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Instagram, LinkedIn and Pinterest seem to ask: Why reinvent the wheel? In the hamster wheel of wanting to be the one-stop-shop for their users, social media platforms don’t seem to hesitate in adapting and adjusting (read: copying) what’s working well in their competitors’ apps and adding it to their own. Instagram shamelessly added Stories to claim their share of the Snapchat disappearing content world, and they don’t seem to stop there. Pinterest joined the copycat fray recently, and we all know Facebook is king for throwing a new, familiar tool into its box.
Here are some recent examples:
Instagram launched the all-new Reels in August, designed to compete with TikTok’s fun, short-form video. Because the videos appear to followers in a new dedicated Feed and on the Explore page, it’s a prime opportunity to engage current fans and reach new audiences.
Check out how we’re using Reels for Your Pie Pizza.
LinkedIn is testing a Stories feature similar to Instagram and Facebook in Brazil, giving marketers the opportunity to reach B2B audiences with a form of content previously reserved for consumer audiences.
Pinterest is also testing a Stories feature, but unlike other versions of Stories, these don’t disappear after 24 hours or have the option to swipe up to a link outside the platform. We’ve been able to test on a select number of accounts (see above!), and are excited for the day it — hopefully — rolls out widespread.

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Highlighting Disability / Poverty Connection, NCD Urges Congress to Alter Federal Policies that Disadvantage People with Disabilities | NCD.gov
The reason that starvation in utero is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes in later life is that the fetus prepares for its likely adult environment which is not encountered (thrifty phenotype). These epigenetic changes are due to increased gene activity and expression rather than by starvation induced changes in the DNA sequence.5
Therefore, after 33 years, I believe it is time to reinterpret Crawford’s data and conclude that the large increases in death from diabetes during nineteenth century in Ireland was due to the in utero effects of starvation during the Irish Potato Famine and not due to increases in the intake of fat and sugar.
More wealth = better health
Surprising no one who has ever listened to a fat, Black or brown, or chronically ill person:
Researchers who study Type 2 diabetes have reached a stark conclusion: There is no device, no drug powerful enough to counter the effects of poverty, pollution, stress, a broken food system, cities that are hard to navigate on foot and inequitable access to health care, particularly in minority communities.
The World InequalityReport 2022 presents the most up-to-date & complete data on inequality worldwide:
The Long-Run Effects of Childhood Insurance Coverage: Medicaid Implementation, Adult Health, and Labor Market Outcomes - American Economic Association
Medicaid has saved the government more than its original cost and saved more than 10 million quality adjusted life years.
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Almost 40% of teachers’ recommended English A-level grades were downgraded this year, with final results decided by algorithm following the cancellation of exams. But not all students fared equally. Poorer students and those studying at comprehensive schools are among those more likely to have received lower grades based on algorithmically assigned results.
“It Cost Me Everything”: In Texas, COVID-19 Takes a Devastating Toll on Hispanic Residents — ProPublica
“Hispanic Texans make up about 40% of the state’s population but 48% of the state’s 5,952 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, according to Department of State Health Services data.
In the Houston region, where COVID-19 hospitalizations surged in June before beginning to decline in recent days, data released by the Harris County health department showed a disproportionate share of those requiring hospital care — as high as 65% of newly hospitalized patients during some weeks in June — were Hispanic, despite the fact they are 44% of the population.
At Memorial Hermann Health System, one of the Houston region’s largest hospital chains, an analysis of emergency room visits shows that far more Hispanics in their 20s, 30s and 40s have showed up at its hospitals with COVID-19 compared with other ethnicities, an indication that the virus is spreading widely among young Hispanic residents and that they may be waiting until they are sicker to seek care, officials said.
Meanwhile, as the Houston Fire Department reports record numbers of patients dying abruptly at home this summer before paramedics can even reach them, Harris County medical examiner data shows that more than two-thirds of those who’ve died at home from confirmed coronavirus infections have been Hispanic.
There are numerous reasons for these disparities, experts say. Hispanic residents are more likely to work in service jobs or live in multigenerational households that make social distancing difficult. They are less likely to have health insurance. And they are more likely to have health problems, including diabetes and high blood pressure, leaving them more vulnerable to serious illness.”
Food As The Front Door: Father Divine, The Peace Mission Movement & Radical Ministry For Our Time - Faith+Lead
“The spirit of the Peace Mission Movement provided inspiration to a ministry that I established in 2015 called the Black Church Food Security Network. Launched in the midst of the Baltimore Uprising, which erupted after the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of police, we strategically link Black Churches and Black Farmers to create a Black-led food system rooted in justice and communal self-determination. We do this by helping congregations to start gardens on their land and by organizing miniature farmers markets inside churches on days when they worship. The markets feature Black farmers and food business owners. In addition to the garden and markets, we are preparing to start delivering produce boxes for subscription from Black farmers later this Fall.”
In the decade since the economic crisis, the number of billionaires has doubled.
Crowdfunding saves lives, but only if you have a big social network to begin with.

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I decided to go the pattern route again instead of draping something but after two plus days of altering this pattern, I’m almost certain I’m going to drape something for the next dress.
I started by choosing the pattern sized to my high bust measurement so that it would fit me in the shoulders. I still have to do several adjustments but this starting point gives me a better fit overall.
Here’s the list of my tissue alterations:
1. Add width to the back waist.
2. Adjust for narrow shoulders.
3. Lowered bust apex.
4. Full bust adjustment which was pretty involved with this princess seamed pattern.
5. Adjust for short waist.
6. Trued all new curves and lines as I went along as well as added tissue where needed.
Yeah, it’s a lot. Hopefully it’s worth all the time. It’s hard to tell since I’m working with the tissue only and my fabric is pretty thick in comparison. I am planning on underlining it.
I’m going to use an underlining method I learned from Sandra Betzina, author of Power Sewing. She suggests adding 5/8″ to your pattern so you can sew the fashion fabric with the lining, turn them inside out and then sew them, as one piece, to the rest of the dress pattern pieces.
That make any sense? I’ll have to show pictures when I get down to sewing it all together. Never fear, Leila is here! (Sewing is my super power- or so I think.)

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Countries That Make the Worst Music
The Top Ten
Stupidest music I ever heard you have to be brainless to listen that
Not only is this just an invalid argument, but it's also a racist argument. How can you claim that every single Indian musical composition is "stupid" and "brainless"? How many Indian songs have you heard?
The only reason comments have negative votes is because of the indians who don't have any taste
Or because the comments, such as yours, are racist and don't give any good points, you don't even seem to know anything about the music you claim to dislike so much.
I'm so put off by Indians claiming things as theirs. They think only they as Indians existed in forget the subcontinent, the whole world so that makes them arrogant! They claim all Pakistani songs, not sure about Bangladesh, as being Indian and when it comes to talk of terrorism - uh no that's all Pakistani! But their music is ours. That's not the only hypocrisy, they ban Pakistani artists, they deny visas to artists too! Even Krewella were denied just because they are half Pakistani! But Atif Aslam and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan are all good, because Bollywood benefits from them. The sheer arrogance and hypocrisy of Indians. I am so glad I have cut out Indian content out of my life. I used to watch Indian soaps, films, music content, shows, be blindly obsessed. But I'm gonna have to support Pakistan now because enough is enough. - a frustrated Brit.
India does have good music, honestly, as a non Indian I say that I've grown up with it. But I hate that music directors failed to credit original artists they copied from various countries' songs. Both then and now, Bollywood today for example makes tons of remakes, of old Pakistani songs? Come on India is surely capable of making good originals? It is fine if credit is given but fact that they are copied or remade without clear credits to the original song and artist is shameful especially since Bollywood then gets triple the views compared to the original song and profits entirely out of the success since they are a big business. Please be original or give full credit
I'm not Canadian but what about rush, Neil young, the band or Brian Adams? They're all amazing artists.
Obviously Angry Canadians are voting for the USA.
Panic! At the disco
Fall out boy
Etc, etc, etc are bad to them, apparently.
So, because of some bastards in Hollywood, the US has no good music?
Ha. You have to be kidding. You can hate the US, but you can't pretend plenty of legends didn't come from there.
So only Canadians are voting for the USA. That's the only explanation. What made you think this? Do you think we're really so much superior than Canada?
Being a United States citizen I still have all of the ability to tell you that fall out boy and eminem is not a good band. Actually, as far as I'm concerned most of the bands you're talking about are overrated, but that's for another day.
Either way, why did you even decide that Canadians are the ones who have completely voted United States, when you can't give any good arguments for your statement? You don't even mention what's so bad about Canadian music in your eye.
Canada has good and bad music. Yes, it may have annoying, overrated and stupid stuff like Carly Rae Jepsen, Justin Bieber and Avril Lavinge; but it has some geat music too! Barenaked Ladies, one of the greatest and most underrated groups of all time. Deadmau5, a really good electronic guy. Loscil, who reinvented ambient for the better. So there's the good and the bad in Canadian music, so I don't think it should be number one on this list.
Whats wrong with you people. Who put India on this list. People are forgetting that freddie mercury was Indian. One of the greatest singer of all time. And jay sean, George Harrison. So stop saying that India make worst music.
These boy and girl groups aren't exactly the same. You guys are here just to hate it because they all look the same. You guys are obviously not making the situation any better by saying they're all ugly, they all look the same. Don't you think that causes them to DO PLASTIC SURGERY? Ironic much? You might not like it, but judging the artists aren't going to get you haters anywhere. Look more deeper into Kpop. Oh and, their voices aren't auto tuned go watched their live MR removed perfomances. I prefer people who's given a chance to kpop, and know a lot about it should have the privilege to diss Kpop. You can't judge by the surface. These kpop idols are trained for MANY YEARS to make music for fans, and you can't deny that they work harder than you people dissing them from left to right. They don't act cute, they aren't brainwashed either. They aren't even portrayed as anything but have to act like perfect models that can do everything because their companies tell them to uphold an ...more
Everything is controlled by the record label. I am so sad people can accept art becoming commodity.
I don't think it's fair to generalize the whole country for making crappy pop music because I'm pretty sure South Korea has great singers and bands that are overshadowed by their manufactured pop music. I used to listen to kpop when Baby V.O.X were still around (Yes, I'm older than most kpop fans today). Then, I got tired of it because the groups produced the same, mediocre crap over and over again, except with new faces in the scene. It's like if Steven Moffat wrote songs for them or something. I'm kidding, but in the kpop industry, looks come first before talent. I know most labels will deny it, but it's mostly true. I don't see girls who look like Susan Boyle in kpop. Even if they hired one, they will pressure diets and surgeries on her the most and it's sad.
Most kpop fans I've encountered today are vain. Even more so than jpop fans. Why? It's because they valued their appearances more than their music. Most I've seen on social media are unhappy with themselves because they ...more
Boy and girl bands that look the same and sing horrible cheesy songs with no actual meaning, these songs are scary catchy, repetive and a lot of them extremely childish (Extept they aren't meant for kids). Some of these groups are portrayed as sheltered little brats that can't think of anything but themselves or their girlfriend/boyfriend, some also dress like kids except they're well in their twenties, they are extremely superficial and fake, their music videos look like a singing contest, each member gets five seconds to show off as much as they can while singing and dancing, but they fail to stand out because they all look the same, same height, same body shape, same eye contacts, same face, same voices that are auto tuned. this is the worst type of music ever created to brainwash stupid human sheep into believing they're all cute in their perfect little bubble.
Sometime I was confused because some of music band member are same face,hair,nose and her body with another music band member
Sri Lankan Music is good for Murderers, Rapists, Gangsters, Drug Addicts, Sexual deviants, Lunatics, Psychopaths and Idiots! You can't even call it 3rd Class because 3rd Class Music is a million times better than Sri Lankan Music. You need to call it 4th Class or the Class of the Hell!
I am Sri Lankan and you call SRI LANKAN MUSIC WORST. Sri Lankan music is like listening to the melody of the angels in heaven. STOP BEING OFFENSIVE YOU NO-EXPERIENCE-OF-GOOD-SRI LANKAN-MUSIC people
THE WORST MUSIC BY THE WORST MUSICIANS!
It really hurts to listen to it and if you do you are dumb
I love Japanese music it shouldn't be hated people who watch anime love the music!
I will not be surprised if half of the votes come from ignorant people who think cheesy anime openings defines Japanese music.
Very very annoying vocals, incorporating unwanted high pitched wailing. Also a very annoying language in general
Have you listened to Japanese metal, it is horrible
Wait, there is North Korean music?
Yes that's right... Is there a word like "music" in North Korea?
One would have to listen to what plays on National Radio in N. Korea to hear their stuff. So bad its amazing. Such cloying tripe is hard on the ears!
I didn't know North Korea had music. But then again, there's probably no such thing as "music" here anyways.
It's nothing against Mexico, but I have some bad memories associated with Mexican music. Now whenever I hear it, I remember the times of being alone, surrounded by people who have no manners, and don't care one way or another for you because your white. It was a very lonely time for me. And when I thought I found somebody, they turn around and backstab me. All of this while they listened to Mexican music.
I grew up listening to Banda Sinaloense music in the streets (yes, the genre is called that. ), and seriously, almost nobody in my family can't stand it. It sticks in your head in a bad way, if you know what I mean. And if you actually understand the lyrics, you'll wish you didn't actually hear them. (Can't they compose anything that isn't drug dealing?! ) But Mexico does have some good artists! Well, I'm done with my rant.
The traditional music has the same bass line for just about every song, laugh out loud. It's brain torture to hear bass line reaper melody all day long to every song
The music is very repetitive
I gotta say, I hate my country's music. It's everyrthing Flamenco or Pop. I wish it had some variety. And even that variety is small!
Sorry Spain even though your language is fun when I speak it, I hate your music.
Most songs aren't very good
Ok. One, flamenco is awesome.
Two, Spain is home to two of the greatest metal bands: Mägo de Oz (folk metal; has the best album of the decade, Ira Dei) and Stravaganzza (gothic/symphonic metal; has one of the best singers of all time, Leo Jimenez).
How is this music good? Is ONE song without profanity, bad references and offensive themes to much to ask for!? Take a look at America's celebrities and you can tell why their music is messed up. DRUGS! That is why!
And they don't get in trouble for using them either.
But what about electronic? A lot of good underground electronic artists live there.
The UK has: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Clash, Radiohead, Oasis, Blur, Massive Attack, The Chemical Brothers, Ed Sheeran,
The US has: Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Toby Keith, Blake Shelton, Reba MacEntire, Kevin Federline, Lil Wayne
There's no comparison.
The US has: Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Mothers of Invention, Nirvana, The Four Seasons, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Frank Sinatra, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Joan Baez, The Byrds.
I know everyone has their own opinion, but American singers don't really sing what I'd call good music. If you like American music, then all the countries mentioned above deserve your attention as well.
America nowadays has TERRIBLE mainstream music in my opinion. Tons of recent mainstream songs have bad and/or generic lyrics, bad singers, and the production values aren’t great either.
However, we do have Metallica.
A country with nothing to offer but techno, heavy metal and mediocre radio rock that sounds like German schlager with distorted guitars.
Everything just comes across as forcibly dark and harsh just like the culture itself. There's nothing sexy, light-hearted or charming here sound-wise.
German "pop" music is cringy, nasty, shallow and plain out horrid. Every song sounds the same, and the language is just not fit for art in any way. There are some exceptions of good german contemporary music, like Kraftwerk, Rammstein or some former GDR bands, but they - in no way - make up for the hideous monstrosity that is german pop music.
While I gotta say, that germany had some awesome classical composers, it makes the terrible modern "music" even more shameful.
Germany has Blind Guardian and Rammstein. Its music gets my respect.
Even as a German myself, I have to say most German music is garbage. We were the ruling force in classical music, but nowadays, you can forget it. The last good German band was Kraftwerk, and that's as far as it goes for the past 50 years.
Chinese music sounds like cats being strangled
Chinese music is very boring
Modern Chinese pop is boring as hell with lots of autotune and annoying gimmicks (a live show would soon freak you out no matter it is a cover or a concert), just like Kpop but with less corporation. This completely overshadowed Chinese classical music (those with erhus and stuff), which is beautiful.
Coming from a Chinese!
Their pop is really cringy...
You guys don't even know what the hell you're thinking. There classical music is awesome. Somebody just plopped it on here.
Azerbaijan #1 is good
On eurovision they have boaring songs!
The only reason why Sweden is popular is because it's overrated. Nothing else.
What does sweden does here? You must be kidding guys! Opeth, bathory, meshuggah, bloodbath, hypocrisy, draconian, Marduk, Amon Amarth, dark tranquillity and many many more! You must be kidding they are the best metal country, I think!
Swedish Death Metal is the best death metal!
Why do Sweden suck?
Coming from a Russian myself, Russia does have pretty bad music
No! Russia has great music! There's music that we wouldn't be too fond of in each country. The United States has horrible pop music, but there is some great stuff underneath it all. Same in Russia, only they have more music I like than in the U.S..
Traditional Russian music, their hard bass, and Tchaikovsky make Russian music pretty great.
If you watch all those Car Accident videos on You Tube, you get the feeling that those poor people are killing themselves because of the awful pop music. American pop music has basically been garbage before and after the Sixties, the only time in 300 years that it was any good at all. But Russian pop music doesn't make it sound better, just less offensive. It sounds like an out of tune violin next to a Fart.
There were no sacrifice (but there was murders) and the church burnings was to bring revenge to Christians settling their churches on norway's Viking heritage sites not satanism. Also their black metal is great if you just listen to it. Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem, Immortal, and many others are great examples of black metal which is actually good if you focus on the atmosphere and not what the media makes them to be
The only reason I'm voting for this is obviously because of those damn black metal bands who burn down churches and sacrifice victims.
Are you... are you kidding me?! Who on Earth put Norway on this list?! NORWAY MAKES AWESOME MUSIC! And I’m not even Norwegian, but their music has to be my absolute favorite. Their Black Metal is awesome. Their Eurovision songs are always great, too! It’s my #1 for sure!
Norwegian music is terrible.
What? French music is beautiful just listen to Daniere Danse.
No actually, I quite enjoy télephone
Best in Europe for RnB, RAP, soul, rock, beat, rock psyche, garage rock, pub rock, mod revival, underground mus.
From classical to the most up to date music (e.g. Shaka Ponk)
Any traditional arab music sounds the same and is awful
Really sucks. Like the government there.
Songs about how awesome god is and nothing else - arab gospel
All their music sounds like a goat.
Serbian music sucks... Turbo folk artists have zero talent, even "rap" sucks... The artists are promoting alcohol, smoking and drugs as positive things and the production is crappy... Songs from Serbia should be no. 1... I think no country has music that actually promotes drugs like Serbian music does... Especially new ones...
Most of Serbian music is dominated by hooting owlish pop folk, the rest is some type of brass orkestra music that sounds like the love child of Mexican Banda and Turkish folk... other balkan countries managed to keep there slavic musical heritage mostly pure or blended there oriental influences into something tasteful (for example Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and have wonderful folk styles) I don't know what happened in Serbia though
19? Seriously? This country gave us the garbage pile that is "turbo folk" and you say that Denmark, France, Norway, Japan, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Spain, Germany, United States, South Korea, Canada, and India. I'm done.
Serbia should be first, all of singers in Serbia are terrible or mediocre.
"My parents listen to traditional Vietnamese music all the time. I want to die"
Here are some great artists: The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix! Play that music loud and enlighten your parents to great music, instead of letting them listen to that garbage!
If you don't think they'll like it, though, put on a pair of headphones if you own one and listen to any of these artists mentioned above, to escape from music that you hate so much!
by the way, you're not wrong, I don't like Vietnamese music either!
My parents listen to traditional Vietnamese music all the time. I want to die
I am ashamed to be Vietnamese. Its music is the worst of the worst, V-POP or Vietnamese traditional music are like so old and sound the same
Horrible and the worst music I have ever heard I had to even plus my ears
I just don't like mainstream Filipino music that is all about love, especially those sung by actresses who are trying hard to be singers. So obvious that they are in auto tune. Eraserheads, Parokya no Edgar and some other bands are good, but Filipinos have to admit that the instrumental almost sounds the same for these bands. As for Filipino rap, even if you say the late Francis Magalona is good, I personally find every Filipino rap trying hard rap and for the the general mass. The general mass are in lower middle class and below. Folk music is very trippy and definitely better than Filipino rap.
Mainstream Filipino music may be slow and sometimes generic, but they at least have better lyrical themes than those crappy pop songs from Miley Cyrus or Justin Bieber. We got Wolfgang, Eraserheads and Rivermaya! And some other great bands!
I get why Philippines was number 1 as "Top Ten Countries With Good Music" but man, their voices was just...just...heavenly something else.
Philippines music are often slow, sometimes way too slow, it get awfully boring and makes you sleepy
I don't like the current Greek music scene and I'm Greek. :-P In the past we produced better songs. Nowadays only if you sing a bad song you will be popular here with few exceptions of course.
Greece has the worst traditionsl music Ever!
One word Skyladika
Greeks should make music and boy and girl band just like something with better quality like kpopbut with greek lang and better lyrics that doesn't have to do only with sex and break up and also we need younger artists not 50 yrs olds I'm greek and that's my opinion
Disco polo is probably the worst and the most lame music genre ever. Surprisingly not only peasants listen to it but it's a popular club music!

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MotionX-GPS Drive turns any iPhone 3G or 3GS into the next generation car and pedestrian navigation solution. MotionX introduces new features not yet seen on mobile devices, including "door-to-door" personal navigation tools, user interface innovations that greatly simplify the navigation experience, and integration of live search capabilities.
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After our wedding, Joe and I headed to Puerto Rico for our honeymoon. That was my first time to the Caribbean and it was incredibly fun and special.
As we were thinking about where to go to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary (we have been lucky to travel to fun places during our anniversary every year since getting married!), we ended up deciding to go back to the Caribbean. So, tonight, we will be taking a red eye flight to New Jersey and then a quick 4-hour flight to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic! So very excited!
We are planning on 2 days in Santo Domingo and 7 days in an off-the-beaten-track location north of the capital. The town called Las Galeras is supposed to have some of the best beaches in the Caribbean and I can't wait to get my feet in the warm water there!
Of course, I'm packing my camera and tripod as I also see this as a great opportunity to take awesome photos. I'm very excited about tropical beaches and palm tree-lined seashores, but I'm also equally excited about Santo Domingo and its colonial architecture and history!
In anticipation of our anniversary getaway, I dug out some photos we took while in Puerto Rico, 5 years ago. I hope you like them! For more fun photos, go to my Etsy store, or visit my website.
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|Rincon, Puerto Rico|
|Storms approaching Rincon, Puerto Rico|
|Turquoise waters in Rincon|
|Looking up in Rincon|

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"People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds."
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Nata Kireeti Rajendra Prasad’s next flick titled ‘Top Rankers’. "Journey between LKG to EAMCET" is the tagline for the film. The actor is playing ‘Hitler’ as part of his role in this film. The post production work of the film is currently under progress. While detailing about the theme, producer said “Rajendra Prasad will be seen as principal, who points out loopholes in the current education system. The story and screenplay is designed in such a way that it will project that Students are not machines that produce ranks. It is the duty of the teachers and parents to respect their feelings and what they like. Personality development is important than marks”.
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'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Video: Matthew Fox Plays Mitt Romney in Fake Biopic
Matthew Fox spoofed Mitt Romney in a "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" sketch. Stopping by the late-night show, he talked about his "latest project" and unveiled a sneak peek of it. Without mentioning what role he took in the so-called TV movie, the Jack Shephard of "Lost" said convincingly, "I kind of like playing things that are based on real people. I find myself attracted to that stuff."
Host Jimmy Kimmel then presented the clip of the fake Lifetime biopic, "Mitt Romney and the Dockers of Destiny", which introduced Fox as the Republican presidential candidate. "Great lives are defined by great choices. Great leaders are born of great struggles," a narrator said as the footage showed Fox's Romney looking through his wardrobe to find a pair of trousers which seemingly meant a lot for him.
Fox visited Kimmel's talk show to promote his new movie "Alex Cross", which also stars Tyler Perry. The "Party of Five" alum portrays a serial killer who faces off the titular character, played by Perry, in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. The action thriller film has hit U.S. cinemas since October 19.
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LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Artist Laure Prouvost has won Britain's Turner Prize for "Wantee," a piece combining installation, collage and film.
The award, including $41,000 in cash, was presented to the 35-year-old France-born artist at a ceremony Tuesday in Derry, Northern Ireland -- the U.K. City of Culture 2013.
"I'm not ready, I didn't expect it at all," Prouvost, who lives and works in England, said as she collected her award Monday.
"I thought, 'It can't be me.' I was sure it was not me. So, thank you everybody," she said. "The power of suggestion and imagination is something I love to play with."
The other finalists were artists David Shrigley, Tino Sehgal and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, the BBC said.


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The preliminary draft was prepared jointly by officials of the national government, legislators and human rights organizations.
President Albert Fernandez received today in Pink House the bill that criminalizes and punishes the sale and purchase and illegal adoption of children and adolescents, by incorporating these figures into the Penal Code, and whose parliamentary approval will allow national legislation to adapt to international treaties.
The draft was prepared jointly by officials of the National government, legislators and human rights organizationsin order to comply with the ruling of the International Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that condemned Argentina in the “Fornerón and daughter” case in 2012.
Ten years ago, on April 27, 2012, the IACHR condemned Argentina and declared that the country was responsible for violating the rights to judicial guarantees, judicial protection, and the protection of the family of Fornerón and his daughter. .
In its ruling, the multilateral organization required the Argentine State to adopt the necessary criminal legislation so that the illegal adoption or sale of children “constitutes a criminal offense, in accordance with international standards.”
The Minister of Justice, Martín Soria, and the Secretaries of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla Corti, and of Children, Adolescents and Family, Gabriel Lerner, participated in the meeting; in addition to the president of the IACHR, Julissa Mantilla Falcón, among other authorities, the Presidency reported in a statement.
Fornerón himself, the criminal legislation commissions of both chambers of Congress, chaired by Senator Oscar Parrilli and Deputy Carolina Gaillard, participated in the drafting of the bill; the Consultative Committee of the Register of Adopters; the Human Rights Secretariat; UNICEF; Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo; the Public Prosecutor’s Office; the Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents and the National Secretariat for Children, Adolescents and Family (Sennaf).
The initiative plans to incorporate three penal figures that sanction the buying and selling of children and adolescents and incorporates irregular adoption into the Penal Code.
In this way, its regulations reach all the actors that participate in the crime sequence, including the promoters, facilitators and intermediaries.
Likewise, the text establishes the competence of the Federal Justice for these crimes, due to its interprovincial nature, and incorporates provisions referring to the prescription of crimes, while specialists in the subject reviewed the work so that it does not collide with the crime of illegal appropriation of children perpetrated by the last dictatorship.
Present at the meeting were the executive secretary of the IACHR, Tania Reneaum Panzi, and the deputy secretary of the Inter-American Court, Jorge Humberto Mesa Flores; the defender of the rights of children and adolescents, Marisa Graham, and the general defender of the Nation, Stella Maris Martínez.


IAEA: There is no best branch for investments, than reduction of risks of nuclear weapon distribution
There is no best branch for investments, than reduction of risks of distribution of nuclear weapon. Start of BLEU is an important milestone in the field of global nuclear safety and non-proliferation, the former senator of the USA, and the cochairman of NTI Sam Nunn commented the concentration of uranium in the Kazakhstan bank, BNews.kz correspondent reported.
"After expeditious use, BLEU will help to advance an important mission for non-proliferation that will promote global safety and stability. There is no best branch for investments, than reduction of risks of distribution of nuclear weapon. Start of BLEU is an important milestone in the field of global nuclear safety and non-proliferation. The bank will play an important role in reduction of nuclear threat and to be an example in favor of advantage of the international cooperation against the background of fragility of our world which is on the verge between cooperation and accident," the former senator of the USA, and the cochairman of NTI Sam Nunn told.
According to the IAEA, today dozens of the countries are interested in development of nuclear power. The technology of uranium enrichment running fuel for the nuclear reactor can produce material for a nuclear bomb also. If each country interested in nuclear energy uses own resources on enrichment, the risk of distribution of nuclear weapon will ncrease considerably.
"Start of BLEU is an unprecedented international step which will reduce nuclear threat and will make the world safer. I consider that today's event gives us an additional impulse for development of this step with much more comprehensive and vigorous approach to a wide range of questions of a fuel cycle. We are committed to similar success in business of involvement of the international community to acceptance of necessary measures for minimization of risks of distribution," the former United States Secretary of Energy, the cochairman and the chief executive officer of NTI Ernest J. Moniz told.
The vice-president of NTI Andrew Benyavsky has noted that BLEU doesn't limit the right of the countries for development of own objects of a nuclear fuel cycle, but we hope that it will give them the chance twice to think before beginning expensive activities for enrichment
The initiative of reduction of nuclear threat (NTI) is a non-profit organization purpose of which is to protect life, means of livelihood and the environment for future generations from the accidents connected with use of weapons of mass defeat of different types: nuclear, biological, chemical and cyberweapon.


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text: Peg the Pig is a Pirate Pig who loves her money. She hates flying her plane, she gets air sick and turns her plane upside down so she can’t see how high she is in the air. She has a long running fight with her mortal enemy McGinley the fish. Children will love this adventure over and over again. See what happens when McGinley owes Peg the Pirate Pig money.


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Heidenhain Turnpwr is a closed-loop system said to maximize throughput by reducing setup time, scrap and other non-productive operations.
Turnpwr, a control system from Heidenhain’s Acu-Rite brand, is designed for two-axis lathe machining where manual and automated operation are needed. The system is said to maximize throughput by reducing setup time, scrap and other non-productive operations by incorporating an easy-to-use conversational programming language.
Turnpwr includes both Acu-Rite conversational programming format, as well as G-code (ISO) programming. Basic editing of G-code programs is also possible.
The system boasts a 12.1-in. high-resolution display. Preview graphics in the editor illustrate individual machining steps for programming the contour as well as the corresponding toolpath generated using dimensions pulled from a production drawing. Turnpwr also accepts DXF files.
Turnpwr is a closed-loop system with positioning feedback provided by rotary encoders inside the motor assemblies. When fitted with an optional Acu-Rite precision glass scales (1 µm/0.00005-in. resolution), the system also includes Position-Trac, a feature that enables the user to easily, quickly and accurately re-establish work piece zero after shutting down or power loss.


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Soman Chainani's debut series, The School for Good and Evil, has sold more than 2 million copies, has been translated into more than 30 languages across six continents, and will soon be a major motion picture. All five books in the series have been instant New York Times bestsellers. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia University’s MFA Film Program, Soman began his career as a writer-director, with his films playing at more than 150 festivals around the world. He was named to the Out100 and has received the Shasha Grant and Sun Valley Writers’ Fellowship, both for debut writers.


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What string company makes the best g-string? I go through them too fast.
Also, I play in a non-traditional gypsy swing group with drums and piano. It is pretty difficult to get good levels on both rhythm and lead. I prefer to use a light touch on my lead so I can get more nuance and have more head room but that means I have to play overly light on rhythm. Does anyone ever use a volume pedal, compressor, maybe a/b switch or any other such thing to deal with that or should I just work it out in my technique more. As always I appreciate some advice from all you experts.

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Histopathological examination is a powerful standard for the prognosis of critical diseases. But, despite significant advances in high-speed and high-resolution scanning devices or in virtual exploration capabilities, the clinical analysis of whole slide images (WSI) largely remains the work of human experts. We propose an innovative platform in which multi-scale computer vision algorithms perform fast analysis of a histopathological WSI. It relies on application-driven for high-resolution and generic for low-resolution image analysis algorithms embedded in a multi-scale framework to rapidly identify the high power fields of interest used by the pathologist to assess a global grading. GPU technologies as well speed up the global time-efficiency of the system. Sparse coding and dynamic sampling constitute the keystone of our approach. These methods are implemented within a computer-aided breast biopsy analysis application based on histopathology images and designed in collaboration with a pathology department. The current ground truth slides correspond to about 36,000 high magnification (40×) high power fields. The processing time to achieve automatic WSI analysis is on a par with the pathologist's performance (about ten minutes a WSI), which constitutes by itself a major contribution of the proposed methodology.


SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a reverse osmosis system capable of monitoring the microbial contamination degree in real time, which has the advantages of simple structure, low cost, convenient monitoring, and strong real-time performance, the utility model firstly kills the microbes in water by the sterilization equipment, and then determines the microbial mucosa formation Rate (BFR) index by setting the microbial detector, the difference of the BFR value can reflect the microbial contamination degree of the reverse osmosis system, the BFR index is used as a parameter which comprehensively reflects the biofilm formation Rate under various influence factor conditions, can better predict the biological contamination occurrence trend and degree of the reverse osmosis system, and simultaneously, the BFR index can better reflect under different biological contamination control conditions, the sterilization effect on the reverse osmosis system can be used for evaluating the effectiveness of sterilization measures for pretreatment of reverse osmosis influent water.
The utility model discloses a realize through following technical scheme: the utility model provides a reverse osmosis system that can real-time supervision microorganism pollutes stifled degree, including the preliminary treatment equipment that loops through the trunk line intercommunication, filtration equipment, water tank is produced in the filtration, reverse osmosis equipment and reverse osmosis produce the water tank, be connected with chlorine-containing germicide dosing tank on the trunk line between preliminary treatment equipment and the filtration equipment, it has connected gradually the reductant dosing tank along the water flow direction on the trunk line between water tank and the reverse osmosis equipment to filter, non-oxidizing germicide dosing tank, antisludging agent dosing tank, chlorine residual measuring apparatu and microbial detection ware, the water inlet at above-mentioned four dosing tank tops all communicates with reverse osmosis production water tank through the circulating pipe, the drain of bottom all communicates with the blow off pipe.
Because use sewage as reverse osmosis's source water, must use the germicide at the front end, otherwise reverse osmosis membrane can be polluted rapidly, can not the steady operation, so in above-mentioned technical scheme, chlorine-containing germicide dosing tank sets up before filtration equipment, the microbial biomass of water inlet can be controlled effectively to chlorine-containing germicide, because reverse osmosis equipment's membrane element can not resist the oxidation of chlorine, so, set up reductant dosing tank before reverse osmosis equipment, non-oxidizing germicide dosing tank is used for impact sterilization treatment, antisludging agent dosing tank is used for preventing that dirty stifled reverse osmosis membrane, the residual chlorine measuring apparatu is used for measuring the residual chlorine concentration in reverse osmosis water inlet, the microbial detection ware is used for measuring BFR the utility model discloses a product water diluted release medicament in the reverse osmosis product water tank can reduce impurity and get into reverse osmosis membrane equipment and cause the damage to reverse osmosis membrane.
Further, the pretreatment equipment is an anaerobic tank, an aerobic tank, a sedimentation tank, a pH adjusting tank or a homogenization tank; the filtering equipment is a sand filter, microfiltration equipment or ultrafiltration equipment.
Furthermore, water inlet valves are arranged on the circulating pipes at the water inlet positions at the tops of the four dosing tanks, and drain valves are arranged on the drain pipes at the drain positions at the bottoms of the four dosing tanks. The four dosing tanks share a circulating pipe and a sewage discharge pipe.
Furthermore, the four dosing boxes are communicated with the main pipeline through dosing pipes, each dosing pipe is provided with a control valve and a dosing pump, and the circulating pipe is provided with a suction pump.
Furthermore, the residual chlorine measuring instrument, the microorganism detector, the water inlet valve, the blow-down valve, the control valve, the dosing pump and the suction pump are all connected with the PLC control system, so that automatic control is realized.
Furthermore, the pretreatment device is connected with the raw water tank through a main pipeline, a raw water pump is installed on the main pipeline between the pretreatment device and the raw water tank, and the raw water pump is connected with the PLC control system.
Furthermore, stirring devices connected with the PLC control system are arranged in the four dosing boxes.
The present invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The reverse osmosis system capable of monitoring the microbial fouling degree in real time as shown in fig. 1 comprises a pretreatment device 2, a filtration device 3, a filtration water production tank 4, a reverse osmosis device 6 and a reverse osmosis water production tank 7 which are sequentially communicated through a main pipeline 1, wherein a dosing device, a residual chlorine measuring instrument 13 and a microbial detector 14 are further installed on the main pipeline 1, and the dosing device comprises a chlorine-containing bactericide dosing tank 9, a reducing agent dosing tank 10, a non-oxidative bactericide dosing tank 11 and a scale inhibitor dosing tank 12; wherein, a chlorine-containing bactericide dosing tank 9 is connected to the main pipeline between the pretreatment equipment 2 and the filtration equipment 3, a reducing agent dosing tank 10, a non-oxidative bactericide dosing tank 11, a scale inhibitor dosing tank 12, a residual chlorine measuring instrument 13 and a microorganism detector 14 are sequentially connected to the main pipeline between the filtration product water tank 4 and the reverse osmosis equipment 6 along the water flow direction, water inlets 15 at the tops of the four dosing tanks are communicated with the reverse osmosis product water tank 17 through circulating pipes 17, and a drain outlet 18 at the bottom is communicated with a drain pipe 20.
Specifically, the microbial detector may be an ATP fluorescence detector. ATP is ubiquitous in microorganisms, luciferase can promote the reaction between the luciferin and the ATP to form luciferin and emit fluorescence, the emitted fluorescence intensity is in a direct proportion relation with the quantity of the microorganisms, and the degree of the microbial contamination of the target to be detected can be known by testing the fluorescence intensity.
Specifically, add medicine mouth 29 has still been seted up at four medicine case tops for add the medicine to the medicine case, the utility model discloses a product water diluted release medicament in the reverse osmosis product water tank replaces running water diluted release medicament, can reduce impurity entering reverse osmosis membrane system, specifically, installs suction pump 24 on the circulating pipe 17 for pump the product water in the reverse osmosis product water tank to the configuration medicament in the medicine case.
Specifically, the filtering device 3 is further connected with a filtering concentrated water tank 5 for storing concentrated water generated after filtering by the filtering device; the reverse osmosis device 7 is also connected with a reverse osmosis concentrated water tank 8 for storing the concentrated water generated by the reverse osmosis device.
Specifically, the pretreatment apparatus may determine a feasible method according to the property of raw water, and generally includes an anaerobic tank, an aerobic tank, a sedimentation tank, a pH adjusting tank, a homogenization tank, etc., and may select a corresponding single or multiple treatment units according to the actual situation, for example, advanced oxidation, micro-electrolysis, activated carbon filtration, etc. The filtering equipment is a sand filter, microfiltration equipment or ultrafiltration equipment.
Specifically, in order to control the water adding and sewage discharging operations of the dosing boxes, water inlet valves 16 are arranged on the circulating pipes at the water inlet positions at the tops of the four dosing boxes, and sewage discharging valves 19 are arranged at the sewage discharging positions at the bottoms of the four dosing boxes.
Specifically, for the convenience of adding the medicine to the trunk line, four medicine adding boxes are all communicated with the trunk line 1 through medicine adding pipes 21 at the bottoms, and each medicine adding pipe 21 is provided with a control valve 22 and a medicine adding pump 23.
Preferably, in order to realize full-automatic control, the residual chlorine measuring instrument 13, the microorganism detector 14 and auxiliary equipment of the dosing device (including the water inlet valve 16, the blow-down valve 19, the control valve 22, the dosing pump 23 and the suction pump 24) are all connected with the PLC control system 25, the PLC control system 25 controls the start and stop of each component, the flow of each valve is preset, and the water inlet valve 16, the blow-down valve 19 and the control valve 22 are all selected from electromagnetic valves.
When specifically using, preprocessing equipment 2 is connected with former water tank 26 through trunk line 1, and installs former water pump 27 on the trunk line between the two, and former water pump 27 is connected with PLC control system 25.
Preferably, in order to ensure the uniformity of medicament dilution, stirring devices 28 connected with the PLC control system 25 are arranged inside the four dosing boxes, and the PLC control system controls the start and stop of the stirring devices.
The utility model discloses a theory of operation is: the raw water is firstly treated by a pretreatment device, and thenThen, adding a chlorine-containing bactericide into the filtered produced water through a chlorine-containing bactericide adding box, and using chlorine sterilization as a common method for killing microorganisms, wherein chlorine, hypochlorite and chlorine dioxide can be used for sterilization, and when the adding amount and the contact time are enough, the disinfectant can effectively control the microbial biomass of the inlet water; then, the substances such as microorganisms, suspended matters, colloids and the like in the water are removed before the reverse osmosis equipment through the treatment of the filtering equipment; because a membrane element of the reverse osmosis equipment cannot resist the oxidation of chlorine, chlorine sterilization can only be used for controlling microorganisms before the membrane and cannot be used for controlling microorganisms in the membrane, once the microorganisms enter the reverse osmosis membrane, biological pollution can be generated, dechlorination treatment needs to be carried out before the reverse osmosis equipment, and specifically, a reducing agent (the reducing agent can be sodium bisulfite) is added into water through a reducing agent adding box, so that residual chlorine is completely removed, and oxidizing substances in the water are reduced, so that the safe operation of the reverse osmosis membrane is ensured; the non-oxidizing bactericide (isothiazolinone can be selected) has no oxidizing property, is usually used for impact type sterilization treatment, has the characteristics of broad spectrum, high efficiency, low toxicity and the like, can kill most of microbes such as bacteria and fungi in water, can penetrate through biological mucosa in a reverse osmosis system to play a role in sterilization, can be directly used for sterilization in a reverse osmosis membrane, and has no damage to the reverse osmosis membrane, so that a non-oxidizing bactericide feeding box is arranged between a reducing agent feeding box and reverse osmosis equipment; the use of the two bactericides can effectively control the pollution of the reverse osmosis membrane system; the scale inhibitor is composed of organic phosphate, can be used for controlling scales such as carbonate scale, sulfate scale, calcium fluoride scale and the like, and preventing the reverse osmosis membrane from being blocked by the scale; the residual chlorine measuring instrument is used for measuring the residual chlorine concentration in the reverse osmosis inlet water, and if the residual chlorine concentration is unqualified, the addition amount of the bactericide or the addition amount of the reducing agent needs to be adjusted in time at the inlet water front end of the filtering equipment; the concentration of the microorganism can be measured by a microorganism detector, the measured index of the microbial mucosa Formation Rate (BFR) can be used for predicting the generation trend and the pollution degree of the biological pollution of the reverse osmosis system, reliable data are provided for economically and effectively preventing and controlling the biological pollution, and the BFR index can be better reflected in different biological pollutionThe sterilization effect on the reverse osmosis system under the pollution control condition can be used for evaluating the effectiveness of sterilization measures for pretreatment of reverse osmosis influent water, namely a BFR value (the unit is pg/cm)2Lower values of/d) indicate less microbial contamination, e.g., a BFR value of 1pg/cm2Less than d, the concentration is 1-5pg/cm for light pollution2At d, moderate contamination is at 5pg/cm2Above d, it is a serious pollution.
The above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of various embodiments of the present invention, which are described in detail and detail, but not intended to be interpreted as limitations on the scope of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit of the present invention, several variations and modifications can be made, which are within the scope of the present invention.


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Cholamandalam Finance, the financial services arm of the Murugappa Group has appointed Vizeum India as its media AOR.
Cholamandalam Finance is a financial services solution provider offering vehicle finance, business finance, home equity loans, stock broking and distribution of financial products.
In a prepared statement, S Yesudas, Managing Director – Indian Subcontinent, Vizeum said, “This win makes us very proud. The fact that our contributions to other clients from the Murugappa group also paved the way for this is the most compelling credential for Vizeum. We are really excited about the opportunity to work with Cholamandalam Finance in creating and delivering consumer engagement solutions to the drive their business ahead. We are extremely thankful to the client management for considering us worthy to partner them. This business will be handled out of our Chennai Office.”
Vizeum operates in 55 countries with a philosophy of in-depth understanding of the co existence of lives, brands and media in the actual world, through its process - motivation to media.
Rajat Sharma who was recently elected as President of the NBA talks about his plans for the industry body
The Country Sales Manager Media at Akamai says that technology seems to be taking over all possible spaces and people considering it in both positive and negative ways
The India Marketing Lead of Skyscanner believes that with the acquisition by Ctrip they have reached the market leader status
Our typical marketing budget is usually 10 per cent of the topline spend
The BBC carried out a survey along with Globescan to see how the world looks at the issue of ‘fake news’
The objective of content marketing is not just to encourage product purchase or generate ROI. The key to its success lies in building relationships based on trust, opines Dasgupta
The interesting animated rap music video encapsulates Droom’s ecosystem tools and their role in facilitating second-hand automobile transactions

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Early humans gathered together for protection and resources; the ability to hunt and migrate was made easier in a group, tribe or clan. There was safety in numbers.
Therefore, it is human nature to feel the need to belong. Humans have created areas where people can group together. May it be families, churches, community events, social media, book clubs, sport teams, political parties, etc. We can even create groups which exclude people. These people will feel a closer bond as they share a trait with some that they don’t with others. This vision of belonging is looking at how people are different and not how people are the similar.
We have many dark moments in history where the negative aspect of belonging have led to war, segregation, racism, suppression, violence, injustice, dictatorship, etc. The idea of acceptance was not in the equation. People in all aspects of society can be oblivious to the pain and phycological damage they cause to others. This “gang mentality” can be sparked by an irrational person who influences their peers to adopt and believe their traits. Sometimes, these beliefs go against people’s better judgement. These people may have one major factor in common. The lack of empathy. The compelling nature of “peer pressure” and the idea that humans naturally imitate one another, over the course of time, these negative traits can become socially acceptable.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire
It only takes a few, who see past the norm of society, to speak out and educate the masses for the future generations. Non violent leaders like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, spoke of acceptance and understanding; promoting non-violence and peaceful protest methods of seeking justice and inclusion. Bringing people together, and in doing so, we learn how to connect with other nations.
“People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” Martin Luther King Jr.
The need to be affiliated with and accepted by other people is certainly strong in most people. Therefore, it is urgent that we need world-wide acceptance and understanding and be governed by justice, empathy and understanding. No more my country right or wrong.
“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion”. Mahatma Gandhi
We can teach how to belong through our similarities by education. Change comes with knowledge. Most people who lack acceptance and empathy are uneducated or misguided. Schools need to adopt curriculum that teaches acceptance.
“Teaching Empathy is about teaching students, not content…how they feel about the incoming knowledge will ultimately determine how useful it is to them”. Terry Heick February 2015 George Lucas Educational Foundation


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Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos
edited by Robert M. Price
Dedicated to the memory of Lin Carter,
Grand Archivist of the Cthulhu Mythos
At the first World Fantasy Convention, in 1975, the mayor of Providence gave me a key to the city.
I appreciated the gesture, but it wasn’t necessary. My welcome to Providence had come almost half a century earlier, in 1927, from the hand of its distinguished citizen, Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
His was the hand penning the stories which enthralled me when I first encountered them in the pages of Weird Tales magazine. And early in 1933 it was through that same hand I was ushered into Lovecraft s private world as we began a personal correspondence. Thus he opened the gates of his cherished Providence to me long before I ever actually arrived there.
Not every reader of his work was so singularly fortunate. But all were free to enter the realms he roamed, realms born and borne out of imagination and dreams.
In tales embodying a revised concept of the cosmos, Lovecraft literally re-created the universe, restructuring space and time, reconciling ancient witchcraft with modern mathematics. He invented blasphemous books of forbidden magic, secret cults worshipping star-spawned monstrosities lurking beneath land or sea. As a sardonic twist he altered the geography of his beloved New England and linked its legends to those of his own devising.
Avid readers soon became familiar with the look of Innsmouth, the horror of Dunwich, the contents of Miskatonic University’s archives in archaic Arkham. Many virtually memorized his Mythos.
Some of them didn’t stop there, but went on to imitate and emulate him in tales of their own. Through the years H. P. Lovecraft has shaped and influenced fantasy and horror fiction more than any other writer in the genre. The stories which Lovecraft scholar and authority
Robert M. Price chose for this compendium illustrate how his contemporaries responded to Cthulhu’s call.
I myself was one of them, though later years found me straying far afield. But in a sense all of us began our journey in Providence, guided by the hand of the man we referred to as “HPL.” And our stories included here, whether the early efforts of aspiring authors or the deliberate homage of established writers, serve as testament to his impact on his colleagues.
Truly, they are
Many readers of the present volume will recognize a more than coincidental similarity between it and August Derleth’s
As the title of this volume implies, there has even been a shift in nomenclature in regards to the Mythos. Especially in reference to the body of fictitious lore as it appears in the stories of Lovecraft himself, it seems better to refer to it as “the Lovecraft Mythos” after its creator, rather than “the Cthulhu Mythos” after one of the dread entities mentioned in it. As with most things, we must understand the origin and development of the Mythos before we can venture to say we know what it is. The definition of a thing includes its history. Hence the following sketch of the Lovecraft Mythos and its evolution into the Cthulhu Mythos.
Lovecraft, inspired no doubt by the fanciful mythologies created for various purposes by Lord Dunsany, Robert W. Chambers, and even Madame Blavatsky, ventured to weave a web of his own mythology that would in its evocative fragmentariness and misty archaism simulate the eerie and august suggestive power of genuine ancient lore. He began in “The Nameless City” (1921) by creating the mad kahin (poet-soothsayer) Abdul Alhazred and his “unexplainable couplet” that would loom so large in all subsequent Mythos fiction: “That is not dead / Which can eternal lie,/ And with strange aeons / Even death may die.”
By “The Hound” one year later, Alhazred had been made the author of a banned book of blasphemies, the
In 1926 he introduced dreaming Cthulhu, a titan based in part on Dunsany’s snoring creator Mana-Yood- Sushai, in a story called “The Call of Cthulhu,” itself suggested in large measure, I am sure, by certain evocative phrases concerning dead and dreaming gods in Dunsany’s “A Shop in Go-by Street.” The interdimensional being Yog-Sothoth first appeared in
The most important addition to the original group was Tsathoggua, a furry black bat-toad deity worshipped in ancient Hyperborea. This creature was the creation of Lovecraft’s friend and correspondent Clark Ashton Smith. Lovecraft simply adopted Tsathoggua into his own pantheon, just as Smith began making references to the
It was by this sort of cross-referencing and flattery by imitation that the Lovecraft Mythos began quickly to be transmuted into the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft good-naturedly began to encourage his young proteges as well as his colleague-correspondents like Smith to expand the lore by additions of their own. When young Robert Bloch invented Necronomicon analogues including Ludvig Prinn’s


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Project Announcement: Improving Thermoset Composite Processes to Enhance Mechanical Performance of Additive Manufactured (AM) Parts
The U.S. Army is partnering with industry and academia on an initiative to develop and demonstrate a process and system for inserting continuous fibers into a UV curable liquid resin and/or Additive Reactive Extrusion liquid resin while the part is printing during the AM process. The goal is to provide both commercial and military maintenance groups the roadmap for producing higher quality, more durable, and more readily available AM parts, closer to the point of need in austere and harsh environments.
For more information about this ongoing project contact firstname.lastname@example.org. We encourage the participation of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBEs), including Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) and Women’s Businesses.

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Los Angeles: Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian is reportedly charging money from people to show up, buy things at her store and meet her.
The 34-year-old was scheduled to make an appearance at the Mirage Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas and the organisers of the event charged visitors a fee of USD 150, reported Examiner online.
Fans were surprised to learn they had to pay an additional fee to meet the star and told that they just had to buy something from the store to get her signature.
"Don`t they have enough money? Why would I pay USD 450 for my twin 8-year olds and myself meet her and get a picture?
"I called yesterday and asked and they said I didn`t have to buy that package buy now I drove down here, paid for gas and told my babies they could see her and it`s changed. I`m not a fan anymore," a fan said.


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Los Angeles’s ABC News affiliate reports:
Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a curfew for all California counties in the purple tier amid climbing coronavirus cases. The curfew will affect 41 of the state’s 58 counties — a vast majority of the population.
The curfew, which the state is calling a “limited Stay at Home Order,” stops short of a full lockdown.
It will be in effect from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. starting Saturday. The restrictions between those hours will be similar to the stay-at-home order that was in effect in March. That means all non-essential work, movement and gatherings will have to stop in all purple tier counties.
Due to the rise in #COVID19 cases, CA is issuing a limited Stay at Home Order.
Non-essential work and gatherings must stop from 10pm-5am in counties in the purple tier.
This will take effect at 10pm on Saturday and remain for 1 month.
Together–we can flatten the curve again.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) November 19, 2020


Newbold Coleorton: Homes evacuated after explosives arrest
A man has been arrested on suspicion of making or possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances.
Three homes were evacuated, and a cordon was in place in Vicarage Close, Newbold Coleorton, Leicestershire.
Bomb disposal experts, paramedics, police and the fire service all attended.
Police said the arrest was not being treated as a terrorist incident, and the suspect, 29, remains in custody.
East Midlands Ambulance Service said it deployed its Hazard Area Response Team to assist police at 14:06 BST.
BBC reporter Stuart Woodman, who is at the scene, said: "Half the village are out on the street and wondering what on earth is happening. They are surprised and shocked.
"Some of the residents were told to go back into their homes and told to shut their curtains and go to the backs of their houses."
Residents that were evacuated have been allowed back to their properties and all cordons have now been lifted.


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Inventory of county records, Washington County courthouse, Brenham, Texas Metadata
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- Main Title Inventory of county records, Washington County courthouse, Brenham, Texas
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Name: North Texas State University. Center for Community Services.Place of Publication: Denton, Texas
- Creation: 1977
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- Content Description: Inventory of records of Washington County housed in the Washington County courthouse in Brenham, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the Commissioners' Court, County Clerk, County Court, County Attorney, District Clerk, Justice of the Peace, Sheriff, Tax Assessor-Collector, County Treasurer, and County Superintendent of Schools. Also provides a list of Washington County records and an index.
- Physical Description: xiv, 159,  p. : map ; 28 cm.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Public records -- Texas -- Washington County -- Catalogs.
- Library of Congress Subject Headings: Washington County (Tex.) -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography.
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David Cameron has had a rather difficult few weeks- the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is a woefully unpopular piece of legislation, Osborne’s budget has been criticised- most recently over the cap on tax relief for charitable donations (a policy that appears to be diametrically opposed to everything the Big Society seems to stand for), cronyism appears to be rife in the Conservative Party as the Craddus Affair exposed the ‘Cash for Access’ debacle and top it all off the government caused panic buying of petrol and encouraged unsafe stockpiling of fuel in domestic garages.
All of this adds to Cameron’s unpopularity with his backbench MPs. We know his relationship with the right wing of his party has been awkward (see EU referendum vote October 2011) but as he becomes less popular their willingness to tolerate him begins to diminish.
Peter Oborne in The Telegraph suggests this might be a turning point in Cameron’s leadership.
“There are only two reasons for the collapse of this Government’s fortunes: the first is Cameron and Osborne; the second is the decision made in 2005, when Cameron was elected leader, to govern as much as possible without the Conservative Party.”


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That the sheriff, jailer, or other proper authorities of Robeson County shall provide in the common jail of Robeson County and in the Home for the Aged and Infirm of Robeson County separate cells, wards, or apartments for the said Indians of Robeson County, in all cases where it shall be necessary under the laws of this State to commit any of said Indians to said jail or County Home for the Aged and Infirm.
That the Board of Directors for the State Hospital for the Insane at Raleigh are hereby authorized and directed to provide and set apart at said hospital, as soon after passage of this act as practicable, suitable apartments and wards for the accommodation of any of said Indians of Robeson County who may be entitled under the laws relating to insane persons to be admitted to said hospital.
That the school situated near the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, known as Croatan Indian Normal School, shall hereafter be known and designated as The Indian Normal School of Robeson County, and in that name shall be entitled to all of the privileges and powers heretofore conferred by any law of the State of North Carolina or any laws hereafter enacted for the benefit of said school.
That in all laws enacted by the General Assembly of North Carolina relating to said Indians subsequent to the enactment of said chapter fifty-one of the Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, the words Croatan Indians be and the same are hereby stricken out and the words Indians of Robeson County inserted in lieu thereof.
That said section four thousand two hundred and eightyeight of the Revisal of nineteen hundred and five be further amended by inserting after the word race, in line thirteen, the following words: Provided, that this shall not apply to the dead bodies of persons who are inmates of State hospitals, or to the bodies of travelers or strangers who die suddenly, or to the bodies of persons who die in the State School for the Blind or the Deaf and Dumb, or any other State school.
That the board of trustees of said Indian Norma! School of Robeson County shall have the power to employ and discharge teachers, to prevent negroes from attending said school, and to exercise the usual functions of control and management of said school, their action being subject to the approval of the State Board of Education.
That the trustees or the superintendent of the Reform and Manual Training School for Colored Youths may in their judgment discharge such criminal youths that may have been admitted into the Reform and Manual Training School by and with the consent of the parents, guardians, or trustees, when it appears to them that the boy or girl has undergone a complete reformation, and shows signs of thrift, industry, and usefulness, and to become a good and useful citizen.
Maintenance. All moneys received by the trustees by private gifts, donations, or otherwise shall be expended in the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the school for the training and moral and industrial development of such delinquent children, and in securing homes for them; and in case the trustees receive or are allowed any State aid for said school, it shall be Pub.19 their duty to duly account for all moneys so received by them and to make report of the manner of its expenditure and of the work done by them as hereinafter more particularly provided for.
The training of inmates. The officers of the school shall receive and take into it all children committed thereto by competent a thority, or received therein as aforesaid, and shall cause all such children in the school to be instructed in such rudimentary branches of useful knowledge as may be suited to their various ages and capacities. The said children shall be taught such useful trades and given such manual training as the board may direct. And such children shall perform such manual labor as the principal or other superintending officers, subject to the direction of said board, may order. All inmates shall, if possible, be taught the precepts of the Holy Bible, good moral conduct, how to work and to be industrious. The board of directors shall first establish and maintain such departments of the Manual Training School as shall be adapted to the use of such class of boys as in the discretion of the board shall be most in need of such care and training and will probably be most benefited thereby.
Duty of judges to sentence youthful criminals to; commitment full authority for keeping child. It shall be the duty of the Governor, when the reformatory or school is ready to receive inmates, to make proclamation thereof, and the judges of the Superior Courts, recorders or other presiding officers of the city or criminal courts of this State, shall have the authority, and it shall be their duty, to sentence to said school all persons under the age of sixteen years convicted in any court of this State of any violation of the criminal laws: Provided such judge or other of said officers shall be of the opinion that it would be best for such person, and the community in which such person may be convicted, that such person should be so sentenced. And commitment, whether by judge or court, as hereinbefore provided, shall be full, sufficient and competent authority to the officers and agents of said school for the detention and keeping therein of the child so committed. SEc..7. Governor may transfer youthful prisoners to. The Goya ernor of the State may by order made transfer any colored person y under the age of sixteen years from any jail, chain gang, or penitentiary in this State to said reformatory.

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Asylum seekers are being urged to obey a night time curfew in order to ‘keep women safe’.
Austrian vice-chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, has called for asylum seekers to be housed in barracks and obey a new curfew, saying: “It has already been discussed in the past, whether it should not be so that from a certain evening time, all have to be back in the barracks.”
Strache says there are seven unused barracks in Vienna which could be converted to house migrants.
The rules would see migrant men allowed out for longer periods in the summer when the sun sets later, and earlier in the winter months when it gets darker earlier in the evening.
His colleague, Toni Mahdalik, expanded on his statements, telling Austrian newspaper Krone: “In the future, our women should be able to move safely on Vienna’s streets in the evening and at night.”
“[The] asylum procedure is not a vacation where one can choose a hotel,” he added.
It’s come to something when such drastic measures need to be considered ‘to keep women safe’ in modern Europe.


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Honor X50i+ has been launched in China. The phone joins the Honor X50i lineup. which was launched earlier this year in April. The Honor X50i was powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6020 SoC and packed a 4,500mAh battery with 35W wired fast charging support. The newly-launched Honor X50i+ comes with similar battery and charging specifications but has a MediaTek Dimensity 6080 chipset, instead. It also flaunts a 108-megapixel primary rear camera. The smartphone is available in two storage variants and is offered in four colour options.
The base 12GB + 256GB variant of the Honor X50i+ is priced in China at CNY 1,599 (roughly Rs 18,600), while the 12GB + 512GB option is listed at CNY 1,799 (roughly Rs 20,900). It is available for purchase via the Honor China website. The phone is offered in Cloud Water Blue, Fantasy Night Black, Ink Jade Green, and Liquid Pink colourways.
Sporting a 6.7-inch AMOLED full-HD+ (2,412 x 1,080 pixels) display, the Honor X50i+ comes with a refresh rate of 90Hz, a peak brightness level of 2,000 nits, and an aspect ratio of 20:9. The phone runs on Android 13-based MagicOS 7.2. It is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6080 SoC paired with 12GB of RAM and up to 512GB of inbuilt storage.
The dual rear camera of the Honor X50i+ is equipped with a 108-megapixel primary camera with f/1.75 aperture, and a secondary 2-megapixel depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture. The camera units are accompanied by a circular LED flash unit, placed together in the top right corner of the back panel within a circular camera module. The front camera, placed in a centre-aligned hole-punch slot at the top of the display, has an 8-megapixel sensor.
The Honor X50i+ packs a 4,500mAh battery with 35W wired fast charging support. It also supports 5G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth v5.1, OTG, GPS, AGPS, Clonass, Beidou, Galileo, and USB Type-C connectivity. For security, the phone comes with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. It weighs 166 grams and measures 161.05mm x 74.55mm x 6.78mm in size.
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The following bus lines travel to and/or from Willowbrook Mall: 11, 28, 193, 194, 197, 704, 712, and 746.
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Willowbrook Mall offers 800 parking spaces (outlined in green) to commuters traveling to and from New York City. The Park & Ride area is located between Lord & Taylor and Bloomingdale’s and is available on a first come first serve basis. All vehicles parked outside of the specified areas will be towed at owner’s expense.
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