and reach out. These relationships provided invaluable insight into the school, the school’s culture, and their application process. Many eventually read essays and helped with interview preparation. By and large, current students want to help the best and brightest get into their school. Leverage them to help yourself succeed.\n\nWhat was the key factor that led you to choose this program for your full-time MBA and why was it so important to you? Family. As a married applicant with two elementary school-aged children, my family’s needs were foremost in my mind when looking at MBA programs. There isn’t another MBA program that meets my family’s needs more than Tuck. Since the beginning of my MBA search three years ago, Tuck has been my dream school. Every interaction I had with Tuck officials, students, and alumni convinced me that Tuck cares as much about my family’s experience during our two years here as my own. As an Army officer, I have missed significant portions of both my children’s lives, as well as substantial time away from my wife. I wanted a MBA program that would be as much of a home to my family as it would be for me. Tuck is that home. Additionally, Tuck’s location is unlike any other. The Upper Valley offers opportunities for my family unavailable at any other program. Having grown up in Minnesota winters, I want my children to experience all the Upper Valley has to offer.\n\nWhat would success look like to you after your first year of business school? With a path very different from the majority of MBA students, my success will be defined differently as well. During my first year of business school, I want to establish lasting relationships with my classmates. Tuck attracts top MBA candidates from around the world, with a vast array of backgrounds. The students themselves are a rich source of cultural diversity, business acumen, and leadership styles. I want to learn as much as I can from their different perspectives to widen my own knowledge. As I build a greater understanding of the business world, leadership practices, and cultural differences, I will become better prepared to teach cadets at West Point." ]

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[ null, null, "Music festivals are becoming an even more popular and entertaining production than ever before. The electricity in the air is what brings festival-goers to these events every year. It has become a culture; made up of people arriving dressed in their usual festival attire, listening to world-class music with the masses. With so many different festivals and tours to choose from, you’ll need a bucket list of the top five to go to and let your hair down.\n\nWhen you begin your quest to find the ultimate music festival, Tomorrowland is likely to take first place on many people’s lists. Renowned as one of the largest electronic music festivals in Europe, it takes place in Boom, Belgium and hosts hundreds of thousands of people every year. It has been a global hit since it started in 2005, with acts such as David Guetta and Avicii coming back year after year, and flocks of fans joining from every corner of the earth to get in on the vibe.\n\nA common feature of Glastonbury is the youth dressed in floral prints and dirty gumboots, gallivanting around farm fields. The venue, just outside Bristol in England, is a favourite amongst those who enjoy the camping experience combined with the mud. The festival began in 1970 in commemoration of Jimi Hendrix, who had passed away the day before and from there it turned into the massive festival which it is today. The festival is well known for its variety of acts, from Lily Allen to Metallica; but get your tickets early as this festival can sell out in no time.\n\nBased in Chicago, USA, this festival is extremely well known amongst music lovers. Created by Jane’s Addiction singer Perry Farrell, the festival has evolved into a spectacular performance filled with dance, singing and a little bit of comedy on the side. Initially starting out as an Indie Rock festival, it has turned out to be a festival that can be enjoyed by just about anyone, with everything from old school favourites that you can join in on, to Skrillex and Eminem.\n\nThe entire week leading up to and during Coachella, social media feeds are flooded with posts about the festival. The festival, which boasts the most fantastic musicians, has become an event that focuses just as much on the famous and well dressed as the music. If you want to put on that flower crown or those pair John Lennon inspired glasses then Coachella is the perfect place to do it. The festival is based outside Palm Springs, California and famous acts include the likes of Rihanna and Calvin Harris. Check out our tips on what to take to this trendsetting festival.\n\nThis festival may be small in relation to the other world music festivals mentioned, but it’s on the fast track to join them. With famous international acts such as Alt-J and Crystal Fighters joining the line-up, it is becoming a popular South African event. It takes place on a wine estate a few hours outside Cape Town, with people trekking from far and wide to come and enjoy rock bands, DJs and rappers in the sunshine." ]

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[ null, "\nGame of Thrones actor Joseph Gatt has denied ‘horrifying and completely untrue allegations’ made against him after he was arrested for ‘engaging in sexually explicit communication with a minor’.\n\nIn a statement released by the Los Angeles Police Department on Tuesday, it said that they were trying to find any ‘additional victims’ following the arrest of Gatt who lives in Los Angeles.\n\nSharing a picture of the 50-year-old in the press release, the statement said that in the early hours of Wednesday April 6, detectives from the LAPD’s Juvenile Division, Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served a residential search warrant at his home.\n\nThe task force had received information that he had ‘been engaged in online sexually explicit communication with a minor across state lines’, with the Thor actor subsequently arrested ‘for an outstanding felony warrant’ for contact with a minor for sexual offense.\n\nIn a statement shared on Twitter, he responded to the allegations, describing them as ‘completely untrue’, while adding that he was cooperating with the LAPD ‘to get to the bottom of this’.\n\n‘I obviously want to address the absolutely horrifying and completely untrue allegations recently leveled against me,’ he wrote.\n\n‘They are 100% categorically wrong and reckless. I have confirmed errors and misleading information in today’s press release. I am fully cooperating with police and LAPD to get to the bottom of this. I look forward to clearing my good name.’\n\nGatt thanked his friends and followers for their support, adding: ‘Thank you to all of my friends and supporters who know that this is untrue and understand for legal reasons I cannot comment further on social media.’\n\nIn Game of Thrones, Gatt played the role of Thenn Warg, while in Thor, he portrayed Frost Giant Grundroth.\n\nHe starred as a science officer in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness, while he depicted Neils Skellig in the 2019 live-action adaptation of Dumbo.\n\n\nMORE : From Liam Neeson in Derry Girls to Ed Sheeran in Game Of Thrones – what was the wildest celebrity TV cameo ever?" ]

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[ null, "Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 was unveiled in April 2018 and instantly became a hit in India for its affordable price tag that meant buyers scored great value for their money.\n\nThe device’s near-stock Android software experience drove its adoption levels upscale and things got even better when Asus announced an equally compelling successor in Asus ZenFone Max Pro M2 towards the end of last year.\n\nWhen the Pie update finally arrived, it not only brought some great new features, but it also broke some existing ones. Asus was quick to fix some of these issues, but more kept popping up as the OS rolled out in more regions across the globe.\n\nSome users pointed out that the storage path for their photos had changed while others reported about the black lock screen problem after the Pie update.\n\nDespite promising to work on improving the Pie update for both Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 and Max Pro M2 and even actually rolling out bug fixes to some of the annoying issues post-Pie, newer issues keep popping up nearly after every software update.\n\nThe most recent issue is showing up after the update that combined July and August security patches to both the ZenFone Max Pro M1 and Max Pro M2. This update started rolling out a few days ago and even though it had some goodies of its own, it has also brought along one major issue.\n\nThis update downgraded my phone from Widevine l1 to l3.\nSource\n\nwhy did you removed WL1 certification cant used Netflix had content why you mess up software every time you update the phone.\nSource\n\nApparently, both Asus ZenFone Max Pro M1 and Max Pro M2 are losing Widevine L1 certification after the update to August security patch. Instead, they end up with Widevine L3, which means they can no longer stream HD content from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other providers.", null, null, "Asus hasn’t responded to any of these reports about downgrading Widevine support from L1 to L3, but looking at the many complaints being aired on Twitter, we expect a fix to be pushed soon. We will be here to keep an eye on the developments and update this story when we get new info.\n\nMeanwhile, you can read more about Asus-related stuff from this page.\n\nIn response to some ZenFone Max Pro M1 users, a ZenTalk forum moderator has confirmed the issue of Widevine L1 certification changing to L3 after the latest FOTA update is being looked into. However, there’s no word regarding the same on Max Pro M2 as yet.\n\nThank you so much for reporting. This issue is now under investigation.\n\nGoing by the information coming from another ZenTalk moderator, the Widevine glitch is being investigated on ZenFone Max Pro M2 as well.\n\nWe have already highlighted this issue to our developer team. Team is investigating the case.\n\nWidevine L1 issue on ZenFone Max Pro M1 to be addressed in the next FOTA update. Complete story here.\n\nIST: 07:10 pm: The ZenFone Max Pro M1 is not getting rid of the Widevine L1 issue at least for some of the users. One such users took to ZenTalk forum stating that the issue still persists even after downgrading from the Android 10 beta.\n\nA ZenTalk mod has suggested to visit an ASUS service center for assistance on the issue. See the full details here." ]

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[ null, null, "At the beginning of the year I set two goals for myself:\n\nFirst, to use the avenue of this blog to post daily creativity, either from myself or from other artists, in order to make 2017, for me, a year of “creating dangerously”, that is, a year of making art public, open, vulnerable, accessible, engaged with the world; in other words, art where and what it is supposed to be. I wanted to take in a wide spectrum of artists and creative expression so this blog touches on visual art, music, movies, writing, oratory, poetry, and on and on…\n\nSecond, I challenged myself to get back into painting and set the goal of creating at least one new piece per month. I haven’t worked on any “serious” painting since college (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth). I decided to use the theme of artists who inspire me, who created or create “dangerously”, and honor them in my paintings. The first painting was actually completed at the tail end of 2016 but it was, fittingly, of Joe Strummer. If you know anything about me, you know I have a thing for Joe. To me, he’s top of the heap when it comes to creative types I am inspired by. Here is that first painting again:", null, "My second painting was just completed a few days ago. It is meant to honor Maya Angelou (1928-2014), the glorious author, poet, dancer, speaker and all-around phenomenal woman. It seemed fitting to finish this in February, acknowledged as Black History Month. Here is a closer view of “Maya Rising”:", null, "Unfortunately, I didn’t take photos of the process of creating this work. I wish I had. But I do want to describe some things that I planned and things I did not.\n\nFirst, I took my 16″by 20″ canvas (each painting in this series will be that size) and affixed photocopied pages from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, the first and most celebrated memoir of Angelou’s career. My goal was to make her words the “backdrop” to her portrait, with the text coming through as shading and detail. She often spoke of writing as her greatest passion and, certainly, she is known best through her prose and poetry. I let the pages wrap around the canvas. I didn’t have any plan for laying the pages out, I just did it and hoped for the best.\n\nSecond, I looked for an appropriate photo of Maya to work from. I ended up visiting the Facebook page dedicated to her. There we a lot of great images but I was struck by one in particular. Most photos of her are sweet and beautiful, that big smile figuring prominently, truly conveying the joyful and intelligent person that she was. But this photo had something different: Defiance, power, pride. It was so different from the others that I was immediately drawn to it and thought, “That’s the one.” Here it is:\n\nThirdly, I worked on ideas of adding one of Maya’s poems to the piece. At first I thought of her poem “Phenomenal Woman” but it wasn’t resonating with me as I looked at the photograph. Then it hit me: “Still I Rise” would be much more apropos to this particular portrait. That poem is defiant, powerful, proud – It was a big “Aha!” moment for me. As it may be difficult for you to read it in the photo I posted of the painting, here is the poem in it’s entirety:\n\nStill I Rise\nYou may write me down in history\nWith your bitter, twisted lies,\nYou may trod me in the very dirt\nBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.\nDoes my sassiness upset you?\nWhy are you beset with gloom?\n’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells\nPumping in my living room.\nJust like moons and like suns,\nWith the certainty of tides,\nJust like hopes springing high,\nStill I’ll rise.\nDid you want to see me broken?\nBowed head and lowered eyes?\nShoulders falling down like teardrops,\nWeakened by my soulful cries?\nDoes my haughtiness offend you?\nDon’t you take it awful hard\n’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines\nDiggin’ in my own backyard.\nYou may shoot me with your words,\nYou may cut me with your eyes,\nYou may kill me with your hatefulness,\nBut still, like air, I’ll rise.\nDoes my sexiness upset you?\nDoes it come as a surprise\nThat I dance like I’ve got diamonds\nAt the meeting of my thighs?\nOut of the huts of history’s shame\nI rise\nUp from a past that’s rooted in pain\nI rise\nI’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,\nWelling and swelling I bear in the tide.\nLeaving behind nights of terror and fear\nI rise\nInto a daybreak that’s wondrously clear\nI rise\nBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,\nI am the dream and the hope of the slave.\nI rise\nI rise\nI rise.\n\nI decided instead of writing the poem myself on the canvas, to print it up and divide up the “stanzas”, making them “rise”, in a way, along the left side of the piece. I was originally going to layer a few of these on top of each other but is was turning out too busy and too distracting.\n\nFourthly, I sketched out where I wanted Maya to be on the canvas, giving myself enough room for the pieces of her poem but also getting here entire profile in the image. Then I dove in with an art marker. That was a scary moment where I didn’t want to screw anything up! I drew out the shape of her face and head, neck, chest, etc. with the pen. I thought the black of the marker would help bring out the contrast of the photograph. I chose to “remove” the jewelry she was wearing in the original photograph. I thought the effect of seeing her neck, shoulders and chest unadorned was more stark and direct, befitting the poem.\n\nFifth, I took some watered down black paint and a sponge and darkened the background around the portrait. I wanted it dark but not too dark, so you could still see some of her words coming through. Then I added paint to the portrait I had drawn with pencil and marker. I only used three colors – brown, white and black, with a bit of mixing and adding water to give different shades. I kept a “sketchy” quality to it as it seemed to fit with the whole look of the painting.\n\nSixth, I glued on the bits of poem. After it dried, I used three layers of varnish to seal the artwork well.\n\nAs I was working on it, and after it was done, a couple of things surprised me. First, the lines of the photocopied paper, one following her neck line, another following the line of her chin – I did not plan that at all. In fact, I didn’t notice it until everything was done. I was also able to keep the white of the paper as the color of the bit of dress you can see at her breast, helping to create the strong contrasts. Secondly, the fact that in this photo she is facing left – her determined gaze going that way – but all her words run left-to-right, so as you read the poem, you come to the end of a line and confront her portrait each time you do so. It adds extra punch to this punch-filled poem. I’d like to take credit for figuring all this out beforehand but that would be a big fib.\n\nIn the end, I believe Maya and her words really did inspire me, both consciously and subconsciously. And, really, isn’t that what a great artist is able to accomplish in their art?\n\nThanks, Maya. God bless. We miss you." ]

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[ "Two fatalities in two days due to winter weather", null, "ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. -- This winter weather is becoming quite a safety hazard for foks in Michiana. There have been two fatalities in two days.\n\nJust before one p.m., a car lost control on a snowy road and forty-six-year-old Linda Ward of Culver died from the crash.\n\nLast night, just before 11 p.m., a Pontiac Sedan was speeding and slid on an ice patch on Cleveland Road and crashed into a mini-van.\n\nThe driver of the sedan, 40-year-old Christopher Perkins of Mishawaka, died. The couple in the minivan, who are in their seventies, were rushed to Memorial Hospital.\n\n76-year-old Andrew Zawisza of Granger has been released from the hospital and his wife, 74-year-old Terry Zawisza is still in the hospital in fair condition. Her daughter told me she has broken ribs and is having some lung issues, but is expected to make a full recovery.\nHer daughter also told me she hopes this accident can be a lesson to everyone to slow down with these wintery road conditions.\n\nSadly that speed and weather induced crash didn't turn out well for the driver, who had to be extricated from the vehicle or the victims in the mini-van.\n\n\"The driver who caused the accident did not survive,\" said Blank.\n\n\"There was an elderly couple in the mini-van they were transported to Memorial Hospital,\" said Blank.\n\nLast night officers thought the only contributing factors to this crash were speed and slick roads, but police sent out a press release saying they believe the driver was under the influence of alcohol." ]

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[ "Jesus: His Life Episodes of Season 1 and sister rosemary a nun in catholic school 1970's\n\nJesus: His Life Episodes of Season 1 and sister rosemary a nun in catholic school 1970's\n\nfor easter 2019 i started watching Jesus: His Life Episodes of Season 1", null, "Jesus: His Life explores the story of Jesus Christ through a unique lens: the people in his life who were closest to him. Each of the eight chapters is told from the perspective of different biblical figures, all of whom played a pivotal role in Jesus' life including Joseph, John the Baptist, Mary Mother of Jesus, Caiaphas, Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, Mary Magdalene and Peter.Each figure takes a turn guiding viewers through the emotional and epic story of the most famous man in history, through his birth, death and resurrection, all conveyed through a combination of scripted drama and interviews with prominent religious and historical experts. Utilizing some of the world's most respected Biblical scholars, historians, faith leaders and theologians, the series weaves together the canonical Gospels, historical sources and cultural context to create a complete portrait of Jesus - the man and the Messiah. The series reveals his journey through a complex world of kings, politicians, reformers and soldiers in a turbulent power struggle during a time of revolutionary change.\n\nwhich i find interesting.\n\nJoel Osteen is there along with scholars and historians and theologians.\n\nin the first or second episode they mention John the baptist, and one scholar pointed out that in Luke, John the baptist and Jesus are cousins - mothers are sisters, but Mark the earliest gospel makes no mention of this, and John the baptist didn't seemingly know who Jesus was.\n\nThey also mention Josepehus, and how John had a large following.\n\nOne thing they mention was a catholic theologian was stating that Jesus being baptized by John the baptist is mentioned in all 4 gospels, in one way or another, more alluded to in John's gospel, and that this represents a problem.\n\nJohn the baptism baptism was to wash away sins, but Christian doctrine states that Jesus was sinless, so why was he baptized?\n\nalso, in baptism, the spiritually more pure, does the baptism to the initiate, which implies John is spiritually superior to Jesus.\n\nI recall way back in the 70s when i was in first grade roman catholic elementary school, sister rosemary holding a picture book of just this scene, of Jesus getting baptized by John the baptism, and this was done because it was proper.\n\nJeff was a major reason i didn't have a happy childhood, and why i eventually became an atheist. god didn't protect me from a fellow \"christian\"\n\nbut yeah way back in the 1970s, when i was in first grade i still remember sister rosemary talking about the baptism of Jesus by John the baptized, explained that this was the proper thing to do.\n\nthen this week i watch this documentary and they mention it and i have a recollection to my early childhood. i'm writing about it\nSat Apr 20, 2019\n\ndocumentary mentions some things in greater detail. that herod antipas was son of herod the great and his daughter was salome, and that john the baptist was calling herod's marriage to his brother's wife incest and violation of jewish law, even though the wife wasn't biologically his sister, only his brother's wife. and how salome wanted john beheaded. i ddin't know this backstory.\n\nin one scene they presented jesus sitting cross leg presenting the sermon of the mount and it looked a lot like buddha.", null, "i've always thought how nice it could be if i could start a new religion that ditches the old testament, but combines buddhism with christianity, a marcionite gnostic form of christianity. i would in effect be starting a new religion, a cult, and i'd be a cult leader.\n\nbut based on my experiences, jeff was also listening to sister rosemary talk about jesus and famous bible stories like noah's ark and david and goliath. jeff also heard the nun talk about being kind and loving to one another. and jeff physically attacked me, he punched me kicked me chocked me. he got his brother to also attack me at the same time.\n\nhis older brother also attended catholic school and catholic church. all that jesus stuff didn't protect me one iota." ]

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[ "The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999.\nSummarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.", null, "The table shows a breakdown of different types of families who were living in poverty in Australia in 1999.\n\nIt is noticeable that 11% of people were living in poverty. However, this figure was considerably high among the sole parents and single people who did not have children and percentages were 21% and 19% respectively. Moreover, this proportion was significantly prominent among the couples who had children compared with couples who did not have children. In fact, the proportion of couples with children living in poverty was 5% than that in the family types only couples. In contrast, this trend favoured aged people. However, this figure was slightly (2%) among the single aged people than that in the family category of aged couples.\n\nIn conclusion, it is clear that the proportion of people living in poverty varied according to their family structures.\n\nThis report covers the requirements of the task. The main trends / features were mentioned, but could have been developed more fully. The candidate has arranged ideas coherently. The range of vocabulary is sufficient, even though it lacks flexibility to some extent. There are a few grammatical mistakes in the report. Overall, the task response meets the expectations and seems good enough to achieve Band 7." ]

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[ null, "In recent months there has been a dramatic shift in the attitude of some groups within our Israelite community. It has unfortunately led to conflict at times and possibly threatens to create some form of long-lasting disunity.\n\nThe changes are rooted in these people’s growing distrust of our Egyptian government, and the number of believers seems to be growing. The fact that most of the views are based on conspiracy theories seems to be largely ignored, which, in the eyes of many, makes this movement more than a little dangerous.\n\nI recently spent a couple of hours in the dwelling of one of the more outspoken men in our community to get a better idea of the reasoning behind this movement. I sat with Amram and his pregnant wife, Yochebed, as their two young children played nearby. Amram is of the Levite tribe, and he began our conversation by assuring me that there were many others who held strongly to the same beliefs he held to, but were not yet willing to speak out. I asked him to discuss what he felt the main concerns were at this time.\n\n“We are truly living in a foreign land – a land that YHWH did not promise to our father Abraham, or to Yaakov, or to Yosef. As a people, we have got too comfortable living our lives in this nation. In fact, we are already living in slavery to Pharaoh and almost nobody sees it!”\n\nIt hadn’t taken very long to hear some statements without evidence to back the words up. It was rather clear to the vast majority, that the Israelites were certainly not living in slavery. We were being looked after by Pharaoh’s government like never before. In fact, the biggest deal between the Egyptians and the Israelites was almost signed off and ready to begin. Amram was not impressed with this deal either, as he talked of the supposed enslavement further.\n\n“If our leaders sign this agreement, it will truly lead us into the deepest slavery imaginable! Sure it sounds great on the surface – to be solely responsible for a necessary and important industry, and to have a set wage and supply of food sounds like a wonderfully secure life in which to raise our children. But, once we begin to manufacture the bricks, the screws will slowly start to tighten upon our people. Everyone is looking at the food and the money, but fail to realise that there are always strings attached. Why are people unable to connect the dots between everything that is happening around us? I mean, we literally can’t leave this land of Egypt anymore without a permit and a promise to return without delay. Is this freedom? It’s a simple fact that the leadership in Egypt, and the media that works for it, cannot be trusted to tell us the truth!”\n\nAmram spoke strongly, but he didn’t actually seem to be angry. I sensed that it was more of a frustration and a sadness for his fellow Israelites that motivated him. “The brick industry we are about to enter into will actually create a clear distinction between us and the Egyptian people. We have always been different to the people of this land, but I have no doubt that this will result in different rules for different classes of people. Where that ultimately leads – I honestly don’t know.”\n\nI asked Yochebed if she agreed with her husband’s stance, and she had no hesitation in affirming her support. I then asked if she was worried about her future. “I do sometimes worry about friends who don’t understand what’s happening all around us, but I don’t worry for myself. I know that our God is able to do anything for His people if He so desires. It may just be that He wants things to get worse before they get better.”\n\nI finished my time with the family by asking Amram if he thought that widespread civil disobedience was the way out of the predicament he felt we were in. There had been calls in recent days to not comply with many of the Egyptian regulations as a sign of protest. Was this the answer, and would it work?\n\n“Civil disobedience could play a small part, but it won’t do much to change the direction things are heading. The answer truly lies in a wholehearted return to the God of our fathers. Unless we take our eyes off ourselves and put them onto Him, nothing will change. To be perfectly honest, I don’t believe the people truly have a heart to do this right now. Their imagined security is all they think about, and to consider anything else is too fearful for them. However, my fear is that times ahead could get very dark indeed – and it may then require some mighty works from our God to open people’s eyes, and get us out of here. Only time will tell.”\n\nIt was a somewhat gloomy end to my visit, and it made me consider if any of what I’d heard could actually be true. I realised that there were two very different ways of looking at the time we live in. Surprisingly, I had expected to meet up with some wacky conspiracy theorists that had no basis in reality but, instead, I came away questioning who I was really trusting in my own life, and where the future actually lay for the rapidly increasing population of Israelite people. Amram, perhaps, was right – only time would tell!\n\nOne thought on “Media Flashback”" ]

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[ "\nFor a new version of this article, click this link to Qspirit.net:\nSaint Valentine: Marriage equality role model", null, "Shrine of St. Valentine in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland (Photo by Blackfish, Wikimedia Commons)\nMarriage equality has a surprising role model in Saint Valentine, a 3rd-century Roman priest who defied the restrictive marriage laws of his era to bless couples who were forbidden to marry. His feast day is, of course, today -- Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14).\n\nSaint Valentine was not gay, but he put love above the law to perform outlaw marriages in his day. He can be an inspiration for the current movement to legalize same-sex marriage.\n\nThe Roman Emperor Claudius II thought that he would get more and better soldiers if men were not allowed to marry, so he issued a decree outlawing marriage. Saint Valentine continued to perform weddings in secret until he was arrested and executed for defying the ban on such marriages. Legend has it that he fell in love with a woman who visited him in prison, sending her a letter that ended “From your Valentine” -- the original prototype for today’s Valentine greeting cards.\n\nSaint Valentine also did weddings for Christian couples at a time when the church was persecuted. Now the tables are turned and conservative Christians are sometimes persecuting LGBT people. They are among the most visible opponents of marriage equality.\n\nBut brave clergy are following in the footsteps of St. Valentine. They pioneered the blessing of same-sex relationships long before it was on the secular political agenda and continue to face punishment for defying marriage laws. For example, Troy Perry performed what may be the first modern same-sex wedding in 1969, a year after he founded the LGBT-affirming Metropolitan Community Churches. In a more recent case, lesbian minister Rev. Jane Spahr was censured in 2012 by the Presbyterian Church for marrying 16 same-sex couples during the brief period when such marriages were legal in California.\n\nWhile Saint Valentine is not known to have performed same-sex weddings, church history does provide powerful examples of same-sex couples to inspire today’s lovers -- whether or not we have the right to marry. Links to some of them are listed below. Happy Valentine’s Day!\n\nBoris and George: United in love and death", null, "Symeon and John: The holy fool and the hermit who loved each other", null, "Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis: Mystic who loved women\n\n\nPerpetua and Felicity: Friends to the end\n\nPolyeuct and Nearchus: Brothers by affection\n\nRuth and Naomi: Love between women in the Bible\n\nPosted by Kittredge Cherry at 12:48 AM\n\nI've always been sceptical of Valentine's day as nothing more than a commercial bun-fight - but I was not aware of the connection with performing marriages not officially approved of. The comparison with the courageous clergy who are doing the same thing today, in defiance of denominational rules, is obvious.\n\nIn spite of my scepticism around the popular celebration, I have reposed a somewhat expanded edition of my earlier piece on same - sex lovers in Church history.( http://queeringthechurch.com/2012/02/14/same-sex-lovers-in-church-history/ )\n\nI shall now add a link to your post.\n\nI am happy to say that in the 1940s, our priest gave the full wedding rite to inter-racial couples and also at least three same gender couples. - Yes, during World War II.\n\nTerry, it’s inspiring to read your piece describing so many same-sex couples in church history. I look forward to following the links to learn more about those who are less familiar to me. I added a link here too.\n\nJames, I wish that you had left more details so we could know and honor the brave priest who defied unjust limits on marriage during World War II. I suspect that there are other unsung heroes who blessed same-sex lovers throughout all history. Happy Valentine’s Day!" ]

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[ "Stalking and trying to kill Sabre and Rainbow Steve.\n\nShadow Steve is one of the two secondary antagonists in FavreMySabre's Steve Saga. He is an evil, diabolic, and homicidal maniac who seeks to please his master Nightmare Steve by killing Rainbow Steve and Sabre.\n\nShadow Steve was accidentally created when Dark Steve was compressed inside a bottle, however, a little bit of him managed to escape, which eventually formed Shadow Steve and gave him his possessive abilities\n\nShadow Steve first appeared to Sabre after making him follow a pathway which lead him to a shrine-like structure which reacted violently by striking Sabre with lightning upon coming into contact with him. This releases Shadow Steve, who is invisible and starts messing with Sabre to try and make him paranoid by running around him. Sabre eventually notices that something is following him and attempts to trap Shadow Steve, which reveals his solid form vanishing and re-appearing. Shadow Steve eventually blows up the machine and escapes to parts unknown.\n\nShadow Steve eventually finds Sabre with Rainbow Steve and is noticed by him, Sabre quickly builds a machine to trap Shadow Steve, causing him to once again phase out from visible to invisible. However, he once again escapes, this time by using lightning to teleport out.\n\nShadow Steve starts stalking Sabre again and watches him build another machine. He starts chasing Sabre before he decides to fight Shadow Steve head-on, but his efforts prove to be futile as Shadow Steve takes no damage. He then proceeds to run into Sabre which infects him. Shadow Steve once again chases after Sabre, but is caught and imprisoned in a bigger and better trap, however he manages to escape by taking the entire mountain where the machine was with him, leaving a giant crater in the ground where it used to be.\n\nSabre's infection grows worse, but he manages to find Rainbow Steve, who is Shadow Steve wearing dyed leather armor. He starts chasing Sabre and eventually possesses his character, taking him into a portal which leads to Sabre's previous machine, which has now been modified to Shadow Steve's liking. However, he is eventually freed by Rainbow Steve, who is actually possessed by Shadow Steve before he manages to fully possess Sabre's account, creating Shadow Sabre, but is eventually locked into a machine and forced out of Sabre's character.\n\nShadow Steve infects Rainbow Steve, who repeatedly chases Sabre throughout the biomes, in the mean time he also managed to infect Light Steve, but was fortunately cured of the infection. Shadow Steve finds Light Steve's machine and completely destroys it, he then kidnaps Light Steve and traps him. The now infected Rainbow Steve attacks Sabre, but is soon reverted of his infection and absorbed into Sabre. Shadow Steve once again builds a machine which is protected by glass, he fights off Sabre before letting Light Steve free, only to kill him by stabbing him through the chest with an iron sword, fighting off Sabre and teleporting away.\n\nSabre builds a stone area surrounded by lava and finds Shadow Steve in a Blue Steve temple, where other slaughtered Blue Steve heads lay around the area. Shadow Steve and Sabre start fighting one another before Sabre leads him to the lava arena, de-powering Shadow Steve and leading to the two facing off. Shadow Steve is weakened and tries to convince Sabre to spare him, but it doesn't work, and Sabre uses Rainbow Steve's lightning ability to strike him down, but not before giving Sabre a cryptic message.\n\nShadow Steve was revived by Nightmare Steve after he built a machine and used shadow stone to bring him back, he was then sent to the Nightmare Dimension where he stalked the trio of Sabre, Lucas and Rainbow Steve before exiting to the overworld and following the group there. He is trapped in a small redstone machine but manages to once again break out, where he then kidnaps Lucas and holds him hostage until he is broken. Shadow Steve then faces off against Rainbow Steve, and proves to be much more powerful than him and escapes.\n\nShadow Steve once again finds them and starts messing with them, creating paranoia in Rainbow Steve. Sabre then lures Shadow Steve into a machine surrounded by lava, which reverts him back to his solid form and locks him in place. Sabre and Rainbow Steve then encase Shadow Steve in glass, redstone and cobblestone. They then flick the lever which causes lightning and annihilates Shadow Steve. The rest of the shadow stone is then destroyed, ending his sadistic ways forever.\n\nShadow Steve is represented as a dark, grey figure that appears to be just as dark as Dark Steve.\n\nShadow Steve first appeared as a mischievous annoyance to Sabre as he kept on following him and wouldn't give him a second alone. However, as time progressed he became a very ruthless, menacing, intimidating, powerful, evil, and psychopathic sadist who only seemed to crave death at every corner. Shadow Steve is extremely sadistic and loves toying and tormenting Sabre and Rainbow Steve, this is especially noted when he tricks Sabre into thinking he is Rainbow Steve, freeing Light Steve only to kill him, and presumably slaughtering a few Blue Steves, showing that he is totally remorseless for his crimes and devoid of compassion for anyone around him.\n\nDespite all this, Shadow Steve is quite cowardly, as he begs for Sabre to spare him and let him go just before he meats his demise. He also lacks the knowledge on how to use Sabre's body, as he's able to get hit, which would naturally surprise him as he is mainly invulnerable to weapons unless weakened.\n\nShadow Steve acts very much like a parasitic virus, as he can infect people into turning into him so he can control them. Shadow Steve is able to turn invisible, fly, teleport, create coal blocks like Dark Steve, and can use lightning, he's also fairly skilled in combat, but is still quite weak in hand-to-hand combat. Shadow Steve can also fully possess a body when his infection is spread enough, and can even lock players out of their accounts, but is still susceptible to being locked into machines and separated. Shadow Steve is quite manipulative, and able to create convincing disguises to fool people, although he only did this once and posed as Rainbow Steve with dyed armor.", null, null, null, null, "Shadow Steve is destroyed for good.\nAdd a photo to this gallery\n\nRetrieved from \"https://villainsfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_Steve?oldid=132483\"\nCommunity content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted." ]

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[ null, "Monday’s Branch Delegates Meeting (BDM) on the Four Fights and USS disputes takes place in a radically different context than even the debates had so recently at UCU Congress.\n\nThe strikes by railworkers and the performance of the RMT union’s General Secretary, Mick Lynch, on the media – putting clear and sensible arguments about the fact that working people are suffering in the cost of living crisis, while the employers are still taking in profits – has electrified the trade union movement.\n\nThis comes in the wake of the 50,000 strong TUC ‘We demand better’ demonstration last weekend. There is finally a feeling that with postal workers, civil service workers, teachers and others balloting or preparing to ballot, a generalised fightback may be emerging.\n\nThe two Tory by-election defeats underline the fact that Johnson’s government has lost all credibility. And a growing number of victories over pay amongst workers alongside the strikes on Network Rail – show resistance can be effective and popular.\n\nAccording to the TUC, the number of people googling ‘how do I join a union’ has gone up 184%. Just as in UCU, when unions fight they grow.\n\nUCU’s ‘threshold branches’ have demonstrated how effective a marking and assessment boycott can be, many of them winning serious concessions including pay bonuses from management. We now have the chance to take action across the sector in the autumn as part of a generalised resistance to the years of attacks, cutbacks and low pay.\n\nIt’s at this moment – when the hopes of so many ordinary people are rising – that our General Secretary and her closest supporters tell us we should put off any attempt to fight until the spring or even later.\n\nWeeks have been wasted following June’s Higher Education Sector Conference (HESC) with no sign of the summer ballots delegates voted for being authorised. There has been no meeting of UCU’s HE officers to discuss the ballot, despite the best attempts of the Vice Chairs of the Higher Education Committee (HEC) to secure one.\n\nOf course a ballot over the summer is a challenge. It would have been far easier if the union had implemented the democratic decisions of the HESC immediately. But even now if the union throws its weight behind a GTVO campaign we can get over the Tory anti-union thresholds in time to hit the employers hard in the autumn, the overwhelming preference of every democratic meeting of the union up to this point.\n\nThe General Secretary says that our membership density is too low and that we need time to pause, reflect and build before relaunching our disputes. But 10% inflation is hitting us now, USS changes were made last April, and at universities like Roehampton, Goldsmiths and Wolverhampton the employers’ attacks on jobs and courses is vicious and is spreading.\n\nDo we really want to tell our members that while every other union in the public sector is gearing up to challenge the Tories and the bosses, we want to call our fight off?\n\nThose young and casualised staff, women and black members who are hit the hardest and have been at the heart of our picket lines deserve better than this.\n\nWe need the General Secretary to stop putting off the fight and give us the leadership we need. Let’s use the imagination, creativity and commitment of our members to get the vote out, reboot the disputes, and join the growing wave of resistance this autumn." ]

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[ null, "How mobile app developers can optimize their mobile networks to increase their app performance.\n\nWhat developer doesn’t want their apps to run faster and provide the best possible user experience? Having worked with hundreds of mobile apps, we have seen firsthand the dramatic impact that improved app performance can have on an app’s overall retention, engagement and monetization metrics. But as app developers focus on their core business, very few devote resources to building fast and efficient mobile networking capabilities - even those who understand how vital fast and optimized apps are to their business.\n\nIn this series of blog posts I aim to point out some simple techniques to offer mobile app developers a DIY toolkit with mostly low-hanging fruits that, via small modifications, should boost the performance of their company’s app.\n\nWhat is a Caching Header?\n\nApp assets such as images and game bundles get delivered with a header that defines how long it takes for an asset to be cached on the CDN (Content Delivery Network). Most commonly it is called the Caching Header. This header informs the CDN how long an asset should be cached on the CDN before it has to be re-fetched from the origin. We have seen developers use values ranging between 10 minutes to 10 years. Depending on the use case, I would recommend developers use the following guidelines: If the asset does not change quite often, it is better to set a high value. More often than not we have seen developers set low values for assets, even though they do not change frequently.\n\nHere’s an example: For a retail application that features a “Deal of the Day,” the developer would probably be better off setting the “cache control“ header to one day so that for the entire day of the deal the users don’t have to go to the origin to fetch the deal’s images. On the other hand, for product images, it would be good to have really high values, such as a year or longer, since they don’t tend to change frequently.\n\nHow to define cache control values\n\nThere are three ways to define these values:\n\n2. Expires header: This header contains the date and timestamp after which the asset has to be re-fetched from the origin. Example:\nSyntax: Expires: This content is made possible by a guest author, or sponsor; it is not written by and does not necessarily reflect the views of App Developer Magazine's editorial staff." ]

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[ "UFC 130 Fight Card: Who's Fighting, How to Watch, and is it Worth Buying?\n\nShare All sharing options for: UFC 130 Fight Card: Who's Fighting, How to Watch, and is it Worth Buying?", null, "In my time being a \"hardcore\" mixed martial arts fan, I've found three particular questions are asked by casual fans consistently. Who's fighting? How can I watch it? Is it worth buying? All three very valid questions, and seeing as here at Cageside Seats we have quite a bit of casual fans who regularly visit, being pro wrestling fans who dabble in MMA when it's worth their time and money, it's fitting that we regularly answer these questions before every major MMA event. With the variety of fighters in the UFC, it gets hard to keep up with some of your favorite fighter's schedules. On top of that, free preliminary fights are aired on Facebook, Spike TV, and now Ion TV...but not for every event. This is your one stop guide for the big three questions, now, let's get some answers.\n\nThis card, like many before it, has suffered from the main event being cancelled or switched with little time to find a proper main event replacement. Originally, Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard III was supposed to headline, a rematch from their lightweight title fight on New Years Day. Should that fight have stayed on the card, this would be a quick \"yes\". If you saw their most recent fight, you know it was (and still is) likely to be fight of the year. Alas, it's not happening, and now the card is headlined by the original co-main event, Quinton Jackson vs. Matt Hamill.\n\nAlthough the first three fights on the main card are mildly intriguing, and the two marquee bouts are definitely worth watching, there's nothing that jumps out at me enough to shell out the full PPV price for the card. That said, just because you don't buy the PPV doesn't mean you shouldn't watch it. All five fights should prove to be at least interesting, and I suspect that a few may even really stand out, so if you're going to the bar, or having a UFC party with friends who help pay, you're set.\n\nUFC 130 is being live blogged right here at Cageside Seats tonight, join us for updated live results of the event, and discussion on all the fights taking place!" ]

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[ "British architect Norman Foster has designed the displays for and curated the exhibition Motion: Autos, Art, Architecture at Guggenheim Bilbao, which showcases a number of his own cars.\n\nSpread out across an entire floor of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Bilbao, the exhibition features cars from the 20th and 21st century, as well as architecture and artworks connected to speed and movement.\n\nFoster, one of Britain's most renowned architects and founder of studio Foster + Partners, approached Guggenheim himself with the idea for the exhibition in an attempt to share his passion for cars.\n\nThe architect revealed that the first car he drove was a 1935 Morris Eight.\n\n\"I've always been passionate about design in locomotives, aircraft and cars and I've been privileged to pilot many different kinds of planes, helicopters, power planes, jets and to be able to drive a wide variety of vehicles,\" Foster said at the exhibition opening at Guggenheim Bilbao.\n\n\"As one eminent designer said, to take your pleasure seriously, how could that manifest into an exhibition?\" he added.\n\n\"So I approached the Guggenheim in New York with the idea and out of that I was asked to create this exhibition.\"\n\nWhile he worked closely with industry leaders, researchers and advisers, Foster was given total freedom when it came to selecting the cars on show.\n\n\"Obviously behind the choice, there have been many enjoyable discussions with individuals whose judgment I respect but in the end it's a very personal choice,\" he said. \"It's totally subjective.\"\n\nNine of the cars on show are from Foster's own collection, including the Chrysler Airflow from 1934, the Jaguar E-Type from 1961 and the Dymaxion Car 4, 2010 (below).\n\nUpon entering the gallery, visitors are welcomed by vehicles from the 20th century including Porsche's first car, the Porsche Phaeton, and a Rolls Royce 40/50 Alpine Eagle from 1914.\n\nAlso exhibited in this room are artworks on movement by the photographer Eadweard Muybridge, drawing attention to the interest in speed and motion at the time.\n\nThroughout the other seven galleries in the exhibition, cars are displayed on raised black platforms designed by Foster.\n\nFrom mass-produced cars like the 1951 Volkswagen Beetle and an original Mini Cooper to the lowest car in the world – the concept sports car Lancia Stratos Zero – and the Mercedez AMG Formula OneW11 EQ Performance racing car from 2020, visitors can trace the history of the car in chronological order through themes including sculptures, sports, visionaries and Americana.\n\nThe exhibition also highlights the trend toward electrification and uses university student designs to showcase what the future of mobility may look like.\n\nDotted throughout are sensory features, including the sound of a racing car roaring past every 15 minutes and a clay-modelling studio, that aim to create an immersive experience.", null, "According to Foster, two broad themes of \"beauty and technology\" tie the exhibition together.\n\n\"There's a utilitarian beauty for me in say a Jeep or a Deux-chevaux in the same way as the extraordinarily curvaceous, luxurious, customised car bodies of a certain period.\"\n\nFoster also aimed for the exhibition to demonstrate how the vehicle's transformation is intrinsically linked to developments in art and architecture, and to shine a spotlight on the relationship between different disciplines.\n\n\"The exhibition considers the affinities between technology and art, showing for example how use of the wind tunnel helped to aerodynamically shape the automobile to go faster with more economic use of power,\" said the museum.\n\nFoster became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999 and was the head of the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize.\n\nHe founded the studio Foster + Partners, which is responsible for numerous high-profile buildings around the world including the Apple Park campus in California and the City Hall in London, in 1967.\n\nMotion: Autos, Art, Architecture is on show from April 8 to September 18, 2022. For an up-to-date list of architecture and design events, visit Dezeen Events Guide." ]

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[ null, "I saw The Witch in theatres this weekend, and it was a bit of a strange experience. On the one hand, it was really well shot and directed, turning the New England countryside into an incredibly dark and foreboding landscape. The horror elements also are very classically-styled, with long build-up and a tense score doing wonders to make the film’s horror-moments very unsettling. There were also some great performances, even by some of the younger actors.\n\nOddly enough, it seems like the sort of film that you’d have the most appreciation for if you have at least a passing familiarity with early American colonial literature. I’m sure that any horror fan can appreciate much of the movie, but some of the stranger elements might not make a ton of sense if you don’t at least understand Puritan beliefs and folklore (and the ending in particular). Stuff like cabals of witches in the woods, the devil taking form and hiding amongst us, the idea that God was an angry, vengeful monster looking for an excuse to damn you, witches kidnapping children and turning them into paste, the garrison mentality, etc – the film hews very closely to the folklore of the time, which is a very interesting idea, although it does weaken the narrative somewhat (again, particularly the ending). It’s one of those movies that I wasn’t sure what to think at first, but a couple days out I’m growing quite an appreciation for it.\n\nOn the entirely different side of the spectrum of quality though, the day after that I saw Street Fighter: The Movie for the first time. Similarly to Troll 2, it was so bad it was hilariously entertaining. I know it’s kind of a cliche at this point to praise Raul Julia’s performance as M Bison, but he was so deliciously campy and over-the-top. The film is objectively terrible, bloated with too many thinly-sketched characters and poorly-edited action scenes, but Julia manages to single-handedly make the film worth watching with his intentionally-hammy performance.", null, "My selections for this week have basically nothing to do with any of that, aside from the fact that they continue my recent theme of songs which are extremely different from one another. On the one hand, we have the ethereal and subdued rock classic “Riders on the Storm” by The Doors, and on the other we have “Beyond the Grave” by Impending Doom, a death metal tune that compels you to scream along with it with your fist pumped." ]

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[ null, "APPLETON – A little defensive pressure late in the first half was just the spark the Stevens Point Area High School boys' basketball team needed to shake off a stubborn Appleton East squad on Tuesday.\n\nThe second-ranked Panthers scored a flurry of points near the end of the second quarter that led to a third-quarter eruption in their 64-34 nonconference victory over Appleton East.\n\nSPASH (2-0) was tied with the Patriots at 24-24 until a small run ignited by its defense gave the Panthers some breathing room.\n\nFour free throws from Trevor Anderson and a 3-pointer from Jake Hofmeister were the highlights in the run that gave the Panthers a 32-26 lead at the half.\n\nThat momentum carried over to the second half, as East was outscored 18-2 in the third quarter as a pressure SPASH defense gave the Patriots' offense fits.\n\nAlso pivotal for the Panthers was their devastating 1-2 junior punch of Anderson and Sam Hauser. Anderson, a highly-recruited 6-2 guard, scored five points in the quarter and Hauser, a 6-6 forward, scored six.\n\nEast (2-1) played well in the first half and kept pace with SPASH until late in the second quarter thanks to key three pointers from Sam Herrmann, Parker Ourada and Trent Brunker.\n\nSPASH turned up its intensity in the second half, according to East coach John Mielke.\n\n\"In the first half we handled their pressure and in the second half we didn't. They turned up the intensity and we just broke down,\" Mielke said. \"They scored 64 points but probably 20-to-25 of those points were just go down and score in the other end, turnover type of things. If you allow them to get in transition, that's where they are gonna beat you.\"\n\nAnderson finished with a game-high 21 points and Hauser adding 17. Brunker had 11 points to lead East with Thome chipping in nine.\n\nEast managed just three field goals in the second half, but Mielke hopes his team can build off the good things it did in the first half.\n\n\"That's what I'm hoping,\" he said. \"If you're competitive throughout an entire game than obviously you will have a chance to win some games. We're not big, we don't have a ton of size so we're going to really defensively help one another. And like I said, offensively, we have to take care of the basketball against pressure and obviously as the season progresses you hope that you get better at handling pressure.\n\n\"This is an early game on our schedule. It's kind of a starting point in that it's a checkpoint to where you're at against a really good team. If (SPASH) was in our conference, obviously, they would be one of the best teams if not the best team.\"" ]

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[ null, "The rumors and leaks were accurate, folks. Siri is coming to the Mac.\n\nWe can’t say we’re surprised to see Siri arrive on the Mac. It’s a move we’ve been expecting for years, and Apple is finally ready to deliver.\n\nSo how do you activate it? Siri sits inside your computer, and there’s a new icon up in the dock, but also in the top left of the menu bar. If you use Siri on iPhone and/or Apple Watch, you’ll immediately recognize the icon.\n\nSiri on Mac has a bunch of familiar features, but also new tricks. The digital assistant can show files in the Finder, manage media, and syncing files. Siri for Mac can search the web and show results right in the Siri window. You’ll then be able to use the images directly in your apps.\n\nAs expected, Siri can send iMessages, and this is exactly the kind of functionality that’s already available on iOS and watchOS.\n\nBut you can do more complex actions with the help of Siri on Mac, like invoking Siri to open Safari and then use the Apple Pay functionality that’s now built into macOS Sierra.\n\nDevelopers will get access to macOS Sierra, complete with Siri for Mac, right away. Early adopters will be able to sign up for beta access at beta.apple.com, with the public beta set to launch in July. As expected, the final version of macOS Sierra is coming this fall." ]

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[ null, "Production Company Serial Pictures has signed Iranian-American director, writer, producer, and actor Ana Lily Amirpour for commercials, branded entertainment and music video representation. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Amirpour is an auteur with confidence rooted in substance and a thematically direct and color-imbued body of work, which embodies her mantra to make the weird real.\n\n“Ana Lily’s work is hypnotic – it draws you in with both sensuality and a magnetic surrealism,” says Serial Pictures Founding Partner Violaine Etienne. “She approaches each of her films with dramatic visual styles that are both boundary-pushing in their cinematic exploration and an homage to the classic masters. Her powerful female characters are impossible to forget and inspiring in ways that will always surprise you. Fierce and fearless, that’s both Ana Lily and her filmmaking.”\n\n“Serial Pictures is a company that works with so many visionary artists I admire, and I'm thrilled to join this team and bring my visual style into their toolbox,” says Amirpour. “I love Violaine's passion for the projects she takes on and her commitment to creating great work. This is such a dynamic time for branded content and the possibilities for creativity are explosive! I'm here to jump in and bring some bold new ideas to the table.”\n\nAmirpour made her feature-film debut with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the Iranian vampire spaghetti western that rocked the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and was the opening selection for the New Directors/New Films series at the MoMA in New York City. The film was awarded the Revelations Prize at the Deauville Film Festival, and was given both the Carnet Jove Jury Award, and the Citizen Kane Award for Best Directorial Revelation from the Sitges Film Festival. At the 2014 Gotham Awards, Amirpour was honored with the Bingham Ray Award, given to an emerging filmmaker with distinctive creative vision and stylistic adventurousness that stands apart from the mainstream.\n\nHer second feature, The Bad Batch, a post-apocalyptic cannibal love story starring Jason Momoa, Suki Waterhouse, Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey, premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival where it took home the Special Jury Prize. The Hollywood Reporter described the film as “both violent and dreamy — a bewitching fusion.”\n\nBorn in England and raised in Bakersfield, Calif., Amirpour attended art school at San Francisco State University and graduated from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. She has a varied background in the arts, including painting, sculpting, playing bass, and fronting an art-rock band.\n\nShe is currently in post-production on Mona Lisa and The Blood Moon, which she is directing from her own original script, starring Kate Hudson, Jun Jong-seo, Craig Robinson, Ed Skrein, and Evan Whitten." ]

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[ "So it's been a bit quiet again, and truth be told the past few weeks have seen a massive downturn in my productivity. I'm still plugging away at those skaven for the OWAC, but I've also got to get my arse in gear and get painting for other people too. Despite the best efforts of myself and some good mates, I just couldn't seem to get into anything long enough to get a run at it.\n\nThen this happened. Go on, go read it, I'm glad to wait.\nDuring a conversation with the rest of the Combat Burgers, four of us had a mind to mix up the painting a bit and have a go at a titan each, and here's the results of my end of the deal!", null, "Went for the War Griffons in the end, it's probably my favourite titan scheme, but it's also a bit of a bollocks to pull off", null, "But I sat down yesterday afternoon and got stuck in, and by midnight this beefy bastard was ready for war", null, null, null, "With a little brother that I'd painted during the productive times I used to have.\n\nAnyway, I'll leave it at that for now, back to trying to get these skaven sorted (amongst others) there'll hopefully be another couple of Titans from the Combat Burger stable, but I'm not going to name names just in case they pussy out 😉" ]

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[ null, "The month of May is traditionally dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary within the Catholic Church. As a lay Dominican, I always look forward to the opportunity to promote the Rosary, a prayer that Saint Dominic received based on the inspiration of Christ's Mother. New from Franciscan Media / Servant Books is Johnnette Benkovic and Thomas Sullivan's The Rosary: Your Weapon for Spiritual Warfare." ]

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[ "It ain’t easy stopping invasive plants and pests from coming into our country. The Upper Midwest just got a new warnings last week.\n\nThe Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of Agriculture issued alerts on EHS, Elongate Hemlock Scale. And so did South Dakota…\n\nThis guy is from Asia and feeds on the underside of conifer needles. It was discovered on wreaths, swags and other evergreen decorations sold at big box stores. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection issued the warning after finding EHS in greenery at several retail chains. Pest alert from the USDA on EHS", null, "That’s when the MDA began inspecting similar retailers for the insect in any leftover greenery. EHS was discovered at Home Depot and Menards locations. The companies pulled any remaining product off their shelves but the real warning came to consumers to burn or bag and throw away any items they bought.", null, "These evergreens should not be composted. Elongate hemlock scale has been found in the eastern U.S but this is the first time in Minnesota and Wisconsin. It’s main diet has been Eastern Hemlock but, according to the Penn State Entomology Dept., it also feeds on cedar, Douglas-fir, pine, and yew.\n\nIt is believed that this armored scale insect was unintentionally introduced into the United States from Japan. It was first observed in Queens, New York in 1908. While it took EHS about a hundred years to get here, there’s not much to do now except to try to contain it as much as possible.\n\nThis species overwinters as fertilized females or eggs. In early spring the females deposit eggs beneath their waxy covers and may continue to lay eggs through early summer. One female may produce a total of 20 eggs in a lifetime. Scales injure host plants by inserting their threadlike, piercing-sucking mouthparts into needles and, basically, sucking the life out of them.\n\nClick on this link for a look at the life cycle of the Elongate Hemlock Scale from Penn State University." ]

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[ null, "If you were one of the fans who felt that some of the extras on the DVD/blu-ray release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens were a bit lacking, you are in luck. Lucasfilm has announced a new 3D release of the film on home video which will also come with a slew of new special features.\n\nThe new four-disc 3D Collector’s Edition contains the original theatrical release on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, Digital HD and DVD, and will also include brand-new bonus materials alongside the bonus features from the previous release. It will also feature a commentary track from director JJ Abrams.\n\nThis is good news for those who were disappointed that the initial release did not contain many of the scenes reportedly filmed but cut from the final edit of the film. Among those scenes are ones between General Leia (Carrie Fischer) and her envoy to the New Republic Korr Sella (Maisie Richardson-Sellers). In the theatrical cut of the film we only see her as the dark-haired woman staring up into the sky in horror as Starkiller Base destroys Hosinian Prime. Additional scenes expanded on some of the action on Jakuu and Starkiller Base and showed Maz Katana using Force powers.", null, "The release is scheduled to hit shelves in the US on November 15.\n\nAudio Commentary with J.J. Abrams – Enter the mind of visionary director J.J. Abrams as he reveals the creative and complex choices made while developing the first film in the new Star Wars trilogy.\n\nFoley: A Sonic Tale – Foley artists, consisting of old pros and new talent, unite to bring the world of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” alive through the matching of sound to action.\n\nSounds of the Resistance – Hear how the epic sound design of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” moves the Star Wars legacy forward.\n\nDressing the Galaxy – Costume Designer Michael Kaplan reveals how the costumes of the original Star Wars movies were re-envisioned for a new generation.\n\nThe Scavenger and the Stormtrooper: A Conversation with Daisy Ridley and John Boyega – The two new stars share the thrill of working together on the adventure of a lifetime and becoming part of the Star Wars legacy.\n\nInside the Armory – Take a fascinating tour through the design and creation of the weaponry in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”\n\nClassic Bonus Features – These offerings from the April release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” include the complete story behind the making of the film, an unforgettable cast table read, insights from legendary composer John Williams and deleted scenes, as well as features that dig deeper into the creation of new characters such as BB-8, the design of the climactic lightsaber battle between Rey and Kylo Ren, the film’s remarkable digital artistry and the Star Wars: Force for Change global aid initiative.\n\nAbout Rich Drees 7019 Articles\nA film fan since he first saw that Rebel Blockade Runner fleeing the massive Imperial Star Destroyer at the tender age of 8 and a veteran freelance journalist with twenty-five years experience writing about film and pop culture. He is a member of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle.\n\nA comedy bit exposes our first look at one interior location for the upcoming film. [click for more]\n\nSTAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS Tracking To Be Biggest Film Ever\n\nThere wasn’t thought that it wouldn’t be a box office monster, but STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS could become the biggest grossing film of all time. [click for more]" ]

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[ "A new poll has revealed that more than a third of carers would consider leaving their jobs in if vaccines were made compulsory.\n\nGMB, the union for social care, said ‘ill thought through’ plans to mandate vaccinations for carers could lead to a staff exodus after finding that around 30% of its members may quit their jobs if forced to have a jab.\n\nUptake of vaccinations has been on the increase in social care and the Government could do more to address vaccine hesitancy instead of forcing vaccines on workers, the union said.\n\nRachel Harrison, GMB National Officer, said that instead of offering care workers much needed support, the government was “ploughing ahead with plans to strongarm care workers into taking the vaccine without taking seriously the massive blocks these workers still face in getting jabbed”.\n\n“This looks like another potential avoidable mess. We’ve told Ministers that more than a third of our members in social care would consider packing their jobs in if vaccines were mandated. They can’t now say they weren’t warned,” she said.\n\nThe concerns come as The Guardian newspaper revealed that ministers will confirm this week that they intend to make Covid-19 vaccination compulsory for the majority of the 1.5 million people working in social care in England.\n\nIt is also reported that plans are in place to make both Covid-19 and flu jabs compulsory for NHS workers involved in direct patient care.\n\nMeanwhile The Independent Care Group (ICG) said it feared the policy might discourage people from taking up jobs in social care at a time when there are upwards of 120,000 vacancies.\n\nICG Chair Mike Padgham said that although he understand the thinking behind the decision, compulsory vaccination was likely to deter many from working in the sector and that more could be done to persuade people to have the jab on a voluntary basis.\n\n“I do not like the idea of forcing people to do something against their will and would prefer it to remain a matter of personal choice rather than be compulsory.\n\n“I think the Government hasn’t gone far enough in its efforts to persuade people of the value of the vaccine and is using the blunt instrument of legislation. This will without doubt create another barrier to recruitment at a time when social care providers are facing an employment crisis and struggling to fill one shift at a time,” he said.\n\nPadgham added that the plans should be extended to healthcare staff and questioned whether it should also apply to flu vaccination.\n\n“We trust it will extend to all healthcare workers, including those taking up NHS posts. And will it become compulsory to have a flu jab in future, as for some people the flu can be a fatal illness?”", null, null, null ]

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[ "First a quick update. My four days a week plan worked for nine weeks, but then I got sick (during Atlanta weekend) and my lungs were just not functioning well enough to run, so I took 6 days off, only ran once last week (poorly) and I'm doing three runs this week as I am just getting healthy again. But back on schedule next week! I had a 5K tomorrow which got cancelled, but I was glad, because I was in no condition to run well anyway due to the illness. Next up is a Half on 5/3 which hasn't been cancelled yet, although I'm not optimistic. At least no one can stop me from training! And our group runs haven't been shut down yet. Although my gym closed. Boo hoo.\n\nAnyway, so two weeks ago I was excited to travel to Atlanta and see some running buddies and watch the trials. I flew in Thursday and met up at Carissa's Running Lodge with Caitlin, Roger and T.O. Carissa and Adam were wonderful hosts, along with their three furry friends. We had some long drives to Atlanta three days in a row. Friday was the expo, which was surprisingly lame. Almost no vendors. Lousy merchandise. For some reason they had an indoor high jump and shotput competition going on in the middle of the expo. But we did see some famous faces: Paula Radcliffe, Kara Goucher, Gail Devers. Also ran into Loopsters Dan Tian and Rebecca Trachsel.\n\nEarlier we had a little shakeout run in the chilly weather. Who knew you needed layers to run in Atlanta? And there was a Flying Tomato sighting!", null, "Saturday was the trials. We got down there early and got to see everybody warming up behind the start line. We were arms length from all the best runners in the country. It was fun to see them all up close just acting like normal runners - nervously going through their routines. Galen Rupp was all business, but most of the others had smiles. I got to say Hi to two guys I knew from my local running group, just as they lined up (in the back of the pack). As the race got underway, we walked a few blocks over to Peachtree, where the men and women did out and backs three times. So there was almost constant action going by. The crowds were loud and the excitement was palpable! Roger started chatting with a guy who was rooting for his son. It turned out his son was Jacob Riley who ended up getting 2nd! When the women came by at mile 21 and two women I never heard of were breaking away it was quite shocking! Where was Molly Huddle? And Jordan Hasay? And the other favorites? It was quite exciting. It was really windy and cold. I felt bad for the runners battling that wind. And the hills. But it wasn't too bad for spectating.", null, "Then we relaxed and got ready for our own race on Sunday. Tom and I were running the half and Carissa did the full while the others cheered. I worried about the cold, but the next day the wind had died to nothing, so the 33 degree temperature was much more bearable. I ditched all my extra clothes in the start corral.", null, "I was starting to feel sick and coughing up some junk, but it wasn't bad (yet). It didn't seem to bother me while running. I just coughed a lot after I finished and by the next day it really kicked in. But I'm getting ahead.\n\nSo we all started together, which allowed us to get this cool photo right at the start.", null, "My race \"plan\" was very soft. I wanted to see if I could run sub-8 pace and break 1:45. But I was not real confident and I didn't care too much. The constant hills had me a little worried. As did my sickness. I figured to just run with the group for a while and see what happened. Have fun out there. I ran with Carissa the first mile and we lost Tom right away in the crowd. Pace felt easy as it was mostly downhill. 7:54. Good, OK. But then we found the rolling hills and my pace dragged. And Carissa slipped ahead in mile 2 and it was too much work to try and keep up so I let her go. I kept her in sight for 2-3 miles but then she was gone - on her way to another ho hum BQ. Never saw Tom, although he was within a minute or two of me the whole way. So I was on my own. I clicked along in a comfort zone that was just over 8 minute pace. 8:02, 8:10, 8:15, 8:05. Hard enough to be working without thinking I was going to die. Each little hill was its own challenge, but of course the downhills were lovely! Passed this strange restaurant which we ended up going to for lunch after the race. Excellent burgers at the Vortex!", null, "But then the last three miles were mostly up hill, and my adrenaline flagged. And then left entirely. 8:08 and 8:27 for mile 12 where I considered walking up a particularly long hill. 8:06 for mile 13 as I tried to give what I had left to get to the finish. I knew 1:45 was gone. I thought I had a shot at sub 1:46 until mile 12, and then I was just shooting for sub 1:47. I gave a little kick down to the finish - the same finish the trials people had just run down to punch their Olympic tickets.", null, null, "Back to work. Life is good." ]

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[ "From gifting flowers, cards, breakfast in bed, and candy, Mother’s Day is deeply rooted in common traditions that pay tribute to moms around the world, ultimately thanking them for providing life. But how did we get here? In the United States, the holiday can be traced back to one determined woman—Anna Jarvis.", null, "The official Mother’s Day holiday came to be in the 1900s as a result of the Anna Jarvis’s efforts. Following her mother’s death in 1905, Jarvis developed the notion of Mother’s Day as a way of honoring the upmost sacrifices that mothers make for their children. Upon gaining financial backing from a wealthy department store owner, she organized her first official celebration at a Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia.\n\nAfter the success of the first celebration, Jarvis resolved to have the holiday officially added to the national calendar. She started a large letter-writing campaign, arguing that the majority of American holidays were biased toward male achievements. By 1912, multiple churches, towns, and states had adopted Mother’s Day as an annual holiday, which led to Jarvis establishing the Mother’s Day International Association to help promote the cause. Her hard work paid off—in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson officially signed a measure establishing the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.\n\nWhen you’re celebrating the beauty of motherhood this year, don’t forget the one woman who fought tirelessly to make it a nationally recognized holiday.", null, "Congrats to the Winners of Our 1st Annual Summer Giveaway!\nJuly 18, 2022" ]

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[ "Hobart Hurricanes face uphill task against a KKR side, unbeaten in their last 13 matches.\n\nKolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Hobart Hurricanes face off in the first semi-final of the Champions League Twenty20 2014 (CLT20). Amit Banerjee takes a look at the XI that the Hobart side might possibly field against favourites KKR in the first knockout match of the tournament.\n\nWhile KKR are on an all-time high, their 36-run win against the Dolphins being their 13th consecutive T20 win. The Hobart Hurricanes are not very far behind in terms of performance, having made a tremendous comeback after a loss to Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in the opening match of Group B. Their wins against the Cape Cobras, Northern Knights and Barbados Tridents were dominant and showed the immense potential that the side has to win the tournament. The Hurricanes will however, not rest for a moment as they are up against a formidable side which boasts of the likes of Gautam Gambhir, Jacques Kallis, Sunil Narine and others.\n\nFollowing are the eleven players that Hobart are likely to send in Thursday’s battle:\n\nTop-Order: Hobart will most likely opt for the usual combination of Ben Dunk, Tim Paine, Aiden Blizzard and Shoaib Malik. Though they haven’t exactly got the best of starts in the tournament lately, with the 51-run opening stand against the Cape Cobras being their highest of the tournament so far, openers Dunk and Paine have had a lot of successful partnerships behind them and will be looking to geti into the old form at the right stage. Blizzard and Malik have been phenomenal in the series so far. Blizzard single-handedly destroyed the Cobras and it was him and Malik that guided the Hurricanes to an imposing total against the Northern Knights.\n\nMiddle-Order: Travis Birt, Jonathan Wells and Joe Mennie will be expected to occupy the number five, six and seven slots of the team. Wells assumed the role of a ‘finisher’ against the Barbados Tridents, his 23 from 17 balls guiding the Hurricanes to a six-wicket victory after recieveing some early jolts. Joe Mennie did not play in the last encounter against the Tridents, but produced a tight spell against the Knights with two scalps for a cost of a mere ten runs from the three overs that he bowled, one of which went for a maiden. Though Birt hasn’t enjoyed with bat in the series so far, the think-tank are not likely to drop him as yet, given his performances at the position.\n\nLower-Order: The Hobart bowlers have been in a terrific form so far, with the likes of Ben Hilfenhaus, Xavier Doherty, Doug Bollinger and Ben Laughlin producing fantastic spells to make the opposition batsmen bite the dust. They were especially clinical in the games against the Knights and the Tridents, and as such will be an obvious choice of attack for the crunch match coming up ahead of them. Hilfenhaus and Bollinger are currently perched on the fourth and fifth positions respectively on the list of leading wicket-takers of the tournament.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Lauren and I have been friends for a long time. More than once, she had mentioned to me that she had bipolar disorder, but I never gave it much thought. It always seemed under control, and I knew she was getting help. When we decided to move in together, I was not concerned.\n\nBut it became apparent immediately that she did not have her mental illness under control. Long depressive episodes, where she did not talk to anyone, were followed by short manic ones (when she was great to be around). As a friend, I had no idea how to help or how to help myself while living with her. I was confused when she would suddenly get angry at me, and I worried about what to do if she hurt herself. And if I were to call someone I didn’t know how she’d react.\n\nOver the past year I’ve learned a lot about the disorder, how to deal with it; not as a psychologist or therapist, but as a friend.\n\nIt is difficult to accept, but sometimes people in a depressed state don’t feel like talking, and not because they dislike you, or because they’re being rude. Mdjunction.com tells readers that one of the “do’s” of dealing with a loved one is to “realize your friend is angry and frustrated with the disorder, not with you.” I once asked Lauren why she would ignore me for days at a time and she told me that sometimes she doesn’t talk just to avoid crying on the spot.\n\nDrinking made Lauren manic. On the surface, mania doesn’t look all that bad. The person is happy, exuberant, and outgoing. But those with bipolar disorder who are manic often crash into a depression that lasts longer and is more severe than the mania. I pointed this out to my friend, explaining that when she drank, her night usually ended in depression.\n\nShe responded, and cut down her drinking. But some may not be as willing to take responsibility. It’s impossible to force a friend to change, but pointing out triggers may give them some insight into their behaviour.\n\nTalk to their family when necessary\n\nLuckily, Lauren has a caring supportive family. Her brother and I have exchanged phone numbers, and if something happens to Lauren where I’m in over my head, I can notify her brother and ask him to help.\n\nKnow when to call for help and own your decision\n\nOnce I had to call an ambulance for Lauren. After finishing a bottle of prescription sleeping pills, she admitted to me that she wanted to die. She could barely form a sentence and I feared the worst. It was a difficult decision, I knew I risked losing Lauren’s trust but I called anyway.\n\nTerri Cheney, author of: A Memoir and The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing up Bipolar writes “If someone you know or love talks about suicide, even jokingly or in a passing remark, stop and listen. Ask if he or she has a plan….Above all, take it seriously.”\n\nYou don’t know how they feel\n\nDon’t pretend to understand how someone with bipolar disorder feels. Being empathetic and actively listening to what your friend has to say will go much further than telling them about that time you were sad and how it’s the same. It’s not. And most important, do not tell them to just “get over it.” It’s not so easy.\n\nDon’t put your friend’s needs before your own\n\nSociologist Jeanne Segal, author of The Language of Emotional Intelligence, writes that “Supporting your loved ones may involve some life adjustments, but make sure you don’t lose sight of your own goals and priorities.”\n\nI used to invite Lauren everywhere. I did enjoy her company; but on reflection, I think I was doing it largely out of fear. I worried she’d hurt herself home alone. Looking after her was emotionally draining. I came to realize that not only did I have to learn to trust her alone, but I also needed my own time with friends, I needed to focus on my own life.\n\nHaving a friend or a family member with Bipolar Disorder can be complicated, and may require time and patience. But the illness doesn’t have to define the individual. Lauren is the same person I knew long before I knew of the diagnosis, and she is still a great friend.\n\nBut now I have learned to become more empathetic and accepting of people, whose moods I cannot justify…or even fully comprehend.\n\nbipolar disorder depressed manic\nRelated articles\nArticles 1\nNot being able to enjoy cannabis and all the great things that come with\nArticles 0\nBy Nanci Harris, BSc Nursing The notion of self-care is no longer an exotic\nArticles 0\nBy Lysianne Buie A friend of mine, Sigourney (name changed), once told me she\nArticles 0\nBy Liz Greene If the word of my therapist is anything to go on,\nArticles 0\nHilary Jacobs Hendel “The problem with verbal abuse is there is no evidence,” Marta\nArticles 0\nBy Eleenor Abraham Anna R. was having an ultrasound, prepared to see her baby for\nRecent Posts" ]

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[ "Stepping Into A New Year\n\nRecently at the New York flagship store, recently named Creative Director Graeme Fidler and well-wishers came together to celebrate contemporary British footwear and accessories brand Harrys of London which has been rebranded and renamed Harrys London. As the brand’s consulting creative director as of 2021, Fidler aims to add more comfort and practicality to the stylish shoes.", null, "THE EARLY YEARS\nFidler is a graduate of North Umbria University. He trained as a designer in England, and subsequently worked at several companies, including Polo Ralph Lauren in New York, as the design director at Aquascutum, and the creative director at Bally. He launched a menswear brand called Several in 2014 and worked on the Aspen Ski School collaboration with executive Read Worth. Fidler’s first collection is Harrys London’s Autumn/Winter 2022 collection.\n\nBritain has long had a reputation for designing and manufacturing some of the most classic, high-quality men’s footwear in the world. While a few venerable brands have trickled across the pond to New York, it is a fashion necessity which has been long overdue for an overhaul. Enter this contemporary British footwear brand, which has engineered a revolution in men’s footwear. “Harrys London is headed in a new direction, and we are excited that Graeme will lead this growth and revitalized vision for the brand,” said Charles S. Cohen, Harrys’ chair, in a statement.\n\nThe change in name comes after the revolutionary men’s shoe brand has expanded globally, following the opening of their New York City flagship store in 2019.", null, "A NEW LOOK\nThe new rebranding aims to make the brand’s name and logo more easily accessible across shops, shoes, and social media. The new, simplified logo of the brand is also in line with the new rename, adding a modern touch to the historic shoe brand that has been in steady business since 2001.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Today Spike Chunsoft followed up on the tease releasead a few days ago and announced AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative.\n\nThe game will release worldwide in spring 2022 for PC, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PS4.\n\nAs we expected, it appears to be a follow-up on Kotaro Uchikishi’s 2019 game AI: The Somnium FIles. The game will feature character design by Yusuke Kozaki.\n\nYou can find a trailer below, both in English and Japanese depending on your voice-over language of choice, alongside the key artwork.\n\n“Six years ago, the right half of a corpse was discovered under mysterious circumstances. The left half was never found…until six years later, when it was discovered completely fresh with no signs of decay, as though the victim was alive until just recently. Now, newly-appointed Special Agent Mizuki and her AI partner Aiba are tasked to solve the bizarre Half Body serial killings…”\n\nA Collector’s Edition will be available, including the following:" ]

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[ null, "June 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – After several days of public pressure, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is submitting to the demands of a coalition of advertisers who have complained that the social network doesn’t do enough to censor or discredit conservative speech.\n\nThe Anti-Defamation League, NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press, and Common Sense have accused Facebook of “allow(ing) incitement to violence against protesters fighting for racial justice in America in the wake of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks and so many others”; of legitimizing conservative news outlets Breitbart and the Daily Caller; and of “turn(ing) a blind eye to blatant voter suppression on their platform.”\n\nThe coalition demands that Facebook create new layers of moderation and engagement for targets of “identity-based hate,” to take steps to ensure ad revenue does not support “content labeled as misinformation or hate,” and to more closely monitor “extremism” in private Facebook groups. Verizon, Ben & Jerry’s, Patagonia, and REI are among the companies they got to agree to halt Facebook ads.\n\nOn Friday, Zuckerberg announced a handful of changes the company would be making to its policies, ostensibly in the name of “extra precautions to help everyone stay safe, stay informed, and ultimately use their voice where it matters most — voting.”\n\nAmong those changes, he says Facebook is “prohibiting a wider category of hateful content in ads. Specifically, we're expanding our ads policy to prohibit claims that people from a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status are a threat to the physical safety, health or survival of others. We're also expanding our policies to better protect immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from ads suggesting these groups are inferior or expressing contempt, dismissal or disgust directed at them.”\n\nBreitbart senior tech correspondent Allum Bokhari suspects this change is a mere pretext to suppress one of President Donald Trump’s most popular campaign messages. “Pointing out the empirical that mass illegal immigration leads to rising crime and disorder was a major element of Trump’s 2016 campaign,” he writes, “and also features strongly in the campaigns of European right-wing populists such as Matteo Salvini and Viktor Orban, who have enjoyed considerable electoral success over the past five years.”\n\nFacebook will also copy Twitter’s practice of putting warning labels on posts from political candidates or officeholders that are deemed beyond the pale. “We'll allow people to share this content to condemn it, just like we do with other problematic content, because this is an important part of how we discuss what's acceptable in our society,” Zuckerberg writes, “but we'll add a prompt to tell people that the content they're sharing may violate our policies.”\n\nThis change, and the protests that brought it about, is widely understood to be a reference to a social media post by Trump declaring that “THUGS” among the protesters, who had been filmed engaging in violent acts such as smashing storefronts and setting buildings on fire, were “dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”\n\nTwitter set off a firestorm last month when it placed a warning over the tweet, claiming that it “violated the Twitter rules about glorifying violence.” Pressure quickly mounted for Facebook to do the same, which Zuckerberg initially declined to follow its lead, but soon suggested the company’s policies on the matter would “evolve” in the wake of employee protests.\n\nConservatives, however, say further appeasement of the Left is the last thing Facebook needs to do, given the platform’s history of suppressing conservative content under vague or false pretenses.\n\nMost recently, a pair of whistleblowers came forward to attest that Facebook aggressively discriminates against conservatives on a global scale for the purpose of influencing election outcomes.\n\nOne of the insiders provided footage of content moderators openly discussing how they would like to delete “every Donald Trump post I see on the timeline” and “delete all Republicans…for terrorism” if they so much as post a photo “wearing a MAGA hat.” Cognizant service delivery manager Demian Gordon can also be seen saying he would not hold staff accountable for taking down Trump posts, on the grounds that they “gotta get the Cheeto (Trump) out of the office.”" ]

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[ "India is for Hindus\n\nThe Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) was passed by the parliament of India on December 11. 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act of 1955 by providing a path to Indian citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian religious minorities fleeing persecution from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Muslims were not given such eligibility. In this Act,religion has been overtly used as a criterion for citizenship under the Indian law. But scholars and critics point out that the Indian citizenship law has always been influenced by the idea of ‘India is for Hindus’.", null, "The law is more than just the latest in explicitly Hindu nationalist and Islamophobic policies. In a country that is home to the largest Muslim population outside of Muslim-majority countries, the CAA extends an ideological project that breaks the very promise of India. The Washington Post wrote, “As a new generation takes to the streets to protest discrimination against Muslims, both immigrants and citizens,the lines of 1947 once galvanized what has become one of the world’s most dangerous nuclear fault lines; the subcontinent, with its inherent multiplicity, cannot bear that cost once again.”\n\nUnder the 2019 amendment, migrants who had entered India by December 31, 2014, and had suffered “religious persecution or fear of religious persecution” in their country of origin were made eligible for citizenship. The amendment also relaxed the residence requirement for naturalisation of these migrants from eleven years to five. Immediate beneficiaries of the Bill, according to the Intelligence Bureau of India, will be 31,313 refugees: 25,447 Hindus, 5,807 Sikhs, 55 Christians, 2 Buddhists and 2 Parsis.\n\nThe amendment has been widely criticised as discriminating on the basis of religion, in particular for excluding Muslims. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) called the CAA”fundamentally discriminatory”and added that the Indian government should have done so by a “robust national asylum system”.Critics express concerns that the bill would be used, along with the National Register of Citizens (NRC), to render Muslim citizens stateless. Commentators also question the exclusion of persecuted religious minorities from other regions such as Tibet, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.\n\nThe Indian government says that Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are Muslim-majority countries where Islam has been declared as the official state religion through constitutional amendments in recent decades, and therefore Muslims in these Islamic countries are “unlikely to face religious persecution” and cannot be “treated as persecuted minorities”. Scholars describe Muslim minorities in these countries, such as Hazaras and Ahmadis, as also facing persecution. The passage of the legislation caused large-scale protests in India. Assam and other northeastern states have seen violent demonstrations against the bill over fears that granting Indian citizenship to refugees and immigrants will cause a loss of their “political rights, culture and land rights” and motivate further migration from Bangladesh. In other parts of India, protesters said the bill discriminated against Muslims and demanded that Indian citizenship be granted to Muslim refugees and immigrants. Major protests against the Act were held at universities in India. Students at the Aligarh Muslim University and the Jamia Millia Islamia alleged brutal suppression by the police. The protests have led to the death of several protesters and injuries to many protesters. Some of the states have announced that they will not implement the Act.\n\nThere have been several incidents where students, like KarthicaKurup,winning gold medals and other accolades,decided to boycott the 27th Annual Convocation event on Monday, which was presided over by the Indian President Ram Nath Kovind. Their decision to boycott the event came in the wake of nationwide protests against the controversial CAA andNRC. Kurup said, “I didn’t want to get my degree from the president of India. He had a choice to send the bill back to parliament. But he did not; instead, he put his sign and made it a law.”\n\nArun Kumar and SAMehala,working on their PhD thesis, registered their protest stating that the government is plotting to destroy the secularism enshrined in the constitution. They said, “Discrimination based on religion and community cannot be tolerated by any Indian citizen. Today, it is Muslims, tomorrow it could be Christians, and the day after that it could be Dalits or other minorities. This will divide people and we should not allow this to happen.”\n\nA petition opposing the bill was signed by more 1,000 Indian scientists and scholars. The petition stated: “The use of religion as a criterion for citizenship in the proposed bill [was] inconsistent with the basic structure of the Constitution.”\n\nThe OHCHRcriticised the Act and called it “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.” It added:”Although India’s broader naturalisation laws remain in place, these amendments will have a discriminatory effect on people’s access to nationality.”\n\nIt is being seriously questioned by the legal and intellectual circles of India as to why only Muslim-majority Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan were chosen, andwhy Myanmar, Sri Lanka and China are not on the list.\n\nThis legislation has introduced religion in defining the relationship of nationals of India with the state, thus paving way for India’s ‘theocratisation’. The Indian critics of this law say that in effect, it would complete the vision of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s ‘Two-Nation Theory’.\n\nIndia’s constitution is against any such law that discriminates on the basis of religion, caste, creed or gender. The new citizenship law is a clear attempt to declare Muslims as secondclass citizens. It is expected that the Supreme Court of India will take a serious view of this legislation that tends to violate the secular status of Indian state.\n\nMalaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has criticised India’s new citizenship law, which is seen as discriminatory against Muslims and has sparked deadly protests across the South Asian country.Speaking on the sidelines of the Kuala Lumpur Summit 2019, Mahathir questioned the “necessity” of the CAAwhen Indians have “lived together for 70 years”.\n\nThe acclaimed writer and activist Arundhati Roy joined in the protest, and in her interview to Al-Jazeera, urged Indians to protestagainst this discriminatory law. She declared this move as part of the agenda of Hindu supremacist organisation, the RSS." ]

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[ "The Unicorn Theatre is delighted to announce the appointment of Justin Audibert as the company’s new Artistic Director. Justin will take up the position in summer ’18, taking over from Purni Morell who steps down as Artistic Director this spring after nearly seven years in the role.", null, "Justin Audibert said, “Under the leadership of Purni and Anneliese, the Unicorn has flourished as one of the most innovative, provocative and international theatres in the UK. It has become a crucible of experimentation, not afraid to ask the most difficult questions about how we live in an ever changing world. I feel privileged to be building on this wonderful legacy and can’t wait to work with the brilliant team to make the Unicorn a creative home for the most talented artists working in theatre today. Above all else though, I feel incredibly excited and honoured to be leading our inspirational audiences on what I am sure will be an exhilarating journey of discovery, to imagine other possibilities and to explore new worlds.”\n\nJustin’s most recent directing credits include The Box of Delights for Wilton’s Music Hall in Christmas 2017, and for the Unicorn Theatre Chris Thorpe’s searing adaptation of Beowulf and Holger Schober’s My Mother, Medea. In February Justin will open The Winter’s Tale in his new version for young audiences at the National Theatre, and August ’18 sees him directing Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s Snow in Midsummer for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which he originally premiered at the RSC in 2017. Justin’s programme for the Unicorn’s stages will kick off in May 2019.\n\nAlongside his wide ranging directing work, Justin wrote and presented the BAFTA nominated BBC Live Lessons on Shakespeare for younger audiences and he has taught and directed widely at universities and drama schools in the UK, the US, China and Brazil.\n\nJohn Langley, Chair of the Unicorn Board said, “Justin is well known to the Unicorn through his recent productions of Beowulf and My Mother, Medea. It is difficult to think of two classic works of literature that in recent years have spoken so vibrantly and without condescension to audiences of young people. As Chair of the Unicorn, I am thrilled to welcome him to the team; as a theatregoer, I am intensely curious to see the work his directorship will bring us. Above all, I am confident that Justin’s range of experience and radical vision will take all of us who love and value the Unicorn to exciting new places in the years to come.”\n\nJustin Audibert was an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield before going on to receive his MFA in Theatre Directing at Birkbeck, University of London, in 2008. Following early roles on placement at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Assistant Director at the RSC, he has directed numerous productions. In 2012 Justin was the recipient of the Leverhulme Award for Emerging Directors from the National Theatre Studio. He directed The Tempest in London and New York as part of the Cultural Olympiad in 2012, and assisted Greg Doran on the opening programme for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in 2010. Other notable credits include the European premiere of Gruesome Playground Injuries by US playwright Rajiv Joseph in 2013 at the Gate Theatre, and The Jew of Malta for the RSC in 2015 starring Jasper Britton." ]

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[ null, "ONE: We will pay ten cents a word\n\nI think this is an important fact to mention right away. If you are an author, and you want to get paid TWICE the current professional rates, then support Gamut. Why wouldn’t you want to help make this happen? I hear people complain all the time that there aren’t enough paying markets, especially for dark fiction. This is your chance to put your money where your mouth is. It’s $30 for an annual subscription, which will stay that rate forever (as long as you renew) which is a steal for over 400,000 words. We also just added in eBooks, so you can go that route for $54, or get both for $60 (which is still only $5 a month).\n\nFirst of all, we are supporting women, from the beginning with 60% of our authors being women. Beyond that, we are actively looking to include a wide range of perspectives. So whatever your sex, race, nationality, country of origin, religion, occupation, orientation, experience—we want you to be a part of Gamut. What matters most are the stories—neo-noir, speculative fiction with a literary bent. If you understand our aesthetic (which can be gleaned by reading my writing, the four anthologies I’ve edited, and the Dark House Press titles I’ve published) then we want your writing.", null, "THREE: We will open to blind submissions in 2016\n\nSo what does that mean exactly? It means we don’t know who wrote the story until we’ve said yes or no. We will certainly solicit some stories, so if you’re worried about us only publishing our friends, YES, we will publish some of our friends! What editor doesn’t solicit or publish authors they love, that move them—people they may actually know. BUT, I’ve only solicited 40 authors, so we have to accept AT LEAST 24 stories in 2016 for the 2017 year—12 new, and 12 reprints. My fiction editors will be my first readers, and then I will make the final decision on all submissions. It’s important to me to support new voices, diverse voices—and I’m counting on some of that coming in via submissions.\n\nFOUR: A wide range of genres\n\nWe are not a horror publication. Or, I should say, we are not publishing ONLY horror. I want fantasy, science fiction, horror, crime, neo-noir, transgressive, magical realism, Southern gothic, weird, surreal, and literary fiction. We are looking for that sweet spot between genre and literary, between expectations and innovation. There is a lot of excellent genre-bending, hybrid fiction going on these days, and that’s what we’re looking for. We don’t want anything that is “classic,” so definitely avoid the same tropes, plots, stories, monsters, and clichés. We also are not fans of excessive graphic violence, rape, molestation, or any sort of bigotry. So, don’t feel if you aren’t a horror author that you can’t submit. I’d say several of our authors not only aren’t horror writers, but aren’t speculative, aren’t writing supernatural stories—for example, I believe that Tara Ison, Lindsay Hunter, Paula Bomer, and Nina McConigley are primarily edgy, literary realists.\n\nFIVE: Pricing is currently 50% of what it will be\n\nRight now, the main rewards are HALF of what they will be after the Kickstarter is over. And, those rates you can lock in right now, forever. As long as you renew, you can retain those rates. So, that’s $30 for website only, $54 for eBook only (monthly), and $60 for both. Those are great rates for 400,000+ words a year, original artwork with every story, and much more. Also, there WILL be a paywall. So, if you don’t subscribe, you won’t be able to read anything.\n\nOne of the most exciting aspects of this Kickstarter has been the generosity of authors, editors and publishers who have stepped up to donate books, editing services, and much more. It’s humbling, and means a lot to me. We started out with SEVEN rewards, but several sold out, so we added them back in. Some twice. And the rewards expanded as well. Last I checked we had 42 rewards, with 26 selling out. Stop by and see what we have! All of our rewards are also at 50% of MSRP.\n\nSEVEN: New artwork with every story\n\nHow cool is that? Not only will Luke Spooner be creating new illustrations for every story, but we’ll also work in spot art from George C. Cotronis, Daniele Serra, Bob Crum, and photographer Jennifer Moore! I’m a huge fan of all of them, so that adds a lot to the experience, in my opinion.", null, "EIGHT: Beyond fiction there will be columns, poetry, non-fiction, serializations, etc.\n\nWe are going to publish more than just fiction. We’ll have three columnists in Max Booth, RK Arceneaux, and Keith Rawson—to educate, and provide humor. We’ll be working with freelance journalists and essayists as well. We’ll also have poetry, which many fiction-based publications ignore. I’m working on doing a Flash Fiction Friday, as well, and even a Saturday Night Special serialization of something longer, to spice up your weekend.\n\nNINE: Beyond writing, there will be other events and services\n\nWe’re also going to embrace other aspects of the arts. I’ve been talking to one of the coolest movie theaters in Chicago, The Music Box, about partnering with Gamut on some events and they’re already excited to do that. We talked about screening some cult classics and other dark hits, such as Blade Runner, Donnie Darko, and Mulholland Drive as well as an A24 retrospective (maybe a whole DAY) which may include such films as Enemy, Under the Skin, Ex Machina and even The Witch. We will be looking into other services at Gamut, which I can’t really get into now, and we’ll definitely have swag down the road a bit—hats, t-shirts, prints. But I mean, we have to establish ourselves first, right? What I’m trying to say is, if you aren’t a big reader, aren’t an author, we’re looking into ways to get you involved, to do things that will appeal to you as well.", null, "TEN: Be a patron of the arts, start something great\n\nHow often to you get to launch a publication? I’ve supported 19 Kickstarter events over the last couple of years—anthologies, journals, magazines, books, games, films, and comics—even post-apocalyptic mugs. It’s exciting! I want you to be a part of this inception, this birth, this creation. You can help shape it. I don’t know how successful this will be, but what if this was the next Tor, or Clarkesworld, or Tin House, or Rolling Stone? You could say, “I helped make this happen.” I don’t own much original art, but the paintings I do own, they mean a lot to me. I see the heart and soul that went into that work, and I was able, through my purchase, to support that vision, that artist. And to be honest, that feels pretty good. It is such a thrill to see students of mine land agents and book deals, to see my peers grow, and evolve, and succeed.\n\nLet me tell you a little story.\n\nWhen Letitia Trent sent me a story for Exigencies, I’d already publisher her book, Echo Lake. I loved it. But she had been primarily a poet—this was new to her. She hadn’t written that many stories. We talked about “Wilderness,” and the moment I started it, I knew it was something special. When I was done reading, I immediately sent her an email to tell her I wanted it. I was actually panicking, thinking another editor was going to snatch it up. She was relieved that I said yes. I guess the story had been bouncing around a bit and had already been rejected by several top magazines. I told her, “Letitia, those editors are mistaken. They are going to regret that they passed on this story. It’s exceptional.” I could tell she didn’t really believe me. That story was just selected for Best Horror of the Year, by Ellen Datlow. If anybody is a judge of greatness in horror, and dark fiction, it’s Ellen. Out of hundreds, thousands of stories, she deemed this one of the best. It was a validation that meant a lot to me, as the editor, and publisher, that my own vision was supported that way—and more importantly, it showed Letitia that she was doing something special, doing great work. Truly inspiring.\n\nI’ve said this a few times, but I want to repeat it again here at the end. The opposite of love is not hate—it is indifference. If this kind of publication is important to you, if you write or read dark fiction, then please get involved. Donate and spread the word. The base subscription is only $30, just $2.50 a month. If I’ve ever done anything for you—blurbed your book, Tweeted about your success, shared an important Facebook announcement, bought your thing, given you advice privately, taught you in a class, or merely been your friend—jump in now, when I need your help the most.\n\n8 Comments on “Top Ten Reasons to Back Gamut Magazine Now”" ]

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[ null, "One of the things I like about my January in Japan reading (extended into February…) is the opportunity to get to books which have been languishing on the shelves for a while, and today’s choice has been kicking around for far too long. Over the first few years of the blog, I read several works by Yukio Mishima (including all four parts of The Sea of Fertility series), which makes it surprising that I never quite found the time to get around to the last one of his I bought. On that note, then, it’s time to head off to Japan’s Pacific coast for a short island holiday, and a meeting with a couple of star-crossed lovers – I wonder if it’ll end well…\n\n*****\nThe Sound of Waves (translated by Meredith Weatherby, published by Vintage Books) takes us to the small island of Uta-jima, just off the Japanese mainland. The hero of the tale is Shinji who, after the death of his fisherman father, has become the breadwinner for his family (his mother and younger brother, Hiroshi). One day, while walking along the beach, he sees an unfamiliar face, a rarity on the small island:\n\nThe boy could not remember ever having seen this girl before. There should not have been a single face on Uta-jima that he could not recognize. At first glance he took her for an outsider. But still, the girl’s dress was not that of outsiders. Only in the way she stood apart, gazing at the sea, did she differ from the vivacious island girls.\np.8 (Vintage Classics, 2000)\n\nWhile it’s not love at first sight, there’s certainly mutual attraction, and Shinji tries to find out more about her.\n\nIt turns out that the girl’s name is Hatsue, and she’s the daughter of the wealthy Terukichi Miyata; having been adopted out, she has recently been brought back to the island after the untimely death of Miyata’s only son. Shinji naturally falls for the beautiful young woman, but with the father wanting a well-off son-in-law to marry Hatsue and be adopted into the family, it’s unlikely that the young fisherman will be able to impress him. Still, that’s not going to put off a determined suitor, and soon the whole island is aware of the burgeoning romance…\n\nIf you’ve read a lot of Mishima’s work, The Sound of Waves may come as a surprise. It’s a gentle-paced, soothing romance, a book I’d best describe as very unMishima-like – in fact, one Twitter comment (I will protect the user’s anonymity…) even called this his dullest book. Which seems a little unfair to me. It’s true that there’s no real drama, and a distinct lack of blood, but if you scratch the surface, there’s a lot to like about the book.\n\nThe main focus is, of course, on the romance, and we follow the young lovers along their path to happiness, witnessing their coincidental meetings, and the significance of the dropped envelope full of Shinji’s wages. Eventually, the innocent flirtation leads to an unexpected encounter on a dark and stormy night, and a heated moment of temptation. However, this is no steamy story; both products of a deeply traditional island culture, the pair are determined to go about things the right way lest they anger the gods.\n\nThere are complications, naturally (it wouldn’t be much of a novel, otherwise), and one of these is the obvious gulf in status between them, one shown in many different ways:\n\nWhether it’s Shinji’s family background, appearance or lack of money, Hatsue’s father has no interest in allowing his daughter to follow her heart, instead opting for rich kid Yasuo Kawamoto. Matters aren’t helped when Chiyoko, another returning local whose feelings for Shinji cripple her with jealousy, spreads rumours which cause trouble for the young lovers. Throughout, there’s a sense that a closed community like Uta-jima needs order – and that people shouldn’t get above their station.\n\nIf that was all there was to The Sound of Waves, then I’d agree that it wouldn’t make for much, but there is far more than this to enjoy. For one thing, a major part of the appeal is the setting and the writer’s description of the island and the connection the locals have with it:\n\nThe boy felt a consummate accord between himself and this opulence of nature that surrounded him. He inhaled deeply, and it was as though a part of the unseen something that constitutes nature had permeated the core of his being. He heard the sound of the waves striking the shore, and it was as though the surging of his young blood was keeping time with the movement of the sea’s great tides. It was doubtless because nature itself satisfied his need that Shinji felt no particular lack of music in his everyday life. (pp.44/5)\n\nAs the novel progresses, the annual cycle of the island is almost as prominent as the plot. There are the women divers with their different tasks, the seasonal fishing, the driving rain and salt air. On Uta-jima, the people are still controlled by the passing of time, not to mention the whims of the weather gods…\n\nMishima also creates a sense of a tipping point. The novel is set a few years after the end of World War Two, and while it’s often easy to forget this, relaxing in a timeless idyll, we’re eventually dragged back into the present by mentions of electricity, or the trams and movies Hiroshi sees on his trip to Kyoto. Surprisingly, Mishima is actually fairly positive about progress, in his emphasis on modernity firmly behind Shinji’s battles against old money and traditional attitudes, with the sympathy of the reader also with the young man.\n\nOf course, despite this optimism for the future, with Mishima there’s always a sense of looking longingly over your shoulder at the past. The islanders are often described as being uninterested in what’s happening on the mainland, and many of the negative qualities displayed in the book are shown to have come from elsewhere (e.g. Chiyoko’s jealousy, Yasuo’s laziness – and his leather jacket!). Despite the advances in some areas, Uta-jima is painted to be an unspoiled idyll, with a population of noble and understanding people – which can be a little unrealistic at times 😉\n\nI’d agree that The Sound of Waves is not one of Mishima’s best books, but it’s still one I enjoyed, a nice look at traditional island culture in Japan. Yes, it’s not really much more than Romeo and Juliet on a small island, but there’s nothing wrong with that. If you’re fed up of complex, depressing reads and are looking for something a little lighter, this might make a nice change 🙂\n\n11 thoughts on “‘The Sound of Waves’ by Yukio Mishima (Review)”" ]

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[ null, "Transparency in a New Global Order\n\nThis book argues that transparency is a concept that has gained increasing currency and favour as an organizing principle and administrative goal in recent years. Calls for transparency have been directed towards states, markets, corporations and national political processes as well as towards large institutions such as the European Union.\n\nSimone Abram INTRODUCTION: ELEMENTS IN THE SEARCH FOR DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY In a basic sense, modern representative democracies derive legitimacy from electoral participation. Governments gain authority from their election by popular vote which provides a mandate. However, electoral turnout has declined dramatically in many Western European countries. In some cases this decline has reached a dramatic pass. While in the 2005 UK national elections, overall turnout was 61.3 per cent,1 in local elections turnout has in some cases dropped under 10 per cent, and in 1998 overall turnout was just 28.8 per cent.2 Given these conditions, maintaining the legitimacy of routine political representation becomes problematic. Even at the best of times, representative systems can be criticized for the unaccountability of politicians between their election and re-election a number of years later. The response of the New Labour central government in the UK from their election in 1997 was to promote direct participation of citizens in local government, and various kinds of public–private partnership. They argued that greater civic involvement in political processes would bring government ‘closer to the people’ (DETR, 1998a), and make local government more accountable. As political slogans, ‘Participation’ and ‘Transparency’ proved popular, but in practice it has become clear that in few cases did the government set out any detailed plans for what this might entail, nor was there any explicit or ideological model for practice. As Fairclough argues, the government voiced some positive-sounding policies, and waited to see how they would be implemented (Fairclough, 2000)..." ]