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[ null, "Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin actively endorses dubious businessmen. Isn't it allegedly for decent bonuses and tranches worth up to $ 25 million for the upcoming elections?\n\nThe word on the street is that Moscow's FAS has finally proven that the capital administration and the Mercator Holding of Stanislav Nikolaev, who supposedly has ties to the \"crime lord\" Semyon Mogilevich, wires large sums to manufacturers from Switzerland and the UK. It is possible that billions from the budget passed through Mercator Holding and went abroad - having bypassed established sanctions! A person behind the “scam” was ostensibly said to be Sobyanin's deputy Peter Biryukov. Apparently, he made sure that auctions with the participation of Nikolaev's company took place without delay. And who else could be \"embezzling\" from the capital budget? The correspondent of The Moscow Post shed light on the matter.\n\nWorth noting that Mercator Holding amassed as much as 33.6 billion rubles on government contracts! The first on the list of customers is SBI \"Roads\", owned by the authorities of Moscow. All municipal equipment that is on the streets of the capital is considered domestic. But, rumor has it that \"Mercator Holding\" supplied foreign cars under the guise of Russian within the framework of public procurement. Was all of that accomplished at the Muscovites' expense ?! Apparently, Sergei Sobyanin himself is not averse to having a little \"bite\" off the budget pie.\n\nIlgar Gadzhiev, the developer, co-owner of SDI Group, who is currently in London, told the YouTube channel \"The Facts\" about a curious commission.\n\nAllegedly, the former business partner of Hajiyev, a well-known developer and a co-owner of Kiev Square, God Nisanov paid Sobyanin 12% of all capital transactions. Moreover, Nisanov, according to rumors, could have sponsored the mayoral election by as much as $25 million! The \"old friendship\" effect?\nIs that perhaps the reason why God Nisanov is Sobyanin's “favorite”? The businessman has literally \"conquered\" the capital. He owns the markets \"Gardener\", \"Moscow\", \"South Gate\", \"European\" shopping center, hotel \"Ukraine\", hotel \"Radisson Slavyanskaya\", Europe's largest food trading complex \"Food City\" with a construction area of more than 1 million square meters and its own customs post. In addition, Nisanov owns two restaurants in the Zaryadye park, the future multifunctional complex with a hotel on Varvarka near the park, and several reconstruction projects at once. And now the businessman has appeared on the Patriarch's Ponds with his \"construction troops\"!\n\nBut not only Nisanov is favored by the city hall. The list of seasoned developers includes the businessman Pavel Cho, who gets tidbits of metropolitan land. The word is it is not without some Moscow officials being on the take. And let us not forget about the \"guru\" of construction - Sergey Gordeev and his \"PIC\", which regularly glows in scandals.\n\nAccording to the information by the \"Company'' magazine, a businessman, even in the midst of an economic crisis, sticks to his usual route and continues to run between the residence of the head of Sberbank German Gref and the Moscow City Hall. After all, for many years the bank has been continuously lending to Gordeev's projects, and Sobyanin has been keeping him busy. The renovation program launched by the City Hall in 2017 turned out to be a real bonanza for the businessman. In 2018 alone, the company received 42% of all contracts worth about 40 billion rubles!\n\nGordeev's former partner, Aleksey Tulupov, with whom the businessman worked at the controversial \"Rosbuilding\", also kept his business. The company was doing business so aggressively that the rumors began to rank it as a \"raider\". Smineks, the development company owned by Tulupov, surfaced on the news agenda in 2019 when an office in Ceo Spaces on Kadashevskaya Embankment opposite the Kremlin was suddenly rented. Experts estimated the cost of rent to be as much as 170 million rubles per year. All despite the fact that Tulupov's companies reported losses! But it didn't prevent him from \"signing up\" for new projects! Or did Mr. Sobyanin show a palm to be greased?\n\nAnd here is yet another major construction contractor - Mosmetrostroy. This year 51% of the company has been bought out by the City Hall from the scandalous owners of UMMC - Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev. The curious part is that the coal “duo” acquired Mosmetrostroy's shares in 2012, and the company's cut in different years accounted for 20-36% of all the metro work. Wild amounts!\n\nIt was after 2012 that the profits of the formerly successful Mosmetrostroy went down. And by 2018, the loss had amounted to about 2 billion rubles! So, was Sobyanin generously \"skimming off\" the budget for Makhmudov and Bokarev, but the money vanished into thin air ? And in 2020, did the mayor suddenly miss Mosmetrostroy and decide to appropriate the “gaunt” asset? And will \"holes\" be patched with the budget money? Perhaps the lame company deal was mediated by the deputy of Sergei Sobyanin and the supposedly long-time \"friend\" of the owners of the UMMC - Maxim Liksutov. The scale of the “con”, which the mayor's subordinate ran with the businessmen, who are associated with the notorious members of Izmailovsky OCG, is sickening!\n\nAccording to rumors, the ex-wife of Liksutov controls the profitable metropolitan company Aeroexpress, which Bokarev and Makhmudov happen to be part of. As Vedomosti reported earlier, Liksutov himself was a co-owner of the company with a share of 0.45%. It is not surprising that Aeroexpress earned nearly a billion rubles on government contracts!\n\nAnd the first among the customers is Central Suburban Passenger Company. In 2012, it was Makhmudov and Bokarev who won the auction for the share of the operator of Russian electric trains. \"The Moscow Passenger Company\" of businessmen bought back 25% least three shares, and the lot went for 780 million rubles, as reported by Gazeta.ru.\n\nIs everybody under Sobyanin's wing?\n\nThe Zarkom company feels wonderful with the adventurous mayor. Amid the economic crisis, the company suddenly received 1.6 billion rubles for ... laying curbs. Indeed, only this was what the townspeople, locked in self-isolation, dreamed of! Moreover, the company hit a jackpot as the sole supplier. What competition is there to talk about when it comes to \"laying curbs\"?\n\nZarkom works closely with the Moscow City Hall. Among the customers are the Moscow State Civil Code for the capital repair of the Ukris houses (1.6 billion rubles), the Department of Capital Repairs(947 million rubles), and Mosremont\" FSUE (62 million rubles). Perhaps those behind the successful office are long-known Makhmudov and Bokarev. The fact is that Zarcom was registered at Bolshoy Savvinsky Lane, Building 2, Building 4. This building is owned by Euromit, Iskander Makhmudov, as reported by The Moscow Post. Interestingly, can Makhmudov and Bokarev also pay Sobyanin a hefty commission? So that the mayor has enough to make it till the due date? And also to his deputy Liksutov?\n\nSpeaking of deputies, a former subordinate - Marat Khusnullin also turned out well with a good boss. According to Novaya Gazeta, since the time of Khusnullin's move to Moscow from Tatarstan, more than 46 of his compatriots have rushed after him, who have occupied leading positions in 45 state institutions of the capital's construction complex. Another 6 \"defectors\" who may be close to Khusnullin, settled in the Departments of Finance and Urban Property, and construction companies from the republic suddenly began to receive tasty contracts.\n\nFor instance , \"Invent\" of Ilshat Fardiyev, the former boss of Khusnullin at \"Tatenergo\", has made good thanks to the contract for 3 billion rubles. Sobyanin entrusted the old \"comrade\" Khusnullin with the rearrangement of the metro network communications- as if there was a lack of local companies.\nAnother “favorite” of the Moscow City Hall may well be Samvel Kapapetyan and his company \"Tashir Group of Companies\", which has long been on the list of the largest developers. For instance, the Stroystandart, which the rumors had associated with Tashir, suddenly received a project for 4.3 billion rubles under the \"Moya ulitsa\"(My street) program for the improvement of the Garden Ring. Karapetyan himself was engaged in a complex on Poklonnaya Street, a multifunctional center on Sheremetyevskaya, a shopping center \"RIO\" on the Lenin Avenue. And all of this despite the deadlines and rather dubious project documentation.\n\nSo the rumors that law enforcement agencies at the behest of the FAS are interested in Mercator Holding may well be confirmed. And where may the strings of a probable investigation lead? Perhaps, to the offices of the mayor's subordinates and those of the \"lured\" businessmen?\n\n06 September, 8:07\nOn the \"needle\": what prevents Sergei Gordeev from leaving in a good way?\n\n22 August, 8:11\nMishustin and Khusnullin: who is \"building whom\"?\nSee also" ]

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[ null, "“Dead or alive, you’re coming with me!\n\nComparison is a way of life. Surely, some of us do it more than others but the fact remains. This practice carries over to film as well; especially remakes of beloved films from yesteryear. The 2014 iteration of RoboCop attempts to capture the vibe of its 1987 predecessor. In the new edition, the year is 2028 and OmniCorp, a subsidiary of OmniConsumerProducts (OCP), is the forerunner, innovator, and sole distributor of robot soldier technology. Limited to military usage, CEO Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton) wants to implement these in the police force, particularly Detroit, but public sentiment as well as public policy is less than willing to hand over safety protection duties to machines.\n\nBut what if man and machine were melded? Sellars believes public sentiment would be more accepting of this, so enter Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman). After a failed sting operation, his car is planted with a bomb by the targeted syndicate while visiting his wounded partner. While at home with his wife and son (Abbie Cornish, John Paul Ruttan), the alarm on his car sounds and while attempting to stop it, the bomb triggers and he is utterly blasted. Unfortunate, but now Sellars has his prospect, and Dr. Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman) is tasked with rebuilding Murphy in OmniCorp’s image. After all is said and done, Murphy will be the future of law enforcement.", null, "What isn’t the future is a sequel, as this is simply an average film. There are some positives though. I admire the fact that the writers attempted to make some changes and tweaks to the original. While the original was superb storytelling, personally I am OK with a remake trying to do different things. It was better than sitting through a shot-for-shot remake, a la The Omen (2006) and Psycho (1998), which is incredibly lazy. However, these changes and tweaks seem to miss more often than hit. The remake tries to incorporate a family element, but it often fails, resulting in moments that are clearly designed to invoke feeling from the audience but come off as forced. It is also more political than the 1987 movie; seen with the in-movie news show of “The Novak Element,” which showcases Samuel L Jackson as Pat Novak, an obviously biased host who is crafted in the mold of Fox News/CNN anchors. I assume this was the movie’s satire/parody attempt at modern culture, but it too is uninspiring, though the end is classic Samuel L. Going to be YouTubing that scene for a while.\n\nIf you are looking for satirical elements or even a bit of humor, look elsewhere. Aside from the sort of political attempts, none exist. As for directing, crime-ridden Detroit looks pretty tame visual wise, and it never truly feels like it is a hell-hole. This makes RoboCop seem like a luxury, not a necessity. I kind of hated the suit, the first one shown should have been kept. News flash: Black does not make everything look cool. The suit appeared to me made out of plastic, and neither looked nor sounded appropriate. And the running scene? Ugh.\n\nThe action scenes were rather uninspiring. Occasionally a few parts looked nice, but it really suffers from terrible editing and cutting. There are a lot of bullets, but half of the time you can hardly tell if they hit the target, and it is probably to blame on the PG-13 rating. I feel that the PG-13/R rating debate is overblown at times, but this film could benefit from a R. It might not have made a huge difference as far as writing goes because it probably still would have been weak in places, but I am fairly confident that the action would have been praised more, which would have caused people to look past the other flaws. Apparently, director Jose Padilha and lead Joel Kinnaman fought hard for an R but lost the battle as the movie’s inflating budget forced it to PG-13 in an effort by studio executives to get something back.", null, "The film was not devoid of excitement. There was a 15-20 minute span where I was really engaged in it, but it was fleeting. Keaton and Oldman are the bright spots of the film. They really did everything they could to bring intrigue, and I liked their roles.\n\nI have been been pretty critical of the film by this point, but the biggest criticism of all, in my view, is RoboCop himself, or rather, the actor playing the part. Joel Kinnaman is so wooden and unconvincing. Within the first 5 minutes when he is talking with the police chief at the station, I was unimpressed. He felt robotic before he even became a robot! He looked unsure of himself in the titular role, and by result I was unable to get behind him. Jackie Earle Haley was useless. Completely unneeded role, and I was so glad when he left the screen. Abbie Cornish, Michael K. Williams, Jay Baruchel, and everyone else is OK, but they suffer from a lack of screen-time (Williams), or underwritten and unnecessary roles (Cornish, Baruchel).\n\nLastly, the film suffers from a defined villain, or villains. The original RoboCop did feature two baddies, but they were extremely fleshed out and despicable. Here, we are asked to keep up with three: Antoine Vallon, Sellars, and Norton. Vallon never makes his presence felt and is absent for most of the film, and I never felt that Keaton and Oldman were truly bad guys, aside from the end in the former’s case.\n\nDespite all of this, I am not ready to say this was a bad film. Again, I had fun in some parts and it looked cool occasionally. But by and large this was unnecessary. Perhaps if it didn’t have RoboCop as its name, it would be better received, and maybe if we stop comparing the two, it would get better. But c’mon! It has RoboCop as its title. I would watch again if family or friends wanted to check it out, but not one I’ll revisit personally, nor buy it for a dollar." ]

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[ "Assistant Professors Alaric Bourgoin and Jean-François Harvey are the winners of the 2018 Paper of the Year Award for their publication in Human Relations. They officially received the award on August 11 in Chicago at a reception organized by the prestigious British journal for the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management.\n\nTheir publication “Professional image under threat: Dealing with learning-credibility tension” was recognized by the journal as the paper that “best encapsulates broad readership appeal (and) sound methods, and whose theory advances our understanding of human relations at work.”\n\nThe authors revealed a new phenomenon: tension between learning and credibility. Tensions are palpable in work situations where a newly hired consultant must project expertise while learning about the assignment and the client’s expectations, and potentially must adapt their skills. The article explains in detail the sources of such tension and the tactics consultants use to overcome it.\n\n“The article offers a new perspective on the way in which individuals socialize in contemporary environments, where work is increasingly based on knowledge and is therefore less tangible. It can also be useful in project management, for temporary employees or even freelancers, for whom it is not always easy to project expertise while simultaneously learning what they need to know to put their expertise to good use,” explained the authors.\n\nAlaric Bourgoin and Jean-François Harvey conducted their research over a two-year period. They analyzed ethnographic data based on observations and material gathered by Alaric Bourgoin, who was a consultant while working on his doctoral thesis. They also held 79 interviews with other consultants.\n\nAn adapted version of this same study was also published in July of this year in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), called “How Consultants Project Expertise and Learn at the Same Time.” The article was a success with HBR’s readership and was listed as one of the most popular articles.", null, "Alaric Bourgoin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at HEC Montréal. He holds a PhD in sociology from the École des Mines de Paris and was a research fellow at Harvard University. His main research interests include management consulting and creating value in service professions. In 2015, he published Les Équilibristes (The Tightrope Walkers), and in 2017 he co-authored the book Capitalization: A Cultural Guide. His research has also appeared the journals Organization Studies, Management Communication Quarterly and Business Horizons.", null, "Jean-François Harvey joined HEC Montréal’s Department of Entrepreneurship after completing two years of doctoral studies at Harvard Business School. His work explores how individuals, teams and organizations learn, with a particular emphasis on how they can overcome the inherent difficulties of working across knowledge and organizational boundaries. His work on this topic has taken him to public and private organizations in Montreal, Tokyo, London and San Francisco. In 2017, he published the book Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership, with Amy C. Edmondson." ]

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[ "France (French: [fs] (About this soundlisten)), officially the French Republic (French: Rpublique franaise, pronounced [epyblik fsz] (About this soundlisten)), is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.[XIII] The metropolitan place of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany to the northeast, Switzerland and Italy to the east, and Andorra and Spain to the south. The overseas territories increase French Guiana in South America and several islands in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. The country’s 18 integral regions (five of which are situated overseas) span a total place of 643,801 square kilometres (248,573 sq mi) and a sum population of 67.02 million (as of July 2019). France is a unitary semi-presidential republic similar to its capital in Paris, the country’s largest city and main cultural and classified ad centre. supplementary major urban areas increase Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lille and Nice.\n\nDuring the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. Rome annexed the place in 51 BC, holding it until the coming on of Germanic Franks in 476, who formed the Kingdom of Francia. The settlement of Verdun of 843 partitioned Francia into East Francia, middle Francia and West Francia. West Francia, which became the Kingdom of France in 987, emerged as a major European talent in the late middle Ages, like its victory in the Hundred Years’ warfare (13371453). During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a global colonial empire was established, which by the 20th century would become the second largest in the world. The 16th century was dominated by religious civil wars in the middle of Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots). France became Europe’s dominant cultural, political, and military capacity in the 17th century below Louis XIV. In the late 18th century, the French rebellion overthrew the perfect monarchy, establishing one of unprejudiced history’s prehistoric republics and drafting the confirmation of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which expresses the nation’s ideals to this day.\n\nIn the 19th century, Napoleon took capability and received the First French Empire. His subsequent Napoleonic Wars (180315) shaped the course of continental Europe. subsequently the collapse of the Empire, France endured a tumultuous appointment of governments culminating later the inauguration of the French Third Republic in 1870. France was a major participant in World stroke I, from which it emerged victorious, and was one of the Allies in World deed II, but came under action by the Axis powers in 1940. similar to liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was expected and higher dissolved in the course of the Algerian War. The Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains today. Algeria and approximately all the extra colonies became independent in the 1960s, like most retaining close economic and military links like France.\n\nFrance has long been a global centre of art, science, and philosophy. It hosts the world’s fourth-largest number of UNESCO World origin Sites and is the leading tourist destination, receiving something like 83 million foreign visitors annually. France is a developed country bearing in mind the world’s sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP, and tenth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of aggregate household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs skillfully in international rankings of education, health care, animatronics expectancy, and human development. France is considered a good capability in global affairs, physical one of the five steadfast members of the associated Nations Security Council past the aptitude to veto and an qualified nuclear-weapon state. It is a leading aficionado confess of the European grip and the Eurozone, and a aficionada of the bureau of 7, North Atlantic agreement management (NATO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and evolve (OECD), the World Trade direction (WTO), and La Francophonie.", null, null, null, "secretmuseum.net can put up to you to acquire the latest suggestion roughly Le Havre Map France. reorganize Ideas. We give a summit character tall photo once trusted allow and whatever if youre discussing the habitat layout as its formally called. This web is made to point your unfinished room into a simply usable room in helpfully a brief amount of time. thus lets say you will a augmented believe to be exactly what the le havre map france. is everything nearly and exactly what it can possibly attain for you. like making an frill to an existing quarters it is hard to produce a well-resolved progress if the existing type and design have not been taken into consideration.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The New-Topical-Song ‘New President #T’, released by Mira Sound Germany on Audio Single, DVD and as Download, is Michel Montecrossa’s USA President Song apropos the Trump Inauguration and Presidency. It is a song looking beyond smallness into the greater meaning of U.S.A. Presidency.\n\nMichel Montecrossa says about his New-Topical-Song ‘New President #T’:\n“THE U.S.A. PRESIDENT MUST BE A PERSON WHO IS CONSCIOUS OF THE TRUE DESTINY OF THE U.S.A. TO BE THE LEADER TOWARDS HUMAN UNITY.\nTHE U.S.A. PRESIDENT MUST BE GOVERNED BY THE WISH TO HELP TO MAKE REAL THIS HIGHEST AND NOBLEST IDEAL OF MANKIND BY TAKING THE LEAD IN THE BUILDING OF THE UNITED STATES OF PLANET EARTH FOR THE GOOD OF ALL.\nTHEN THE WAY IS OPEN FOR CREATING LASTING PEACE, PROGRESS AND HAPPINESS ON EARTH.”\n\nOne President there is\nalmost no one knows,\nlooking after all the things\nhuman and more.\n\nDon’t be another fool\nbelieving himself to be someone\nwithout really knowing the one:\nDon’t be such a fool.\n\nDon’t be another President\nbut be the true one\ntelling truth, bringing peace,\nworking for World Union on this Earth." ]

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[ null, "If the body’s insulin production is insufficient or stopped, called as type-1 diabetes. The autoimmune disorder causes T1D and needs to treat with insulin shots.\n\nType-1 diabetes is also known as Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) and juvenile diabetes. It is spelled as type-i diabetes, diabetes one and diabetes 1.\n\nFormerly, it was known as \"juvenile diabetes,\" because it represents a majority of the cases in children, teenagers, or young adults, but now we came to know that it can also affect adults.\n\nWhat is Type-1 diabetes?\n\nWhat is type 1 diabetes? Type 1 diabetes develops due to the autoimmune destruction of the beta cells in the islet cells of Langerhans in the pancreas. It usually ends up with the more or less absolute deficiency of insulin. This destruction process starts a long time before the illness diagnosed. Thus, there exists an opportunity for prevention of diabetes in the future.\n\nType-1 diabetes needs insulin treatment and healthy diabetes lifestyle change for proper blood-glucose level maintenance and to avoid diabetes complications. Insulin cannot be taken through the mouth because insulin is a hormone (protein) that is broken down by the digestive system.\n\nSometimes after initial treatment, some peoples have a period from a few weeks to a few months, when the pancreas is again start-producing insulin known as \"diabetes honeymoon period.\" During this time, a person may need to take less or no insulin, depending on how much insulin you produce. After this honeymoon period, you need to take insulin for the rest of his life.\n\nWhat is an autoimmune disease? Due to the combination of genetics and environmental triggers, the immune system overacts by producing antibodies that mistakenly attack their body tissues instead of fighting infections.\n\nIn the case of t1d, Immune system antibodies attack and destroy insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.\n\nScientists are not sure why it happens? But the immune system mistakenly sees the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas as foreign and destroys them. This attack is known as \"autoimmune\" disease.\n\nThe cells in the islets of Langerhans, where insulin secreted in the pancreas, and these viruses are similar.\n\nThus if infected by these viruses, then few individuals immune systems mistakenly attacked the islet of Langerhans by considering it as virus and damaged it permanently. As a result, insulin production is stopped leads to type-1 diabetes; it is mostly diagnosing after diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) episode.\n\nWhat is islet cells of Langerhans? Islets of Langerhans (or islands of Langerhans) is an irregularly shaped patch of endocrine tissue within the pancreas. The most common are the beta cells that produce insulin.\n\nWhat is insulin? Insulin is the primary hormone in the regulation of carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism. Insulin is crucial for various metabolic processes; promotes\n\nthe metabolism of glucose by the body’s cells,\n\nprevents the liver from releasing glucose,\n\nencourage muscles to take up amino acids (components of protein), and\n\nInhibits the breakdown & release of fats.\n\nType 1 diabetes is one of the most common chronic illnesses of childhood and requires a complex and demanding treatment regimen.\n\nCan type 1 diabetes be reversed? Sadly, no. Don’t lose your hope; there are numerous clinical studies are underway and expecting an early breakthrough.\n\nMany believe the pharmaceutical companies put profit over principle, preferring to keep people living with diabetes dependent on costly insulin than to cure them once and for all. However, there are many parents of a type 1 diabetes child who are striving hard to find a cure.\n\nPut your mind to meditate/pray for an early breakthrough. Pray for success to these positive minded people over negative.\n\nIs it possible to save a partially functioning Pancreas? For more than a decade, clinical trials are underway trying to halt this endocrine failure by prescribing immune-modulating drugs to newly onset type 1 diabetes. During the stage of diagnosis, almost more than 90% of islets would already have destroyed. So the chance to save pancreas function is only possible if you can diagnose early before much damage.\n\nWhy me? Why now? Why Diabetes? Why this punishment? Why did God allow it to happen to me?\n\nThese questions are heartbreaking. Who on earth 'likes' this big D? It just happened. And it sucks. We can mourn the loss of the functioning pancreas, cry a little, and then move on.\n\nIt is distressing and life-disturbing to receive a diagnosis of a chronic disease such as diabetes mellitus. All at least most, when first diagnosed with diabetes experience the “Why me? Syndrome.” It is a common reaction!\n\nInstead of having the attitude of a victim, change your thought, take your diagnosis as a life challenge and say “Why not me?”\n\nToday, you are lucky to have numerous innovative tools to help you manage your diabetes effectively than ever before.\n\nOnce you accept your diagnosis; you can stop wasting your energy as being angry at it. Accept your responsibility and channelize your energy towards effective management of your condition. If you take control of your life, then you can thrive with diabetes!!!" ]

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[ "South Africa: Another Loss for Mkhwebane as Court Rules in Favour of Ramaphosa", null, "Advocate Dali Mpofu, who represented Mkhwebane, told the court that President Ramaphosa was being used as a proxy for Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan in applying to stay the disciplinary action recommended by Mkhwebane.\n\nWhile delivering her judgment, Judge Molopa-Sethosa noted that Ramaphosa's decision to wait for Gordhan's review application before taking disciplinary action against Minister Gordhan was rational. Alfred Mhlanga, head of legal at the office of the Public Protector, spoke to the media after the ruling was handed down and said the judgment would be considered and be given a close reading.\n\nMbuyiseni Ndlozi, spokesperson for the EFF, voiced concern that Mkhwebane's jurisdiction was being lessened by the ruling and that it was becoming easier for remedial actions recommended by the Public Protector to be suspended. Ndlozi added that the EFF would take a previous ruling by Judge Sulet Potterill, who described Mkhwebane's recommended remedial action as \"vague, contradictory and nonsensical\", to the Constitutional Court. Ndlozi believes a favourable outcome in that regard would render Thursday's ruling moot.\n\nThis marks the latest setback in a series of legal troubles for Mkhwebane who also faces an investigation from the Hawks police unit after a complaint was laid by anti-corruption pressure group Accountability Now.\n\nRamaphosa vs Mkhwebane - Bad Moon Rising for the Public Protector?", null, "Setback for South African Public Protector\nTagged:\nCopyright © 2019 allAfrica.com. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections — or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here." ]

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[ null, "From “Sexist Beatdown: Revenge of The Smiler Edition” by Sady Stein on Tiger Beatdown:\n\n“In adolescence, no-one is normal. That’s why it’s adolescence, for fuck’s sake. The girl who can pull off ‘normal’ the most convincingly is usually the girl who’s best at lying. And all too often, she is The Smiler. The Smiler is nice. The Smiler is pretty. The Smiler is popular, but not too popular; she’s just normal folks, you know? The Smiler is good in school and her teachers love her, but she’s not the valedictorian. The Smiler is in show choir and is cast in all the theatre productions, and she makes sure of her position by purposefully fucking with people’s heads and making them cry during auditions with ‘helpful advice’ about how nobody likes them and they should leave to make people happy, but she’s smiling. (Actual true story.) The Smiler is a respected youth group leader, a pillar of her community, and she tells the girl who’s been abused by her boyfriend that it wouldn’t have happened if she hadn’t presented herself so provocatively, but she promises that Jesus can make it better, and she’s smiling. (Also actual true story.) Sometimes, the Smiler is so good at what she does that the Smiler is your friend: Talk to the Smiler! Hang out with the Smiler! The Smiler only wants to help! Tell the Smiler your troubles—your many secret troubles that no-one knows about because you’d prefer to keep them private! But surely you can trust the Smiler? Except that two weeks later, everybody somehow knows a distorted Grand Guignol disastrous version of exactly what you told the Smiler, and your life is effectively over until college. (I was home-schooled.)\n\n“… What I feel is that I am hanging out with the youth group leader/glee club star/all-around nice girl who also spreads a rumour about how you went to third base with Derek and are a total skank.”\n\nSounds a lot like Amanda Bynes’ character in Easy A, don’t you think?\n\nOne thought on “Smiling Assassin.”" ]

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[ "To visit Gary’s bench and raise money for awareness and screening for esophageal cancer! Over the last thirteen years, over $133,000.00 has been raised in total for RCH. In August 2014 two gastroscopes were purchased for $46,133.00. The first scope is a general gastroscope that is used every day at RCH, to treat acute bleeding from ulcers or varices arising from liver disease. This equipment allows the physician to diagnose and treat the problem all in one procedure by taking biopsies. The second scope is a nasal-jejunal gastroscope. This is a special piece of equipment that is used for patients who cannot be sedated or have illnesses causing strictures which will not allow the use of normal gastroscopes. With newer gastroscopes, physicians are able to obtain higher HD resolution and diagnose illness with greater accuracy.\n\nThe third scope purchased in 2017, is a transnasal scope for $38,121.09. It is a thin scope, less than half the size of the conventional EGD scope. It provides excellent visualization of the throat, esophagus, upper stomach, lower stomach and the duodenum (first part of the small intestine). It assists in detecting esophageal masses that may not be detectable with the use of a regular sized scope.\n\nIn 2021, RCH purchased an Olympus ESG300 with the generosity of Gary’s Walk supporters. This system is the latest generation of electrosurgical devices designed exclusively for GI and pulmonary, and includes all of the modes and settings required by physicians performing advanced therapeutic procedures including those that may require argon plasma coagulation (APC).\n\nOver the last four years over $40,000 was raised for equipment that would detect cancer at RCH.\n\nJune 7th 2012 another $11,929.00 was given to Royal Columbian Hospital. More money that will be put towards the purchase of a gastroscopic radial ultrasound scope in the future\n\nMay 6th was the Third Annual Walk at Minnekhada\n\nInterviewed on Global BC News\n\nGlobal News Interviewed the Smith family and posted the news clip on Health Headline on Heartburn on May 2, 2012\n\nFeb 27th Jay Triano- former head coach of NBA’s Toronto Raptors, made a radio announcement about the signs and symptoms of Esophageal Cancer. It was broadcasted on local Bell Media radio stations.\n\nOver $27,000 was raised and will go towards the purchase of gastroscope in the future to detect cancer at the Royal Columbian Hospital.\n\nApril 17th was the Second Annual Walk at Minnekhada\n\nRoyal Columbia Hospital along with Fraser Health published a ‘What you need to know about Esophageal Cancer’ pamphlet. It has Gary’s story on the back and was distributed to medical offices around BC\n\nArticle published in the local paper about Gary’s Walk.\n\nAn article about Gary and the walk was included in the Royal Columbian insert in the Vancouver Sun paper.\n\nApril 25th was the First Annual Walk at Minnekhada\n\nA memorial bench was placed in the park.\n\nBC Basketball Hall of Fame\n\nGary was inducted into the British Columbia Basketball Hall of Fame\n\nGary is diagnosed with esophageal cancer\n\nGary suffers from back pain\n\nGary starts to suffer from back pain symptoms.", null, "For the month of April, 2022 we have decided to do a virtual walk again to accommodate the covid limitations.\nA virtual walk is a real walk, but on your terms: You get choose your own course, what time you start, and who walks next to you! The walking is real—it’s the community that’s virtual.\nWe encourage you to post a picture to Gary’s Walk Facebook page or on Twitter @GarysWalk or Instagram [email protected] of your walk or activity in memory of Gary.\nDonating to Gary’s walk is the same. Just go to RCH Foundation or click on the link Donate on our website.\n\nThe bench is on the Lodge Trail near the picnic area." ]

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[ null, "Since April, 2018 ISIS held 30 operations in above-mentioned CS: 16 of them accrued to Hasakah, 14 to Deir Ezzor. ISIS claims that 58 members of SDF and their allies (US military) were killed including 6 US soldiers and 6 high-ranking officers.\n\nTerrorists also report about 16 land mines being blown and 14 military vehicles being destroyed or knocked out of action.", null ]

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[ null, "One panel at today’s opening day of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) was chaired by the Valdai Discussion Club, moderated by the Club’s Programme Director, Ivan Timofeev, on the global impact of sanctions. The title: “The Risks Sanctions Pose to the Global FInancial System and International Business.” The program description included the following:\n\n“Sanctions present a threat to both the financial infrastructure of the ‘target country’ and foreign banks…. The transformation of the dollar into a weapon carries the threat of unforeseen shocks. Restrictions on the financial sector are also associated with human rights issues, particularly a lack of access to financial services (underbanking) for large groups of citizens…. The intensity and indiscriminate nature with which sanctions are deployed suggests that a targeted political tool is now becoming all-encompassing.”\n\nThe United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan (a former professor of international law at Belarus State University), spelled out the unilateral sanctions from the US and EU are illegal under international law, and are imposed “without any attempt at legal proceedings, without due process.” Due especially to the use of “secondary sanctions,” they create fear in businesses and banks to do any business with sanctioned countries or businesses or individuals. The impact is severe on a nation’s “health system, water and electricity, transportation — people can not get to the hospitals.” She named Venezuela, Syria, and Yemen as countries in which the hospitals have practically no medicine, no vaccines, high unemployment, and a consequent vast increase in crime and trafficking of people and drugs.\n\nVladimir Kolychev, Russia’s Deputy Finance Minister, said that as the result of these crimes, “a new global financial system is coming into being. It won’t come overnight, but it is inevitable. The sanctioned countries will do it.” There is an ongoing withdrawal from the existing structures, he said, since it is not safe to use US dollars. Russia’s trade was 80% in dollars as recently as 2019, but is now less than 50%. Reserves in Russia are now only 20% in US dollars. Russia and others under sanctions are also moving to produce goods domestically in critical areas, such as health care.\n\nVladimir Chizhov, the Russian Ambassador to the EU, said we are living through a “sanctions pandemic.” The EU now has sanctions against 32 countries, including three which are applying to join the EU (Turkey, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Montenegro). The EU says it only uses sanctions as a “last resort,” Chizhov said, “but alas, this is not a fact, far from a fact — it is their first choice.” Only sanctions approved by the UN Security Council are legal under international law, he added. “Smart sanctions,” he said, “are stupid. Above all sanctions don’t work, “even legal ones — look at the Taliban.”" ]

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[ null, "The third installment of The Conjuring franchise sets the focus on the young man Arne Cheyenne Johnson – a case that is most noteworthy for being the first murder case in US history where the defendant tried to plea not guilty due to being under control of demonic forces. And as soon as the Warrens meets with Arne’s lawyer who believes he has no chance to get a plea deal, Ed delivers his rather thought-provoking phrase “The court accepts the existence of God every time a witness swears to tell the truth. I think it’s about time they accept the existence of the Devil.” This is a real quote from Ed, and possibly the most rational thing he ever said.\n\nArne received a reduced sentence of five years, and both he and his wife have later appeared in an episode of the TV series A Haunting on Discovery Channel, called Where Demons Dwell. The episode only deals with the possession of David, and not a single word about what happened to Arne later, oddly enough, which is the most interesting aspect of this whole messy case. In 1983, two years after the trial, a movie made for TV titled The Demon Murder Case starring Kevin Bacon in one of the roles was aired. The film seems to be completely forgotten and seen by very few. So we just have to jump thirty years later and take a look at the latest film loosely based on the case, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.\n\nWe are at the home of the Glatzel family where the Warren couple, Ed and Lorraine, are in the middle of a chaotic exorcism seance of the young boy David. His sister Debbie and her boyfriend Arne Johnson are among the helpless witnesses, while all hell breaks loose which never seem to end. Arne finally gets enough, and pulls off a Damien Karras to urge the demon to rather take him – which makes Ed’s panic button go off just before he faints from a heart attack and gets rushed to the hospital in a coma. While everything seems to be back to normal, Arne and Debbie decide to take the relationship one step further by getting engaged and move to the country. Arne has clearly not been completely himself after he invited the demon into his meatsuit, and things take a really brutal U-turn when he one day gets piss drunk, starts to hallucinate and ends up stabbing his landlord, Bruno, to death 22 times. As soon as Ed wakes up from the coma, a battle is set to convince the justice system that Arne killed under the influence of demon possession, and they’ll try to save him from the death penalty. What happened in real life will always be up for debate, but it gets more tempting to assume that it was more the alcohol that made him do it than anything else, and only used his invitation of the demon as a desperate excuse. But this alone is of course not enough material to fill a supernatural horror film, so just like the two previous films, it diverges completely from facts to fabricated fairytales with its own imaginative mythologies, which includes satanism and an ongoing curse to find the source of.\n\nJames Wan, who directed the two first films, is only responsible for the story and worked as producer, while the newcomer Michael Chaves has taken over the torch as director with only The Curse of La Llorona and some short films under his belt. David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick got the challenging task to write the script, which was enough for me to not lower the expectation to zero, after watching Orphan, another great horror flick he also wrote. And the story is really good here, and more complex than the previous two, which mixes supernatural horror with elements of True Crime which opens everything up to a more adventurous field trip rather than just being stuck in a haunted house scenario, which honestly only James Wan is able to really master. The film is rich in locations such as scary basements, gothic underground tunnels, and a morgue where the Warren couple gets attacked by a giant monstrous man who could be something straight out of a Resident Evil game. There’s also a nod to The Exorcist as seen in the trailer, which was nicely done, and the scene with the waterbed made me think of a certain Elm Street film. Even though the film is not as edge-of-your-seat scary, it has a ton of atmosphere with some really great visuals, creative set-designs and a steady pacing that keeps the entertaining value on track, and overall a compelling story and mystery to get invested in. So yeah, Michael Chaves has proven himself to be a competent director to trust in, I would say. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are as usual great and convincing in their roles with as good chemistry as in the first two, and the acting in general is strong and solid all over the board. It was also fun to see John Noble in one of the roles, whom I haven’t seen since the Fringe days.", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Creative Commons/ZaldyImg\nMany childhood diseases that vaccines had once almost eradicated in the United States have made comebacks in recent years as an increasing number of parents reject the vaccines for their children, mostly due to fears of autism.\n\nAn analysis by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of more than 1,000 scientific articles has found that common vaccines cause few health problems.\n\nFurthermore, most of the side effects that were found to be associated with the vaccines tended to be rare.\n\n“We have a lot of evidence that vaccines save lives and avert a lot of suffering,” said Dr. Ellen Wright Clayton, chair of the 16-member IOM committee that wrote the report, in a phone-in press briefing on Thursday. “The side effects we’re talking about here are relatively rare because it’s hard to find them when you look at a general population. The majority of the ones we found are either short-term or readily treated.”\n\nNor did it find evidence that the flu vaccine causes Bell’s palsy or exacerbates asthma symptoms.\n\nThe committee did find convincing evidence of the following, however:\n\nAn exhaustive review\nThe 647-page report is the most thorough review of vaccine-related scientific literature in almost 20 years. It was commissioned in 2009 by the Department of Health and Human Services to help it administer the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), which provides compensation to people injured by vaccines.\n\nClayton, a professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., said she hoped the report would also help to allay any fears that parents may have about vaccinating their children.\n\nAlthough the report wasn’t specifically written for parents, “we had parents in mind every single step of the way,” she said.\n\nWon’t convince everyone\nDr. Gregory Poland, director of the Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., welcomes the report, which he said contained no surprises. “It was a rigorous process, and I think it should be very reassuring to the public,” he said in a phone interview Thursday.\n\nStill, he added, it’s unlikely that this report, as exhaustive as it is, will convince vaccine skeptics that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks.\n\nIndeed, the first question asked during Thursday’s press conference was whether Clayton and the other IOM committee members thought parents who believe their children’s autism was caused by a vaccine were “dishonest or stupid.”\n\nIt was asked by a media representative from the Age of Autism, an advocacy group that believes that the government and the medical community are ignoring or covering up the link between vaccines and autism.\n\n(No, Clayton told the questioner, “I am not about to say that people are dishonest or stupid.”)\n\n“The anti-vaccine people in particular will not understand or accept the methods used in this study,” said Poland. “So they will misinterpret the findings.\n\n“They have formed a belief, and there are no data that will legitimately challenge that belief,” he added. “They would have accepted hands down, no questions asked, a report that substantiated their beliefs, but they are unwilling to accept a report that repudiates their beliefs.”\n\nDeadly diseases are making a comeback\nThat unwillingness to accept the data has “directly and in a quantitative manner harmed children and has led to the deaths and disability of children,” Poland said.\n\nMany childhood diseases that vaccines had once almost eradicated in the United States have made comebacks in recent years as an increasing number of parents reject the vaccines for their children, mostly due to fears of autism. Minnesota, for example, experienced a measles epidemic earlier this year that hospitalized several children.\n\nBefore the measles vaccine was developed, some 450 children died each year in the United States and another 1,000 suffered deafness or permanent brain damage from measles complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\n“People forget what these diseases are like,” said Clayton during Thursday’s press conference. “When I was a resident, I had a child in the hospital with tetanus. You don’t want that to happen.”\n\n“One of the things that needs to be said to put this in perspective is that a lot of the diseases that these particular vaccines prevent are really bad,” she added. “…Vaccines are a victim of their own success in this regard.”\n\nYou can read the full IOM report or a six-page summary at the institute’s website." ]

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[ "Why are regulations dealing with hazardous waste so strict – and why should my business comply with them?", null, "In 2016, strict regulations came into force which ensured hazardous waste was properly categorised and dealt with in the correct manner.\n\nThe responsibilities for each producer, carrier, and consignee (the end receiver) of the disposal of hazardous waste were made clear.\n\nThere also has to be a detailed note of how the waste was produced, a chemical and physical analysis of it, and it should be classified according to the European List of Waste.\n\nThe most commonly-produced hazardous materials include:\n\nMore than 5 million tonnes of hazardous waste is produced every year in the UK and in recent years, that figure has been growing by around 8% per annum.\n\nThis waste is a hazard to human health and to our environment, which is why hazardous waste regulations are stringent and compliance with them is so important.\n\nSo, what are the risks if you don’t follow hazardous waste regulations?\n\nThe risks depend on the type of waste.\n\nPeople could find themselves with severe injuries such as burns or frostbite or asphyxiation from carbon dioxide, for example.\n\nSulphuric acid can cause severe burns and severe lung damage if it is inhaled, asbestos can cause cancers such as mesothelioma, argon can cause tissue damage, and incorrectly-stored LPG could cause a major explosion.\n\nThere is a risk that hazardous waste could pollute the water table and have a hugely detrimental effect on the environment – from plants and trees to wildlife.\n\nThe aim of the categorisation process has been to ensure waste is handled and processed correctly to reduce that risk to people and the planet.\n\nAny business which fails to comply with the hazardous waste rules could find itself being taken to court, facing the prospect of hefty fines and clear-up costs.\n\nAny injury to a staff member or member of the public could also result in a substantial claim for damages.\n\nAlongside the financial damage, the reputational damage to a business can also be huge.\n\nHow do I choose the right waste management company that complies with hazardous waste regulations for my business?\n\nLook for a company with consultants with a track record in dealing with hazardous waste, such as Inspire Waste Management. They will understand the complex hazardous waste regulations associated with it and help you ensure your waste is correctly categorised.\n\nDo you need advice from our Inspire Waste Management team?", null, null, null, "END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED", null, "Asbestos disposal when done wrong poses a great risk to human health and safety. Here’s how we dispose of hazardous waste safely." ]

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[ "Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul are in a high-stakes battle to win the party's kick-off nominating contest.\n\nIowa: Iowa Republicans cast the first votes of the 2012 White House campaign on Tuesday, with Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in a high-stakes battle to win the party's kick-off nominating contest.\n\nVoters will gather in schools, libraries and other public spots across the state to render judgement in the frequently shifting Republican race to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama in the 6 November election.\n\nSantorum, a conservative former senator from Pennsylvania, is the latest candidate to rise in polls in a race that has seen a handful of hopefuls roll through the top spot.", null, "He is battling Romney, the national front-runner and narrow leader in Iowa polls, and libertarian Paul for a crucial win in Iowa that could provide momentum and a surge of new donations as the race moves to next week's contest New Hampshire.\n\n\"Get folks and bring them to the caucus with you,\" Santorum told supporters in Perry, Iowa, on Monday as each of the candidates made a final pitch for votes and tried to bolster their turnout.\n\nIowa polls showed many voters could still change their mind before Tuesday night, adding an element of unpredictability to an already fluid race.\n\n\"I'm undecided, and I'm still in the same boat as when I came,\" said Zander Morales, a hospital worker in Des Moines after he attended a rally on Monday for Paul, the congressman from Texas. \"I'm not sure what I'm going to do.\"\n\nRepublican voters in Iowa gather for the caucuses at more than 800 sites across the state beginning at 7 pm (EST). Results should begin to come in within a few hours.\n\nThe event is the culmination of months of campaigning in Iowa, and starts a frenzied schedule that will include a half-dozen debates in January and three more state contests — on 10 January in New Hampshire, 21 January in South Carolina and 31 January in Florida.\n\nThe stakes are high for each of the six candidates competing in Iowa. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, is aiming for a win that could ease persistent conservative doubts about his record and propel him toward clinching the nomination early.\n\nStruggling rivals like Texas Governor Rick Perry and Representative Michele Bachmann are fighting for at least a fourth-place finish that could keep their flickering White House hopes alive.\n\nAnd Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who led the race just weeks ago, aims to end his slide and prove he can make a comeback.\n\nSantorum was trying to consolidate fractured religious and social conservatives in Iowa and emerge as the leading conservative alternative to Romney.\n\nBut Perry, Paul and Romney criticized Santorum for backing costly spending bills when he served in the Senate, hoping to halt his rise in the final hours of the campaign.\n\n\"He spends too much money,\" Paul told CNN.\n\nIowa's nominating contest has a spotty track record of picking winners, but has traditionally cleared the presidential field of losers and elevated surprise contenders.\n\nPolls show Romney performs best of all the Republicans in head-to-head match-ups with Obama in a general election campaign certain to focus on the economy and high unemployment.\n\nBut some voters in Iowa were torn between their urge to reclaim the White House from Obama and their search for a candidate who best meets their conservative principles.\n\nSantorum supporter Peggy Greenfield of Clive, Iowa, said she was drawn by his \"consistent family values\" and foreign policy knowledge.\n\n\"When people see the momentum he has going it gives them the courage to go out and caucus for him,\" she said." ]

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[ "Why high inflation doesn't seem to be hurting Democrats", null, "Republicans are left hoping that the once-in-a-generation high inflation rates will help deliver them control of Congress.\nYou look at almost any recent poll that asks Americans about their most important issue, and a plurality says it’s either the economy or inflation.\nFor example, a Fox News poll out last week showed that more voters were concerned about inflation than about any other issue.\nIn August, 37% of adults said that an economic problem was most important.\nSince March, somewhere between 35% and 40% of Americans have named some type of economic issue (e.g., inflation) as the top problem.\nWhat amazed me was that, on average, 39% said an economic problem was the most important.\nOn the other hand, recent efforts by Congress to pass legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage federally are quite popular.\nFor some perspective, more Americans backed the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling than were in favor of Roe v. Wade before it was overturned.\nOpinions on same-sex marriage in the US have dramatically changed in the past 26 years.\nPolls show, however, that a majority of Americans do want Congress to codify same-sex marriage federally.\nA bill that would legalize same-sex marriage has already passed the House.\nThe Senate has delayed taking a vote over same-sex marriage legislation until after the midterms, though passage there seems likely too.\nSource" ]

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[ null, "When the People Shall Have Nothing More To Eat…\n\nOne who believes that the earth is chasing him, where did he put his feet while running?\n\nMany years ago, I was driving back from Gombe, and on the highway was this public/commercial Opel car carrying 5 Nigerians. It was at ‘high’ speed, I overtook the car, blocked them in commando style and came down.\n\nI asked the driver, “do you want to kill these passengers, is your speed check working…” and I turned to the passengers to scold them for not warning the driver.\n\nBefore I could finish, they descended on me, “Oga how e concern you, (what’s your business), get out of our way, bla bla and bla.”\n\nI left them, jumped into my car and drove off, thirty minutes later in front of me was a ghastly motor accident, 2 dead, others with various degrees of injuries.\n\nThe driver survived, the car, totally damaged. Don’t ask me how I felt, and what I told the survivors. If I waited to help and all that emotional homily.\n\nHowever, I can tell you that, between that stretch of road, were a couple of police checks, Federal Road Safety Marshals, so how they navigated all these with such speed to meet death remains the story of Nigeria, and before I forget to tell, there was no hospital of minimal standard, and the closest primary healthcare facility was not even good enough for description as a chemist.\n\nFor a nation that was promising that fuel crisis ‘may be over next year’ in 1977, it is 2023 and we still have fuel crisis, and the unbelievable fact is that we have the same man, running the Petroleum Ministry in 1977 doing it in 2023, so with fuel scarcity for the hundredth time, this is the final corner in the long eight years that promised refineries, removal of subsidies, free market for energy products, and delivered none. And here I was at the gas station to buy PMS, and for the umpteenth time I noticed that only two of the machines were working, it was supposedly a “mega” station, and we know what mega means.\n\nAnd that cost me an extra one hour on the ‘short queue’ (and yes I must say ‘short’) and Nigerians know what I mean. The two machines that were working had only two pumps with attendants, instead of four.\n\nSo, do the math if the four machines were working, that would be eight attendants, and yet we complain of lack of jobs. Do the math, and tell me how much I have lost in time and productivity, tell me the effect on my mental health.\n\nSimilar to the gas station was the experience at the Bank, plenty of customers, and few tellers. The teller space was seven and only three were functional with humans. I refused to use my ‘bulletproof’ influence, so I spent 40 minutes in the bank for a six minutes transaction.Add that to the whole drama of new notes, you drop the old notes at the bank, and then use an ATM POINT and it dispenses the old notes again. We are the only country that gives deadlines on matters that are civil, fallout of decades of military rule and civil dictatorship.\n\nAdd that to some saucy and ill-mannered tellers. The reason for their frustration as much as they vary are clear for all to see, some have been tellers for years, and still on some very inhuman labour contracts that defies logic. They could serve us better, but how can they, when they work every day, 24hours away from the sack from an industry that declares crazy profits every year and the economy remains bad.\n\nWe are in the digital age, but the kind of fraud, and inefficiency that plagues our mobile banking is second to none yet our banking system seems to function better than our political and governance space because you could get a card that functions anywhere but cannot get a voters’ card in the same manner!\n\nIf you have lived in the North, we call it ‘angwa’.\n\nIn my hood, my street, my angwa, there’s no water, and yet my house overlooks the water management board saddled with the responsibility of providing potable water (sic), the roads are bad, and the security is best described as ‘hmmmm’.\n\nThe two DISCO transformers are often vandalized, local crooks break into houses when you leave the house without a living being or at least a dog, they pick items and the trauma of coming home to a vandalized home is better imagined than experience.\n\nWe blame the National Assembly, at the local newspaper shop we argue about the merits of that presidential candidate and the other gubernatorial candidate, and demerits, and yet we are saddled with all the problems of the angwa.\n\nWe are simply blind to the problems under our noses.\n\nIn the case of the driver, the road was not exactly bad. But he just would not obey the speed limits, he lost control, two lives were lost, he was reckless, it really was not the government. It was our business, not the government. Not Nigeria but us.\n\nMaybe the Road Safety’s presence on the highway could have helped, maybe available/functional speed cameras would have saved those two lives and the carnage.\n\nBut the truth is, if the passengers valued their lives, and been responsible, a collective caution from the five passengers could have done it.\n\nTheir lives as Nigerians was their business.\n\nIn the gas station, and bank, the key issue was ‘us’. From investigation, both were cutting costs, they refused to employ more hands. It was about profits at customers expense. It was about greed, not Nigeria.\n\nFor all the blames we put on the government, we are the government. The enterprise called Nigeria is our business, not some folks in Abuja or state governors (both those that stay in their states, and those abuja and foreign investor nation based governors).\n\nIf my angwa is to have good roads, it is the council man/woman, chairman/woman, state legislator who should be liable. It is about a small conglomerate of leaders close to me. It’s our business not some ‘bullet proofers’ far away.\n\nWe can’t change if we are not the change we want. There can’t be change if banks can’t treat customers right. When gas stations cheat by a litre, by two/three naira. When banks charge some phony verve enhancement fee amongst many mysterious charges.\n\nWe can’t complain about the government in Abuja when we don’t know who our ward councillor is, when we have never confronted local government leaders. When governors are alleged to be corrupt, we keep mute because they are our kinsmen, and when they are confirmed looters we say leave them because we are of the same faith.\n\nHow many times have we boarded a vehicle and the driver insisted on two in front instead of the mandated one. Did we complain, and insist the right thing be done.\n\nHave you contributed towards your local security by calling locals to enforce certain simple rules. We are the government, so Nigeria should be our business.\n\nWe pray to a Christian God at the beginning of a function, and close the same with a prayer to a Muslim AILah and then in the same function discuss how to steal because really it’s nobody’s business how anything is run.\n\nIt is not just leadership problems that worry Nigeria. No, it’s the problem of you, me and us. The ‘you’ that becomes a Minister and suddenly you need a bulletproof car, and you get two. We are plagued by our lack of simple ethics. We are willing to offer a bribe even when not asked, because often than not we are guilty until presumed innocent. So we blame our ineptitude on every other person but us.\n\nWhen the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich… we are not there yet, to treat Nigeria as our business, and not some prodigal orphan, we may be just going round in circles, as it is, we are just a people with some personal interests, for now, is there a Nigeria, and whose business she is, remains a question–only time will tell." ]

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[ "Two Powerhouse Voices has a hit song in the 1980s\n\nIn 1981, two power house voices of the 1980s joined forces to release a hit song that would become a fan favorite for decades to come. Kenny Loggins and Steve Perry, known for their distinctive and iconic voices, teamed up to release \"Don't Fight It.\"\n\nWritten by Loggins and produced by Quincy Jones, the song featured Perry on vocals and was the lead single from Loggins' album \"High Adventure,\" which was released in 1982. \"Don't Fight It\" became a hit, reaching the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the top 10 on the Adult Contemporary chart.\n\nLoggins was already a well-known artist, having had success with his band Loggins and Messina and as a solo artist. Perry, meanwhile, was the lead singer of the rock band Journey and was known for his powerful voice and memorable stage presence. \"Don't Fight It\" marked the first time the two artists had worked together, and it was a collaboration that fans of both artists greatly enjoyed.\n\nThe song itself is an upbeat and catchy tune with a message of not fighting against love and letting yourself feel it fully. Its catchy chorus, \"Don't fight it, just give in to the music,\" became a popular phrase and the song has continued to be a fan favorite over the years.\n\nOverall, \"Don't Fight It\" was a successful collaboration between two of the biggest names in 1980s music, and it remains a memorable and beloved song from that era. The combination of Loggins' and Perry's powerful voices made for a truly unforgettable hit that continues to be enjoyed by fans today.\n\nGo to Routenote a place to have your music on Spotify and alll the major music streaming services for free. and sign up and use my referral coded: 2f73badd thanks\n\npaper back I have release and new book for the Kindle release https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HVYLRMX An urban fantasy story is abo...", null ]

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[ null, "“[after stealing the magic cloak] So this is the secret of your success, eh Davis? Magic! Well two can play at that one my friend! When I’m through with you, you and your family will be sorry you ever moved to Lucifer Falls!” – Tom Lynch\n\nI figured that I’d have to watch this after revisiting its predecessor a week or so ago. Plus, both are streaming on Disney+, which I re-upped to watch and review all the classic animated films.\n\nThis one is slightly better than the first but I think that mostly has to do with the fact that it is twice as long and actually the length of a regular film. An issue with the first one is that it felt rushed in its pacing, due to only having about 45 minutes to tell its story.\n\nIn this one, the filmmakers had more room to breathe and could tell a richer, more complete story.\n\nI did miss Kristy Swanson and John Astin in this one but that was also off-set by the inclusion of Eugene Levy and a smaller part for character actor, Vincent Schiavelli.\n\nThe story sees Mr. Boogedy return after he’s essentially raised from the netherworld by a professional rival of the protagonist family’s father.\n\nThe film is primarily made up of gags and amusing sequences but there isn’t a whole lot in the picture that really matters. Everything is building up towards a big town carnival though.\n\nAt the carnival, Mr. Boogedy appears in front of everyone and steals the family’s mother away to be his bride. The family then has to find a way to pull her back into the real world while locking Mr. Boogedy away once again.\n\nThis film is cheesy and goofy but it’s also endearing, as you do care about the family and how positive and optimistic these people are, even after moving to a haunted house in a town called Lucifer Falls.\n\nRating: 6/10\nPairs well with: it’s predecessor and other episodes of The Magical World of Disney." ]

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[ null, "“Hold on for a second, she is still a virgin? And how can she be a virgin when you said she had a boyfriend for six years?”\n\n“I don’t get it, when were they together, in kindergarten?”\n\n“No, they broke up recently, they were together until she finished her college.”\n\n“You have to be kidding me…”\n\n“No man. But she’s not a virgin anymore, she slept with some guy who’s a few years older than her.”\n\n“After how long, a few years also?\n\nThe guy waited for six fucking years to get sex, and at the end she dumped him.\n\nThis sad conversation that I recently had reminded me of a very important subject.\n\nWhat are your boundaries?\n\nHow much shit are you willing to put up with in the hope of getting laid?\n\nIt’s interesting that there are guys willing to do anything, just to not get their girlfriend ‘pissed off’. They are ready to be in a crappy relationship, to buy her stuff, to put up with her drama, to stand her insulting their friends, family, to insulting them, their life, to laugh at their values, and they are eating that all up. And let’s not forget about those guys that are ready to pretend to be friends, just so they can be near her, and because they are scared she will no longer be around them if they tell her the truth.\n\nMy friend, if you find yourself in some of these situations, you need to urgently do something about it.\n\nI was really chaotic about those things. I would tolerate all kinds of things. Didn’t have personal boundaries at all. And then one day, I said it’s enough. And it’s not that hard. You just need to get your head straight and say to yourself, next time a chick does something I don’t like – I’ll leave. I will just turn and leave. An even better option is to openly tell her, “ What you did/said to me is not nice, and I don’t have time for people that don’t respect me or my time.” And just leave. That’s it. You don’t yell, you don’t make a scene, don’t send her messages, don’t ask her to admit she is wrong – be above that. Just ghost her.\n\nHave your boundaries and stick to them like it’s a matter of life and death. Only then can you develop a strong personality.\n\nA common example that has happened to me in the past is that a chick postpones a date. I meet a girl, we go out for a drink, everything goes fine, the chemistry is there. And then we agree at the start of the week that she will come to my place on Friday. Tuesday and Wednesday pass with no problems, Thursday also. Then all of a sudden, on Friday, she tells you she can’t see you today, something is up.\n\nIn this situation, I want you to ask yourself one question.”Would she find time to see me if I am her favorite actor?”\n\nLet’s face it, nothing is up, she had five days to fix everything and free her schedule for Friday. Instead, what does she do? She’s messing with you and your time. She crossed your boundaries. And what most of the guys do because they are afraid that they won’t get laid? “Well, ok, nevermind. Let’s meet tomorrow? Or, what are you doing on Sunday? Let’s meet any day next week you want.” And then they become little beta monkeys which they will remain for that girl to the end.", null, "Wake up man, why would you be afraid that she will get angry? You are the one that needs to be pissed off. Did she say Friday? Yes. Then it’s Friday. If she cancels it, tell her directly: “No, it’s not ok. If we agreed to meet today, that means that I have put my time and energy for this day to be free for us, and you are showing disrespect. I can’t see you another day.’’\n\nThe tables are turned\n\nNow, what do you think, how shocked is she now? She is used to running into guys her whole life that are soft and that she can manipulate the way she wants and then she got hit by a fast train. My friend, at this moment, you’ve got things under your control and you become the prize. You overturned the situation.\n\nSame thing when she is late. There are girls that are late intentionally. She leaves the house on time, and then she sees that she will be there on time, so she slows down, starts looking in shop windows and new shoes, she intentionally wants to be late. I always say to the girl before our date that I don’t like it when a girl is late. I wait for 5 minutes unless she informed me half an hour before that that she is going to be late. If I showed up and she is not here after 5 minutes, I leave. Yes, the first time it’s hard to walk away, but later it becomes easy. Today, the girl is taking a taxi if she thinks she will be late more than 5 minutes because she knows I won’t be there. And trust me, women hate very much when they put on all that makeup and spend hours in front or mirror just for nothing.\n\nThe best thing about all this is that after some time, chicks stop to flake you. Even girls that just meet you don’t play with your time. They can just feel when they run into a man of principles.\n\nJust don’t be afraid to walk away. If that girl gets offended or angry and doesn’t call you – even better, right at the start you found out that this girl does not respect you or your personal boundaries and there is no place for her in your life. But, in most cases, she will call you and ask how can she repay you for that, which isn’t that bad. Give her another chance, because you are few big steps closer to your goal with her." ]

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[ null, "Whoever coined the much-used phrase “Jack of all trades, master of none” might have a change of heart after reading Emma Gannon’s savvy new business book, The Multi-Hyphen Method: Work Less, Create More and Design A Career That Works For You, published by Hodder & Stoughton, which chimes with a rising trend. Studies reveal workers are growing smarter about how they invest their time, many preferring to manage numerous projects at once, rather than putting all their eggs in one basket. The American expression, “side-hustle”, which has now reached our shores, means a passion project that you have in addition to your primary source of income. Second jobs (or more) are nothing new, but attitudes towards them have changed significantly – many start as hobbies. Your side-hustle should initially be small and low-risk, where you can contribute as little as an hour a week towards getting it off the ground.\n\nWhen I ask Gannon about how she responds to the grating question “what do you do?”, she says, “I wrote The Multi-Hyphen Method because I was bored of having to explain myself. Now I say: I’m an author, broadcaster, podcaster and all-round multi-hyphenate. If anyone then replies ‘what’s that?’ I tell them to go read my book!”\n\nOriginally from Devon, Gannon, 29, is also a Prince’s Trust Ambassador, columnist and lecturer at the Condé Nast College. She made the Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list, as well as the 35 Under 35 in Management Today. The idea for her book stemmed initially from a feature she wrote in 2016 for UK Glamour, “In Defence of Millennials” about living a “slashie” lifestyle. Being a slashie means having a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary or portfolio career, for instance, barrister/yoga instructor, surgeon/jewellery designer or chef/gardener/blogger. “I think ‘security’ means something different now,” Gannon says. “Having one job doesn’t mean you’re secure for life anymore. If anything, it’s easier than ever to be made redundant because of the changing landscape and internal structure of many industries. There’s an analogy that a table is sturdier with four legs rather than one. Multiple income streams mean limitless earning potential. I don’t think it’s 100 per cent a good thing, but I didn’t make the rules. I just saw the research and wanted to write something that might be helpful to at least a few people.”\n\nWhat does Gannon’s typical day resemble, now that she’s her own boss? “I don’t have a routine, but I do try and do one thing at a time,” she says. “There is a misconception that multi-hyphenates are multi-tasking but it’s not actually true. I am not constantly spinning plates, I pick one and set goals for the day. I keep Mondays free to work from home and plan my week, with endless cups of tea and comfy clothes on.”\n\nGannon started chipping away at her own side-hustle in 2010, when she predicted that her magazine job wouldn’t survive five years – she was right. She has always been ahead of the curve, using social media before Twitter was invented, and coding before it was cool. As her first book Ctrl Alt Delete: How I Grew Up Online (2016, Penguin) details, she evolved alongside the internet and knows all the tools of the trade.\n\nIn 2015, Gannon was the social media editor of Glamour. She had the prestigious job with the shiny marble office that she had always dreamed of – but she wanted more. In a brave move, she looked beyond Condé Nast, published Ctrl Alt Delete and began her hit podcast of the same name – in two years it has reached over two million downloads on iTunes. She has discussed goals and careers with dozens of high-profile guests, such as Lena Dunham, Gillian Anderson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Louise O’Neill and Greta Gerwig.\n\nSociety has become rather obsessed with age and what people achieve by certain milestones. What does Gannon have to say on the matter? “I don’t think these ‘30 under 30’ lists mean anything,” she tells me. “I think so many people are leaving behind old definitions of success, fame, money. We’re realising life is about experiences, flexibility, freedom and empowerment. Being outwardly successful on paper shouldn’t be the main goal, I think you could end up feeling quite empty. At the end of the day, I feel successful when I feel connected, creatively fulfilled and have used my time wisely, all while paying my bills. I’m not interested in the hamster wheel of outward success.”\n\nThe Multi-Hyphen Method’s advice comes in bites that are both highly informative and easy to digest. Each chapter is backed up by case studies, articles, and an impressive bibliography. Gannon discusses a variety of familiar subjects such as burnout culture, curating your online presence and how to manage your budget. What she has discovered about herself through researching, writing and publishing her latest work is that she likes starting conversations. “I’ve also learned that we are all more similar than we think. I’ve had 88-year-old readers, middle-aged male readers and eleven-year-old girl readers. I hope my book validates anyone who wants to have a multi-hyphen career to go for it, and to be proud of their achievements. I want people to realise they are allowed to make their own rules.”" ]

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[ null, null, "In this series, Jnan explores the practice of ordination within the Theravada tradition by a close examination of the Pali Canon. His first article discusses ordination during the Buddha’s lifetime.\n\nThe Pali term pabbajja, denoting ordination, comes from the prefix pa and the root vaja (to go forth). It occurs in various sections of the Vinaya and Sutta Pitaka. The frequency within the Pali Canon of the use of the phrase ‘agarasma anagariyam pabbajati’, or similar phrases recording the action of going forth from home to homelessness, is a common feature in the ancient Indian civilization. For example, in the Cakkavattisihana-sutta, the Wheel Rolling Monarch renounces the worldly kingdom to take up celibacy and the spiritual life. Furthermore, several Jataka stories, which depict the previous lives of Gautama Buddha, also contain events surrounding renunciation.\n\nThe concept of ordination or renunciation is a pre-Buddhist ideal. The Vedic texts divide up the life of an individual into four stages, with celibacy as the last stage. The six heretical teachers, also contemporaries of the Buddha, were people who had renounced the worldly life. Sukumar Dutt, in Early Buddhist Monachism, mentions wanderers who have renounced the worldly life, designated by titles such as, pravrajaka, bhikkhu, samana, yati, sannyasin etc. Their objective in seeking renunciation was the search for highest truth (sacca) and highest virtue (kusala). However, the Buddha, also a renunciate of the worldly life, was different from those wanderers and ascetics.\n\nAccording to the Susima-sutta of Samyutta Nikaya, the Buddhist practices were advanced. Susima, a wanderer, takes ordination in the Buddhist Order under the misperception that spiritual life in Buddhism is the attainment of various supernormal powers. However, the Buddha and some Arahants later explain to him that this was not so. The meaning of spiritual life in Buddhism is living in accordance with the Dhamma that leads to the attainment of Nibbana. At this stage, the bhikkhu realizes the five aggregates are impermanent and through the understanding of Dependent Co-origination, a bhikkhu attains Nibbana declaring ‘birth is ended, the spiritual life is lived, done what has to be done and there is nothing more left to be fulfilled in the life.'\n\nIn the Bhikkhaka-sutta of Samyutta Nikaya, the Buddha explains that one does not become a bhikkhu by merely begging for food and wandering with unwholesomeness. According to the Buddha, a bhikkhu is one who has given up merit as a sin in this world and observes celibacy with a pure mind. A bhikkhu is one who does not acquire merit (punya), but does wholesome activities (kusalakamma). Punya is for lay followers, kusala is for the monastic who is striving on the path to nibbana.\n\nThe Mahatanhakkhaya-sutta of Majjhima Nikaya explains the nature of a bhikkhu as a bird that flies with only its wings: a bhikkhu is happy with robes for the use of the body, food for the use of hunger, as a bird uses its wings wherever it flies. These statements in various sutta-s show that the Buddha has given a very different and standard definition of bhikkhu in Buddhism.\n\nThe Buddhist concept of ordination was formulated in a practical way and is a natural step towards emancipation. Buddhist teachings are more practical than metaphysical as in other religions. The Buddhist practice, once taken up, ultimately leads to liberation.\n\nSuch a meaningful life attracted a vast number of people to lead a spiritual life under the guidance of the Buddha. In the beginning, when the size of the Sangha was smaller, the Buddha himself granted ordination. However, as the Dhamma continued to spread, more people aspired to be ordained but were unable to do so. It was difficult to meet the Buddha, as he was the only one with authority to grant ordination yet journeying from one place to another preaching the doctrine. At this stage the Buddha decided to permit his disciples to ordain people who were willing to enter the Order.\n\nThe authority of granting ordination up until the Buddha finally gave permission to other monks to do so, had remained fully with him. The ordination granted by the Buddha at that time was called ‘ehi bhikkhu pabbajja’, which means ‘O monk, come and take ordination’, an invitation extended to those who had expressed a willingness to enter the Order. The first person to receive this ordination was Kondanna, the first to understand the Buddha’s first sermon among the first five disciples. Secondly, the remaining four disciples requested the Buddha for ordination and were granted ordination in the same way. When the number of candidates was more than one, the Buddha used the plural form: etha bhikkhavo’ti. According to both the Vinaya and its commentaries, there were thousands of monks who received the ehi bhikkhu pabbajja, taking the Buddha as their preceptor.\n\nThe type of ordination granted by the disciples (with the permission of the Buddha) to ordain new entrants to the sangha was called the tisarana pabbajja. This means taking ordination by uttering the Triple Gems three times separately. The tisarana form of ordination was instituted after the Buddha decentralized the authority of granting ordination. Furthermore, there was no distinction between samanera (novitiate) ordination or upasampada (higher ordination) during Buddha’s lifetime. In both formulas, ehi bhikkhu pabbajja and tisarana pabbajja, the monks were automatically admitted to full ordination at the same time when the ordination was granted. The most important purpose for entering the Order at that time was neither seniority nor being junior, but to practice spirituality to end dukkha and its root causes.\n\nPart II of this series will discuss ‘Samanera (Novice) and Temporary Ordination’." ]

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[ null, "A new Community First Responder group has been set up in Clane. Founder, Hilary McDonnell, launched the group on March 7.\n\nShe said that new groups are being set up almost every month now and hopefully county Kildare will be fully serviced with CFR response groups very soon.\n\nMayor of Clane, Des Marron, handed over an AED on behalf of the Clane community, bought following fundraising events.\n\nThe group was set up in September 2019, and former Intel employee, now with Mercury Engineering, Hilary McDonnell, a former president of Clane Rugby Club, has been involved from the start.\n\nShe said that at the start of March there were 10 members in the group, who were fully trained in Community CFR and ready to begin their volunteering.\n\nThe group has now access to 11 AED (Automated External Defibrillators) through the support of the village of Clane, local business allowing their use if needed, and the purchase of two defoliators for CFR response kit bags.\n\nWhen an emergency call is placed via 112/ 999 the National Ambulance Service will notify CFR groups to respond to heart attack, stroke, cardiac arrest or choking. The first responders group are dispatched at the same time as the ambulance.\n\nAs the first responders are local and close-by, they will generally take less time to arrive on the scene than the ambulance would, so they are then on hand to deliver essential and potentially life-saving treatment, before the NAS arrives to take over." ]

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[ "Skip to content\nHome » The new Samsung Galaxy compared with the iPhone. Spoiler: everything is very bad\n\nThe new Samsung Galaxy compared with the iPhone. Spoiler: everything is very bad\n\nThe Samsung Galaxy S22 has just gone on sale, which means that bloggers have already tested it and compared it with other devices. First of all, of course, with the iPhone. And, with not the newest. You might think that experts have so much fun making comparisons with not the most modern devices, but there is a rational grain in this. In addition, tests of the autonomy of the flagship from Samsung with the iPhone 13 Pro Max have already appeared. The results are not only amazing, but also make you wonder what Apple can do and why Samsung cannot repeat after the Cupertinos. However, first things first.\n\nBenefits of the iPhone 11\n\nGerman blog authors computer base tested the performance of processors in the benchmark. From the test results, it became clear that the most powerful chip for smartphones was the A15 Bionic, which is installed in the iPhone 13, as well as in the iPhone SE 3 recently. He scored 53.4 points. You probably won’t be surprised to learn that the A13 Bionic from the iPhone 11 is still highly rated, with a score of 33.9 in the test.\n\nAt the same time, the chip Exynos 2200 from Samsung Galaxy S22 and S22+ scored 33 points. The difference is not so critical, but it makes one think about the shortsightedness of the South Korean manufacturer. True, it is worth paying attention to the fact that synthetic tests are far from an indicator. And the Exynos 2200 version, which is installed in the S22 Ultra, received 34 points, slightly ahead of the A13 Bionic. However, questions about the chip still remain.\n\nBy the way, the authors of the study also had questions about the new Exynos chip from the Samsung Galaxy S22. In their opinion, processor performance and the graphics chip matters in many situations, and it’s strange that a flagship Android smartphone can’t get ahead of Apple’s three-year-old chip. They also noted that this is a significant flaw that cannot be fixed with updates.\n\nDo not forget to compare with the iPhone 13 Pro Max and the latest Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. Experts from PCMag conducted a study using Geekbench 5, the results of which again surprised (or not): the latest flagship from Samsung again lost to the iPhone, scoring 1232 points in a single-core test against 1735 for a smartphone from Apple.\n\nThe Android flagship was also weaker in multi-core testing, showing a result of 3433 points, while the iPhone 13 Pro Max scored 4647. Experts also noted that Neural Engine in the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which is responsible for computing artificial intelligence and neural network processing, turned out to be much more productive than analogue from Samsung: The iPhone scored 948, while the Samsung Galaxy scored a total of 448.\n\nBy the way, experts noted that the A15 Bionic turned out to be noticeably better and more powerful than the A14 Bionic. The same cannot be said about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 installed in the flagship from Samsung: strong differences from Snapdragon 888 no. Some tests like GFXBenchshowed that Snapdragon processor power 8 Gen 1 has grown by 20% compared to the previous generation.\n\nLast fall, experts from PhoneBuff have already tested how much more powerful the iPhone 13 Pro Max battery is compared to the Samsung Galaxy S21. Let me remind you that the Apple smartphone had a deliberately lower battery capacity (4352 mAh) than the S21 Ultra (5000 mAh) and won, having worked 2.5 hours longer.\n\nThe specialists decided to repeat this test using the Galaxy S22 Ultra. It is worth noting that the smartphone also has a 5000 mAh battery, and the test still consists of using Google maps, browsing the Instagram feed, watching YouTube videos and playing games. From the very first tests, the Galaxy S22 Ultra began to lose to a competitor from Apple, having run out of battery by 6% in an hour of talk time. iPhone during this time lost only 1%. As a result, new flagship from samsung lasted 9 hours and 16 minutes, while the iPhone 13 Pro Max lasted 12 hours and 6 minutes.\n\nThe gap turned out to be even larger than last time – almost 3 hours instead of 2.5 hours. Energy Efficiency A15 Bionic back on top is the first thing that comes to mind. And it is. True, the authors of the test did not take into account the fact that the screen of the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra is slightly larger than that of the iPhone 13 Pro Max. And in everyday life, most likely, the difference will not be as significant as in laboratory tests.\n\nHowever, all comparisons suggest that Samsung is doing something wrong. At least the company realized that it is impossible to increase the battery capacity indefinitely. But questions remain for Exynos and Snapdragon, which are 2-3 years behind Apple Silicon.", null, "iPhone 13\nIs it worth buying an iPhone on Joom? Here is the whole truth\nUnder the sanctions, each of us was probably looking\n0 23", null, null, "Iphones\nHow much will the iPhone SE 3 cost. Spoiler: super-cheap\nPricing policy Apple smartphones – This phenomenon\n0 66\n\nIn Russia, they began to sell used iPhones under the guise of new ones? Who forgets sim cards in them\nDespite the fact that for almost a year Apple has not\n03", null ]

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[ null, "He started out as an average employee at Moskvoretsky branch of USSR Stroibank.\n\nIn 1990 he became manager of the Railway Department at Moscow Industrial Bank.\n\nOn 19 November 2010 Arsamakov received the Akhmad Kadyrov award for his contribution to the development of the banking system of the Chechen Republic and fruitful work for the good of the republic and its people.\n\nIn early November 1992 top managers of Vladimirkombank headquartered in the city of Vladimir appealed to the Ministry of the Interior with a letter in which they reported the possible transactions of counterfeit remittance advice through Moscow Industrial Bank controlled by Abubakar Arsamakov. The audit revealed a 1.08 billion rubles theft of the funds belonging to the bank. The money was transferred to the account of Rossiyskoe Magicheskoye Bratstvo (Russian for “magic fraternity“) on two false letters, received by the bank in September 1992 from Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk. Part of the stolen money, namely 950 million rubles, Moscow Industrial Bank transferred to the account of Pacific Liksin in Interprogressbank. The account of Rossiyskoe Magicheskoye Bratstvo was arrested, but the organization managed to get 129 million rubles thought Rossiya checks. The letter led to the initiation of a criminal case over theft.\n\nOn 29 October 1992 a representative of Sokolniki Association, the commercial director in which is Robert Gagiev, transferred from a private account in Moscow Industrial Bank 486, 400 thousand rubles to an unknown enterprise. The transaction was carried out through forged remittance advice. After the transaction the association representative disappeared.\n\nAbdullah Kurkaev and Abubakar Arsamakov both worked in Moscow Industrial Bank. During the 1998 default Kurkaev helped save the bank from bankruptcy, and in fact could be called the owner at that time. It was he who made decisions and invested into the bank, but the documents had Arsamakov as the owner. In 2001, the bank finally recovered and business partners began to force Kurkaev out of the business. For example, the building of Samson meat-packing plant in St Petersburg belonged to Arsamakov’s Samson and the land plot was in the ownership of Kurkaev’s Salolin. Therefore, the owner of the building received the profits from the plant and the owner of the land just paid rent.\n\nOn 15 September 2006 a group of armed Chechens lead by Sulim Yamadayev broke into the premises of Samson plant. There was also a second group of armed people headed by Levan Kharazov, head of Salolin. As a result, Khamzat Arsamakov, the general director of the plant and the nephew of Abubakar Arsamakov, signed the documents which resolved the long-term argument in favour of Salolin.\n\nWhen about two o'clock in the morning on 16 September the militants left the plant, the staff found the director lying on the floor in the office. An hour later he was taken to hospital. According to the doctors who examined Arsamakov, \"he was not just beaten up, he was tortured.\"\n\nIn 2005 raiders made the first attempt to takeover Moscow KP (former machine-tool plant Krasny Proletary). The permanent head of KP, Yuri Kirillov, managed to organize a defense. But then lawyer Sergey Belozerov persuaded the management of the plant to transfer about 65% of its shares to nominal holding of Ingosdep CJSC.\n\nIn November 2009, Kirillov was murdered in Cyprus. Neither the gunman, nor more so the customer was found. At a meeting of shareholders of the plant in February 2010 lawyer Belozerov announced that he owned 65% of the shares held in nominal holding of Ingosdep, a company that, as it turned out, he controlled. He demanded to replace the leadership by proxy from three offshore companies including Jardo International, Host Enterprise, and Bowen Group, which appeared to own the shares of the plant. The plant management refused to recognize Belozerov’s right to put forward such demands.\n\nIn spring 2010 the three mentioned offshore companies applied to Moscow Arbitration Court with a claim demanding an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to settle the issue of authority in favour of Belozerov and his accomplices. The court satisfied the claim.\n\nKP was registered by Industry-Reyestr, a subsidiary of Moscow Industrial Bank. Suspecting a \"special relationship\" between Industry-Reyestr and Belozerov’s group, representatives of the plant, led by the new director Sergei Vetrov, went to talk to Abubakar Arsamakov, the owner of Moscow Industrial Bank and Industry-Reyestr. At the meeting Arsamakov solemnly swore that none of his subordinates would take part in the takeover. He also gave his \"granite\" word to suspend deputy director of Industry-Reyestr Yuri Levin. But the next morning the meeting was held and its members voted for the transfer of operational management over the enterprise to Belozerov and a group of other people. The position of the new general director was filled with Aleksandr Krylevsky who, according to some information, headed AvtoSpetsTrans LLC. Industry-Reyestr counted all the votes cast for the change of head of the company, and the bank blocked the account of the plant.\n\nDid Arsamakov know about the conspiracy between Industry-Reyestr and the raiders? Why did the bank's employees - in violation of all rules – help the raiders? What does the \"granite\" word of Abubakar Arsamakov mean and was he personally interested in successive takeover? After all, it was not the plant itself that was at stake, it was land near Moscow metro Shabolovskaya estimated at 300 million dollars." ]

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[ null, "2018 was not an extraordinary year for bitcoin as the price of bitcoin stayed in a ruin the entire year beginning from about $20,000 toward the early part of 2018 to a low price of $3200 in January 2019. Indeed, 2019 did not start well, but the recent price has proven it not terrible as it is gradually taking off, though its cost is still in a bearish force right now trading around $3615.\n\nExperts and influencers have shared their price expectation for Bitcoin in 2019, yet are these forecast right? Anyway, recent Bitcoin trends and some big upcoming projects in 2019 such as Bitcoin on Nasdaq and products by Fidelity, Bakkt, Square and BlackRock are all factors to drive the price.\n\nMoreover, people are trusting that the SEC may support the VanEck Bitcoin ETF on the next hearing on 27th February 2019. All these combine to qualify some Bitcoin predictions as for likely to come true. Let’s take a look at three best 2019 predictions for Bitcoin that are being realized.\n\nCEO of Bitpay coincides with other experts that $20,000 is a sensible value for Bitcoin to re-test before the end of 2019. From all indications Bitcoin is for a bull run this year, Singh predicts that Bitcoin will soar to $20K by December and will never dip under $15,000 after that.\n\nSingh believes the new bull run will be driven by the upcoming projects and event Bitcoin this year. Singh said: “We going to see new players and miners develop in the industry this year.” He added that “Bitcoin will develop as a suitable commodity.”\n\nFurthermore, Ronnie Moas, a cryptocurrency analyst expects Bitcoin to reach $28,000 in 2019. As indicated by Moas, ‘ institutions and the best percentage are buying as they did in the 2008 stock market crash’. Moas expects the price of Bitcoin to incline in 2019 given the expanding demand for and the lessening supply of Bitcoin.\n\nFinally, Founder of Morgan Creek, Anthony Pompliano, in a tweet also gave a rather pessimistic prediction as he said Bitcoin is going nowhere. Nevertheless, Pompliano thinks Bitcoin might drop below $3500, and after that fall take on the long term, bull runs starting Q2 this year. He pronounced that, no one must freak out on the current low price because Bitcoin’s Fundamentals are yet to become as solid as ever.\n\nOpinion: I think even though Bitcoin has been facing regular instabilities, 2019 will be bullish for Bitcoin. I am optimistic that by the end of 2019, the Bitcoin price will be above $6k. I believe we will soon realize the start of the bullish trend.\n\nThe post Bitcoin: 3 Best 2019 Predictions that are Being Realized appeared first on ZyCrypto.\n\nRhythm Trader: Whales Acquiring Massive Amount Of Crypto with No Purpose of Selling it\n\nThe Crypto market is in pains, but that doesn’t seem to deter some people and investment institutions that look to…" ]

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[ "Braulio Estima: On His MMA Debut, the Blackzilians, and the Future\n\nBraulio Estima is a star in the world of BJJ and now has ventured into fighting MMA, as well. Find out how he trains, how he handles challenges, and what the toughest part of training is for him.\n\nWhen it comes to watching sports, I’ve always preferred MMA over BJJ. I haven’t spent a lot of time watching BJJ tournaments and so I’m not as familiar with the BJJ competitors as I am with the MMA fighters. My first exposure to Braulio Estima was seeing him viciously throwing his opponent and applying epic armbars in the very cool Storm Kimonos commercial filmed by Stuart Cooper.\n\nNot long after I saw that commercial, it was announced that Braulio would be competing in a BJJ super fight against notorious UFC fighter Nick Diaz. I was very much looking forward to seeing these great fighters go to war, as were a lot of other people. Unfortunately, Nick didn’t show up and we were all disappointed. Recently I had the opportunity to talk with Braulio and I asked him if he felt there was unfinished business with Diaz. Braulio said, “Not at all. I’m over it. I was very upset for what happened at the time mainly because I felt tricked and disrespected and my family paid the price for nothing, as we didn’t enjoy our so expected holiday prior the event so I could train.”\n\nStill, Estima did not need the fight with Diaz to prove himself in the BJJ world. As a second degree black belt under Carlos Gracie Junior, Braulio is a five time World Champion, a five time European Champion, and the ADCC 2011 Champion. Notable wins resulted from matches against Andre Galvao and Xande Ribiero, but of all his memorable bouts Braulio’s triangle submission victory over Marcelo Garcia in 2009 is one that he likes best. Most recently, in 2011, Braulio won a super fight at the ADCC against a very tough opponent, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, taking his back and winning by points as the time ran out in the twenty-minute match.\n\nThe fight with Jacare was a rematch, so it prompted me to ask Braulio whether there was anyone else from his past he would like to fight again. Braulio said, “I don’t really think much on the past. I’ve always aimed ahead and to the top. What’s done is done. If there were losses or victories, it’s all gone. I’m not a vengeful person. But to answer the question I would fight all of them again.”\n\nLike Jacare, Braulio Estima also competes in MMA. His debut was August 24, 2012 against Chris Holland for Titan FC in Kansas City. Although the commentators on fight night said Braulio’s game plan was to finish Chris Holland with a rear naked choke, a pre-fight interview indicated his first choice was actually the arm triangle. And it was indeed the arm triangle that Braulio used to finish Holland at the 3:21 minute mark of the first round.\n\nRegarding his mind set and game plan Braulio said:\n\nI do focus a lot. I’m very determined person and I work a lot on my mindset. I’ve learned throughout my career how to deal with it. I’ve also learned to be versatile and adaptable. So my game plan and strategies always will vary according to whom I will be facing. My striking skills will always be used to bring the fight to what I’m good at. Of course, it will all depend on who I’m fighting. I have power in my hands but my arms tend to prefer squeezing people.\n\nWhen Braulio began BJJ, he competed early and often, but it wasn’t as fast and easy to get into the cage. He trained off and on for two years before his debut. “There’s a different start for different people according to their previous achievements. In my case, it was very hard to start as a new MMA fighter due to my CV in BJJ. It pulls a lot of people away, so I had to face an experienced opponent.”\n\nThe biggest test for Braulio, though, was the dieting to make his weight class. “It was the first time I did it and it requires a lot of dedication, control, and perseverance. It’s a real test of how much you want it.” Braulio walks around at over 210 pounds, but he cut to 170 for this fight in the welterweight division. In general, he keeps his diet clean and natural, but when he supplements he uses F3 because, he shared, “It has a great natural mentality behind it. It fits to what I believe.”\n\nAlthough he owns his own BJJ club, Gracie Barra, in Birmingham, England, Braulio chose to travel to Florida to train with the Blackzilians before his MMA debut. He says he chose to do so after meeting Glenn Robinson, the manager of the team. Said Braulio, “His intentions toward the athletes and knowing who was involved – it’s very hard not to be comfortable to be part of such an amazing project.” In an interview about the Blackzilians on Sherdog, Glenn Robinson said he and the fighters discuss and approve each new fighter who joins the team. Although not everyone is an MMA superstar, each member brings something special to the team and that’s what helps all of them improve their games and become well-rounded fighters.", null, "Estima trains two to three times a day, including his strength and conditioning and technical training. Although it’s obvious that his mastery of BJJ has proven to be invaluable in MMA, he explained, “When you can punch and be punched the game changes.” MMA training hasn’t helped his BJJ technically, but he has been able to add better takedowns to his game and improve his legs and posture.\n\nBJJ in MMA offers other challenges, too. Without rashguards and gis, grips become much more difficult to attain. I asked Braulio how he adapted to gripping a slippery opponent, and he said:\n\nGrips are a very important aspect for a grappler. It gives you the edge to apply and complete the moves right and to control. So I do train a lot of grips. About the sweaty aspect, it’s a tough one plus there is also Vaseline there. But I always try to control key points like hips elbows and knees, which it gives you a bit more stabilization. But it’s still hard when the opponent knows how to defend himself. My trick is to be as tight as I can ever be on him and train the ability to deceive the opponent’s expectations and have good timing.\n\nAlso training with the Blackzilians are MMA fighters Rashad Evans, Alistair Overeem, Mario Sperry, and Braulio’s long-time training partner Roger Gracie. Braulio said, “Every one of those guys has their special skills. So with this in mind I’ve always tried to learn to open my mind and see what works for each of them and try to incorporate that into my skills and game. I’ve never had only one specific idol; I’ve always explored everyone’s best games and fit in to mine what works for me.”\n\nMoving forward, Braulio stated his goals as, “To give a year of full dedication and see how far I’ve come and decide then what to do next. As long as I’m enjoying my journey, I will keep on going as far as a can possibly reach.”\n\nBraulio Estima has proven himself to be a dangerous competitor both on the mats and in the cage. He’s a fighter who is always thinking, always creating strategies to impose his will on his opponents, leaving no detail overlooked. With his tireless commitment to improving his game and the support of the Blackzilians, he’s sure to climb the ranks in MMA and I look forward to watching his journey to the top." ]

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[ "One of the major reasons that desktop virtualization never really took off with most IT organizations is because there aren’t many tools available to manage the environment.\n\nAt the Citrix Synergy 2015 conference today, Dell announced that IT organizations can now apply Dell Foglight analytics to both Citrix and VMware virtual desktop computing environments.\n\nIn addition, Dell announced a Dell Appliance for Wyse-Citrix that simplifies deploying Citrix desktop virtualization software on a Dell Wyse appliance. It also released version 5.5 of Wyse Device Manager (WDM) that sports a revamped user interface. Dell also now offers a free version of that software that can support up to 250 desktop images.", null, "IT organizations may not be ready to embrace desktop virtualization just yet. But with the pending arrival of Windows 10 and the proliferation of devices running operating systems from Apple and Google, the complexity of the desktop computing environment is increasing. As such, IT organizations may need to consider a variety of virtualization options that return more control to the internal IT department." ]

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[ "How to keep apps from tracking you on Facebook\n\nTips on preventing an app from lying dormant and collecting your information.", null, "Denver — Whether you like it or not, we live in a world filled with social media and smart phones. Any time we link the two together, there’s the potential for things to get uncomfortable.\n\n“Any type of app you use, whether it be a game, a survey, something you install to buy movie tickets, anything like that has the ability to gather information about you on Facebook,” David Dufour, WEBROOTS VP of Engineering and Cyber Security, told 9NEWS.\n\nThis issue has come front and center thanks to Facebook’s scandal involving Cambridge Analytica.\n\nSo how do you prevent an app from lying dormant and collecting your information?\n\nEven if you delete an app on your phone, Dufour said they are still able to track you through Facebook.\n\nSo, here are the steps Dufour gave us to officially cut off access to Facebook. They’re the same for iPhones and Androids:\n\nMore likely than not, there will be some apps that you’re not familiar with. But, Dufour said they’re there because you’ve had some sort of contact with them in the past.\n\n“Most of these aren’t nefarious, they’re just people trying to sell you something or get some generic information,” Dufour said. “But if you’re not using it, the best thing to do is just get rid of it.”" ]

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[ "The site Total Beauty made the huge mistake during coverage of the Academy Awards Sunday.\n\nOprah Winfrey was just as disappointed as everyone else who noticed she was mistaken for Whoopi Goldberg at the 88th Academy Awards.\n\nBlog Total Beauty made the cringe-worthy flub during red carpet arrivals Sunday evening. The site, which rarely focuses on products for people of color, posted a photo of Goldberg to their Twitter account with the caption, “We had no idea Oprah was tatted, and we love it. #Oscars.”\n\nAfter major backlash from pretty much everyone, the tweet was deleted and the site released an apology:\n\nOprah and BFF Gayle King commented on the blunder with a hilarious Instagram post. The co-anchor of CBS This Morning posted a photo of Oprah and King’s daughter Kirby Bumpus’ reaction to the tweet.\n\nThe site took their apology a step further by agreeing to donate $10,000 to any charity of Goldberg and Winfrey’s choice.\n\nOprah Reacts To Beauty Blog Mistaking Her For Whoopi Goldberg At The Oscars was originally published on newsone.com", null, "Oprah Reacts To Beauty Blog Mistaking Her For…" ]

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[ null, "Saudi Arabia and Egypt are building a bridge over the Red Sea — a move that might be partly motivated by Egypt's dwindling economy.\n\nDetailed plans for the bridge have yet to be released, but the countries' likely plan is to connect the southern Sinai Peninsula to Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe two countries are allies, and Saudi Arabia is one of Egypt's major investors.\n\nEgypt's economy started faltering during the Arab Spring in 2011, and Saudi Arabia has been helping Egypt since 2013.\n\nLast year after facing a currency shortage, Egypt received $8 billion from the gulf state. According to Al Jazeera, the two countries are expected to sign a multibillion-dollar plan to fund Egypt's oil needs for the next five years.\n\nBut Saudi Arabia's pockets aren't endlessly deep. In March, the oil-funded kingdom was reportedly looking to get $8 billion in loans as oil prices fell.\n\nThe bridge could offer some benefits — at least, both countries are likely hoping so. Saudi Arabia's king said connecting the nations could offer \"unprecedented levels\" of trade.\n\nOf course, this isn't just about trade. There's influence at stake here, too.\n\nThe two countries' partnership includes standing together politically in the region and against Iran." ]

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[ "Pablo Neruda's death to be investigated by global scientists in Chile\n\nA team of scientists gathered in Santiago to determine whether Pablo Neruda died of cancer or of poison given on the orders of Augusto Pinochet.\n\nA global team of scientists gathered in the Chilean capital with the goal of determining whether the 1973 death of poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda was the result of cancer or of poison administered on the orders of dictator Augusto Pinochet.", null, "The panel, which includes recognised authorities from Chile, Spain, the United States, Denmark, Canada and France, is to deliver a report to Judge Mario Carroza, who is overseeing the investigation, Efe news reported.\n\n\"What each of the experts brings is our little piece of the puzzle to try to construct together in the most reliable way possible what could have happened with the death of Pablo Neruda,\" said Spanish forensic pathologist Aurelio Luna.\n\nThe Nobel laureate, who was suffering from prostate cancer, died on 23 September, 1973, 12 days after Pinochet toppled Chile's Socialist government in a bloody coup.\n\nHis death was officially blamed on the cancer, but an investigation was opened in mid-2011 after a complaint was filed by Neruda's Communist Party colleagues based on charges by former chauffeur Manuel Araya that Neruda was murdered on Pinochet's orders.\n\nThe poet's body was exhumed on 8 April, 2013, and a previous group of Chilean and international experts concluded seven months later that Neruda had not been poisoned.\n\nCarroza, however, was not fully satisfied and he ordered additional tests.\n\nThe task of participants in this week's conference in Santiago is to analyse the results of those tests and come to some kind of conclusion.\n\nInvestigations of other deaths have established that \"crimes\" took place at the Santa Maria Clinic - where Neruda died - during the Pinochet dictatorships, Eduardo Contreras, legal counsel for the Chilean Communist Party, said Monday.\n\nThe 1982 death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, who governed from 1964-1970, at the Santa Marta Clinic after undergoing a routine procedure has been attributed to poisoning.\n\n\"Pablo Neruda died in the same clinic, on the same floor, with the same doctors and several of the same nurses,\" Contreras said.\n\nThe Nobel Prize winner, a member of the Communist Party Central Committee, died as he was preparing to travel to Mexico on a mission to organize opposition to Pinochet, the attorney said.\n\nSupporters of the theory that Neruda was murdered have pointed to the presence in his remains of a highly aggressive, penicillin-resistant bacterium.\n\nLawyer Rodolfo Reyes, a nephew of Neruda who is representing the family, told EFE he was confident that the scientists meeting here would conclude that the poet was poisoned." ]

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[ null, "Russian troops are actively shelling Ukrainian positions while carrying out an offensive in the east of Ukraine. Ground assault actions continue in a limited format after preliminary intensive preparation by artillery and air strikes.\n\nThe State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russian military shelled Ukrainian border territories in the Sumy region. They used mortars and helicopters armed with unguided rockets.\n\nRussian troops are trying to gain a foothold in positions near Kharkiv. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue their active defense. The Ukrainian military liberated the village of Ruska Lozova, which is a strategically important point on the Kharkiv-Belgorod highway. From this village, Russian troops shelled residential and civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv.\n\nActive hostilities continue near Izium. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russian troops are bringing in additional crossings over the Siverskyi Donets River to reinforce their forces in this direction.\n\nShelling of Kharkiv continues. On April 29, the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov reported that 5 civilians were killed and 11 were wounded in the region over the past 24 hours. During the day, according to the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration 1 person was killed in the region, 5 people were wounded.\n\nIn Luhansk region, Russian troops are trying to establish control over Rubizhne and Popasna and are preparing for an offensive on Sievierodonetsk. According to the head of the Luhansk Regional Military Administration, Serhii Haidai, shelling of populated areas located in close proximity to the front line is ongoing. Among the affected are 2 employees of the State Emergency Service, who were injured.\n\nOn the territory of the Donetsk region, an offensive by Russian troops continues in the direction of Kurakhove (to the south) and Lyman (to the north). The Ukrainian military preemptively blew up a railroad bridge over the Siverskyi Donets in the Lyman-Raihorodok section in order to complicate conditions for the Russian offensive.\n\nAir strikes on Mariupol continue. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded a movement of Russian units from that city to other sections of the front.\n\nAccording to the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, at least 2 civilians were killed and 4 were wounded in the region during April 29.\n\nIvan Arefiev, a representative of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military Administration, revealed that the Russians are trying to advance and push deep into the Zaporizhzhia region. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, artillery shelling of Ukrainian positions continues unabated.\n\nRussian troops shelled populated areas on the border of Kherson and Dnipropetrovsk regions in the Kryvyi Rih direction with MLRS.\n\nThe Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recorded 6134 civilian casualties in Ukraine as of April 28, 2022 (2899 dead and 3235 wounded). Juvenile prosecutors inform that more than 617 children (219 children killed, 398 injured) suffered as a result of the large-scale invasion by the Russian Federation.\n\nThe Institute of Mass Information recorded 243 crimes by the Russian military against journalists in Ukraine. It is known that 7 journalists were killed, 15 went missing, and 14 were killed as combatants. Among the latest victims of the war is Vira Hyrych, a journalist and producer for the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty, who was killed in a Russian strike in Kyiv on the evening of April 28.\n\nThe Office of the Prosecutor General began an investigation into the kidnapping of two British volunteers by the Russian military in the Zaporizhzhia region.\n\nThe head of the investigation department of the National Police in Kharkiv Region, Serhii Bolvinov, spoke about the crimes committed by the Russian military in the temporarily occupied territories of the region. Among other things, he reported the brutal torture and shooting of a Ukrainian medic, who had previously participated in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO).\n\nAccording to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, law enforcers discovered another mass grave of civilians on the territory of Kyiv region, which was under Russian occupation in March.\n\nAdvisor to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriushchenko reports increased filtration measures in the temporarily occupied areas of the city. Most of the male population from the outskirts of Mariupol has been in filtration camps for more than a week.\n\nThe Azov Regiment press service informed that more than 500 wounded and doctors were trapped under the rubble of a field hospital in Mariupol due to airstrikes on the Azovstal plant. One soldier was killed, and hundreds of wounded received contusions. The commander of the 36th Marine Brigade declared a humanitarian disaster in the Azovstal bunkers.\n\nRafael Grossi, Director General of the IAEA, returned from Ukraine and spoke about the situation with nuclear facilities in the war zone. He stated that a missile flight over the South Ukraine nuclear power plant that was recorded on April 16 threatened the “physical integrity” of the plant, which could have led to a nuclear accident.\n\nMinister of Healthcare Viktor Liashko indicated that as a result of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine 39 medical institutions were completely destroyed and 369 were damaged.\n\nOmbudsman Liudmyla Denisova informed about 700 cases of forced blood donation among university students in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions for transferring to the wounded Russian military.\n\nUkraine’s largest bank by asset size, PrivatBank, moved its data center to the European Union, fearing the threat of physical destruction of the bank’s data centers in Kyiv and Dnipro.\n\nThe Ministry of Finance of Ukraine announced that Ukraine received grant financing in the amount of 88.5 million euros. The funds were provided from the World Bank’s Donor Trust Fund within the framework of the Second Economic Recovery Development Policy Loan Program for Ukraine.\n\nThe Verkhovna Rada refused from the preliminary initiative to return the excise tax on fuel and 20% of the value added tax. In turn, the Cabinet of Ministers raised the trade markup on diesel fuel and gasoline by 40% to prevent shortages at gas stations.\n\nPrime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced the government’s decision not to raise the price of gas for households and businesses that perform vital functions to ensure the defense of the state.\n\nThe search for ways to export Ukrainian products under the Russian sea blockade continues. In the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta on April 28, the vessel Unity N completed the loading of 71,000 tons of Ukrainian corn — for the first time since the start of the war.\n\nNorway announced its decision to close its borders and ports to Russian trucks and ships starting May 7, joining EU sanctions over the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. An exception will be made for fishing vessels, which account for up to 60 percent of Russian traffic to Norwegian ports. Also the restrictions will not apply to the island of Spitsbergen, the status of which is regulated by a separate treaty.\n\nPoland handed over to Ukraine more than 200 T-72 tanks and several dozen infantry fighting vehicles. At the same time, the US Department of Defense reported that the US Air Force is already in the process of loading ammunition for 155 mm howitzers that are headed to Ukraine. A Spanish ship with military cargo intended for Ukraine has also arrived in Poland.\n\nThe German federal government is considering supplying Panzerhaubitzen 2000 howitzers from the Bundeswehr to Ukraine.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, during her visit to The Hague to meet the president of the International Criminal Court, made it known that Britain would send experts to Ukraine in order to investigate war crimes.\n\nWhite House Press secretary Jen Psaki stated that the US President had publicly expressed his opposition to Vladimir Putin’s participation in the next G20 summit, which will be held in Indonesia in November 2022.\n\nBritish Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons returned to Kyiv. Also, the embassies of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Netherlands resumed their work in the Ukrainian capital." ]

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[ null, "Norwegian aluminum company Norsk Hydro estimates that a LockerGoga ransomware inside its network led to losses of up to $71 million.\n\nThat’s according to a recent FBI flash alert, marked “TLP:AMBER” – restricted to receiving organizations. It was issued to certain U.S. businesses by the FBI, Bleeping Computer reports.\n\nThe FBI is telling potential victims: Get your act together.\n\n“Since January 2019, LockerGoga ransomware has targeted large corporations and organizations in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Norway, and the Netherlands,” the FBI’s alert reads, according to Bleeping Computer, which obtained a copy. “The MegaCortex ransomware, first identified in May 2019, exhibits Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), command and control (C2) infrastructure, and targeting similar to LockerGoga.”\n\nThe FBI flash alert confirms what ransomware experts have been telling me for the past couple of years: That a crypto-locking malware infection is often just the final, very noisy end stage of an attack that may have already persisted for weeks or months.\n\nFirst, attackers often access sites using remote desktop protocol credentials. These can be brute-forced by attackers, or purchased on cybercrime sites – located on the darknet or otherwise – often for as little as $5 per site (see: Ransomware Gangs’ Not-So-Secret Attack Vector: RDP Exploits).\n\nNext, more advanced attackers will carefully map the target network, looking for any sensitive intellectual property, customer details or payment card information that they can exfiltrate and sell on cybercrime markets.\n\nAs the final stage of their attack, criminals may leave ransomware to try and earn a bit more criminal profit for their hacking efforts.\n\nOr in the case of nation-state hacking operations, attackers may deploy ransomware to make the intrusion look like a criminal undertaking, while helpfully wiping their digital forensic tracks, as Jake Williams, head of cybersecurity consultancy Rendition Infosec, told me at this month’s Black Hat Europe conference in London (see: Ransomware 2.0: Cybercrime Gangs Apply APT-Style Tactics).\n\nFBI flash alerts that touch on cybersecurity matters generally do not include previously unpublished or confidential information. Rather, they’re a distillation of attack facts and essential defenses meant to spur organizations to take action, even if, arguably, their cybersecurity teams should already have done so (see: Ransomware School: Learn Lessons From How Others Fail).\n\nIndeed, information security experts regularly tell me that if the FBI, U.S. National Security Agency or Britain’s National Cyber Security Center – part of intelligence agency GCHQ – issue an alert, it’s because they’re seeing a large number of organizations continue to fall victim to preventable attacks, even if the details of these attacks are already public and widely known. In other words, the FBI is telling potential victims: Get your act together (see: Turla Teardown: Why Attribute Nation-State Attacks?).\n\n“Dwell time is calculated as the number of days an attacker is present on a victim network, from first evidence of compromise to detection. The median represents a value at the midpoint of a sorted data set.” In 2018, the average dwell time for breaches discovered internally was 50.5 days, versus 184 days for breaches discovered by an external party. (Source: M-Trends 2019)\n\nFurthermore, ransomware-wielding attackers potentially are not the only types of hackers camping out in an organization’s network, undetected for long periods of time. According to FireEye’s Mandiant, when an organization discovers it’s been breached – thanks to a heads-up from a third party – the intrusion has already persisted for an average of 184 days.\n\nTo defend against hackers wielding ransomware, the basics remain the same. For starters, organizations need to ensure they have up-to-date backups, stored offline. That way, if they get hit, they can wipe all systems and restore from backups. Victims still face the threat of downtime and lost business, but to cover those potential losses, many have been investigating cyber insurance policies (see: Norsk Hydro Breach: Update on Insurance Coverage).\n\nSince appearing in January, for example, MegaCortex has been tied to takedowns of big firms, including online cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ in July. After accounting software giant Wolters Kluwer got hit by malware in May, employee chatter on a bulletin board said MegaCortex was the culprit. While that has yet to be officially confirmed, Sophos reported seeing a spike in MegaCortex attacks that month (see: Malware Knocks Out Accounting Software Giant Wolters Kluwer).\n\nIn August, consultancy Accenture’s iDefense reported seeing a a new variant of MegaCortex hitting victims, with attackers demanding up to $5.8 million in ransom payoffs for the promise of a decryption tool.\n\nExperts say ransomware remains inexpensive to procure – or to rent, for example, via the Sodinokibi ransomware-as-a-service operation – and automation enables attackers to hit many potential victims at once.\n\n“As with most automated, active attacks, organizations need to remain vigilant,” says Andrew Brandt, a security researcher with Sophos. “Tighten up password policies to include multifactor authentication for – at least – admin accounts; put RDP servers behind a VPN; survey your network for vulnerable services exposed to the internet; patch everything; and shut down anything that doesn’t need to be poking its nose through the firewall.”\n\nNights and weekends remain prime times for attackers to strike (see: Hackers Love to Strike on Saturday). “Before you log out for an extended break, it would be wise to shut down your workstation, and maybe even pull out the power cord,” Brandt says.\n\nAs the FBI’s alert makes clear, all organizations can become crypto-locking malware victims, so they must put the right defenses in place. Otherwise they can potentially look forward to attackers – of all stripes – camping out in their network for months, leaving ransomware as a final coup de grâce when they’re done." ]

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[ null, "”Children with disabilities have various talents”\n\nSchool no 53 in the village of Marghedar appreciated having a play corner where children with disabilities can learn numbers, letters and IT at their own speed. The lessons enable more children to go to school and become part of the local community.\n\nSchool no 53 is located in a small building with whitewashed walls in the village of Marghedar outside Penjakent in northern Tajikistan. Outside the building there are trees and flowers, and the walls inside are adorned with quotes from Tajik national poet Abu Abdullah Rudaki. He lived in the 10th century and his mausoleum is located a few kilometres away.\n\nOn this rainy Saturday afternoon in late September, the area is quiet as the children are not at school. But school principal Sogiboi Sogiev has taken the trouble to meet. With a smile, he quotes a poem by Rudaki: “No joy in this world is greater than seeing the faces of dear friends – as yours from Mission East.”\n\nSogiboi Sogiev recounts his experiences with the ’play corner’ that Mission East installed at the school in 2013. The organisation had already established similar rooms at other schools in the area, and when Sogiboi Sogiev was asked whether a play corner could be established at School no 53, he immediately accepted.\n\nThe play corner was one of the four that were financed by Y’s Men Region Denmark. It was equipped with a carpet, shelves, cupboards, fun and educational toys and a computer. The idea behind the project is to give children with disabilities an opportunity to learn subjects like English and IT at a suitable pace so that they can get an education some day and take care of themselves.\n\nA small group of children with disabilities and their parents show us how they use the room. Seated on a cushion with a floral pattern, Gulchehra of Mission East is looking at a picture book together with 13-year old Zikrullo. The boy has learning difficulties and has been a regular visitor to the play corner for three years. He is learning numbers and letters.\n\nGulchehra looks at a page with drawings of wellingtons, overcoats, a rain cloud and an umbrella. “What is this used for?” she asks and points at the umbrella. Zikrullo hesitates for a moment while trying to remember the right word. “What is the weather like today?” she asks and looks at the window. “It is raining,” Zikrullo answers. “Well done!” Gulchehra replies and flicks through the book.\n\nConsequently, the number of pupils with disabilities at the school has increased from 20 to 31. Sogiboi Sogiev appreciates this trend: “It is very important that these children are not excluded from the local community, but are allowed to be part of it, and that all the children can be together,” he says.\n\nApart from the 31 children at the school, there are six more children with disabilities in the village who neither go to school nor visit the play corner. This does not, however, mean that they are forgotten. “They are being taught by mobile teams that visit them at home. Representatives of the school go and see them regularly to be aware of what goes on in these families and to be prepared to support them if they need it,” Sogiboi Sogiev recounts.\n\nSuch initiatives have led to a change of attitude in Marghedar: “Children with disabilities are now considered part of the local community, and the children themselves feel it. I have noticed that even children with disabilities have various God-given talents,” he says and points at the colourful drawings and paper cuttings that adorn the light blue walls of the room. They are made by the children who visit the play corner.\n\nMore openness about children with disabilities\n\nIn 2013-14, Y’s Mens Region Denmark financed the repair and redecoration of four play corners in four villages outside Penjakent. The project was a continuation of Mission East’s long term effort to help people with disabilities in this area. The organisation has also established a rehabilitation centre in the city of Penjakent, founded mobile teams that visit children with disabilities in their homes to train them, and trained local disability organisations to do advocacy work for disability rights. The efforts have led to more openness about disability, and persons with disabilities are becoming more involved in education, work and the local community.", null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "Veteran right-back Ahmed Fathi will leave Ahly by the end of the current season after a glittering and lengthy spell with the Cairo giants, the club announced on Wednesday.\n\n“Ahly wish the best of luck to Fathi after the end of the season,” read a brief statement on Ahly’s official website.\n\nThe future of the 35-year-old Fathi with the Reds was thrown into doubt recently as his current contract is due to expire by the end of the season, which is currently suspended due to the worldwide outbreak of the coronavirus.\n\nOn Monday, Ahly’s football committee members sat down with the player, who said he needed 48 hours to consider the club’s offer and give his final say.\n\nThe former Ismaily man established himself as one of Ahly’s key players and most consistent performers, helping them to a host of titles and scoring 24 goals in 338 appearances in all competitions.\n\nHe was specifically lauded for his impressive defensive abilities and he also had notable contributions in the final third, scoring a decisive goal which rescued Ahly’s league campaign in 2009 and netting a precious winner in the Egypt Cup final against Masry\n\nFathi, who won the African Cup of Nations three times with Egypt in 2006, 2008 and 2010, won 17 titles with Ahly, including nine Egyptian league crowns, three African Champions League trophies and one Confederation Cup accolade.\n\nEarlier in March, Ahly also announced the departure of veteran midfielder and long-standing captain Hossam Ahsour and goalkeeper Sherif Ekramy by the end of the current season, a few days after winger Walid Soliman, another experienced player, signed a two-year contract extension." ]

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[ null, "During the first quarter of 2014, the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) focused efforts on researching, collecting and analyzing rental and estimate data to better understand how the information can predict a more accurate expectation relative to time for repair. The project was initiated due to an increase in concerns from the repair marketplace as some property & casualty carriers increased their insistence that repair facilities agree to repair time frames using unrealistic expectations, and to indemnify the carrier for rental expenses beyond those terms.\n\nLoss-of-use or rental insurance is an optional coverage offered by many insurance carriers. The policy, sold for an additional premium, is intended to cover the cost of a rental vehicle for policyholders who have incurred a loss and are without their vehicle for a period of time either due to necessary repair or replacement. The policies often contain restrictions, such as capitation on the amount of coverage per day, or an overall cap on the total rental expenses that will be covered.\n\n“The issue causing the concern for our members isn’t in situations where the rental costs extend beyond policy limitations,” shared SCRS Executive Director Aaron Schulenburg. “It is in scenarios where the costs are within the policy limits, but is the insurance company is imposing an arbitrary timeframe they believe the repairs should be completed within, and then expecting the repair facility to indemnify for the balance of the rental expenses; despite the fact that they assumed the risk for such expenses when selling the loss-of-use policy.”\n\nAs an example, when SCRS compared average hours per estimate data from provided by CCC against the Enterprise average length of rental, a 30 hours job could be expected, on average, to take an estimated 15 days to repair; reflecting a median multiplier of 0.5.\n\nIn the Q1 2013 Auto Physical Damage edition of its Industry Trends Report, Mitchell reported, “the median multiplier (multiply the number of labor hours per repairable estimate and you get a good approximation of rental days used) for the 49 states is 0.47 with a standard deviation of .05 indicating a fairly tight distribution.” This means, per Mitchell’s calculations, a repair order with 30 hours of repair labor could be estimated to take roughly 14.1 days for completion with a reasonable level of accuracy. When looking at 2013 Q4 data from Mitchell, and comparing the information against the Enterprise Rent-A-Car length of rental report, featured in the Q1 2014 Industry Trends Report, SCRS’ resulting calculations actually indicated a slightly longer expectation, but the differences could be based on the inclusion of all 50 states, fluctuations in length of repair from Q1 2013 to Q4 2013 or other potential variances in the analysis.\n\n“We recognize the challenges associated with drawing conclusions from two disparate data sources,” added Luis Alonso, SCRS Industry Issues Committee Chairman. “Our conclusions are going to have a higher standard of deviation because we are averaging averages rather than raw data, and also because the data sets may cover two different spans of information. For instance, IP estimate data is based on overall uploaded estimates which will reflect some vehicles that may not be repaired, and rental company data is based on repaired vehicles that did utilize a rental. Recognizing these factors, all the results still confirmed that none of the numbers produced anything resembling the expectations being placed on repairers by some in the insurance industry.”\n\n“The resulting calculations demonstrate the huge level of disparity between reality and expectation,” added Schulenburg. “Unfortunately, these false levels of expectation add waste into the repair process by creating costly and unnecessary administration for both the repairer and the rental agency, and can almost assuredly factor in a level of frustration for the consumer that could be avoided if we used better information to set their expectation at the onset of the process. The objective should be to set an expectation that will produce a consumer experience that lives up to what was promised; unfortunately, if we use bad data to establish the metrics, we are setting ourselves up for failure from the beginning.\n\nSCRS National Director Dusty Womble took the results of the study and applied them to a test in his own business, Roger Beasley Collision Center in Austin, Texas. Traditionally, his organization did their best to avoid committing to a time for repair until a thorough disassembly and blueprint was created; but customers were often being instructed by their carriers of an estimated time for repair as they provided preliminary rental vehicle approval. After participating in the board analysis of the collected data, they made a decision to give their consumers an estimated time for repair by dividing total labor hours by 2.0 hours per day, explaining the complexity and the challenges involved in the repair process, and the many factors that go into the repair aside from just the physical labor; all of these things which make it difficult to give an exact timeframe.\n\n“Interestingly, the adjusted formula made a huge difference in our customer interactions,” shared Womble. “Our Customer Service Index (CSI) scores shot up by about 7 percentage points, simply because the consumer perception regarding the vehicle being delivered ‘on time’ changed. We didn’t adjust anything else in our workflow, other than the expectation we were setting up front for the anticipated completion. It’s a great example of how we can directly impact the consumer experience in a positive manner if the focus becomes on educating the vehicle owner on the realities of the repair process.”\n\nFor more information about SCRS, or to join as a member, visit our website at www.scrs.com.\n\nAbout SCRS: Through its direct members and 43 affiliate associations, SCRS is comprised of 6,000 collision repair businesses and 58,500 specialized professionals who work with consumers and insurance companies to repair collision-damaged vehicles. Additional information about SCRS including other news releases is available at the SCRS Web site: www.scrs.com. You can e-mail SCRS at the following address: info@scrs.com." ]

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[ "Who is Kenneth Walker?\n\nKenneth Walker was with Breonna Taylor that tragic night when a police raid at her apartment in the wee hours of March 13 went wrong.", null, "LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Kenneth Walker was with Breonna Taylor that tragic night when a police raid at her apartment in the wee hours of March 13 went wrong, which ultimately led to her death and nearly seven months of protests calling for justice and the arrest of four officers in her killing.\n\nTaylor's 27-year-old boyfriend was charged with the attempted murder of a police officer during that tragic incident. Those charges were later dismissed on May 26 after a judge dismissed the indictment without prejudice.\n\nThe following is a partial timeline of events involving Walker after the death of Taylor:\n\nWalker gave a Mirandized statement on March 13 admitting to being the only person to shoot from inside of the apartment at detectives as they attempted to serve the search warrant.\n\nTaylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, spoke with the news organization TMX in an interview shared with WHAS11 News about the shooting.\n\n\"I could hear Kenny screaming and crying and I could hear all of this noise. I'm like, 'what's going on Kenny?' He said, 'I think Breonna is -- somebody was trying to break in here and I think they shot Breonna',\" she explained.\n\nWalker was released on home incarceration in late March. His name was not mentioned in the search warrant issued to Taylor’s house and he did not live with her.\n\n\"Kenny Walker, right now his case is so important too because he got charged with attempted murder of a police officer as a result of everything the police did in this,” Attorney Sam Aguiar said.\n\nWalker's father said his son had just accepted a job to work at the U.S. Postal Office. Kenneth Walker does not have a criminal background.\n\nThe attempted murder of a police officer charge against Walker was dismissed. According to a court document Commonwealth of Kentucky vs Kenneth Walker III, a judge dismissed the indictment without prejudice.\n\nWalker’s 911 call was released to the public.\n\nMayor Greg Fischer said he released all MetroSafe calls, including those from neighbors, from the incident after hearing from the community and Metro Council members.\n\n\"I believe the release of these calls now is a necessary step to preserve public safety and to build trust in our city and our police department,” Fischer said. “We all want the truth. We all want justice. My promise to you is that I will continue to share whatever information I can when I’m able.”\n\nWalker broke his silence on what would have been Taylor’s 26th birthday.\n\n“Happy Birthday to the realest I love you forever,” he wrote.\n\nWalker filed a lawsuit seeking immunity for firing one shot that injured a Louisville officer the night police executed a search warrant at Taylor's apartment.\n\nWalker is seeking immunity under Kentucky's \"stand your ground\" law, which protects anyone acting in self defense. He is also seeking compensation from the city and Louisville Metro Police for assault, battery, false arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution, abuse of process and negligence.\n\n\"Breonna and I didn't know who was banging on the door, but the police know what they did,\" Walker said during a press conference. \"The charges brought against me were meant to silence me and cover up Breonna's murder. For her and those that I love, I can no longer remain silent.\"\n\nAccording to the complaint filed by attorney Steve Romines, Walker -- who has a conceal-carry permit -- fired a single shot \"downward to scare away intruders.\"\n\n\"I am a legal gun owner, and I would never knowingly shoot at a police officer,\" Walker said.\n\nThe lawsuit says Walker yelled for help as Taylor bled to death, \"but no one came.\" He called his mom and 911 before police ordered him to leave the apartment.\n\nAs he was directed out of the apartment, the lawsuit claims on officer asked him if he was hit by any bullets. When he said no, the officer allegedly responded, \"Oh, that's unfortunate.\"\n\nThe lawsuit also claims another officer told him \"there's been a big misunderstanding here tonight\" after he was placed in a police car.\n\nThe Jefferson County grand jury recommended three counts of first degree wanton endangerment for former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison for firing shots that went into a nearby apartment the night of Breonna Taylor's death. No other officers involved were indicted.\n\nKenneth Walker released a message on his Facebook page in response to the grand jury decision saying \"It’s still #Breewayy til the end.\"\n\nKenneth Walker\nIt's still #Breewayy til the end 💙🦋💙🦋💙" ]

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[ "the Body of a big hvidhaj has been found floating in a large tank of formaldehyde in a spooky abandoned wildlife park in Victoria, Australia. The dilapidated", null, "the Body of a big hvidhaj has been found floating in a large tank of formaldehyde in a spooky abandoned wildlife park in Victoria, Australia.\n\nThe dilapidated buildings in the surviving wildlife park by the town of Bass in eastern Victoria is filled with garbage, broken furniture, husked wallpaper and smashed windows.\n\nBut inside in a very dark shed at the zoo found some young people, including Luke McPherson, the dead five metres long hvidhaj, who was floating in a greenish fluid consisting of, among other things formaldehyde, a chemical substance, among other things, used to preserve dead bodies.\n\nLuke McPherson filmed the scary shark and the dilapidated mysterious place. He laid subsequently, a 30 minutes long video on YouTube, which so far has been seen by more than 9.5 million people.\n\nIt writes several australian media including the News.com.au, and The Epoch Times, as well as the media Vice\n\nIt turns out that the mysterious shark was already found dead in the net with some tuna-fishermen way back in 1989 and later transported to the tank in the zoo, which was then known as the 'Wildlife Wonderland'.\n\nthe Zoo was according to the media closed in 2012 by the environmental authorities in Australia because of various violations in connection with the keeping of wild animals, as well as a lack of permission to exhibit the australian animals to the public.\n\nthe Owner left his wildlife park, and left all the animals to dyreværnsforeningen RSPCA and the environmental authorities. But there was never found a new place for the dead shark.\n\nInside in the abandoned wildlife park was the young people met by the dark eerie room. Photo: Lukie MC/YouTube\n\nWhen Luke Mcpherson first walked into the zoo, he was greeted by an unbearable stench of dyrelort. And together with his friends he got a shock, when he spotted the mysterious dead shark that floated around in the green liquid.\n\n'Hold when completely shut up. Can you see it?', says one of them.\n\nAnd another answer: 'It is really creepy'.\n\nLuke McPherson and his friends found the clothes in big piles, a tv set, family photos and various dilapidated furniture. In the fridge there was even food. The young people saw it as a sign that the abandoned animal park in between was the dwelling place for the homeless.\n\nHere is a section of the destroyed and abandoned wildlife park. Photo: Lukie MC/YouTube\n\nOn a table there was left a large stack of family photos. Photo: Lukie MC/YouTube\n\nOutdoor looks like the abandoned wildlife park is also something which the cat has played with. (Photo: Lukie MC/YouTube)\n\nin Several places there were signs that the abandoned animal park had been used as housing for the homeless. Photo: Lukie MC/YouTube" ]

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[ null, "HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Thelma Uranga is sprucing up her back deck in Chicago, hoping to host some small gatherings to take the place of the summer’s usual neighborhood festivals built on music, food and time with friends.\n\n“People look forward to summer because winter tends to feel like an eternity,” said Uranga, 38. “We were just getting to that point where things kick off.”\n\nInstead, she and many others are “mourning summer 2020” as cancellations pile up because of efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nFrom Cape Cod to California, festivals are being nixed, businesses in tourist havens are looking at empty reservation books, and people who have been cooped up through a dismal spring are worrying summer will bring just more of the same.\n\nAs the weather warms, some already have begun venturing outside in larger numbers, despite guidance to stay home. Government officials say they aim to manage public health risks in a way that allows for a gradual return to normal, but with the course of the outbreak still unknown, nobody is sure what summer will bring.\n\nOn a typical summer day, the Ship Bottom Brewing beer house on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island is packed. Bartender Bridget Barlet isn’t expecting anything close to that this season.\n\n“I’m scared even if we do open up, it just won’t be the same, especially if distancing rules are continued,” she said. “A lot of people will still be too nervous to venture back into what life as usual used to look like.”\n\nYouth baseball leagues are holding out hope they will get in a sliver of a season, water parks are unsure if they will be able to open, and restaurants are wondering if it’s worth welcoming dine-customers when social distancing guidelines would slash the numbers they can host at one time.\n\nLittle League coach Noah Rouen, 45, of Plymouth, Minnesota, a father of four boys, is hoping there might still be time for a shortened season. After all, he said, 95% of baseball is played without anyone getting within 6 feet of one another.\n\n“Those games under the lights, that’s something special for the kids,” he said.\n\nIn New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy has not indicated when his state’s beaches and casinos will reopen. He said Monday he hoped there would be “some semblance of normal” at the shore this summer but gave no indication when those decisions might be made.\n\nAlong Virginia’s coast, a long list of festivals have already been canceled, and the usually bustling Virginia Beach oceanfront sits quiet and empty.\n\nThe now-scrapped Something in the Water music festival, organized by musician and producer Pharrell Williams, should have wrapped up Sunday. Late May’s Patriotic Festival, which celebrates the military community, has also been called off.\n\nSome destinations are taking measures themselves to manage the risks.\n\nAt Tony Gore’s Smoky Mountain BBQ & Grill in Sevierville, Tennessee, which opened to dine-in guests Monday, each diner faced the same infrared thermometer gun required of the employees clad in masks and gloves.\n\nTennessee officials, who allowed restaurants to reopen in 89 of the state’s 95 counties starting Monday, have said they are discouraging travelers from out-of-state and have yet to release guidelines for tourist attractions, such as Dolly Parton’s Dollywood theme park in Pigeon Forge where hundreds of furloughed employees are waiting to get back to work.\n\nCities and towns across the country also are sorting out what the pandemic will mean for municipal pools, beaches and summer caps.\n\nCan the virus be spread in chlorinated pools? Will day-campers have to remain 6 feet apart while playing? New Haven, Connecticut, Mayor Justin Elicker said he and his staff are working on getting answers — but it’s not easy.\n\n“If businesses open, then parents or guardians will have to work,” Elicker said Monday. “So, we want to be able, as much as we can, to provide opportunities for care and meaningful activities for young people. The challenge is how to do that while at the same time ensuring the safety of the young people.”\n\nChildren appear to be among the least affected by the virus, but experts warn that people of all ages can likely play a role in transmitting it. For most, the virus causes mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults and people with health problems, it can cause more severe illness and lead to death.\n\n“This is the worst news, just devastating,” chef Linda Johnsen said. Since 2013 Johnson has owned Filomena’s Italian Kitchen and Market in Costa Mesa, a few blocks from the fairgrounds. She estimated that her revenue jumps between 40% and 60% during the three-week exhibition.\n\nChuck Rage owns a hotel and a resort in Hampton, New Hampshire, and leases out several businesses on the beach. All his businesses are shuttered due to the state’s stay-at-home order, but he’s hopeful a summer season can be salvaged, even if it’s a bad one.\n\nThe one thing that isn’t missing is pent up demand, Rage said.\n\n“I have gotten phone call after phone call,” Rage said. “All my regulars that come every year: ‘I need my Hampton Beach time. I need to come to Hampton Beach. I am sick of being in this house.’”" ]

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[ null, "The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) has selected the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy (WPNSA) as the venue for their upcoming ‘RYA Zone and Home Country Championships’. This annual event will run over the weekend 28/29 September.\n\nThe youth national racing series is an important part of upcoming dingy sailors’ calendars. Ambitious young sailors from Great Britain will compete for much coveted positions in the RYA Zone Squads, marking the start of a journey that for some may run to the Olympics.\n\nChris Atherton, Royal Yachting Association, High Performance Manager for the South and South West said, “The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy is an ideal venue for the annual RYA Zone and Home Country Championships. The regatta is a large multi-class junior championship which the WPNSA can offer fantastic shore based facilities to the sailors, spectators and organisers alike.”\n\nChris Atherton continued to comment about the race course conditions on the doorstep of the Sailing Academy, “The sailing inside Portland Harbour offers good, fair racing where the conditions are not too tidal, which is ideal racing for junior sailors for many of whom the 2013 RYA Zone and Country Championships will be their first major event on the RYA Racing circuit. In addition, many of the sailors will be looking to impress on the Olympic waters of Weymouth and Portland as they compete for places in the RYA Zone Squads.”\n\nPeter Allam, Chief Executive of WPNSA, is ensuring a sustained approach to attracting important national based events to the Academy on an annual basis. He says, “The Academy has been graced with some very high profile global regattas, which is extremely pleasing. Our on-going ability to host major events for junior and youth sailors is an extremely important role for the Academy. We are very proud to play a part in the development of UK sailing talent and are privileged to witness the progress made as young sailors move from Zone Squads on up through the ranks.”" ]

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[ null, "The Anglo-Saxon name Denghan comes from when the family resided in or near the valley. The surname is derived form the word den, which meant valley. It is generally thought that the name was Saxon in origin and meant \"the man of the valley; a dweller in the vale.\" [1]\n\nEarly Origins of the Denghan family\n\nThe surname Denghan was first found in Essex, where the first record of the family was William Deneman who was listed in the Feet of Fines for 1314. A few years later, Adara Deneman was listed in the Subsidy Rolls for Surrey in 1332. [2]\n\nEarly History of the Denghan family\n\nThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our Denghan research. Another 70 words (5 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Denghan History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.\n\nThe English language only became standardized in the last few centuries; therefore, spelling variations are common among early Anglo-Saxon names. As the form of the English language changed, even the spelling of literate people's names evolved. Denghan has been recorded under many different variations, including Denman, Dennam and others.\n\nMore information is included under the topic Early Denghan Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.\n\nMigration of the Denghan family\n\nFor many English families, the political and religious disarray that shrouded England made the far away New World an attractive prospect. On cramped disease-ridden ships, thousands migrated to those British colonies that would eventually become Canada and the United States. Those hardy settlers that survived the journey often went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Analysis of immigration records indicates that some of the first North American immigrants bore the name Denghan or a variant listed above: Joe Denman settled in Bermuda in the Summers Islands in 1635; Thomas Denman settled in Barbados in 1673; Charles Denman settled in Boston in 1716; C.L. Denman arrived in San Francisco in 1850 with a lady.." ]

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[ null, "Maita started working out with Jane Fonda’s first video when she was 19 after suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome. Since then, she dedicated herself to aerobics, spinning, yoga and weight training. Sporting amazing energy, she took her athleticism to the gym 5 times a week during school and after work when she was in New York. When she moved to San Francisco in 2000 she found that running was much more enjoyable because of the wonderful outdoors and scenery of Golden Gate Park and the Presidio. However, having done a few marathons and some 5 and 10Ks, Maita began to need a little variety in her workouts. She started training for triathlons in the last few years and found it great!\n\nWhen finding some down time from training, Maita takes care of her daughter Yasmin. Athleticism runs in the Pang family, with Yasmin being a soccer and lacrosse player, as well as a Girl Scout Troop Leader. In addition to lots of culturally motivated and fun activities, the Pang family practices good eating habits and physical activities.\n\nThe triathlon world led Maita to Fil-Am Tri by chance a few years ago, where she Googled triathlon clubs in the Philippines. She wanted to see how global triathlon training had become and quickly came across FAT’s organization. She couldn’t be happier to have found a Filipino organization that supports a physically active lifestyle in addition to eating pancit and lumpia!\n\nThis past 2011 year brought challenges and triumphs to Maita’s life. Surrounded by friends, fellow trainers, and a neighbor, Maita and her husband trained for and raced the Baltimore half marathon. Their son had died in the beginning of the year, so continuing the training meant so much to them. She remembered she could have taken off 30 minutes from her time, having become emotional while racing. However, official times aside, she found inspiration during that race as she thought of her son. There were, she saw, other people racing to raise money for wonderful causes. Their efforts encouraged her, as the Pang family had raised money for the Baltimore Chapter of the Compassionate Friends, an organization committed to helping grieving parents due to the loss of their children. The Pang’s strength and determination never faltered throughout the race. Her husband Rich could have done the race in about 1:50 but stayed with Maita till the very end. He had developed really bad leg cramps at mile 11, but never left her side. What a guy!\n\nMaita’s athletic endeavors and hopes for the 2012 year are family focused. After 10 years of coaxing, needling and begging, she has finally convinced her husband Rich to live a much healthier and more active lifestyle, which he is currently doing! They are both doing the DC Rock and Roll half marathon this March. Maita will also be doing a sprint triathlon in August. One of her upcoming projects is to learn how to veganize some Filipino recipes. Lastly, she wants to learn to run like Phoebe in Friends!\n\nMaita leaves us with a favorite fact: There’s a 55 year old woman in her local Road Runner’s Club who purposely stops swimming, biking or running during the races, because she thinks the sights and sounds of where she’s at are too wonderful to miss. Using that as inspiration, Maita thinks it’s time to spread the word to the couch potatoes of the world to go outside and play sports and enjoy 5D TV! She wishes everyone a wonderful, prosperous and healthy New Year! Mabuhay!" ]

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[ "Time: 9 PM, after a long day in the lab.\nPlace: Lucha Libre Taco Shop\nInternal Monologue:\nBad Miriam: “If I do not have a Surf ‘n’ Turf burrito I will surely perish!”\nGood Miriam: “No! Shrimp is bad! You know shrimp is bad! You are a goddamn marine biologist!”\nBad Miriam: “But it is sooooo delicious. Plus it tastes so good with the Super Secret Chipotle Sauce.”\nGood Miriam: “Pollution! Bycatch! Habitat destruction! BAD! Bad naughty Miriam!”\nBad Miriam: “Shut the hell up while I eat this best of all possible burritos.”\nNOM NOM NOM\nThe End.\n\nAs seen in this short glimpse into my psyche, I understand how hard it can be to eat sustainable seafood. I am fully informed as to the envioronmental cost, and yet I regularly lose my battle against that delicious burrito. It’s just really fun to rebel against a smug environmental scold, whether that scold is your annoying vegan cousin or, as in my case, just your own conscience.\n\nThe appeal of thumbing one’s nose at ever-present environmental guilt is why this “Outlawed Seafood” dinner from Boston restaurant Legal Sea Foods is both brilliant and insidious. Via Grubstreet & GG:\n\nThere might be a panic over seafood sustainability, but Legal Sea Foods CEO Roger Berkowitz isn’t taking the bait. Instead, he’s hosting a dinner on January 24 with the New England Culinary Guild to address “outdated” scientific findings that turn the dining public against certain species of fish. Behold, a special feast featuring items that people often think are outlawed or blacklisted.\n\nTo translate: if you eat this seafood, you are a rebel, an outlaw, going boldly against conventional wisdom. You, like Berkowitz, are not someone who engages in environmental “panic.” Leave that for those annoying the-sky-is-falling (or in this case the-fish-are-disapppearing) environmentalists.\n\nSo what is on this rebellious outlaw menu? According to Grub Street:\n\nWell, DAMN. That sounds great. Ever since I fell off the kosher wagon I would eat a shoe wrapped in prosciutto, never mind delicious fresh fish. And please sign me up for anything involving duck cracklings.\n\nExcept there’s one problem. Every single one of these items – black tiger shrimp, Atlantic cod, and Atlantic hake, are listed as AVOID on the Monterey Bay Seafood Watch Guide. Black tiger shrimp is listed primarily for the incredible habitat destruction that farming it wreaks on mangrove forests and artisanal fisheries, and U.S. Atlantic cod and white hake* are listed due to severely depleted populations.\n\nWhat does Legal Sea Food CEO Roger Berkowitz know that the researchers at Monterey Bay don’t? I called Legal Sea Food to find out. (I also contacted New England Culinary Guild, but they said I needed to attend the dinner to ask these questions, which I will totally do if someone wants to fly me out to Boston.)\n\nI spoke to Rich Vellante, Executive Chef of Legal Sea Foods, who designed the menu around these seafood items. Mr. Vellante said that seafood sustainability is a complex and confusing issue. “In my opinion there’s no right or wrong. This is about people trying to educate each other…we want to make decisions make decision based on sourcing and not broad brush everything.”\n\nAccording to Vellante, the cod and hake are locally sourced from the Gloucester and Chatham MA and Portland ME fisheries, and are caught by day boats using hook and line, not trawls. Vellante also emphasized that in the case of the cod, they were featuring the cheek meat, a cut often overlooked by American consumers, so they were using a greater portion of the fish.\n\nIn regards to the shrimp, Vellante said that Legal Sea Food did send people to Vietnam to inspect the shrimp farming operations and that there were “certain stipulations” that had to be followed, but he was uncertain about the nature of those stipulations and referred me to the Legal Sea Food marketing department. I called twice but was unable to reach the person he referred me to. I will post an update if she gets back to me.\n\nSo what does the latest, non-outdated science say about Legal Sea Food’s claims? (You may also be interested in food writer Jacqueline Church’s post on this.)\n\nBlack Tiger Shrimp. According to Seafood Watch, these shrimp should be avoided due to habitat destruction and pollution. Conveniently, a study of the environmental consequences of shrimp aquaculture in Vietnam was published just this June. The province discussed in the paper, Can Gio, has undergone mangrove restoration after having been deforested in the 1960s-1970s, and a section is now a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve. The area devoted to shrimp farms has leveled off over the past 6 years, which means that new mangroves are not currently being destroyed for shrimp farms.\n\nHowever, the study found that significant water pollution results from shrimp farming in Vietnam, and that many farms released wastewater and contaminated sediment that violated Vietnamese water quality standards. Not all farms did this, but on average, shrimp farms effluent had such high nutrient concentrations that it was similar to agricultural fertilizers. This level of pollution is extremely damaging to surrounding marine environments.\n\nTherefore, while ongoing mangrove destruction may not be a current issue in Vietnam, severe pollution of the remaining and restored mangroves by shrimp farms is an ongoing problem.\n\nAtlantic Cod: When I began researching this, I was surprised to learn that as of this year 2010, Gulf of Maine cod is no longer classified as “overfished” by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). This is because spawning biomass (basically the number of fish times their weight) is at half of target levels. This graph provided by NMFS looks pretty cheery, since it only looks at cod populations since 1982, but if cod stocks are compared to historical levels, current cod populations are truly pitiful.\n\nThis figure is from a paper by Rosenberg et al. 2005 (PDF), which used historical research methods and population modeling to estimate the biomass of cod on Canada’s Scotian Shelf in 1852. The blue dot is estimated cod biomass on the Scotian shelf in 1852, and the red line is cod population today.", null, "Looking at that, it’s pretty hard to argue that cod populations are just fine. Nonetheless, I commend Legal Sea Food for buying from local, hook-and-line fishers. Trawling is undeniably damaging to benthic ecosystems.\n\nHake. As of 2006, hake was in a pretty sad state. This graph of biomass is from the NOAA stock assessment, showing that hake populations are at less than half of what they were in the 1980s.\n\nAs of 2004, NOAA found that hake was overfished, and that overfishing was still occurring. I was unable to find a more recent assessment.\n\nThe only case of “outdated scientific findings” I could find was that Gulf of Maine cod is no longer classified as “overfished.” I personally would not feel guilty about eating locally caught Gulf of Maine cod cheeks (yum!), but would continue to attempt to avoid black tiger prawn and hake.\n\nAnd here’s the big picture, as presented in Myers and Worm 2003. This is biomass data from the beginning of large-scale industrialized fishing in the 1960s. (New England/Eastern Canada fisheries are excluded as they were already being exploited).\n\nThere are just less fish than there used to be. This means that we need pressure from consumers for effective management – people have to have the correct information about where their fish comes from, and to understand why they should care. Thumbing one’s nose at those no-fun fisheries scientists and environmentalists is not going to change the fact that fisheries are in serious trouble.\n\nIn our conversation, Vellante summarized the purpose of the Legal Sea Food “Outlawed Fish” dinner by saying “I think there are a lot of questions and answers to be had. I don’t think there is one sweeping answer to everything. We want to create some dialogue around that.” Unfortunately, the data show that most fisheries worldwide do have one thing in common – a downward slide.\n\n*Silver and red hake are listed as a “Good Alternatives,” but I think they are referring to white hake, since it is by far the most popular. I will be happy to make a correction if I am wrong.\n\n39 Replies to “DON’T PANIC: Sustainable seafood and the American outlaw”" ]

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[ "Boruto 12 see’s the relationship Boruto and Mitsuki as it grows more and more, starting with Mitsuki getting a hint from his snake while also seeing something from his past, his father most likely. All while Mitsuki knows who the person is causing the ghosts. Even Naruto and others detect it one night when Boruto gets angry when he has to leave to search for it, while Mitsuki reveals that he knows who is causing it and will tell him.", null, null, null, null, null, null, "Like the previous episode, Boruto 12 clearly points to the person who is causing all of this. If you couldn’t already tell, it’s their class rep, Sumire Kakei, who had previously mentioned that she doesn’t have any parents left. This is important as the foundation are known to adopt people into their army if you have no relatives.\n\nMitsuki visiting Boruto’s house and meeting Naruto and family is actually also quite significant. This is because it points Naruto to potentially look into Mitsuki and who he really is, especially as he mentions that he’s from the Sound village. Furthermore, the final part of the episode saw Mitsuki reveal that he knows who the person is, I’m sure that Boruto will love hearing who the suspect is.\n\nFurthermore, it’s nice to see that more and more people are now following Boruto as Inojin had mentioned, seems like he’s a lot more like Naruto then he thinks. Nevertheless, this episode was pretty good, but next week’s Boruto 13, titled “The Demon Beast Appears”, will actually be pretty good as we’ll even see a monster rampaging around the Leaf." ]

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[ null, "Jessica Klimkait became just the second Canadian to win a world title in judo when she defeated Momo Tamaoki of Japan in Golden Score time at the 2021 IJF World Championships in Budapest. Klimkait had gone into the worlds as the number-two ranked judoka in the women’s 57kg weight class, behind only her fellow Canadian Christa Deguchi. With only one Olympic spot available per country per event, it had been decided that whoever of the two finished higher at the 2021 Worlds would get Canada’s 57kg berth.\n\nIn 2014, Klimkait joined Team Canada for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China where she finished fifth in the 63kg division. She also finished fifth in the 57kg event at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In September 2014, she competed in her first IJF World Tour event at the Zagreb Grand Prix before competing at her first of two IJF Junior World Championships.\n\nKlimkait won 57kg gold at the 2015 Canada Games and then won her first senior national title. In the fall of 2015, she competed in her first Grand Slam events. In October 2016, she earned her first senior international gold medal at the European Open in Glasgow.\n\nKlimkait fully established herself in the senior ranks in 2017, winning gold at the Pan American Championships before earning her first Grand Slam podium when she claimed bronze in Ekaterinburg. She also earned her first Grand Prix medal, taking bronze in Hohhot. She went on to make her senior IJF World Championship debut, advancing to the third round, before finishing third in the 57kg event at the World Team Championships.\n\nStarting in 2018, it became a rare occasion for Klimkait to not finish on the podium. The big highlight of the year was winning her first Grand Slam gold in Osaka. Leading up to that, she had won medals at the Pan American Championships (bronze), as well as the Hohhot (silver), Zagreb (silver), and Cancun (silver) Grand Prix events. She capped the year with a bronze medal at the Guangzhou Masters.\n\nKlimkait began 2019 as the runner-up at the Paris Grand Slam. In July, she earned her first Grand Prix gold in Zagreb, part of a streak of eight straight podium finishes, which came to an end when she lost in the second round of the 2019 World Championships. But she rebounded to close the year with bronzes at the Osaka Grand Slam and Qingdao Masters.\n\nBecause of the COVID-19 pandemic, Klimkait competed in just three international events in 2020, winning gold at the Dusseldorf Grand Slam in February and the Hungary Grand Slam in October, the latter boosting her to the top of the 57kg world rankings. Klimkait had suffered a knee injury just as competition was halted because of the pandemic, so the postponement of Tokyo 2020 allowed her time to fully recover.\n\nIn early 2021, Klimkait won bronze at the Doha Masters before dropping the match to Deguchi in the final of the Antalya Grand Slam.\n\nA Little More About Jessica\n\nGetting into the Sport: Started judo when she was 4 and began competing at age 5-6… Planned to go into gymnastics under she saw her brother doing judo and started to mimic what the other kids were doing so her parents signed her up… Likes that it is a sport in which she needs to constantly adapt and change her perspective…", null, null, null, "Catherine Roberge is the veteran of the Canadian judo team, having competed on the senior international scene for more than..." ]

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[ null, "Who can forget the ‘Jigelu Rani’ item dance number from ‘Rangasthalam’ picturised on Ram Charan and Pooja Hegde? Besides the music scored by Devi Sri Prasad, Pooja Hegde stole the hearts of the young guys big time with her dance moves and expressions.\n\nThis time, it’s not an item song along with Ram Charan but a montage song for megastar Chiranjeevi’s upcoming Koratala Siva directorial ‘Acharya’. She has been already shooting for the montage song and choreographer Shekhar Master has been overseeing the picturisation of the song on a specially erected set.\n\nMontage songs usually are part of narratives and tell a part of the story as it’s happening. So, this song is going to be crucial and a different one in the combination of Ram Charan and Pooja Hegde, nothing to expect like ‘Jiegelu Rani’ hot number, then.\n\nThough Pooja Hegde is doing films back-to-back with big star heroes of the Telugu Film Industry, once in a while, she seems to be okay with special songs in big-budget movies. However, this time around it’s not an item song. Follow Mirchi9 on Google NewsThis Week Releases on OTT – Check ‘Rating’ Filter" ]

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[ "Dassault Systèmes in late April announced an agreement to acquire geological modeling and simulation company Gemcom Software International for approximately US$360 million in a cash-only transaction. Privately-held Gemcom is headquartered in Vancouver and employs about 360 people. It has offices in Australia, Africa, Canada, South America, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Indonesia and Russia.\n\nDassault Systèmes, created as a spinoff from parent company Dassault Aviation in 1981 as a venture to further capitalize on the aerospace company’s CAD/CAM expertise, is a public company based in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, has a workforce of approximately 10,000 and reported 2011 revenue totaling $2.5 billion.\n\nA New Brand\n“With the acquisition of Gemcom, coupled with our 3D Experience platform capabilities, our objective is to model and simulate our planet, improving predictability, efficiency, safety and sustainability within the natural resources industry and beyond,” said Bernard Charlès, president and CEO, Dassault Systèmes. “To support this ambitious goal, we have created a new brand, GEOVIA.”\n\nRick Moignard, president and CEO of Gemcom, will become CEO of the GEOVIA group after completion of the Gemcom acquisition. ”This acquisition will clearly benefit Gemcom’s customer base, bringing global support and enterprise collaboration. Advanced technologies in 3-D modeling and simulation will not only enable engineers and geologists to model and visualize resources but also improve sustainable mine productivity,” he said.\n\nIn a telephone interview, Moignard told E&MJ that all of Gemcom’s current products would continue to receive full support and would also retain their product names for the foreseeable future, clustered under the GEOVIA brand umbrella. Mining applications will remain the company’s primary focus, but it is likely that the brand will expand to include products adapted or developed for other resource-related industries such as water management, forestry or similar applications.\n\nBranching Out\nThe acquisition was, in large part, driven by Dassault Systèmes’ intended strategy of adapting and transferring its advanced aerospace and automotive analysis, simulation, modeling and visualization technology to other markets. Dassault, said Moignard, recognized an opportunity to enhance Gemcom’s product portfolio through integration with its own leading-edge technology.\n\n“Dassault Systèmes started out as an engineering company, and they’ve maintained a philosophy that ‘it’s all about the end user,’” said Moignard. “They understand the importance of making any product intuitive and easy to use. And from their experience in other industries, they have developed technology that can manage huge datasets in real time to improve enterprise productivity.”\n\nAccording to Moignard, the mining industry has lagged other resource industries such as oil and gas by as much as 15 years in utilizing the technologies that Dassault Systèmes specializes in—but that’s changing rapidly. Persistent shortages of technical and skilled-labor personnel, coupled with the industry’s need to develop mines in increasingly remote locations, is putting pressure on producers to find ways to maximize the effectiveness of their finite corporate resources. As a result, the associated mining software market is experiencing strong growth, with third-party analysts estimating a double-digit trend for the future.\n\nCounting on Collaboration\nTechnology from Dassault Systèmes, integrated with Gemcom’s products, will enable companies to collaborate more productively with their widespread personnel and work sites, explained Moignard; and conversely, improved real-time collaborative capabilities could allow fewer workers to be stationed on-site for extended periods of time, fewer fly-in/fly-out assignments would be needed, and more employees would be able to work effectively in comfortable environments.\n\nAlthough the technology sounds—and is—extremely sophisticated, he noted, it doesn’t exclude all but major producers from benefiting from it. “Our products are used by the top 10 majors, but we also have enterprise agreements with perhaps 30 of the 40 or so mid-tier producers as well. Our engagement models may vary from group to group, but the overall intent is to provide technology that works across the spectrum” of company resources and requirements, said Moignard.\n\nThe acquisition is subject to normal closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. It is expected to be completed in July 2012.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Mississippi Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin argues with a referee against the Baylor Bears during the second quarter of the Allstate Sugar Bowl at the Caesars Superdome on January 1, 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman / Getty Images)\n\nThe Minnesota Vikings are officially on the lookout for new leadership, and a former NFL head coach rising through the college ranks has already been hinted at as a possibility.\n\nVikings ownership literally wasted no time in parting ways with head coach Mike Zimmer and general manager Rick Spielman following the end of a disappointing 8-9 season, cutting the two off on Monday, January 10. That same morning, Mike Ryan from Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz, took to the airwaves to report that Ole’s head coach Miss Lane Kiffin is a prime candidate to return to the NFL as leader of Minnesota.\n\n“I really believe Lane Kiffin will probably be the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings,” Ryan said on the popular sports podcast. “The reason I think it’s because of all the wizards who left the Mississippi staff and I was told, ‘Watch out for the work of the Minnesota Vikings. “But he doesn’t fit Rick Spielman. Zimmer just got fired and Spielman just fired. It’s oil and water, Lane Kiffin and Rick Speilman – not an adjustment. Now that they have it. cleaned up the house, looking for a total overhaul of training and culture in Minnesota, and maybe I have Lane Kiffin in the NFL again.\n\nGettyHead coach Lane Kiffin of the Mississippi Rebels reacts against the Alabama Crimson Tide during the first half at Bryant-Denny Stadium on October 2, 2021 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images)\n\nKiffin won’t be 47 until May, but it looks like his coaching career is more story-driven than most recent retirees.\n\nHis first contract as a head coach came with the then Oakland-based Las Vegas Raiders in 2007, when he was just 31 years old. He got the job through the strength of his time as the offensive coordinator at the University of Southern California (USC), a post he held in 2005. The USC high power offensive set records and gave birth to Kiffin’s notion as a top-level attacking spirit throughout the game – a reputation that has continued over the past two decades.\n\nKiffin only coached 20 games for the Raiders before being sacked in 2008, compiling a record of just 5-15. His lack of success there, however, is somewhat misleading. Many reports at the time, he suggested that Kiffin was opposed to the Raiders selecting Louisiana State University (LSU) quarterback JaMarcus Russell, with the No.1 pick in the 2007 NFL Draft. Kiffin’s reluctance, Oakland owner Al Davis still picked Russell, who became one of the most fantastic busts the draft has ever produced.\n\nChris Mortensen, from ESPN, later reported that Davis tried to force Kiffin to quit the following year, which would have cost the head coach his salary of $ 2 million. He refused, Davis decided to fire him soon after, and then publicly shamed Kiffin by lambasting him in the media.\n\nKiffin left Oakland and made his way to college, where he held head coaching positions at the University of Tennessee and USC before landing at the University of Alabama to call games under Nick Saban. Kiffin again reached the Florida Atlantic University head coach position in 2017 before returning to the Southeastern Conference (SEC) in 2020 to lead Ole Miss.\n\nOther candidates for Vikings HC Job have already appeared\n\nGettyMichigan Wolverines head coach Jim Harbaugh may be seeking a coaching position in the NFL.\n\nKiffin isn’t the only former NFL head coach currently working in the college ranks who could take a big step back at the big time this offseason.\n\nMichigan Head Coach Jim Harbaugh just wrapped up an AP Coach of the Year campaign in which the Wolverines defeated Ohio State, won the Big 10 and landed one of four college football playoff spots. . A report came from Bruce Feldman, from athleticism, last week that Harbaugh would strongly consider a return to the NFL for the right opportunity. He spent four years as the head coach of the San Francisco 49ers, leading the team to Super Bowl XLVII at the end of the 2012-13 season, which the Niners lost 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens.\n\n“The Athletic hears rumors, from both the NFL and Michigan side, that Harbaugh may be tempted to leave the Wolverines and return to the NFL,” Feldman wrote.\n\nJust one day after the regular season ends, there are already five head coach positions available in the NFL, including positions with the Vikings, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins and Jacksonville Jaguars.\n\nDespite their playoff appearance, the Raiders may also be looking to replace interim head coach Rich Bisaccia. He has since replaced former head coach Jon Gruden left town earlier this season over racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments he made several years ago, which came to light via leaked emails during an NFL investigation into accusations of toxic work culture within Washington football. Team.\n\nHarbaugh was drafted by the Bears and began as the team’s quarterback for several years. He also has a history of coaching with the Raiders. However, the Vikings would do well to take a look at him, and vice versa. Minnesota has a young Pro-Bowler wide receiver in Justin Jefferson and another running back in Dalvin Cook.\n\nQB Kirk Cousins ​​also ranks as the league’s fifth-best caller with an overall rating of 88.2 and a passer rating of 86.8, according to Focus on professional football (PFF). Cousins ​​is in the final year of a costly contract set to pay him $ 45 million in 2022, and a new head coach would likely have the Viking ownership leeway to mix the game up in Minnesota to find a new quarterback. -back and / or free up a cap opportunity to improve other areas of an already talented roster." ]

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[ null, "The sheriffs of Clackamas and Washington County in Oregon said they won’t send staff to help with the nightly unrest in Portland after Gov. Kate Brown unveiled a plan to bring an end to violence in the city.\n\nBrown had asked the sheriffs and the Gresham Police Department to support the Portland Police Bureau with personnel and resources “to keep the peace and protect free speech.”\n\nClackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts on Monday said the governor never approached him before unveiling her plan to mobilize local law enforcement agencies in the Portland protests, and that he has no plans to send his staff to nightly demonstrations, Fox News reported.\n\nStrong statement from @ClackCoSheriff Roberts who says they will not send deputies to Portland after @OregonGovBrown released a plan saying they would.\n\nInstead, he says \"the criminal justice system will need to do its part and hold offenders accountable.\"#LiveOnK2 pic.twitter.com/DETlaPzTCN\n\n“Had Governor Brown discussed her plan with my office, I would have told her it’s about changing policy, not adding resources,” he said, according to a statement released by Kellee Azar, a reporter with Portland’s KATU. “Increasing law enforcement resources in Portland will not solve the nightly violence and now, murder.”\n\nThe sheriff said the newly elected district attorney’s policy of dismissing charges against offenders is problematic.\n\n“The same offenders are arrested night after night, only to be released by the court and not charged with a crime by the DA’s Office. The next night they are back at it, endangering the lives of law enforcement and the community all over again,” Roberts continued. “The criminal justice system will need do its part and hold offenders accountable.”\n\nNow, @WCSOOregon Sheriff Pat Garrett saying he too will not be sending his deputies to Portland despite @OregonGovBrown's plan. #LiveOnK2 pic.twitter.com/pSqLW3fcRk\n\n“I do not plan to send deputies to work directly in Portland,” Garrett said, according to the station. “The lack of political support for public safety, the uncertain legal landscape, the current volatility combined with intense scrutiny on use of force presents an unacceptable risk if deputies were deployed directly.”\n\nA Gresham police spokesperson told The Oregonian, “We are in agreement with the other agencies.”\n\nMeanwhile, the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police released a statement on Monday, saying “we cannot dedicate our limited resources away from the communities we serve,” according to KATU.\n\nAfter the statement by Sheriff Roberts was released, Brown’s office told the station the plan is “meant to allow for this kind of flexibility in supporting each other as we all collectively deal with the difficult situation in Portland.”" ]

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[ null, "A Kiss in Time\n\nTalia fell under a spell. . . . Jack broke the curse. I was told to beware the accursed spindle, but it was so enchanting, so hypnotic. . . . I was looking for a little adventure the day I ditched my tour group. But finding a comatose town, with a hot-looking chick asleep in it, was so not what I had in mind. I awakened in the same place but in another time--to a stranger's soft kiss. I couldn't help kissing her. Sometimes you just have to kiss someone...\n\nPublished by nimue , 1 year ago\nThis is a charming book. I didn't know if I was going to like a retelling of Sleeping Beauty or what to expect but I loved it! It was so much fun for her to travel in modern times and for Jack to end up waking up a kingdom on her vacation in Belgium with his friend. It just gets better and better. A lovely story.\n\nThis book stands the test of time as my favorite.\n\nPublished by Kiara , 3 years ago\nI know what you're thinking (not really, but let's imagine): 'Kiara, why is this your favorite book? There are so many other amazing books!' I know, but the way that Alex Flinn so effortlessly stitches fairy tales to modern days (and my heart strings) has made it my favorite. It is beautifully written and I don't think this review does it justice. READ IT AND ENJOY IT!\n\nPublished by Thriftbooks.com User , 10 years ago\nA retelling of the Sleeping Beauty tale set in modern times, this story alternates narration between the princess Talia, who has slept through the last 300 years, and the definitely-not-a-prince Jack, who had the misfortune of waking up her and her entire kingdom. Will Jack and Talia fall in love? Can Talia and her kingdom adapt to living in the 21st century? To complicate matters further, neither characters' parents are too keen on the situation and the witch that created the curse isn't satisfied with it's outcome. Both characters start out as aimless and bratty teenagers but grow through the story by seeing themselves and their actions through each others' eyes. Despite their bratty starts, both characters are likable and have distinct voices (a feat not all authors attempting dual-narration successfully accomplish). I laughed out loud a number of times (the scene at the modeling agency was great!) and enjoyed this Flinn offering even more than her previous fairy tale retelling, Beastly. Definitely recommended.\n\nPublished by Thriftbooks.com User , 11 years ago\nTalia is a spoiled princess who has seriously overslept...oh, by about 316 years. Jack is a jeans and t-shirt guy from Miami who just wants a break from another lame European museum tour. When Jack kisses Talia in this re-telling of Sleeping Beauty what readers get is a series of hilarious situations coupled with a sweet, it-can't-possibly-work romance. This is my favorite book by Alex Flinn and I hope she's hard at work on her next 21st century fairy tale! --Reviewed by Michelle Delisle\n\nPublished by Thriftbooks.com User , 11 years ago\nA long time ago, a European kingdom called Euphrasia welcomes the birth of a princess named Talia. At Talia's christening, a group of fairies offers gifts of beauty, grace, musical talent and intelligence. However, a certain witch wishes revenge on the kingdom and casts a spell on young Talia. The spell states that before her 16th birthday, the princess shall prick her finger on a spindle; the entire kingdom will fall into a deep sleep, and then fade away into the forest from view. The only way to reverse the spell is for a prince to discover the princess and awaken her with a kiss. Every citizen of Euphrasia works together to keep the princess safe; all spindles are banned in Talia's vicinity. As Talia's birthday celebration approaches, everyone begins to think they've thwarted the curse, but the witch wins in the end. The kingdom falls into a deep sleep, and the forest creeps around to obscure it from the rest of the world. Three hundred years later, 17-year-old Jack is in Europe on a month-long tour. Most American teens would jump at the chance to travel to Europe with a best friend, but Jack and Travis are bored out of their minds with every minute roped up in museum tours. Plus, Jack knows his parents sent him on this trip to get him out of their hair; he has barely heard from them all summer. And life after the tour doesn't promise much improvement, as he'll probably be stuck at a boring job in his father's office, being hounded about college and a career. Jack is confused about plans after high school. He knows he doesn't want his father's life, but also is aware that his father would never approve of his interest in landscaping. The one thing he does know is that he loves the beach, so he and Travis decide to ditch the tour and look for a great beach to visit. Unfortunately, they get lost and never find it. But what they do stumble upon is the hidden kingdom of Euphrasia. Jack and Travis are puzzled by their discovery. The village looks as if it is a tourist spot highlighting the life of long ago, like Colonial Williamsburg, plus there's the strange fact that all its citizens appear to be sleeping. After a bit of exploring, they discover the beautiful Talia. Jack can't explain his intense yearning to kiss her, but he does, hence breaking the curse and awakening the entire village. In the mass confusion of realizing they've been asleep for 300 years, the king takes his anger out on his daughter. Talia convinces Jack to take her with him to America. Talia is a spoiled brat, and Jack is a lost wondering soul, but together they make an awesome team. Jack introduces Talia to modern technology, like indoor plumbing, airplanes and cell phones, and Talia shares her gift of communication and helps him find a direction in life. And then they start falling in love. But will two teens with such vastly different backgrounds be able to find their happily ever after? Especially since the witch feels her curse has been cheated and now wants the prin\n\nPublished by Thriftbooks.com User , 11 years ago\nAlex Flinn has really hit her stride with fairy tale retellings! I loved Beastly and I love A Kiss in Time! This sleeping beauty is an amazing character, who goes believable from spoiled brat to true heroine as she wakes up in the 21st Century and copies with everything from air travel to Jello shots in a matter of weeks. What I like best is that this one features a really great love story, where the love is not about a magical kiss but a true friendship. Like Beastly, this one features a really cool witch who has real depth and lots of tricks up her sleeve.\n\nPublished by Thriftbooks.com User , 11 years ago\nWhen Jack escaped for the summer on a trip around Europe, he never dreamed he would be pulled into a real-life fairy tale. His main goal in agreeing to the numbingly dull tour of European museums was to avoid an even more boring summer working in his father's company. Both his father and mother think he is a lazy slacker without any real interests. What they don't know is that Jack has an interest, but he knows that as the son of a successful business family, they will not approve of his future plans. After weeks of museum tours, Jack and his friend, Travis, decide to skip out on the tour group and head for the beach. They take a wrong turn and end up sneaking through a thick hedge hoping to find the illusive beach, but instead they end up in a strange place that seems lost in time. As they explore, they stumble across some of the residents of the area, only to find them fast asleep. When they arrive at the main gates to a huge castle, they begin to wonder exactly what is going on. Inside the castle they find the same situation - everyone is fast asleep. Life seems to have suddenly halted for these people, leaving them in the middle of whatever activity or task that had kept them busy before their sudden slumber. Jack and Travis find their way to an isolated area of the castle and are surprised to discover a beautiful young girl sleeping peacefully. Travis is more interested in returning to the throne room and snatching the crown jewels, and Jack gladly sends him off. Jack is fascinated by the sleeping girl whose beauty is astonishing. He can't help himself. He bends and gently kisses her soft lips. Suddenly, she's awake! By now readers will recognize the similarities to Sleeping Beauty, but what they don't know yet is that they are in for some great adventures. Imagine being awakened by a stranger's kiss and learning you've slept for three-hundred years. The world doesn't even know your country exists, and you don't have a clue that things like cars, buses, airplanes, cell phones, and televisions are now the norm. Princess Talia believes Jack must be her true love, but at seventeen, he's pretty sure she must be wrong. Alex Flinn, author of YA books like BREATHING UNDERWATER and BEASTLY, has a new treat for her fans. She puts a unique twist on fairy tale retelling - by connecting the past and present as Jack and Talia struggle through problems created by their strange meeting and their own personal family struggles as young teens trying to find their own direction in life. Reviewed by: Sally Kruger, aka \"Readingjunky\"\nCopyright © 2020 Thriftbooks.com Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Do Not Sell My Personal Information | Accessibility Statement\nThriftBooks® and the ThriftBooks® logo are registered trademarks of Thrift Books Global, LLC" ]

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[ null, "In this title we leave Yorkshire and head for Lancashire via the ex LNWR route from Heaton Lodge Junction, through Huddersfield and the climb to Stanedge.\n\nThis involves virtually all the types of traffic and locomotives to be seen from 1963 to 1967.\n\nSo summer extras (just look at the stock on some of the trains), coal trains westwards, empties returning, general freight, and oil tank trains feature with Jubilee, Black 5, Crab, 8F, 9F, WD and 2-6-4 Tanks as motive power on this six mile climb over the Pennines mainly on a 1-in-105 gradient.\n\nAs in Part 1, snow scenes are included, this time at Longwood.\n\nThen it is down the other side of Stanedge through Diggle to Stalybridge.\n\nAlthough not Lancashire or Yorkshire specifically, there is a look at the Woodhead Route over the Pennines with excellent footage at Guide Bridge including steam and electric traction running side by side.\n\nTo return to our route for Manchester we journey via Denton Junction to Miles Platting and are now on L & Y territory.\n\nThere follows a look at traffic through Newton Heath before a journey with Fowler 2-6-4 Tank 42343 over the L & Y railway lines of Middleton Junction, Rochdale, Whitworth branch, Royton and Oldham Werneth ending at Manchester Ducie Street Goods.\n\nFinally a look at Manchester Victoria station which is our stepping off point for Part 3!" ]

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[ null, "81 years ago today in the small West Texas town of Littlefield, Waylon Jennings was born. Over the course of his illustrious career, he'd release some 40+ solo albums, 18 collaborative efforts, and another five live albums. While not every album Jennings recorded was a bonafide hit or made a mark on the industry, he undoubtedly delivered some of the greatest albums in country music history.\n\nIn short, Jennings' best have had an immeasurable impact on not just his peers and contemporaries, but also set the standard for future generations of weighty singer-songwriters, country-rock ramblers, honky-tonk aspirations, and barrel-chested baritone vocalists. While he'd often question being called the leader of the outlaw country movement, there's very little doubt that his style and sound revolutionized the way people thought about country music and just exactly how an album should sound and be recorded. Often, his albums bucked against the conventions of Nashville's norms.\n\nWhile his larger than life persona seemed to fuel Jennings, his iconic delivery was as versatile a voice as we've ever seen. On one hand, he could be sharp and full of swagger. At the drop of a hat though, Jennings could transition into a delicate storyteller full of heartache and distress. There's nuanced infliction Regardless of what he was doing, he oozed with effortless confidence and made you believe he was all of these vivid characters in song -- no matter who he was playing.\n\nBelow, we visit some of Jennings' greatest solo albums in his career. Mind you, we've omitted all collaborative efforts involving Jennings (Maybe we'll do that countdown sometime in the near future). That means no Waylon & Willie (with Willie Nelson), Leather & Lace (with Jessi Colter), Highwayman (The Highwaymen), the ever-underrated White Mansions (with Colter, Johnny Cash, and John Dillon) or the seminal Wanted! The Outlaws (with Nelson, Colter and Tompall Glaser).\n\nStill, there's a hefty and worthy load of immeasurable quality to sift through in the solo Jennings discography. Here are 10 of his absolute best.\n\nIn 1987, Jennings delivered an underrated gem with A Man Called Hoss. Long after his '70s prime, A Man Called Hoss finds Jennings as an elder statesman in the country music scene. Rather than going down old roads note for note, Jennings reminiscences about his humble West Texas roots and rise through the ranks and glory days as Nashville's rebel. Songwriter Roger Murrah shares the writing duties on the 11 tracks, which are split up into chapters of Jennings life.\n\nEssential Listening: \"Littlefield,\" \"If Ole Hank Could Only See Us Now,\" \"My Rough and Rowdy Days\"\n\nWhile Jennings said he was dissatisfied with Ladies Love Outlaws, often saying it was an unfinished product and used just used his scratch vocals, the album is still one of his finest outputs. At the time, he was at odds with RCA Records and even contemplated retiring from music altogether. Still, there's a certain charm and warmth to the album '72 album. His version of Mickey Newbury's \"Frisco Depot (San Francisco Depot)\" and Hoyt Axton's \"Never Been to Spain\" are some of his best--even if the Nashville Rebel wasn't fully content with the album.\n\nOne of Jennings best qualities was always his heightened self-awareness and ability to poke fun at himself at times. While the vast majority of the '70s had Jennings stoking the flames and selling an outlaw image, '78's I've Always Been Crazy becomes a semi-meta moment within the movement. Opening songs \"I've Always Been Crazy\" and \"Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand,\" both penned by Jennings, do a little bit of curtain pulling and admitting that the gig was up. Unsurprisingly, the two became staples for Jennings. Even while the back half is filled with known hits such as Johnny Cash's \"I Walk the Line,\" Merle Haggard's \"Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down\" and a medley of Buddy Holly classics, Jennings doesn't mail in the effort and sings them as though they're brand new to an audience.\n\nEssential Listening: \"I've Always Been Crazy,\" \"Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got out of Hand,\" \"Whistlers and Jugglers\"\n\nReleased in '71, The Taker/Tulsa is a seminal moment in Jennings career. At this point, he's really finding his footing as a vocalist and artist. The selection of four Kris Kristofferson songs sets the entire poetic tone for the album and in many respects, feels much more like a folk ballad album than a country record. Songs like \"The Taker\" and \"Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)\" really see Jennings come into his own with passionate takes on both. You see all the hints at Jennings slowly transitioning into a bonafide force with something to say that feels different from the status quo.\n\nEssential Listening: \"The Taker,\" \"Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again),\" \"(Don't Let the Sun Set On You) Tulsa)\"\n\nWhile it was incredibly popular for artists to cover another singer-songwriter for the duration of an entire album, Jennings only did it twice in his career -- '67's Waylon Sings Ol Harlan and '92's Ol' Waylon Sings Ol' Hank. Jennings was a major fan of Harlan Howard, saying that he ended up recording over 70 of Howard's songs over the course of his career. Here, Jennings delivers a steady dose of Howard's best and best unknown. Hits like \"Heartaches By the Number\" and \"I've Got a Tiger By the tail\" are sprinkled in with some of Howard's greatest gems.\n\nWhile Jennings had a penchant for heartbreakers that left him broken and beat, he could be the bearer of bad news with the best of them all the same. '73's Lonesome, On'ry, and Mean is perhaps his greatest collection of brutally honest low-blows and raw criticism. Songs such as \"You Can Have Her\" and \"Pretend I Never Happen\" are almost cavalier shrugs in response to good love gone bad. He absolutely takes hold of Steve Young's \"Lonesome, On'ry and Mean\" and belts out the rambler with a gritty snarl. \"San Francisco Mabel Joy,\" another Newbury cut, proves once again he could transform into a gentle narrator with ease.\n\nEssential Listening: \"Lonesome, On'ry and Mean,\" \"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues,\" \"You Can Have Her\"\n\n4. Are You Ready for the Country\n\nWillie Nelson may have been the free spirit cowboy who merged the rednecks and hippies during the '70s, his counterpart balance was Jennings' hard-edged rock & roll star. It's in part what made their collaborative efforts so timeless. '76's Are You Ready for the Country was perhaps Jennings most rock & roll moment. It's chock-full of piercing honky-tonk guitars and songs penned by the likes of Neil Young and Dr. Hook. Even some of its more somber moments, such as \"Old Friend,\" find Jennings talking about old rock stars like friend Buddy Holly. Still, one of the album's most definitive traits is the fact that it was recorded out in Hollywood, a major deflection to the Nashville standard at the time.\n\nMuch like I've Always Been Crazy, The Ramblin' Man finds Jennings kicking things off with two songs (\"I'm a Ramblin' Man\" and \"Rainy Day Woman\") that just set the rough and rowdy tone of the 1974 record. There's a bold swagger in Jennings delivery throughout that simply exemplified Jennings boisterous baritone. Again, even when he takes a stab at an already well-known classics such as The Allman Brothers' \"Midnight Rider,\" Jennings belts it out as though he wrote it himself right on the spot. Amazingly, Jennings didn't just release The Ramblin' Man in '74 -- he had released This Time just a few months prior (which could have easily been included).\n\nPerhaps the most mythic of Jennings albums, Honky Tonk Heroes plays out like a greatest hits album--namely, because it pretty much is one of Billy Joe Shaver songs. As many have proclaimed, what made Honky Tonk Heroes such a powerful moment was Shaver's unabashedly candid songwriting and Jennings sincere delivery. Still, the story behind the making of the album is nearly as legendary as the album itself. While Jennings had been nearly a decade since his RCA Records debut Folk-Country (his Waylon at JD's was released by Sound Limited), it wasn't until '73's Honky Tonk Heroes that he had finally found the right combination of songs and style. By all means, it's a watershed moment for Texan singer-songwriters like Shaver and the poster child for the outlaw rebellion happening in country music.\n\nEssential Listening: \"Old Five and Dimers (Like Me),\" \"You Asked Me To,\" \"Ain't No God In Mexico,\" \"Black Rose\"\n\n'75's Dreaming My Dreams is pound for pound, Jennings' best solo album. There's a high standard of quality in songwriting and performance throughout the chart-topping hits, the hidden gems, and b-sides. Songs such as Roger Miller's \"I've Been a Long Time Leaving (But I'll Be a Long Time Gone)\" and Cowboy Jack Clement's \"Let's All Help the Cowboys (Sing the Blues)\" (who also co-produced the album with Jennings) carry just as much clout to the album's most successful singles such as \"Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way\" or \"Bob Wills Is Still the King.\" The beauty behind Dreaming My Dreams is just how much of the record is a salute to Jennings' heroes -- Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Jimmie Rodgers and the ever lonesome cowboy of the American West.\n\nEssential Listening: \"Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way,\" \"Waymore's Blues,\" \"Dreaming My Dreams with You,\" \"Bob Wills Is Still the King\"", null ]

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[ null, "The Last of Us Part 2 was only released to the general public today, but it’s already found itself at the center of various controversies. While we have no doubt the conversations surrounding these controversies will continue in the weeks to come, there is one question that we feel is worth talking about most right now:\n\nDid The Last of Us 2‘s marketing team and developer Naughty Dog lie to us about what this game was going to be?\n\nNow, it’s impossible to talk about this particular controversy without diving heavily into The Last of Us Part 2 spoilers. That being the case, here’s your warning that we’ll be diving deeply into The Last of Us Part 2 spoilers from here on out. Just to be safe, be sure to not go below the spoiler tag wall below if you want to enjoy the game with fresh eyes.\n\nThe idea that we were lied to during The Last of Us Part 2‘s extensive marketing campaign really revolves around two main points of contention.\n\nThe first concerns a 2018 closed doors presentation of the sequel in which co-lead game designer, Richard Cambier informed reporters that the studio has nothing to say regarding the possibility that there are other playable characters in the game besides Ellie. However, that was soon contradicted by creative director Neil Druckmann who simply declared “Ellie is the only playable character in the game.”\n\nSimply put, that is a lie. You do play as other characters in The Last of Us Part 2, and the sections involving them actually end up being fairly substantial to the overall plot.\n\nSome have written Druckmann’s statements off as a case of misdirecting fans in order to surprise them later. Naughty Dog even utilized a similar tactic with the first game. The problem here is that the studio didn’t necessarily subvert expectations through a narrative twist but simply told us one thing and then delivered another. It was, at the very least, a questionable tactic.\n\nThe bigger issue, though, concerns Naughty Dog’s representation of Joel’s role in the sequel.\n\nEarly into The Last of Us Part 2 (about three hours into the story) Joel is murdered (by the other playable character, no less). It’s a shocking moment that has upset some fans who were not only looking forward to the possibility of playing as Joel but anticipated his involvement in the game as a way to further certain story elements that defined the original game.\n\nTruth be told, it’d be easy to dismiss these fan critiques as the spoiled wishes of a suddenly disappointed fanbase that didn’t get what they wanted. The only problem is that The Last of Us Part 2‘s marketing went out of its way to suggest that Joel was going to play a role in the game beyond just the flashbacks he is largely relegated to in the final version of the game.\n\nFor instance, there are several scenes in the trailers and commercials which show an older looking Joel as he would seemingly appear in the present timeline of the sequel. In the game, those appearances are actually flashbacks complete with a younger-looking version of Joel as he would appear in that timeline. Furthermore, there are some sequences in the previews which clearly showcase Joel in certain scenes. In the final version of the game, though, Joel is replaced by an entirely different character during these sequences.\n\nIt’s clear that Naughty Dog was trying to go out to conceal the fact that Joel dies early on in the game. The question is: were they trying to deliberately deceive fans by selling the idea that The Last of Us Part 2 would directly continue the story of Ellie and Joel?\n\nOnly Naughty Dog knows for sure, but our gut feeling is that the team was more interested in throwing people off the track of the story than they were in trying to “save” the sales by deceiving those who may not have purchased the game if they knew the truth?\n\nYet, their intent does little to inspire forgiveness for their methods. The fact is that there have been too many instances of developers misrepresenting their games via marketing materials over the years. If The Last of Us Part 2 team had cleverly cut the trailers to obfuscate the plot, we probably wouldn’t be having this discussion (at least on this scale). Instead, we’re really left talking about whether or not we should forgive a studio for taking the easy way out in regards to trying to sell people on their game without spoiling the game in the process. Many other products manage to do just that without deliberately altering information and calling it “clever.”\n\nWe know Naughty Dog (and other studios) can do better. Maybe there wasn’t extreme malicious intent in their methods, but as consumers, it’s the least we can do to hold companies to a higher standard when they’re trying to sell their products.\n\n(Updated 4/18/22) Even at a time when it feels like every game is being adapted into a show or movie, the news that Twisted Metal is being turned into a TV series stands out. Why? Well, it probably has … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\n(Updated 4/15/22) The reveal of the Mortal Kombat movie trailer and news that Street Fighter characters are joining the Fortnite roster has both legendary franchises on the minds of gamers everywhere. So, it’s only natural that fans have also … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nDo so, and you’ll probably find that T END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nDo so, and you’ll probably find that T END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nI remember when I played my first Resident Evil. It was a gift and couldn’t wait to get it running in my old PS1. That old Capcom “this game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore” plastered on the … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nAt the beginning of one mission, you are marked for dead by the organization you work for. Your handler has no idea what happened but informs you that they are coming for … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\n(Updated 4/18/22) Even at a time when it feels like every game is being adapted into a show or movie, the news that Twisted Metal is being turned into a TV series stands out. Why? Well, it probably has … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\n(Updated 4/15/22) The reveal of the Mortal Kombat movie trailer and news that Street Fighter characters are joining the Fortnite roster has both legendary franchises on the minds of gamers everywhere. So, it’s only natural that fans have also … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s critical acclaim is often met with the counter of being “overrated” by some players. There are usually numerous reasons for this – both notable and ridiculous – but one of the … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nWhile Super Smash Brothers for the Wii U and 3DS has been out for just over a year and the recent announcement of Cloud joining the roster garnering a massive amount of hype, many fans of the fighting game … END_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED\n\nI’ll admit that I’ve never been a fan of visual novels. I have nothing against them; it just isn’t a genre I’m interested in. 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[ null, "Liverpool face their neighbours Everton at Goodison Park still reeling from a 7-2 loss to Aston Villa prior to the international break.\n\nJoe Gomez was among those to struggle and found himself hooked after 61 minutes with Fabinho dropping into the back-line.\n\nThe England international has been criticised for his displays since the Premier League restart and former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy believes Klopp should drop Gomez against Carlo Ancelotti's in-form Everton.\n\nHe believes the 23-year-old is struggling from a lack of confidence and fitness with the Merseyside outfit's back-line having looked more vulnerable than usual of late.\n\nMurphy wrote in his Daily Mail column: “We cannot gloss over the defeat at Villa of course. Joe Gomez, in particular, has struggled in the heart of the defence this season.\n\n“He does not look as confident, or even fit, compared to his prime and the manager faces a big decision whether to take him out of the firing line.\n\n“I do not know Gomez’s character but from the outside, I would say it would be better for Liverpool if Fabinho partnered Virgil van Dijk for the derby, particularly as Klopp should have other strong options in midfield.\n\n“The middle of a back four is such a crucial part of the pitch and particularly so for Liverpool on this occasion, because Everton’s main strength is their front three, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin scoring every time he plays.”\n\nLiverpool will benefit from the return of at least three players at Goodison Park, with captain Jordan Henderson, Sadio Mane and Thiago Alcantara available again." ]

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[ "Thoughts on the “Dogman” Phenomenon – Part 2\n\nPart 1 of this article began as follows: \"I was recently asked for my thoughts on the phenomenon of what has become known as the Dogman. Well, there's no doubt in my mind that the mystery is a real one. Of course, the big question is: what are these strange creatures? Are they flesh and blood animals? Might they be creatures of the supernatural type? Or, could they even be a strange combination of the two? Let's see. The phenomenon largely began in 1991. That was when the people of the city of Elkhorn, Wisconsin - which has a population of around 11,000 - were swamped by reports of creatures that eerily sounded like werewolves. In other words, they looked like wolves, but they had the uncanny - sinister, even - ability to walk and run on their back legs - and in an upright fashion. Of course, and as far as we know, no such animal exists. That hasn't stopped numerous people from seeing the creatures, however. It's largely thanks to a journalist and author named Linda Godfrey, who wrote for the Walworth County Week newspaper, that the mystery escalated. When Linda was assigned to the story, it became clear - and quickly, too - that this was a big story. Sightings were hardly scarce. In fact, they became many in number. People were scared. They had good reason to be.\"", null, "In Part 2 of this article I'm sharing with you the theories for what these animals might be. If, indeed, they are animals and not something much stranger, such as creatures of a paranormal type. Let's take a look. As I mentioned in Part 1, the leading expert in this field is Linda Godfrey, who has written a number of books on the Dogman controversy and obtained numerous testimony from eyewitnesses to the beasts. Linda has addressed a number of theories to try and explain the true nature of these things. She says: \"We’ve had all sorts of theories; mental patients escaping or some crazy guy running around. A hoaxer is another theory; that it’s somebody running around in a werewolf suit. One or two could have been that, but I tend to have my doubts about that, because the incidents are isolated and not close together. One of the sightings was on Halloween, but that’s also one of the people who got a really good look at it and they’re sure it wasn't a human in a costume. Otherwise, most of them have been in really remote locations where, if you were going to hoax, the person would have to have been sitting out there in the cold just waiting for somebody to come along. So, if it's a hoaxer, my hat's off to them. But I tend not to think that's the case. I don't rule it out completely because once publicity gets out, things like that can happen.\"\n\nAnd what about Dog Children? There's a theory they roam the area, as Linda has learned: \"Two hunters quite a bit farther north saw what looked like two 'dog children' standing up in the woods. They were too scared to shoot when they saw them. They were not tall; they were juvenile-looking, standing upright, which is what scared them.\" Linda is far from finished, however: \"Occasionally I’ll get letters from people who say they are lycanthropes themselves and their theory is that this is an immature, real werewolf and it cannot control its transformation, and that’s why it allows itself to be seen occasionally. They are completely convinced of that. And there are people who believe it’s a manifestation of satanic forces, that it’s a part of a demonic thing. They point to various occult activities around here. There are also people who try to link it to UFOs. Then there’s the theory it’s just a dog. One woman, a medium, thought that it was a natural animal but didn’t know what it was. And there are a lot of people out here that do wolf-hybridizations, and I’ve thought to myself you’d get something like that. But that doesn’t explain the upright posture. Then there’s the theory that it’s a creature known as the Windigo or Wendigo, which is featured in Indian legends and is supposedly a supernatural creature that lives on human flesh. But none of the descriptions from the Windigo legends describe a creature with canine features.\"", null, "Linda adds: \"There’s another possibility: I think a lot of these people are seeing different things. And that when they heard somebody else talk about something, there's a tendency to say, 'Oh, that must be what I saw.' There’s really no way to know. And there are differences in some of the sightings. I’ve had people ask me, 'Are you sure this isn’t Bigfoot?' Most of the sightings really don't sound like what people report as Bigfoot. But a couple of them do. There’s one man who saw it in the 1960s in a different area of the county, who insists positively that he saw a Bigfoot, but doesn't want anyone saying he saw a werewolf. And the terrain around here isn't really the typical sort of Bigfoot terrain of forests where people usually report these things. We do have woods and a big state forest, but it's a narrow band of forest. It's a lot of prairie and is not what you would think a Bigfoot would live in. But you never know. I’ve also had the baboon theory, which I find extremely unlikely.\"\n\nAnd, finally: In 2005, Linda was approached by an Edward Snowden-type figure. It was someone who wanted to share certain, amazing data with her. It all revolved around the Dogman, of course. According to Linda's \"Deep Throat\"-style informant, the Dogmen have ancient origins. Extremely ancient. Reportedly, an arm of the U.S. government uncovered the truth of the mystery during the course of its secret \"Remote Viewing\" programs. According to Linda's source, the Dogmen can leap from place to place through what we might call \"paranormal portals,\" which may explain their elusiveness.On the other hand, maybe you have your own theory for what these creatures might be. If so, both me and Linda would like to know!\n\nThe “Haunted” Tiara That The Royal Family Refuses To Wear" ]

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[ "Who is Queen Cobra? ‘The Masked Singer’ Prediction + Clues Decoded!\nDecember 7, 2018\nBe the First to Comment", null, "The Voice announced that the Top 8 will be performing duets next week! Each contestant has been paired with an artist on a different team. These duets will happen on Monday night, so they will be a factor for voting into the Finale. The duets could be make or break for some Top 8 artists!\n\nHere’s who will be singing together next week:\n\nFirst up is Team Kelly’s Chevel Shepherd and Team Blake’s Kirk Jay. This duet of country artists with big personalities should be a fun one to watch! While we don’t know what they’ll sing yet, there are plenty of male/female country duets to choose from. This also could be a chance for Kirk to show off a more fun, youthful side than his usual ballads. He has mentioned that his band, Kuntry Funk, is a little crazy!\n\nChris Kroeze from Team Blake and Sarah Grace from Team Kelly are up next! These blues-inspired artists could have some really cool vibes together for their duet. I expect something classic and soulful. And we might even get to see some more instrumentals, like Chris playing guitar and Sarah playing trumpet! The duet could honestly be an entire band production and we’d be about it.\n\nThe last artist standing on Team Adam, Reagan Strange, and Team JHud’s Kennedy Holmes will make a duet showcasing two of the youngest artists left in the competition. These girls can really sing anything so I’m interested to hear what they come up with! Will we see Kennedy’s more energetic, showy side like we did last week with her “Me Too” performance? Can these two find a song that matches both Reagan’s pop/country style and Kennedy’s musical theater/diva repertoire? Will Reagan sing at all? (Too soon?) We can’t wait to see what they have in store!\n\nNow I fully expect this last duet to take us to church! With Team JHud’s MaKenzie Thomas and Team Kelly’s Kymberli Joye paired together, these two female powerhouses who grew up singing gospel music could bring the performance of the night. Maybe even the season to be honest! This is definitely the duet I’m most excited for. MaKenzie and Kymberli have been known to tackle big songs and even bigger names, so I expect nothing less for their Top 8 duet. Let’s hope they give us that DaNica Shirey and Toia Jones or Amber Nicole vs Timyra-Joi moment. And it is just a coincidence they both sang Beyonce but I wouldn’t hate that either.\n\nKelly Clarkson Cleans Up Adam Levine’s Mess on ‘The Voice’" ]

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[ null, "Greece-based LNG shipping company GasLog has entered into an agreement to merge with a unit of the world’s largest asset management firm BlackRock, resulting in the NYSE-listed company going private, reports the company website.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure team will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of GasLog, not including certain “Rolling Shareholders,” for $5.80 in cash per common share.\n\nUpon completion of the transaction, the Rolling Shareholders will continue to hold approximately 55% of the outstanding common shares of GasLog with BlackRock’s team holding the remaining 45%. GasLog’s common shares will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.\n\nRolling Shareholders include Blenheim Holdings Ltd., which is wholly owned by the Livanos family, and a wholly owned affiliate of the Onassis Foundation.\n\nAn independent “Special Committee” has unanimously recommended that the Board of Directors of GasLog approve the merger.\n\n“This transaction is a transformative next step for GasLog, offering shareholders an immediate and considerable premium for their shares and allowing for access to growth capital currently absent in the public equity markets,” said Peter G. Livanos, Chairman of GasLog.\n\nHe added, “I am delighted to be partnering with BlackRock’s GEPIF team, an ideal complement to our management team, given our shared values of safety, sustainability and operational excellence. BlackRock’s GEPIF team has a track record of success in supporting energy infrastructure businesses such as ours. I am confident that our employees offshore and on shore, customers and lending relationships will enjoy the many and substantial benefits of this partnership.”\n\nThe merger is expected to close in the second quarter of 2021 and is subject to approval GasLog shareholders, including by a majority of non-Rolling Shareholders, as well as certain customary closing conditions.\n\nGasLog’s preferred stock and shares of GasLog Partners LP are not impacted and will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange.\n\n“We are excited to partner with GasLog’s world-class management team to facilitate the company’s strong capabilities in meeting the growing global demand for LNG, particularly in Asia, through its fleet of modern, efficient vessels,” said Mark Florian, Head of BlackRock’s Global Energy & Power Infrastructure team.\n\nHe further added, “As the global shift to more environmentally-friendly energy sources such as natural gas and renewables from coal and other fuels continues, we are pleased to invest in an infrastructure business supported by long-term contracts with leading energy companies and that supports the global energy transition.”", null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The Tunnel streaming cb01 – In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the government suddenly goes cold on the plan and it is not made public why. There is talk of homeless people who use the tunnel as shelter going missing, even though the government states that there are no homeless people in there. This, and the silence from the officials and ministers, leads a journalist, Natasha to begin an investigation into a government cover-up. She and her crew Pete (Producer), Steve (Cameraman) and Tangles (Sound Technichian) decide to investigate the story in the tunnel." ]

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[ "(Sainte-Adèle) “There is no mining project that is carried out without social acceptance,” stressed Prime Minister François Legault on Thursday.\n\nHe was responding to the La Presse report, which revealed that a graphite deposit partially located in the Laurentian Reservoir-Kiamika Regional Park was on sight of an Ontario miner.\n\nCitizens and elected officials are concerned that this area will be defaced by a mine, which would also jeopardize a 2.5 million leisure tourism project.\n\nBut François Legault has no intention of leaving the way open to mining companies if their projects are not accepted by the population, he said.\n\n“That goes for this project, that goes for all projects,” said the Prime Minister as he walked through Sainte-Adèle to introduce the CAQ candidate riding Bertrand, France, Élaine Duranceau.\n\nIn southern Quebec, the growing number of mining exploration titles related to graphite — an essential mineral for the manufacture of electric car batteries — is a cause for concern.\n\n“But what’s important is to say: 1) There has to be social acceptance around the mine; 2) there is a BAPE, a Bureau of Public Hearings on the Environment. So the whole process is being followed,” said the Prime Minister.\n\n“Québec Solidaire has been proposing to review the mining sector for 15 years. Amir Khadir [député de Mercier de 2008 à 2018] was on. I can’t believe we still have to ask that,” thundered training co-speaker Manon Massé.\n\nThe surge in claims calls for “a new mining social contract” to increase royalties paid to communities and the state and prevent mining companies from prioritizing land, the party argues.\n\nUnder applicable law, the claimant has the exclusive right, for a period of two years, to prospect for mineral substances on the soil of any domain of the state that is the subject of the claim.\n\n“There is no mining boom in the Laurentians,” defends the Department of Energy and Natural Resources\n\n“The number of claims in an area varies from year to year and is not representative of the extent of mining activity in a region,” writes spokesman Eric de Montigny.\n\nThus, “only 1% of the claims are the subject of impact exploration work at an advanced stage of exploration”.\n\nIn addition, “many everyday objects such as mobile phones, sporting goods, batteries for electric vehicles cannot be produced without mines,” emphasizes the ministry.\n\nThe CAQ presents its candidate to succeed Nadine Girault\n\nIt is the accountant France-Élaine Duranceau who will defend the colors of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) riding Bertrand in the provincial elections on October 3rd.", null, "She will try to succeed Caquiste Nadine Girault, who is retiring from political life.\n\n“I liked what I’ve seen over the past four years. I liked the CAQ’s approach, an approach that focuses on concrete actions and results,” France-Élaine Duranceau told an enthusiastic crowd of friends and supporters.\n\nThe riding of Bertrand in the Laurentians is currently being held by the Minister for International Relations and La Francophonie, Nadine Girault. The latter announced in July that it would not seek a new mandate due to health problems.\n\nMember of the Order of Chartered Professional Accountants, France-Élaine Duranceau worked for Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton and Transcontinental Printing, we can read on her LinkedIn profile.\n\nBefore taking the plunge into politics, she had served on the Executive Committee of the Canada Revenue Agency since 2016.\n\nFrançois Legault was pleased to welcome another accountant to its ranks. “The CAQ is a pragmatic party,” he argued. And accountants know how to “emphasize efficiency,” Mr. Legault said.\n\nWith Pierre St-Arnaud, The Canadian Press" ]

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[ null, "I’ll bet that you did not know that today is Patriots Day! Well, it IS! It is a real, live, CIVIC holiday set aside to honor, specifically, the minutemen who stood against the British at Lexington and Concord. These were the very first battles that kicked off the Revolutionary War in America, which led directly to our independence from Great Britain.\n\nHere is a bit more from Wikipedia on Patriots’ Day:\n\nPatriots' Day (sometimes incorrectly spelled Patriot's Day or Patriots Day) is a civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. It is observed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts[1] and state of Maine[2] (once part of Massachusetts), and is a public school observance day in Wisconsin[3]. Observances and re-enactments of these first battles of the American Revolution occur annually at Lexington Green in Lexington, Massachusetts, (around 6am) and The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts (around 9am). In the morning, a mounted reenactor with State Police escort retraces Paul Revere's ride, calling out warnings the whole way.\n\nYou can learn more about Patriots’ Day HERE.\n\nSo, now that you know today is Patriots’ Day, how will you celebrate it? Good question, huh? We suggest you display the US flag outside your home or business today. We certainly hope you attended worship services at your church of choice today and gave thanks to God for the men and women who wrenched our freedom from the bonds of a monarch and for all those since who have worn the uniform of our nation’s armed services and sacrificed themselves in order to preserve that freedom so preciously paid for in blood.\n\nAt a time in our nation’s history when we stand at the brink of losing that hard won freedom, closer than we have ever been, in my opinion, we need to step back a bit and take a closer look at what we are about to lose. It is good to remind ourselves, and our government, that America is unique in the entire world. Our government is founded on a constitution, the foundation of all the law(s) of the land. Unfortunately, it becomes necessary to remind those who would govern this land that it is not they who have the final say in government, it is the constitution.\n\nJust this week crowds, estimated at one million strong, took to the streets and gathered at their county courthouses, all across the country, in what were referred to as “Tea Parties” to protest our current government’s attempts to take away the rights won for us by the patriots of this blessed land.\n\nWe suggest you visit the website of the “Oath Keepers”. You will find them HERE.\n\nHere is the list of ten orders the Oath Keepers say they will NOT obey:\n\n1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.\n\n2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people.\n\n3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.\n\n4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.\n\n5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.\n\n6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.\n\n7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.\n\n8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.”\n\n9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.\n\n10.We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.\n\nThe Oath Keepers, on their site, go on to say the following:\n\n“Oath Keepers is an association of currently serving military, veterans, and peace officers who will fulfill the oath we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God.\n\nOur oath is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and we will not obey unconstitutional (and thus illegal) and immoral orders, such as orders to disarm the American people or to place them under martial law and deprive them of their ancient right to jury trial.\n\nWe Oath Keepers have drawn a line in the sand. We will not “just follow orders.\"\n\nOur motto is “Not on our watch!”\n\nThis very day in America we tread dangerous ground. When Americans feel it necessary to form organizations such as the “Oath-Keepers” it tells us there is a deep concern among the people of the country for American’s freedom. It tells us there is a perception among Americans that their country is in peril. And, say what you will about us crazy Americans, when our constitution, and/or our liberty is in harm’s way we get our hackles up. They’re up now.\n\nWhen one million normally quiet, reserved, conservative Americans take to the streets to protest government actions, taxes, and the direction the current Congress and Presidential Administration are taking America, THAT is a signal that something is desperately wrong in America.\n\nWell sir, alot of those wre already broken under the Bush administration, we had warrantless searches on American Citizens, we had the IDF (A terrorist organization) taking fire arms from citizens after Katrina. Free speech was eliminated by the police during the RNC in New York in 2004. And on and on I could go about the over reach of government into the private lives of American citizens during the Bush years.... And about the wastefull government spending that he did too. Dissent is not partisan, or in the case of the conservatives, that's all it is. Bill Clinton was the last president to turn in a balanced budget and cut the deficit, soemthing these conservatives never give him credit for. He reigned in another big spender's deficit, a \"man\" named Regan." ]

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[ "What Really Happened At That BlizzCon Panel, According To The Woman In The Video\n\nXantia doesn’t spend much time on Twitter, so she learned that California was suing Activision Blizzard for years of alleged sexual harassment and discrimination a couple days late. She had no idea she became the face of discussions about Blizzard’s questionable past with women until a friend messaged her on Facebook. She says it felt like the meme of Leonardo DiCapiro pointing at the TV screen.\n\n“It’s really weird seeing this whole thing getting press coverage for a question that I asked 11 years ago,” Xantia, who preferred to go by her World of Warcraft handle to protect her privacy, told Kotaku in a phone interview. “It was just surreal.”\n\nThe clip of an all-male panel of World of Warcraft developers condescendingly mocking and dismissing a question by Xantia at BlizzCon 2010 resurfaced around July 23, partially as a response to a staff email sent by Blizzard president J. Allen Brack. In it, Brack called the recent allegations against the company “troubling,” going so far as to express shock and dismay at the idea the company might have a history with sexism. But then people started circulating the footage of the panel, where instead of calling out his coworkers or pushing back against the boos from the audience against Xantia, he just joked and chuckled along with them.\n\nWhile the video was new to some, for many it’s emblematic of a rotten culture at the heart of Blizzard that’s been there for years — if not proof of gaming’s ambient hostility to women.\n\n“It’s hard to have your voice heard when there are that many guys setting the tone,” Xantia said. “I think that’s one of the reasons why that video has gone viral. It just exemplifies so much of what’s wrong right now with the industry at large. There is me being utterly dismissed by a panel of men who run the company and at the same time having a small, small group of women in the audience cheer and then that immediately being drowned out by men booing.”\n\nXantia has been playing games for as long as she can remember, and some of her favourite ones happened to have been made by Blizzard. She picked up the original Diablo in high school, fell in love with StarCraft, and eventually found her way into the giant online community of World of Warcraft. “I viewed [Blizzard] as something apart from a lot of the other major developers in that they seemed to genuinely care about their fan base,” she said.", null, "By 2010, she was in graduate school and decided to go to BlizzCon not only as a fan but as a potential networking opportunity to find a job in the video game industry. “It was a bit like being a kid in a candy shop,” Xantia said.\n\nAnd that’s how she found herself in Hall D of the Anaheim Convention Centre asking a World of Warcraft panel why so many of their strong female characters nevertheless still looked like they had just walked out of a Victoria’s Secret catalogue.\n\n“I spent like a good 20, 30 minutes working my way up the line [for fan questions] thinking, ‘What’s the best way of phrasing this?’ Like, ‘Hey, for some of the major female characters, can they at least be wearing pants?’”\n\nThe most recent World of Warcraft expansion at the time, Wrath of the Lich King, had introduced a new female character named Alexstrasza, a powerful dragon queen empowered to watch over all life. Her outfit, meanwhile, was red bikini armour. “I remember doing the quest chain and my reaction was just like, ‘Oh, come on, you’ve got to be kidding me,’” Xantia said.\n\nAnd so with Alexstrasza in mind, she asked the panel of Brack, Greg Street, Tom Chilton, Alex Afrisiabi, and others, in front of the BlizzCon cameras and an audience of thousands, for more varied female character designs.\n\n“Which catalogue would you like them to step out of,” responded game director Tom Chilton at the time. “I feel you, and we want to vary our female characters absolutely, so yeah we’ll pick different catalogues,” said Alex Afrasiabi. The rest of the panel laughed. Brack tried to keep the joke going. Xantia was eventually prompted to move out of the line, her question unanswered.\n\n“I tell you, it’s funny, I didn’t really think much about it at the time just because it’s so daunting,” she told Kotaku. “You get up there, you’re nervous because you’re being filmed, you’re being streamed and you’re in front of an audience of easily a couple of thousand people. And on top of it you’re asking the panel in front of this enormous screen where you’re watching yourself ask that question. So it’s hard to even kind of keep your thoughts straight. And I manage to sum it up coherently, come out with that question and they make a joke. I kind of like how I laugh and then they just keep going with it. I’m like, OK, I guess I’m not going to get a chance for a follow-up. OK, I’m being dismissed, great.”\n\nShe said that afterwards, quite a few women and some men came up to her saying they appreciated her question. Despite Blizzard’s dismissal, other players found themselves lending their support. Still, the whole experience threw her off a bit.\n\n“Honestly, the sound of being booed by that many guys, honestly, in some ways that bothered me more than getting dismissed,” she said. “You had that initial cheer from the women in the crowd and then just wave boos.”\n\nBut while the clip has become a signifier now for what’s wrong with Blizzard and the games industry at-large, it didn’t necessarily stick with Xantia in the months and years that followed.\n\n“I didn’t think that much about it, because there’s always been for the longest time a certain amount of sexism in the games industry that is just there and you learn to roll your eyes and do your best to ignore it and just try to appreciate the things that you do like about it, Xantia said.\n\n“I loved Diablo II back in the day. Did I love the character model for the Amazon? No, not really. Hell, one of my earliest memories of gaming was being excited about the first Tomb Raider game and thinking, ‘That’s so cool it has a female protagonist.’ And then you see the first model of Lara Croft in the game and you’re like, oh, cool, great, great…”\n\nThere’s an audible exhaustion in her voice when she recalls this memory. The 2010 BlizzCon panel wasn’t an anomaly. It wasn’t the mask slipping in front of thousands on video. It was what she had come to expect from a space dominated by men with little regard for anyone else, and as California’s lawsuit and new reporting has confirmed, who were at times explicitly dangerous to the women around them.\n\nAfrasiabi is one of the only people named in California’s lawsuit, accused of sexually harassing and groping female Blizzard employees. It also accused him of having a “Cosby Suite” at BlizzCon where he would also prey on women.\n\nBased on images obtained by Kotaku, the “Cosby Suite’’ was an actual booze-filled party room at BlizzCon 2013 in which Afrasiabi and others would pose with a giant portrait of the comedian. Activision Blizzard confirmed to Kotaku that Afrasiabi was terminated last year for “misconduct.” Brack, the only other person named in California’s lawsuit for failing to address sexual harassment compalints against Afrasiabi, is still currently in charge of Blizzard.\n\n“Whenever you start explaining yourself to that degree, it stops being an apology” – fan from the BlizzCon 2010 Panel\n\nDespite the experience at the panel, Xantia said she tried to get a job at Blizzard in its Strategic Initiatives Department around 2012 and was in the running for a while before ultimately being rejected. “I was pretty heartbroken about it at the time, but man, talk about being lucky in your failures,” she said. “I now feel like I dodged a bullet there.”\n\nFollowing the resurfacing of the BlizzCon 2010 moment, former World of Warcraft lead designer Greg Street, currently at Riot Games, took to Twitter to apologise in a somewhat meandering tweet thread. He first qualified the “shitty answer” by saying it can be hard to see who’s asking the questions. He also mentioned that developers are nervous up there, in front of the crowd, out of fear they will say the wrong thing. Eventually he settled on, “I find the video embarrassing and I apologise to the player who asked the question and all others who were disappointed with our ‘answer.’”\n\nXantia said part of what’s been so weird about seeing the video brought back up over a decade later is seeing responses like Street’s.\n\n“I guess Greg Street now knows who I am now. Cool. OK. And also that wasn’t really an apology, but sure you do you. Whatever gets you to sleep at night,” she said. “I was joking with a friend when I saw it, when I saw everything he was writing about that, just, you know, ‘Oh, I couldn’t see her react, I couldn’t see her face’ and how he’s disappointed in all of these things. Yeah, but your ears were working just fine. Did you not hear hundreds of people booing me? What would it have taken to say, ‘Hey, guys, come on, that’s not cool’? “Whenever you start explaining yourself to that degree, it stops being an apology.”\n\nXantia thinks Blizzard needs to be more candid too.\n\n“One of the biggest things that they could do is, actually be honest and have that kind of ‘boys club’ not be above reproach,” she said. “It has to be more than just a show of ‘We did these couple acts of penance and now we’re all better.’ I think there actually has to be a fundamental reevaluation.”\n\nXantia’s found the recent actions of other developers at Activision Blizzard, including an open letter and walkout, to be cause for optimism. And despite how bizarre it’s been to play such a visible role in the public outcry that’s currently unfolding after all these years, she’s hopeful the negative experience is now making a positive contribution.\n\n“I’ve gotten a moderate amount of attention for all this when I’m only tangentially connected to it,” she said. “I think the important voices are for the women who were actually at Blizzard who have had to endure far, far more than just being dismissed at a convention.”\n\n“There are worse reasons to go viral. And if this helps to actually bring about change then that would be something profoundly good that came out of a pretty small, but still shitty moment.”" ]

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[ "WASHINGTON — Pfizer and BioNTech said Tuesday that they had sought emergency authorization for a second booster shot of their coronavirus vaccine for adults 65 and older.\n\nThe companies’ request to the Food and Drug Administration was based heavily on data from Israel, where such shots are authorized for a somewhat broader group. Their move could further inflame a tortuous debate among scientists over when and how the vaccines’ protection should be bolstered, and for whom.\n\nPfizer’s CEO, Dr. Albert Bourla, said repeatedly over the past week that he believed an additional dose would be necessary to counteract waning protection after the third dose, now authorized for all Americans 12 and older. “The protection that you are getting from the third, it is good enough, actually quite good for hospitalizations and deaths,” he told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “It’s not that good against infections.”\n\nPrevious requests last fall for a booster shot set off a fierce public debate. Some public health experts vigorously opposed them for the general population last fall, only to change their minds after the omicron variant proved more agile at evading the vaccines’ shield. Scientists have continued to clash over how long the vaccines’ protection really lasts and how much benefit added shots offer.\n\nIn an interview with Business Insider on Monday, Dr. Stephen Hoge, president of Moderna, whose vaccine is the second most widely used in the United States, sounded a more cautious note than Bourla.\n\n“For those who are immune-compromised, those who are older adults, over the age of 50 or at least 65, we want to strongly recommend and encourage” a fourth shot, he said. But he did not say how soon he thought it would be needed. Like a number of other experts, he suggested that most people would need an annual shot to protect them against the coronavirus, just like the flu.\n\nIn their justification, Pfizer and BioNTech cited in part two recent studies from Israel, both published on preprint servers without peer review. One study, done in conjunction with Israel’s Ministry of Health, reviewed the health records of 1.1 million people and concluded that those who got a fourth dose of Pfizer’s vaccine were less likely to become infected with the virus or to develop severe illness than those who had received just three doses.\n\nBut since Israel only recently began its second booster program, researchers could not determine whether the added protection was short-lived. Israel began offering fourth doses to health care workers in late December, then quickly broadened eligibility to those 60 and older and other vulnerable groups.\n\nThe second study, of Israeli health care workers, showed that while fourth shots of either Pfizer’s or Moderna’s vaccine boosted antibody levels, it was not very effective at preventing infections. Researchers said those findings underscored the urgency of developing vaccines that target whatever variant is circulating.\n\nThe National Institutes of Health in the United States and various vaccine manufacturers have been studying how the vaccines could be updated.\n\nSome senior administration officials say a fourth shot for all older Americans may make sense now, but that the general population should probably wait until the fall. The FDA is expected to convene a meeting of its expert advisory committee next month to discuss the issue of fourth shots. Developments on Pfizer’s request were reported earlier by The Washington Post.\n\nAsked last month whether everyone would need yet another injection, Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s top vaccine regulator, said, “Barring any surprises from new variants, maybe the best thing is to think about our booster strategy in conjunction with the influenza vaccine next fall, and get as many people as possible boosted then.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the White House, has suggested that any recommendation before then would most likely be aimed at those most at risk, possibly based on underlying conditions as well as age.\n\nTo date, about two thirds of Americans 5 and older have been fully vaccinated with two shots of a vaccine. Only about half of those eligible for booster shots have received them, but the proportion rises to two-thirds for those 65 and older, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nThe CDC has recommended that many Americans with immune deficiencies get three shots as part of their initial series, followed by a fourth shot as a booster.\n\nA study released by the agency last month showed waning protection after a booster shot of either Moderna’s or Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine. While they did not break down cases by age, underlying conditions or the presence of immune deficiencies, researchers said the findings illustrated the possible importance of a fourth shot.\n\nThe study analyzed hospitalizations and visits to emergency rooms and urgent care clinics in 10 states by people who received booster shots of either Moderna’s or Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine. It showed the level of protection against hospitalization fell from 91% in the two months after a third shot to 78% after four to five months. Effectiveness against visits to emergency rooms or urgent care clinics declined from 87% to 66%.\n\nKaiser Permanente in Southern California suggested that the effectiveness of a booster dose against both symptomatic and severe disease wanes in three to six months, while a fourth dose restores antibody levels to the peak level triggered by a third dose.\n\nBut other recent studies have suggested that three doses of a COVID vaccine — or even just two — are enough to protect most people from serious illness and death for a long period of time. While antibody levels fall off, other parts of the immune system can remember and destroy the virus over many months if not years, according to at least four studies published in top-tier journals in recent weeks.\n\n“We’re starting to see now diminishing returns on the number of additional doses,” E. John Wherry, director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania, said last month.", null ]

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[ "The junior point guard brushed off a slow start and some aching knees to score 23 points and hand out seven assists as No. 9 Michigan State knocked off No. 7 Michigan.\n\nMSU's Cassius Winston and Xavier Tillman talk about the win over Michigan. The Detroit News", null, "East Lansing — It seemed like Cassius Winston locked up Big Ten MVP honors two weeks ago, but if there was any lingering doubt, he likely dashed it on Saturday night.\n\nThe junior point guard brushed off a slow start and some aching knees to score 23 points and hand out seven assists as No. 9 Michigan State knocked off No. 7 Michigan, 75-63, at Breslin Center to win a share of the Big Ten championship with Purdue.\n\nIt is the second straight league title for the Spartans (25-6, 16-4 Big Ten) and it likely wouldn’t have been possible if not for the play of Winston. He’s a five-time player of the week in the conference and is among the finalists for most of the national player of the year awards.\n\nAnd with Michigan in control on Saturday, it was Winston who turned in another award-winning game, sparking a huge 25-4 run in second half to turn an eight-point deficit into a 13-point lead.\n\nMore: Wojo: Spartans are about Cassius Winston and so much more\n\n“Cash had that first turnover of the game, layup,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said, reflecting on the first possession of the game. “But boy, like the reason he is, to me, the most valuable player in this league, is because when it was winning time, he made some winning plays. That's what great players do. He did it, and I'm really proud of him.”\n\nWinston has been battling tendinitis in his knees for the last couple of weeks and they were a factor in Tuesday’s game against Nebraska when Winston scored just eight points.\n\nBut Winston and Izzo both agreed there was no issue on Saturday.\n\n“Yeah, I’m good,” Winston said. “I was cool. There was a whole bunch of adrenaline and it was a must-win game, so I had to get it done.”\n\nWinston got it done, all right, and has now scored 50 points and handed out 15 assists in the two games against Michigan after struggling mightily in two meetings last season.\n\n“I think that (his teammates) have such an appreciation for his ability to find people and get the ball to people, along with being a great scorer,” Izzo said. “It's hard to do that taking as few of shots as he does and averaging 20 points. He's got to be one of the more efficient players I've had.”\n\nThe Big Ten will reveal its postseason awards on Monday, and odds are Winston will be named the conference’s top player, though Purdue’s Carsen Edwards and Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ will likely draw a few votes.\n\n“(It would be) a huge honor,” Winston said of the possibility. “I never saw myself being in that situation coming into this year. To have that put in front of me and to do everything I could to go grab it, seize that opportunity. If I get that honor, that would be huge.”\n\nJunior center Nick Ward missed his fifth straight game with a broken hand, but there was a moment at halftime when Izzo thought about letting Ward suit up. They even put his name in the official scorer’s book in case of an emergency.\n\nIzzo said Ward, who has been wearing a brace on the left hand but has been doing shooting drills for nearly two weeks, should be back by Friday when Michigan State opens the Big Ten tournament.\n\nJunior Kyle Ahrens was back in the lineup after missing Tuesday’s game with a back injury. Ahrens played nearly 15 minutes and had four points and four rebounds.\n\nLate in the first half, Ahrens scored on a layup in transition and hit the floor hard. He was grimacing as he ran down the court but was soon firing up his teammates during the next timeout.\n\n“You could see the pain, couldn't you?” Izzo said. “They were so fired up for him in the next huddle. You talk about a guy with some grit, now. I mean that guy, we couldn't even practice him. It was almost decided that we wouldn't play him. I just felt like I needed a guy who's a threat to shoot and could do some things.”\n\nMichigan State captured its 15th regular-season Big Ten championship. That's the second most in the conference since Michigan State joined the Big Ten in 1950-51, trailing only Indiana (19).\n\n… Since Izzo's first season in 1995-96, no other school has won more than five Big Ten titles.\n\n… Winston handed out seven assists, his 27th game this season with at least six assists.\n\n… Kenny Goins had 16 rebounds, his 14th game with at least 10 rebounds and his 21st time this season leading the team in rebounds." ]

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[ null, "Today, we are exploring the key differences in a 9-Dimension Comparison between Soulmates, TwinFlames, TwinSouls, plus bonus information about Angel Whisperers. This insight and research is from the last 8 years of angelic whisperings by Robren with his late wife and TwinSoul, Angel Brenda.\n\nThere is a possibility of meeting your SoulMates with 2 to more than 10 past lives together.\n\nFor TwinSouls it usually means at least 20 past lives together (not necessarily consecutive).\n\nAnd for a rare few TwinSouls pairs, their past lives together is countless or even everlasting.\n\n2. How many do you meet in one lifetime\n\nFor all 3 types it is mixed gender i.e. male or female. For TwinFlames it can be sexual or platonic.\nAnd for TwinSouls, it is predominately spiritual.\n\nFor all 3 types, the relationship comes in many types such as a best friend, life partner, child parent, grandparent, sibling, rival, enemy, career or business partner.\n\nFor TwinSouls, the relationship type is predominately mission and vision-based, focusing on light over darkness. The TwinSouls go through The 7 Tests of Faith e.g. 1 see the other die, CDE (Cheating Death Experience), NDE (Near Death Experience), and The 9 Vices.\n\nFor Fallen TwinSouls, they have an evil mission say as a cult founder, focusing on darkness over light.\n\nFor SoulMates, after death they are likely to be your Guardian Angel but many are not aware of Afterlife Signs.\n\nFor TwinFlames, they are most likely to be your Guardian Angel or a Muse, who take care holistic needs of her/his TwinSoul (especially for the creative types).\n\nFor TwinSouls, the crossed over one will send countless Angelic Signs and act a Spiritual Muse, who fulfil the spiritual needs of his/her TwinSoul.\n\nThe nature of SoulMates are a deep connection, with strong attraction and rejection, they can be a confidante, with special bonding, companionship, and serendipitous encounters.\n\nFor TwinFlames they have the deepest twin connection, with extreme highs & lows; Extreme attraction or rejection, If one is down, the other is down.\n\nFor TwinSouls they have everlasting twin connection, unconditional love, surprisingly they may have legendary highs & lows, they are ultra-intensive, but stick together through huge fights (compare one TwinSouls fight can destroy a normal SoulMate relationship). Miracles can happen.\n\nThe purpose for all 3 types is to settle past karmic debts/credits, can be a catalyst.\n\nFor TwinFlames, they complete each other, they fulfil each other’s needs, pleasure is powerful reward and motivator.\n\nFor TwinSouls they keep each other focused on the TwinSoul Mission.\nTraumas and disorders can actually act a superpower to access the 7 Psychic Senses.\n\nFor all 3 types, some characteristics are ‘Partners-in-crime’, fulfilment, love, empathy.\n\nFor TwinFlames it can be most intimate, super-intensive, with ecstasy, passion and intense karma.\n\nFor TwinSouls their key purpose is recognition of being ‘chosen’ to establish a religion, cult, spiritual/political movement, or being a channel for angelic messages, with euphoria, deep spiritual purpose.\n\nFrom the whisperings with Angel Brenda, it is most likely a Founder TwinSouls would have at least 30 lifetimes together before they have the religious alignment, maturity, trust and synergy. Our sense why there are so many new minor religions especially religious cults, is because the majority were/are Junior TwinFlames, not TwinSouls\n\nRobren TwinSouls’ Purpose:\n1. To establish the higher consciousness spiritual movement called Robrenism and Angel Lightberators.\n2. To be the Angel Whisperer for Liberty Angels.\n3. To bring liberty from the 22 human conditioning, and in the Multiverse.\n\nSoulmates are souls who close to you for one or a few lifetimes, such as parents, siblings, spouse, best friends, relatives, colleagues, schoolmates, or career partners.\n\nAn Angel Whisperer is one who can sense and communicate with Angels (from ancestor guardian angels to archangels) through any one or all of the 7 Psychic Senses. An Angel Whisperer who is also a TwinSoul is extremely rare, one in 100-300 million.\n\nTwinFlames have many lifetimes together and likely to be romantically linked or platonically linked, unlike TwinSouls who are spiritually linked.\nRobren are TwinSouls of Robert & Brenda only, but they individually have multiple TwinFlames in different lifetimes.\n\n● TwinSouls are different from TwinFlames primarily in role-playing.\n\n● The key role of TwinSouls is establishing a religion, a spiritual movement, or being a channel for angelic messages. Robren play the later two roles.\n\nFrom whisperings with Angel Brenda, all religions were established by Founder TwinSouls, and they were reborn in senior positions to sustain the religion.\n\nFor example, the Founder Soul of Christ entered the body-chariot of Jesus and established Christianity, later the Christ-Jesus TwinSouls reincarnated to sustain their religion as high-ranking officials as a Cardinal, a Saint, or even a Pope.\n\nSimilarly, the Founder Soul of Buddha entered the body-chariot of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, and became ‘enlightened’ and established Buddhism as Buddha-Guatama TwinSouls. Later the soul of Gautama reincarnated to sustain Buddhism as a high-ranking Buddhist leader, a Bodhisattva, Saint Josaphat, and Budai (Fat Buddha). The soul of Buddha manifested in many angelic forms such as Guan Yin, Avalokitasvara, etc.\n\nRobert had deep insights into the workings of TwinSouls when he was the World’s Second Chinese Brahma Kumaris, from 1979 to 1989, who was the Co-Founder of Brahma Kumaris Malaysia, together with his physical eldest brother, Tom. He has written the world’s first BK memoirs ebook called “Brahma Kumaris Memoirs”: an account of the struggle to live an ultra strict celibate life as a virgin youth leader, while being tempted from all sides while working in the sexy, backstabbing, political world of advertising.\n\nThe Angel Whisperer who cracked The Angel Code, the secret code to everything.\nRobren’s purpose is to establish the higher consciousness spiritual movement called Robrenism, to be the Angel Whisperer for @Liberty Angels (i.e. Angel Ai (Love), Angel Alitheia (Truth) and Angel Archangelus (Light) who are the strongest cluster of ArchAngels identified to be Michael, Gabiel, Raphael, Uriel and Metatron) and @Angel Lightberators, to bring liberty from the 22 human conditionings, and to inspire a Multiverse of abundance and a Metaverse & scam-free NFT eMalls build by youth & kids entrepreneurship.\n\nhttps://tinyurl.com/Lightberators  © Copyright 2022\nEditor’s Note #3: Our fans are most welcome to quote freely from the vast resources, articles, and videos by Robren. We only request give due ownership credit whenever you use our materials, with or without written permission.\n\nNEXT… The latest update on The 10 Dimensions of The Multiverse…\nSOON… Full details of The 22 Human Conditionings…\n…. Attracting Karmic Credits, and Repulsing Karmic Debts…\n\nEditor’s Sidenote:\nAfter 8 years of deliberate Whisperings and Past Life Meditation with Angel Brenda, Robren has identified 29 TwinFlames out of 300 SoulMates with past lives with Robren – 100% confirmed so far.\n\nHalf of these 29 TwinFlames, Robren is waiting for the right time to share with them.\nSharing the truth is an art, not a science. Not all can handle the truth.\nThere are a number of SoulMates, some who are alive and some who had crossed over, that still need much more past life meditation before Robren can confirm their TwinFlame relationship, in their natural timing.\nAnd more confirmed TwinFlames are envisioned to appear soon, and in the future, some are clients, some were ‘enemies’, some are Dajis 狐狸精, some are Kitsunes, some were Ascended Masters, some were/are Fallen TwinSouls (brought to spiritual justice), some are Founder TwinSouls, while some will not be shared with them at all.\n\n[] To help in the purpose, vision, mission, and principles of Robrenism, Lightberators, Spiritual Entrepreneurship, etc.\n[] To reward or be rewarded with Good Karmic Credits.\n[] To take care of the various holistic needs of Robren TwinSouls.\n[] To be a Robren’s Mentor, a Catalyst, a Muse, or a Check & Balance Adviser; and vice versa.\n[] To help and liberate ‘lost souls‘.\n\nIf you are one of those people who is a hopeless romantic who believes in eternal love, and you are willing to fight against the odds to be with your true love, then click and read this article below:\n\nCharacteristics of Twin Flames: 1 in 100,000 can be your Twin Flame" ]

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[ "Flying Scotsman started life as just another of Sir Nigel Gresley's A1 class of locomotives, but is now considered the most famous locomotive in the world. How did it get there?\n\nWhere did it all begin?\n\nFlying Scotsman was built in Doncaster, the first locomotive of the newly formed London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). It left the works on 24 February 1923 with number 1472. It was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley as part of the A1 class—the most powerful locomotives used by the LNER at that time.\n\nBy 1924, when it was selected to appear at the British Empire Exhibition in London, the loco had been renumbered 4472—and given the name 'Flying Scotsman' after the daily 10.00 London to Edinburgh rail service which started in 1862.\n\nThe British Empire Exhibition made Flying Scotsman famous, and it went on to feature in many more publicity events for the LNER. In 1928, it was given a new type of tender with a corridor, which meant that a new crew could take over without stopping the train. This allowed it to haul the first ever non-stop London to Edinburgh service on 1 May that year, reducing the journey time to eight hours.\n\nIn 1934, Scotsman was clocked at 100mph on a special test run—officially the first locomotive in the UK to reach that speed. The test run proved to the LNER's directors that steam power could provide high speeds, negating a plan for the company to use diesel power on its high-speed services.\n\nLNER passenger locomotives had always been painted Apple Green. But during the Second World War, Flying Scotsman was repainted in wartime black, in common with all railway stock. After the war, it became green again and was rebuilt as an A3 Pacific.\n\nIn 1948, British Railways was formed and rail travel in Britain was nationalised. Scotsman, now numbered 60103, was painted blue for a time, then BR Green.\n\nIt remained this colour until 1963, when it was retired by British Rail. By this time, it had undergone several alterations to improve its performance—but it had been pulling trains for 40 years, and steam engines were becoming old-fashioned.\n\nIn January 1963, Alan Pegler bought Flying Scotsman. As part of the deal, Pegler negotiated a complete overhaul of the locomotive.\n\nIt was converted back to single-chimney condition and repainted in LNER livery. The tender was exchanged for a corridor type, and an agreement made that enabled it to run on the main line. In a blaze of publicity, Flying Scotsman ran its last train for British Railways on 14 January 1963.\n\nIn May 1968 on the 40th anniversary of the first non-stop run, Flying Scotsman travelled non-stop from London King's Cross to Edinburgh.\n\nIn 1969 Flying Scotsman headed to the United States on a tour intended to promote British exports. The tour broke even in its first year, but the second lost money.\n\nIn a bid to balance the books, Pegler arranged for the train to travel to San Francisco. The trip worked well operationally but was a financial disaster. Alan Pegler was forced into bankruptcy and Scotsman was stranded in the USA.\n\nHowever, in 1973 Flying Scotsman was brought back to the UK after William McAlpine heard about the situation in the USA. He promptly put together a rescue plan, paying off the creditors and buying the locomotive.\n\nMcAlpine had the engine restored at Derby Works and kept it running for 23 years in his ownership, extensively overhauling it twice. He even took Flying Scotsman to Australia, making it the first steam locomotive to circumnavigate the globe on its voyage there and back. While in Australia in 1989 it also set a new record for the longest non-stop run by a steam locomotive at 422 miles.\n\nThe locomotive was repaired again in the early 1990s, at which time pop impresario Pete Waterman formed a short-lived partnership with Sir William to run the locomotive. In February 1996 businessman Tony Marchington bought Scotsman outright for £1.25 million.\n\nIn 2004, Flying Scotsman hit the headlines again with yet another crisis over its ownership.\n\nA campaign spearheaded by the National Railway Museum to save the locomotive for the nation amassed the support of thousands, confirming its status as a national treasure.\n\nThe appeal to keep the steam icon in Britain was supported by a £1.8 million grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the generosity of the public. Its restoration was also completed with the help of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £275,000.\n\nScotsman and the National Railway Museum\n\nFrom 2006, Flying Scotsman underwent an extensive restoration in the workshop of Riley & Son (E) Ltd. In 2016 the painstaking £4.2m project to bring the legend back to life—resplendent in BR Green livery in its guise as 60103—was completed.\n\nAs the restoration process came to an end, all eyes were once again trained on the world’s most famous locomotive. The next chapter in the Flying Scotsman story was its triumphant return as a working museum exhibit, conquering yet another record as the oldest mainline working locomotive on Britain’s tracks.\n\nUndoubtedly one of the jewels in the crown of our world-class collection, it can now be experienced by a new generation of Scotsman fans and will captivate the public for generations to come.\n\nAt the National Railway Museum", null, "Navvies: Workers who built the railways", null, "Rocket, Rainhill and the rise of the locomotive", null, "How did a sleepy County Durham town become so vital to the story of the railways? What did local people make of the radical new technology changing the face of their landscape?" ]

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[ null, "The Colts had a chance for a late win, but Monday Night Football ended the way most of their games have this season. Indianapolis lost 24-17, failing to convert a fourth-and-three at the Pittsburgh 26.\n\nThe Colts had questionable clock management on their final drive, which began with 4:52 left. Indianapolis snapped the ball with 1:35 left, and Terrell Edmunds sacked Matt Ryan for a 7-yard loss. The Colts snapped it again with 59 seconds left, and, on second-and-17, Ryan ran for 14 yards before sliding.\n\nIndianapolis had three timeouts, but didn’t take one, and the third-down snap came with 34 seconds left. Alex Highsmith stopped Jonathan Taylor for no gain on third-and-three, and the Colts took their first timeout.\n\nRyan’s fourth down pass fell incomplete as Parris Campbell was well defended by Cameron Sutton and Minkah Fitzpatrick provided help. The Colts begged for a flag, either for pass interference on Sutton or hit on a defenseless receiver by Fitzpatrick, but they got neither.\n\nESPN rules analyst John Parry said it was a correct decision by officials.\n\nRyan went 22-of-34 for 199 yards with a touchdown and an interception. He also lost a fumble on a botched handoff. Taylor rushed for 86 yards and a touchdown on 20 carries." ]

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[ null, "Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. (Titus 3:1-2)\n\nThe Bible is an amazing library of knowledge that finds its application in every society, generation, culture, and innovation of man. When Paul wrote to Titus encouraging him to be faithful in the work of the kingdom and to exhort the saints of God to live before all men with righteousness, he had no idea of what social media would become in the modern world. Social media has always been around but the technologies have evolved over the centuries changing the means of communications. There has never been a time in history where information is disseminated with such rapidity as the modern form of social media. It has given license to millions of voices who can at the touch of a click send their message around the globe with instantaneous results. For many disciplines, this can be a great blessing. However, it has also been the platform for voices of dissension, hatred, prejudice, and disrespect. To this point it must be added these are not the voices of the unlearned or uninformed but children of God. With the political year of 2020 coming up, the platitudes of political posturing have begun in earnest with many of the holy nation of God pushing themselves in the middle of such trite expression of failed loyalties. The Kingdom of Jesus Christ is made up of citizens of the kingdom of God who are to be loyal to one king and one king alone: Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. As citizens of the heavenly kingdom there are guidelines that faithful souls must adhere themselves as representatives of the Divine. Paul addresses these attributes in his letter to Titus that is vital for modern men to take heed and listen.\n\nRegardless of party affiliation, the Christian is a person of integrity who is subject to the rulers and authorities without regard to who sits in the seat of governmental authority. Remember that when the early church began, men like Herod and Nero were in power and their rule was anything but democratic. Yet, in the face of such rulers, the apostles admonished the early Christians to honor the king, submit to the rule of all those in authority and to deny that rule would be denying God. Rulers and those in authority are to be obeyed by the command of the Lord with the only exception if the law prescribed violates the clear Biblical law of God. Paying exorbitant taxes on English tea does not qualify for rebellion. Using platforms like Facebook to spew anger and disrespect to rulers and those in authority is not the example of a faithful child of God. Instead the voice of the Christian should be one that seeks every good work. Paul exhorts the child of God not to slander anyone, and avoid quarreling. Instead, they should be gentle and show true humility to everyone. These rules have served well for two thousand years whether social media was animal skin or electronic media. The character of the Christian does not allow their heart to be filled with the trappings of an immoral, corrupt and angry world. As the salt of the earth and lights of Jesus Christ, the reflections of a humble spirit must be heard in the voices of those who put God first in everything. Subjection to rulers and authorities is one of the most important examples others can see.\n\nDemocracy is a wonderful form of rule for men who love freedom. It gives the citizen the privilege of expressing their views, forming opinions that can be used in making changes and affords the freedom of religious belief. While all of the tenets of democracy are appealing to the carnal side of man, the stark reality for the citizen of the kingdom of God is the only freedom found is that which is found in Christ. He is the King that must be obeyed and His will is the only voice. There is no freedom of speech in Christ or the right to live by any standard of rule. Jesus is the only way, He is the only truth, and He is the only life and everything in the life of the Christian is measured by His guidance and wisdom. There is only one way to the Father and that way is Jesus Christ. As citizens of the kingdom of God, the Christian is a slave and nothing more; at best – an unprofitable servant. By God’s grace, He affords salvation to those who will submit their will to His word. Submission to rulers and those in authority is because the Lord demands it. This is not measured whether we like the person in rule or not. Obedience is expressly demanded by the Lord to all those in places of rule. It may be a freedom of the American judicial system to speak evil of those in rule but there is no such rule in the kingdom of God. He forbids it and will judge with righteousness those who disregard His command. The finest examples of American citizens are the citizens of the kingdom who are ready for every good work, live peaceable lives, showing gentleness toward all men and are humble before all." ]

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[ null, "The roads near Liam Knight’s house don’t have shoulders, and so he hasn’t been cycling lately. That fact cost the soon-to-be East Hampton High School freshman in Saturday’s youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach, as Matteo Somma of Malverne, 15, with whom Knight had emerged from the 300-yard swim, took a commanding lead on the six-mile bike leg and cruised to the win in the one-and-a-half-mile run.\n\nDylan Cashin, 15, a rising junior at East Hampton High, who recently finished 13th in a national scholastic steeplechase race at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field, placed second Saturday, in 35 minutes and 20.51 seconds, a little more than four minutes behind Somma, whose winning time was 31:07.70.\n\nJust being at Hayward Field was enough, Cashin said. “It’s every runner’s dream.”\n\nKnight, a very good swimmer and runner who had won the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s half-mile run, half-mile swim, and half-mile run at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach the day before, finished third — it was his first triathlon — in 36:19.60.\n\nLiam’s father, Sean, said his son is to run cross-country and track and swim for the high school and for the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s Hurricane youth swim team — in the coming school year. Sean Knight was among several hundred spectators at Long Beach that morning, most of them parents of teenage girls who are members of Theresa Roden’s I-Tri empowerment program that spans Mastic to Montauk.\n\nSomma came out with two other members of the Long Island Youth\nTriathlon Team, Isabela Reda, 12, and\n\nElijah Lam, 17, and the team’s coach, Noah Lam, Elijah’s father. The team trains at the Nassau County Aquatic Center, at Tobay Beach, and at Stony Brook University. All three — Somma, Reda, the second female finisher and sixth over all, and Lam, who was eighth — are to compete at the end of the month in the junior national triathlon championships in West Chester, Ohio, 18 miles north of Cincinnati.\n\nAsked about the course, Matteo said the water was warm and calm, and that the bike leg was paved and flat. It was nice too, he added, that a cop was leading the way. Swimming is his forte, he said. “I’ve been swimming since I was 2 and competing since I was 8.” He swims for the high-powered Long Island Aquatic Club of Garden City. In high school, he said, he’ll run cross-country, and compete in winter and spring track, all at the varsity level.\n\nOf the scores of I-Tri girls who competed Saturday, Mia Luna, 12, a Sag Harbor seventh grader, was the first finisher among them, and 12th over all, in 43:06.08. There were 119 finishers.\n\nSharon McCobb, the race director and I-Tri’s athletic director, said she thought Mia, who swims with the Hurricanes, would do well. It was nice to oversee a youth triathlon again, McCobb added. The last one was three years ago, before the pandemic.\n\nSaturday’s wasn’t the only triathlon last weekend. The Montauk Sprint triathlon to the Lighthouse was contested the next day. There were 313 finishers. Tom Eickelberg, 33, of Newburgh, N.Y., won it — for the eighth time — in one hour and 54 seconds. A pro triathlete, Eickelberg did the half-mile Gin Beach swim in 10:41, the 14-mile bike in 30:17, and the 5K trail run in 18:32.Olivia Ebenstein was the women’s winner, and seventh over all, in 1:10:44.\n\nNeil Falkenhan, an East Hamptoner, finished third, in 1:09:22. Another East Hamptoner, Thomas Brierley, was ninth, four seconds behind the male 25-to-29 winner, Cole Higgins, who crossed the Montauk Lighthouse finish line in 1:12:45. Brierley edged out another age-group competitor, Spencer Mannion, by one second.\n\nThe next I-Tri program fund-raiser is to be held Aug. 13 in Sag Harbor, an event that is to include a craft fair, music, and entertainment at the John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Antigua and Barbuda Hamptons Challenge regatta, from 11 to 4, and an awards cocktail party from 5 to 7:30.\n\nI-Tri, which Roden started in 2005 and is now in a dozen middle schools on the South Fork, has been internationally recognized. It was featured on Friday’s “Today” show. Roden said the main idea is to imbue her 11-through-13-year-old charges with the confidence that they can do anything.\n\nMashashimuet Park's History and Future\nA Conference for Young People to Create Solutions\nGet Outside, Get Moving\nEND_OF_DOCUMENT_TOKEN_TO_BE_REPLACED" ]

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[ "Dementia Friends is the UK Government’s initiative, in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society, to increase basic awareness of dementia within, initially, England but now also in Wales and Scotland. To become a Dementia Friend you undertake training, either in person or online, and are asked to commit to an action as a result of your increased knowledge of dementia. To become a person who delivers the training – a Champion – you complete a one day course and are then equipped with resources to go back to your community and hold face-to-face training sessions.\n\nI trained as a Champion in May 2013, and although I wouldn’t say that every aspect of Dementia Friends is perfect, its benefits should be recognised. Increasing dementia awareness, even at the most basic level, is generally a positive step forward. Likewise, giving people something to belong to by giving them a badge, and a real sense of joining a social movement for change is also a positive example to set.", null, "Some of the main problems with Dementia Friends have come from the name itself, which some people have misinterpreted as suggesting that people who become Dementia Friends then go out and befriend random strangers who are living with dementia. Equally, the idea that people are ‘trained’ gives the impression that this is comprehensive dementia training which replaces other forms of more in-depth, and potentially costly, education.\n\nTo be fair to those who have pioneered Dementia Friends, both of these common myths are roundly condemned by the official literature that accompanies the initiative, but never-the-less, I still encounter health and social care organisations who believe that giving their staff Dementia Friends training means they have trained them in dementia care. They have not.\n\nDementia Friends isn’t without its critics, and equally its hardened enthusiasts. I sit somewhere in the middle. I like the basic concept, the positive way it’s been embraced by people who have never even thought about dementia, and I am happy to wear my badge. Indeed it goes everywhere with me and has proven to be a great conversation starter.\n\nBut where to now? The next target is to create another three million Dementia Friends, which certainly demonstrates ambition, but while we increase the community-wide understanding of dementia, there remains a question mark over how much money is going into the specialist support that is desperately needed.\n\nThe training of health and social care professionals is still clearly not at the level it needs to be, and may be many years away from universal tangible improvements, no one really knows. The quality of training in health and social care settings is hugely variable, and the new Care Certificate will only go some way towards bridging that. The vast majority of training still never really gets to student’s heart and soul in a way that will be utterly unforgettable, and will permanently improve their practice and inspire them to deliver the very best care. Such an impact is as vital for newcomers in health and social care as it is for those who have been working in these professions for numerous years.\n\nFor people who are living with dementia and their carer(s) and families, access to dementia support workers, befrienders and other associated facilitators and providers of support and information is patchy and their skills aren’t universal, so if you happen to be assigned a hugely knowledgeable and empathetic individual that’s great, but you may very well never meet such a person. Equally, there is no national programme to offer training to people with dementia or their carer(s) in a bid to help them to live as well as possible throughout their life with dementia.\n\nThe idea of dementia coordinators to help those affected by dementia navigate the services they might want to access has long been muted, but again, this isn’t universally available. There is an expectation that GP’s coordinate, but you can’t do that effectively in 10 minute appointments, and besides, many GP’s would argue that they need more specialist training in dementia to take on such a role.\n\nPrimary care and community (district) nurses are potentially ideally placed to provide specialist dementia support, especially in the case of community nurses who are visiting people at home. However, there is no national scheme to recruit and train the additional numbers of nurses who would be needed in order to provide this type of service to everyone who wants it, and besides, where would the money come from?\n\nThen of course there are Admiral Nurses – specialist dementia nurses who are to dementia what Macmillan nurses are to cancer. Admiral Nurses have been credited with providing invaluable support to families affected by dementia, in some cases even saving carers from potential suicide, but they are not trained by the NHS or Social Care. Admiral Nurses are provided by Dementia UK – a charity who are dwarfed in matters of dementia policy and strategy by the Alzheimer’s Society.\n\nAdmiral Nurses are seen by many people as an expensive option, but evaluation exercises are starting to prove otherwise, and frankly even if they are an expensive option, if they provide the support that families need then I would suggest that in a compassionate society that’s aiming to lead the world in dementia care and support, it is a price worth paying.\n\nThe money that has been invested into creating the social model of dementia awareness (£2.4m is quoted in this press release announcing Dementia Friends, while Public Health England issued a call for advertising agencies to pitch for the ‘Dementia Movement’ brief in 2013) may have been well spent considering targets have been reached. It can only be hoped that our communities are enhanced by having this greater understanding of dementia.\n\nMy fear, however, is that without the specialists to call upon for each and every person affected by dementia, the overall aim of enabling people to live well with dementia will be lost. I’m sure that life for my dad would have been improved through living in the age of one million Dementia Friends, but I also know that through the many difficult challenges we faced, the decisions we had no idea how to make and the questions we had that went unanswered, that families affected by dementia often need a bit more than just a friend." ]

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[ "How Does Destiny Compare to Halo?", null, "Players at the online casino South Africa and other video game enthusiasts like to compare and contrast new releases. Few games can compare to the classic Halo but Destiny and Destiny 2 are giving Halo a run for the money. Each game has its supporters and detractors but even the most loyal Halo fans can’t help but consider whether it’s time for Halo to move aside and make room for Halo to take its place as #1.\n\nHalo debuted in 2012, 2 years before Destiny. The military science fiction game focuses on a group of supersoldiers which is commanded by Master Chief John-117. The group, code named Spartans, engages in an interstellar war with The Covenant, an alliance of aliens who are led by their religious leaders “The Prophets” and who worship an ancient civilization known as The Forerunners. Before The Forerunners were defeated by a parasitic Flood, they created the Halo Array superweapons.\n\nHalo 1 was the Xbox “killer app” which is the term that came to describe a better-than-Halo console game. This fall the Halo franchise will release its sixth Halo game, Halo Infinite. The franchise is one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all times.\n\nDestiny, which was also developed by Bungie, is similar to Halo but includes elements and storylines that many people believe make it a better gaming experience. Destiny was originally released as a pay-to-play game but now you can play it for free. Destiny bills itself as a “mythic science fiction” and the gameplay involves engagement in role-playing in a multiplayer shared world environment. Players take on the role of Guardians to protect Earth’s last safe city from Darkness by wielding Light.\n\nDestiny is based on a player-verses-environment gameplay and, in addition to regular story tasks and missions, features multi-player raids and strikes. Public events are held and there’s a free roam patrol mode.\n\nThere’s a lot of crossover between Halo and Destiny and many players find that they enjoy both games. Some people are critical of Destiny’s cryptic story which seems to be locked within the online Grimoire, making Halo’s the richer storyline.\n\nIn terms of RPG elements and shooting mechanics however, Destiny seems to have taken the lead. This can be seen in multiple ways including the stronger impact of Destiny’s guns which feel like a real shot connecting, the distracting HUD in Halo when compared to the minimalism in Destiny, the emphasis that Destiny puts on the proper care and maintenance of weaponry — just like in a real world, Destiny’s seamless mix of single player and multi-player modes and the larger selections of customization options within Destiny that result in a feeling that the characters really matter.\n\nWhen push comes to shove, Destiny has created a new way to see shooters. Halo’s storyline may be more polished but all in all, the open world of the Destiny landscape more than makes up for the lack of a traditional campaign. As single-player, multi-player and PVP weave together, gamers go on missions with squads or alone, level up the character and complete daily tasks.\n\nAt the end of the day, Destiny over-world is appealing. Bunge is to be commended for its game-design moves that emphasized replay value and long-term decisions. In this way Destiny is an inspiration.\n\nBungie is to be commended for having pushed the envelope with Destiny which is a modern shooter with all the latest bells and whistles. Destiny may not come close to Halo in its vehicular gameplay, both land-based and airborne, but it appears that overall, Halo has some catching up to do." ]

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[ "Why Chemical Engineers Should Get to Know ANOVA\n\nGenerally speaking, if you are a chemical engineer, you are probably developing and designing chemical manufacturing processes. Unlike other engineers, that means you may need to apply the principles of chemistry, biology, physics, and math to solve problems that involve the production or use of chemicals, fuel, drugs, food, and many other products. With all that time dedicated to the sciences, if you did not spend as much time on statistics as you wish you did, have no fear, Minitab is here! Now, let's talk about why Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) can be a chemical engineer's secret weapon.\n\nWhy You Should Know ANOVA\n\nMany industrial applications involve experiments where the goal is the understand if groups are different. In statistical terms, we consider a factor- let us say catalyst type- and we want to understand if the levels of that factor- let us say catalyst 1, catalyst 2, catalyst 3 and catalyst 4 - are statistically significantly different from one another. When the measurements across the groups are continuous and certain other assumptions are met, we use ANOVA to compare the means of the groups. In a sense, the name \"Analysis of Variance\" is a misnomer, because we are interested in comparing the means of the groups. However, by analyzing the variation in the data within the group levels and between the groups, we can determine if the group means are statistically different.\n\nLearn about more visualizations and graphs that can make your insights easy to share and easier to understand!", null, "In plain language, we assume the means are all equal across the groups, and we gather evidence against that-meaning that if we observe large mean differences between these means, we are more likely to reject that belief and assume there are differences within the group levels.\n\nEXAMPLE OF A ONE-WAY ANOVA\n\nFirst, the engineer collects her data, as you can see below.", null, "Next the engineer runs a one-way ANOVA.\n\nThe p-value for the Product Yield ANOVA is small, indicating that there is a very small chance that we would have observed these results if the null hypothesis is true, that is, that the catalyst means are all equal. Because the p-value is less than a 5% significance level (we are using an alpha = 0.05), we reject the null hypothesis. We conclude that t the mean product yield differs across the catalyst groups.", null, "The engineer knows that some of the group means are different. The next logical question is, which ones?\n\nWhile ANOVA taught us that the some of the group means are different, the engineer needs a more in-depth comparison to understand which group means are different. Minitab provides “Comparisons” for this very reason. In our example, the chemical engineer uses the Tukey comparisons to formally test for differences between the pairs of groups, to understand which ones are statistically significantly different.\n\nTukey's multiple comparison test is the most conservative test of several tests that can be used to determine which means amongst a set of means differ from the rest. Tukey's method is used after ANOVA (which is why you may hear the method referred to as a post hoc test) and can be used to create confidence intervals for all pairwise differences between factor level means while controlling the family error rate to a level you specify.", null, "Conversely, the confidence intervals for the remaining pairs of means all include zero, which indicates that the differences are not significant.\n\nWhy not just run a bunch of t-tests to identify differences?\n\nIt’s a great question, and one that comes up a lot! The answer has to do with the risk of making a mistake, specifically, the risk of incorrectly concluding there is a statistically significant difference, which is what we call our alpha risk. When we conduct one test, there is a 5% chance we will say there is a difference, when in reality there isn’t. For the 4 catalysts, that would result in 6 t-tests!\n\nWhat is the probability of observing at least one significant result just due to chance?\n\nSo, with 6 tests being considered, we have a 26% chance of observing at least one significant result, even if all of the tests are actually not significant. Post hoc tests control the experiment-wise error rate; to put it more simply, we want to ensure that the chance we incorrectly declare any pair of catalysts is different remains at 5%. That is exactly what Tukey’s test does for us!\n\nTHE ANSWERS ARE IN ANOVA\n\nUsing ANOVA enables a chemical engineer to test mixtures to see if the results are statistically significant. Equally important, she can also determine if the entire group is different or perhaps just a subsegment of the group using comparison tests. In our example, only catalyst 2 and catalyst 4 are statistically significant different regarding product yield. Based on this information, the chemical engineer may begin to look at the other catalysts to determine which catalyst is the most cost-effective, has the longest shelf-life, or is easiest to access knowing that it will yield a similar amount of product.\n\nTry some comparisons and analysis yourself. Download a free 30-day trial of Minitab Statistical Software today!" ]

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[ "This episode begins with The Stampeders’ “Sweet City Woman” playing softly in the background. A young kid grabs himself a copy of Playboy off the shelf – young James McGill, in fact. Meanwhile, his father listens to a man at the counter with his father. This exchange pits little Jimmy against the man; one bullshitter knows another. The father, all the while is clueless. Before the man leaves he says to Jimmy: “There are wolves and sheep in this world, kid. Wolves and sheep. Figure out which one you‘re gonna be.” Afterwards, this prompts lil’ Jim to take a bit of cash from the till for himself.", null, null, null, null, "Back to present series times. Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) has Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) helping him once more. He’s trying to get the whole Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz) situation cleared up, or else deal with the wrath of the cartel and Uncle Hector (Mark Margolis). Naturally, Jimmy works a bit of magic, and then slips Mike out of the room without saying too much.\nOn the phone later, Jimmy talks with Kim Wexler (Rhea Seehorn). She’s still whipping up a nice deal with Rick Schweikart (Dennis Boutsikaris). Hopefully it goes well. She has been the slave girl at HHM far too long. At the same time, Jimmy’s getting ready to resign from Davis and Main. Omar (Omar Maskati) brings up a few good points, though, about the company car, et cetera, and possible payments he’d have to make. So Jimmy switches his tune proper quick.\nWhat’s going on in the mind of James McGill? An oddly happy look in his eyes is tough to read. Well, at home, the first look of Saul Goodman comes out. After seeing one of those big inflatable men in the wind his style comes out. Lots of wild looking colours, bright ties. His whole demeanour changes, he becomes more of who he once was, back when that man in the store told him – choose, or else the world will choose for you. Even a ridiculously funny scene where Jimmy’s busted for not flushing his shits, concerned about the local “watershed” and so on. This whole sequence absolutely slayed me. It introduces us to who Jimmy will become. Plus, he’s obviously looking to be fired, or pawned off somewhere. Finally it’s the bagpipes he plays in his office that puts Clifford Main (Ed Begley Jr) over the edge. Now Jimmy’s got himself out, bonus in tact.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "In other news, Jimmy has the idea of starting his own firm with Kim – Wexler McGill. He loves her, but also has huge faith in her skills as a lawyer. Together, they could be a force to be reckoned with, possibly. “Or we fail and we end up with nothing,” Kim quips. She still has doubts, clearly. Especially with Schweikart’s deal on the table, very enticing, very surefooted unlike this new enterprise with Jimmy. She wants his assurance that he’ll “play it straight” and not “be colourful” – he tries to pretend, then comes clean. He can only be himself. Ultimately, Kim wants Jimmy, as a lover, a friend. Not a partner in law.", null, "Jimmy: “I‘ve been tryin‘ to be the person someone else wants me to be for I don‘t know how long. I mean first it was Chuck, then it was you – and that’s not your fault, that was my choice. But if we‘re gonna do this, I gotta go into it as me. So, yeah. Colourful, I guess.”", null, null, "Mike’s busy trying to move daughter-in-law Stacey (Kerry Condon) into a nice place. She is very happy to be getting into a new neighbourhood, a safe place. At heart, he is a good man. An honourable one, to the fullest. Might be mixed up in some wild shit, but Mike is a decent human being. Somewhere along the line things just got complicated. Later, we find him still watching the Salamanca crew, their little diner hideout. What’s he planning?\nBack at the nail salon, Jimmy is moving things in, including his cocobolo desk from Davis and Main. “Onward and upward,” he says to Omar. But without Kim and the supposed new firm, where does Jimmy go next from here? Somewhere colourful, no doubt. He starts to record a voicemail message for himself, one to lure people into believing he’s got an actual office. It’s going to something more for him to break through this way.\nAnd Kim is meeting with Schweikart and his people. They seem fairly impressed with her, especially Rick himself, who eyes her with both admiration and maybe something else. Regardless, they’re all happy with her interview. Even after she calls Rick by the name of Howard. There’s something else going on with Kim, too. The relationship she has with Jimmy has an odd sort of stranglehold on her.\nShe rushes over to the salon quick. He is happy as a clam being on his own again, even if in the back o a nail shop. Then Kim reveals her decision to go “solo practice” and it catches Jimmy off guard. She proposes they find a space together, just practice law separately. A-ha. Although, it doesn’t seem to be exactly what Jimmy had hoped. It’s still good, all the same.", null, null, null, "Nice episode that’s heading towards something big. What can we expect from Mike’s situation? And how much more of Saul Goodman is going to peek its head from under the disguise of Jimmy McGill? We’ll see in the next episode, titled “Fifi”, so stay tuned with me, fellow fans." ]

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[ null, "MADISON, Wis. – The discovery of an aggressive, invasive woody vine in Sturgeon Bay and quick action by local invasive species experts has contained the infestation of porcelain berry. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is asking property owners in the city and across Wisconsin to check for the plant.\n\nPorcelain berry, an ornamental plant from east Asia that looks very similar to native and cultivated grapevine in summer and fall, poses a significant threat to trees and other plants in yards, parks and forests in Wisconsin.\n\nThe plant is listed as a prohibited species under state law NR 40 and is illegal to buy, possess, transport, transfer or introduce in Wisconsin. Find a fact sheet for porcelain berry and its lookalikes and learn more about the plant on the DNR website.\n\n“Thanks to the discovery and quick action by the Door County Invasive Species Team and good cooperation from the property owner, the threat from porcelain berry at this site has been contained,” said Jason Granberg, DNR invasive species specialist. “The discovery, far from Madison where the largest population was previously found, raises the red flag that porcelain berry might be more widespread than we thought. We encourage property owners to be on the lookout for this species this fall. We need help from homeowners in these neighborhoods to prevent the infestation from getting larger or escaping into other communities.”\n\nThis population was originally identified by a member of the Door County Invasive Species Team (DCIST) walking in a Sturgeon Bay neighborhood. Sam Koyen, DCIST coordinator and conservationist with the Door County Soil & Water Conservation Department, reached out to the DNR to report and document the population. Once the population was confirmed, DCIST reached out to the landowner to inform them of the potential negative impacts of porcelain berry, how to identify it and how to control it.\n\nDCIST efforts to control porcelain berry expanded to include a mailing to surrounding properties to ask neighbors to help monitor for other populations and one-on-one site visits to provide hands-on identification techniques.\n\nThe group’s response to porcelain berry highlights other early detection prohibited species efforts that DCIST participates in, including the inventory and control of black swallow-wort and five-leaf akebia vine.\n\n“The support from the Door County community and the entire Wisconsin conservation community in these control efforts has been outstanding,” Koyen said.\n\nGroups like DCIST are playing a key and growing role in preventing new invasive species from getting a foothold in Wisconsin. Learn more about their work in the Summer 2020 Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine article, “Cooperative Endeavors Spell Success.” Please report invasive species by sending an email to Invasive.Species@Wisconsin.gov." ]

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[ null, "Summer Set Music & Camping Festival (SSMF) has announced dates for their sixth annual installment, alongside the release of pre-sale tickets. The festival is set to take place on August 11th-13th, 2017, returning to the Somerset Amphitheater in Somerset, Wis. Summer Set Music & Camping Festival is the perfect place to end one’s summer, with a showcase of hip-hop, indie, and jam-style artists playing along side EDM’s most well-known names.\n\nCity Pages Minneapolis describe the festival as “a secluded utopia that’s become a retreat for fans looking for absolute immersion.” And SSMF is definitely just that. SSMF combines some of the greatest things found at other venues – a beautiful river to float down during the day, gorgeous sunsets only seen in the Midwest, carnival rides, breath-taking art installations – and combines them into one epic weekend.\n\nBeyond that, the 3-day music festival is known for its diverse lineups. Past lineups have included appearances and performances from Skrillex, Bassnectar, Logic, Grimes, Marshmello, Chance the Rapper, RÜFÜS DU SOL, and many more across the festival’s expansive, towering stages. Take a look at last year’s madness below:\n\nFrom the festival: “In the coming weeks, fans can expect the artist lineup and official on sale of regular priced ticket options, including single day tickets. For the most updated information regarding Summer Set 2017, visit summersetfestival.com and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.”\n\nDon’t miss out on this one, Summer Set Music and Camping Festival is worth the journey, near or far. Discounted Festival Camping and VIP pre-sales are on sale here.", null, null ]

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[ "TransLash News & Narrative | Lessons From A Queer Elder During the Holidays\n\nLessons From A Queer Elder During the Holidays\n\nThis is my first holiday season living as my most authentic self. A queer family member who died long before I was born has given me the courage to embrace it.\n\nCome on, scooch in close. Grab a hot cider or cocoa to warm your hands and your spirit. The holidays are a time to honor those we’ve lost and hold their memories close. So I’d like to tell you all about a queer elder I am proud to call my Great Aunt Marcia and share some of her teachings with you.\n\nBorn in 1881, my great-great-great Aunt, (so, my grandmother’s great aunt) Marcia Adelle Taylor, was a reclusive and mysterious poet. Marcia was called eccentric. She chose to be a poet, rather than a secretary in the family’s insurance firm, and she presented as very masculine. Her hair was ‘unfashionably short’, and she always insisted upon wearing ill-fitting men’s suits despite it not being socially acceptable for women to even wear pants for most of her eighty-eight-year lifetime.\n\nMarcia never married but had a life partner whom she lived with for over forty years: a woman named Rachel A. Hall.\n\nSo, to sum it up, Marcia was an early-20th-century gender-nonconforming lesbian poet—a complete and utter badass.\n\nAs her queer, transmasculine non-binary descendent who loves and writes poetry and lives with their soon-to-be-wife…I can’t help but feel like her life could’ve been my previous one. When first reading her poetry, I was taken aback at how similar our writing styles and senses of humor are. It’s all pretty spooky, I won’t lie—but these spooky similarities have proven to be helpful. With so many parallels in our lives and identities, it’s been easy to place myself in her shoes, and imagine her in mine. Her story has been a sort of guidebook for me as I explore and navigate my own queer, trans identity––‘Marcia’s Declassified Queer Survival Guide’ if you will.\n\nBut where did I get this survival guide, you ask?\n\nThe most valuable source of information I have about Marcia was a Christmas gift passed down to me from my aunt, the family historian. She gave me a large folder of Marcia’s letters, poems, drawings, and school assignments. Sitting in my grandmother’s house with my family, I gingerly perused the artifacts, many more than a century old. They were so fragile, brittle, and yellowed with time. I shudder to think how easily they could’ve been destroyed long before they reached me, but they weren’t. It’s as though I was meant to have them.\n\nThanks to the contents of that folder, along with her published volumes of poetry, I’ve learned many valuable and still-applicable lessons from her. I’ve found so much strength in her memory and her writings. The holidays are such a difficult time for so many trans and queer folks, so it is my hope, dear reader, that she might be able to do the same for you.\n\nLesson Number One: “Authenticity or bust.”\n\nIn Marcia’s lifetime, laws and social norms were such that exercising her authenticity meant that she could’ve been shunned from society, arrested on the grounds of ‘cross-dressing’, or even involuntarily confined to an asylum where she would be forced to undergo homophobic and transphobic ‘treatment’. Despite these dangers, right up until her death in 1969, Marcia lived by a personal creed of fierce authenticity. Above all else, she was determined to live as herself—even if that meant living behind closed doors. Her fearless nature did not mix well with the stigmas of the times she lived through, so she rarely left the house. Marcia had to make the choice that so many of us are still forced to make a century later: would we rather be our true selves in isolation, or be surrounded by loved ones while living a lie?\n\nDuring the holidays, this is an especially painful choice to make.\n\nMany of the dangers that threaten queer and TGNC folks nowadays may look very different from those in Marcia’s time, but the threat of isolation and rejection from unsupportive loved ones is timeless. For many of us assessing the risks of being openly queer or trans, especially those who have yet to come out, it’s easy to feel like authenticity might not be a risk worth taking. Violence towards our community is all too real. The blind hatred towards us is real. This world we live in proves to be a plenty frightening place.\n\nWhile each of us must always exercise necessary caution to keep ourselves from harm, Marcia’s story shows us that an authentic life is always worth fighting for, in whatever ways we can.\n\nIn many of her poems, Marcia speaks on themes of loneliness, isolation, and deep sadness…but her poems always pair that sadness with countering statements of joy, to show that despair doesn’t have to win. Even though the journey to authenticity comes with plenty of growing pains, it will inevitably lead to happiness.\n\nLesson Number Two: “There is no excuse for intolerance—loving you is not difficult.”\n\nAs inspiring as Marcia was, an equally impressive and encouraging part of her story is that of her family. As far as I know, they were not just aware of her sexuality, her partner, and her masculine appearance—they were actively supportive of her.\n\nIn any of the decades in which Marcia lived her life, it would not have been unusual for her family to strongly look down upon her lifestyle, or to send her away, or to disown her completely…but they did no such thing.\n\nThey were a fairly wealthy upper-middle-class family in a small, conservative town with a business to run, a church to attend, and an image to uphold. Yet, they defied stereotypes right alongside Marcia by simply continuing to love her just as they did her more conventional siblings.\n\nThis is most clearly illustrated by the fact that, when her partner Rachel passed away in 1947, Marcia’s family agreed to have her buried in the Taylor family plot and add her name to the family headstone in the exact same fashion that the wives of Marcia’s brothers were. Twenty-two years later, Marcia joined her there.\n\nThis time of year, so many of us are left yearning for a supportive family like Marcia’s. Many are outright disowned by our families; others are partially supported, but asked not to be open about our transness or queerness. We hear things like “your grandma is just too old, she’d be so confused and upset,” or, “you know how your uncle feels about this stuff, so can’t you wear something else and just pretend?”\n\nThe unwavering love and acceptance of Marcia’s family goes to show us that, regardless of the time, ideology, or environment a person might’ve been raised in, anyone can make the choice to keep loving you. There is never a valid reason for someone to suddenly turn you away when you start living as yourself; they always have a choice. They have the power to choose to learn your pronouns, to use your new name, to be proud of you, to love you…and if they choose anything short of total acceptance and active support, know that you deserve so much better.\n\nTo close out my tale, I’d like to leave you all with my favorite of Marcia’s poems; one that serves as a triumphant expression of her philosophies and values. It’s the sort of poem one could read in the bathroom mirror every morning as a powerful affirmation, full of pride, strength, and joy.\n\nSo, this holiday season, through what for many are the darkest and hardest days of the year, may we all learn to be dwellers in the sun.\n\nBrighton McDunnah (they/he) is a proudly queer, disabled, transmasc storyteller and illustrator. In 2019, they were one of the recipients of the Kennedy Center’s VSA Program national honor of Emerging Young Artists with Disabilities and designed the program’s 2020/2021 logo. His illustration work is his primary focus at the moment, but they look forward to expanding their writing portfolio as well, ultimately working towards combining the skill sets to create memoir comics and graphic novels.\n\nTheir online shop for prints & other artwork can be found at brightwormstudio.com, and you can follow their art on Instagram @brightworm.studio.", null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ]

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[ null, "The idea of a major seminary for Claretians in Bangalore was conceived when a suitable place had to be found for the formation of five novices who made their first profession at Claret Bhavan, Kuravilangad (Kerala) on 31 May 1971. Looking forward to expanding outside Kerala, the Superiors chose St. Peter’s Seminary for their subsequent studies and purchased a small house at Malleswaram-Bangalore (Shanti Nivas) in 1971. Fr. Kuriakose Thekkilakattil was the first Rector of this study house.", null, "Meanwhile, a small plot of land was bought from St. Peter’s Seminary to construct the new spacious formation house christened as Claretian Seminary. The foundation stone was laid in the year 1974, for the seminary. The new house was inaugurated by Very Rev. Fr. Antony Leghisa, the then Superior General, and blessed by His Grace P. Arockiaswamy, then Archbishop of Bangalore on 29 February 1976. Extension of the seminary was found necessary due to the increasing number of students and one more floor was put in 1984.\n\nThe purpose of establishing the Claretian Seminary was to start a study house for philosophy and theology, to give an inter-cultural and missionary formation to the Claretian students hailing from different parts of India. It also aimed to enable the students to identify fully with Claretian vocation and its options; to prepare the students through the solid intellectual formation to fulfill the evangelizing mission in the world; to impart training towards living inserted among the poor and to be witnesses that generate and promote a true dialogue of life and faith with the groups and people in whose midst we live, and to promote and facilitate the integral development of the personality of the students.\n\nLooking back to the past 50 years of glorious history, Claretian Seminary could proudly claim that it could live up to the dream of its founding. Nearly 50 batches of students have been formed in the house without any break. It was not only a study house for theology or philosophy but the overall formation of future Claretian missionaries fully equipped spiritually, and intellectually to venture into different apostolic activities in the model of our Founder, St. Antony Mary Claret. Besides the regular theological/ philosophical or secular studies, the students are initiated into various ministries, both social and pastoral in nature. Creative initiatives that sprang up from this study house have become the ministries of the province. It is also facilitated to have a real experience of the life of the ordinary people by sending the students for missionary experience to our different centres. Today it is the formation house for Claretians from different Major Organism of India; sometimes even non-Claretians get formed here.\n\nContributing to the growth of the Congregation and the local Church: The mission of this formation house enhanced the mission of the Church and of our congregation, by being the alma mater to many of the Indian Claretian Missionaries, who were formed here and were sent forth to work for the kingdom of God. The growth of the Claretian Congregation in India, far and wide was made possible by the formation undergone here, in this house. The fire that is kindled in the hearts of young aspiring missionaries, continue in our various apostolic missionary activities. The Claretian Missionaries formed here to serve in many organisms of the Congregation.\n\nAs Claretian Seminary and Claretian Missionaries progressed here, the campus became the centre for many activities that contribute to the local Church and the general public. With varieties of social and pastoral ministries, the priests and students alike are a big help to the neighbouring parishes and other institutions. Claretian Publications on the campus is one of the major contributors to the local and universal Church.", null, null ]

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[ null, "Charlotte Bobcats cheerleader Brittany Kerr, a 24-year-old South Meck graduate and former UNCC student, has advanced to the Hollywood round of this year’s American Idol.\n\nKerr has emerged as one of American Idol’s early-season breakout stars after a January 18th airing of her audition. It was notable partly because she appears to be a talented singer but mainly because fans find her drop-dead gorgeous.\n\nSince Kerr’s appearance, YouTube views of her rendition of Joss Stone’s “Spoiled” have soared into the hundreds of thousands, while media outlets from Sports Illustrated to celebrity news website TMZ have weighed in with stories. The latter’s was a report that a huge surge in web traffic crashed the site of Charlotte photographer Jim Merrill, who has featured her as a model.\n\n“I got a karaoke machine for my birthday, which was in June,” says Kerr. “I had a cord to the microphone, and I would stick the speaker in the other room and sing in another room, so that I didn’t have to be in front of everybody who wanted to hear me sing. I was that shy about it.”\n\nUnlike many of the people she will compete against during “American Idol’s” Hollywood round – which begin February 9th – Kerr has never sung professionally.\n\nShe did some singing as a teen in the choir at Calvary Church and in the women’s ensemble at South Mecklenburg High School, but she was involved in all sorts of extracurricular activities while growing up: basketball, softball, tae kwon do (black belt), Mecklenburg County Miss Teen USA pageant (third runner-up), homecoming queen.\n\nKerr had so much going on that even though she kept asking for voice lessons, her parents repeatedly talked her out of it.\n\n“She was always a tomboy,” says her mother, Debbie Kerr, “so when she asked for voice lessons, we didn’t give them to her. We just thought she was better at sports so (kept telling her), ‘Don’t worry about it.’”\n\nBrittany’s affinity for athletics was so great that she decided to go to the University of Alabama mainly because of its football program. “Growing up, I gained this love for football that was just unreal,” Kerr says. “I ended up visiting Alabama and completely fell in love with it. Everybody was completely gung-ho Crimson Tide, and I just wanted to be a part of it.”\n\nShe transferred for her junior year to UNC Charlotte, where her brother, Hunter, was a freshman – “He’s actually the best friend that I think I’ve ever had” – and worked part-time at a pub near campus called Bad Dog. In 2008, she returned to Tuscaloosa and graduated with a degree in human environmental science.\n\nAlthough she was a cheerleader at South Meck, she was too tall (5 feet 8) and thin for the Alabama squad, which she says favored shorter and stockier girls. But her look turned out to be perfect for the Lady Cats, who recruited her in the summer of 2010.\n\nYou can see Kerr showing off both her team spirit and her abs at every Bobcats game. Which leads us to ask: How can she be so comfortable shaking her body under the arena lights, yet be “extremely nervous” when she has to sing in public?\n\n“A lot of people say, ‘You dance in front of thousands of people at each game!’ Well, I’m one of 18 girls,” Kerr says, “so I’m surrounded by all these beautiful ladies who are just as talented, if not more. When I’m on stage, it’s just me. The spotlight’s on me. It’s such a sense of vulnerability, because you are leaving everybody with the ability to criticize you alone.”\n\nKerr became more serious about singing around her birthday last June, when she got that karaoke machine and also – finally – received the gift of voice lessons. But the decision to try out for “American Idol” was a huge leap.\n\nIf you saw Kerr’s audition, there are some things you’d probably remember about it, beyond the song: 1) She’s an NBA dancer. 2) She wore ripped white jeans and sky-high heels. 3) Judge Steven Tyler’s presumptuous “I say ‘yes.’” 4) She adjusts her bra.\n\nShe wants to set the record straight about the last thing.\n\nWhen she walked into the audition, a producer said: “‘We see that you are an NBA dancer. Well, show us a little something.’\n\n“My mind’s going a million miles a minute. I’m like, What do I do? I have no music, it’s completely awkward. So I say, ‘OK, everyone, feel free to sing with me.’ Absolute crickets. Nobody says anything. And I’m singing by myself, I’m dancing by myself and everyone’s just laughing – hopefully not at me. But it was fun, and it really broke the ice for me.”\n\nOn TV, it looks like she was fixing her bra while listening to Tyler’s feedback. Kerr says she actually did it right after the dance.\n\n“I had danced around for a good two minutes, then I adjusted myself, and of course they throw that in completely out of sequence. … It just was kind of a platform for everybody to talk about.”\n\nKerr says she plans to downplay her sex appeal if she continues to advance. “I did really, really want this to be about my voice more than anything.”\n\nThe Hollywood rounds were held in December. So only she knows whether she’s still in or already out. What does Kerr say to those who argue she skated through Round 1 because of her looks?\n\nContributions to this story from the Charlotte Observer", null ]

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[ "Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s USA Freedom Act gets the seal of approval from Amash, who lost a narrow fight to defund NSA phone spying.", null, "Congress’s next legitimate chance to stop the National Security Agency from collecting information on all Americans’ communications might be just around the corner.\n\nDespite hundreds of thousands of petition signatures, three major protests, and a drastic shift in public opinion, there’s only been a single time since former NSA contractor Edward Snowden exposed its surveillance programs that Congress has actually voted on whether to reign in the agency.\n\nBut the co-author of that first attempt, Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), thinks an upcoming bill, by Patriot Act author Jim Sensenbrenner, really could be it.\n\nAmash’s bill was actually an amendment to a budget, and would have simply defunded the NSA’s program that tracks the metadata—phone numbers, call times, and possibly locations—of Americans’ calls. It failed by a mere 12 votes, and Amash later said that several in Congress told him they’d change their votes now if they could.\n\nSensenbrenner’s bill, already touted for a few weeks, is expected to be introduced Tuesday. Six of its cosponsors are House representatives who voted against Amash’s amendment bill, and clearly now have voter’s remorse.\n\nThere’s more than a hint of irony to Sensenbrenner bringing this before Congress. The bill would overturn the part of the Patriot Act that has been interpreted by courts to allow metadata collection, but the Patriot Act was originally Sensenbrenner’s own work. His new bill indicates he hasn’t lost his flair for long acronyms since the Patriot Act was passed in 2001: It’s called the United and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet Collection, and Online Monitoring Act—or the USA Freedom Act.\n\nSpeaking before a crowd of several thousand privacy activists in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Amash offered his wholehearted support for Sensenbrenner and the USA Freedom Act. He didn’t mention any of the other dozen or so anti-NSA bills in congress:\n\nI actually went into [Sensenbrenner’s] office when I was pushing the Amash-Conyers amendment . I said I wanted to meet with him, to convince him to support the amendment. And I got to his office and when I got there he said, “I know you’re here to tell me about your amendment. I’m going to support it.\n\nAmash told the Daily Dot that it was remarkable his amendment had done as well as it had, given the constraints it faced.\n\n“And I gotta tell you that afterwards, after we had that debate, people were saying congratulations, proud of what we’d done, even though we hadn’t had the vote yet,” he said." ]

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[ "I have had a dire time with Sky from the start. After being informed they would arrive in the morning, the installers turned up after 3pm. They then insisted that a 15 fee had to be paid to install wires, and if payment wasn't made, then they would have to come back another day and waste a whole day again. Sky admitted these charges were bogus.\n\nreturned to the front room ... I then noticed the Playstation had gone\n\nTwo installers had arrived, and even though the website states it would take about half an hour to an hour for one installer to do the work, it took them 2 hours! So two hours later they left and it was then I realised items were missing from the house, namely my playstation. I know this for a fact because I had moved it away from the telly so they could get access. When I returned to the front room, I tried Sky, which was working and flicked through the channels. I then noticed the Playstation had gone.\n\nThis was 14 Months ago and Sky does not give a damn about this. I have written letter after letter and tried to phone, but nothing has happened and these dodgy installers have clearly gotten away with it. It pains me to read comments from ex-employees that installers have been known to steal items from customers. I would like to know how many complaints of this nature Sky receive?", null, "SKY it would appear, could not care less about the theft of items from my property, in my own stupidity I remained customer, thinking that it would be easier to resolve the matter. This was not the case. When I cancelled, I received a patronising letter from Sky about their excellent customer services! The only thing Sky have promised is that they would refund the costs of phone calls and postal costs - They then lost the receipts and bills I sent.\n\nSKY is an absolute joke if anyone knows of similar incidents, please let me know as I believe that this isn't the only case. Thankfully I have easily convinced many friends, family and frankly anyone who will listen, who were considering Sky, to not bother.\n\nI had a 128 gb memory stick stolen while tv man was sorting my telly. i informed the police and they are looking into the matter\n23/10 josie\n0\n\nI had sky tv installed about 6 months ago, it wasn’t until about 2 weeks later I realise I had a £100 bottle of perfume removed from the box missing. I received it for Christmas 2019. When I discovered it had gone I asked my family members if they’d used it. Nothing had ever gone missing g in a he past and when I back tracked to the say I’d last used it it was the exact day of when the women from sky installed my tv. I was out shopping on the day and left her with my daughter and apparently she spent a lot of her time in my bedroom. I haven’t followed this up as I have no concrete proof but I’m pretty certain it was her that stole it. Please be aware this could happen in your property when your not keeping an eye.\n01/11 Shelley 49\n0\n\nI recently had Sky Q installed, as I wanted multi room he had to go into my bedroom. He seemed very nice and took time explaining everything, but the day after I came to use my expensive perfume and it was gone, it did sit in full view near to the door, I only ever lifted the bottle out and left the box sitting in a wooden tidier, I only wear it when I go out and it's never used anywhere else other than my bedroom. Even though I know I haven't moved it, I have spent the last week searching everywhere-places I knew it wouldn't be. He is the only person who has been in my bedroom other than myself, I don't want to believe he took it, but I have no other explanation!\n30/05/19 Maureen\n3\n\nI have just moved house and ordered Sky home move as part of this. I had several gift cards on the kitchen work top totalling £120, when the engineer arrived I swiftly put these in a kitchen drawer so they were not easily accessible. I was certain he had not seen this. Although once the engineer had fitted the Sky and left I went into the drawer to see the gift cards had gone. I’ve searched high and low all over the house and in the bins and cannot find them anywhere. I’m convinced the engineer took these when I left the room. Can’t prove it though! Disappointed I’d been so trusting.\n08/10/18 Lainy\n2\n\nI had 2 sky engineer my box is in my room. One was in the living room and the other man was in my room.\nTwo necklaces are missing and they mean a lot to me. I have realised few days after, I was heartbroken and sky does not want to hear anything.\n26/02/16 Marie\n1\n\nHi barney the same has happened to me my daughters iPod touch and my eldest daughters Nokia 520 went missing! We live in Durham I have the engineers mobile number which I have contacted and had no reply from, I have no idea if I should contact the police?\n30/09/15 Leanneh\n1\n\nIt would be good to find out which area these dishonest people work, so to advise the police and Sky.\nI had a gold bracelet made up from my grandmothers and my mothers engagement\nrings (the only things I had left of theirs to remember them)It was in a bowl in my bedroom. The only person to go into that room was the Sky Engineer.\nI noticed the following day that it had gone !\nWhat do you do I was heartbroken.\n14/05/14 horrible people\n0\n\nHave just had sky multiroom installed in two rooms. This evening my mum asked for her money pot of two pound coins there was over two hundred pound in this pot. I got the pot from her drawer and found that it was empty someone had stolen all her Christmas money! The sky installers have been the only two people that have entered our home that have not been known to us . we have asked family and friends if they have touched the money they all have said no as they know if they had needed the money we would have happily have given it to them so they had no reason to touch the money. Think it is absolutely disgusting that we let these men into our home and the have stolen from us! Makes me sick to my stomach that scum like this are allowed to work for a massive company! I know that not all of sky workers are like this but am absolutely disgusted that sky will not do anything to prosecute these thieves! Definitely going to be having sky uninstalled and will not be having anything to do with them in the future!!\n01/12/12 Scummy workers\n-2\n\nI was a sky sub-contracter for nearly 7 years, and it is disturbing to me that people think that all of the subcontractors are bad, because of one or two bad installs. I will tell you now that there are some of us who pride ourselves by doing good work. The problems that we used to encounter were sometime beyond belief, im not going to go into too much detail here, but customers would expect way, way too much for their \"free\" install, managers demanding that you \"Just do it\", for what 20 quid per install, oh and by the way most of the managers had the technical knowledege of a loaf of bread. Im sorry if you have had a sub-standard experience, but we are not all uneducated morons. When I first ventured out into this, what i though carre, we were well paid and well respected, that has changed, and im glad that i no longer work for thes companies that think they can mess with peoples livelyhood, and treat people like we are scum.\n02/07/12 Fozzy\n-4\n\nyep i do.... i do... i do believe in a better service.and better customer care .maybe people who i can understand. who dont speak in broken english\n30/05/12 i hate sky\n-4" ]

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[ null, "BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi television journalists north of Baghdad on Tuesday who had been on a reporting trip with a top security officer, the channel said.\n\nIraq is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, especially those from the country, who are far more exposed to attacks than their foreign counterparts.\n\n\"Armed militias assassinated correspondent Saif Tallal and his cameraman Hassan al-Anbaki near Baquba,\" the capital of Diyala province, a Sharqiya news presenter said on the air.\n\nThe journalists were killed while returning to Baquba from a reporting trip with Staff Lieutenant General Mizher al-Azzawi, the head of security command responsible for the province, the channel said.\n\nThe two were on their way back from the Muqdadiyah area, a security spokesman said.\n\nTwin bombings in Muqdadiyah killed 20 people at a cafe the night before, and attackers subsequently blew up multiple Sunni mosques and burned houses and shops, officers said.\n\nThe United Nations issued a statement condemning the mosque bombings.\n\n\"Once again, places of worship are being attacked. The perpetrators want to incite sectarian violence, in a desperate attempt to take the country back into the dark days of sectarian strife,\" UN Iraq representative Jan Kubis said.\n\nBut the province remains a hotbed of violence by both the jihadists and powerful Shiite militia forces that have played a major role in the fight against ISIS.\n\nISIS overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in June 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes have since dealt the jihadists significant defeats." ]

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[ null, "Now that the schedule has gotten a quick wrap, Salman Khan will be soon signing off.\n\nOn Mar.22, a picture of Chiranjeevi with Salman Khan, from the sets of ‘Godfather’ has surfaced on Twitter. The duo who shot at the ND Studios in Karjat, posed for a picture along with their producers.\n\nThe picture shows Chiranjeevi in a black kurta, a signature look he will feature in ‘Godfather’, while Salman is spotted in a casual tee, standing alongside director Mohan Raja, producer NV Prasad, and RB Choudhry.\n\n‘Godfather’ is the official remake of the Malayalam movie ‘Lucifer’. Directed by Mohan Raja, the film is bankrolled by Konidela Production Company and Super Good Films.\n\nNayanthara will be seen as the leading lady and Satyadev Kancharana will be seen in a pivotal role. Music is composed by SS Thaman." ]

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[ null, "[dropcap]S[/dropcap]ome consider video games to be the safest ways to let life’s beauty pass by. I beg to disagree. Rather than temporary escapes into meaningless illusions, for me, they’ve been full-on journeys to alternative realities where I often discovered a lot about the meaning of my very own. For starters, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag was an almost literal change of course.\n\nAssassin’s Creed Black Flag: Inspired Me To Work On A Cruise Ship\n\nAssassin’s Creed Black Flag was my Black Pearl and it was time to go claim it in real life.\n\nThen one day, I bought Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. I had always liked the franchise mostly because the games are very pretty and relaxing. But this one was more than pretty. Being that this one was set in the age of pirates – the era I’ve always wished I was born in (for some stupid, childish reasons), I just fell head over heels. The first time I put it on, it was as if my very own ray of Caribbean sunlight came through the TV and illuminated my existence. I would just spend hours crossing the Atlantic Ocean as my crew’s melodic chanteys filled the endless blue distance. I visited islands I had only heard of in songs and movies. I explored lush jungles and walked on white sands among swaying coconut palm trees as the sun slowly set behind the horizon under gentle, exotic chirps. I hopped from one charming cabana to the next until a spectacular aerial view of the whole island unfolded within the ocean’s boundless backdrop. I admired the mesmerizing turquoise waters and the sun’s dance on their crystal surface – unreal just like I imagined it was in real life.\n\nI had daydreamed of tropical islands and vast oceans not once or twice while feeling suffocated under the gloomy Glasgow skies and colorless buildings. But it wasn’t just wanderlust that Assassin’s Creed Black Flag brought to the surface. One day, as I was sailing away to no specific destination, Jack Sparrow’s quote from the first Pirates of the Caribbean film popped into my head:\n\n“What the Black Pearl really is… is freedom”\n\nAssassin’s Creed Black Flag was my Black Pearl and it was time to go claim it in real life. I wondered what’s the closest thing to being a pirate in the modern age – the cool kind, not the Somalian. A couple of months later, I was working on a cruise ship, crossing the very same Atlantic Ocean and visiting some of the very same islands.\n\nUltimately, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag was the needed, much-needed, change of course in my life. But it wasn’t the first time a beautiful alternate reality spilled over into my very own.\n\n…made me feel like even the darkest of times can feel a little less gloomy if you look at them through the nuanced prism of a noir world.\n\nMax Payne was my first encounter with the beautiful darkness of the noir universe. Until then, I thought the criminal/action genre, be it in games, movies, or any other kinds of stories, was reserved to wild shooting sprees or complicated conspiracies. Sure, Max Payne offered both by the dozens, but they were all interlaced with poignant threads of melancholic poetry and bad-ass inner monologues which made Max a somewhat unlikely role model.\n\nHe taught me a man can have class even in the face danger or tragedy, in fact, that’s when it truly counts. He showed me you can find yourself right in the eye of the monster, lose everything, and still come out of the chaos with some sense of humanity intact. Max Payne made me feel like even the darkest of times can feel a little less gloomy if you look at them through the nuanced prism of a noir world.\n\nEven now, watching videos from the games evokes more than just nostalgia. It’s just a timeless piece of storytelling, one which even the most pixelated graphics can’t take away from. And being that most of the narrative unfolds on the imaginary pages of a graphic novel, the rough quality looks almost intentional, as if this is just the dour view from Max Payne’s eyes.\n\n…our teacher of the subjects we didn’t learn in school, like values, the complexity of friendship, balance, and most of all – honor among thieves.\n\nI remember a time when the main topic of conversation between all my classmates was Mafia 1. The game came out just on time to become our teacher of the subjects we didn’t learn in school, like values, the complexity of friendship, balance, and most of all – honor among thieves.\n\nLike Angelo, the protagonist who narrates the whole story, says at the very end of the very last video:\n\n“And it ain’t as simple as they tell you in grade school. But it is good to have strong values and to maintain them in marriage, in crime, in war… always and everywhere. “\n\nNo matter how many years pass, this will always be one of the coolest video game endings ever.\n\nPrince of Persia: Fate And Time\n\n…it sparked the sense of wonder and curiosity to view the big ideas in life as flexible, open questions rather than fixed, narrow concepts.\n\nThe Prince of Persia trilogy challenged my understanding of time and fate through extremely imaginative scenarios with a distinctive historical feel. The story explores these themes in great detail and depth which is within both adults’ and adolescents’ reach. Prince of Persia not only expanded my perception of these universal matters, but more importantly, it sparked the sense of wonder and curiosity to view the big ideas in life as flexible, open questions rather than fixed, narrow concepts.\n\nThe Prince’s final words in the last video of the trilogy say it all:\n\n“Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction, but I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I really am and why I say this. Come, and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard.”\n\nVideo games for me have been the gateway to art altogether. Their fun nature introduced me to the best kind of stories – those that don’t demand attention, but seamlessly take it over like a dream, one you can be lucid in or just sleep right through. Sure, you can skip the videos and run through the missions not knowing your character’s motivation, just like some people watch movies and their phone simultaneously, but it often says more about the gamer rather than the game.\n\nIn my experience, some video games are filled with more truth and quality prose than books. Some look prettier than paintings, some have cinematography too wild even for the most visionary film directors to envision, and some are interlaced with music and effects in a way that presents sound on a whole new dimension.\n\nDismissing video games as a wasteful leisure is basically like dismissing art altogether. Because video games, at their best, are a beautiful amalgamation of storytelling, cinematography, music, and entertainment which makes for an immersive learning experience and an art form like none other." ]

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[ null, "Because of their high storage capacity, metal oxides are a promising class of potential conversion-type electrode materials for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. Conversion-type electrode materials undergo conversion reactions; when they react with lithium ions, they get converted into entirely new products. Today's commercial batteries are based on a completely different mechanism called intercalation.\n\"In intercalation, lithium is reversibly inserted into and extracted from electrode materials without damaging their crystal structure,\" explained Sooyeon Hwang, a staff scientist in the Electron Microscopy Group of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory. \"While these materials are highly stable, only a limited number of lithium ions can participate. As a result, their capacity is relatively lower than conversion-type materials.\"\n\"Many more lithium ions can participate in conversion reactions with metal-oxide electrode materials, enabling a higher battery capacity,\" added Ji Hoon Lee, an expert in electrochemistry and x-ray absorption spectroscopy who formerly conducted research in the Chemistry Division at Brookhaven Lab during his time as a postdoc at Columbia University and is now an assistant professor at Kyungpook National University in Korea. \"However, the crystal structure of these materials completely changes from its original state, causing instabilities like a fade in capacity over multiple charge-discharge cycles.\"\nHwang and colleagues from the CFN and collaborating institutions have been studying conversion-type electrode materials for several years. Previously, they studied iron-oxide electrodes at high current and found that \"kinetic barriers\" during long-term cycling caused capacity fade. At high current, the battery charges and discharges relatively fast, as is the case for real batteries. For further information see the IDTechEx report on Li-ion Batteries 2020-2030.\n\"If this cycling occurs too fast, a lithium gradient can arise across the electrode material,\" explained Hwang. \"For example, one location may have more lithium inserted or extracted than another location.\"\nNow, the team—co-led by Hwang and Lee and including scientists from the CFN, Chemistry Division, and National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) at Brookhaven Lab—removed these kinetic barriers by operating the batteries at more mild conditions of low current and constant voltage after charge and discharge. Though a gap exists between these experimental conditions and real-world conditions, an understanding of how electrode materials behave on a fundamental level can inform new designs for better-performing batteries. In this case, they tested one of two nontoxic and widely available metal oxides—nickel oxide or iron oxide—in lithium-ion half-cell batteries.\n\"Our goal in this initial study was to perform simple electrochemical tests to understand the fundamental mechanism of lithium insertion and extraction,\" said Hwang. \"Future studies will require full-cell batteries involving both electrodes.\"\nThe electrochemical tests revealed significant differences in battery voltage profiles and capacity over 10 cycles. To characterize changes in the cycled electrode materials, the team performed experiments at three NSLS-II beamlines—Quick X-ray Absorption and Scattering (QAS), Pair Distribution Function (PDF), and X-ray Powder Diffraction (XPD)—and at the CFN. The QAS beamline provided chemical information, including oxidation states, on each metal at different states of charge and discharge. The PDF and XPD beamlines are well-suited for determining crystal structure, with PDF being particularly sensitive to how atomic bonds are locally configured.\nFrom these x-ray synchrotron studies, the team observed that the reduction and oxidation (redox) reactions of nickel in nickel oxide and iron in iron oxide were not very reversible. However, they didn't know the reason for the incomplete reconversion reactions and capacity fade. Using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs) in the CFN Electron Microscopy Facility, they obtained high-resolution images. These images showed intermediate phases of lithium metal oxides appearing after charging. By contrast, during discharge, the metal oxides directly convert into lithium oxide and pure metal.\n\"The presence of the intermediate phase means lithium is not fully extracted during charging,\" explained Hwang. \"This phase sticks around and accumulates over time. So, the amount of available lithium ions for subsequent cycles decreases, causing the capacity to keep dropping cycle after cycle. Previously, we showed that kinetic barriers were responsible for capacity fade, but here we demonstrate that intrinsic restrictions can also cause a drop in capacity.\"\nGiven these results, the team believes charging and discharging occur through different (\"asymmetric\") reaction pathways. Energy is required to extract lithium ions during charging, so this reaction follows a pathway based on energy transfer, or thermodynamics. On the other hand, the insertion of lithium ions during discharging happens spontaneously, and this fast lithium diffusion follows an alternative pathway driven by kinetics.\nNext, the team plans to characterize other conversion-type electrode materials such as metal sulfides and perform studies during battery cycling.\nSource: Brookhaven National Laboratory\nTop image: Pixabay" ]

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[ null, "in conversation with Lisa See\n\nLisa Scottoline‘s new release, Eternal, offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome, in the creeping shadow of fascism.\n\nLisa is the bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of thirty-three novels. She has over thirty million copies of her books in print in the United States and has been published in thirty-five countries. Lisa also writes a weekly column with her daughter, Francesca Serritella, for the Philadelphia Inquirer. These stories, along with many other never-before-published stories, have been collected in a New York Times bestselling series of humorous memoirs including their most recent, I Need A Lifeguard Everywhere But The Pool. Lisa reviews popular fiction and non-fiction, and her reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer. She has served as President of the Mystery Writers of America and has taught a course she developed, “Justice in Fiction,” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her alma mater. She lives in the Philadelphia area.\n\nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, Shanghai Girls, China Dolls, and Dreams of Joy, which debuted at #1. She is also the author of On Gold Mountain, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the Historymaker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum. She was also named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women.\n\n“Scottoline’s admirable foray into historical fiction…expertly brings historical events to life. Fans of WWII fiction will be drawn to this immersive, emotional novel.”", null, null, null ]

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[ "The 2003–04 NBA season was the Lakers' 56th season in the National Basketball Association and 44th in the city of Los Angeles.[1]", null, "The Lakers entered the season following a disappointing second-round loss to the eventual champion San Antonio Spurs in the 2003 playoffs. During the offseason, the Lakers signed star free agents Karl Malone and Gary Payton and re-signed free agent power forward Horace Grant.[2][3] Following these acquisitions, the Lakers became the instant favorites to win the NBA title.[4][5]\n\nDespite major acquisitions, key moves, and becoming overnight title favorites, the Lakers would run into major setbacks to begin the season. During the 2003 off-season, superstar guard Kobe Bryant had been accused of sexual assault in Colorado. Media attention surrounding the case would prove to be an ongoing distraction for the team, and Bryant missed games during his trial. In addition, Bryant's feud with superstar center Shaquille O'Neal reached a peak during the season, as both players criticized each other in the media.[6] Payton struggled with coach Phil Jackson's triangle offense, and Malone missed significant time due to injuries.[7][8][9]\n\nDespite the setbacks, the Lakers finished the season with a 56–26 overall record, good enough to clinch the second seed in the Western Conference en route to the playoffs.[10] In the playoffs, they defeated the Houston Rockets, the defending champion San Antonio Spurs, and the Minnesota Timberwolves to once again earn the franchise it's 28th appearance in the NBA Finals. The Lakers entered the Finals against the Detroit Pistons as favorites.[11][12] This was the third meeting between the Lakers and the Pistons in the NBA Finals, after both franchises met in 1988 and 1989, with each winning in both years respectively. However, the underdog Pistons' strong defense and teamwork propelled them to their third championship in franchise history, and the star-studded Lakers would collapse in five games.[13][14] After the season, Jackson was fired[15] and O'Neal (who requested a trade) was dealt to the Miami Heat.[16]\n\nThe Lakers playing against the San Antonio Spurs in Game 1 of the 2004 Western Conference Semifinals at the SBC Center.\n\nThe Lakers had a star-studded lineup that included offseason acquisitions Karl Malone and Gary Payton as well as mainstays Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal. Malone and Payton were perennial All-Stars; Payton had led the Seattle SuperSonics to the Finals in 1996, while Malone's Utah Jazz reached the Finals in 1997 and 1998.[18] However, both had been defeated by Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls. By 2003, Malone and Payton were in the latter stages of their respective careers and were no longer playing on championship-contending teams.[18][19] Both Malone and Payton took pay cuts to sign with the Lakers in an effort to win a championship.[20]\n\nConsidered to be a stunning upset by most of the NBA world, the Detroit Pistons managed to defeat the Lakers with imposing defense.[21] Defensively clamping down on everyone but Bryant and O'Neal, the Pistons managed to hold everyone else to a total of 16 points.\n\nThe Pistons trailed the Lakers 41–40 at halftime, but a 10–4 surge capped by Billups's 3-pointer gave the Pistons the lead. O'Neal's foul trouble furthered the scoring gap, with the Pistons leading by 13 points early in the fourth quarter.\n\nThe second game was close throughout the first half, but in the third quarter Detroit would score 30 points, cutting the deficit 68–66. However, at the end of the fourth quarter, Kobe Bryant's 3-point shot at 2.1 seconds to go would tie the game at 89–89. The Lakers and Pistons would then go to overtime, with the Lakers outscoring the Pistons 10–2.\n\nThe Pistons beat Los Angeles by 20 in their first NBA Finals appearance together at The Palace of Auburn Hills since 1989[22] to take a 2–1 lead in the series. The 68 points scored by the Lakers set a franchise record for the fewest points scored in a playoff game. Previous night, a group of overzealous Pistons fans made it difficult for the Lakers to get their rest by harassing them until 4am at their hotel in nearby Birmingham. Fans were screaming outside the building until management at the hotel called the police.[23]\n\nAgain, the Pistons defeated the Lakers, although this time by eight, to take a 3–1 series advantage.\n\nIn Game 5, the Pistons won their first championship since 1990, and Larry Brown finally won his title. The Pistons defense had overcome the high-scoring Laker offense, winning the game by 13, winning the series 4-1, and also ending a long Laker dynasty that lasted for many years. The game saw the end of Phil Jackson's first run as the coach (he returned for the 2005-06 season), and saw O'Neal, Payton, and Malone's last games in Laker uniforms (O'Neal and Payton were both acquired by the soon-to-be NBA Champions Miami Heat and Malone retired)." ]

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[ null, "“Current Media was built based on a few key goals: to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling. Al-Jazeera, like Current, believes that facts and truth lead to a better understanding of the world around us.”\n\nThat was Al Gore explaining away his sale of his media company to Al-Jazeera …whose reputation for truth might make Gore think they are a perfect match judging by his climate film ‘The Inconvenient Truth’….which was anything but the truth being a one sided, highly political polemic jammed packed full of ‘errors‘.\n\nIt is a shame that just like the BBC these fine words are no more than just that, elegantly expressed sentiments with little evidence of any attempt to fulfil them in the real world….or as Christopher Booker puts it…. ‘the BBC’s support for the embattled orthodoxy has been so one-sided that it came to be seen as a scandal in its own right.’\n\nHowever it seems that even the BBC’s own concrete belief in man made global warming has been shaken.\n\nHere Roger Harriban has more hedges than the Grand National whilst the BBC’s David Shukman looks decidedly like a man preparing the ground for a future possible ‘reappraisal’ of the ‘settled science’ in this latest article….Climate model forecast is revised\n\nDespite the possibility that by 2017 there will have been no rise in temperature for two decades Shukman still presses the Met Office belief that the trend is upward and will continue so….whilst managing to stress how uncertain the science is.\n\nInteresting to see how the ‘Sceptics’ are labelled…dismissed as mere ’Bloggers’ with suggestions of ‘conspiracy theorist’ about them. So despite the computer models failing utterly to predict the climate, even on a relatively short term basis never mind over 100 years, the BBC still denies any dissenters a serious voice.\n\nIn this, a pro AGW and anti-sceptic article, the importance of good reporting is stressed…..it is of course right about that if nothing else…..suggesting a well informed Public is essential for government policy making in a Democracy….\n\nIs journalism failing on climate?\nStefan Rahmstorf discusses the latest study in ERL on “Cross-national comparison of the presence of climate scepticism in the print media in six countries, 2007”.\n\nThe media are the most important means by which lay people obtain their information about science. Good science journalism is therefore a decisive factor for the long-term success of modern society. Good science journalism clearly must be critical journalism, and it requires journalists who know what is what, who can put things into a perspective, and who are able to make well-informed judgements.\n\nHere are some highlights from Shukman’s article:\n\n‘The UK Met Office has revised one of its forecasts for how much the world may warm in the next few years.\nIt says that the average temperature is likely to rise by 0.43 C by 2017 – as opposed to an earlier forecast that suggested a warming of 0.54C.\nThe explanation is that a new kind of computer model using different parameters has been used…..it still stands by its longer-term projections.\nThese forecast significant warming over the course of this century.\n\nIf the forecast is accurate, the result would be that the global average temperature would have remained relatively static for about two decades.\nBlog suspicions\nAn apparent standstill in global temperatures is used by critics of efforts to tackle climate change as evidence that the threat has been exaggerated.\n\nThe most obvious explanation is natural variability – the cycles of changes in solar activity and the movements and temperatures of the oceans.\nThe fact that the revised projection was posted on the Met Office website without any notice on December 24 last year has fuelled suspicions among bloggers.\n\nThis is an emerging and highly complex area of science because of the interplay of natural factors and manmade greenhouse gases at a time when a key set of temperatures – in the deep ocean – is still relatively unknown.\nA paper published last month in the journal Climate Dynamics, authored by scientists from the Met Office and 12 other international research centres, combined different models to produce a forecast for the next decade.\nIt said: “Decadal climate prediction is immature, and uncertainties in future forcings, model responses to forcings, or initialisation shocks could easily cause large errors in forecasts.”\nScrutiny of Met Office forecasts and climate science generally is set to increase in the build-up to the publication of the next assessment by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in September.’\n\nThe BBC’s tame scientist, Prof. Steve Jones, a geneticist, also has great disdain for the sceptics and is avidly pro AGW claiming….the sheer nastiness and clear prejudice of his comments should have precluded him from having any place in a review of bias in the BBC‘s science reporting…:\n\n‘‘Global warming is a myth.” Type that into a search engine and you get thousands of hits….The subject has, alas, become the home of boring rants by obsessives. ‘\n\nIce ages come in slowly, but go out with a bang.\n\nThe collapse came when climate reached a tipping point.\n\nThen came the end.\n\nA slight increase in the Sun’s output was matched by the disruption of deep ocean currents caused by cold fresh water sinking from the melting floes above. As the glaciers began to dissolve, their waters roared towards the sea.\n\nMost of those ingredients are evident today, but millions insist that the warming story is made up. It’s enough to make a frog laugh.’\n\nWhilst Jones and Co seek to use myths to back up their science back in the real world the truth is out there if the hard working and integrity driven journalists of the BBC would care to look.\n\nHere is a small but telling comment from an environmental report which says that it is not wind farms that will save the world but a drive to make energy use more efficient….\n\n‘How much energy the world consumes going forward turns out to be a much bigger swing factor for climate change than the availability of technologies like solar and wind power, biofuels, and so on,” said IIASA researcher David McCollum, another co-author.”Energy efficiency, improved urban planning, lifestyle changes – these things on the demand side of the energy equation are so important; yet they receive relatively little attention compared to the supply side.” ’\n\nThere is also this inconvenient fact about wind power….\n‘Just before Christmas, the Renewable Energy Foundation published The Performance of Wind Farms in the United Kingdom and Denmark, showing that the economic life of onshore wind turbines is between 10 and 15 years, not the 20 to 25 years projected by the wind industry itself, and used for government projections.\n“Bluntly, wind turbines onshore and offshore still cost too much and wear out far too quickly to offer the developing world a realistic alternative to coal.”\nAs a consequence, the lifetime cost per unit (MWh) of electricity generated by wind power will be considerably higher than official estimates.’\n\nPerhaps this report explains partially the BBC’s failure to report the full breadth of the climate debate:\n\n‘A new report into science and the media has found that in some respects specialist science news reporting in the UK is in relatively good health.\n\nBut the research also warns about the serious threat to the quality and independence of science reporting posed by the wider crisis in journalism.\n\n“Most of the journalists we interviewed complain about severe workload increases, almost half say they’re mainly passive recipients of news rather than uncovering original stories themselves, a fifth say they don’t have enough time to fact-check stories they publish, and around the same number say they rely too much on PR material. These are all serious problems for the quality and independence of science news.”\n\nThis article on pro sceptic newspapers can be turned on its head to give us an insight into the BBC’s attitude towards ‘Sceptics’, an attitude not so much based upon attempting a real balance in science reporting but on the BBC’s own political leanings:\n\n‘There is some evidence for arguing that there is a strong correspondence between the political leaning of a newspaper and its willingness to quote or use uncontested sceptical voices in opinion pieces. ‘\n\nWhilst newspapers can do as they like and support what they like the BBC is by law supposed to be impartial and balanced in its reporting….it is anything but in many fields, climate just being one of them in which it shows a distinct bias towards one side of the argument.\n\nShould the present stalling of global warming continue there are going to be a lot of red faces and a great deal of back tracking and explaining to do.\n\nIt might seem fortuitous that Richard Black jumped ship, or was pushed, before the reckoning comes. Harrabin must already be making room in his phone book for the hated ‘bloggers’ numbers just in case.\n\nAddendum: Anyone with time on their hands might want to have a look at this site which gathers together all the climate articles from around the world on a daily basis.\n\n‘The Carbon Capture Report (http://www.carboncapturereport.org/) is a free and open service of the University of Illinois devoted to being the preeminent global resource for tracking worldwide perception and developments in Climate Change, Carbon Capture, Carbon Credits, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Green Energy, Biofuels, Geothermal, Hydroelectric, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Solar, Wind, Coal, and Oil. With subscribers in more than 100 countries the Report has become the go-to resource for daily insight into the global media discourse.’\n\n19 Responses to It’s Enough To Make A Frog Laugh" ]

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[ "Foster kids and identity theft: who would have thought?\n\nThere are almost 500,000 children and teenagers in foster care, emergency receiving homes and shelters in the United States. At some point, usually age 18, he or she ages out of the system and starts their own life as an adult. Although a newborn is not required to obtain a social security number, many have one since their parents can’t claim the child as a dependent on their taxes without it. Few children, however, have a need for it until their later teens or early twenties.\n\nYoung adults leaving the foster system are discovering that thieves and hackers have used their social security number and racked up debt to the tune of thousands of dollars. For example, 21-year-old Dee Saint Franc of Rhode Island recently learned of $3,000 worth of delinquent bills to Verizon dating back to 1998. She discovered this when signing up for Internet and cable services. Dee was 8-years-old in 1998!", null, "Studies into this issue show that foster children face higher rates of identity theft than anyone else. Their IDs are used to pay bills, take out loans or open credit accounts. A new federal law requires states to run credit card checks on foster children aging out of the system. The Foster Youth Financial Security Act of 2011* was signed into law by President Obama on September 30, 2011. It allows foster youth age 16 and 17 to receive free credit reports and assistance in clearing inaccuracies from their records. This way the issues can be resolved before the teen turns 18 and he or she can begin adulthood with a clean record.\n\nIf you are in foster care or have a friend or relative in the system, discuss this with them and contact the social worker assigned to the foster child to start the credit check process. For more information about the new law, click here." ]

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[ null, "Clontarf’s Michael Brown makes a break for the line to score a try against UCD in the Ulster Bank League Division 1A game at Castle Avenue. Photograph: Tom Beary/Inpho\n\nNext weekend’s semi-final clashes will pit Lansdowne against Cork Constitution, who will defend their Bateman Cup title at Old Belvedere the following Saturday, and Clontarf will host Young Munster at Castle Avenue.\n\nLansdowne finished top of the pile on scoring difference following their 40-17 bonus-point dismissal of Garryowen whose top flight survival rests on the upcoming promotion/relegation playoffs.\n\nThe headquarters club were winless in the last four rounds but with Scott Deasy back at outhalf, they led from the second minute onwards thanks to flanker Charlie Butterworth’s early try on the Aviva Stadium’s back pitch.\n\nLansdowne had the bonus point secured by half-time, current Ireland Under-20 hooker Tadgh McElroy touching down as the hosts built a 28-3 lead.\n\nLansdowne made sure they had the final say with two closing tries from back-three regulars Daniel McEvoy – the division’s top try scorer with 11 touchdowns – and Eamonn Mills.\n\nThe north Dubliners were 21-15 down at half-time, with Josh Murphy, Ciaran Frawley and Andy Marks notching tries for the students who were brimming with confidence after last week’s Colours success.\n\nTarf got on top in the third quarter, moving ahead thanks to converted tries from centre O’Brien and outhalf David Joyce, who also kicked 12 points. A deserved try for workhorse flanker Tony Ryan, coupled with a Joyce penalty, make it 27 points without reply, before UCD’s Leinster-capped prop Andrew Porter had a late consolation score.\n\nDown at Temple Hill, there were tries aplenty too as Cork Con got the better of St Mary’s College on a 34-27 scoreline. Backs Ned Hodson and Michael Clune bagged braces for the victors.\n\nDublin University clawed clear of the relegation zone with a stunning last-minute try from Tim Maupin who saw them overcome Terenure College 27-25 at College Park.\n\nThe students, who were bidding to stay up at the end of their first season in Division 1A, were turned over in the dying minutes and saw Nure kick clear downfield. However, the Trinity backs had other ideas, countering at pace from their own 22 and putting USA international Maupin into space out wide for the game’s decisive score.\n\nTrinity director of rugby Tony Smeeth, whose young side finished sixth in the table, beamed afterwards: “It was just unbelievable. I can’t describe it really. I didn’t think we were going to win. That was the try of the year that last one. You won’t see many tries better than that in College Park.”\n\nDespite going down to that late try, Terenure also maintained their top flight status by finishing eighth overall – just a point above relegation-threatened Garryowen. Former Leinster winger Sam Coghlan Murray was one of their three try scorers.\n\nTynan kicked four conversions to add to a try double from prop Paul Allen in the second half, but their efforts were not enough to snatch home advantage in the playoffs. Belvo bowed out of the top flight with tries from scrumhalf Kyle McCarthy and replacement Eddie Weaver." ]

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[ "The winning design-build contractor has been named for a new bridge in Kremenchug in Ukraine.\n\nTurkish company Dogus Insaat Ve Ticaret won the tender with a bid of approximately US$395 million. The agreement will be signed after completion of all the tender procedures.", null, "The bridge is set to become a demonstration project, said Oleksandr Kubrakov, who chairs the state road agency Ukravtodor. It combines the latest approaches to design and construction with the needs of domestic manufacturers, as 95% of the materials will be Ukrainian, he said.\n\nThe two banks of the river in Kremenchug are currently connected by the Kryukivsky Bridge, which was built during the times of the Russian Empire. The last major renovation took place in 1949 and the bridge is currently in a state of disrepair.", null ]

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[ null, "Wearing apparel garments: Choose the suitable clothes for the occasion. The quite a few tribes that settled in Europe soon after the fall of the Roman Empire in the fifth century had a diverse strategy to clothing. The direct link among clothing and human beings has meant that consumers have had a considerable effect on the development of clothing’s different types. Clothing created of variously colored fine fabrics, frequently decorated with embroidery, was the privilege of the ruling class. An adjustable sewing mannequin or dress form is employed to produce kind-fitting clothing. The garments were produced of sumptuously colored fabrics and decorated with lavish raised embroidery and pearls.\n\nThe type of clothes that we put on varies from situation to circumstance. Unique garments produced of suede, chamois, or tanned leather appeared amongst the Indians of the North American forest zone: the females wore a extended, shirtlike garment, and the men wore a long shirt and higher leggings. In 1919 a studio for the style of contemporary costume was established in Moscow within the Arts Division of the People’s Commissariat of Education. The girls wear long sharovary (wide pants) and a tunic-like chemise that extends below the knees and almost completely conceals the outline of the figure.\n\nAt present, although fur is still used by indigenous men and women in arctic zones and higher elevations for its warmth and protection, in developed nations it is associated with high-priced, designer clothes. In warm climate, garments that retain heat poorly and that absorb perspiration effectively need to be worn. These garments are significantly less expensive, mass-developed Western clothing. This feminine costume, which developed below the influence of free-falling urban clothes (16th to 19th centuries), was marked by a refined and precise silhouette.\n\nWear protective clothing. Ancient Egyptian clothing was amongst the earliest varieties of dress to be influenced by aesthetic norms. In formal English, you can speak about a garment, a piece of clothing, or an report of clothes, but in ordinary conversation, you typically name the piece of clothing you are speaking about. The folks could see that they had been extremely busy making the Emperor’s new clothes ready. In hot shops, nonflammable coats and trousers made of woolen and linen (tarpaulin) fabrics are worn.\n\nIn the 15th century, the jacket’s sleeves were widened at the best. In Renaissance Italy the silhouette of clothing underwent substantial adjustments by the end of the 15th century. One more strategy entails measuring, cutting, and sewing the cloth by hand or with a sewing machine Clothing can be cut from a sewing pattern and adjusted by a tailor to the wearer’s measurements. In the Western dress code, jeans are worn by both males and girls. The 18th-century aristocratic woman nevertheless wore a hoop, or pannier (a basket with a hair or linen covering), but now a dynamic costume was developed." ]

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[ "Let's face the music... Daisy Lowe shows off her fancy footwork for a good cause as she takes part in first Comic Relief Danceathon\n\nShe may regularly turn heads on runways and in high-profile modelling campaigns, but on Sunday, Daisy Lowe showed that she can also captivate an audience her impressive dance moves.\n\nThe brunette beauty was among a host of stars who made their way to London's SSE Arena Wembley to lend their support to the first ever Comic Relief Danceathon for Red Nose Day.\n\nAnd Daisy, 26, turned up for the Claudia Winkleman-hosted, six-hour event ready to do her dancing best as she donned a white knotted T-shirt over a black bra top with leggings.", null, "Strutting her stuff: Daisy Lowe was among the stars who took part in the first ever Comic Relief Danceathon for Red Nose Day at London's SSE Arena Wembley on Sunday\n\nAs the day wore on, she took to her Instagram account to share a snapshot of herself with her designer pal, Martha Freud, alongside the caption: 'Soooo sweaty - having the best time.'\n\nAnd Daisy ensured she had enough energy to keep herself going on the day, as she awoke early in the day to prepare a special breakfast ahead of the proceedings.", null, null, "Getting sweaty: During the event, Daisy took to Instagram to share a shot of herself with pal Martha Freud", null, "Pals: Host Claudia Winkleman was joined on the stage by Jo Whiley as the high-energy event continued", null, "Sharing the limelight: Strictly Come Dancing co-host Claudia got chatting with some of participants", null, "However, while she appeared to win over fans with her moves, she did take to the micro-blogging site to suggest that she wasn't impressed with her own skills, writing: 'Sorry for my bad shapes.'\n\nOther stars taking part on the big day included Kimberly Walsh, Rackel Riley, Sara Cox and Alex Jones, who all danced alongside an estimated 2,000 fundraisers in aid of Comic Relief.\n\nDancing legend Arlene Phillips gave the proceedings a polished touch, as did a selection of professionals from Strictly Come Dancing.", null, "Showing them how it's done: Dancing veteran Arlene Phillips also took to the stage", null, "Loosening her buttons: Former Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt was spotted getting into the groove", null, "Host Claudia Winkleman said after the event: 'This has been an absolutely epic day, the crowd put in a tremendous effort and I even busted out a few of my signature moves myself. I loved it and I hope we raised lots of cash for Comic Relief.'\n\nThe money raised by the Comic Relief Danceathon will be spent in the UK and across Africa, helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to turn their lives around.", null, "Hey you! Recently engaged TV presenter Alex Jones was seen shaking a leg for a good cause", null, "Worthy cause: Money raised from the event will be spent in the UK and across Africa, helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people to turn their lives around", null ]

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[ "The Trials And Tribulations Of Robinson Speke (Explorer) #writephoto #flashfiction\n\nRobinson Speke stood, his legs akimbo, Baden-Powell shorts billowing in the strong breeze. He let the map case swing at his hips as he folded his arms and studied the signpost. After a minute, maybe two, he allowed himself a slow, self-congratulatory nod. ‘There,’ he thought. ‘That’ll teach the doubters and nay-sayers. The Thomases and Amandas of this world. Absently but instinctively his free hand went to his hair, moving the roving comb-over back into its place across his speckled pate. He felt good and, damn it, he looked the part. The plaid woolen socks and Oxford brogues just made the ensemble work.\n\nBriefly he contemplated trying to see if he could take one of those selfish pictures he heard so much about and which obsessed the young people but decided he would leave that. Possibly someone could be prevailed to snap him when he had the prize itself.\n\nThinking about the reason he was here galvanized him. He couldn’t risk someone else turning up and stealing him glory. Oh no, that wouldn’t do at all.\n\nRobinson eased his knapsack off his shoulders and rolled his neck, seeking to loosen off the knots that had accompanied him on this expedition.\n\nKneeling, he tightened the woggle so his neckerchief, a faded pink and cerise stripe from his days as Scout Leader of the Great Cramping troop. Those were the days, when you could put up a tent, make a fire, cook a meal, dig a latrine and still have time for a six mile hike before bedtime. Not like the namby-pamby pusillanimous little darlings and their rebarbative parents who you had to deal with these days.\n\nRobinson shook his head, retrieving the picture book and notes. He had been somewhat reluctant to procure ‘Masquerade Two’, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the original treasure hunt**. That time he had been robbed by cheating and a compass that lacked moral fibre. But this time, the prize would be his. This signpost, he knew with a certainly that bordered on zealotry, marked the spot. The time, midsummer at sundown – he checked his watch; in twenty-five, no twenty-four minutes – was right. And the resulting shadow would soon mark his goal.\n\nPerhaps a celebratory cuppa, then. He dragged his bag over to the post and leant back against it, wincing as he realised he should have kicked away the nettles first. Ha! What were a few stings? He would be famous. He would be interviewed by that Philip person on morning TV. Him and that woman with the bottom. He luxuriated in a small fantasy about sofas and erroneously placed hands before releasing that he should have stopped pouring the tea from his flask and he now had, not only a scald on his left thigh but also a strong English breakfast stain by his fly.\n\nThe shadow moved inexorably to its zenith as Robinson, squirming from the combination of burns and stings, watched.\n\nThe time had come. Extracting his entrenching tool, he stood above the spot, feeling a few words would be appropriate and regretting he’d not prepared any. All that came to mind were the words of the second verse of ‘All Things Bright And Beautiful’ which he sang in an embarrassed baritone before dropping to his knees and digging furiously.\n\nEvery so often he stopped and checked the depth with his trusty foot ruler. Yes, nearly there. Last time the prize had been encased in an ornate ceramic box to prevent metal detectors finding it. He slowed not wanting, accidentally, to crack it. Sure enough as the appointed depth his trowel met resistance.\n\nHe practiced some calming techniques he had read about in fly fishing monthly, but all that did was make him belch so he dropped his tool and used his fingers. In moments they touched something soft. Like cardboard.\n\nOdd. He kept sifting and after a further few fingerfuls he extracted a piece of card. On one side the logo of a national delivery company stared back at him. Under it was the message:\n\nWe are sorry we missed you!\n\nfollowed by a handwritten date (that day) and time (about twenty minutes before he arrived).\n\nBeneath it, it directed the reader to turn over the card. There were three options, with a checkbox next to each. The first two – we’ve left it in the porch and we’ve left it with a neighbour/a man walking his dog when we arrived/someone claiming to be you* (*delete as applicable) – remained unchecked. The third was ticked.\n\nRobinson scanned the instructions with increasing horror. They were a new hunt, even more complicated than the set he had taken four months of full time effort to unravel.\n\nSlowly and deliberately Robinson stood. He slipped the card in his map case, screwed the top on his flask and put it and his entrenching tool back in his knapsack and eased the bag onto his protesting shoulders. Peering at the first instruction on the card he squinted into the sun.\n\nHe took a deep breath and thought about the oath he had given the chief scout when he had taken over the scout troop. His proudest moment. These setbacks where meant to be and they didn’t find Livingstone without set-backs.\n\nHead held high, eyes on the horizon, Robinson Speke took a step into his future. Which unfortunately was also a step into the hole he had dug. The bang to his head was significant and the memory loss permanent. Robinson Speke’s days as an explorer were over.\n\nAnd the prize? As with the whereabouts of so many undelivered parcels, it remains a mystery.\n\n**NB. In 1979, Kit Williams published a picture book, Masquerade that contained clues to the whereabouts of a golden hare. For months the nation was obsessed by the hunt which eventually ended in controversy. This year is the 40th Anniversary of that hunt. That and Sue Vincent’s #writephoto prompt stimulated this sad little tale.", null, "My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published four books - Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle, My Father and Other Liars, Salisbury Square and Buster & Moo. In addition I have published three anthologies of short stories and a memoir of my mother. More will appear soon. I will try and continue to blog regularly at geofflepard.com about whatever takes my fancy. I hope it does yours too. These are my thoughts and no one else is to blame. If you want to nab anything I post, please acknowledge where it came from.\nView all posts by TanGental →\nThis entry was posted in #writephoto, flash fiction, miscellany and tagged #writephoto, flash fiction. Bookmark the permalink." ]

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[ "4-STAR REVIEW: SWIMMING WITH THE FISHES by Marc Jedel\n\nPrevious article5-STAR REVIEW: THE BRANDON TRILOGY by Tony Riches\nNext article4-STAR REVIEW: MURDER WORTH THE WEIGHT by D.M. Barr\n\nShe’s settling into a new life. But when a fishing trip totally capsizes, can she get a friend off the hook for murder?\n\nElizabeth Trout still feels awkward being back home. Discovering a BFF from her raucous high-school days has become the perfect mom is as weird as staying with her mother while awaiting construction of her new home. But she’s shaken to her core when her newlywed husband and beloved dog are nearly blown out of the water in a dockside explosion which leaves another woman dead … and her bestie is arrested for the crime.\n\nTo clear her friend, Elizabeth and her spouse set out to reel in a killer by sifting through the murky depths of small town drama. But between missing money, ominous strangers, and a shady ex-husband, these amateur sleuths net more motives than they can handle.\n\nCan this dynamic detective duo dig up an answer before the big one gets away?\n\nSwimming with the Fishes is the sensational second book in the Ozarks Lake Mystery series. If you like clever couples, delightful lakeside settings, and a rollicking good time, then you’ll love Marc Jedel’s hilarious whodunit.", null, "Swimming with the Fishes, the second book in the Ozarks Lake Mystery series by Marc Jedel, and it’s like we never left.\n\nWhile Swimming with the Fishes can easily be read as a stand-alone, it was nice to have the history of Elizabeth and Jonas and their time spent in her small town.\n\nWe pick up where we left off, and surprise, surprise, there’s another murder in town, and another innocent person is accused of murder. This time it’s Vanessa, a newly divorced accountant who’s also a single mom and like a big sister to Elizabeth. There are twists and turns as Elizabeth and Jonas once again are trying to help the police solve the crime, much to their chagrin!\n\nThe story is told from either Elizabeth’s or Jonas’ perspective, and it was sometimes confusing to remember who was speaking, which made the story feel choppy at times. There are some laugh-out-loud moments as the story is woven together with multiple stories. There are beautiful descriptions throughout and another vibrant cover. We are given clues to whodunnit, but the murderer wasn’t what or who I expected once again.\n\nWhen the murderer confessed, it was like an Abbott and Costello routine. There is nice closure with solving the murder. I like how Jonas and Elizabeth act in their marriage and are always there for each other even when they are opposites in temperament, outlook on life, and their career paths—she’s artistic, and he’s scientific.\n\nWith vivid imagery, fantastic main characters, and a fun and twisty whodunit, I wholeheartedly recommend Swimming with the Fishes to cozy mystery readers. I genuinely hope there will be more stories set in this small southern town.", null, "Marc Jedel writes humorous murder mysteries. He credits his years of marketing leadership positions in Silicon Valley for honing his writing skills and sense of humor. While his high-tech marketing roles involved crafting plenty of fiction, these were just called emails, ads, and marketing collateral.\n\nFor most of Marc’s life, he’s been inventing stories. As he’s gotten older, he’s encountered more funny and odd people and situations. This has made it even easier for him to write what he knows and make up the rest. It’s a skill that’s served him well, both as an author and marketer.\n\nThe publication of Marc’s first novel, UNCLE AND ANTS, gave him permission to claim “author” as his job. This leads to much more interesting conversations with people than answering, “marketing.” Becoming an Amazon best-selling author has only made him more insufferable.\n\nLike his characters Jonas and Elizabeth from the Ozarks Lake Mystery series, Marc grew up in the South and spent plenty of time in and around Arkansas. Like his character, Marty from the Silicon Valley Mystery series, Marc now lives in Silicon Valley, works in high-tech, and enjoys bad puns. Along with all his protagonists, Marc too has a dog, although his is neurotic, sweet, and small, with little appreciation for Marc’s humor.\n\nSeptember 8 – I’m All About Books – SPOTLIGHT\n\nSeptember 15 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW\n\nSeptember 20 – Reading Is My SuperPower – SPOTLIGHT\n\nWith vivid imagery, fantastic main characters, and a fun and twisty whodunit, I wholeheartedly recommend Swimming with the Fishes to cozy mystery readers. I genuinely hope there will be more stories set in this small southern town.JoAnne Weiss4-STAR REVIEW: SWIMMING WITH THE FISHES by Marc Jedel" ]

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[ "This breakfast casserole comes bubbling out of your grill (or oven, if you choose) with rich sausage, hearty eggs, and heartwarming ciabatta bread for a brunch dish that is smoky and satisfying.", null, "Add cubed ciabatta to a large mixing bowl. Use butter to grease a large baking pan, or a grill-safe pan or Dutch oven if you're using one.\n\nIf grilling, set grill to 325 degrees F, or create a two-zone fire by piling lit coals on one side of the grill.\n\nIn a large skillet, cook the breakfast sausage, breaking the meat apart as it cooks. Once cooked through, remove the sausage to a plate. Add onions to the same pan and season with 1 Tbsp. Head Country Championship Seasoning and a dash of salt. Cook on medium heat until beginning to brown, about 15 minutes. Add 1/4 c. of water to the pan, scraping the bottom with a spatula to deglaze.\n\nAdd sausage and onions to the large mixing bowl with the ciabatta cubes.\n\nGently combine the wet ingredients with the ciabatta, sausage, and onion mixture. Add more milk if mixture seems dry. Do not overmix.\n\nIf baking, cook casserole at 325 degrees F for 45-60 minutes, or until mixture is set, bubbling, and beginning to crisp on the top and edges.\n\nIf grilling, cook casserole on the indirect-heat side of the grill for 45-60 minutes, or until mixture is set, bubbling, and beginning to crisp on the top and edges. If using a Dutch oven, do not use the lid.\n\nAllow casserole to sit 5 minutes before slicing. Serve with a green salad with radish, black pepper, and plenty of vinaigrette. Enjoy!\n\nFeatured in:\nOur Ultimate List of Fall Recipes: Oven, Grilling, Slow-Cooker, and Instant Pot Recipes\nYou need to make these 15 BBQ recipes in your cast iron cookware" ]

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[ null, "The painting of Rep. John Lewis on the Underpass mural after students cleaned off some of Saturday night’s vandalism. (Photo by Curran Neenan / Student Life)\n\nThe spray-paint consisted of a white base layer underneath red and blue messages in support of Patriot Front, a white nationalist hate group the Anti-Defamation League found was responsible for 80% of white supremacist propaganda distribution incidents nationally in 2020.\n\nChancellor Andrew Martin and three other University administrators condemned the vandalism in a letter to students, faculty and staff Sunday morning.\n\n“This is horrifying and distressing. We’re shocked and saddened by this hateful act on our campus,” the administrators wrote. “Let us say again, so there is absolutely no room for doubt: Washington University stands unequivocally against hate, bigotry, racism, xenophobia and discrimination in any form. There is no place on our campus for these behaviors and this type of harmful action will not be tolerated or ignored.”\n\nThe administrators wrote that “a small group of unknown individuals” had vandalized the mural, adding that the University hoped to use cameras in the area of the Underpass to “identify and hold these individuals responsible for their disgraceful actions.”", null, "The painting of Chadwick Boseman after students had cleared some of the vandalism. (Photo by Curran Neenan / Student Life)\n\nFlyers for Patriot Front, a splinter group from the organization that organized the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, had been placed on campus in recent weeks, in a similar manner to their placement at Missouri State University and others earlier this year.\n\nThe University was aware of the Patriot Front flyers on campus, Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications Julie Flory wrote in an email to Student Life Sunday afternoon. “In each instance we removed the flyers, and [the Washington University Police Department] began an investigation,” she wrote. “WUPD continues to work with its regional and federal law enforcement partners to look into these incidents.”\n\nAccording to Flory, a student came to the WUPD station on the South 40 just before midnight to report the vandalism and other reports came in within minutes. “WUPD arrived on the scene within several minutes of the first report and gathered evidence, and then students painted over the vandalism,” Flory wrote.\n\nOne student told Student Life Sunday that she and others who were walking through the Underpass found the vandalism at around 12:15 a.m. The students returned roughly 20 minutes later with nail polish remover to start cleaning the mural, the student said, adding that she did not see WUPD officers at the Underpass until the group was mid-way through removing the vandalism.\n\n“In total, there was a little over an hour from the time of the first report until students had covered the vandalism,” Flory wrote to Student Life.\n\nMuch of the vandalism remained Sunday morning. While the Patriot Front logo and messages had been mostly covered or erased, the white spray-paint over the Black figures still remained.\n\nFlory added that the University was not yet sure of a timeline or process for the restoration of the mural. “We will be working with the artists and our student organizations to replace or repair the artwork in the underpass,” she wrote.\n\nIn an Instagram post Sunday, the Center for Diversity and Inclusion’s team wrote they were “infuriated” by the vandalism of the mural. “We are heartbroken to see the destruction of a space meant to celebrate and uplift Black excellence,” the CDI’s post read. “They can try to deface our history, but the legacies and influence of John Lewis, Chadwick Boseman and George Poage will never be covered up. We are so sorry this is one more thing that adds to an already difficult time especially as we move through the end of Finals Week and the beginning of winter break.”\n\nLocal artists had painted the mural, titled “The Story That Never Ends,” in the summer of 2020, and the mural had remained there since. In past years the Underpass has featured painted advertisements for student groups and events, but Campus Life has not allowed painting this fall, citing COVID-19 restrictions and insufficient staffing. The mural was a collaborative “freestyle,” De’Joneiro Jones, the project lead, told Student Life last September. “I wanted it to include a lot of history, because I knew in the height of where we were…with the racial tension and all of the things going on in the world—the political climate, the socio-political ills of society—I thought it would be appropriate to add words into the artwork, and also incorporate images of Black [people], [especially] dealing with a lot of St. Louis history,” he said.", null, "A student bicycles past the original mural on the Underpass during the fall 2020 semester. (Photo by Curran Neenan / Student Life)\n\nThe University administrators wrote that the mural “has been a source of pride and inspiration” for the University community. “We will not let this act of cowardice deter us from celebrating our rich cultural histories, especially the outstanding contributions of people who have led the way toward greater equity and understanding,” they wrote." ]

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[ "Visit the House of Terror Museum in Budapest\n\nWe are in Pest, on Andrássy Street, a World Heritage Site. At number 60, to be exact.\nAt the corner of the street there is a tall black building. It has a small iron canopy, where a clear, immediate inscription is carved in large letters: Terror.\nThe gaze lowers, follows that wall, until you meet the black and white photos, worn by time, of those who have lost their lives here.\nFor a destroyed freedom, for a freedom to be regained.\nThis is the first, strong impact with the Budapest House of Terror.\nA violent impact, as if that black wall and that writing hits you right in the face.", null, "It is a crude visit, which spares you nothing.\nIt wants to show the true side of dictatorships, of any political color. In fact, both black and red dominate everywhere.\nRed like spilled blood, black like the death, queen of those years.\n\nThe harshness of the visit serves not to make people forget. It is still a fresh wound in the country, a knife that has stopped turning in the wound from too little time for the pain to stop.\nThe music that accompanies each room is deep, slow, heavy. The music of a funeral, the funeral of freedom, of humanity.\n10 dollars (3000 Hungarian Forints) and the visit begins.", null, "A T54 tank welcomes you inside the Museum. Those who most resisted the urban guerrilla.\nThose who invaded the streets of Budapest and Hungary in 1956, to stop the revolution.\nIn February 1956, Krushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party, brought to light the human crimes of the Stalin era, so on October 23 of the same year, many cities in Hungary filled with demonstrations led by students from any social class. The police in the service of the few remaining Communists opened fire on the unarmed crowds, the fights began and soon became a true war for freedom. The population fought tooth and nail against the Soviet dictatorship, confronting Russian and Hungarian soldiers until it forced them to retreat. The government dissolved the State Protection Authority (AVO), accomplice of the regime’s worst crimes, and promised free elections.\nThe USSR declaimed its desire to review relations with socialist countries, but only 24 hours later it ordered the Hungarians’ fight for freedom to be bloodily suppressed. Thus, on November 4, Soviet troops crossed the country’s borders, flooding the streets with tanks and soldiers.\n20,000 injured, 2,500 dead, 200,000 people fleeing the country, 5,000 arrests, 450 protesters shot in the streets, 15,000 people convicted and 229 executed.\nThis is what that single tank at the entrance tells us: that there are no small countries, only powerless ones.\nAnd that’s just the entrance.\n\nThe visit continues. We walk through the memories of the double occupation, which saw Hungary crushed between the two great powers of the Second World War: Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. It went through the Russian first bombings in 1941, against which it was declared a state of war, but in March 1944 it found itself under the Nazi occupation, which immediately implemented the anti-Semitic laws, applied by the Judenkommando. In August of the same year, the Soviet troops crossed the Hungarian borders, and the country was the scene of a very cruel war, until Germany was wiped out.\nSoviet laws were imposed, which would remain to rule the country for decades.\n\nJust as the Nazis deported Jews to concentration camps, the Communists deported anyone of German descent, or anyone considered an enemy of the regime, to the gulags. The last Soviet POW returned home in 2000.\nWhat they did to the prisoners can be seen and read in the soap corridor.\n\nIn the 1950s, borders were closed and undermined, political parties were banned, all ideologies that went against the party were outlawed, the constitution was changed, the country was driven into bankruptcy by a closed and centralized economic system. The store shelves were empty, bread and sugar were rationed, everything was politicized, even nursery schools. In the workplace, faith in the regime had to be continually confirmed, everyone was forced to participate in seminars and volunteer Saturdays, the Hungarian anthem was eliminated and the Soviet anthem or the International was played in its place.\nTrials were summary, people were jailed and sentenced even if they didn’t applause enough.\n\nHere, in Andrássy Street, was the headquarters of the AVO, the regime’s control police, a true terror machine. Anyone who passed outside could hear the screams coming from the dungeons, where the prisons were. Screams that could be heard at any time of the day or night. These were not simple prisons, but real places of torture which were almost impossible to survive to.\nStill today you can smell stuffy air and hear the drops of water falling in the distance, in who knows what hole. The dirge that, even then, accompanied the screams and groans of the prisoners.\n\nAfter the cells, the coup de grace: a room with red and black walls in which all the photos of the torturers, Nazis and Communists are hung.\nMany of them are still alive… and anger is felt inside. One wonders how one can still live with himself after having done so much harm, after having been accomplice in a massacre, in a crime against humanity so great, so serious, so crude.\n\nOnce out of the House of Terror in Budapest, it is not easy to walk the streets of the city… you look at everything with different eyes.\nLife included.\n\nAbracadabra Restaurant A Focaccia in the whiteness of Bari Alcoholic monopoly in London A night with the ghost in \"Castello Chiola\" castle bar montenegro beach of jesolo best fish and chips charity riders chiola castle christmas in italy eco tourism europe Florence focaccia bread german beer going to Paris through the Eurotunnel hanami in rome islands od puglia jesolo Ljubljana lounge emirates Marsala: eating and sleeping marsa sicily Munich naples nativity New year's Eve in Ljubljana night with a ghost Oktoberfest Osteria Perugia Pub Southend-on-Sea The Purity Order Tremiti islands Tuscany Regional Rally Umbria Venice VINCI Visiting Arezzo in just one day what to do in London what to see in Barcelona what to see in florence what to see in jesolo where to eat in london" ]

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[ null, "According to other popular traditions, the Prophet himself advised his “four friends,” the first four caliphs, before his death to remember his shama’il-nama, that is, the description of his looks and qualities. One who stitches the hilya in his shroud will be accompanied on his last way by a thousand angels who will recite the funeral prayer for him and ask forgiveness on his behalf until Doomsday.\n\nOut of the simple, sonorous Arabic descriptions of Muhammad’s qualities more artistic forms developed. It seems that veneration of the hilya was especially widespread in Ottoman Turkey. There the calligraphers developed a peculiar style of writing it during the sixteenth century, which was perfected by Hafiz Osman, the master calligrapher of the late seventeenth century. These hilya, often imitated, are round, and beneath the circular frame that contains the description of the Prophet, the line “Mercy for the worlds” is written in large letters.\n\nEven today, the hilya is usually printed according to the model set by Hafiz Osman and his disciples, and is kept in homes, to convey blessings upon the inhabitants. To execute a hilya in fine calligraphy was considered a work of great merit: one Turkish woman, widowed and childless, said she regarded the nine she had completed during her lifetime as a substitute for nine children, hoping that they would intercede for her at Doomsday." ]

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[ null, null, "As low as $5.49 per coin over spot!\nAdd to WishlistLog In to add this product to your Wishlist\nFree Shipping on $199+ Orders\n\nNapoleon Bonaparte is one of the most celebrated and controversial national leaders of the past 200 years. He rose from humble origins on the island of Corsica to become the Emperor of France. His empire was built on war and conflict, with his armies emerging victorious courtesy of his brilliant tactics in the vast majority of those wars. From humble origins to a silent death, Bonaparte died 200 years ago in exile on the island of St. Helena. Now, 2021 1 oz St. Helena Napoleon Angel Silver Coins are available to you for purchase online from JM Bullion.\n\nBonaparte was born into a minor Italian noble family on the island of Corsica in 1769. Shortly after his birth, the island was annexed by the Kingdom of France and he grew up a supporter of the French. During the French Revolution, Bonaparte supported the revolution and showcased his skill in military tactics early on in defeating the Austrians and Italians in April 1796.\n\nHe shot to fame two years later when he led a French expedition to Egypt. His tactics and successes were now impossible to ignore and he would use that fame as a springboard to absolute control in France during the revolution. He orchestrated a coup in 1799 that resulted in him becoming the First Consul of the Republic. He expanded the new French Empire from the traditional boundaries of France to cover large swaths of the European continent over the next decade.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II features on the obverse side of 2021 1 oz St. Helena Napoleon Angel Silver Coins. Her Majesty is shown here in the third-generation Royal Mint design from her reign. Created by Raphael Maklouf, the effigy captures a young, regal monarch with the George IV State Diadem Crown on her head.\n\nAn angel stands guard over the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte in the reverse design of the 2021 St. Helena Angel Silver Coin. After a decade romping across the European continent to expand his empire, Napoleon was eventually defeated by a coalition of European kingdoms that included Britain. He was exiled to the island of St. Helena, briefly returning to power in 1815, before living out the rest of his life on the island. He died May 5, 1821, on the island. Some 20 years after his death, his body was returned to France and buried in a tomb guarded by 12 marble angels. At the bottom of the design rocker is an “EIC” mark for the East India Company.\n\nThese 2021 1 oz St. Helena Napoleon Angel Silver Coins are available to you for purchase in Brilliant Uncirculated condition. Individual coins are housed in plastic flips. Multiples of 20 are housed in tubes, while multiples of 500 come in a Master Box. The box holds five sleeves with five tubes per sleeve. St. Helena silver coins in this series are produced by the East India Company under the authority of St. Helena. The connection between the historic East India Company and the island of St. Helena dates back to 1658 when the British company was granted a charter to govern the island.\n\nJM Bullion customer service is available to assist you at 800-276-6508 with any questions about silver for sale. Our team is also available online through our live chat and email address features.\n\nStacy from OH - July 22, 2021\n\"Beautiful coin! The pictures don’t do this coin justice, the details are fantastic! Highly recommend!!\"\n\nVincent from - June 22, 2021\n\"Received my coins today. They are gorgeous, thank you JM Bullion for getting these to me so quickly. Great company to do business with. \"\n\nJIM from - June 02, 2021\n\"Absolutely a beautiful coin, and great throw down gift for any occasion. \"" ]