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Dal 200 wrapped up with a singalong spectacular last week, as attendees at the final bicentennial event of the year looked back on some of the 200th anniversary's many special moments and ahead to its legacy.
A milestone as exciting as a 200th anniversary naturally lends itself to thinking big. That’s just what Dal has done during its bicentennial year, creating a legacy as the university enters its third century.
An anniversary year requires a party or two, and Dal 200 has had its fair share of big celebrations. Take a look back at some of the galas and gatherings that helped shape the year — from the Bicentennial Launch to the Coast-to-Coast bus tour.
Dal's 200th anniversary year was made vibrant through artistic works such as George Elliott Clarke's epic poem on the university's history and a unique, original theatrical take on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" (which also celebrated its bicentennial in 2018).
As Dal’s 200th anniversary nears its end, excitement is ramping up about a new public space in the works to honour the legacy of the university’s bicentennial in the years ahead. The Dal community will have a chance to learn more about the space at next week's Dal 200 Wrap-Up event.


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DUTIES OF A COURT REPORTER?
A court reporter plays an important role in keeping a record of all the things that transpire in the court and the cases that are being trialed in the court. That is why, the court reporters have earned themselves the title of “Guardians of the Record”. Here is a quick glimpse of all the major duties that a court reporter usually carries out. A court reporter:
- Record everything that was said and presented in the court
- Capture the court status quo in pictures as well as writing
- Record the verbatim scripts that both, defendants and prosecutors, share in the court
- Make an inventory of the points raised in the court
- Make an effort to record everything about the court case assigned to him
REQUIREMENTS TO BECOME A COURT REPORTER?
The career of a court reporter is quiet exciting as well as thrilling. Hence, if you want to become a court reporter then here is a list of requirements to become a court reporter. A court reporter must:
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Have a High School Diploma or the degree equivalent to it
- Have a degree related to court reporting or a degree that covers stenography
- Have the license and certification of the court reporter
- Be impartial and record only the truth
- Have excellent command over English language
- Have the stenography typing speed of at least 180 wpm for literary shorthand, 200 wpm for jury instruction
- Have the stenography typing speed of 225 wpm for the testimony as well as questions and answers
STEPS TO BECOME A COURT REPORTER?
Here is a step by step guide to help you understand the process of becoming a court reporter.
It is extremely important for a court reporter to either have a diploma in court reporting or an associate degree in court reporting to pursue a career as a court reporter. Some states demands an associate degree specifically while some states only want the court reporter to have the diploma. One can enroll in the college to get the associate degree in court reporting or stenography, or in a school to get a court reporting diploma after completing High School or a degree equivalent to it. Even after getting proper degree, most of the court reporters are encouraged to take additional classes and attend workshops about English grammar and punctuations. Court reporters also show interest in attention transcription workshops and other related events to polish their skills.
The process of acquiring the license and certification is different for different states. Hence, after securing the associate degree or diploma in court reporting or stenography one must review the state laws and plan the next step. Some states require an examination where the skills of the court reporter are assessed and the stenography typing rate is calculated.
In order to get the license, the court reporters may have to become the notary public and to pass the written examination and the stenography speed tests. The court reporters can get their certification from a nationally recognized institution as well like National Court Reporting Association (NCRA) and National Verbatim Reporters Association (NVRA).
The court reporters usually work under government in the government courts to record the trials. Some court reporters also work with some court reporting agencies as well. A few reporters work as freelance reporters which may work part time or may draw a proper contract with the client for court reporting a particular case.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO BECOME A COURT REPORTER?
You enroll in an associate degree program after completing the High School or any degree equivalent to it. The time duration of completing the associate degree in court reporting is about two years. Then one has to pass the court reporting test as well if it is included in the rules of state.
HOW MUCH DOES A COURT REPORTER USUALLY EARN?
The data provided by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics state that the average yearly income of a court reporter is about $57,150. Some states like New York pay court reporters hefty amounts of money because of the demand of the court reporters in that area. Some court reporters even earn in six figures per annum due to their experience and skill in court reporting.

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(CNN) — An Apple employee who led organizing efforts against harassment and discrimination within the company said she has been fired.
Janneke Parrish, a program manager at Apple and one of the organizers of the #AppleToo movement, was suspended late last week and terminated on Thursday, she told CNN Business in an interview on Friday. Parrish said Apple told her she was fired for deleting files from her work devices before turning them over to the company as part of an internal investigation into leaks to the press.
The move marks the latest escalation of a growing rift between Apple and its employees, who in recent months have broken with the company’s historic culture of secrecy to speak out on controversial hiring decisions, alleged pay disparities and remote work policies.
Parrish and a colleague, Cher Scarlett, create #AppleToo in August to help Apple employees “organize and protect ourselves,” according to the movement’s website. They called on coworkers to share stories of issues they faced including racism, sexism and discrimination in order to outline “changes we expect to see Apple make.”
Parrish told CNN Business Friday they received hundreds of reports in the weeks since then, about incidents that “range the gamut from sexism and ageism to disclosures of rape and suicide.”
Apple did not comment specifically on Parrish’s firing. Scarlett, who remains at the company, declined to comment.
“We are and have always been deeply committed to creating and maintaining a positive and inclusive workplace,” Apple spokesperson Josh Rosenstock said in a statement to CNN. “We take all concerns seriously and we thoroughly investigate whenever a concern is raised and, out of respect for the privacy of any individuals involved, we do not discuss specific employee matters.”
According to Parrish, the company began investigating her on September 30, days after CEO Tim Cook sent a memo to employees warning that “people who leak confidential information do not belong here.” The memo, and the leaks from a prior town hall meeting that prompted it, were first reported by The Verge.
Parrish, who said she was not behind the leaks but had spoken publicly to the press about problems at Apple, was asked to hand in her work-issued devices to the company but she deleted some personal information beforehand.
“Apple encourages us to merge our private and work devices fairly thoroughly for testing purposes,” she said. “I had some private conversations, private information such as Robinhood investments, things that frankly aren’t Apple’s business to know.”
She said those deletions were what Apple cited as the reason for firing her.
Parrish directed questions on whether she plans further action against Apple to her lawyer, Chris Albanese, who told CNN Business that he is “exploring all different avenues on behalf of our client.”
The goal behind starting #AppleToo, Parrish said, was calling attention to “systemic issues” within Apple’s culture that have been “systematically swept under the rug” by the company.
“One thing about Apple’s culture is that it is a deeply secretive company,” she said, adding that employees in the office often don’t know what the person next to them is working on. “With #AppleToo and with remote work … we’re no longer alone, we’re no longer isolated, and we’re recognizing that what one of us experiences, many of us experience.”
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text: As my British Post Apoc setting has alien jungles and I hope to start a VSF Venus setting some day I decided to get some made. These are plastic aquarium plants based on washers. 1. Take a metal washer - wash it washing up liquid (how many times can I get wash into a sentence! ha ha ha!) 2. Dry it and cove the hole with tape. 3. Cover one side with PVA glue and cover with sand. 4. When dry paint the base in your chosen base coat. 5. Chop plants and hot glue them on in clusters. 6. Paint the hot glue lumps. Easy, quick and effective. Oh one other tip, get your plants form a local shop not GW. They are far cheaper.

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AeroGarden - Cherry Tomato Seed Kit
Red Heirloom Tomatos - AERO501
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The Cherry Tomato Seed Kit AERO501 for the AeroGarden 7 consists of Red Heirloom tomatoes selected for their high output of great-tasting cherry tomatoe plant's that grow short and bushy naturally to fit in even the smallest AeroGardens. Ready to harvest in ten to twelve weeks and continues to produce fruit for up to six months. Enjoy the sweet flavor of fresh tomatoes in salads and salsas, even in the middle of winter. Each kit includes 3 Red Heirloom cherry tomato seed pods and four plant spacers to allow your tomato plants ample room to flourish and thrive.

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How to Enter the WSOP 2021 Freezeout Events
Table Of Contents
- WSOP Freezeout Tournament Schedule
- Event #10: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #13: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #26: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #30: $1,500 Monster Stack
- Event #35: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #37: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #41: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #47: $5,000 8-Handed Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
- $1,000 Mini Main Event
- Event #75: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
- Event #76: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
There's a host of differences in the 2021 World Series of Poker but one change that will please many poker players is the return of traditional freezeout tournaments.
No longer is the Main Event the only pure freezeout at the WSOP as beginning October 6, every popular buy-in level from $500 to $5,000 will offer a true freezeout.
As well as the return of named freezeout tournaments, all Super Turbo Bounty Events, the $1,500 Monster Stack and $1,000 Mini Main Event will also operate under the old school format.
Use this article as your go to to find out all the freezeout related information as the series progresses.
WSOP Freezeout Tournament Schedule
|October 5||11 a.m.||$1,000||Event #10: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em|
|October 6||11 a.m.||$3,000||Event #13: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em|
|October 13||11 a.m.||$1,000||Event #26: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem|
|October 15||11 a.m.||$1,500||Event #30: $1,500 Monster Stack Flight A|
|October 16||11 a.m.||$1,500||Event #30: $1,500 Monster Stack Flight B|
|October 18||11 a.m.||$500||Event #35: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem|
|October 19||11 a.m.||$1,500||Event #37: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em|
|October 21||11 a.m.||$2,500||Event #41: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em|
|October 24||3 p.m.||$5,000||Event #47: $5,000 8-Handed Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em|
|November 3||11 a.m.||$1,000||Event #65: $1,000 Mini Main Event|
|November 15||11 a.m.||$1,500||Event #75: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Holdem|
|November 15||3 p.m.||$10,000||Event #76: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em|
Event #10: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: October 5, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $1,000
The first freezeout that kicks off the WSOP's single entry events gets underway in the first week of the series. Daniel Park, the 2019 reigning champion, walked away with the $226,243 first place prize two years ago.
Those who wish to play this event will need to make sure they have registered for the tournament by level 12 as this is when the late registration period ends. As it is a super turbo event, blinds will rapidly increase every 20 minutes and the tournament will play out to a winner from the get go. This event is an ideal choice for those who will be in Vegas for a limited period of time when the WSOP is on.
If a player is successful in busting an opponent, they will receive $300 for each elimination and players will be able to claim these prizes from 5 p.m.
Event #13: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: October 6, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $3,000
As already mentioned, any tournament with freezeout in the event name is a new addition to the 2021 WSOP. Players in this will receive a 40,000 chip stack with blinds beginning at 100-200 with a big blind ante from the start.
The first traditional freezeout is a three-day event, getting underway at 11 a.m. on October 6. To make Day 2, players will have to survive 17 x 40 minutes levels and those who progress to the next day will compete for a further 10 x 60 minute levels. The final day will play down to its conclusion and again will operate under 60-minute levels.
Event #26: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: October 13, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $1,000
Another affordable freezeout event begins just as the second week of the series comes to an end. Unlike the $3K event, all levels are 30 minutes and the starting stack is 20,000 instead.
Day 1 will last 22 levels, with a big blind ante from level 1, with Day 2 kicking off at noon the following day where the tournament will play down to a winner.
Read more: WSOP 2021: PokerNews Staff Predictions (Part Two)
Event #30: $1,500 Monster Stack
Event Details: October 15 (Flight A) October 16 (Flight B), 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $1,500
The $1,500 Monster Stack is one of the most popular events at the series, with the last Monster Stack attracting 6,035 entries which created an $8,147,250 total prize pool. Kainalu McCue-Unciano turned his $1,500 into a $1,008,850 payday after his triumph in the same event in 2019, so it is an tournament where someone with a modest bankroll can walk away with life changing riches.
The Monster Stack is a major test of endurance too, with the event lasting five days. There are two starting flights which kick off on the above dates. Day 2 and 3 will both last ten levels, with both days beginning at 10 a.m. on October 17 and 18 respectively. The fourth day of Monster Stack fun will see the field whittled down to a final five, then on the following day the winner will be crowned.
Event #35: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: October 18, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $500
The least expensive freezeout of the series will no doubt attract a hefty player pool, it also follows the same structure as the $1k event.
Event #37: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: October 19, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $1,500
The second Super Turbo Bounty tournament has a slightly higher buy-in than the one that kicks off the freezeout events. For the extra $500, players will receive an increased starting stack of 25,000 whilst knocking out another player will earn you $500 per bust out.
Like the prior Super Turbo Event, the tournament will all be wrapped up in one day.
Read More: What Will Be Different About the WSOP 2021?
Event #41: $2,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: October 21, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $2,500
Like the $3K freezeout, the $2,500 event is a three day tournament where the first day will play out 17 levels, the second a further ten and then play ends once the winner has been determined on Day 3.
Day 1 levels will be 40 minutes in length with Day 2 and 3 levels increasing to 60 minutes.
Event #47: $5,000 8-Handed Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: October 24, 3 p.m. PT. Buy-in: $5,000
The highest buy-in event of the freezeout schedule is also a multi-day tournament. Those who decide to play will get a 50,000 starting stack and will have to make it through 15 x 40 minute levels on the first day. Day 2 and 3 will also use the 40 minute blind level structure.
$1,000 Mini Main Event
Event Details: November 3, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $1,000
Poker players who have aspirations of playing the WSOP Main Event can get a taste of what to expect without breaking the bank by playing the Mini Main Event.
Whilst winning this event won't likely make you a millionaire, the last Mini Main Event saw Jeremy Saderne be the beneficiary of the $628,654 payday that came with being the last person standing. Again, expect a huge turnout for this event as the last iteration saw 5,521 players compete for a share of the $4.97 million up for grabs.
For those that want to participate, make sure to have registered the event by the time level 12 ends as that is when late registration closes. Day 1 breaks after 22 levels with Day 2, as usual, playing down to the final five with the winner being determined the day after.
Read More: How to Plan a WSOP Trip: Housing, Flights, Transportation in Las Vegas
Event #75: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: November 15, 11 a.m. PT. Buy-in: $1,500
The final event of the freezeout series follows the same format of that of the $2,500 and $3,000 events. Just remember to get registered by level nine to guarantee your seat.
Event #76: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em
Event Details: November 15, 3 p.m. PT. Buy-in: $10,000
The last Super Turbo Bounty event is one for the high rollers with it's five-figure buy-in. It is also the only one that is a multi day event.
Bounties in this will net a player an additional $3,000 per elimination and these can be redeemed after 8:30 p.m. on Day 1. The first day will play down to the final five with the conclusion of the event happening on November 16. Late registration for the event also ends after the twelfth level.
Brian Green took home the Gold Bracelet for the last WSOP $10K Super Turbo Bounty for a six-figure score of $345,669. Green pipped high roller regular Ali Imsirovic to first place, which denied the Bosnian & Herzegovinian national his first WSOP title.
Calum has been a part of the PokerNews team since September 2021 after working in the UK energy sector. He played his first hand of poker in 2017 and immediately fell in love with the game. Calum's proudest poker achievement is winning the only tournament he has ever played in Las Vegas, the prestigious $60 Flamingo evening event.
In this Series
- 1 WSOP 2021 Schedule: 88 WSOP Bracelet Events, Sept. 30 - Nov. 23
- 2 WSOP 2021: Best Events to Play on a Budget
- 3 WSOP 2021 Main Event Satellites From $80 Hit GGPoker
- 4 WSOP 2021: Former Champ Chris Moneymaker Set to Miss This Year's WSOP
- 5 WSOP 2021: COVID-19 Vaccination Required for Players, Update on Staff
- 6 WSOP 2021: Best Hotels in Las Vegas
- 7 WSOP 2021: Try These 5 Hidden Gem Las Vegas Restaurants
- 8 WSOP 2021: Read Phil Ivey's Top WSOP Tips
- 9 WSOP 2021: 8 Things Poker Players Should Definitely Bring to the WSOP - and 2 You Shouldn't!
- 10 How to Enter the WSOP 2021 Freezeout Events
- 11 Is It Worth Playing Cash Games During the WSOP?
- 12 What Game Should You Pick in Dealer’s Choice?
- 13 What We've Learned from the First Week of the 2021 WSOP
- 14 Hands That Helped GGPoker Ambassador Jason Koon Win 1st WSOP Gold Bracelet
- 15 GGPoker Successfully Brings Online Flip & Go Concept to Live 2021 WSOP
- 16 Jason Koon, Connor Drinan Lead 2021 WSOP Player of the Year Race
- 17 Anthony Zinno in Exclusive One-Player Club Following Fourth WSOP Title
- 18 Looking Back At The Illustrious History of the Poker Players Championship
- 19 Phil Hellmuth Blows Up AGAIN; Rails Against WSOP POY Rules
- 20 Poker Fan Loses Job, Twitch Streamer Gifts Him WSOP Main Event Package
- 21 WSOP 2021: Are the Fields Tougher or Softer than Recent Years?
- 22 Doyle Brunson Treats Crowd to Surprise WSOP Return on Halloween
- 23 Spooktastic: Best & Worst Halloween Costumes from the 2021 WSOP
- 24 Phil Ivey NFT Launch Party a True 'What Happens in Vegas' Night
- 25 Poker Community Buys Man Facing Terminal Cancer into WSOP Main Event
- 26 Everything You Need to Know About the 2021 WSOP Main Event
- 27 WSOP Temporarily Goes on Lockdown Over Suspect's "Suspicious Item"
- 28 Did Phil Hellmuth's Sex Ban Lead to 1989 WSOP Main Event Glory?
- 29 Doyle Brunson Arrives; Defending Champ Salas Busts Before 1st Break of 2021 WSOP Main Event
- 30 Aces Cracked Leaves Kevin Campbell as the 2021 WSOP Main Event Bubble
- 31 Quads Vs. Quads Sends Chang Liu Home Near WSOP Main Event Bubble
- 32 The Muck: Mike "The Mouth" Matusow Wants to End Max Late Reg
- 33 Doyle Brunson Proves He Still Has it Despite WSOP Main Event Exit
- 34 Phil "Gandalf" Hellmuth Makes Grand Entrance in 2021 WSOP Main Event
- 35 Chris Moneymaker Makes Late Decision to Play WSOP Main Event
- 36 Who is GGPoker Ambassador and YouTube Vlogger 'Greg Goes All In?'
- 37 The Muck: Poker Twitter Debates Potential Angle-Shooting in WSOP Main Event
- 38 Nick Rigby Plays the 2-3 "Dirty Diaper" in 2021 WSOP Main Event
- 39 Is Josh Arieh Running Away with WSOP Player of the Year?
- 40 'Wedding Crashers' & 'Old School' Star Vince Vaughn to Join WSOP's Move to Strip in 2022
- 41 Eli Elezra Selected as 2021 Poker Hall of Fame Inductee
- 42 Master of Ceremonies Vince Vaughn Suffers Bad Beat in His First WSOP Tournament
- 43 Players Implement Covid Contract During WSOP $250K Super High Roller
- 44 How Much Money Did Players at the WSOP Main Event Final Table Really Make?
- 45 Phil Hellmuth Breaks WSOP Single Series Final Table Record
- 46 Daniel Negreanu's Most Mind-Boggling WSOP Stat at the Rio
- 47 Josh Arieh a Surprising 2021 WSOP Player of the Year Winner


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My name is Trevin Wax. I am a follower of Jesus Christ. My wife is Corina, and we have two children: Timothy (7) and Julia (3).
Currently, I serve the church by working at LifeWay Christian Resources as managing editor of The Gospel Project, a gospel-centered small group curriculum for all ages that focuses on the grand narrative of Scripture.
I have been blogging regularly at Kingdom People since October 2006. I frequently contribute articles to other publications, such as Christianity Today. I also enjoy traveling and speaking at different churches and conferences.
My first book, Holy Subversion: Allegiance to Christ in an Age of Rivals, was published by Crossway Books in January 2010. (Click here for excerpts and more information.) My second book, Counterfeit Gospels: Rediscovering the Good News in a World of False Hope(Moody Publishers) was released in April 2011.

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Lego Star Warshas been an unwavering element of Lego‘s adaptations and it doesn’t look like slowing down. If anything, Lego Star Wars is picking up speed, as they develop Lego sets, films, TV series and video games. The video game series has been ongoing since 2005 and is releasing another title next month. The title of the latest installment is Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens and in celebration of Star Wars Day, Lego have released a trailer for the upcoming game.
Okay, so it’s probably not the new Star Wars trailer you’d like to see (Rogue One anyone?), but a sneak peak trailer forLEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been leaked, and if you’re still in love with the seventh Star Wars movie, then you’re definitely going to love this. Copying some of the scenes portrayed in the movie’s trailers, the game looks like it will give fans the change to play as Finn, Rey, Poe Dameron and all your favorites from The Force Awakens, plus it will apparently fill in some of the blanks from the time period between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Interested yet? (more…)
To celebrate the release of 3D Star Wars: Phantom Menace, the LEGO corporation, along with certified German LEGO professional Rene Hoffmeister, developed and constructed a way to turn LEGO bricks into music using the basic concept of a barrel organ.
We took the iconic Star Wars Main Theme, rearranged it and translated it into a matrix – the construction blueprint for the organ. Then, we took the four most famous Star Wars worlds – Hoth, Tatooine, Endor and the Death Star – and built them on to the barrel, accordingly to the musical composition. When the organ is turned, the bricks touch mechanical sensors – these strike the keys of a built-in keyboard and play the Star Wars Main Theme
Nothing brought me more joy as a child than an afternoon with a tub of LEGO bricks. Kids today though, man, they have it great. Not only is LEGO still a staple of children’s toys but their ever expanding partnerships create some of the coolest LEGO collections. Announced yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con, LEGO is partnering with Marvel and DC for a new line of LEGO Super Heroes. I’ll let the enormity of this awesomeness sink in. OMG! LEGO SUPER HEROES!
There’s already been a LEGO Batman line of toys, which then branched into a LEGO Batman video game, but now kids can collect the entire Justice League! All right, let’s be honest, it won’t only be kids. I’ll be buying up LEGO DC characters, you’ll be buying LEGO DC characters or possibly Marvel, collectors will be buying up every available minifig. Shit, after these new LEGO Super Heroes are released there won’t be any left for kids!
As you’ll be able to tell for yourself when you look at the gallery below, the Marvel figures are still in a preliminary stage. For one, the Hulk has no face. In the Marvel line I particularly like Wolverine, those LEGO claws are great. Iron Man’s helmet looks weird though, too big for his body. But the DC figures look ready to hit the shelves at a moments notice. Just look at that Wonder Woman! She’s beautiful. Superman and Poison Ivy are new figures as well, with Batman, the Joker and Catwoman getting some updating. Note the logo on Batman’s chest. Special editons of Batman and Green Lantern are being made available too, but there will be only about 1,500 of those, so good luck snagging one. here will also be super heroes in LEGO’s Hero Factory line, which are figures you build yourself. In this line will be Batman, Green Lanter, the Hulk and Iron Man.
Here’s the teaser for the new LEGO Batman,
Check out the gallery of LEGO minifigs below the cut (thanks to ComicBricks for the images!) and let us know what you think about the new line of LEGO Super Heroes. Also below the cut is the trailer for the LEGO Star Wars TV Special, give it a watch!
Today, whip out your lightsaber, make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs and talking backwards begin, hrm. Why, you ask? For the love of our favorite sci-fi movie series, Star Wars. Sure, it’s had it’s ups and downs over it’s 34 year history. There have been some questionable alterations to the original trilogy and then there’s the prequels, but through it all Star Wars fans stay devoted. So, on today, the most pun-erific of holidays, fly your Star Wars nerd flag and wave it high. Who knows, you might find fellow fans of the Wars in the most unlikely of places.
Need tips on celebrating the venerated day? Oooh, I’m waaaay ahead of you. The most likely way you’ll want to celebrate the special day is with a movie marathon of the films. Lucky for you Lucasfilm made a special announcement today about the upcoming Blu-ray release of the complete Star Wars saga. They released the full list of special features included on the 9-disc mega edition, and there is enough crap to satiate even the most die hard of fans. Oh wait, except they’ve decided not to include versions of the original, unaltered films. Why? Because apparently Lucasfilm is trying to rewrite history. They want the first time we see Jabba to be when he’s talking to Han in the Falcon’s hanger in A New Hope. Or even worse, they want to ingrain the god-awful musical number from Jabba’s palace in Return of the Jedi in our minds forever. Or, ever worse than that, they would like to continually shit all over actors like Sebastian Shaw (the original Anakin we see all blue and glowy and the end of RotJ) and Jeremy Bulloch (the original Boba Fett, before we knew he was a clone and therefor had to sound like, Temuera Morrison). Come on guys, can’t we watch the films the way we did in our childhood? I guess you can if you’re lucky enough to own some old VHS copies and a working VCR. Warning though, two decade old tapes tend to look mighty shitty on your 50-inch, plasma television. Just sayin’.
For the whole list of special features click the jump. Also beyond the jump is a list of more Star Wars stuff you need to ensure you’ll have the best Star Wars Day of your life. Well, at least a Star Wars Day where you’ve bought a lot of cool crap.
Welcome gaming bastards to another edition of G.R.O.W. This is NerdBastards weekly video game release list where we give y’all a heads up on what was released for the consoles and PC (and sometimes the MAC). We also cover downloadable titles as well.
We got quite the releases on both the home release as well as the digital side, with Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime will let players once again control the rookie and bust even more ghosts on the digital side. The big release for the home release is Crysis 2. Of course, this coming Sunday, we’ll see the release of the Nintendo 3DS and all you have to do is click the jump button to see what comes inside the box and the 18 games that are being released on the same day.
So what are y’all waiting for? Check after the jump to see if there is anything coming out that will make your wallets cry!


I sent the below as an email to all the contributors of The Lost Generation campaign, which aimed to gain money to fund the editing and distribution of the film back in 2012. The film has since gained more money and a distribution deal from a formal film company, Safecracker Pictures UK. Some people who’ve … Continue reading An Apology and A De-Censored Note
WE’RE STARTING TO GET a bit of a reputation for ourselves, aren’t we? British people, tea parties aside, will still find a smouldering calorie of energy hidden somewhere within our own Dickensian darkness to laugh at an American. It seemed a shame, then, that Slava Rubin, from crowdfunding film distributor and fundraising site Indie GoGo, … Continue reading The Secret of Successful Crowdfunding for Film?
IF THE MESSAGE IS widely accessible but the mediums still aren’t as accessible across the world, could crowdfunding change the nature of media globalisation? France, in its fraternal wisdom, has come up with something even more wonderfully hippiefied than Paris’ bike hire service Velib… Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing: the future of creative industries? Web, world: welcome … Continue reading NEW PULP FICTION: Is crowdfunding the now-and-future of the creative industries?


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The Classiques Garnier have reprinted the bilingual edition and translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere, by Pierre Blanc, first published in 1989. At the time, this pioneering edition offered French readers both an easy access to Gianfranco Contini's scholarly edition, at the forefront of philological criticism, and a refined yet modern translation with a literary introduction. Its main feature was contextualization in the light of other works by Petrarch, especially the Latin works, which were attracting new scholarly attention. It made it possible to read a Petrarch quite different from that of the Gallimard editions, which were based on the mid-nineteenth-century prose translation of Ferdinand de Grammont.
It must be said that this work has aged well. The introduction (1-34) recontextualizes the Canzoniere in the light of Petrarch’s own opinion of the work, which he considered "minor" (leading one to suspect vast affectation). Pierre Blanc’s reading, based on the philological and linguistic study of poetry, then intersects with a psychoanalytic and psycho-critical approach to the vernacular as the language of the repressed and the mother tongue. Using the text edited by Contini, with its many philological notes that are always authoritative, Pierre Blanc adds a socio-linguistic analysis of the language of Petrarch: at the crossroads of the vernacular Tuscan, imbued with Latinisms and Provençalisms, Petrarch's idiom is the result of many influences and reflects the cultural hybridization in which he lived, exiled almost all his life from his idealized Italy. Latin, the language of Rome, the language of the rediscovery of Antiquity but also the language of learned love (Laure compared to Daphne, rereadings of Ovid and Virgil) is then for Petrarch the language of poetry par excellence, and also that of sacred love.
This introduction is accompanied by a biographical note (35-37); a bibliography (39-43) albeit a little dated now; a poetic glossary (45-46); and a note to the text (47-48). In addition, the appendices such as the list of incipits (568-589) are still very useful tools for an audience of students or informed amateurs such as the first edition sought.
The translation itself (52-567) is remarkable. It has deserved to be reprinted for a wide audience, in this paperback edition that places Petrarch among the European classics. Translation is a matter of negotiation, and sometimes subjective choices precede the act of translating. Here, for example, Pierre Blanc chooses to translate the hendecasyllable, the great eleven-syllable verse of the Italian language, with the alexandrine, its prestigious equivalent in French poetry; but he sometimes uses the decasyllable, the form of lyric verse before the sixteenth century. Rhythm is always a priority, as internal rhymes and respect for the order of words in the vernacular language are the obligatory routes into French, a language without a tonic accent, which makes prosody more complicated. This is why the verse often used here is free, without rhyme.
Pierre Blanc always chooses the most literal meaning, as he explains in his introduction, since his reading is not necessarily that of a poet, while Petrarch, who would always be in a metapoetic discourse, would speak only of the act of writing. Blanc draws Petrarch closer to the lyrical poet or to the poet of sacred love, leaving it to the reader to explore the connotations. For example, in the sonnet Benedetto sia, Blanc's translation of the last terzina does not reveal the implicit ambiguity about who is going to win fama: the beloved woman for her beauty, or the poet himself for his poetic talent. The notes are quite relevant, as they explain references or allusions to ancient poetry or troubadour poetry (for instance, the quotations of major poetic predecessors in the canzone Lasso me). Petrarch is thus translated according to the criterion of fidelity, with a bit of translational erasure: we do not read a poet's translation of poet, as is the case with Yves Bonnefoy's rendition or the sixteenth-century French imitations. But neither do we read the translation of a grammarian or a philologist, like that of Gerard Genot, which offers a mine of notes but but somehow restricts the perception of the text's pulse.
Pierre Blanc thus provides the reader with a soundly established Italian text along with a modern, humble, and admiring translation of Petrarch, without giving in to the temptation to add his own voice to that of the poet.

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Sabrina says that she can't "be by his side while he seeks the help he so desperately needs."
It seems that the romance between Lamar Odom and his fiancée Sabrina Parr has come to an end. In November 2019, the couple shared that Lamar popped the question and they were enthusiastic to start their married life together. They've been quite candid about Lamar's recovery from pornography and sex addiction, even sharing that they were abstaining from sex until they had tied the knot. In September, Lamar and Sabrina celebrated their engagement party with their loved ones, but in a post made on Wednesday (November 4), Sabrina revealed that the engagement is off.
"Y'all know I'm honest and transparent so I have to be the first to let you guys know that I am no longer engaged to Lamar," Parr wrote on her Instagram Story. "This has been a difficult decision for me to make but it is the best for myself and my children. Lamar has some things that he alone has to work through. I love him dearly but I am no longer able to be by his side while he seeks the help he so desperately needs. I wish him all the best and I am asking that you pray for everyone involved."
She didn't divulge any specifics about what led to her decision, but people have been drawing their own conclusions from Odom's past. Sabrina has reportedly been at odds with Odom's daughter, Destiny, and it was recently announced that Liza Morales, the mother of Odom's children, would be joining the next season of Basketball Wives L.A. Check out Sabina Parr's post below.

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Gulfport Police investigate early-morning traffic fatality
Gulfport Police Department is investigating a traffic fatality that occurred early Friday morning.
At about 2:09 a.m., officers responded to Highway 90 and Thornton Avenue, in reference to an overturned vehicle crash with injuries.
The on-scene investigation revealed that a 2005 Honda Accord, driven by a 37-year-old male, was traveling eastbound on Highway 90 near Thornton Avenue when the vehicle struck a curb causing it to flip several times. The man was later pronounced deceased.
The man has been identified, but his name has been withheld pending proper family notification by the Harrison County Coroner’s Office.
The crash is still under investigation by the Gulfport Police Department Traffic Division.


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To improve our ailing education system, Minister of Education Rupert Roopnaraine has on several occasions rightly emphasized the importance of integrating ICT in schools. Recently, when the Ministry of Education, under the one laptop per teacher initiative rolled out a programme of giving each teacher a laptop, many of us were very pleased. We interpreted it as the arrival of a new era. It was welcomed and seen as an opportunity where technology would be harnessed to lessen the workload of teachers. Lo and behold, the new school term has proved us wrong.
In preparation for the new school term, some of us prepared our schemes and notes of lessons on our computers. Ideally, we expected that when officers from the Ministry of Education came to supervise, they would check the schemes of work and notes of lessons using these computers. This week, officials from the Department of Education visited our school and indicated to us that they would not be accepting any schemes or notes of lessons on the laptops. Instead, they stressed that all schemes and notes of lessons must be handwritten. In other words, we must stick to the old model. We look at this as not only being inward looking, but also indicative of a very backward mentality which almost wholly annihilates the very reason why the computers were given to us.
With global warming and an emphasis on going green by preserving the environment, these officers are taking us to paper work, which is not only tiresome but is environmentally unfriendly. If this cannot be comprehended by the nation’s educators, I am afraid as a nation we may remain backward forever. Besides environmental factors, preparing notes of lessons electronically and in soft form would help to save the nation’s expenditure on stationery. What makes the whole episode vexatious is that despite our endeavour to explain, the officers would not listen. While some of us are not very surprised because the Minister inherited a system with a host of individuals who think that position is synonymous with intellect and knowing-it-all, as a citizen I remain concerned because these ‘great’ thinkers are never inclined to listen to an individual at the school level.
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WHAT: The U.S. premiere of "Sociology is a Martial Art," an award-winning documentary film tracing the life and work of the late Pierre Bourdieu, the French sociologist, author and ardent public intellectual. Considered one of France's most influential thinkers and prominent social activists, Bourdieu died unexpectedly in Paris in January at age 71.
Being shown at the University of California, Berkeley, the film by controversial French documentary maker Pierre Carles will be introduced by Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl. The film is in French, with English subtitles. It is free and open to the public.
The screening will be followed by a discussion with director Carles; UC Berkeley Film Studies Chair Linda Williams; and Loïc Wacquant, a UC Berkeley sociology professor and Bourdieu's longtime collaborator.
WHEN: 8 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 12.
WHERE: Wheeler Auditorium in Wheeler Hall, just northeast of Sather Gate and Sproul Plaza, on the central campus of UC Berkeley.
was not only the most cited social scientist in the
world, but was active in the anti-globalization movement,
encouraged striking French railway workers in their
1995 protest of government social security reform, and
defended ethnic immigrants from the attacks by government
and right-wing groups.
The film will
open "Ethnografeast", a Sept. 12-14 international conference
at International House of sociologists and anthropologist.
It is being organized by the journal Ethnography and
UC Berkeley's Center for Urban Ethnography. The conference
will focus on the practice, predicament and promise
of ethnography for the coming century. It will feature
papers by and debates among 20 of the world's foremost
practitioners of field research, among them Ruth Behar,
Jean Comaroff, Paul Farmer, Ulf Hannerz and Paul Willis.


The NSW Government is upgrading roads around Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport to help improve traffic flow around the airport and Port Botany. The upgrades will also complement Sydney Airport’s upgrades to the internal road network.
Updates and announcements
A Sydney Airport Precinct update was published in June 2017. The update outlines the progress of the Sydney Airport road upgrades being delivered by Roads and Maritime Services, and outlines some of the congestion busting measures already in place. View or download the June 2017 Sydney Airport Precinct update (PDF, 4.36Mb).
A Sydney Airport Precinct update was published in June 2017. The update outlines the progress of the Sydney Airport road upgrades being delivered by Roads and Maritime Services, and outlines some of the congestion busting measures already in place.
View or download the June 2017 Sydney Airport Precinct update (PDF, 4.36Mb).
Sydney Airport and Port Botany are two of the most important international gateways facilitating the movement of people and goods around New South Wales.
In 2015, almost 40 million passengers travelled through Sydney Airport and every day more than 150,000 people travel to and from the airport precinct.
About 75 per cent of airport passengers, visitors and workers travel by road. This traffic, combined with freight trucks from Port Botany and other road users, causes congestion on the roads around the airport.
With congestion on Sydney's roads currently costing the city around $6.1 billion each year, the NSW government is investing in upgrades to the roads around Sydney Airport to improve traffic flow and access around the airport and Port Botany.
Within the overall Airport network, three precincts have been identified for upgrades to improve traffic movements. These three precincts are:
- Airport East Precinct, in the area covering Wentworth Avenue, Botany Road, Mill Pond Road, Joyce Drive and General Holmes Drive, Mascot
- Airport West Precinct, in the vicinity of Marsh Street, Arncliffe
- Airport North Precinct, in the vicinity of O’Riordan Street, Mascot.
What's happening now?
Construction work to build the Airport West precinct upgrade at Marsh Street, Arncliffe started in early 2016 and is due for completion late 2017.
Major construction on the Airport East precinct road upgrades began in early 2017. The project is expected to be completed in late 2018.
The Airport North Review of Environmental factors has been approved and detailed design on the project is now progressing. Early work for this project started in October, with major construction expected to begin in early 2018.


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This beautiful cat is a very cuddly girl, she just loves sitting on a knee and nodding off. As a pure black cat, she is considered a good luck omen in many cultures! Tash is rather quiet and prefers to curl up somewhere rather than play like a kitten. So if you’re looking for a young cat who is mature beyond her 18months, Tash is for you.
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Our Dog Was Getting A Human Sister, So I Built Her A Room Under The Stairs – It Turned Out Better Than Expected
Molly the Westie found out she was going to be a big sister to a little human so I decided to build her a room of her own under the stairs before the baby arrived. Nothing existed there before, it was walled-in. I wasn't sure how big the space was, or if it would even be possible, so was very happy with the end result.
Laundry room with stacked washer and dryer, plus built in dog bed. Love the grey cabinets. A simple rearrangement of task areas takes advantage of vertical space to make cleanup easier for both two- and four-legged family members
Treat your pooch (and yourself) to a cute and useful DIY pet organization project. There’s a place for everything — treats, toys, leash, shampoo and the oh-so-necessary lint roller! Here’s what you need: Wood Shelf with S Hooks, Room Essentials
7 Helpful Organizing Ideas for Homes & People with Pets
The dog bed is adorable. My Daisy would LOVE a little "puppy nest" like this, but then she'd be spoiled. But, I may have to include it in my craft room. *sigh* A bed for the cat and dog. DIY,For the Home,


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LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / December 9, 2021 / Gloss (www.instagram.com/gloss), one of the world's largest arts and media companies, is bringing the physical artwork of world-renowned artist Banksy into the digital world through a non-fungible token (NFT). The company has created a 1/1 NFT titled ‘Banksy Warning Sign,' a digital recreation of one of Banksy's most critically important and politically charged artworks commemorating September 11.
The holder of the Banksy ‘Warning Sign' NFT will also receive a 5% equity share in the original 2006 artwork by Banksy titled ‘Warning Sign'. The original artwork has been certified by Pest Control, Banksy's Authentication Arm, and has been independently valued at between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000 USD.
"We wanted to create a NFT that is a re-elaboration and digitization of the original artwork by Banksy we own. It is an installation comprising of a CGI video production that we created with our team of talented artists. As the holder of the Banksy NFT will also own a stake in the original artwork by Banksy, the Banksy NFT we created will bridge the gap between the real and digital artworlds for the very first time."
"Given the significance of this artwork in what is the 20th anniversary of September 11, we wanted to create a whole new level of access and democratization to the artwork so that other people could also experience it. We want everyone to be able to participate - whether they have traditional art knowledge or crypto knowledge - so they can experience art and NFTs in a brand-new way."
A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of the Banksy ‘Warning Sign' NFT will be donated to the Fire Department New York Foundation. This organization represents and supports the New York firefighters who were the first responders on 9/11.
This groundbreaking combination of NFT and physical art is the first of its kind and will pay homage to those who lost their lives in 911, as well as the original artwork by Banksy.
The Banksy Warning Sign NFT is currently being auctioned on Opensea and will end at 4pm ET (NYC time) on Sunday 12th of December.
To learn more about the Banksy Warning Sign NFT or to purchase, go to https://www.glossnfts.com/banksywarningsign/.
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Review: THE TUNNEL (2016) Digs Into A Place In Humanity Where The Sun Rarely Shines
Kim Sung-Hoon surprised me last year when I finally got around to watching his most recent crime thriller, A Hard Day. It was a perfect introduction into his work for me and so that didn't leave much to be concerned with in lieu of his latest movie, The Tunnel, which, according to Variety's most recent report, is still topping the Korean box office as of its second week. Author Sae Jo-Won's 2013 novel serves as the inspiration for Kim's own script which stands as way more than a mere underdog tale of one man's survival against the elements. Most prolifically, it dares to cast an obligatory spotlight on some of the worst scenarios that could occur in any situation that stands similar in nature as lives hang in the balance.
One such life is that of Lee Jung-Soo, portrayed by actor Ha Jung-Woo, a car salesman on his way home in time for his daughter's birthday. About six minutes into the film and not a moment later, the worst happens when the tunnel he enters completely collapses, trapping him and other motorists in a gargantuan pile of rock, iron, dirt and rubbish with no way in or out on either end. Rescue efforts commence as Lee struggles to make do with little what he has on him in food, water and battery life for his phone among other things. On hand on the outside is actor Oh Dal-Su in the role of Dae-Kyung who is among the first with the nation's rescue units on the scene, while Lee's wife Se-yun, played by actress Bae Doo-Na, wastes little to no time arriving there upon learning of her husband's situation.
From there, the story immerses you into a myriad of highs and lows that flesh out our characters even more in their respective dimensions. Moments of mild levity and compassion, as well as those of pure repulsion and glutton, illumimate our characters - main and supplemental - amid the chaos that unfolds both inside and outside the pile of rubble that symbolize the core of humanity's most definining moments. Such moments are iterated by a notable supporting cast which includes - and isn't limited to, actress Nam Ji-Hyun in the role of Mina, and actor Jung Suk-Yong makes a worthy cameo as Choi, a valiant and charasmatic rescue team leader. Others include actor Yoo Seung-Mok who plays an overzealous news reporter, actress Kim Hae-Sook in the role of a government minister playing politics with the rest of her ilk, and a rambunctious pug who all but keeps Lee on his toes, even under hundreds and hundreds of feet of rubble.
The performances are relatively outstanding among the cast with Ha and Bae front and center, in addition to Oh whose role as Kim, much like Reginald Veljohnson was to actor Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988), is the voice of reason for Lee who all but suffers near-limitless turmoil of never knowing if he'd live or die. Rescue efforts prove to be long and winded, and with a plot twist that ultimately sees things turn for the worse, forcing Se-Hyun to bear the brunt of the grievance of those who've died trying to rescue her husband - something that speaks to the often flawed and irrational tran of thought one goes through with anger, in my opinion. It certainally affected me the most while I watched the film and observed this, on top of other disturbing proclivities our main characters are subject to throughout the unfolding drama.
Indeed, The Tunnel was one of the most compelling (and sometimes gutting) films I've seen. It grips you in some ways you least expect while making the most out of its actors, using its perilous moments as the inertia it needs, and not as "characters" themselves as other directors may try to, which feels pretentious to a certain degree depending on the film. With Ha, Bae and Oh anchoring this fine dramatic venture, the film is also very much a mark of continued sharpness and career progress from a filmmaker I wish I paid attention to a year sooner. If there is one thing Kim knows how to do at the director's chair, it is tell great stories that focus on people more than spectacle, and flesh out the best of what they can offer in the moments scenes call for in a film, and The Tunnel, much to his credit, is no exception.
Click here to learn more about the film's August 26 release in select theaters this Friday from Well Go USA.
Having extensively covered Universal Pictures's famed Fast franchise, this week's latest bit of coverage has to be the closest I've come. It's primarily attributed to the forthcoming live show which kicks off in London in January and obviously with a film saga so action packed, of course it's going to need a crew of some very talented stunt performers to take to task the very feats attendees can expect.
For this, it is with great pleasure to have been able to share an auspicious chat with Adam Brashaw, someone whose work thusfar in stunts, film and television have been all but impressive. He's only appeared in The Hit List a few times having done three shortfilms (two of which I have seen), and you need only to see the results for yourself apart from his exceptional work reel just above.
Brashaw is going nine years strong in his field with multiple credits to his name, including at least one upcoming film project which he discusses a bit about later in this in…
Among many of the film, TV and independent projects I've followed up on, one stood out as something worth following in its early days as I had known of the folks working on its action for its director, Charlie Dennis. Fast forward three Winters later and we were introduced to the world of gritty martial arts short, Deep Pan Fury, with UK actor Andrew Koji, whose extensive TV and film acting and stunt credits include 2007 Muay Thai flick, Fighting Beat, Justin Lin's Furious 6 and as the voice of Hien in Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood.
Conclusively, I couldn't be more proud of Koji this week, and that brings us to the longstanding developments of Cinemax's upcoming ten-episode martial arts drama, Warrior which is set to go before cameras in South Africa on October 22. Netflix series Fauda helmer Assaf Bernstein is directing from a script by Banshee creator Jonathan Tropper, in turn inspired by the unproduced work of late martial artist multihyphenate, entertainer and fil…
I still plan on catching Magnet's U.S. release of Miike Takashi's hit manga adaptation, Blade Of The Immortal next month. Folks in the U.K. still have a bit of a wait though and in all likelihood it won't stall any excitement that has already been drawn from the rave press reviews in the last six months, including this month at Sitges. Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine...
Arrow Films is releasing the film theatrically on December 8. The trailer looks something a bit similar from the international pitch from months earlier but still delivers the desired effect. Enjoy, and set the date!


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A car is more than just a luxury. It’s a necessity! However, cars are getting more expensive by the day. Hence, a lot of people find it difficult to own one.
If you’re looking for more affordable alternatives, consider leasing a car instead. Nonetheless, it might not sound appealing to some. If you would still rather buy a car, one thing can be your savior – an auto loan.
A comprehensive understanding of auto loans is essential for making the right decision. Read on and learn from the insights we’ll share in today’s post.
Understanding Your Credit Score
To start our overview of auto loans, let’s talk about your credit score. It isn’t just any number. Rather, it can spell the difference between a yes and a no from the lender.
Your credit score plays a significant role in the auto loan approval process. Lenders use your credit score to determine the risk associated with lending you money.
Before commencing your loan application, know your credit score. A higher credit score often results in better loan terms, such as lower interest rates. Meanwhile, there’s a risk of rejection and a higher interest rate if your credit score is low.
Be proactive in improving your credit score. For instance, this is possible by paying your bills on time and reducing outstanding debts. Be cautious with applying for new credit, as multiple inquiries can negatively impact your credit score. By taking these steps, you can enhance your chances of securing favorable auto loan terms.
Budgeting for Your Auto Loan
Setting a budget for your car purchase is crucial to avoid financial stress in the long run. Think about monthly payments, interest rates, and the loan term. Remember to factor in additional costs such as car insurance, maintenance, and fuel.
To reduce your loan amount, save for a down payment. Ideally, the down payment must be at least 20% of the car’s purchase price. This will lessen the need to refinance and can lower the interest rate.
Also, consider the total cost of ownership when budgeting for your auto loan. Research the expected depreciation, maintenance costs, and fuel efficiency of the vehicle models you’re interested in, as these factors will impact your long-term expenses.
Types of Auto Loans
Generally speaking, you can choose from two main types of auto loans, depending on whether you have collateral:
Secured Auto Loan
As the name implies, you need to present something valuable as collateral to secure the loan. This is something that the lender can repossess once you default on your payments. This way, the lender assumes a lower risk, knowing that it can acquire something of value if you’re unable to settle your obligations.
Unsecured Auto Loan
In contrast, an unsecured loan does not require collateral. In this case, the lender assumes a higher risk. A common way to lower the risk is to charge higher interest on the buyer.
Shopping for the Best Auto Loan
To ensure you get the best possible auto loan, compare offers from multiple lenders.
When comparing loans, consider factors such as the annual percentage rate (APR), loan term, and monthly payment. A lower APR equates to a lower interest rate over the duration of the loan. Use your negotiation skills to convince the lender to give you a more favorable rate.
Take your time when shopping for an auto loan, as rushing the process can lead to unfavorable loan terms. Be cautious of “too good to be true” offers, as these may contain hidden fees or unfavorable conditions. Read the fine print of each loan offer and ask questions to ensure you fully understand the terms.
To apply for pre-approval, submit a loan application to a lender with your personal and financial information. This typically includes your income, employment history, and credit score.
Once pre-approved, you can use your pre-approval as a bargaining tool at the dealership, potentially securing a better deal on your car purchase. It also simplifies the process, allowing you to focus on negotiating the price of the vehicle instead of haggling over financing terms.
Closing the Deal
Ready to seal the deal? Go over the contract. Understand the terms, including the interest rate, monthly payment, and any fees or penalties. Don’t hesitate to ask questions or seek clarification on any unclear terms.
Be aware of common auto loan pitfalls, such as agreeing to an extended loan term that increases the total interest paid over the life of the loan. Additionally, avoid add-ons that dealers may try to sell you, such as extended warranties or gap insurance, which can inflate the cost of your loan without providing significant benefits.
Securing an auto loan as a first-time car buyer can be a smooth process if you’re well-informed and prepared.
Understanding your credit score, setting a budget, comparing loan options, and getting pre-approved are essential steps toward a successful car purchase.
By following these guidelines, you can confidently navigate the auto loan process and drive away in your first car.
Remember, being patient and diligent in your research will help ensure you find the best auto loan for your needs.

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Plan to visit Kilby Historic Site this Halloween season.
The site is planning another Kids Halloween Party, on Oct. 25 and Oct. 26, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. The party includes crafts, games and ghoulish activities for kids of all ages.
Regular admission applies.
For more information about Kilby, visit www.kilby.ca.

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By Eric Nicholson Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay, ‘The Philosophy of Composition’, in which he details the writing of his sensational poem ‘The Raven’. If we are to believe the account, he carefully planned the theme, the setting, the metre and every poetic effect – ‘each step with the…
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“the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced,and lest this be taken for wry sorrow,drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead:I am a dish for your ashes,I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about lifeis finding it gone.” – Charles Bukowski Alone with […]
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Turkey's parliament debates changes to electoral laws
Updated 9:56 am, Monday, March 12, 2018
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's parliament on Monday began debating a set of changes to the country's electoral laws which critics say are unconstitutional, designed to help President Recep Tayyip Erdogan consolidate power and may lead to election fraud.
A vote on the changes is expected sometime this week. Crucial presidential and parliamentary elections will be held next year, when Erdogan will need to secure 51 percent of the vote to remain at Turkey's helm under a new presidential system that abolishes the prime minister's office and greatly expands the president's powers.
The elections are currently set for November 2019, but may be brought forward.
The changes would open the way for electoral alliances, allowing Erdogan's ruling party to enter a formal alliance with the country's nationalist party. That alliance would permit the smaller party to hold seats in parliament even if it doesn't pass the 10-percent electoral threshold. In turn, Erdogan would secure the nationalists' continued support at the presidential race.
The opposition has called the plans a "dirty alliance" that would give the smaller party an unfair advantage over other parties.
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The main opposition party fears that other proposed amendments will give rise to fraudulent voting. They include allowing the government the right to appoint partisan government officials to oversee ballot stations, call in the security forces and to move ballot boxes.
The changes would also allow the electoral authority to count as valid ballot papers lacking an official stamp — a practice that had led to accusations of fraud during a referendum last year, which the opposition unsuccessfully challenged at a higher court.
Two opposition parties on Monday pushed unsuccessfully for the measures to be withdrawn saying they were unconstitutional.
The measures "shake the security of the ballots at the core," opposition legislator Muharrem Erkek said. "Fair representation is being abolished."
The ruling party says the amendments are required to ensure "electoral security" in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast region where it claims Kurdish rebels use threats or force to influence voters.
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Wonder ShowToday's Morris nominee interview is with Hannah Barnaby.
Stories come easily to motherless Portia, and a good thing, too. They sustain her when her father leaves her and when her aunt abandons her to the ghastly McGreavey Home for Wayward Girls. When she escapes, they win her a place with Mosco’s Traveling Wonder Show, where she hopes to find her father again somehow, where “freak,” “normal” and “family” mean something altogether different — and where Portia begins to take charge of her own story.
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Wonder Show is your debut novel. What inspired you to write this story? How would you describe the experience of writing it?
Cliché as it may sound, my very first image of Portia was in a dream I had, of a girl riding a bicycle across a prairie. I felt very certain that she was trying to escape from someone and when I woke up, I remembered her so clearly that I couldn’t just leave her behind.
The writing experience was challenging (aren’t they all?). I had won a grant from the Boston Public Library to be their first children’s writer-in-residence. It was a huge gift to have been given financial support and office space to get the writing done, but I felt so much pressure that it nearly paralyzed me. In the end, I wrote the novel in short fragments, out of order. It made the revision process terribly messy, but it allowed me to write very instinctively and I think that’s what ultimately gave Portia’s story so much emotional resonance.
The Morris Award is for a “first time author writing for teens.” Did you intend Wonder Show to be a YA novel from the beginning? How did you imagine your audience while you wrote?
I did always think of Wonder Show as a young adult novel, but knowing how it would be categorized is not the same as knowing the audience. “Young adult” is a term used by bookstores and libraries and publishers who need to organize books. I hoped that this novel would transcend that to some extent, and be read by a wider audience that could include anyone who loves stories with a dark side.
Wonder Show unfolds in many voices. Why did this story need a shifting perspective?
The first-person vignettes that punctuate the third-person chapters were the result of my need to explore characters other than Portia, to deepen them so they would feel real in the story. I actually considered taking all of those pieces out of the novel during one of the revision stages, but by then, they felt integrated with Portia’s experience and I decided to leave them in place.
Portia's story is set in the dust and desperation of the Great Depression. How do you think that resonates with the experience of young readers?
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I don’t think many of us in this day and age can fully comprehend what it was like to live through the Great Depression. That said, poverty is still a very real issue for a lot of families and the sacrifices that Portia’s family had to make are parallel to those tough choices that those families face today. On another level altogether, Portia’s desperation to change her circumstances will, I think, make sense to any young person who feels stuck, alone, hopeless about his or her future. We’ve all had dark moments, we’ve all been confronted with seemingly impossibly challenges. And we’re together in that.
Family history is a very important theme in Wonder Show. What are some of Wonder Show's own, literary, ancestors?
“Influence” is a tricky word. I think, most of the time, our influences are below the surface—we may not know where they originated or how to identify them. There are books that I am very aware of having read and loved, such as A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller. All of these taught me the unparalleled resonance you can achieve by dropping a bit of humor right in the middle of a wide swathe of bleakness.
What happens next? Do you have another novel in the works?
I do. I’m a bit superstitious about saying too much about works-in-progress, but I can tell you that it’s a contemporary young adult novel about a girl on a mission to catalog her dead brother’s donated organs.
Writing advice in five words or less...
Books don’t write themselves.
What are you reading?
I’m about to start King Dork by Frank Portman.
Three movies you think are worth watching, maybe more than once...
Amelie; Rushmore; Sneakers.
Last song you added to your music library...
“California Stars” by Billy Bragg and Wilco. I defy you to stay in a bad mood after you’ve heard it.
"It was key to have an opening line that was just this side of unbelievable." With this in mind, how did you find the first line of Wonder Show?
There was a bit of debate, actually, about where to start the story (ironic, given the refrain “begin at the beginning” that repeats in Wonder Show). I kept thinking about more stuff I wanted to add to the preface, more background I wanted to give, but in the end, it just felt right to start off by setting the scene from where I did.


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“Freedom, by definition, is people realizing they are their own leaders.” – Diane Nash
I’ve recently felt like I shouldn’t be writing or posting because there are so many other more important things happening in our world right now. Writing all about me seemed selfish, like I didn’t deserve the right to do it when things seem such the opposite of “normal”. Every time I’ve tried to begin a post I haven’t been able to finish because I veer down some rambling road about empathy, letting fear win, and the sadness I feel expressing my voice when so many others are in pain. I’ve been struggling the last year, and especially since November, with feeling all over the place, unsettled, unable to let my light shine, which I know is ridiculous because I am sitting in a place of extreme privilege and deeply fear how many in our world are struggling. Navigating this internal stuff of feeling selfish posting anything about myself, I’ve tried to funnel down the negative feelings into a bundle labeled mostly “out of my control”, to get a grip on the fact not everyone is going to agree and inevitably, bad things will always happen. But I think, like many others I’ve talked to, that’s a hard pill to swallow because I know we have to be better than this. Better than the fear mongering, better than turning a blind eye, better than letting violence take a commonplace in our communities, better than pretending we no longer care about education, the environment, the arts, or healthcare, no matter what side of the aisle you’re on.
I’m a planner (read: borderline control freak) and it drives me NUTS having people represent me in ways that I don’t believe even begin to align with the values we have, politics aside, as a collective American people. But now, there isn’t a lot I can do about that. I know, I can call my congressman, I can sign the petitions, I can voice my outcry for all children, for fear of our public lands, and for the degradation of my sex. And I have, and I will continue to do these things and more. But even with those things, it’s hard to not get weighed down by all of it. Then, I slowly started unwinding the bundle of “out of my control”, to possibly break it into pieces I can control. I’ve been reading a really good book, Overcoming Underearning by Barbara Stanny, that focuses on overcoming fears, sometimes that a person has held onto their entire lives, in order to be able to finally focus on the clarity of what you actually deserve from your life. I woke up this morning with the itch to write, like most mornings, and I finally said screw it. I’m tired of the darkness of sadness and drama dictating how I will flow my creativity. Stanny is very forward in her writing, letting you know that if you’re devaluing yourself from the beginning then you may as well just write off your life to unhappiness. (Also listened to a great cast from Molly Mahar on a similar topic yesterday.) So for now, I refuse to silence the things that bring me joy because we are stronger when people are happy, and this is my tiny crumb. I finally realized that there is power in me upholding the things I can control, because there are so many that don’t have that option and me squandering it, that’s selfish. For the first time in a while, I’m turning into the light.
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This is a life and photo and travel journal. And it’s mine. I’m not pretending I’m perfect, and this isn’t life-shattering material, but maybe, just maybe, it will make someone else smile for a second. Maybe watchusroam.com will bounce someone off of their Facebook reel full of all the things we really can’t control, and give them a few minutes of joy with a new recipe, a new hike, or in my wildest dreams inspire someone to do better. Because maybe there’s enough bad, life-shattering stuff to focus on now. I’m going to start regular posts again if for nothing more than the simple realization life is too short to not do the things that make us happy, even if we don’t feel happy in our circumstances all of the time. It is exhausting to always focus on the bad. I’m also putting more weight on my 2017 word, CONNECT, to be more connected to the things I can help save. I’ve started with joining a Lean In Circle for local Seattle creative women, closely following our National Parks, and becoming a Seattle Times subscriber. And if you find yourself in a similar boat, a little overwhelmed by negativity and not sure where to start, begin with one thing, one small thing to bring some light. A gratitude journal, a day spent in nature, join a community group like Lean In, light a candle, read Overcoming Underearning, anything but staying stagnant in your silence. Stand in your light and shine it bright, love and be kind. To yourself first, to others, and to mother nature.
“There’ll be days you’ll need me by your side. And that’s alright.
Your whole heart is a village, everyone you love has built it and I’ve been working there myself…
that’s where I’ll be, with a front row seat, to watch you live your life well..” – Cam
Cheers to doing better ~ Amanda


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Jason writes, “My wife and I have a small farm in Lexington, South Carolina and we currently provide produce for seven restaurants, 30+ CSA members and sell at our local markets. We are all organic and believe in letting our produce be as natural as the earth itself on our two-acre growing space. We use biodynamic and low till methods, cover crops, compost, natural minerals, emulsions and call stardust from the heavens to fertilize our crops in our biodynamic process. We farm on land that has been in my family for over 250 years, and we are proud to honor this land since before that, it belonged to my Cherokee ancestors that includes my great grandmother from my mother's side of the family, and my grandmother from my father's side of the family. We also honor my beautiful mother as she taught me how to garden from the time of infancy, and she inspired my love of the soil, and still helps us in the field as much as she can.
During these uncertain times, you can support us by signing up for our CSA since we’ve lost the majority of our restaurant sales due to the effects of COVID-19. We would also like to offer to any restaurant employee, whether we sell to them or not, that if they have been affected by temporary unemployment, we'd love to offer free veggies to them and their families. It might not be much, but it's the least that we can do to support anyone in need. Of course we are focusing on helping our restaurant friends as most of them are closed now, but if anyone is displaced because of temporary job loss, or doesn't have food because of schools being closed, we offer for anyone to contact us and we are happy to donate as much produce as we can.”


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Is your Minister of Health interested in saving lives, stopping infections or reducing the burden on hospitals? Did they ban ivermectin or study it?
A study in a small Brazillian town suggests that half of all hospitalization of Covid cases and 70% of the deaths could be avoided at a cost of 10 cents a week.
How super low dose ivermectin still reduced infections by half
A whole town in Brazil of 220,000 people was invited to take part in an ivermectin study. In Itajaí 159,000 people said “Yes” to taking part in a study of a bizarrely low dose infrequent form of ivermectin to see if it prevented people catching Covid. They were asked to take the 0.2mg/kg/day dose two days in a row but only once every two weeks. Since the half-life of ivermectin in humans is only 12–36 hours, those taking it in the study were effectively left unprotected at least half the time. Our livers convert ivermectin into chemical bits and pieces that have half-lives of three days, so those downstream metabolites, if they matter, might kick around a bit longer. More bizarrely, participants were asked not to take ivermectin if they got ill. This study appears to be purely about prevention. Despite all this, it still worked.
Compared to all the other towns in the Santa Catarina State of Brazil, Itajaí has the lowest mortality rate, far below even the second lowest.
The iMask prevention plan by the Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance suggests using the 0.2mg/dose twice a week long term. Those ICU doctors recommend you double the dose if you think you’ve been exposed for real.
44% lower infection rate
So 113,000 people took ivermectin this way, 45,000 didn’t. The infection rate in the ivermectin users was 3.7% which was quite a lot lower than the non-users, of which 6.6% got infected. Imagine if they’d taken ivermectin two times a week instead? The rates of infection in the ivermectin group might have been much lower.
70% lower death rate
The regular use of ivermectin (albeit, very low and infrequent) still saved a lot of lives. The death rate in the ivermectin group was 0.8% compared to 2.6% of the non-users. They controlled for age, sex and co-morbidities.
56% reduction in hospitalization rate
It wasn’t a randomized study, but most of the biases should underestimate the benefits. Not only was the dose lower than recommended, but the people who signed up to try ivermectin were slightly older and higher risk. People also weren’t supervised and so if they forgot to take their dose, no one was there to remind them. The reductions in everything could only get better with a more serious approach.
“An important conservative bias was present. Major risk factors for severe COVID-19 and mortality due to COVID-19, including aging, diabetes, and hypertension, were more present among ivermectin users, which may have underestimated the benefits measured Ivermectin was demonstrated to be particularly effective in subjects above 49 years old in terms of reduction of absolute risk, which corresponds to the group at the highest risk for COVID-19. This allows the understanding that prophylactic use of ivermectin can be particularly impactful in older subjects. In addition, ivermectin seemed to reduce the exceeding risk of hypertension, T2D, and other diseases.”
And just in case you were wondering:
“All subjects were recommended not to use ivermectin, nitazoxanide, hydroxychloroquine, spironolactone or any other drug claimed to be effective against COVID-19.”
It’s interesting to see a list that Brazillian researchers think will muck up their results by saving lives inconveniently.
UPDATED: The wonder drug that disappeared
My repeat Go-To summary of Ivermectin, for Wes.
If you only email friends one link — make it this story. It’s the biggest medical scandal since 1850— Why is a cheap safe drug being actively surpressed– because it threatens the Emergency Use Authorisations for all experimental vaccines, an industry worth around $100 billion. The Australian TGA admitted it banned the safe drug because people might not get vaxxed. Pfizer and other companies would be crazy, nutso, bonkers, and doing their shareholders a disservice if they did not lobby, cajole, scare, smear and call in all their favours to make sure there would never be a cheap safe alternative.
In desperation, some Americans are going to court to get rulings to order doctors to use Ivermectin on their loved ones. One family hired a helicopter to take their mother away from intensive care in a hospital that refused to give Ivermectin and saved her.
Ivermectin is so safe doctors fed it to primary school children to treat lice in Canberra. It has been used to virtually eliminate Covid in Japan, Uttar Pradesh, and in Indonesia where it cut Covid by 98% at the same time cases in Australia grew 500% with Lock-n-Vax. There are also success stories from Peru, Brazil, and Mexico.
For peer reviewed studies read: The BIG Ivermectin Review: It may prevent 86% of Covid cases. In vitro, Ivermectin reduces viral loads 5000 fold in 48 hours. There are no less than 73 studies involving 56,000 people that show improvements in over 80% when used prophylactically, 67% when used early and even as many as 40% with late-started treatment. There are 20 known mechanisms of action: IVM binds to ACE2, the spike, and TMPSSR2, it is a zinc ionophore, it binds to a protease the virus needs, prevents key viral proteins getting into the cell nucleus which would normally allow the virus to shut down interferon signalling to warn neighboring cells. It’s anti-inflammatory, it blocks the NF-κB pathway, which will reduce Akt/mTOR signalling, which inhibits PAK1 which reduces STAT3 and IL-6. STAT3 induces C-reactive protein (or CRP). It’s impossible for Covid to mutate around all these mechanisms at once. No leaky vaccine should be given without an anti-viral because it risks the mutation of a nastier virus that escapes our immunity. Read the horror of Marek’s disease in chickens. 50 years of leaky vaccines created a disease worse than Ebola. It’s 100% fatal in ten days for unvaccinated chickens.
The FDA and others will say there is little evidence of success so far, but that’s a scandal in itself. Why are there no large trials? And why are other drugs like Remdesivir approved with only one trial and iffy results? Ivermectin is so safe some 3.7 billion doses have already been used around the world. The inventors won a Nobel Prize for its discovery in 2015. By July last year there were already signs Ivermectin could save as many as 50%. Why were large trials not started then? The UK trial was designed to fail from the start.
Why are all the vaccine contracts secret? Say hello Serf to your new Head of State, Mr Pfizer?
Kerr, Lucy et al (2022) Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19 Reduces COVID-19 Infection and Mortality Rates: A City-Wide, Prospective Observational Study of 223,128 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching, Link
Cost of Ivermectin: Random example of Indiamart 100 x 12mg tablets for ₹ 300 = $4US or $6AU and would half the risk of infection for about 100, 65kg-adults each week. Rounded up to 10 cents a week.

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GeoSCAN is a crop monitoring program that provides near-real time tracking of plant growth and the opportunity for taking in-time measures for improving yield results.
GeoSCAN is based on the latest technologies for Earth Observation, the program provides different types of geometric accuracy and large territory coverage with extremely high revisit periods.
New! GeoSCAN has a new intuitive interface with many additional functionalities. Ask us more about GeoSCAN 3.0.


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This intricate design looks quite simple from a distance. It is not until you get up close that you can see the true complexity behind the rings. The rings are a stunning mix of large and small, round and squared shapes. Some links have been polished to create a smooth, shiny surface, others have more modern, square edges with flat mirrored surfaces, while others have been textured to add even more visual interest. The open and lightweight necklace has been crafted by hand using Argentium sterling silver that is nickel-free and resistant to tarnishing.
This clever necklace can also be worn two ways, with the clasp either in the front or the back, making it a piece that works hard to complement every possible event. As a special bonus, if you also have the matching bracelet, you can extend the length of your necklace by hooking the two together for times when extra extravagance is required.
• Size: The necklace chain varies in width with both 7/16" and 1/2" links and is available in a variety of lengths.
• Weight: A 17 inch necklace weighs .8 ounces. Other lengths will vary in weight.
• Silver: Argentium Sterling Silver - this is the low tarnish sterling silver alloy made from 100% recycled silver. Traditional sterling silver is .925% silver, but Argentium sterling silver is .935%. That little bit of extra pure silver gives Argentium a brighter, whiter color making it look more like platinum.
Click here to learn why Argentium is so much better than traditional sterling silver!
• Packaging: Items are packaged with an anti-tarnish tab in a recycled paper gift box with anti-tarnish filler, which makes for easy gifting and storage.
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A Lubbock man is on trial, accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Jury selection was Monday for Samuel Mermella.
Specifically he's accused of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The indictment says it was more than two years ago and the girl was less than 14-years-old at the time.
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Colors create mood and evoke emotions. Mood and emotions set the stage and tone for romance. When we think of romance we often think of the color Red. Red evokes passion. There are red lips, red hearts, blood… Read More
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Wasted World is now auditioning for a drummer. We are a hard rock band mostly originals with a few covers thrown in the mix. Must have some double kick skills and be in the hard rock style. We have gigs on a regular basis all over the capital district and will be booking beyond that once we have someone settled in. If this sounds like your kinda gig then call, text or email me and we can talk... Rock on!!!!
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Many feared a return of 1930s-style protectionism when recession hit the global economy. But many countries avoided this. In a blog post, co-authored with Meredith Crowley, I focus on US and EU trade policy and discuss how this policy withstood the ‘Great Recession.’ The following is an excerpt from the post which appeared on Vox.
“During the Great Recession, import protection increased around the world (Evenett, 2011). Popular policies included antidumping tariffs, safeguards, and other temporary trade barriers (Bown 2011a,b). Despite this, for high-income economies such as the US and EU, such trade barriers increased much less than initially feared. In this column, we ask how and why.

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Panasonic unveils SC-SX950 SD stereo system in two color options -S (silver), -K (black). The company has planned to yield monthly output quantity of 8,000 units.
The SC-SX950 SD stereo system will ship from September 21st. Weighing approx. 4.0kg, the Stereo System reads CD, CD-R and CD-RW and supports CD-DA, WMA and MP3 formats. Users can store up to 80GB of content in the HDD of the system.
Panasonic’s SC-SX950 supports Version Bluetooth Ver.2.0 + EDR conformity. Collect your favorite music wirelessly and store in the hard drive of the system to enjoy it at your whims and fancies. Thanks to the SD card that makes high speed transfers possible. Dock digital audio player D-snap to the system to transfer data at the press of a single button. The system can also be connected to portable telephones including NTT FOMA P902i, P902iS, P903i, P903iTV, P903iX and P904i.


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