Nonfungible tokens have swiftly develop into a mainstream phenomenon, and a amount of celebs and entertainment and sporting icons are driving their recognition. The concern is: Which NFT has experienced the most affect on this up-and-coming sector?
There is no denying that NFTs have taken the globe by storm as some of the most preferred electronic collectibles have captivated intellect-blowing price tag tags and led to a stampede of newcomers on the lookout to make the most of the highlight on the room.
Even though numerous have appeared to experience the quite obvious wave of results of NFTs, there are a couple of standout digital collectible creators that have observed their NFTs marketed at auction for millions of dollars. In a brief room of time, NFTs have develop into the new-age autograph, and the use of the technologies has proliferated a wide range of industries.
The globe of activity has taken a fondness to NFTs as blockchain-powered digital collectibles marketplaces growth for American sporting activities leagues such as the Countrywide Basketball Affiliation and the Nationwide Football League. The artwork sector is likely as a result of a new age renaissance of kinds, evident in Beeple’s $69-million electronic artwork piece breaking auction information and switching the way individuals enjoy and have artwork. Musicians, superstars and content creators have also created distinctive NFTs that are redefining how lovers and shoppers purchase memorabilia, products and articles.
In this article are some of the most influential NFTs in 2021, highlighting the creators or unique entrepreneurs and what people particular NFTs are now value.
It is only fitting that Beeple’s now-well known electronic collage “Everydays: The Initial 5000 Days” is component of this list of noteworthy NFTs. Its selling price tag alone has solidified its standing as the most highly-priced NFT at any time bought at an auction.
American digital artist Mike Winkelmann, much better acknowledged by his nickname Beeple, created the electronic collage, which was marketed in February 2021 at renowned auction residence Christie’s for a whole of $69,346,250.
Beeple has been releasing a piece of digital art each one working day for the earlier 13 and a half many years, and the “Everydays: The Initial 5000 Days” is a collage of some 5,000 of these pieces he’s released.
The NFT’s jaw-dropping cost tag was only realized in a frenzied closing hour although on auction as the electronic artwork piece noticed a remarkable improve in the worth of bids in the last two minutes of the auction, likely up from a $20-million bid to the closing bid for all around $60 million. The added $9 million was the buyer’s premium that Christie’s rates.
Jack Dorsey’s $2.9-million genesis tweet
In a weird and amazing use-scenario illustration for NFTs, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey successfully auctioned off the electronic legal rights to his initially-ever tweet from March 2006. The NFT tweet was inevitably marketed for $2.9 million in March 2021, the proceeds of which were being donated to the GiveDirectly fund.
Dorsey shared a link on his Twitter profile on March 6 that took users to an on the internet auction for his 2006 tweet, which also transpired to be the initial-at any time designed on the well-liked social media system some 15 many years ago.
Ending this March 21st
Will instantly transform proceeds to #Bitcoin
And ship to @GiveDirectly Africa Reaction
— jack (@jack) March 9, 2021
The tweet’s auction was facilitated by the NFT platform Valuables, which lets consumers to mint tweets on its blockchain “creating a 1-of-1 autographed variation.” Folks can then bid for the possession of the autographed tweet — as explained in the Valuables FAQ.
Dorsey’s initial tweet from March 2006 reads: “just placing up my twttr.” Dorsey’s digitally autographed tweet attracted a multitude of bids, but it eventually went to Sina Estavi, the CEO of Tron-centered Bridge Oracle.
Edward Snowden’s NFT
American whistleblower Edward Snowden is another notable man or woman to have raised a large volume of cash via the sale of an NFT. In 2021, he designed headlines right after elevating $5 million through the sale of a special piece of NFT artwork — with the proceeds donated to the Flexibility of the Press Foundation.
The NFT artwork piece, titled “Stay Totally free,” was commissioned by Snowden to commemorate a landmark 2020 court docket choice ruling the United States Nationwide Security Agency’s mass surveillance violated the law. Snowden played an integral section in uncovering the violations — and the art piece includes each and every webpage of the historic court docket ruling, while a silhouette of Snowden’s experience is featured in the foreground of the artwork piece.
Snowden is maybe a single of the most commonly recognizable govt whistleblowers around the past decade. For the duration of his time as a former staff and subcontractor for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Snowden attained obtain to and leaked delicate information relating to privateness abuses carried out by the NSA.
Some seven a long time afterwards, a federal appeals court docket dominated that the NSA’s surveillance method that gathered facts on Americans’ cell phone phone calls was illegal. Snowden experienced to request asylum in Russia immediately after leaking this information and has since been granted long-lasting residency in the region. Snowden was billed beneath the Espionage Act for leaking this data to the general public.
Presented that NFTs have surged in acceptance in 2021, it is not stunning that Snowden’s “Stay Free” artwork piece garnered these a major rate tag at auction. The NFT was snapped up by PleasrDAO, which was fashioned by a group of NFT artwork collectors.
The group posted a profitable bid of 2,224.00 Ether (ETH) for the digital artwork piece. The final price paid out for the “Stay Free” NFT is a lot more than the once-a-year spending budget of the Freedom of the Push Foundation, as Snowden mentioned in a tweet as bidding for the art piece heated up.
Gronk’s NFL Championship Sequence
NFL veteran Rob Gronkowski is arguably the most influential participant from his sport to have savored a thriving NFT launch of digitally signed buying and selling cards.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers restricted conclusion entered the planet of NFTs in March as he partnered with OpenSea to mint a selection of trading cards and finished up earning $1.8 million truly worth of ETH from the sale of the cards.
Gronkowski’s Championship Collection NFTs are an homage to his 4 NFL titles, although the fifth and ultimate “Career Highlight Refractor Card” was produced as a tribute to these four effective strategies. Gronkowski won three NFL titles with the New England Patriots though his fourth NFL acquire came together with quarterback Tom Brady just after the pair joined the Buccaneers in 2020.
The 4 Championship Playing cards featured 87 digital editions that were up for auction, though the fifth Job Highlight card was a single, stand-by itself NFT.
Looking at that point, it is unsurprising that the one-off “Career Spotlight Refractor Card” netted the greatest total at auction, offering for 229 ETH valued at around $435,000 at the time. The auction lasted for two times and noticed a overall of 349 investing cards offered at auction as perfectly as the one particular-off Job spotlight card to 95 distinct proprietors. The full investing benefit of the auction was 1,014 ETH valued at $1.8 million on the working day.
Grimes’ 20-moment, $5.8-million NFT bonanza
Previous but not minimum, Canadian musician and visual artist Claire Elise Boucher, far better recognized by her phase identify Grimes, loved an explosive NFT start that netted $5.8 million in sales of tokenized artwork when the sale finished in March 2021.
Grimes introduced her initially NFT assortment dubbed “WarNymph,” which was produced by her brother, renowned electronic artist Mac Boucher. The artwork explored a fictional universe centered around a goddess stylized as an infant angel. A share of the proceeds from the “WarNymph” NFT income have been donated to Carbon 180, a non-governmental corporation committed to decreasing carbon emissions.
As stated, Grimes’ NFT artwork pieces were in incredibly hot need, and copies garnered far more than $5 million in profits in below 20 minutes immediately after likely are living on Feb. 28. The most expensive NFT, “Death of the Old,” attracted a profitable bid of $389,000.
Not just a trend it looks
As Cointelegraph previously explored, NFTs have promptly moved earlier the notion of remaining a trend, and there would seem to be settlement that the room will continue to catch the attention of major financial investment and use in the future.
From musicians intrigued in breaking the boundaries of their normal releases, like the band Kings of Leon creating $2 million from its NFT album launch, to a $1.8-million pair of sneakers, it is plain that tokenizing property is becoming additional mainstream.
Mattison Asher, who conducts investigation on Ethereum, NFTs and DeFi at ConsenSys, explained to Cointelegraph at the time that it is really hard to gauge whether or not the prices paid for select parts of digital art and other NFTs will keep their price in the upcoming, introducing: “I have some NFTs, but that is simply because I enjoy the artwork and the neighborhood that was fashioned to develop the art. Attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder, though, and persons obviously do value Beeple’s ‘The First 5000 Days’ as evidenced by the auction.”
Nevertheless, Asher contends that sales like that of “Everydays” have played a far more essential role in amalgamating industries that look to have far more in typical than meets the eye:
“The story of crypto and Beeple are exceptionally identical in mother nature. Each Beeple and the crypto industry as a whole have experienced to defeat an remarkable amount of adversity in buy to attain the level of good results they are encountering now. Identical to the crypto market as a entire, Beeple has been producing digital is effective for several years, normally with very little recognition.”
As Asher also highlighted, NFTs have currently tested to be a highly efficient medium for monetizing mental residence, no issue what shape or sort a unique NFT takes. Whilst the 5 NFTs highlighted previously mentioned are probably the most noteworthy, there are certain to be a lot more extremely priced electronic collectibles in the long run.


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Certainly, a private art collection is always very personally motivated and a living, growing organism in itself.
The vision behind the Collection Anderl Weber is to discover art, the artist as a person and his work as well as to get to know and understand the artist's creative motivation and to accompany him in his career in an appreciative and curious way.
The fascination and focus of the Collection Anderl Weber lie in art that pushes boundaries and thereby constantly explores them anew, that plays with the invisible and makes the unspoken visible.
The focus is on Austrian contemporary art. In addition to the renowned artists Erwin Wurm and Herbert Brandl, the collection focuses on young up-and-coming artists such as Clemens Wolf, Peter Jellitsch, Alex Ruthner, Nana Mandl as well as Les Tardes Goldscheyder and Denesh Ghyczy.

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Lana Del Rey and The Weeknd are certainly feeling something like lust — for life or otherwise — in their new music video for Del Rey’s title track off her new album, Lust for Life.
In the video, which starts off with a short journey through space where we last saw in her “Love” clip, the witchy songstress dances and sings in retro fashion at what looks to be a TV studio before she runs off the set and climbs up a mysterious ladder. It just so happens to lead to the top of the H of the famed Hollywood sign (a nod to the song’s lyric climbing up and dancing on the mammoth consonant) and a waiting The Weeknd. The two frolic atop the sign, trading verses about how their lust for life keeps them alive and imploring each other to take off their clothes — all attire stays put, by the way, save for one red ribbon adorning Del Rey — before Lana slides off the end of the sign’s D, miraculously landing in field with The Weeknd by her side.
The ethereal video is just Del Rey’s latest in the wake of her celestial-themed comeback: In February, she released the music video for her first single from Lust for Life, “Love,” which also involved scenes of floating through strange galaxies. Though the album still has no official release date, we do know that The Weeknd isn’t the only high-profile collaboration that it will feature. Stevie Nicks and Sean Ono Lennon can reportedly be heard on a pair of yet-to-be-released songs.
“I made my first four albums for me, but this one is for my fans and about where I hope we are all headed,” Del Rey said in March in a video announcing the new album. To be honest, we wouldn’t hate being transported to whichever meadow Del Rey and The Weeknd end up in in this latest release.
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Lana Del Rey’s Style Evolution, From California Pop Star to Bewitching Songstress
Sporting her original blonde locks at concert in 2010, where she performed as Lizzy Grant.
Del Rey in a Prabal Gurung dress at the Q Awards in 2011 where she won the “Next Big Thing” award.
Leaving a hotel in Paris wearing a saffron colored dress and single white rose in her hair.
After a Cannes red carpet wearing jeans, loafers, and a Ferrari racing jacket.
Out and about in New York, wearing a simple white dress and nude pump.
At an event for fashion brand Mulberry, in a gown by the house.
Classic Hollywood siren in a dramatic black gown on the Cannes red carpet.
As the song goes, blue jeans, white shirt; at an event for her album “Born to Die.”
At the Echo Awards wearing a gown by Versace.
On the Met Gala red carpet in a gown and cape by Altuzarra, sporting a vampy lip.
At the UCLA Institute Of The Environment And Sustainability Presents An Evening Of Envrionmental Excellence wearing a fur coat with jeans and converse.
At the EMA awards in an elegant navy dress made for her by a friend.
At the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby in a dramatic black and white gown.
Front row at the Versace Fall 2013 show wearing a full look by the house.
At an event for Nylon Magazine looking biker-girl chic
At an Academy Award party hosted by the Weinstein Company in all-white.
At the amfAR’s 21st Cinema Against AIDS gala with Justin Bieber in a canary yellow ball gown.
At the 2014 British Fashion Awards in an emerald green dress and shawl.
Casual cool and glossy-haired at LAX airport in a navy cardigan.
In a floral-tiered frock on the red carpet for the Breakthrough Prize Ceremony.
Nautical-chic in a navy blazer and white trouser suit at the 5th Annual Sean Penn & Friends HELP HAITI HOME Gala.
Lana Del Rey attends 2016 Billboard Power 100 Celebration at Bouchon Beverly Hills in a white blouse and belted safari pants.
Del Rey at a 2016 pre-Grammy Gala wearing a stripped ruffle top and black satin skirt with a radical up-do.
In an elegant, all-over floral print caftan on the 2016 Brit Awards red carpet.
Every inch a 50’s beauty queen in a shimmer gown at the 2016 Vanity Fair Oscar party.
Mermaid cool in a pleated turquoise gown on the red carpet for the Golden Globes.
Lana Del Ray attends the Gucci Bloom Fragrance Launch at MoMA PS.1 on May 2, 2017 in New York City.
Lana Del Rey performs during BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend at Burton Constable Hall, Burton Constable, Skirlaugh in Hull.

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South Stokes hosted cross county and Northwest Conference tennis rival North Stokes on Thursday evening. The Vikings, who roster no seniors, overwhelmed the Sauras on their senior night and won in a 9-0 convincing fashion.
“Our girls are thinking more tennis with every match,” said Vikings coach Mandee Bennett. “The second time around in conference the girls individual scores have improved. Lauren Collins and Brianna Lester have improved the most this season, but I am proud of them all. They have continued to work hard in every practice to get better.”
Number one seeds Alyssa Collins and Hannah King started the match off at center court with Collins winning 6-1, 6-2 for the Vikings. Next up, Hannah Fisher won the first set 6-4 over Brianna Lester, but Lester came back and secured the second match 6-1. The third set was a tie breaker with Lester winning 10-8.
North Stokes Tessa Sprinkle won 6-1, 6-2 over Kaitlyn Tow and four seed Lauren Collins shutout Harmony Templain 6-0, 6-0. In the fifth seeded match, Grace Byerly beat Lucy Patterson 6-2, 6-0 and Cynthia Collins fought off Aerial Haynes 6-2, 6-2.
In the three double matches Lester and Sprinkle beat King and Fisher in a very close 8-6 match. Alyssa Collins and Addie Bryant won over Tow and Templain 8-0, while Lauren Collins and Byerly beat Patterson and Haynes 8-3.
“North Stokes was tough tonight. They have a good solid program with nice tradition,” said Sauras coach Andy Smith. “Our ladies have improved so much throughout the season. The four seniors have worked hard and made good improvement. I just wish I had more time to work with them.”
After several years of coaching at the college level, Smith enjoyed his first year leading a high school program.
“It’s been fun,” he said. “We are young this year with six returning players for next season. The future is bright for the Sauras tennis program and we will keep getting better.”
After the match South Stokes recognized their four seniors: Hannah King, Hannah Fisher, Kaitlyn Tow and Abby Quesenberry.
North Stokes finished the regular season 6-7 and 4-6 in conference play. South Stokes ended their year 4-11 and 2-8. Both teams will travel to Mount Airy next week for the 1A Northwest Conference tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Robert Money can be reached at 336-749-1193.

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When you’ve been married a long time you can fall into monotony, but it doesn't have to be that way.
When you’ve been married for several decades, you can fall into a routine. One of the spouses, or even both, may spend their days in an almost meaningless way. They live resigned to monotony, without hope of change.
The relationship may become one of silent cohabitation. Sometimes it may even be unpleasant, because the two spouses criticize each other, complain constantly, and their baggage of accumulated anger and hurt for past mistakes becomes very heavy.
As a therapist, I accompany many couples in this situation. Before the pandemic, they used to come to solve problems caused when the retirement of one or both of them made them face a different rhythm of life. They weren’t on the same page or didn’t understand each other, and often didn’t know each other anymore. As a result of the pandemic and the resulting confinement, more and more couples are coming to us who are suffering from situations of illness, uncertainty, and pain.
This reality has also moved many people to rethink their relationship and to want to fight to live it more fully. Pope Francis addressed some of these issues in 2021:
Different situations in life, the passage of time, the arrival of children, work and illness, all challenge couples to embrace anew their commitment to one another, to leave behind settled habits, certainties and security, and to set out towards the land that God promises: to be two in Christ, two in one. Your lives become a single life; you become a “we” in loving communion with Jesus, alive and present at every moment of your existence. God is always at your side; he loves you unconditionally. You are not alone!
… With these biblical passages in mind, I would now like to reflect on some of the difficulties and opportunities that families have experienced during the current pandemic …
— Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to married couples for the “Amoris Laetitia Family” Year
Being able to look back and discover certain mistakes in managing our relationships and the way we live together with our spouse is a golden opportunity. We can take advantage of this time to learn (or practice) communication techniques that will allow us to better understand our partner or our family members.
To be able to understand our spouse and his or her needs, we need to know how to look beyond superficial impressions. It’s like taking a magnifying glass and learning to focus better, discovering the reality in front of us, seeing it in a different way.
Discovering what the other person needs
Once we have truly seen someone, we are able to discover their true needs. Sometimes, a harsh answer or a complaint can be the reflection of an unmet need (a call for attention, a sign of pain, a need to feel loved, insecurity, etc.).
Other times, a long silence or a hard look may reflect a feeling of sadness, anger, or uncertainty that they don’t know how to express in words.
It’s only in this attentive observation that we discover hidden aspects of our spouse that allow us to recognize once again the person who once conquered our heart.
40 years go by
This is how, despite the peculiarities that we and our spouse may have, the bad temper, or the physical deterioration caused by illness or the passage of time, we can begin to live our marriage more fully again, whether 40, 50, or more years have passed since we made our vows.
The key is not to dwell so much on the negative, but to discover, understand, and share whatever our worries, concerns, or joys are. Perhaps at this point we may think that we already know each other. Surely we do, up to a point, but maybe we are stuck with an idea that is out of date. We might not know each other at this age, after all we’ve lived through and how much we have changed and grown over the years.
Learning to look at our spouse and understand them requires an act of will. We have to consciously show that we want to love them in their need, even if we don’t have the same needs ourselves. It means putting ourselves in their place and walking alongside them. We must learn not to keep silent; to say things to each other clearly, but with affection and respect. We need to learn to ask for forgiveness and to forgive. Mature love—like good wine—improves with time, but we must know how to drink it at the right moment.
The understanding between two people is the fruit of a mature dialogue: of an inner dialogue with ourselves (knowing and accepting ourselves in our imperfection) and of an external dialogue with our spouse (knowing and accepting them in their imperfection).
“Marriage, as a vocation, calls you to steer a tiny boat – wave-tossed yet sturdy, thanks to the reality of the sacrament – across a sometimes stormy sea.” – Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to married couples for the “Amoris Laetitia Family” Year
It is on this journey together, despite the difficulties, that we can continue to discover the beauty of our marriage. We see the true meaning of each situation, dialoguing constructively with our husband or wife. In spite of our human imperfection, it’s possible to live our relationship more fully no matter how many years have passed since our “I do” on our wedding day.

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This site covers the original British Beatles Albums plus analyses of the lyrics of non-album tracks.
Information on how the Beatles wrote the lyrics to the songs on the Revolver album can be navigated from below.
Paul McCartney wrote the lyrics to here, there, and everywhere, a song that many, including John Lennon, consider to be the Beatles greatest love song.
At the time things were looking up in his relationship with Jane Asher, despite her love independence that Paul could not understand. Paul was very much inspired for this song by god only knows by the Beach boys.
All of the Beatles were present for the recording of here there and everywhere, with paul doing the lead vocals.

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Tape Op will once again have a booth at the AES show in San Francisco, CA October 27-29, so please come say hi if you are at the show!
To make it easier for you to attend the show, we are once again giving away free badges to the exhibition area of the show, go here to get your pass:
Don't lag on this, the deadline to register is October 1.
This year AES is adding a new element to the show, the Project Studio Expo which looks to be really educational. This is a free series or workshops and clinics, so if you're going to the show, make sure to check this out. You'll need to pre-register for it here and you can also check out the events:
Lastly, if you're not an AES member, this years keynote address might be a good reason to join and attend the full show. Producer Steve Lillywhite who's worked with U2, Big Country, Phish and lots more artists is the keynote speaker. John recently sat down with Steve at the W Hotel in Hollywood and interviewed him for an upcoming issue of Tape Op. If that meeting was any indication, the Keynote Address will be something you won't want to miss. Steve is funny, generous, outspoken, opinionated and very passionate about music and recording.
Hope we see you in San Francisco!


Charges against Douglas County deputy cut from seven to four
Published 06/25/2009, Superior Telegram
Three charges against a retired Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy were dismissed in Douglas County Court today — two felony charges of possessing a recording of nudity without consent and one misdemeanor charge of obstructing an officer.Word count: 671
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Lessons From M-Pesa for Africa’s New VC-Rich Fintech Startups
Friday, December 6, 2019
In African fintech, the fourth quarter of 2019 brought big money to new entrants.
Chinese investors put $220 million into OPay and PalmPay — two fledgling startups with plans to scale in Nigeria and the broader continent. Several sources told me the big bucks had created anxiety for more than few payments ventures in Nigeria with similar strategies and smaller coffers. They may not need to fret just yet, however: lessons from Africa’s most successful mobile-money case study, M-Pesa, suggest that VC alone won’t buy scale in digital finance.
Startups and fintech in Africa
Over the last decade, Africa has been in the midst of a startup boom accompanied by big growth in VC and improvements in internet and mobile penetration.
Some definitive country centers for company formation, tech hubs and investment have emerged; Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya lead the continent in numbers for all those categories. Additional strong and emerging points for innovation and startups across Africa’s 54 countries and 1.2 billion people include Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Senegal.
Photo courtesy of Scott Mainwaring.


Edelbrock Unveils 555 Cubic-Inch Big-Block Crate Engine
Offering 650 Horsepower / 650 Ft./Lbs. of Torque
Edelbrock has entered the big-block crate engine market with the unveiling of their new 555 cubic-inch crate engine. Developed in conjunction with 8-time World Champion Drag Racer, Pat Musi, this 555 cid BBC is designed to provide pavement shredding horsepower in a street-friendly package.
Performance and durability are assured through the combination of industry leading product including a Dart Big-M block, SCAT crank, JE Pistons and Eagle H-Beam Rods, Edelbrock Victor 24° Heads, Roller Camshaft, Victor 454-R Intake and 800cfm Thunder Series carburetor. Crane Gold rockers, MSD Distributor and Moroso oil pan round out the quality details. The finished package produces 650 HP and 650 Ft./Lbs. of Torque on pump gas.
Every Edelbrock crate engine is backed by a 2-Year / Unlimited Mileage warranty and made to order.
- 650HP / 650 Ft./Lbs. of Torque
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Taoiseach Micheal Martin has confirmed that the Level 5 lockdown has been extended for another six weeks, until April 5.
Addressing the nation this eveining, the Fianna Fáil leader confirmed that there will be no ease up on the majority of the severe restrictions for another while.
The 5km limit has not been lifted, and the public is being asked again to stay at home as much as possible.
There is no date for when the hospitality industry, hairdressers and beauty salons, sports or social gatherings can resume - this will be assessed after April 5.
Schools will open on a phased basis from next week March 1. The situation will be reviewed every two weeks to see if more students can return.
Leaving Certificate students along with primary school students from junior infants to second class will be the first to return on Monday.
Remaining primary school students and fifth years will return on 15 March, subject to reviews. All other secondary students will go back to school on April 12, after the Easter Holidays.
A plan is also in place for childcare to reopen on a phased basis from next week. The early childhood pre-school scheme will reseme on March 8 while all childcare will return on March 29.
Aside from education, non-Covid health and social care services will resume over the coming weeks.
To ease restrictions, Mr Martin said the Government needs to consider community transmission, hospital and ICU numbers and the vaccine programme before the country can move forward in reopening society.
The Taoiseach also also said the vaccine rollout is set to be ramped up - 100,000 people a week will be vaccinated in March with this being increased to 250,000 weekly in April.
By the end of June, it is expected that 82% of adults will have received their first dose, with 55-65% being fully vaccinated.
The aim is that this lockdown will be the last, and when society begins to reopen it will stay that way.


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15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest People
A Boy and His Bay
My son looking out into the bay. Found it to be one of the best pictures I have ever taken of him in his natural state.
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Over the 2020 lockdown, a lot of people learned how to bake sourdough bread. Some took up knitting. Others got very into gardening, or puzzles, or reorganizing their closets. I, on the other hand, got very into 1990s’ sci-fi TV and, specifically, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. These far off worlds were my escape. My world had become so small. I really wanted to go BIG in my imagination. Space operas felt perfect.
I had started watching Star Trek during my PhD, a few years back, and it had become a comforting escape for me during stressful periods. But Deep Space Nine hit differently somehow. I’ve heard people say that it’s the ‘grittiest’ Star Trek series and, from what I’ve seen, that’s definitely true. During the lockdown, it particularly resonated with me because of its themes of grief, loss and people trying to pick up the pieces after dark and difficult things.
‘in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world.’ – Tim O’Brien, in ‘The Lives of the Dead’
I love a good ghost story. While I’m a bit of a scaredy-cat when it comes to scary movies, I feel like ghost stories are perfect reading material for this time of year (or, really, every time of year). And I think books are the perfect place to encounter ghosts. As the quote above says, stories are a ‘kind of dreaming’. They are like the ghosts of either the writer, or the characters, or some combination of the two coming to life in our minds, even if that writer is long gone. We resurrect them.
A few years ago, the University of Edinburgh ran a project online called The Dangerous Women Project, which posed the question: ‘what does it mean to be a dangerous woman’?
The project asked artists, writers, photographers, academics and more to explore what being ‘dangerous’ as a woman means (both historically and now). They ended up publishing over 365 responses between International Women’s Day 2016 and 2017. These responses were so vast and varied – with some artists reflecting on their own work, some original poems and tons of stories about fascinating women living at various points of history who, for one reason or another, were deemed ‘dangerous’. Maybe they were dangerous because they lived outside of gender norms, or they pursued ‘masculine’ professional careers, or because they fought for women’s rights, or simply refused to live by whatever the standard of feminine behavior was at the time.
When I first heard of this theme, I knew I had to write something for the project and one person immediately came to mind. A 19th century sculptor who (sadly!) isn’t very well known today. Her name was Elisabet Ney. Not Elizabeth, Elisabet (sans ‘h’)! And like her name, she was really quite unique.
She became known in her own time for sculpting statues of famous men in Europe and, later, Texas. These included the famous philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, Otto Von Bismark (the prime minister of Prussia), and (my Texas readers will know these last two!) Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin.
In addition to being a gifted sculptor, she was a really unconventional individual: she never took her husband’s last name (as an early feminist, she insisted on keeping her own name), wore trousers, and generally had very forward-thinking attitudes about gender.
I came to know about her because her former home in Austin is now The Elisabet Ney Museum and I was taken there on school field trips growing up. I don’t know how to say this without sounding hokey – and I don’t fully understand it myself – but even from a very young age I have felt, shall we say, connected to Elisabet Ney. She’s always really intrigued me as a person. I always thought she was world famous but when I moved away from Texas I learned that, like many female artists, even relatively successful ones, her work is largely unknown by the general public.
The Elisabet Ney Museum is also a calm, beautiful space – lovely stone walls and full of her statues, which were all enormous and snow-white. A really tranquil place. I should definitely do a blog post on it the next time I’m in Austin!
So I wrote a short story about her for the Dangerous Women Project and specifically about the last sculpture she made, which some believe to be somewhat autobiographical: a sculpture of Lady Macbeth. This story is absolutely historical fiction. I took a few of the details I knew about her life and character to inspire it, but much of it is invented or imagined too.
I was also delighted when, a few years later, the Dangerous Women Project asked if they could include my story in a book which would feature articles, art and stories about female creativity and danger. I said absolutely yes! The book came out this spring (2021) and it’s truly an impressive volume which I’ve loved reading through. It’s called The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger Through Creative Expression, published by Leuven University Press.
I’m glad that my story about Elisabet has found a place to sit alongside so many accounts (personal, historical, fictional, non-fictional etc.) about ‘dangerous’ female artists. I imagine she’d be happy to be amongst that company.
I’d absolutely love to work on a longer piece about Ney at some point because she really did live such an unusual life and rubbed elbows with so many influential figures in her day. Truly a fascinating character.
Let me know if you’d like to learn more about Elisabet Ney. And, if you read the story, let me know what you think!
Are there any historical artists, or historical figures generally, you wish were more widely known today? Anyone from your local area perhaps?
Most of us are looking ahead at a lot more time spent at home these next few weeks. So I thought I’d recommend a few excellent books that would make for perfect reading material during this time of ‘self-isolation.’ The wonderful thing about books is that, even if you are at home alone, they can provide a source of company and a means of imaginative escape. You can travel to distant lands (in the case of today’s read, 19th century Transylvania!), meet new people, and lose yourself in someone else’s adventure.
I’m going to try and recommend books which I think are especially ‘immersive’, that really plunge you into another place and time. These happen to be my favorite sorts of books anyway, so I’ve got lots of recommendations!
First up is a thrilling piece of gothic fiction! I read it for the first time last year and simply could not put it down and that is Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
My epic copy of Dracula that I found a few years ago on sale at a gift shop. I thought I’d just use it as Halloween decor, but eventually read the book itself.
You might be familiar with one of the many film versions of this book, but trust me – the original book itself is well worth a read! It’s atmospheric and suspenseful and, in my opinion, no film version has ever captured the true spirit of the book. For me, Dracula is the original Scooby Doo. At its heart, it’s about a group of people who are trying to solve a mystery and defeat a dastardly villain intent on destroying their society. Lots of films try to make this into a romantic story, but to me it’s a tale of friendship and camaraderie.
If you don’t know the story of Dracula, I actually don’t want to give too much away (because the less you know, the more exciting the story is!). But it’s about a count with supernatural powers who tries to invade Victorian England. We follow various characters who try to figure out how to stop him, starting with the young lawyer Jonathan Harker who is imprisoned in Dracula’s castle in Transylvania at the start of the book. We also meet his fiancée Mina, her close friend Lucy, a goofy Dutch doctor who is an expert in the occult (I pictured Christoph Waltz for some reason), a Texan cowboy, an English Lord and a whole bunch of other people. All these people have to come together and try to stop Dracula’s plan, which is to turn more people into vampires (See, I bet you didn’t know that there was a COWBOY in Dracula? He plays a pretty big role too…). So in many ways it’s an appropriate story to read right now: one where smart people all come together to stop a dangerous contagion.
One of the things that makes Dracula such an engaging read is its epistolary style. It’s told in a series of letters and the occasional newspaper report which gives it almost a ‘true crime’ feel. The reader is piecing together the story, just as our characters do.
Another things that makes Dracula exciting to read, if I’m perfectly honest, is that it’s sexy. There is also a genuine terror in it of sex, particularly female sexual power. You have to read this book in the context of its own time (it was first published in 1897) and don’t except what we would call now ‘well-rounded’ female characters. Women are either pure and virtuous, like Mina, or literal demons who have fallen under Dracula’s power and want only to seduce and destroy men. But the female vampires definitely ARE super sexy. Take this passage when Harker encounters a vampire lady in Dracula’s castle:
The fair girl went on her knees and bent over me, fairly gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, til I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on her scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed to fasten on my throat.
When people think of ‘classic’ novels, I think they imagine that these books are dry or tedious. That’s often not the case and it’s definitely not the case with Dracula (see passage above). Dracula is a strange window into Victorian fears (fears of female sexuality, fears of foreign invasion, fears of animal desires and impulses) and a damn good read. It’s one of my favorite books and, coincidentally, I’ve actually been to Transylvania (which is a part of modern day Romania!). I went there before I had read Dracula – one of my partner’s good friends lives there. But, now that I have read Dracula, I can picture even more vividly the haunting settings of Bram Stoker’s book: the mist-shrouded Carpathian mountains, the crumbling ancient fortresses, the steep ravines. But you don’t need to go to Romania to experience the world of Dracula. Just curl up with this fabulous book and let yourself fall under its spell.
Stay tuned for more reading recommendations, and don’t forget to check out my series Madeira Mondays, every Monday, where I talk about early American history and historical fiction!
Do you have any reading recommendations for me? What books should I sink my teeth into (okay, there had to be one Dracula joke!) during this period?
I hope you’re well, and thanks very much for reading!

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I’ve had the privilege to count so many amazing women as mentors, colleagues, and friends over the years.
One mentor I especially want to recognize is Wren Ross. Wren was my very first voiceover coach and demo producer. I was saddened to find out that she passed away last week. Wren encouraged me to relax in the booth and have fun with the copy. She was also an advocate for my career, helping me connect with so many people in the industry. She understood both the creative and business ends of voiceover. Her infectious enthusiasm is already missed.


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(JAMA Network) Lumpectomy plus radiation was associated with a small clinical benefit in reduced risk of breast cancer death compared with lumpectomy or mastectomy alone in women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a noninvasive early form of breast cancer.
ConclusionOlder women at risk for MDD before DCIS diagnosis were less likely to receive RT after BCS, compared to BCS alone or mastectomy.
ConclusionsIn women who received chemotherapy, the higher risk of preterm birth was limited to those survivors who had short intervals between treatment and conception.Cancer 2018;0:1 ‐7.
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) represents a heterogeneous disease in its histologic appearance and biological potential. Some women treated for DCIS subsequently develop invasive breast cancer. DCIS with microinvasion is considered as the interim stage in the progression from DCIS to invasive breast cancer. Analysis of the differences between DCIS and DCIS with microinvasion may aid in understanding the characteristic of DCIS with microinvasion and identifying biological factors determining progression of DCIS to invasive disease.
Retrospective analysis of 219 cases between 2012 and 2018 was performed in our institution….
(American Society for Radiation Oncology) A subset of patients with low-risk breast cancer is highly unlikely to see cancer return following breast conservation surgery but can lower that risk even further with radiation therapy, finds a new long-term clinical trial report. These 12-year follow-up data from the only prospective, randomized trial to compare recurrence outcomes after treatment for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) were presented last week at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
A METHOD FOR QUANTIFICATION OF CALPONIN EXPRESSION IN MYOEPITHELIAL CELLS IN IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL IMAGES OF DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU.
Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging. 2018 Apr;2018:796-799
Authors: Gray E, Mitchell E, Jindal S, Schedin P, Chang YH
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is breast cancer confined within mammary ducts, surrounded by an intact myoepithelial cell layer that prevents local invasion. A DCIS diagnosis confers increased lifetime risk of developing invasive breast cancer (IBC) and results in surgical excision with radiation, and possibly endocrine- or chemo-therapy. DCIS is k…
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) produced an evidence-based guideline on whole-breast radiation therapy for patients with early-stage invasive breast cancer and ductal carcinoma in situ. This commentary points out areas where we believe the data are too limited to make definitive recommendations and where alternative approaches are also supported by evidence.
AbstractDuctal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a non-obligate precursor to most types of invasive breast cancer (IBC). Although it is estimated only one third of untreated patients with DCIS will progress to IBC, standard of care for treatment is surgery and radiation. This therapeutic approach combined with a lack of reliable biomarker panels to predict DCIS progression is a major clinical problem. DCIS shares the same molecular subtypes as IBC including estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) positive luminal subtypes, which encompass the majority (60 –70%) of DCIS. Compared to the established roles of ER…
Conclusion: Classification of breast tumors into rapidly progressive cluster A and the other (cluster B) may contribute to select the treatment appropriate for their progression risk.Pathobiology
A prediction model for underestimation of invasive breast cancer after a biopsy diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ: based on 2892 biopsies and 589 invasive cancers, Published online: 17 October 2018; doi:10.1038/s41416-018-0276-6A prediction model for underestimation of invasive breast cancer after a biopsy diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ: based on 2892 biopsies and 589 invasive cancers
CONCLUSION: Apparently, research has to be centered on the natural history of breast cancer in order to provide responses concerning the questions raised by the overdiagnosis controversy.
PMID: 30316554 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]

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It’s 1962, and Edward and Florence have just gotten married. They’re honeymooning ‘On Chesil Beach’, but it’s not long before their inexperience with relationships gets the better of them.
It’s a modest honeymoon, but a happy one as the young couple gradually get to know each other better. But soon, something happens – and a confession is made – that shakes this fledgling marriage to its core.
Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle star in ‘On Chesil Beach’, based on Ian McEwan’s acclaimed novel and directed by Dominic Cooke in his feature debut.

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Challenging History Making: Realism, Revolution and Utopia in The Timeless Land
Among the many historical novels written in Australia during the thirties and forties, The Timeless Land is unique for the way it foregrounds the journals, letters, and official documents on which it is based. In her prefatory remarks Dark acknowledges the sources from which she drew in writing her novel, even including a bibliography in some editions. An examination of Dark's sources may prompt readers to reflect on The Timeless Land's status in relation to the 'facts', interrogating the 'common sense' view that historical novelists are in the business of re-creating bygone eras and bringing the 'facts' to 'life' (cf. Gilliam). Such a view informs the work of two major critics of Dark's novels, H.M. Green and G.A. Wilkes, both of whom focus on The Timeless Land's historical 'authenticity' or 'truth'. Also at issue here is the nature of genre criticism. Green begins his analysis of The Timeless Land and other historical novels by isolating certain features supposedly peculiar to this form (in the same spirit, he categorises Capricornia and Landtakers as novels of 'purpose' rather than 'historical novels', and discusses them separately) (Green 1091-92). When Wilkes outlines three distinct periods in Dark's 'progress', each corresponding to a discrete category or generic type, he reveals a similar understanding of literary genre (Wilkes 139, 141, 144). In contradistinction to this approach, we might usefully begin to think of historical fiction in a more flexible way. It may, for example, be just as interesting to observe how The Timeless Land conflicts with any pat definition of historical fiction as to note those features of the text that abide by the genre's 'laws'.
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Published 1 May 1995 in Volume 17 No. 1. Subjects: Australia - Literary portrayal, Australian literary criticism, Defining an Australian literature, Historical fiction, Imagery, Narrative techniques, Writer's research & sources, Eleanor Dark.


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Doctors highlight the importance of cervical screening in Doncaster during Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2019.
The importance of cervical screening (commonly known as a smear test) is being stressed by doctors throughout South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw during the national Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2019 (21 to 27 January).
Recently published data indicates that cervical screening uptake is at 20-year low, with only around 70% of eligible women accepting their invite.
Nine women are diagnosed with cervical cancer every day in the UK, with around 3,000 cases diagnosed each year, and it is the most common cancer in women under the age of 35. In South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw, around one in four women do not attend their routine cervical screening appointment.
Dr David Crichton, GP and Chair of NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “Having a smear test is hugely important as early detection of any abnormalities within the cervix can lead to a better chance of successful treatment.
“Women who don’t attend their appointments are the most vulnerable in developing more serious complications. Usually there are no symptoms with cervical cancer, so it is only by having a smear test that any abnormal cells within the cervix can be found before they develop into cancer.
“I’d like to take this opportunity to urge all ladies from South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw to take up their all-important cervical screening appointment, for five minutes out of your day – it could save your life.“
All women between the ages of 25 and 64 are eligible for a free cervical screening test every three to five years. If you are aged between 25 and 49 you will receive an appointment every three years, aged between 50 and 64 every five years and if you are above 65 you will only be screened if you haven’t had a smear test since the age of 50 or have had recent abnormal tests.
Screening is usually carried out by the practice nurse at your GP clinic.
Women who have missed their cervical screening appointment are encouraged to contact their local GP to book an appointment.
To find out more about people’s personal stories in South Yorkshire and their fears, the facts and getting ready for your smear, visit fearorsmear.dbh.nhs.uk


Hyderabad: The State government has sought sanction of a Mega Powerloom Cluster at Sircilla under Comprehensive Powerloom Cluster Development Scheme (CPCDS) and also financial assistance of Rs 806.81 crore for setting up Kakatiya Mega Textile Park (KMTP) at Warangal. Textiles and Handlooms Minister K T Rama Rao on Tuesday submitted representations to Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, seeking the Centre’s support for setting up CPDCS.
In his meeting with Smriti Irani at her chambers in Udhyog Bhavan in New Delhi on Tuesday, Rama Rao explained that the State government conducted geo-tagging of powerlooms in Telangana State and discovered the presence of around 35,566 powerlooms across the State. Of this, about 25,595 powerlooms are existing in Rajanna Sircilla district alone. The State government was keen to establish the Mega Powerloom Cluster under CPCDS and submit a proposal for its sanction as well as development on the lines of Ichalakaranji (Maharashtra), Surat (Gujarat), Karanpura and Solapur among others.
However, the Minister said the State government was working with a unique intention for setting up a Weaving Park under Worker to Entrepreneur Scheme, Apparel Park and also restart the Common Facility Centre at the existing Textile Park in Sircilla, to achieve speedy results and generate employment to unemployed youth. The entire project’s outlay is estimated at Rs 993.65 crore for the same. “The funding from the Central government under CPDCS is Rs 50 crore and implementation of the Sircilla Powerlooom Clusters is likely to take huge time. Instead, I request the Union government to provide Rs 49.84 crore for filling various gaps in funds for setting up these three establishments under CPDCS to achieve speedy results,” he said.
The State government is also keen to establish Powerloom Development Corporation to look after various marketing strategies under powerloom sector. The Corporation will be the implementing agency and special purpose vehicle for the Mega Powerloom Cluster on behalf of the State government which will contribute a major share of Rs 756.97 crore for the project.
Further, Rama Rao requested the Union Minister to sanction early approval of Kakatiya Mega Textile Park proposed to come up in about 1,200 acres at Warangal and also sanction Rs 897.92 crore for infrastructure development of the project. He stated that the State government had entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 14 large textile and apparel companies promising a total investment of Rs 3,020 crore including a commitment of foreign direct investment amounting to USD 145 million from Youngone Corporation of South Korea.
The Minister also urged the Centre to finalise the policy for ‘Development of Manufacturing Regions for Textile and Apparel Sector (MRTA)’ to ensure that projects like Kakatiya Mega Textile Park benefit from the same. He sought an early approval for the proposals submitted by the State government under Integrated Processing Development Scheme (IPDS) for setting up a Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) with Zero Liquid Discharge at the Mega Textile Park.
KTR visits Delhi seeking funds for the State projects
Hyderabad: IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao, on Tuesday, called on Union Environment and Forest Minister Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi seeking his support for development of Hyderabad Pharma City. He briefed the Union Minister on the progress of Pharma City and discussed various issues which require the Centre’s attention to expedite the project.
The Minister, earlier, called on Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani seeking sanction of funds and approvals for Sircilla Mega Powerloom Cluster and Kakatiya Mega Textile Park.
Rama Rao, who is also the working president of the ruling TRS, held a meeting with TRS Parliament members at TRS Parliamentary Party office in the Parliament on the occasion. The MPs led by TRS Lok Sabha floor leader Nama Nageshwara Rao discussed various issues of Telangana State to be taken up with the Centre and sanction of necessary funds as well as permissions for several ongoing and proposed projects in the State. He also wanted them to focus on release of pending funds from the Union Government to the State government.


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The technical problems that canceled hundreds of American Airlines flights in the past week are becoming more regular as airlines consolidate and “patch together” their systems instead of creating a new cohesive one, an aviation expert told the Dayton Daily News.
American Airlines canceled or delayed at least 745 total flights after two “technical issues” on Thursday and Sunday at PSA Airlines, a regional carrier for American based in Dayton.
About 675 flights serviced by American Airlines regional carrier PSA were canceled Thursday and Friday, followed by another 70 more after a second “technical issue” Sunday morning. Flights Monday were also on a reduced schedule until noon. At least 30 flights through the Dayton International Airport were affected since Thursday.
Both issues at PSA Airlines are related to a crew scheduling and tracking system, which the Dayton-based airline uses to assign crews to each aircraft, Katie Cody, a spokeswoman with American Airlines told the Charlotte Observer.
American Airlines has dispatched a group of technical workers to PSA’s headquarters in Dayton to resolve the “technical issue,” according to media reports.
“It isn’t really a glowing recommendation of the confidence level American has in the carrier,” aviation expert Jay Ratliff said.
While Ratliff recognized that PSA is receiving a lot of negative national attention as the airline attempts to take care of the problems, he said it won’t be remembered negatively forever.
“They’ve been doing so well for so long that they’re just flying under the radar,” he said.
The quickly growing airline doesn’t have a history of issues, he said, and while passengers may remember this experience, others nationally will not.
“A week from now people will forget about it, especially when another airline comes up with another computer issue,” Ratliff said.
What to do if your flight is canceled
1. Check for an online reroute that arrives or departs at different airports with different regional carriers
2. Ask about interline agreements that allow you to switch airlines when one has cancelled flights.
3. Don’t be picky. Let the airline know if you’re willing to fly to a different airport in the state that isn’t experiencing as many issues.
American Airlines isn’t the only one to experience computer issues, with Delta, Southwest, United and Allegiant also suffering big cancellations and delays due to computer issues in recent years.
American Airline flights were first halted at 4 p.m. Thursday after problems emerged at PSA’s local operations center in Dayton. The outage affected about 4 percent of American’s global flight operations, primarily shorter routes from its hub in Charlotte, N.C., American Airlines officials said.
“We understand that these cancellations have been frustrating for our customers, and we are doing everything in our power to get things back to normal as quickly as possible,” American spokesman Ross Feinstein said.
With the summer months being some of the most traveled times for vacation and business, Ratliff said flights across airlines are at a 90 percent load capacity right now, making it hard to put displaced passengers on later flights.
“We’re talking about a lot of displaced passengers that we can look at two or three days before everyone’s going to make it to their destination,” he said.
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Building my very first Gaming/Work PC
I have been wanting to build my first PC for a long time now. Believe me when I say this but this is every man's dream. Be that Henry Cavil, Terry Crews or any other person, every man is incomplete without his custom rig.
I distinctly remember which game got me into gaming community. It was Prince of Persia 3D. I have very fond memories of playing that game for hours with my cousin. Then came the Sands of Time sequel and the very dark and legendary sequel to that - Warrior Within. Every year I do a Warrior Within marathon; I play this complete game in two days without sleep!
But instead of a powerful PC I decided to buy a console 2 years back since I never owned one and would like to get a feel of console gaming. Using the console for two year I realize that its still no match for a PC when it comes the variety of games. I understand the differences between console and PC gaming war that is going on for ages.
Last month in mid August, I decided to start building my very first PC. I poured literally 20 days on researching on how a PC is built. There are a lot of factors contributing to this which I did not expect. I watched ton of Youtube channels, read blogs etc. I finalized my budget and built a PC parts list on a simple spreadsheet. I ordered bare minimum parts which are required to get my PC up and running. This way I can add parts later on as needed.
I still think that this PC is overpriced, mainly because all the parts in India sells close to MRP.
Here is how my minimal PC looks like right now.
- Motherboard - MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon Max Wi-Fi
- CPU - AMD Ryzen 2700 8 cores @ 4.1GHz
- RAM - Trident Z RGB 16GB (8GBx2)
- Cabinet - Thermaltake H200 Snow Edition
- Graphics Card - ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX570 OC Edition 8GB
- Storage - WD 240GB WD SSD M.2
- Cooler: Stock
- PSU - Corsair 650M
Future upgrade plans-
- Dual monitors
- Extra cabinet fans for better air cooling
- More Air filters
- AIO Liquid Cooler
- 1 TB SSD
- Cable management, especially around my desk. A lot of wires actually are from my server, router and RaspberryPi.
This is still not a super high powered gaming rig. It's bare minimum to get games running in medium to high settings with 50+ FPS. Since I already own a console and I don't plan to play AAA titles in this PC, I have kept the specs at minimum. This PC will be my main workstation because my old laptop is almost on its deathbed.
Here is spreadsheet with all the details of my PC -
I watched a lot of these Youtube channels which helped me learn a lot about all the nitty-gritty details of PC building -
- Linus Tech Tips
- Indian Gamer
- PC Centric
Let's play some Mario now!

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Fortunately turtles aren’t quite so sensitive. Because water has the ability to dissolve so many common substances, it is called the universal solvent. A mixture is put in a polyacrylamide gel which has a pH gradient.
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The reactants here incorporate a peroxide. Peptide bonds can be separated by hydrolysis. GENERAL CHEMISTRY Atoms are the fundamental unit of chemistry.
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Follow this hyperlink to discover how you’re still able to search Chemguide using keywords. If no titration data are offered in this pH range, the analysis is going to be abandoned. A benchmark may be used to measure throughput.
Firstly, as it contains three acidic protons, phosphoric acid has multiple dissociation constants and can be utilized to create buffers for both of the 3 corresponding pHs. In case the sample needs to have a substantial quantity of non-carbonate alkalinity, however, the fitted titration curve could be poor. Additional the degree of dissociation depends upon the pH of the solution.
A convenient method to characterize aqueous solutions is to examine the hydrogen ion concentration. In fact, it’s more informative to compose this equation in several different ways. Explains the way the development and evolution of life is in accordance with the principle that the entropy of earth never decreases.
Soil removal is an intricate process that’s a whole lot more involved than simply adding soap or surfactant to water. Buffer solutions are among the most significant varieties of chemical reagent employed in chemical research, biological research and industry. Buffer solutions are utilised to keep pH levels constant in lots of chemical reactions.
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These calculations apply for each or at least one of these solutions. Any conclusions gained from the experiment also needs to be summarized in this section. Some examples are provided in the graph.

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Multi-coloured spray of four leaves set with one turquoise flower with a white beaded central flower holding it all together. Leaves are very detailed.
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A massive crowd forming outside Pacific Plaza can only mean one thing: Yet another release of an adidas shoe. This time, it was the Yeezy Boost 350 “Pirate Black”.
By Daniel Loy
Photos by Dahalan Sarlip
Despite the funny enquiries that popped up on social media following the announcement of the “Pirate Black” restock earlier this week, it was all serious business when the actual ballot took place earlier today at the adidas Originals store at Pacific Plaza, Singapore. Sneakerheads came out in full force, hoping to score themselves a pair.
“My hands were still shaking even after exchanging the ballot ticket”
Beginner’s luck rubbed off on first-time winners like Tan Wei Shen, who couldn’t take part in previous Yeezy Boost ballots because he was overseas. “I wasn’t gonna miss out on this one, and the feeling of winning is indescribable. My hands were still shaking even after exchanging the ballot ticket,” he said.
Even couples got lucky too. A man, who only wants to be known as Benjamin, convinced his wife to give the ballot a shot, and both of them were grinning from ear to ear as they left the store with two pairs of the coveted kicks. “It’s our first time taking part together, and I was shouting with excitement when my number was called,” he said.
“Yeezus ain’t looking after me”
Of course, many others came away empty-handed as well. Tay Boon Shen has tried to secure a pair of the Yeezy Boost through ballots a total of three times with little luck. “Yeezus ain’t looking after me. I wouldn’t pay resale for the 350 but I might do so for the 750,” he said.
Resellers draw the ire of sneakerheads
Some winners were quick to put their reseller’s hat on, as they were seen negotiating deals with individuals who were unsuccessful in their ballot attempts in the vicinity of where the ballot took place. Word is the going rate for resale pairs came up to a whopping S$1,200.
This has earned the ire of sneakerheads like Zul Azman. “I saw winners immediately selling off their shoes to buyers outside the store. Where’s the ethics in that?! I wish there was a clause to discourage or control resellers,” he said.
Yeezy season is busy season
One thing’s for sure, the popularity of the Yeezys has increased. An educated guess tells us there were more people in attendance at today’s ballot for the Yeezy Boost 350 “Pirate Black” compared to the ballot held in December for the “Oxford Tan” colorway.
What’s next in the lineup of Yeezy Boosts is anyone’s guess, but an ever-increasing turnout at these release events proves that Yeezy fever is at an all-time high.
If you’re still on the hunt for a pair of the adidas Yeezy Boost 350 “Pirate Black”, your best bet would be to drop a ballot slip at Limited Edt, which will be conducting its draw tomorrow, February 20th. That’s not a lot of time, but it’s worth a shot.


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Music of Miaskovsky, Scriabin, Schnittke, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninov. Wendy Warner, cello; Irina Nuzova, piano. Cedille CDR 90000 120.
Fans of Cedille Records don't need me to tell them that three major elements characterize the company's products: (1) Music that performers don't often play in public and other companies don't often record but which otherwise can hold keen interest for listeners; (2) artists who are not always as well known to the public as musicians pushed by the bigger labels, musicians who are, nevertheless, of the highest calibre; and (3) sound quality of an excellence you wouldn't expect from a small, independent record company. This latest release, Russian Music for Cello & Piano, exemplifies everything that is good about Cedille.
The program begins with the Sonata No. 2 in A minor for Cello and Piano by Nikolai Miaskovsky (1881-1950), which Miaskovsky completed in 1949 and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich. It's a lovely, lyrical, slightly melancholy, endlessly gracious piece of music, its three movements creating a single beguiling effect. After that is the Étude No. 8 for Piano Solo (1894) by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), here in a transcription for piano and cello. It is also gentle and faintly melancholy, representative, no doubt, of the deeply moody Russian soul. The Musica Nostalgica for Cello and Piano (1992) by Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) comes next, a brief piece that pays tribute to the eighteen-century minuet form in a kind of tongue-in-cheek manner. The little Adagio from the ballet Cinderella (1945) by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) follows, a waltz transcription the composer made himself. Finally, the program ends with the Sonata in G Minor for Cello and Piano (1901) by Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943), the longest work on the disc, its four movements thoughtful, complex, and expansive as Rachmaninov can often be. The Andante is particularly appealing.
The performing duet of Wendy Warner on cello and Irina Nuzova on piano play as all good partnerships should, as one. In their case, it's almost as if one performer were playing both instruments, they are so attuned to one another's feeling and responses. The two women, who have been performing together as the WarnerNuzova cello and piano duo since 2008, play with style, with grace, with refinement, and with deep emotional attachment, yet always placing the music above any showmanship on their part. Most important, however, they appear to reach into the heart of this heart-wrenching music and convey its inner spirit with not only clarity and precision but with ultimate passion. They are consummate artists.
Cedille, under producer James Ginsburg and engineer Bill Maylone, recorded the album in October, 2008. As always with this company, the results are realistically natural, warmly detailed, and profoundly satisfying.
John J. Puccio, Editor, Publisher, Reviewer
Understand, I'm just an everyday guy reacting to something I love. And I've been doing it for a very long time, my appreciation for classical music starting with the musical excerpts on The Big John and Sparkie radio show in the early Fifties and the purchase of my first recording, The 101 Strings Play the Classics, around 1956. In the late Sixties I began teaching high school English and Film Studies as well as becoming interested in hi-fi, my audio ambitions graduating me from a pair of AR-3 speakers to the Fulton J's recommended by The Stereophile's J. Gordon Holt. In the early Seventies, I began writing for a number of audio magazines, including Audio Excellence, Audio Forum, The Boston Audio Society Speaker, The American Record Guide, and from 1976 until 2008, The $ensible Sound, for which I served as Classical Music Editor.
Today, I'm retired from teaching and use a pair of bi-amped VMPS RM40s loudspeakers for my listening. In addition to writing the Classical Candor blog, I served as the Movie Review Editor for the Web site Movie Metropolis (formerly DVDTown) from 1997-2013. Music and movies. Life couldn't be better.
Karl W. Nehring, Contributing Reviewer
For over 20 years I was the editor of The $ensible Sound magazine and a regular contributor to its classical review pages. I would not presume to present myself as some sort of expert on music, but I have a deep love for and appreciation of many types of music, "classical" especially, and have listened to thousands of recordings over the years, many of which still line the walls of my listening room (and occasionally spill onto the furniture and floor, much to the chagrin of my long-suffering wife). I have always taken the approach as a reviewer that what I am trying to do is simply to point out to readers that I have come across a recording that I have found of interest, a recording that I think they might appreciate my having pointed out to them. I suppose that sounds a bit simple-minded, but I know I appreciate reading reviews by others that do the same for me--point out recordings that I think I might enjoy.
For readers who might be wondering about what kind of system I am using to do my listening, as of right now it comprises an Onkyo C-7030 CD player, Legacy Audio High Current preamplifier, AVA FET Valve 550hc or Legacy Audio PowerBloc2 amplifier, and a pair of Legacy Audio Focus SE speakers augmented by a Legacy Point One subwoofer.
Bryan Geyer, Technical Analyst
I initially embraced classical music in 1954 when I mistuned my car radio and heard the Heifetz recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. That inspired me to board the new "hi-fi" DIY bandwagon. In 1957 I joined one of the pioneer semiconductor makers and spent the next 32 years marketing transistors and microcircuits to military contractors. Home audio DIY projects remained a personal passion until 1989 when we created our own new photography equipment company. I later (2012) revived my interest in two channel audio when we "downsized" our life and determined that mini-monitors + paired subwoofers were a great way to mate fine music with the space constraints of condo living.
It is the goal of Classical Candor to promote the enjoyment of classical music. Other forms of music come and go--minuets, waltzes, ragtime, blues, jazz, bebop, country-western, rock-'n'-roll, heavy metal, rap, and the rest--but classical music has been around for hundreds of years and will continue to be around for hundreds more. It's no accident that every major city in the world has one or more symphony orchestras.
When I was young, I heard it said that only intellectuals could appreciate classical music, that it required dedicated concentration to appreciate. Nonsense. I'm no intellectual, and I've always loved classical music. Anyone who's ever seen and enjoyed Disney's Fantasia or a Looney Tunes cartoon playing Rossini's William Tell Overture or Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 can attest to the power and joy of classical music, and that's just about everybody.
So, if Classical Candor can expand one's awareness of classical music and bring more joy to one's life, more power to it. It's done its job. --John J. Puccio
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Kota Permai Golf & Country Club has added yet another accolade to its growing list after being named Malaysia’s Best Golf Course in the inaugural 2020 Global Golf Awards.
The awards presentation was initially scheduled to take place last October in conjunction with the World Golf Expo at Mission Hills in Haikou, China. Due to the unprecedented circumstances arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, the expo has been rescheduled by event owner Asia Pacific Golf Group until such time as the situation is under control and borders re-open.
Replacing the Asian Golf Awards which had a successful 20-year run, the Global Golf Awards are based on online balloting over a three-month period from March to May 2020. Kota Permai topped the poll for Malaysia ahead of The Els Club Desaru Coast and Saujana Golf & Country Club.
Owned and operated by Gamuda Land, Kota Permai was established in 1998 and offers a stunning 18-hole course crafted by Ross Watson, along with one of the best clubhouses in the country. The club has garnered an impressive array of awards and hosted numerous high-profile events over the years, including the Malaysian Open in 2020 and 2008.
“We are very delighted and honoured to have been named as Malaysia’s Best Golf Course at the inaugural 2020 Global Golf Awards,” said Tang Meng Loon, Gamuda Land’s director of club, township & property management.
“The award comes at a very challenging time when the industry is heavily impacted by the many forms of lockdowns and restrictions suffered since March of last year. It not only serves as a firm reminder that perseverance is key to overcoming any challenges, but also a huge motivational factor to continually keep our standards at such a recognisable level,” he added.
“I’d like to acknowledge the priceless effort put in by my team, the invaluable support we have received from our club members, business partners, families and friends, and the amazing effort by the Asia Pacific Golf Group in growing golf’s many wonderful aspects in the region,” Tang concluded.
Mike Sebastian, CEO of the Asia Pacific Golf Group, lauded the efforts put in by Tang and his team at Kota Permai. “Kota Permai’s win is the direct result of total resolve and commitment by the entire team to deliver a total golfing experience which involves a lot of hard work. The club’s win is well deserved and with Meng Loon’s leadership Kota Permai will continue to be the best in Malaysia,” he noted.
The other Southeast Asian country winners were Sentosa Golf Club (Singapore), Banyan Golf Club (Thailand), The Empire Hotel & Country Club (Brunei), Parahyangan Golf (Indonesia), Sta Elena Golf & Country Estate (Philippines), BRG Kings Island Golf Resort (Vietnam), Pun Hlaing Golf Club (Myanmar), Angkor Golf Resort (Cambodia) and Long Vien Golf Club (Laos).


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Your typical biopic has a lot of familiar guideposts. There’s the rise from obscurity, early success, a fall from grace and then we wrap things up with our older/wiser subject in a “good” place.
“Steve Jobs” chucks most of these conventions aside and delivers a Shakespearean tour de force that is a showcase for a bold director, screenwriter, and cast.
The first thing that sets this movie apart is Steve Jobs himself. He was a titan of industry and one of the most influential people of the past century, but he was also a world-class jerk whose ego and ambition trampled those who were closest to him.
The central question of the movie then becomes: was Steve Jobs’ success achieved because of his caustic personality or in spite of it? The answer is inconclusive, which is kind of what makes this movie great.
Aside from Jobs, the other dominant personality that colors this film is that of screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, whose dialogue-heavy style is so distinctive his name has become an adjective.
The biggest knock on Sorkin is he’s overly preachy and human beings don’t actually converse in such an exhaustive, witty, rapid-fire way he writes. These are legitimate beefs.
But Sorkin has a few things going for him, the first of which is if any person ever talked like Sorkin writes, it was probably Steve Jobs.
Sorkin also cleverly sets the action backstage at three major product launches in Jobs’ career, the Macintosh, Next (his strategic failure while on exile from Apple) and the iMac. This puts the movie right in Sorkin’s wheelhouse where all of the characters are edgy and kinetic.
The other thing helping Sorkin here, as it did in “The Social Network,” is he is working with a strong director who doesn’t let the script overpower the film. Danny Boyle, director of “Trainspotting” and “Slumdog Millionaire,” keeps the pacing tight and finds enough interesting flourishes and angles in every corner of the three auditoriums to make the settings feel much more open and robust than they actually are.
Rounding out “Steve Jobs” is the tremendous cast, led by Michael Fassbender who vaults to the front of the pack in the Best Actor Oscar race. Most portrayals of famous people rely on impersonation, but Fassbender isn’t interested in the “historical” Steve Jobs as much as he is in trying to figure out what makes a man — who is simultaneously charming, deplorable, inspirational, and self-centered — tick. It is a great performance.
It is easy to see how the rest of the cast could slot right into the Best Supporting categories as characters orbiting Jobs waiting to be wronged by him in some way, shape, or form. Kate Winslet is predictably great as Jobs’ longtime associate and marketing rep Joanna Hoffman, as is Jeff Daniels as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
Character actor Michael Stuhlbarg is solid as a rock as a programmer and perpetual whipping boy Andy Hertzfeld and Katherine Waterson does some decent work as Chirsann Brennan, the mother of Jobs’ daughter, Lisa (played at age 5 by Makenzie Moss, age 9 by Ripley Sobo and age 19 by Perla Haney-Jardine), who serves as the emotional fulcrum of the movie.
Turning in the best performance of his career is Seth Rogan as Steve Wozniak, the nebbish co-creator of Apple and the closest thing Jobs has to a friend. Their back-and-forths are some of the most devastating in the film.
With so much fantastic work at play, “Steve Jobs” is just one of those movies that is a joy to watch and is worthy of the tragic, conflicted world-changer who shares its name.
“Steve Jobs” is rated R for language.