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[ "Didn't find what you're looking for? Subscribe to the 'parris' newsletter and get updates.\n\nParris Manufacturing Company, already expert in woodworking, was asked by the Department of Defense to make dummy training rifles for new recruits to use until real rifles could be made available. More than 2 million of these training rifles were made for the Army and Navy and the Company earned the coveted Army-Navy \"E\" Award for its contribution to the war effort.\n\nAfter the war was over, the company switched its production lines over to manufacturing toy rifles and pistols. These toy guns were made with the same skill and care that the company had used in making the Army and Navy training rifles. Parris Manufacturing Company officials did not want to manufacture only military toy guns, so they quickly added frontier and cowboy style rifles, pistols and pistol holster sets.", null, "Parris continues to expand its quality made toy product line. Products include a full line of toy bow and arrow sets, our new camouflage bow & arrow sets, Kids Klassic Kostumes and Kids Outdoors Sports Costumes for everyday play and special occasions. We have also added camouflage to some of our Frontier & Western Rifles and pistols.", null, "\"Ask questions, share stories or subscribe to our newsletter.\" - John, Fabtintoys\nComments (4)\nJillian - November 16, 2018\nI have a replica by paris Savannah TN. Made in USA 5891. Double barrel toy cap gun great working condition can j seek this or should I keep it what is its value ?\n\nValue is between 10-15 USD. See also Parris replica for prices.\nDarrell - March 29, 2015\nI bought a parris mfg co lever action rifle with gold circular emblem on stock. centered thru circle is green shape of Tennessee with Tennessee musket, long rifle and coonskin cap. patent no 2,649,849. any info on this model? thanks.\n\nI don't know, but Parris still exists so maybe you can ask them: Parris Mfg website if you scroll down you'll see their contact details.\nCharlotte - March 3, 2013\nHi just bought a hex double barrelled replica by parris the number on it is 5891 could you tell me how much it's worth? Thanks\nFred - April 8, 2011\nI would like to receive a catalog of your metal toy soldiers collectibles\n\nI am afraid I don't have a catalog, because I don't sell soldiers collectibles." ]

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[ null, "Following a screening of his “The Descendants” at the Telluride Film Festival #38, actor George Clooney quipped about one day being featured in AARP as “The Sexiest Man Still Alive.”\n\nCome on George. You are a still callow 50-something. Well maybe not callow. Never callow, but the gap between you and “old” is as wide as the spread between model Lauren Hutton’s two front teeth. And she is old. Probably over 65. But I mean “old” in a good way. There is a difference between old and in the way and elegant, high functioning old like Hutton, Mirren, Nelson (Mandela or Willie), Buffet (Jimmy or Warren), Steinem. Or for that matter, Telluride’s two favorite old broads: The New Sheridan Hotel and the historic Sheridan Opera House.\n\nSince her youth, Telluride’s Opera House has been described as a “jewel box,” at ease hobnobbing with the best and the brightest in politics and the performing arts. Among those who accepted her gracious gifts in Telluride’s steamy, seamy past: Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Gish, Socialist Presidential candidate Eugene Debs and William Jennings Bryant.\n\nWhen the Sheridan Opera House opened for business (as the Segerberg Opera House), a combination vaudeville and movie theatre, one fine Wednesday in July 1913, the local rag waxed rhapsodic, describing the venue as “one of the prettiest and best appointed ‘show houses’ in the state.” (And it was built with connecting floors to the lavish New Sheridan Hotel, which enabled prominent entertainers of the period to escape the paparazzi and travel directly from their rooms to the stage.)\n\nThe Opera House has screened films since 1914, one year before “Birth of a Nation,” considered to be the first feature film, was released. And it has remained the primo venue and patron haunt for the Telluride Film Festival since 1974, when Gloria Swanson was a tributee.\n\nFor better and for worse, the fortunes of the Opera House followed those of the town: boom and then bust. By the 1960s/1970s, the Opera House had gone to seed and was in need of a major overhaul. It’s a long story but let’s cut to the chase: in 1991, Keith and Sandra Carradine founded the Sheridan Arts Foundation and saved the Opera House from commercial development. Following a major facelift that took nine years to complete, (2000 – 2009), everything old is new again.\n\n(By the by, Corddry is wonderful as a liberal do-gooder in Jennifer Garner’s new comedy “Butter,” which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. For more on that, follow this link: https://www.tellurideinside.com/2011/09/telluride-film-festival-38-george-clooney-no-slumdog-big-smaller-films.html.)\n\nWhat’s more, the lady has a big heart. The Sheridan Opera House supports the SAF Young People’s Theater (YPT), a innovative program that teaches theatre arts to young people ages 3 – 18. On the boards since 1999, SAFYPT enrolls over 250 students, largely thanks to its charismatic, dynamic director Jen Julia, who subscribes to the belief that theatre skills are life skills.\n\nFor 20 years and counting, annually the Opera House supports a Wild West Fest, a celebration of western arts, culture and customs. The week-long event offers a much needed blast of fresh mountain air to kids from the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, who come to town from inner cities to work with mentors in hands-on activities that include drama, fly-fishing, golf, songwriting, and dance.\n\nAnd the Sheridan Arts Foundation/Opera House is a patron of the fine arts. Every year for the past eight, the SAF invites a group of America’s top plein air painters to town for week to, well, paint the town – and the surrounding landscape. The result of their work is displayed in a two-day public art extravaganza and fundraiser over the Fourth of July weekend. (See related story for the origins of that fabulous event, shades of Norman Rockwell.)\n\nTelluride and Mountain Village have two other major venues, The Michael D. Palm Theatre (in town and attached to the Middle School/High School) and the Telluride Conference Center (Mountain Village). Both are differently wonderful from the historic Opera House, but for sure, neither has ghosts. You heard it here…" ]

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[ null, "As the European Union considers further sanctions on Russia for its role in the standoff in Ukraine, Russia is broadly unpopular in many countries around the globe and increasingly disliked in Europe and the United States. . . .\n\nThese are among the key findings of a survey by the Pew Research Center conducted from March 17 to June 5, 2014 among 48,643 respondents in 44 countries, including Russia. . . .\n\nAcross the 44 countries surveyed, a median percentage of 43% have unfavorable opinions of Russia, compared with 34% who are positive.\n\nNegative ratings of Russia have increased significantly since 2013 in 20 of the 36 countries surveyed in both years, decreased in six and stayed relatively similar in the remaining 10.\n\nAmericans and Europeans in particular have soured on Russia over the past 12 months. More than six-in-ten in Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, the U.S. and the UK have an unfavorable image of Russia. And in all but one of these countries negative reviews are up by double digits since last year, including by 29 percentage points in the U.S., 27 points in Poland, 24 points in the UK and 23 points in Spain. Greeks stand out among their European counterparts – just 35% dislike Russia, virtually unchanged from last year.\n\nUkrainians’ attitudes toward Russia also have changed significantly over time. Six-in-ten in Ukraine rate Russia unfavorably today, compared with just 11% in 2011, the last time the question was asked. Within Ukraine, there are deep divides by region and language. More than eight-in-ten in the country’s west (83%) give Russia low marks, compared with 45% in the east and only 4% in Crimea. Within the east, Russian-only speakers (28%) are less negative toward Russia than their neighbors (58%).\n\nAs has been the case in previous years, Russia is also unpopular with publics in the Middle East. More than half in most countries surveyed in the region have an unfavorable opinion of Russia, including seven-in-ten or more Jordanians, Turks and Egyptians. The Palestinians and Tunisians are less negative. In Lebanon, attitudes vary significantly by religious group. Majorities of Sunni Muslims (80%) and Christians (63%) give Russia unfavorable ratings, compared with just 12% of Shia Muslims.\n\nRussia is increasingly disliked in many Latin American countries, though the change has not been as dramatic as in the U.S. and Europe. And while, on balance, most publics hold negative views of Russia, substantial percentages have no opinion. More than four-in-ten in Brazil, Venezuela, Chile and Mexico give Russia unfavorable ratings. Significant increases in Russia’s unpopularity since last year occurred in Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador and Mexico.\n\nIn Asia, there are deep divisions between nations over their opinions of Russia. Roughly seven-in-ten in Japan (69%) rate Russia unfavorably compared with a quarter or fewer in China (23%) and Vietnam (14%). China is one of the few countries where negative reviews have declined substantially in the past year (-16 percentage points).\n\nAfrican nations remain the least likely among the regions surveyed to rate Russia unfavorably. In fact, pluralities in most countries, with South Africa being the major exception, give Russia high marks, though many people do not express an opinion either way." ]

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[ "The start of the Man Utd Legacy", null, "One of the most successful teams of the modern era is that of Manchester United. They have won the Premier League more times than any other team, sometimes on a consecutive basis. They have won the Champions League several times and can count the FA and League Cup success too. One of the reasons for their success is the immense stadium they play at. This is their continuing home ground of Old Trafford. It has an amazing pitch that you can tell has been maintained by keeping their Mountfield Parts upto date and from https://www.diyspareparts.com/parts/mountfield/.\n\nBefore the Old Trafford ground was built Manchester United played a variety of sites all with poor conditions. Eventually their owner found the perfect patch next to the Bridgewater Canal, off the end of Warwick Road in the district of Old Trafford in 1909.\n\nDesigned by the Scottish architect Archbal Letich it was to be one of the most advanced grounds for the time. It was originally designed to hold one hundred thousand spectators with a covered seated south stand and the other 3 as terraces. This was changed to eighty thousand but other, jealous, clubs soon nicknamed them Moneybags United (which is sometimes used today!)." ]

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[ "Readers may be bored of the topic already, I’m sure it is covered elsewhere, ad nauseam, but I’ll risk it.\n\nThe widespread call for a reduction to zero usage of lead shot for shooting game, within five years, will have an impact on the market for British guns with 2 1/2” chambers. We just don’t know how much of an impact.\n\nWhat enthusiasts for British vintage guns do know is this:\n\nThere are currently no options in the UK for shooting steel in 21/2” chambers.\nDespite the assurances of the GTA and the proof authorities, many owners do not know, if they fire ‘standard steel’ through old guns that have been re-proofed for 70mm standard nitro proof, with any degree of choke, what effect that will have - especially in the case of guns with thin barrel walls. Many will not want to take the risk.\n\nThere is a ready-made alternative to lead shot that can be used in 2 1/2” chambered guns - bismuth. It costs £1 per-shot, rather than the 30p per-shot of quality lead cartridges.", null, "There are products that could make the situation less severe. Tungsten matrix is a lead-like alternative that could be used in 2 1/2” cases at appropriate pressures. Currently available only in 70mm cases, it costs £2 per-shot. Other products, like ‘Nice Shot’ and ’T-Shot’ may become more viable if demand increases sufficiently.\n\nMany people are confused and worried.\n\nFrom an auctioneer’s point of view, this could be a temporary bonus. Auctioneers, as one commented to me recently, can ‘make money in a falling market’, as they get paid a percentage even when the amount of the sale is smaller - and in a scenario of mass dumping of 2 1/2” chambered British guns, volume makes up for individual prices. This kind of frenzy, however, could signal a ‘dead cat bounce’ for the sector, or a fire flaring before it expires for good.\n\nOnce these guns have been sold on en-masse, cheap, to overseas (mostly American) buyers, they won’t come back. That does not amount to good news for British auctioneers, who predominantly sell guns sourced from the UK. We may see the likes of Rock Island (represented by Howard Dixon Associates) or Springer, in Vienna, move in to sell these guns abroad, to countries where lead shot is not restricted.\n\nReaction from enthusiasts has been mixed. One New Zealander told me, ‘This could be good news for me; the guns I like buying could suddenly get cheaper’ . Others have been more worried. I took several ‘phone calls from people unsure about the future viability of their use of vintage British guns and confused about the nature of the ‘ban’, which, of course, isn’t a ban at all. It is an announced strategy fo engineering a voluntary phase-out of lead for hunting, which, it is calculated, I’m sure, will avoid the need for a formal ban to be legislated.\n\nUnfortunately, the issue has become a polarising one, with people ‘taking sides’ and trash-talking anyone who does not subscribe to their particular, ‘no compromise’ stance. This is not helpful. What we need is clear-headed thinking, a will to make a non-lead future viable and a strategy to minimise its negative effects on our activities.\n\nShooting has always coped with change, indeed, the British gun industry thrived on change. Advances in the Victorian era saw multitudes of firearms fall out of fashion as a new improvement made them redundant. Flintlocks were hung over the mantelpiece, then percussion guns, then pin-fires, as shooters adapted to the new inventions.\n\nThose shouting the loudest are ‘high bird’ shooters who fear their sport will be ruined if they have to shoot steel. Well, shooters once had to cope with black-powder and over-shot cards, which limited performance but they still went shooting and enjoyed great sport.\n\nThose who decry the ‘wounding risk’ from steel shot are often those who shoot birds with a one-in-ten kill ratio.\n\nWe organise our sport around the prevailing conditions, including the range and effectiveness of the guns and ammunition we use. Those who decry the ‘wounding risk’ from steel shot are often those who shoot birds with a one-in-ten kill ratio. How many birds are these, apparently ‘humane shooting’ advocates now, wounding at those ranges one wonders?\n\nSometimes, we have to look at our defences and hear how they sound in the ‘normal world, outside of shooting. If the European Chemicals Agency is considering lead to be a toxic substance, a risk to wildlife and (perhaps) a risk to humans eating game, and your primary objection is ‘I want to shoot seventy yard pheasants and I don’t want to pay for premium non-toxic ammunition’, you won’t look seriously interested in conservation to the layman, In my opinion.\n\nI make these observations with a heavy heart, my reading of the evidence suggests that lead shot used by most shooters in farmland and forestry poses very little, if any, risk to wildlife. Lead is, by far the best projectile for shotguns, especially the ones I use and deal in. This move is not good for me personally, or in business terms. But I’m not taking it personally, I’m working out how to deal with it.\n\nThe sad fact is that self-regulation has been a joke. 70% of ducks tested in England were shot with lead. I remember twenty years ago old cheapskates laughing that they were using ‘leadmuth’ when ducks were on the wing. I told them at the time that if we did that, we were guaranteeing a total lead ban in the future. Well, what you sow, you will eventually reap.\n\nSome of the anger from the Trade has been over the perceived lack of consultation. There are two ways of looking at this - either organisations mirror the current thinking of their members or they spend time, money and effort trying to learn a lot about an issue and they try to provide leadership. Readers will all have their own opinions about this but it is clear that many people are unhappy about the nature of the public announcement. Of course, it gained us no credit with the anti-shooting brigade - LACS announcing ‘shooters finally admit they have been telling lies about lead for years’.\n\nOne or two other issues occurred to me in the advice coming from the authorities. The GTA announced advice from the proof house about the use of ‘standard steel’ in standard nitro-proofed guns. Proof has always been about just that - testing a unto prove it can withstand a particular load. None of these guns have been tested in the proof house with steel proof loads, so we go from ‘proof’ to ‘assertion’ (some might say ‘assumption’) very quickly. This may be expedient but it undoes two centuries of precedent.\n\nIt is clear we are entering a challenging, divisive and difficult phase for shooting sports and businesses. Adapt we must. Where we are in five years will depend on how we do adapt. With regard to vintage English guns, which are used by a small minority of the current 600,000 shooters in the UK, their contribution to the littering of the countryside with lead shot is proportionately tiny. To give them an exemption, in the way drivers of classic cars are able to put lead additives into their old vehicles to keep them running, would, in my opinion, be justified.\n\nIf we can show the authorities, in five years, that the ‘lead shot problem’ has gone 85% or 90% away, then the motivation to find time and money to legislate against the last small percentage of lead shot users would be significantly reduced.", null, null, null, "An interesting project from 1982 for sale.", null ]

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[ null, "Two years ago I wrote a short story for publication in a book that our writers' group put together. The story was entitled The Justus Encounter. With Christmas coming faster than I wish to admit, I thought I'd share this story with you." ]

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[ null, "Nigeria international Ogenyi Onazi has underlined his commitment to the Super Eagles as he sets his sights on a return to the national team.\n\nThe 25-year-old missed the West African's last three competitive matches due to injury, having last played for his country in a 3-0 win over the Seychelles after the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.\n\nOnazi's performance in that game attracted a lot of criticism, but the Trabzonspor midfielder is committed to making a return to Gernot Rohr's squad as they up their preparations for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.\n\n\"It was a tough time I must admit, but despite all the criticisms I remain committed to playing for my country,\" Onazi told BBC Sport.\n\n\"Whenever I go out there to play I give 120%, but unfortunately my achilles tendon problems slowed me down.\n\n\"Now things are looking up again for me at club level, I hope to keep giving my best to my country as well.\"\n\nOnazi, who was part of the Super Eagles squad that won the AFCON title the last time the country qualified, has been in superb form for Trabzonspor, playing a key role in the club's rise up to fourth spot on the Turkish Super League standings.\n\n\"After what happened in Russia it was important for all the players to ensure a return to the African Cup of Nations,\" Onazi continued.\n\n\"It's an exciting feeling to achieve that and we can only hope that collectively we can all bring our good club form to the national team.\n\n\"The last time I played in the tournament we won it and we as players have to go back again with the mentality to win it, and if we can't we shouldn't be there,\" he conceded." ]

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[ "Today we are going to discuss the aspects of hidden object games for PC. We will try to find out that what keeps people engaged with these games for long. These kinds of games are popular among the people of all ages. These games have a special purpose to achieve while playing, and that makes it look more than a game. While playing hidden object games, you are engaged to the concept and frame of the game very consciously. These genres of games are said to be “seek and find games” as well. This genre of hidden object games was initially promoted by a particular game named as ‘Mystery Case File’ which had more than hundred million downloads worldwide.\n\nHuntsville was the first ever hidden object game which was appreciated by a lot of the players around the world. Hidden object games in the past were quite different as compared to the games available today. These games are not only about finding objects, there are many other games which have the complete storyline which makes your play more exciting. These games are very addictive, as once you start playing them, your willingness to play more increases with the passage of time. That is the reason which appeals most of the gamers to play such games. Hidden object games have played a major role in the development of the casual games industry.", null, "The success of these games depends on the structure, thrills, and graphics designed for them. Many of the researchers have proved that the regular players of hidden object and mystery games are comparatively efficient in their normal life. One needs a lot of the focus and attention to play such games. Playing hidden object games needs concentration and willingness. A University of Singapore conducted a research on several students who were non-gamers. All of those students were directed to play hidden object games for a certain period of time. And after a month of this practice, the research report says that their performance was boosted and those students have become sharp and active comparatively.", null, "Playing hidden object games also helps you to improve your cognitive skills. These kinds of games are always interesting to play and the engagement factor for the concerned players is very high. Some people use to say that playing these games also gives a bad impact for children especially. As they don’t focus on their other life activities once they start playing such games; but games like puzzle solving and others also help the mind of these children to develop faster and smarter as well. Storyline games based on mysteries are another reason for the players to play these games regularly. Most of the games in this genre are point and click games.\n\nHidden object games are mostly based on the following Genres:" ]

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[ "Opinion: Carlo Ancelotti has one big problem ahead of Everton’s meeting with Brighton", null, "Everton welcome Brighton & Hove Albion to Goodison Park on Saturday afternoon and could be much-changed after their disappointing FA Cup defeat to Liverpool (January 5). Carlo Ancelotti has a difficult decision to make in midfield due to poor form and disciplinary issues of some players.\n\nGylfi Sigurdsson underperformed against Liverpool and was substituted after an hour. The 30-year-old’s place in the side may be at risk as a result. Fabian Delph was recently chastised by Ancelotti following a social media argument with an Everton fan. Whether his place is at stake remains to be seen, however.\n\nMorgan Schneiderlin recently returned from injury to face Liverpool, but he has been inconsistent all season and isn’t popular with supporters. Tom Davies’ form has also dipped of late and he’s also starting to get criticised by fans. Ancelotti has Mason Holgate as a midfield option, but the 23-year-old is a natural defender so it may be a risk he’s unwilling to take.\n\nWith Andre Gomes (ankle) and Jean-Philippe Gbamin (thigh) out for the long-term, Everton may have to bring in another central midfielder before the January transfer window closes." ]

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[ null, "Karti Chidambaram in an announcement denied all allegations made towards him. (File)\n\nCongress MP Karti Chidambaram is prone to seem earlier than the CBI on Wednesday to affix the investigation into an alleged rip-off pertaining to issuance of visa to 263 Chinese language nationals in 2011 when his father P Chidambaram was the house minister, officers mentioned.\n\nKarti Chidambaram, who has gone on a visit to the UK and Europe with the permission of the Supreme Courtroom and a particular CBI courtroom, is scheduled to return on Tuesday.\n\nIn accordance with the particular CBI courtroom’s order, he has to affix the CBI investigation inside 16 hours of his return.\n\nThe case pertains to allegations of Rs 50 lakh being paid as bribe to the Congress MP and his shut affiliate S Bhaskararaman by a prime govt of Vedanta group firm Talwandi Sabo Energy Ltd. (TSPL), which was setting an influence plant in Punjab, the CBI FIR mentioned.\n\nIn accordance with the CBI, the work for establishing the ability mission was being executed by a Chinese language firm and was working not on time.\n\nA TSPL govt had sought re-issuance of mission visa for 263 Chinese language staff for which Rs 50 lakh allegedly exchanged fingers, in line with the CBI FIR.\n\nKarti Chidambaram has denied all allegations and mentioned “if this isn’t harassment, not a witch hunt, then what’s.”\n\nIn an announcement issued on Tuesday, he mentioned, “I’m heading again dwelling at present, as was deliberate once I left 2 weeks in the past for a piece/ family-visit journey to UK and Europe. It doesn’t intimidate me that the central authorities is as soon as once more utilizing its companies to accuse me of a malicious and utterly fabricated cost.\n\n“Beforehand, the companies have gone after me primarily based on the assertion of an undertrial homicide suspect. Now, they’re basing their bogus costs on the alleged actions of a deceased particular person, whom I’ve by no means met. I intend to proceed to battle each certainly one of their motivated makes an attempt to focus on my father by means of me,” he added.\n\nThe MP mentioned, “For what it is price, nonetheless, I firmly state that I’m not related to this visa concern immediately, not directly, vicariously and even telepathically! The allegations towards me by the CBI are ludicrous, to say the least. I categorically deny all of them.”\n\nThe company has alleged that Mr Bhaskararaman was approached by Vikas Makharia, the then affiliate vice chairman of TSPL, for the reissue of mission visas for 263 Chinese language staff working on the Mansa-based energy plant.\n\nThe CBI FIR, which incorporates the findings of the investigating officer who probed the PE, has alleged that Makharia approached him by means of his “shut affiliate/entrance man” Bhaskararaman, the officers mentioned.\n\n“They devised a back-door strategy to defeat the aim of ceiling (most of mission visas permissible to the corporate’s plant) by granting permission to reuse 263 mission visas allotted to the mentioned Chinese language firm’s officers,” it was alleged.\n\nChallenge visas have been a particular kind of visa launched in 2010 for the ability and metal sector for which detailed tips have been issued throughout P Chidambaram’s tenure as the house minister however there was no provision of reissue of mission visas, the FIR alleged.\n\n“As per prevalent tips, deviation in uncommon and distinctive instances may very well be thought of and granted solely with the approval of the house secretary. Nevertheless, in view of the above circumstances, the deviation when it comes to reuse of mission visas is prone to be authorized by the then House Minister…,” it additional alleged.\n\nThe CBI in its FIR on Might 14 has named as accused Karti Chidambaram, Mr Bhaskararaman, Mr Makharia, Talwandi Sabo Energy Restricted (TSPL), and Mumbai-based Bell Instruments Restricted by means of which bribes have been allegedly routed.\n\nThe case was registered underneath IPC sections 120-B (legal conspiracy) and 477A(falsification of accounts) and sections 8 and 9 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, they mentioned.\n\nMr Makharia allegedly submitted a letter to the house ministry on July 30, 2011, searching for approval to reuse the mission visas allotted to his firm, which was authorized inside a month and permission was issued, the officers mentioned.\n\nIt alleged that the cost of the bribe was routed from TSPL to Karti Chidambaram and Mr Bhaskararaman by means of Mumbai-based Bell Instruments Ltd with funds camouflaged underneath two invoices raised for consultancy and out-of-pocket bills for works associated to visas for the Chinese language staff.\n\nMr Makharia had later thanked the Congress MP and Bhaskararaman on e-mail, it added." ]

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[ null, "Ontario, Haldimand, and Seneca are portrayed here on the cover at the Carleton Island anchorage in the St. Lawrence River during May 1780. Ontario is setting sail for Niagara on a south wind and has just fired a morning salute from her starboard-bow 6-pounder. Later that year while sailing to Oswego to meet a British raiding party, she foundered in a severe storm. The wreck was discovered near Niagara in 1995.\n\nHaldimand made her last voyage in 1782 and then was moored against the bank on Aubrey Head at Carleton island, serving as a floating warehouse and transit camp for people awaiting passage by bateau or lake-vessel, until she settled into the mud. The wreck can still be seen underwater in Schank’s Harbour.\n\nSeneca, the large vessel on the left of the scene, served for at least nine more years. She delivered many United Empire Loyalists to their new homes around Lake Ontario, The Bay of Quinte, and the St. Lawrence River. Her ultimate fate is unknown, but she was probably condemned at the Kingston dockyard and demolished by Navy Bay." ]

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[ null, "Tagline : He is afraid. He is alone. He is three million light years from home.\n\nPlot : After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soon, however, E.T. falls ill, resulting in government intervention and a dire situation for both Elliott and the alien.", null, null, null, null, null, "Watched with my wife, the 7th grader, and the kindergartner. I only kind of half watched... It's been a long week. I really wanted to check out my youngest's reactions. Watching this with my 5 y.o. involved answering a lot of questions, but she LOVED it: wide eyed amazement, tears at the appropriate places, and shouts of \"YEAH!!!\" during the bike scenes. Some of the animatronics are definitely dated, but it's weird seeing these older movies with kids so used to everything being CGI... Even my 7th grader said that some scenes seemed really realistic, which surprised me.\n\nDream work indeed. An alien is stranded on Earth and a bunch of suburban kids attempt to help him get home. It's amazing to think that such a simple and standard story would go on to become a global phenomenon. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, directed by Steven Spielberg, blasted its way into pop culture and simultaneously became one of the most cherished films of all time. It's not hard to see why, for E.T. appeals to every member of the family, from the joyous set ups as E.T. stumbles around middle America suburbia, to the doses of magic so gleefully constructed by Spielberg's inner child. Those wishing to scratch away at the surface (and there are many who have previously) will find Spielberg affecting his picture with divorce subtexts (his parents divorce was known to upset him deeply), whilst the government \"villains\" show an astute aside to paranoia of the times and suspicions of political operatives. Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore and Peter Coyote star. The score, now famous and likely to bring about goose bumps with at the opening bars, is from John Williams, with cinematography coming from Allen Daviau. Shown in the main from a child's perspective, the film is still a wonder that charms and informs on repeat viewings. So much so that as it approaches its 40th birthday, its longevity and all encompassing appeal shows no sign of abating. Something that Spielberg and his crew can rightly feel very proud about. 9/10\n\nNow, we find the rowdy extraterrestrial getting used to life with his new ʻohana. However, a malfunction in the ultimate creation of Dr. Jumba soon emerges, which reinstates his destructive programming and threatens to both ruin his friendship with Lilo and to short him out for good!\n\nIt's Halloween night and video store clerk Stan Helsing just got stuck with a last minute request to deliver some videos. With his best friend, his best friend's date, and a smoking hot ex-girlfriend waiting to go to a party, Stan convinces them to take a side trip to Stormy Night Estates for the drop. But the group gets locked inside and Stan discovers he's actually Stan Van Helsing, descendan\n\nWhen Susan Murphy is unwittingly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk on her wedding day, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet-11-inches. The military jumps into action and captures Susan, secreting her away to a covert government compound. She is renamed Ginormica and placed in confinement with a ragtag group of Monsters...\n\nTwo teenage girls try to buy marijuana in the city - where they get kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychotic convicts.\n\nPitch, the mean-spirited devil, is trying to ruin Christmas. Santa Claus teams up with Merlin the Magician and the children of the world in order to save the day!\n\nThe Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs \"convincing\" that Katrina is not for him.\n\nJack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner gets killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...\n\nLilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumba's genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance, turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo, but Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong – and it's finally time to say \"aloha\".\n\nTita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.\n\nFour interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest." ]

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[ "You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience.\nDigital Communicator\nby Brent Dirks\nApril 21, 2015\n\nFirst announced more than a year ago, WhatsApp Messenger has just updated its iPhone app to include the long-awaited voice calling feature.\n\nStarting with version 2.12.1, users can call friends and family for no charge – even if they’re in another country. Voice calling uses your phone’s Internet connection, so data charges may apply. The feature is slowly rolling out over the next few weeks.\n\nAnd with the app’s new iOS 8 share extension, you can share photos, videos, and links to WhatsApp from other apps.\n\nThe quick camera button in chats will now allow users to capture or select photos and videos.\n\nFinally, along with the ability to edit contacts directly from the app, users can send multiple videos at once and crop or rotate them before sending.\n\nWhatsApp Messenger is designed for the iPhone and can be downloaded now on the App Store for free.\n\nAs you probably remember, the app was purchased by Facebook in a blockbuster $19 billion acquisition in early 2014.\n\nEarlier this year, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that the app has at least 700 million active users per month. And with the new voice calling feature, expect to see that number continue to skyrocket.\n\nFor other recent app news, see: Kayos is a new, futuristic endless runner from the developer of Boost 2, Weather Underground 5.0 adds a brand new design plus Apple Watch support, and Keep track of your credit card rewards from your wrist with Wallaby.", null, "Post perfect photos on Instagram for iOS with the app's new Color and Fade tools\nNothing found :(\nTry something else" ]

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[ null, "No Chak-Hee works for a big law firm. She is willing to take any risk to win a case and has become an ace attorney at the law firm. She is set to receive a promotion to a partner position, but a problem occurs on a case she accepted. Due to this, she almost gets suspended for a year. Instead, No Chak-Hee begins to work as a public defender. She hopes to return to her position at the law firm where she worked previously. As a public defender, she shares an office with fellow public defender Jwa Shi-Baek.\n\nJwa Shi-Baek graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute as the top student. He had his choice of becoming a judge, prosecutor, or attorney at a big law firm, but he chose to work as a public defender. He is enthusiastic with his work and also has a mysterious part of his personal life that nobody knows about.\n\nNo Chak-Hee and Jwa Shi-Baek don’t get along very well, but they get involved in a serial murder case. The victims are wealthy elderly people.", null, null, null ]

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[ "Units of the Syrian army that captured the strategic village of Harira in Wadi Bardi on Friday are getting ready for another massive operation in the Western and Northwestern parts of Damascus province to reinvigorate security along borders with Lebanon, military sources said on Monday.\n“The Syrian army and its popular allies’ next operation will hit militant groups’ positions in the villages of Kafr al-Awamid, Kafr al-Zeit, Deir Qanoun, Deir Moqren, Ein al-Fijeh, Basimeh and Afrah to trap the terrorist groups in a long circle of government forces, which finally will guarantee the security of Damarcus-Beirut highway and water supply lines to Damascus city,” the sources said.\n\n“In the meantime, terrorists failed to prevail over government forces’ positions in Bardi passage under the army’s heavy artillery shelling,” the sources added.\n\nOn Friday, the Syrian army and popular forces continued their advances in Damascus countryside by seizing back a strategic village in Wadi Bardi region.\n\nThe Syrian army and popular forces are now in full control of Harira village in the Northwestern part of Damascus province.\n\nHarira village is located three kilometers to the South of the city of Madhaya.\n\nThe liberation of Harira village has paved the way for the Syrian army’s recapturing more villages and towns in Wadi Bardi region.", null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "\nTopics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Natural Resources. A significant historical year for this entry is 1851.\n\nRegarding Rich Gulch. The site of one of the richest gold strikes in the history of the West. Stretches between the\nWest Fir Street and South Oregon Street. Follows\nold", null, "Click or scan to see\nthis page online\nhydraulically mined gulches and glory holes.\nWhen the gold deposits were worked out, and the railway bypassed Jacksonville in 1884, the city's economy slowed.\n\nAlso see . . .\n1. The Centennial History of Oregon Vol. 1, by Joseph Gaston. Internet Archive website entry: The Discovery of Gold in Oregon\nPack trains owned by James Cluggage and James R. Poole, camped for the night on the ground now covered by the town of Jacksonville; and after staking out their animals went in search of water up the little gulch south of the present town known as Rich gulch. From this discovery on Jackson Creek, the discoveries rapidly extended east and west until all the mountain regions of Jackson, Josephine and Curry Counties had been thoroughly explored, and many millions of dollars taken out. (Submitted on October 18, 2008, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.)", null ]

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[ "Because I know you will be back\n\nI’m sorry about what happened, for the loss you all feel. But he did it, no one else. And he is gone, quite a while now. You are not honoring him by creating a false nobility for him.\n\nThe time has come to let go of the dead, and to respect the living.\n\nBy his final act, he relinquished all claims on the house, the yard, on her, and their daughter. He abandoned them.\n\nAs he abandoned all of you.\n\nSo you show no respect with your actions here: no respect for her or her struggle to keep going since his departure. In fact, you are showing no respect for him. He wanted to be gone. He is gone. Let him be gone.\n\nYou are, in fact, making it all about you.\n\nAnd I can assure you: it is not about you. It is about her and the little one. She is still mourning the loss, although she is healing. She is as courageous as any woman, or man, I’ve ever known, with a beautiful heart.\n\nThe little one—I don’t think was even two yet, so it was early this year—said to me, one day, out of the clear blue sky,”My daddy went home.” And then she was on to something else.\n\nSome days, I look at those two and I wonder, “How could any man leave them like that?”\n\nIn fact, you probably know Jeff, who was Tony’s brother, and who lived on the property. Jeff still owes her two months rent. If you care so much about her, why don’t you go after him to pay up? I am forbidden to contact him: in his moral cowardice, he is once again hiding behind her. (This is not the first time.)\n\nIn this way you would be focusing efforts where you could actually do some good, if that is your intent.", null, "My brother Nate in 1973, second from right", null, "I know about suicide. The first guy to do it was my boy scout patrol leader at the age of 14. That was 45 years ago. Then my best friend’s dad dropped us off at school (Berkeley High) one morning and drove to the Bay Bridge and jumped off. Then another high school friend Brent and another guy I drank with in my early 20’s, Stuart … and the list kept growing: my brother, women I had dated, old school pals, drinking buddies, friends of my parents whom I knew well, on up to Greg, about five years ago.\n\nWhile I mourn them, the great and tragic loss, I do not forget that they took their own lives, causing immeasurable pain and chaos in the lives of people who loved them.\n\nI have lost everything—everything—more than once in my life, drunk and sober … and I have hung in because, as much pain as I was feeling, I could never get to that level of black-hole self-centeredness that is required to take one’s own life.\n\nSo allow me to reiterate that I feel for your loss, but it is time to look to the living, the ones who stayed, the ones who have the courage to keep going and be there for each other.\n\nAfter Greg and Tony died I was in so much pain, it was physical. And one day I was compiling a list of my people who had died and suddenly it hit me: I had to let them all go, let them all be dead, for my sanity and future happiness.\n\nAnd I respectfully suggest you do the same.\n\nI have never in my life seen more shit swirling around someone than I do around her. Everybody seems to have expectations of how she is supposed to live her life, with no consideration for her. People seem to believe they have some kind of dominion over the house, or over her, or both.\n\nThe fact that you took the time to find two sites of mine and, like a coward, post anonymously amazes both of us. And upset her, which makes you no friend of mine.\n\nSomehow, sometime, you will reveal yourself.\n\nMeanwhile, I will try to feel compassion for you and the rest of the meddlers, but I’m not doing a very good job, ‘cuz it never fucking ends." ]

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[ null, "This legit account of the difficulty within the Persian Gulf lines the Canadian Forces committment to the Gulf sector based on Iraqui aggression in 1990-1991. established upon their own studies, quite a few interviews, and unrestricted entry to reputable papers, they've got produced a candid account of price for either the army expert and the civilian.\n\nMany hundreds of thousands of books were written approximately global battle 2. those who take care of the complete warfare deal with it, after all, as an international conflict. yet particularly little recognition has been paid, utilizing an identical worldwide standpoint, concerning the prelude to warfare. This booklet makes an attempt the latter method. by means of taking a look at how disparate developments in Japan and its empire in Korea and China merged with different traits in Europe.\n\nAs soon as recalled just for The Whig Interpretation of historical past (1931) and Christianity and background (1949), Sir Herbert Butterfield's contribution to western tradition has gone through an wonderful revaluation during the last 20 years. What has been disregarded of this reappraisal is the fellow himself. but the strength of Butterfield's writings is weakened with no a few wisdom of the fellow in the back of them: his temperament, contexts and private torments.\n\nThe need for Canada to be seen as supporting a potential UN embargo of Iraq, rather than siding with the US in defence of Saudi Arabia, argued strongly in favour of naval rather than air or ground forces. There were also domestic concerns demanding urgent attention. 23 At the time of the invasion, the House was in summer recess and not scheduled to sit again until 24 September. But an early recall of parliament to deal with the Gulf deployment would provide the Opposition with an open forum to debate government action on the Oka crisis and the worsening economic situation.\n\n27 Although the onus was therefore squarely upon MARCOM, the planning circle was widened to include Air Command (AIRCOM) and Mobile 29 The Canadian Forces in the Persian Gulf: Operation FRICTION, 1990-1991 Command (FMC). They were directed to lend whatever support was required. To facilitate that, General Huddleston took the extraordinary step of allowing DIRLAUTH (DIRect Liaison AUTHorized) among the commands as appropriate to complete staff checks. The National Defence Operations Centre (NDOC), normally only a skeleton crew during the silent hours, also was activated to round-the-clock operations in order to be able to respond immediately to their requests.\n\n214. A captain in the navy is the equivalent of an army or air force colonel. See Appendix A for Canadian Forces rank equivalents. The Canadian Patrol Frigate (CPF) programme would add twelve new ships to the navy, expanding the traditional ASW function to include an ASUW capability and good AAW self-defence. The Tribal Update and Modernization Programme (TRUMP) was an expanded mid-life refit of the four DDH-280 Iroquois (\"Tribal\")-class destroyers, incorporating area air defence and command and control (C2) improvements, in order to give the fleet the ability to conduct truly independent Task Group operations in any threatened environment." ]

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[ null, "The suspect in the hit-and-run that killed a moped driver on Wednesday in the 3000 block of South Boulevard has been identified by police.\n\nElmer Galeas-Padilla, 23, was identified Thursday and is charged with driving while license is revoked and felony hit and run.\n\nGaleas-Padilla was driving a black 2005 Nissan Murano when he struck Jefferson Davis James, 56, after failing to yield to James’s moped when turning left onto New Bern Station Court, according to CMPD Detective J.B. Reibold. James’s moped wrecked into the area near the rear passenger door of Galeas-Padilla’s car.\n\nJames was taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nCharlene Simard, 50, was a passenger on the moped. She suffered injuries that were non-life-threatening, according to Reibold.\n\nGaleas-Padilla had been traveling northbound when he made the left turn. After hitting James, he fled southbound on South Boulevard, Reibold said.\n\nThe Murano’s license plate read DMP8296 and is of Texas. It also has tinted rear windows and chrome door handles, plus damage near the rear passenger-side door from where James’s moped hit it, Reibold said.\n\nGaleas-Padilla had been under monitoring from the U.S. Immigration Office, but he cut off the electronic monitoring ankle bracelet on Wednesday, police said. The man was seen last close to Arrowood Road and Interstate 485, according to police." ]

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[ "The Territorial Branches of the Polish Academy of Sciences integrate the research community within a given region of Poland and also act on the Academy’s behalf in contacts with the bodies of state administration, local government, and NGOs there.Each Branch is composed of the national members of the Academy who reside within the given region.The most recent addition is the Branch in Olsztyn and Białystok (headquartered in Olsztyn), created in 2015.", null ]

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[ "AMD shared some very good looking results in its third quarter 2019 financials. In fact the tech firm reported its highest quarterly sales figures in over a decade. However, at the time of writing, its share price is moving into negative territory (~ minus 2.5 per cent) in after-hours trading as most analysts had expected better. A cursory glance at the results tables reveals that weaker performing business segments dragged the company down.", null, "You can find AMD's official release, slides and webcast on its investor relations site. In summary, you can check over the tables above and below. On the surface, the Q3 2019 revenue was $1.801m, up 9 per cent YoY, and 18 per cent QoQ. More impressively net income was up 18 per cent YoY, and AMD enjoyed its highest quarterly earnings per share since Q4 2011 (up $0.05 to $0.18).\n\nPondering over our favourite PC tech company figures it is always essential to check through the segment results. Above you can see AMD's revenue and income broken down by business segment. You can see that Computing and Graphics is by far AMD's biggest segment with regard to revenue / income and was up and impressive 36 per cent YoY and QoQ. AMD said that there was notable strength in Ryzen and Epyc processor sales behind this. Unfortunately enterprise, embedded and semi-custom sales dragged down the results with revenue down 27 per cent YoY and 11 per cent QoQ.", null, "Some more details about the above trends were revealed in the conference call with Dr Lisa Su. The CEO confirmed that AMD \"increased net income significantly…all driven by our first full quarter of 7nm Ryzen, Radeon and Epyc processor sales\". Consumer sales of Ryzen chips were particularly strong and AMD was seeing success in expanding Ryzen orders into commercial, financial, retail, education, and healthcare. Laptop design wins with AMD processors were up 50 per cent this year and the Surface Laptop 3 15 was highlighted as a prestigious contract. Epyc processors sales were also strong with significant new customers like Twitter and Google using the powerful many-multi-core chips in servers.", null, "Moving onto GPUs, this area was roughly flat for AMD but helped by some high level cloud and HPC wins this year. In the near future AMD partners will start to ship PCs with Radeon RX 5500(M) GPUs. Meanwhile, Samsung smartphones powered by AMD graphics are starting to generate revenue for AMD.\n\nIf you remember from above that the semi-custom sales were a rough patch in the results - that is because both Microsoft and Sony are winding down current gen console production ahead of the ramp up of next-gen designs for Holiday 2020.\n\nPosted by KultiVator - Wed 30 Oct 2019 11:08\nThose figures are pretty good, especially since many have been waiting for the new higher-end Ryzens (e.g. the 3950x). The delays bringing these to market will have had some dampening effect on revenue.\n\nThe next couple quarters will see the top-tier Ryzen and ThreadRipper CPUs gain a foothold and start eating away at Intel's high-end desktop share… then there's the as yet unannounced GPUs with hardware-based ray-tracing to follow in the not so distant future (the Xbox Scarlett and PS5 dev kits include pre-production AMD GPUs with these capabilities already).\n\nDr Su's commentary stacks up better than the hype and hot air produced by Intel and NVidia these days.\nPosted by scaryjim - Wed 30 Oct 2019 11:09\nMarkets, huh? If I'm reading that right, both operating expenses and net operating loss went up, but they still managed to turn an overall 17% increase in net profit year-on-year. That despite what should have been an anticipated drop off in semi-custom revenues due to the console renew cycle.\n\nscaryjim\nMarkets, huh? If I'm reading that right, both operating expenses and net operating loss went up, but they still managed to turn an overall 17% increase in net profit year-on-year. That despite what should have been an anticipated drop off in semi-custom revenues due to the console renew cycle.\n\nWhere exactly do people think AMD are underperforming?!\n\nThat would imply the people doing the investing actually looked deeper than the figures… Most share buyers are semi-automated pension and hedge funds - always chasing the bottom line today not tomorrows.\nPosted by Tabbykatze - Wed 30 Oct 2019 12:54\nWonder if the business side will spike up as adoption for EPYC Rome increases?\n\nVery nice figures from AMD.\nPosted by will19565 - Wed 30 Oct 2019 18:30\nwhat could really eat into AMD is Intel releasing their Xe GPU's in 2020.\nespecially if they found a way to make them perform better with their own products (dunno about any potential legalities)" ]

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[ null, "A composer-performer based in Manhattan, James Pecore, 22, interweaves disparate traditions and theologies—both religious and queer, popular and avant-garde—throughout his work. He is the 2022 composer in residence with Inštitut .abeceda, a Slovenian ensemble for new music based in Ljubljana, and currently studies composition at Columbia University.\n\n​“I will write music until the day I die,” says James, an enthusiast. His vocal career started at age 6 as a countertenor or “boy soprano,” an uncomfortable experience. Discomfort inspired his personal anthem, “Never be ashamed of who you are.”\n\nHe actively composes works for orchestra, jazz ensemble, chamber ensemble, chorus, opera, and musical theater. He wrote (\"in between\") about binaries in music – contemporary and medieval, tonic and dominant – and in life for the New York Youth Symphony under the direction of Michael Repper and Matteo Paoli, and The Little Merman for the New York Youth Symphony Wind Orchestra. He also created a percussion work, Mirror Neurons for the highScore Festival and a solo oboe piece,_ Placid Lake_, for soundScapes Festival, both in Italy. He was a recipient of the 2018 Robert Scandrett Memorial Award for his arrangement of The Battle of Jericho, and his commission, Wintergale for Oregon Symphony associate concertmaster Peter Frajola was dedicated to those who died in the West Coast fires that summer.\n\nJames says, “I can’t wait to work with more passionate, expressive performers to make something beautiful, rebellious, and unique.”\n\nListen to Knit Inside Me for solo harp written by James in 2020.", null, "Incan history and the breakneck pace of globalization have inspired 28-year-old emerging composer Diego Berrospi Gutierrez from Peru. Diego extols the jungles, mountains, Spanish invaders, traditional gods, and ancient stories as a wellspring for his work. And yet, he says, “I am a citizen of the world … (who) can talk about life in Lima today or (in) the universe.”\n\nHe won national prizes for_ Zúmac Ñusta_, a choral work premiered by the National Choir of Peru, and Pacífico, a string trio performed in Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima; and a premiere and broadcast by Radio Universidad FM 107.5 of “Time, Devouring Time,” for soprano and piano.\n\nWhile being a contemporary classical music composer in Peru is not yet a common career path, Diego has begun paving the way for other composers as a co-founder of the Sinapsis collective, promoting contemporary music concerts, and as a member of the Laptop Ensemble at the National University. He believes his music is the manifestation of his historical, social, and human moment, and that’s why he will continue to “walk through the world to create”.", null, "The dual roots of Mieke Doezema’s raw and poignant music are New Mexico’s high desert and her work as an advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors in Washington state, where she studied cello performance and composition. In 2019, Mieke premiered an evening of electro-acoustical and large ensemble compositions including Drunk Masculinity, Evolution to Equilibrium, Forget Me Not, and Unwelcome.\n\n“My proudest moment as an artist was the premiere of my piece, Unwelcome,” Mieke says. “I wrote the violin solo with wind symphony for a colleague, friend, and trauma survivor to tell her story for the first time. That night showed me the power of art and music to give a voice to those who have been silenced and to tell stories that need to be heard.”\n\nMieke, 24, volunteered at Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services, where she received more than 50 hours of training and helped those traumatized by violence connect with critical community resources. Her experiences have inevitably enriched the poignancy and complexity of her art. As she tells the stories of others through music, she also examines who she is. Mieke has come closest to manifesting her authentic self in I Carry the Weight of Memories, a piece for solo piano.\n\nMieke won first place in the Western Washington Composers Competition, and Symphony Tacoma premiered her work Godless Galisteo on YouTube last year. Like many other works, Covid delayed or moved online first performances of her compositions, including Anthropocene: A Lament to Earth; Monsoon Season for solo marimba; and Reverie & Petrichor for music box and piano.\n\nListen to Mieke’s I Carry the Weight of Memories for solo piano.", null, "An encyclopedia of music, 22-year-old composer Sophie Fay discovered her passion in a high school orchestra class where she was handed a score of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide Overture. Later, she became one of only two artists accepted to Central Washington University’s Composition Studio. Sophie came out as transgender in 2018, and she is meeting the challenge of transitioning with music. Her moving work_ Fantasia and Fugue_ for solo piano was featured among a group of LGBTQ+ composers who created new works during Pride Month 2021.\n\n“I feel a need to fight back against bigotry in any way I can, and I’ve found,” Sophie says, “my voice in this battle lies in the power of art.”\n\nSophie’s horizons as a musician have been broadened by her life experiences: she discovered and immersed herself with a group of underground, low-income, transgender musicians who introduced her to abrasive noise music and the calming sounds of drone music. She works from the conviction that music should not be bound by style, media, or sound design.\n\nSophie’s published works include video game scores. “I look up to composers like Hitoshi Sakimoto and Motoaki Takenouchi,” says Sophie. “(Their) excellent video game soundtracks … have redefined the possibilities for colors in music, with exquisite bell tones and smooth modular functions.”\n\nListen to Sophie’s Fantasia and Fuge for solo piano.", null, "The youngest composer, Jonathan Wu, age 17, jokingly describes his charm to be “kind of all over the place.”\n\nHis devotion to writing music is anything but. Born in Shanghai, China, he moved with his family to Minnesota at the age of 12. Just a year ago Wu finished his composition, First Snowdrop for Solo Violin. It was premiered and recorded by violinist Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, director of the Emerging Composers Intensive. The performance received rave reviews. Every musician and audience member was awed that this work was Jonathan’s Opus One. He described the experience to be “nothing short of a miracle.” His success convinced him to pursue a career in composition.\n\nJonathan dreams of writing a full-length orchestral work. Jonathan began studying the piano at age 4. The vast repertoire and brilliant virtuosity of the instrument continue to be a rich source of inspiration for his writing. In addition to music, Jonathan is an avid tennis fan who owns a large pink fluffy tennis ball signed by three of tennis’s top stars.", null, "During the pandemic, Kian Ravaei’s daily ritual was playing a chorale by J.S. Bach at the piano and then composing an original chorale. Three hundred seventy-one chorales later, Ravaei has cultivated a deeply personal harmonic language and an obsession with the art of counterpoint. Like Bach’s chorales, many of Ravaei’s works appear to be simple on the surface, but underneath they are rich and filled with unexpected nuance.\n\nBorn in 1999 of Iranian immigrants, Ravaei spent his childhood playing jazz, producing electronic dance music, and singing in a rock band when he should have been practicing piano sonatas. His diverse output has included a book of piano preludes inspired by mythical creatures, a string quartet that synthesizes Western and Persian classical music, and an orchestration for dubstep DJ and producer Wooli.\n\nRavaei’s music has been performed by leading musicians such as interdisciplinary artist Anoush Moazzeni of the Iranian Female Composers Association, guitarist JIJI, and pianists Stefano Greco and Jihye Chang. He has been commissioned by notable organizations and ensembles such as the Canadian Music Centre and Salastina.\n\nAs of the 2021/22 season, Ravaei is a newly appointed Composer Teaching Artist Fellow with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He makes his home in Los Angeles, where he studies music composition with Richard Danielpour — one of his favorite living composers — at the UCLA Herb Alpert School\n\nWithin weeks of starting flute lessons at age 9, Alexa Letourneau began taping five pens together to draw a staff and write music. Now, listeners from Austria and Bulgaria to South Africa and Australia have heard her work. Also a flutist and vocalist, Alexa focuses on the bookends of classical music: the work of living composers and early music, especially German vocal music written prior to 1750.\n\nAlexa is a speaker for gun violence prevention and an activist for LGBTQ+ musicians. Her social justice commitments have informed the sound stories she has composed, including _Coming Out, Reflections on Life in the Close_t and Requiem, a mass for her father. According to renowned Austrian composer Gabriele Proy, Alexa’s use of unique timbral combinations creates an expressive sound that is \"poignant and intriguing, yet whimsical.”\n\nListen to Alexas’s Lamellae for guitar and violin.", null, "Cixian Lu, 31, has embodied the extreme edges of Chinese classical music and culture. Her piano studies began at age 3; she debuted as a Chinese Kun Opera soprano at 12; and she premiered a techno-chamber piece for vocals and piano in Sanskrit at 24. Sacenme Subhute, incorporated chanted Buddhist scriptures, a Chinese Kun soprano, and piano with accordion and electronic sounds approximating water. The piece was a meditation on the question, “Why so?”\n\nDark comedy enters Cixian’s work more than once. A slightly vicious, thoroughly amusing piece of contemporary fiction by Courtney Sender, What to do with the Pain in Your Chest, formed the basis for a work of the same name that premiered on Fresh Squeezed Opera, and Peter Smyth’s colorful comic strip To Never Speak Again provided the text for her eponymous chamber work. In More Than a Number, a multimedia presentation, premiered at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, Cixian used piano music, poetry, electronic sounds, video, and the shuffling of tiles and bingo markers to explore wanting to be more than “Number Three daughter of Number Two son.”" ]

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[ null, "Published by Seth Barr for American Live Wire\nElon Musk is an entrepreneur, investor, and inventor who Google CEO Larry Page said he would give his fortune to.\n\nThe South African born boy taught himself computer programming when he was 12 and now at the young age of 42, Elon Musk is the CEO of Space X, Tesla Motor Inc., and Solar City.\n\nGoogle CEO Larry Page said he would give his fortune to this man. Image Courtesy: Wikipedia\n\nElon’s goal with these innovative companies is to better mankind by producing greener technologies that combat global warming and he hopes to expand human life by sending people to Mars within the next 10-20 years.\n\nSpaceX designed the family of Falcon launch vehicles and the Dragon multi-purpose spacecraft from the ground-up; and in 2012 with the Dragon vehicle Space X became the first commercial space exploration company to dock with the International Space Station. Musk views space exploration as very important venture in preserving human life.\n\nTesla Motors builds electric power train vehicles and developed the first electric sports car the Tesla Roadster; the Model S sedan has been quite popular, and the Model X a minivan/SUV is scheduled to begin production sometime this year.\n\nSolarCity is the nation’s leading provider in retrofitting homes and businesses with solar systems and vehicle charging stations. Both Tesla and SolarCity are look to use electric energies sources more efficiently to help fight global warming.\n\nGoogle CEO Larry Page whose estimated personal wealth is around $32.3 billion dollars, told Charlie Rose at a TED conference on Wednesday, that he wanted his money going to capitalists like Musk, who have big ideas for changing the world.\nRead more\n\nAnother CES, Another Year Dominated by Alexa" ]

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[ "First snowfall of the season for Waterloo Region", null, "You may have noticed something different falling from sky Tuesday afternoon, as parts of Ontario experienced their first snowfall of the season.\n\nDepending on where you live, you may have noticed it on the ground as well.\n\nEnvironment Canada Meteorologist Rob Kuhn said he certainly noticed, “Ironically I was mowing the lawn trying to get it in before it came.”\n\nThe Kitchener resident said before he was able to finish the summer-like job, conditions changed on him quickly.\n\n“I saw a few showers and then what looked like clear little ice pellets. Then shortly after that we actually did see wet flurries here. You could see snowflakes sticking, mixed with showers.”\n\nOnly two days after Halloween, Mother Nature has dropped the first flurries of the season for most of Southern Ontario.\n\nAnd not everyone enjoyed the burst of winter weather.\n\n“I saw the first snowfall this afternoon and it was not a happy sight to be sure,” Resident Maja Kokotovic told CTV News while taking a stroll through Kitchener’s Victoria Park.\n\n“I could do better if it waited a couple more weeks,” Kitchener resident Scott Hamilton stated, while promptly adding that his favorite season is summer and not winter.\n\nResidents in Grey Highlands woke up to nearly 2 cm of snow on the ground Tuesday afternoon, most of which melted by the afternoon.\n\nViewers in Port Elgin and Elmira also sent in videos of the blistering winds and white flakes.\n\nKuhn said it is right on que, “A typical first snowfall of the season around here is the first half of October to the end of November.”\n\nThe timing is a bit of snow-ja-vu for residents of Southern Ontario.\n\nCoincidently, exactly one year ago, Waterloo Region and area woke up to three centimeters of snow on the ground.\n\n“We woke up and it was white,” Kuhn remembers.\n\nThat was the first accumulative snowfall of 2020, which happened one year and just a few hours before the first flakes of 2021 arrived Tuesday.\n\nAs temperatures continue to slowly drop, the chance of precipitation changing form is inevitable.\n\n“At less than 4 [degrees] you can start to see a wet snow mix,” Kuhn explained.\n\nAccording to Environment Canada, the daytime high in Kitchener was 5.5 degrees at the noon hour, with winds nearing 40 km/h making it feel even colder.\n\nFor those who aren’t ready for winter, the bright side is that we were nowhere near our snowfall record for this day.\n\nMost people may be happy that Mother Nature at least waited until after Halloween this year.\n\n“The earliest ever we’ve had a trace of snow reported, September 23rd, 1950 ,” Kuhn said, thankful, that was just the one occurrence." ]

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[ null, "Text description provided by the architects. In the frame of the centennial commemoration of World War I, the architect duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh was commissioned by the municipality of Hooglede (BE) to realize a reception pavilion for the German Military Cemetery. More than eight thousand German soldiers who fell in the region during the Great War are buried at the German Military Cemetery. The cemetery dates from 1917 when the area was in still German hands. Today, the cemetery is located in a typical Flemish suburban context, surrounded by agricultural lands and traditional allotments.\n\nThe concrete pavilion functions as a reception infrastructure that - depending on the viewing direction - frames different fragments of the environment. The pavilion is inspired by classical arch architecture, which can also be seen in the historic Honor Hall of the cemetery but also presents a new interpretation of this historical architectural vernacular. Gijs Van Vaerenbergh cut six diagonal vaults at different angles out of a massive volume of 9x9x5m. A complex vault and columns structure of varying shapes and dimensions define the covered space. An over-dimensioned column accommodates a subtly integrated lavatory space.\n\nEach vaulted space frames another fragment of the surroundings: the cemetery, the surrounding landscape and the allotments on the other side. Yet, depending on the viewing direction - the pavilion also frames fragments of itself. This creates a pictorial play of arc in the arc that brings to the fore the way the play of light affects the vaults. As such, the pavilion functions as a kind of viewing machine that brings both itself and the environment to the fore. The floor around the pavilion was conceived as a spatial installation that reflects the wish to make the entrance zone a space that functions as an important addition to the overall staging of the cemetery.\n\nA dark concrete surface was divided by a fracture pattern, which refers to the broken and blackened landscape at the time of the war. Various concrete fragments were removed at strategic locations to make space for greenery and planting. The landscape design was realized in collaboration with LAMA landscape architects. With Six Vault Pavilion, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh continues their work on themes the duo experimented with earlier in other installations. The 'cutting' is an important strategy in their thinking and design process, yet in this work, it is applied in a completely novel way.\n\nPreviously, Gijs Van Vaerenbergh realized internationally acclaimed projects such as Reading between the Lines, Labyrinth, Upside Dome, Framework and Arcade. The works of duo Gijs Van Vaerenbergh inevitably demand to be framed within architecture or the visual arts, and yet neither of both frameworks are fully satisfactory. Founding architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh developed since their studies a parallel practice in which they employed their technical and theoretical know-how for an experimental research. The output of that research varies from works in the public space and architectural structures to sculptures and smaller work.", null, null ]

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[ null, "A man who held off Waupaca police for an hour is now in custody.\n\nOfficers were dispatched to the area of Main and Granite streets for a suspicious person shortly before 10:40 a.m. Monday, March 4.\n\nThe man refused to drop the letter opener and refused to exit the road.\n\nHe told police that they would have to shoot him and he threatened to stab a K9 if it approached him.\n\nAfter about an hour of negotiations, the man dropped the letter opener and was taken into custody.\n\nNobody was injured during the incident.\n\nHoelzel said the man was transported the ThedaCare in Waupaca for medical evaluation and a mental health assessment.\n\nThe police are still investigating the incident, Heolzel said." ]

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Starting from the 90s, they’ve been raised restricted by the mentality of their dad and mom who had two forms of opinion: the one they appreciated and the opposite one they disliked.\n\nThe Ultimate Solution For Russian Woman Today That You Could Learn", null, "Anybody fascinated with finding a Russian brides should concentrate on Russian courting scammers. I’d suggest search Russian scammers using distinctive engine to receive detailed information about presence of any Russian woman on relationship scammers black lists. Actually great tool. It would not actually matter in case you are a beginner or a pro on the subject of Russian online courting — having somebody who can answer your questions and tackle your concerns at all times may be very comforting. We all the time verify whether or not a particular website affords fixed buyer help.\n\nThe Appeal Of Russian Women\n\nAny lengthy-term relationships with a Russian lady are based on these factors: 1) Mutual understanding It is the primary way to obtain concord in relationship with a Slavic lady. 2) Learn how to listen For Russian ladies, relationship means being with somebody, who can listen to them and share thoughts, a person capable of perceive them. These qualities are rather more helpful to them than cash and status.", null, "Seeing the life-dimension portray The Russian Bride’s Apparel at the Legion of Honor is a should to your bucket listing. It is astounding how painter Konstantin Makovsky crammed so much element-style, emotion and otherwise-right into a single, albeit gigantic, work. Take time to study each character, together with the none-too-happy bride, to imagine what every was pondering on this depicted second.\n\nTry to be acquainted that ladies from small Russian cities and cities largely don’t converse another language besides Russian. However, it’s fairly possible that a few of them could know different East Slavic language (Belarusian or Ukrainian). Unfortunately, for the foreigners it won’t be much helpful of their effort to communicate with the girl. In this case, it only stays to depend on women from large cities (such as Moscow and Saint Petersburg) the place they’ll speak English or different overseas languages much regularly.\n\nMales might not pay attention to cultural variations on the subject of ladies from Russia, and it is not stunning. Nicely, in case you are positive that you like the girl, you shouldn’t be afraid of misunderstandings, primarily as a result of the fashionable Russian mail order brides are conscious of doable issues like language or tastes the distinction, and are prepared to resolve them together, discovering compromises and trying to find the very best resolution. This is likely one of the most distinctive features of a traditional Russia woman’s character that makes the life with them simpler.\n\nIt is easy, many Russian brides don’t like men who run after them. Like puppies that beg for bone. Russian women love those who make them feel particular. However not at all those who require their attention 24 hours a day. They don’t like those that speak about love on their first date. They are attracted by hunters who slowly set a lure. The Russian bride should feel like a victim, who, no matter how much she did not resist, still already fell into the web of a predator.\n\nHistory has confirmed that Russian women are forces to be reckoned with. They have left their marks on the world all through the ages, and new waves of cultural arbiters proceed to do so. From anarchists to great leaders, from activists to pioneers within the arts and sciences, listed below are just some of probably the most compelling girls within the history of Russia.\n\nThese are attempting occasions for Odessa. After the annexation of Crimea, professional-Russian forces are stirring rigidity on this Black Sea port, and there are weekly standoffs between demonstrators who want to be part of Ukraine and those that need closer ties to Russia. But for all the political and economic chaos that has engulfed Ukraine previously three months, one industry remains to be thriving: the web romance trade.\n\nThe collective made world headlines for their protest tune inside Moscow’s Church of Christ Our Saviour, and subsequent arrest and detention. Originally an activist group protesting the remedy of Russia’s marginalised LGBTQ+ group, the members expanded their activism to protest against Putin’s government. Now world pop-culture icons, the balaclava-clad ladies exposed Putin’s intolerance to dissidence, and people all over the world rallied behind them during their incarceration. A number of of the members had been a part of the equally anarchistic Viona collective beforehand, which were additionally recognized for his or her outrageous protest performances and stunts." ]

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[ null, "National Grid is to trial Levidian’s “gamechanging” LOOP device, which, the developer says, aims to “turbo charge the UK’s access to hydrogen”.\n\nOn 27 January, Levidian announced that National Grid had signed up to trial the device as part of a world-first bid to boost the amount of hydrogen in the UK’s gas supply. Its LOOP device works by using plasma technology to separate methane into its constituent atoms – carbon, which is locked into high-quality graphene, and hydrogen, which can then be used immediately or stored for use in future. It said the project could allow National Grid to reinforce parts of the gas pipe network by using graphene as a corrosion-resistant internal coating, ensuring it can carry increased quantities of hydrogen and be less likely to crack.\n\nIt further mapped out how reinforcing the network using graphene could increase the UK’s ability to transport and access clean hydrogen. Existing infrastructure could be repurposed, with disruption minimised and it made far easier for consumers and businesses to make the switch over to hydrogen.\n\nIt also noted that National Grid will be trialling LOOP’s ability to reduce the combustion CO2 potential of the UK’s gas on a larger scale. When run through the device, natural gas gets replaced with a hydrogen-methane mix, with no loss of energy potential. Considering how heating, cooking and other industrial processes account for 37% of the UK’s CO2 emissions, Levidian labelled the project as a “huge opportunity” to make progress on ramping up the amount of hydrogen used across the country.", null, null, null, "Centrica joins up with National Grid for green hydrogen project" ]

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[ "I say appreciate the small stuff, especially when it turns out to be the good stuff.\n\nSo recently I’m behind the wheel returning home from a meeting in Ft Lauderdale to Tampa and I’m off in driving dreamland …..", null, "Suddenly, I wake up to find I’m in the middle of infamous Alligator Alley on I-75 with not one bar left on my gas gauge—whoops……\n\nMy next thought “I’m done and what am I gonna do not if —but when I run out of gas here?!” The thoughts went from “I should have signed up for AAA to I’d give anything to have jumped on the 15 previous exits when I had a chance!”\n\nKnowing the end was soon near, I saw in my horizon an exit on an Indian Reservation with a warning that this would be the last one for the next 40 or so miles….I was damn lucky.\n\nMy point—so many times in life we dwell on the bad things and forget all the times we could have been dealt a worse hand.\n\nFrom police giving us warnings, to a stranger finding our wallet to yes, finding an exit when you made mental reservations and suddenly found an oasis in the form of an Indian reservation. I appreciated being spared the next few hours on a side of an empty highway.\n\nSometimes we need to all sit back and appreciate the times we absorb the good stuff albeit when its the little things.\n\nAvoiding minor disasters, our first stop around the Naborhood. Make sure your tank is full and as always, appreciate you stopping by!\n\nFIRED UP ON FIREWORKS: OK, I don’t hate many things but there are some exceptions—-the Yankees, rude people, middle seats,lima beans and of course …..Fireworks??! Never have liked them and really don’t get them.", null, "I admit, I used to hate them more when my kids were babies. The monotonous neighborhood sounds of firecrackers and bottle rockets would force bedtime to be moved hours back but these days all the background noise is just a nuisance. For me, you’ve seen one fireworks show, you’ve seen them all. I like sparklers with my girls but I just don’t get all the excitement.\n\nIn this day and age of Social Media, you have grown men and women putting pictures of their fireworks on Facebook or Twitter?? ( all of the pics look the same by the way and there is a reason for that–BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL THE SAME SHOW!!)", null, "What really gets me is the Fireworks fanatic who buys so many they let them loose not just on the 4th but for the days and days after the 4th. This is the same guy who loves fireworks so much he or she lights them off for everything that smells like a holiday.\n\nHow bout we keep it simple—New Year’s Day and our country’s birthday and that’s all we need right? Let’s put a stop to Cinco De Mayo and St Patrick’s Day fire fiestas??\n\nOk, I’m done ranting but Fireworks are the most overrated thing we have but several subjects are in their hemisphere. Here are my top five overrated things—feel free to share your list…\n\n(2) REALITY TV—Started off interested and somewhat curious but can’t stand it now. Its ruined modern TV and has hurt creative people whose shows tnow never get a chance because this stuff is produced so cheap. I long for the days of Cheers, All in the Family and more recently Curb your Enthusiasm…let’s say goodbye to Big Brother and the like…..\n\n(3) AMUSEMENT PARKS: Every time I wait in a long line with my kiddos on a hot day for something that lasts about :30 seconds–I get the feeling that everyone in heaven is laughing at me? Its really crazy when you think about it. My exception–I love water parks but I’ll pass on the others except if my girls want to go, I promise I’m not grouchy with them.\n\n(4) BED AND BREAKFASTS: They may be nice and cozy but when I’m on vacation, I don’t want to share a table with another family—nothing personal!\n\n(5) THE ROYAL FAMILY: They seem nice and all but why do we pay so much attention to them…..", null, "AMC RECLINERS: You have overrated and then you have overpriced. I’m talking going to the movies and even more specifically buying popcorn and a drink. Its crazy to me how the industry of movie theaters scratches its head over why attendance is down when they abuse the consumer.\n\nIt troubles me because I love going to the movies and want them to succeed. I don’t want to see the experience slip like other favorite pastimes such as buying a book at an actual bookstore or grabbing my morning paper out of my driveway in logging on the internet—two American pastimes I fear will be gone in the next 10 years. Hopefully going to the movies won’t be going with it?\n\nRecently help may be on the way as my favorite movie chain AMC is on to something big.TheWall Street Journal reports that the movie theater chain is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to install fully reclining La-Z-Boy-style loungers in more than a third of its auditoriums. That will mean fewer chairs, but AMC is betting it will also translate into higher ticket sales.", null, "The company has already had success with the idea: Attendance at its 37 previously “reseated” theaters has increased 80 percent, indicating that people can be lured away from their couches and video streaming services with the promise of a big screen and comfy chairs. Similarly, box office revenue was up more than 60 percent at those theaters, AMC Chief Executive Officer Gerry Lopez told the Journal. That’s uplifting news for the U.S. film industry, which has seen domestic ticket sales remain little changed over the past 10 years, according to the Motion Picture Association of America.\n\nMY NEW FAVORITE BASEBALL PLAYER: Unlike many in the media, I will not judge my baseball team until the All-Star break (yeah I still believe in my recently red hot Rays). There are too many Mr May’s and June’s out there—-its a long season folks??? I will pass judgement on a big league player who is now my favorite in the majors.\n\nI like athletes who are different not for the sake of being different but are just true to themselves. I recently heard an interview with Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy and loved his honesty. His Milwaukee teammates pick on him relentlessly for being a Nerd and he simply embraces his inner geekdom.", null, "This self proclaimed Star Trek fanatic grew up in Eustis, Florida and unlike many of his peers is an avid reader.On the road instead of hitting the bars, he hits the local museums but isn’t a snotty intellectual, he clearly fits in with his clubhouse and can roll with all the kidding.\n\nOh yeah–Lucroy also is armed with a great story. He was undrafted out of high school where the Florida native was ignored by baseball coaches from Florida,FSU and Miami so his only option was to play at Louisiana-Lafayette where he turned himself into a major leaguer. This season he was named to the All Star team where he is one of the best defensive catchers in the game and currently is hitting .327. Hardly nerdy numbers for a MLB player who is easy to pull for.\n\nNOBODY ASKED ME BUT….I’ve said it often here that I’ve never had a problem with Lebron James. The guy has never been in trouble off the court and the biggest so called mistake he made resulted in a decision that gave millions of dollars to charity. He can’t help it that ESPN drools over him like a teenager at a One Direction concert.\n\nCan you imagine the NBA without him though??? The Spurs are great yet boring. Carmelo is selfish, Kobe is aging and nobody wants to talk about Donald Sterling anymore.\n\nLebron is a free agent again and can do whatever he wants but if I was him I’d take my Cleveland mulligan and dribble back home. He won in Miami—now he CAN go home again and win there while winning over a home base he clearly still has feelings for. Nobody in Miami will feel the way Cleveland felt when he leaves South Florida. Its one of the worst sports cities in our country.", null, "James back in Cleveland along with Johnny Football—-now that is a Nike fantasy. Maybe King James will keep Manziel away from Beiber too…..\n\nEXTRA POINT: Enough of this futbol—I smell the real stuff right around the corner…." ]

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[ null, "The group, which operates mostly on WhatsApp and social media channels, has distributed over 17,000 water bowls across India so far.\n\nSunny Jain was strolling around his neighbourhood one day when he saw a dog drink water from a dirty puddle. Moved by what he saw, he placed a spare bowl outside his house and filled it with water. Over the next couple of days, the bowl had become a watering hole for not just dogs, but goats, cats, cows, and birds of various species.\n\nInspired by his actions, Sunny’s neighbours started putting bowls out too. That slowly sparked a trend in his locality in Tumkur – around 70 kilometres from Bengaluru – where everyone started placing bowls of water outside their homes to quench the thirst of birds and animals.\n\nSunny turned this humane gesture into a movement of citizens and animal activists, calling for one simple deed – place bowls of water everywhere for animals. He created a group on WhatsApp called ‘Water for Voiceless’, and began distributing free bowls of water to animal lovers in and around Tumkur and Bengaluru.\n\n“Five years ago, I saw a puppy die, and that changed my life. I don’t consider myself an animal lover, but I love to serve animals,” Sunny says.\n\nThe group focused on Bengaluru in its initial days to perfect the distribution system, but has since expanded to Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hosur, and Bellary. The cement bowls come in two sizes – the big ones are for animals, and the small ones for birds. People interested in placing them outside their homes can pick them up from volunteers located closest to them.\n\nThe group, launched nearly five years ago, has so far distributed more than 17,000 bowls across the country. Resource distribution and logistics were some of the issues Sunny and his team had to grapple with in the initial days, but as more volunteers joined the cause, they were able to iron the kinks out.\n\nWith the mercury hitting record highs every summer in India and resulting in the deaths of hundreds of animals and birds, Sunny Jain’s initiative has been lauded by local celebrities, politicians and police departments, as well as attracted donations by the droves.\n\n“I always pray to God to fill my pockets with so much wealth that I can help each and every animal and bird on earth,” Sunny says. In its early days, the initiative was completely funded by Sunny. Now, people can ‘pledge’ water bowls on the group’s Facebook page, or on one of its WhatsApp groups.\n\nThe group says residents of Indiranagar, Bengaluru have been the most proactive, with nearly 500 bowls placed in the area. However, one animal lover in the area complains that local municipal workers often take the bowls away for no reason.\n\n“We’ve tried to reason with the local municipal corporation but they keep taking the water bowls away, saying dogs and animals accumulating in the area cause nuisance to people around,” a resident said.\n\nAnother group that does similar work is Hyderabad-based Animal Water Bowl Project (AWBP), started by Lakshman Molleti, a software engineer. The group is most active in Telangana – Hyderabad, Secunderabad, Medchal, Ranga Reddy – as well as across Pune and Thane.\n\nBoth Sunny’s and Lakshman’s efforts have had a huge impact especially in rural areas where people depend on their livestock for economic purposes.\n\nIn 2019, swathes of pastoral cattle breeders in the Kutch region had to migrate to other areas after severe droughts in the area and heat strokes killed their animals. Even after the district administration opened grass depots for cattle and offered subsidies on animal fodder, nomadic communities continued to suffer and lose hundreds of livestock to heat and droughts.\n\nEven though the situation is slightly better in metropolitan cities with animals activists and lovers pitching in in to place bowls of water, hundreds of animals die every summer due to heat stroke and thirst.\n\nFrom the man who rescued 70,000 animals to the NGO uplifting Adivasi farmers, the top social stories of the week\n\nLast year, more than a hundred elephants, deer and leopards migrated from Uttar Pradesh to the forests of Nepal, according to a report by the Daily World, due to a severe drought in the area. Sunny’s next goal is to place water bowls in forests and animal reserves.\n\n“WFV’s vision is to provide free water pots all over India, including in the forest ranges, with the help of forest departments,” Sunny says.\n\nThe group has already placed bowls in forests in Tumkur and Krishnagiri, in collaboration with forest officers, but strives to expand its reach to serve more animals.", null, null, "Hamari Pahchan aims to make Delhi safer, works to provide an identity to everyone", null, "Back to basics: when mud, bamboos, and timber houses help fight climate change" ]

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[ "IOA seeks feedback from athletes, coaches on resumption of training", null, "Conceding that the risk of athletes losing motivation in the ongoing lockdown is real, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Tuesday sought the views of athletes, coaches and other stakeholders on how to restart the national camps.\n\nNational Sports Federations and State Olympic Associations have been asked to collect feedback from the stakeholders such as athletes, coaches, support staff, central and state government ministries, match officials and sports administrators on how and when training should resume. The lockdown has been extended till May 17.\n\nThe stakeholders are being asked to respond to a questionnaire and the feedback will be collated and compiled to form a White Paper under IOA President Narinder Batra.\n\n\"Training of the athletes was at the peak when the lockdown was enforced and the athletes had to stop their training at once, although it differs from sport to sport. The risk of athletes & coaches losing motivation is real,\" the document released on Tuesday read.\n\n\"In the present scenario, we will have to find out what is the way forward and how athletes can resume sports activities, training and eventually competitions,\" it added.\n\nSports Minister Kiren Rijiju has also spoken about a phased reopening of national camps by the end of this month.\n\nThe IOA, however, made it clear that the resumption of sports will have to be guided by the public health policies laid down by the central and state governments.\n\nEighteen National Sports Federations (NSF) and 16 state Olympic associations (SOA) have been asked to send the collated responses from the athletes and other stakeholders so that a draft White Paper is prepared by May 20.\n\nAfter that, the remaining NSFs and SOAs have been asked to submit the responses by May 31 so that a final White Paper is ready in June.\n\n\"IOA President, Secretary General and Chairman Preparation Committee will consult experts and oversee the compilation of the White Paper as well as ensure effective implementation of the training/competition programme and remove hurdles, if any,\" the document said.\n\nThe athletes and the other stakeholders have been asked seven questions which will include the right time and strategy to resume training, changes they foresee in sport when it resumes after lockdown with regards personal hygiene, social distancing, self-protection and precautions that need to be taken.\n\nThey are also being asked whether they would want to see spectators in-stadia when competitive sport resumes.\n\nThe NSFs have been told to reach out to elite, developing and former athletes as well as the international and national level match officials while the SOAs will seek response from the state, district and club level athletes as well as state health and sport ministries.\n\nThe NSFs and SOAs have been tasked to get responses from doctors, virologists and sports medicine experts also.\n\n\"Are resources for cleaning and santisation available? How can athletes' time in shared facilities be limited? Are isolation areas available in/near training and competition venues?,\" these are also among the questions being asked.\n\nThe Sports Ministry on Tuesday told aspirants for this year's national sports awards to e-mail their nominations in view of the lockdown to contain the COVID-19 pandemic as it began the process for selecting the multiple honours, including the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.\n\nThe process, which usually begins in April, was pushed to this month because of the lockdown, which is into its third phase and will end on May 17.\n\nThe last date of filing nominations has been fixed at June 3.\n\n\"Nominations received after last date will not be entertained. The Ministry will not be responsible for any delay,\" the circular stated.\n\nThe athletes are rewarded through the Arjuna and Khel Ratna, which is the country's highest sporting honour.\n\nFor this year's Arjuna and Khel Ratna awards, the performances from January 2016 to December 2019 will be taken into consideration. As is always the case, athletes with dope taint will not be considered.\n\n\"Sportspersons who have been penalized or against whom enquiry is pending/ongoing for use of drugs/substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) based on a sample collected by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)...will not be eligible for the Award,\" the ministry stated.\n\nThe Khel Ratna comes with a prize money of Rs 7.5 lakh, while the Arjuna awardees are presented with Rs 5 lakh.", null, null, null, "'F1 season likely to hit glitch after July take off'" ]

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[ "PGA Tour players are longer off the tee than ever before thanks to both club and ball technology. Professional golfers have also implemented a large improvement to their diet and exercise regimen.", null, "Champ may have failed to live up to the hype, but at his age, he is still a phenomenal player. The 2018 Utah champion and PGA titleholder is known as the longest hitters on the PGA.\n\nThe influence of Sean Foley enlightened this young talent and took Champ under his wing at a very early age. Together, they put Champ on the right track to success.\n\nAll in all, this two-time PGA tour winner is a remarkable talent.", null, "The Northern Ireland Native is one of only three players to be victorious in four major tournaments by age 25.\n\nAs result, his long win streaks have created a massive following and a huge fan base. With the ability to hit bombs off the tee, his second-longest drive on the Tour is always and attraction.", null, "One of the few left-handed golfers on tour, Bubba is an astonishing player to watch. His championship victories have proven he is a multi-talented player and a threat to be reckoned with.\n\nSuccess at the Masters Tournament in 2012 and 2014 are only a couple of the highlights of his career. One of which is generating astonishing ball speed placing him on the list of 10-longest drivers on the Tour five times in his career.\n\nAmong the longest drivers on the PGA Tour, he averages 312.3 yards and a total distance of 29,983 yards.", null, "Dustin Johnson’s win at the 2016 U.S Open at Oakmont Country Club was his first major championship victory. Since then, he has won the World Golf Championship six times, making him second only to Tiger Woods.\n\nDustin is among the longest drivers on tour averaging 312.3 yards, and total length of 28,715 yards with 92 drives.\n\nThis 35 years old golfer is only the third player to win a Tour title in each of his first 13 seasons.", null, "Tony Finau had a very different sports career path to follow in his early days. But, fate brought him to golf, and he began his PGA Tour Canada back in 2013 – making seven cuts in eight starts.\n\nThe 29-year-old golfer then won his first title at the Stonebrae Classic in August 2014. He finished 8th in the regular season and won his 2014-15 season PGA Tour card.\n\nAt the Puerto Rico Open, Finau won his maiden title on the PGA Tour in March 2016.", null, "This professional golfer from Denver won the Golfweek Player of the Year in 2016 after winning the Pac-12 conference championship.\n\nIn 2017, Wyndham finished in a tie at Web.com Tour which then earned him his card for the 2018 season where he had 24 starts. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he played and played well having four top-10 finishes. After finishing the season at 16th on the tour money list, he finally qualified for the PGA Tour’s 2018-19 season.\n\nHis best moments on the PGA Tour took place in March 2019 during the Honda Classic. He made it to the final round but he fell back to the seventh place.\n\nWyndham Clark is on the longest drivers list with an average distance of 311.3 yards. With only 134 drives, he covered a total distance of 41,718 yards.", null, "Showing remarkable growth during the quick rise of his career, one of his early highlight rounds came as a tie at the Rex Hospital Open.\n\nHis accomplishments finally led to playing on a sponsored exemption. Next, he tied for the eighth position and that is when his career took off. After that he won the Barbasol Championship in July of 2017 gave him his first PGA Tour victory.\n\nAs a result his long ball averaging 310 yards and totaling 22,322 yards with 72 drives, his reputation has grown as a formidable opponent.", null, "After securing his first win on the European Tour at the Portugal Masters, he then started to earn his reputation. It was not until his second European Tour victory where he truly started making his mark in the golf world.\n\nHe earned his European Tour card for 2014 after completing the European Q-School hence retaining his card for the next year with a finish in the ninth position.\n\nLucas Bierregaard is another name on the list for the longest drivers on the PGA Tour in which his average driving distance is 309.8 yards, with 39 rounds in which the total length of 17,346 yards.\n\nShortest Drivers on the PGA Tour\n\nLooking through the year of 2018-2019, we have a top 8 players for the shortest drivers on the PGA Tour.\n\nWith that said, these stats prove that you do not need to be one of the longest drivers to be successful on the PGA Tour." ]

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[ null, "\nSEOUL -- Based on Chairman Chey Tae-won's strong interest and motivation, South Korea's third-largest conglomerate SK Group is pushing for the active expansion of its alternative food business through bold investments and strategic partnerships with foreign and domestic companies. The initial goal is to lead Asia's alternative food market with high potential.\n\nSK Inc., an investment-oriented holding company of SK Group, partnered with STIC Investments, a domestic venture capital, to invest $55 million in Perfect Day on top of its first investment estimated at $45 million in 2020 in the U.S. protein fermentation company which has developed processes of creating dairy proteins, including casein and whey, by fermentation in microbiota, specifically from Trichoderma fungi in bioreactors, instead of extraction from bovine milk.\n\nChey has shown interest in alternative foods by posting pictures of Perfect Day products including ice cream on his personal Instagram account in August. \"The best one is the vanilla ice cream made with fermented dairy protein,\" he said, adding it was difficult to conjure up the taste of vanilla with alternative dairy protein.\n\nIn a separate deal published on October 1, SK Inc. forged a partnership with SPC Samlip, a bakery brand of South Korean confectionery and bakery giant SPC Group, to make joint investments and find business opportunities by introducing technologies from Perfect Day as well as Meatless Farm, a British company that produces vegan, plant-based meats which are made primarily from pea protein.\n\n\"We will increase global business opportunities and strengthen our global position as an ESG alternative food investor by utilizing our unique strengths, global investment capabilities and various networks,\" SK Inc.'s green investment center head Kim Moo-hwan said in a statement. He said SK Inc. would tap Asia's alternative meat markets through collaboration with SPC Samlip and China's Joyvio Group, which is the largest producer of blueberries and kiwis.\n\nEnvironmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is a trendy corporate operation method that focuses on the use of green energy and environmentally-friendly management. Chey has called for the quick adoption of ESG to cope with climate change and ever-tightening regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nSK Inc. and Joyvio agreed in July to create an alternative food investment fund, invest in alternative protein manufacturing such as plant-based meals and protein fermentation, and push for cooperation with food tech companies such as vertical farming, which is the practice of growing crops in vertically stacked layers and often incorporates controlled-environment agriculture.\n\nSK Group has spearheaded a push by domestic companies to expand the base of alternative food markets. The domestic alternative meat market is still small, but market researchers forecast rapid growth. According to data from the Korea International Trade Association(KITA), alternative meat would account for more than 30 percent of the global meat market by 2030 and 60 percent by 2040, as concerns over animal welfare and food security spur the global demand for meat alternatives.\n\nMany companies and researchers in South Korea and other countries are trying to establish a new paradigm for the mass production of plant-based or cultured meat by lowering costs through technological advancements. Potential factors of consumer acceptance are healthiness, safety, nutritional characteristics, sustainability, taste and lower prices.\n\nPlant-based meats imitate meat and are most commonly made from soy, peas, beans, mushrooms, mung beans, or wheat gluten. Cultured meat is produced by in vitro cell culture of animal cells. The production of cultured meat used to be expensive, but costs have been lowered through technological advancements. Biomass fermentation uses high-protein content and the rapid growth of microorganisms to efficiently make large amounts of protein-rich food.\n\nIn 2021, there have been a series of investments by major South Korean companies to launch or expand their businesses in alternative food markets. SK Inc. invested about 29 billion won in Nature's Fynd that has developed an alternative protein source rich in nutrients using microorganisms and self-fermentation technology found in the Yellowstone National Park.\n\nA month later, Shinsegae Food affiliated with South Korea's retail group Shinsegae released an alternative meat brand starting with lunch meats, known as cold cuts, which are precooked or sliced and typically served in sandwiches or on a tray. Shinsegae enhanced the taste and flavor of alternative meat using soybean protein and vegetable oil and fat ingredients and implemented ham's unique elasticity and chewy texture using polysaccharides extracted from algae and fiber." ]

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[ null, "It could debut early next year.\n\nThe SEAT Ateca was the Spanish automaker’s first foray into crossovers and SUVs, debuting for the first time in 2016. Now, the Ateca is ready for a refresh, and new spy photos show SEAT performing brake testing in the Austrian Alps. This isn’t the first time we’ve spotted a camouflaged Ateca. Photos of two Ateca prototypes first appeared earlier this month, and the new photos aren’t much different than the ones spotted earlier.\n\nLike the previous spied Ateca crossovers, the latest spy photos show the crossover’s front end heavily camouflaged. However, this prototype doesn’t look much different from the crossover that’s currently on sale. That likely means this is an early prototype of the new vehicle. Customers should expect the usual mid-cycle refresh goodies – a new grille, front bumper, and headlights. While the rear is naked, it will likely still feature a redesigned bumper and a new taillight design.\n\nIt’s clear the SEAT Ateca is in early development stages. Future test mules could have significantly more camouflage. There are rumors the Ateca could receive the same plug-in hybrid powertrain that’s coming in the next-generation 2020 SEAT Leon. This mid-cycle refresh likely means powertrains should remain the same, or similar to what’s offered now. Customers should also expect some improvements inside as well, such as potential updates to the infotainment when the new Ateca launches. Other updates could include new materials and colors.\n\nIt was just over three years ago when SEAT dove into the crossover game with the Ateca. It’s a young crossover, so it’s unlikely we will see the refreshed model debut anytime soon. The SUV is in its early test phase, which means we likely won’t see the new Ateca until early next year. It could debut at next year’s Geneva Motor Show in March before going on sale later next year.", null, "What Does Top Gear Think Of The Ford Mustang Mach-E Vs Tesla Model Y?", null, null ]

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[ null, "Pedal To The Metal\n\nChris Impellitteri would like to thank the following,\nGod, my girls Ashley, Brittany, and Roni, my Fender Stratocasters,\nThe band – Curtis, Glen, James and Ed, also Greg for capturing the power of this band,\nand everyone who works in our office and accounting.\nAll our friends at JVC Victor – Shin, Tak, Seigo, Katz, Aya, Kak,\nOur fans around the world, Brian! Labreque for the fan web site,\nKei at Young Guitar magazine, Burrn magazine, Fender Japan, Masa Itoh,\nCaptain Wada, Aki at Virgin Publishing and all of the pres that help to support IMPELLITTERI,\nall of our friends at Track Record that helped us make this recording,\nAl, Tom, Mike, Ryan and all the runners who got us everything we needed in the state of California,\nEric’s Guitars for fixing my guitar!!!!!!\n\nJames Pulli would like to thank the following,\nMy family, George, Jean, Frank and Christopher Pulli", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Moscow infrastructure and prices neck in neck with Europe’s", null, "Moscow is being constructed and expanded, and it is getting more beautiful. Source: Igor Stepanov\n\nThe first days of the New Year in Moscow witnessed some changes, many pleasant, and some alarming.\n\nHiked parking prices in the city centre can be considered one of the pleasant changes in Moscow. This is a forced measure, as the number of cars in the Russian capital has increased more than four times over the last two decades to 4 million. In fact, Moscow's population of 12 million is larger on working days, as many employees resident outside the city commute to Moscow for work.\n\nMoscow traffic jams became commonplace a long time ago, so the city administration resolved to take an unpopular measure, that is to increase the price of parking to 80 roubles (around $2.40) an hour. The parliamentary opposition party, A Just Russia, is planning to launch a petition for a referendum on the issue. Yet faster traffic in the centre is visible to the naked eye.\n\nTo compensate for costlier parking the mayor’s office has been taking measures to improve public transport. Some busy Moscow roads now have special lanes for buses and trolleybuses. Car drivers entering this lane will face a fine of 3,000 roubles (about $100).\n\nThis year, 9 new stations will join the existing 190 stations of the Moscow metro, which transports 6.4 million passengers daily. The administration is planning 64 more stations to be constructed by 2020. The double-track mileage of the subway’s 12 lines will increase by 137 kilometres from the current 317 kilometres.\n\nIn addition, in 2014 Wi-Fi will become available on all subway lines.\n\nThe New Year also promises completion of huge transport projects — reconstruction of several motorways and the commissioning of a federal motorway to the Sheremetyevo international airport.\n\nMoreover, the authorities pledge special ‘smart’ traffic lights. The united control centre is to change the operating modes depending on the road situation, which is expected to provide a more effective flow of traffic and reduce traffic jams.\n\n2014 will also see new high-speed trams running up to 80 kilometres an hour, seven times faster than usual trams, mini-trains of five coaches with a walk-through.\n\nChanges for the better are pleasant. Yet the prices disappoint.\n\nFrom November 1, Moscow residents will face an increase of public utilities tariffs by about 7 percent. Many explain the hike was delayed till autumn ahead of the election of the Moscow legislature — those in power obviously do not want to risk facing public anger. Yet Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has described the looming growth as “an all-time minimum”.\n\nMoscow strives to make itself a global financial hub\n\nDemolition of old five-story buildings built back in the early 1960s, Khrushchevkas, will continue this year. This word was derived from the name of a former Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, who introduced fast pre-fabricated house-building technologies following WWII. About 3 million square metres of newly-built housing is to take their place.\n\n2014 may break records in terms of newly commissioned selling spaces. By experts’ estimates, Moscow will see the emergence of over 500,000 square metres of new retail trade facilities, which is 11 percent more than in 2013. Besides, over 1.3 million square metres of offices are scheduled to be built, which indicates 40 percent year-on-year growth.\n\nMoscow is being constructed and expanded, and it is getting more beautiful. One should not miss a winter stroll along the old Tverskaya Boulevard, the location of the Itar-Tass office. Its refurbishment was completed in late-2013. The boulevard now boasts of new paths and benches. Trees decorated with LED garlands are enticing admirers from the suburbs in the evening, who are wondering if they have all of a sudden found themselves in Paris or London." ]

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[ null, "Fresh deets on TomTom's forthcoming GPS are starting to flow in, and hopefully we'll know about all there is to know by the time this unit shows off on the CeBIT floor. While we'd been led on by the FCC leaks seen just hours ago, it looks like TomTom's marketing department took the easy route with regard to titling, as they've purportedly settled for TomTom DUO. Quite literally one-upping the ONE, this squared-off handheld GPS will reportedly play nice with TomTom's PLUS services, support handsfree calling over Bluetooth, and of course, offer up an elusive (albeit enticing) interaction with a docking station. The dock is suggested to include an FM transmitter for piping navigation audio throughout your vehicle's sound system, as well as allowing external DAPs to be heard through more than just a built-in tweeter, but we're still waiting to see if TomTom plans on this being a standalone unit or if it fits better integrated into one's dash. Per usual, keep it here for (more) emerging information.\n\nIn this article: bluetooth, cebit, dock, docking station, DockingStation, duo, fm, fm radio, fm transmitter, FmRadio, FmTransmitter, handsfree, nav, navi, navigation, tomtom, tomtom plus, TomtomPlus\nAll products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.\nShare\nTweet\nShare" ]

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[ "In their call, the groups emphasized this the Nov. 8 election is the first presidential election in 50 years without a fully operable Voting Rights Act.\n\nIn letters to Wisconsin election officials and officials in the other 49 states, the groups cite their concern with the loss of Section 5 of the VRA. The letters state, “Since Congress has failed to pass a bill to restore the VRA, which has resulted in DOJ’s lacking authority over voting changes in places that Congress determined in 2006 should continue to have federal oversight, we are extremely concerned that there will be widespread voter discrimination in the upcoming presidential election.”\n\nTo blunt the impact of voting discrimination, these organizations are engaging in a massive litigation effort and an election protection campaign to protect voters at the polls, including in Wisconsin.\n\nEfforts to turn back several statewide discriminatory voter laws in the courts have been effective, but voters have little protection from local election changes, the misapplication and misunderstanding of new voting restrictions by poll workers, or threats of intimidation from polling place vigilantes.\n\n“The loss of Section 5 and the most racially bigoted presidential campaign in generations has created a perfect storm for voter intimidation and voter discrimination,” said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. “State election officials must address these unprecedented threats head on by creating and publicizing clear plans to prevent intimidation and discrimination, and to make it unequivocally clear to the voters they serve that the elections they oversee will be safe, fair, and free from intimidation, violence, and discrimination.”\n\nRead the letter from the rights groups\n\nOn behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect the civil and human rights of all persons in the United States, and the 86 undersigned organizations, we write to express our grave concern over the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). We urge you to develop a plan to ensure that no one in your state is disenfranchised in the upcoming election.\n\nAs you know, the VRA protected the voting rights of racial and ethnic minorities in several states and local jurisdictions where they had been historically discriminated against in voting. These jurisdictions were covered by Section 5 of the VRA, which required the Department of Justice (DOJ) to approve any changes to voting in specific states and localities. However, in 2013 the U.S. Supreme Court’s devastating decision in Shelby County v. Holder negated the pre-clearance requirement and the DOJ’s authority to send observers to covered jurisdictions. Following Shelby, numerous states have passed voting laws, which several federal courts agree have a disparate impact on people of color and language minorities. In the case of North Carolina, for example, the courts found that the state’s massive bundle of voting restrictions, passed within weeks of the Shelby decision, targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision.”[1] Evidence shows that restrictive voter laws also suppress turnout of the elderly, [2] people with disabilities, [3] and students. [4]\n\nAnd while some courts have taken action to block discriminatory laws in states like North Carolina and Texas, these decisions came only after years of costly litigation during which impacted citizens were blocked from voting in the 2014 elections and this year’s primaries. Meanwhile, there is no way of knowing how many potentially discriminatory voting changes are being made by cities, counties, school boards, water boards and other local jurisdictions that were previously required to be precleared. According to “Democracy Diminished,”[5] a report by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., “more than 85% of preclearance work previously done under Section 5 was at the local level.”\n\nSince Congress has failed to pass a bill to restore the VRA, which has resulted in DOJ’s lacking authority over voting changes in places that Congress determined in 2006 should continue to have federal oversight, we are extremely concerned that there will be widespread voter discrimination in the upcoming presidential election. This is exacerbated by the fact that there will be no DOJ observers holding jurisdictions accountable. In the 2012 general election, the Department of Justice sent 780 federal observers to 51 jurisdictions in 23 states. [6] Following the Shelby decision, DOJ has said it will not deploy election observers in 2016. The potentially detrimental effect of the absence of this critical voter protection tool cannot be overstated. [7]\n\nGiven the many recent examples of post-Shelby voting discrimination, we urge you to be vigilant regarding potential voter disenfranchisement in your state this November.\n\n9to5, National Association of Working Women\n\nAmerican Association of People with Disabilities\n\nThe Center for Popular Democracy\n\nFriends of the Earth – United States\n\nInstitute for Science and Human Values\n\nThe Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights\n\nLeague of Women Voters of the United States\n\nPeople For the American Way Foundation\n\nWorld Without Genocide at Mitchell Hamline School of Law\n\nYoung People For, a program of the People For the American Way Foundation", null, null ]

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[ "After all the recent news about Amazon’s successes and expansion — 2017 Prime Day and the planned acquisition of Whole Foods — the company’s second quarter financial results, for the period ending June 30, let a bit of air out of the balloon.\n\nWhile revenue for the quarter was up 25 percent over the same period last year — higher than forecast — profit missed Wall Street’s expectations. Amazon’s increased expenses were responsible for the 51 percent decline in operating income, from $1.29 billion for Q2 2016 to $628 million in Q2 2017.\n\nAfter some initial skittishness, Wall Street again embraced Amazon’s strategy of robust spending to maintain revenue growth. The year-over-year share price is up roughly 30 percent, to nearly $1,000, at time of writing.\n\nAmazon Web Services, the cloud-computing provider, was a bright spot, contributing an increasing percentage of revenue and profit because its gross margins are higher than other business segments. Amazon Web Services is the company’s main growth driver, growing 42 percent over the same quarter last year.\n\nIn its guidance for next quarter, Amazon is giving a very broad range, predicting operating income between a $400 million loss and a $300 million profit.\n\nLast week Amazon announced a new returns policy that lets customers return products purchased from marketplace sellers who are not part of the FBA program — without contacting the sellers. The policy also includes a “returnless refunds” feature that makes certain products that are expensive to ship eligible for refunds without being returned by customers. This is an opt-in program for sellers; they do not have to adopt it. The program is set to start on October 2. Seller reaction has been overwhelmingly negative, especially to the returnless refunds policy, which sellers see as a boon for scammers.\n\nIn an ironic twist for a company that used to be known for its catalog sales (the ecommerce of its time), Sears announced that it will be selling its Kenmore appliances on Amazon. Kenmore was once a top appliance brand with a 27 percent market share in 2003. Sears’ physical footprint in the U.S. has shrunk from 3,400 stores in 2007 to just 1,400 stores now.\n\nKenmore’s smart air conditioners are already on sale on Amazon and are eligible for free shipping. They can be synced with Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant. The Kenmore appliances will also be shipped for free.\n\nIn an effort to expand its online ordering program with pickup at local stores, Walmart announced in July that it was expanding its pickup towers to 100 more stores, adding to the 20 that already exist. The program appears to be a hit with consumers and Walmart is trying to expand the program quickly before Amazon starts its brick-and-mortar distribution system from the Whole Foods chain it recently announced it would acquire.\n\nCustomers who place an in-store pickup order online receive an order number and digital receipt. At the store they input the code into Walmart’s kiosk machine to retrieve their package. The code can also be scanned from a customer’s smartphone. Within 45 seconds, the item is dispensed on a conveyor belt through a door in the machine. Mark Ibbotson, executive vice president of central operations for Walmart U.S., said the Pickup Tower is “much like a high-tech vending machine.”", null, "Walmart announced in July that it was expanding its pickup towers to 100 more stores, adding to the 20 that already exist. Customers who place an in-store pickup order online receive an order number and digital receipt. Image: Walmart.\n\nWalmart is enticing customers by offering a pickup discount. Originally limited to 10,000 items, the discount is now available on almost a million items, according to Jeff Lore, president and C.E.O. of Walmart eCommerce. Discounts vary by product as the company essentially passes on savings from not having to ship products to the customer. A flat screen terlevision reportedly comes with a $50 discount.\n\nWalmart also offers pickup services for groceries ordered and paid for online, within four hours of the order. The retailer has equipped 800 stores with same-day pickup service for online grocery orders and is testing a 24-hour automated grocery pickup kiosk at a store in Oklahoma.\n\nStore employees transfer the groceries to customers’ cars in a designated area of the parking lot. The 20-by-80-foot kiosk contains up to 30,000 products, including frozen and refrigerated items. Fifty-five percent of Walmart’s $300 billion annual revenue in the United States comes from groceries." ]

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[ null, "Like many genealogists with Irish immigrants, I don't have a great deal of information on my Irish family in Ireland.\n\nSamuel Neill immigrated as a single man in 1864, arriving in Canada's New Brunswick Province with his married brother Joseph and Joseph's young family. The Neills were living in Limavady when they left Ireland for Canada. Their immigration information appears in Brian Mitchell's Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. COOKE Line and the McCORKELL Line (Genealogical Publishing Co., Balto., MD. 1988).\n\nSamuel's brother Joseph was married in Ireland before the family's immigration to the United States:", null, "On 16 January 1862 at the Derrymore Presbyterian Church, Joseph NEIL[sic] and Ann BRYCE[sic] were married by Wm. [JAMISON?], with witnesses of Wm. MC INTOSH and John ARCHIBALD. Joseph was of full age and was a bachelor who lived in [Taques] Hill in the parish of Drumachose. Joseph was a servant, and was the son of John NEIL[sic] who was a laborer. Ann was a spinster of full age and was a servant living in White [??] in the parish of Drumachose. Her father was James BRYCE, a laborer.\n\nSamuel and Annie Murphy were married in New Brunswick in 1865. Unfortunately there is no additional information on the family in their marriage record there. Nothing is known about Annie's Irish origins other than she was born in the late 1830s/early 1840s and was a native of Ireland.", null, "The Neills moved to near West Point, Hancock County, Illinois in the late 1860s and remained there until their deaths. Research in Hancock County has not located any information related to Annie's Irish origins. The Neills settled in Hancock County likely because Joseph's wife, Anne Brice, had family already in the area.\n\nSamuel and Joseph supposedly had several siblings. One may have been a Roseanna Neill who died in Ireland.\nPosted by Bubba at 9:25 AM" ]

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[ null, "A Polk County man is behind bars and facing robbery charges for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from a Sam's Club in Brandon.\n\nOn Wednesday, July 8, 2020, at approximately 6:00 p.m., Kent Hickman, 32, entered the Sam's Club located at 2021 West Brandon Boulevard and asked to speak with a manager. The suspect threatened he had taken two Sam's Club employees hostage in a van outside and ordered the manager to give him \"everything in the safe\" in return for their release. The manager, who feared for their employees' lives, directed Hickman to the safe and gave him a bag of change. Hickman said it wasn't enough. Fearful of what he might do, the manager opened the store's vault and gave the suspect a black plastic bag containing tens of thousands of dollars in it.\n\nThe suspect was seen on surveillance footage completely covered, with a camouflage long-sleeve shirt, hat, green mask, and gloves. Surveillance video from outside the store captured him leaving in a white Ford F-150 with nerf bars, a trailer hitch, a ladder in the bed of the truck, and a \"4x4\" decal on the passenger side of the truck. HCSO's Eye On Crime cameras also caught that same truck traveling on 78th Street and Causeway Boulevard earlier in the day. This allowed detectives to identify the truck's license plate and who it was registered to.\n\nDuring a search of Hickman's home, HCSO deputies along with deputies from the Polk County Sheriff's Office discovered a plastic bag with the stolen money in it. At this time, Hickman was already in jail in Polk County for an incident that occurred within the Bartow Police Department's jurisdiction.\n\n\"It's hard to believe this suspect thought he could come into Hillsborough County, commit a crime, and return home with a bag of cash,\" said Sheriff Chad Chronister. \"Thanks to our deputies and their teamwork with the Polk County Sheriff's Office, we were able to track this man down and he will face serious consequences for not only the money he stole, but the emotional distress he caused to Sam's Club employees.\"" ]

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[ null, "\nTwo people are facing charges of manslaughter over the death of a British woman who died bungee-jumping in Spain.\n\nKleyo De Abreu, 23, from London, was killed on 21 July in Lanjaron, Granada, while jumping from the Tablate Bridge.\n\nThe Guardia Civil has opened an investigation against the owner of an adventure company and a bungee jump supervisor with her death.\n\nA statement from Spain’s national police force said on the day of De Abreu’s death, a single supervisor was responsible for a group of 14 young people. The supervisor’s duties included monitoring security, assembling ropes, harnesses, timings and authorising the jumps.\n\nThe supervisor had been left to monitor 14 people taking part in the bungee jump, which was “not enough” to guarantee customer safety, police said.\n\nThe monitor's role was to secure the ropes and harness before authorising the person to jump.\n\nAfter attaching the harness to Ms De Abreu, the supervisor moved away to tighten the ropes, and there was believed to have been a “lack of communication or understanding” and Ms De Abreu jumped before being given the order.\n\nMs De Abreu had already jumped from the bridge once and died on her second attempt, apparently hitting the wall of a smaller, older bridge below.\n\nMs De Abreu, an aspiring fashion student from Brixton, had been visiting her aunt in Spain, who was watching when the accident happened.\n\nSpeaking after her death, her father, Bernard Atwell, said: “Every father will say this, but she was very special. She was a very beautiful young woman who had all her life ahead of her.”\n\nBungee jumps at the site cost €35 and usually include a video of the experience with the option to have a second jump on the same day for just €15.\n\nThe jumps take place over a 250 ft ravine above the old Puente de Tablate where thrill seekers dive backwards and freefall 60 ft until the bungee cord stops their fall and they come springing back up again.\n\nThe site is near the town of Lanjarón in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada about an hour’s drive south of Granada.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Venkatesh is one of the few actors in Telugu cinema who has delivered hits consistently throughout his illustrious career spanning more than 25 years. Right from his first film Kaliyuga Pandavulu to his recent film, Masala, he has tried his best to play different roles and his admirers have lapped it up most of the times.\n\nOver the past couple of years, his career has taken a different turn and since he has openly declared that he’s eager to do multi-starrers, a lot of new doors have opened up for writers and directors to think in a different angle for such films. In a recent interview, when he was asked to comment upon the actors in the current generation, he said that each one of them has their own distinct style. “The best thing about Telugu cinema is the fans. They are always supportive and even if someone has delivered flops, the moment a film becomes a hit they’ll continue to support them,” he said.\n\nHis humble nature and interest in spirituality is quite well-known in the industry and also among his fans. It’s one of the several reasons why he’s admired so much. Meanwhile, Venkatesh has already signed up to play one of the lead roles in Krishna Vamsi’s next film, which also stars Ram Charan. This untitled film is likely to go on floors in January, 2014." ]

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[ null, "While you loyal T-Mobile users have patiently braved the news of Moto's RIZR Z3 passing FCC inspection, getting some love on Vodafone Germany, and receiving a relatively glowing review, it's about time it sashayed over to your carrier, huh? If that's you, go on and circle March 12th on your current mobile's calendar, as that'll be the day when it gets overshadowed by a newer, sleeker handset. Reportedly, the MOTORIZR Z3 will be launched on T-Mobile just over a fortnight from now, and will sport a two-megapixel camera with video capture capabilities, music playback, stereo Bluetooth, quad-band connectivity, speakerphone, voice recognition software, predictive text input, and a 220 x 176 resolution screen, just like we've gotten used to. No word on what T-Mobile plans on charging for the device, but be sure and hit the read link for the full promotional sheet.\n\n[Thanks, TJ and the Fish]\nIn this article: launch, moto, motorola, release, rizr, rizr z3, RizrZ3, usa, z3\nAll products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.\nShare\nTweet\nShare" ]

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[ null, "Samsung has admitted a bug in its newly launched Galaxy S5 phone is causing the handset’s camera to die.\nThe Galaxy S5 was released earlier this month, with its camera widely regarded as one of the smartphone’s most impressive features.\nMultiple reports on Internet forums and social media cited an issue with the new smartphone’s camera, in which a “Warning: Camera Failed” message appears.\nWith the error message popping up, the Galaxy S5 camera will be disabled permanently. Users reported that resetting or even flashing the new software, has failed to fix the issue.\n\nSamsung is committed to providing the best experience for customers. We have learned that a limited number of Galaxy S 5 devices may have an issue that causes ‘Camera Failure’ pop-up error message.\n\nThe customers experiencing the error are asked to call 1-888-987-4357 or visit their carrier for service under Samsung’s standard limited warranty.\n\nCustomers affected by the issue have been advised to contact their mobile service providers or Samsung directly." ]

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[ "A few years ago, I realized the only fitness idol I needed was a brilliant octogenarian Supreme Court justice fighting her fourth round of cancer on a few hours of sleep and a withering regimen of push-ups and planks.\n\nEven through the pandemic, CNN reported on April 1, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg kept up the grind, continuing her squats and presses at the Supreme Court gym. Her workout attire included sweatsuits with cheerful variations on the term “diva.” She gritted her teeth and didn’t hide that she was trying. She kept her glasses on.\n\nAmid a virtual onslaught of etched-out abdomens and “fitspo” hashtags urging us toward maximum hotness, it was remarkable to have an 87-year-old woman whose trademarks included a combination of fierce intelligence, stubborn longevity and physical strength emerge as not just an American icon but also a fitness icon. Justice Ginsburg was notable for embracing exercise as a performance tool — not for boosting how she looked, but for how she worked. Watching her invest in her own strength for the sake of it felt like the literal definition of empowerment.\n\nHer athleticism — like so many parts of herself — was something she defined on her own terms, on whatever schedule was available to her.\n\nAs the journalist Irin Carmon noted: “One reason Ginsburg might have been reluctant to retire is that like many women of her generation, it took so long for her to get a chance, and even longer for her to become the person she was supposed to be. She did not even begin to be a ‘flaming feminist litigator,’ as she would later describe herself, until she was 37 years old.”\n\nDiscovering her athletic potential came even later, long after most conventional definitions of one’s physical prime. Growing up in the typical postwar American environment where the boys played the sports and the girls watched (or in her case, twirled batons), Justice Ginsburg started working out only in her final quarter of life, as a means of advancing her recovery from colon cancer in 1999.\n\nThat was when she started lifting weights. And doing squats. And arm presses. Toning her 66-year-old arms, chest, legs, back, shoulders, glutes and abs. By 2017 when someone asked her who the most important person in her life was, she joked that it was her trainer, an Army veteran named Bryant Johnson.\n\n“I found each time that when I’m active,” she explained in 2019, “I’m much better than if I’m just lying about and feeling sorry for myself.”\n\nIt’s hard to think of another older American woman who has simultaneously been renowned for her formidable intellect, her professional power and her gym habit. (Of course, that may be because when it comes to analyzing female leaders, we simply have fewer to choose from.) We live in a culture that still loves to separate jocks from nerds. Regardless of your gender, Justice Ginsburg’s example suggested that those divisions are false — you can be smart, powerful and strong all at once.\n\nJustice Ginsburg’s value as a role model for the hundreds of women who’ve followed her into the law and onto judicial benches across the country has been well appreciated and will, rightfully, make up the bulk of her legacy, along with the ways she helped shape the law to support under-represented groups in court.\n\nBut to me, it was also powerful to watch her lead by example in terms of shaping what it means to act like modern older woman, especially when it came to her relationship with her body.\n\nJustice Ginsburg upended models of what exercise for women can be, particularly for older women in a country that values youth. She wasn’t working out to look smaller, to take up less space. Her gym habit was both a visible symbol of her toughness and her willingness to reinvent herself, but also a signal of her determination to endure.\n\nAnd if she could, I could.\n\nThe last time I was tired from a marathon session of Zooms, I remembered that three weeks after major cancer surgery in 2009, Justice Ginsburg still showed up for the State of the Union address. What was my excuse? I went for a jog.\n\nWhen I was sick of running last fall while training for a race, wondering if my fastest times were behind me, I remembered that well into her 80s, Justice Ginsburg was still doing 20 push-ups, sets of 10 at a time, and she wasn’t exactly sleeping in either. I could do the final few miles. I could handle the pace, too.\n\nWhen I was tired last night writing this, fretting over unsent emails and languishing lists of to-dos, I remembered that just months ago, Justice Ginsburg criticized her fellow justices for leaving “women workers to fend for themselves” when it came to contraception, participating in the case’s oral arguments from a hospital bed because of a gall bladder condition. She didn’t give up. I was fine.\n\nLindsay Crouse (@lindsaycrouse) is a senior staff editor in Opinion.", null, "‘The Most Bipartisan Impeachment’", null ]

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[ "What readers want from author appearances\n\nSo I made this storefront thing. You can get a flask.\n\nA couple really nice reviews have hit the web recently here and here. Great sites you should add to your RSS reader toot sweet.\n\nAlso, friend-of-the-blog Dana King (GRIND JOINT) was nice enough to chat me up this week, as were the WSPR folks yesterday and the Book Chatter tonight with me and Neil Smith, John Rector, Johnny Shaw, and Stacey Cochran.", null, "And next week I'll be in Richmond and New York City, reading and signs tens of copies of my book. These two events will consist of standing in front of people and trying to be entertaining or interesting enough for them to feel like it was worth the bother.\n\nI expect it's a nerve-wracking experience. Writers don't always handle this well. At a reading once, William Faulkner became so nervous, that he defecated down the back of trousers.\n\nI don't expect it to get that bad.\n\nHere at DSD, I've talked about readings and author events. But that was in the abstract. Now this is kinda concrete, Lord willin and the creek don't rise.\n\nAnd by \"concrete\" I mean the thing that hits my head if and when I pass out trying to read in front of people. What if I mispronounce something? What if I skip a line? What if there's a typo on the book? What I look up and see two people talking instead of listening to me because oh lord am I that boring but maybe they're talking about me and maybe they're saying how they were told I was a good writer but look at me up there now who do I think I am after all I'm no Karen Russell hell I'm not even Russell Karen who is that oh that's the guy I went to summer camp with and he shit himself in archery class oh you mean like William Faulkner?\n\nSo, you know, the reading.\n\nI'm told to keep it under four hours and that handing out $100 bills to the audience is fine. I'm not sure about either of these things. I think my agent was probably just kidding about both. But I've never really understood her humor.\n\nIf you come out for readings, what do you like? What are some good ones you've been to? If you hate readings, why do you hate them?\n\nWhat can I do to make you happy?\n\n(UPDATE: Turns out the William Faulkner pooping his pants thing was a skit by Jimmy Kimmel, a late-night television comic. Sorry. We regret the error.)\nPosted by Steve Weddle at 6:33 AM\n\nI'd suggest having some sort of speech/presentation to deliver. This shouldn't be hard since this is your first book and you've got that story to tell. I've been to author events where the guy just answers questions. Boring. It was a shame, too, because he was one of my favs.\n\nDamn you. I read this hoping you'd have pointers I could use, and all you have are questions.\n\nBased on a chat with the bookstore owner, I second what Scott said above. I'm giving a brief talk about how I got and developed the idea for the book, then a short reading, then questions. I'm a virgin at this myself, so we'll see how it goes.\n\nAs for the actual reading, I printed up the pages to me read from my Word doc, 16 point, double spaced. I then marked it up so I'd remember where to pause, which words or syllables to accent, whatever I can do to make the reading sound better. (Not that I don't know all these things--I wrote it, after all--but to be sure I remember under pressure. I will also have read it aloud to myself, and the Beloved Spouse, several times. (All those years as a musician paying off yet again.)\n\nOne other point, a bit tangential: writers, myself included, love to make fun of the \"Where do you get your ideas?\" question, because it's second nature to us. Never underestimate how much readers want to know. I visited a cousin on the way to Bouchercon; my cousione's wife is an avid reader, and wanted to talk about the book. This is someone I'be known for over 40 years--though we don;t get together all that often--and the look on her face was disconcerting. She was fascinated, looked at me like Dana had been whisked away and Scottie had beamed An Author into her living room. Never underestimate the mileage to be had from letting folks see a little of that inside baseball stuff.\n\nWorst advice: Picture your audience naked. The last reading I went to was for John Scalzi. I would not want to see most of those people naked. I don't even want to see me naked. Unfortunately, that makes it hard to take a shower.\n\nLarge font and picture myself naked.\n\nNew York readings are tough. The crowds here have seen a lot. It takes a little more effort to make an impression.\n\nPlan on at least two interpretive dance routines. Only one has to involve costumes though--you're traveling pretty far and most people will be pretty understanding of that.\n\nIt would also help to wear something low-cut.\n\nI would want you to make several connections/mentions between your rise to fame and BEAT to a PULP in general. Mention the name Cranmer at least twice. Stuff like that.\n\nAs always, my answer will be mostly serious. Reading isn't a requirement of author appearances. Robert B. Parker often didn't read at his, thinking his voice sounded boring (and having heard him read on television, I have to agree).\n\nIf you don't want to read, you can give a short intro of the book, followed by Q & A, and finally signing. Since COUNTRY HARDBALL is a novel in short stories, though, I recommend you read a scene from your favorite story or one you feel is a good jumping-off point to the rest of the novel.\n\nI usually rehearse readings, removing or editing anything I stammer on. Unless the audience is reading along with you, they won't notice any changes until they get home. It's important to give a smooth read, but some readers are good at recovering from mistakes. You've probably developed a style as a poet and teacher that will come in handy. Good luck." ]

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[ "There are risks that such a network of policies, laws and collection techniques will muddy the data about COVID-19 nationally", null, "We are all wondering how COVID-19 will end. We will not likely return to normal without a broadly distributed vaccine, which is a bracing proposition. It is also becoming increasingly clear that we will have to find a way to trace transmission and maybe even enforce individual quarantines in the interim.\n\nI want to say that I am not an epidemiologist, nor am I a public health official. As a faculty member within the Centre for Digital Humanities at Brock University, my role is to communicate the social and cultural consequences of digital media, including potential privacy and security risks of software used to limit the effects of COVID-19.\n\nIn the coming weeks and months, I expect that we will hear a lot about “contact tracing.” Contact tracing involves interviewing patients to collect information on all the people they have had sustained contact with and all the places they have been. It is laborious and error-prone because it is dependent on memory, interviews and detective work.\n\nBecause of the scale of contact tracing needed for COVID-19, using cellphones to detect and record proximity appears to be an ideal solution. The Canadian government is exploring contact tracing and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau expressed that “all options are on the table.”\n\nWe need only think of the legislative overreach in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the United States, the extraordinary powers granted by the Patriot Act were revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden when he disclosed NSA and CIA surveillance. Those disclosures shook the country to the core. In Canada, the omnibus Bill C-36 was passed, which contained the Anti-Terrorism Act.\n\nDuring the post-9/11 period, Canadians learned a lot about phone tracking. In 2017, the Canadian government introduced Bill C-59, which amended the earlier Anti-terrorism Act and acknowledged past legislative overreach.\n\nContact tracing using digital technology represents an opportunity to battle COVID-19 and reopen the economy, but its application will create unprecedented surveillance infrastructure beyond anything we have seen before.\n\nThere is an app for that\n\nIn recent days, the federal government has indicated that the provinces will be responsible for managing their plans to reopen their economies, which will result in a patchwork of contact tracing apps across the country. There are risks that such a network of policies, laws and collection techniques will muddy the data about COVID-19 nationally.\n\nBy contrast, many countries have turned to nationally mandated mobile applications to automate contact tracing. South Korea, Singapore, Germany and China have all implemented their own digital tools to assist public health officials and trace the spread of COVID-19.\n\nThere are several models that Canadians can think about with regard to contact tracing apps. China dealt with this problem first, and chose some rather extraordinary methods. Citizens were allowed to travel between checkpoints based on an app embedded in online payment systems like Alibaba’s Alipay or Tencent’s WeChat. Without a green QR code, citizens were not allowed to travel and could face detention for violations.\n\nCurrently, the Canada COVID-19 app — a partnership between private health-care software company Thrive Health and Health Canada — allows you to volunteer your location data and self-report symptoms. This volunteer approach was led by Singapore’s TraceTogether app, which goes a step further by accessing the Bluetooth radio in smartphones to detect proximity.\n\nThe limitations of the TraceTogether app include the difficulty of running an app 24 hours a day, which depletes battery life and results in less reliable data.\n\nThe Alberta provincial government has recently released the ABTraceTogether app; it is unclear how effective this system will be in the province.\n\nBecause the use of digital contact tracing was meant to correct for the errors of human interviews and memory, the partnership between Google and Apple has drawn a tremendous amount of attention. In this case, our phones would eventually detect proximity and duration using a low level operating system process that would allow for 24/7 tracking.\n\nRegardless of the optimism of the technology news observers, these systems are too complex and lacking in the transparency necessary for legislators to make adequately informed decisions on their implementation.\n\nThere is no reason the general public should trust these corporations to not monetize this system and maintain this surveillance infrastructure after the crisis has passed. While the need for digital contact tracing is clear, Canadians must take steps to protect their personal data.\n\nIt will be important for Canadians to discuss these systems before plans are put in place and laws are passed that may violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, particularly with regard to the security of the person. With any luck, the conversation held by Canadians with their provincial leaders and federal counterparts will include the following:\n\nDigital contact tracing will likely become central to the government’s approach to stifling the resurgence of the virus and reopening the economy.\n\nThe complexity of these systems is a risk for the general public who may agree to something that is not well understood. It is critical to inform the public about these risks before governments take extraordinary powers and infringe on our civil liberties.\n\n\nRelated\nPolice and governments may increasingly adopt surveillance technologies in response to coronavirus fears\nMaintaining mental health at home and on the front line\nVIDEO: Safety advice for employers as Canada reopens\nVIDEO: On the Clock: Danielle Weddepohl, Sheridan College" ]

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[ null, "Award Wining folk and roots live music venue Green Note in camden re-open its doors to a full live audience - join in with the celebration online and watch “Newcastle’s finest swing-honkytonk-rockabilly band” fRoots. Tickets available online Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra don’t care what genre you choose to put them in – western swing, country blues, ragtime hokum or whatever else– as long as you understand that they’re 100% sincere and 100% immersed in this stuff. This is no lazy pastiche, no dressing up box. They live and breathe this music and want you to get immersed with them. Rob Heron & The Tea Pad The Tea Pad are seven years into a remarkable story that began with four friends studying at Newcastle University and now sees them playing venues and festivals across the UK and mainland Europe. Based in Newcastle Upon Tyne but with members hailing from Orkney to Warwickshire, the Tea Pad sound draws on myriad influences – from Bob Wills to Django Reinhardt, George Jones to Tom Waits – yet ultimately sounds like nobody else, that North Eastern Swing style that’s utterly their own and changing all the time. Across their four albums – 2012’s “Money Isn’t Everything”, 2014’s “Talk About The Weather”, 2016’s “Something Blue” and the brand new “Soul Of My City” – the band have constantly added new flavours to their sound: Heron in particular is a vinyl obsessive, always fired up about some new passion – calypso or boogaloo or whatever this week brings – and that eclecticism feeds into their songs, with the new album adding twangy 60s guitar tones and modernist R&B styles. The band tour the way bands should – widely and endlessly – winning friends and fans at each new show with notable performances at festivals like Glastonbury, Bestival, Wilderness and Cambridge Folk Festival. They’ve appeared twice on Radio 4’s Loose Ends, and had their music played by everyone from Marc Riley to Huey Morgan. November 2018 sees the band release their single “Life Is A Drag” on Germany’s Migraine Records ahead of their upcoming album “Soul Of My City”, which is released on Tea Pad Recordings on February 1st 2019. Joining Rob Heron (vocals and guitar) is Ben Fitzgerald (guitar), Tom Cronin (mandolin and harmonica), Colin Nicholson (accordion) and Ted Harbot (double bass) and Paul Archibald (drums)." ]

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[ "7 short years have passed since Army man Odhran McIntyre made his adult debut for Tullamore RFC and in that time he has never been shy of volunteering for the club cause.\n\nBefore heading overseas he was a vital part of TRFC underage coaching with the girls and manager to the Leinster u18 girls.\n\nHome on a work break he has been a more than useful asset in underage coaching workshops, gladly passing on his knowledge, skills and tit bits of advice to both boys and girls teams . TRFC look forward to seeing him back on the rugby pitch next season in the red and black jumper that means so much to him.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Kokrajhar district administration has been seek 65 companies of security forces to conduct the upcoming Assam Assembly election in free and fair for three LACs in the district slated to be held on April 11 next during second phase of the election in Assam.\n\nSarma said that all kinds of electioneering preparations have met fully prepared after scheduled of the elections declared on Friday in the district along with rest of the state.Sufficient EVMs have so far reached in the district and polling personnel have been verified the EVM besides visiting polling stations to take stock of the polling stations. He said that district administration has been kept closed contact with neighbouring Bhutan country and inter-state border with West Begngal so that unwanted incident and situation could be avoided during the electioneering.He also told that an all party meeting was organised today to discuss about conducting of the election in peaceful manner.\n\n‘The election would be conducted in free and fair and expected that the situation related would be completed in peaceful manner. Necessary preparation and arrangements have met in the district’, Sarma said.", null, "3 Mar 2015 - 5:03pm | SK Hasan\nContinuous erosion caused by Dikhou river has now become a threat to the existence of the historic Gorokhiya Dol located in Nazira. The lackadaisical attitude of the concerned departments has left..." ]

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[ null, "In Washington, the partial shutdown of the government has left most health agencies untouched but shuttered major parts of the Food and Drug Administration and the Indian Health Service.\n\nThis week's panelists for KHN's \"What the Health?\" are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call.\n\nThe takeaways from this week's podcast:\n\n1. Much of the attention on the impact of the federal judge's decision in Texas to invalidate the ACA has centered on how it affects people with preexisting medical conditions. But the ruling is much more far-reaching and could affect broad swaths of health care in the country.\n\n2. The partial government shutdown has had only a small impact on the Department of Health and Human Services, which already received its funding. But the FDA, which is funded through the Agriculture Department's appropriations bill, is affected. Officials there say they are trying to keep up with high-risk food inspections and may bring some employees back to work.\n\n3. The FDA receives a substantial part of its budget through the fees paid by pharmaceutical companies for review of their products. But during the shutdown, the agency is not allowed to accept more fees, so it will run out of money for drug application reviews in about a month, officials said.\n\n4. Recent efforts by some Democratic state and local officials highlight the intraparty debate over health care. New California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed expanding insurance premium subsidies to people making up to 600% of the federal poverty level (about $72,800 for an individual) up from the law's current 400%(about $48,500) — while Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wants to set up a government-run plan that would be an option for people buying their own insurance.\n\n5. The latest government enrollment figures show that more than 11 million people signed up for coverage offered in the ACA marketplaces. That is down a bit from prior years, but still more than industry watchers predicted given the tax penalty for not having coverage expired this year.\n\n6. The small slippage in enrollment in the past two years, following changes made by the Trump administration and a Republican-led Congress, may signal challenges in the future, especially in small markets where getting competition has been tough.\n\nAlso this week, Julie Rovner interviews KHN senior correspondent Jordan Rau, who investigated and wrote the latest \"Bill of the Month\" feature for Kaiser Health News and NPR. It's about a skiing accident that required repeat surgeries — and bills for the patient, although she did nothing wrong." ]

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[ null, null, "At Cheapflights we’re all about bargains. We’re not afraid to admit that we like freebies, and are always on the hunt for a good deal. Travel needn’t break the bank. Budget for your stay, look out for free and cheap activities and before you know it you’ll be saving for your next trip.\n\nJohannesburg is often touted as one of South Africa’s more expensive cities, unless you’re travelling with dollars or Euro, that is. Just check out our top tips for doing Johannesburg on the cheap.\n\nIt is estimated that Johannesburg is home to more than six million trees, making it one of the greenest cities around. Take advantage of Joburg’s green spaces and sunny weather - the sun shines for around 3,200 hours each year, averaging more than 8.5 hours of sunshine every day. We love Emmarentia Dam or Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens for a picnic. Take a hike at the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve or cycle one of the many mountain bike trails on the outskirts of the city.\n\nOne needn’t spend a fortune on fine dining. Johannesburg’s food market culture is booming. Head to one of the many foodie markets – Neighbourgoods in Braamfontein, Arts on Main in Maboeneng, or The Sheds@1Fox for delicious artisanal food. For even better bargains, head to Fordsburg or Cyrildene for authentic Indian and Chinese fare. Fordsburg hosts informal Saturday night street markets where you can grab spicy street-food straight form the Tandoor oven.\n\nJoburg is definitely Africa’s art capital, most of the galleries are free, and if you hit up some of the gallery openings that happen on Thursdays, you can even score some free wine and snacks. Some of our favourite galleries are, Everard Read, Circa Gallery, Goethe-Institut, Mzansi Gallery, Wits Art Museum, the Johannesburg Art Gallery and Kalashnikovv Gallery. One may not be able to afford the art, but looking is free. Some of South Africa’s best known artists are based in Joburg drawing on the cities vibrant African, cosmopolitan and youth culture. If public art and graffiti is your thing, then your eyes are in for a feast, while your wallet can rest. The inner-city hoods of Maboneng, Newtown and Braamfontein boast a smorgasbord of public art and graffiti. If you want more context, take one of the excellent public art and graffiti tours by Past Experiences (also a bargain!).\n\nApartheid is exactly where it belongs – in a museum #Johannesburg pic.twitter.com/TFAOIUjJp1 — Aisha S Gani (@aishagani) December 19, 2014\n\nVisiting museums in South Africa is much cheaper than in Europe. Johannesburg has a wealth of heritage and some excellent museums, most of which won’t break the bank. The Apartheid Museum is a must-visit for any tourist and local in the city. At R70 entrance, it’s a bargain. Museum Africa in Newtown, is a little dated but it’s free and their temporary exhibits are pretty awesome. The Workers Museum, also free and in Newtown, is an under-appreciated gem of a museum telling the migrant history of the city. Sophiatown’s Culture and Heritage Centre hosts a fantastic collection of photographs and archives and their heritage walking tours are only R120 a pop. For more on South Africa’s apartheid history we highly recommend visiting Constitution Hill and Liliesleaf Farm (under R100 for guided tours).\n\nSoweto is a must visit, not only for its heritage value, but for its dynamic kasi culture and street style. A walk down Vilakazi Street, past the former home of two Nobel Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, won’t cost you a cent, just take some tips for the local street performers. The walk is flanked by information plaques and souvenir stalls. On weekends, enjoy local jazz bands performing for free at one of Vilakazi street’s many restaurants. For insight into the Soweto student riots, visit the excellent Hector Pieterson Museum (R30 admission).\n\nHave you been to the Rosebank Art & Craft Market, where Africa comes to life? http://t.co/JWfvJUw0ek pic.twitter.com/7vzeNce1Jx\n\nShopping on the cheap\n\nForget Sandton, your rands won’t go too far here. For bargains, head to the Fashion District in inner city Joburg (if you love African textiles, you’ll be in heaven) or the Rosebank Craft Market for your souvenirs. For edgy street-style, Arts on Main and Neighbourgood’s markets also have some great local design stalls both inside and outside the markets. Don’t forget to check out the Saturday vintage market at Kitchener’s.\n\nNight-owls will have a hoot in Joburg’s bar and pub scene. Forget the fancy-schmancy expensive clubs, bars are where the cheapskates party. Rockabillies should head to the old-school cool Hell’s Kitchen in Melville. For student fun, Kitcheners and Great Dane in Braamfontein or The Bohemian in Westdene throw up a heady taste of local DJs, live music and cheap drinks. Be prepared to pay entrance fees on weekends, usually in the range of R30 – R50.\n\nHappy hour hotspots to get more bang for your cocktail buck include Melville’s Rats Bar and Six Cocktail Bar, The Office in Greenside and the inspired Lenin’s Bar in Maboneng with its R28 cocktails from 5- 7 pm. Also check out The Jolly Roger, Parkhurst’s infamous drinking hole stalwart. Save moola with their half-price pizza evenings on Wednesdays and Sundays. For more Tuesday cheap pizza action and the oldest pub in town, visit The Radium Beer Halls. We love their down-to-earth décor, Portuguese chicken and cheap booze. For laughs, there are a host of comedy shows throughout the week, hosted by famous comedians – MishMash in Greenside (Tuesdays, R30), Kitcheners (R30, usually Tuesdays) and Maboneng’s Pop Art (Sundays, R50).\n\nAt Curiocity Backpackers in Maboneng courtesy of @visitgauteng with my bro, @alexioso. #posttheordinary #geepeeshotleft A photo posted by Alessio La Ruffa (@alessiolr) on Jan 31, 2014 at 8:04am PST\n\nBeing frugal with accommodation doesn’t mean you have to slum it. It just leaves us more money for having fun! Curiocity Backpackers in Maboneng is a trendy new hostel in the heart of Jozi’s hippest rooms. Curiocity has funky double rooms, and even a Jacuzzi! We’re also fans of Soweto Backpackers in Orlando West. We love their kasi style vibe, outdoor restaurant, and rooftop chill areas. Explore the history of Soweto with one of their famous bike tours. If hostels are not your thing, check into the Bannister Hotel, a no-frills budget heart hotel in the heart of Braamfontein’s party district. Warning, it may be a little loud on weekend nights, but who cares if you’re going to be partying in their vibey bar.\n\nWith the latest event listings Johannesburg in Your Pocket guide is your best resource. And it’s a free download!\n\nJoin Joburg Free to 50 Facebook group for the best things to do in Joburg for under R50.", null, "Top 26 things to do in Johannesburg\n\nRounding up the top things to do in Johannesburg can be a challenge, because contrary to popular belief, there is...\nClaudia Hauter", null, "The best road trips within a 3-hour drive of Johannesburg\n\nSouth Africa is a country of diversity, one bursting with soul and begging to be explored. 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[ null, "\"Futuristic synthesizer specialist and sound designer Matsuo Ohno was responsible for the sound design of a broad range of film, television, and radio soundtracks, most famously the animation series Astro Boy which he began working on in 1963 together with his assistant, Takehisa Kosugi. Ohno was born in the heavily-populated Kanda district of central Tokyo in 1930 and was heavily affected by the repeated bombing raids on the city enacted in World War II, which took place during his formative years. After the war, deeply motivated by philosophy and Surrealism, he was largely unaffected by popular music, other than the electronic abstractions of Karlheinz Stockhausen; the left-wing filmmaker Fumio Kamei was another early influence. Ohno began immersing himself in the realm of sound effects while working with the Bungaku-za modernist theatre troupe and he performed a similar function at NHK, Japan's national broadcasting corporation, but became so frustrated by the rigidity of the restrictions imposed on him there that he quit his prestigious post at the broadcaster, although his skills were such that he remained in high demand as a freelancer, which allowed him to refine his sound effects techniques with evolving analogue synthesizers. The five suites of tracks that make up the Roots Of Electronic Sound album were recorded between 1963 and 1966; initially released on the ALM label in 1975, it is comprised of brief tape experiments, the cover artwork fittingly representing Astro Boy, from which many of the audio interludes are taken. Includes full color insert; edition of 500.\" - Survival Research ." ]

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[ null, "Encyclopedia\nThe common brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus), or brown lemur, is a species of lemur\nLemur\nLemurs are a clade of strepsirrhine primates endemic to the island of Madagascar. They are named after the lemures of Roman mythology due to the ghostly vocalizations, reflective eyes, and the nocturnal habits of some species...\nin the Lemuridae\nLemuridae\nLemuridae is a family of prosimian primates native to Madagascar, and one of five families commonly known as lemurs. These animals were thought to be the evolutionary predecessors of monkeys and apes, but this is no longer considered correct...\nfamily. It is found in Madagascar\nMadagascar\nThe Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...\nand Mayotte\nMayotte\nMayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting of a main island, Grande-Terre , a smaller island, Petite-Terre , and several islets around these two. The archipelago is located in the northern Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, namely between northwestern Madagascar and...\n.\n\nThe common brown lemur lives in western Madagascar north of the Betsiboka River\nBetsiboka River\nBetsiboka River is a long river in central-north Madagascar. It flows northwestward and empties to Bombetoka Bay, forming a large delta. The river is distinct for its red-coloured water, which is caused by river sediments. The river carries an enormous amount of reddish-orange silt to the sea...\nand eastern Madagascar between the Mangoro River and Tsaratanana\nTsaratanana\nTsaratanana is a town and commune in Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Tsaratanana, which is a part of Betsiboka Region. The population of the commune was estimated to be approximately 18,000 in 2001 commune census....\n, as well as in inland Madagascar connecting the eastern and western ranges. They also live on the island of Mayotte, although this population is believed to have been introduced\nIntroduced species\nAn introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...\nthere by man.\n\nThe common brown lemur has a total length of 84 to 101 centimeters, including 41 to 51 centimeters of tail. Weight ranges from 2 to 3 kilograms. The short, dense fur\nFur\nFur is a synonym for hair, used more in reference to non-human animals, usually mammals; particularly those with extensives body hair coverage. The term is sometimes used to refer to the body hair of an animal as a complete coat, also known as the \"pelage\". Fur is also used to refer to animal...\nis primarily brown or grey-brown. The face, muzzle and crown are dark grey or black with paler eyebrow patches, and the eyes are orange-red.\n\nSimilar lemur species within their range include the mongoose lemur\nMongoose Lemur\nThe mongoose lemur is a lemur ranging from 12 to 18 inches long plus a tail of 16 to 25 inches. The mongoose lemur lives in dry deciduous forests on the island of Madagascar as well as in the humid forests on the islands of the Comoros...\n, E. mongoz, in the west and the red-bellied lemur\nRed-bellied Lemur\nThe Red-bellied Lemur is a medium sized prosimian with a luxuriant chestnut brown coat. This lemur is endemic to eastern Madagascan rainforests and is distinguished by patches of white skin below the eyes, giving rise to a \"teardrop\" effect, particularly conspicuous in the male.The species, first...\n, E. rubriventer, in the east. They can be distinguished from these species by the fact that E. mongoz is more of a grey color and E. rubriventer is more reddish. There is also some overlap with the black lemur\nBlack Lemur\nThe Black Lemur is a species of lemur from the family Lemuridae. Like all lemurs, it is endemic to Madagascar. Originally, the species was thought to have two subspecies, Eulemur macaco macaco and Eulemur macaco flavifrons, both of which were elevated to species status by Mittermeier et al. in...\nin northeast Madagascar in the Galoko, Manongarivo and Tsaratanana Massifs. There is also overlap and hybridization with the white-fronted brown lemur, E. albifrons, in the northeast portion of the common brown lemur's range.\n\nThe common brown lemur's diet consists primarily of fruits, young leaves, and flowers. In some locations it eats invertebrates, such as cicada\nCicada\nA cicada is an insect of the order Hemiptera, suborder Auchenorrhyncha , in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with large eyes wide apart on the head and usually transparent, well-veined wings. There are about 2,500 species of cicada around the world, and many of them remain unclassified...\ns, spider\nSpider\nSpiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...\ns and millipede\nMillipede\nMillipedes are arthropods that have two pairs of legs per segment . Each segment that has two pairs of legs is a result of two single segments fused together as one...\ns. It also eats bark, sap, soil and red clay (see geophagy\nGeophagy\nGeophagy is the practice of eating earthy or soil-like substances such as clay, and chalk. It exists in animals in the wild and also in humans, most often in rural or preindustrial societies among children and pregnant women...\n). It can tolerate greater levels of toxic compounds from plants than other prosimian\nProsimian\nProsimians are a grouping of mammals defined as being primates, but not monkeys or apes. They include, among others, lemurs, bushbabies, and tarsiers. They are considered to have characteristics that are more primitive than those of monkeys and apes. Prosimians are the only primates native to...\ns can.\n\nConsistent with its large range, the common brown lemur occupies a variety of forest types, including lowland rainforest\nRainforest\nRainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions based on a minimum normal annual rainfall of 1750-2000 mm...\ns, montane\nMontane\nIn biogeography, montane is the highland area located below the subalpine zone. Montane regions generally have cooler temperatures and often have higher rainfall than the adjacent lowland regions, and are frequently home to distinct communities of plants and animals.The term \"montane\" means \"of the...\nrainforests, moist evergreen forest\nEvergreen forest\nAn temperate evergreen forest is a forest consisting entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that retain green foliage all year round. Such forests exist in the tropics primarily as broadleaf evergreens, and in temperate and boreal latitudes primarily as coniferous evergreens.-Tropical evergreen...\ns and dry deciduous forests. They spend about 95% of their time in upper layers of the forest and less than 2% of their time on the ground.\n\nThey normally live in groups of 5 to 12, but group size can be larger, especially on Mayotte. Groups occupy home ranges of 1 to 9 hectare\nHectare\nThe hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...\ns in the west, but more than 20 hectares in the east. Groups include members of both sexes, including juveniles, and there are no discernible dominance hierarchies.\n\nThey are primarily active during the day, but can exhibit cathemeral\nCathemeral\nA cathemeral organism is one that has sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night in which food is acquired, socializing with other organisms occurs, and any other activities necessary for livelihood are performed...\nactivity and continue into the night, especially during full moons and during the dry season.\n\nIn the western part of its range, the common brown lemur overlaps that of the mongoose lemur\nMongoose Lemur\nThe mongoose lemur is a lemur ranging from 12 to 18 inches long plus a tail of 16 to 25 inches. The mongoose lemur lives in dry deciduous forests on the island of Madagascar as well as in the humid forests on the islands of the Comoros...\n, and the two species sometimes travel together. In the areas of overlap, the two species also adapt their activity patterns to avoid conflict. For example, the Mongoose Lemur can become primarily nocturnal during the dry season in the areas of overlap.\n\nAt Berenty (south Madagascar) there is a population of introduced E. fulvus rufus x collaris. These lemurs show linear hierarchy, adult female dominance, and the presence of conciliatory behavior after aggressions. Additionally, stress levels (measured via self-directed behaviors) decrease at the increase of the hierarchical position of individuals within the social group and reconciliation is able to bring stress down to the baseline levels.\n\nThe common brown lemur's mating season is May and June. After a gestation period\nGestation\nGestation is the carrying of an embryo or fetus inside a female viviparous animal. Mammals during pregnancy can have one or more gestations at the same time ....\nof about 120 days, the young are born in September and October. Single births are most common, but twins have been reported. The young are weaned after about 4 to 5 months. Sexual maturity occurs at about 18 months, and females give birth to their first young at 2 years old. Life span can be as long as 30+ years.\n\nFive additional currently recognized species of lemur were until 2001 considered subspecies of E. fulvus. These are:\n\n\nHowever, a number of zoologists believe that E. albifrons and E. rufus should continue to be considered subspecies of E. fulvus.\nThe source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL." ]

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[ null, null, "Bulgarian folk ensembles and Ukrainian vocal ensembles from the town of Reni and the village of Novi Troiani, Bolhrad Region, won prizes at the Sea of Rhythms International Folklore Festival. This was their first participation in it.\n\nThe festival was held for the 12th time in a row in the seaside town of Balchik on September 22-25. Around 1,300 performers from 16 Bulgarian regions and from Ukraine took part in the festival.\n\nThe jury awarded first and second place in the International Choirs category to the ensembles from the Regional Centre for National Cultures in Reni - Kalina, Roden Krai and Forte. Bulgarian Hearts from Novi Troiani is third.\n\n\"To us, this is important and exciting,\" Nina Ivanova, methodologist at the Traditions and Customs Department of the Centre in Reni, told BTA.\n\nDuring their visit to Bulgaria, the group of Bessarabian Bulgarians gave concerts in several settlements in Varna Region." ]

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[ "DCU Athletics Club proved that they can also dance with their “Call on Me” inspired routine as they were crowned the winner of DCU’s Best Dance Crew last week.\n\nNineteen diverse teams took part in the award-winning event organised by the Dance Society. A member of the Dance Soc was assigned to each club or society particpating to create a unique dance routine.\n\nStudents packed The Venue in support of the event and in the end it was their vote that decided the winner.", null, "The Media Production Society came in third place after creating a combination of different music era’s in their dance from gangster to disco.\n\nCody Byrne, who performed on behalf of DCU Global Brigades, explained how their assigned choreographer came up with a ‘Lion King’ themed intro to their dance. He added: “this event is a great way to get people involved in dance who wouldn’t usually. It makes it a less embarrassing experience.”\n\nDCU LGBTA gave it their all following their winning performance last year however they didn’t retain their title.\n\nDCU Force Rugby gave a memorable performance with moves similar to the famous “Haka”. One member of the team, Stephen Murray, said they “wanted to do the college proud and they certainly did by making it to the final five”.", null, "Jillian Sullivan, a member of the Dance Society, believes the event “is necessary to raise awareness about dance and to promote dancing in the college community rather than just in the Dance Society”." ]

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[ "The MET-4 is an Autoloader", null, "The MET-4 is an autoloader, a robot loading the machine – the first of numerous edge-prep machines to be “factory ready” for the addition of the robot loader feature. We designed the MET-4 as an autoloader because we knew the benefits of removing “the human element” from the process. As we mentioned in the previous article, humans are, by nature, prone to making little errors from time to time. In the machine-driven honing and edge-prep process, this kind of human error may lead to costly damage to tools that are dropped, scratched, or broken. But, of course, this kind of decision to implement a limited amount of robotics in the edge-preparation process is not without questions from our valued clients. In this follow-up article, we hope to set the record straight on a few of these questions and issues.\n\nThe advent of robotics in industry – especially manufacturing – has been a benefit to the economy over the last handful of decades. Robots are truly marvels of engineering. On an average assembly line, robotic elements are easily programmed, controlled, and re-programmed for work output that, very simply, cannot be easily accomplished via their human counterparts. But, given this lofty notion of robotics as the salvation of the manufacturing industry, it should be stated that there needs to be a “non-robotic element” in nearly every process.\n\nIn the development of the MET-4, our engineers and designers knew that some companies might have a tendency to use robots for the entirety of some process or other. The MET-4 was developed with a “gripper” which picks up tools to load them into the machine for the edge honing process. We knew that some of our clients might look at the robotic loading process at that point and suggest that the robot simply bypass the machine and position the tool against the brushes. There are several reasons we chose to keep the machine as “the machine” and add the robotic element for loading alone.\n\nRobots that are developed to perform work or to execute a detailed function or process need to be much more significant in complexity and size to eliminate issues with loss of accuracy in positioning or unnecessary wear and tear on the robotic components themselves. With the robotic loader attached to the MET-4, the overall system does not put any actual stress on the robot itself, since the MET-4 is the “device” that is clamping the part in the chuck and applying pressure to the tool. The extent of stress on the robot loader is no more than the weight of the tool being moved from point A to point B. To design a robotic arm to apply an accurate edge prep to a cutting tool, there would be hours upon hours of development trial and error. Costs would quickly escalate.\n\nIn the final design of the MET-4, the robot never enters the work area, which contains dust and debris from the brushes, as well as residual material that is sent airborne during the brushing process. This keeps the work area contained, and keeps the potentially harmful abrasive debris away from the critical parts of the robot. In short, the MET-4 was developed with a robotic loader alone to maximize certain aspects of productivity, reduce human loading errors, and keep the price of the machine to a more affordable level." ]

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[ "On its final possession of the contest, a 56-yard field goal came up short for Kent State as NIU claimed a 17-14 victory over the Golden Flashes in the Mid-American Conference opener on Saturday at Huskie Stadium.\n\nWith the Huskie offense unable to find a consistent rhythm during the game, the NIU defense stepped up. Kent State managed just a pair of field goals through the first 53 minutes of the game before scoring its lone touchdown of the game with 7:15 to play. The two-point conversion pulled the Golden Flashes within three of NIU, 17-14.\n\nAfter sophomore quarterback Anthony Maddie (Plainfield, Ill./Aurora Christian/Western Michigan) was intercepted, giving Kent State the ball back at its own 39 with 6:01 to play, the Golden Flashes moved to the NIU 34 as Colin Reardon picked up a key first down with an 8-yard carry on a fourth-and-one. The Kent State signal caller was injured on the play however and the NIU defense was able to take advantage.\n\nAfter initially lining up to go for it, Kent State called a timeout and tried a 56-yard field goal, but the kick came up short and the Huskies were able to run out the clock.\n\n“The defense played great,” said NIU head coach Rod Carey. “It was so good to see our defense go ahead and finish the game like that. It was a good, hard-fought victory. In conference play, every game is a battle and we made enough plays to win. The defense stood tall and we’re 1-0 in the conference. We’ll enjoy it because you always enjoy a win.”\n\nNIU held Kent State to 83 yards rushing and KSU converted just three of 16 first downs in the game. Huskie defenders combined for eight tackles for loss, and recorded a sack and two hurries on KSU’s final drive, forcing Kent State to go to its third string quarterback after both starter Reardon and back-up Nathan Strock went down with injuries.\n\nFollowing a scoreless first quarter, Maddie came in at quarterback for NIU and brought a spark. NIU marched 80 yards in nine plays, using less than three minutes to open the scoring. Maddie connected with receiver Da’Ron Brown (Chicago, Ill./Morgan Park) for 37 yards on a third down to keep the drive alive. Back-to-back personal foul penalties on the Golden Flashes gave NIU a first-and-goal and Brown found the end zone on a wide receiver sweep to give the Huskies the lead.\n\nKent State answered on the next possession with a field goal to cut the Huskie advantage to 7-3. The Golden Flashes marched down to the NIU one-yard line where senior linebacker Jamaal Bass (Miramar, Fla./Miramar) stuffed Kent State running back Nick Holley for no gain on third-and-goal. Kent State settled for a 19-yard field goal from Anthony Melchiori and the Huskies took a four-point advantage into the intermission.\n\nRedshirt freshman Jordan Huff (Mobile, Ala./St. Paul’s Episcopal) took the opening kickoff of the second half 66 yards to the Kent State 30, setting up a 40-yard field goal for senior Tyler Wedel (McFarland,Wis./McFarland) as the Huskies took a 10-3 lead.\n\nA three-and-out by Kent State on its first possession of the second half gave the ball back to NIU and the Huskies needed just five plays and 1:37 to find the end zone. Maddie connected with junior Juwan Brescacin (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada/Culver Academy) for 49 yards to the Kent State 27. Three plays later, Huff finished off the drive with an 18-yard touchdown run around the right side as NIU pushed its lead to 17-3.\n\nThe touchdown was the first for Huff in his NIU career. Brescacin finished with a game-high 116 yards receiving on just three catches. Maddie finished the contest 7-of-10 through the air for 105 yards. Redshirt sophomore Drew Hare (O’Fallon, Mo./Fort Zumwalt West) went 8-of-15 for 93 yards. Maddie led the Huskies with 48 yards rushing on eight carries.", null, "“We didn’t play well offensively at all,” Carey said. “We played good enough to win. In the second half, Anthony came in and did a good job (at quarterback) and the two TDs we had tonight came with him under center. ”\n\nKent State cut the NIU lead to just three with 7:15 to play in the fourth. A 20-yard carry by James Brooks, followed by a 30-yard pass from Reardon to Kris White, helped move the Golden Flashes into Huskie territory. Four plays later Reardon scored from two yards out to bring Kent State within five. Reardon connected with Casey Pierce on the two-point conversion as the Golden Flashes trimmed the Huskie lead to 17-14.\n\nNIU will return to Huskie Stadium next Saturday, Oct. 11, as Central Michigan visits DeKalb. The Homecoming contest against the Chippewas is scheduled for 4 p.m." ]

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[ "Three dogs were left to ‘bake alive’ for four hours in a cage while covered in blankets and cushions on the hottest August Bank Holiday on record.\n\nTheir owner had driven a white van to the annual Newlyn Fish Festival in Cornwall on the balmy Monday morning.\n\nIt was here that the woman left her van with the three dogs inside of it parked in temperatures that exceeded 82F (28C) throughout the day.\n\nHorrified onlookers noticed the canines and were able to alert authorities before it was too late for the trio, who were covered in blankets and cushions inside the back of the van.\n\nThe woman had caged her dogs inside a pen (pictured), covered over with blankets and cushions, and left them so she could visit the annual Newlyn Fish Festival in Cornwall\n\nIt’s not clear if she was a trader with a stall at the festival or had joined hundreds of holidaymakers enjoying snacks and cooling drinks on the baking hot Bank Holiday Monday.\n\nWith the sun blazing down in temperatures approaching 83F, the dogs would have been panting within minutes inside their metal ‘death trap.’\n\nAfter checking with police, a woman got into the white van and released the dogs, frantic for water which was quickly poured out for them.\n\nThe dogs were in the back of the white panel van which also had a child’s car seat on the front passenger’s side.\n\nPosting a photo of the distressed dogs, a spokesman for local pets group Pams Paws said: ‘Afraid to say our day at Newlyn Fish Festival finished on a low yet again, an irresponsible woman left these three dogs in their van from 11am and they still hadn’t returned at 3.30.", null, "‘Thanks to a lovely lady, managed to open the doors and give them water – they were all three in a cage covered with a blanket then cushions all around the cages. If she hadn’t intervened they most probably wouldn’t have made it.\n\n‘I spoke to the policeman and he said they needed to come out of the van so I went and got them out of the cages and we walked them into the festival to where we eventually found the owner.’\n\nThe RSPCA warns never to leave your dog alone in a car on a warm day. It says if you see a dog in distress in a hot car, dial 999 as breaking into the car can be classed as criminal damage without ‘proper justification.’\n\nTheir website is clear about what to do if you spot a pooch in trouble.\n\n‘Many people still believe that it’s okay to leave a dog in a car on a warm day if the windows are left open or they’re parked in the shade, but the truth is, it’s still a very dangerous situation for the dog.", null, "After checking with police, a woman got into the white van and released the dogs (pictured), frantic for water which was quickly poured out for them\n\n‘A car can become as hot as an oven very quickly, even when it doesn’t feel that warm. When it’s 22 degrees, in a car it can reach an unbearable 47 degrees within the hour.\n\n‘Establish the animal’s health/condition. If they’re displaying any signs of heatstroke dial 999 immediately.\n\n‘If the situation becomes critical for the dog and the police are too far away or unable to attend, many people’s instinct will be to break into the car to free the dog.\n\n‘If you decide to do this, please be aware that without proper justification, this could be classed as criminal damage and, potentially, you may need to defend your actions in court.\n\n‘Make sure you tell the police what you intend to do, why, and take images/footage of the dog and the names and numbers of witnesses to the incident.\n\n‘The law states that you have a lawful excuse to commit damage if you believe that the owner of the property that you damage would consent to the damage if they knew the circumstances.’" ]

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[ "On a record-setting Tuesday night for the Spurs, here's an on-the-scene look at a number of things you didn't see on the broadcast, as well as a guess at just what was behind that epic shooting binge.\n\nShare All sharing options for: Morning Rehash: San Antonio is a shooter's paradise\n\nFor me, the enduring image of this game is one of Lebron James out on the wing being guarded by Kawhi Leonard and dribbling, faking, juking (and getting no results whatsoever) before chucking up a jump shot. It reminded me of a story I once heard about a couple of kendo masters at a tournament who stood facing one another in their opening stance for what I heard was close to 15 minutes before the match was called a draw.\n\nWhile I admit that the first time hearing this story I was completely unimpressed, after watching last night's game I kind of get it now. The two masters never moved because they knew that there is no such thing as a perfect attack, only a perfect opening position. And since each knew the other was a master, they recognized that their opponent would take advantage of any imperfect attack. Neither one of them wanted to put himself at risk, and so neither one of them made a move.\n\nWhile this might be an acceptable way to draw a kendo tournament, it's not very effective in The Finals. I'm not going to suggest that this means anything for the series' remaining games, but last night it certainly appeared that someone had taken residence inside the cranium of the so-called King of the NBA, and it certainly wasn't a welcome guest. It's very hard to play well when someone's in your head, and with the way Kawhi's been playing defense so far, it just didn't appear that LeBron had much of an appetite for attacking our long-limbed 2nd year man.\n\nPerhaps we'll find out that James isn't 100%. It wouldn't surprise me. Maybe he'll give an interview that'll shed some light on Tuesday's performance. I don't know what he will say about it. I just know that what I saw wasn't the player that took the league by storm this year. And there's certainly got to be a reason for it.\n\n-Popovich in response to a question about how Tim Duncan can be so energetic at 37.\n\nKawhi \"Coast to Coast\" Leonard, grabs the rebound, dribbles around LeBron with a nice little Parker-esque hesitation, and drives into the lane for a classic Spurs floater.\n\n@hpbasketball I did, it was the 2011 NBA Finals Miami Heat\n\nGreen got a flame thrower\n\nSomeone said Gary Neal is a cheat code\n\nIn honor of the otstanding shooting performances from Gary Neal and Danny Green, I'm doing two Game Bosses instead of the traditional Boss and Runt.\n\nTobias Harris, small forward for the Orlando Magic, tweeted that \"cheat code\" comment, and it's really the first time since the Game 1 of the second round series against the Warriors that I've seen a shooting display where every shot a player took looked like it was destined to hit the bottom of the net before it even left his hand. Only this time it was two players, as Green and Neal combined for 13-19 from behind the arc, good for over 68% -- not that percentages mean much of anything on a night when a couple of guys enter the zone so fully that any miss seems almost surreal.\n\nBut what if The Finals weren't really played out by men in front of an arena full of people, but instead was just a holographic projection of elite athletes who were hooked up to virtual-reality-motion-capture rigs, playing the sport like a video game? And suppose that there really was a code that could make it so that your shots fell at a way-above-average rate. What would the transcript of a chat session between two players who were sharing such a trick look like?\n\nNeal: That was a little weird.\n\nNeal: My timing was off on that three, but the system glitched just then and it went in anyway.\n\nGreen: That is weird. I can't remember the last time I got a glitch on one of these units.\n\nNeal: Ever since that glitch I told you about, my balance numbers have been reading all weird. I checked them after that three I missed at the beginning of the quarter, and I was in the middle of resetting them when the ball swung to me and I had to take a shot.\n\nNeal: So now my transverse is at negative 80 and the ecliptic is on 2.8.\n\nGreen: You're not going to hit another shot with those settings. Get it fixed right now!\n\nNeal: That's just it, I shouldn't even be able to get anywhere close to the basket on this setting, but all the controls feel right, and I've made my last two. As weird as it sounds, I think I found a cheat code.\n\nGreen: I'm gonna try it. I've got my ecliptic on 2.8 now, and what did you say that transverse setting was?\n\nGreen: No way! This is freaking crazy.\n\nNeal: Way to go, D. But mine's not working anymore.\n\nGreen: Mine wasn't either, so I just pushed them even further.\n\nNeal: What do you mean?\n\nGreen: Every time before I take another three, I just give the ecliptic and transverse controls another nudge. I'm into the teens on the E, and the T is, I dunno, neg 1200 last I checked.\n\nNeal: What? That should shut down your whole unit! How are you even moving?\n\nGreen: I'm telling you, G, we've found some sort of crack in the code. The normal settings don't apply right now. Just see how far you can push this thing!\n\nGreen: This is so much fun it should be against the rules!\n\nNeal: Ha. It probably is!\n\nGreen: Hey, should we tell Bonner about this?\n\nBoth: NO! (uproarious laughter ensues)\n\nThe Spurs had used a 13-4 run, capped by a Kawhi Leonard run out for a fast break dunk, to build their first double digit lead of the Finals, 40-30 with 4:38 to go in the half. But that lead had evaporated as the Heat put together a 14-4 run of their own, tying the game at 44 with 37 seconds left in the second quarter.\n\nBut just as they had in Game 1, the Spurs closed the quarter strong. Parker hit a corner three, and Danny Green blocked LeBron James' jumper in the lane, starting a fast break that took 4.3 seconds. Duncan grabbed the rebound and got it ahead to Parker who found a streaking Gary Neal who pulled up right at the three point line and let it fly just before the buzzer sounded.\n\nThe shot was true, Miami's momentum was halted, the Spurs went into the locker room up by six. The game was never really close again.\n\nBy The Numbers (Symmetry edition)\n\n(Neal scored 24 points in 25 minutes; good for one point per minute he played. I'm not sure which minute he was on the court that he didn't score a point for, but it's certain that he'll hear from Pop about it. )\n\nCan anyone tell me what's going on in this picture?", null, "Keep it going. Miami looked both deflated and defeated at the end of Game 3, even more so than the Spurs did at the end of Game 2. I mean, at least the Spurs bench (including Tim Duncan) had James' block of Tiago Splitter to laugh at to ease the mood during the dark minutes of the Heat's run in Sunday's game. There wasn't any such levity happening Tuesday night in the vicinity of Erik Spoelstra, who left many of his starters in the game even after the contest was no longer in doubt even though the game seemed like a perfect opportunity to get them a rest." ]

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[ "It is hard to talk about this book without spoiling the first one so I will try really hard not to but I apologise in advance to anyone who reads this who hasn’t read the first book yet and I give too much away.\n\nThumped brings us back to Melody and Harmony’s lives 8 months after the end of Bumped. Harmony is living back in her religious community and Melody is trying to deal with the mess that was left behind. However neither of them are happy with their situations. Harmony, who is about to give birth, makes the radical decision to leave the safety of her home once again in order to find happiness with the help of Melody, Jondoe and unexpectedly her husband Ram. She is still torn between what she know to be a good choice in Ram and her what her heart seems to want Jondoe but Jondoe is determined to prove himself to her anyway he can and it is him with her when she finally goes into labour. Melody on the other hand is struggling with her feelings for best friend Zen and the expectations of her bumping contract. These bits make for quite amusing reading and the balance of comedy and plot made the book very easy to get into and not want to put down. Both girls learn through the book that they still have things they want to experience in life and that they want to become their own person. I really enjoyed reading this book. It was full of easy emotions and it had me laughing, getting frustrated and desiring what I wanted to be the outcome. I didn’t get the outcome I wanted but I think it was the right one and I really enjoyed reading the book.\n\nThis weeks Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and The Bookish is the Top Ten Books you’d like to see as a movie. This is a particularly interesting one as I don’t like when books get made into films, they are just never nearly as good. But I understand some concepts would make for an interesting film and it means a lot to authors so I do have a list.\n\nI think this would make an interesting film as, like ‘Train Spotting’ is has the controversial issue of would it glamorize drugs. Personally I think it does the opposite and the story is one that would be interested to see.\n\n2. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank\n\nThis would also be really controversial as it is based on a real story but I think if done tasteful, like many on the TV adaptations it could be a very beautiful and powerful movie.\n\n3. Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys\n\nI think this would make a good film because it is about a different side of the second world war. I did really have any knowledge of the work of Stalin but this book opened my eyes a lot and I think a movie version would be really good.\n\nWhen I read this book I have to admit I didn’t really understand it all. There was a lot of good things go on though and I think if I was watching it I would understand and enjoy it a lot more.\n\n5. Before I Die by Jenny Downham\n\nThis was a very emotional book and I think it would make a really good girly film. It was about dealing with real issues but they had fun along the way that I think would be amusing to watch.\n\nThe whole idea of this book, with the switched powers is really interesting. The story line is one that you are gripped to all the way through the book and I imagine would have viewers full of anticipation. I think if it was done well it could have the audition on an emotional ride and make people think about how they see the world.\n\nThis would make a good film because it is about travelling about trying to solve clues. The film would take the watchers lots of places and be full of surprises. I suppose it is a bit like P.S. I Love You, but that did well so I think this could too.\n\n8. You Against Me by Jenny Downham\n\n9 & 10. Bumped and Thumped by Megan McCafferty\n\nI think these would also possibly make a better TV series than a film but it would be interesting to see done either way. A world were only teenagers can get pregnant would maybe make a lot of people think that need to and there is a lot of comedy in the books too that would be great to see.\n\nThis weeks Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and The Bookish is the Top Ten Books on your Spring to-be-read list. I wasn’t 100% sure how i was going to do this so I have decided on the books I am reading at the moment and then the new releases I am getting in the next couple of months. (plus on more to make then ten).\n\nThis dystopian series has been on my to read list for a while and I am finally getting round to it. I have managed to get through the first one a couple of times but never the rest so I am looking forward to finally finding out what happens to the characters.\n\n6. The Saga of Larten Crepsley(4) Brothers to the Death by Darren Shan\n\nThe concluding book in this saga, I am looking forward to where his story ends. I have really enjoy reading about this character again after finishing the Darren Shan saga so long ago.", null, "Another dystopian series I have currently got my teeth into. This is the sequel to Divergent, which I think is my favourite book of this genre. I can’t wait to see where the next book will take us, the story so far has been exciting and gripping filling me with desire for what I want to happen next.\n\n8. Out of Sight, Out of Time by Ally Carter\n\nAn unexpected new book in the Gallagher Girls series. I have no idea what book 5 is going to be about but from past experience it will be full of fast paced action, suspicion and a little bit of typical teenage girl goings on.\n\nThe ending of the first book ‘Bumped’ was not what I had expected, I never imagined it opening the way for further books. However it was a good twist and I am looking forward to finding out what happened next.", null, "I have been trying to get through this book for about 6 years and I still haven’t finished it. I have re-started it many a time and I am currently about two thirds of the way through. This spring I intent on finally getting it finished once and for all.\n\nThis weeks Top Ten Tuesday from The Broke and The Bookish is the Top Ten Books of ‘x’ genre. I have decided to go for Dystopian. This may be a popular one but it is the books I have been reading most of recently and I do really really enjoy them. For a change I am also going to put these in order of my favourite first too.\n\n1. Divergent by Veronica Roth I have already blogged about this book on my page, however in a brief summary, it is a society of 5 factions and one girls choice of which to belong to. I really enjoyed this book, I wasn’t really sure what to expect but it was interesting from the start and not like others I had read.\n\n2,3. Matched and Crossed by Ally Condie This series is still in progress and I can’t wait for the third one. In these books, the heads of society control everything about it’s member lives however an experiment leads to the main character feeling uneasy about how they live and causes problems for everyone involved.\n\n4,5,6. The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins This is another unusual idea, where the members of society are split into 12 districts and two tributes a year a expected to fight one another to the death to remind them of the power of the capital. In these books however things don’t go to plan and it makes for an exciting trilogy.\n\n7. Bumped by Megan McCafferty This is the most like our lives. However there is a virus that prevents adults (18+) from becoming pregnant. As a result people pay teenagers to have children for them. There are two main characters in this story, and when their lives come together everything begins to go pair shaped for them both.\n\n8. Ugliest by Scott Westerfield This book started off my liking of this type of series of books. I have only read this one, out of the four but I am about to read them all. The story finds us in a world where children are kept together as ‘uglies’ until they are old enough to be made pretty and go out into the real world. It is something the main character has never been happy with and when a new girl come to her dorm her live turns around.\n\n9. The Declaration by Gemma Malley This was another book of this genre I read early on. I liked the idea of it, however it is my least favourite of the genre. I haven’t read the second one yet but this one as many of the other see’s the main characters life turned abound when a new person arrives in her life. People are not allowed to have children in this society, as they have worked out how to live for a very long time, so children that are born are taken away to live in boarding school type places and learn to be useful,\n\nI know this is only 9 but I am still reading books from this genre. I am about to read the rest of the Scott Westerfield books, I will probably read the next two books in The Declaration series ( The Resistance and The Legacy) and I would also like to read Delirium and Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver. So I guess having this Top Ten unfinished is just a sign that there are still books to read and that may fit in this list." ]

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[ "Community clean up turns waste into arts and crafts\n\nClean My Space initiative in Khayelitsha has ballooned to 180 members", null, "Clean My Space initiative volunteers in BM Section, Khayelitsha, collect and sort waste on a Friday\n\nClean My Space started on 17 May with just 24 members as a waste collection initiative and has since become a full blown campaign with 180 members. Residents from the informal settlements of Qandu-qandu, Green Point Phase One and BM Section in Khayelitsha, collect and sort waste, looking for items to turn into arts and crafts.\n\nMalungisa Funda says, “We got together with residents and started putting out ideas of how we can address unemployment in our community. But we looked at it holistically, by trying to find out the challenges that our community faces. So we identified three thing – crime, unemployment and waste.”", null, "Funda says waste collection and illegal dumping are major problems, but they wanted to do something that would not only clean up the area but also get the community involved. They came up with recycling.\n\n“We work from the Emmanuel Centre [in BM Section informal settlement]. We are a team, so we are not only made up of waste collectors but we also have volunteers who help us sort the waste and volunteers who turn the waste into something reusable. We do our waste collection every Friday from 11am to 1pm,” says Funda.", null, "On a Friday, the Clean My Space volunteers divide themselves into small groups and identify areas where they will go and collect waste. They collect two-litre plastic bottles, paper and plastic. The group wears gloves, masks and reflector vests so that they are easily identifiable.\n\n“In most of the areas we collect from we are known, because instead of just going to a place or a house and collecting the waste, we talk to people, educating them about our initiative and the importance of recycling.\n\n“At the moment our challenge is the safety gear. Some of our members do not have reflectors [vests] and the gloves and masks were given to us by a local day hospital. We cannot keep asking the day hospital to sponsor us because they also need these things,” says Funda.\n\nThe waste collected in big blue refuse bags, is taken to the Emmanuel Centre where it is sorted.\n\nClean My Space volunteers create artwork and useful items such as jewellery boxes and school stationery holders, which Funda says will be on exhibition at an upcoming event on 16 June.\n\n“Our plan is to make as much as possible so that we can exhibit and sell at places like the V&A Waterfront. We also want this initiative to go big so that we can get recognised by local government, businesses and municipality so they can support us,” says Funda.", null, "Malungisa Funda with some of the Clean My Space volunteers." ]

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[ "Celebrations were back at the RJD state headquarters here on Thursday when news broke that the party's de facto leader Tejashwi Yadav has tied the knot with a childhood friend.", null, "The eligible bachelor said 'I-do' at a farm house in Delhi, in the presence of his parents Lalu Prasad Yadav and Rabri Devi, his eight siblings and their families, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav with whom the first family of Bihar politics shares family ties besides close relatives.\n\nThe 32 years old got hitched to Rachel Iris about whom not much is known barring the fact that the couple have known each other since childhood and the bride's father is a Haryana-based businessman.\n\nThe wedding, pictures of which are floating on social media, took place within minutes of a ring ceremony, reminding people of the Hindi adage \"chat mangni pat byah\".\n\n\"Our leader has set an example by abjuring pomp and show at his wedding\", state RJD president Jagadanand Singh said, catching his breath in the midst of frantic sweet distribution.\n\nWhen he was teased by reporters that he did not share details of the wedding till the eleventh hour, Singh quipped \"why should I have done otherwise? By just getting a whiff, you scribes raised a storm yesterday. Disclosing everything would have caused a stampede at the function. Tejashwi certainly did not want that\".\n\nThere has been palpable excitement among the RJD camp since the previous day when word spread that the heir apparent of the party's founding chief was going to start a family.\n\nTejashwi is eighth of the nine children of Lalu-Rabri and the last one to tie the nuptial knot.\n\nThe subdued manner in which he did so, however, marked a stark contrast with the ostentatious weddings of other less politically fancied siblings of the former Deputy CM who is now the leader of the opposition." ]

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[ null, "9 Soundware has announced the release of version 2 of String, a collection of presets for the Sculpture synthesizer within Apple Logic Pro.\n\nIrregular in design, with an emphasis on forced software anomalies, the patches exploit naturalistic signal generation with a palette spanning from the sublime to the transgressive. This release is version 2 of an existing product. All registered owners of the previous version will receive free updates.\n\nAll 150 patches of String were programmed with modulation wheel assignments designed as integral performance elements. With a few exceptions where appropriate, the patches also respond to velocity input.\n\nString version 2 is available for purchase for $29.99 USD." ]

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[ "Sea Warfare – Combat of ships 5v5 is a multiplayer on-line fight enviornment (MOBA). The attention-grabbing factor is:\n– The fight gadgets are ships (no longer people), each and every of which may also be supplied with a lot of guns and kit.\n– All guns are robotically fired, each and every with a distinct vary and firing frequency, randomly attacking enemy ships inside vary – Due to this fact, the affordable matching of ships and guns, and the regulate of distance all the time are specifically vital struggle components!\n\nSea Warfare – Struggle of ships 5v5 Recreation options:\n– Group up with gamers from far and wide the sector, keep watch over battleships, break enemy bases\n– The sport helps 5v5, 3v3, 1v1, and the typical time consistent with consultation is set 10 mins.\n– Along with the world mode, there are man-machine combat mode and stand-alone mode.\n\nSea Battle – Fight of ships 5v5, Believe that you’ll be able to individually function the selected ships, use your particular weapon mixture, temporarily take hold of the MVP together with your tactical attack, and spoil the enemy base in 10 mins!\nSea Warfare – Fight of ships 5v5, Toughen your ranks via profitable one after every other, proving that you’ll develop into a excellent fleet commander! Get ready for the combat, commander!\n\nThis sport (Sea Battle – Combat of ships 5v5) restores the two-line aggressive mode of the standard Increase Combat Send, Dota‘s sea combat and different COMPUTER naval video games, and has a sustainable expansion of the items improve device and day-to-day project gadget, we’re dedicated to making a captivating and honest recreation, so long as stick with the top, you’ll flip the tide of fight and vie for glory!", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ "Join the doggy bag revolution! Pizza Express and Wagamama lead the way in vowing to make it normal to take your leftovers home to eat later\n\nBy Sam Merriman and Harriet Dennys For The Mail On Sunday\n\nSome of Britain's best-known restaurants have thrown their weight behind The Mail on Sunday's mission to make taking home leftovers a normal part of eating out.\n\nPizza Express, Wagamama, Frankie & Benny's, Franco Manca, Chiquito, The Real Greek, Coppa Club, Tavolino and the D&D London group of restaurants – which include Quaglino's, where the Queen has dined – have all pledged to do more to promote take-home doggy bags to their customers, either by training staff or updating their menus.\n\nIt is a major boost for our War On Food Waste campaign, which is calling on households, retailers and restaurants to tackle this hidden environmental disaster.", null, "RECIPE FOR SUCCESS: Wagamama, Pizza Express and Franco Manca all back our campaign to make taking home leftovers common practice\n\nFood waste accounts for a fifth of Britain's greenhouse-gas emissions. Yet every year hospitality firms bin the equivalent of 1.3 billion meals, according to the charity Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP).\n\nAbout a third of this wasted food – the equivalent of 430 million meals – is scraped from plates into the bin when diners don't finish their orders.\n\nAn MoS investigation covering more than 20 major dining chains, which account for thousands of restaurants and pubs, found venues are routinely failing to encourage customers to take uneaten food home.\n\nAlthough nearly all restaurants do provide doggy bags if asked, hardly any tells staff to make diners aware of this option at the end of their meals. And none of the chains includes a note on their menus to tell customers that they can request a take-home container.", null, "Pizza Express said take-home boxes were regularly provided, but promised to make this a more formal aspect of its customer service\n\nIn the worst example of poor practice, Wetherspoon pubs refuse to offer take-home doggy bags at all. Mitchells & Butlers – which operates Harvester, Toby Carvery, Miller & Carter and Browns at more than 1,700 venues across the UK – lets individual managers decide whether to provide doggy bags.\n\nA Wetherspoon spokesman claimed there 'isn't a demand from customers' for a take-home option.\n\nYet a study for this newspaper found that an overwhelming 81 per cent of the public want all restaurants to offer doggy bags as standard practice.\n\nCrucially, the survey of 1,608 people by Deltapoll also revealed that although we like the idea, almost half of us have never asked to take home uneaten food from a restaurant. Experts said this is due to the British instinct to avoid causing a fuss.\n\nYet in the US, doggy bags have been commonplace for decades. The practice began during the Second World War, when pet owners were encouraged to feed their animals with table scraps due to food shortages. Now doggy bags are frequently advertised on menus or handed out by waiting staff as part of normal service.\n\nIn France, all large restaurants have been required to offer doggy bags since 2016. From July 1, French law will be expanded to require all restaurants, cafes and bistros to supply them if requested.\n\nOur investigation found that Zizzi, Ask Italian and upmarket steak restaurant Hawksmoor have already trained staff in the UK to ask customers when clearing tables whether they want unfinished meals bagged up to take home as standard practice.\n\nPizza Express said take-home boxes were regularly provided, but promised to make this a more formal aspect of its customer service.", null, "A spokesman said: 'This isn't formally written into our training, but we're going to add it to strengthen the message. We also love the idea of adding it to our written menus, and will discuss it at our next menu planning meeting.'\n\nThe Restaurant Group, which offers doggy bags at all its 650 restaurants and pubs including Wagamama, Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito, also backed our call to action.\n\nA spokesman for Wagamama said: 'We will be requesting that teams proactively offer take-out boxes for guests who don't finish their meals,' adding that while the offer of a take-home doggy bag is not currently printed on the menu, 'it is something we will consider'.\n\nThree more tips to slash waste when eating out\n\nWhether you're enjoying a meal out with the children or dining à la carte in a Michelin-starred restaurant, there are ways to guard against unnecessary waste.\n\nFood scraped into the bin costs a typical restaurant £10,000 a year, as well as harming the environment. And remember, it’s your money you’re leaving on the plate.\n\n1 The most often wasted food in restaurants are carbs – chips, pasta and rice top the list destined for the bin. This can be down to portion sizes, which we often assume, wrongly, are beyond our control. Don’t be afraid to ask for advice on how many servings of rice will feed the table, or for a smaller portion if you think you might not manage everything – most venues will happily accommodate your request.\n\n2 Many restaurants now offer clever menu options for high-waste items such as those from the bakery. For example, the ‘bun-less burger’ is perfect for those who prefer their hamburger without the bap, while opting for hot toast ‘on request’ means that it won’t go cold… and then into the bin. Even the big fast-food chains such as KFC offer chips with the skin on, which helps to cut the waste in the kitchen.\n\n3 Sometimes taking leftovers home in a doggy bag isn’t an option if you’re heading on after your meal. Discuss your order with the waiting staff. Chips, vegetables and salads are commonly left on plates as many consider these merely ‘fillers’. We’re comfortable discussing dietary requirements, so why not do the same with foods you dislike? If you brush garnishes aside or have children who won’t look at rice, just let the staff know.\n\nA spokesman for Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito said: 'We will look to include the proactive offering within our steps of service.'\n\nA spokesman said the company would consider adding a note about this to its menus – potentially as soon as the next print run.\n\nChief executive Yishay Malkov told The Mail on Sunday: 'When I was growing up, if you did go out to eat it was only a few times a year – for example, on a very special birthday. Today it is part and parcel of our society and we need to be less stiff and formal about asking for what we want.\n\n'Part of this is saying 'Sorry I haven't finished my burger, I want to take it home with me' without thinking, 'Oh no, what is the next table going to think?' '\n\nFranco Manca and sister chain The Real Greek are also considering adding a statement to menus at the group's 73 restaurants across the UK.\n\nD&D London, which owns 43 restaurants in the UK, New York and Paris, including the prestigious Bluebird and Le Pont de la Tour in London, said it is considering changing its staff training to encourage customers to take home leftovers – and said it could add a statement to this effect on its menus.\n\nIt already asks customers in the UK 'where appropriate' if they would like a take-home container.\n\nChief executive Des Gunewardena told The Mail on Sunday: 'I spend a lot of time in New York and when lunching at our Queensyard and Bluebird NYC restaurants, if you don't want to take home leftovers staff are noticeably surprised. It's totally the done thing over there.'\n\nDr Dimitrios Tsivrikos, a consumer psychologist at University College London, said: 'In Britain we are incredibly polite and civil and don't want to cause a fuss.\n\n'Where does the doggy bag come in? Is it after your mains before dessert, is it at the very end? Restaurants have to work slightly harder to help us shift our opinion towards takeaway boxes and doggy bags.'\n\nThe psychologist said that rather than introduce a law about offering doggy bags, it would be more effective for restaurants to remove any awkwardness by making it feel normal when people are eating out.", null, "The Restaurant Group, which offers doggy bags at all its 650 restaurants and pubs including Wagamama, Frankie & Benny's and Chiquito, also backed our call to action\n\nDr Tsivrikos added: 'It's important to enjoy food rather than trying to ruin the dining experience or making people feel guilty. We need a creative way of doing that, so restaurants could inform people of three ways they can enjoy their leftovers, for example.\n\n'With the pandemic, a lot of people have gone through a tough time financially and we're not out of the woods yet. So be a savvy diner, take your leftovers and create another meal with them or have them for lunch the next day.'\n\nEllie Besley-Gould, Hawksmoor's head of sustainability, said: 'It's brilliant that The Mail on Sunday is taking on food waste. For lots of people it is half the treat to know you've got a steak sandwich for lunch the next day. Many of our customers even come with actual dogs in mind – taking home bones for their canine friends.'\n\nA Wetherspoon spokesman defended its doggy-bag policy, saying: 'The only takeaway packaging is for pizza, though a customer would have to ask for this. Doggy bags are not appropriate for all pubs and restaurants as they create a large amount of packaging waste.\n\n'After discussions with a number of advisers and charity organisations, Wetherspoon decided to address this issue by offering a number of items in smaller portions, eg fish and chips, scampi and chips, ham, egg and chips, pizza, and breakfast.'\n\nA spokesman for Mitchells & Butlers said: 'We are committed to cutting food waste and have successfully introduced numerous policies and measures across the business to ensure this. Guests who do not finish their meals are generally permitted to take their leftovers with them to enjoy at home. However, it will be down to the individual manager's discretion and the availability of takeaway packaging at that specific outlet.'" ]

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[ "With rising integration among China, Iran and Pakistan, India is integrated only with its own inconsistencies\n\nThere was a time when New Delhi was proudly selling the notion of establishing its own New Silk Road – from the Gulf of Oman to the intersection of Central and South Asia – to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).\n\nNow it looks like the Indians have stabbed themselves in the back.\n\nIn 2016, Tehran and New Delhi signed a deal to build a 628-km rail line from strategic Chabahar port to Zahedan, very close to the Afghan border, with a crucial extension to Zaranj, in Afghanistan, and beyond.\n\nThe negotiations involved Iranian Railways and Indian Railway Constructions Ltd. But in the end nothing happened – because of Indian foot-dragging. So Tehran has decided to build the railway anyway, with its own funds – $400 million – and completion scheduled for March 2022.", null, "The railway was supposed to be the key transportation corridor linked to substantial Indian investments in Chabahar, its port of entry from the Gulf of Oman for an alternative New Silk Road to Afghanistan and Central Asia.\n\nUpgrading rail/road infrastructure from Afghanistan to its neighbors Tajikistan and Uzbekistan would be the next step. The whole operation was inscribed in a trilateral India-Iran-Afghanistan deal – signed in 2016 in Tehran by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.\n\nThe unofficial New Delhi excuse revolves around fears that the project would be slammed with US sanctions. New Delhi actually did get a Trump administration sanctions waiver for Chabahar and the rail line to Zahedan. The problem was to convince an array of investment partners, all of them terrified of being sanctioned.\n\nIn fact, the whole saga has more to do with Modi’s wishful thinking of expecting to get preferential treatment under the Trump administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy, which relies on a de facto Quad (US, India, Australia, Japan) containment of China. That was the rationale behind New Delhi deciding to cut off all its oil imports from Iran.\n\nSo far all practical purposes, India threw Iran under the bus. No wonder Tehran decided to move on its own, especially now with the $400 billion, 25-year “Comprehensive Plan for Cooperation between Iran and China”, a deal that seals a strategic partnership between China and Iran.\n\nIn this case, China may end up exercising control over two strategic “pearls” in the Arabian Sea/Gulf of Oman only 80 km away from each other: Gwadar, in Pakistan, a key node of the $61 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), and Chabahar.\n\nWhy Did the US Issue a Sanctions Waiver for Iran’s Port of Chabahar?\n\nTehran, so far, has denied that Chabahar port will be offered on a lease to Beijing. But what is a real possibility, apart from Chinese investments in an oil refinery near Chabahar, and even, in the long run, in the port itself, is an operational link between Gwadar and Chabahar. That will be complemented by the Chinese operating the port of Bandar-e-Jask in the Gulf of Oman, 350 km to the west of Chabahar and very close to the hyper-strategic Strait of Hormuz.\n\nNot even a Hindu deity on hangover could possibly imagine a more counter-productive “strategy” for Indian interests in case New Delhi backs off from its cooperation with Tehran.\n\nLet’s look at the essentials. What Tehran and Beijing will be working on is a de facto massive expansion of CPEC, with Gwadar linked to Chabahar and further onwards to Central Asia and the Caspian via Iranian railways, as well as connected to Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean (via Iraq and Syria), all the way to the EU.\n\nThis game-changing progress will be at the heart of the whole Eurasian integration process – uniting China, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and of course Russia, which is linked to Iran via the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).\n\nFor the moment, for all its hefty reverberations in multiple areas – upgrade of energy infrastructure, refurbishing of ports and refineries, construction of a connectivity corridor, investments in manufacturing, and a steady supply of Iranian oil and gas, a matter of national security for China – there’s no question that the Iran-China deal is being effectively downplayed by both sides.\n\nThe reasons are self-evident: not to raise the Trump administration’s ire to even more incandescent levels, considering both actors are considered “existential threats”. Still, Mahmoud Vezi, chief of staff for President Rouhani, guarantees the final Iran-China deal with be signed by March 2021.\n\nCPEC, meanwhile, is on a roll. What Chabahar was supposed to do for India is already in effect at Gwadar – as transit trade to Afghanistan started only a few days ago, with bulk cargo arriving from the UAE. Gwadar is already establishing itself as a key transit hub to Afghanistan – way ahead of Chabahar.\n\nFor Kabul, the strategic factor is essential. Afghanistan essentially depends on overland routes from Pakistan – some can be extremely unreliable – as well as Karachi and Port Qasim. Especially for southern Afghanistan, the overland link from Gwadar, through Balochistan, is much shorter and safer.\n\nFor Beijing, the strategic factor is even more essential. For China, Chabahar would not be a priority, because access to Afghanistan is easier, for instance, via Tajikistan.\n\nBut Gwadar is a completely different story. It’s being configured, slowly but surely, as the key Maritime Silk Road hub connecting China with the Arabian Sea, the Middle East and Africa, with Islamabad collecting hefty transit funds. Win-win in a nutshell – but always taking into consideration that protests and challenges from Balochistan simply won’t disappear, and require very careful management by Beijing-Islamabad.", null, "Chabahar-Zahedan was not the only recent setback for India. India’s External Affairs Ministry has recently admitted that Iran will develop the massive Farzad-B gas field in the Persian Gulf “on its own” and India might join “appropriately at a later stage”. The same “at a later stage” spin was applied by New Delhi for Chabahar-Zahedan.\n\nThe exploration and production rights for Farzad B were already granted years ago for India’s state company ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL). But then, again, nothing happened – due to the proverbial specter of sanctions.\n\nSanctions, by the way, had been in effect already under Obama. Yet at the time, India and Iran at least traded goods for oil. Farzad B was scheduled to be back on track after the signing of the JCPOA in 2015. But then Trump’s sanctions iced it again.\n\nIt doesn’t take a PhD in political science to ascertain who may eventually take over Farzad B: China, especially after the signing of the 25-year partnership next year.\n\nIndia, against its own energy and geostrategic interests, has in fact been reduced to the status of hostage of the Trump administration. The real target of applying Divide and Rule to India-Iran is to prevent them from trading in their own currencies, bypassing the US dollar, especially when it comes to energy.\n\nThe Big Picture though is always about New Silk Road progress across Eurasia. With increasing evidence of closer and closer integration between China, Iran and Pakistan, what’s clear is that India remains integrated only with its own inconsistencies.\n\nGet Out of SyriaSir Bob’s Your Uncle" ]

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[ "Milford Sound is without doubt one of the world's most sublime stretches of water and attracts up to a million visitors a year, all keen to cruise. You can avoid the crowds by opting for a cruise operator with smaller boats.\nKarllie Clifton\nMilford Sound, New Zealand, South Island, Southland\n\nBest price guarantee: If you find this activity elsewhere at a cheaper price, we will beat it by 10%. Some conditions apply.\n\nPoipiotahi, more commonly known as Milford Sound, is one of the most visited natural attractions in Aotearoa New Zealand.\n\nHowever, it is not really a sound but a fiord. Carved out by glaciers during the ice ages, mountain peaks ascend from the deep waters of the fiord, creating the perfect environment for spectacular waterfalls. It rains on average more than 180 days of the year at Milford, making it one of the wettest places in the world. So, there’s a good chance it will be raining when you visit, but look on the bright side. It means even more waterfalls to enjoy!\n\nOn a recent South Island road trip, I decided to add a scenic cruise on Milford Sound to my itinerary. It’s an experience every New Zealander should have at least once in their lifetime. I settled on an option with Cruise Milford, who came highly recommended by word of mouth and online reviews. The mention of smaller boats suggested a more personal experience, which sounded good to me. I later discovered that Cruise Milford limits passenger numbers to 50% of their boat’s capacity, ensuring that everyone on board has plenty of space.\n\nMilford Sound is situated in the Southland region and you get there by air, bus or car from Te Anau or Queenstown. I drove from Te Anau, which takes approximately 1.5 hours each way. It’s one of the most scenic drives in the country and there are numerous stops worth making along the way to take in the stunning views. If you are going to self-drive, plan for it to take the whole day. Te Anau makes a great base for visiting Milford, with a number of accommodation options and other attractions nearby. It’s also much less of a drive to the Sound than from Queenstown (around four hours each way).\n\nUpon arriving in Milford Sound, I’m able to find plenty of parking just a five-minute walk from the wharf. Check-in is quick and easy and from there it’s just a short distance to the pier to board my cruise boat, the Milford Explorer. Skipper Roger and crewmember Julia greet passengers with friendly smiles and an offer of hot beverages and biscuits to enjoy before our adventure gets underway.\n\nOnce all passengers are on board we set off, and are instantly rewarded with a view of the mighty Bowen Falls. At 162 metres, this is Milford’s highest waterfall. We then detour into Deepwater Basin for a quick look and a briefing on the topography of the basin itself. The direction of Sandfly Point is pointed out to us as the trailhead for the popular Milford Track Great Walk.\n\nUpon leaving Deepwater Basin we cruise up the left side of the fiord, heading for the Tasman Sea. The day is overcast and the iconic Mitre Peak is hidden in the clouds, but the sheer steepness of the mountain is clearly evident.\n\nAs we near the Tasman Sea, the swell becomes noticeable and the vastness of the open ocean apparent. We turn around and head back into the fiord and before long Julia spots a Fiordland crested penguin. Roger takes us in for a closer look, which reveals two more of these cute creatures. These are one of the rarest penguin species in the world, only found in the southernmost parts of New Zealand.\n\nDolphins frequent the fiord as well, but we have no luck there. However, we do see plenty of New Zealand fur seals lazing about on Seal Rock. There are not many places in the fiord where the seals can get out of the water (due to the steepness of the cliffs), so this particular rock is a popular place for them to stop and rest.\n\nNow cruising along the opposite side of the fiord, we eventually come to Stirling Falls — the only other permanent waterfall in Milford Sound. Roger warns the passengers on the outdoor deck that they might want to move inside to avoid getting wet. That’s most of us! However, two passengers decide to stick with their position at the front of the boat and brave a cold sprinkling as we move under the falls. They appear to enjoy the thrill of it.\n\nAs we near the end of our journey Roger takes us into Harrison Cove, which is home to the Milford Sound Underwater Observatory — New Zealand’s only floating facility of this kind. I’m told that to view the untouched marine environment from 10 metres below the surface is an amazing experience in itself. From the cove, we also get a great view up into the snow-capped mountains (the source of the Harrison River), before heading back to the wharf.\n\nWe’ve spent nearly two hours soaking up the breathtaking views and our hosts’ knowledge of the Sound and its history, but there’s one more thing I must mention about the experience — and that’s the fresh air. It has felt so amazing to inhale the clean, crisp air with every breath. Cruise Milford’s staff were superb from start to finish and I did enjoy the experience of being on a smaller boat. This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and one worthy of your travel bucket list.\n\nThe writer travelled as a guest of Cruise Milford.", null, "Ten of the best things to do on a South Island road trip, NZ", null, null ]

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[ null, "One Assad Army Base At a Time\n\nHeavy clashes between Syria’s army and rebels erupted around a military base south of Idlib city on Monday as part of a wider battle for control of the northwestern province.\n\nThe Mastouma base is one of the last major army strongholds in a province controlled by a range of Islamist groups including al Qaeda’s Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, and the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham movement, fighting to overthrow the Assad regime.\n\nActivists on the ground said most of the troops positioned in Idlib city were now in Mastouma after the rebels took over the provincial capital in March. The base is used for launching air raids in the province.\n\nBy capturing one Assad army base after another, the rebels have shown the military capacity to defeat the Assad regime.\n\nThere were reports of casualties in the battles. No further details were provided. The Syrian air force also bombarded the area in a series of raids, it added.\n\nSyrian state television reported clashes around Filoun village to the west of the base, which is located on a major road heading south out of Idlib city.\n\nThe base is east of the town of Jisr al-Shughour, which was captured by the Sunni Islamist insurgents in April, an advance that brought them closer to the coastal areas that form the heartland of the minority Alawite sect to which Assad belongs.\n\nIt has been one of the toughest periods for Assad since the first two years of the conflict which spiraled out of protests against his violent rule, part of the wider 2011 Arab uprisings against autocratic leaders.\n\nOne Assad Army Base At a Time" ]

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[ null, "Full original color example of Bowles Map of the United States. The map is rich with interesting 18th Century American details. The US-British Boundary dispute in Maine is in evidence, the British version appearing on the map. New York's Western border is incurrectly shown. Indiana appears as a state (and is called a state in the table below) in the NW corner of Virginia. The western boundaries of Georgia and South Carolina are shown, but Mississippi Territory is oddly not named. A massive Western Territory extends from Ohio and Michigan to the Mississippi River. East and West Florida and Louisiana are Spanish Possessions. Several portions of the Treaty of 1783 are printed on the map, including Article III, giving the US the right to fish in the Great Banks. A number of Indian Tribes are shown. Attractive cartouche. A bit of offsetting, as is usual in these richly colored late 18th Century English maps. Overall an exceptional example of this highly desireable map. Stevens & Tree 60(f)", null, null ]

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[ null, "The Government has been criticised as being “no better than the banks” as a mortgage scheme for first-time buyers pulls loan offers to borrowers whose wages are being partially met by State subsidies during the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nGalway East Independent TD Seán Canney said he had been contacted by a number of constituents who were approved for mortgages under the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan scheme but told that they could not draw down loans as their salaries were being supported by the so-called temporary wage subsidy scheme.\n\nThese loans are funded by the Housing Finance Agency, which is on the Government’s balance sheet, but administered by local authorities.\n\n“The Government is talking about trying to stimulate the economy when at the same time drawdowns are being refused under its own mortgage scheme,” said Mr Canney. “We’re talking about people whose jobs are safe and whose hours have not been reduced being told to go away and reapply for mortgages three months after their employer takes them off the wage subsidy scheme.”\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Housing said there was “no blanket ban” on drawdowns by borrowers receiving wage subsidy payments under the loans scheme, which issued €269 million in loans between its launch in February 2018 and the end of 2019.\n\nHe said the department issued guidance to local authorities earlier this month saying that, in general, where applicants benefiting from the wage subsidy were approved for a loan under the scheme, drawdown would not start until their “unsupported income [after coming off the subsidy] has returned to the level specified in the original application for a period of time, usually up to three months”.\n\n“It is important to emphasise that local authorities can use their judgment and knowledge of local employers to advance loans to applicants before the end of the three-month period, where appropriate,” he said.\n\n“There is no blanket ban. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. It depends on the individual circumstances, and local authorities are encouraged to take those circumstances into account.”\n\nAIB sustained widespread political criticism earlier this month when it emerged that the lender had adopted a policy of pausing the acceptance of mortgage applications from borrowers whose wages were being subsidised by the State. It subsequently announced a U-turn, saying it would take applications from such individuals and assess them on a case-by-case basis." ]

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[ "Cyprus makes name for itself as attractive investor destination", null, "Limassol’s promenade on the southern coast of Cyprus. The city is a major sea port and vital for the country’s economy\nEurope\n\nAlready an accommodating climate for international businesses seeking a European base of operations, policymakers in Cyprus are not content to rest on their laurels and have opted instead to improve and expand upon opportunities that lie ahead. Ranked 39th of 189 economies in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 report, and 16th out of the EU28, Cyprus enjoys a proven reputation as an international centre of excellence and boasts the necessary expertise to support key drivers of both the national and regional economy.\n\nA member of the EU since 2004 and the eurozone since 2008, Cyprus has swiftly made a name for itself as a major trading hub and a choice destination for international businesses and investors looking for opportunities in Europe. Strategically situated at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, the small yet dynamic island nation has a rich and sophisticated business culture, with access to more than 500 million EU citizens.\n\nThe country also remains one of the region’s most attractive FDI destinations, and although the appetite for investment has been affected by the economic downturn in recent years, the government has taken measures to restore enthusiasm among investors and boost the country’s economic credentials. Seeing recent global and domestic challenges not as hurdles, but as opportunities to reassess and refocus on core and emerging strengths, Cyprus has come to be seen as a key constituent of the European recovery and an example of what can be achieved with a new model in place.\n\nIncreasing competitiveness\nThe measures that have been already announced include favourable tax incentives for existing or new companies doing business in Cyprus, fast-tracking of permits for large projects and tackling bureaucracy. These are expected to positively supplement efforts to increase Cyprus’ competitiveness and create a more effective and business-friendly environment. Cyprus is a highly competitive centre for international businesses, offering a platform for operations and a preferential access to markets like Europe, Russia, China, India and Asia.\n\nThe country’s established sectors, such as tourism, professional services and shipping, are playing a key role in driving economic growth. What is perhaps more important, however, is that the island goes further still in redesigning its economic strategy, by developing additional business sectors with high-added-value and rich investment potential – such as telecommunications, renewable energy, alternative tourism, health, innovation and technology.\n\nThe emergence of the hydrocarbons sector, therefore, is an important development for the country, in that it signals a more diverse future for the Cypriot economy and a surge in investment interest. By developing newfound natural gas deposits in the country’s exclusive economic zone, Cyprus hopes soon to cement its status as a major distribution hub in the eastern Mediterranean by capitalising on its sizeable reserves, strategic location and accommodating energy policy.\n\nCyprus is a highly competitive centre for international businesses, offering a platform for operations and a preferential access to markets like Europe, Russia, China, India and Asia\n\nWith a highly educated workforce and a burgeoning investment climate, Cyprus’ diversified; open-market economy offers a host of opportunities for individuals and organisations choosing to reside there. For one, the country’s EU and OECD-approved tax system offers one of the lowest corporate tax rates in Europe at 12.5 percent, and the country’s individual tax rate, at between five and 35 percent, is among the continent’s most competitive, again underlining Cyprus’ accommodating business climate.\n\nClosely in keeping with the island’s tax advantages is a highly successful professional services sector, founded on the country’s well-educated and multi-lingual workforce. Owing to years of impressive performance in the field, Cyprus has cemented its status as a leading provider of accounting, auditing, management consultancy, taxation, financial advisory, administration and legal services in the continent. Notably, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, have chosen Cyprus as the first country in the world to train UK Chartered and CIMA accountants outside the UK, as well as to organise the training of UK Certified Accountants on the island.\n\nUntapped potential\nThe country’s untapped potential also extends to financial services, given that the island stands at the gateway between European and MENA financial markets. The sector consists of a number of insurance and financial intermediation companies specialised in various fields such as investment funds, international trusts and fiduciary, as well as companies offering advisory services and their expertise in special-license businesses. Cyprus is fast becoming one of Europe’s foremost investment centres, with an accommodating legislative and regulatory environment to suit all manner of investment firms.\n\nAware of the nation’s burgeoning investment climate and increasing attractiveness for businesses, policymakers have stepped in to boost the country’s prospects further still. By accelerating a number of reforms and creating a pro-business environment for individuals and organisations, the level of FDI looks certain to rise in the years ahead.\n\nIn an increasingly globalised economy, companies and individuals are tirelessly seeking a base that might allow them vital edge over their competition. And as Cyprus continues to foster what strengths exist already and explore new and untapped opportunities, few can ignore the emergence of the country as a huge investment hub and a fertile business environment." ]

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[ "One Last Swim for Pool Goers", null, "COLUMBIA- Pool goers braved the cool water and temperature Labor Day to get in one last swim at the Country Club of Missouri. When the pool opened at 10 a.m. the outside temperature was 72 degrees and the water was only four degrees warmer at 76. Most pools across Columbia close for the summer after Labor Day.\n\nPool Manager Kristin Marema said she planned most of the Labor Day games out of the water because of the weather.. Marema said it is CCMO's policy to leave the pool closed if the temperature is 72 degrees or below but since it was the last day pool managers made an exception.\n\nThis July was one of the hottest summers on the records. Columbia had 40 days between June and August that were 90 degrees or higher.\n\n\"The last few weeks, even though school has been in session, our numbers have been very high especially in the evening due to the high temperatures. So I'm not sure today with the weather being so cold how many people will actually show up,\" Marema said.\n\nEmily King was the first fearless swimmer to jump in.\n\n\"It feels really good once you get in. When you first jump in it's cold, but it gets warmer.\" King said.\n\nMost pools will open again on Memorial Day weekend." ]

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[ null, "US Desk, Delhi- Magazine: The mother of one of the soldiers killed in the attack on the Kabul airport on 26 August invited former US President Donald Trump to her son’s funeral. Kareem Nikoui was one of 13 US military personnel who died during the Taliban attack.", null, "On social media, his mother Shana went to Donald Trump to invite him to the last goodbye to the former member of the US Navy.\n\n“I would love for someone like my president (you, Mr. Trump) to be present while I lay my dear son to rest in peace,” she wrote, adding that it would be “a pleasure to meet the real president of the United States.”\n\n“I love him and America loves him too,” she concluded.\n\nThe former president of the United States has responded to the request, through an email statement, stating that “the country also loves your child”. However, he did not confirm his presence or not at the event.\n\nThis isn’t the first time Shana speaks after the incident that killed her son. He had previously criticized Joe Biden, whom he accused of being guilty of his son’s death.\n\nEarlier an another woman, mother of a US military soldier accused the “demented” Biden and all his followers of the fatalities recorded in Afghanistan.\n\n“Twenty years and six months, getting ready to go home to his wife and watch the birth of their child, and that piece of crap, full of dementia, sent my son to his death,”she said." ]

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[ null, "By: Richard Breitman\nNarrated by: Neil Hellegers\nTry for £0.00\n\nAn unknown story of an unlikely hero - the US consul who best analyzed the threat posed by Nazi Germany and predicted the horrors to come.\n\nIn 1929, Raymond Geist went to Berlin as a consul, and he handled visas for emigrants to the US. Geist expedited the exit of Albert Einstein just before Hitler came to power. Once the Nazis began to oppress Jews and others, Geist's role became vitally important. It was Geist who extricated Sigmund Freud from Vienna and Geist who understood the scale and urgency of the humanitarian crisis.\n\nEven while hiding his homosexual relationship with a German, Geist fearlessly challenged the Nazi police state whenever it abused Americans in Germany or threatened US interests. He made greater use of a restrictive US immigration quota and secured visas for hundreds of unaccompanied children. All the while, he maintained a working relationship with high Nazi officials such as Himmler, Heydrich, and Göring.\n\nWhile US ambassadors and consuls general cycled in and out, the indispensable Geist remained in Berlin for a decade. An invaluable analyst and problem solver, he was the first American official to warn that what lay ahead for Germany's Jews was what later would become known as the Holocaust.\n\n\"In Berlin Mission, Richard Breitman tells us the riveting story of Raymond Geist, an American diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany throughout the pre-war years. Based on entirely new documentation, the book presents the difficult path of an official in charge of visas to the United States, who witnessed and understood the growing plight of German Jews and helped many to reach the American safe haven, notwithstanding a restrictive immigration policy. Geist's efforts became the more crucial as, in early as in December 1938, he deduced from his contacts at the highest ranks of the Gestapo that the Jews remaining under Hitler's domination would ultimately perish. He conveyed his assessment to Washington. In our times of moral uncertainty, this book is a must.\" (Saul Friedländer, professor emeritus in history, UCLA)\n\n\"A vivid chronicle of 1930s Germany conveyed through the life of a lesser-known historical figure.\" (Kirkus Reviews)\n\nWhat listeners say about The Berlin Mission" ]

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[ null, "In a radio interview on Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani responded to his scene in the upcoming Borat sequel that had the web abuzz. Reacting to footage that seemingly reveals the previous mayor touching his genitalia, Giuliani says he was merely tucking in his shirt, and never getting ready to have interaction sexually with the movie’s 24-year-old star.\n\n“I needed to take off the digital gear,” Giuliani mentioned on WABC radio, as reported by The Daily Beast. “And when the digital gear got here off, a few of it was within the again and my shirt got here a little bit out, though my garments had been solely on. I leaned again, and I tucked my shirt in, and at that time, at that time, they’ve this image they take which appears to be like doctored, however in any occasion, I’m tucking my shirt in. I guarantee you that’s all I used to be doing.”\n\nInformation of Giuliani’s scene broke on Wednesday when the embargo for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm—coming to Amazon Prime this Friday—lifted. The 76-year-old former New York Metropolis mayor and legal professional to President Donald Trump participated in what he believed to be an actual TV interview with 24-year-old Bulgarian actor Maria Bakalova—who performs Borat’s 15-year-old daughter, Tutar, within the movie—on the Mark Resort in New York Metropolis. However in truth, the whole factor was engineered by Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen and his producers.\n\nSpoilers for Borat 2 past this level, however first Bakalova compliments Giuliani by calling him “one in all her biggest heroes.” Then, she feeds him softball questions in regards to the coronavirus pandemic. (“What number of lives did Donald Trump save?” “Most likely a million.”) Then he follows her into the resort room for a drink. As Bakalova slowly takes off their microphones, Giuliani asks for her quantity and handle, lies down the mattress, and places his hand down his pants. Precisely what Giuliani is doing at that second is murky—merely tucking in his shirt, possibly—however the whole scenario is wildly uncomfortable. After all, wildly uncomfortable conditions are Borat’s modus operandi.\n\nEarlier than anything occurs, Cohen bursts in wearing pink lingerie, shouting, “She 15, she too outdated for you!”\n\nGiuliani went on to say within the radio interview that he believed Cohen focused him in a “hit job” due to his current work for Trump concerning Joe Biden’s son.\n\n“They’ll do something. They’ve attacked me over every thing potential, investigated each enterprise dealing I’ve ever had,” he mentioned. “And now the fool Borat goes after me with a completely sensationalized false account of a ridiculous film I suppose that he’s accomplished.”\n\nHe added that he believed he was doing a authentic interview with a younger reporter. “At one level she defined to me some issues she had. I truly prayed along with her,” he mentioned. “After which I needed to go away. I had my jacket on. I used to be absolutely clothed always.”\n\nAfter the incident, Giuliani referred to as the NYPD on Cohen, as reported by Page Six in July. He instructed Web page Six, “I solely later realized it should have been Sacha Baron Cohen. I considered all of the folks he beforehand fooled and I felt good about myself as a result of he didn’t get me.”" ]

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[ null, "The Beauty of Holiness - Music For the Epiphany\n\nThe Choir of Worcester College, Oxford\n\nJohann Heinrich Reinhardt: O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness\n\nJoseph F Thrupp: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning\n\nTomkins: O Lord, How Manifold Are Thy Works\n\nWilliam Fitzpatrick: Away in a Manger\n\nEric Thiman: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning\n\nMonk, W H: As with Gladness Men of Old\n\nThis album celebrates the musical heritage of the Christian feast of the Epiphany, the revelation of the infant Christ to the world. Like the feast itself, the music is traditionally centred on the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem and the star that led them to the Holy Family. Beautifully performed by the choir of Worchester College, Oxford and director Thomas Allery, this album is the perfect musical accompaniment to the festive season.\n\nThis recording opens with the rousing hymn O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, by the prolific hymn-writer the Revd John Samuel Bewley Monsell (d.1875), taking inspiration from Psalm 96 and the gifts of the Magi. It was written in 1863, one year before the re-decoration of Worcester College Chapel. The album then moves through a variety of composers including Thomas Tomkins (d.1656), best known as the organist of Worcester Cathedral, with his anthem for lower voices, O Lord, how manifold are thy works. Works by Buxtehude, Ireland, Handel, Langlais and Pachelbel are also included.\n\nThe Choir of Worcester College, which sings four times a week during the University Term, engages in a wide range of musical commitments including concerts, recordings, and touring. The composition of the choir is unique in Oxford, with the choral scholars being joined twice a week by boy choristers from Christ Church Cathedral School. The choir has recently toured to Italy and Germany and, within the UK, to Winchester, Worcester, and Gloucester Cathedrals, and has released several CDs.\n\nThe choristers frequently perform repertoire for upper voices alone, and in this formation have performed in Bristol, St Michael at the Northgate in Oxford and in" ]

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[ null, "Richard Clayderman, born Philippe Pagès on December 28, 1953 in Paris, is a French pianist. He has sold more than 90 million records to date, including compositions by Olivier Toussaint, Paul de Senneville and Marc Minier. He has given more than 2,000 concerts worldwide and has received more than 340 gold and platinum records.\n\nWhen I discovered Richard Clayderman as a teenager, I took a liking to the piano. Finally a music between classical and contemporary. It was technically accessible and so much more fun to play or listen to than Czerny’s studies, scales and arpeggios that had been forced and forced to play when I was 6, 7 years old. Nostalgia remains a piece that I have never forgotten and probably the one I play most regularly. It is both simple and very melodious.", null, "1 is an export from my cover, so not cleaned ( if you want to play as my cover tempo)", null ]

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[ "The Adventures of Puss In Boots Season 7: Cancelled or Renewed?", null, "‘The Adventures of Puss in Boots’ is an American computer-animated web television series that airs on Netflix. The series first premiered on January 16, 2015. Fans might also be interested to know that it premiered on Boomerang UK on September 3, 2018.\n\nThe show stars a cartoon character called ‘Puss in Boots’, that is, literally a cat wearing a hat and boots and yes, the cat talks. For those unaware, Puss was introduced in the ‘Shrek’ franchise and its 2011 spin-off movie and is a work of DreamWorks Animation. Doug Langdale serves as the executive producer.\n\nThe series has garnered a strong fan following, which can be seen in the passion of those fighting for the show’s revival. It has also gained praise from critics with The New York Times saying, “[it]is nicely drawn, and San Lorenzo is populated with some appealingly odd young residents, human and otherwise”. They also said that the humor is “relatively sophisticated (you could write a psychological treatise on Dulcinea, who has modeled her life on a somewhat vacuous book of epigrams), but not so sophisticated that children will be left behind”.\n\nThe Adventures of Puss In Boots Cast: Who is in it?\n\nThe main cast of ‘The Adventures of Puss In Boots’ is Puss in Boots (voiced by Eric Bauza), as the titular character, Dulcinea (voiced by Jayma Mays) who is a female cat serving as Puss’s love interest; Artephius/The Great Mage Sino (voiced by Paul Rugg) who is an elderly alchemist who acts as a mad scientist; Señora Zapata (voiced by Carla Jimenez), serving as the administrator of the town’s orphanage; Mayor Temeroso (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), a big guy who likes to keep a low profile by hiding inside barrels; Pajuna (voiced by Laraine Newman), who is a Highland cow and the owner of the local cantina, Toby (voiced by Joshua Rush), is an orphan who idolizes Puss.\n\nOther important characters include Vina (voiced by Grey Griffin), who is another older orphan who makes up facts and sometimes steps into Puss’s personal space. Kid Pickles (voiced by Candi Milo), is a “Runyonesque” 11-year-old who likes pickles; Esme (voiced by Ariebella Makana), is a 5-year-old girl who is adorable, to say the least. This is bolstered by the presence of a strong supporting cast which includes the likes of Danny Trejo in the role of El Moco, a bandit king who is foiled in most episodes.\n\nIf there is an upcoming season, if it happens, we hope to see most of the main characters return and maybe the show can throw in some new characters too, to keep things interesting and the adventures going for our beloved Puss.\n\nThe Adventures of Puss In Boots Plot: What is it about?\n\nThe plot of ‘The Adventures of Puss In Boots’ is about the puss who tries to save the city of San Lorenzo from the invaders. The puss is depicted as a great lover and fighter who takes on various adventures. Our beloved puss knows the martial arts and no episode goes by without him showing his skills. The city where he lives was created by a powerful mage, so this adds magic to the story and to the glory of the show. However, there are also some magical creatures all around who crawl into or fly into the city unless puss finds them first. The show is definitely family-friendly. As most of the cats who keep themselves clean by continuously licking their body, our hero, Puss also keeps the fight neat and clean. It’s one of the must-watch shows on Netflix.\n\nWhat immediately stands out in the show is how different Puss’ character is from what we knew in the ‘Shrek’ movies. Sure, he was a good ally and helped Shrek out in his adventures, but ultimately, this is a cat who likes his independence, not different from most cats by nature. However, in the town of San Lorenzo, Puss finds a home and an oddly loving family. Although he is initially drawn in by Dulcinea, he soon realizes that it is more than just surface attraction. Moreover, the people of the place begin to grow on him.\n\nHowever, just because Puss is settling down does not mean that this cat is ready to be domesticated. He’s still as feral as ever, and his swashbuckling swordfights, which viewers can witness in almost every episode, is ample proof of that. Coming to the comedy of the show itself, it is a balanced mix, much like the kind of family-friendly shows Netflix likes to make. So there are some nuances that adult viewers will appreciate, but it does not mean that children cannot enjoy the show if they do not get what these nuances mean.\n\nIf there is an upcoming season of the show, hopefully, we will get to see Puss go on more adventures, and try and finally put some roots down in a place where he has found a sense of belonging. Even the greatest of adventurers must find a place to rest, and Puss has used most of his nine lives in various adventurous pursuits with little thought or regard for himself. But now that he has found a family to care for him, this changes him, and it is definitely a theme worth exploring if the series continues.\n\nThe Adventures of Puss In Boots Season 7 Release Date: When will it premiere?\n\n‘The Adventures of Puss In Boots’ Season 6 premiered on January 26, 2018. Unfortunately, for now, Netflix has announced that this marked the final season. Any hopes of Season 7 coming out immediately seems bleak. However, Netflix is upping its game when it comes to interactive shows, and this happened to be one of the earlier examples of such shows aimed at kids. There is, therefore, a high chance of Netflix reviving the show with better content, now that they have polished their interactive entertainment system as ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch‘ and ‘You vs. Wild‘ has proven. If Season 7 does get miraculously renewed, it can release sometime in 2020 or 2021.\n\nThe Adventures of Puss In Boots Trailer:\n\nWhile we wait for the announcement on season 7, check out this ‘The Adventures of Puss In Boots’ clip about Puss trying to save San Lorenzo after he breaks a magical curse protecting the town." ]

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[ "The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and Neoclassicism, were synthesized with picturesque aesthetics. The style of architecture that was thus created, though also characterized as \"Neo-Renaissance\", was essentially of its own time. \"The backward look transforms its object,\" Siegfried Giedion wrote of historicist architectural styles;[2] \"every spectator at every period—at every moment, indeed—inevitably transforms the past according to his own nature.\"\n\nThe style was not confined to England and was employed in varying forms, long after its decline in popularity in Britain, throughout northern Europe and the British Empire. From the late 1840s to 1890 it achieved huge popularity in the United States,[5] where it was promoted by the architect Alexander Jackson Davis.\n\nItalianate style in England and Wales", null, "Villa Emo by Palladio,1559. The great Italian villas were often a starting point for the buildings of the 19th century Italianate style.\n\nA late intimation of Nash's development of the Italianate style was his 1805 design of Sandridge Park at Stoke Gabriel in Devon. Commissioned by the dowager Lady Ashburton as a country retreat, this small country house clearly shows the transition between the picturesque of William Gilpin and Nash's yet to be fully evolved Italianism. While this house can still be described as Regency, its informal asymmetrical plan together with its loggias and balconies of both stone and wrought iron; tower and low pitched roof clearly are very similar to the fully Italianate design of Cronkhill,[8] the house generally considered to be the first example of the Italianate style in Britain. The homes were typically two to three stories in height, with flat or hip roofs, bay windows with inset wooden panels, corner boards and two over two double-hung windows.[9]\n\nLater examples of the Italianate style in England tend to take the form of Palladian-style building often enhanced by a belvedere tower complete with Renaissance-type balustrading at the roof level. This is generally a more stylistic interpretation of what architects and patrons imagined to be the case in Italy, and utilises more obviously the Italian Renaissance motifs than those earlier examples of the Italianate style by Nash.\n\nSir Charles Barry, most notable for his works on the Tudor and Gothic styles at the Houses of Parliament in London, was a great promoter of the style. Unlike Nash he found his inspiration in Italy itself. Barry drew heavily on the designs of the original Renaissance villas of Rome, the Lazio and the Veneto or as he put it: \"...the charming character of the irregular villas of Italy.\"[10] His most defining work in this style was the large Neo-Renaissance mansion Cliveden (illustrated above). Although it has been claimed that one third of early Victorian country houses in England used classical styles, mostly Italianate,[11] by 1855 the style was falling from favour and Cliveden came to be regarded as \"a declining essay in a declining fashion.\"[12]\n\nThomas Cubitt, a London building contractor, incorporated simple classical lines of the Italianate style as defined by Sir Charles Barry into many of his London terraces.[4] Cubitt designed Osbourne House under the direction of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and it is Cubitt's reworking of his two dimensional street architecture into this free standing mansion[4] which was to be the inspiration for countless Italianate villas throughout the British Empire.\n\nFollowing the completion of Osbourne House in 1851, the style became a popular choice of design for the small mansions built by the new and wealthy industrialists of the era. These were mostly built in cities surrounded by large but not extensive gardens, often laid out in a terrace Tuscan style as well. On occasions very similar, if not identical, designs to these Italianate villas would be topped by mansard roofs, and then termed chateauesque. However, \"after a modest spate of Italianate villas, and French chateaux\"[13] by 1855 the most favoured style of an English country house was Gothic, Tudor, or Elizabethan.\n\nThe Italian, specifically, Tuscan, influence on architecture in Lebanon dates back to the Renaissance when Fakhreddine, the first Lebanese ruler who truly unified Mount Lebanon with its Mediterranean coast executed an ambitious plan to develop his country.\n\nWhen the Ottomans exiled Fakhreddine to Tuscany in 1613, he entered an alliance with the Medicis. Upon his return to Lebanon in 1618, he began modernizing Lebanon. He developed a silk industry, upgraded olive-oil production, and brought with him numerous Italian engineers who began the construction of mansions and civil building throughout the country.[14] The cities of Beirut and Sidon were especially built in the Italianate style.[15] The influence of these buildings, such as the ones in Deir el Qamar, influenced building in Lebanon for many centuries and continues to the present time. For example, streets like Rue Gouraud continues to have numerous, historic houses with Italianate influence.[16] Buildings like the Nicolas Sursock mansion on Rue Sursock, which is today a major museum, attest[citation needed] to the continuous influence of Italianate architecture in Lebanon.\n\nItalianate style in the United States", null, "The Italianate style was popularized in the United States by Alexander Jackson Davis in the 1840s as an alternative to Gothic or Greek Revival styles. Davis' 1854 Litchfield Villa in what has become Prospect Park, Brooklyn is a splendid example of the style. It was initially referred to as the \"Italian Villa\" or \"Tuscan Villa\" style. [17] Blandwood, the former residence of North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead, is the oldest, surviving example of Italianate architecture in the United States.[18][19] An early example of Italianate architecture, it is closer in ethos to the Italianate works of Nash than the more Renaissance inspired designs of Barry.[19] Richard Upjohn used the style extensively, beginning in 1845 with the Edward King House. Other leading practitioners of the style were John Notman, by many the first to bring the style to the United States, and Henry Austin.[20] Notman designed \"Riverside,\" the first \"Italian Villa\" style house in Burlington, New Jersey in 1837.\n\nItalianate was reinterpreted again and became an indigenous style. It is distinctive by its pronounced exaggeration of many Italian Renaissance characteristics: emphatic eaves supported by corbels, low-pitched roofs barely discernible from the ground, or even flat roofs with a wide projection. A tower is often incorporated hinting at the Italian belvedere or even campanile tower. Motifs drawn from the Italianate style were incorporated into the commercial builders' vocabulary, and appear in Victorian architecture dating from the mid-to-late 19th century.\n\nThis architectural style became more popular than Greek Revival by the late 1860s. Its popularity was due to its being suitable for many different building materials and budgets, as well as the development of cast-iron and press-metal technology making the production of decorative elements like the brackets and cornices more efficient. However, the style was superseded in popularity in the late 1870s by the Queen Anne style and Colonial Revival style.", null, "The popularity of Italianate architecture in the time period following 1845 can be seen in Cincinnati, Ohio, the United States' first boomtown west of the Appalachian Mountains.[citation needed] This city, which grew along with the traffic on the Ohio River, features arguably the largest single collection of Italianate buildings in the United States in its Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, built primarily by German-American immigrants that lived in the densely populated area. In recent years increased attention has been called to the preservation of this impressive collection, with large-scale renovation efforts beginning to repair urban blight. Cincinnati's neighboring cities of Newport and Covington, Kentucky also contain an impressive collection of Italianate architecture.\n\nIn California the earliest Victorian residences were wooden versions of the Italianate style, such as the James Lick Mansion, John Muir Mansion, and Bidwell Mansion, before later Stick-Eastlake and Queen Anne styles superseded. Many, nicknamed Painted Ladies, remain and are celebrated in San Francisco. A late example in masonry is the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Los Angeles.\n\nAdditionally, the United States Lighthouse Board through the work of Colonel Orlando M. Poe produced a number of Italianate lighthouses and associated structures, chief among them being the Grosse Point Light in Evanston, Illinois.[21]\n\nThe Italianate style proved to be immensely popular in Australia as a domestic style. The architect William Wardell designed Government House in Melbourne — now the official residence of the Governor of Victoria — as an example of his \"newly discovered love for Italianate, Palladian and Venetian architecture.\"[22] Cream-colored, with many Palladian features; except for its machicolated signorial tower that Wardell crowned with a belvedere—it would not be out of place among the unified streets and squares in Thomas Cubitt's Belgravia, London.\n\nThe hipped roof is concealed by a balustraded parapet. The principal block is flanked by two lower asymmetrical secondary wings that contribute picturesque massing, best appreciated from an angled view. The larger of these being divided from the principal block by the belvedere tower. The smaller, the ballroom block, is entered through a columned porte-cochere designed as a single storey prostyle portico.\n\nThe Italianate style of architecture continued to be built in outposts of the British Empire long after it had ceased to be in fashion in Britain itself. The Railway station of Albury, New South Wales, completed in 1881, is an example of this further evolution of the style.\n\nIn interior decoration there were direct parallels to \"Italianate\" architecture with free recombinations of decorative features drawn from Italian 16th-century architecture and objects, which were applied to purely 19th-century forms. Wardrobes and dressers could be dressed in Italianate detailing as well as row houses.\n\nThe spur to such commercial designs can be found in the \"free Renaissance\" style that was espoused by Charles Eastlake. In 1868 he published Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and other Details which was very influential in Britain and later in the United States, where the book was published in 1872. Although the archaeology of Mr. Eastlake's volume was always careful, most of the principles in it are beyond question, and can be generally stated in a few words. The Italianate style would have no carving or moulding or other ornament glued on — such work must be done in the solid; no mitered joints, but joints made at the right angle, and secured by mortise, tenon, and pin; woods in their native colour, and unvarnished, or else painted in flat colour, with a contrasting line and a stencilled ornament at the angles; unconcealed construction everywhere, and purposes plainly proclaimed; and with veneering, round corners, and all curves weakening the grain of the wood being absolutely forbidden. The furniture that he thus proposed has straight, strong, squarely cut members equal to their intention. Its ornament is painted panels, porcelain plaques and tiles, metal trimmings, and conventionalized carvings in sunk relief, a part of the construction entering into the ornament, also in the shape of narrow striated strips of wood radiating in opposite lines, after a fashion not altogether unknown in the time of Henry III. It has the honesty and solidity, but not the attraction, of the Medieval; and if it is stiff and somewhat heavy, and fails entirely to please, it has yet a wholesome and healthy air.[23]\n\nElements of the style\n\nKey visual components of this style include:[24]" ]

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[ "Trump's Blast of Sessions Has 'chilling' Effect Inside West Wing", null, "The acrimony between Trump and Sessions has long been simmering -- Sessions tendered his resignation earlier this year but Trump declined to accept it -- but Wednesday's comments signal a shift in Trump's leadership style, one that former employers used to say rested on unflinching loyalty to the company and, more importantly, the boss.\n\nEarlier in his career, during a question-and-answer session from The Learning Annex Wealth Expo, Trump was asked for the \"key things\" a boss should look for when hiring someone and building a team.\n\n\"The thing that's most important to me is loyalty,\" Trump said. \"You can't hire loyalty. I've had people over the years who I swore were loyal to me, and it turned out that they weren't. Then I've had people that I didn't have the same confidence in and turned out to be extremely loyal. So you never really know.\"\n\nHe brought those beliefs to Washington by bringing many of his own employees with him, but his credo now appears to be Trump asking for loyalty, not giving it back.\n\nTrump asked fired FBI Director James Comey for his loyalty during a January 27 dinner at the White House, Comey said in written testimony to the Senate earlier this year.\n\nTrump later fired Comey in May, citing his disloyalty as one of the reasons in later interviews.\n\nThe President also asked Republicans in the House to stick with him on health care reform, touting the bill as \"incredibly well crafted\" during a Rose Garden ceremony after narrowly it passed the House. Weeks later, Trump went back on those comments and called the House health care bill \"mean\" in a meeting with senators.\n\nThe remark shocked some lawmakers who stuck with Trump on health care, despite the political perils.\n\nRep. Louie Gohmert, a Texas Republican and member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was flummoxed when CNN asked him what he thought of the President calling the bill \"mean.\"\n\n\"The one,\" he asked, \"that he had us come over and celebrate?\"\n\nThose close to Trump have long said loyalty is critical to him.\n\nBill Zanker, the president and founder of The Learning Annex who wrote \"Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life\" with Trump in 2009, put it bluntly in his intro to the self-help book: \"Loyalty is important to Trump and is a wonderful trait to have in business.\"\n\nAnd former employees, who requested anonymity to speak bluntly, said Trump's desire for loyalty is the reason why he brought someone like Keith Schiller, his longtime bodyguard and adviser, into the White House. Schiller is an asset to the White House, many who know him say, but his steadfast loyalty is his biggest asset to Trump.\n\nTrump's love of loyalty stems, according to those close to him, to his mentor Roy Cohn, who stood by Trump and his family in the face of housing discrimination and grew into his guide through the rough New York real estate industry.\n\n\"Sometimes I think that next to loyalty, toughness was the most important thing in the world to him,\" Trump wrote of Cohn in his 1997 urtext \"The Art of the Deal.\"\n\n\"He was a truly loyal guy -- it was a matter of honor with him,\" Trump wrote. \"And because he was also very smart, he was a great guy to have on your side.\"" ]

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[ "by Ethan\nin Auto\n0\n\nWhile the cull of Ford’s more traditional sedans and hatchbacks began during the 2018 model year, May 2019 marked the official date of the last Ford Hatchback Car the USA would ever have the pleasure of driving, namely, the Ford Fiesta. The subcompact or compact car segment has always been an affordable means to street-viable performance and genuine driving enjoyment, thanks to peppy turbocharged engines, sharp front-wheel-drive systems, and nimble, diminutive sizes. And, for the longest time, these little hot-hatches were the prized possessions of many a car fanatic, from the obsessed novice to the experienced enthusiast.\n\nSo why the reason for the cull? Well, from reducing operating costs to catering to a new mass appeal, the automaker’s reasons may seem rational but there’s no doubt that many will miss the lively and likable hot-hatches of old. In late 2017, Ford’s CEO put in place a cost-reduction strategy that involved the discontinuation of all the brand’s sedan and hatchback nameplates. This allowed for the redirecting of resources to the brand’s more popular offerings, namely crossovers and SUVs. With demand for such vehicles growing exponentially, this proved a successful strategy as Ford’s revenue increased through the 2018 model year as a result.", null, null, "While the clearly drastic move may seem seemingly short-sighted in that it caters only to the current uptrend in crossovers and SUVs, Ford has looked further into the foreseeable future too. With the all-new Mustang Mach-E fully-electric crossover SUV and with the upcoming F-150 EV pickup truck in the works, it’s obvious the Blue Oval wants to focus on being seen for its progressive and eco-friendly strategy. Over the past decade, eco-consciousness has grown more important in the minds of world leaders, and similarly has become significantly more of a trend to the average consumer, too. With the importance of preserving the health of people and of the planet as a whole at the top of people’s minds, legislation and consumer’s expectations have driven a slow transition to an emissions-free future.", null, null, "Apart from the new investments, another reason for the reduction in models had to do with the fact that a massive percentage of all of Ford’s revenue comes from the sales of its trucks, utes, and other commercial vehicles. In other words, commercial businesses and fleet owners make up most of the brand’s client base, while private consumers account for a much smaller portion of the brand’s regular sales in comparison. With that, the overall value, or profitability offered from the range of consumer-targeted small vehicles, simply became inadmissible.\n\nWhy Continue with Crossovers and SUVs then?\n\nWith the uptrend in crossovers and SUVs still in the relatively early stages of the product lifecycle, there is still a lot of revenue Ford can raise from the trend in the market. It is these vehicles that have made the sedan and hatchback obsolete, after all, arguably being the key reason for the traditional small car’s demise. With the progression of the automotive industry, cars are now more versatile and well-rounded then they’ve ever been before. And it’s in this that the crossover and SUV have proven to be the logical next step in the evolution of cars.\n\nCrossover SUVs, by design, offer the best of multiple worlds, combining the commanding and high-riding feel of typical SUVs along with their expansive cabin spaces and cargo bays, with the drivability and fuel economy of a traditional urban vehicle. To augment their all-rounder appeal, these new-age vehicles are generally offered with comprehensive consignments of passenger-centric features, plush and comfortable seats, and in many attractive trim configurations. All in all, if its performance, ride comfort, or utility you’re looking for, there’s not only one crossover that’ll offer just that, but numerous options that’ll even offer them all.\n\nA Sensible but Sad Goodbye\n\nWhile the reasons for Ford’s move to discontinue the production of all its hatchbacks do make sense, many enthusiasts are reluctant to see the era of hot-hatchery go – and rightfully so. Some may even agree that it’ll be a great misfortune to all, as new drivers will never get the chance to experience the affordable, fun-to-drive pocket-rockets that make for the ideal first car. Over time, fewer and fewer hatches will be seen at weekend track days, as they take refuge in the garages of those who wish to preserve them, or disappear into the hands of vintage car collectors. The Blue Oval’s decision may be a sad turn of events for some, but with the arrival of the sporty Mustang Mach-E, rugged Bronco 4×4, and the spritely Bronco Sport, who knows what fun the future holds.\n\n3 Things You Need to Create an Online CBD Website" ]

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[ null, "Volunteers pass cabbages donated by a resident for his neighbors quarantined at home in Chongqing on Tuesday. (Photo: China Daily)\n\nBeijing is still facing the most complicated and severe epidemic control situation since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, with the number of infections at the community level continuing to rise with slight fluctuations, Xu Hejian, spokesman of the municipality, said at a news conference on Wednesday.\n\n\"The epidemic control work in the capital is still at a critical stage,\" said Xu, adding that Beijing reported more than 1,000 infections each day on Monday and Tuesday.\n\nBetween midnight and 3 pm on Wednesday, Beijing reported 913 locally transmitted COVID-19 infections, with 640 of them asymptomatic carriers. Among the total infections, 148 were detected at the community level.\n\nIn response, a makeshift hospital located at the China International Exhibition Center in Shunyi district has been put into use to receive patients with mild symptoms.\n\nConfronted with a similar situation, the municipality of Chongqing has built more makeshift hospitals.\n\nIt has seen infections surpass 6,000 for three consecutive days, according to figures released by the Chongqing Health Commission.\n\nIn addition to makeshift hospitals, authorities in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, have established a special task force consisting of senior medical experts from major hospitals to help treat patients and guide treatment in designated and makeshift hospitals.\n\nThese experts are from severe disease, infection, respiratory and related medical departments, plus departments of traditional Chinese medicine.\n\n\"We always put medical treatment first while continuing to make great efforts to implement and further optimize the prevention and control measures for COVID-19,\" said Zhang Yi, deputy director and spokeswoman of the Guangzhou health commission." ]

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[ null, "FRESNO, California -- Corners at intersections in most major cities are popular places for panhandlers to solicit money from passing cars. Rick Baker is one of those who stands with a sign, hoping for a donation.\n\nBut Fresno city council member Steve Brandau sees what Baker and others do as a problem.\n\n\"A lot of times you see pedestrians going out in traffic, soliciting money and food from drivers and it's time to put an end to that,\" he said.\n\nBrandau is proposing an ordinance that would stop anyone in a car from giving money or food to anyone standing within 200 yards of an intersection.\n\n\"It gives the driver a ticket if they pass food or any object to a person standing on the sidewalk,\" he said.\nBrandau says his goal is to keep the panhandlers from getting hit and avoid fender benders caused by drivers who stop to give.\n\nCouncil member Esmerelda Soria told KFSN-TV she does not support the ordinance.\n\n\"I believe it's a band-aid approach to the bigger issue that we have,\" she said. \"The issue of poverty, homelessness, mental health [and] drug addiction.\"\n\nSoria says the city has just received millions of dollars in state money to deal with those issues and feels once programs are rolling, there will be fewer panhandlers on the streets.\n\nKFSN-TV asked drivers what they think of the proposed donation ban.\n\n\"I think it will help a little bit, but it won't solve the problem,\" one driver said.\n\nBaker doesn't agree with Brandau's plan, but will abide by the rules if it's passed.\n\nIf the ordinance is approved, the fine for giving a panhandler anything from a car would be $75 and would be in effect for just one year then reviewed.The anti-panhandling ordinance will be considered by the Fresno city council on Thursday, March 21.\nReport a correction or typo\nRelated topics:\npoliticscaliforniahomelesspanhandlingu.s. & world\nCopyright © 2022 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.\nTOP STORIES\nAggravated assault suspect shot and killed by Pasadena police\nTeen shot in gunbattle between 2 groups in west Harris County\nLine for sold-out concert stretched across Houston's north side\nIs Texas missing out? Oklahoma cashes in on booming marijuana market\nHere's how many inches of rain you could get over the next 7 days\nWoman claimed self-defense in deadly Clear Lake marina shooting\nHarris County DA demands Hidalgo stop 'daily public misstatements'\nShow More\nConstellation Field has more than Cracker Jacks for fans to enjoy\nGalveston woman Turns to Ted after flood insurance issues\nElections Administrator GOP on upcoming election result delays\nFunerals begin for victims of Buffalo supermarket shooting\nBiden starts Asia trip with global issues and tech on agenda\nMore TOP STORIES News" ]

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[ null, null, "Pentedrone is an analytical reference material categorized as a cathinone. It has been found in products marketed as bath salts. Pentedrone is regulated as a Schedule I compound in the United States. This product is intended for research and forensic applications.\n\nPentedrone (also known as drone) is a lesser-known novel stimulant substance of the cathinone class. Pentedrone belongs to a group of compounds known as substituted cathinones. Pentedrone acts as a norepinephrine–dopamine reuptake inhibitor (NDRI).\n\nPentedrone was first detected being sold online in 2010. It is an example of a contemporary designer drug specifically chosen to mimic and/or replace the effects of street drugs like cocaine, MDMA, or methamphetamine. Pentedrone and similar compounds are sometimes referred to as “bath salts”.\n\nPentedrone is known to come in the form of either a white powder or crystallized shards which users can ingest to produce a powerful, fast-acting but short-lived euphoric stimulant effects which are comparable to those of crack-cocaine, N-ethylpentedrone and a-PVP-type compounds, particularly when they are insufflated, vaporized or injected. Starting with the advent of MDPV, research chemical stimulants like pentedrone have gained notoriety for its tendency to induce compulsive redosing and addictive behaviors in a seemingly significant percentage of its users as well the ability to readily induce paranoid, delusional states and stimulant psychosis when abused.\n\nLittle data exists about the toxicity and abuse potential of pentedrone in humans. Due to its novelty and brief history of human usage, all information related to this compound should be treated with extreme caution. It is strongly recommended that one use harm reduction practices if using this substance.\n\nPentedrone is a a molecule of the substituted cathinone chemical class. Substituted cathinones refer to a class of molecules which are principally constituted of a phenethylamine core with an alkyl group attached to the alpha carbon and an oxygen group attached to the beta carbon. They are also known as the beta-ketone (double-bonded oxygen to the β-carbon) analogs of amphetamines. Pentedrone is the a-pentyl beta-keto analog of methamphetamine.\n\nOf general note, the cathinone backbone can be modified in three different places to create hundreds of possible compounds, which include substituents on the aromatic ring, the alpha carbon, and the amine group.\n\nThe toxicity and long-term health effects of recreational pentedrone use do not seem to have been studied in any scientific context and the exact toxic dosage is unknown. This is because pentedrone has a very short history of human usage. Early anecdotal evidence from people who have tried pentedrone within the community suggests that there do not seem to be any negative health effects attributed to simply trying this substance at low to moderate doses by itself and using it in a sparing and controlled fashion (but nothing can be completely guaranteed).\n\nAs with other stimulants, the chronic use of pentedrone can be considered moderately addictive with a high potential for abuse and seems to be readily liable of causing psychological dependence among certain users. When addiction has developed, cravings and withdrawal effects may occur if a person suddenly stops their usage.\n\nTolerance to many of the effects of pentedrone develops with prolonged and repeated use. This results in users having to administer increasingly large doses to achieve the same effects. After that, it takes about 3 – 7 days for the tolerance to be reduced to half and 1 – 2 weeks to be back at baseline (in the total absence of further consumption). Pentedrone presents cross-tolerance with all dopaminergic stimulants, meaning that after the consumption of pentedrone all stimulants will have a reduced effect.\n\nAbuse of compounds within the stimulant class at high dosages for prolonged periods of time can potentially result in a stimulant psychosis that may present with a variety of symptoms (e.g., paranoia, hallucinations, or delusions). A review on treatment for (dextro)amphetamine, and methamphetamine abuse-induced psychosis states that about 5–15% of users fail to recover completely. The same review asserts that, based upon at least one trial, antipsychotic medications effectively resolve the symptoms of acute amphetamine psychosis.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "When it comes to female leadership and empowerment, modern-day icons like Malala, Hillary and even Beyoncé are quick to come to mind. (Not to mention Emma Watson, Michelle Obama and \"Lean In\" coach Sheryl Sandberg.) Fortunately, there are a lot more female leaders out there than common knowledge may suggest; from trailblazing politicians to dedicated activists. Below are merely 21 of them.\n\nMerkel garnered the full spotlight when she was named TIME's person of the year, but her notable acts go beyond gracing a magazine cover. Despite strong opposition, she opened Germany's doors to migrants during the Syrian refugee crisis.\n\nSirleaf is the first female president elected in Africa. She began her political career in 1972, with a scathing message against the oppressive government at her alma mater, then went on to work at the Treasury Department and later became its Minister of Finance. Although she was put on a 30-year ban from politics, she ran for president but lost to a political opponent accused of war crimes. She sent herself into exile for her own safety soon after. In 2006, she won the presidential election and was re-elected in 2011. She received a Nobel Peace Prize the same year, shared with Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman, for their \"non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.\"\n\nSuu Kyi took on the role of opposition leader against Burmese dictator General Ne Win. Speaking out against him, she led a peaceful movement for democracy and human rights. She worked to spread democracy throughout Myanmar and founded the National League for Democracy. But in 1989, she was put on house arrest for 15 years to block her from communicating with the outside world. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 and was released from house arrest in 2010. Today, she continues to vie for democracy in her country.\n\nBachelet is the first woman to serve as Chile's commander-in-chief. Her calling to the political realm was an unfortunate one, since both she and her father were tortured and exiled under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorial rule. Bachelet was sworn into her first term in 2006, and has been generally well-praised, especially after her handling of the global economic crisis in 2008. To top it off, she's also a pediatrician.\n\nKnown as the real-life Olivia Pope, Smith is the inspiration for the TV show Scandal. She's the CEO, founder and president of crisis management firm Smith & Company and has covered cases with Monica Lewinsky, Wesley Snipes, Michael Vick and Sony. She also assists in public policy work on issues like the housing crisis and education. Consider it handled.\n\nYellen is an award-winning economist and the first woman to head the Federal Reserve of the United States. (She succeeded Ben Bernanke in 2014.) She's a graduate of both Yale and Brown, and even President Obama has offered her his high praise. \"She's a proven leader, and she's tough—not just because she's from Brooklyn,\" he said when he nominated her as Fed Chair in 2013.\n\nSchmidt is the first female prime minister and leader of the Social Democrats in Denmark. During her term she loosened the strict, anti-immigration laws set forth by her predecessors. After stepping down, Schmidt took on the role of Chief Executive for the non-governmental organization, Save the Children, which promotes children's rights in developing nations.\n\nThe Harvard graduate started her career in federal law in the early '90s, picking up positions at The Federal Reserve and as the District Attorney for New York. While serving the latter, Lynch oversaw preliminary investigations of potential corruption among FIFA officials. In 2015, President Obama appointed her to the position of Attorney General, making her the second woman and first African-American woman to hold the title.\n\nPark's position as South Korea's first female president, among other accomplishments, earned her the #11 spot on Forbes' Most Powerful Women list (and #43 overall). Though reeling back from the Sewol ferry sinking, which occurred during her term, Park spearheaded a free trade deal with Canada—reportedly the first of its kind between Canada and an Asian country.\n\nChairperson of the State Bank of India\n\nBhattacharya is the first woman to head the State Bank of India, which has been in existence for over 200 years. She's also revolutionizing the bank's male-dominant history with a female focus: by allowing women two-year sabbaticals for going on maternity leave or taking time off to care for family members. Since women are primarily the caregivers in Indian society, this relieves working women from the risk of losing their jobs for tending to their families.\n\nGandhi, the widow of former Indian Prime Minster Rajiv Gandhi, has long been a supporter of women's and human rights. Though she stayed out of the political limelight immediately following her husband's assassination in 1991, she later entered a career in politics, securing positions like President of the Congress. Today her focus is on passing the Women's Reservation Bill, which seeks to reserve 33% of the seats in lower house of Indian Parliament to women.\n\nOne of the most powerful women in the world—in fact ranked #6 by Forbes—French native Lagarde is a woman of many hats. She's credited as a lawyer, politician for the Union for a Popular Movement party and, since 2011, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn). As the first woman to head the IMF, Lagarde is seeing the onset of a slight global upturn since the recent recession, and she's also helping the fund support female employment in order to avoid poverty and inequality.\n\nTsai Ing-Wen became Taiwan's first female president, after winning the January 2016 election by a huge lead—her votes almost doubled her opponent's. The Taipei-born leader doesn't hail for a political family, and actually began her career as a professor rather than a politician. Tsai is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, which supports independence from China, and has a history of being pro-poor, pro-women and pro-LGBTQ. She is ranked number 17 on Forbes' Most Powerful Women of 2016.\n\nPrime Minister of the United Kingdom\n\nMay is the second female Prime Minister of the U.K. after Margaret Thatcher. She was elected into office in July 2016 as the leader of the Conservative Party, succeeding David Cameron, who resigned after the Brexit referendum. Since coming into office, some of her main efforts have included guiding the U.K.'s exit from the European Union and tightening immigration.\n\nKirchner, endearingly nicknamed CFK, is the second female president of Argentina, but the first to get re-elected. Her previous positions include National Deputy and National Senator for the South American country.\n\nWajed's father was the first president of Bangladesh, after vying for its separation from Pakistan in 1971. After entering politics in the '60s, Sheikh Hasina was his political liaison while he was imprisoned. In 1975, he was assassinated, along with Wajed's mother and three brothers. Now, she serves as Prime Minister (after being elected in 2009) and presides over one of the largest populations in the world. Wajed has supported democracy, promoted human rights and denounced violent military rule; but recently, she's been criticized for her response—or lack thereof—to hate crimes in the country.\n\nSolberg has been the leader of the Conservative Party since 2004 and Prime Minister since 2013. She's the second female in the country to hold the latter position. Her beginnings in government, however, go back even further: she's been a member of the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) since 1989. Throughout her political tenure, she's served as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and participated in the Standing Committee on Health and Care Services Affairs, the Standing Committee on Foreign and Defense Affairs and the Electoral Committee.\n\nGrybauskaitė became the first female president of Lithuania when she was elected in 2009, and became the first-ever president to serve two consecutive terms when she was re-elected in 2014.Like Margaret Thatcher, she is nicknamed the \"Iron Lady,\" a moniker she earned for her staunch stance against Vladimir Putin, although Russia is a massive, looming neighbor. She credits her tough upbringing for her tenacious personality: \"My character was created in the battle for survival,\" she told DW.\n\nIn 2015, Gurib-Fakim was sworn in as Mauritius' first female president and sixth overall. With a strong background in science rather than in politics, she has founded the Centre for Pytotherapy Research and authored or edited 28 books (and counting). She was invested in her country's biodiversity and researched plant life before being approached by Mauritius' majority party to become president.\n\nThe daughter of a coal miner, Szydło became the youngest mayor of Polish region Małopolska at the age of 35, and later became the leader of the Law and Justice party, which practices \"traditional values\" and is against more control from the European Union. She started gaining attention after spearheading Andrzej Duda's successful presidential campaign (he took office in 2015 and is still serving). Szydło was sworn in as Prime Minister in 2015.\n\nWhen she was 13, Kuugongelwa-Amadhila went into exile with SWAPO—the former independence movement of Namibia, which later became its major political party—and fled to Sierra Leone. She returned after graduation and jumped into politics at the age of 27, when she was appointed as the Director General of the National Planning Commission. As the Minister of Finance, a role she began in 2003, Kuugongelwa-Amadhila was credited for keeping Namibia under \"serious fiscal discipline,\" which resulted in the country's first budget surplus. She assumed the office of Prime Minister in 2015.\n\nErica Gonzales Erica Gonzales is the Senior Culture Editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage on TV, movies, music, books, and more.\nAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\nMore From Features\nStop Feeling Guilty About Motherhood\nKanye West Misuses the Work of Black Liberation\nAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\nSeason's Lost, Joy Regained\nTikTok's Dangerous World of \"Ironic\" Thinspo\nWhat Is the Responsibility of Beauty?\nMarried Moms Lost Faith in Democracy. Why?\nMeet the Youngest Artist Represented by Gagosian\nHome is Where Your Best Friend Is\nTrans Students Triumph Against the Odds\nThe Power of Ofrendas on Día de los Muertos" ]

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[ null, "Txema Muñoz, director of Kimuak. Long time defender of short films and distributor. Just to name a few of the short films that have passed through his hands, 7:35 de la mañana (Nacho Vigalondo, 2003) and Éramos pocos (Borja Cobeaga, 2005), both nominated for the Oscar for Best Fiction Short Film. At Kimuak, he is currently managing a catalogue of over 100 films." ]

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[ null, "\"I feel very good about the peformance,\" said Novikov, who struggled in the prelims with a time of 1:50.83, putting him in the eighth lane in the finals. \"I did the best I could and I am fine with the result because I really swam well. Maybe I could have done better if I was in one of the other lanes, but overall I am very happy.\"\n\nSo too was Dolphins head coach Oleg Soloviev.\n\n\"For a freshman, competing in his first national championship and on the first day of competition, it was absolutely outstanding,\" said Soloviev. \"He had the fastest split in the breaststroke turn which was very impressive.\"\n\nNovikov had been seeded second with a qualifying time of 1:50.54.\n\nThere were 51 entrants in the 200 IM, including CSI teammates Andrey Tarasov and Vladislav Romanov, who missed the finals cut.\n\nIn the finals, all eyes were on the eight contenders.\n\nNovikov was dead last after the first turn at 24:58 and was still eighth after turn two at 52.95. He turned up the speed with a 31.08 breaststroke leg, the best in the field, to reach third place. In the fourth leg, the freestyle, Novikov had a third-best time of 26.95.\n\n\"I feel a lot more confident,\" he said. \"The competition is excellent and all I can do is my best, but when you have other swimmers pushing you it makes you better.\"\n\nNOTES: In yesterday's prelims, CSI freshman Tarasaov placed 24th with a personal-best time of 1:53.10, while Romanov placed 32nd in 1:54.31 ... The Dolphins were 17th in the 200 medley relay in 1:33.09 ... CSI has five athletes competing in 10 events as the national meet continues through Saturday ... Dolphin senior Pavel Buyanov is a two-time NCAA champion in the 100 breaststroke, an event he won in 2008 and 2009 and is seeded second this week. He will also compete in the 200 breaststroke." ]

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[ null, "“Walmart is starting to feel the heat from consumers who don’t want this unlabeled GE corn in their grocery carts, so they are releasing public statements and telling customers that they have no current plans to carry the biotech corn,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch. “But until the retail giant sends a clear message to its supply chain that it will not buy this GE sweet corn, consumers have no way of knowing whether or not Walmart’s corn is GE free, and those of us who prefer to avoid GE food—including the half-million people who signed this petition—will purchase our groceries elsewhere.”\n\nPublic opinion polls done by Consumer Reports and others show that a majority of consumers asked would not eat genetically modified food and nearly all—95 percent—are insistent that GE food must be labeled, at minimum, so they can make informed choices. As the country’s largest grocery retailer, Walmart sells $129 billion worth of food a year, giving it unmatched power in shaping the food supply chain. If Walmart refuses to stock Monsanto’s GE sweet corn, other retailers will likely follow suit and farmers won’t feel the economic pressure to plant the biotech seeds. To date, Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods Market have indicated they will not sell the GE corn.\n\n“Consumers around the world are calling on Walmart to reject Monsanto’s toxic crop. The last thing we need is another unlabeled, potentially unsafe GE product hiding in plain sight at the nation’s largest food retailer,” said Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, executive director and founder of SumOfUs.\n\n“We hope that Walmart food buyers hear the more than 200,000 CREDO members encouraging them to take a stand for consumer choice and against Monsanto’s unlabeled GMO corn,” said Elijah Zarlin, campaign manager of CREDO Action. “Walmart’s stated commitment to customer safety and satisfaction will definitely be called into question if they carry this untested, unlabeled sweet corn—not even giving their customers the choice to avoid the product.”\n\n“Grocery companies are the last link in the chain before this corn reaches consumers and they have a financial incentive to keep this unlabeled GE sweet corn off their shelves because their customers won’t buy it,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of The Center for Food Safety. “Two major retailers have already said they will not use Monsanto’s new corn. If they can do it, so can Walmart.”\n\n“Walmart has been getting an earful from hundreds of thousands of Americans who don’t want risky genetic corn experiments,” said Charles Margulis, food program coordinator at the Center for Environmental Health. “This untested, unlabeled corn has no place on Walmart shelves. We expect swift action by the world’s largest retailer to protect their consumers’ right to safe food choices.”\n\nOn March 17, dozens of live events are being planned in communities across the country including New Jersey, Colorado, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Oregon, Iowa and California, as well as online social media actions targeting Walmart properties.\n\nIn addition to the nearly 500,000 petition signatures, the campaign that began on Jan. 11 has generated significant support from people across the country who are opposed to untested, unlabeled and potentially unsafe GE food. On Feb. 8, more than 3,300 phone calls were made to Walmart’s customer service line and between Feb. 22 and 23, Food & Water Watch activists delivered more than 75,000 petitions to more than 100 Walmart stores across the country.\n\nSumOfUs.org is a global movement of consumers, investors, and workers all around the world, standing together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable and just path for our global economy.\n\nCREDO Action has 2.7 million members across the U.S. who fight for progressive change and raise money for organizations like Food Democracy Now! and the Organic Consumers Association. Since 1985, CREDO and its membership have donated over $65 million to progressive causes.\n\nThe Center for Food Safety is a national, non-profit, membership organization founded in 1997 to protect human health and the environment by curbing the use of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. The Center for Food Safety’s True Food Network is a national grassroots network with more than 200,000 members where concerned citizens can voice their opinions about critical food safety issues, and advocate for a socially just, democratic, and sustainable food system. Find it on the Web by clicking here and here.\n\nThe Center for Environmental Health protects people from toxic chemicals and promotes business products and practices that are safe for public health and the environment.\n\nCorporate Accountability International (formerly Infact) is a membership organization that has, for the last 35 years, successfully advanced campaigns protecting health, the environment and human rights." ]

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[ null, "UK nationals will be allowed to travel through France if they are going to their home in an EU country during the festive period.\n\nFrance suspended its Covid restriction after UK travellers faced difficulties reaching their country of residence. Eurotunnel, which had earlier issued warnings to customers, said that it was delighted by the move.\n\nPeople from the UK are still largely banned from going to France unless they have a compelling reason. Earlier this month, French ministers tightened travel rules for the UK, citing concerns about the spread of the Omicron variant.\n\nSince 18 December, British citizens have needed an essential reason to travel to France, with some exemptions in place. It had been thought that exemptions covered those crossing France in order to get to their home in another EU country.\n\nHowever on Wednesday, both P&O and Eurotunnel said the French government had issued new rules meaning British people could no longer transit France by road to reach their country of residence in the EU unless they hold French residency. The British government said it was urgently seeking clarification about any new restrictions that would affect UK nationals.\n\nIn response, the French government insisted that UK nationals who reside in another EU country are deemed to be third country nationals and are therefore not allowed to cross France to get home under the current Covid rules. However, it noted that a large number of British nationals residing in an EU country have travelled in good faith to the UK for the festive season and are experiencing difficulties in reaching their country of residence.\n\n\"Faced with this situation, instructions of tolerance have been sent to police officers at the borders with the United Kingdom, in order to allow these nationals to transit through France to reach their residence in a country of the European Union\". The French Ministry of the Interior added that, unlike UK citizens, EU nationals coming from the UK to their residence in the EU were not impacted by the transit ban and were free to travel through France.\n\nEurotunnel, the company which runs vehicle-carrying trains between Dover and Calais, said it was delighted that the French government has responded positively to its requests for flexibility in travel rules. On Twitter, the company said the flexibility for passengers would be subject to their initial journey to the UK being completed before 28 Dec 2021.\n\nThe confusion over travel rules comes as France is experiencing record numbers of infections, with over 200,000 positive cases reported on Wednesday. On the same day, the UK also saw cases jump to a record high of 183,000 people testing positive." ]

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[ null, "Pierre-Louis is a successful investment broker who sees a hit and run and informs the police. As he is the only eyewitness willing to testify against the driver Jackhammer, the vicious leader of a gang of bikers, Pierre-Louis is whisked off to the witness protection program in a trailer park run by the kitschy Jackie Pigeon. A chapter of inept bikers called the Wanna-Bees also come to stay at the campground. When Pierre-Louis and Jackie are attracted to each other, Pierre-Louis is threatened by the investigating police officer, who also has designs on Jackie. Meanwhile Jackhammer is out on bail and contacts all the biker chapters to be on the lookout for the disguised Pierre-Louis.\n\nEasily as misguided as the much maligned Les Dangereux.\n\nQuite fun, but quite stupid, too. Will very probably give you two or three belly laughs, and then make you hate yourself for it. Too bad a lot of the laughs are unintentional, and the plot is an utter mess from beginning to finish. At least Guy. A Lepage and Sylvie Moreau do use their sharp comedic timing with skill throughout." ]

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[ null, "A native of Sidney, Nebraska, Jeffery Peetz focuses on estate planning, business and wealth succession planning, and estate and trust administration, including litigation matters. In these areas of practice, he works with individuals, small business owners, larger-sized agricultural operators, and community bank owners, advising them on contractual matters related to the operation of a successful business.\n\nJeffery served from 1983 to 1984 as a law clerk for the late former Chief Justice William C. Hastings of the Nebraska Supreme Court. He is a frequent lecturer on estate planning topics, charitable giving as a component of one’s overall estate plan, and real estate law matters for the Continuing Legal Education Committee of the Nebraska State Bar Association and for the American College of Estate and Trust Counsel.\n\nThe Charitable Gift Planners of Nebraska recognized Jeffery in 2008 with its Community Sowers Award for outstanding contributions to charitable giving. He has served in various leadership roles in many statewide charitable organizations, including as a past chairperson of the Lincoln Community Foundation.\n\nJeffery was invited in 2012 to become a Fellow to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). Membership requires nomination by approximately 2,500 of the nation’s top estate and trust estate attorneys, review at the state and national levels, and election by the ACTEC Board of Regents. Jeffery is also a member of ACTEC’s Fiduciary Litigation and Charitable Planning Committees, State Chairs Steering Committee, and currently serves as the Nebraska State Chair." ]

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[ "COVID-19 Forcing A Battle Between Texans And Their Government", null, "COVID-19 Forcing A Battle Between Texans And Their Government\n\nCOVID-19 has sent the entire Texas economy into an unprecedented tailspin. The effects of the government-induced shock will outlast the virus itself. However, COVID-19 has exposed the massive dysfunction and hypocrisy from the Texas political establishment and Texans are furious.\n\nUnder the cover of restrictions ordered by the federal Centers For Disease Control, Governor Greg Abbott imposed seemingly arbitrary restrictions on companies and small businesses, forcing them to lay off unprecedented amounts of workers and creating economic devastation. Unemployment rose to 4.7% in March, and Comptroller Glenn Hegar predicts it could reach 9% or higher. In March, the Texas Leading Index, a single statistic that measures the future of the state’s economy, had its steepest plunge since its inception.\n\nThe Many Faces Of Abbott’s Response To COVID-19\n\nTexans are not only fighting to determine what is true and what is hype against the backdrop of financial uncertainty. They are also enduring the chaotic, contradictory, and ever-changing mandates from the state government. On March 19th, Gov. Abbott issued an executive order, closing bars, dine-in restaurants, schools, and gyms. Weeks later, he issued another executive order extending the original, but clarified it was not a “stay-at-home” order. He worried that calling it such would make residents believe they couldn’t leave their homes. Instead, his order was informally labeled “Essential services and activities only.”\n\nThis left Texans to question what qualified as essential, and whether to follow various and often excessive or contradictory, local mandates or the ones from the state. The language within the order was weak and arbitrary as well, “[Texans] shall, except where necessary to provide or obtain essential services, minimize social gatherings, and minimize in-person contact.” This was only the beginning of a long string of vague statements, inconsistent mandates, and confusing press conferences.\n\nIt came as a shock to Texans when Gov. Abbott’s order stated that failure to comply could result in a $1,000 fine, jail time up to 180 days, or both. The rigidity of these punishments quickly came crumbling down under the tsunami of a political backlash when a Dallas salon owner was arrested for opening her business against the state’s order. This led Gov. Abbott to reverse his stance in a statement to the media.\n\n“Throwing Texans in jail who have had their businesses shut down through no fault of their own is nonsensical, and I will not allow it to happen.”\n\n“Gov. Abbott calls the actions of a Judge in Dallas excessive, when the Judge was acting based on Gov. Abbott’s order. Gov. Abbott is now upset that a private citizen is in jail for operating a private business, which is a consequence of his order.”\n\nIn another example of pure hypocrisy, Gov. Abbott went on Hannity and backpedaled.\n\n“In Houston, they were issuing fines and potential jail time for anybody who refused to wear a mask. Wearing a mask is the best practice, however, no one should forfeit their liberty and be sent to jail for not wearing a mask.”\n\nThis came after Gov. Abbott himself issued the order with the threat of fines and jail time. Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo spoke up against him in a tweet.\n\n“you shouldn’t issue orders that include the jailing of violators to cover the science, just to turnaround & excoriate those who enforce YOUR executive order to cover the political backlash. Your actions are hypocritical.”\n\nTexas’ economy has suffered in part due to these inconsistencies and reversals. Take the service sector for example, it makes up 70% of Texas’ economy and employs almost 9 million people. The revenue index, which measures the service sector’s conditions, fell an unprecedented 81 points in March. In May, once certain businesses were allowed to reopen, the index rebounded a whopping 37 points; Texas was on its way to rebuilding the service industry.\n\nIn July, however, the index once again fell 14.2 points, indicating a sharp decrease in jobs and wages. This wasn’t because of the virus. It was thanks to Gov. Abbott who flip-flopped on his plans to reopen the state. On May 18th he had announced all bars, daycare, beauty salons, bowling alleys, and more could reopen. These businesses hired back employees, took out loans, and reopened as quickly as possible to make up for lost time and money. Then only a few weeks later, he announced all establishments that earn 51% or more of their sales from alcoholic beverages must again close, and limited dine-in restaurants to 50% capacity. This step backward crippled already struggling bars and small businesses, forcing more layoffs and a wave of business closures.\n\nThe Constitutional Cost Of Political Pandering\n\nHow Gov. Abbott has worded, interpreted, and contradicted his executive orders reflects his attempt to find a middle ground between his core constituents who want to get back to work, and some who argue that he hasn’t closed the state long enough. For a politician who lives by poll numbers in a difficult position. Who exactly should he pander to and how should he do it?\n\nWith Gov. Abbott being pulled in a million directions, and seemingly immune to the voice of ordinary Texans, he has retreated into his establishment echo chamber and fallen back on the convenience of executive orders, issuing over 20 within the last few months. Although executive orders are more immediate, there is less clarity and specificity, which increases the likelihood of disputes and unforeseen changes. Additionally, it has become increasingly clear that these executive orders are in direct violation of the Texas Constitution.\n\nGubernatorial executive orders should be few and far between because they bypass the input and voice of our legislators, the very individuals who are elected by the people for the people. Now more than ever, Texans have felt the notable absence of the Texas Legislature. Not only are most legislators more than happy to let Gov. Abbott do the heavy lifting, virtually none of them have even whimpered about having their Constitutional authority usurped.\n\nCurrently, the Capitol is closed except for a skeleton staff and state troopers. The Legislature won’t be in session until January unless Gov. Abbott calls a special session, which appears unlikely as he seems comfortable ruling by decree. Texans are wondering why their representatives are missing in action. They can’t conduct hearings to discuss interim changes or hold hearings over Gov. Abbott’s executive orders without allowing the public into committee rooms. Under the current rules, these hearings aren’t allowed to be conducted online. The Texas House and Senate have not had a hearing since March 10. The next session seems likely to happen behind closed doors under the threat of COVID-19. But it could be dangerous for many reasons other than the virus.\n\nIt’s an open invitation for lawmakers and representatives to skirt accountability and avoid answering to the public, a problem we already face. Texans that are still employed have adapted to working, meeting, learning, and even exercising virtually or socially distanced, yet our Legislature can’t seem to follow the same guidelines that the state government is imposing on us. At least 23 other state legislatures have issued resolutions or adaptations for sessions to keep their governments afloat. Texas does not allow for that flexibility, and it doesn’t appear they will anytime soon.\n\nThe Slightest Hint of a Backbone\n\nThe Texas Constitution declares that the Legislature is the sole law-making body in our state government. Within the past few years, however, powers have been quietly shifted to the Governor under the auspices of dealing with emergencies, such as natural disasters. Because of this, there is no longer a distinct separation of power or oversight from the Legislature.\n\nIn July, the staunchly conservative Texas Freedom Caucus called for Abbott to reform the Texas Disaster Act of 1975. This Disaster Act was originally intended to grant governors expansive authority in response to natural disasters, such as hurricanes. The Texas Freedom Caucus argued, however, that the act should only be used in circumstances with a clear end in sight. Otherwise, we end up with what we have now, one person as the face of our pandemic response and minimal input from representatives and, therefore, the people.\n\nThe caucus proposed imposing a time limit on gubernatorial disaster declarations, which would involve the Legislature if further action is needed. The caucus’ leader, Rep Middleton (R-Wallisville), said in a letter:\n\n“Actions pressed with the force of law need input from those elected to write laws. The separation of lawmaking, law enforcement, and law interpretation are the foundational checks and balances that make Texas and America exceptional in the world. Many Texans fear that we have drifted away from those checks and balances.”\n\nHe is absolutely right. Texans are worried more than ever about executive overreach and what power our elected officials hold.\n\nThis month, five Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Abbott and state health officials for unlawful executive overreach. The ambiguous Texas Disaster Act that granted Gov. Abbott the temporary authority to make major policy decisions, allowed him to sidestep the contract bid process and award an almost $300 million deal to a small town tech firm to track COVID-19 cases. The suit stated, “The Texas Constitution requires a separation of powers, and that separation leaves policy-making decisions with the Texas Legislature.” Many lawmakers, including those listed in the lawsuit, have demanded Gov. Abbott to call for a special session to allow lawmakers to give their input on his frivolous orders.\n\nCOVID-19 has exposed the faults in our local, state, and national governments. With each of Gov. Abbott’s executive orders and inconsistent mandates, it’s clear that Texas is no exception to those shortcomings. Texans are worried about their financial situations, job security, and how to continue everyday life without being handicapped by an invisible threat.\n\nGov. Abbott has proved he is not equipped to lead the state as a “solo act”, making the absence of legislative input that much more glaring. The legislature has a rough road ahead of them. They’ll have to find a way to reclaim their usurped authority and save the economy. They’ll not only have to remedy the damage that the government’s response to COVID-19 has caused–deaths, social distancing, unemployment, business closures–but they’ll also have to address the underlying issues the pandemic has exposed.\n\nA January 2021 session behind closed doors is the worst-case scenario; the very foundations of a Legislature are based on public interactions, the Capitol is intended to bring people together, not keep them apart. The power balance must be restored back to our representatives and lawmakers, the pain of ordinary Texans must be heard, and their livelihoods must be taken into consideration.\n\nThe one unintended consequence of the dysfunction coming from our Capitol has been a fundamental reassessment by Texans of the merits of the TNM’s case for Texas independence and how it can break the grip of the political establishment that puts us all in this mess. It’s a reassessment that is long overdue.\n\nRise Up and Let Your Voice Be Heard!\n\nDinner with Daniel Miller and TNM Leadership In Waco" ]

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[ "Innovative methods were used to estimate the proportional incidence of interval colorectal cancer (CRC) in an Italian cohort, and the results were found to be consistent with previous studies. The study results were published in Digestive and Liver Disease.1\n\nTo determine the crude and adjusted proportional incidence of interval CRC, Mancini and colleagues leveraged records from a regional Italian cancer registry that are linked to data from an ongoing fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening program (2-year) for people aged 50 to 69 years, which was implemented in 2005. Interval CRC was defined as invasive CRC diagnosed within 2 years of a negative FIT.\n\nTo correct for potential self-selection bias — an association between screening participation and the risk of disease — the crude proportional incidence was adjusted according to the cancer screening sensitivity as proposed by Hakama et al.2\n\nA limitation of this research is that unlike previous studies of proportional incidence of interval CRC in Italy and other countries, this study adjusted for selection bias. In addition, the authors acknowledge that the records for cancer identification and classification may have contained inaccuracies.\n\nThe authors conclude, “In this study, innovative approaches to the estimate of proportional incidence of CRC were used. Both the adjusted and unadjusted figures were acceptable compared with the standards recommended by the Italian Group for Colorectal Cancer Screening.”", null ]

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[ null, "This brief article is all about Sudoku Single Digit Patterns which are Skyscraper Sudoku, 2 String Kite, Turbot Fish Sudoku, and Empty Rectangle, all these patterns are Sudoku Variant and not that difficult for those who’ll stick with us till the end because I am going to share some tips and tricks that will stand you out among other guys if you’ll successfully implement them\n\nIf you are someone who doesn’t like to read articles, take a look at this video\n\nNow let’s check why this sudoku variant is named as a skyscraper.\n\n“Due to the two unequal heightened building’s resemblance, it is termed as a skyscraper which is an easy to judge sudoku variant, and there’s nothing complicated in this type of sudoku variant”\n\nYou’ll have to focus on some basic core concepts of this sudoku variant, and you can easily spot this pattern.\n\nStick with us till the end; we’ll make you professional in Sudoku single-digit pattern; it’s a unique form of Turbot fish which we’ll discuss in the next few paragraphs.\n\nSkyscraper Sudoku is rather seen as two Sashimi X wings.\n\nLet me explain it to you more precisely, if two cells of a particular candidate are in the same exact column but in different rows, one cell in the first row while the second one is in the second row but both of these row’s belongs to the same column then the candidate who’ll see the other two cells will not be the solution, hope so this will clear most of your doubts.", null, "Let’s dive into the example\n\nIn this particular example, G6 eliminates in every case, but in the last case, you’ll see how it directly eliminates\n\nIf it is the key in both B6 or H4, then it may result in the direct elimination of G6.\n\nHow to solve skyscraper Sudoku\n\nNow let’s come into the matter of Skyscraper Sudoku Solution\n\nIn case If you want to see all skyscrapers at once from 1 to 9, then what would be the solution? You’ll just have to spot clue no 9\n\nBut in case if you want to see the highest skyscraper 9, you’ll just have to spot clue no 1\n\nIn any sudoku variant, normal Sudoku rules play a vital role in winning\n\nYou’ll have to prioritize the highest sudoku digit’s; I’ll tell you the main reason for prioritizing the highest one in the rules section\n\nFollowing are the rules you’ll have to imbibe in your mind when playing skyscraper sudoku.\n\nNow you got the idea of solving skyscraper sudoku; let’s take a look at the assigned rules in order to be a champ.\n\nThis point is worth considering that in each column and row.\n\nNo of visible skyscraper’s= Clue Value\n\nBut the only prerequisite is to view it from the clue direction.\n\nAs you know, in digital terms as we go ahead with the digit’s its dominancy is increasing, same is the case with this Sudoku Variant where highest sudoku skyscraper dominates on the lower one and hide its presence, but there are some prerequisites in this already assigned rule that if the distance between two digits is quite enough, then the rule will not implement and does not block the view of the lower one, let me clear it to you through an example like if skyscraper 1 is at one side while the highest skyscraper on the other side of the grid then due to a lot of distance gap this rule will not implement\n\nAlong rows or columns, any nine clue leads to the visibility of every skyscraper once in a while\n\nWhile on the other hand, anyone clue leads to the visibility of 1 skyscraper along with the columns or row’s that also contains digit no 9\n\nIf in case, it does not contain skyscraper digit nine but contains any digit other than nine, then skyscrapers 1, 9 and all taller skyscrapers visible in a while\n\nYou know that each cell along different row’s or columns contain different skyscraper terms, and a skyscraper also represents a building, so we can conclude that every skyscraper along rows and columns are of different height\n\nWe called the skyscraper variant the unique form of Turbot fish in one of the above paragraphs, but when it comes to the matter of 2 string kite variant, it is considered as the second special or unique form of Turbot fish often found in sudokus. In this particular variant type, we’ll have to find two candidates lying in the same blocks but in a different row or column-like. In this case, we’ll have to find one candidate from the row while the other one from the column.", null, null, "In the right example, two strings of the same candidate, which is nine linked in box number no 9, where r7c6 can’t be the candidate 9\n\nIn this case, elimination will occur something like that those who see the other two cells can be eliminated.", null, "For a single digit, this particular Sudoku pattern unified and created two sets of pairs, out of which one will place in the row while the other one is in the column section and these pairs are named as strings which represents the structure of the Kite after linkage in a single box.\n\nIn this particular pattern, the eliminated candidate would be the one who can see both ends of the strings.\n\nThe box wouldn’t be the same for both unified pairs(Unified pairs contain cells in them), and each line contain distinctive cells in the box; the following is the example where we’ll show", null, "if we’ll place a single pair containing two cell’s in the same box, it solely degenerates the overall pattern, either this particular case also leads to the elimination of the candidate, but it is still not considered as a two-string kite due to the reason’s I explained\n\nIf each line contain indistinctive cell’s, then the result would be like that, as shown below", null, "This particular pattern name represents the functionality of the overall pattern, as the name grouped represents itself that there would be a group of candidates in the strings that take an active part in the competition.\n\nNow let’s dive deep into the concept of eliminating a particular candidate through this pattern.", null, "There would be something called 19/20 based difference in both original as well as the grouped version of the chain.\n\nTwo string kite formed productively as a result of two same candidates connection with two to four different strings at once while remaining in the common box, and this will lead to the elimination of two candidates and can be considered as one move only and hence, therefore, be called as dual two string kite.\n\nWhat Actually Turbot fish is?\n\nMost of the newbies get confused with the name turbot fish. Is it a fish?\n\nTurbot fish is not a fish but an X chain pattern that is used to create a lot of shapes.\n\nNow let me clear this question too, how did the name turbot fish originate?\n\nWhile playing the game, you can see fish-type shapes when drawing lines in between different color-based candidates; there is also a digital representation of a single-digit one that resembles the fish and becomes the source to give this pattern a unique name.", null, null, "It split into different patterns like a skyscraper, two string kites, and an empty rectangle.\n\nA turbot fish is a longer loop possibility based X chain and single-digit solving technique whose minimum length is five, and it is also named a fishy cycle due to its resemblance with the fish, it helps in between four candidates, and this pattern also used a lot of loops with specific loops length in odd terms.", null, null, null, "This pattern is quite different from all previous patterns. In this pattern, a rectangle shape is formed right inside the grid due to 4 cells accumulation in an alternative manner.\n\nAn empty rectangle is also considered a rectangle in case if it holds inside the square and its corners lack a particular candidate.\n\nWorth considering, stuff in this particular pattern are strong links, squares, empty rectangles, and a particular candidate.\n\nCandidate elimination from other cells of the same column occurs as a result of the solution of one of the cells in the square column that doesn’t contain any empty rectangle corner. Now let’s talk about the elimination directly from one of the strong links which occur as a result of solution for one of the cells in a straight row that doesn’t contain any empty rectangle corner; the candidate would be the solution for strong links other cells which leads to the elimination of the candidate from all cells in the same row.\n\nTake a look at the article by Wikipedia regarding Sudoku where everything is mentioned including sudoku mathematics, its types, its predecessors, follow the given link" ]

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[ null, "Valiant Entertainment, seeking to build a brand for themselves in motion pictures, should look no further than the name with their name in big letters on the front cover.\n\nComic book movies are, of course, all the rage at the moment, and the success of mainstream properties like Captain America and Man of Steel coupled with Marvel's increasing boldness with lesser-known properties has led a number of studios to start looking into TV and films based on indie comics, or at least lower-tier corporate comics from BOOM! Studios, Valiant and the like.\n\nThe massive success of Guardians of the Galaxy will only make the desire to copy the Marvel formula more intense in Hollywood (civic motto: If it works, steal it).\n\nAll have ties to The Valiant -- with Bloodshot and Armstrong being central characters in the series -- and I would argue that Valiant shouldn't wait until the other three are ready to go before prepping it.\n\nThe Valiant, in fact, would have been a perfect introduction to these characters. It still could be; if it were me, I'd probably introduce Bloodshot in The Valiant at least before moving him onto his solo film. His premise is pretty easy for the audience to wrap their head around, and the publishing side seems to be poised to more or less reboot him following the events of The Valiant anyway.", null, "The story of The Valiant is a sweeping, historical epic that could help set the tone for the Valiant Universe going forward on film. The first issue -- one of the best issues of any comic this year -- follows The Eternal Warrior through a centuries-long conflict with an immortal enemy who always manages to defeat him and kill his charge, the Geomancer.\n\nThat's basically all the knowledge a Valiant virgin would need going in; while their individual mythologies are somewhat more complex, the idea of a trio of immortal brothers who fight for good in wildly different ways (Armstrong, Timewalker and the Eternal Warrior) is a pretty easy concept to grasp.\n\nAnd everything in The Valiant grows out of that central conceit: Eternal Warrior is very good at his job, except when it comes to this one, dangerous villain who comes along every few hundred years and pantses him. This time around, the Geomancer is new, her powers uncertain, so he rallies a number of elite soldier-types to his side.\n\nThis would all be even easier if the first movie to hit were Archer & Armstrong, which could give backgrounds and personalities to the three immortal brothers and some weight to both the conflict and the relationships between them. It would allow the heavy lifting to be handled in Armstrong's origin story and for the focus to be on the Geomancer, the Immortal Enemy, Bloodshot and Ninjak in The Valiant. Even more than Unity (a truly excellent superhero team book, but that's another conversation), this book is set up to establish the world of Valiant for new readers.\n\nAnd, yes, in an ideal world, this fairly self-contained story with a solid sense of structure and character, could lay the groundwork for solo films down the road...because once you've seen it, how do you not walk out wanting a Ninjak movie?\n\nWhy The Valiant Should Be a Movie" ]

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[ null, "Something disturbing and strange — but oddly hopeful, too — has been happening in Kansas City the last few weeks. It began the morning of May 28, just before 3 a.m., when fire trucks raced to an abandoned home on 28th Street. The old house was enveloped in flames. This could have been any deserted home; such things happen all the time. But it wasn’t any home. This was the home of Satchel Paige, perhaps the greatest pitcher who ever lived.\n\nLess than a month later, just last Friday, vandals broke into the old Paseo YMCA near Kansas City’s famous jazz corner of 18th and Vine and cut a water pipe, causing terrible and difficult-to-calculate damage. The Paseo YMCA is where the Negro Leagues were formed in 1920. It is painstakingly being renovated into an Education and Research Center named for Buck O’Neil, one of the great personalities in baseball history.\n\nThe disturbing part is obvious. The strange part is that the incidents seem to be unrelated to each other and, even stranger, as far as we know, unrelated even to Satchel Paige or Buck O’Neil. Neither is being investigated as a hate crime. Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, calls them “eerie coincidences. But I honestly don’t think they were connected at all.”\n\nThe oddly hopeful part is that these incidents have sparked us to remember.\n\nBuck O’Neil told many stories I love, and this is one of them. It happened when he was the acknowledged captain of the Kansas City Monarchs, and Satchel Paige was his star pitcher. It happened during the 1942 Negro Leagues World Series between the Monarchs and the Homestead Grays, which is to say that it was the World Series between Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, the most legendary players of the Negro Leagues, the first two Negro Leaguers inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.\n\nPaige was the ultimate pitcher, with an Aroldis-esque fastball that he famously could throw over a stick of chewing gum. Gibson was the ultimate hitter, whose power so defied description that it sparked legends. People said he hit a fly ball in Pittsburgh that was caught a day later in Philadelphia.\n\nIt was the second game of the series, a Grays player named Jerry Benjamin opened the seventh inning with a triple. Buck remembered that when that happened he saw a wicked gleam in the eyes of Satchel. Paige called him over at that point and said, “Nancy, you know what I’ve got to do.” (Satchel Paige called Buck O’Neil Nancy. That’s a good story for another time.)\n\nBuck knew exactly what Paige intended to do – he was going to walk the next two batters on purpose in order to face Josh Gibson with the bases loaded and the game on the line.\n\n“Heck no, I didn’t want him to do it,” Buck would say, “but Satchel was going to do what Satchel wanted to do. Everybody in the park wanted to see Satchel and Josh with everything on the line. I have to admit: I wanted to see it too.”\n\nThe greatest pitcher vs. the greatest hitter in the biggest moment — the game of baseball is constructed so that we only rarely get to see that. The mathematical odds are against it happening, and even when it does happen, it is often too easy for a pitcher to simply avoid the confrontation with an intentional walk.\n\nNow, Satchel Paige was going to force the confrontation.\n\nCan you imagine how the internet would explode if someone did that now?\n\nAfter the consecutive walks, Gibson came up and Paige started to talk – nobody could talk quite like Satchel Paige. He said that finally they would find out who was the better man. Gibson was a man of few words. He stepped into the box and said, “Let’s go.”\n\nThe first pitch was a blazing fastball over the corner. Gibson watched it go by.\n\nHe threw the second fastball in the same place. Gibson watched it go by. And then Paige, as Buck remembered it, made the most famous boast in Negro Leagues baseball history.\n\n“I got you oh-and-two, and I’m supposed to knock you down,” Paige said. “But I’m not gonna throw smoke at yo’ yolk. I’m gonna throw a pea at your knee.”\n\nThird fastball, right at the knee. Gibson watched the pea at the knee for strike three. The crowd went crazy.\n\nBuck O’Neil told that story five hundred times, maybe more, and it always drew huge laughs and big applause. But Buck didn’t tell the story for the laughter or the clapping. He told it because he wanted people to remember. He wanted people to understand just how good Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson were, how joyful it was to watch them play. He wanted people know that the great black players before Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby refused to let anyone limit or define them. He wanted some good to come out of the evils of segregation.\n\nThat was the spirit of Buck O’Neil. That was the spirit of the Negro Leagues. And that is the spirit that comes out of the unsettling crimes that have happened in Kansas City. The possible arson of Satchel Paige’s home reminds us that even before it happened, we allowed his home to deteriorate and decay. There is now serious talk in town about buying it and rebuilding it and making it a place people could visit to remember a great American.\n\nAnd the terrible water damage at the Buck O’Neil Education and Research Center has only strengthened the resolve to get the place opened so it can help people in the community. More people are donating. More people are volunteering. Good from evil.\n\nI often asked Buck how he stayed so positive in the face of racism and hatred and limited opportunities. Why did he go back to speak at the Sarasota high school that would not let him in when he was young? Why did he spend his life promoting baseball when the game had denied him the chance to play or manage at the highest level? Why did he go to speak on behalf of the 17 Negro Leaguers inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame when, agonizingly, he was not one of those 17?\n\n“What has my life been about?” he would ask back.\n\nIt was his challenge: What has my life been about? Buck’s life was about so many things. But, in the end, I would say his life was about the simple but urgent belief that, in this world, there are more good people than bad.\n\n“Bad things will happen,” he used to say. “In time, good people will fix them.”" ]