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There is a good news for the people who spend more time on social media, as researchers have found that the text-based messaging app, which offers users group chat functions, has a positive impact on psychological health.
The study, published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, the research found that spending time on digital platforms such as WhatsApp per day, the less lonely they were and the higher their self-esteem as a result of feeling closer to friends and family.
The more time people spent on WhatsApp, the more this related to them feeling close to their friends and family and they perceived these relationships to be good quality," said Linda Kaye, Professor at Edge Hill University.
There's lots of debate about whether spending time on social media is bad for our well-being but we've found it might not be as bad as we think, According to the researchers.
"As well as this, the more closely bonded these friendships were and the more people felt affiliated with their WhatsApp groups, the more this was related positively to their self-esteem and social competence," Kaye said.
Researchers said that, group affiliation also meant that WhatsApp users were less lonely. It seems that using WhatsApp to connect with our close friends is favourable for aspects of our well-being.
For the study, the research team picked 200 users, 158 women and 42 men with an average age of 24, found that the average reported daily use of WhatsApp was around 55 minutes, with people using it because of its popularity and group chat function.
"The findings show how including factors relating to social bonding capital is highly pertinent within this field as a way of understanding how technology usage relates to psychosocial well-being.
"It gives rise to the notion that social technology such as WhatsApp may stimulate existing relationships and opportunities for communication, thereby enhancing aspects of the users' positive well-being," Kaye said.
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"Very disheartened at Manchester Airport today, I travel around the world with my insulin but never have I been made to feel embarrassed. I felt very humiliated as I was rudely questioned & ordered publicly to take my insulin out of its travel cold-case & dumped in to a plastic bag," Akram said in a tweet.
Zayed Sports tournament will give ladies all over the UAE a chance to enjoy a variety of sports, develop their athletic skills, and win valuable prizes.
Around 19 teams are taking part in the tournament held in Holy Ramadan since 2011 in the memory of late Sheikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Though New York's Fashion Week wrapped more than a month ago, there was plenty of fierce fashion at the second annual "Gigi's Playhouse Fashion Show" on Wednesday, an event that allows young people with Down syndrome to share their talent.
The muscles from those who exercised before breakfast also showed greater increases in key proteins, specifically those involved in transporting glucose from the bloodstream to the muscles.
A key obstacle is unequal access: while some people throw away food they buy too much of, others cannot afford or find the nutrition they need, said the report entitled "food Systems at Risk."


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Spicy Tomato Deviled Eggs
by George Duran
Now you know what to do with all of the Easter eggs you found! Enjoy!
Prep: 35 minutes / Yield: 6 to 8 servings
1 dozen eggs
5 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise
2 tablespoons Hunt’s tomato paste
2 to 3 teaspoons bottled hot pepper sauce
Kosher salt or table salt, to taste
Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
For perfect hard-boiled eggs: Put the eggs in a large pot and cover them by at least 2 inches with cold water. Put the pot over high heat. When it comes to a boil, remove it from heat, cover, and let stand for 15 minutes. Drain the pot and run cold water over the eggs to stop the cooking. When cooled, crack and remove the shells.
Cut the eggs in half and put the yolks into a bowl. Mash them with the mayonnaise, tomato paste, and Tabasco until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Place the yolk mixture in a re-sealable plastic bag. Just before serving snip off one of the corners of the bag. Gently squeeze the bag and fill each egg white. Garnish with paprika.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A city councilman is now calling on Mayor Luke Ravenstahl to put Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper on a leave of absence.
Meanwhile, the KDKA Investigators have learned the FBI is on the move again, gathering more records related to the police department.
Sources confirm the FBI took documents from the credit union related to the special events account of the police department, took records of deposits and withdrawals made from that account, including the transactions of Chief Harper.
Sources confirm the chief closed out an account in the last few weeks. Meanwhile, the mayor continues to support Chief Harper.
"I'm confident right now that he's still leading the bureau in a way that's acceptable to me," Mayor Ravenstahl said on Wednesday.
On the streets of Mount Washington Thursday, while passing out Valentine 's Day cookies, mayoral candidate Bill Peduto said he believes the police chief knows where the bodies are buried; and it's probably wise for Mayor Ravenstahl to stay in his good graces while a federal grand jury is investigating.
"It really calls into question why?" said Peduto. "In this case, police chiefs know a lot of information, and if you're continually putting yourself out there to say, 'we are not going to serve in the best interest of this City of Pittsburgh,' its draws the conclusion you are serving the best interest of yourself."
Peduto says it's time for the mayor to send Chief Harper home.
"He should have said to the chief, 'You need the time to concentrate on this. You should take a leave of absence. We'll take care of you while you're on your leave of absence. Hopefully, everything works out okay; you'll be back. If it doesn't work out okay, you'll be terminated."
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If there are any gaps in Gregg Popovich's coaching resume, you'd be hard-pressed to find them.
Now in his 18th season at the helm of the San Antonio Spurs, Pop has amassed four NBA titles, two Coach of the Year awards, the ninth-most regular-season wins of all time and the third-most playoff victories ever, behind only Phil Jackson and Pat Riley. Aside from Jerry Sloan, he's the only coach in NBA history to tally at least 900 wins with a single franchise.
And yet, the challenge before Pop in 2013-14 may be as unique (if not as daunting) as any he's faced since supplanting Bob Hill on the bench during the 1996-97 season.
That challenge may not be evident when looking at the big picture in the Alamo City. As of Feb. 25, the Spurs were 40-16, just two-and-a-half games back of the Oklahoma City Thunder for the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference. According to NBA.com, they're one of four teams—along with the Thunder, the Houston Rockets and the Toronto Raptors—that rank in the top 10 in both offensive and defensive efficiency, with a point differential (6.5 per 100 possessions) that places them firmly among the league's elite.
This was all the case last year, as well, when the Spurs slithered their way to within a Ray Allen miracle of securing their fifth Larry O'Brien Trophy. So what is it that makes this year's squad any different?
The Alam-Ow City
In a word, injuries...and age.
Okay, two words, then. Three, if you want to get technical about it.
In any case, San Antonio's locker room has been invaded by injury bugs like never before in the Gregg Popovich-Tim Duncan era.
Manu Ginobili missed three weeks between late January and mid-February with a hamstring strain. Tony Parker is on the shelf at the moment with what Pop characterized as "a lot of little things," per Mike Monroe of the San Antonio Express-News. Both of those guys, along with Tim Duncan, have been the subjects of regular rest from Pop.
Parker, in particular, has needed special attention from the coaching and training staffs. After hobbling through a grueling seven-game series in the NBA Finals, Parker spent the summer guiding France to its first-ever EuroBasket title. His current stint on the sideline is as much a product of that wear and tear as it is of any particular setback suffered along the way.
“Basically, a lot of basketball the last three years: All season long, all summer long," Popovich said when explaining Parker's absence. "He played for the (French) national team and that’s not a week at a time. It’s the whole summer, so it’s caught up to him.”
The point of Pop's regimen of resting his Big Three all these years, especially since each has crossed into his 30s, has been to keep his ever-more-fragile stars fresh and fit long enough to sustain themselves through long postseason pushes into May and June.
Of the three, Duncan has had the greatest success avoiding injury this season. He's missed five games in 2013-14, all in single-evening spurts, despite being the fifth-oldest active player in the NBA (he turns 38 in late April).
Such luck has been hard to come by for many of his younger counterparts in San Antonio. Kawhi Leonard's presumed breakout season has been derailed by a broken finger since late January. Danny Green had a three-week finger injury of his own that preceded Leonard's. Tiago Splitter battled back from a shoulder sprain in January, only to succumb to calf and shin issues in February.
All told, the Spurs' top six of Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Leonard, Green and Splitter have combined to miss a whopping 70 games this season—and counting. Per Basketball Reference, Leonard is listed as "probable" for Wednesday's game against the Detroit Pistons, but Parker figures to be out for another couple weeks, at least.
Old Man, Old Hat
In truth, this isn't a new phenomenon for Pop. His top six sat out 78 games in total last season, with Green and Splitter accounting for only three of those absences. Like any coach who's been around the Association as long as he has, Pop has spent plenty of time helping his players battle Father Time and Mother Nature in tandem.
What sets Pop's Spurs apart from the rest of the NBA, though, is the extent to which they've been able to survive and, in some cases, thrive without some of their key constituents. For years, Popovich has been lauded for his ability to craft and implement a "system" predicated on the peculiarities of his stars, and to groom and "plug in" role players around them.
The "system" itself has morphed over time. Back in the late 1990s and into the 2000s, the Spurs were a half-court, tough-minded, defense-oriented squad designed to take advantage of Duncan's all-around excellence while the future Hall of Famer was at the peak of his powers.
Once Duncan started to show signs of decay, Pop tailored his system to take greater advantage of Parker's abilities. Thus, San Antonio became a fast-paced, European-style pick-and-roll machine, with Parker serving as the engine and a fleet of three-point shooters comprising the nuts and bolts.
That approach has allowed the Spurs to maintain their ranking among the top 10 in most of the key offensive indicators, including assist percentage (seventh), assist-to-turnover ratio (sixth), assists per 100 possessions (second), effective field-goal percentage (second) and true shooting percentage (third).
This, despite checking in near the bottom in free-throw rate (29th).
Plug and Play
All this success despite giving starting nods to the likes of Marco Belinelli, Boris Diaw and Cory Joseph and letting Patty Mills shoot to his heart's content, as he has of late. Part of Pop's "secret" lies in his unparalleled ability to empower those players with the skills and the mindset needed to succeed after they'd been scrounged up by the front office's planet-scouring forces.
That affords Pop the leeway and the luxury to sub in one shooting specialist (Belinelli) for another (Green), or one physical center (Aron Baynes) for another (Splitter), or one skilled post player (Diaw) for another (Duncan), or even one pick-and-roll point guard (Mills) for another (Parker), without his team skipping much of a beat.
Those injuries haven't stopped the Spurs from playing at a pace to which they've recently become accustomed. They've slipped from sixth in possessions per game in 2012-13 to 14th this season, though their average has gone up slightly, from 96.4 possessions to 96.5.
They still shoot the three as well as anyone—38.8 percent overall, tops in the NBA, including a fifth-best 40.4 percent from the corners—and check in fourth with 46.4 points in the paint per game. In short, the Spurs are as efficient as ever on offense, despite the ravaging of the roster.
But San Antonio's greatest successes, particularly through highs and lows such as those the team has encountered this season, have come on the defensive end. And it's for those efforts that Pop deserves a hearty pat on the back.
Pop has his principles, sticks to them and makes darn sure that his players do the same.
For one, the Spurs get back on defense, albeit at the expense of second-chance baskets. They score just 11.8 second-chance points per game and rank 24th in offensive rebounding percentage. In return, San Antonio's opponents muster a measly 12.7 fast-break points a night.
When it comes to defending the NBA's "pet play," Pop prefers that his bigs contain the pick-and-roll ball-handler, leaving the rest of the defense to rotate to the roll man, rather than asking his players to switch on screens or trap the action aggressively. In essence, the Spurs opt for sound, positional defense rather than, say, the all-out, turnover-happy (but difficult to sustain) variety that makes the Miami Heat such a roller coaster on that end of the floor.
The key for the Spurs in all facets—offense, defense, the front office and beyond—is consistency. Pop's military background (he played at Air Force) is palpable in the top-down structure he's maintained in the Alamo City since he returned to the Spurs organization as the GM and vice president of basketball operations 20 years ago.
His hand, however heavy, is what keeps this operation humming. This season has been no exception to that rule.
As great a job as Popovich has done with this team, the Spurs still can't be expected to carry this kind of success with them into the playoffs without their full complement of players. Pop's carefully picked benchwarmers may be able to dominate the dregs and hold their own against the elites on a one-off basis, but in a seven-game series, when opposing coaches have ample opportunity to pick apart weaknesses and exploit matchups, San Antonio would need an inordinate amount of luck to advance without its top six intact.
To that end, the Spurs should have their ducks in a row come playoff time. Leonard's due back shortly; Parker will probably be ready by April; and Duncan, Ginobili, Green and Splitter are all active at the moment.
Spur of the Moment
We've seen what Pop can do when his pieces are in place. And now, we can appreciate Pop's pragmatism and planning in the all-too-likely event that his players aren't all able to perform.
Not that any of this should come as a shock. Popovich is the best coach in basketball and has been for some time, at least since Phil Jackson left the profession in 2011.
Frankly, Pop should be thought of among coaches the same way Michael Jordan was once regarded and LeBron James is currently regarded among players: as the de facto front-runner for his profession's most prestigious award every year until he's either retired or clearly been supplanted.
The former scenario would seem far more likely to play out than would the latter in Popovich's case. On the occasion of Duncan's 37th birthday last spring, Pop hinted that he'd retire when Duncan does. "When he doesn’t think he can, he’ll stop," Pop told Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News at the time. "It might be in the middle of a game. I can see him walking off the court saying, ‘Nah, I’m not pulling my weight anymore. I’m gone.’ And he’ll walk. And I’ll be right behind him, like this. No pride, no nothing."
That could come as soon as this summer, if former NBA head coach George Karl's sources have it right.
Pop, though, has suggested that he won't necessarily tie his retirement to Duncan's (per Buck Harvey of the Express-News)—which is terrible news for Spurs detractors and nervous sideline reporters but obviously works in San Antonio's favor.
Even more so this season. Jeff Hornacek and Terry Stotts may be the front-runners for Coach of the Year honors, and rightfully so, but if there's any season in which Gregg Popovich's mastery of his craft deserves such recognition, this is the one.
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As on 24 September 2020 You can get the personal loan in the Hospet by going to mymoneykarma.
Hospet, officially renamed as Hospete, is also known as Nagalapura. It is a heritage city in the Indian state of Karnataka. The city has flourished on the banks of the Thungabadra. Hospet was built by Krishnadevaraya of the Vijayanagar Dynasty in 1520 AD in the memory of his mother, Nagalambika. The people here are employed majorly in the cultivation of Ragi and other crops as agriculture is the main source of economy of this city. The administrative infrastructure of the city is done through its division into 23 wards that are serviced by elected representatives. Hospete has many educational institutions like Hampi University besides several other schools and colleges. Hospete is the gateway to Hampi, the famous UNESCO World Heritage site. Hospete is well-known as a tourist destination for its innumerable temples, forts and picturesque views which attract visitors from India and abroad. The Hampi Stone Chariot, Nandanavana Park, Virupaksha Temple, Shri Ramulu Park, Chakra Vana, Queens Bath, the Tungabhadra dam, etc. are places worth visiting in Hospet.
As on 24 September 2020 You can get the personal loan from shamrao Vithal Co-op Bank in the Hospet by going to mymoneykarma.
The SVC Cooperative Bank Limited is a banking company incorporated and one of the oldest Urban Co-operative Bank in India built in 1906. It was established with the primary aim of helping the less fortunate members of the community under the ambit of its economic enterprises. It was also to encourage savings and to create funds for providing financial aid to deserving members.Mr. Rao Bahadur Shripad Subbarao Talmaki was the chief architect of theShamrao Vithal Co-op. Bank Ltd. Bank. The Bank was initially registered as a Co-operative Credit Society on 27 December 1906. In 1907, cumulative deposit scheme, fixed deposit scheme and saving bank deposit were introduced by the bank. The bank in opened first Co-operative store in 1910. In 1915, the first Co-operative housing society was built in Bombay. In 1927, the Fidelity Guarantee Fund was launched simultaneously with Distress Relief Fund in 1931 and Staff Gratuity Fund in 1954. In 1964, Safe Deposit Vaults were introduced by the bank. In Fiscal 2016, the deposits of the bank crossed 13000 crores. In 2002, the corporate office was opened by the bank at SVC Tower in Vakola. In 2003, Genius I Core banking solution was implemented in all the branches of SVC bank.

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Singapore Airlines' joint venture gets nod to start full service airline in India
Published on Apr 4, 2014 9:08 PM
Singapore Airlines said its joint venture, Tata SIA Airlines, has received the go-ahead to start a full service airline.
It received today a "no objection certificate" from India's Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The Singapore carrier had earlier received the official go-ahead from India's Foreign Investment Promotion Board to set up a joint-venture airline in the country together with Tata Sons.
Tata SIA will now proceed to apply for the air operator's permit from India's directorate general of civil aviation.
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Trying out a few slug loads. This it the first time I have ever loaded 12ga slugs. I believe I can get a good load developed.Just trying out different techniques,and wad combinations.


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Chamber Welcomes Federal Budget as Unlocking BC's Potential
March 29, 2012 - Vancouver – The BC Chamber welcomed the Federal Budget unveiled today as addressing many issues that have been holding back BC's potential to grow and create new economic activity.
"Our members across the province have been clear; our ability to prosper and create jobs is being hampered by our inability to find skilled workers and to move major resource projects through the byzantine regulatory approval process," states John Winter, President and CEO of the BC Chamber of Commerce. "Budget 2012 lays out a vision to address these challenges and government should be congratulated for presenting a Budget that looks to our long term economic prosperity."
Budget 2012 commits to introduce legislation to create a 'one project, one window' process for resource projects within a clearly defined time period. Budget 2012 also commits to making significant improvements to Canada's immigration system to better align immigration with our labour force needs.
"While we still need to see the details these changes will allow BC to move forward on over $3 billion in new investment that is stuck in our regulatory process. Moving forward with these projects and allowing businesses to access the skilled workforce required will have significant implications for BC's economic competitiveness across a range of sectors and in communities across the province," continued Winter. "Our members will also be pleased to see that new investments in training and job creation have been introduced while still finding significant savings that will move Canada back to balanced budgets in the medium term."
The BC Chamber is the largest and most broadly based business organization in the province. Representing over 120 Chambers of Commerce and 32,000 businesses of every size, sector and region of the province the BC Chamber of Commerce is “The Voice of Business in BC.”
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ECS Tuning introduces a new and innovative way to install a boost gauge into your B6 Audi A4 1.8T . Designed specifically for the B6 chassis, this electronically-actuated gauge allows for easy and accurate monitoring of turbocharger boost pressure. Keeping track of boost pressure is a great way of consistently checking engine performance and a fantastic way of diagnosis power loss problems. Featuring an angled position turned towards the drivers seat, this gauge allows visibility from the entire range of driver's seating positions. Included is an ECS Tuning boost gauge, manufactured and designed for outstanding performance and accurate boost readings. Not satisfied with other gauges, we stepped up to the plate to design a gauge that looks truly at home in your interior. It features a color-matched backlight to give a OEM appearance. This is an exclusive ECS Tuning design that is the only option on the market if you're looking to continue the clean design of your Audi's interior. Kit includes: ECS Tuning 45mm boost gauge ECS Tuning vent gauge pod All necessary installation hardware, connectors, and lines See our convenient installation PDF for an easy install!


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Because I am doing blogtober, I wanted to talk about some books that are coming out this month! 😀 Also I spent a lot of time on formatting. I hope it looks nice on other formats such as your phone XD
Eventide by Sarah Goodman // October 6th
Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
MADNESS, SECRETS, AND LIES
Wheeler, Arkansas, 1907
When their father descends into madness after the death of their mother, Verity Pruitt and her little sister Lilah find themselves on an orphan train to rural Arkansas.
In Wheeler, eleven-year-old Lilah is quickly adopted, but seventeen-year-old Verity is not. Desperate to stay close to her sister, Verity indentures herself as a farmhand. But even charming farm boy Abel Atchley can’t completely distract her from the sense that something is not quite right in this little town. Strange local superstitions abound, especially about the eerie old well at the center of the forest. The woods play tricks, unleashing heavy fog and bone-chilling cold…and sometimes visions of things that aren’t there.
But for Verity, perhaps most unsettling of all is the revelation that her own parents have a scandalous history in this very town. And as she tries to unearth the past, sinister secrets come with it—secrets that someone will go to violent lengths to protect….
Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald // October 13th, 2020
LGBTQ+, Fantasy, Young Adult
Emanuela Ragno always gets what she wants. With her daring mind and socialite schemes, she refuses to be the demure young lady everyone wants her to be. In her most ambitious move yet, she’s about to marry Alessandro Morandi, her childhood best friend and the heir to the wealthiest house in Occhia. Emanuela doesn’t care that she and her groom are both gay, because she doesn’t want a love match. She wants power, and through Ale, she’ll have it all.
But Emanuela has a secret that could shatter her plans. In the city of Occhia, the only source of water is the watercrea, a mysterious being who uses magic to make water from blood. When their first bruise-like omen appears on their skin, all Occhians must surrender themselves to the watercrea to be drained of life. Everyone throughout history has given themselves up for the greater good. Everyone except Emanuela. She’s kept the tiny omen on her hip out of sight for years.
When the watercrea exposes Emanuela during her wedding ceremony and takes her to be sacrificed, Emanuela fights back…and kills her. Now Occhia has no one to make their water and no idea how to get more. In a race against time, Emanuela and Ale must travel through the mysterious, blood-red veil that surrounds their city to uncover the secrets of the watercrea’s magic and find a way to save their people-no matter what it takes.
Broken Wish by Julie C. Dao // October 6th, 2020
History Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
Sixteen-year-old Elva has a secret. She has visions and strange powers that she will do anything to hide. She knows the warnings about what happens to witches in their small village of Hanau. She’s heard the terrible things people say about the Witch of the North Woods, and the malicious hunts that follow. But when Elva accidentally witnesses a devastating vision of the future, she decides she has to do everything she can to prevent it. Tapping into her powers for the first time, Elva discovers a magical mirror and its owner—none other than the Witch of the North Woods herself. As Elva learns more about her burgeoning magic, and the lines between hero and villain start to blur, she must find a way to right past wrongs before it’s too late.
Daughters of Jubilation by Kara Lee Corthron // October 13th, 2020
History Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult
In the Jim Crow South, white supremacy reigns and tensions are high. But Evalene Deschamps has other things to worry about. She has two little sisters to look after, an overworked single mother, and a longtime crush who is finally making a move.
On top of all that, Evvie’s magic abilities are growing stronger by the day. Her family calls it jubilation—a gift passed down from generations of black women since the time of slavery. And as Evvie’s talents waken, something dark comes loose and threatens to resurface…
And when the demons of Evvie’s past finally shake free, she must embrace her mighty lineage, and summon the power that lies within her.
Girl on the Run Abigail Johnson // October 6th, 2020
Thriller, Mystery, Young Adult
A fast-paced original paperback thriller about a girl who discovers that her mother might not be who she says she is . . . and now someone is hunting them both.
Katelyn wants the best for her widowed mom. Surprising her with an online dating profile seems like a good idea.
It isn’t. Katelyn’s mom hasn’t just been acting overprotective all these years–she’s been hiding something. And now that anyone can find them online, Katelyn is in a desperate race against time to uncover the secrets of the past–not only her mom’s, but also her own.
As Katelyn’s world unravels, she begins to trust the guy who brought this nightmare to her door and to doubt the one person she never thought she would. Because her mom has been hiding for a reason: she’s been waiting.
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo // October 13th, 2020
Thriller, Mystery, LGBTQ+, Adult
Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder.
Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself—but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates herself into the investigation and charms the woman in charge, Dr. Mina Pierce. Everything’s going according to her master plan…until she loses control with her latest victim, putting her secret life at risk of exposure.
Meanwhile, Gorman student Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year. Finally free of her emotionally abusive father, all Carly wants is to focus on her studies and fade into the background. Her new roommate has other ideas. Allison Hadley is cool and confident—everything Carly wishes she could be—and the two girls quickly form an intense friendship. So when Allison is sexually assaulted at a party, Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay…and turning her fantasies about revenge into a reality.
Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco // October 27th, 2020
Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Young Adult
One brutal murder.
A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself…
And an intoxicating romance.
Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden.
Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on the island. But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is as it seems…
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth // October 20th, 2020
Historical Fiction, Horror, LGBTQ+, Adult
Our story begins in 1902, at The Brookhants School for Girls. Flo and Clara, two impressionable students, are obsessed with each other and with a daring young writer named Mary MacLane, the author of a scandalous bestselling memoir. To show their devotion to Mary, the girls establish their own private club and call it The Plain Bad Heroine Society. They meet in secret in a nearby apple orchard, the setting of their wildest happiness and, ultimately, of their macabre deaths. This is where their bodies are later discovered with a copy of Mary’s book splayed beside them, the victims of a swarm of stinging, angry yellow jackets. Less than five years later, The Brookhants School for Girls closes its doors forever—but not before three more people mysteriously die on the property, each in a most troubling way.
Over a century later, the now abandoned and crumbling Brookhants is back in the news when wunderkind writer, Merritt Emmons, publishes a breakout book celebrating the queer, feminist history surrounding the “haunted and cursed” Gilded-Age institution. Her bestselling book inspires a controversial horror film adaptation starring celebrity actor and lesbian it girl Harper Harper playing the ill-fated heroine Flo, opposite B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells as Clara. But as Brookhants opens its gates once again, and our three modern heroines arrive on set to begin filming, past and present become grimly entangled—or perhaps just grimly exploited—and soon it’s impossible to tell where the curse leaves off and Hollywood begins.
I think I am most excited for They Never Learn! It sounds really intense. Have you read any of these? Are there any fall releases you’re excited for? Let me know down below 😀
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I’m really excited for The Once and Future Witches and Lightbringer to come out!
I’m waiting for Plain Bad Heroines too, it sounds really good!
yes! I hope it’s as good as it sounds 😀

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Popular Tollywood comedian Venu Madhav on Tuesday lodged a complaint in Kushaiguda Police Station against one Telugu news channel and two social media websites which telecasted and posted the news respectively saying that he was dead.
It may be recalled that showing over enthusiasm, the media was putting out false news against the celebrities these days. Recently, a section of the media published news saying that Tamil comedian Senthil was dead. The shocked comedian had given a video explanation condemning the report and saying that he was alive. Just after two days of this incident, Venu Madhav faced similar experience.
Responding on the report, Venu Madhav approached the Police stating that he experienced mental agony due to the news and asked the police to initiate action against the persons responsible for the false report. (NSS)


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SeaLife Center's giant Pacific Octopus' babies are hatching
Hundreds of eggs are expected to hatch over the next few weeks at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, after nearly a year of incubation.
Gilligan, a giant Pacific octopus, began laying her eggs last May. About two weeks ago, tiny cephalopods were spotted floating around her tank.
Aquarium Curator, Richard Hocking, says all of the eggs are expected to hatch by the end of May.
The babies are pea-sized-- about a quarter-inch-long-- and already resemble their parents; they hatch with all eight arms, sucker disks and well-developed eyes.
As the babies hatch and move to the surface, aquarium staff is gradually transporting them to a rearing tank where they will float and eat zooplankton.
The SeaLife Center says hatching and successfully rearing giant Pacific octopuses is extremely rare, and there's only been one documented case of successful rearing to adulthood, and that was at the Seattle Aquarium back in the '80s.
In the wild, the SeaLife Center says, the survival rate of hatchlings is only 1 percent. In an aquarium, the odds of survival remain low, as the hatchlings are extremely delicate and have complex nutritional needs.
Giant Pacific octopus only seek out a mate in the last three- to six-years of their lifespan. The male passes a spermatophore into the female's mantle during mating, then, the female has up to six months to use it to fertilize her eggs. Between 20,000 and 80,000 eggs are laid long, braided strands, the SeaLife Center says, which look like white, tear-shaped grape clusters. It can take up to a month for the female to lay all the eggs.
Gilligan and her hatchlings will be on display at the SeaLife Center's Octopus Grotto exhibit.
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Laurel Storms Past Milford
The Laurel boys basketball team avenged last weeks loss to Milford by beating the Bucs 58-47 Tuesday night. The win improves the Bulldogs to 8-3, while the loss drops the Buccaneers to 5-6.
The Bulldogs would jump out to the early lead led by Chucky August and Gary Warren. The back court combo would connect on shots from 10 first quarter points as Laurel would take a 14-7 lead into the second. There the combo would continue to use their athleticism to get into the open court and August began to distribute the ball all over the court to his teammates.
The Bucs though would fight back behind Henry Nesmith’s game high 19 points. Milford would cut the deficit down to just 7 points before Warren would take over down the stretch, scoring 5 straight points to put the game away.
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The UK’s advertising watchdog has banned a group of big oil and gas company advertisements for being misleading as part of crackdown on “greenwashing”, or making something appear more sustainable than it really is.
The Advertising Standards Authority said on Wednesday that recent ads by Shell, Repsol and Petronas had misled the public on the climate and environmental benefits of the groups’ products overall.
The landmark rulings are expected to set a precedent for how energy companies promote their businesses.
The banned ads included a television promotion for Petronas, an online ad for Repsol and poster, TV and YouTube ads for Shell. These ads had “omitted material information” by promoting their “green” offers and plans, such as renewable energy and net zero goals, without any mention of their larger polluting operations, and as such were “misleading”, the ASA said.
In the rulings, the ASA pointed out that polluting products still dominated the businesses of the three companies concerned.
“Large-scale oil and gas investment and extraction comprised the vast majority of [Shell’s] business model in 2022 and would continue to do so in the near future”, yet the ads in question gave the opposite impression, the regulator said.
Repsol, meanwhile, “had a substantial oil and gas exploration strategy”, and the biofuels and synthetic fuels it had promoted in ads this year amounted to “a fraction of [its] business activities when compared to [its] substantial, ongoing, and expanding fossil fuel production”, the ASA said.
Similarly, the public would not understand the “extent of Petronas’ continuing significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions given the presentation and claims” in a 2022 ad, the regulator added.
Veronica Wignall, from the Adfree Cities campaign group, which led the complaint against Shell, said the ban “marks the end of the line for fossil- fuel greenwashing in the UK. The world’s biggest polluters will not be permitted to advertise that they are ‘green’ while they build new pipelines, refineries and rigs.”
Shell said it “strongly disagreed” with the ASA’s decision. Consumers were “well aware that Shell produces the oil and gas they depend on” but might not know that it was also investing in “low and zero-carbon energy”, the company said.
Repsol said it had allocated about a third of its “total investment to low-carbon businesses for the duration of its 2021-2025 strategic plan”, adding that it was committed to a “just energy transition”. Petronas declined to comment.
The sanctions come as part of the UK regulator’s wider probe into a series of environmental claims across industries including heating and transport.
The regulator has this year cracked down on airlines Etihad Airways and Lufthansa for misleading claims about the environmental impact of flying, while last year it banned ads by HSBC that it judged to have misrepresented the bank’s green credentials, and another by Tesco about its plant-based products.
The ASA is also drawing up rules to govern carbon neutrality and net zero claims more broadly.
Regulators in the UK, EU and US that police advertising, competition and financial markets are turning more of their attention to climate-related disclosures.
Legal and climate experts expect the heightened scrutiny to translate into a growing number of legal cases to challenge potentially misleading claims or breaches of fiduciary duties.
Caroline Lucas, a Green party MP, said greenwashing ads had been “allowed to disseminate fake fossil-fuel news for far too long”. The government should give the regulator greater powers to enable it to “proactively . . . reject these utterly misleading ads” and ban all “high-carbon advertising”, she added.
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This Daily Review essay on Duchamp’s urinal, contemporary art & buying artworks from friends was inspired by a new show of works by the talented artist Paloma White.
I was sitting on a toilet when I looked up and saw it. There, hanging on the wall, was a Picasso. Just a black and white drawing, but an original Picasso. The couple whose inner-city apartment I was in owned the gallery downstairs. Their home was filled with art. But a Picasso? In the toilet? While I was having a piss, I couldn’t help wondering: were they taking the piss?
One hundred years ago Marcel Duchamp (or someone close to him, this story has more than one version) purchased a urinal and anonymously submitted it to a New York art show. Although the avant-garde group behind the April 1917 exhibition was supposed to accept submissions from anyone who paid the $5 entry fee, the show’s board rejected the work and Fountain was left behind a gallery screen unexhibited. But the ideas Duchamp suggested with his work – art is whatever the artist says it is, an artist does not need to ‘make’ an artwork, a toilet can have a place in an art gallery – changed the art world forever.
Were the Redfern gallery owners making a witty comment on Duchamp’s century old move? If a urinal could be exhibited in an art gallery (copies of Fountain are now in major galleries around the world) then surely the exhibition could come to the toilet? I was impressed by the cool nonchalance they applied to hanging art. And I envied the wealth that allowed them to own such art.
I covet beautiful artworks. In the Norman Lindsay Gallery in the Blue Mountains I’ve loitered over original prints for sale, repeatedly turning back to a beguiling nude, ownership fever gripping me. Recently in Central Australia my head kept turning to an artwork of emu footprints, in the same way you can find yourself turning repeatedly towards someone in a crowded room, a knot in your stomach building – something about the way their features are arranged (the lines and shapes on the canvas) feels right. “You know you are in trouble when you keep looking,” an artist tells me.
I’d like to say I don’t buy because, as the late John Berger argued, when a price is attached to art, its commodification is also a process of alienation from the physical thing that is the artwork. Art dealers have “faces like silk purses” he said, adding: “If you could fuck works of art as well as buy them, they would be pimps.”
So I’d like to say my failure to buy beautiful works of art has something to do with the rejection of ownership, but the less flattering reason is that I simply don’t have the money. Instead, I buy beautiful but modestly priced artworks from friends. When my friend Paloma held an exhibition of paintings in Melbourne last year I sat at my desk in Sydney scrolling through paintings she had posted online. Studies of flowers and still lifes, reminiscent, everyone said, of Margaret Preston. They were also like painterly translations of my artist friend. We met when we were 20 or so. She arrived at the flat I was living in, flowers in her hair like a Carlton Carmen, carrying a cake she’d made that morning, like a cloud floating ahead of her arrival that she was holding onto with a string. Carmen and Mary Poppins.
I spent an hour or so gazing at her latest creations. Enlarging the petals. Looking at the refracted light passing through the glass and water of the vases. I settled on one. A personal purchase resisting commodification, I told myself. But my modest friend’s talent far exceeds her fame: I tweeted a picture of the painting. She deserves more recognition, and the brutal fact is that more recognition leads to more sales, more funds to make more work.
I’ve always been fascinated with artists and their craft. There was a moment when I was 15 when I thought I might become an artist. I had a basic technical ability; I could make things look like the things in the world they represented. But I never had a feel for it. Others do. The ability to take the way things look in the world and mix themselves into it.
I once interviewed the painter Nicholas Harding. Paints and brushes and canvasses filled every surface of his studio. It was as if he was conjoined to the artworks, rather than creating them with any kind of distance between the artist and the work. The physicality was intoxicating. Something to do with the artist who has a hand on the object. It’s why we like cards handmade by the giver. And thank you notes in someone’s handwriting.
One of my first housemates was an art school student who would come home with canvases where he re-imagined the Russian icon form. They were heavy with golds, reds, and a bronze colour that seemed to have dripped from his rusty-hued hair onto the canvas. A few years later he’d moved on to other styles and held a show. I stood besotted in front of a large six-foot black canvas of two ghostly white nude outlines embracing, a mother and a child.
The equivalent of two Austudy cheques later, the work was mine. The painting followed me through countless house moves: too large for most loungerooms it’s mostly leaned against my bedroom wall. Recently my mother contacted me to say she’d met my old housemate but he was no longer painting – he had moved on to other mediums – and she wanted me to send her a picture of the painting so he could show his own wife and child.
‘Untitled’, Ben Sibley, 1991
Still lifes of flowers and nudes. I know this is a conservative view of art, a long way from the abstractions and theoretical turn that much contemporary art has taken since Duchamp. I’m not dismissing the value of that work, but I am saying that the cleavage in art, between work based in ideas and work that you can hang on walls, now seems almost irrevocably permanent.
In 1967 Berger wrote that “soon a dealer will mount an exhibition of shit and collectors will buy it”. He was already prophesising Wim Delvoye’s Cloaca Professional (pictured below), a shit-making machine commissioned by David Walsh in 2010 and installed deep in the bowels of the billionaire’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart. (And Berger was also forgetting, it seems, the 90 cans of ‘Artist’s Shit’ produced by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni in 1961). In audience surveys visitors say Delvoye’s crapping machine is their most disliked exhibit at MONA. It’s also the one they spend the most time with. When I visited with my children they looked up at it wide-eyed for a long moment, before driven from the room by the stench. Towards a wall covered entirely with moulded vulvas in the adjacent gallery.
We’re wedged between the compulsion to stare and a feeling that the gimmick has gone too far. That someone’s taking the piss. In the background is a feeling that we’re being conned when the most subversive, the most cutting-edge art is owned by billionaire collectors who can dig deep into sandstone river banks to create the capacious spaces that house them.
We can find ourselves almost giving up on contemporary art, as I was tempted to do when I stood in front of a blank canvas at a Sydney Biennale at the end of the last century. The captions on the works in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s show that year were either irritatingly droll or annoyingly obscure. One caption, accompanying a blank canvas, tested my credulity more than any other: “This artist stops where other artist begins,” it read. I felt like I was being had.
Artists have always quoted and referenced and critiqued each other in their artwork. But now the gap between works of art and works of criticism and theory can be indistinguishable. Artists now speak of “investigations”, “experiments” and “interventions”, borrowing from the language of science and research. It’s the language of the higher education system where art training now mostly takes place, the language of theory, of publications, of grant proposals.
I understand the imperative, but as someone who has made a living composing words, I bristle at prose that is often nonsensical, full of hyperbole or just impenetrable. Most of the time I still want art, no matter how conceptual or theoretical – to have some art, some craft, to it. An idea – as a rule – doesn’t arouse our senses, our passions, our imaginations: an idea could just as well be left to a book.
This isn’t a traditional essay of art criticism. It’s not a manifesto. If anything it’s simply a statement of my own personal taste and preference rather than any attempt to define what is “good” or “bad” art. Apart from anything else, it’s impossible to say that any one thing unites contemporary art – except perhaps that it is whatever is made by artists now. But I am suggesting that it is difficult to know now what’s a gimmick, what’s crap, and what’s gold. Perhaps it just comes down to what you like.
Wandering around a park in Bondi at The Sculpture by the Sea I see a portaloo in the middle of dozens of carefully conceived and executed sculptures and installations. Then I hear voices, trapped and trying desperately to reach someone on their mobile phone who will help them get out. What first looks like a much-needed amenity in a site crushed with crowds but desperately lacking loos was actually another artwork. It’s funny and strangely compelling. Maybe the voice really belongs to someone trapped in the toilet? I forgive the work for not being beautiful. For not being something you can take home. In a place where the surfaces work hard to impress, where human waste is reduced to faecal counts of the water in the beaches below, here is the least impressive surface you can imagine, but also an interesting Duchampian idea that makes me laugh and think.
Contemporary art has cleaved into two – art you can take home and put on walls, look at in private, and art you go and see publicly – sometimes it’s just an idea you go to see. In the former, it’s still the object itself that matters. I’ve often wondered how artists must feel giving up this object. Unlike other artforms – music, writing, or ideas-based artworks – it’s the thing that is important. Wanting to own it, though, that’s easy. For me, there’s appreciation of beauty and technique, but it also has something to do with a desire for a narrative.
I look now at my old housemate’s picture of mother and child, and I can finally see what must have first drawn me to the painting: when I bought it, my immediate family had recently separated in four directions. I’d purchased, without realising it, a representation of the thing I no longer had. When I look at my friend’s picture of flowers, I’m reminded of another time, half a lifetime ago: Paloma and her two brothers and a circle of friends that still comes together now and then and moves through subtly changing iterations.
After buying Paloma’s flowers I dreamed about taking a road trip down the Hume alone to collect it. I started composing music tracks for the trip. I’d return to Sydney on a sunny day, my cargo carefully placed in the back. Nothing happens how you picture it. On the way to Melbourne I had two children in the car with me, and I had one of those shameful moments of parenting when I lost control. I yelled, I blamed my kids when we got lost. I ran out of petrol half way. My country cousin, calm and competent, bundled her own kids in the car and rescued us.
On the day we left to come home it didn’t stop raining. I drove to my mother’s workplace to collect bags of bubble wrap. A couple of suburbs away I picked up the painting, waiting patiently for us on the porch of a friend’s bungalow. I dashed out of the car and bundled it in wrap. Back in Sydney the painting lay in its plastic bubble armour, until the gloomy mood that had descended on me and gathered momentum as I made my way down the Hume finally lifted. I could look at the bright and cheerful vase of flowers with a feeling that wasn’t totally at odds with what I was seeing. I hung it on my loungeroom wall.
Main image: Coburg Lake, oil on canvas, Paloma White, 2017. Mono/Chroma, New works by Paloma White and Brendan Lakin, opens at Steps Gallery, 62 Lygon Street, Carlton on Friday September 1.


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The Inuit Art Foundation is pleased to announce Britt Gallpen as the new Editor of the Inuit Art Quarterly. She begins her position effective December 21, 2015. Gallpen takes over from previous Editor Nancy Campbell, who helped the IAQ break new ground in content during her tenure.
“I look forward to working with the Foundation during a time of dynamic changes in Inuit Art,” says Gallpen. “And I am excited to have the opportunity to build on the magazine’s legacy of highlighting the strength of contemporary Inuit practice in Canada as well as expanding the scope to view contemporary Inuit artists in dialogue with others working in the circumpolar Indigenous world.”
Gallpen is a writer and curator based in Toronto, Ontario. Prior to joining the IAQ, she worked as the Project Coordinator on Sakkijâjuk, the first nationally touring exhibition of fine art from Nunatsiavut. Recent and upcoming curatorial projects include: Titigi: Ruben Komangapik and Koomuatuk Curley (Toronto); ARCTICNOISE, an exhibition of new media work by Geronimo Inutiq (Vancouver, Toronto and Saskatoon) and the upcoming iNuit Blanche, an all-night, city-wide circumpolar art project co-curated with Heather Igloliorte and presented in association with the Inuit Studies Conference 2016. Her writing has appeared in Canadian Art, ease art + opinions and KAPSULA among others.
“The Inuit Art Foundation is thrilled to have Britt as the Editor of the IAQ,” said Alysa Procida, Executive Director. “She brings new energy and a clear vision to the magazine that will ensure it reflects the breadth and vibrancy of art by Inuit today.”


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Sexual GlobalizationWhen I was away for Thanksgiving, doing family things and taking care of my son, I wasn't thinking about Fleshbot* very much. I was thinking how unsexy I felt and how little I was thinking about sex and how inappropriate it felt when I was preoccupied with the big family holiday of Thanksgiving to even consider sex.
When I got home, the holiday was over, my kid was asleep in his bed, our suitcase unpacked and dirty clothes in the laundry, I did go check in to see what they'd been up to while I was away. I went to look for all the reasons everyone else goes to look -- I felt a little sexy and it's a sexy blog.
And I was thinking about how we integrate our work selves, our parent selves, our public selves, our sexual selves, now that all this sexual content is available on the web which surely blurs the line between public and private.
Even when I was a kid and my older brother had Playboy magazines hidden under the bed, they could easily be revealed by my mom vacuuming and he could be "found out" and perhaps feel ashamed or somehow dirty. There was a lot of sneaking around in the old days to real world locations OUTSIDE your home to get sexual materials or experiences -- with sexy magazines, sexy clubs, sexy videos, or just plain sex from paid escorts, masseuses, prostitutes. And I think it's fair to say, mostly men pursued these sexual outlets and it was deemed inappropriate for women to be involved in such pursuits. Now this sexual content is available to anyone with a computer, men and equally women.
But the enormous availability of sexual content (notice I'm trying not to say porn, because I'm still not sure what that word even means) online which allows one to privately pursue sexuality in great range and depth is changing the world we know. Changing it fundamentally. We are not only experiencing sexual content from many countries, but we are experiencing sexual culture from many other countries. What they do in Amsterdam, Osaka, Abu Dhabi and Alabama and HOW they do it, are not the same. This is another reason I'm writing about "alpha males" as I believe all the assumptions about how men and women relate in one culture are being challenged by how men and women relate in many cultures. I'm trying to understand who we are, or perhaps who we were and who we are becoming.
I think fundamentalists of many religions (in many countries) are being buffeted by gale force winds of sexual globalization. Women are right in the sweet spot, or not-so-sweet spot of these seismic sexual rumblings. I really don't know where it will lead us, but I think it's changing our lives very quickly and we may not even notice how much and how fast it is happening.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Mark Canha knew it was just a matter of time before the right pitch would come. He waited, and his patience paid off.
The Athletics, who have won seven of eight, began the day two games ahead of Tampa Bay for the top wild-card spot. Cleveland was a half-game behind the Rays.
Canha was sitting on a hard sinker down and away that he'd seen Royals reliever Jesse Hahn use effectively.
"I was expecting it early," Canha said. "He mixed in a couple of sliders and I finally got the pitch I was looking for."
Canha connected on the fifth pitch of the at-bat, driving a 1-2 sinker down the right field line.
The A's gave away Mark Canha T-shirts that he saw fans waving in the outfield during the game.
"It was a fun day," Canha said. "I couldn't have written a better story myself."
Starters Homer Bailey of the A's and Danny Duffy of the Royals each pitched seven sharp innings. Bailey, who was traded from Kansas City to Oakland in July, allowed three hits and struck out 11 while Duffy gave up two hits and fanned six.
"Both starters were extremely good," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "Homer was much more consistent with his split, now. He just doesn't miss against lefties. Just unbelievable. His curve was good, and he spotted his fastball extremely well. I didn't see him miss a location all day long and it was the same with Danny. I thought this was one of Danny's better games that he's pitched all year long."
Bailey is 4-0 with a 1.88 ERA over his last seven starts. The Royals struck out 19 times and are three defeats away from reaching the 100-loss plateau with nine games left.
"The finish line's in site," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "You can talk about games leading up, you can talk about series earlier in the season, but teams play differently now and each game's more important and guys step up. It's a different animal right now."
Soler doubled off Bailey with one out and would have scored easily. Alex Gordon, who was issued an intentional walk ahead of O'Hearn's at bat, likely would have scored, too.
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Royals: RHP Jakob Junis has been shut down for the remainder of the season due to concerns about his workload, manager Ned Yost said. Junis has pitched 175 1/3 innings in 31 starts. . LHP Eric Skoglund will take Junis' spot in the rotation.
Athletics: RHP Mike Fiers, who experienced nerve irritation in his right arm in his last start, will take his regular turn in the rotation on Friday, when Oakland opens a three-game series against Texas. Fiers lasted just 1 2/3 innings on Sept. 14 against the Rangers in Arlington. He has experienced the injury intermittently over the past two seasons. Fiers had MRI earlier this week and was cleared after throwing a bullpen session without issues, manager Bob Melvin said. "We'll continue to monitor him, but this has kind of popped up for before, hasn't been an issue for him later on," Melvin said. "He's pretty routine-oriented, so we'll keep him on schedule." . RHP Blake Treinen will be shut down for at least two weeks with a back injury. RHP Chris Bassitt will move from the rotation to the bullpen, replacing Treinen.
Royals: LHP Mike Montgomery (3-9, 4.70 ERA) will pitch Thursday's series opener against Minnesota. He's 0-4 with a 4.85 over his last five starts (14 earned runs, 26 innings).
Athletics: Fiers (14-4, 4.09 ERA) will pitch Friday's series opener against the Texas Rangers. Oakland's most reliable starter for most of the season has given up 12 earned runs in 2 2/3 innings over his last two starts and has an 18.78 ERA in three September starts (16 earned runs, 7.2 innings pitched).
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Shah Rukh Khan, who had been keeping busy extensively promoting his much-awaited film ‘Raees’, finally got an off day after ‘Raees’ got off to a great start at theatres on January 25. The actor spent the day with his lovely children – the cute AbRam, the pretty Suhana and the handsome Aryan.
Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan got a tree house constructed for their bundle of joy, AbRam. The beautiful tree house was build by designer Sabu Cyril. The tree house looked very lovely. The house has wooden structure and also has stairs. The house was build at their Alibaug farmhouse.
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The collection called “Self_ A Reflection,” is the second chapter in the brand’s “Self” series – a spiritual and artistic exploration into the emotions and experiences that make up the creation of the individual. The first chapter called “Self_ An Amalgamation” premiered at Amazon Fashion Week Tokyo in October with the Global Fashion Collective and utilized a more separated display of the emotions breaking them into 6 capsule collections. This second chapter will demonstrate how multiple emotions and moments can be felt in just one single moment through highly editorialized styling and fabrics with fibers that occur naturally in nature. In a display that exemplifies individuality while fostering connectivity, the finale look will feature the hand painted self-portrait by Alexa Snyder on the brand’s signature silk fabric.
The runway presentation of “Self_ A Reflection” takes a walk from the origins of the brand, The 4th Grade Dress, to where the brand stands today - in the form of a collaborative, no waste gown. This collection begins where Amalgamation left off and continues exploring how fleeting emotions and moments combine to create unique moods.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Popstar Justin Timberlake is coming to Charlotte next week and one of his most popular songs holds a special meaning for a local family struck by tragedy.
- Charlie Holt died in 2017
- Holt's parents say the song "Can't Stop the Feeling" is keeping sunshine in their lives
Five-year-old Charlie Holt died in 2017. Holt's favorite song was Timberlake's hit "Can't Stop the Feeling." After his death, Charlie's classmates walked out to the song at their graduation to honor his memory.
Holt's parents say the song is keeping the sunshine in their lives.
"Now, it's completely different, right? We hear the song, and of course sometimes there are tears, but there's a lot of joy because that's how Charlie lived. He lived outspoken, enjoying his life, dancing through life, and we hope that we can live that way for him," says Rebecca Holt, Charlie's mom.
Timberlake is performing at the Spectrum Center on January 8. Rebecca is going to the concert, and hopes she hears Timberlake play Charlie's song.
The next fundraiser for Charlie's Heart Foundation will be Charlie's Carnival on Saturday, March 30. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Stumptown Park in Matthews.


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By: Emily Wolter
I was listening to the radio the other day and heard this nostalgic story about how the host used to make chocolate milk with his mom as a little boy and how special it was to him and was about to change the station to something slightly more entertaining, when he grabbed my attention. His next statement was, “If you enjoy mixing chocolate powder into your milk too, you may want to look into the recent Nesquik Chocolate Powder Recall. Now back to our regularly scheduled tunes…”.
Hmm, I was interested. He didn’t state why it had been recalled, so I looked into it further when I finally escaped traffic!
Apparently, one of Nestle USA’s ingredient suppliers notified the company that their ingredient may potentially be contaminated with Salmonella. No illnesses have been reported yet, but Nestle initiated a voluntary recall of some of their Nesquik Chocolate Powders as a precaution, regardless.
I feel like the public has bad connotations with recalls and associates a company who initiates a recall as risky or bad. Personally, I have respect for companies who are on top of their game and strive to keep their consumers safe and in-the-loop. Possibilities for contamination of food are all around and no matter how many precautions are taken, contamination is still an issue that needs to be constantly monitored. I know from working in a food manufacturing company that a lot of paperwork and “critical control points” are specified as preventative measures. The fact that the issue was caught before anyone reported in as being sick shows that Nestle and their suppliers may not be perfect (Who is?), but they are certainly one of many companies in the food industry who are on top of their game and help ensure the food industry maintains consumer trust.
What comes to mind when you hear about a recall? What was the most recent recall you heard about and what was the contamination issue?
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You need to disconnect at least the yellow wire, so you don't have both processors trying to talk to it.
De-solder the yellow jumper that goes to pin 24. Connect a jumper from that to your Arduino. Connect a jumper from GND on the Arduino to GND on the Monochron. Then you should be able to power up both systems and see if you can read the sensor with the Arduino.
It works when connected to the Arduino. However, I reconnected it to the monochron and tried using the make-shift oscilloscope again, and this time it didn't flicker at all. I think before it may have flickered because of a bad contact with the pin. What does it mean that it doesn't flicker?


Neo-soul was born out of a necessity for the representation of the black alternative. For more than two decades, the neo-soul sound has produced some of the most prolific artists of generations including Maxwell , Floetry, Frank Ocean, Anderson. Paak , and Thundercat. We are now in and the movement is as strong as ever. Okayplayer has highlighted 23 artists that are pushing neo-soul forward. Q is from the ilk of Bilal with a falsetto that can pierce through any indifference and a penchant for snatching your attention with the tantalizingly abstract.
Thankfully, there are new stars carrying on their legacy, combining the classic sound of soul with influences from hip-hop, jazz, and pop. Modern soul has never been more popular, and these contemporary artists are making sure it stays that way. Mary J. Her expressive voice is incredibly dynamic and powerful. In addition to having a smoky, soulful voice, he's also an outstanding guitarist and keyboard player. Maxwell is a two-time Grammy-winning artist known for his sweet falsetto. Raphael Saadiq, formerly known as Raphael Wiggins, is a founding member of the groundbreaking s neo-soul trio Tony!
Including Mary J. Blige, D'Angelo, and Maxwell
It's a genre where retro and futurism nestle cozily side by side. Here are the 15 best. You may not know the name — unless you are a fan of British Northern Soul - but you have probably heard P. Arnold's voice. Arnold launched her career as one of Ike and Tina Turner's Ikettes. In the early s, Arnold toured as a vocalist with Roger Waters' band.
Essential listening for Another year of non-stop poignant musical moments. The tide has, however, turned and that title no longer feels apt. Thanks to music streaming, quite a few of these albums have garnered the attention of millions of fans and the artists have gone on to world tours off the back of them. But there were some true gem albums you may not have heard shouted about.


In the high-voltage world, a Jacob’s ladder is truly a sight to behold. They are often associated with mad scientist labs, due to both the awesome visual display and the sound that they make. A Jacob’s ladder is typically very simple. You need a high voltage electricity source and two bare wires. The wires are placed next to each other, almost in parallel. They form a slight “V” shape and are placed vertically. The system acts essentially as a short-circuit. The voltage is high enough to break through the air at the point where the wires are nearest to each other. The air rises as it heats up, moving the current path along with it. The result is the arc slowly raising upwards, extending in length. The sound also lowers in frequency as the arc gets longer, and once [Gristc] tuned his system just right the sound reminds us of the Holy Trilogy.
We’ve seen these made in the past with other types of transformers that typically put out around 15,000 Volts at 30mA. In this case, [Gristc] supersized the design using a much beefier transformer that puts out 11,000 Volts at 300mA. He runs the output from the transformer through eight microwave oven capacitors as a ballast. He says that without this, the system will immediately trip the circuit breakers in his house.
In the demo video below, you can see just how large the arc is. It appears to get about 10 inches long before breaking with a sound different from any Jacob’s ladders we’ve seen in the past as well. Continue reading “11,000 Volt Jacob’s Ladder Sounds Like a Lightsaber”
If you’ve never seen a double pendulum before, it’s basically just a pendulum with another pendulum attached to the end. You might not think that’s anything special, but these devices can exhibit extremely chaotic behavior if enough energy is put into the system. The result is often a display that draws attention. [David] wanted to build his own double pendulum display, but he wanted to make it drive itself. The result is a powered double pendulum.
There aren’t many build details here, but the device is simple enough that we can deduce how it works from the demonstration video. It’s broken into two main pieces; the frame and the pendulum. The frame appears to be made mostly from wood. The front plate is made of three layers sandwiched together. A slot is cut out of the middle to allow a rail to slide up and down linearly. The rail is designed in such a way that it fits between the outer layers of the front plate like a track.
The pendulum is attached to the linear rail. The rail moves up and down and puts energy into the pendulum. This causes the pendulum to actually move and generate the chaotic behavior. The rail slides up and down thanks to an electric motor mounted to the base. The mechanics work similar to a piston on a crankshaft. The motor looks as though it is mounted to a wooden bracket that was cut with precision on a laser cutter. The final product works well, though it is a bit noisy. We also wonder if the system would be even more fun to watch if the rotation of the motor had an element of randomness added to it. Or he could always attach a paint sprayer to the end. Continue reading “Powered Double Pendulum is a Chaotic Display”
If you’ve been keeping your skills fresh with any console video games in the last 15 years (or you’ve acquired a smartphone), you’ll know that “rumble,” or “haptic” feedback plays a key role in augmenting our onscreen (or touch-screen typing) experience. Nevertheless, this sort of rumble feedback is surprisingly boolean, and hasn’t developed into a richer level of precision since it started to be introduced in gaming over 30 years ago. In response, [Martin] and his fellow design teammates at the University of Salzburg, Austria have introduced the TorqueScreen, a mobile haptic attachment that puts a twist on conventional force feedback.
At its core the TorqueScreen is a gyroscope attached to a servo with the respective rotational axes in a perpendicular alignment. When the servo rotates the live gyroscope, the user can sense the tablet’s resistance to rotate about the servos axis.
The team’s conference demonstration model features a brushless motor plucked from an old hard drive controlled by an Arduino and driven manually by a Wii nunchuck. Currently only one rotational axis resists changes in rotation, but a gimbal may be the next step in this project.
We’ve certainly seen budget handheld haptic devices before, but this project allows for an entire spread of responses proportional to the speed at which the gyroscope is rotated about the servo axis.
Unless you’re reading this post on your already-torquescreen-enabled mobile device, it’s a bit difficult to get a feel for what kind of interactions you can produce with this setup. The video (after the break), though, can give you a pretty good idea of what kind of interactivity you’d expect with device clipped onto your tablet.
[via the Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Conference]
Continue reading “TorqueScreen: Haptic Feedback On-the-Go”
[RimstarOrg] has brought us an oldie but goodie this week. He’s built a ball bearing motor, a design which has been causing engineers and scientists to squabble for decades. [RimstarOrg] used a microwave oven transformer with a 70 turn primary coil and a single turn secondary coil to create a low voltage, high current AC power supply. Needless to say, there’s a real risk of fire or electrocution with a setup like this, so be careful if you try this one at home. [RimstarOrg] then built the motor itself. He de-greased two ball bearings then installed them on a metal shaft along with a wooden flywheel. The entire assembly was then mounted on a board so the wheel could spin freely. Two copper straps hold the bearings to the board. Finally, the transformer is wired into the copper straps. In this configuration, the current will flow through the outer race of one bearing, through the balls, and into the inner race. The current then passes down the axle and passes through the other bearing. There is very little resistance in this circuit, so it can only be powered on for a few seconds at a time before things start to melt down.
Continue reading “Ball Bearing Motor Rolls for Reasons Unknown”
[Brad] just acquired a 32×32 RGB LED matrix and he jumped right into the deep end with his first project. To try out his skills on the device he used an Arduino to drive a slew of pixels with bouncing-ball physics.
The demo starts off with a hail storm of multi-colored falling pixels. In the center of the storm is the cursor, which he controls with a PS2 mouse. That happens to be a ball mouse which makes sense as we don’t remember having seen any optical mice as of late that weren’t USB. The PS2 protocol is easy to read using a microcontroller; more about that in [Brad’s] project write up.
By holding down the left mouse button he can draw persistent pixels on the screen. The falling balls then interact by bouncing off of the obstacles. The image above shows a frame on three sides of the screen which has trapped the pixels near the bottom. He can also erase pixels, which has the effect of draining the trapped balls like a hole in a bucket of water. Neat!
Bouncing ball physics are fun to experiment with. Here’s one being driven by an analog computer.
Continue reading “Fun with LED matrix and mouse”
Lasers normally emit only one color, or frequency of light. This is true for laser pointers or the laser diodes in a DVD player. [Kevin] caught wind of state-of-the-art research into making variable wavelength lasers using shaken grains of metal and decided to build his own.
When [Kevin] read a NewScientist blog post on building variable frequency lasers built with shaken metallic grains, he knew he had to build on. He dug up the arxiv article and realized the experimental setup was fairly simple and easily achievable with a bit of home engineering.
[Kevin]’s device works by taking thousands of small ball bearings and putting them in a small vial with Rodamine B laser dye. To vibrate the particles in the dye, [Kevin] mounted his container of dye and bearings on an audio speaker and used a frequency generator to shake the ball bearings.
When a small 30mW green laser shines through the vial of ball bearings and dye, the laser changes color to a very bright yellow. By vibrating the vial at 35 to 45 Hz, [Kevin] can change the frequency, or color of the laser.
[Kevin] can only alter the frequency of the laser by about 30 nm, or about the same color change as a reddish-orange and an orangish-yellow. Still, it’s pretty amazing that [Kevin] was able to do state-of-the-art physics research at home.
Sadly, we couldn’t find any videos of [Kevin]’s variable frequency laser. If you can find one send it in to the tip line and we’ll update this post.
Batman’s ability to fly is a falsehood. Or at least so says science. We didn’t know science was into disproving super-hero movies (that’s a deep well to drink from) but to each his own. But back in December the Journal of Physics Special Topics took on the subject with their scholarly paper entitled Trajectory of a Falling Batman. The equations presented in the two-page white paper may be above your head, but the concepts are not.
It’s not that Batman can’t fly in the way explained in the film. It’s that he can’t land without great bodily harm. By analyzing the cape in this frame of the film, researchers used Batman’s body height to establish wing span and area. The numbers aren’t good. Top speed will reach about 110 km/h with a sustained velocity of 80 km/h. That’s 80 mph at top speed and just under 50 mph when he comes in for a landing.
Oh Batman, how you’ve let us all down. If you liked this paper, you should dig through the archives. We always wondered if [Bruce Willis] could have actually saved the world from an asteroid.


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Create a reference archive system based on microfilm to safeguard documents as part of a modernized document imaging and management solution.
Render images to an analog reference archive that provides a long-term unalterable, secure copy of vital data.
Can be operated onsite as part of a total records management department or outsourced to specialty provider.
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New technology enables business solutions that have not been matched with corresponding enhancements to record management policies and strategies.
Long-term preservation of vital records
Preserving electronic communications such as email and social media
While security continues to improve, digital-only files remain vulnerable to alteration, hacking and breaches, whether accidental or malicious
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The mission of a county clerk is to ensure the long-term protection, preservation and accessibility of public and vital records. We have chosen to mix the benefits of cloud-based images for immediate customer access and secure back up with the value-add of unalterable and archival qualities that microfilm continues to provide. Our cloud-based images are routinely replicated to microfilm for long term preservation. Brazos County has a quality microfilm library of records dating back to sovereignty of the County and we are keeping that valuable library up to date going forward.
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***: Cotswolds sightseeing tour
Gloucester, 18m - Cheltenham, 72m - Cleve Hill Pass 246m - Winchcombe, 94m - Stanton, 142m - Broadway, 85m - Broadway Tower, 312m - Blockley, 147m - Moreton-in-Marsh, 129m - Rollright Stones, 221m - Chipping Norton, 198m - Charlbury, 88m
6h (3/4 + 3/4 + 1/3 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 3/4 + 1/2 + 3/4)
d: too much traffic everywhere
This trip started with trouble. I had to change trains in Didcot and the transfer was pretty tight. I reached the platform when the train was arriving, but the bike compartment was on the other end of the train. I hurried to get there, but when I reached it, they did not let me in... cursing did not help, the train started moving, leaving me behind on the platform. So, I had to wait one hour to take the next one. Fortunately, they did not carefully check my ticket, because it was only valid on this specific train that I missed. Then I arrived at 11 am in Gloucester, which is actually a quite lovely town with a nice cathedral and a river port. I spent more than one hour there before I continued to Cheltenham Spa. I just wanted to follow the bike path signs, but in the end I realised that I had taken some unnecessary detours. Cheltenham is a dynamic city, but without any major sights. When I left Cheltenham, I was already 2h behind my initial schedule. After Cheltenham the road starts climbing over a pass to Winchcombe, a lovely typical Cotswolds town with a castle, but the entrance fee was ridiculous, so I skipped it and continued to Stanton, which has nice houses but is boring otherwise. I tried to find a shortcut to Broadway there, but I did not find anything compatible with my road tyres. Broadway is a very touristy village with some renowned art galleries, but I did not have enough time to visit them - instead I enjoyed my icecream. What followed then was a steep climb to Broadway tower - a castle-like building on a hill with nice views all around. I visited the tower and left after 5pm. There were still 60km to go to Oxford. Yet, I made a stupid, exhausting detour to avoid the main road. The last place I wanted to visit were the Rollright Stones, a stone age site with a stone circle. The monoliths are smaller than in Stonehenge, but still quite impressive. I continued after 7pm. Unfortunately, I felt some pain in my knees, so I opted for taking the next train to Oxford from Charlbury at 8pm; otherwise, I would still have had another hour to ride, which I would not have enjoyed it much... so, this was probably the better solution.

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Bank of Canada makes emergency interest rate cut
Move comes on top of previous 50-point cut last week
Stephen Poloz, governor of the Bank of Canada, has cut the bank's rate twice since the start of the month. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
The Bank of Canada has made an unexpected rate cut, cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 0.75 per cent.The central bank already cut its rate to 1.25 per cent at a previously scheduled meeting on March 4 to help counteract the impact of the coronavirus. Friday's decision takes that one step further."This unscheduled rate decision is a proactive measure taken in light of the negative shocks to Canada's economy arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent sharp drop in oil prices," the bank said.Under normal circumstances, the bank meets every six weeks to set its interest rate, and only takes action outside of those time frames when the situation calls for it.Friday's decision shows just how seriously Canadian policy-makers are taking the coronavirus situation. It's the first time the bank has moved its rate higher or lower outside of a scheduled meeting since the financial crisis in 2009."Pretty sure I've never seen that: a rate cut on a Friday afternoon," said Doug Porter, chief economist with the Bank of Montreal. "Shows you just how unusual these times are to have the Bank of Canada to make an announcement like that at two o'clock on a Friday afternoon."The bank's next scheduled rate decision is set for April 15, at which point the central bank says it will "provide a full update of its outlook for the Canadian and global economies."Porter thinks the bank will indeed cut again, but likely not before that scheduled meeting. "At this point, we're penciling in another 50-basis-point cut … which will take them down to 0.25, which is as low as we got during the financial crisis."The bank's rate impacts the rates that Canadian savers and borrowers get for things like savings accounts and mortgages. Finance Minister Morneau announces $10 billion in credit being made available for businesses through Business Development Bank of Canada and Export Development Bank, while the Bank of Canada Gov. Stephen Poloz announces another rate cut. 1:11James Laird, president of mortgage brokerage Canwise Financial, says anyone with a variable rate mortage can expect to feel the impact of the two 50-point rate cuts soon, if they haven't already."For every one per cent a variable mortgage rate drops, borrowers stand to save approximately $584 per year for each $100,000 of their mortgage balance," he said.All things being equal, the bank raises its rate when it wants to cool down an economy that is overheating with high inflation. It cuts when it wants to encourage people to borrow, spend and invest.TD Bank economist Brian DePratto called the move "a solid step in the right direction.""Seemingly, every day this week has brought new challenges and negative headlines related to COVID-19," he said. "A response was clearly required — and not only was one delivered, but it came with the promise of more to come."Indeed, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said the bank "stands ready to adjust monetary policy further," but at 0.75 per cent, there is only so much room to cut.