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Michigan sales of recreational marijuana hit the $1 billion mark during fiscal year 2021 and will result in $42.2 million being distributed to counties and communities across Michigan.
Under the Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act, which was approved by voters in November 2018 to legalize recreational marijuana, tax revenue and fees collected from 374 licensed retailers and microbusinesses are put into the state’s Marijuana Regulation Fund and then distributed to local governments, counties, the School Aid Fund, and the Michigan Transportation Fund.
In Fiscal Year 2021, $111 million was collected from the 10% adult-use marijuana excise tax and other fees. In total, there was $172 million available for distribution from the Marijuana Regulation Fund.
“The Michigan Department of Treasury will distribute these dollars as soon as practical to eligible local units of government,” State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks said. “The doubling of this year’s payment amounts will have a larger impact on local government budgets.”
In Oakland County, Walled Lake (169,360), Hazel Park (338,720), Ferndale ($169,360), and Madison Heights ($112,906) will receive funding. In Macomb County, Utica ($112,906) and Centerline ($225,813) will receive funding while Wise Township ($56,453) and Mount Pleasant ($56,453) will receiving funding in Isabella County.
The governments of Isabella ($112,906), Macomb ($338,720), Oakland ($790,348), and Wayne ($959,708) counties will receive funding as well.
How is the sales tax revenue distributed?
- 15% to municipalities in which a marihuana retail store or a marihuana microbusiness is located, allocated in proportion to the number of marihuana retail stores and marihuana microbusinesses within the municipality;
- 15% to counties in which a marihuana retail store or a marihuana microbusiness is located, allocated in proportion to the number of marihuana retail stores and marihuana microbusinesses within the county;
- 35% to the school aid fund to be used for K-12 education; and
- 35% to the Michigan transportation fund to be used for the repair and maintenance of roads and bridges.
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- 62 cities with 262 adult-use marijuana retailer/microbusiness licensees will split $14.7 million
- 15 villages with 31 adult-use marijuana retailer/microbusiness licensees will split $1.7 million
- 33 townships with 81 adult-use marijuana retailer/microbusiness licensees will split $4.5 million
- 53 counties with 374 adult-use marijuana retailer/microbusiness licensees will split $21.1 million
- Total distributed to counties and CVTs: $42.2 million
“It’s rewarding to see that the agency’s balanced regulatory approach is effectively protecting consumers while still allowing Michigan businesses to grow and thrive,” said Marijuana Regulatory Agency Executive Director Andrew Brisbo. “The funding provided directly to local governments – and the thousands of jobs created across the state – show that Michigan is leading the way in the cannabis industry.”
Aside from the nearly $42.2 million for local governments, $49.3 million will be sent to the School Aid Fund for K-12 education and another $49.3 million to the Michigan Transportation Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature. The remaining $31.2 million will be used toward start-up and administrative costs.
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Call me unspiritual. But if I tried, I might find a way to start this column in a dull way, especially if you’re (here comes the clichéd gluttony joke) hung over from turkey.
How? By quoting a Bible paragraph or verse, instead of saying something “new.”
This principle might also prove true — especially apart from God’s grace — if you had an hour of reading time before bed, and two books on a table. One is a speculative novel, new and shiny, with a fun cover, fascinating back-cover text, and crisp white pages. The other book is the Bible. The challenge: which would you be inclined to pick up first?
If you’re like me, you’d think to reach for the novel.
Already caught a Devotion this morning. Already know whatever I would read in the Bible. Most of us will shut down such thoughts. But even to have them at all is embarrassing!
I don’t say this to give blame, or an I’ve-beat-this-and-you-can-too sentiment, or put-on humility meant to drag us all down (ohhh, I’m such a sinner and so are you!). Rather, I’m admitting a struggle common to Christians. And this should, I hope, encourage us — for apart from Christ, we wouldn’t even struggle with reading His Word!
Yes, “Bible fog” seems to be a phenomenon unique to Christians. It’s also encouraging because this struggle could be secondary evidence that this Book, apart from any other, is the very Word of God. Why else would our flesh, and/or the Devil, resist it so much?
Nonfiction books, biographies, documentaries, and (true!) sermon tropes reference the countless ways in which the flesh and the Devil have tried to extinguish God’s Word. Usually they ignore it. When that doesn’t work, they make mockery (witness the recent attempts by some to shut up a certain public-God-praising football player). Lest that prove their laughable level of discomfort, they revert to ignoring, or else more-subtle modes of intolerance of the Bible: prosecuting public Biblical references, or sometimes (as in before the Reformation) keeping it from being translated into common languages.
Some folks, of course, ban or burn the Bible. Given the level of hatred toward this book far beyond Christians’ struggles to dig deep into it, it’s really quite amazing that we have so many copies of original texts — more than copies of, say, Homer’s works, I’ve read.
It also seems amazing that we need fight to maintain our fascination with God’s Story.
Even more amazing could be to doubt that the Word, after surviving hundreds of years of hatred and persecution and ignorance on our old Earth, would not last into the New.
The everlasting Story
In this series, I’ve tried to lay a Scriptural foundation for why various things, done for God’s glory, may last into the After-world — the physical, sin-purged, made-new New Heavens and New Earth. Much of this is founded on promises God has made, such as to preserve Israel’s homeland, and to bring Heaven to this Earth-made-new (and not to annihilate Earth to replace with a completely new creation; see last week’s column).
Other parts of this discussion are speculation. And that will likely include next week’s exploration of why manmade stories, of today, could last into the eternal world.
Yet the truth of Scripture’s eternality should, I think, be beyond doubt or questioning.
Forever, O LORD, your word
is firmly fixed in the heavens.
Your faithfulness endures to all generations;
you have established the earth, and it stands fast.
A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the LORD blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40: 6-8
[Jesus speaking] “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”
That alone would establish the case: God’s Word will last beyond this old Earth. If kings, despots, heretics, and other villains couldn’t purge the planet of His Word, then His own exposing and refining fire (2 Peter 3:10) cannot include wiping out His own Word.
Secondary support for the Bible’s everlasting existence comes from the Book’s own direct prophecies about the New Earth. As discussed last week, the New Earth will come after the present-day afterlife. Even Heaven will be made new along with “the creation itself” that had been groaning with “we ourselves” (Romans 8), when at long last “the dwelling of God is with man” (Rev. 21:3)! The New Earth will be a physical world, with physical people in physical resurrected bodies (2 Cor. 5). We will recall our former lives (Rev. 6: 9-11 — martyrs even knew they had been murdered and longed for God’s justice). We’ll see Christ clearly, a far better perspective of reality, not as “in a mirror dimly, but then face to face … fully, even as I have been fully known” (1 Cor. 13:12).
Physical resurrected beings in a physical resurrected world, with memories of our past lives along with far greater perspective as we see Christ face to face. … How could we not also want His perfect written revelation through which we first came to know Him?
“I’ve always thought that we wouldn’t need the Bible anymore in eternity, that the faith being made sight would remove all need for it,” reader Paul Lee said last week. “But the idea of reading the Scripture in eternity is intriguing in a way… the use of the text would have changed. It would be a record, a testament, to the salvation of God in the past.”
Amen. And the word testament is a giveaway, I think, to the fact that we already know a little about what that would be like! We have the Old Testament, a book of incredible mysteries for previous readers, and still many mysteries today — but less than before.
- Where once readers heard Isaiah’s and others prophets’ words about a Savior, who was both a conquering King and a suffering servant, and confused the two comings — with Christ’s arrival, we know a little bit more about the difference.
- Where once we might wonder why God created an institution like marriage, Paul claims that all along it had been patterned on Christ and His Church (Eph. 5:32).
- Once no one knew the amazing Story God had waiting. Now He has shown it:
But, as it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,
nor the heart of man imagined,
what God has prepared for those who love him”—
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
If even on this old Earth, without resurrected minds and with less perspective, we can glory in the mysteries of the Old Testament that God has shown to us, imagine the even greater wonder of looking back on both Testaments as the epic record of God’s Story.
Worship in the Word
Knowing all this about the coming After-world, anticipating it, studying it, trying to balance between taking God’s promises at face value and not speculating beyond that — all this forges even greater faith in the truth, and the wonder, of God’s everlasting Story.
Especially on this day of thankfulness to the God of truth and beauty, I almost want to break out — like the apostle Paul right in the middle of deep theologizing (Rom 11: 33-36) — in praise and worship. This would attend our wonder at how Scripture will seem to us on the New Earth. It may also increase our awe at His incredible Word, awe that echoes backward from that made-new world of clarity and wonder — back in time, and into our old-and-groaning world of dim murkiness, boredom, and “Bible fog.”
It seems cliché to say “the Bible is not just a textbook, it’s a story.” That “rebuttal,” to something few claim to believe, itself needs some rebutting. Scripture does give us facts, theology, history, law. And some Bible-is-really-a-story folks may actually tell the wrong story. Yet how often do the heresies and false teachings and our own sin-struggles make us use the Book, maybe not like a “textbook,” but like a personal-repair manual?
Conversely, how many times do we go through this angsty little dance: I don’t want to read it because I don’t feeling like I want to, and I know I should, and I really should feel in advance that this is God’s perfect Word and He has something to say to me through it, so I ought to be grateful and overflowing with thanks, just like in church — so why don’t I?
Just now I realized what else that sounds like: writers’ block. Writers among my readers may identify. Yes, sometimes you need to leave the desk and eat, get some sleep or some coffee, and come back for another try. And sometimes you need to write anyway. Belay the distractions and other don’t-want-to excuses. Belay the don’t-feel-like-its. Yes, you do feel like it. Deep down you do. Otherwise you wouldn’t hate the struggle.
With Scripture, the solutions might be similar. But there may be one added factor that doesn’t get discussed often: that perhaps we over-complicate reading Scripture.
Make no mistake. There’s definitely a time for word studies, journaling, and going deep.
Yet there’s also a time just to read the Story. To pray that God’s Spirit will remove the mental fog and make what’s on the pages come alive. Read it all the way through, and pick up on details later, after we’re reviewing, and living, the Story of stories.
Something I’ve been doing recently is reading aloud. Acting it out. This imagination is good for something! My wife and I have been reading Ezekiel. And hearing God’s words, repetitions, warnings, and scary wrath, not just silently but out loud — the emotions arrive naturally. On Tuesday night I was almost shivering as I finished Ezekiel 5-6.
Very strange how pretending can sometimes make reality seem even more real.
Yet my guess is that on the New Earth, acting it out won’t even be necessary. What would it be like to read the Word itself with the Word Himself (John 1:1)? What would the risen and reigning Christ sound like during, say, a public reading? What translation would He use? (Ooooh!) Which truths would He clarify? Which might He save for later?
These are only a few of many thoughts and wonderings. I wish I had time for even more about the Story we’ll enjoy forever, and for which I wish to be thankful today.
Next: other stories. How does God’s everlasting Story hint those may also last?

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By Alastair Lawson
A Muslim Bangladeshi student is to be honoured by the mayor of New York on Wednesday for helping three Jewish people who were being beaten up.
Hassan Askari has been described as a "latter-day Good Samaritan" for coming to the aid of the three, who were attacked earlier this month.
A gang yelling anti-Semitic slogans had assaulted them on the city's subway.
His intervention left him with a possible broken nose, a stitched lip, bruises and two black eyes.
But it was sufficient for the attackers to turn their attention on him and allow one of those who was being attacked to raise the alarm and call the police.
"I was brought up to believe that you cannot walk away from an incident like this," he told the BBC.
Mr Askari (second from left) has been honoured across New York
"I felt I could not just stand there and watch these people being beaten up without doing anything to help.
"I believe we are all members of one family, and my religion teaches me always to come to the aid of my fellow man in distress."
The slightly-built accountancy student - who comes from an aristocratic Bengali family - was travelling from home on 9 December when he saw the attack take place on a crowded train.
Mr Askari has three forefathers who were knighted by British monarchs during the days of the Raj and is a member of the Dhaka Nawab family, an important political dynasty in the Indian subcontinent.
Around 10 people were attacking the three Jews after an argument had broken out.
"As the quarrel turned progressively more violent, scores of people on the train ignored the fight and didn't want to have anything to do with it," said Marc Scheier, a rabbi from the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, who presented Mr Askari with a bravery award earlier this month.
Mr Askari's family were knighted by British monarchs
"Mr Askari - like the Good Samaritan - was the only person brave enough to intervene.
"The symbolism of his action at Christmas time is striking - a foreign Muslim coming to the aid of three Jews in an act of kindness and cooperation.
"People often forget that Judaism and Islam aren't so far apart as the radicals from both sides would have us believe. We are both Abrahamic religions and in many respects share a common faith."
Mr Askari said that he was "overwhelmed" by the publicity his actions have generated, and "embarrassed" that the American press have labelled him a "hero of the city".
"I have friends who are Jews, Christians and Buddhists and would have acted in the same way if they were victims of an unprovoked attack," he said.
The student has been hailed a hero by the New York press
Rabbi Scheier said that he could tell from injuries sustained by one of the three victims that it was a "brutal and extremely violent" attack which would have required "immense courage" from Mr Askari to get involved in.
"He is such a humble and modest man blessed with the most extraordinary bravery," he said.
Ten people have been arrested in connection with the attack and three of them have appeared in court charged with assault and disorderly conduct.
Mr Askari is due to be presented with a medal on Wednesday that will be handed to him either by or on behalf of the Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg.
The student - whose mother, father and younger brother live in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka - says that his long term aim is to return to his beloved home country where he grew up as a child.
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Which firms snagged top spots for gross revenue, profits per lawyer and equity partner?
Image from Shutterstock.
Fifty law firms had gross revenue of $1 billion or more in 2022, including 18 firms with more than $2 billion in gross revenue, according to the latest rankings published by Law.com.
Overall, the nation’s 100 highest-grossing firms increased revenue by 2.7% in 2022. But increased head count and lower demand led to an overall decrease in revenue per lawyer of 2.6%. Profits per equity partner also decreased, with a 3.7% decline.
The top five firms for gross revenue did not change from 2021, according to Law.com. They are:
- • Kirkland & Ellis ($6.51 billion in gross revenue)
- • Latham & Watkins ($5.32 billion)
- • DLA Piper ($3.68 billion)
- • Baker McKenzie ($3.3 billion)
- • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom ($3.02 billion)
The top three firms for revenue per lawyer are:
- • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ($3.54 million)
- • Sullivan & Cromwell ($2.14 million)
- • Cravath, Swaine & Moore ($1.96 million)
The top three firms for profits per equity partner are:
- • Kirkland & Ellis ($7.51 million in profits per equity partner)
- • Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ($7.29 million)
- • Sullivan & Cromwell ($5.98 million)

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Be submitted five new games.
Bandai Namco would be preparing an event in Japan for December 15, in which would be presented five new titles. Nintendo consoles have great presence this presentation.
The rumor part of a message on Twitter Marcus Sellars, editor-in-several media dedicated to Nintendo.
Bandai Namco will be hosting an event on December the 15th. 5 unannounced games will be shown off during the event. Nintendo will have a big presence at the event.— Marcus Sellars (@Marcus_Sellars) November 28, 2017
Although Sellars does not mention any series in particular, one of these titles could be Soul Calibur VI. The return of the saga of struggle has been rumored to be in the last days and could be presented next week at The Game Awards. The information indicated that it would come to PlayStation 4, Switch and PC, and that one of the characters invited-for the console of Nintendo – is a character from Fire Emblem.
November 29, 2017
- ← In the local Apple developed free sessions “Hour of Code” in December
- Bungie admits that Destiny 2 doesn’t engage the players more dedicated →

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The most concerning complications with buttocks implants include a)infection and extrusion; b)malpositioning
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Of course you should do your research on a surgeon. Be sure to go to a surgeon who specializes in buttock implants and has extensive experience in doing this procedure. Pictures are important as well. If the surgeon does this procedure regularly, everything will be ok. Enjoy!
In short, a combination of sculpting your waistline with liposuction and augmenting your buttock with implants provides the best chance for a long lasting "hour-glass" figure. Please read on for more surgical details:
Regarding buttock/hip augmentation surgery, let me start off by saying that I currently see at least 2 - 3 patients, domestic and international, per week that failed "brazilian buttock lift" (i.e. the fat melted away after 10 - 12+ months) and are now seeking a more reliable and permanent option (i.e. buttock and/or hip implants).
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Indeed because at least 80+ % of the fat transferred will melt away within a year, most patients are not good candidates because they lack an adequate amount of fat to harvest. Another tip is that if you purposely gain weight (i.e. fat) for the procedure, the fat you lose first as you get back to your baseline weight is that very same fat that was transferred into your buttock...so don't fall victim to this recommendation. Even those patients that had adequate amounts of fat pre-operatively, still end up seeking buttock implants after a year or so because most of the fat transferred melted away leaving them with minimal result.
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How Safe are Gluteal Implants?
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Since then (and hundreds of buttock implants later), I can tell you that, overall, it is a reliable, safe, and predictable procedure. It must be performed by a board certified plastic surgeon who has experience with the procedure. The placement must be intramuscular (within the gluteus maximus muscle, or between it and the gluteus minimus). This is key, because it surrounds the entire implant with thick, well vascularized muscle. This creates a more natural look and feel, but also stabilizes the implant. It will not break through this muscular covering and change position. It also decreases the possibility of an infection because, with the implant surrounded completely by muscle, there is less chance fluid or blood can accumulate around the implant creating conditions that favor the growth of bacteria.
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Does anyone outside of Wisconsin know what the term “Up North” means?* To me, Up North is the northern third of Wisconsin where residents of the lower two thirds go to fish, hike, boat, hunt, and water ski. The city of Wausau is not far enough north to be Up North, but Minocqua is the heart of Up North – so the demarcation line must be somewhere in between.
My cousin Tom owns a small-cabin-on-the-lake resort Up North, and Manyu and I stayed there last week. Because the value of waterfront property has skyrocketed, most of these mom and pop resorts have been sold, razed, and replaced by either high end resort hotels or private second homes. Tom and his wife are in their late 60s, so I’m not sure how much longer their relic will survive.
Nothing significant has happened on this trip, which somewhat is the point of such trips. Clare came up for a few days before she starts a new job in Madison. There has been a moose sighting in the area, the first in over a decade, but I haven’t seen it. On Tuesday, Manyu, Clare, and I drove over to the UP (pronounced you-pee) to see my sister’s and her husband’s new second home. Paul, my brother-in-law, said the neighbors have already welcomed them in, as the assumption is that they have to be friendlier than the previous owners. UP stands for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In my mind, “Up North” has always meant Wisconsin and “the UP” has always meant Michigan, but in terms of forests, lakes, and trout streams, the two are indistinguishable.
I fished at least a few hours every day during the trip. Manyu came with me a couple of times, which is something we haven’t done together for years. We noticed that the panfish out of Tom’s lake have more of the small black parasites than the bluegills at home on the Mississippi River. The free-floating larval stage of these parasites do not do well in moving water, and that may be the difference. While the parasites are harmless to humans, Manyu asked that I not bring fish back to the cabin to eat.
One of my favorite restaurants anywhere is a place not far from Tom’s resort called Jacobi’s. Before we left La Crosse, Manyu and I debated whether we were ready to dine in a public setting. We have not eaten indoors at a restaurant since the start of the pandemic. I was leaning toward going to Jacobi’s, Manyu was not, and we’d not made up our minds before driving up. The decision was made for us, as Jacobi’s closed during COVID and has yet to reopen. The pandemic, combined with new immigration policies that prevent businesses from hiring international college students as summer staff, has been a hardship for tourism everywhere, but especially Up North.
*A friend informed me that Minnesotans also says “Up North,” although they also say “To the cabin” and “To the lake.” When I lived in Minneapolis, my friends usually went to the Boundary Waters, so they said they were going to the Boundary Waters.


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The heart of the telescope is a satellite finder and a universal satellite television LNB. The block diagram of the telescope is shown in Fig. 10.1. The aims of the project are the following: • To learn the basics of microwave radio receivers. • To gain experience building real systems. • To gain experience using a radio telescope. Required Parts The Dish The dish can be any surplus or how to make it in film Block diagram of the radio telescope setup. Credit: Pranshu Mandal et al., 2016. The antenna has a 68 cm parabolic dish reflector and a low noise block (LNB).
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CHANCELLOR Of The Exchequer George Osborne has revealed the Government is considering whether to quash Halton bridge tolls for Warrington and Cheshire West motorists.
Mr Osborne visited excavation works for the Mersey Gateway today with Conservative parliamentary candidate for Weaver Vale Graham Evans.
The site was accessed from Wigg Island in Runcorn and work so far has involved a trestle bridge being constructed across the Mersey with diggers and cranes being used.
Although the bridge has was made free to Halton residents in an announcement last year, businesses in the borough are still set to pay some form of tolling to access both the new bridge and the existing Silver Jubilee Bridge from 2017.
Though Mr Osborne said there will be a ‘special scheme’ to help small businesses in Runcorn and Widnes, he added that if firms paid nothing then taxpayers could pick up a higher bill.
He said: “If the businesses paid nothing at all, then the taxpayers here would have to pay more and so I’m not sure that would be fair.
“There will be special help for smaller businesses and you’ve got to get the burden right.
“We have got a special scheme for small businesses to help with people who have got vans and the like, so we help the small businesses and I think that’s the right balance.
“The estimates are that actually there’ll be more and more businesses coming to this area because they won’t pay that silent tax, that hidden tax, of congestion.
“They won’t have in other words their lorries and vans and so on stuck in traffic.”
It is set to cost £90 to buy an unlimited travel pass to cross either bridge at any time of the day.
Mr Osborne also said that the Conservatives are also ‘looking now at whether we can relieve the tolls and cancel the tolls’ for residents in both Cheshire West And Chester and Warrington.
He added: “We’ve got to get the balance right because I don’t want North West taxpayers to pick up a higher bill and so I think it’s fair to look at this area which includes Chester, which includes Warrington, as clearly you might get additional traffic through the middle of Warrington.
“Of course if you’re still travelling long distance you’d help pay towards the construction of this so we don’t burden the local taxpayers but we have a bit of a wider group of local residents in places like Warrington and Chester who can get across the bridge for free.
“I think you’ve got the balance right by extending the scheme to residents in Cheshire, Cheshire West And Chester and in Warrington.
“If you made the bridge completely free, then everyone would have to pay for it in their tax bill and I don’t think that’s fair.”
The Chancellor also said that the Mersey Gateway Bridge is an ‘integral part’ of the Northern Powerhouse and added that the £600m project will bring more than 4,000 jobs to the area.
He said: “People remember the congestion, they can see it for themselves every morning when they are trying to get across the Jubilee Bridge, as I know, having been stuck in that traffic many times.
“That made it an area where people thought well maybe this isn’t the location for my business and we’re changing all that.
“It’s very exciting to see. This is exactly what we want to see more of in the North and that’s why its such an integral part of the Northern Powerhouse.”


The FIA and Formula 1 are expected to introduce a new power unit formula for the 2026 season, which is likely to focus on sustainable fuels and energy recovery systems. The new engines will continue with the current 1.6-litre V6 hybrid power unit architecture but with a greater emphasis on sustainable fuels. The biggest change will come in the form of a significant power reduction.
From 2026, the new F1 power unit will emit under 500bhp, a sharp fall from the 1,000bhp units powering the current generation of F1 cars. Conversely, the electric motor will increase in power, but its use per lap will be limited to just 11 seconds.
The new regulations are also expected to place greater emphasis on cost control, with the aim of reducing the financial burden on teams and promoting greater parity between teams.
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Persona 5 dungeons, also known as palaces, are simply breath-taking.
A quick post on Persona 5 dungeons. The first of which I completed two nights ago.
But before that, allow me to present a trip down memory’s lane.
Historical Persona and Shin Megami Tensei Dungeons
This is what comes to mind whenever I think of the word “dungeon.” Featureless, repetitive tunnels supposedly representing entire castles or towns. Or massive labyrinths you can’t move two squares down without triggering an encounter.
It feels only yesterday that I was doing my best imagining I was adventuring in post-apocalyptic Shinjuku. All I had before me were black lines and flat colours. But you know what, it was still exhilarating despite the simplicity.
Shin Megami Tensei I remains one of the best JRPGs I’ve ever played.
The first Persona game was released for the PlayStation 1 thereabout four years after SMT 1. There were loads of gameplay and graphics improvements, obviously, and dotted here and there were unique looking rooms.
But with that also came loading issues. Every encounter brought on a loading screen, which became truly unbearable before long. In spite of that, I still completed the game. I also deeply enjoyed the macabre story. (So many Marys!!!)
Persona 3 and 4 substantially upped the standards, as you can see from above. Everything was essentially still a maze, but there was no longer such a heavy labyrinth feeling everywhere.
Between 2008 and now, Atlus also went into hand-held console craze. It released a flurry of titles, both remakes and new ones, for the PSP, DS and 3DS.
Again, there were many improvements but even with Shin Megami Tensei IV and Apocalypse, there was still that retro dungeon feeling. I remember several reviews declaring these titles to be homages to the retro dungeon crawling era. Not all of these reviews were positive.
Persona 5 Dungeons i.e. Palaces
Jump forward to 2017, and we now have:
For the first time ever since 1996, I am NOT getting that repetitive labyrinth feeling! There are still lots of corridors in the dungeons, especially in Mementos, but all are intersected with enough variety of background or quirky dialogue to remove dungeon crawling tedium.
Perhaps I’m imagining things, but the Persona 5 dungeons also feel smaller and easier to clear. Unlike what I anticipated earlier, the lack of a save-whenever-you-want function turned out not to matter that much tpp. You would never be stuck in a dreary situation you can’t get out of.
A Maudlin Conclusion
Writing this post gets me emotional, almost on the verge of tears. How much has gaming improved! How fast time flies too!
Have I really been playing Shin Megami Tensei and Persona for over twenty years? Wasn’t it only yesterday that I shivered after my first “step” into underground Tokyo? (And made that solemn promise to one day get lost in the actual labyrinths of Shinjuku?)
And what’s down the road? How would SMT V or P6, P7 be?
Seems like there are indeed things to look forward to in life. Small things. Perhaps unimportant and irrelevant to many too. But these are what prevent us from slipping into shadowy gloom.
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My Generation is a drama television series that premiered on ABC in 2010 and ran for one season with twelve episodes. The show was created by Noah Hawley and executive produced by Hawley and Warren Littlefield. The series was centered around a group of high school students who were filmed for a documentary in the year 2000 and then revisited after ten years to see how their lives had changed.
The main character of the show is Steven Foster, played by Julian Morris. Steven was the popular kid in high school and the captain of the football team. He was also in a relationship with his high school girlfriend, Jackie Vachs, played by Jaime King. We see Steven ten years later finding it hard to move on from his high school days, as he is still trying to live in the past. Jackie, on the other hand, has moved on and is now successful and married.
The other characters in the show are Kenneth Finley, played by Keir O'Donnell, who was the class clown in high school and is now a struggling journalist. He is trying to prove himself in the industry while dealing with personal issues. Dawn Barbuso, played by Daniella Alonso, was the wallflower in high school who had a crush on one of her classmates. She is now successful and working as a bond trader, but is still haunted by her high school past. Brenda Serrano, played by Ana Villafañe, was the overachiever in high school and is now a successful lawyer. She is constantly battling with her personal and professional life. Anders Holt, played by Michael Stahl-David, was the loner in high school who later became successful and wealthy due to his tech company. He is still somewhat of an outsider and has trouble connecting with people.
The show is unique in its filming style, as it incorporates actual footage from the year 2000 documentary that was filmed. The show starts off with Steven narrating the events of the year 2000 as the viewer sees footage of the students from that time. The story then jumps to ten years later and we see how the students have changed. The characters constantly refer back to the footage, which adds an interesting layer to the show.
The show deals with themes such as nostalgia, regret, unfulfilled dreams, and the pressure of living up to the expectations set in high school. Steven's character is a prime example of this as he struggles to let go of his high school days and move on. Brenda's character also deals with the pressure of being successful and the high expectations she has set for herself.
My Generation was met with mixed reviews and was ultimately canceled after one season due to low ratings. However, the show did have a small but dedicated cult following. The show was praised for its unique format and interesting characters, but criticized for its uneven tone and plotlines.
Daniella Alonso's portrayal of Dawn Barbuso was a standout in the series. Her character had a fascinating arc as she went from being a wallflower in high school to a successful bond trader in the present day. Alonso portrayed the character's inner turmoil and struggles with authenticity and nuance.
In conclusion, My Generation was a short-lived but interesting series that tackled themes of nostalgia, regret, and unfulfilled dreams. The show's unique format incorporating actual footage from the year 2000 documentary added an interesting layer to the show. Despite being canceled after one season, the show did have a small but dedicated cult following. Daniella Alonso's portrayal of Dawn Barbuso was a standout in the series.
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The author of Listen, Whitey! The sights & sounds of Black Power 1965-1975 now chronicles the 1960's and '70's through they eyes of Yippie Jerry Rubin Did It! From Yippie to Yuppie: Jerry Rubin, an American Revolutionary is an oversized oral & visual history of the infamous and ubiquitous Rubin – the first ever biography of the co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War radical, Chicago 8 defendant, New Age/Self Help proponent, and social-networking pioneer. After a surfeit of books about Abbie Hoffman, here’s the first ever biography of his Yippie running mate Jerry Rubin! Based upon over 75 original interviews with his co-conspirators, friends and foes, this book not only explores the life and times of Rubin, but the generation that consisted of idealistic firebrands in the 1960s, segued into the Me generation in the 1970s, and became full blown capitalists engaged in the 1980s. Those interviewed include fellow Chicago 8 Defendants, participants in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement; Paul Krassner, Judy Gumbo, Nancy Kurshan, John & Leni Sinclair, Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis, Lee Weiner, Country Joe McDonald and dozens more reveal, in their own words, vibrant stories of the era. Often left out in histories of the radical sixties, twenty women speak out in their own voice! Also chronicled is the 1970’s New Age Movement with commentary from Stella Resnick, Werner Erhard, Mimi Leonard and others. Bizarre interactions with luminaries including Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, and John Lennon are described via interviews and diaries (found in Rubin’s personal archives and published here for the first time) along with photographs and correspondence with Norman Mailer, Eldridge Cleaver, Mayor Daley and the Weathermen. Also explored is the oft-misunderstood relationship between Rubin and his partner-in-crime Abbie Hoffman with controversial insights into their Yippie vs. Yuppie debates.
This overstuffed coffee table book is not only the first biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubin?co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War activist, Chicago 8 defendant, social-networking pioneer, and a proponent of the Yuppie era?but a visual retrospective, with countless candid photos, personal diaries, and lost newspaper clippings. It includes correspondence with Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Eldridge Cleaver, the Weathermen, and interviews with more than 75 of Rubin?s friends, foes, and comrades. It reveals Rubins' and the Yippies? historical-and-bizarre personal interactions with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger, and other iconic figures of the era.
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‘I remember looking at myself in the mirror and hearing a voice say: You’re worthless. End it.’ – Matty Mullins
When talking about anxiety and suicidal thoughts, Matty Mullins doesn’t mince words.
Yet despite these gifts, Matty Mullins was hit with a supernatural reminder that fear, panic, and chronic depression can humble even the most steadfast of believers.
I’ve had the chance to get to know Matty Mullins over a series of interviews, Warped Tour hangouts, and club shows. He has a gentle laugh and a huge heart.
It was my pleasure to welcome him as my guest on the very first episode of No-Prize From God, a podcast that features conversations with creative people about belief, unbelief, and everything between. Matty’s mom sat beside him at his Nashville home studio as he and I talked about childhood, high school, discovering heavy music, marriage, and our shared history of panic attacks, anxiety, and chronic depression.
He told me about his first panic attack. We talked about God, the Devil, antidepressants, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) psychotherapy.
Music with a message.
As frontman for one of the premiere bands in the modern metalcore genre and as a newly emerging pop rock solo artist in Christian Contemporary Music, Matty encourages crowds with a mixture of relatable, personal confessions and positivity. Memphis May Fire’s 2014 album, Unconditional, debuted at Number 4 on the Billboard 200. Its follow-up, This Light I Hold, broke through at commercial rock radio.
Mullins honors his gift by offering fellowship and cathartic expression to a diverse audience with his abrasive and loud metalcore band while pouring equal passion into the more stunningly spirit-filled anthems of a different sort that color his solo work. His second solo album, Unstoppable, was released by BEC Recordings last year.
What follows are some excerpts from our podcast discussion. You can listen to the entire thing HERE. Subscribe to No-Prize From God to hear honest and agenda-free conversations with guests like Jesse Leach (Killswitch Engage), Tim McTague (Underoath), Ryan Clark (Demon Hunter), Ihsahn (Emperor), Karyn Crisis (Gospel of the Witches), Max Cavalera (Soulfly), Sister Kate (the “weed nuns”), and more.
‘I felt like I was going to die.’
MATTY MULLINS: So this is how it all started. I flew to Orlando on a day off [from tour] to track a guest vocal for a Sleeping With Sirens record, for the song “Congratulations.”[Flying] always made me kind of nervous. But never had it caused full-on panic or anything. I flew like a 737 to Orlando but on the way back, I actually made a joke about [the plane, which] was so small that they didn’t have one of those things that you walk down to get on it. You actually had to go outside of the airport to walk up the stairs. I took a little video of the airplane and I sent it to my boys, ‘Hey guys, pray for me! I’m about to get on this pea shooter.’
It was like a ten or 12 seater, a tiny little prop plane. We took off and this insane storm was in the sky. I can’t even believe that planes were allowed to fly during it that day.
‘Lord, save us!’
MATTY MULLINS: It started out with some pretty bad turbulence. I got kind of nervous. Then the plane was violently thrown from left to right. It felt like there was no possible way that the pilots could have control. The flight attendant was holding on, screaming, ‘Lord, save us!’
It’s so hard to explain. It was such an intense moment. It was the first time in my life I ever had felt like I was going to die. It’s something I’d never experienced in my entire life, that feeling of being in fight or flight, where your body is basically preparing to die. It was this crazy feeling. 30 minutes later, the plane lands, but my body won’t let me get out of that moment.
I’m still in that moment, 30,000 feet up being thrown around thinking I’m going to die. I walked off the runway thinking, ‘what’s up with my body? Am I dizzy? Something’s wrong.’ I felt like I was going to pass out. I thought that landing would give me so much relief, but it didn’t; I felt anxious for the next couple of days, like I’d never gotten off the plane.
‘Suicide? I was just eating soup 20 minutes ago!’
MATTY MULLINS: A few days later, I woke up, had a cup of potato soup, and was watching TV in the front lounge of the bus. All of a sudden, I was certain that we were going to die.
It felt like a plane was about to crash through the window of the bus. It was like my body was saying, ‘Get out of the situation you’re in right now, you’re about to die.’ I got up and looked around at everyone. ‘Is everyone OK?’ Everyone was just watching TV like, ‘Yeah, what’s wrong with you?’ And I was like, ‘something really bad is happening! Something really bad is about to happen.’
My heart was racing. It came out of nowhere. I went into the venue’s bathroom to try to gather myself. I remember looking at myself [in the mirror] and hearing a voice say, ‘you’re worthless. End it.’ I was like, ‘Whoa.’ I had heard so much my whole life about demon possession, spiritual warfare. ‘I’m thinking about committing suicide? I was just eating soup 20 minutes ago!’ I had no idea what was going on.
‘Take me to the hospital.’
MATTY MULLINS: I come out of the bathroom and I start to think I’m having a full-on heart attack. So Cory [Elder], my bass player, he’s such a gentle giant. He wraps his arms around me. He’s like, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘Take me to the hospital.’ So the runner takes me to the hospital. Right as we get into the door of the hospital and the doctor comes up to greet me, all of those feelings flush away. My body starts to tingle and it starts to leave.
The doctor is like, ‘Listen. You had a panic attack.’ ‘Why would I have a panic attack? I’m fine. I’m not the kind of person that has panic attacks. I get onstage in front of a couple thousand people. I don’t have stage fright. I’m not the person that happens to.’
Having been so uneducated on anxiety and depression I had no idea why it would affect me. The doctor gave me a bottle of Xanax and I went back to the bus and took one. I think it was a really small dosage because I didn’t feel any different.
I was so terrified of that feeling [returning]. It was all I could think about. I would wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat, wondering what was going on.
‘Am I losing my mind?’
MATTY MULLINS: Every morning when I woke up all I could think about was, ‘Am I going to randomly lose my mind and kill myself? Am I going to die of a heart attack?’
I was consumed by fear for the first time in my life. I had all of these feelings and I had no idea where they were coming from.
Cory would take me on walks to try to get my mind off of it. But that gut-wrenching feeling… It’s almost like someone just told you that your mom or dad died. It’s like that feeling you get when someone gives you that news, but it never went away. I’m talking two years of that. I just kept trying to figure it out.
‘Can you overnight it?’
MATTY MULLINS: I was living in Seattle where there’s a massive homeless population and [many of them are] mentally ill. These guys would be walking around downtown punching themselves in the head; I’d look at them and I’d think, ‘That’s what I’m on my way to. I’m losing my mind because I can’t control my own thoughts or emotions. I always feel like I’m going to die.’ It was terrible.
One night this commercial came on. ‘Are you living with anxiety? Order our CD set. We believe that you can rid of it.’ Sign me up! I was like, ‘Can you overnight it?’ I went on long drives listening to the CDs.
It was people talking about what it’s like to have a panic attack, to feel anxious and to have anxiety day to day. ‘Sometimes I’ll think about killing my daughter.’ Just these absurd terrible thoughts that you would never think about that would never cross your mind. ‘Sometimes I think about my heart stopping.’ ‘I’m standing on a rooftop, I should be enjoying the view, I’m not a suicidal person, but all I can think about is jumping off.’
When somebody else would talk about these thoughts that were going through my head it would bring me relief, because I started to feel like I wasn’t alone.
‘I was thinking about the ceiling collapsing.’
MATY MULLINS: When I went to City Church, I felt so much relief from Judah [Smith]’s preaching because I felt so comforted by it. But at the same time, in my head, I was thinking about the ceiling collapsing. That’s where my brain was taking me. I was trying to enjoy the sermons but all I could think about was the worst possible thing that could happen.
That’s what anxiety does to you. If you get a little bit of a headache – ‘Oh, I’m having a brain aneurism.’ Or if your heart skips a beat, a normal heart palpitation. ‘That’s it! I’ve got to go to the doctor. I’m having a heart attack!’
The depression got to the point where if I had one negative thought I would spiral into this deep dark place that I couldn’t get out of for days. You hear people talk about that stuff but unless you experience it you really have no idea what it’s like. If you don’t know where it’s coming from exactly and you can’t pinpoint it, then you’re just living in this terrible spot without any way to get out. It’s awful.
‘I could see this dark, demonic figure standing over my body.’
MATTY MULLINS: When we were in the studio working on Unconditional, that was one of the darkest times. I was living in a hotel by myself in Phoenix while we were doing the record. I would be at the studio all day exhausted because when I got back to the hotel I would lay in bed shaking. I’d wake up in the middle of the night and I felt like I could see this dark, demonic figure standing over my body.
I wrote about anxiety and depression, but I also wrote about this newfound hope that I was finding in my relationship with Jesus.
‘God’s not causing these things to happen in your life, Matthew. He’s allowing it to happen so that you can grow closer to Him than ever before.’ I trusted in God in those moments.
‘I was angry with God.’
MATTY MULLINS: [But] I was angry with God because I was like, ‘I know that you can take this away. Why are you allowing it to happen?’
I believe now, looking back on it, the answer was because so many other people deal with it and He was saying, ‘Matthew, I’m going to use you to bring comfort to people who are going through it. I’m going to use you to influence people that are struggling with this, to be a beacon of hope for people that feel like there’s no hope.’
‘And also as an opportunity for you to feel so hopeless that you reach out for me in a whole new way so that I can show you how incredible it is to have a one-on-one genuine relationship with me, your Creator.’
My whole life, my dad was really against [psychiatric] medication. His idea was, ‘If you pray about it, God will handle it.’ He was very old school. So I was always scared to take medication for anxiety or depression.
‘I knew I had to do something.’
MATTY MULLINS: My sister, [Amy Alexander], is a therapist. She’s incredible. She has this amazing counseling center in Franklin, Tennessee. I would call her everyday and she would take time away from work to do these relaxation techniques with me to try to get me in a better space before I went in and recorded. She was like, ‘Matthew, I want you to realize that it’s okay to take medication to kind of level yourself out while you’re working through all these issues.’
I [knew] I had to do something because everything I’d done so far wasn’t taking it away completely. She wanted me to get on Zoloft for a year. It’s for depression and it also helps with anxiety [but] I was scared of it. I met with this lady that works at Refuge, Amy’s counseling center, to talk about the medication, what it can do for you, some of the side effects.
‘I started to feel like a normal person.’
MATTY MULLINS: She said it would take a few weeks to kick in. I took it with me to Phoenix and I swear, it was [only] two days before I started to feel like a normal person.
I could feel the warmth of the sun. When you’re in those bouts of depression and anxiety, nothing that brought you joy can ever bring you joy anymore. You’re completely hopeless even when things that are full of hope surround you. You feel so empty and so hopeless inside. I knew the medication had started working when I started to feel there was some kind of joy peeking through the crack in the door. It really did feel like it balanced me out.
I [could more easily] do the work to overcome anxiety and learn about it. [Zoloft] never made me feel overly happy or ‘high’ or anything like that. It made me feel like a normal person. I think that’s exactly what that medication is for; at the one-year mark, I called the lady that prescribed it to me and told her I knew I didn’t need it anymore. I tossed the bottle. I’m so thankful for medication in that season of my life.
MATTY MULLINS: While I was on the medication I did this therapy called EMDR, which was developed for soldiers with PTSD.
Basically you hold these buzzers in your hand that go left and right. You look at a dot on a screen that goes left and right. What you’re trying to do is recreate rapid bilateral eye movement that happens while you’re asleep at night. When you’re sleeping at night, that physical motion is moving situations that have happened from your frontal lobe – where you experience and feel things – to a different part of your brain where you can remember them [without having to] feel the feelings that are associated with them on a daily basis.
I went back to that flight which was my first experience with panic and anxiety. I talked about being in that moment while I was using these buzzers to try to move that memory to another part of my head.
‘Therapy is for everybody.’
MATTY MULLINS: I know it sounds weird, right? But I swear, I can think about that flight now and my palms don’t get sweaty any more. It’s like a miracle.
I can think about painful memories – traumatic family experiences and stuff from when I was really young — that I have worked through in EMDR and they don’t cause anxiety for me anymore.
When I think about it, is it painful? Absolutely, because it happened. But it doesn’t feel like I’m in that situation right now.
I think therapy is for everybody. TV and movies have made therapy out to be this thing that’s only for people that are crazy or whatever. That’s not the case at all. I’ve never met a single person in my life – everyone can use it.
‘Can Satan use that in his favor? Absolutely.’
MATTY MULLINS: When I was younger, I heard so much about demonic activity and demon possession and stuff like that. I do believe that demonic activity is real. I do believe that Satan is real. But through all of this, what I learned is that those feelings that felt like that, wasn’t that. I don’t believe that Satan is omnipresent; that if there’s one person in the world that he could attack it was me at that moment, that what I have struggled with was demonic activity.
I think it feels like that in the moment. What I struggled with is simply [that] the human body is imperfect. Can Satan use that in his favor? Absolutely. To make you feel like God doesn’t exist, to make you feel like God isn’t there, that He doesn’t care about you. But was what I was experiencing demonic activity? No. I think it was a simple imbalance that had to do with my body and with my brain, unaddressed issues from that flight and from my childhood, things that I had no idea were causing me to feel like an inadequate husband and like an inadequate frontman – only when I did therapy and I dug back into that really deep, and through EMDR therapy, was I able to pinpoint those things.
‘And finally, those dots were connected.’
MATTY MULLINS: It was like my brain had been waiting 25 years to connect these dots. And finally, those dots were connected. No longer do I have to live day to day with the symptoms of these issues that had never been addressed.
I hated it so much. I’d been such a carefree person and such a lighthearted person my whole life. When these things started to attack me, I remembered clearly what it was like to be happy. I remembered that there was something greater to life to fight for. That’s why I so ruthlessly fought to get back to that point. I always [said] I just want to get back to how I felt.
What I didn’t realize was happening to me was that I would get back to that peace that I had but with a whole new understanding of something that people, millions and millions of people, struggle with on a day to day basis. I could always be empathetic for people with anxiety and depression but I could never truly be sympathetic for those people.
‘You will come out on the other side.’
MATTY MULLINS: Now I think that God is using me so much in the music scene and with our fans to say, ‘Ask who has struggled with this in the room, I’ll raise my hand every single time. I know exactly what you’re going through and I also know that it’s possible to get to the other side of it if you fight it, if you go through the right steps to address whatever it is your body is telling you needs to be addressed, there is a way to get through it and you will come out on the other side with all of these tools in your belt with how to battle it if it comes back.
For whatever reason, driving has always made me feel just a little anxious, if not like panic anxious. I’ll feel that feeling coming on and with all of these tools that I learned in therapy, I’ll be able to bring myself out of that fake moment back into reality. Hey, whatever it is that you’re worried about, it’s something that either could happen in the future or something that did happen in the past, but not actually what is happening in the moment.
‘I’m able to bring myself back into the moment.’
MATTY MULLINS: I’m able to bring myself back into the moment and back into reality. Because I’m not scared of those feelings of anxiety, because I know that it’s not going to kill me and because of how much I learned about anxiety – it feels like your body is shutting down and it’s attacking your body, but you do ultimately have control over it. When you learn not to be afraid of it, it’s almost like a bully that just doesn’t come back.
I would say that these days I’m 90 percent anxiety free and a hundred percent depression free. But it’s because I would stop at nothing to figure out why it would happen to me. Even in my own life, I was like, ‘Man, I have everything that I want. What is happening?’ You don’t hear about that from people. You don’t hear about these people that ‘have it all together’ that are struggling with this. I didn’t realize I had so many things that were unaddressed in my life. NPFG
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Listen to the entire wide-ranging conversation with Matty Mullins HERE.


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The gender of the military canine who participated in the raid that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has become a controversial topic since it has been labeled as both a male and female.
Conan, who is a Belgian Malinois and a veteran of more than 50 missions, was presented with a service award and certificate by President Trump on Monday in the Rose Garden. Trump, during his speech, referred to Conan as a male dog. However, later that day, the White House then issued a clarification saying that Conan is, in fact, female, but they then reversed course again.
A source in the White House told the Washington Examiner the dog is male, however, a Pentagon official has told ABC News that the dog is a female. The White House remained steadfast in their stance that Conan is a male dog even after being confronted with the Pentagon’s response.


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…in Jane Austen’s clever Northanger Abbey, the heroine, Catherine Morland, is believed, by dodgy suitor John Thorpe, to be the heiress of the family friends she has travelled to Bath with, a couple called Mr & Mrs Allen. I understood why the mistake about her being an heiress was made but not why it was of such import to the story – beyond being a witty, finely observed sideways swipe by Austen at the ‘heiress/heroine-in-trouble + mistaken-identity + course-of-true-love-never-runs-smooth’ plots of the contemporary gothic novels that Catherine is so fond of.
I had never understood why Catherine’s friends were thought to be so very wealthy, why John Thorpe and then General Tilney, the father of her love interest Henry, are quite so excited at the huge amount of money they scheme to get access to. Now I do, and very satisfying it is too.
Last night I read Janine Barchas’ book Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity from John Hopkins University Press, and discovered interesting things: did you know, that there actually was a Ralph Allen Esq, who amassed great riches and several properties in Bath. This Ralph Allen was well-known in Bath, he was a foundational figure of the genteel watering hole, when he and his wife died without direct heirs they left everything to their favourite niece, who also died without direct heirs, so that for some years the disposal of the huge Allen fortune was quite the talk of fashionable Bath society as speculation and gossip hummed about who would inherit what. Jane Austen would have known all about him, and her early readers probably would have recognised the connection too – it certainly explains why Thorpe and the General were rubbing their hands with glee, jumping to greed-fed conclusions about Catherine’s Mr & Mrs Allen – and for those readers in the know, it adds a rich layer of background to the parody. I can feel a re-reading of Northanger Abbey coming on…
Barchas is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin, and the first scholar to conduct extensive research into the names and locations in Austen’s fiction by taking full advantage of the explosion of archival materials now available online. According to Barchas, Austen plays confidently with the tension between truth and invention that characterizes the realist novel. The names Austen plucks from history for her protagonists (Dashwood, Wentworth, Woodhouse, Tilney, Fitzwilliam, and many more) were immensely famous in her day. She seems to bank upon this familiarity for interpretive effect, often upending associations with comic intent.
I really enjoyed this book as I like Austen and particularly enjoy her literary and film afterlife (Pride & Prejudice & Zombies anyone?) which seems to me, despite the horrors of purists, to indicate the affection with which her very human characters and stories are regarded. It was really interesting to find out more about the Regency world behind the stories, and to regard Austen, not as a cloistered lady mouse writing in her parlour but as a knowing magpie in that world, aware of exactly what she was doing, what echoes she wanted to redound as she considered and chose what glittering names to use and whom to bestow them on. Barchas writes amusingly and clearly, and yes, it is academic but with a refreshingly light touch. And I have to say I LOVE the cover, it is so, so beautiful:One of the great stories about Austen as a writer, a story very much created and maintained by her family after her death, is that she was an inventor, a creative writer, not a historian or recorder of real life particularly. Today it seems a strange distinction to make – the characters Austen gives the names of real well-known regency personalities are not biographic sketches of such persons, but the names come freighted with fascinating, sometimes scandalous, baggage that would have added greatly to the original readers’ experience and understanding of the novels. Now we can have a riffle through that baggage as well!


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Improving Main Street
Obtaining a $2 million state grant to spruce up downtown Hyannis is only half the battle.
Now, thanks to another $2 million state grant, Hyannis will have a chance to further improve its Main Street.
The grant will pay more than half of a $3.6 million downtown development project promoted by members of the Business Improvement District.
The project will focus on Main Street from Barnstable Road to Sea Street and will include repaved sidewalks, landscaping, enhanced lighting and public restrooms.
But that is only half the battle. It is also up to Main Street merchants to spruce up their storefronts. Store owners should borrow a page from Falmouth, where merchants planted small gardens around trees on Main Street to enhance the state-funded project.
For too long, Main Street, Hyannis, which should be a showpiece of Cape Cod, has been in disrepair. But thanks to the efforts of the Business Improvement District, its future is looking up.
Just last week, the district teamed up with the NOAH shelter and employed several homeless people to help clean up litter and prune overgrown vegetation on or near Main Street.
It is initiative like that that will eventually restore Main Street, Hyannis, to its former glory.


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2 September – 5 November 2017
Fringe Open is the central platform for all to publicise the range of creative activities taking place during the Folkestone Triennial.
Folkestone is an incredibly vibrant place and for the 10 weeks of the Folkestone Triennial its vibrancy increases tenfold, as the wide range of talents and creative interests in visual arts, music, performance, installation get’s showcased for all to enjoy.
Featuring a site-specific audio-visual intervention by UCA Graduates Jon Law and Naomi Eaton-Baudains on Harbour Arm. http://folkestonefringe.com/events/recurrence/

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The key to health and wellness programs is habit change. A common question is “How long does it take to form a new habit?” A Myth That Health and Wellness Programs Need to Expose For decades we’ve all believed that it takes 21 days to form a habit.
When you start a weight loss program, setting realistic expectations about how long it takes to change habits is critical. As a Mayo Clinic Certified Wellness Coach, I’m knowledgeable about the science of behavior change. There’s a lot of solid research about how to motivate people to change their health


A Richmond man has been fined after being caught illegally fishing in Metro Vancouver.
Jian Zhang of Richmond was fined for catching rockfish and lingcod by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) on Aug. 2, 2022.
He was given a federal contraventions ticket of $575 for disobeying the BC Sport Fishing Regulations.
Illegal fishing activity and habitat violations are charged under the Fisheries Act in Canada.
To report suspicious fishing activity, email firstname.lastname@example.org, or call the 24-hour, toll-free 1-800-465-4336


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Season 6, Episode 14 My Mother, My Dick
First Aired: February 20, 2001
Dick tells Mary's mother (Elaine Stritch) that she's a terrible mom; Sally and Harry are responsible for a new addition to the family. Guy: Mark McKinney. Dr. Schulman: Carlos Jacott. Sally: Kristen Johnston. Mary: Jane Curtin. Dick: John Lithgow.
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Not only did she kill someone, she lied about her name and who was with her.
Des Moines police say a woman who lied to them about her name following a deadly hit-and-run, also lied to them about who was in the vehicle with her during the accident.
Twenty-two-year-old Oleaf Teoh is facing several charges including vehicular homicide-OWI. Police say she was drunk when she hit and killed 33-year-old Matthew Otto. She initially gave police a false name and also told them her three-day-old and six-year-old child were in the vehicle when the deadly crash happened.


Central Pacific may see 8 hurricanes
LIHUE — Climate conditions point to an above-average amount of storms for the upcoming hurricane season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center has announced. Its 2015 Hurricane Season Outlook is calling for between five and eight
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