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Warning: Spoilers for Arrival, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, and La La Land are in play.
One of the greatest truths to life is that everything has to end. Just ask any writer, pop act or politician. Movies are a medium that deal with endings in perhaps one of the best ways. An ending, if done right or wrong, can make people talk about just exactly what happened for long after the film has ended. In fact, five films managed to get us talking about their endings quite a bit this year, and we're still talking about them to this day. With that in mind, we'd like to present to you the five endings that we've been replaying in our minds throughout 2016.
After learning that Amy Adams' Louise is not flashing back to the past, but seeing into her future throughout Arrival, a new dimension of emotional storytelling opens up for the already bittersweet film. Knowing that her daughter will die and that Jeremy Renner's Ian will leave her when she reveals she knows what the future brings, Louise has all of the tools at hand to change her future for the better. And yet, she accepts it willingly, as she wouldn't trade knowing her soon-to-be daughter for anything.
Most films would have their protagonist go into the future with at least an acknowledgement that the future might be changed, but Arrival's fatalistic finale fits the rest of the film's tone and sticks the landing. To give the film any other ending would have ruined the film's message of stoicism and sacrifice, and much like its protagonist, we're willing to live with that in favor of the film as a whole.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Never did we think that a Star Wars movie would end with all of its main characters dead and Darth Vader slaughtering a room full of people. And yet, in the closing moments of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, we saw both of those occurrences plain as day, as Jyn and Cassian faced down a wave of vaporization on the beaches of Scarif. As the Death Star plans make their way to Princess Leia Organa, one word sums up the purpose of this now suicidal mission: "hope."
It's the most brutal ending we've seen in a Star Wars film, and yet the closing shot of a hopeful Princess Leia reminded us that the actions of our heroes would lead to the eventual defeat of the Empire. Sadly, this ending has also been talked about for a different reason, as it's one of the last appearances of Carrie Fisher in the Star Wars saga, which now serves as a more poignant moment than it did when we first saw it. Leave it to one of the best regarded characters of the Star Wars galaxy to tell us that everything's going to be ok, so long as we keep fighting and never lose that spark of hope.
10 Cloverfield Lane
Throughout the events of 10 Cloverfield Lane, we're lead to believe that Howard, John Goodman's doomsday-prepping nutter is just as crazy as he looks. So seeing Michelle escape the supposed safety of the bunker, now in flames, is supposed to be the end of her journey. Only it isn't, as the film drops an anvil on our heads and reveals that there are in fact aliens trying to invade the Earth.
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As Michelle speeds into the fray by the end of the film, the audience is left to wonder if it's with the ending or against it, as the film that precedes it really doesn't allow us to think that there really are monsters out in the world. The truth is one of the more shocking and exciting endings we've seen this year, and debating it is just as fun as watching it.
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
Why? Why in the world would the DC Extended Universe play one of the biggest trump cards in all of its history at the end of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice? Zack Snyder, why would you kill Superman in your second DC Comics film (well, third counting Watchmen)? From the moment Superman says his goodbyes to Lois Lane right up to the dirt levitating off of his coffin, we were scratching our heads as to why this big moment in the universe of the Justice League would take place right before its formation.
The emotional weight isn't there for this moment to truly hit us, so instead it just feels like an opportunistic moment that is used to obviously sequel bait in a universe that needs to catch up as it can. Honestly, out of all the endings we're still talking about, this is the one that really rubbed us the wrong way, as it shows the sort of shortcuts the DC Extended Universe wants to take in order to catch up to Marvel Studios' level of brand power. But hey, at least it isn't Suicide Squad!
La La Land
While the ending to Batman v. Superman feels like a cheap sucker punch, the ending to La La Land is a well-earned bucket of cold water to our faces. Despite what the advertisements may sell you, or what the film itself may have you believe throughout its course of events, the ending does not see our young lovers together forever. Not only does it show us that Mia has married someone else and had a kid, but it gives us a moment of sublime beauty in Sebastian's "universe-in-a-moment" dream sequence.
In an ideal world, the two of them hit it off in the beginning and never stop loving each other. He's there for her one-woman show, he applauds her for her movie career and he isn't such the jerk that he comes off as earlier in the film. And yet, reality sinks in as he gets to the end of their hauntingly gorgeous theme. It's not a movie. It's real life. They both got their dreams, but at a price, and thankfully neither would change it for the world. With their last smiles exchanged between each other, La La Land ends as only it could. And it just makes us love the movie for what it is all the more.
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Mutating–Work in Progress
“Mutating” is a speculative design work addressing human habits and habitats shifting under Covid-19 circumstances. Look around, people are fully armed to avoid being infected. We are advised to maintain the distance between people and reduce interpersonal communication. We are experiencing an unprecedented situation in this lockdown world which, from another aspect , drives us to consider the possibilities of human’s living states in the future. At the moment, we assumed a future life scenario, through multimedia experience, including sounds synthesis, interactive motion graphics and VR, “mutating-work in progress” provides spectators a conversation between human and post human.
By observing the state of people during this special period, we begin to think about three aspects. First, how can the future living space change so that people can safely live in? Secondly, how will human change their living habits in order to adapt to the environment? Will human even go through a biological evolution? Meanwhile, when face-to-face contact is not recommended, how will human contact proceed? Our design will be based on the thoughts of these three aspects.
In order to fully convey to the spectators our thoughts regarding these three aspects, we choose to provide the multimedia experience, which includes sounds synthesis(auditory experience), interactive motion graphics (visual experience), and VR.
We assume that in the future, people may suffer from language barrier when wearing facial masks becomes a daily routine. Human’s language ability might degenerate due to the reduced human contact. The sound synthesis will simulate the future communication scene by sensing the distance of people in space.
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This motion of the pattern is quite biological and dynamic. It will change according to the action, distance and biological factors of the experiencer. The experimenter will perceive that this pattern is symbiotic with his body.
The first two elements are combined into the VR scene. The experiencer will see the virtual scene of people taking the elevator. The scene is quite surreal. Every character that the experiencer can see is well protected, even overprotected by wearable devices, evolved hair, biological protection layer, etc. As well as the way they stand back to back, the communication at a distance, the regulations of using the space. These are all our assumptions about the new living habits and new living environment of the future human beings. The scene of taking elevator is just one of the examples.
We will continue to bring more immersive experience to the spectators via the collaboration of multimedia. We will materialise some virtual elements, such as turning the biological structure of the human body in this VR scene into interactive wearable devices. Sound synthesis and interactive motion graphic will be applied to enhance the spatial experience.
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Ever since the beginning of the October 17 revolution, government forces have detained, interrogated and arrested over 100 activists for protesting or expressing opinions on social media.
In the last few days specifically, the Lebanese public has witnessed a sudden surge in crackdowns against free speech. The arrest of activist Michel Chamoun, under the pretext of “insulting the president,” is just one example of what might be one of the most challenging times for freedom of expression in the country.
This trend is not new to the country. Periods of protests and political movements in Lebanon are usually followed by crackdowns on free speech as protesters express their anger towards the ruling class.
In the calm period that followed 2015’s “You Stink” protests, the Lebanese government accentuated its oppression of activists and protesters by arresting large groups of protesters who were considered “active” in the movement and tried to interrogate and scare them into silence.
According to Human Rights Watch, 3,599 cases of defamation, libel and slander were investigated by the Lebanese Cybercrimes Bureau between January 2015 and May 2019 –a significant increase from previous years. Of these cases, 1,451 were investigated in 2018 alone.
What is taking place now is a significantly amplified version of what happened then. Fears of repercussions against free speech resurged on May 15 when Minister of Information Manal Abdel Samad gave a statement regarding journalists from the Editors’ syndicate.
“We are studying prison sentences [for journalists] that would not be implemented within broad constraints, but that would take into account the controls that protect the state, its prestige, and its pillars,” Abdel Samad said.
Abdel Samad then gave a statement to Voix du Liban the next day. She expressed her support for media freedom but claimed it should not infringe on national security and dignities.
Organizations that advocate for freedom of expression shared their concern following this statement, saying that these policies are known within governments that try to fearmonger and oppress media freedom.
On Monday, June 15, state prosecutor Ghassan Ouweidat issued a decree that called for prosecuting any person who insults the president on social media. Lebanese law already punishes insults towards the president with a sentence that can reach up to two years in prison. Michel Chamoun was arrested following his criticism of this decree and the president.
Following this event came a statement on June 21 from the head of the Beirut Bar Association Melhem Khalaf, whose election was hailed as a victory for protesters.
The statement however criticized the use of curse words to express one’s dissent and considered that curse words transcend one’s right to freedom of expression. Independent groups expressed their disappointment in the statement for its tone and for “succumbing to the police state.”
The next day, president Michel Aoun stated his will to differentiate between the right to freedom of expression and the right to insult. He also called for the creation of laws that limit the citizens’ right to insult. Human rights groups criticized Aoun’s statement.
“International human rights law makes no such distinction,” said Aya Majzoub, Lebanon and Bahrain researcher for Human Rights Watch, in a tweet responding to the president. “The mere fact that expressions are considered to be insulting to a public figure is not sufficient to justify imposition of penalties. The right to free speech embraces even expression that may be regarded as deeply offensive.”
Intl human rights law makes no such distinction. The mere fact that expressions are considered to be insulting to a public figure is not sufficient to justify imposition of penalties. The right to free speech embraces even expression that may be regarded as deeply offensive. https://t.co/U9OmrxYHSF
The Lebanese government further emphasized on what, to them, are limitations to free speech on Thursday June 25 during the “National Meeting” at Baabda Palace.
Instead, the final statement of the meeting mostly consisted of broad calls for national unity and dialogue. Participating members expressed their support for limiting freedom of expression by forbidding “humiliation” and swear words.
Amidst these developments, political parties seem to have also been going after critics in an attempt to reduce popular discontent regarding them.
Political Parties’ Meddling with Free Speech
Political Parties have regularly used Lebanon’s broad defamation laws in order to silence activists and opponents over the last few years. The protests that started on October 17 led to an increase of this practice.
The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), the president’s party, was already the main focus on the matter for filing complaints and pressing charges against critics at anincreasingrate since 2018.
In recent months, several activists and journalists (including Gino Raidy, Dima Sadek, Charbel El Khoury, Mirna Radwan, among others) have been interrogated or arrested for charges that include insulting the president, insulting a figure in the party (including party leader Gebran Bassil), protesting against FPM politicians and allegedly inciting sectarianism.
The Lebanese Forces, often seen as the FPM’s main opponent, have also resorted to the law against critics in the past. On May 30, they released a statement saying they will prosecute anyone who will criticize late president-elect Bashir Gemayel, an important figure in the party’s history.
Violence and threats are also often used against activists. Bashir Abou Zeid, editor-in-chief of the October 17 Newspaper, criticized speaker of parliament and head of the Amal Movement Nabih Berri through a Facebook post on May 22.
Later that day, he was followed by civilians in the southern village of Kfar Rumman. The civilians then beat him and allegedly tried to kidnap him.
As the economic crisis keeps unfolding and corruption remains rampant, having free citizen and journalistic voices is essential in order to properly understand what the public needs. The future of freedom of expression in Lebanon is still unknown, but recent events warn of a potential era of stronger censorship.

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Lebanon City Council will discuss agreements for lease and selling of hangers at the Floyd W Jones Airport when they meet tonight(Mon). Other items on the agenda include domain migration services, approval of the installation of an irrigation system at Atchley Park, approval of the purchase of a pump and motor for the North 5 lift station, the purchase of road salt, wire, street light poles, and hardware, and tree trimming services for the electric department. Council will consider an agreement with RDG for a Housing Study, an agreement with MFA Oil for propane services, an agreement with True Construction to dismantle and dispose of a building on Millcreek Road, an agreement with Olsson for the construction administration services of the Commercial Street Gateway Arches and string lighting. They will consider the purchase of Thermoplastic pavement marking materials for intersection crosswalks, and an agreement with Lamar for billboard advertising. Lebanon City Council will meet tonight(Mon) at 6 pm at City Hall.


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Have you ever heard of shrink plastic? I hadn’t until I saw this amazing tutorial. Kimanh from Paper.Scissors.Wok shows us how to make our own buttons, with our own designs, out of shrink plastic. I’m in love! OK, perhaps they might not look quite so impressive if I were drawing the designs…but I guess you could trace clip art images? Or do know what would look great? Chevrons – and those would be easy to draw. Right…off to buy some shrink plastic!
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Who would true valour see.
John Bunyan was born at Elstow, Bedfordshire, in 1628. People of his name can be traced in that county back to the 12th century, but it is quite possible he belonged to a caste of itinerant gypsies.
His education was of the most meagre, little more than reading and writing being taught to the children of his class in those days.
According to his own account, Bunyan was an idle boy, and notoriously ungodly, particularly addicted to swearing, lying and blasphemy. During his early years he was terrified of evil agencies, and constantly fearful of malevolent spirits; but these apprehensions quite disappeared as he approached manhood and came under the influence of the Holy Spirit, when courage and confidence became characteristic of the rest of his life.
For awhile, after leaving school, he followed his father's occupation of a tinker, except for a short period during the Civil War, when he became a soldier. He was present at the siege of Leicester, and it may have been that this experience, with its close proximity to death, awakened in him considerations of his personal state; for, returning to Elstow, his thoughts were much occupied by his spiritual condition.
Shortly afterwards, when he was nineteen, he married a girl, a thoughtful wench, whose sole contribution to the home consisted of two religious books, given her by her father: 'The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven', written by Arthur Dent, a minister in Essex, and 'The Practice of Piety', by Lewis Bayly, Bishop of Bangor. These books she read to her husband, and although he was not yet convicted of sin, they aroused in him a longing for a better life. Later, a sermon on Sabbath breaking and a talk with a poor, but Christian man, still further affected him, and he commenced to read the Bible.
One day, as he worked at his trade, he overheard a conversation about the blessings of religion between some pious women sitting at their cottage doors close by. This gave him still more food for thought, with the result that he determined to leave his evil companions and associate only with those of good reputation.
After many trials and errors, and much mental conflict, Bunyan was finally led to accept Christ as his Saviour; and from that time made it the purpose of his life to convey to others the glad tidings of salvation.
He came under the influence of John Gifford—known as 'holy John Gifford'—pastor of the Congregational community at Bedford, and joined his Church in 1653. Although, as Dr. John Brown says in his biography of Bunyan, 'In his work entitled "Differences in Judgment about Water Baptism no bar to Communion", he rather implies than plainly states that he is a Baptist'. In a further work called 'The Heavenly Footman', published posthumously, Bunyan warns his readers, inter alia not to have too much company with some Anabaptists, 'though I go under that name myself.'
He became a regular preacher at Bedford and in the neighbouring villages, his graphic discourses having a powerful effect upon his hearers.
In the same year his wife died, leaving him with four little children, one blind. He, however, married a second time, with results as happy as those of his first marriage.
For five years he preached unmolested, but soon after the Restoration the ecclesiastical authorities began to worry him; and in 1660 he was convicted as 'a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles' and was committed to Bedford Gaol. There for twelve years he remained a prisoner, with but a brief interval of a few weeks. But not even this confinement could prevent him from preaching, for he regularly ministered to the prisoners in the gaol.
John Bunyan wrote a number of books, the first when he was only twenty-two, called 'Sighs from Hell', a record of spiritual struggle. During his imprisonment he continued his writing and produced four books: 'The Holy City, or the New Jerusalem* (1665); 'Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners', an autobiographical and devotional narrative (1666); 'Justification of Jesus Christ' (1671); and 'Defence of the Doctrines of Justification' (1672).
While in prison Bunyan was able partially to support his family by making long-tagged thread laces, the art of which he was taught during his incarceration.
His devoted wife was persistent in her strenuous efforts to secure his release, but without success; and she and the blind child had to wait a long while before they were all once again united.
In 1671, the year before his release, Bunyan was appointed pastor of the Church at Bedford. Here he became extremely popular and ministered for over sixteen years except for a break in 1675, when he spent another six months in prison under the Conventicle Act.
It was during this second imprisonment that the first part of 'Pilgrim's Progress' was written. This part was published in 1678, the second part not appearing until 1685. The work immediately achieved popularity; and has become famous the world over, having been translated into no less than one hundred and twenty languages and dialects.
Dr. Arnold of Rugby, writing to Mr. Justice Coleridge in 1836, said 'l have left off reading our divines, but if I could find a great man among them I would read him thankfully and earnestly. As it is, I hold John Bunyan to have been a man of incomparatively greater genius than any of them, and to have given a far truer and more edifying picture of Christianity. His "Pilgrim's Progress" seems to be a complete reflection of Scripture.'
Bunyan wrote no hymns as such, although many odd verses are scattered throughout some of his works. But the three stanzas comprising Who would true valour see have been used in public worship, and, especially during recent years, this quaint hymn has become exceedingly popular. It appears in the second part of 'Pilgrim's Progress' as the song of Valiant after his talk with Greatheart.
Bunyan died in 1688 at the house of Mr. Strudwick, a grocer, at the sign of the 'Star' on Snow Hill, London, and was buried in Bunhill Fields.
From Popular Hymns and Their Writers by Norman Mable. 2nd ed. London: Independent Press, Ltd., 1951.
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In spite of the additional fire power brought into play by the arrival, from Gavash, of new artillery pieces, Jevdet had again failed to carry out his threat of mass murder of Armenians in the city. In his letter to Signior Spordoni, dated April 30th, 1915, however, he boasted:
“The trouble makers in the city have been crushed. Most of them, we understand, have been brought in from villages. Some last ditch fighters entrenched in the church and the Prelacy building as well as one or two houses, will be subdued in a day or two.”
In desperation, Jevdet Bey resorted to one of his beastly trickeries on May 8th. Over five-hundred derelicts, surviving women and children of the massacred population of Timar, Manned, Aliur, Khaventz and several other villages, hungry and naked, were forcibly gathered together and driven to the gates of the city. Knowing full well that Armenians would never refuse to shelter and feed these unfortunates, he was introducing into the city the ravages of epidemics, the debilitating specter of famine, with panic and eventual surrender following as surely as night follows day.
The Armenian population of the city had increased from its original 2,500 to about 3,500 people by the influx of refugees from massacred Sarai, Aghpag, Aljavaz. A large number of people from Haigavank had also taken refuge in the city. Living conditions were intolerably crowded since only 100 houses were available and these were in constant danger of being wrecked. Every time a house was thus demolished, it also caused the death of some of the residents.
The danger of famine was making itself felt. Primitive hand mills and stone mortars were used for grinding grain. Rations had to be reduced and sicknesses became more prevalent.
We were confronted with a dilemma. To shut the door against our own would be tantamount to delivering them into the bloody fangs and the ravenous lust of the beastly foe; to admit them would mean to put in certain jeopardy the lives of the 3,500 people, without adding one iota of safety to newcomers. And yet. how could we witness the tortures, the degradations, the murders of our own flesh and blood without instinctively rushing to save them? Indeed, Jevdet had succeeded in inflicting upon us the sort of punishment many times worse than death itself. We saw these emaciated wretches searching for a blade of grass in the streets of the Turkish quarters, where the women, devoid of the milk of human kindness, refused them a scrap of bread from their well stocked larders. We saw beastly militiamen grab women by the hair, who struggled and beseeched God for help, as they were drug inside. After a while their defiled, exhausted bodies were thrown into the street and left to die. Some were fortunate to be shot to death. “We would sooner have had our eyes gouged out than witness these scenes.” We all agreed with the poet writing these words.
Later on we found out that some of the wells in the Turkish quarters were chock full of the bodies of these hapless, innocent women.
To take further advantage of the presence of these God forsaken women, Turks disguised themselves in their tatters and approached to set fire to our defenses. Confident we would never fire on women, they thus succeeded in burning the doors of our Der Boghossian defense on May 11th. While the “women” were busy setting fire, another group of soldiers rushed into the building and barricaded themselves there, under the cover of heavy rifle fire. Michael from Haigavank, sensing the gravity of the situation, sprang at them with his comrades; they killed four of the attackers. Michael himself was mortally wounded. Too weak to wield the rifle he handed it to one of his comrades saying, “Fight on, fight on, my brave comrades.” He lived three days to welcome the day of deliverance for which he so cheerfully laid down his life. A second casualty was Mihran Havagimian, who passed away in the arms of his comrades. But the situation was relieved.
To frustrate Jevdet’s new treachery, the refugees were warned not to approach our defenses, and were given some bread. Thirty-five among them were youngsters, 10-15 years old. Their feminine attire had saved them. They were pressed into our service as watchers and chore boys at the barricades.

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This coming weekend (September 19-21) I will be attending the Cincinnati Comic Expo with the AW YEAH Comics Publishing crew. I’ll be doing sketches, signing copies of AW YEAH Comics (including the recently released collection of that series!) and Captain Action Cat # 4. New to the show I will have some Franklin Halloween cards! This 4 card set features Franklin and some other itty bitty monsters that will show up in the Franklin series soon. These are perfect to give to your favorite ghoul! True story.
‘DEADPOOL’ MOVIE GETS GO-AHEAD AT FOX; WILL RYAN REYNOLDS FINALLY MAKE A DECENT COMICS MOVIE?
Deadpool lives. Marvel’s Merc with the Mouth will finally get his own solo movie after years in production limbo according to an announcement by Twentieth Century Fox, which has scheduled the picture for a February 2016 release — on Valentine’s Day weekend, no less. Deadpool is love.
Tim Miller is attached to direct, and Ryan Reynolds is expected to reprise his role from X-Men Origins: Wolverine, though no official deal has been announced. Fox also pushed back its Josh Trank-directed Fantastic Four movie from June 19th 2015 to August 7th, to cover for a Michael Fassbender Assassin’s Creed movie that’s been bumped off the calendar due to production delays.
The presence of Miller at the helm on Deadpool is good news for anyone who enjoyed the test footage that leaked back in July. That footage was created by Miller and Reynolds back in 2012 in an effort to revive interest in the dormant project. It didn’t have the desired effect at the time, but the cleverly timed leak in the aftermath of San Diego Comic-Con seems to have had more impact.

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For employers and professionals in the property development industry, new working practices driven by mobility and digital developments are resulting in reduced office footprints and a move towards collective workspaces.
Although less common in France than in other European countries, especially Scandinavian ones, teleworking is developing at a very fast pace and no longer just in large private companies and in the new technologies sector.
The growth in teleworking has led to an explosion in third spaces, despite still being to a large extent a home-based activity. In a report submitted to the French government on 19 September 2018, the “Coworking : Territoires, Travail, Numérique” (Coworking: communities, work, digital technology) taskforce estimated the number of these new spaces at 1,800 throughout the country.
“Teleworking involves well-documented risks. Office design must compensate for and even prevent these risks”
Property is the second biggest area of expenditure for businesses. The soaring cost of buying and renting property means that teleworking is seen as an opportunity to reduce overall office footprints.
For constructors, owners, equipment manufacturers, and operators, it’s a question not just of embracing this downsizing trend, but also of rethinking the function of commercial space in such a way as to cater for new working practices while meeting environmental sustainability requirements.
“Teleworking involves risks that are today well documented by sociologists, including social isolation, an undermining of group dynamics, and employee disengagement. Office design must compensate for and even prevent these risks,” says Pierre Gales, VINCI Energies building solutions director for Greater Paris. So open spaces, and their impact on workplace comfort, relationships and team spirit, are on their way out.
New functions for “offices”
Maximising occupancy will involve giving precedence to space intended for collective or cooperative use. Individual tasks will be carried out as a priority during time allocated to teleworking.
As a result, the “office” becomes the ideal location for interaction and collaboration, formal meetings, informal chats, and shared downtime. And a key part of this upcoming revolution is data and the way it is processed, analysed, interpreted, and transformed in real time.
“If you want to respond in a coherent manner to needs arising from the energy transition, digital transformation and changing working practices, you have to be able to build an integrated task force,” points out Gales. This is exactly what VINCI Energies had in mind in 2017 when it set up Qivy, a comprehensive range of energy retrofit and building redevelopment solutions.
“VINCI Energies expertise spans all aspects of renovation and development, in particular technical services such as power and data, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, smoke control, and plumbing. Thanks to a number of acquisitions, we have also incorporated architectural trades and change management capabilities,” says Gales.


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"Kryger, a professor at Yale Medical School, is a leader in the field of sleep medicine, and has treated more than thirty thousand patients with sleep problems during a career that spans four decades. He draws on this voluminous clinical experience in his book, which is an authoritative and accessible survey of what is known, what is believed, and what is still obscure about normal patterns of sleep and the conditions that disrupt it."—Jerome Groopman, New Yorker
“Ably marries science with a doctor’s advice.”—Publishers Weekly
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"But Foer’s writing is deft enough to make this a polemic in the best sense of the word, which is to say a relentless intellectual argument, executed in the tradition of George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens, which often eschews nuance in favor of wit and aggression." – Washington Post
“Foer conjures concise, insightful psychological profiles of each mover-and-shaker, detailing how they've mixed utopianism and monopolism into an insidious whole. He also offers compelling mini-bios of everyone from Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew and the father of modern propaganda, to Stewart Brand, publisher of The Whole Earth Catalog and a massive influence on Silicon Valley . . . . World Without Mind is a searing take, a polemic packed with urgency and desperation that, for all its erudition and eloquence, is not afraid to roll up its sleeves and make things personal.” – NPR.org
"When the author Franklin Foer first raised concerns about Silicon Valley’s power players, ‘people looked at me funny’. Now his work appears prophetic."– The Guardian
“Lucid and ambitious new book . . . Foer is smart and trenchant when he attacks.” – Globe and Mail
“World Without Mind is an argument in the spirit of those brave democracy protestors who stand alone before tanks. Franklin Foer asks us to unplug and think. He asks us to recognize and challenge Silicon Valley’s monopoly power. His book is a vital response to digital utopianism at a time when we desperately need new ethics for social media.”
—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ghost Wars and Private Empire
“A provocative, enlightening, and above all, important book that is asking the most important question of our times. It is nothing less than an examination of the future of humanity and what we like to call ‘free will.’ It is also a good read—Foer writes with an engaging vibrancy that makes the book a page-turner.”
—Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants and The Master Switch
“As the dust settles from the great tech upheavals of the early 21st century, it turns out that the titans of Silicon Valley have not ushered us into a utopia of peace and freedom. Instead, as Foer so convincingly shows, by monopolizing the means of distribution, they have systematically demonetized and degraded the written word. World without Mind makes a passionate, deeply informed case for the need to take back culture—knowledge, information, ideas—from the Facebooks and Amazons. Its message could not be more timely.”
—William Deresiewicz, New York Times bestselling author of Excellent Sheep and A Jane Austen Education
“Franklin Foer’s World Without Mind is a fascinating biography of the biggest players in big tech—a handful of humans that, through their decisions, govern the lives of seven billion tech consumers. Foer shows that these decisions are robbing us of our humanity, our values, and our ability to grapple with complexity. World Without Mind is an important and urgent book that should be required reading for anyone who’s ever shopped on Amazon, swiped the screen on an Apple device, or scrolled through the Facebook newsfeed—in short, for all of us.”
—Adam Alter, New York Times bestselling author of Irresistible and Drunk Tank Pink
“Essential reading – while we still know what reading is – Foer's terrifying analysis of the cyber state we're in is both portrait gallery of the robber barons, the monopolists, the tax dodgers and the fantasists who own the data troughs from which we feed, and passionate plea for the retention of those values of privacy, nonconformity, contemplation, creativity and mind, which the Big Tech companies are well on their way to destroying, not out of cynicism but the deepest ignorance of what a person is and why individuality is indispensable to him. This book leaves us in no doubt: no greater threat to our humanity exists.”
—Howard Jacobson, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Dog’s Last Walk and The Finkler Question
“[B]rilliant…insightful…It isn’t until you start reading it that you realize how much we need a book like this one at this particular moment.”
- Andrew Sullivan, New York Times Book Review
“This sweeping, sobering account of the American past is a story not of relentless progress but of conflict and contradiction, with crosscurrents of reason and faith, black and white, immigrant and native, industry and agriculture rippling through a narrative that is far from completion.”
- New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
“[Lepore’s] one-volume history is elegant, readable, sobering; it extends a steadying hand when a breakneck news cycle lurches from one event to another, confounding minds and churning stomachs.”
- Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
“Jill Lepore is an extraordinarily gifted writer, and These Truths is nothing short of a masterpiece of American history. By engaging with our country's painful past (and present) in an intellectually honest way, she has created a book that truly does encapsulate the American story in all its pain and all its triumph.”
- Michael Schaub, NPR
“Lepore’s brilliant book, These Truths, rings as clear as a church bell, the lucid, welcome yield of clear thinking and a capable, curious mind.”
- Karen R. Long, Newsday
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- Booklist (starred review)
“This thought-provoking and fascinating book stands to become the definitive one-volume U.S. history for a new generation.”
- Library Journal (starred review)
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- Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard University
“Astounding…[Lepore] has assembled evidence of an America that was better than some thought, worse than almost anyone imagined, and weirder than most serious history books ever convey.”
- Casey N. Cep, Harvard Magazine
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From the Jacket:
“As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategies that will simultaneously curb emissions and spur economic growth.
Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic growth with commitments to environmental sustainability. Carin Holroyd explores green growth strategies in various industries including conservation, energy, urban development, and international trade. Holroyd’s comprehensive analysis of how innovation strategies connect with environmental priorities combines a detailed study of government policies with insightful assessments of consumer and market responses. The unevenness of Japan’s success clearly demonstrates the exceptional technological innovation and creative public policy initiatives that are needed in order to successfully reverse the effects of climate change. Green Japan offers a nuanced and hopeful account of one nation’s attempts at linking environmental sustainability and continued prosperity.”
“Wildly entertaining and thought-provoking . . . makes you reexamine long-held beliefs about leadership and the glue that binds winning teams together.”—Theo Epstein, president of baseball operations, Chicago Cubs
“If you care about leadership, talent development, or the art of competition, you need to read this immediately.”—Daniel Coyle, author of The Culture Code
“The insights in this book are tremendous.”—Bob Myers, general manager, Golden State Warriors
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“A great read . . . Sam Walker used data and a systems approach to reach some original and unconventional conclusions about the kinds of leaders that foster enduring success. Most business and leadership books lapse into clichés. This one is fresh.”—Jeff Immelt, chairman and former CEO, General Electric
“I can’t tell you how much I loved The Captain Class. It identifies something many people who’ve been around successful teams have felt but were never able to articulate. It has deeply affected my thoughts around how we build our culture.”—Derek Falvey, chief baseball officer, Minnesota Twins
The second edition of What Schools Teach Us About Religious Life continues to explore the ways in which private education in the United States mirrors the growing complexity and fluidity of religious life in the United States. Through the study of ten different private schools―representing a wide variety of religious traditions as well as some secular institutions―a picture of contemporary culture, and the place of religious belief within the culture, emerges. Each chapter of this second edition of What Schools Teach Us About Religious Life contains a different picture of how individual schools then address that culture.
My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists working throughout the southeastern United States. These paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures, and textiles include pieces ranging from the profound assemblages of Thornton Dial to the renowned quilts of Gee’s Bend. Nearly 60 remarkable examples are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the history of modernism and the context of African American experience in the 20th-century South. This remarkable study simultaneously considers these works on their own merits while also making connections to mainstream contemporary art.
Art historians Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, and Amelia Peck illuminate shared artistic practices, including the novel use of found or salvaged materials and the artists’ interest in improvisational approaches across media. Novelist and essayist Darryl Pinckney provides a thoughtful consideration of the cultural and political history of the American South, during and after the Civil Rights era. These diverse works, described and beautifully illustrated, tell the compelling stories of artists who overcame enormous obstacles to create distinctive and culturally resonant works of art.
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“The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth to the Cross? In this breakthrough, revisionist biography of one of the Bible’s most controversial figures, Italian classicist Aldo Schiavone explains what might have happened in that brief meeting between the governor and Jesus, and why the Gospels—and history itself—have made Pilate a figure of immense ambiguity.
Pontius Pilate lived during a turning point in both religious and Roman history. Though little is known of the his life before the Passion, two first-century intellectuals—Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria—chronicled significant moments in Pilate’s rule in Judaea, which shaped the principal elements that have come to define him. By carefully dissecting the complex politics of the Roman governor’s Jewish critics, Schiavone suggests concerns and sensitivities among the people that may have informed their widely influential claims, especially as the beginnings of Christianity neared.
Against this historical backdrop, Schiavone offers a dramatic reexamination of Pilate and Jesus’s moment of contact, indicating what was likely said between them and identifying lines of dialogue in the Gospels that are arguably fictive. Teasing out subtle but significant contradictions in details, Schiavone shows how certain gestures and utterances have had inestimable consequences over the years. What emerges is a humanizing portrait of Pilate that reveals how he reacted in the face of an almost impossible dilemma: on one hand wishing to spare Jesus’s life and on the other hoping to satisfy the Jewish priests who demanded his execution. Simultaneously exploring Jesus’s own thought process, the author reaches a stunning conclusion—one that has never previously been argued—about Pilate’s intuitions regarding Jesus.
While we know almost nothing about what came before or after, for a few hours on the eve of the Passover Pilate deliberated over a fate that would spark an entirely new religion and lift up a weary prisoner forever as the Son of God. Groundbreaking in its analysis and evocative in its narrative exposition, Pontius Pilate is an absorbing portrait of a man who has been relegated to the borders of history and legend for over two thousand years.”
A devout young boy in rural Ohio, Andrew Evans had his life mapped for him: baptism, mission, Brigham Young University, temple marriage, and children of his own. But as an awkward gay kid, bullied and bored, he escaped into the glossy pages of National Geographic and the wide promise of the world atlas. The Black Penguin is Evans's memoir, travel tale, and love story of his eventual journey to the farthest reaches of the map, a wild yet touching adventure across some of the most astonishing landscapes on Earth.
Ejected from church and shunned by his family as a young man, Evans embarks on an ambitious overland journey halfway across the world. Riding public transportation, he crosses swamps, deserts, mountains, and jungles, slowly approaching his lifelong dream and ultimate goal: Antarctica. With each new mile comes laughter, pain, unexpected friendship, true weirdness, unsettling realities, and some hair-raising moments that eventually lead to a singular discovery on a remote beach at the bottom of the world.
Evans's 12,000-mile voyage becomes a soulful quest to balance faith, family, and self, reminding us that, in the end, our lives are defined by the roads we take, the places we touch, and those we hold nearest.
The bestselling novel—and one of Barack Obama’s summer reading picks—from the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele.
“From one of the world’s great contemporary writers comes the story of two Nigerians making their way in the U.S. and the UK, raising universal questions of race and belonging, the overseas experience for the African diaspora, and the search for identity and a home.” —Barack Obama
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in a newly democratic Nigeria, and reignite their passion—for each other and for their homeland.
Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.
A thematic presentation of the groundbreaking and provocative art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this volume offers a new appreciation of his tragic but highly influential career. From his early years spray painting the walls of lower Manhattan to his first solo show in 1982 and his untimely death at the age of 27 in 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat has become a symbol of the 1980s New York art scene. Now, more than a quarter-century since his death, this book considers Basquiat’s works in light of their transformative power. Exquisitely reproduced full-page color illustrations of his paintings cover the full thematic range of Basquiat’s work. From the autobiographical elements of Untitled (1981) and the powerful critique of racial justice that is Irony of a Negro Policeman to an exploration of black heroes, Untitled (1982) and the tongue-in-cheek social commentary of A Panel of Experts, Basquiat’s limitless palette of observation, criticism, and cultural references endows his art with lasting and provocative power. Author Dieter Buchhart explores how Basquiat’s success paved the way for an entire generation of black artists and how street culture has spread into popular culture. Texts by curators, art dealers, and cultural critics discuss the significance of Basquiat’s oeuvre and show how his approach and subject matter continue to influence artists around the world.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, this inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of Black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose.
Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing’s narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances―blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies everyday objects―hair moisturizer, a spiral notebook―as precious icons.
Her visual art is spare, playful, and poignant―a cereal box decoder ring that allows the wearer to understand what Black girls are saying; a teacher’s angry, subversive message scrawled on the chalkboard. Electric Arches invites fresh conversations about race, gender, the city, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up.
Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, artist, and educator from Chicago. Her work has appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic, and many other publications. She is a sociologist at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

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This is indeed a good news for Adele’s fans all over the world including me. Finally it has been confirmed. Adele has officially been announced as one of the performers at next month’s Grammy Awards.
However, The Recording Academy has on Friday announced that Adele will be performing at the February 12 show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Artists that will also perform in the Grammy includes, Metallica, Carrie Underwood, John Legend and Keith Urban. Adele had a hiccup during her Grammy performance last year after a microphone inside a piano fell onto the instrument’s strings.
This year the 10-time Grammy winner Adele, has five nominations, including album of the year and best pop vocal album for “25.” Her No. 1 hit “Hello” is nominated for record and song of the year as well as best pop solo performance. The Grammys will air on CBS.
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REACH Art Fall 2022 (Soledad)Event Date:
Aug 17 - Sep 7, 2022 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This Fall, we are thrilled to be back with Miss Jess! Through REACH Art, participants (ages 7 and up) of all abilities will be introduced to the fundamentals of art, including:
Each week, participants will complete a new creation on canvas, building on the techniques learned in previous weeks.
Join us! In collaboration with Progress Not Perfection Paint Parties, REACH Art will take place on for four weeks:
Tuesdays (August 16, 23, 30, and September 6) at the Monterey Moose Lodge
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“A Biographical Sketch of a Leading English Poet of the Middle Ages, Geoffrey Chaucer,” by Andrew J. Schatkin
My dear fellow thinkers and readers and lovers of English and other great literature, I ask you to join with me in another adventure of intellectual discovery where those who may wish to engage in critical thinking and do not engage in and accept media lies falsehoods and political code words and hype can join in the effort to gain truth and facts amid the barrage of corruption and virtual darkness we are confronted with and befuddled and made effective fools of. I welcome you in this request and task of attaining and coming to know and grasp intellectual honesty and honest discernment Join with me in this voyage of discovery to get at and find what is valid and authentic in this world of confusion and do come with me in tearing apart he curtain of lies and darkness that hides from us what is truth and facts.
I wish to speak of today one of the very greatest and most enduring of English poets one I have always loved almost as much as the haunting verses of Vergil and the majesty of John Milton; I mean Chaucer. I have spoken of in these pages of the great lights of English literature such as EM Forster, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thackeray, Jane Austen, and John Stuart Mill. I treasure and love them all and they are, like Alexander Pope, my intellectual and literary indispensables, along with what Mortimer Adler said of the bible to be the foundation of western thought and culture in his great book entitled How to Read a Book, which I advise you all to read.
Chaucer was born in 1340 and died in 1400 and is considered the greatest English poet of the middle ages. He is best known for his Canterbury Tales. Among Chaucer’s other works are the Book of the Duchess; the House of Fame; the Legend of Good Women; and Troilus and Creseyde.
Chaucer was born in London and his father and grandfather were London vintners. Chaucer’s life is fairly well documented as a public servant. Chaucer came into the court circle and worked as a courtier, diplomat, and a civil servant, and worked for the king from 1389 to 1391 as the clerk of the king’s Works. Chaucer served in the army in the Hundred Years War. He travelled a great deal and married in 1366 and studied law and became a member of the royal court of Edward the III. In short, Chaucer had a most varied public career which I have only shortly touched upon. Chaucer died in 1400. Chaucer became a close friend of John of Gaunt, the wealthy Duke of Lancaster and father of Henry the IV and served under Lancaster’s patronage.
I am most interested in Chaucer’s work and life of a poet and not so much his public and civil and governmental and political career, although I have touched here upon that part of his life.
The Book of the Duchess speaks of John of Gaunt’s first wife. and is in the form of an allegory. This was his first major work. Two early works were Anelida and Arcite and the House of Fame. Many of his major works were written when he held the job of customs comptroller for London from 1374 to 1386 and his Parliament of Fowles and The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde date from this period. Chaucer translated Boethius, the Consolation of Philosophy, and the Romance of the Rose. Chaucer is known for his metrical innovation having invented rhyme royal.
The poetry of Chaucer helped standardize the English, although Middle English is somewhat removed from modern english. Chaucer’s most famous and enduring poem is the Canterbury Tales, which feature pilgrims of varied occupations and backgrounds who speak of and relates and give the story on their pilgrimage to Canterbury and include among others the knight and the miller and the friar. All are most colorful characters and present a picture and portrait of the world of the middle ages that we cannot easily forget. Chaucer was truly the founding father and founder of the English literary tradition and in many was his poetry is now confined and known only in academic English departments. I had the chance to read him in college and have never forgotten the literary experience in being exposed to this very great poet and writer. I wish I could read him more, but the distance of his language makes this most difficult. I urge you all to make the attempt to read him and come to know him and his world and his great poetry. Greatness has no limits and we cannot ignore him and discard him because his time is past. We stand on the shoulders of the greats of the past that we cannot afford to not know at our peril. Communism has its origin in Plato, as does the full equality of women, and if you will feminism.
Here is a list of the Tales:
The Knight’s Tale
The Miller’s Prologue and Tale
The Reeve’s Prologue and Tale
The Cook’s Prologue and Tale
The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale
The Wife of Bath’s prologue and Tale
The Friar’s Prologue and Tale
The Summoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale
The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale
The Squire’s Prologue and Tale
The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale
The Physician’s Tale
The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale
The Shipman’s Tale
The Prioress’ Prologue and Tale
Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Topas
The Tale of Melibee
The Monk’s Tale
The Nun Priest’s Tale
Note: I owe the content of this essay to the biography in Wikipedia.


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The Libertines don’t want to scare you, but their first album in over a decade includes synths. That’s right, Pete Doherty and his band of rock n’ roll brothers have been experimenting with their signature sound, revealing that they’ve “gone progressive” on the long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s self-titled LP, The Libertines.
The newly reformed English rock act have been spending some time nestled away at Thailand’s Karma Studios, working with acclaimed Ed Sheeran and One Direction producer Jake Gosling on the new disc, which is slated for release later this year.
And in a recent interview with NME, bassist John Hassall has revealed that the full-length will feature both synths and piano, joking: “We’ve gone progressive… No, don’t get scared. It’s still The Libertines, but it would be weird if we came back and just did exactly the same thing.”
Doherty, meanwhile, has claimed that fans are “going to love” the new album, which is tipped to feature 11 tracks. “There’s a miracle aspect to actually getting it done and all getting together to do it,” he said. “We’re all really proud of it.”
Drummer Gary Powell also added his two cents: “I would have been really, really pissed off if we’d come back with a new album full of old stuff…” he said. “The last thing I wanted us to do was sound like we were back in 2004?.
Australian triple-threat producer, engineer and frontman of Sydney rock outfit The Dead Love, Stevie Knight, was also on hand for plenty of the action from the Thai recording studio, where he says rock n’ roll history was being created.
Knight, who is rumoured to have been jamming with Doherty on some of his upcoming solo material, also reckons fans are going to dig the new Libertines record.
“It’s absolutely not synth garbage. It’s very much rock n’ roll and it’s f**king awesome!” he said.
Ahead of the album’s release, The Libertines have also been confirmed as the headliners for both T In The Park and the Reading And Leeds festivals in the UK.
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Pontejos is World Cup’s best shooter, male or female
BOCAUE, Bulacan—The finish may not have been world-class. But the skill? Definitely there.
Perlas Pilipinas sharpshooter Janine Pontejos showed the country belongs on basketball’s world stage when she ruled the Shootout side event of the Fiba 3×3 World Cup Shootout on Tuesday at Philippine Arena.
Cheered on by a sizeable crowd, the Centro Escolar University standout did not disappoint—besting the tournament’s best in both the men’s and women’s divisions.
Pontejos, who nailed five triples in a loss to Spain early in the competition, continued to sizzle, scoring 14 points in an incredible performance highlighted by eight straight makes.
“The support has been incredible,” said Pontejos in Filipino. “We did not win any game in the tournament so I was really motivated. I wanted to show that we Filipinos will continue to fight even though we’re always the underdogs.”
Pontejos actually finished with the same output as Russia’s Alexandra Stolyar with 14 points, but the Filipina had the better time finishing her run in 41.86 seconds, close to eight seconds faster than her Russian rival.
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Canadians have begun to fancy themselves as being among the world’s most innovative and outside-the-box thinkers. This progress can’t continue however without a consistent stream of support from all levels of government.
As of today, the federal government has put forth an action plan to focus on six prime areas of development in order to build a “global centre of innovation” right here in Canada.
According to Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains, this vision will focus on strengthening the middle class by creating jobs and driving growth.
The six areas of action include, “promoting an entrepreneurial and creative society, supporting global science excellence, building world-leading clusters and partnerships, growing companies, and accelerating clean growth, competing in a digital world” and “improving ease of doing business.”
Bains went on to say in a statement sent to MobileSyrup that he invites all Canadians to provide their feedback on the best pathway towards innovation and to watch for the launch of an interactive website where these views can be shared.
“Canada needs a bold, coordinated strategy on innovation that delivers results for all Canadians. This engagement process reflects the Government’s commitment to mobilizing all Canadians to action and to fostering innovation as a Canadian value,” said Bains in a statement.
“We don’t need another report on what our challenges are. We need fresh ideas and a joint action plan that will make innovation a national priority and put Canada on a firm path to long-term economic growth.”
Furthermore, round-table discussions will take place across the country, hosted by innovators and leaders in their fields who will ideally be representative of the private sector, universities and colleges, the not-for-profit sector, social entrepreneurs and indigenous businesses.
Bains’ motion was supported by two fellow ministers, the honourable Kirsty Duncan, minister of Science, and the honourable Bardish Chagger, minister of Small Business and Tourism. Together, these three ministers will lead specific activities within this initiative to ensure its implementation across all sectors of government.
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THE GATES OF SABBIONETA
It was built during the first phase of construction of the city walls, which were completed in 1567....
The gate was built during the initial phase of construction for the city wall, completed in 1567. It faces west, towards what was then Spanish Lombardy (Parma and Milan) and has a smooth facade of exposed brick, punctuated by four half pilasters in white marble ashlar (columns partly protruding from the wall, for decorative effect only), which features three arched openings, also edged in marble blocks.
Over the main entrance is a plaque with the epigraph:
(Vespasiano marquess and founder of Sabbioneta chose this gate as happy herald of victory).
The plaque is topped by a marble quartered coat of arms with the Gonzaga-Colonna insignia.
The solid interior has a cross-shaped floor plan with pillars supporting small cross vaults.
The upper loggia, roofed in wood, allowed soldiers to control access to the city, and features square pillars supporting the cloister roof.
An interesting fact is that until the middle of the last century, the space inside the gatehouse was used as low-cost accommodation.
This gate was built in 1579, immediately following the completion of the city's perimeter wall.
Unlike the other gate, it faces east, in other words towards the lands of the then duke of Mantua.
The facade is entirely clad in white marble ashlar, with three arched openings, and once featured two drawbridges, one of which could take vehicles.
The tympanum (triangular space above the entrance) is the result of an addition in the nineteenth century and replaces the original, which was similar to the one at Porta Vittoria.
The plaque above the main entrance reads:
VESPASIANVS D(ei) G(ratia) DVX SABLONE
TAE PORTAM HANC IMPERIALI
ANNO SALVTIS MDLXXIX
(Vespasiano, duke of Sabbioneta by the grace of God, sponsored the construction of this gate bearing the name Imperial in the year of grace 1579).
Also in this case, the plaque is accompanied by the duke's coat of arms in marble, with the two-headed eagle and the word LIBERTAS, topped by the ducal cap with the radiant crown. dating back to the time when Vespasiano was elevated to the status of duke.
The interior is roofed with a series of small barrel and cross vaults.
The keystone of the main entrance beard a grotesque mascaron in marble.


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A pressure tank is a maintained device for water pressure. There is an air pre-charge inside like car tires. The air pressure inside the pressure tank is separated by a rubber diaphragm with the water pressure to maintain the water pressure in the system.
Pressure tanks are most often used in domestic waterworks applications. Their main function is to balance and maintain constant pressure in the water distribution system. A pressure tank can store a good amount of water to protect your pump from frequent switching, which leads to rapid could wear. The user may only wash their hands or flush the toilet, and the water pump does not need to start. The water can come from the tank. It is an energy-saving device and a protection device in a water supply system. Based on the system size, it could be 0.5L to 2000L tank.
The expansion Tank is usually much smaller compared with the water supply pressure tank. The expansion tank is used to absorb the water or thermal liquid expansion. The temperature change can cost the water volume expanding and create the water pressure changes in a closed system same as other liquid. The extra volume of water or liquid can damage the piping or the handing structure of the system which creates a lot of leakage of the system.
The Expansion Tank has an air-per charge inside the tank is separated by a rubber diaphragm with the liquid pressure. The air zoon of the expansion tank can be compressed which is a soft zoon in the system, so it can store the extra volume of the water or the thermal liquid due to the temperature change to avoid the water pressure suddenly rising to damage the water valve or piping connection.
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The tank is in a water supply system used for the storage water and the protection of the water pump. This is a Pressure Tank.
The tank in a water heating or liquid heating system is used to absorb the liquid expansion Hydraulic pressure. This is an Expansion Tank.


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Firefighters were called to a car fire in Belmont this morning.
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Going through an early menopause raises a woman’s risk of heart disease and stroke, research found.
Experiencing the condition before 47 increased the danger of a heart attack by 29 per cent and stroke by 42 per cent.
Scientists believe this may be because the hormone oestrogen has a significant protective effect on the heart. The menopause, which occurs on average at the age of 51, happens when the body stops naturally producing oestrogen and other sex hormones.
Oestrogen helps blood vessels relax and, when supply decreases, arteries are likely to stiffen – a major cause of heart attacks.
Experts suspect an earlier menopause puts women at greater risk because they are exposed to oestrogen for less time. But the University of Oxford scientists said the link may also work in reverse – in that underlying heart problems trigger an early menopause.
Whatever the cause, there was a significant correlation between the age of menopause and heart problems. An estimated 1.9million women in Britain are going through the condition at any given time – around one in ten of whom begin early. The study, which tracked 267,440 women, also found girls whose periods started before the age of 13 were at greater risk of cardiovascular disease in later life. Further heart dangers were caused by pregnancy complications. Each case of miscarriage heightened the risk by 6 per cent, while a stillbirth resulted in a 22 per cent greater chance of cardiovascular disease and 44 per cent of stroke.
A hysterectomy was linked to a 12 per cent bigger likelihood of cardiovascular disease and a 20 per cent rise in heart attack risk.
Cardiovascular disease – a general term for all conditions affecting the heart or blood vessels – remains the leading cause of death and disability for men and women in the UK and worldwide but it can often be prevented with a healthy lifestyle.
The researchers wrote in the BMJ journal Heart: ‘This large, prospective study found that early menarche, early menopause, earlier age at first birth, and a history of miscarriage, stillbirth or hysterectomy, were each associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease in later life, after controlling for key risk factors.
‘More frequent cardiovascular screening would seem to be sensible among women who are early in their reproductive cycle, or who have a history of adverse reproductive events or a hysterectomy, as this might help to delay or prevent their onset of cardiovascular disease.’
* Nearly half of women say their mental health has suffered as a result of the menopause, a poll of 50- to 60-year-olds for BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour found.


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In part 4 of this series we had a chat with the team mate of GChalkers, Scottish driver LTrocker.
Let’s start with your name first, how did you get to this username?
So initially my name was said as LT rocker because LT are my initials, Logan Thorburn, and when I was growing up I watched Shawn Michael’s and he was part of a team called The Rockers so I thought it was cool when I was like 8. Then I did my first league race and the commentator said L Trocker and I kinda liked it so now it’s L Trocker.
How did you get to your driver number?
Pretty simple, I use 27 because I was born on the 27th of August
A little more personal info about you, how old are you and where do you live?
My name is Logan Thorburn as stated previously, I’m 16 years old and I live in a small town in the west of Scotland called Castle Douglas
What do you do in life? Work, study or something else
I have a part time job in a greengrocers and I’m still at school studying Maths, Geography, Physics, French and Graphics.
About the racing, what are your expectations for this season?
I’m very new here after only doing Brazil last season and then having an abysmal time in pre-season. In Jeddah I looked quick so maybe a top 5 in championship is possible but I don’t really know at this stage however I would like to challenge for the constructors title with Chalkers because I think we have the pace to do it.
You scored a podium in your first race of the season, do you think you can repeat that in Bahrain?
Jari is a ridiculously quick driver so P2 is probably the maximum I can do. Never been particularly great at Bahrain on past games but I hope to have a good fight with Prins and shaby again for the podium.
Who do you think are the biggest candidates for the title?
Well Jari looks like the favourite at this moment. Maybe Prins and myself are an outside chance depending on how consistent Jari is.
Where do you see yourself in the rankings at the end of the season?
I’m thinking realistically top 5 but I’m going for top 3 and obviously I want to be champion but might be slightly out of reach just now.
How do you prepare for a league race?
Depending on how much time I have I usually hop on time trials for an hour or so get a good setup and a feel for the track. If I have the time I try and do 3 or 4 quali sessions and a 50% race or 2.
How did you get into sim racing? And for how long have you been sim racing?
One of my friends joined a league and I thought that looks fun so I got myself involved. I have now been league racing for just over a year.
As a Division 1 driver you are clearly among the faster guys in the league. What makes you so quick?
Practice, time and patience. Take the time to learn about the car you are driving and the circuit you are at and just test the limits.
What other games do you like to play?
FARMING SIMULATOR from time to time and I’d like to get the new motogp game at some point.
What was your first console?
What was your first F1 game?
About real racing, what was the first F1 Grand Prix you watched?
Bahrain 2010 however the first race I properly remember is Canada 2011 because I was only 4 or 5 when I started watching the sport.
Have you ever been to a Formula 1 Grand Prix? When and where if so and what is possibly the next one you will visit?
Sadly never been to a race before but I’m heading to Silverstone this year. I also went to silverstone in 2015 to watch the motogp which was amazing.
Who is or are your favourite drivers?
Do you also follow other series?
I watch F2 and F3 but outside of F1 I watch motogp and thats about it.
Back to you on the sim. How do you race? And can you share a picture of how your setup looks?
Please ignore the mess.
We learned that Shaby loves sushi, what’s your favourite food?
I’m a bit basic, I love a macaroni cheese or a butter chicken curry and chips.
Another thing about you, what’s your favourite movie?
I dont tend to watch a lot of movies but I did enjoy Rush, Happy Gilmour, Avengers infinity war, but I personal favourite is Thor Ragnorak
Anything you would like to add?
Curry is better with chips than rice
For anyone who has no idea about who Shawn Michaels is, he’s a hall of famer wrestler from the WWE, also known the The Heartbreak Kid. One of the best wrestlers and entertainers of all time.

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Will Suffolk see snow as wintry showers hit before the weekend?
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Forecasters are predicting the chance of wintry showers before this weekend as temperatures continue to drop.
Parts of Suffolk could see sleet showers turn to snow on Friday morning, with temperatures set to remain under 5C throughout the day.
But although people may need to pull out their hats and gloves, it is not time to get any snow shovels out yet, according to East Anglia-based forecasters Weatherquest.
Fred Best, Weatherquest meteorologist, said the chances of any snow settling is low.
Mr Best said: “We are going to see rain through the night on Thursday and into the morning.
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“Most of the time it will be mainly rain, although there is the chance of some wintriness there – perhaps brief spells of something more snowy, but we won’t see anything laying on the ground.
“It is going to be fairly chilly though, on Friday we can expect highs of around 4C and it will be a similar situation into the weekend.”
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