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[ null, "I am not sure who he was, but when English jurist Lord Sowell in 1788 wrote that, “precedent embalms a principle,” he could just as well have been addressing 21st Century policy makers here in America as he was the protagonists in an 18th Century British court ruling. As gun owners here in America look with trepidation toward a Biden-Harris Administration come January 20th, a precedent set by the Trump Administration is likely to haunt them.\n\nThree years ago in Las Vegas, Nevada, mass murderer Stephen Paddock slaughtered 58 innocent people and wounded hundreds more, shooting into a concert audience from a hotel window on The Strip. Among the tools he used in this horrific crime was a device known as a “bump stock.” This contraption, which never has been considered by gun aficionados to be a legitimate firearm accessory, is a piece of plastic with no moving parts. It can, however, be used to increase the rate of fire for certain semi-automatic rifles, even as it reduces accuracy.\n\nIn response to the Paddock mass murder, in 2018 the Department of Justice directed that the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) change federal regulations regarding machine guns, so that a “bump stock” would fall within the definition of a “machine gun.” With that one “stroke of the pen,” a piece of plastic previously lawful to own, was rendered illegal.\n\nUnlike gun control by legislation, this was gun control by fiat. Elected Members of Congress played no role in the decision, having already punted on the question — with some members afraid to upset their pro-Second Amendment constituents, and others fearful that their anti-gun voters would be angered because they were not doing more to restrict firearms and accessories.\n\nThus did a piece of plastic with no moving parts become a “machine gun,” and starting last year, every person who had previously purchased or otherwise acquired such a lawful device, would henceforth have to destroy it, turn it over to the feds for them to destroy, or be considered an unlawful owner of a machine gun.\n\nFederal regulations that by their terms defy common sense but nevertheless carry the force and effect of law, are by no means something new. However, considering the undisguised antipathy which both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have for firearms, this particular precedent is certain to prove troublesome for gun owners in the coming four years.\n\nConsider the AR-15 rifle, by far the most popular rifle in America, with upwards of 18 million estimated to be the hands of private citizens. This semi-automatic rifle is used widely in marksmanship contests, for hunting, and for self-defense in millions of homes and businesses across the country. Biden and Harris, however, consider the AR-15 to be a “weapon of war,” and going after it is almost certain to be one of the early ways their Administration will seek to solidify its “progressive” credentials. What better way to justify such a move, than to employ the same regulatory legerdemain by which the Trump Administration outlawed bump stocks.\n\nOne step in the plan to start removing AR-15 rifles from homes, businesses, and gun clubs across the country would be for Biden’s ATF to start requiring each such rifle to be registered with the agency under the National Firearms Act and pay a $200 tax stamp. This would result in an estimated $3.6 billion windfall for Uncle Sam. For the incoming Administration and to the gun control movement broadly, this tax would hit the wallets of the new disfavored caste: well-to-do gun owners.\n\nIn reality, however, this “small” tax, as with other “sin taxes” like those on cigarettes and alcohol, disproportionately hurts the very constituents Biden and Harris claim to champion – low-income wage earners and minorities. These are the gun owners far less able to afford a tax levied for the “privilege” of exercising a constitutionally guaranteed right by owning a firearm of proven effectiveness and value. How the incoming Administration then deals with this speedbump on its drive to begin ridding the country of inappropriate “weapons of war,” will be an interesting sideshow; but rest assured, it will not slow their gun control game plan in which they will use using every precedent they can uncover." ]

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[ null, "$79.99\nShare Me:\nadd to wish list\nOverview\nThe English Crown is one of the oldest surviving governing bodies in the world. Hosted by the erudite, energetic Dr. David Starkey (The Six Wives of Henry VIII), this series tells the epic and bloody stories of Britain's kings and queens from the Saxon era (Alfred the Great) to the early 20th century (Victoria). Filmed on location in castles, churches, and battlegrounds, the complete UK broadcast edition includes episodes not seen on PBS. 16 episodes; approx. 13 hours 25 min. on 5 DVDs plus viewer's guide. SDH subtitles.\n\n\nEpisodes\nDisc 1\nEpisode 1: A Nation State\nThe unique idea of a monarch who is answerable to the people has its roots in early Anglo-Saxon kings such as Alfred the Great, the intellectual warrior who united England.\n\nEpisode 2: AEngla Land\nAfter decades of pounding by Danish invaders intent on \"shock and awe,\" England survives and thrives--but faces a true crisis after Edward the Confessor's death.\n\nEpisode 4: Dynasty\nCharismatic and hot-tempered, Henry II restores order to his realm by law and by the sword. Later in his line, the Magna Carta curbs and codifies royal power.\n\nDisc 2\nEpisode 5: A United Kingdom\nDuring \"the century of Edwards,\" the Hammer of the Scots boldly extends his rule over neighboring kingdoms, Edward II loses the crown as a captive of his passions, and Edward III styles himself as a new King Arthur.\n\nEpisode 6: Death of a Dynasty\nIn a kingly conflict dramatized and embellished by Shakespeare, Richard II and his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, vie for the throne and begin a decades-long struggle that threatens the very basis of the English monarchy.\n\nEpisode 7: The Crown Imperial\nAlthough Edward IV's coronation seemed to end the War of the Roses, sibling ambitions within the House of York eventually throw the monarchy into turmoil. Henry Tudor forces a dynastic showdown at Bosworth Field and ushers in a new kind of monarchy.\n\nDisc 3\nEpisode 8: King and Emperor\nIn his unquenchable thirst for celebrity and tortuous quest for a male heir, Henry VIII takes the English monarchy to new heights, asserting power over the souls of his subjects as well as their bodies.\n\nEpisode 9: The Shadow of the King\nAfter six marriages ending in two divorces, two executions, and one bereavement, Henry leaves three children with a clear succession plan for the throne. But Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth soon face their father's real legacy: a volatile fusion of politics and religion.\n\nEpisode 10: The Stuart Succession\nJames I takes the throne as the first \"king of Great Britain,\" ruling not only England, but also Scotland and Ireland. But the Stuart reign soon turns from heady triumph to failure and civil war.\n\nDisc 4\nEpisode 11: Cromwell: The King Killer\nUnder the charismatic Oliver Cromwell, Parliament commits a previously unthinkable act: it executes a reigning king. Eventually, the fledgling republic discovers that it needs a monarch after all.\n\nEpisode 12: Return of the King\nIn 1660, amid great pomp and celebration, Charles II returns from exile to assume the throne. With a combination of savvy and strong-arm tactics, he settles an incipient succession crisis and lays the foundation for the world's first modern nation-state.\n\nEpisode 13: The Glorious Revolution\nOutraged by James II's ham-handed attempts to promote tolerance for his fellow Catholics, Parliament invites his daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange, to invade England and take the throne--ushering in the Glorious Revolution.\n\nDisc 5\nEpisode 14: Rule Britannia\nUnder William and Mary and their successor, Anne, the nation transforms itself into Europe's greatest power and enjoys unprecedented financial prosperity. It also assumes a new name to match its new status: Great Britain.\n\nEpisode 15: Empire\nGeorge I and his two namesakes forge new relationships with Parliamentary leaders, creating a dynamic that survives in British governance today. But rebellion in the American colonies and bouts of apparent madness bring George III to the brink of abdication.\n\n\"A fascinating history lesson that buffs and novices alike will no doubt enjoy. I highly recommend Monarchy with David Starkey: Set 2.\"--DVD Talk\n\n\"Overall Rating 8/10: This is how history should be taught.\"--The DVD Lounge\nAwards\nAn honorary fellow at Cambridge University and member of the Royal Antiquaries Society, David Starkey (CBE) has taught history at the London School of Economics, written more than a dozen books, and presented many acclaimed television documentaries." ]

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[ null, "A World War II themed commercial from Thailand is taking the Internet by storm.\n\nThe three-minute ad, produced by mobile phone company TrueMove, tells the story of a woman who went to Thailand to find the person who helped her charity worker father when he was held as a prisoner of war.\n\nThe spot, aptly titled, “The True Meaning of Giving,” alludes to a prisoner-of-war camp in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, where the Japanese forced prisoners to build a railway bridge, according to AdWeek.\n\nTrueMove is no stranger to viral ads. In 2013, the company’s “Giving” spot also tugged at heart strings while attracting millions of views." ]

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[ null, "Advanced hydroponics and aeroponics technologies can address the problems of contamination in vegetables, said a greenhouse facility builder. The technology also boosts output required to feed the increasing population in the country.\n\nSanjay Sudan, Director of Saveer Biotech, said green houses with such facilities allow hygienic, safe vegetable cultivation, which is on demand these days, as excessive use of fertilisers, pesticides are leading to several health hazards.\n\nAdvertisement\n‘Vegetables grown in greenhouses with hydroponics and aeroponics technologies are healthy and safe since they are grown with optimum use of nutrients, fixed temperature and without outside contamination.’\n\n\"Vegetables cultivated at controlled environment facilities are healthy and safe since they are grown with optimum use of nutrients, fixed temperature and without outside contamination,\" Sudan said, during a media visit to his lab-cum-company in Greater Noida.\n\n\nIn hydroponics, plants are grown in soil-less medium, i.e. water, which is claimed to give better output compared to the conventional farming, while in aeroponics, air in closed chambers is used.\nAdvertisement\n\"Any vegetable can be grown anywhere irrespective of geological and climatic conditions,\" Sudan said, adding that the use of pesticides also becomes negligible in absence of soil and external factors.\n\n\"In green houses, we generally use coco-pit for cultivation, in which nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are given through controlled irrigation along with micro-nutrients. We also use hydroponics for variety of crops. Aeroponics is generally used for potato growing,\" he said.\n\nAt present, Rs 6 lakh is required to build a greenhouse over a 500 sq.m area, which includes expenditure on machinery for irrigation and temperature control, Sudan said. Government subsidy is about 50 per cent of the total cost.\n\nA substantial part of the capital expenditure and operating cost is offset by greater output from greenhouse cultivation.\n\nSudan said the concept was getting popular among people, and vegetables grown in greenhouses would become cheaper in the time to come.\n\n\"At present, greenhouse facilities have been built over 60,000 acre in the country and the coverage is expected to reach 10 lakh acre in next 10 years. The government is also pushing it. As it expands, the technology will become economical, which will make vegetables cheaper,\" he explained.\n\nMore News on:\nWhy Do We Eat - Nutrition Facts Diet Lifestyle and Heart Disease The Acid-Alkaline balance, Diet and Health Acid Base Dietary Balance and its Influence on Our Health and Wellbeing Health benefits of bananas Snake Gourd Glory Radish - A Bountiful of Nutrition Brand-Food Rules for the New Year Moringa Declining Nutritional Values of Fruits and Vegetables\n\nSecurity Forces and Administration Destroy Illegal Marijuana Cultivation in Tripura\nHundreds of acres of illegal marijuana crops were destroyed in the Jarulbachai district of West ......\n\nIncrease in Cultivation of Medicinal Trees Due to Rising Demand for Herbal Medicine\nPotential to raise the level of cultivation of medicinal tree species in smallholder farms, is seen ...\n\nDutch Cities Strive to Decriminalise Cannabis Cultivation\nWhile the cultivation of cannabis in Dutch cities is still illegal, despite of it being available .....\n\nRadish - A Bountiful of Nutrition\nRadish is a winner all the way. It is one of the cheapest and the healthiest foods nature offers us ..." ]

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[ null, "Executive Director Carolyn Valli offered the space and Lts. Thomas Dawley and Matthew Kirchner are heading the effort to open it.\n\nPITTSFIELD, Mass. — Following a homicide in the fall, residents of the West Side began calling for more to be done for their public safety.\nOne of those ideas was to open a police substation in the neighborhood.\nTo help answer questions of funding, Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity Executive Director Carolyn Valli offered space in its Columbus Avenue building for it.\nNow, three months later, they're looking for volunteers to staff it.\n\"We can't move forward with it until we have volunteers,\" Habitat's Community Outreach and Development Manager Dawn Giftos said.\nSpace has been designated with a few desks and chairs and the Police Department plans to bring in a computer linked to its system and paperwork forms that residents would need for reporting crimes or car accidents. The officers on the beat are expected to have their own keycodes to enter the building and will be able to use it to meet with people.\n\"It's a great idea. I think it is going to be a step in the positive step in the right direction for bridging the gap between us and the community,\" said Lt. Thomas Dawley, along with Lt. Matthew Kirchner, is heading the Police Department's aspect of it.\nIt will serve as a place for those who may not be able, or may not want, to go to the Police Department to be able to speak with an officer or report a crime.\n\"If an officer is available he go there and take statements right from that office because a lot of people don't like to come to the Pittsfield Police Department to give statements or speak to an officer. That's an area they can meet,\" Dawley said.\nHabitat developed an application for volunteers, which is available at the Columbus Avenue office. The Police Department will vet the volunteers, run a background, and ultimately choose who will be authorized to work there.\n\"There are some requirements. If you have a felony record or stuff like that, you can't apply,\" Dawley said.\nThe volunteers will go through training. Giftos said they are looking for about 25 volunteers to be approved before starting the training process. Applications will continue to be accepted to add more open hours. The beat officers themselves won't be staffing the substation but will have the ability to use it.", null, "The space had been a police substation years ago.\n\n\"Once we get committed volunteers, then we can do a schedule,\" Giftos said. \"The office is going to be open based on the number of volunteers we get.\"\nGiftos said the office will likely be open for limited hours at first but as more volunteers are trained those can be expanded.\nHabitat, joined by five officers who cover that beat, met with the West Side Neighborhood Initiative on Monday looking for volunteers and updating the residents on the progress.\n\"It's a slow-moving process right now but it will be up and running hopefully sooner rather than later,\" Dawley said.\nPolice substations have been an off-again, on-again situation for a number of years. Police had substations about 20 years ago paid for through grant funding but when that grant dried up, the stations were closed. Six years ago, the city again opened three substations in various public housing complexes." ]

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[ null, "We’ve seen a whole lot of all-star singalongs in recent weeks — like the celeb-heavy Canadian one that aired as part of a COVID-19 relief special last one — but the new song “Lift Up Louisville” is a little different. The new single has been created specifically by the musicians of the music-rich Kentucky city Louisville. The song features people like Will Oldham, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Patrick Hallahan, Wax Fang’s Scott Carney, mandolinist Sam Bush, folk musician Daniel Martin Moore, and rapper Jecorey Arthur — all of whom call Louisville home.\n\n“Lift Up Louisville” comes from an idea that Louisville mayor Greg Fischer had. Fischer wanted to do something nice for the city, raising money and showcasing many of the city’s musicians. Fischer contacted the Louisville Orchestra conductor Teddy Abrams, who recently put out an album with Jim James. Abrams helped put the track together and write the song. The song pulls in a lot of different musical genres, but it largely fits within the country-folk tradition for which Louisville is probably best-known. In the video, the various musicians perform in their houses or out in Louisville’s mostly-abandoned streets. Check it out below.\n\nAnd here’s the local PBS news report about how the project came to be:\n\nThe proceeds from “Lift Up Louisville” go to the One Louisville COVID-19 Response Fund, and you can buy it here." ]

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[ "A best-selling author's $14 million lawsuit against his 'psychic' ex-girlfriend has been quashed after a judge found that he was simply 'enamoured' and bad with cash.\n\nAdam Robinson claimed that his ex-lover Laura Day had tricked him out of millions of dollars after meeting in 1994.\n\nBut Manhattan judge Justice Melvin Schweitzer found that the Princeton Review co-founder - who said he had 'psychological infirmities' when it came to handling finances - was solely to blame.", null, "Psychic: 'Intutition' coach Laura Day provided emails that showed that Mr Robinson knew what he was doing when he signed oven his annual royalties\n\n'Mr. Robinson may now regret his actions in dealing with Ms. Day, but [his legal] complaint tells the story of an enamoured man pleasing his lover or ex-lover,' said the judge.\n\nAccording to the lawsuit, Mr Robinson, 56, was a New York Times best-selling author when he met Ms Day 17 years ago.\n\nHis books, SAT prep guides such as What Smart Students Should Know, sold in the millions.\n\nThe suit said that at the time, Ms Day, 52, 'did not have a career or source of income, though she occasionally offered ‘intuitive’ readings to a few clients, including celebrities.'", null, "Book Launch: Actress Demi Moore, who wrote the introduction to Practical Intuition, and companion Oliver Whitcomb at a book launch for Laura Day's book in 2001\n\nAs the relationship got more serious, Ms Day allegedly persuaded Mr Robinson to help her write a book about her psychic skills.\n\nAccording to the New York Post, the successful author paved the way for Ms Day's career as a professional psychic, earning $300,000 a year and running a consulting business to stars such as Demi Moore and Jennifer Aniston.", null, "Her own work? Practical Intuition by Laura Day was allegedly compiled by Adam Robinson\n\nHe allegedly turned Ms Day's 'virtually unusable' notes into a book, Practical Intuition, that led to a $250,000 advance and went on to pen two more books for his girlfriend, bringing in a further $3million in advances.\n\nMr Robinson's lawyer has in the past said that the student tuition king, an Oxford Law and Wharton School graduate, had a 'long and ruinous history of making utterly irrational and incomprehensible decisions concerning his finances.'\n\nMr Robinson claimed that he was eventually persuaded to sign his own royalties to Ms Day.\n\nEmails supplied by Ms Day counter the argument, including one that states, according to the Post, that, driven by guilt, Mr Robinson would sign over the remainder of his $350,000 annual royalties.\n\nThe judge found that Ms Day was legally in the right throughout, but gave Mr Robinson the benefit of the doubt when it came to his money management, in January granting the author a legal guardian to oversee financial decisions during the lawsuit." ]

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[ "The Phoenix Suns star posted his own sentiments on Wednesday via Twitter, as he is “horrified” and “disappointed” on the narratives that was hurled against Robert Sarver.\n\nHe believes that the NBA has came up short on providing the justifiable punishments on what Sarver has inflicted with his “atrocious behavior.”\n\nAs the former president of National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), Paul yields a strong voice and power in the association. With this declaration of him, it can truly make a huge swing on the ongoing public uproar against Sarver’s punishments.\n\nOther than himself, his good friend and fellow league personality LeBron James posted earlier his criticism against the NBA, as he believes that the league “got this wrong” on the Sarver debacle.\n\nFollowing months of investigation on the alleged misogyny, sexism and racism in the workplace, the league hammered Sarver a one-year suspension as the owner of both the Suns and Mercury franchise, a $10 million fine and attendance in training programs focused on respect and proper workplace conduct.\n\nAmid outcry from the basketball world, the league has yet to announce if any major changes will occur on the sanctions against Sarver.", null ]

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[ null, "Counter to popular belief, a new study comparing the total effect of plastic vs paper products indicates that plastics might be the greener option.\n\n“The idea that plastic packaging actually reduces solid waste seems like a contradiction if you look at the numbers put out by the mainstream media. However, a new study by the Earth Engineering Center at the City College of New York (EEC|CCNY) finds that plastics are responsible for a decline in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generation rates, even as per-capita income and consumption rise.\n\nHistorically, the amount of MSW produced by a country or region rises in lockstep with the economy, or personal consumption expenditures (PCE). In the mid-1990s, the rate of MSW generation stopped tracking with rising PCE in the United States and began to show a phenomenon known as “decoupling,” according to a release from the American Chemistry Council (ACC). In 2010, the amount of waste produced in the United States started to decline, despite a continued rise in consumer spending. The study’s authors attribute this decoupling to the increased use of plastic in packaging.\n\n“We knew that the overall amount of plastics in the waste stream increased substantially over time due to increased consumer use,” said Marco J. Castaldi, PhD, Director of the EEC at CCNY. “We extensively studied the potential for energy recovery and have quantified the impact there. We were surprised to learn in this study just how much of an impact plastics had on solid waste weight and volume reduction over the years.”" ]

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[ "\"Massandra\" - a tasting room in the famous cellars\n\nAs is known, the Russian viticulture and winemaking, was born in the Crimea. It happened in the late 19th century thanks to the efforts of the famous Russian patron of the lion of Golitsyn. In 1894 the Massandra was founded the first wine cellar.\n\nThe Plant Massandra wines - domestic company, which did not affect the historical vicissitudes and even war. The plant now looks like the opening day.\n\nCrimean Massandra is a place with a unique microclimate. It's warm and humid just as far as necessary to the vine. And the wine material need low temperature resistant. To do this, in the rocks laid a huge wine cellar. Galleries knocked out manually. They are now striking size: 150 m long and 5 m in height. The work was undertaken is enormous: in the cellar for more than a century, even in the heat of about +15 C.", null, "The Most visited part of the Federal state unitary enterprise \"Massandra\" - the tasting room. Here with a glass of delicious wine guides tell of the difficult history of the plant and the cellar, grape bushes brought from abroad and carefully planted down in the valleys, on the first fault and the samples of laudatory speeches of the Emperor and that less than five years, as the wines of the Crimea has pressed many European manufacturers, including French.\n\nTourists from many countries of the world attracts the Crimean urban village Massandra. Excursion to the famous plant leaves no one indifferent. It begins from the yard of the plant. It has two buildings: the old factory and new. Then the tour moves to the Museum of winemaking. In its halls holds a unique exposure. It allows you to trace the history of the plant and the production of wine from deep antiquity to the present time. Much of the exposition is devoted to the construction of the wine cellar.", null, "In the basement of the factory buildings there are galleries for noble ageing of wine and wine tasting. It consists of four rooms. The first 72 guest decorated in the Greek style. Second for 35 people is called Madeira. The third room is Sherry, and the fourth – VIP (can only take 20 guests). Always happily greets its guests FGUP \"Massandra\".\n\nThe Tasting room, decorated in Greek style, takes to the era of Ancient Greece. On the walls there are frescoes depicting the Greeks, enjoying wine and music.\n\nMaderno hall – deck of a medieval ship, which was carrying barrels of Madeira to the island of Java across the Atlantic. There they ripen on the hot sand under the scorching sun, making the palate appear spicy notes.", null, "The Late 19th century - mid-20th is the period of the wine in Massandra. The tasting room today anyone can visit. There are many photographs of the Crimea and of the vineyards of Massandra, also on the walls you can see clusters of grapes. It is a tribute to the hard work planting the first vines, imported from Europe.\n\nDeveloped several tourist routes around the plant \"Massandra\". The small tour lasts 45-50 minutes. Guests get acquainted with the exposition, then move in the average basement. There visiting the shop where wines are aged. The big tour lasts almost an hour. It begins as a Small tour, and ends with a visit to the Royal cellars. Guests show pride Massandra gallery collection wines.\n\nThere are guided tours, composed for individual orders, over the obligatory tasting of nine vintages. On trial are offered the best samples of port wines and dry wines to Muscat.\n\nIn the production Association \"Massandra\" the tasting room is open on a regular schedule. VIP tours are available only in the tasting complex and specified in advance.\n\nThe Tasting after the tour starts from \"Saperavi\". This red dry wine served as an aperitif. Then the men treat the \"Sherry\". After four years of noble aging it leaves on the tongue with notes of roasted nuts and grated almonds. The female half of the guests are served with \"Madeira\". Because of the taste of vanilla sugar and dried fruits this wine was once used as a perfume.", null, "Then, guests are treated to the red port \"Massandra\"certified Pinot-Gris \"Massandra\" and other signature wines.\n\nThe Legendary cellars of count Vorontsov\n\nTasting the famous Massandra drinks not only in Yalta. For more than 30 years opened a modern tasting room \"Massandra\" in Alupka. it is located in the former cellars for storing wine, founded by count Vorontsov.\n\nIn the tasting room in addition to a guide that tells many interesting facts about the production and the drinks, it is always a taster with lots of experience. He will tell you how to hold a glass and take the first drink, learned to appreciate the taste and aftertaste of wine. The tasting room is located in Alupka, the Palace of highway 26." ]

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[ "In fact if one wants to learn how to make controversial statements, Trump speech clips should be watched.", null, "The latest of his silly statements occurred at a rally in Nevada on Wednesday, where he said: ”I don’t care how sick you are. I don’t care if you just came back from the doctor and he gave you the worst possible prognosis, meaning it’s over. Doesn’t matter. Hang out till November 8. Get out and vote.”\n\nBefore he then added, ”I say kiddingly, but I mean it.”\n\nHe also reassured dying people that after they are gone,”All we’re going to say is: ‘We love you and we will remember you always’”.\n\nThe 70-year-old is also currently in a mess as an audio recording revealed how he bragged about ‘grabbing a woman by the p*ssy’.\n\nRecent polls show his main rival Hilary Clinton of the Democratic party takin a lead, and one wonders how his recent acts will help.\n\nThe election is to hold November 8." ]

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[ null, "Joe Biden announced six new members of the White House staff who will dedicate their time to stopping climate change on Thursday morning.\n\nThese personnel additions should leave climate activists cautiously optimistic, and many of these individuals are examples of people we would like to see staffed in every department and agency throughout the federal government.\n\nTake Maggie Thomas, who will serve as Chief of Staff in the new climate office. Thomas was most recently the political director at Evergreen Action, the organization that developed Governor Jay Inslee’s presidential climate platform into a gold-standard set of policies to be utilized by the federal government. Thomas has a strong record of climate-forward public service without influence from corporate power, including work with the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the National Wildlife Refuge Association. She believes we need a “full mobilization of the federal government to defeat the climate crisis,” and has not been shy about saying the federal government “should be spending a lot of money” and should “step up and take the lead” in forcing the private sector to act on climate. She has emphasized that companies need not only decarbonize their own emissions but the emissions related to their investments, and she has firmly stated that “there is no role for natural gas” in a just transition. In short, Maggie Thomas is the sort of public servant and climate advocate we need to see everywhere in a Biden-led federal government.\n\nSonia Aggarwal, current Vice President at Energy Innovation, a climate policy think tank that advances emissions-reducing energy strategies, is also a member of the Evergreen Action Advisory Board. Dr. Cecilia Martinez, a researcher who has focused on energy justice and advocates for indigenous rights, justice, and sustainability, is another welcome and exciting new hire. Jeff Marootion, a transportation expert who recently led the charge for Washington, D.C. to join a multi-state Transportation and Climate Initiative, will be yet another valuable asset to both Biden and the climate movement as they begin the urgent transition to a just, green economy.\n\nWhile these hires are mostly cause for hope, we are not without concern. Two of the newly announced appointees, David Hayes and Jahi Wise, have worked for law firms which received an F-rating from Law Students for Climate Accountability. Hayes’ experience in particular is cause for alarm; he was Partner and Global Chair for the Environment, Land, and Resources Department of Latham & Watkins before and between his service in the Clinton and Obama administrations. Latham & Watkins facilitated $110 billion worth of climate change-exacerbating transactions between 2015 and 2019, including the Dakota Access Pipeline, and worked with clients including ExxonMobil and Anadarko Petroleum. They also litigated against efforts to hold fossil fuel companies liable for climate change damages, which we hope to see Hayes firmly oppose.\n\nHowever, Hayes now serves on the board of the Coalition for Green Capital, where Jahi Wise is also Policy Director. They both work to halt climate change by accelerating investment in clean energy technologies and advocating for national and local non-profit Green Bank finance institutions.\n\nAs Biden’s appointments progress, the Revolving Door Project will continue to keep a close watch on financial regulatory agency positions. These agencies, many of them independent, wield the power to force banks, stock traders, and other financial institutions to incorporate climate risk into their decisions. They can play a major role in financially disincentivizing fossil fuel projects and decarbonizing the economy, and in each of these agencies, climate action is obligatory.\n\nToday, we are pleased with Biden’s choice to staff his climate teams with legitimate policy experts. Tomorrow and each day following, we will continue to push Biden to hire climate leaders in every single federal position. As today’s six appointees show, there are climate advocates in every sector waiting for the opportunity to wield federal power for good. An understanding of our dire position hurtling towards climate chaos and the ability and willingness to fight against that fate is a non-negotiable litmus test for every public servant in Biden’s administration." ]

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[ "It's “way too early” to predict end of coronavirus: WHO\nRecent View all\nTelecom\nRead more\n\nHome » International » It’s “way too early” to predict end of coronavirus: WHO", null, "It’s “way too early” to predict end of coronavirus: WHO\n\nThe World Health Organization said on Wednesday that it was “way too early” to predict when the virus might end, despite a dip in new cases.\n\n“I think it´s way too early to try to predict the beginning, the middle or the end of this epidemic right now,” Michael Ryan, head of WHO´s health emergencies program, told reporters.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “The number of newly reported cases from China has stabilized in the past week but that has to be interpreted with extreme caution.\n\n“This outbreak could go in any direction,” he added.\n\nFunds sought by US to resume military training for Pakistan" ]

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[ null, "Ever wish you had go-to experts that you could tap for advice in all the varied areas of your life — your job, your home, your finances, even your emotions? TED has got you covered!\n\nIn our How to Be a Better Human podcast, host Chris Duffy speaks to an exciting mix of world-class researchers, thinkers and doers (read on to find out more!) and learns actionable takeaways that we can all use to improve our days and nights. Read on to learn the advice that he’s personally found the most helpful, and listen to episodes here.\n\nAs host of TED’s How to Be a Better Human podcast, I’ve found that one of the most common reactions people have upon hearing about the show is to ask me: “What have you learned from it? And how can I become a better human?”\n\nWell, actually, that’s sugarcoating it a bit. If I’m honest, what really happens when people learn about the show is they raise their eyebrows and look me over, seemingly thinking: “Who the heck are you, podcast boy, to think you can tell us about becoming a better human?”\n\nThat’s why I almost always quickly add, “I’m not the better human of the title! The better humans are the guests, and I’m just a regular person trying to understand their ideas.”\n\nThat being said, over two seasons and 62 episodes featuring interviews with a fascinating and diverse group of people — including a sleep researcher, a Native American chef, a data journalist and an award-winning Broadway set designer — even a lug like me has picked up some insights.\n\nHere are the pieces of advice that have stuck in my brain and that I’ve tried to apply in my own life:\n\n1. Improve your relationship — by getting into a love triangle\n\nGeorge Blair-West MD is an Australian relationship expert, researcher and psychiatrist, and he’s been married for 34 years. He told me that the key to a long-lasting relationship of any kind is getting into a love triangle — unfortunately, not the kind you see on a telenovela.\n\nNo, what George meant by triangle is taking the same three steps over and over in your relationship.\n\nStep one: You have to trust that when you share something vulnerable with your partner, they will respect your trust and not use it against you.\n\nStep two: You test that trust by sharing something with them that you’re anxious about people knowing about you.\n\nAnd step three: You keep building intimacy as you do this over and over and realize that your partner will still care about you, despite your shortcomings.\n\nOK, it might not seem as spicy as the other kind of love triangle — but secrets, hidden weaknesses and building a deep, meaningful, passionate love? It’s still pretty good!\n\nGeorge’s advice is something that I think about a lot. Every time I’m afraid to have a conversation with my wife or admit how I’m really feeling to her, I remember George’s point that this is the whole thing! The best way to make your relationship deeper and stronger is by letting yourself be human, admitting the things you’re ashamed of and saying them out loud to your partner. Because when you say them and the other person loves you anyway? Ooh, baby! That’s the good stuff.\n\n2. You are bigger than your job\n\nGreta Morgan is a writer and musician whose musical projects include Vampire Weekend, Springtime Carnivore and Gold Motel. She’s toured the world and played in front of huge venues full of adoring fans.\n\nBut then one day, she was diagnosed with a vocal disorder — one that took away her ability to sing. Suddenly, her ideas about what her life and her career would look like shifted dramatically.\n\nSo what would you do if the thing that defined you disappeared overnight? So many of us have melded our identities with our work, and in the process, we often forget who we really are. When I spoke to Greta, she made such a compelling case for how being forced to redefine herself ended up expanding her understanding of her creativity and resilience.\n\nI’ve similarly struggled with tying my self-worth to my output and my career. Greta offered me a reminder that if we can let go of holding onto our ideas of who we are “supposed to be,” we will allow ourselves to grow and to discover our deeper, more authentic selves.\n\nFor me, that means valuing creative work I make and enjoy personally even if it doesn’t sell or make any money. And it means me being open to trying new things, even if they don’t necessarily fit under the umbrella of “comedy,” like writing a blog post for TED about how to be a better human.\n\n3. Never be afraid to make trouble\n\nI have never identified with a joke more than when I heard comedian John Mulaney say: “You could pour hot soup on my lap, and I’ll probably apologize to you.”\n\nI hate conflict, and I never want to make a fuss or create an uncomfortable situation. But my conversation with Luvvie Ajayi Jones convinced me this is actually not a trait to be proud of. Instead, standing up against the tide is a muscle I need to develop and grow instead.\n\nLuvvie self-describes herself as a “professional troublemaker.” She says that if we really want to improve the world and tackle the big, important issues, meekly following the rules is not going to cut it. Talking to her completely reframed the idea of “trouble” for me, prompting me to think of it as a necessary step on the path to improvement rather than as a sign that I was being difficult or not a team player. So now I’m trying to assert myself whenever I feel a twinge of “That’s not right.”\n\nA friend makes a problematic joke? Maybe I can have a conversation with them about it and not just laugh awkwardly.\n\nThere’s a person on the street who seems lost or confused? Maybe I can check in rather than assuming that they’d ask if they needed help. (Even typing this one makes me a little nervous since I’m imagining an older man yelling at me that he’s not confused or lost and how dare I insinuate he was!)\n\nBut I want to tackle these small scale, lower-stakes moments so I can get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. That way, when the big stuff happens, I’ll have the troublemaking muscles to do what needs to be done. I certainly wouldn’t say I’m a professional troublemaker yet, but maybe I’m an aspiring amateur.\n\n4. Be the best at having terrible ideas\n\nFrans Johansson has spent his career studying innovation and what makes some ideas truly groundbreaking. One of the things that he’s discovered is it’s easy to find support for your ideas if you’re only making incremental changes.\n\nLet’s say it’s 1970, and you’re working on making home telephones 10 percent more efficient. Everyone at the phone company would have been likely to get on board. But if you told them you were working on an idea to make phones that could work outdoors and without any wires, you’d likely be out in the cold. And yet, looking back, we can see clearly which idea was more valuable.\n\nI’ve been trying to embrace that idea more in my own life — to take bigger swings. Frans says if you want to come up with novel solutions, you have to discard the first few things that come to mind, the obvious answers.\n\nTry something bizarre! It might not work, but as Frans says, “The single most important factor is that you are interrupting your default thought.” Plus, when I set my goal as simply “come up with some terrible ideas” I immediately feel better, because I am so good at having bad ideas. In fact, I’ve decided it’s my specialty.\n\n5. Be a better talker — by shutting up\n\nI talk for a living, whether it’s hosting this podcast, doing standup or pitching jokes for a TV show. But still, one of the times I’ve been most terrified when doing this podcast was when I was interviewing Celeste Headlee. She’s an award-winning journalist who has done everything from anchor morning news on public radio to covering presidential campaigns. She’s an expert on great conversations. So the pressure was high to have our conversation be… not terrible, you know?\n\nLuckily, Celeste made my job easy and offered plenty of practical tips including how to pick one conversational skill to work on at a time. This small step can dramatically improve your relationships and your outcomes at work. For me, I’m working on shutting up more and, as Celeste puts it, “not equating talking with conversing.” Because if you want to have a great conversation, it’s not about following any tips and tricks for “seeming engaged” in the conversation – you have to actually be engaged. So I will now shut up.\n\n6. And if all else fails, try being perfect\n\nMichael Schur is the comedy writer behind so many of my favorite TV shows, like Saturday Night Live, The Office, Parks and Recreation, The Good Place. (And, very occasionally in front of the scenes, like when he played Dwight’s terrifying cousin Mose in The Office). But Michael’s true passion isn’t jokes; it’s moral philosophy.\n\nIn our episode, Michael talked to me about why he’s obsessed with chasing after the eternal, perhaps unanswerable question of “how to be perfect” and why he believes caring about ethics — on any level — can actually make a difference. Whether it’s deciding which brand of environmentally friendly toilet paper I should buy (or should I actually just switch over to an electronic bidet), agonizing over if it’s OK to listen to music made by a terrible person, or deciding if it’s OK to lie in a list of ways to become a better person, I’m comforted by Michael’s reminder that people have been struggling over these questions for thousands of years. (Maybe not these exact questions, I don’t think electronic bidets existed until recently.)\n\nHe argues that the right thing to do is engage with the questions rather than ignore them and try to find a moral framework that we can stand by and stick to. I’m not there yet, but I’m thinking more deeply about the ethical quandaries inevitably posed by every decision I make (and I decided I’m just not ready for a bidet quite yet. Maybe next year …)\n\nEnjoyed this article? The advice doesn’t end here — we’re just getting started with new weekly episodes of How to Be a Better Human throughout the year. Give it a listen to receive more delicious, useful bites of insight that can help you in all parts of your life here.\n\nChris Duffy is a comedian, TV writer and radio/podcast host. He has written for National Geographic Explorer and for both seasons of Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas on HBO (executive produced by John Oliver). Duffy created the public radio program \"You're the Expert\" and currently hosts the streaming show \"Wrong Answers Only\" for the National Academy of Sciences. He is both a former fifth-grade teacher and a former fifth-grade student.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Local businessman Parry Bellot has announced his decision to sue two leading members of the Dominica Freedom Party for defamation.\n\nBellot made the announcement at a press conference this week, where he cited Gregor Nassief, who recently announced a similar decision, as his inspiration to pursue the case.\n\nBellot claimed that he would take the case against DFP leader Kent Vital and Chairman Johnson Boston for what he has called an “attack” via radio.\n\nBellot denied alleged accusations of payment from the Prime Minister.\n\nMeantime, DFP leader Kent Vital has brushed the matter aside, telling media that Mr. Bellot is free to make his case.\n\nRodman Moses Lewis has been found guilty of murder" ]

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[ null, "The Eighth Graduation Day of St Agnes College (Autonomous) was held on Saturday, 4 May 2019, on the College Grounds with all the spiritedness that the occasion demanded. The programme commenced at 3.00 p.m. with a ceremonial march from the NAAC room, Avila Block, to the venue immediately followed by the invocation in the form of Nadageethe. Among the dignitaries present were, the esteemed Chief Guest Dr N.Vinaya Hegde Hon’ble Chancellor, Nitte (Deemed to be University), The President of the programme, Sr Dr Maria Roopa A.C.( Joint Secretary St Agnes College,the members of the Governing Body and the Academic Council,The Registrar, The IQAC Co-ordinator, the Deans of all the faculties, the members of the various Boards of studies and Boards of Examiners,Members of PTA, PG Co-ordinator, also joined the ceremonial march. The Alumni and the parents of the graduates were among the special invitees for the ceremony. Dr Ita D’souza welcomed the gathering and introduced the Chief guest and soon after the Principal of St. Agnes College administered the Oath to the fresh graduates and thereafter the President of the programme declared the Graduation Day open and the Registrar ,St Agnes College (Autonomous) Mr. Charles Pais presented the graduates to the President. There were 680 graduates in all, 600 undergraduates and 80 Postgraduates including16 rank holders who received ranks with medals and cash prizes.\n\nThe Chief guest Dr Vinaya Hegde Chancellor NITTE ( Deemed to be University)who is an Educationist, Industrialist and Philanthrophist, in his Graduation day address congratulated the graduates on their success and wished them a bright future ahead. In his address the Chief guest laid emphasis on the mission of higher learning to maintain high standards to compete globally, and hoped that these graduates make a substantial contribution not only to themselves and their families but also to their profession, community, nation and the world at large. As someone connected with the higher educational landscape of Mangalore, he wanted them to realise that they have a great responsibility, being an Alumna of a College like St. Agnes. Being accredited as an “A+” Grade College in the fourth Cycle of accreditation by NAAC, having been declared as a College of Excellence by UGC of Government of India and having been accorded the Star College Status by Department of Bio-Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, St. Agnes College has already set high standards in the field of higher education. Having graduated from such an institute, he advised the graduates to demonstrate by their words and deeds that they are no ordinary graduates. He also said that unlike millions of youngsters in this country, they are lucky to have this rare distinction. In spite of having more than 900 Universities and 50,000 colleges in India, hardly 30 per cent of our population between the age group of 18-23 goes for higher education. This percentage, popularly known as the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), ranges, anywhere between 60 to 80 percent in developed nations. The issues of quality, affordability and employability are today posing serious challenges to our higher education system. Personally he felt that academic autonomy enjoyed by Colleges like Agnes can address these issues more successfully.\n\nIn her Presidential Address, Sr Maria Roopa A.C. briefly spoke on the glorious history of the institution founded by Mother Mary Aloysia, and sustained by efforts and sacrifices made by many others who walk on the path shown by God and the foundress; she congratulated the graduates and requested them to live by the compassion and value system inculcated in them by the college.\n\nThe Chief Guest in the presence of the dignitaries awarded the Rank holders of all faculties with medals, prizes and conferred the degrees to all the Graduates.Mrs. Sabeena HOD of BBA was the Master of Ceremonies and Dr. Kavyashree Asst Prof. of Psychology P.G. delivered the Vote of thanks. The Programme concluded at 5.00 p.m. with the singing of the National Anthem.\n\nThis is the Eighth Graduation day and a significant milestone in the journey of the Institution; St Agnes College( Autonomous) which attained Academic Autonomy in 2007 and made its foray into Post Graduate Education in 2008, is now the only college under Mangalore University, the third in the state of Karnataka and eighteenth in the country to be accredited with an A+ grade by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.65 in the fourth cycle. The College was also granted the status of ‘College of Excellence’ by UGC in early 2017. It is indeed a matter of Honour and Pride that the College is now on the threshold of its Centennial Year in 2020-21 and a host of activities and a celebration are being deliberated upon for the same.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "You asked for it and I delivered! Let's try the 100 man blindfolded challenge in Super Mario Maker! Let the madness begins!\n\nSuper fun and awesome challenge to do in Super Mario Maker, I didn't expect that! You really have to follow the sounds and memorize the level perfectly. The run was quite forgiving though, so we might try another one soon :-)\n\nDo you want to see more of this? Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below! :-)" ]

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[ "I've been on a massive American Gladiators kick lately thanks to the 24 hour AG channel on PlutoTV. In fact, I think I'm even more in love with this show NOW than I was in 1992. I've really been sent down some deep rabbit holes in regards to our heroes and naturally that's taken me on eBay journeys as well.", null, "Thankfully Gladiators merch is rather cheap, especially the action figures. Those things are super easy to hunt down. I mean, heck I was able to find one for .50 at a flea market just recently. Other merchandise for the brave and beefy heroes of the Gladiator Arena became run the gamut from lunchboxes to candy bars to video games and of course the old reliable of any quasi-popular franchises from the dawn of time...TOPPS TRADING CARDS! I was recently gifted a pack of these beauties from my friend Brandon aka BORT and decided I needed to share the wealth with you guys. So come take a journey back in time and check out these amazing pieces of 90's beefcakery!", null, "First thing's first: every card set back then came with the dreaded checklist. Maybe I shouldn't be so harsh, I'm sure for those who loved being organized were a fan of these, but to me they were just a giant waste of space. I could be getting a Malibu rookie card but instead I'm looking at all the cards I DON'T have!", null, "Now onto the fun stuff. First off, the sticker. Essentially the trading card equivalent to a happy meal toy. If you ask me, these were the real stars of the sets. Usually my dresser and bedframe were covered in these for ages. I'm talking Batman, Alf, Growing Pains,Max Headroom, they were all there. This sticker features commentators Mike Adamle and Larry THE ZONK Csonka flanked by iconic Gladiators Gemini and I believe Turbo. I'll be honest, I kinda suck with a lot of the names sometimes. Either way, we're off to the races and roaring for a real banger of a pack. Can't wait to see what else is in here!", null, "First card up features a brave Gladiator engaged in a weird...well, I'll be honest, I still don't know what that is. It's one of those weird bicycle/zipline type deals that I'm sure you had to be in super amazing shape back in the day to even look at. My arms are tired just thinking of lifting a ciabatta roll at Wegmans, let alone one of these things.", null, "An Adamle double feature! Pretty rare to get a card and sticker in the same pack featuring the same character but the former WWE Raw General Manager seems to be one of the few who can pull that miracle off. Here we see him interviewing two seemingly nameless contestants about taking on their opponents. One of the fun aspects of this show was the fact that they treated it like legit sports as well as add a dash of pro wrestling. So they'd add former athletes to call the action and to be honest, Mike Adamle was perfect for it. He had the personality, he had the knowledge, and he had the gift of gab. Plus look at that head of hair!", null, "From a sweet head of hair to an amazing shot of Laser's Back. I don't exactly know who approved this particular shot but hey, I've got to imagine some kid somewhere at some point in time used it as motivation to become as big as a house, so who am I to judge, really? Gotta think positively and this show was all about positivity...while wearing spandex and maintaining a sweet mullet.", null, "Storm was one of the most powerful women on the show and here we see her using all her might to take on what I imagine was a school teacher or firefighter. If you thought the men hit hard in this show, you should see what the women were capable of. They didn't play around and put the fear of anything holy in anyone who came in their way. Considering you didn't see a lot of positive athletic female role models at the time on tv, this was a pretty good place to showcase them. And you don't get much more powerful, strong and sexy than Miss Storm here.", null, "Feeling the love from the fans inside the Arena, Gemini is PUMPED and ready to go into battle. Gemini was always a pretty affable and easily relatable guy. I feel like he'd be the kinda guy down the street I could rely on to help me out when I'm in a bind. He just always looked to be in a great mood. Maybe it's the mustache? Either way, Gemini, who was one of the original Gladiators in the show, was top tier and stuck around for a while. To this day, he remains a fan favorite.", null, "Well, it was the early 90s and thanks to Vanilla Ice, if you had anything to do with ice whatsoever, you were gonna be slapped with an \"Ice Ice Baby\" joke. Ice, much like Storm, was one of the best of the best and despite the Robert Van Winkle reference, was no joke. Of course, if she were a joke, I can guarantee you it wouldn't have anything to do with doing the running man while rocking a rattail and wearing a giant foil onesie.", null, "I guess we're ending the pack how we began. With the bike/zipline thing. Man, I must have a bad memory because I don't remember these bike things being as popular in real life at that point. But hey, like I said, I barely have the body that can walk around the block. I'm sure if I had the muscles the size of mountains, I could probably have taken on the bike race. Maybe in my next life. Heck, maybe in my next life I'll be reincarnated as a Gladiator!\n\nThese cards are a real delight and pretty easy to come by. You can find them on eBay for cheap and most likely even a full set for under 15 bucks. Which, if it gets me that Malibu or another Mike Adamle card, I'm totally plunking down the cash for it!" ]

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[ null, "Boston-based developer Turbine has laid off a number of staff as it transitions into a purely free-to-play mobile games studio.\n\nThe company is best-known for its PC MMOs such as Lord of the Rings Online, but is making its debut in the world of mobile gaming with the currently soft-launched Batman: Arkham Underworld.\n\nAs a consequence of the shift, the studio has cut a number of jobs from its PC MMO teams.\n\nThe exact number of employees affeced by these layoffs is as yet unknown.\n\n“Turbine is transitioning into a free-to-play, mobile development studio, and as a result we are eliminating some positions,\" reads a statement issued by Warner Bros. PR.\n\n\"The Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons online games will continue to operate as they do now.\"\n\n\"Re-focusing and reducing the studio size was a difficult decision for the company, and we are grateful to all of the Turbine staff for their considerable contributions.”" ]

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[ "All That Glitters Is Not Gold\n\n“We require a true partner. Sheffer has been extremely respectful, responsive, and interested in our business and how we can succeed. The people at Sheffer are our friends as well as our supplier”", null, "In a previous article I shared my thoughts on Mayberry –vs- New York City and how in the hydraulic and pneumatic cylinder industry finding and working with cylinder suppliers can easily be described as cumbersome, inefficient and havocked with low quality products. Keeping with that theme I cannot help but be reminded of a phrase that I have heard many times in the past, “All That Glitters Is Not Gold”\n\nThis is a fairly well known quote, which simply means not everything that appears to be precious or true turns out to be as advertised. Imagine for a minute what it must have been like in 1848. You are living a decent but tough life as a farmer, plowing fields; planting/harvesting crops and tending to livestock all so you and your family can survive. It’s the only thing you know and you are good at it but you still wonder what it would be like to have something different.\n\nYou wake up at 4:30 A.M. each and every morning to begin the hard backbreaking chores, which will consume at least 14 hours of your day. When the grueling day comes to an end you sit down to dinner with your family immediately followed by you retiring to your favorite rocking chair on the covered front porch. As you sit quietly on the porch thinking about the next day and the chores that await you your moment of solitude is interrupted as you see the neighbor Bob approaching on horseback.\n\nThe horse is coming on at an unusually brisk trot and Bob is pulling firmly on the reins bringing the horse to a slow walk as he excitedly jumps off. Bob glides up the porch steps and over to where you are relaxing seemingly on air. He excitedly tells you of the news that gold has been discovered at Sutter’s Mill in California. He proceeds to share with you his plans to sell his farm to the first person that makes him an offer so that he and his entire family can make the 1300-mile cross country journey to his vast fortunes awaiting him near Coloma California.\n\nIt’s now 1851, three years removed from Bob and his family setting off for California and the dream of a better life. You are tending to your weekly supply run into town to buy feed for the livestock. As you pull your wagon alongside of the loading dock your old neighbor Bob appears with a bag a feed slung over his right shoulder. Surprised to see Bob you greet him assuming he must have invested part of his fortune to purchase the local feed store. For a brief moment you are jealous that Bob chased the glitter of gold and you did not. You chose to maintain the more simple, predictable and safe life.\n\nWhat came out of Bob’s mouth next was just awful. Bob and his family indeed made it all the way to California. He spent all of the money obtained from selling his family farm on panning equipment and a small plot of land alongside a river where the locals said glittery gold could be seen from the rivers edge. Bob was so enamored by the glitter beneath the water’s surface Bob spent twice the amount of money on the land that it was actually worth just so he could lay claim to the gold that lay within in its boundaries. Once the deal was struck Bob set out to retrieve the glittery objects that would make his life so much easier. In reality Bob did not find gold he found pyrite more commonly referred to as “fool’s gold”. What was once a vision of a trouble free life of excess and luxury suddenly turned to the reality that everything was not as it had been promised to be.\n\nEven though we are in the year 2017 and we are in a business-to-business environment the same ideas hold true.\n\nGlittery and fancy marketing pieces, advertising campaigns, catchy slogans, websites and social media content may create a short term glittery effect but often times that glitter turns out to be nothing more than “fool’s gold” full of empty promises and leaving you frustrated and disappointed.\n\nAt Sheffer we may appear to be somewhat “old-fashioned” in our ideals but we still believe that our word is our bond and we are working each and every day to change the perception you may have of cylinder suppliers. If you have struck “fools gold” with your current cylinder supplier consider Sheffer’s industry exclusive “Gold Program” ." ]

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[ null, null, "President Donald Trump received a backlash on Sunday for criticizing London’s mayor in the aftermath of attacks in the city that killed seven people and injured at least 48 others. The President turned to his favorite social media platform Twitter to vent his wrath against London Mayor Sadiq Khan who said Britons should not be alarmed to see more police […]", null, "Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a new approach to combatting extremism and reckoned that greater international regulation of the Internet must be part of this new strategy. She posited the view that big Internet companies were partly responsible for providing the space for extreme ideology to develop and flourish and therefore ought to be held accountable. “Enough […]", null, "President Obama in his weekly address noted that Americans have shown what it means to be strong in the face of terrorism. He pointed to the fact that in San Bernardino although the people in that community continue to grieve, they have refused to allow fear to overcome them. He further said, “Across the county, dedicated public servants are on the […]", null, "According to Ned Price, U.S. National Security Council (NSC) spokesperson, Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, also known as Hajji Mutazz, the second in command of the terrorist group ISIL, was killed in a U.S. military air strike on August 18 while traveling in a vehicle near Mosul, Iraq, along with an ISIL media operative known as Abu Abdullah. Al-Hayali was an ISIL […]" ]

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[ "If the company's recent moves are traced, it is quite evident that Facebook is investing heavily in building more business that caters to the Indian market.", null, "In November, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey stepped down from the CEO’s post to make way for India-origin Parag Agrawal. In his resignation email sent out to the team, Dorsey heaped praises on his successor, saying the former CTO has been part of ‘every critical decision that helped the company turn around.’\n\nWith this appointment, Agrawal joined the long list of India-origin CEOs who are leading some of the biggest tech companies in the world. The star-studded list includes names like Satya Nadella (CEO, Microsoft), Sundar Pichai (CEO, Google), Shantanu Narayen (Chairman, President, and CEO of Adobe), Anjali Sud (CEO, Vimeo), Nikesh Arora (CEO and Chairman, Palo Alto Networks), among others.\n\nFacebook, which also owns the instant messaging app WhatsApp and photo-sharing website Instagram, has one of the largest user bases in India. As per an estimate, Facebook has 350 million users in India. Further, Facebook earned over Rs 1,480 crore in revenue from operations for the financial year 2021. This is a 22 per cent increase from last year’s revenue of over Rs 1,215 crore.\n\nFacebook’s key source of income is through its advertising reseller revenue in India, which is the resale of ad inventory and displaying products on its affiliated platforms like Instagram, Messenger and other third party websites and mobile applications. The advertiser reseller business is proving very profitable to the platform, seeing up to 41 per cent year on year growth.\n\nThe heads at Facebook understand that Indian users form a major chunk of its userbase. If the company’s recent moves are traced, it is quite evident that Facebook is investing heavily in building more business that caters to the Indian market. One of the prime examples of this is its deal with telecom company Reliance Jio, worth $5.7 billion. By joining hands with Jio, the largest telecom operator in India with close to 400 million subscribers, Facebook would look at expanding its footprint further in the country.\n\nFurther, the company has indicated India’s important role in its new pivot into the metaverse space. Speaking at the Fuel for India event in 2021, Zuckerberg said, “I am really excited about the role that India will play in building this future. India’s talent pool – the engineers, developers and creators, and your whole vibrant start-up ecosystem are playing a huge role in shaping the future. India is on track to have the largest app developer base in the world by 2024 and already has one of the largest Spark AR developer communities.”\n\nGiven the potential that the Indian market holds, having an Indian face as the head of the social media giant would certainly help in further cementing its already strong position. That said, currently, there is no Indian-origin person on the top executives’ list at Facebook (unlike Twitter, where Agrawal was already the CTO). However, speaking of Facebook India, in 2018, Ajit Mohan was appointed the Vice President and Managing Director of Facebook India. He is entrusted with driving the social media giant’s overall expansion strategy and coordinating closely with the government. In 2021, Rajiv Aggarwal was appointed the director of public policy. He works on user safety, data protection, privacy and internet governance.\n\nFurther, there have been no strong indications that Zuckerberg would step down from the CEO position anytime soon. In fact, Zuckerberg is among the very few co-founders who are still holding fort at the head of the company they founded. In a recent interview, too, Zuckerberg shot down the possibility of him stepping down any sooner. This decision is despite the fact that Zuckerberg has been embroiled in several run-ins with controversies on a range of issues, starting with privacy and antitrust issues to the accusations of ‘having too much power’.\n\nMade with Visme Infographic Maker\n\nMaking a case for an Indian for India-origin CEO\n\nIndians are a four-million strong minority group in the US, most of which is highly educated and upwardly mobile. A large part of this population works in white-collar jobs, occupying important positions as scientists and engineers. US immigration policy of the 1960s, Indian families that could afford foreign education for their children, and a visa system that was beneficial to STEM-specific workers (catering to US’ high-end labour needs), propelled Indians to crème de la crème of the immigrant population in the US.\n\nIndian-origin people account for about 1 per cent of the US population and 6 per cent of Silicon Valley’s workforce. Indian workers have also been praised for their ‘humility’ and ‘ability to work with a diverse set of colleagues’.\n\nVivek Wadhwa, the coauthor of From Incremental to Exponential: How Large Companies Can See the Future and Rethink Innovation, wrote in an article that Indian-born CEOs start from scratch, rising up to the ranks of top positions in such companies. This journey often lends a sense of humility, a characteristic highly desirable in leaders. A classic example of this is Microsoft’s Nadella. When he took charge, Nadella emphasised the transition from aggression-fuelled workplace culture to a more comfortable and collaborative one. The strategy seems to have influenced the company performance on the whole – taking its market capitalisation from $300 billion to $2.5 trillion now.\n\nCould Facebook use some strong ‘Indian leadership’? Only time will tell." ]

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[ "In the March edition of Sports Science Monthly we look at new research across a variety of areas including the impact of coaching behavior, Selye’s General Adaptation Syndrome, nordic hamstring exercises, genetic testing, monitoring fatigue and more.", null, "Coaching behavior can have a life-long impact\n\n» Quick summary: A coaches behavior has a big impact in the development, both emotional and physical, of an athlete; their behavior can have a life-long impact on the athletes under their wing.\n\nRegular readers of content on HMMR Media will be no strangers to the fact that the adaptive response of an athlete to a training stimulus is hugely complex. Previously, I wrote in detail on epigenetics – small changes in gene expression that don’t affect the underlying genetic code – which is a way that our environment can influence which genes become “switched on”. For example, a gene called PPARGC1A is involved in mitochondrial biogenesis (producing more mitochondria), which is an important adaptation to aerobic exercise. When we exercise aerobically, this gene becomes expressed, producing its protein and allowing mitochondrial biogenesis to occur. However, if we have been sedentary for a long time, then our bodies will find this harder to do so, often because a chemical group will have been attached to the gene at a particular point. Regular exercise will eventually remove this chemical group, but it’s an illustration of how our lifestyle can impact our genetic expression.\n\nSimilarly, the work of John Kiely has been very important in allowing us to understand the impact that stress has on our biology, which in turn impacts our response to exercise. This stress doesn’t necessarily have to be current; what happened in our childhood may impact our stress response, which may impact how we respond to exercise. Myself and John recently tried to synthesize some of our thoughts in a paper – Understanding personalized training responses: can genetic assessment help? In summary, there are many aspects which influence our adaptive response and potential, such that things that happened a long time ago may hold a long term, modifying legacy.\n\nThis sets the scene nicely for our first study this month, titled Scarred for the rest of my career? Career-long effects of abusive leadership on professional athlete aggression and task performance. In this study, the authors focused on 57 NBA coaches, who coached for at least one full season between 2000 and 2006. They collected information on the coaches’ leadership behaviors to fully understand how they interacted with their athletes. They then collected data from 693 NBA players who played under these coaches. Next, they compared the performance of the players under each of these coaches, and afterwards, to see what they could find.\n\nOne of the main findings was that an increase in abusive leadership from the coaches led to an increase in the number of technical fouls that occurred in-game, suggesting an increased amount of aggression from the players. This trend was maintained even after the players or coach left that team; the players would be more aggressive throughout their career, committing an increased number of technical fouls. Similarly, having been exposed to an abusive coach leadership style, player performance typically declined, and again this was maintained after the coach and player stopped working together.\n\nAs such, the key conclusion from this study is that exposure to an abusive leadership style can negatively impact both the aggression and performance of an individual athlete over their career. The take-homes from this are clear; how you interact with your athletes can affect them for life. As such, the inter-personal relationship you cultivate with them is crucial, which is something that many coaches (myself included) often neglect in favor of an emphasis on physiology. The findings of this study suggest we should perhaps put equal effort into our leadership and coaching styles." ]

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[ null, "Skipping a whole continent, skimming along the Arabian Sea, huddled between countries and holding a plethora of rich history replete with stories of the bygone and courageous warriors and exciting tastes, smells and textures inside itself, it bubbles and froths and holds its own in the vast expanse of Asia.\n\nI marched into the living room to cram a bit of breakfast in my mouth before I set off for school. As I furiously chewed, I grabbed the back page of the newspaper, which my father had abandoned for the front section, and scanned it quickly.\n\nThe funny thing about being a Pakistani is: you’re never short of news.\n\nYou start off the glorious day with news, and you’ll probably end it that way too. Age is but a number. Almost everyone in this country has some sort of inkling on what is going about – unless you reside under a rock living a Neanderthal lifestyle, there is little chance you won’t know what the big story on the tube was. The young people, especially, are highly attuned to whatever is going around in the country and present impressive opinions on the matters of politics, and administrative rule. True story, bro.\n\nThe day passed by sluggishly. School hours finally drifted away and I found myself walking back home, breathing in the warm musty air and hearing the background of the cacophony around me. The sky was dotted with tiny kites fluttering in the air as children danced on rooftops to try to keep their kites afloat. The field opposite to the street was already filled with teenagers playing football. I stared longingly at them before sighing. Even before I could even conjure a thought of joining the players on field, my mother’s voice seemed to magically holler in my ear. “Beta, seedha ghar ana! Beth kay parhna hay, is dafa GPA acha ana chahiye!“(Come straight home, you have to study and get a good GPA this time!)\n\nAll overAsia. All overPakistan. It isn’t easy when you have tons of relatives, friends, relatives of relatives, your parents’ friends, your parents’ friends of friends whom you haven’t even met, and some distant relation to your cousin’s sister in law’s daughter interested to know what your grades are. But hey, when you get a record holder sitting in your country for passing 23 A-levels, you’re bound to feel a little proud – and of course excuse the last person wanting to know what grades you’ve been getting and whether Harvard is next on your list.\n\nFood definitely makes up half of the culture\n\nDinner was lentils and rice. The aroma had drifted off to every corner of the house and even though my siblings were excitedly chattering away about Chand Raat (The day before Eid – a traditional Islamic holiday) while my little sister showed me her henna-ed hands and my grandmother lounged on the chaise longue, chewing a piece of betel. Her wrinkled hands carefully folded the leaf with the exotic sweet and spices inside it and popped it discreetly in her mouth.\n\nThe food inPakistanis as versatile as it can get; everything has a unique flavor, a unique aroma and a tantalizing texture to it. Food definitely makes up half of the culture here and brings together families and put in just the extra amount of love in your relationships\n. Again, it’s all true. There are even occasions where ample amount of delicious food with amazing weather makes us throw a party spontaneously. Monsoon rains and chilly winters don’t bring us down. We just bring out the samosas and the pakoras and turn the gloom upside down\n\nWhen the television downstairs is finally switched off; I lie back against the pillow in my room and close my eyes. The last headline had been the unfortunate incident of a clash between two opposing parties that has left a number of people dead. Headlines like these and with the security issues plaguing the country, it was no wonder that the world perceived us as barbarians wielding guns but we’re not…We’re just like you and it’s time the world should open their eyes and see it.\n\nIt’s late now. I better sleep\n. I volunteered to raise money for the poor and donate blood to a hospital tomorrow and I have to be there early.\n\nTayyaba Iftikhar, English Editor at The Voice of Youth\n\nthe Voice of Youth" ]

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[ null, "Today, we finally conclude our discussion of Tenacious D’s “Post-Apocalypto” mini-series. It’s been a long and oftentimes frustrating journey, I know. After watching this last episode, however, I’m comfortable with the way things ended. It could have gone much worse, and I appreciate the willingness on Tenacious D’s part to tie things up in a pinch.\n\nLast episode, our heroes dove into politics and social justice by infiltrating the White House and killing tons of Nazi’s. They accomplished part of their mission by killing the Gorgon, and obtaining the Crystal of Gilgamesh, with some help from Robot. We ended with our heroes boarding Air Force One, and heading off to Egypt to complete their mission, and save the world.\n\nIn this episode, we join our heroes as they’re flying into Egypt on Air Force One. Once they land at the Pyramids, Robot guides them to a brick which opens up into an Egyptian tomb. Jack and Kyle follow Robot into the tomb, and there they see a pedestal made for the Crystal.\n\nAfter they place the Crystal down, the two get an unexpected surprise. Jack’s son from the future has been waiting all along. He snatches the Crystal up, and explains how he set the whole thing up so that he could use the power of the crystal to conquer the world, and then the galaxy. Apparently, he was so resentful of not having a father, that he promises to torture and kill both Kyle and Jack. Then he sings a little song to drive his point home.\n\nJB Jr.’s rap is mostly providing context and history for the history. Other than that, he mostly just flaunts his new power. It’s the equivalent of the evil villain monologue, except with auto tune and sick beats.\n\nJust as JB Jr. finishes his song, the pyramid bursts open, and the cave women from episode two are there to save the day. They come riding in on a penis-shaped dragon, and sing a quick metal song to declare their attack.\n\nAnd who else is there, but Conchita, the woman Jack fell in love with, and JB Jr.’s birth mother. She comes in carrying a young JB Jr., and upon seeing himself as a baby, JB Jr.’s mind breaks, and the paradox ruptures the space-time continuum. Jack, Kyle, Robot, and the whole world are sucked into the swirling green vortex as time and space adjust to the paradox.\n\nSuddenly, Jack and Kyle are back in their apartment. They’re playing video games, as if the whole thing never happened. After wondering if it was all a dream, they hear their landlord at the door again. This time they answer it, and end up making friends with their landlord, on the condition that they’ll all jam together. Also, turns out the landlord has a dog named Hope, who he lends to Jack and Kyle for the afternoon.\n\nOur last shot of the series is of Jack, Kyle and Hope walking outside. But that’s not quite the end. A narrator chimes in here, and gives us some closure, along with the information that aliens have been watching the entire story unfold.\n\n“There is still hope for humanity, so long as The D still have a contract with Sony Records, the world will survive.”\n\nOverall, I think this episode brought a satisfactory ending to the wild romp of a story we’ve had so far. If the first three episodes had maintained the same level of continuity as the last three, “Post-Apocalypto” might be worthy of more praise than I’m currently inclined to give it.\n\nBut as I’m thinking back over each chapter, I suppose that honestly, only one real edit is needed (other than cutting out all the crude jokes and sex scenes). The story could do without Chapter 3 – “Space”. At its best, this episode is a one-off adventure that serves the story only to foreshadow the Robot in the last scene. Everything with Musk and the space station was resolved pretty quickly, and didn’t have any lasting repercussions. I’d much rather have seen a first encounter with Trump or the KKK, building more tension to Episode 5.\n\nStill, I was glad to see a nice resolution that still felt like it was coming from Jack Black and Kyle Gass. “Post-Apocalypto” isn’t that great of a story, but it’s at least not a complete waste of time.\n\nTo close up our discussion and get a different angle, we’ll follow up with a final review of “Post-Apocalypto”, the album." ]

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[ null, "Song-Hyun Choi debuted as an actress in her native Korea in 2006, and has since appeared in numerous Korean TV shows and movies. Song fell in love with scuba diving in 2012 during a short vacation from a heavy filming schedule for a TV show, and the ocean has been a healing shelter for her ever since – she feels revitalized whenever she reconnects with scuba diving and and the marine animals.\n\nSong is an active Youtube creator, traveling to lesser-known diving destinations (to Koreans) on other continents, sharing her dive experiences including the diving culture, etiquette and ocean conservation message on her Youtube channel. “As an AmbassaDiver, I would like to share my diving activities with people, and hopefully stimulate them to experience diving,” said Song. “This way they can encounter Nature and likewise be healed from the hustle and bustle of modern urban life.”", null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Urbino (Urvinum Mataurense in Latin) is an Italian city of 15,528 inhabitants located in Marches. Since 1998, its historical center is one of the Italian UNESCO World Heritage Sites.\nIt is located in a beautiful position between the Metauro Valley and the Foglia Valley and boasts an extensive artistic and cultural heritage, covering the whole Renaissance period.\nThe origins of the first human settlement seem to be old; they go back, in fact, to prehistoric times.\n\nIt is the home of one of the oldest and most important universities in Europe (founded in 1506), the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”.", null, "Listing all the beauties of the city in such a short a space is impossible. But we can give advise about the some of the most famous cultural sites of the city:\n\nHouse of Raffaello Sanzio\nThis is the house where Raffaello’s, Giovanni Santi, father was also born in the fourth decade of the fifteenth century, as it is shown by the plaque on the facade of the house. Raphael was born in 1483. In the small courtyard visitors can see the “rock” where father and son were used to prepare colours. Inside there are paintings, manuscripts and furnishings. Important it is the fresco of “Madonna and Child” in the room where the painter was born.\n\nNational Museum of Marches\nIn the second half of the fifteenth century Urbino was transformed from a medieval village in the Renaissance city by the will of Duke Federico da Montefeltro. In the centre the Duke ordered the construction of the Palazzo. Its beautiful courtyard is one of the greatest examples of Renaissance architecture. Federico and his wife, Battista Sforza, gathered at the court some of the most famous of artists of that time, such as: Donato Bramante, Paolo Uccello, Leon Battista Alberti and Piero della Francesca. The gallery was established in the Palazzo Ducale in 1912.Among the absolute masterpieces of art history there preserved, we can mention: two of the most enigmatic works of Piero della Francesca, “La Flagellazione di Cristo” and “La Madonna di Senigallia”, and “Il Miracolo dell’Ostia Profanata” by Paolo Uccello and the sublime “Muta” by Raffaello.\n\nAlbani Museum\nThe core of the museum is located on the right side of the Cathedral and is divided into two areas: the new vestry, of the Renaissance, the old vestry built between 1705 and 1720.\nThe museum took its name from the Albani family which had always been interested in the cathedral. In the first room (old vestry) there are exposed ceramic created in XVI-XVIII centuries coming from the sanctuary of Battaglia.", null, "Gessi Museum (Plasters Museum)\nIn this Museum there is a collection of plasters of ancient sculptures granted by the State Art Institute of Urbino. They are used for didactical purposes. Plasters are copies of statues of the period from the V century B.C. to the Imperial age.\n\nMuseum of Printing\nThe ore of San Lorenzo in Solfinelli, where the Court of Minewas operated, was found in the XVIII century and with the growing use of sulphur mine it became one of the most important plant of Romagna.\nIn the site of the mine it was built in 1990 a mixed farm and artistic initiative, so moving the first steps to the “Museum Graphia”, the International Museum of the printing.\nWhere to Sleep.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Shareholder derivative suits are brought by an investor on behalf of the corporation itself. In a derivative case, the plaintiff alleges that the actions of the defendants, typically the company’s officers and directors, have harmed the company and reduced the price of shares. Traditionally, such cases were most often used to challenge mergers, with investors alleging that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by agreeing to a deal that undervalues the company.\n\nBut in the latter half of 2020, a number of shareholder derivative complaints were filed based on a novel theory. Instead of challenging a mishandled merger, these cases alleged that the defendants’ failure to meet their public commitment to diversity, particularly with respect to the composition of the companies’ boards and leadership teams, had financially harmed the companies. The first two cases against Facebook and Oracle were filed on July 2, 2020, and since then, similar complaints have been filed against Qualcomm, NortonLifeLock, The Gap, Monster Beverage, and Cisco.\n\nAs evidence of financial harm, most of the complaints reference a 2015 McKinsey report that found a statistically significant relationship between a diverse leadership team and superior financial performance. McKinsey reaffirmed that finding in subsequent reports in 2018 and 2020, with the most recent report reiterating that “[t]he most diverse companies are now more likely than ever to outperform non-diverse companies on profitability.”[1] The complaints also cite the damage to each company’s goodwill and reputation, and list a variety of unnecessary expenditures caused by the defendants’ conduct, including the costs associated with investigations and lawsuits, compensation of executives that engaged in misconduct, the costs of hiring employees to replace those who quit in protest, and the payment of fines and settlements.\n\nIn addition to the cases focused on board diversity, another case has been filed against Pinterest, alleging that the defendants had created or ignored a culture of racial and gender discrimination at the company. In September, Alphabet settled a similar case in September that alleged the directors and officers directly participated in a scheme to cover up sexual harassment and discrimination at Google, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet.\n\nThe Alphabet settlement of the Alphabet case indicates that allegations of harassment and discrimination in a derivative suit can be successful, although courts have yet to rule on the validity of the claims in any of the board diversity cases. Rulings are expected in the coming months, and if these suits are successful, they will dramatically expand the scope of derivative liability." ]

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[ null, "She was involved in a minor traffic incident, but that’s no excuse for this.\n\nit seems like the world has made a lot of progress over the past decade or so when it comes to the wider acceptance of the transgender community, but then a video like this emerges which proves that there’s still a hell of a long way to go before we get where we need to be.\n\nThe video was shot over in Dallas, Texas and features a guy named Edward Thomas punching transgender Muhlaysia Booker over to the ground and then proceeding to beat the absolute crap out of her whilst she’s down on the floor, whilst the crowd cheers him on and other people film it, with a couple of people even joining in. It’s pretty brutal and distressing so if you don’t want to get upset by it, I would suggest not watching it below:\n\nI mean that’s a pretty horrific beating, regardless of whether or not the person receiving it was transgender or not.\n\nFollowing the incident, Booker reported it to police, stating that she was involved in a minor traffic accident which led to this and that the men who attacked her used homophobic slurs throughout the beating. Thomas has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault, with the charge likely to be tried as a hate crime given the language that he used. Hoping that he goes down for a long time because this kind of reaction just isn’t acceptable.\n\nFor more of the same, check out this story about a transgender woman finding love with the man who rejected her when she was male. Heartwarming." ]

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[ null, "BUKIT MERTAJAM (Bernama): Police have detained a woman working at a spa here for lodging a false report of being robbed of RM17,360 belonging to her employer at Bandar Sunway, Seberang Jaya here Monday (Oct 7).\n\n“Initially, police received a report from the woman on the incident at about 11am Tuesday when she came out of a bank with the company’s cash to pay workers,” he said here.\n\nHe said the woman claimed her bagpack was snatched by a man riding a blue motorcycle who came from behind when she was walking to the car from the bank.\n\nThe woman has since been remanded for four days to assist investigations under Section 392 of the Penal Code for robbery. – Bernama\n\nKula: More self-employed sectors to be included in Socso" ]

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[ null, "As the global appetite for books and their screen adaptations explodes in the era of COVID, WME Books is strengthening its unity of international rights.\n\nThe agency’s books department has named New York-based Laura Bonner (pictured, left) and Matilda Forbes Watson (right) as partners, the latter also being appointed as head of the UK book bureau in London. With longtime New York-based executive Tracy Fisher (center), the trio includes the International Rights Unit of the Books Division, which works closely with a separate literary packaging arm that adapts the books. for television and cinema.\n\nConcluding more than 1,000 international publishing contracts in 2021 in New York and London alone, the division represents titles such as Quentin Tarantino’s debut book “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, a 2021 novelization of his titular film which sold in 32 territories. , and “The Last Thing He Told Me” from Laura Dave, who won 33 publishing deals and a TV adaptation for Apple.\n\nGoing forward, the International Rights Unit – which to date has largely focused on sending works by English-language authors abroad – aspires to become more global in its perspectives by expanding its list of writers around the world.\n\n“We want to hear from all parts of the world,” Bonner said Variety. “We passionately believe that English-speaking writers aren’t the only ones telling big stories or having big ideas, so we’re extremely interested in identifying things and taking them in other directions.”\n\nThere’s already a track record in place, with Fisher highlighting the success of Dutch writer Roxane van Iperen’s 2018 non-fiction title “‘t Hooge Nest” (“The High Nest”), which has been translated into English by “The Sisters of Auschwitz” and became an international bestseller.\n\n“It was a great example of the resources we can invest in authors that we identify as coming out of their local markets,” says Fisher.\n\n“There can be these projects that work incredibly well, whether it’s in Germany, the Netherlands, or Japan, and what we’re interested in is giving them a global platform in the same way we do. ‘ve done with our English language writers, and to break beyond the English language.\n\nUnsurprisingly, given the strong demand for literary intellectual property, agents say “conversations have intensified” in recent years between the books department and the literary packaging arm, which oversees the adaptation agreements.\n\n“We are still in communication with them,” says Bonner. “Good news for us can be good news for them, and vice versa, especially as streamers go global. When there is a huge bestseller in a market, it’s important that they know that and that can really support efforts to make that TV show or movie very global, and the book maybe has been. the entry point to this market. “\n\nIt doesn’t always have to be the latest bestseller, either. Such is the demand for quality intellectual property that agents say many older titles are now experiencing a renaissance.\n\n“There were a variety of rhythms for a project,” Bonner explains. “Sometimes, yes, a lot of negotiations are done early on, just as the US deal is done and literary packaging is everywhere, generating tremendous heat in all areas. But sometimes it takes until publication, and a long time after publication. Sometimes books published years ago experience a whole new life. There is more variety of trajectories than before.\n\nForbes Watson, who is based in the UK, says the trend also reflects the way literary agents work in separate territories on behalf of their authors.\n\n“You are not always ready to immediately start looking for a UK market for an American author, for example. You might just establish them and over time take a long-term view and build, ”says Forbes Watson. “This is something for which we are particularly well placed. Long-term career building is not only about the national territory: it is about finding the readership in a personalized way in each individual market.\n\nWhen it comes to finding talent and integrating new writers, following the success of Western European writers such as Van Iperen, the team is now looking to explore Asia for both fiction and non-fiction.\n\n“We can learn a lot from their storytelling traditions,” Bonner says. “It’s ripe for more exploration. “\n\nMeanwhile, Forbes Watson also plans to develop the UK squad and recruit new talent. She cites rising voices like British Jamaican polymath Akala, who started his career in music but has also published books, including the 2018 critically acclaimed non-fiction title “Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire ”.\n\n“We’re always looking to see if a client has potential outside of the book space. [Akala] has a very strong book business but touches so many different areas of the agency, whether it’s speech, podcast or film and television. It will be a high priority for us [in the U.K.]. “" ]

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[ null, "HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maxar Technologies announced Aug. 9 it was selected by L3Harris to manufacture 14 missile-detection satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency.\n\nThe 28 infrared-sensing satellites will be part of a global network of eyes in the sky the Pentagon will use to detect and track the latest generation of ballistic and hypersonic missiles being developed by countries like Russia and China.\n\n“This is a big win,” Maxar CEO Daniel Jablonsky said Aug. 9 during a second-quarter earnings call. He called the agreement with L3Harris a validation of Maxar’s strategy to pursue national security satellite contracts to diversify its mostly commercial-only business.\n\nMaxar will supply satellite buses and provide support services as a subcontractor to L3Harris. The company did not disclose the value of the contract. Jablonsky said it’s a fixed-price deal for Maxar’s new “workhorse PLEO” bus, designed for proliferated low Earth orbit constellations and based on an earlier design the company bid for the Telesat constellation.\n\nThe contract with L3Harris also covers the integration of mission payloads, including optical terminals for mesh networking, Ka-band communications and infrared sensors. Maxar will manufacture the buses at its factories in Palo Alto and San Jose, California, for delivery in 2024. Launches are scheduled to begin in April 2025.\n\n“This program demonstrates that Maxar is primed to handle a diverse set of missions,” said Chris Johnson, Maxar senior vice president and general manager of space." ]

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[ "Online dating can be awesome or awful (or both), but writing your profile is always a pain in the pooper. Describing yourself feels weird, you never know how honest you should be, and then there’s the never-ending conversation about what photo to use. It can sometimes feel like a full-time job. And not necessarily a fun one.", null, "But then we here at BarkPost realized something. Why should we waste time agonizing over our dating profile when our dogs can write them for us? After all, our dogs know us better than anyone, and for better or worse, they still love us.\n\nA few singletons in our office offered to have their dating profiles written by their dogs, and we have the results below. We’re really excited about this. What could possibly go wrong?", null, "About Zoe: There’s a lot more to Zoe than she lets on. For example, she always tells people she’s only a beer and wine drinker. But when it’s just us in the apartment, she drinks beer, wine, vodka, tequila, and a bunch of other stuff, too! Then she sings to me and squishes my face and tells me I’m a good boy. If you date her, maybe you guys can do this, too. It’s really fun!\n\nMe and Zoe during our most recent night in. I have no idea who that dog on the left is or how it got there.", null, "–Zoe doesn’t like dry-humping. Anytime I start humping a dog or human, she makes me stop. So if you’re really into dry-humping, I don’t know if this relationship would work.\n\n–At some point, I had balls. Or at least, I remember having something like them attached to my body. But then one day I woke up and they were gone. I think Zoe had something to do with it. (I still love her, of course, but I just think this is something you should mention on a dating profile. Especially before you fall in love with Zoe, because trust me, you will.)\n\n–Her butt. She usually keeps dog treats in her back pocket.\n\n–Her hips. If dog treats aren’t in her butt, they’re usually in one of her side pockets.", null, null, "Jonathan’s pre-date ritual: First of all, if you’re going on a date with Jonathan, you should consider yourself a lucky man. So if you find yourself in that envious position, here’s a little glimpse of what he was up to before you guys met:\n\n–If you’re fortunate enough to see his underwear, just know that it went through a thorough screening process. You’re seeing the best of the best. Jonathan tries on at least three different pairs of underwear before deciding on “the one.”\n\n–I get really excited when he does this so that’s usually when I poop right on the floor of his bedroom.\n\n–Jonathan has to clean up my poop then, so he’s usually about 10 minutes late for any date. Trust me — he’s not late because he’s not excited! It’s just because he’s cleaning up my poop.", null, "What Jonathan looks for in a partner:\n\n–The first thing Jonathan looks for in a partner is their dog. Like, do you have one? Is it in your profile pic? If you said yes to both these things, great! He’s already swiped right on your profile and is looking forward to meeting your dog.\n\n–The next thing Jonathan looks for in a partner is if their dog is compatible with me? I’m Noodle, a beautiful, thick, delicious, creamy meatball of a Pug. If it seems like I’d get along with your dog, and that we’d photograph well together, then your odds of getting a date with Jonathan just went way up.\n\n–It is only after all of this that Jonathan will take into consideration your face, hobbies, and other less important factors.", null, "–One time, Jonathan went on a date with a guy who “didn’t like dogs” and “didn’t know what ‘The Color Purple’ on Broadway was.” Jonathan did not like this. In fact he walked right out and came home to me where we cuddled and cried together.\n\n–Pooping in bedrooms. If you like to poop in bedrooms, this relationship probably won’t work. I really can’t stress this enough.", null, "–Katie loves to wear her Disney Snuggie while live-tweeting TV shows. You might be thinking, “Wow, she’s 27 and still wears a Disney Snuggie?” But keep in mind, in dog years that’s not even 4 years old. She’s still a baby.\n\n–Katie likes to eat popcorn with a spoon like it’s cereal. It’s more practical and less messy, she says. That’s one smart 3-year-old, am I right?", null, "–Resourceful. One time, a piece of popcorn dropped from Katie’s spoon into her bra. She said, “Lucky popcorn,” fished it out of her bra, and laughed to herself for several minutes. Then the room went silent and she ate it. So yeah, I’d say she’s ready to get back out into the dating world.\n\n–Katie likes being humped. At least, I think she does. Anytime I’ve ever wanted to hump her, she lets me. It usually makes her laugh, so I think she enjoys it? I don’t know. This one time she had a friend over, and I started humping Katie, and Katie’s friend was like, “Wait, what? You let your dog do that?” and then Katie tried to change the subject.\n\n–Generous. If Katie is eating and you stare into her eyes and don’t blink for ten seconds, she will always give you some of her food.", null, "–Katie farts. Not an abnormal amount, but she does fart. And even though Katie is my best friend, she has blamed farts on me in the past. So she may do the same to you.\n\n–Katie has a cow stuffed animal named Raffy. She bought four onesies specifically for him. Honestly I think it’s all a little weird, but maybe I’m just jealous? I won’t lie — I’ve thought about killing Raffy. I’m probably a little biased. But I hate that guy.", null, "About Wheaton: I do not know this man. I am not his dog. He is using me in his photo because he believes that having a dog in his picture will increase interest and lessen the fear that he is a serial killer.\n\nFun fact about Wheaton: He is probably not a serial killer?\n\nOther stuff to know about Wheaton: I’m a dog. I’m someone else’s dog. Please return me to my owner.\n\nHey! These are REAL singletons. You like what you see? You like all this weird stuff you just read? Message these amazing bachelors and bachelorettes. They’re all dog lovers, so you know they’re good." ]

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[ null, "“I’m SEXY enough … to keep you waiting.” That’s the copy on a skimpy new tank top created by the Candies brand. Released as a part of the Candies Foundation, which exists in part to reduce teen pregnancy and encourage abstinence, it is one abstinence shirt you don’t want to wear. It sends a mixed message! The T-shirt tantalizes more than it reinforces a message of abstinence.\n\nHere’s the deal. You probably just read that and said, “I’d NEVER wear that shirt!” And I believe you. But what message do your profile pictures on Facebook send? Yep, I’m on Facebook. I decided to take the dive about two months ago, and I’m practically addicted. (I have to completely unplug on some days to maintain self-control. Does anyone know what I mean?) I love, love, love the connections I’m making with my readers and old friends. I love being able to send notes of encouragement or Scripture to the teens Bob and I mentor at our Christian high school.\n\nWhat I don’t love is confronting someone.\n\nYou see, some of you—my beloved readers and strong followers of Christ—post photographs that might as well say “I’m SEXY enough … to keep you waiting.” There’s a “look” that says it. Actually, there are a lot of looks that say it. I can’t really describe it, but a lot of you know what I mean. The pouty lips and dreamy eyes. The eyebrow raised with a slightly open mouth. Sometimes even tongue action!\n\nI confronted a girl I know about it last week. I know her to be a strong Christian from a strong Christian family. The picture was of her and another friend, and they were posing as if they were going to lick each other’s faces. My friend thought it was just a silly picture. But I shared with her my concerns about what it might conjure up in the minds of her guy friends on Facebook. She said, “I will remove the picture out of respect for you, but I don’t see anything wrong with it.” I appreciated that she did that, but I was still concerned that she didn’t get it. So I asked her to talk to her mom, who was mortified with the picture. And after a long talk with her mom and dad, I think my friend might be starting to get it.\n\nRemember, guys are wired to be intoxicated by our beauty. It’s how God created them. (Proverbs 5:18–19 says that a man can “rejoice in the wife of [his] youth,” and those are some pretty steamy verses. This is God’s plan, but the steamy stuff is supposed to be within the confines of marriage.) For the eyes of everyone other than my husband, I carry a responsibility to be modest and careful with how I present myself. Let’s pick up that responsibility on Facebook and post photos with discernment, okay? Let’s live out Romans 14:21 and be careful not to cause our Christian brothers to stumble.\n\nSo here’s the challenge. Go through your profile pictures with your mom. And maybe your dad because he knows how a guy’s mind works. (He is, after all, a guy!) Be willing to learn and understand the difference between a “Hey, world! I’m here” picture and an “I’m SEXY enough … to keep you waiting” picture! Then have a humble and willing heart to remove anything your mom and dad think should go, even if you don’t understand or agree.\n\nAnd, oh yeah, friend me so I can see your beautiful “Hey, world! I’m here” pictures!\n\nPrevious Article Meet Mrs. Jesus\nNext Article Should I leave?" ]

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[ "Exploring the Wetlands with \"When I Was an Alligator\"\n\nLouisiana's wetlands are unique and vital to so many species, but they are quickly disappearing. Gayle Webre and Drew Beech’s new children’s book, When I Was an Alligator, is a work of art featuring a Cajun kid who transforms into many wetland animals and insects while she is sleeping. Not only is the book engaging and beautiful, it is also educational. Webre spent about a year researching wetland wildlife before writing the book to ensure that exploring with this curious Cajun kid would be a fun way to learn about the plentiful and distinctive life on Louisiana’s coast. The end of the book includes facts about the wetlands and questions for curious kids to ponder. Below are more facts about the fascinating wildlife featured in When I Was an Alligator to share with curious kids of all ages!\n\nAlthough alligators are slow on land, their long, strong tails enable them to quickly propel themselves through water. Alligators are also great mothers. After baby alligators hatch, the mother carries the babies in her mouth and puts them in the water. The babies stay with their mother for at least a year, but some live with her for as much as three years! A crucial fact about alligators is that they make holes, called alligator holes, in the wetlands that stay filled with water during the dry season. These holes are important because other wetland creatures use them to stay safe. Alligators were endangered for a long time because hunters valued them, but the state and federal government protected them and now they are thriving again. Alligators must be kept safe because the wetlands need the alligators almost as much as the alligators need the wetlands.", null, "Herons need the wetlands because they like to hunt in shallow water. They wade carefully and gracefully through the water, standing perfectly still for long periods of time until they see a fish or other small creature to eat, and then they often swallow it whole. Herons also like to make their nests in tall trees, sometimes nesting in large groups. They are migratory birds and spend the seasons in different regions. Herons can be found all over the United States, in southern Canada, and even sometimes in Central and South America.", null, "Opossums are North America’s only marsupial, which means they carry their babies in a pouch. They like to stay near permanent sources of water, like the wetlands, but opossums are not picky! They will live in lots of different places like in a log or under a porch. Opossums are also foragers and will eat almost anything they find. You might find them trying to eat your garbage, but they also eat fruit, insects, eggs, birds, and other small animals. They support the environment by eating pests, including ticks, and they are immune to most venoms, so they eat things like snakes and scorpions. Opossums sometimes pretend to be sick or dead when they’re scared, confusing their predators and keeping them safe. Their tails act as extra hands; they use them to climb and carry things. Sometimes, young opossums even use them to hang upside down from tree branches!", null, "Snapping turtles have pointy, triangular heads and strong jaws. Alligator snapping turtles can be huge, and their spiny faces and shells make them look like dinosaurs. During the day, alligator snapping turtles like to hide at the bottom of the deepest part of a body of water. Their spiny shells make them look like logs sitting on the floor, successfully camouflaging them. These turtles have a secret weapon—their tongue looks like a worm! When they are hungry, they open up their mouths and unsuspecting creatures swim inside to try to eat their worm-like tongue. Female turtles sometimes go onto dry land to bury their eggs. If you see one, you should leave it alone! Their bites are dangerous, but luckily, they don’t usually attack humans", null ]

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[ "Techniques that imbue textiles with touch sensitivity are something of a holy grail for the garment industry. Google perhaps came the closest with Jacquard, which it announced in May 2015 during its I/O developer conference. Jacquard leverages conductive fibers woven into fabrics plus small flexible computing components and feedback devices that work in tandem with software APIs and applications to recognize finger gestures and other signals.\n\nBut if you ask Mo Maghsoudnia, formerly vice president of tech and worldwide manufacturing at sensor chip startup InvenSense, projects like Jacquard have only scratched the surface of what’s possible. He’s the founder of UltraSense, a San Jose, California-based startup that emerged from stealth today. Its first products — a family of system-on-chips dubbed TouchPoint — use ultrasound sensors to sense movement and gestures through virtually any material of any thickness, including metal, glass, wood, and plastic.\n\n“We have seen a shift in the way we interact with devices, where digital has replaced mechanical and the move to buttonless, touchless, and gestures is accelerating,” said Maghsoudnia. “The use of ultrasound in touch user interfaces has not been implemented in such a novel way until now.”\n\nThe first TouchPoint sensor to reach production is one of the smallest of its kind at 1.4 x 2.4 x 0.49 millimeters, or about the size of the nib of a fountain pen. It’s designed to squeeze into compact form factors like smartphones — indeed, UltraSense began sampling to manufacturers this month ahead of an anticipated 2020 market debut — and it’s robust enough to withstand perturbations like moisture, dirt, and oils, as well as lotions. Plus, it’s energy-efficient at a quoted power draw of less than 20ua in “always on” mode.", null, "TouchPoint is designed to operate independently of a product’s host processor. Because the necessary algorithm processing is embedded in the sensor itself, it’s able to act as a standalone button (e.g., a power button or volume rocker) or a surface for taps, holds, and swipes. Maghsoudnia believes this could open the door to new design possibilities not only in smartphones, but in cars, internet of things devices, and home appliances. Imagine a smartwatch or a pair of earbuds with a highly precise touch interface, or a touch-sensitive and easy-to-clean vehicle door handle that unlocks with just a tap.\n\n“We are enabling a range of new use cases that will allow OEMs to differentiate and bring consumers sleeker, waterproof devices, where touch and gestures can be customized for specific user experiences,” he said.\n\nUltrasonic tech isn’t particularly novel in the consumer device space, it’s worth pointing out. Evanston, Illinois-based Tanvas, formerly Tangible Haptics, is developing an ultrasonic platform that sends sound waves through screens to deliver feedback by modulating friction. Redux, which was snatched up by Google last January, pioneered a similar wave-based haptics solution for smart displays and tablets. As for startups Toposens and Sentons, their flagship products — which combine arrays of ultrasonic touch sensors with strain-gauge meters — directly compete with UltraSense’s TouchPoint and ostensibly detect touch with greater accuracy than touchscreens.\n\nBut Maghsoudnia believes the company has market momentum on its side. It’s currently working with five “top” phone manufacturers, who plan to test it for things like touch-sensitive power buttons and dedicated shutter keys, as well as one-handed selfie shortcuts. Next year, it will target industrial and medical market segments with the TouchPoint Z, a sensor that includes all of TouchPoint’s ultrasound, with the addition of three-dimensional Z-force sensing, providing gram-force measurement for applications that require gloves, external covers and cases, and water and ice rejection." ]

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[ "Home » Man arrested for possession of drugs and firearm in Portsmouth", null, "Officers from Hampshire Constabulary have arrested a 51 year old man from Hayling Island.\n\nThe man has been arrested by Hampshire police on Portsdown Hill Road, on suspicion of possess a controlled drug of Class A – heroin and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place. He’s been now released from custody but remains under investigation.\n\nPolice will submit the substance found on the man to a Forensic Labratory for confirmation on its contents.\n\nHampshire Police continue to tackle drugs in the county as part of the ongoing operation Fortress." ]

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[ "Germany 🇩🇪 has the most stringent mask mandates and enforces Covid passports\n\nGermany 🇩🇪 has the most stringent mask mandates and enforces Covid passports.\n\nThe result? The worst Covid wave since the beginning of the pandemic 👇 pic.twitter.com/50i0QpZF47\n\nWell it’s official. Vermont has reached a new high in cases with 88% of adults & 99%+ of everyone over 65 at least partially vaccinated\n\nWell it’s official. Vermont has reached a new high in cases with 88% of adults & 99%+ of everyone over 65 at least partially vaccinated\n\nSo sure, Fauci was completely wrong about needing 50% to be vaccinated to avoid surges, but at least he’s also wrong about everything else too pic.twitter.com/ID60K95e6h\n\nFauci was ‘up to his neck’ funding coronavirus research in Wuhan\n\nBombshell Out About Origin Of Covid\n\nThe Covid “Vaccine” Has Caused a Pandemic\n\nThe corrupt American Medical Establishment led by the mass murderer Tony Fauci was forced some time ago to admit that the Covid “vaccine” quickly loses effectiveness against the virus. But they claimed the “vaccine” did protect against cases bad enough to send you to the hospital or to your death.\n\nNow Fauci has been forced to back off this false claim. Vasko Kohlmayer reports:\n\nLast week Dr. Anthony Fauci made perhaps the most damning confession in the Covid vaccine saga. So far-reaching are the implications of his statement that the interview in which he made it may well prove a turning point in the fight against the great vaccine fraud that is being perpetrated on the peoples of the world.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "Florida now has one of the lowest coronavirus case rates in the nation, with around 80 percent of its adult population vaccinated.\n\nLeft-leaning media has long had a pathetic, cruel obsession with bashing the Sunshine State, mainly because of its outspoken Republican governor.\n\nThe Acela Corridor elites have been proven wrong over and over, and once infections and deaths across Florida began dropping well over a month ago, they finally relented.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nIn response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Centers for Disease and Control said it has no record of an individual previously infected with COVID becoming reinfected or transmitting the virus to others — because the agency doesn’t collect that data.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, said it has no record of an individual previously infected with COVID becoming reinfected and transmitting the virus to others.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nAmerica operates a global empire, but its billionaires are never satisfied, and are determined for it to encompass every nation. The billionaires control their Government; the American public do not.\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nLIVE: 6v1 Police Ambush ends with a win for the people!", null, "The US Food and Drug Administration has issued “the most serious type of recall” for popular home testing kits that show if one is infected with coronavirus. At least 2.2 million products may have been showing false positives.\n\nSome 2,212,335 kits produced by the Australian-based biotech company Ellume and distributed in the US potentially show false positive SARS-CoV-2 test results, the public health agency said in a statement on Thursday.\n\nThe FDA warned that the use of faulty kits “may cause serious adverse health consequences or death,” identifying the case as a ‘Class I recall.’\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "New Zealand has announced it is dropping its controversial ‘zero COVID’ policy after numerous critics pointed out that such an approach to eliminating the virus was impossible.\n\nPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement earlier today during a press conference in which she acknowledged, “The return to zero has been extremely difficult.”\n\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "Austria will impose new curbs on the unvaccinated starting from Monday. The measure aims to ease pressure on hospitals and ICUs.\n\nThe lockdown will come into effect at midnight and will apply to people aged 12 and older who have not been vaccinated and have not recently recovered from Covid-19.\n\n“This step was not easy to take, but it is necessary,” Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said. “The risk for the unvaccinated people is much higher. Therefore, we are forced to take this difficult step to reduce the number of contacts.”" ]

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[ "21 December 2008: Happy Solstice from Down Under\n\nSince our arrival in Australia two months ago, there have been a few things for me to get used to. Southerly winds are cold, not warm. Christmas is no longer white with winter snow but instead is full of bright blazing sunlight. And along those lines, the December solstice is the longest day of summer, not winter. I vividly recall the first three winter solstices I spent in Fairbanks; they were a token of strength and endurance for me. I would not fly to the lower 48 to see family for Christmas until the day following solstice, as being there on the darkest day marked that the hardest day of the year was past and it was important for me to experience it. I can remember sitting in my cabin and in just three hours watching the sun rise low on the eastern horizon and slink into sunset before my eyes as my rocking chair kept time. Those winter solstices in Fairbanks were bright with moonlight on snow and the hail bop comet burning in the sky amidst northern lights. It was a gorgeous frosty experience and I would throw back my parka hood and eagerly anticipate the return of the warmth that comes from the sun. Those days are long past, and now I am faced with a December solstice that is less sensational. It is so strange to come straight from the beach, sand in my hair, and walk into the supermarket to the sound of Christmas carols. The lack of winter makes the holiday season feel flat and oddly misplaced. My holiday traditions of baking and cooking huge feasts with lots of butter will not be repeated in Australia. We celebrated Thanksgiving by having a day at the beach and then a grand BBQ of lamb and kangaroo kabobs, a new tradition. I wonder what new traditions will surface for Christmas…right now I think it will be a lazy Christmas for the crew of Pelagic, with a long day at the beach enjoying the surf and sand. Hey, maybe I’ll get used to this, afterall.\n\nAnother mental hurdle for me has been the use of the English language. I’m not talking about the (now) obvious ‘thongs’ for ‘flip flops’ or ‘ute’ for ‘truck’. I’m talking about me being at Mike’s Uncle’s house, trying in vain to control Elias who is running everywhere. Mike’s Auntie and Uncle must have said to me a dozen times ‘don’t panic, don’t panic, he’s fine’, and I kept thinking “I’m not panicked. why do they keep telling me not to panic. my voice is calm and even. this is not panic, they should see me panic”. In the car driving home it dawned on me that ‘don’t panic’ translates to ‘don’t worry’. Similarly, ‘no drama’ really caught me off guard. The first time Mike’s cousin told me ‘no drama’ I had been explaning when we might be able to join them for dinner. I immediately thought ‘do I sound dramatic? do I sound frantic or overwhelmed? why did he say no drama? I can be dramatic, and this is NOT dramatic”. I felt much better when later in the evening Roy said ‘ah, yeah, no drama Mate’ to Mike. Best I can tell, it is an innocent saying that translates roughly to ‘no worries’. Of course ‘no worries’ means ‘you are welcome’ and can also be confusing at times. But the longer I am here the more I realize that the Australians all seem to have hearts of gold and if they are guilty of anything it’s of being too lackadaisical with the English language. Maybe it comes from growing up in the beach culture. Maybe it comes from celebrating Christmas in a bikini and seeing Santa in his togs.\nIn Oz, Santa uses kangaroos to pull his sled which gives the caribou more time to rest for their turn in the northern hemisphere. Here are a few pictures of Elias and his cousin Kali making sure the ‘roos are well fed and energized for the work that awaits them on Christmas eve.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Nothing up my sleeves but comedy\n\nDo you know who is really funny?\n\nI was lucky enough to watch Animal House—Landis’ first studio film—last night with the man himself in attendance. (Thank you SF Sketchfest) While I’ve seen Animal House so often I can practically recite the film line for line, this is the first time I’ve sat at Landis’ feet and heard him speak.\n\nThe man know how to spin a yarn. This much should be apparent from his oeuvre, which includes The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, and ¡Three Amigos! All of which any serious film fan should have under his or her belt.\n\nSomeone attempted to interview him, but each question led into an Infinite Jest of asides, anecdotes, non-sequiturs, and jokes. (Q: What’s the difference between a brown-noser and a shithead? A: Depth perception.) It was pretty awesome.", null, "Edwin Porter made The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Among other things, it was the first real Western.\n\nLandis spoke of his start in the Fox mailroom, his near-death experiences working 2nd unit on Catch-22 in the belly of a trembling B-52, and of being lucky enough to learn from the men who saw the birth of cinema. One of his mentors passed along knowledge he’d picked up from his mentor, Eddie. Eddie who you ask? Eddie Goddamned Porter, the guy who invented cross-cutting, the dissolve, and many of the elements which today comprise the language of film.\n\nLandis also shared—as time ran down—a few new tidbits about Animal House. That, for example, the original script was the funniest thing he’d read but it was terribly misogynistic and racist. Watching the finished film, one must credit the man for making what is the prototype for all teen sex comedies—and a film which is not short on shots of attractive women naked—in a way that doesn’t make the viewer feel like a sleaze-ball. Sex is part of college life in Animal House and so are women.", null, "I gave my love a guitar that had no collision insurance\n\nTake the scene in which John Belushi as Bluto climbs a ladder to peep on pillow-fighting sorority girls. How does that end up reading as funny/don’t-try-this-at-home as opposed to skeezy/leering, like much of the teen comedy that followed? Two key elements: 1) Belushi makes such a ghastly racket jumping around on his ladder that the most preposterous thing about the scene is no one notices him; and 2) Bluto’s turn to camera combination eyebrow waggle, which implicitly involves the audience in his voyeurism. And, of course, even Bluto will only go so far. That scene literally falls away before it turns pornographic.\n\nSpeaking of Bluto and the brilliant/sorely missed John Belushi*, John Landis said that originally Belushi was irked at him because he had gone through the script and cut most of Bluto’s lines. Why? Landis knew they weren’t necessary.\n\nAs you watch Animal House you get everything you need to know about Bluto from Belushi’s unparalleled physical comedy—those little stutter steps he does when ‘sneaking’ into the administration building; how he lovingly compresses beer cans against his forehead; the way his tongue interjects every time he says the word “shit-th;” his preternaturally expressive eyebrows.", null, "Zero Point Zero is much better than Zero Dark Thirty\n\nLandis also revealed the simple direction he offered his star when describing Bluto to him. He said that Bluto was a blend of two characters: Harpo Marx and Cookie Monster. Sweet but with an impish appetite. Always hungry for more, ready to devour, but not maliciously. That’s also a way to describe the entire film. It’s game, hungry even, but somehow the whole thing comes off as surprisingly sweet.\n\nAnd with that rambling lead in, I’d like to address what I was thinking about during my flibbitybillionth viewing of Animal House. That is: who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, and who is Otter?", null, "I’d like you to meet Mohammed, Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton…\n\nOne of the things that John Landis said is that the first draft of the script needed heroes and villains. Based on the way characters are presented in the finished picture, it’s clear we’re supposed to empathize with the cut-ups in Delta Tau Chi: Bluto, D-Day, Otter, Boone, Hoover, Stork, Flounder, and particularly Pinto (Belushi, Bruce McGill, Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, James Widdoes, Douglas Kenney, Stephen Furst, and Tom Hulce respectively). Across the aisle, the elitist assholes of Omega Theta Pi are Greg Marmalard, Neidermeyer, Chip and their girlfriends Mandy and Babs (James Daughton, Mark Metcalf, Kevin Bacon in his screen debut, Mary Louise Weller, and Martha Smith).", null, "But there isn’t so much of a plot to Animal House and even the characters, when you single them out, don’t have much meat on them. What do we know about any of these college students? Why does Katy (the irresistible Karen Allen) love Boone, for example? What—beyond getting laid and belonging—do any of them want? Where is the drama?\n\nWe follow the Deltas for what appears to be most of a semester, from pledge week to homecoming. There are parties and adventures and quite a bit of sex. We’ve got virgins and people smoking pot for the first time and gallons of liquor and two farm animals and the performance of an impressively futile and useless gesture. What we barely have any of is information.\n\nThe only things we learn about our characters that we don’t see during the brief run time are that Flounder’s brother Fred was a Delta (and a real closet-case), Otter has perhaps slept with Mandy somehow somewhen, and the Deltas had the medical school cadavers delivered to the alumni dinner.", null, "Get a load of those adenoids!\n\nBut never, in all the times I’ve watched Animal House, have I stopped to ask myself, “who are these guys?” I knew from the first time I laid eyes on them who they were and what they were about. Even D-Day—and his most significant line simply involves him playing the William Tell Overture on his throat after driving a motorcycle up the stairs.\n\nThat’s who he is.\n\nA lack of direction, a lack of information to base your life on: that’s college.\n\nBut who’s good or bad in Animal House is intriguing, even understanding that we’re talking about the grandpappy of teen sex comedies. This is particularly so if we take a closer look at the character of Otter.", null, "Look at his room. Otter doesn’t really belong in the Delta house.\n\nWe hate that sneaky little shit Nedermeyer because he’s a pompous, sadistic creep. We like Boone because he’s funny and charming even if he won’t grow up. But Otter… Otter is kind of a dick.\n\nEven in a film in which college kids are (mistakenly) sleeping with 13-year olds and in which grand theft auto is shrugged off (Otter to Flounder: “You fucked up. You trusted us.”), Otter comes off as the guy who you shouldn’t want around. He doesn’t really belong. He isn’t sweet, not even a little. He can just get you laid.\n\nHe’s basically the dodgy dealer character, only what he’s dealing is sex.\n\nIn the context of the film, it’s easy to overlook the fact that all he does is use women. That’s it. It makes one wonder what the character did in the script version before Landis took the misogyny out.", null, "This stunning photo of Karen Allen has nothing to do with this article.\n\nOtter doesn’t get any more character development than anyone else, but look at his key moments: he makes moves on Mandy despite her obvious discomfort; he’s excellent at hitting helmets with golf balls; he fucks Dean Wormer’s wife; he lies to poor Shelly, telling her he was engaged to her deceased roommate Fawn (“Sophomore Dies in Kiln Explosion”) so he can seduce her and then he abandons her and her friends at the Dexter Lake Club where they have to escape dangerous racial tensions on their own. When Babs frames Otter and he is stomped by the Omegas, he doesn’t know why.", null, "That foot is me.\n\nThat’s what he says. Interesting, right?\n\nThat’s what I left the theater thinking about; who are the animals in Animal House? The drunken, irresponsible Deltas? The stuck-up, privileged Omegas? The mafioso mayor and the fascist Dean Wormer (John Vernon! Cast after Landis saw him in The Outlaw Josey Wales saying “Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.“)?\n\nOr is it, really, only Otter who is controlled by his baser instincts?\n\nBecause even though this is a film filled with bouncing bare boobs and sex out the wazoo (plus male flesh, too), it isn’t actually anti-woman, unless you’re watching and wishing you were Otter. Karen Allen’s Katy isn’t a sex object. She’s smart and human and as fully formed a character as any other. Same with 13-year old Clorette DePasto (Sarah Holcomb, actually 18 at the time of filming), who isn’t some innocent corrupted by Pinto and then discarded. She’s more self-aware than he is and more mature as well! Compare that to the roles women get in most of the teen sex comedies that followed… like Caddyshack, also featuring Sarah Holcomb as what? The girlfriend who gets pregnant and never really becomes an important part of the story anyway.", null, "One of these roles is awesome for Sarah Holcomb. The other she gets upstaged by a gopher puppet.\n\nDo I have a point? Well, now that you mention it, not really. I’m just taking this moment to reflect on something odd I’ve noticed about one of my favorite films. Otter is a creep. I’m supposed to like him, but I don’t.\n\nGetting laid is great and all. I’m a fan. But it’s not the point. Pinto wants to marry Clorette. Boone does marry Katy (and, sigh, loses her). Otter becomes a gynecologist. And he probably went on to love films like Superbad and Project X.\n\nI prefer Real Genius and other teen sex comedies in which, sure, boys want to have sex—but they want to have sex with girls they care about. And the girls have a say in the matter.\n\nSo I guess that’s the only point I have. Otter doesn’t really fit in Animal House except that he totally does. Not everything is sweetness. We all knew that guy in college. Maybe we even liked him at the time or pretended to. But then we grew up.\n\nOtter’s not a villain. He’s just not nice.\n\nSo perhaps what’s surprising is not that he’s a creep but that all the other lugs are so likable despite their myriad flaws. I pledge allegiance to the frat, with liberty and justice for all.\n\n* It is only now, writing this, that I recall that for my high school senior photo I actually posed holding a headshot of Belushi with our eyebrows raised in unison." ]

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[ "Study: Meth Use is ‘Skyrocketing’ in WeHo Thanks Largely to Dating Apps", null, "The month of September is recognized as National Recovery Month. The Safe WeHo Community Coalition will discuss the rampant rise in meth use in West Hollywood at its next (virtual) meeting on September 29th, 2021. A WeHo community advocate is also working to shine a light on the dark practice of chemsex and the way its discussed on dating apps like Grindr via a new video interview series by Institute for Public Strategies’ West Hollywood Project, called LA-SOS (Los Angeles Strategies and Solutions) this month.\n\nChemsex is the practice of using certain drugs (meth, GHB, cocaine, MDMA/ecstasy) to enhance sexual experiences. Chemsex is popular among gay men, many of whom use the app Grindr to make connections.\n\n“Grindr is the number one gay dating app, a lot of people use it to make friendships, or form relationships or one night stands”, said Justin Brennan, a 5 year West Hollywood resident who started the community group Get it Together, a community group formed to push for solutions that support the health and well-being of West Hollywood.\n\nTwo academic studies found that men who have sex with men (MSM) use social networking apps like Grindr, Scruff and Jack’d to arrange chemsex parties, acquire or sell drugs, sell sex in exchange for drugs, or to find sexual encounters that involve drugs, usually crystal meth. Research studies also found that MSM reported more use of crystal meth, ecstasy, cocaine and alcohol when meeting on the apps, compared to when meeting in person. As of 2015, men who have sex with men (MSM) used meth at least 4 times more than the general population and 50% of MSM use drugs solely for sexual purposes.\n\n“What I’ve noticed, in the last few years, its more blatant broadcasting of selling or buying or wanting to do meth, and then its like a straight to it approach where we used to say Hi, we used to say How are you. A lot of times its straight to, Hey, do you party? Hey, do you do meth or party and play?” said Brennan via a press release by Public Strategies.\n\nAdditionally, from January 2019 through December 2020, Service Planning Area (SPA) 4 where West Hollywood is located, had the highest accidental drug overdose rate in L.A. County, and the highest rates of meth-related ED visits and hospitalizations of all ages combined. These overdose deaths are primarily attributed to meth. In recent West Hollywood surveys, respondents said “open meth use” at events (74 percent) and in bars and clubs (68 percent) were issues harming the community.\n\n“Meth has always been present on the (Grindr) app,” said Justin Brennan. “I would say in the last 5-6 years it’s become a much heavier presence, a much more aggressive tone and then oddly, with new ownership at Grindr, there doesn’t seem to be any tighter guardrails or boundaries, to combat the prevalence of it, they don’t address the chemsex crisis at all,” said Brennan.\n\nFederal law protects Grindr (and all social networking apps) from liability for any illegal activity that happens on their app. However, several social apps flag accounts and detect potential drug selling drug or other illegal activities like meth use. Brennan would like to see Grindr acknowledge their role in this crisis and focus on new solutions informed by ongoing conversations with all affected communities.\n\n“They are a very successful app that generates close to a 100 million annually, I heard maybe 40 million in profit annually, I don’t know that there is any other corporation this large that makes its money solely from the pockets of the LGBTQ community,” said Brennan. “The questions that need to be asked are what level of responsibility does a corporation have? And how much should they give back to a community that gives so much to them?”\n\n“We work to change public policies, and rely on input from the public to do so. L.A. S-O-S video series helps to bring policy issues to life, by having candid conversations with people who have a direct, personal connection to these issues. These conversations make our project goals much clearer and provide actionable steps for people to take, to help make positive changes in their communities,” said Sarah Blanch, VP for Organizational Development at IPS.\n\nThe interviews are posted on the IPS You Tube pages and on the social media channels of the West Hollywood Project, and its sister program, the Westside Impact Project.\n\nOne of the first things that I learned during family week at Betty Ford, was that an addict will find drugs no matter where they are. Grindr is one of many apps, all who share responsibility in helping the very communities that they serve. How? Put up a link to recovery services. Do a psa available sight wide. Give dollars back to the community, as in sober events, scholarships to recovery facilities, and a good look at some software that might flag particular jargon.\n\nOh my god this study is a republican plot, anti-trans, Trumpian. Lol. Sorry I was channeling my inner Erickson.\n\nThe meth usage may also be increasing due to stress from pandemic and a poor economy due to same. It is awful to go in circles with some guy on Grindr only to have him ask at last “Do you party?” That means he’s a meth addict and it is all he cares about. Also, out of place capital T in their account name means the same. One guy I fooled with last month went to the bathroom and came back with a tourniquet around his arm and injected himself in front of me then bled! I lost my erection… Read more »" ]

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[ "What you need to know about the Basketball Champions League final", null, "It all comes down to this, Virtus Bologna vs Tenerife for one of the biggest prizes in European basketball. Rather than just do a straight preview, Emmet Ryan has a primer for those unfamiliar with the Basketball Champions League (BCL) or indeed the teams\n\nAfter two lopsided encounters in the semi-finals on Friday, both Virtus Bologna and Tenerife should come in fresh for Sunday’s decider in the Sportpaleis in Antwerp. Let’s look at what you need to know.\n\nThe title\nEuropean basketball is, at its best, confusing to the outside eye. Between the spread of national leagues (37 champions alone play in the BCL including its qualifying rounds) and the competition itself is not the first generation of its kind.\n\nRight now, the BCL is the third tier continental competition in Europe after Euroleague and Eurocup. This is FIBA’s top club competition on the continent and certainly has a healthier mix of teams than its immediate predecessors. Those were Eurochallenge (2003-15) and, briefly, FIBA Europe Cup (2015-16). In the case of the latter, it’s more complicated as it was never meant to be FIBA’s top competition but filled a hole as it remodelled the old Eurochallenge. That competition still exists as the fourth and bottom tier of pan-European competition, with the BCL coming in for the 2016-17 season. It’s all very confusing and you can learn a lot more here where you well get even more confused and in our Civil War series which covers a lot of the history but still isn’t close to getting you over the line.\n\nThe important thing to know is that, in terms of direct access, this is the biggest competition any of the teams that want to enter it can win.\n\nIt’s more important than you think\nAs the qualification for this competition is purely merit based, Sunday’s final actually counts for a whole lot more than just the crown for Bologna and Tenerife. Virtus are going to miss the playoffs in Italy, essentially assuring them of missing this competition through direct access. Tenerife are borderline, currently on the outside looking in. Both have one other way of making next year’s BCL: Win this game.\n\nYes, that is Mario Chalmers but…\n…the dude playing for Bologna you want to watch is Kevin Punter. He’s all confidence and has been the guy for Virtus throughout the season. He’s built for big games and is going to be the man setting the tone for the Italian side. Chalmers, despite his tremendous pedigree for this level through two NBA titles and his NCAA success, hasn’t really been a factor since joining the club to much fanfare a couple of months back.\n\nTenerife aren’t here for aesthetics\nThey took the crown in 2017 in front of their home fans and made the locals in Antwerp go home frowning by taking apart the local side. This is a grind out it, defence first, outfit that can make big plays but will be far from giving you highlight reel basketball for the 40 minutes. Their job is to win, not entertain, and they really take that to extremes.\n\nAbout the crowd\nThere were 17,289 people in the Sportpaleis on Friday night. At least 16,000 of them were there purely for the local Antwerp Giants. The Belgian club were the underdogs going into this one having been a Cinderella throughout the campaign, getting this far having entered at the first qualifying round.\n\nFIBA has opted to go with a host team from the Final Four participants in each of its first three seasons. The first two years, it went great. Tenerife filled the barn easily in 2017, and AEK Athens did likewise as they took the crown at home last year. Sunday has about 16,000 questions around its attendance.\n\nThe Giants will play first, tipping off 3 hours before the final in the third place game with Bamberg. That will leave about an hour gap. However many of those fans are bothered hanging about on a Sunday evening, likely a wet one at that, will decide how this place looks for the showpiece event of the season. At 6pm local time, Virtus and Tenerife might well be in front of a couple of thousand people in an arena that is downright cavernous. The capacity is 18.500 and it’s shape means that empty seats will be terribly obvious.\n\nMay 4, 2019Emmet Ryan\nPowered by Sidelines\nShare on FacebookShare on Twitter\nThis post was published on May 4, 2019\nTenerife tame the Giants to progress in AntwerpPunter balls out as Virtus Bologna take BCL title" ]

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[ "HG Wells and Orson Welles on War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane and Hitler - when two great minds met\n\nDespite their somewhat contrasting personalities, the great author and the great auteur got on famously when they met in San Antonio", null, "When HG Wells and Orson Welles finally met, the resulting interview was more a discussion - at times funny and at times poignant - between two great artists and personalities.\n\nThe year was 1940 and Wells, 75 at the time of the October broadcast, was in San Antonio to address the United States Brewers’ Association, while 25-year-old Welles was in town for a \"town hall forum address\".\n\nTwo years earlier, Welles had created a sensation with a radio play adaptation of Wells’s War of the Worlds which, if you believe newspaper reports of the time (which were certainly exaggerated), had listeners running for the hills to flee the Martian invasion.\n\nIn the intervening years began the Second World War .\n\nAn interview on the radio station KTSA featured Wells and Welles in jovial mood, in a conversation littered with laughter, but the shadow of the war hung over it.\n\nWelles raised the fact Hitler had referenced The War of the Worlds when criticising democratic states: “He hadn’t much else to say,” was Wells’s sharp retort.\n\nWells’s wit was a feature of the interview and Welles, never short of a sound bite himself, appreciated his dry delivery.\n\nBut it was not all played for laughs. A discussion about whether the radio play really caused panic or whether it was just people getting into the Halloween spirit was interrupted by Wells.\n\nHG Wells: “You aren’t quite serious in America yet. You haven’t got the war right under your chins and the consequence is that you can still play with ideas of terror and conflict.”\n\nHG Wells: “It’s a natural thing to do until you’re right up against it.”\n\nOrson Welles: “So it ceases to be a game.”\n\nHG Wells: “Then it ceases to be a game.”", null, "It is a fascinating exchange when two mischievous public figures, with Wells taking the lead, take their tongues from their cheeks and are revealed to be, at least on one topic, looking at the world from a similar position.\n\nThe humour does return to the conversation. Welles’s apparent reverence for the predictions and social commentary in Wells’s writings is interrupted by the author who demands he plugs his new film.\n\nThe film would become the touchstone of modern cinema, whose influence is still felt today and whose director spent the rest of his career trying to emulate its artistic success.\n\nOrson Welles: “It’s a new sort of motion picture with a new method of presentation and a few new technical experiments, a few new methods of telling a picture - not only from the point of view of writing but of showing it.”\n\nHG Wells: “If I don’t misunderstand you completely I think there will be a lot of jolly good new noises in it. What do you think?”\n\nOrson Welles: “I hope so. ‘Jolly good new noises’ are what motion pictures could well afford these days.”" ]

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[ "\"The Blues lets me express my feelings through the notes that I play. The Blues is a feeling that allows me to communicate with other musicians and listeners.\"\n\nThe saxophonist Ben \"King\" Perkoff was born in 1953 in Santa Monica, California -what he does with his exceptional feeling for tradition and music makes him THE \"Honker and Shouter\" of Berlin. Either with his own band or other bands: He plays artistically in a very personal manner with distinctive signs of emotion and melancholy, inspired by his strongest influences King Curtis, JR. Walker, Charlie Parker and John Coltrane.", null, "The “King” recorded another CD, “Let’s Stay Together” at the Saloon in San Francisco featuring his uncle Simon Perkoff on keyboards and his cousin Max Perkoff on trombone. The \"King\" recorded a third CD, \"Blue Fun\" with his Berlin band featuring Rudy Stevenson on guitar. Ben \"King\" Perkoff plays his own compositions as well as Blues and Jazz standards. His brilliant playing on tenor, alto and the seldom played sopranino saxophone is complemented by his flute playing. The ancient Rhythm and Blues ritual \"walking the bar\" that Ben \"King\" Perkoff resurrects must be seen as well as heard, and along with the legendary \"Texas Tenor Saxophone\" sound that he plays it is truly an experience.\n\nThe Blues taught me that I have a unique talent and not to ever lose confidence in myself. The Blues lets me express my feelings through the notes that I play. The Blues is a feeling that allows me to communicate with other musicians and listeners.\n\nHow do you describe “King” Perkoff sound and progress, what characterize your music philosophy?\n\nMy sound is what is known as the “Texas Tenor” sax sound. I love the Texas tenor players like King Curtis, Bobby Keys, Wilton Felder and David “Fathead” Newman. My music philosophy is to let every one play as best as they can and let the music go where it wants to, not where I want it to.", null, "\"Jazz and Blues is music from the heart and is played by musicians with heart and soul. As long as people feel this, the music will continue on forever.\"\n\nThe most interesting period for me was when I was first stating to play and discovering how great music is, being able to do something I love and get paid for it! At that time in the Bay Area there was so much music going on and such a great community of musicians.\n\nJazz and Blues is music from the heart and is played by musicians with heart and soul. As long as people feel this, the music will continue on forever.\n\nDo you remember anything funny from Gravenites - Cipollina, Elvin Bishop, and Mike Bloomfield?", null, "Nick Gravenites is a wonderful, funny guy with lots of stories about the musicians so it’s always a blast to listen to him tell us and the audience about what was going down in the 60’s and 70’s. John Cipollina was a very intelligent man and a classically trained musician, always fun to be around. John told me once, “Ben I like you because you play weird”. I take that as a compliment that he meant I don’t play like other people. Mike Bloomfield was very intense and intelligent. He had a T-shirt printed up for the band that said on it- “The Mike Bloomfield Band - We Lives For The Pretty Things” I don’t have my shirt anymore but I do still have a wonderful custom made leather jacket that he gave me! Michael spent a Christmas day with me and my family (my mother Susan, my brother Sasha, my two sisters Rachel and Eva and assorted other hanger ons) on the way to catch a cab after the festivities; he got hit by a car on the corner of Anza and 6th Avenue in San Francisco and suffered a broken leg. I broke my wrist a couple of weeks later and we were playing gigs together looking like a hospital ward! Elvin Bishop loved to hang out with Luther Tucker and sit in with us when I was playing with Luther. He was at about half the gigs and he loved Luther like a brother. One time I was playing at the Boarding House in San Francisco and the line up was Charlie Musslewhite, Elvin Bishop Mark Naftalin and Luther Tucker. I was tying to impress a beautiful female vocalist named Robbie Collins and I took her to the show and told her I would introduce her to Elvin backstage. So Elvin hadn’t yet arrived and we walked into the dressing room and Robbie says, “which one of you is Elvin Bishop? The drummer, Gary Silva, took one look at her and said “I’M ELVIN BISHOP” and we all started cracking up. He kept saying “shit I’ll be Elvin for you!”\n\nOne of the best jams was one time I was playing at the Saloon in North Beach with Eddie Money, Boz Scaggs and Annie Sampson from Stoneground. Another was when I looked up and Jaco Pastorius was standing in front of me and asked if he could play, I said of course and he played Geno Skaggs’ bass and sang “Linda Lou” and took a ripping bass solo that brought the house down! Another time was with the great jazz sax player John Handy and my uncle Si Perkoff on piano in Fairfax, CA.", null, "\"The Blues runs through all of that music so that’s the basis and the connection. The Blues will never die.\" (Photo: Ben with Boz Scaggs at the SF Blues Festival)\n\nThat is an interesting question, but one of the most important meetings was when I met the harmonica player, Mark Adams, who in my opinion is the best living harp player now that Paul Butterfield is gone. I played many gigs with him and learned how to play with a harp and what works well, of course when you are playing with a player of that caliber it makes my job much easier. But through Mark I met and played with Mike Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites which led to other connections and gigs. Thank you Mark! My Uncle Si gave the best musical advice to me, when I first picked up a sax he told me to “learn all of the major scales first”.\n\nAre there any memories from Big Mama Thorton, and Big Joe Turner which you’d like to share with us?\n\nBig Mama and Big Joe were at the tail end of their careers and lives when I played with them but I remember we played a very early morning television program with her called “AM San Francisco” and the hostess of the program asked her where she got this great band, The King Perkoff Band from and Mama says “right here in LA” then the hostess says “ but we’re here in San Francisco now, Mama.\" Mama says “oh yeah I forgot.” She was drinking a lot of gin at that time. Big Joe said on our first gig together, don’t worry about nothin’, King, every song is in the key of C” And they all were except “ Sheik Of Araby” which was in F. By the way Mike Bloomfield was also on that gig with Big Joe.", null, "\"My music philosophy is to let every one play as best as they can and let the music go where it wants to, not where I want it to.\" (Photo: Ben \"King\" and Big Mama Thorton. Photo by Mush Emmons)\n\nWell what I miss is the closeness of the musicians and the community that was present back in my past. The music will live on forever; I’ve no doubt about that!\n\nWhich memory from Paul Butterfield, Luther Tucker, Albert Collins and Little Johnny Taylor makes you smile?\nPaul Butterfield was a genius harmonica player, he changed the course of music. I was playing with him at a real dive bar in San Francisco and he died a couple months later. That makes me sad. But the music we played makes me smile. Luther Tucker was a real gentleman and such a wonderful guitar player. Albert Collins taught me the “snap” handshake where you snap your fingers as you shake someone’s hand. He would try and win the money back he had paid you after the gig by shooting craps. Little Johnny Taylor was actually gay but he had all these women in love with him and they would do anything for him, they would throw undergarments at him on stage-now that’s kind of funny.\n\nWhat are the lines that connect the legacy of Blues with Soul and continue to Jazz and psychedelic music?\n\nThe Blues runs through all of that music so that’s the basis and the connection. The Blues will never die.", null, "\"Well what I miss is the closeness of the musicians and the community that was present back in my past. The music will live on forever; I’ve no doubt about that!\" (Photo: Barry Melton, Maria Muldar, Tony Saunders, John Cipollina, Ben Perkoff at Hooker's Ball in 1978)\n\nFrom the musical point of view what are the differences between European and American music scene?\n\nI’d say the audiences are more knowledgeable but more reserved in Europe, the Americans have more fun as listeners and when you capture an American audience, they give you more back.\n\nI would go back to New Orleans in the early part of the 1900’s –the birthplace of Blues and Jazz!" ]

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[ "In the following list, you’ll find common ways to say goodbye that can be used for almost any occasion. Click to hear the pronunciation of adios.", null, null, "Record yourself saying 'goodbye' in full sentences, then watch yourself and listen.you'll be able to mark your mistakes quite easily. One of the advantages of this word is that you can use it both in formal and informal situations. How to say goodbye in spanish.\n\nUse a phrase with the word hasta. How to say goodbye in english? Let's hear how to pronounce it:\n\nGoodbye summer pronunciation with meanings, synonyms, antonyms, translations, sentences and more which is the right way to pronounce the word voluminous? Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between english and over 100 other languages. Here are 4 tips that should help you perfect your pronunciation of 'goodbye':.\n\nThe spanish word for goodbye is adios. Este debate ha tenido un extraño sabor, por tantos colegas a los que ha habido que despedir y desear fortuna. There are so many ways to say goodbye or hello in any language!\n\nAdios. interested in learning spanish but haven't got the time to take a weekly class? To dismiss, to fire, to see off, to give off) despedir {v.t.} this debate has felt somewhat strange on account of having to say goodbye and good luck to so many colleagues. Whether it's because of a job change or a life event, one feels sad as the ties that bind you are cut.\n\nCommon ways to say goodbye. This is where goodbyes in spanish come in. Break 'goodbye' down into sounds:\n\nAdiós is one of the most standard and common ways to say ‘goodbye’ in spanish. In this free video language lesson, you'll learn how to say and pronounce the spanish word for goodbye: To say goodbye {transitive verb} to say goodbye (also:\n\nDo you know another example that uses goodbye in spanish? √ fast and easy to use. In spanish, hasta means until. there are several phrases using this word that can be used to tell someone goodbye.\n\nThe top choice for saying goodbye in spanish. Pronunciation of goodbye with 2 audio pronunciations. Additionally, it’s very popular in all spanish speaking countries.\n\nLet’s learn some of them! Let us explore the most popular ways to say goodbye in spanish to help you impress some spaniards with your extensive. Depending upon who you are talking to, you can use these phrases appropriately to sound tactful and clever.\n\nPlease tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible). For more information, and to get started using this phrase yourself, watch this helpful video guide for spanish students. Spanish words for goodbye include despedida, parabién, ¡adiós and despedís.", null, "Pin on 2020 Stay At Home for preschooler", null, "Norwegian Translation How to say hello, Say hello in", null, null, "How to agree in Spanish Top 12 ways", null, "Learn Spanish for free with Spanish lessons that cover", null, null, null, "Episode 44 How to Fix the Most Common Spanish" ]

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[ "Last year, while visiting a museum in South Korea, I came upon an ancient bell. The label read “The sound of the chimes symbolizes the sound of truth, which can enlighten all sentient beings” – from the 10th century Goryeo Dynasty. Moved by these words, I felt a deeper significance of ringing bells.\n\nRing Bells for Peace & World without War began in 2007, while organizing Universal Peace Day at The Riverside Church in NYC. I had envisioned ringing bells at the exact moment of the Hiroshima bombing and began the A Peal for Peace Bell\n\nProject. Carol Nixon, Director of Social Justice at the church, embraced the idea and The Riverside Church was the first church and only church to toll its bells at the exact moment of the Hiroshima bombing at 7:15PM on August 5th in NYC (8:15AM on August 6th in Japan).\n\nIn life, one has no idea of where their destiny will lead. It’s hard to believe 31 years ago in 1984, I organized the first Universal Peace. At the time, I was the founder and director of ART FOR THE PEOPLE (AFP), in which artists came together to create art in public spaces. One day an acquaintance asked me to help create a global event that Marilyn Ferguson, the author of “The Aquarium Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time”, was organizing. The name of the event was World War Four (WW4). The concept was to have everyone on your side before you came out fighting. At an upcoming AFP’s Summer Solstice celebration at the World Trade Center, I gave out flyers to meet the following week to plan WW4. To my surprise over 20 people showed up. We were all in agreement that we didn’t liked the name and after much discussion, we decided to rename World War Four to Universal Peace Day. The goal of Universal Peace Day is to commemorate anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing by transforming a remembrance of horror into a re-dedication to life and Peace\n\nThe first UPday was magical. It took place in the Rambles, a secluded place in NYC’s Central Park. Although it was raining, the day began with a sunrise Crystal Meditation, afterwards the crystals were given out to plant around the world as seeds of peace. Throughout the day, artists, performers and poets shared their messages of peace and at 3PM a Native American conducted a ceremony and sun came out. At 7:15PM, the exact moment of the Hiroshima bombing, musicians played as we lit candles for a candle lighting ceremony. Then to everyone’s surprise and delight Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary appeared and sang a medley of songs. It was indeed an extraordinary day.\n\nThis year being a historical year of the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the bombings, let’s remember the devastation of the dropping of the atomic bombs on millions of innocent people – those who died and those who survived – suffering from the aftermath as outcasts and plagued by cancer.\n\nAs quoted by the 10th century Goryeo Dynasty “The sound of the chimes symbolizes the sound of truth, which can enlighten all sentient beings”\n\nMay the sounds of bells resound around the world this year on the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing enlighten and awaken all to World Peace. To find the time in your location go to: http://www.thetimezoneconverter.com\n\nPlease join in ringing bells in this year’s call for Peace & World without War and say: No More Hiroshima! No More Nagasaki! No More War!!!\n\nPlease share where you will be ringing bells, photos and video at: www.facebook.com/ringbells4peace\n\nSu Zen is an fine art photographer, designer, educator and peace activist. In 1984, she organized the first Universal Peace Day, which has become an annual event in New York City and around the world.", null, "I left Silicon Valley and the tech world for something more,...", null, null, "Being Peace in Every Moment", null ]

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[ "Kendra Sunderland, 19, of Corvallis, Oregon, made the video last October for the site MyFreeCams, and in it was seen topless at times and also touching herself, all while students walked around her in the school library, completely unaware of the young woman's video.\n\nAnd while her parents may be upset and the young woman was cited with public indecency, Kendra is hoping the hype around her library escapades is just what she needs to launch a modelling career.", null, null, null, "The idea to start doing videos on MyFreeCams, which features women doing live webcam shows in which they can make money as viewers tip them with virtual tokens they buy from the site, came after Sundelrand could not find a waitressing job near campus.\n\nShe did her first webcam video in October, and in an hour had made $150 - and earned plenty of compliments.\n\n'Working a minimum wage job, there’s people that are just mean to you when they’re having a crappy day,' she told the Daily News.\n\n'On MyFreeCams, [users] had nothing but nice things to say. And I made way more than I would working any other job.'\n\nShe started making videos regularly at her home while her roommates were out, including one in which she had sex with a former boyfriend, and then, at the suggestion of one of the site's users, decided to take her show to a public place.\n\nThat is when she made the library video, which earned her $700 for about an hour, and within a few weeks she had made the decision to drop out of college and focus on making videos for the site.", null, null, "The young woman's parents are 'upset' she says about the video, that saw her touching herself and flashing the camera as unaware students walked around behind her\n\nThen, in January, she was sitting in her room when she began getting a barrage of friend requests from 'frat boys,' and then, after checking the gossip app YikYak, learned that everyone was talking about the 'library girl.'\n\nHer mother also began receiving messages around that time as well, as concerned friends started asking about her daughter, and while there was some relief Sunderland explains when her mother learned she had just filmed a video and had not been hurt, the mother still told her daughter; 'This is just something you can learn a lesson from and move on.'\n\nThat is not what Sunderland intends to do however, a decision that has now made her parents 'upset' she reveals, as the offers are not pouring in for the young woman, and she just completed her first professional photo shoot.\n\nOne thing people will not be seeing Sunderland do anymore however is webcam shows on MyFreeCams - the site has now banned her for violating their guidelines with her library clip.\n\nShe is also banned from the Oregon State campus and last week was arrested and cited with public indecency before being released." ]

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[ null, "BBNaija ‘Shine Ya Eye’ housemate, Princess speaks on breaking up with her boyfriend to date his best friend.\n\nSpeaking with other housemates, Princess narrated how she met her boyfriend’s best friend and became close after realizing that they lived close to one another.\n\n“I met my boyfriend’s best friend in my boyfriend’s pharmacy shop and we exchange numbers. We never knew we were in the same school and a few hotels away. We met in school when we found out and things grew between us” she said.\n\nOn the outcome of the relationship, Princess stated that they eventually broke up, and to date, her boyfriend did not know of their relationship." ]

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[ null, "Indian forces are “maiming, blinding, and killing people” in Kashmir as they continue to defy international norms by using pellet guns as a means of crowd control, global watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday.\n\n“Time and again, Indian law enforcement’s use of [pellet] shotguns in Kashmir has resulted in shocking, grievous injuries of protesters and bystanders,” Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at HRW, said in a statement.\n\nThe weapon causes “indiscriminate and excessive injury” and violates international standards and laws such as the UN’s Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms, the statement said.\n\nThe condemnation came in the wake of intense pellet firing on a procession in Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, last week, which left at least six people with severe injuries.\n\n“Indian leaders who claim that their policies are improving the lives of Kashmiris cannot disregard that security forces are maiming, blinding, and killing people,” read the statement.\n\nHRW said pellets fired from shotguns have caused thousands of injuries, including loss of eyesight, in the decade since Indian authorities first deployed them in the region.\n\n“[…] International law bars any use of force, including against violent protesters, that causes indiscriminate or unnecessary harm,” the HRW statement said.\n\nOver 6,200 people were wounded by pellets – 782 with eye injuries – between July 2016 and February 2017, according to Mehbooba Mufti, former chief minister of the region.\n\n“The Indian government should cease the use of shotguns firing metal pellets and review its crowd control techniques to meet international standards,” the statement concluded." ]

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[ "Another week of the NFL means another shift in our Power Rankings. Good news if your name is Aaron Rodgers or Matt Ryan but not so good if you’re Carson Wentz, Joe Flacco or Jimmy Garoppolo.\n\nAs always, we’ll state the components that influence whether a player will rise or fall in the rankings. Influential factors accounted for are QB passer rating (QBPR) , touchdowns (TD), interceptions (INT) and yardage (yd). The reputation anyone may hold is no longer important.\n\nIt was a tough weekend for Tom Brady as he battled through a finger injury, had to deal with one too many turnovers from his offensive teammates and just couldn’t quite convert on key downs. That being said, he was up against a strong team and still threw for 271 yds with 0 INTs. Perhaps generous to place him back into the top 10. We need more from you, Tom.\n\nJoey B returns to the top 10 after guiding the Bengals to a 27-12 win against the Jets at Metlife Stadium. 275yds, three TDs and that doesn’t include the one to Tee Higgins that was ruled incomplete but looked very much in from the angles seen afterwards. A big Thursday night game awaits versus the Miami Dolphins. Keep your foot on the gas, Mr Burrow.", null, "The Rams defeated divisional rivals Arizona on Sunday, with Stafford putting in a steady performance. Despite not throwing a touchdown himself, Stafford was reliable and generally positive with his reads, completing 72% of his passes and throwing for 249 yards. Yes, he’s up one place this week and he’ll need to improve to stay in the top 10, but for now he’s hanging on by a thread.\n\nThe Rodgers-Brady battle was not a classic but Rodgers certainly came out on top as he led his Packers side to a 14-12 win down in Tampa. With 255 yds and two TDs on Sunday, A-Rod takes his season total to 684 yds, four TDs and a QBPR of 98. Still expecting more as Rodgers continues to adapt to life without Davante Adams.\n\nWell well well, Trevor Lawrence is proving quite the talent isn’t he? The first draft pick in 2021 is starting to look the part as the Jaguars demolished the Chargers 38-10 in their own backyard. In Doug Pederson’s offence Lawrence looks confident and assured, finding open targets and methodically picking apart opposition defences. Boasting 772 yds, six TDs, a QBPR of 103.1 and having only been sacked twice, this Jags offensive is proving to be one of the most productive in the division.\n\nTua Tagovailoa is BALLING. A massive win versus a favoured Buffalo Bills side in the scorching Miami heat on the weekend gives Dolphins fans confidence before they face the Bengals next. The Dolphins only ran 39 plays compared to the Bills’ 90. Tua himself had to be removed from the game temporarily, but while he was present he threw 13 completions for 186 yds and a touchdown. His season total sits at 925 yds, eight TDs and a QBPR of 177.8.\n\nWe said last week that Jalen Hurts is HIM and he’s proving that every time he gets onto the field at the moment. 360 scrimmage yards, three touchdowns and another win for Hurts’ Eagles against the Commanders. He will move into the top three next week if he can guide Philly to a win versus the Jaguars. Your time is coming, Jalen.\n\nPatrick Mahomes slips down two places to third and it wasn’t something we were prepared for. He didn’t look happy as his Chiefs side stalled in Indianapolis. Mahomes still recorded 262 yds and a touchdown but things weren’t clicking as Kansas slumped to a stunning one-point defeat. Not the best day for Patrick but he’ll be back.\n\nIt’s not often you make 42 completions for 400 yds, as well as rushing a further 47, and two touchdowns but still end up on the losing side. Yet somehow, Josh Allen managed to do just that. The video of Offensive Coordinator Ken Dorsey losing his sh*t went viral upon the full-time whistle. It just didn’t go for the Bills this week but Allen’s individual performance sees him keep his place.\n\nWe’ve said it before, we’ll say it again. Lamar Jackson is playing ‘give me big money’ football. Every week his price is going up and the Ravens had better start looking for that chequebook. 325 total scrimmage yards and five touchdowns saw him dominate the Patriots. With 107 rushing yards last weekend, Jackson now has 12 career games with over 100 rushing yards. Can he step up once again when the Ravens face the Bills on Sunday?" ]

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[ null, null, "No matter how many curvy lines or high side profiles or sporty wraparound taillights you put on it, a solid, safe, sturdy station wagon will not appeal to singles or young couples. Wagon shoppers tend to be families looking for a versatile hauler of cargo and people, with a high level of safety and security. But you can't blame Volvo for trying. What was once \"boxy, but safe,\" the 2008 Volvo V70 now boasts sportier, curvier edges and a larger rear \"Volvo\" badge, along with a more-powerful engine than past generations. But the V70 can't hide the fact that it's an upscale, conservative, well-apportioned family wagon with a strong emphasis on crash protection.\n\nThe front-wheel-drive wagon now comes in one trim only and has been redesigned for 2008, resting on a new platform based on the upcoming S80 sedan. This adds a few more inches to the length and headroom, improving passenger room and expanding the cargo area from 33 to 71 cubic feet when the 40/20/40 split-folding rear seats are down. More comfortable seats, a thinner center instrument stack, and an upgraded sound system are some other superficial improvements. Significant improvements focus on safety and power. For the first time, the V70 gets an inline six-cylinder engine, a 3.2-liter, 235-hp one that delivers 236 ft-lbs of torque at lower RPMs than previous versions. It's matched to a six-speed manumatic and hits 0-60 in around eight seconds. It's nothing to take onto the track, but it is more powerful than previous models.\n\nSafety is number one with the 2008 Volvo V70, and it earns five stars consistently in crash tests. Along with standard ABS brakes, dual front and side curtain airbags for both rows, traction and stability control, and backup sensors, the 2008 version has beefed up its whiplash-protection system, strengthened body parts for more durability, increased side impact protection, and lengthened the side curtain airbags. A new addition is adjustable integrated booster seats. The seat height can be lowered or raised, depending on the size and weight of the child. Other optional safety features include adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, and collision warning. Despite the pretension of trying to \"sport\" things up, Volvo knows its audience, and its safety technology keeps families foremost in mind.\n\nInterior comfort is also a Volvo hallmark, and the 2008 V70 comes standard with full power features, a 6-CD player, MP3 compatibility, leather trim, cruise control, a trip computer, and an 8-way power driver's seat with memory settings. The cargo area features hooks, a track system, and a cargo net, and can be outfitted with a sliding floor and a power liftgate. The increased power and less-conservative styling may broaden the V70 wagon's appeal, but it's the long list of safety equipment and reputation for reliability that will maintain popularity with its loyal fan base.\n\nWhat's the problem? I try to start it and it doesn't click on but the interior lights did?\n\nLooking For A Low Mileage V70\n\nI would like to replace my 2001 V70 with another similar but later year manufacture with low mileage.. either 2007 or 2008. Car must have MANUAL TRANSMISSION and an integrated roof rack." ]

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[ null, "On 20, 21 and 22 October 2021, the BeSecure-FeelSecure (BSFS) project participated in the annual international conference “Security, Democracy & Cities 2021” in Nice, France. The conference, which brought together more than 700 participants from 26 countries and 140 cities, was organized by the BSFS project partner “European Forum for Urban Security – Efus“.\n\nDuring the three-day conference, the project partners along with the BSFS UIA Expert had the opportunity to connect with a wide and active audience and converse on issues of crime prevention, social cohesion, participation and other urban security topics and to also interact with the BSFS stand visitors.\n\nThe project partners highlighted the innovation of the project through a series of presentations, sessions and speeches.\n\nMore specifically, on October 20th, the consortium participated in a working session with the other two Urban Innovative Actions (UIA) European projects on Urban Security (SURE, Finland & To-Nite, Italy).\n\nThe meeting was attended by representatives of the European Commission who were briefed on the progress of the projects.\n\nOn October 21st, associate professor Angelos Mimis from the Laboratory of Urban Criminology of Panteion University participated in the panel of speakers of the workshop: “Know your problem to solve your problem: innovative tools and methods to address urban security challenges” where he presented the statistical analysis of the diagnostic victimization and safety research based on the data received by the citizens of Piraeus.\n\nThe BSFS technical manager Mr. Marios Zacharias from Space Hellas presented the “Collaborative Urban Risk Management – CURiM” methodology for the collection and analysis of crime-related data stressing out among others:\n\n“Collaborative urban risk management is enabled with the use of the CURiM platform for the urban authority and with the CURiM mobile app for the citizens. The platform helps the urban authority operators gain information from heterogeneous sources and perform customized urban security analyses. On the other hand, the mobile app enables the citizens to create ad-hoc social networks in Piraeus where they can share their security perception and actively collaborate in terms of urban security at neighborhood level”.\n\nThe BSFS project was presented at the parallel session “EU funding opportunities for local & regional authorities” as a best practice case study, where its innovative character was highlighted as it lies in a holistic approach providing a framework that focuses on both crime prevention and the improvement of the actual and perceived security.\n\nDuring the day, the project partners visited the Centre for Urban Supervision (CSU) in the city of Nice (Video Surveillance Systems) and the shelter for victims “Maison pour l’Accueil des Victimes”\n\nOn the last day of the conference, the Deputy Mayor of the Municipal Police and chairwoman of the Local Council for Crime Prevention (LCCP) of the Municipality of Piraeus, Mrs. Kyriaki Bourdakou, represented the city of Piraeus at the workshop “The challenge of promoting safe & sustainable urban tourism”.\n\nThe Deputy Mayor had also the opportunity to talk on the side of the conference with the Vice President of the European Commission for the Promotion of the European Way of life Mr. Margaritis Schoinas.\n\nElected officials and representatives of organizations from France, Greece, Portugal and Spain shared their expertise and discussed the European policies on tourism safety.\n\nThe Deputy Mayor, as one of the key speakers of the panel, stressed among others:\n\n“Piraeus is one of the largest cities in Greece with significant traffic in terms of trade and tourism. Thus, urban security has become one of the priorities of the municipal authority. A touristic city, regardless of its size or type of tourism, must consider security as a major concern in its development strategy.\n\nThus, we must link sustainable & responsible tourism to ensure the security of tourists and citizens. The reputation of the city for both locals and visitors is of a great importance. A safe city for citizens is also a safe destination for tourists.\n\nThe context in which we must immerse ourselves is the creation of a brand city, a city where sustainable tourism development and economically sustainable tourism go beyond the traditional forms of leisure travel and aim at promoting and highlighting the cultural elements and the common values ​​of the place.\n\nLocal authorities are the fundamental factor in ensuring the safety of both citizens and visitors. That is why we should rise to the challenge by utilizing not only central funding but also EU funding opportunities.”" ]

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[ "Download the Greentrax full colour catalogue (pdf) which lists most of our available recordings. Visit Greentrax.com for releases over the past year.", null, "Matt Tighe was born in South London, with a London and Trinidadian background. He first discovered his love of traditional music and the fiddle listening to his parents' album collection: The Chieftains and Tom McConville & Pauline Cato in particular made a lasting impression. After attending Cambridge Folk Festival and listening to traditional music live, he decided to learn the fiddle in earnest. Eight years on he is an active member of the folk scene in the UK, playing at festivals, clubs and in sessions on a regular basis.\n\nMatt has been a finalist in the Danny Kyle Open Stage at Celtic Connections and a semi-finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards. His style of playing is influenced by Irish and Scottish. In recording his debut album at Watercolour Studios he was accompanied by some fine session musicians, including Tad Sargent (bouzouki etc), Chris O'Malley (piano), James Lindsay (double bass), Luke Daniels (melodeon) and Brian McNeill (concertina) who also produced the album. This is a stunning and enjoyable debut album by a real talent and Brian McNeill is greatly impressed by Matt.\n\nAvailable for pre-order now - we can despatch this title to you in advance of the official release date of 3rd September.", null, "25 tracks: Take Me Back To The Jungle * With Fire and With Sword * Tony Capaldi * Cead Mile Failte * The Little Carpenter * The Wurrum and The Sparra * Hi Jack * Life is a Fountain * Have a Banana * The Man They Could Not Hang * Tell Me What The Tea Leaves Tell Me * On The Beach at Portobello * The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede (Bonus Track) * Tinny Can On My Tail * The Gay Liberation * I've Packed Up My Bags * Skull and Crossbones * Lady Chat * Wi' Jimmy Reid and Airlie * Troubled Waters in My Soul * Yes, Yes, U.C.S. * In A Neat Little Town * Rich Man's Paradise * Get Up, Get Out * Ibrox Disaster\n\nThis compilation album by Matt McGinn was first released on licence by Greentrax Recordings in 2003 and having recently negotiated an extension of the licence with Sony Music we are pleased to re-release the album on this, the 40th Anniversary of Matt's death.\n\nThe humour, uncanny perceptiveness and rare talents of Matt McGinn made him a household name in Scotland and in folk circles throughout the world. He was a native of Gallowgate, one of Glasgow's less affluent areas, a bizarre part of the old town in whose tenement closes and back courts grew the seeds of his music, poetry, social observations and unique humour. In the early 1950s Matt's determination, natural gifts and vision made him a prominent figure in the contemporary Glasgow folk movement. His reputation spread to America where in 1962 he sang in a Carnegie Hall concert with Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger. Matt went on to be regarded as one of Britain's most powerful folk writers, with over 500 songs to his credit, and as a performer of his inimitably potent songs he became one of Scotland's leading folksingers.\n\nAvailable for pre-order now - we can despatch this title to you in advance of the official release date of 3rd August.", null, "Ian Bruce and Ian Walker are well known singers and songwriters in their own right, and were in fact a hardworking duo some years back, but then decided to go their own solo ways. Recently the duo re-formed under the name Bruce & Walker and have been gigging around Scotland and beyond, causing quite a buzz along the way with a mix of their old and new songs.\n\nThis release consists of a DVD and CD combination set: the DVD, which was filmed before invited friends in the informal surroundings of Ian McCalman's Kevock Digital Studio in Lasswade, includes songs from their older repertoire. There is also a guest appearance by Fraser Bruce who sings The Grey Funnel Line and The Hills Of Isle Au Haut.", null, "These albums of Scottish music aim to provide a wild and wicked soundtrack for New Year celebrations, wherever you may be. They're meant for fun and not directed at the traditionalist, although we feel sure many of that ilk may well enjoy this unusual and unorthodox approach to the music!\n\nDouble CD - £8.99 or FREE with any two or more other CDs in your order (box sets excluded).\n\nThis special projects selection includes tracks from albums which were later featured in sell-out concerts at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow, as well as other albums which were actually recorded there and at other venues." ]

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[ null, null, "Audi announced the production version of the all-electric sports sedan on Tuesday with impressive performance specs.\n\nThe sleek 4-door shares its platform and technology with the Porsche Taycan and a similar competitor to its VW Group-owned cousin, along with the Tesla Model S.", null, "The e-tron GT comes standard with an all-wheel-drive powertrain rated at 469 HP that can provide 522 HP in 2 and a half second bursts of acceleration. A higher-performance RS e-tron GT is also available with 590/637 HP that can go to 60 MPH in 3.1 seconds and reach an electronically-limited top speed of 155 MPH.\n\nThe e-Tron GT comes standard with an adjustable air suspension system that can raise or lower the vehicle and a four-wheel steering system to improve maneuverability and handling is available and standard on the RS.\n\nBoth use a 93.4 kWh lithium-ion battery pack that goes 238 miles per charge in the regular GT and 232 miles in the RS and have the capability of being recharged to 80 percent in 22 and a half minutes at one of the most powerful public 270 kW DC fast-charging stations. Both ranges are better than the Taycan’s best, but lag behind the Model S, which can go 390-412 miles per charge, depending on the trim.", null, "When they go on sale this summer, prices for the e-tron GT will start at $100,945 and $140,945 for the RS model. Audi currently has available the electric e-tron SUV and e-tron Sportback SUV and sold a combined 7,202 last year." ]

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[ "WordPress Error establishing a database connection is frequently faced problem. In our previous guides, we pointed to properly configure my.cnf, that is adding [mysqld_safe] stanza at the end of my.cnf file with socket, PID. For newer versions of MYSQL, we written guide for Percona MySQL to auto-restart. Newer Ubuntu, Debian installations do not automatically create the required debian-sys-maint user for restart. In that installation guide, we tried address it. However, still MySQL may fail to auto restart after a crash! Here is one fallback way to autostart MySQL after a crash.", null, "Autostart MySQL After a Crash : Reasons of Failure\n\nUnfortunately, MySQL may start to fail depending on the error the crash happened!. In the above paragraph, we described one type of errors in configuration and absense of the required user to execute the work.\n\nCorrupt MySQL binary can cause the MySQL server to fail. Ownership and permissions of the MySQL files such as binaries, logs may get itself changed during a version upgrade, which may lead to errors. The /tmp directory should be checked for permission, space. Lack of disk space, not enough memory may fail the automatic restart process. A badly coded WordPress plugin may create odd situation. Self hosted analytics plugins may invite trouble.\n\nAutostart MySQL After a Crash : Fallback Bash Script and Cron\n\nDepending upon your situation, a fallback bash script and cron job to execute the script may act as additional layer for peace when chance to manually check the site too longer! You’ll notice during upgrades that Percona identifies ownself as :\n\nThat often create confusion during complete removal (for re-installation). However, general purpose command :\n\n… works for all kind of MySQL forks. Compare the difference after running the above and below commands :\n\nThis symlink to MySQL’s init script in the /etc/rc2.d directory. The S script under the default runlevel directory for the service, init will start the service when the server will be rebooted. Manual reboot of server from mobile devices can be an emergency life-saver in acute emergencies.\n\nThe number beside the username is PID. mysqld_safe and mysqld. mysqld_safe has process IDs 29795 and 30182 respectively. We can kill them to emulate crash :\n\nYou’ll get MySQL is stopped.. message. Of course you can get rid of test crash to normal situation by the command :\n\nYou can check by running :\n\nNow if we create a bash script named safe.sh kept on my GitHub repo and then make it executable :\n\nThen, executing the script should restart MySQL after simulating crash :\n\nIt will brutally start MySQL. If a service does not exist, we can start by adding and entry on cron (sudo crontab -e), like for example service named nothing.service (it is every minute checking for example) :\n\nInstead of nothing.service, using mysql.service should start MySQL. Easy way to remember cron :\n\nIf that normal restart fails then try that bash script :\n\nIf the /bin/systemctl status mysql.service || logic fails then you need another bash script to curl, cut, grep “eroor database” like keyword from home page and fire it. Now various methods will be timed in a way that no method keeps server down for more than 30 minutes." ]

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[ "Hernandez gets 25 to life in prison\n\n(CNN)The bodega clerk founded guilty for the 1979 murder of New York first-grader Etan Patz was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years to life in jail.\n\nPedro Hernandez, 56, was founded guilty of kidnapping and murder in February , almost 40 years after the 6-year-old vanished on May 25, 1979.\n\nEtan left the home of stroll to a school bus stop and was not seen once again. In the early 1980s, his picture appeared on milk containers throughout the nation, the very first time the technique was utilized to aim to find missing kids.\n\nThe young boy’s moms and dads believed they would never ever discover exactly what took place to their kid, Stan Patz, Etan’s daddy, stated in a press conference on Tuesday.\n\n“Now I understand exactly what the face of wicked appear like and he’s lastly founded guilty,” Patz stated.\n\nHernandez was formerly pursued the exact same charges in 2015, however was spared a conviction when an only holdout on the jury led the judge to state a mistrial .\n\n“We, as New Yorkers and as a neighborhood of households all over the United States, were likewise altered permanently. Through this absolutely dreadful and agonizing real-life story, we pertained to recognize how quickly our kids might vanish, ripped far from us right in our own areas” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. stated in a declaration.\n\nHernandez did not end up being a suspect up until 2012. He admitted to cops after authorities questioned him on an idea they got about the murder.\n\nIn a shop basement, district attorneys stated, Hernandez choked the kid to death and put his body in a plastic trash can that he hid inside a cardboard box.\n\nHernandez, then a teen, ultimately left package with other garbage in a street more than a block from the shop.\n\nHis attorneys stated he comprised his account of the criminal offense due to the fact that of serious mental disorder. Hernandez has actually been detected with schizotypal character condition, among a group of conditions informally considered “eccentric conditions.”\n\nDefense lawyer Harvey Fishbein has actually long kept his customer has an “IQ in the borderline-to-mild psychological retardation variety” that made him vulnerable to an incorrect confession.", null, "Etan’s remains have actually never ever been recuperated.\n\nSince their boy’s disappearance, the Patzes have actually worked to keep the case alive and to develop awareness of missing out on kids in the United States.\n\nMay 25, the anniversary of Etan’s disappearance, is kept in mind as National Missing Children’s Day.\n\n“The kidnapping … awakened the country to kid kidnapping and assisted alter the method police examines these criminal activities,” stated John F. Clark, CEO and president of The National Center for Missing &&Exploited Children.\n\n“NCMEC is here today– and America’s kids are much safer– due to the fact that of Etan and other kids whose killings and kidnappings introduced a nationwide motion.”\n\nThe news market was broadening to cable tv, and sweet pictures of kids appeared in addition to troubled moms and dads asking for their safe return. The worry increasing throughout the country triggered awareness and triggered modification from authorities and political leaders.\n\nIn 1984, Congress passed the Missing Children’s Assistance Act, which caused the production of the National Center for Missing &&Exploited Children.\n\nPresident Ronald Reagan opened the center in a White House event in 1984. It quickly started running a 24-hour toll-free hot line through which callers might report details about missing out on ladies and kids." ]

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[ null, "Some Somali wild asses are solitary and others live in herds that can have up to 50 members. And mothers stay with their dependent foals.\n(Image: © Marshall and Saint Louis Zoo.)\n\nFive thousand years ago, in North Africa, humans formed an alliance with the wild ancestors of the donkey, twice.\n\nThis was no insignificant feat; domestication of the donkey's ancestors helped these ancient cattle herders become more mobile and adapt as the Sahara Desert expanded. Donkeys also expanded over-land trade and contributed to the growth in the early Egypt state.\n\nNew research answers, and raises, questions about who these wild animals were and how humans brought them into the fold.\n\nModern donkeys can be divided into two, genetically distinct groups, leading scientists to believe that they have two ancestors, which were believed to be the Somali wild ass and the Nubian wild ass, both subspecies of the African wild ass.\n\nIn new research, scientists analyzed mitochondrial DNA, or that contained in the energy-producing centers of cells, taken from archeological sites, museum collections and live animals.\n\nTheir results showed that the Somali wild ass, or a close relative of this subspecies, was not one of the two ancestors. It is possible this unknown ancestor came from an extinct population of wild ass or from another region, the researchers suggest.\n\nThe more telling finding came when researchers confirmed that the Nubian wild ass was indeed the ancestor of one of the donkey groups. As part of their genetic analysis, the team found evidence that humans domesticated Nubian wild asses multiple times, and that all the while, these future donkeys continued interbreeding with their wild relatives.\n\nThe findings also suggest donkey domestication took place in Africa, far from the Fertile Crescent, where most animals were once believed to be domesticated.\n\n\"That is why our paper is so important. It shows not only did domestication happen in Africa, it wasn't a one-off thing, it happened over a period of time,\" said study researcher Connie J. Mulligan, a molecular anthropologist at the University of Florida. \"There was local knowledge about how to do this.\"\n\nSmall numbers of the Somali subspecies live in zoos and wildlife preserves , and about 600 still live in the wild in Eritrea and Ethiopia.\n\nHowever, the Nubian wild ass was last seen in the Red Sea Hills of Sudan in the late 20th century, and may recently have become extinct. One of the study researchers, Albano Beja-Pereira, a biologist at the University of Porto, Portugal, found evidence of its continued existence in the mid-1990s.\n\nGenetic research done as part of this study confirmed that the samples he collected did indeed come from the Nubian wild ass, according to Mulligan.\n\nThe findings were reported in the June issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B." ]

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[ "The BBC will cut almost 400 posts in its international service\n\nWith fine vacuum cleaner – oil bath brakes on board: The cleanest car in the world", null, "At least 27 Rohingya are missing after their boat sank on Saturday (August 14th) as they tried to flee a refugee camp criticized by human rights NGOs on a Bangladeshi island, authorities said.\n\nNearly 20,000 Rohingya have been displaced to Bhashan Char Island, which is hit hard by cyclones roaring in the Bay of Bengal each year. Ultimately, Bangladesh wants to settle 100,000 of the million Rohingya refugees on its soil, most of them in crowded camps on the continent. Some Rohingya complain that they have been forcibly displaced on the island. Thousands of them demonstrated in June against the living conditions.\n\nAfter the sinking on Saturday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said it was “Worried about reports that refugees have been arrested and imprisoned for trying to leave Bhashan Char”.\n\nPolice said the small fishing boat sank with 41 Rohingyas on board after encountering rough seas in the Bay of Bengal near the island. Fourteen people were rescued. Research continues to try to find the missing. “Navy boats and a helicopter also joined in the search”Bhashan Char official administrator Sujit Kumar Chanda told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Women and children are among the missing, he said.\n\n“Life there is horrible”\n\nBangladesh started moving refugees to the controversial camp on the island in November, explaining that camps in the south-east of the country were overcrowded.\n\nHundreds of Rohingya have fled the island in recent months and have been arrested in coastal villages in the Chittagong region, police said.\n\nFor Abdur Rahim, 27, who fled Bhashan Char several months ago, it is the lack of work on the island that drives the Rohingya to escape. “Life there is horrible. It is impossible to see relatives. It’s as if they put us in prison without giving us any opportunity ”, denounced the young man.\n\nAmnesty International has called for Bangladesh “Ensure that all travel on the island is voluntary” and that the refugees have “The right to freedom of movement between the island and the mainland, where many of them have their families and relatives”.\n\nArticle reserved for our subscribers Read also “We applied the order to kill everyone, children or adults”: two ex-Burmese soldiers recount the massacre of the Rohingya" ]

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[ null, "Vishwanathan, a Kathak dance teacher in New York, is in a rather happy marriage with Nirupama who is a nuclear oncologist... (148 mins.)\n\n“ Vishwaroopam (titled Vishwaroop in Hindi) is a 2013 Tamil spy thriller film written, directed and co-produced by Kamal Haasan who also enacts the lead role. The film has Rahul Bose, Shekhar Kapur, Pooja Kumar, Andrea Jeremiah and Jaideep Ahlawat in supporting roles. Produced simultaneously as a bilingual in Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi and dubbed into Telugu language as Viswaroopam, the film features soundtrack composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, with lyrics by Vairamuthu and Haasan himself in while Javed Akhtar translated them for the Hindi version. This is the blockbuster movie of 2013 ” - balag70\n\nA mysterious man along with a young computer hacker tries to unveil a major government conspiracy which resulted in several bloody deaths. (157 mins.)\n\n“ Arrambam (English: Beginning) is a 2013 Indian Tamil action thriller film directed by Vishnuvardhan. Produced by A. Raghuram and co-written by Subha, the film features Ajith Kumar, Arya, Nayantara and Taapsee Pannu in lead roles. While the score and soundtrack of the film were composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja, the cinematography was handled by Om Prakash and editing by A. Sreekar Prasad. ” - balag70\n\nNewlyweds who hate each other come to terms with each other and their past. (160 mins.)\n\n“ Raja Rani (English: King, Queen) is a 2013 Tamil romantic comedy film directed by debutant Atlee, who previously worked with Shankar as an assistant in Enthiran (2010) and Nanban (2012). Produced by AR Murugadoss and Fox Star Studios, [2] the film features Arya and Nayantara in the lead roles while Jai, Nazriya Nazim, Santhanam and Sathyaraj appear in supporting roles.[3] The film released worldwide on 27 September 2013, [4] to generally positive reviews from critics.[5] Telugu dubbed version is also titled as Raja Rani and was released on March 14, 2014. ” - balag70\n\nA tough cop performs an undercover operation and identifies some nefarious activities in the seas around the coastal town. (166 mins.)\n\n“ Singam II is a 2013 Tamil action-masala film written and directed by Hari.[5] A sequel to the successful 2010 film Singam, the film stars Suriya who reprises his title role along with Anushka Shetty, Hansika Motwani, Vivek and Santhanam in supporting roles. Produced by S. Lakshman Kumar, it has music and background score by Devi Sri Prasad. The film was released on 5 July 2013 along with a Telugu dubbed version titled Yamudu II to mixed reviews.[3][6] A Hindi version entitled Main Hoon Surya Singham II released later on 2 August. ” - balag70\n\n“ Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam (English: Carefree Youth Association) is a 2013 Tamil romantic comedy film directed by Ponram, a former assistant of directors M. Rajesh and S. A. Chandrasekhar.[2][3] It stars Sivakarthikeyan, Sathyaraj and Sri Divya.[4][5] The film was produced by Escape Artist Motion Pictures and has music by D. Imman. Rajesh wrote the dialogues for the film.[6] It was filmed in Perambalur, Theni, Tiruchi and Chennai.[4] The film released on 6 September 2013 and received positive reviews from critics and became a blockbuster at the box office. ” - balag70\n\n“ Kanna Laddu Thinna Aasaiya (English: Darling, Would You Like To Eat a Laddu?) is a 2013 Indian Tamil comedy film directed by Manikandan. It stars Santhanam, Srinivasan, Sethu and Vishakha Singh.[2] The film marked Santhanam's venture into film production with his Handmade Films. The film was co-produced by Rama Narayanan while S. Thaman scored the film soundtrack.[3] The plot revolves around three friends who fall for the same girl, who has just moved into their neighborhood ” - balag70" ]

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[ null, "Now that Donald Trump is down and almost out, our major media news organizations seem to have finally acknowledged that nothing that comes out of his mouth can be trusted. They no longer consider him credible — not only about the election results, but also about the pandemic and its devastating economic consequences. His astonishing lack of empathy is now accepted as a given, as is the fact that he is exclusively interested in himself.\n\nBut what of Mitch McConnell? Yes, after six weeks, the Senate majority leader finally acknowledged the results of the election. But is what he is saying about the pandemic and the economy any more credible than what Trump is saying? Are his utterly transparent motives any less venal?\n\nAnd unlike Trump, McConnell really matters right now. After singlehandedly holding up a second stimulus package for seven agonizing months (the House passed a big one in May) McConnell is suddenly responding to political expediency (Republican Senate races in Georgia upon which his hold on power depends) by allowing a vote on a wildly meager one.\n\nIt’s not Trump who is holding the country hostage to his whims any more, it’s McConnell. (Well, it’s always been McConnell, right behind him, backing him up every step of the way.)\n\nBut the press coverage?\n\nThe press coverage is everything that’s wrong with modern political journalism.\n\nRather than “take sides,” elite political reporters are focusing their attention on the game-playing, and presumptively afford both sides equal amounts of credibility regardless of the reality or the history. The “problem” is not caused by anyone or anything in particular, it is simply “dysfunction.” And the only thing that matters is movement.\n\nMost of the articles about the stimulus, for instance, shed no light on how we got to such a sorry state of affairs, who’s responsible, what is actually needed or what the bill actually does. It’s a whole lot of both-sides stenography, murmurs about compromise, and speculation about what yard-line we’re on.\n\n“Congressional leaders try to clear final hurdles in sprint to finish coronavirus relief package,” says the Washington Post headline. “Final stretch on COVID-19 economic relief, but no deal yet,” says the Associated Press. The fine folks at Politico call it “the latest evidence Washington is broken: at the peak of the worst public health crisis in a century, the White House and Congress are struggling to deliver another round of relief.” On NPR, when Scott Simon asked senior political editor Ron Elving why the relief bill was taking so long, Elving replied: “I still can’t give you a reason, Scott, other than gridlock politics.” As time goes by, he said, “that just makes both sides a little less reasonable.”\n\nAmazingly, it doesn’t even seem to matter to congressional reporters that McConnell has provided no cogent argument for why he’s blocking desperately needed aid. He doesn’t need to explain! It’s just taken as a given. As I wrote last week, the absolutely unparalleled, truly radical obstructionism by McConnell and his caucus has become normalized – even internalized – by the congressional press corps.\n\nIt’s not that reporters don’t know better. It’s just that whatever the facts are, they continue to shoehorn them into the age-old congressional reporting tropes about both sides slogging it out to the finish line.\n\nThe enabling by congressional Republicans of Trump’s four year reign of malign, anti-democratic incompetence goes unmentioned. This is the party that literally has no platform other than whatever-Trump-says. These are the members of Congress who lied about the “middle class tax cut” and defended Trump during the impeachment trial, against all evidence. Just two weeks ago, only 27 congressional Republicans were willing to admit to the Washington Post Biden had won. And even now, McConnell is trying to avoid a congressional vote to overturn the election results not because it’s ridiculous, but because if some members voted for reality it would infuriate Trump.\n\nWhat political reporters need to do is shift some of their toxicity from Trump to McConnell and the party he now effectively leads. He’s not as public or impulsive as Trump. But he’s equally devoted to spreading misinformation. And while he is not as personally narcissistic as Trump, he is equally single-minded and devoted to a personal goal that has nothing to do with governing well: In McConnell’s case, as has been amply documented, that goal is keeping the money flowing in order to take and retain power for the Republican Party.\n\nHe is as shameless as Trump in projecting his own conduct onto the opposition. He declared on Sept. 30 that “The American people are still hurting. Layoffs are still mounting. Families need more help and the healthcare fight needs more resources. One side voted to supply all that help. The other side decided to block it.” He declared on Dec. 9 that “we can’t do a thing unless the Democrats decide they want to make law.”\n\nHis level of cynicism is almost hard to believe. As Timothy Noah wrote for the New Republic:\n\nMeanwhile, a framework that McConnell proposed on December 1…. consisted mostly of business subsidies—including, in a nice touch of self-parody, an expansion of the business-meal deduction to 100 percent, up from the Cares Act’s already hard-to-defend increase to 50 percent in March. Before Covid-19, the so-called three-martini-lunch deduction was 30 percent.\n\nAt no point has McConnell made any secret of what his true intentions are. From the get-go, the only issue that has animated him has been his demand to protect companies from liability for infecting workers and customers. He warned of a “second pandemic” of “lawsuits against doctors, nurses, hospitals and brave business people who are opening up” – although that pandemic is entirely mythical.\n\nHis real goal has been obvious to anyone paying attention. Amee Vanderpool, who writes the “Shero” newsletter, explained What McConnell’s Corporate Immunity Really Means:\n\nAt the center of the McConnell induced stalemate is the concept of granting corporations total immunity from civil and criminal liability, even if they recklessly endanger consumers and workers during the pandemic. This would mean that no employee or consumer could sue a business for any intentional or negligent harm caused, even in the most egregious of cases. This is a protective shield, being pushed in Congress by corporate lobbyists, who are committed to ensuring the cash flow for corporate business at any cost, including ensuring that Mitch McConnell is richly rewarded in exchange for selling out America.\n\n“In most areas of public policy, there are groups that advocate for certain reforms,” he said. “Then they wait around for some crisis to come along where they can present their reform as a solution to the problem of the day.” With just such a crisis at hand, representatives for the hospital and nursing home industries have lobbied hard for liability protections at the state and federal level.\n\nSen. Sheldon Whitehouse offered his own answer to Jones’s question on Twitter:\n\nThe Answer: Because the interests who fund his politics are obsessed w avoiding courtrooms — discovery, oaths/perjury, no lobbying. They love rigged games. https://t.co/oJHVDRcjor\n\nThe reality is that Republicans seem to be trying not to let a good pandemic go to waste by achieving long-held goals of insulating businesses from liability for their own carelessness. They are risking public health to do it. Congress shouldn’t let them.\n\nIn an outlier story from a major news organization, Sarah D. Wire and Jie Jenny Zou of the Los Angeles Times did an admirable job of describing how it might affect the public:\n\nBut despite the centrality of liability to the entire drama, most mainstream media news articles about the stimulus negotiations barely even mention liability, and when they do, employ dry, utterly non-descriptive language.\n\nDemocrats were so overwhelmingly opposed to McConnell’s liability provisions that he simply blocked any movement on the stimulus bill at all for over half the year — until he realized that the two Georgia Republicans were “getting hammered” on the lack of federal aid. Then, rather than give up, he split off liability and the element of the stimulus he despises the most – relief to struggling state and local governments – into a separate bill to be considered later.\n\nThe need for a second stimulus has been manifestly urgent since the House passed its bill in May, but media interest while McConnell balked was minimal. It picked up in some places as a deadline approached, but even then, the broadcast networks weren’t interested. As Media Matter for America reported on Dec. 15:\n\nWhen network broadcast news has covered relief negotiations, they don't mention that Senate Republicans had months to pass the multi trillion-dollar HEROES Act, which would provide more comprehensive relief than the current bill … 2/https://t.co/45OsNqPo9F\n\nAnd they pretty much ignored the liability issue:\n\nWhen the networks got the chance to interrogate lawmakers, they questioned only Democrats, rather than members of the party insisting billions of dollars be put toward protecting businesses from being sued for mishandling the pandemic.\n\nAndy Slavitt, who ran the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under Barack Obama, laid out the compelling anti-McConnell argument in a tweetstorm in early December. It went in part:\n\nCongress has broken the most significant compact with the public in my lifetime…..\n\nIn failing us, the Congress has helped turn the country against one another. Has made us more cynical in our politics. Less trusting of our government.\n\nNone of those things strike me as things that bother Mitch McConnell in the least.\n\nEven some Never-Trump Republicans have realized that McConnell is the big problem going forward. It was funny to watch New York Times columnist David Brooks the other day start by complaining that the legislative branch is so broken “it can’t address even our most glaring problems,” but ultimately find himself forced to admit it is McConnell who broke it.\n\nIt’s long past time for the Washington press corps to stop covering up for McConnell. But it’s particularly urgent now.", null ]

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[ "Damaging correlation around variety to distance starting Xp, crossing that the boundary that is pseudoautosomal.\n\nDamaging correlation around variety to distance starting Xp, crossing that the boundary that is pseudoautosomal.\n\nTheir writers declare that all the information essential for confirming their conclusions displayed in this essay is represented fully in the posting. All the codes utilized for this particular undertaking are found at https: //github.com/WilsonSayresLab/PARdiversity.\n\nIndividual X-linked nucleot We noticeWe your was nucleot which uncorrected variety looks 3 x atcreasing as part of PAR1 compared to your nonPARs, while uncorrected variety inside PAR2 is certainly not greatly higher then inside which inside nonPARs ( dining dining Table one, Figure one, as well as Figure three). People examined noncoding areas throughout the intact X chromosome, filtering down annotated genes, to attenuate the end result concerning range, still offered his or her limited sizes, we’re able to perhaps not filter areas not even close to genes into the PARs or perhaps XTR (read content plus ways). Ampliconic areas (Mueller et al. The year the year the year 2013; Nam et al. 2015), along with areas of minimum variety which can be anticipated to come with intense selective sweeps (Dutheil et al. 2015), in addition had been filtered down, what yielded your equivalent outcome ( dining Table S4). But mutation-rate variation over the X chromosome may possibly account fully for adjustable quantities of diversity noticed in each PARs as well as nonPARs. We normalized that the nucleotide variety towards right of mutation speed making use of pairwise divergence in between people and many assorted types: panTro4, rheMac3, canFam3, then mm10 ( dining dining Table one plus Figure S6). Whenever we normalized among panTro4, each big difference inside variety in between PAR1 then nonPARs had not been important following filtering from regions that are ampliconic low-diversity areas, therefore the “not relevant” (NA) values. This may be a results of big variation at divergence around elements of your X chromosome anywhere between people as well as chimpanzees, possibly because of speciation that is complex (Patterson et al. 2006). With all this trend, people concentrate your interpretations regarding data which were normalized the use of divergence that is human-macaque. Just like the uncorrected variety values, whenever we proper of mutation rates utilizing macaque divergence values, people notice greater nucleotide variety throughout people inside PAR1 to PAR2 in accordance with your nonPARs, using variety to be notably greater in PAR1 compared to nonPARs (using XTR gotten rid of) rather than greatly separate in between PAR2 to nonPARs (Figure one, Figure three, to dining dining Table one).\n\nVariety over the X chromosome divide through area. Hereditary variety (calculated by just ?) was displayed as part of field plots depicting that the diversity that is average mistake pubs when it comes to nonPARs, PAR1, XTR, and also PAR2. Your P-values off your permutation testing alongside 10,000 replicates comparing that the variety of every area towards variety for the nonPARs are definitely displayed.\n\nCuriously, human-chimpanzee plus human-macaque divergence are definitely really full of PAR1 general to your nonPARs pert a pattern that will not mirror variety (Figure one as well as dining dining Table one). Our outcome, predominantly, is because of extreme interspecies divergence inside PAR1 then close to the PAR boundary (Figure S3 then Figure S4). But human-dog divergence approximately parallels uncorrected diversity that is humanFigure one). Alignments between your human as well as the computer computer mouse inside PAR1 are definitely unavailable.\n\nBeyond, somewhat elevated variety at PAR1 in accordance with that the nonPARs can’t be attributed entirely inside variation that is mutation-rate that the X chromosome as the pattern continues to be once modification for the divergence at every area (Figure one then Table one). That pattern people seen are in keeping with some processes, incorporating selection relieving variation considerably in connected web internet web sites within the nonPARs compared to PAR1 because of lower prices to recombination into the nonPARs related towards the PARs or perhoneps due to more powerful move into the nonPARs as a consequence of a lesser population size that is effective.\n\nThat individuals try not to notice somewhat elevated variety at PAR2 general towards the nonPARs is actually in keeping at reports which PAR2 undergoes X-Y recombination not so often versus PAR1 (Flaquer et al. 2008) to aids assertions it in people just one chiasma per chromosome is required for the best segregation in place of 1 for each chromosome supply (Fledel-Alon et al. 2009).\n\nCuriously, as well as elevated prices to variety into the formerly characterized PAR1 to PAR2, people additionally seen your variety ended up being notably increasing into the present XTR than in your nonPARs ( dining dining dining Table one plus Figure three). Your improved variety is not caused by mismapping between your X and also Y chromosome considering people sole analyzed those with couple X chromosomes (witness components to ways). Higher variety inside XTR contrasts using first recommendations that there surely is little X-Y recombination inside XTR (Skaletsky et al. 2003) and is in keeping with current states concerning X-Y recombination in a few human being populations at this particular area (Veerappa et al. The year the year the year 2013).\n\nBecause of the big measurements of that the nonPARs therefore the smaller sized concerning their XTR, five Mb (Ross et al. 2005), it’s possible to ponder regardless of whether eliminating the XTR will mthe bestke a huge difference inside calculated amounts of diversity throughout the individual X chromosome. Each natural variety associated with the nonPARs such as the XTR, measured when ?, are 0.000602, although the raw variety regarding the nonPARs not including that XTR looks 0.000595 ( dining dining dining Table one). Elimination of that the XTR can reduce quotes to both of the variety as well as divergence into the nonPARs. Even though the XTR de facto might be gotten rid of along with other filters, you should be aware to incorporate XTR areas due to the fact his or her addition as part of research to X-specific variety will certainly impact inferences manufactured when you compare X-linked plus variation that is autosomalKeinan plus Reich 2010; Gottipati et al. 2011a; Wilson Sayres et al. 2014; Arbiza", null ]

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[ "The Suicide Squad and Altered Carbon actor Joel Kinnaman recently claimed that he has filed a restraining order against a former romantic partner who has been threatening him and his family.", null, "Kinnaman announced to his Instagram that he filed for a restraining order against Swedish model Gabriella Magnusson who goes by the name of Bella Davis.\n\nThe actor wrote, “Earlier this morning, I filed for a restraining order against a woman who has been threatening to physically harm me and my family and loved ones, and attempting to extort money and other things of value from me.”", null, "Kinnaman then claimed Magnusson has been threatening him daily. He revealed, “While it is mortifying and scary to come forward about all of this, what feels worse is enduring the escalating daily threats of physical harm to me and my loved ones and threats to go the press with fabricated, vile rumors.”\n\nAs for the demands Magnusson allegedly made, Kinnaman claims they included, “money, Hollywood connections, helping to secure a work visa, a verified Instagram page, a Wikipedia page, a photoshoot with Sports Illustrated, an additional $400,000 USD for an apartment and more.”", null, "Kinnaman does admit that Magnusson and he were romantically involved back in 2018. He stated, “In late 2018, when I was single, I had a brief romantical relationship with a woman named Gabriella Magnusson, a Swedish model who goes by the name of Bella Davis.”\n\n“The next day she texted me that she was bothered that I had not asked her to spend the night and that I did not check with her to make sure she made it home safely,” he continued.", null, "Based on Kinnaman’s details, it appears they did not have contact until 2019. He detailed in his Instagram post, “In 2019 and 2020, Bella resumed contact with me asking to meet up and sending sexually explicit content, but I was in a relationship at this point, so I did not respond.”\n\n“Given her increasingly obsessive communications, I felt it was best to cut off all communication with her. But Bella continued to try to communicate with me – texting and calling from other people’s phones – and these communications became more and more antagonistic, threatening, and frightening over time.”\n\nKinnaman then went on to reiterate that Magnusson began threatening him. He stated, “Recently, Bella resorted to threatening to publicize false information about me – including that I had sex with her against her will – unless I capitulated to her demands.”", null, "He then detailed that he had a recorded phone conversation with the model where she admits to having consensual sex with the actor.\n\nKinnaman wrote, “Hoping to resolve this situation, on July 25, I had a lengthy telephone conversation with Bella, which she knew was being recorded, In that taped conversation, Bella more than once acknowledged that the sex was consensual.”\n\nIn that same conversation, she reiterated her threat to tell the media that it was was against her will unless I met her demands. At one point, she stated, ‘Do you know how much money I would get and how famous I would be if I went to the press?'”", null, "The Suicide Squad actor then stated, “Since then, her threats of violence against me and my loved ones have become so serious and specific that I felt I had not choice but to seek a restraining order.”\n\n“I want to be VERY clear so there is no misunderstanding: I stand by all victims of sexual assault. That is not what occurred here. This was consensual sex. And now it is an attempt to extort,” he declared.", null, "Kinnaman concluded, “More importantly – this is a threat to the safety of my family and loved ones, which will always be my top priority.”\n\nDavis responded to Kinnaman’s claim on Instagram claiming that Kinnaman raped her twice. In one post she wrote, “Joelkinnaman raped me twice and they try to silent me.”\n\nShe then claims that Kinnaman’s manager Orlando John “was aggressive and OFFER me and nda I (NEVER SIGN) to be silent so good luck with all the lies.”\n\n“Stand for what u did joel ue even cried on phone begging me to not tell anyone last week,” she added.\n\nIn another post Magnusson shared alleged messages between her and Kinnaman and wrote, “We see in court joel Kinnaman I know u like young girls but stop get them drunk and rape them that’s all.’\n\nShe followed that up with more alleged messages between her and Kinnaman and wrote, “Yea Joel Kinnaman Im sure Im the one that wanted to hang and u know what u did why else Did u wanted to zoom call last week and have ur agent come to my city? U crazy !!”\n\nWhat do you make of Kinnaman’s claims and Magnusson’s counter claim?" ]

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[ null, "Every region of the United States was affected.\n\nIf your internet has been acting up all day, don’t worry, you’re not alone.\n\nThe outage report service Down Detector shows that a number of internet service providers (ISPs) all appear to have been hit with outages across the U.S. Graphs with the number of incoming reports spiked this afternoon for dozens of services and companies, including Comcast, Facebook, Spectrum, Twitter, Google, AT&T, and Verizon, among others.\n\nSome of the entries, especially those for games including Overwatch, Destiny, and Call of Duty, or social services like Twitter and Facebook, could be attributed to widespread problems with ISPs, like Spectrum or Comcast.\n\nMost concerning is the timing of these reports. Almost all major internet providers in the U.S. ran into problems around 1pm ET, though it appears Comcast was hit the hardest, with more than 10,000 reports filed in a 60-minute span. Some users reported intermittent or slow services while others were simply unable to connect.\n\nIt appears the problems may have stemmed from Level 3, the third largest fiber-optics supplier in the country that provides internet to major ISPs in 46 U.S. states. Any issues Level 3 faced with its network infrastructure could have trickled down to the providers who use that equipment. If so, there would be nothing a customer could do on their end to fix the problem. Level 3 declined to comment on whether its issues affected other ISPs.\n\nLevel 3 confirmed that its network was back up at 3:27pm ET today, around 90 minutes after it started seeing issues.\n\nInternet issues should now be resolved for almost all customers. We apologize for the inconvenience & thank you for your patience.\n\nThe incident caused outrage on social media, with support pages getting bombarded by questions from furious customers. Others simply struggled to live an internet-free afternoon.\n\njust spent 45 mins on the phone with Comcast and they said there’s a national internet outage lolz wat pic.twitter.com/M7Ylz0yU4C\n\nThe Great Internet Outage of 2017 is even more pressing when your office runs 95% of its business in Google Drive.\n\nI guess there was an internet outage on my last day off. I was forced outside. 🙁🙁🙁 pic.twitter.com/TEjXRYnsXG\n\nThe outage appears to be nearing its end (as of 4:20pm ET), but we’ll keep an eye on things and update this article if more issues arise." ]

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[ null, "Soulful. Vibey. A bit Seductive. These are the three words JJack would use to describe his upcoming EP, “Under The Covers,” coming out October 7th. The EP is filled with sensual R&B songs, many of which are putting a new spin on familiar sounds. EP features four covers of hits like Chris Brown’s “Sex Memories,” Lucky Daye’s “Misunderstood,” TEMS’ “Higher,” and Eric Bellinger’s “Only You.” Under those covers–hence the clever name of the EP–are two original JJack tracks titled “Only Us” and “For Me.”\n\nThe EP is the culmination of a period of “redevelopment” for JJack as an artist. Fans will hear this creative artist deliver from his heart. Working on a craft is difficult as we can get in our heads sometimes and find the right moment. However, JJack is ready to release new music that he has been working on and let everyone know, now is his moment.", null, "“I’ve been going through a redevelopment stage in my artistry. That’s literally what I’ve been doing this entire year. And it’s crazy that the year is almost over. It seems like it just started, but I have been redeveloping my brand, my vocals, my style, everything, this entire year,” JJack said. “And now that we’re in the fourth quarter, I’m ready now to actually show my fans and supporters and everyone else what I’ve been doing.”\n\nThis rebranding involved technical things like creating a new slick, eye-catching logo and re-uploading music on YouTube. But the most important factor in JJack’s development was his collaboration with other talented artists who further influenced and refined his musical style. Namely, JJack collaborated with songwriter Edsel Alexander, otherwise known as TreAce, when developing “Under the Covers.” His influence on JJack’s creative process can be heard on the EP.", null, "“Me linking up with Tre, that was my first time collaborating with a songwriter. I’ve always written my own songs,” JJack said. “My style is I would listen to the beat. I would just get on my mic and mumble a lot, literally just mumble, and then I would get that melody. And then I would try to put words on top of it and just drag it down. And that’s how I write my songs. However, Tre actually does the melodies, but instead of recording the words on top of them, he writes them down and then records them. He gave me more pointers on how I could better my writing style. It’s actually been easier.”\n\nHe didn’t just learn from other artists in the recording studio. JJack learned from famous vocalist Stevie Mackey during an online vocal class. Not only did he learn from Mackey, but he got tips from other singers in the course.\n\nThis era of redevelopment is reflected in the way JJack “revamped” some of his old songs for the EP." ]

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[ null, "The Libyan parliament’s session on August 30 for withdrawing confidence from the government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh was marred by divergent points of view among the MPs.\n\nThe same divergence is seen as a threat to the political process in Libya, raising fears about the ability of the Libyans to achieve peace in the coming period.\n\nA short time before the session took place, Prime Minister Dbeibeh sent a letter to Parliament Speaker, Aguila Saleh, in which he asked him to clarify the points the MPs would raise with his government.\n\nHe asked for this clarification so that his government would be ready to respond to the MPs questions.\n\nHowever, this caused the parliament to delay its session.\n\nThe parliament announced the postponement of the session on withdrawing confidence from the Dbeibeh government.\n\nIt said it would reschedule the same session for next week. However, it did not specify a day for the session.\n\nThe parliament spokesman attributed the postponement of the session to the desire of the government to be clarified on the points that would be discussed during the session.\n\nSaleh threatened earlier that the parliament would withdraw confidence from the government if the members of the government did not attend the session.\n\nNevertheless, some MPs were furious at the government.\n\nMP Ali al-Takbali said the government planned not to attend the session, especially after Prime Minister Dbeibeh accused the MPs of serving their own interests only.\n\n“The parliament only exercised its right to examine the budget,” al-Takbali said.\n\n“The prime minister refused, however, to amend the budget more than one time before,” he added." ]

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[ "SnowsBest\nHome The latest International Lindsey Vonn first woman to ski the Streif, and does it at...", null, "Lindsey Vonn made history this week when she became the first woman to ski the famous Streif racecourse in Kitzbuehl, Austria, home to the famed Hahnankamm ski race.\n\nDid we mention she did it at night? Yep, another first.\n\nVonn borrowed the skis from US star Ryan Cochran-Siegle and had them prepared by her former service man Heinz Hämmerle. Hitting speeds of more than 100km/h at night added further drama to an already intense occasion.\n\nShe prepared intensely in preparation to push herself to the limits once again despite the severe knee injuries suffered in a career that brought Olympic gold, 82 World Cup victories and saw her crowned a multiple World Champion.\n\nThe Streif is considered the greatest challenge on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup and it is a race Vonn could never compete in due to only men’s downhill races being held in Kitzbühel.\n\n“Only when you ski the Streif are you a real downhiller. The Streif is the pinnacle of all downhills, the most difficult course in the world. Nobody believed I could do it,” said Vonn of the Red Bull opportunity.\n\n“After all my injuries, to now get the once-in-a-lifetime chance to kick out of the starting gate here and fulfil my dream is incredible.", null, "“I’ve always had respect for the men that raced down the Streif, but I have even more respect now, because it’s one thing to go down it and another thing to ski to win; and now I can fully understand what that means. It has given me greater perspective how truly amazing these men are.”\n\nVonn had not raced a downhill course in four years but pushed out of the start gate and entered the notorious Mausefalle (Mousetrap), with an 85% gradient.\n\n“I felt like I was jumping over the edge of the world. I don’t think I’ve ever been so nervous before a start in my life. I’m a thrill seeker. I’m an adrenaline junkie, and I love pushing myself to the absolute limit; being on the verge of being scared. I live for a challenge like this,” said Vonn." ]

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[ null, "DRAGON AGE: ABSOLUTION ON NETFLIX IN DECEMBER 2022, TEASER AND POSTER\n\nNetflix and Bioware have announced the series Dragon Age: Absolution which will arrive on the platform in December 2022.\n\nThe news confirmed the rumors that had spread among gamers about the development, by Netflix , of an animated series based on Dragon Age .\n\nHere is the teaser trailer and poster:\n\nThe video opens with a shot of two kingdoms: one nestled at the base of a mountain and a second built on top of a cliff. In the center of the plot is a gold ring in the shape of a dragon. (Attentive viewers will also see the ring in the logo at the end of the clip).\n\nThere is a group of heroes, made up of human warriors, elves and Qunari, who use their skill with swords and spells to fight the dark forces.\n\nMairghread Scott covers the role of showrunner. Created in collaboration with BioWare , the series is produced by Red Dog Culture House ." ]

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[ null, "The COVID 19 pandemic has had a crippling effect on business the world over. But, the hardest hit is the Tourism, Aviation, Entertainment and the Sports Industry. Here there is no scope of clicking away on the laptop sitting in the comfort of one’s home.\n\nToday it is more than 100 days since no games have been played in the US due to the lockdown. Although the clubs and sports associations are contemplating starting the playing season, the question is whether there would be fans watching the game. The empty seats in the stadium would mean loss of revenue. The Kansas City has thousands of fans to watch these sports games.\n\nThe opening day of Major Leagues Baseball in Kansas City was postponed and the new date is nowhere in sight. Initially it was expected that stay-at-home would last till the end of April, but even today the picture is not much different. CDC’s recommendation at the end of March stated that the organizers should postpone or cancel events with 50 or more people. The MLB and Major Leagues Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) had been discussing how to handle the situation. Plans are being discussed to allow players, who have undergone COVID-19 tests and are not found positive to play the game in their home ground. However, it was also suggested that the games would be played without fans.\n\nThe issue of resumption of the games is also hitting roadblocks, as the parties concerned are unable to come to a mutually amicable decision regarding sharing of revenues. In March, an agreement was reached that the players would be paid their full salary only if the game is played in front of the fans. In case the situation did not change there would be a separate agreement. As per a statement issued by the MLB a few days ago, that although they had made three proposals for resumption of play, which would resolve the issue and will benefit players, clubs and the fans, MLBPA is not ready to negotiate. However, MLBPA took up a position that even if the games resumed without any fans, the entire revenue generated during the 2020 season would have to be paid to the players. MLB has stated that they will reconsider the union’s terms and then decide when and how to open the games.\n\nAs reported in the Kansas City Business Journal, MLB has informed recently that some major league players and coaches have tested COVID 19 positive and has expressed concerns regarding starting the season although an agreement with unions may be in sight. MLB has informed that they want to finish off the season by September 27, as there is a fear that a second wave of the virus could affect the game’s postseason. However, the Association wants to play as many games as possible during the season, but MLB considers this unsafe and unviable. In view of the anticipated surge in the virus spread.\n\nIt is not known when the games will actually be played, but even if it is played the stands will remain empty. This translates to a huge loss in secondary ticketing market\n\nTicketIQ, the online ticketing portal, has come up with a calculation showing the loss in revenue for the MLB teams during the 2020 season. As per their estimate, losing 40 home games, the 30 teams stand to lose $2.5 billion in ticket sales only. Losing 40 home games would mean a loss of $52.61 million for the Kansas City Royals.\n\nThe combined effect on the other sporting activities shows the severity of the impact. ESPN Sports has reported that if the games are resumed and played without fans there could be a loss of revenue to the tune of $3 billion, which means $100 million per team. The estimated revenue loss during 2020 as projected by TicketIQ for all sports leagues combined is more than $17 billion, including NCAA Tournament and college football.\n\nThe loss estimates are calculated by multiplying the total number of seats in a stadium with the average value of a secondary market ticket and the number of games played. However, this estimate is rather on the higher side.\n\nTicketIQ has further given a break up of how different games could suffer loss due to games without fans. It shows that NFL games could lose $4.7 billion, MLB could lose $5 billion, NBA’s losses could amount to more than $1.6 billion, the projected losses for NHL may cross $1.1 billion and there could be a loss of $640 million to Major League Soccer.\n\nTicketIQ has also projected a total loss of $397,733,161 on loss in ticket sales in the secondary market in Kansas City if the fans stay away from the games. The break up is as follows:\n\nAs per TicketIQ’s baseball blog, 28 games of Kansas City Royals alone were postponed during May averaging an attendance of 18,267. The resulting loss in the secondary ticketing market was estimated to be $36,826,272 (average ticket cost $72).\n\nThe figures are quite significant and it is certain to have a longstanding effect on sporting activities. The owners of some of the teams have engaged the players in providing community service. The new owner of Royals has launched Royal Respond which also funds non-profit organizations in the Kansas City area to provide assistance to those affected by the corona virus crisis.\n\nThe management states that although playing games is the team’s main objective, at this time of crisis working for the greater good of the community is one of their priorities." ]

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[ "China and Australia's relationship is souring but not weakening\n\nNatasha Kassam is a Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute and a former Australian diplomat.\n\nFirst, China's ambassador to Australia floated the possibility of a consumer boycott in response to Australia's call for an independent investigation into the COVID-19 outbreak. In mid-May, China threatened tariffs on Australian barley, following an 18-month investigation that claimed Australia violated World Trade Organization rules. And after these threats, it imposed an actual ban on some Australian meat producers.\n\nWhat started as a diplomatic spat between Australia and China is looking like a trade war. It remains unclear whether China's moves represent a newfound willingness to incur costs for political reasons or if these are a warning to convince Australia to toe the political line.\n\nBut one of the unforeseen consequences of several years of difficulties in the bilateral relationship is that a new resilience has emerged.\n\nAustralia has been here before. Similar short-term slowdowns have hurt Australian exports in the past: coal and wine have been delayed or slowed at various entry points into China. China is more likely to threaten Australian goods and services which are cheap for Chinese buyers to substitute but expensive for Australian sellers to redirect to other markets. Finding alternative suppliers for iron ore is a challenge; tourism and higher education less so.", null, "The tertiary education sector is watching this trade spat unfold with anxiety: having likely lost billions in revenue through COVID-19, the prospect of Chinese students not returning to Australia may deal some institutions a fatal blow.\n\nAs much as Beijing would prefer that Canberra did not release public statements on the situation in Xinjiang, where more than a million people are detained in \"re-education\" camps, or the prolonged detention of Australian citizen Yang Hengjun on charges of espionage, its complaints have not appeared to shift Australia's position.\n\nAustralia has tried to separate the recent economic issues from its call for an investigation into COVID-19. \"An investigation around the handling of COVID-19 has no relationship whatsoever to Australian exports of beef or barley,\" said Australia's Trade Minister, Simon Birmingham.\n\nChina is Australia's largest trading partner by a significant margin. Previous chills in the bilateral relationship have not prevented the dramatic expansion of two-way trade: 21% year-on-year growth in 2018-19, for example.\n\nBut even before Australia's calls for a COVID-19 investigation, public opinion in Australia toward China had been on a downward trajectory: only 32% trust China to \"act responsibly in the world,\" a 20 percentage point decline from 2018, and three-quarters wanted Australia to be less economically dependent on China.\n\nIn recent months, Beijing has sought to focus on its successes in virus management and its so-called mask diplomacy, but Australians remain unconvinced, perhaps thinking more about China's early mismanagement and cover-up of the crisis.\n\nSome level of decoupling was already underway before COVID-19, for example Australia's decision to exclude Huawei Technologies from its fifth-generation, or 5G, wireless network. More decoupling in particular industries may come in limited areas as Australia considers sovereign manufacturing in critical areas.\n\nBut as much as Australians want to reduce economic interdependence with China, the global economic downturn limits both the will and ability to drive such a difficult policy shift. With China edging back toward normal life, and still the globe's largest consumer market, few political leaders and consumers will be in a position to consciously avoid China's market.\n\nDespite recent animosity, the pathway to recovery suggests that Australia and China's economic interdependence may only grow in the coming period -- even though their citizens will not like it.\n\nToday, Australia and China are two of the few countries in the world that are reopening their economies having got the COVID-19 pandemic under control. For the anxious tertiary education sector, Chinese students looking for English-language education post-COVID have few options outside of Australia and New Zealand, as the U.S. and U.K. struggle with the virus.\n\nChina's threats and thinly veiled economic coercion will accelerate the souring of Australian views toward China. But disputes in the past have not dampened demand, nor convinced the Australian government to take a softer line on human rights or national security issues.\n\nThe two countries are inevitably major elements of each other's economic recovery. Politics is unlikely to change that." ]

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[ "An analysis of the origins of the twentieth century magazines\n\nUncategorized Tags In An analysis of construction services of branford llc the section Ship Design Analysis we will examine what A comparison of two romeo and juliet adaptations spacecraft warships will need, what they won't need, and what sort of tasks they will likely Analysis of the hunger games be required to. An An analysis of the battle of the bluge analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense intuitive linear view. Pierrot an analysis of the origins of the twentieth century magazines French pronunciation: Pie can be closed, a research on knighthood open, small, large, savory or an analysis of bandura and social learning theory sweet.\n\nWhat determines men's and women's roles and positions within families? Family and kinship institutions are everywhere crucial to the status of women and men and to their cultural identities.\n\nWomen and men have strong and lasting relationships as spouses, as parents and children, and as brothers and sisters.\n\nKinship rules define relationships at birth while marriage creates bonds between adults and often kinship groups. Family structures vary considerably, but commonly involve living together, pooling of resources, and interests bonded through a shared fate. That such links between women and men can coexist with severe gender inequality is analytically challenging.\n\nNot surprisingly, a lot of theoretical and empirical work has sought to disentangle and explain these relationships.\n\nAnalytical Task 1 The analytical problem. A issue surrounding analyses of gender and families concerns a distinction between two kinds of causes. The first kind are the limitations of the larger social environment, in terms of the opportunities, responsibilities, and obstructions facing women and men.\n\nThe second are the ways that women and men make choices. We want to consider how these two kinds of causes might interact.\n\nOne way to think through the implications of such potentially complex causal interactions is to to examine the possibilities using very simple models. To do this, we will focus on critical moving parts and limit the possible variation in them.\n\nIn this case, we can identify three primary social characteristics. A simplified model for analysis. So, for our simplified model, let us consider some basic assumptions: Assume that all men have opportunities for decent jobs and wish to have them.The Century Magazine was first published in the United States in by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Association.\n\nIt was the successor of Scribner's Monthly Magazine and ceased publication in Source Analysis How useful is this source to an Historian studying the nature of Imperialism in the Early Twentieth Century? The definition of Imperialism according to ashio-midori.com is- the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.\n\nHistory of publishing - Magazine publishing: Though there may have been published material similar to a magazine in antiquity, especially perhaps in China, the magazine as it is now known began only after the invention of printing in the West.\n\nARCHITECTURE. 1 The Gothic Cathedral: Origins of Gothic Architecture and the Medieval Concept of Order. The Gothic Cathedral is the most stimulating and comprehensive work on the subject to date If the cathedrals are to be understood, Mr von Simson rightly declares, they must be seen not in the light of twentieth-century esthetic observation, but of twelfth-century religious experience.", null, "The Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century by National Review. The best non-fiction books of all time judged by a panel of historians, authors, publishers, and experts for the National Review Magazine. An analysis of the origins of the twentieth century magazines Published March 30, | By Smashing and Macromolecular Setting analysis on joseph conrads heart of darkness Chip pity their explosion of chemistry or woods in a mannerist manner." ]

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[ null, "Drawing on its economic strength and a Communist Party of China apparatus that is geared towards strategically building stocks of influence across the globe, Beijing’s efforts are bound to be much more consequential in the medium to long term than those of the Kremlin. Nowhere is the gap between the scale of China’s efforts and public awareness of the problem larger than in Europe. EU member states urgently need to devise a strategy to counter China’s authoritarian advance.", null, "The next US ambassador to Australia has condemned China’s foreign influence operations and told Congress America would rely on Australia to help uphold the international rules-based system in the Asia-Pacific, The Guardian reports:\n\nIn an excoriating assessment of China’s increasingly muscular posture in the region, Harry Harris said Beijing’s “intent is crystal clear” to dominate the South China Sea and that its military might could soon rival American power “across almost every domain”….. “China’s intent is crystal clear. We ignore it at our peril,” he said. “I’m concerned China will now work to undermine the international rules-based order.”\n\n“Australia is one of the keys to a rules-based international order,” Harris said.\n\nTo the extent China tries to extend control over inflows of information — including by seeking to curtail critical content in scholarly journals from the West that circulate in Chinese academia — or tries ham-handedly to promote its own narrative in the Western media, it is hurting its own cause, analyst Nathan Gardels writes for The World Post, a partnership of the Berggruen Institute and The Washington Post:\n\nAs Thomas Kellogg writes, such an effort has already been saddled [in a report from the National Endowment for Democracy] with a pejorative moniker — “sharp power.” Yet, there is an important distinction between China and Russia’s efforts to manipulate public opinion. Russia is trying to sow division and discord in the Western body politic to undermine the democratic discourse; China is clumsily trying to control its own image in the West.\n\nChina has become much more confident in presenting its economic and political model as a “better alternative” to liberal democracy, said Jan Gaspers, head of the European China Policy Unit at the Berlin-based Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS).\n\n“China’s rapidly increasing political influencing efforts in Europe and the self-confident promotion of its authoritarian ideals pose a significant challenge to liberal democracy as well as Europe’s values and interests,” the report said.\n\nA New Zealand academic who made international waves researching China’s international influence campaigns has linked a number of recent break-ins to her work, reports suggest:\n\n“I had a break-in in my office last December. I received a warning letter, this week, that I was about to be attacked. And yesterday I had a break-in at my house,” she said.\n\n“China hasn’t had to pressure New Zealand to accept China’s soft power activities and political influence. The New Zealand government has actively courted it,” Brady found in a recent paper.\n\nTo generate soft power, China will likely deploy narratives tailored to the specific perceptions of target audiences, notes Matej Šimalčík, a research fellow at Institute of Asian Studies, an international relations think tank based in Bratislava, Slovakia. This does not mean that any Chinese investment should be rejected as potentially threatening, he writes for the East Asia Forum:\n\nTurning the Belt and Road Initiative into a security issue would be detrimental, as it would most likely lead to the rejection of projects and investments that could be beneficial for all the parties involved. Nevertheless, both Slovakia and the Czech Republic need to engage in a constructive public debate on the nature and goals of their relationship with China. Media analysis shows that this debate is non-existent in Slovakia and thoroughly politicised in the Czech Republic. Without this debate, two fundamental questions will go unanswered: what are the countries’ respective interests regarding China, and what are the acceptable costs for achieving these goals?\n\nThe article was produced as part of the ChinfluenCE project, and with the financial support of the National Endowment for Democracy, the Washington-based democracy assistance group.\n\n“An idea as big as China’s ‘Belt and Road’ is bound to have contradictions. As Chinese President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy vision, it is massive in all dimensions, aiming to bind Beijing with the rest of the world through more than $1 trillion of new infrastructure, scores of trade agreements and countless other connections,” he writes from Tashkurgan, a Chinese town on the Pakistan border.\n\n“But there is a fundamental tension between the connectivity China says it seeks and the control it is unwilling to give up,” says Hillman, referring to the massive presence of anti-terror security forces and imposing police outposts across Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim Uyghur towns and cities. “Even as China claims to be championing globalization and broadening ties, it is clamping down in critical borderlands that Belt and Road routes would pass through, potentially crippling its own projects,” concludes Hillman." ]

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[ "1. Don’t Get Stoned Again! A Stone in Genesis", null, "The title of this article could mean a lot of things. Some might think it’s a warning about using drugs (but it’s not). Others might catch the wordplay on the song, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” (The Who, 1971). But to ancient Israel, those words had a different meaning. They would have evoked thoughts about capital punishment. Stoning was lawfully imposed for specific offenses (sins) in Israel, and it was done with the intent to kill the person. If anyone escaped death, the words, “don’t get stoned again” would have conveyed a message of admonition to “go and sin no more.”\n\nAnother Use of Stones\n\nThis is the first in a series of articles that will be a study of significant stones in the Bible. We’ll “journey” through the Bible and “pick up” stones as we go. Instead of stones to be used as a weapon of judgment and punishment, our “stones” will be stones of instruction. The “stones” will “speak” to us (Remember Jesus said (in John 19:40) that the stones could cry out.) We’ll listen to what the stones have to “say” and we’ll learn some valuable lesson as we gather “stones” to create a stone memorial to the Lord.\n\nThroughout the Bible, God used stones in special ways to grow His people in relationship with Him. Our first stone is found in Genesis. It is the first mention of a stone in the Bible. It is a precious onyx stone, pure, and perfect, found in the Garden of Eden that God had prepared for and given to man.\n\nGenesis 2:12 And the gold of that land [Havilah, a land in Eden] is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.\n\nWhat Color is Onyx?\n\nOnyx is a banded variety of the oxide mineral chalcedony. Agate and onyx are both varieties of layered chalcedony that differ only in the form of the bands: agate has curved bands and onyx has parallel bands. The colors of its bands range from white to almost every color (save some shades, such as purple or blue). Commonly, specimens of onyx contain bands of black and/or white. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx)\n\nSo what color was the onyx stones on the High Priest’s ephod? Was it black? Black would represent sin. White? White would be symbolic of righteousness. Could the stone have been bands of black and white, representing both sin and righteousness in believers? Or was it another color?\n\nThe answer is, we don’t know what color the onyx stones on the ephod were, but we do know the color of another stone in the New Testament.\n\nA Stone with a Name\n\nIt is a white stone that Jesus promised in His letter to the church at Pergamos, and, just as the onyx stones on the shoulders of the High Priest bore the names of the twelve tribes, Jesus spoke of this white stone on which the names of overcomers will be written.\n\nRevelation 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.\n\nNow understand that we don’t exactly know the significance of the white stone upon which a new name is written, but we do have records of ancient Israel’s use of white stones that might give us a clue\n\nJust as Joshua did as he was commanded to do, and set up a memorial of whitewashed stones (Josh 8:30-35), we also will gather “stones” (from the Bible) to create a memorial. Our stone memorial will be a reminder of the precious promises of God and our hope in Christ until the day when we receive our white stone and our new name.\n\nTake this first stone and place it as a foundation stone in the memorial we are going to build.\nStone 1: A Stone and a Name—in Genesis and Exodus" ]

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[ "The logo of Split Sides in GTA IV.", null, "The Frankfort Avenue entrance to the Split Sides.\n\nThe Split Sides Comedy Club is a comedy club accessible in Grand Theft Auto IV and The Lost and Damned but inaccessible in The Ballad of Gay Tony.\n\nLocated at Frankfort Avenue and Jade Street in the Star Junction district of Algonquin, Liberty City, the Split Sides is intended to be one of only two places (the other being Perestroika) where the player can watch shows; inside, real life comedians (such as Kat Williams or Ricky Gervais) perform comedy routines in front of live audiences. Their routines often make reference to Liberty City itself mentioning locations by name or commenting on in game elements (such as the lack of dogs in the streets).\n\nThe player can visit the club by himself, with a friend, or on a date with one of his girlfriends to see performances. Two routines from Split Sides can also been seen on television while in one of the player's safehouses.\n\nThe Split Side is a parody of Comic Strip Live.\n\nIn GTA IV, the Split Sides originally hosts only two hosts, Ricky Gervais and Katt Williams, whom routines are repeated after a certain amount of repeated visits. The Lost and Damned exclusively includes an additional guest, Frankie Boyle.\n\nRetrieved from ‘https://www.grandtheftwiki.com/index.php?title=Split_Sides&oldid=402791’\nCategories:\nCookies help us deliver our services. By using our services, you agree to our use of cookies." ]

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[ null, "Two of the zoo’s pairings have recently given birth. Oban and Frances welcomed five puppies into the world. Mayne and Laura Beth, on the other hand, had one on May 15th. That’s fantastic news for the zoo. To avoid disturbing the puppies, keepers did not open their nest boxes at first. The keepers finally decided it was safe to open the boxes after three to four weeks.\n\nThe marmot pups are maintained in a separate enclosure. The zoo’s conservative efforts to reduce animal-human interaction to a bare minimum for behavioral reasons have resulted in this. As a result, they are put on special diets. As a result, the marmots can go about their daily lives without being disturbed. Nesting, digging, and chewing is examples of these behaviors.\n\nIn addition, the marmot breeding season runs from March to April, following their hibernation. Their gestation period is only 30 days long.\n\nVancouver Island is a small island off the coast of Puppies from marmots are born in litters of three to four. Initially, they remain hidden.\n\nAs its name suggests, this species is only found on Vancouver Island. They are now found in several breeding centers across Canada, thanks to conservative measures.\n\nThey live in burrows as well. Their hibernating periods are determined by the climate of the place they live in.\n\nThe Vancouver Island Marmot has been bred for conservation at the Toronto Zoo. They are the most vulnerable mammals in Canada. Only 30 marmots could be found in the wild in 2003. Despite this, the number has already increased to 200-300.\n\nThe zoo has cared for 165 pups since they were born there. A total of 140 of them were released into the wild.\n\nThe importance of the zoo’s efforts cannot be overstated." ]

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[ "JKLTip Promote your ideas, story, and personal brand while staying aligned with your values\n\nOver the last fifteen years, I have not promoted myself because I think it’s important to build others up instead. I love nothing more than creating something and someone else getting credit for it. It’s the ultimate ego test.\n\nMany of the big dreams I have been sitting on for fifteen years have been tucked neatly away because I never wanted to promote myself, or my work. But, why is that? And more importantly, what should I do about it?\n\nI can’t donate to any great causes if I don’t have money. I can’t put other people on my platform if I don’t have one for myself. No doubt I can’t reach people who may benefit from support if they don’t know I exist. I finally recognize that my big dreams will bring greater value to the world with promotion.\n\nThe idea of shameless self promotion is what inspired this post. I saw a video the other day from Shameless Maya that really got me thinking. It was titled “How To Shamelessly Promote Yourself”.\n\nShe said, don’t let fear hold you back and promoting yourself will be a life-changing experience that you will grow from. Watching her life as an influential woman over the last seven years I have to say the idea is very inspiring.\n\nBecause Youtube is good at forcing you down a rabbit hole I then was prompted to click a video from Maria Forleo called “How To Take The Shame Out Of Self Promotion”. I love the way she reminds us that people will judge us no matter what. She said it’s more important she helps those who want her message than worry about those who don’t. Or who don’t know any better, and I couldn’t agree more.\n\nI don’t know anything. In fact, none of us know much in reality. What I do know is that a lot of self promotion will exist whether I am part of it or not. A lot of the messages will be good, but a lot of them will be negative, perhaps even toxic. I do know that my messages are positive and that we all have a story to share.\n\nI’ll try to summarize my message in one sentence. I want everyone to be as mentally healthy as possible by chasing their big dreams by focusing on collaboration, vulnerability, and learning. In a society with so much money put into the noise, hate, and fake politics, the only way for positive messages to rise is if we do it ourselves. If I can reach someone, anyone with this message, then it was well worth promoting.", null, null, null, "How Many Weeks You Got ?" ]

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[ null, "Motown Records and COLORSxSTUDIOS have partnered for an exclusive performance and content series to celebrate Black Music Month in June.\n\nThe week-long series launched on Friday (June 17) with a performance and interview from Migos’ Quavo and Takeoff, who recently dropped their collaborative track “Hotel Lobby” under the moniker Unc & Phew.\n\n“In celebration of Black Music Month, we’re joining forces with Motown Records (@motownrecords) to present a special series of performances and interviews,” COLORS wrote on Instagram. “Over the course of the next week, we’ll be sharing a host of new episodes of A COLORS SHOW alongside conversations with individuals who have been influential in facilitating the progression of Black music in the U.S\n\nThe next episode of A Colors Show will drop on Monday (June 20), followed by additional shows on Wednesday (June 22) and Friday (June 24). The artists featured in those episodes have not yet been announced. The performances and content are available on COLORS’ website and Instagram page.\n\nThe Motown x COLORS partnership will also feature exclusive interviews with music industry players, including CEOs, creative directors and choreographers, according to a news release.\n\n“Colors is one of the most culturally relevant worldwide platforms across all genres and I’m excited about our partnership which is the first of its kind,” Motown CEO/chairwoman Ethiopia Habtemariam said in a statement. “Motown is a place where Black dreams are manifested and we are proud to showcase our incredible stars. Colors is credited as one of the biggest live music channels and we are eager to present the stars of Motown today.”\n\nWatch Quavo and Takeoff — aka Unc & Phew — perform their new song “Hotel Lobby” below, and check out their interview here." ]

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[ null, "What do you do if you are meant to be making the running on one for John Gosden and Godolphin in the only Group race of the all-weather season and Ryan Moore steals the lead out the gate?\n\nRobert Havlin could have been mistaken for a moment's panic in the Betway Winter Derby after Moore took his position in front on Johnny Drama, but he quickly switched to plan B and bided his time sitting off the steady pace, waiting until the home turn before stealing the race right back and from there he was not for catching aboard five-year-old Forest Of Dean.\n\nGosden, who was winning the Group 3 for the third year in succession after victories with Wissahickon and Dubai Warrior, said: \"I thought it was a very good ride by Rab. We had two plans and that was plan B – plan A was to make the running. They weren't searching fractions and Rab decided to pounce, and he took that two lengths. They take a lot of getting back here if you manage to do that.\n\n\"I'm very pleased for the horse, he was off for a year so we're delighted to come back and win this, and we'll have a go at championship day.\"\n\nRunner-up Felix, who had beaten 100-30 shot Forest Of Dean on his last two starts, finished second best this time under Hollie Doyle, and his trainer Marco Botti said: \"We had form with the winner, we've beaten him twice, but it's always down to what happens on the day.\n\n\"Hollie said he was a bit slow into stride, but that's the way he wants to be ridden and he likes to come from the back of the field. He's run a good race and let's hope one day it goes in our favour.\"\n\nLord of the manor\n\nSometimes the start can be more eventful than the finish and the Betway Hever Sprint Stakes was just such a race.\n\nAs the stalls opened, Royal Birth reared away his chance, while a split second too early, Ornate appeared to anticipate the opening and appeared to headbutt the gates.\n\nIt all meant that after two strides Jason Hart thought he was going to get an easy lead aboard Lord Riddiford from stall one. However, that was not the case as Ornate was chased up into the lead, and after ten strides we'd had 90 per cent of the drama.\n\nHart took a tow from Ornate, travelled strongest, kicked last and hardest off the home bend and was able to hold the late-charging 6-4 favourite Moss Gill all the way to the line.\n\n\"He always breaks sharply and I was going to go forward when I saw Ornate had missed the kick, but then he rushed up on my outside so I was quite happy to take a lead and he set a nice gallop,\" said Hart.\n\n\"He's very versatile and a genuine, tough sprinter, and has a good burst of speed which he showed today. He had a bit to do today on ratings, but that was his best ever run and he's really thriving on his racing. The boss [trainer John Quinn] has placed him well throughout the winter and nice to top it off with a Listed win.\"", null, "Hayley Moore: no such luck getting a post-race interview from brother Ryan\nEdward Whitaker (racingpost.com/photos)\n\nYou would think Hayley Moore's job of gathering post-race reaction for Sky Sports Racing could not get much easier than her brother riding a 77-1 four-timer. If it were Jamie, or Josh that would certainly be the case, but Ryan proved entirely elusive.\n\nMoore landed the mile novice contest aboard the Brian Meehan-trained Glentaneous, the mile handicap on Andrew Balding's Grove Ferry, the 5f maiden with Crimson Sand for Richard Hughes and the closing 2m handicap on the Nick Littmoden-trained Arabescato, and he dodged his sister's microphone each time.\n\nWhen you are Ryan Moore, four-timers aren't anything out of the ordinary.\n\nFIRST PUBLISHED 6:22PM, FEB 27 2021\nThey weren't searching fractions and Rab decided to pounce, and he took that two lengths" ]

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[ "The Ins and Outs of Control\n\nControl is a major branch of engineering, but one that rarely gets much credit, bowing to more popular fields like robotics and computers, both of which play important roles within many control systems. Contrary to what the title for this article might suggest, my intention is not to communicate an in-depth understanding of the details of control theory. My aim is to provide an introduction of what control systems are, and how they work. But I just couldn’t resist the title, because as we will soon see, control is all about inputs and outputs.\nThese days, people want devices they can control. However, we tend to ignore the fact that the actual control of such systems takes place behind the scenes, in a control box. The systems that people interact with are autonomous – the user inputs the desired output, and the control system takes care of the rest.\nWhether the system in question is the cruise control of a car or the heating of a home, the only parameter that users can manipulate is the input. For the car, the input is the desired velocity to cruise at, and for the home, it is the desired air temperature.\nThe control of a given system can be broken down into three parts: input, transfer function, and output. The input is what the user wants the controlled parameter to be while the output is its current value. The transfer function is the guts of the control system, which aims to make the output equal to the input. The output is recorded by some kind of sensor.\nRead more »\nPosted by The Engineer at 11:25 AM No comments:\n\nImmobility in an Over-Constrained System\n\nThe most enduring quote in the fiction, Life of Pi, is perhaps: “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” There are many things that render us immobile in a philosophical sense. Perhaps the most prevalent reason why people give up is because they are simply overwhelmed.\n\nThere is way too much to try and get right in this day and age. You need to take care of your kids and/or parents, your significant other, and of course, yourself. You need to exercise enough, eat right, maintain good hygiene, work, pay taxes, and get vaccinated (not necessarily in that order). It is also recommended that you find a hobby, spend time with friends, and get involved in your community. If you are a parent, the to-do list is compounded by things like hockey practice and meet-the-teacher night. We sign up for so much in life, and then struggle to meet the demands they entail.\n\nEngineering projects can find themselves in a predicament similar to that of overwhelmed people. When constraints in a project begin to press up against one another, the engineer caught in the middle tends to feel suffocated. The typical reaction to this is usually the most dangerous one: the engineer is rendered immobile. I have been caught together with a team of engineers in a scenario of this type, and learned a very valuable lesson from it: indecision is in fact worse than a wrong decision.", null, "Read more »\nPosted by The Engineer at 3:14 PM No comments:\n\nThe Mechanics of Sports Injuries\n\n“Oh crap!!!” is the first thought that runs through your head as you lay on the field/ice/court in excruciating pain immediately following a sports injury. Whether it is an ankle sprain in soccer, a dislocated shoulder in football, or a broken wrist in basketball, sports-related injuries are painful and frustrating, but unfortunately, inevitable.", null, "The second thought that runs through the injured athlete’s head is, “I wish I could take the last moment back.” It is an appropriate thought to have, as whenever a collision occurs, the severity of the injury is dependent on just how short the duration of the collision was. Although impacts in sport between two athletes appear instantaneous, there is actually a small amount of time over which they take place, which we will refer to as dt.\nRead more »\nPosted by The Engineer at 8:53 PM 9 comments:\n\nIt was not that long ago that I was a science student applying to an undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program at McGill University. In hindsight, I really did not know much about the profession of engineering at the time, and it is not hard to see why. Introductory physics courses can give a student the impression that engineers spend their mornings drawing free body diagrams, and their afternoons predicting the accelerations of blocks sliding down a smooth inclined plane.\n\nThere is a lot to know about physics, and early on, a great deal of time must be spent learning theory, and applying it to solve simple problems. As such, a student cannot be faulted for thinking that a few equations, pencil and paper, and a calculator, are all the tools necessary to complete real world engineering problems.\n\nIn real life, when one is designing anything from a bridge to a car, today’s engineering problems are solved with two overlapping methods. The first method is analytical, and the second is numerical.\nThe analytical method is similar to the approach taught in science courses. The complex problem is simplified via good approximations – it is transformed into something that can be solved with a pencil and paper. Problem solving of this sort gives the engineer a rough estimate of what the result might look like in the end. It gives a sense of direction for where the design might be headed; it is sometimes called a ‘first cut’, or an ‘order of magnitude solution’.\nHowever, the majority of an engineer’s problem solving time is spent using numerical methods imbedded in virtual tools. There are many software tools for every field of engineering that allow the user to solve very complex problems with a high degree of precision. At the click of the mouse, a simulation calling on some governing equations of physics can be run on whatever design you have fed to the software in whatever environment you desire. Want a picture of the stress distribution in the body of a roller coaster car as it travels along a track? There is a virtual tool for that. Want to see the temperature distribution within a satellite as it orbits the Earth? There is a virtual tool for that too.\nRead more »\nPosted by The Engineer at 12:05 PM 2 comments:\n\nNot All Engineers Are Handy\n\nI am an engineer, and I am not handy.\nIf you are the accountant in your family, you probably get financial questions from your friends and family members – particularly around tax season. If you are the doctor in the family, you are probably inundated with medical questions from aging parents or in-laws, hoping to save themselves a trip to the clinic. Although talking shop when not at work can be annoying, it is nice to be able to help family and friends by sharing your expertise with them.\nIf you are an engineer, you may receive a call from time to time from a friend when something of theirs breaks. Engineers like to talk shop; unlike the doctor or accountant, engineers are excited that someone has taken an interest in what they do.\nThe thing is, not all engineers are endowed with practical abilities.\nThere are two sides to engineering: theory and practice. Most of University is spent acquiring theoretical knowledge. Mechanical engineers, for example, take many math, mechanics, thermodynamics, and fluids courses. Very little time is spent educating engineers on how to apply their knowledge in a “hands-on” kind of way. They may do projects in heat transfer where they design the optimal spacing of a double window pane for a given winter climate, but they will not be required to install the window.\nRead more »\nPosted by The Engineer at 12:05 PM 4 comments:\n\nThe 2005 film, Crash, won an Oscar for “Best Picture”, and is one of my favourite dramas. The movie follows several characters that are involved in negative interactions fuelled by racial differences and hate.\n\nWatching these intense situations play out in fiction is thought-provoking. However, experiencing such conflicts first-hand is often very stressful. One-on-one confrontations between strangers, colleagues, friends, and, worst of all, family members, can be extremely detrimental to one’s personal equilibrium.\n\nA person is like a particle moving along through space – if left to one’s own devices, one will continue along pleasantly, unaffected. This is predicted by Newton’s first law of motion, which says that an object in motion will only change velocity if a non-zero net external force acts on it. One way to think of Newton’s first law is that life would be dull if we just kept to ourselves. Going through life with constant velocity is no fun; human contact makes for a far more interesting journey.\n\nOne of the characters in Crash goes so far as to suggest that people seek out conflicts because they are bored or lonely – as though colliding into one another is a mechanism that people use to confirm they are still alive.\n\nA life that is completely devoid of conflict is boring. On the other hand, a life that is filled with destructive interactions is too stressful.\n\nLike particles moving through space, or cars driving on the road, people moving through life will inevitably collide with one another. Usually, these collisions are positive, like a friendly hello from a neighbour. Sometimes, however, people collide in an explosive manner, like when colleagues disrespect one another." ]

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[ null, "The police investigation was launched following claims by French football star Paul Pogba that he was the victim of a multi-million dollar blackmail plot involving his brother Matias.\n\nThe AFP is investigating a case involving family conflict and a medicine man that comes less than three months before the Juventus star is expected to help France defend their World Cup crown.\n\nWho is Matias Pogba?\n\nMatthias, 32, is Paul’s older brother (29) and Florentin’s twin brother. All three are professional soccer players. Mathias, born in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, had a journeyman career that took him to Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia. He has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom, including Wrexham, Crewe Alexandra and Partick Thistle. Last year he made 12 appearances for Belfort in the French fourth division. Matthias Pogba has also appeared on television in France as a pundit.", null, "Until recently, the Pogba brothers seemed to be friendly. Matthias, Florentina and their mother Yeo Moribu were regularly seen at French matches played by Paul. Paul Pogba is also a major donor to the charity 48 H POUR, set up by Matthias to help provide drinking water and education for children in Guinea.\n\nWhat did Matias Pogba say?\n\nOn Saturday, Matias Pogba posted a video on Instagram promising “great revelations” about Paul and the Juventus player’s agent Rafael Pimente. In the video, Matias Pogba says that “the whole world, as well as my brother’s fans and even more so the French team and Juventus, my brother’s teammates and his sponsors deserve to know certain things.”\n\nExciting feature: Follow the news accurately for you ➡️ find the block “Recommended for you” and enjoy!\n\n“Probably, all this is explosive,” he concluded, without adding any content to his “revelations”.", null, "Matias Pogba: Paul Pogba’s brother opens a can of worms about the Juventus star, accusing him of witchcraft\n\nHow did Paul Pogba react?\n\nA statement released on Sunday and signed by Paul Pogba’s lawyers, his mother Yeo Moriba and agent Pimenta, said the videos released on Saturday evening “unfortunately did not come as a surprise.”\n\n“They are in addition to threats and extortion attempts by an organized gang against Paul Pogba,” the statement said. They added that “the competent authorities of Italy and France were informed a month ago.”\n\nRadio France Info reported that Paul Pogba told investigators he was threatened by “childhood friends and two hooded men armed with machine guns”. They are demanding 13 million euros ($13 million) from him for “services rendered,” he said, adding that a person close to him withdrew 200,000 euros from his credit card.\n\nHow far has the investigation gone?\n\nThe Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed to AFP that an investigation was opened on August 3 into allegations of extortion and attempted extortion by an organized gang. According to reports from France Info, confirmed by a source familiar with the case to AFP, Paul Pogba told investigators he was threatened by “childhood friends and two hooded men armed with machine guns” who accused him of not helping them financially.", null, "Paul Pogba also told investigators that he was threatened several times in Manchester while playing for Manchester United and in Turin, where he currently plays for Juventus. He said he recognized his brother Matthias among the suspects.\n\nWhat’s up with Kylian Mbappe?\n\nParis Saint-Germain striker and France teammate Paul Pogba is reluctant to appear in the case. Paul Pogba told investigators that his blackmailers wanted to discredit him, claiming he asked a medicine man to cast a spell on Mbappe, which Pogba denies.\n\nIn a series of tweets posted on Sunday, Mathias Pogba addresses Mbappe directly, saying: “Kylian, do you understand now? known! Pity this brother, the so-called Muslim, up to his ears in witchcraft.", null, "Pogba says gangs are after him after brother promised ‘big revelations’\n\nHow could this affect the French team?\n\nThe revelation of the affair is unfortunate for the French team as there are less than three months left before they defend their World Cup crown in Qatar. Paul Pogba is currently sidelined with a knee injury and will struggle to be fit but remains a key player in France, for whom he won 91 caps and was instrumental in the fight for glory at the 2018 World Cup.\n\nLike the 2016 blackmail case involving Karim Benzema, Mathieu Valbuena, and a sex tape, there is a danger that this case could negatively impact team morale. This could also affect Paul Pogba’s relationship with Mbappe. Speaking to RMC Sport, French Football Federation president Noel Le Gré said he hoped the story “won’t call into question” Pogba’s place in the team. “At this stage, these are just rumors,” he added." ]

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[ null, "With two civilians charged with the death of Mario Deane scheduled to appear in court today, head of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), Terrence Williams, has signalled that the policemen who were on duty at the time could be charged with negligence.\n\nWilliams said the charges being laid against the civilians for Deane's killing \"does not end the enquiry\" on which his entity has embarked.\n\n\"That is just the end of the beginning,\" Williams said while addressing a meeting of the Rotary Club of Falmouth in Trelawny last night.\n\n\"The enquiry must go beyond those who struck the blow to those who were responsible for his custody,\" he added.\n\nTwenty-five-year-old Adrian Morgan and 35-year-old Marvin Orr, who have been charged with Deane's murder, will appear before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court today.\n\nYesterday, six police officers who were on duty when Deane was allegedly beaten by prisoners in his cell at the Barnett Street Police Station in St James on Sunday, August 3, were interdicted. Among other things, they will not be allowed to leave the island unless given permission by the governor general.\n\nThe two corporals, three district constables, and one constable were interdicted and suspended with immediate effect following a probe into the circumstances leading to the death of 31-year-old Deane.\n\nThe cops will receive only three-quarters of their pay for the period of their interdiction.\n\nWhile no charges have been laid against the cops, Williams last night said his team had completed a timeline of Deane's activities from the moment he was arrested until the moment of his death. He said information was collected from police personnel and civilians, including persons who were jailed at the Barnett Street Police Station along with Deane. He said there are variances among the stories.\n\n\"We will explore these versions further when we have the post-mortem complete and a full medical report from the hospital. Then we will conduct interviews with the police to test the versions that they have given in their statements,\" Williams said.\n\nHe added: \"We will be considering the decision to put him in the cell where he got his injuries; we will be considering the decision of not granting him bail on two occasions to put before the court. … Did he die at the hands of agents of the State? Did any agents of the State neglect their duty? Did they abuse their power or act oppressively by putting him in that cell?\"\n\nActing Commissioner of Police Glenmore Hinds said the police recognised the duty of care and \"we will be unrelenting in this regard, especially as it relates to persons in our custody\".\n\n\"We are urging citizens to remain calm and we are appealing to relatives to support INDECOM and police investigators in their probe,\" Hinds said yesterday.\n\nThe ministry also said a new protocol is being put in place for persons charged with minor ganja offences such as possession of small quantities of the drug.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, the police will be required to issue a summons to violators of the law as long as a justice of the peace (JP) is available.\n\n\"Once identification is verified, the person should be granted bail on his or her own recognizance,\" Bunting said.\n\nThe new ganja protocol also said that if a person is arrested for minor portions of the weed offences but is being investigated for other serious offences, that person will be given bail with conditions or be remanded in custody.\n\nThe ministry said it is committed to making \"the necessary policy and legislative changes to avoid recurrence of such a tragedy\".\n\nDeane had been arrested for possession of a ganja spliff, a misdemeanor." ]

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[ null, "When you come home to “Netflix and chill,” you probably aren’t thinking about the way Netflix runs. It might surprise you to know that the company runs from the cloud. Netflix isn’t the only one, though. Read on to learn about other major, successful businesses that run their companies from the cloud.\n\nThe popular social network boasted 1.44 billion monthly active users as of April 2015. You’re most likely one of them. The next time you log in, take a moment to think about how Facebook runs its business from the cloud.\n\nIn July 2015, Facebook opened its fifth data centre. In a note posted on its website, the firm’s VP of Infrastructure wrote that Facebook’s infrastructure costs are far less expensive thanks to the company’s innovation in data centre designs.\n\nIf you’re an iOS user, you most likely store things in the iCloud. What you might not know is that Apple itself runs its business from the cloud.\n\nThe tech giant relies on its own data centres as well as third party cloud providers to provide users with services such as its app store. Apple’s leadership understands the cost savings and other benefits that come from operating a business in the cloud. Moreover, the cloud allows Apple the ability to offer innovative new products and services.\n\nSnapchat is a messaging application. It allows users to send a photo or video that disappears ten seconds after it’s been viewed.\n\nWhen Evan Spiegel and Tom Murphy released Snapchat in 2011, they relied on Google’s cloud computing service. It was simpler for them to outsource their infrastructure so they could focus on the app’s design.\n\nReady to Move Your Business to the Cloud?\n\nA well-maintained cloud service gives you remote access to your file, while taking a large amount of the memory burden off your in-house computers and devices. Everything you need is no longer stored locally, and accessible anywhere with internet access. If you’re ready to move your business to the cloud, we can help. At Dynamix solutions, we give our clients unlimited and unencumbered access to their cloud data." ]

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[ "The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. They play in the AFC North Division of the National Football League (NFL). The team is named after the poem, The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. The Ravens are rivals with the Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins. The Ravens have won twice Super Bowl title, Super Bowl XXXV, in the 2000 NFL season against the New York Giants and Super Bowl XLVII in the 2012 NFL season against the San Francisco 49ers. As of 2018, the Ravens' quarterback is Lamar Jackson. They play at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, MD.\n\nThe Ravens defense crowds the Pittsburgh Steelers in a 2006 route. Visible are #52 Ray Lewis and #55 Terrell Suggs.", null, "The offense has been considered mediocre. The Ravens have had many different quarterbacks, including Trent Dilfer, Vinny Testaverde, Kyle Boller, and Joe Flacco, with limited success. The Ravens have gotten good results from players like Todd Heap, Derrick Mason, Flacco, Jamal Lewis, and some others on offense.\n\nIn 1996, the Ravens' logo had a seal with a \"B\" for Baltimore. That logo was featured on the Ravens' helmets. In 1999, the logo changed to the head a purple Raven with the Baltimore B. That has been on team helmets since.\n\nThe Ravens played their first two seasons in Memorial Stadium, where the Baltimore Orioles Major League Baseball team and the Baltimore Colts played. Before the 1998 season, the Ravens moved to what is now M&T Bank Stadium. The stadium was called \"PSI Net Stadium\" up until 2001 when the PSI Net company went bankrupt. The stadium was referred to as \"Ravens Stadium\" in 2002. Many fans signed a letter asking that the Ravens officials name the stadium \"Johnny Unitas Stadium\" after Baltimore Colts Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas. The request was unsuccessful. Before the 2003 season, the Ravens, Maryland Stadium Authority, and M&T Bank signed a long term contract for the stadium to be called \"M&T Bank Stadium.\" The stadium's official holding is listed at 71,008 people, but can hold more.\n\nThe official headquarters of the Baltimore Ravens (commonly referred to as \"The Castle,\" or \"Baltimore Ravens Training Complex') is located in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA.\n\nThe Ravens induct personnel that they feel meat up to set standards on and off the field into the team Ring of Honor (presented by Smyth Jewlers).\n\nThe Baltimore Colts played in Baltimore from 1953 to 1984. In 1995, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced that his struggling team could no longer compete financially or on the field. He then announced a highly criticized move to go to Baltimore. In 1996, the Ravens drafted future stars Jonathan Ogden, Ray Lewis, and Jermaine Lewis. Four years later, head coach Brian Billick led the Ravens to a 34-7 Super Bowl XXXV victory over the New York Giants. The next few years were filled with mediocrecy. In 2004, Baltimore businessman Steve Bisciotti bought the team from Modell. The Ravens fired Billick in 2007 after a 5-11 season and replaced him with John Harbaugh, who got the Ravens to the playoffs through the next four years." ]

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[ "Learn about the artists\n\nGet to Know the Artists", null, "The twosome met at music school in London. At the time, Eleanor was a singer-songwriter seeking to collaborate, and Elie had a reputation of being one of the institution’s most gifted musicians. The pair found freedom in creating as a duo, working together to blossom Eleanor’s song seedlings with a full range of harmonic, instrumental, and arrangement possibilities. Their passion is palatable and Eleanor shares that “…creating and performing gives our lives meaning and purpose.”\n\nThe pair’s debut album, Go Call the Captain, was named \"one of the year's most luminous albums\" by The Big Takeover Magazine. Marquee career moments include official showcases at the Northeast and Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Conferences; being Kerrville New Folk finalists and Philadelphia Songwriter's Project winners and Eleanor and Elie having the honor to lend their voices to Pete Seeger and Lorre Wyatt's album, A More Perfect Union.\n\nThe Whispering Tree’s second album, Invisible Forces, released in 2018, was self-produced and recorded at their bucolic Beacon, New York home with help from fellow Hudson Valley musicians Otto Hauser, Will Bryant and James Hearne. Thematically, Invisible Forces explores duality and the struggle for a sense of permanence in the face of inevitable change, inspired by the pair’s new home in the pastoral Hudson Valley. This album includes some fresh turf for The Whispering Tree as the duo integrates a touch of classic rock swagger within its elegant folk-pop. The bedrock music of the 1960s and 1970s has always been an influence, and prior to the album, The Whispering Tree released several singles re-imagining classic rock tunes as plaintive, harmony driven folk songs.\n\nInvisible Forces album highlights include the leadoff single, “Fat Cat,” “Heavy,” “Garden,” and the concluding track, “Bells.” The slinky “Fat Cat” has antecedents in Elie’s French background and the old-time gypsy jazz tradition back in his hometown while the satirical, anti-capitalist sentiment of the lyrics is firmly rooted in the protest songs of the 60's folk revival. The track “Heavy” may very well be an aesthetic touchstone for The Whispering Tree, showcasing the breadth of its inspirations in touching upon New Orleans-style jazz, folk, blues, and the 1960s rock and pop harmony vocal tradition, spanning the Beach Boys to the Girl Groups.\n\nThe closing track, “Bells,” is inspired by the rich heritage of the Beacon, New York folk scene in which professionals, including icon Pete Seeger, and amateurs gather around and share stories and songs. “Bells” is a sweetly rousing protest song brimming with bluesy guitar and bucolic New England countryside folk imagery. The Big Takeover Magazine called their work \"A socially potent commentary of humankind's modern times\"\n\nRecharged by the creative process, The Whispering Tree will be touring nationally and internationally, and releasing more new material. “I’ve felt compelled to release these songs, and I can’t wait to share this new music,” Eleanor says.", null, "Ash & Eric (formerly The Promise is Hope”), hail from Worcester Massachusetts, and have never shied away from life’s hard edges. Their musings reflect the hope and pain we all experience in life, and finding consolation in the beauty and challenges of their lives. Sung in voices as vulnerable and honest as their lyrics, their songs feel like a sincere welcome, a shoulder to lean on, and a hand to hold at the end of a long day. In addition to top tier writing that No Depression says will have you “...coming away from many of these [songs] cleansed”, their warm harmonies, swirling acoustic guitars, and easy stage presence have earned them a dedicated following in the folk/singer-songwriter scene.\n\nAsh and Eric met in a church, back in 2010. Their paths didn’t cross in a pew, but on the stage. There was a palpable chemistry when they joined on stage, and a shared intuition that quickly bled out from the stage into their personal lives. Perhaps it was a youthful naivete yet to be squashed by the demands and expectations of the American work culture, but Ash encouraged Eric to leave the safety of his office job for the inevitably challenging but rewarding artists’ path.\n\nIn 2014 The Promise is Hope was born with a “yes” - a decision made by two artists set on turning their dreams into a reality. The pair named their band the night before their very first show on March 1, 2014. Also, on that very night, Eric proposed, and Ash said “yes!” Shortly after that the two began writing and recording their debut album, “Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going.”\n\nThe journey that has unfolded since that first concert has been defined by these two dreamers’ daily choice to continually pursue their vision. The vision, which began as two people sharing their hearts through the artistry of songwriting and performance, has grown and expanded to envelop a beautiful and growing community of faithful followers.\n\nUnder the moniker The Promise is Hope, Ash and Eric have released two full-length albums, “Where We’ve Been & Where We’re Going” (2015) and “Every Seed Must Die” (2018). They have performed countless shows in a myriad of venues from house and living room concerts to legendary rooms like Club Passim (Cambridge, MA) and Godfrey Daniels (Bethlehem, PA). They have performed on the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s Emerging Artist Stage (Hillsdale, PA), won the CT Folks Grassyhill Songwriter Competition, and performed at the CT Folk and Black Bear Americana Festivals. The pair has been nominated for New England Music Awards, won many Worcester Music Awards, and was offered a Semi-Formal Showcase at the 2019 NERFA Conference in Stamford, CT.\n\nAfter much thought and deliberation, the pair decided to change their band name from The Promise is Hope to Ash & Eric. Their highly-anticipated third album was recorded, mixed and produced entirely by Eric and will be released in early 2022 alongside an accompanying short film. Their 2021 Kick Starter campaign demonstrates their deep commitment to their craft.\n\nAsh and Eric believe that when they stand on a stage and share their hearts with a room full of people, that everyone can heal just a little bit. Ash & Eric’s artistry reflects these two dreamers forever committed to making music for their listeners that is honest, intentional, and beautiful. The pair continues to say “YES” to the power of vulnerability, simplicity, and new starts." ]

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[ null, "Anzy-le-Duc is in southern Burgundy, to the south of Paray-le-Monial. A small, pretty village with some lovely traditional houses that is set peacefully in the rolling Burgundy countryside, the principal attraction here is the Priory of Anzy-le-Duc.\n\nHistory of the Priory of Anzy-le-Duc\n\nA monastery was first founded here in the ninth century, and gained fame because Hugues de Poitiers, an inspirational character at that time, became a prior at the church. Hugues de Poitiers went on to be a founder of the famous abbey at Cluny.\n\nThe relics of Hugues de Poitiers were kept in the church at Anzy-le-Duc after his death and attracted so many pilgrims to the church that a decision was made to replace the original church with a larger version. The current church was built to replace the original building in the 11th - 12th centuries although the crypt from the earlier church was retained and can still be seen today.\n\nThe building was damaged and abandoned during the 16th - 18th centuries, in particular during the Wars of Religion, but found a new life from the 19th century onwards when it was repaired and started to be used as the local village church.", null, "Visit the priory of Anzy-le-Duc\n\nThe church and village of Anzy-le-Duc are perhaps best described as 'small but perfectly formed' and a visit is recommended when you are in the region.\n\nThe church is well known as a good example of Burgundy Roman style church architecture and has several notable highlights dating from that period. In particular the carvings around two of the doorways and the capital stones inside the church are impressive examples of roman style workmanship.\n\nAlthough the church is the principal part of the priory of Anzy-le-Duc that can still be seen today, some of the other priory buildings can also be seen adjacent to the church.\n\nInside the church is also distinguished by the beautiful decoration and vibrant frescoes it contains, especially in the choir area, and by further stone carvings such as the capitals at the top of the columns are carved into statues of people, plants and animals representing Biblical stories.\n\nBeneath the choir of the church at Anzy-le-Duc there is an 11th century crypt, which for several centuries held the relics of Hugues de Poitiers. The crypt somehow became forgotten, then later used as a storage area, but has recently become reincorporated in the church and can now be seen during a visit.", null, "Note: during summer months nocturnal visits to the church are often arranged, giving a rare and welcome chance to better recapture the history of the priory.\n\nEnthusiasts of roman and religious style architecture will want to also visit the church at Semur-en-Brionnais and the Abbey at Cluny while in this part of Burgundy. We also suggest a stroll around the village of Marcigny a few kilometres south of here.\n\nMap of Anzy-le-Duc and places nearby\n\nVisit near Anzy-le-Duc with France This Way reviews" ]

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[ null, "We've just had a wonderfully relaxing couple of nights away at Buttonquail Nature Reserve about 30 minutes from home. This was the prize dean won in the parents bike race at the boy's school recently. We knew Buttonquail was remote but weren't prepared for just how remote! As we began the descent into the valley we realised that simply popping back into town was not a realistic option so we felt forced to stay put. Shame! Amazingly in this modern age the reserve has no electricity other than a bit of solar generated stuff for night lights and there was no cell phone reception. Fantastic!!!!!!\n\nJoel & Eli loved every minute of it as it was a very safe place for them to be (as long as they stayed away from the river, which they did). Joel had a few plans of his own, hte main one being that he wanted to tell some ghost stories around the boma once it had gone dark. He told two great stories followed by Eli telling a non-scary story. We were also able to do some satelite spotting and saw two very clearly.\n\nOn Saturday we spent the whole day sat around the boma keeping the fire burning. We suspect that they've never used as much wood before in a single 24hour stretch. Dean really enjoyed teaching his boys about fire and hopefully instilling a healthy respect for it. Paula enjoyed much coffee and reading her book.\n\nPut your hands up!", null, "Breakfast at the boma", null, null, "The night sky as seen with no light pollution. Taken with a 30 sec exposure. Can you spot the Southern Cross?", null ]

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[ null, "The Next Saviors Of The World – The Bottle Caps\n\nDara Sapundzhieva, a student at the American College of Sofia, draws our attention to one of the biggest problems nowadays – the plastic pollution. Check out her story about an initiative for collecting and recycling bottle caps for the sake of the environment and the life of premature babies.\n\nToday, one of the biggest enemies of the world is the plastic pollution. One million plastic bottles are produced per minute around the world right now and according to National Geographic’s statistics, 91% of all plastic is not able to be recycled. The solution of the problem was figured out by two young and ambitious Bulgarians whom mission is by making small steps to motivate people to recycle the unwanted plastic and save someone’s life, for instance, the life of premature babies.\n\n“Bottle Caps for Future” is a campaign set up by Lazar Radkov and Martina Iordanova two years ago and their goal is to collect as much bottle caps as possible in order to buy new incubators and later to donate them in hospitals in small towns all around Bulgaria.\n\nUnfortunately, Bulgarians do not have the habit to recycle (according to Recycling Rates in Europe) which is sad, because they hold the solution of the problem in their hands every single day – the plastic bottles and especially their caps. The reason why Lazar Radkov and Martina Iordanova focus on caps was that the material which the caps are made from is the best recyclable part of the whole bottle. The bottle and the caps are made from different plastic compounds and this is the reason why they cannot be recycled together. It is proven that the small size of the bottle caps gives better results, because, firstly, it’s easier to collect and transport one or ten caps in your pocket than one or ten bottles. Secondly, the density of the caps themselves is bigger than the density of the bottles which means that the plastic recycle machines have more material to process.\n\n“Bottle Caps for Future” is one of the most fast spreading campaigns among Bulgaria and up to now 140 000 tons of plastics caps were collected. ”During one of Lazar’s joggings in the South Park, we were talking about how to create some additional activity for the people while they were doing sport – like collecting bottle caps. And as you see, now we are not the small social group that we had planned to be”, says Martina Iordanova in an interview for “The People of Plovdiv”.\n\n“The campaign became popular, because people are more likely to participate in voluntary activities which result can be seen by everyone and to see that premature babies have a new chance to live is more than satisfying. And I’m going to continue to take part in every single campaign as until now”, says Desislava Nikolova, an active participant.\n\nThe idea of helping the newborns is supported by more and more people. The campaign takes place every six months and up to now they were four big meeting of collecting bottle caps, but if you are not able to keep the bottle caps at home, there are collecting stations in some cities and towns. An interesting fact is that each meeting collects bottle caps double the amount of the previous one, but the biggest achievement was during the last one – the fourth meeting collected as much caps as all previous three! This is a positive sign that Bulgarians break their bad habit of not recycling. Also, “people are proud of their help and they want to share their feelings and experiences with others through the social media, which helps the campaign to spread even more”, adds Desislava Nikolova. The first meeting took place in Sofia, but now the idea goes out of the capital and more big and small cities want to take part.\n\nThe campaign is very popular among children and students. From the beginning of “Bottle Caps for Future”, schools and kindergartens collect bottle caps every day. This way, students are taught about the importance of recycling. Furthermore, at the same time, they are motivated to help the newborns. Additionally, this is a good example of how to bring up the children and it shows to them that recycling is not such a hard activity to do. The whole process of collecting bottle caps creates a totally new habit in the young generation.\n\n“Bottle Caps for Future” comes off uniting one nation for one good cause. The campaign “kills two birds with one stone” because Bulgarians start to recycle more and cut back on the plastic pollution, and at the same time, many lives are saved. In conclusion, one campaign can do a lot without lots of money, but with the help of the volunteers. And we can save not only the life of newborns, but the life of the whole planet. “Everyone can make something small. To take the trash from the ground and throw it into the trash bin is a small step. If there are many people who do it, these small steps can change the world”, says Lazar Radkov in interview for the “Slavi’s Show”." ]

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[ "Every time there is a major controversy about large platforms blocking or delisting some controversial figure, something like the following exchange follows:1\n\nPerson 1: But what about free speech? You’re censoring this party!\n\nPerson 2: [Twitter/Facebook/Youtube/etc.] is a private platform! Free speech guarantees the right not to be jailed for what you say, not the right to have it on every platform you want.\n\nSo far as it goes, this is true. XKCD’s explanation is completely right on the legal merits:", null, "But while this is all true in some sense, it also seems to me to be missing the larger and much more important point. Namely: the whole reason we have these arguments—and the reason people tend to think as they do about the “free speech” question in these situations, legally nonsensical or not—is that we have outsourced the vast majority of our public discourse to these private platforms.\n\nTwitter and Facebook have become the de facto public fora of the 2010s, with Google’s search results and Wikipedia’s summaries taking similarly authoritative roles on what exists and what is true. Not that most people would put it that way, but it remains true: if something isn’t in Google search, it might as well not exist on the internet, and therefore for many people at all. Likewise with Wikipedia’s summaries: the admonitions of every college professor in the world notwithstanding, what Wikipedia says has an undeniable authority. And when someone is blacklisted from Twitter or Facebook, their ability to be heard at all by internet users as a block is dramatically curtailed.\n\nThis centralization of discussion and information into a few private platforms has a great many downsides. But perhaps chief among them is that we have ceded major aspects of our public and civic life to private platforms, and their interests are not the interests of the public good. They are driven almost entirely by the profit motive, or (possibly even worse at times) by nebulous and chimeric ideologies that treat “connecting people [digitally]” or “organizing the world’s information” as inherent and superlative goods. So when someone has their page removed from Facebook, or their website blacklisted from Google, there is a real sense in which they have been removed from public discourse and their speech “silenced”—even if not in an illegal sense.\n\nFor the purposes of this post, though, I could not care less what the major internet companies do or don’t show on their platforms. Instead, I worry about our practice both as individuals and also as communities-of-practice—churches, associations, and so on—of abdicating our responsibility to maintain real public and civic lives in our local places in favor of letting these corporate giants do the work for us. I worry about the costs of letting Google and Facebook replace genuine public fora in our lives. I worry about the long-term effect of letting supranational megacorporations driven by that toxic combination of profit motive and nonsensical ideologies set the terms of our lives. I worry about the whole set of underlying structural and systematic moves that have made delisting on one of those platforms seem like a violation of the ideal of free speech.\n\nAs I’ve said for many years in this space: we should work hard at reclaiming our lives from the tangle of the corporations. We should limit the way we both use and think about these platforms. We should read books, old and new, rather than simply rely on the Google results and Wikipedia summaries. We should have painful, awkward conversations and indeed arguments with neighbors and colleagues and family members rather than merely all-caps shouting at each other on Facebook or Twitter. We should carve out our own spaces on the internet, owning our own turf; but more than that we should remember that even that is no substitute for the thicker (and yes, more painful, frustrating, and awkward!) communities and interactions of a church or a neighborhood or a town hall meeting." ]

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[ "Michael LoCicero presented an adaptation of his recently published book ‘Midnight Massacre’. This had been his university thesis and he brought light to this generally unknown action\n\nThe night action of 1/2 December 1917 during the First World War, was a local operation on the Western Front, in Belgium at the Ypres Salient. The British Fourth Army (re-named from the Second Army on 8 November) attacked the German 4th Army. The Third Battle of Ypres (31 July – 10 November) proper had ended officially on 20 November but the attack was intended to capture the heads of valleys leading eastwards from the ridge, to gain observation over German positions.\n\nOn 18 November the VIII Corps on the right and II Corps on the left (northern) side of the Passchendaele Salient took over from the Canadian Corps. The area was subjected to constant German artillery bombardments and its vulnerability to attack led to a suggestion by Brigadier C. F. Aspinall that, either the British should retire to the west side of the Gheluvelt Plateau or advance to broaden the salient towards Westroosebeke. Expanding the salient would make the troops in it less vulnerable to German artillery-fire and provide a better jumping off line for a resumption of the offensive in the spring of 1918.\n\nThe British attacked towards Westroozebeke on the night of 1/2 December but the plan to mislead the Germans by not bombarding the German defences until eight minutes after the infantry began their advance came undone. The noise of the British assembly and the difficulty of moving across muddy and waterlogged ground had also alerted the Germans. In the moonlight, the Germans had seen the British troops when they were still 200 yd (180 m) away. Some ground was captured and about 150 prisoners were taken but the attack on the redoubts failed and observation over the heads of the valleys on the east and north sides of the ridge had not been gained.\n\nThe speaker calculated that the 8th Division losses from 2 to 3 December were about 552 men; the 32nd Division had 1,137 casualties and infantry regiments 117, 94, 116 and 95 had about 800 loses. The Official History made no mention of the action.\n\nThis was an excellent presentation which included the reason for the assault and the build up to the actual action. The full account can be read in the speaker’s book* which is well researched fully delves into the reasons for its conception, the preparations and actions of both sides\n\n*‘A Moonlight Massacre. The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge 2 December 1917’.\n\nQuentin Roosevelt (19 November, 1897 –14 July, 1918) was the youngest son of President Theodore Roosevelt and First Lady Edith Roosevelt. Family and friends agreed that Quentin had many of his father's positive qualities and few of the negative ones. Inspired by his father and siblings, he joined the United States Army Air Service where he became a pursuit pilot during World War I. Quentin was only four years old when his father became president, and he grew up in the White House. By far the favourite of all of President Roosevelt's children, Quentin was also the most boisterous. With American entry into World War I, Quentin thought his mechanical skills would be useful to the Army. He dropped out of college in May 1917 to join the newly formed 1st Reserve Aero Squadron, the first air reserve unit in the nation. He trained on Long Island at an airfield later renamed Roosevelt Field in his honour.", null, "Finally sent to France, Lt. Roosevelt first helped in setting up the large Air Service training base at Issoudun. He was a supply officer and then over time ran one of the training airfields. Eventually he became a pilot in the 95th Aero Squadron, part of the 1st Pursuit Group. The unit was posted to Touquin, France and, on July 9, 1918 to Saints. Here he roomed with supply officer Ed Thomas. Roosevelt had one confirmed kill of a German aircraft he shot down on July 10, 1918. Four days later, in a massive aerial engagement at the commencement of the Second Battle of the Marne, he was himself shot down behind German lines.\n\nCaptain Eddie Rickenbacker, Commander of the 94th Aero Squadron (also known as the \"Hat-in-the-Ring\" Squadron), in his memoirs described Roosevelt's character as soldier and pilot in the following words:\n\n\"As President Roosevelt's son he had rather a difficult task to fit himself in with the democratic style of living which is necessary in the intimate life of an aviation camp. Everyone who met him for the first time expected him to have the airs and superciliousness of a spoiled boy. This notion was quickly lost after the first glimpse one had of Quentin. Gay, hearty and absolutely square in everything he said or did, Quentin Roosevelt was one of the most popular fellows in the group. We loved him purely for his own natural self”.\n\n\"He was reckless to such a degree that his commanding officers had to caution him repeatedly about the senselessness of his lack of caution. His bravery was so notorious that we all knew he would either achieve some great spectacular success or be killed in the attempt. Even the pilots in his own flight would beg him to conserve himself and wait for a fair opportunity for a victory. But Quentin would merely laugh away all serious advice.\"\n\nQuentin's plane (a Nieuport 28) was shot down in aerial combat over Chamery, a hamlet of Coulonges-en-Tardenois (now Coulonges-Cohan) He was felled by two machine gun bullets which struck him in the head. The German military buried him with full battlefield honours. Since the plane had crashed so near the front lines, they used two pieces of basswood saplings, bound together with wire from his Nieuport, to fashion a cross for his grave. For propaganda purposes, they made a postcard of the dead pilot and his plane. However, this was met with shock in Germany, which still held Theodore Roosevelt in high respect and was impressed that a former President's son died on active duty. According to his service record, the site was at Marne Grave #1 Isolated Commune #102, Coulongue Aisne. The French government awarded him the Croix de Guerre with Palm.\n\nThree German pilots have been credited with Quentin's \"kill\" at various times, and all three of them may have been his killer. Lt. Karl Thom of Jasta 21, one of the greatest German flying aces of the war, was in the vicinity and had confirmed kills nearby; he was often credited with Quentin's downing, but never claimed the kill. Lt. Christian Donhauser of Jasta 17 claimed credit and publicized himself as Quentin's killer after the war. Sergeant Carl Graeper of Jasta 50 also claimed credit, but if he did fire the fatal shots, it was his only kill during the war. All three of them may have been in the dogfight which claimed Quentin's life.\n\nWeb ed footnote: Quentin reputedly was only able to become a pilot because he memorised the eye-test chart, as otherwise his eyesight would have stoppped him doing so. This was the suppposed cause of his death as he did not recognise the other planes as being German. After WWII, he was re-interred in the American ABMC cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, to lie next to his brother Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr who died of a heart attack in Normandy, just after D-Day." ]

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[ null, "They say that winning a championship is much easier than defending one. That’s clearly been the case with Zach Bell and the Wiseco World Two-Stroke Championship. His 2018 title has proven very difficult to duplicate. After a DNF last year, we hoped we could team up with him to capture the 2020 title. Unfortunately, a broken collarbone killed his chances of even showing up. But he had a bike–man did he have a bike!\n\nPROJECT ONE\nLast year was our first attempt at building a bike. As a base, Justin Seeds was kind enough to lend us his 2003 KX250. For starters, it wasn’t a 250cc engine, as Justin had previously had L.A. Sleeve bore the cylinder out to 270cc. We thought the 270cc engine was a solid base, and we didn’t have a ton of time to put into the build, as the race was in about a month. So, with the time crunch, we didn’t give too much attention to the powerplant. Most of our work went into modernizing the bike as much as we could.\n\nWe started with the front end, mating a pair of Xtrig triple clamps to the bike so we would be able to use the KX450 Showa forks, along with the modern front-brake system and wheel. That all bolted on with ease, so we decided to update the rear of the bike. Jon Primo at Pro Circuit was building 2019 conversion kits, complete with machined parts, that would allow us to affix a 2019 KX250 subframe, fuel tank, airbox and plastics to the two-stroke. We thought it was a cool idea, so we got the kit and went to work modernizing the rear end of the bike.\n\nThis was where things began to get a little complicated. As we were using the kit to install the 2019 KX250 parts, our progress kept stalling. We didn’t realize there were a few parts we needed to order on our own—the gaskets that seal the airbox, in particular. Though these setbacks were simple to overcome, they were a little frustrating because they ate into our testing time. Additionally, because the conversion kit was privately offered, there were no detailed installation instructions. So, our lead mechanic, Phil Valdez, ended up using the guess-and-check method at times when installing certain pieces. He also had to do some minor modifications to get some of the parts to fit as well as we wanted.\n\nWhen we finally finished installing the conversion kit, it did look cool; however, it was only a week or so until the race, so we didn’t have much time to really test the bike. In fact, the first time Zach rode the bike was the weekend of the race in Friday’s practice. That’s when we learned that the engine wasn’t going to be quite as competitive as we’d hoped. The power delivery of the 270 was quite a bit different from that of the 250. And although it made plenty of power, it wasn’t as snappy and quick to rev. With our lack of testing, we dialed in the jetting as best we could to try to improve it, but that was about all we had time for.\n\nWhen it came to racing, Zach showed his class in the first moto. He was shuffled back to around 10th on the first lap and worked his way up to third late in the moto, passing some well-known names in the process. Unfortunately, his effort ended abruptly, as there was enough tension on the air boot from the conversion kit to pull the boot off of the carburetor. The bike instantly died, and we hung our heads.\n\nPROJECT TWO\nFast-forward less than a year, and I had a couple of goals for our second go at building the two-stroke. Goal one: I wanted to get a newer model. As far as a base for the build, the 2003 wasn’t the best year that Kawasaki had to offer. Fortunately, Scott Perkins was very quick to offer his 2007 KX250 for our effort. With a bike secured, goal two was to focus purely on performance and function rather than flair. In the pre-COVID race schedule, we’d given ourselves more time for the build than in 2019. So, the first thing we did was pull the engine out and split the cases.\n\nOnce the cases were split, the cylinder was sent to Pro Circuit to get cleaned up and ported. We then sent all of the engine parts to CryoHeat. There, CryoHeat not only put the parts through their proprietary metal-strengthening process, they also vapor-blasted the pieces, giving them a beautiful, brand-new look. With the engine dialed, we turned to the suspension.\n\nFor the build in 2019, we used the Showa 49mm fork, but since then, the 2020 KX250 had updated to a 48mm (dual-function) Kayaba fork. We used the Kayaba this time around for slightly better compliancy on the lighter two-stroke. The forks and shock were re-valved for Zach at Precision Concepts to dial in handling of the bike, and the forks were again affixed to an Xtrig triple clamp, which modernized the front end, and not only looked cool but worked quite well, especially when accompanied by the Mika handlebars, ARC Memlon levers and clutch perch, and A’ME, half-waffle grips.\n\nWe kept things pretty simple from there, using products from our team sponsors to improve performance, such as the Pro Circuit pipe and silencer, Boyesen RAD valve, and updating to Kite wheels, an RK chain, Mika sprockets and a TM Designworks slider and guide. Of course, we used some parts to add a little flair, too, like Ride Engineering accents and the MotoHose radiator hose kit. The look of the bike was completed by the RAD custom graphics kit, while StompGrip IMS CORE footpegs and a Moto Seat cover added grip and traction to Zach’s contact points.\n\nUnfortunately, we haven’t been able to race the bike to see what it’s really capable of; however, in testing, the 2020 build has proven to be an improvement over the 2019 attempt. On the track, the engine feels snappy, sounds amazing and pulls hard. The handling is improved as well with the updated fork and suspension settings. Plus, by keeping things simple and not going overboard updating the look of the bike, we’ve lessened the likelihood of any issues cropping up during the race like in 2019.\n\nHopefully, we’ll get to watch Zach getting the full potential out of the new build during a race at some point. Until then, we’ll take a few of the values we learned from these two builds and keep them in mind for the next one—function before flair, and simpler is usually better." ]

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[ null, "For the first time in 15 years, the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday named China a currency manipulator — a move that looks set to worsen a trade war that has already dragged on the global economy.\n\nThat action from President Donald Trump’s administration came after Chinaallowed its currency, the yuan, to weaken to more than 7 per U.S. dollar — a level many analysts and investors considered important. Trump, for his part, called the slide in the Chinese yuan “a major violation.”\n\nSome analysts said Beijing’s move to weaken the yuan was clearly made in retaliation to Trump’s latest tariff threat. The president announced last week that Washington will slap 10% tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods starting Sept. 1. If that goes ahead, the U.S. will have imposed elevated tariffs on all goods it buys from China.\n\nThe U.S. and China — the world’s top two economies — have over the past year been locked in a trade war that has spilled into areas such as technology and now currency. Trump’s tariff threat last week came just after both sides resumed negotiations for a deal, which some experts said have become increasingly difficult to conclude.\n\nBeijing, for its part, looks like it has “given up on the trade negotiation,” David Cui, head of China equity strategy at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told CNBC’s “Street Signs” on Tuesday.\n\nHe explained that Beijing letting the Chinese yuan slide past 7 is “a big event” which adds to signs of “a protracted conflict” between the two countries.\n\nOn Monday, the Chinese central bank officially denied that it’s decision to allow the yuan to weaken is meant as a response to American tariffs.\n\nChina has maintained a tighter grip on the yuan compared to the way other major economies manage their currencies.\n\nIn recent years, Chinese authorities have loosened some controls on the currency, although the central bank — the People’s Bank of China — only allows the yuan to move 2% in either direction of a “midpoint” that it decides daily. The PBOC is also known for its willingness to intervene in the foreign exchange market to buy or sell yuan to keep it within a desired range.\n\nThe Chinese authorities have not let the currency weaken past the 7 yuan-per-dollar threshold since the global financial crisis. In fact, they have in previous years — such as in 2016 — burned a substantial portion of their foreign reserves to defend the currency from breaching that mark.\n\nIt’s for that reason that currency experts have long viewed that mark as a psychological important level. Breaching 7 yuan per dollar is a crucial development partly because investors don’t know how much more weakness the PBOC is willing to tolerate, so they could sell their investments in China to curb losses — and thereby trigger significant capital outflows from the country.\n\nOne day after the Chinese yuan went past that important mark, the PBOC on Tuesday set a midpoint that would allow the currency to weaken to 7.1 against the U.S. dollar.\n\nThe U.S. has for years accused Beijing of artificially keeping the yuan weak in order to make Chinese exports cheaper. The administration of President Bill Clinton named China a “currency manipulator” in 1994.\n\nBut China has avoided that label ever since, although it had consistently featured in the “watch list” of the U.S. Treasury’s semi-annual review of currency practices by America’s trading partners. The watch list features countries that have been deemed to warrant close monitoring because they may be manipulating their respective currencies.\n\nIn the latest American review in May, China met only one of the three currency manipulation criteria under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015: Its “extremely large, persistent, and growing” bilateral goods trade surplus with the U.S.\n\nBut the U.S. on Monday slapped the label on China under an older law — the Omnibus Foreign Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988. That offers “greater subjectivity” in naming a country a currency manipulator, said Khoon Goh, head of Asia research at Australian bank ANZ.\n\nUnder the 1988 act, the U.S. will have to negotiate with China or take its case to the International Monetary Fund. Potential penalties by the U.S. include:\n\nChina is not a major recipient of government contracts or OPIC financing, so the currency manipulator label is mostly symbolic without “major consequences on its own,” Goldman Sachs analysts said in a Tuesday report.\n\nStill, the move by the U.S. Treasury marked further escalation in tensions between Washington and Beijing, according to analysts from Citi Research.\n\nThe analysts wrote in a Tuesday note they expect the U.S. to raise the tariff rate on the just-announced $300 billion tranche from 10% to 25% “as soon as next month.” That’s on top of the 25% tariffs already on $250 billion of U.S. imports from China — to which Beijing had retaliated with elevated levies on billions of American products that it buys.\n\nChina imports a smaller amount of goods from the U.S. compared to what it exports, so the Asian country has limited products on which it can slap additional tariffs. Some experts have suggested that China could dump its massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys, but such a move could harm Beijing too.\n\n“The upshot is that China has few good options with which to directly hit back at the US. As such, policymakers are likely to focus on broader measures to offset the drag from tariffs,” Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at consultancy Capital Economics, wrote in a Monday note.\n\nAllowing the yuan to depreciate is one such measure. A weaker yuan makes Chinese goods relatively cheaper to buyers outside the country, so that could offset the additional levies that American importers must pay as a result of Trump’s tariffs. Such a move also makes the U.S. dollar stronger in relative terms — which the American president has said he dislikes." ]

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[ "Munich (dpa / lby) - After the taxpayers' association, the FDP now also wants to reduce the number of MPs in the Bavarian state parliament by means of a referendum.", null, "Munich (dpa / lby) - After the taxpayers' association, the FDP now also wants to reduce the number of MPs in the Bavarian state parliament by means of a referendum. The state board of the smallest opposition party decided on Sunday how and when the referendum should be implemented, but initially remained open. The aim is to reduce the target size of the parliament, which has recently grown significantly, from 180 to 160 members by amending the constitution and subsequently to reduce the number of constituencies accordingly.\n\n\"Bavaria affords the largest state parliament in Germany, and this threatens to grow further. But more MPs do not make political operations better, only more expensive,\" said FDP state and parliamentary group leader Martin Hagen. The FDP wants a lean and efficient state. \"The people in the country cannot explain a further inflation of the state parliament - especially now that many have to tighten their belts.\"\n\nIn the past, the FDP had repeatedly criticized the size of the state parliament and advocated a reduction. \"Unfortunately, the CSU and Free Voters are blocking the urgently needed electoral law reform. If the state parliament itself is not willing to limit the number of its members, then the people must take matters into their own hands. We know from surveys that a large majority of citizens supported our cause.\"\n\nAt the end of March, the taxpayers' association also called for a reduction in parliament and also called the option of a referendum as an emergency solution. Bavaria's state parliament president Ilse Aigner (CSU), on the other hand, had always spoken out against the FDP's proposal for an electoral law reform. In calculations for a new state parliament after the 2023 election, the state returning officer comes to around 220 seats. There are currently 205 members of parliament in the Maximilianeum.", null ]

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[ "Recent News: On March 27, 2018, the Council of the City of Toronto has passed By-law 270-2018 to designate the property of 68 Baby Point Road (Conn Smythe House) as being of cultural heritage value of interest.\n\n(Recent News about the Conn Smythe House. Excerpt taken from the September 8, 2016, article in the Etobicoke Guardian written by Cynthia Reason. For full article please go to our News Page)\n\nThe home, located at 68 Baby Point Rd. in Ward 13, was commissioned by the Hockey Hall of Famer in 1926 and designed by Toronto architect George Roper Gouinlock.\n\nSmythe – who co-owned the Leafs, coached Canada’s gold-medal Olympic team in 1928, and initiated the building of Maple Leaf Gardens and the original Hockey Hall of Fame on the grounds of Exhibition Place – lived in the Arts and Crafts/Tudor Revival style manor until his death in 1980.\n\nThe vote in favour of heritage designation by west-end councillors at the Wednesday, Sept. 7 session of Etobicoke York Community Council (EYCC) came on the heels of the property’s sale to new owners just last month.", null, "CONN SMYTHE – (1895-1980) NHL Hockey Legend, The Toronto Maple Leafs, Maple Leaf Gardens, The Hockey Hall of Fame, The Conn Smythe Trophy Many notable residents of Baby Point include the owner of 68 Baby Point Road. It was the home of Constantine Falkland Carry Smythe (“Conn”) and his family. The Smythe’s were the first owners of the house moving in 1927. During an interview in 2011 on the Rogers TV Series Structures featuring Baby Point, Dr.Hugh Smythe, son of Conn Smythe, states that Conn Smythe bought into the neighbourhood because “he was a good friend of Robert Home Smith”. Conn Smythe died at his home on 68 Baby Point Road at age 85 in 1980. He is buried in the nearby Park Lawn Cemetery. Conn Smythe is best known as the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. As well, the prestigious National Hockey League MVP award the Conn Smythe Trophy, was introduced in 1964 to honour Conn Smythe. He had been the manager of the New York Rangers, but “after a falling out with management”, he and a number of associates bought the team in 1927 changing its name from the “Toronto St. Pats”. Subsequently, Maple Leaf Gardens was built largely owing to his efforts. Smythe served as Managing Director and President of Maple Leaf Gardens until 1961. During that time the Maple Leafs won five Stanley Cups.\n\nIn addition to his role with the Maple Leafs, however, Smythe was also notable for serving in both World Wars, winning the Military Cross twice in the first war, and organizing his own artillery battery in the Second World War where he was seriously injured. He was also a race horse owner winning the Queen’s Plate twice. In addition, he supported a number of charities and founded the Conn Smythe Foundation as a focus for his philanthropic endeavours . Other connections with the west end of the City include Smythe Park and Recreation Centre located between Scarlett Road and Jane Street north of St. Clair Avenue. This is located on the site of a gravel pit which he owned and operated. The surrounding neighbourhood is known as Rockcliffe-Smythe and includes a subdivision he built for war veterans.\n\n(image below right: Clara Harris, Self Portrait as Student)\n\nClara Isabella Harris (nee Perry) was born in King City, Ontario October 13, 1887. She attended the Ontario College of Art (OCA) where she studied under John W. Beatty, associate and influential to the Group of Seven painters, as well as noted portrait painter Archibald Barnes. She attended the Port Hope Summer School founded by John William Beatty, and was a student of George Agnew Reid, Manly MacDonald and William Cruikshank.\n\nHarris is remarkable for her careful documentation of many of her paintings, including where and when the paintings were done, sometimes even the time of day. Many of these paintings are depictions of Southern Ontario that no longer exist, especially those of Toronto that have long since been paved over and developed. This historical record exists nowhere else.\n\nShe also painted parts of the Canadian Maritimes and of boats and harbours in the U.S. Northeast. As she painted very few portraits, the ones on this website are a wonderful addition to this collection. During the First World War Clara studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. She exhibited at various art shows including The Sixty-First Annual Exhibition of the Ontario Society of Artists March 1933; The Artists’ Annual Non-Jury Exhibition, Canadian National Exhibition Art Gallery, May 1-15, 1935; The 71st Annual Spring Exhibition, Ontario Society of Artists, The Art Gallery of Toronto, March 5-29,1943. She exhibited her work at various art shows alongside but not limited to Arthur Lismer, A.J. Casson, A.Y. Jackson, Clarence Gagnon, Frank Panabaker, Homer Watson, Lawren Harris and Emily Carr. Her work was also exhibited at the Kaspar Gallery, October 1987 alongside that of Emily Carr, Paraskeva Clark, Kathleen Daly, Dorothy Knowles, Kathleen Morris, Mary H. Reid and Anne Savage.\n\nClara married Frederick W. Harris, a draughtsman and artist. They lived for many years in the west end of Toronto at 23 Valleyview Gardens in the Baby Point neighbourhood. They shared their love of art as they travelled through Ontario, the Maritimes and New England. Their sketches, paintings, linocuts, greeting cards and correspondence are a tribute to this. True to the Group of Seven’s “plein-air” method of sketching and painting Clara travelled and painted on location capturing the beauty of each season. She was a stickler for authenticity never painting from post cards or slides.\n\nDante De Monte was born in Toronto on May 6, 1926, on Symington Avenue. After serving in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, he obtained his B.A. at St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. Dante graduated from Osgoode Law School in 1955 and he practised law in Toronto for 40 years. He was active in Liberal politics, serving as Vice-President of the Toronto and District Liberal Association from 1963 to 1967. In 1967, he was elected Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Dovercourt — the first member of the Ontario legislature of Italian descent. His special interests were immigration, citizenship and labour and he was named labour critic for the Opposition. His support and advocacy of the Italian community in Toronto included service as Executive Vice-President of the Italian Immigrant Aid Society, and he was active in Famèe Furlane Society, which was formed to assist immigrants from the Friuli, from whence his parents had immigrated. He participated in the founding of the Famèe Furlane Club, now part of the Friuli Centre in Toronto’s west end. A consummate organizer and fundraiser, Dante served as President of the Michael Power/ St. Joseph’s Dad’s Club for eight years and successfully raised large funds for the school community, for which he was presented with a special award of appreciation from the Sisters of St. Joseph and Basilian Fathers in 1986. His organizing skill carried over into neighbourhood life, and he helped organize the annual Games Days for the Baby Point Club, especially in the barbeque department. His roast pigs and half steers soon became part of local lore. Dante was the refined and enthusiastic host, convivial raconteur and lover of the family barbeque, the latter often including many neighbourhood kids. He adored his seven children and the memorable image of the De Monte brood piling in and out of Dante’s stylish 1966 Mustang has survived the test of time. He was a devoted husband and tirelessly supported his beloved wife Elvira as advisor and campaign manager throughout her long and distinguished career as Separate School Board Trustee and Chairman. He was also a man of the arts, lover of the ballet, opera and symphony (to which he introduced his children), a voracious reader and amateur military historian and an excellent cook. This was balanced by his love of sport. Dante was a devoted fan of the Toronto Argonauts, and held season’s tickets for decades, being a fixture at Argo games with his sons and nephews.\n\nthat this house has been sold to the wreckers,\n\nthat the creepers on the north wall that hide\n\ntheir nests from the squirrels will die\n\nalong with the wall they cling to,\n\nas the crowbars stab brick by brick,\n\nas the bulldozer panzers level off\n\nstubborn stone to a joyless rubble.\n\nso they sing on day after day,\n\nand no doubt will be singing the hour\n\nthat the crowbars pierce their last brick,\n\nthat the bulldozer cuts its hacking cough.\n\nto the next house, the next and the next,\n\na loud song of gladness and light.\n\nSo that song will go on forever.\n\nFrom the Collected Poems of Raymond Souster\n\nSouster’s free verse poems capture the details of daily city life. He was the author of more than 50 volumes of poetry, including The Colour of the Times: Collected Poems (1964), which won the Governor General’s Award; Hanging In (1979), which won the City of Toronto Book Award; and Take Me Out to the Ballgame (2002). His Collected Poems was published in ten volumes between 1980 and 2004. He also published under the pen names Raymond Holmes and John Holmes.\n\nA strong supporter of independent presses and experimental poetry, Souster was the founding editor for the literary journals Direction (1941–46), Contact (1952–54), and Combustion (1957–60) and the founding president of the League of Canadian Poets. His Contact Press first published, among others, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje. Souster also edited the anthologies Poets 56: ten younger English-Canadians (1956) and New Wave Canada: The New Explosion in Canadian Poetry (1966).\n\nHis honors include the Centennial Medal, the Silver Jubilee Medal, and the President’s Medal at the University of Toronto, and he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Souster died of cancer at the age of 91.\n\nMichael Ondaatje, who had been another one of Souster’s young poets, wrote, “He brought many of us to the surface and we owe him everything.”" ]

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[ null, "Bio:India Gants (born June 11, 1996 in Seattle, WA) is an American model. She graduated from Newport High School in Seattle in 2014 and immediately began her modeling career, signing locally with Seattle Models Guild. India got her big break when she appeared as a contestant on Cycle 23 of VH-1’s reboot of America’s Next Top Model with Rita Ora as the host. She sailed through the competition, never once appearing in the bottom two and received a total of five first call-outs. On Mar. 8, 2017, she beat Tatiana Price to become the 23rd winner of the modeling competition show. She received a talent contract with VH-1, a $100,000 contract with Rimmel London cosmetics and a fashion spread in Paper magazine as her prizes. Following her big win she was signed by Milan-based modeling agency Major Model Management.\n\nPersonal Life:India has three younger siblings. She says she struggled with body image in the past after not being as skinny as other models. She was told by some agencies that she needed to lose weight from her athletic build. She feels fine with the way she looks now after being mentored on the show by judge Ashley Graham." ]

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[ null, "A year has passed since Elric left Imrryr, his palace and his throne, leaving behind a heartbroken Cymoril.\n\nFor a year he has walked the Young Kingdoms, under the distant gaze of his protector, Arioch.\n\nA year since he traded his skills as a wizard and fighter to the highest bidder, forging, in each battle, the legend of the albino warrior whose Black Sword terrifies the bravest of warriors.\n\nToday he is no longer Elric de Melnibone, the four hundred and twenty-eighth Emperor of the people of R'lin K'ren A'a.\n\nToday, the Young Kingdoms know him as the White Wolf.", null, null, null ]