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By Matthew Crow
A small town. A missing schoolgirl. A terrible secret. And one girl's fight to survive.Sixteen-year-old Claudette Flint is coming home from hospital after an escalating depression left her unable to cope. She may seem unchanged on the outside; but everything's different. The same could be said about her seaside hometown. A local teenager, Sarah, has disappeared. Sarah had a bad reputation round town; but now she's vanished the close-knit community seems to be unspooling. As the police investigate and the press digs around for dirt, small town scandals start to surface. What nobody knows yet is that Claudette and Sarah had a secret friendship. And that the last secret Sarah shared may be the key to the truth.After weeks of focusing solely on herself, Claudette realizes she is not the only part of the world that needs fixing - and that if she can piece together the fragments of Sarah's story, then maybe she can piece herself back together too.Another Place is a novel about lost girls, recovered life - and the meaning of home.
The Associated Press Stylebook 2017
By The Associated Press
The style of The Associated Press is the gold standard for news writing. With The AP Stylebook in hand, you can learn how to write and edit with the clarity and professionalism for which their writers and editors are famous. The AP Stylebook will help you master the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviation, word and numeral usage, and when to use 'more than' instead of 'over.' To make navigating these specialty chapters even easier, the stylebook includes a comprehensive index. Fully revised and updated to keep pace with world events, common usage, and AP procedures, The AP Stylebook is the one reference that all writers, editors and students cannot afford to be without.
By Kendra Bean, Anthony Uzarowski
Ava: A Life in Movies is a gorgeous illustrated tribute to a legendary life. Authors Kendra Bean and Anthony Uzarowski take a closer look at the Academy Award-nominated actress's famous screen roles while shedding new light on the creation and maintenance of her glamorous image, her marriages, and her friendships with famous figures such as Ernest Hemingway, John Huston, and Tennessee Williams. From the backwoods of Grabtown, North Carolina to the bullfighting rings of Spain, from the MGM backlot to the Rome of La Dolce Vita, Ava: A Life in Movies takes readers on the stunning and exciting journey of a life lived to the fullest and through four decades of film history with one of its most iconic stars
And Soon I Heard A Roaring Wind
By Bill Streever
Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind--the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them--by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. AND SOON I HEARD A ROARING WIND is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.
An Introduction to Coping with Eating Problems, 2nd Edition
By Gillian Todd
Eating problems, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, can have a devastating impact on sufferers as well as their friends and family. This self-help guide is written by a consultant psychotherapist with extensive experience of treating eating disorders and will help you identify an eating disorder and develop a toolkit of strategies to help you take steps towards overcoming the disorder. It also includes a chapter offering useful guidance for family members.This updated second edition will help you:· Understand how eating disorders develop and what keeps them going· Find the motivation to change · Change how you eat· Challenge negative thinkingThe Introduction to Coping series offers valuable guidance for those seeking help for emotional or psychological problems such as depression and anxiety. Each book gives useful background information and suggests techniques to change unhelpful patterns of behaviour and thinking using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques. CBT is recommended internationally to treat a wide range of emotional, psychological and physical conditions including eating disorders.
An Order For Death
By Susanna Gregory
In medieval Cambridge, believers in the theory of nominalism have set some colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics, and Brother Michael, the Senior Proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot Michael is certain he will easily find the killer amongst the Dominicans, but before he can get any sense out of them his junior proctor, Walcote, is found hanged. Matthew Bartholomew starts to investigate, delving into a case involving nuns and rivalry with Oxford, and finds that the murders are less to do with high-minded principles than they are with baser instincts...
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Alex Preston, Neil Gower
'A magical book: an inimitable fusion of ornithology, literary anthology and autobiography' Tom Holland'Delightful . . . an original look at the literature inspired by Britain's birdlife' the Guardian, Best Nature Books of 2017When Alex Preston was 15, he stopped being a birdwatcher. Adolescence and the scorn of his peers made him put away his binoculars, leave behind the hides and the nature reserves and the quiet companionship of his fellow birders. His love of birds didn't disappear though. Rather, it went underground, and he began birdwatching in the books that he read, creating his own personal anthology of nature writing that brought the birds of his childhood back to brilliant life. Looking for moments 'when heart and bird are one', Preston weaves the very best writing about birds into a personal and eccentric narrative that is as much about the joy of reading and writing as it is about the thrill of wildlife. Moving from the 'high requiem' of Keats's nightingale to the crow-strewn sky at the end of Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, from Ted Hughes's brooding 'Hawk in the Rain' to the giddy anthropomorphism of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, this is a book that will make you look at birds, at the world, in a newer, richer light. Beautifully illustrated and illuminated by the celebrated graphic artist Neil Gower, As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a book to love and to hold, to return to again and again, to marvel at the way that authors across the centuries have captured the endless grace and variety of birds.'As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a memoir/gallimaufry of ornithological obsession by Alex Preston. He watches birds in the sky and on the page darting between myths, stories and memoir like a swift. The characterful illustrations by Neil Gower add a whole new dimension to this gorgeous book' Damian Barr, Guardian Best Books of 2017
By Suzanne Wright
Knox and Harper's story continues as the Las Vegas lair - and its two infamous Co-Primes - face their most terrifying enemy yet . . . Together, Harper and Knox have overcome just about every evil thing you can think of - from Horsemen of the Apocalypse to dark magic practitioners to Lucifer's insistent belief that he's hilarious. They're looking forward to some well-earned downtime - until Harper is attacked by mercenaries in the middle of her tattoo shop. Worse still, the attackers are trying to take her wings - the ones no one is meant to know she even has. It's a near miss and once a furious Knox has managed to pull his demon back into line there's only one thing clear - someone knows Harper's secrets and is systematically setting out to destroy her. It seems likely that someone is the third Horseman - but how do they know so much about Harper? It seems the impossible might be true - they have an enemy hiding at the very heart of the lair. To survive Harper will need to embrace power that's darker than she's ever experienced and even Knox can't protect her from everything - though God knows nothing's going to stop him trying. The stakes have never been higher, for if Harper's taken by this new threat, Knox won't be able to stop his demon from taking a vicious pleasure in tearing the world apart . . .
At His Mercy
By Shelly Bell
For one night, Tristan Kelley taught the woman he knew only as Angel to surrender to all her wicked desires. Now his Angel has a name--Isabella Lawson--and he's not only her professor but her boss. Kisses are forbidden. Touches are forbidden. Nights with her are most definitely forbidden. Of course, he's never been one to play by the rules.When Isabella convinced her cousin to take her to her first kink party, she hadn't intended on meeting someone like Tristan--and she certainly hadn't intended on ever seeing him again. Now not only does she see him in class, she also shares a cramped office with him every afternoon...and it's becoming harder and harder to resist him. But as much as she wants to focus on her new feelings for Tristan Kelley, her dark past is coming for her and this time...she might not survive.
Awakening the Miracle of You
By Judith Collins
You are a miracle waiting to happen.When everyday life seems tiring, unfulfilling or just plain hard, it can be almost impossible to believe that anything will change. Life is so full of tasks to be ticked off that finding a moment of peace, let alone living a spiritual life, may never figure on your list. But it's when life is like this that it's even more important to awaken the miracle of you.In this inspiring book, Judith Collins has created a 52-week course of affirmations to help you develop long-term self-awareness and growth. You do not need to have practised affirmations or meditation before to benefit from the wisdom inside.AWAKENING THE MIRACLE OF YOU also contains affirmations to help you deal positively with specific challenges that can occur in life, including career change, pain management, stress relief, childlessness, fear and mourning.Uplift, heal and affirm yourself, day by day.
The Art of Tough
By Barbara Boxer
After serving in Congress for more than thirty years as both a congresswoman and a senator, Senator Boxer has proven herself to be a passionate advocate for significant issues of our time, including the military, civil rights, universal health care, and the environment. With a who's who of politics of the past three decades, Boxer shows all of the machinations that it takes to make government work, much of it off the record. Featuring names beloved and reviled, Boxer takes us behind the scenes to show us what it has been like to deal with George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitch McConnell, as well as Tip O'Neill, the Clintons, Obama, and so many more. Raised in a Jewish, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, Boxer was a journalist who decided she could make a difference and ran for local office in California, inspired to fight tooth and nail to help bring that American dream of "a more perfect union," into fruition.Behind closed doors in secret negotiating rooms, Boxer has seen it all: petty squabbling, bare-knuckled dysfunctional debate, and vicious character assassinations. Drawing back the curtain, Boxer leads readers in a master class in statecraft, revealing the truth behind controversial policies, temperamental elected officials, and sensational media headlines that have dominated our national discourse. In this passionate, heartfelt testament to one woman's life's work to improve democracy for all, Senator Boxer offers her views on how American government is flawed and can be rescued to ultimately flourish, but only with the full participation of the nation at large.
The Angels' Share
By J. R. Ward
Behind the glamorous facade of Kentucky's most famous family lurks a secret - one that threatens its very foundation . . . In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society - just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder.No one is above suspicion - especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward. The bad blood between him and his father is known far and wide, and he is aware that he could be named a suspect. As the investigation into the death intensifies, he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottle - as well as with his former horse trainer's daughter. Meanwhile, the family's financial future lies in the perfectly manicured hands of a business rival, a woman who wants Edward all to herself.Everything has consequences; everybody has secrets. And few can be trusted. Then, at the very brink of the family's demise, someone thought lost to them forever returns to the fold. Maxwell Bradford has come home. But is he a saviour . . . or the worst of all the sinners?'Get ready for summer's most sinful indulgence. The drama never stops in this tale of family secrets, lost love found, rivalries, delightfully nasty villains, and deliciously appealing heroes. Put on your derby hat and join in the fun.' New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs 'Breathless fun! J. R. Ward moves her trademark dark and sexy from the world of warrior vampires to the halls of the Kentucky elite, where the family members claws are just as sharp and the consequences just as deadly. I couldn't stop turning the pages!' New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner'Dallas' meets 'Downton Abbey'... This is high drama, and it's mesmerizing.' Fresh Fiction 'I want my "Bourbon" in bed! J. R. Ward delivers a sweeping saga where family roots run deep and passion sizzles hotter than a Kentucky summer. Potent and heady, one taste just isn't enough. New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter 'The drama and dark secrets behind the Bradford family's empire propel this irresistible story of high-society scandal . . . a read that's rich, smooth, and satisfying as a glass of Kentucky bourbon.' New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips 'Soapy elements abound in this Dynasty-esque tale, from lavish wealth to feuds, dirty secrets, and forbidden love Ward is a master of pacing and world building, and readers will love that the cliff-hanger ending guarantees at least a second helping of the Bradfords.' Booklist (starred review)
The Asterisk War, Vol. 4 (Manga)
By Yuu Miyazaki, okiura, Ningen
Good things come in small packages...Kirin Toudou is one of the top fighters at Seidoukan Academy despite her young age, but there's one enemy she cannot face--her controlling, abusive uncle! When Ayato steps in to help, has he only caused more damage!? And does he really have time for this as the Festa draws ever closer...?
Aoharu X Machinegun, Vol. 5
Hotaru has been handed her walking papers from Toy Gun Gun, but there's no way she's going down without a fight -- or several! Fighting her way back onto the team will just be the first step if she wants to become a serious competitor, though.When a face from the past re-emerges, the hurdles Hotaru has to overcome to secure her position with Toy Gun Gun increase exponentially!
Accel World, Vol. 10 (Novel)
By Reki Kawahara
"The Sound of Water on a Distant Day" 2046. Haruyuki, a.k.a Silver Crow, member of the reborn Nega Nebulus, makes a certain blunder and sees a sudden, precipitous drop in Burst Points. Given that he is backed up against the wall, Takumu suggests he hire an Accelerated World "bouncer."Spring 2047. Haruyuki is plunged into an unprecedented crisis due to the machinations of new student Seiji Nomi. At the same time in Okinawa on a school trip, Kuroyukihime is set up for a "duel" by a strange Burst Linker.
The Absence of Guilt
By Mark Gimenez
Mark Gimenez, author the massive international bestseller The Colour of Law, is back, as superstar lawyer Scott A. Fenney takes the stand for an impossible case. An ISIS attack on America is narrowly averted when the FBI uncovers a plot to detonate a weapon of mass destruction in Dallas, Texas during the Super Bowl.A federal grand jury indicts twenty-four co-conspirators, including Omar al Mustafa, a notorious and charismatic Muslim cleric known for his incendiary anti-American diatribes on YouTube and Fox News. His arrest is greeted with cheers around the world and relief at home. The President goes on national television and proclaims: 'We won!'There is only one problem: there is no evidence against Mustafa. That problem falls to the presiding judge, newly appointed U.S. District Judge A. Scott Fenney.If Mustafa is innocent, Scott must set the most dangerous man in Dallas free, with no idea who is really guilty.And with just three weeks before the attack is due . . .
By Russell Andrews
Whenever the word Aphrodite is whispered somebody dies. The victims never know what it meant: is it a person, a product, a code word - what? And why is keeping its meaning secret, so important?Justin Westwood has retreated from reality by taking a menial post with the police department in Long Island. Mindless traffic duty and a lot of booze stop him reliving the past, but his dormant professionalism is reluctantly awakened when he realises that the death of a young journalist is deliberate, not accidental. Retracing the woman's movements in the hours before her death, Justin learns she's been in trouble for quoting some erroneous facts in an obituary of a man who had been living in the local old people's home. Not the sort of mistake which normally brings a duo of professional hitmen to the door of a fallible reporter, and certainly not one which brings the FBI into town. As Justin attempts to unravel the puzzle, he finds someone is a step ahead of him, disposing of witnesses and setting him up for the rap. Realising he has to face real life at its starkest if he is to survive, he goes solo - and finds himself at the centre of one of the greatest conspiracies of his time.Praise for Russell Andrews 'A fast moving thriller in the Grisham genre' Sunday Telegraph'I defy you to figure out who dunnit, why they dunnit, or how they dunnit' Janet Evanovich
All Over the Place
By Geraldine DeRuiter
Most travel memoirs involve a button-nosed protagonist nursing a broken heart who, rather than tearfully watching The Princess Bride while eating an entire 5-gallon vat of ice cream directly out of the container (like a normal person), instead decides to travel the world, inevitably falling for some chiseled stranger with bulging pectoral muscles and a disdain for wearing clothing above the waist.This is not that kind of book.Geraldine met the love of her life long before this story began, on a bus in Seattle surrounded by drunk college kids. She gets lost constantly, wherever she goes. And her nose would never, ever be considered "button-like."Hilarious, irreverent and heartfelt, All Over the Place chronicles the five-year period that kicked off when Geraldine got laid off from a job she loved and took off to travel the world. Those years taught her a great number of things, though the ability to read a map was not one of them. She has only a vague idea of where Russia is, but she understands her Russian father now better than ever before. She learned that at least half of what she thought was her mother's functional insanity was actually an equally incurable condition called "being Italian." She learned about unemployment and brain tumors and lost luggage and lost opportunities and just getting lost, in countless terminals and cabs and hotel lobbies across the globe. And she learned what it's like to travel the world with someone you already know and love. How that person can help you make sense of things, and can, by some sort of alchemy, make foreign cities and far-off places feel like home. In All Over the Place, Geraldine imparts the insight she gained while being far from home-wry, surprising, but always sincere, advice about marriage, family, health, and happiness that come from getting lost and finding the unexpected.
Anne Happy, Vol. 5: Unhappy Go Lucky!
It's school festival time at Tennomifune Academy, and Class 1-7 is joining in on the fun! But misfortune is never far away for the likes of the Happiness Class. Can Hibari, Hanako, and Botan (as well as their classmates Hibiki and Ren), make for a memorable festival, or will the combined power of their bad luck luck throw things into chaos?
Anne of Ingleside
By L. M. Montgomery
The sixth book in the Anne Shirley series.'It's been lovely to be Anne of Green Gables again for a week, but it's a hundred times lovelier to come back and be Anne of Ingleside'There's never a dull moment at Ingleside, Anne's lively home: Anne is now the mother of five children - with a sixth baby on the way. But even with endless demands on her time, she couldn't be happier and there's nowhere in the world she'd rather be. No matter what life brings - whether it's the numerous scrapes her children get up to or Gilbert's insufferable aunt outstaying her welcome by months - Anne faces every challenge with her usual verve for life. But then she begins to suspect that Gilbert doesn't love her any more. She's a little older, it's true, but Anne is the same spirited redhead she's always been. She hasn't changed. But has he?A collection that will be coveted by children and adults alike, this list is the best in children's literature, curated by Virago. These are timeless tales with beautiful covers, that will be treasured and shared across the generations. Some titles you will already know; some will be new to you, but there are stories for everyone to love, whatever your age. Our list includes Nina Bawden (Carrie's War, The Peppermint Pig), Rumer Godden (The Dark Horse, An Episode of Sparrows), Joan Aiken (The Serial Garden, The Gift Giving) E. Nesbit (The Psammead Trilogy, The Bastable Trilogy, The Railway Children), Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Little Princess,The Secret Garden) and Susan Coolidge (The What Katy Did Trilogy). Discover Virago Children's Classics.

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NAPNAP Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Nurse Practitioner Movement
Pediatric nurse practitioners are at the forefront of child health innovations over the last 50 years
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2015 – As the nation’s health care professionals prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the nurse practitioner movement during National Nurse Practitioner Week, Nov. 9-15, 2015, the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) is proud to have been at the forefront of this nursing evolution as the first professional society for nurse practitioners. We salute our past and present members for all they have done to promote advanced nursing practice.
Less than a decade after the nurse practitioner movement began at the University of Colorado in 1965, NAPNAP formed and held its first official meeting in Columbus, Ohio, led by Janet McCleery, CPNP, with the goal of uniting pediatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) across the country who felt isolated. Being a member of this newly recognized advanced practice registered nursing profession, however, presented many challenges.
“The early years were difficult in that we had to explain to everyone our role,” said McCleery, who is still a NAPNAP member. “There were so few of us that we found it difficult to communicate with each other. In Ohio, we were fortunate to have the support of the Ohio Department of Health, two certificate programs and pediatricians who promoted the role.”
For more than 40 years, PNPs have played a key role in providing high-quality, evidence-based health care across the nation in primary, acute and specialty care settings, often delivering care to vulnerable, underserved populations. PNPs and their pediatric-focused APRN colleagues have completed advanced coursework in physical and health assessment, pharmacology and pathophysiology with a focus on health promotion, disease prevention, differential diagnosis and disease management. Given their roots in nursing, they are also widely known for their holistic, family-centered care, often spending significant time educating patients and families on long-term wellness.
Pediatric-focused APRNs have been leaders in various child health innovations. They have been at the forefront of child and adolescent mental health promotion, screening and early evidence-based interventions, including the Creating Opportunities for Personal Empowerment (COPE) tool. They have also played a lead role in improving child health through culturally appropriate interventions enhancing parent, child and practitioner effectiveness in developing optimal practices in nutrition and physical activity. The school-based healthcare movement has its roots in pediatric nurse practitioner leadership. Pediatric-focused APRNs have also conducted and published important research on childhood asthma and related treatments.
Now in its fifth decade, NAPNAP is a successful organization growing in membership to more than 8,200 members in 49 chapters throughout the country, collaborating in 17 special interest groups, advocating for child health and access to the quality care provided by pediatric-focused APRNs, providing evidenced-based continuing education, hosting national conferences and publishing scholarly research in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care. The Journal of Pediatric Health Care, first published in 1987, is a leading publication responding to the growing demand for evidenced-based clinical and practice related research on a wide range of child health issues.
“While we’ve had a relatively stable number of pediatric nurse practitioner programs at universities across the country and graduates entering the workforce, we have a continued high need for pediatric nurse practitioners and their fellow pediatric-focused APRNs in medically underserved communities – both rural and urban,” said NAPNAP President Cathy Haut, DNP, CPNP-AC, CPNP-PC, CCRN. “The demand for pediatric-focused APRNs will continue to grow as more people seek care as provided by changes in the nation’s health care system.”
The next 50 years will see exponential growth in scientific advancement and health care achievements. Technological innovations will give researchers better tools to develop treatments and cures. New technology will also allow providers to evaluate and treat patients whether in the same room or across the country. As more states approve full practice authority for NPs, patient demand will drive providers and insurers to deliver higher-quality service at reasonable rates. Within this innovative next half century, you are sure find pediatric nurse practitioners and pediatric-focused APRNs improving child health.
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The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) is the nation’s professional association of pediatric nurse practitioners and advanced practice nurses dedicated to improving the quality of health care for infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Representing more than 8,200 healthcare practitioners nationwide with 17 special interest groups and 49 chapters, NAPNAP has been advocating for children’s health since 1973. It is the first nurse practitioner professional society in the U.S. www.NAPNAP.org

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Stories about bhakti and tasawwuf (‘sufism’) are told in puranas, kirtans and malfuzat (conversations with Sufi pirs). Each teller adds something of her own. 'Suni Sunai' is a retelling of such stories inspired by the Hindustani tradition of dastangoi.
The stories here are taken from northern India, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. There are comic episodes and cosmic dramas, stories that speak of human dignity, and stories that move from the mundane to the wondrous. Each offers something to relate to, and something to think over—moral dilemmas, social inequalities, and how a spiritual quest never ends. Each reader will interprets the story from her perspective and experience.
The narration tries to capture something of language of the medieval texts from which these stories were taken. The illustrated folios are also inspired by art traditions of the region, like Tamil Nadu murals, and Andhra qalamkari.
Sahapedia is grateful to Bajaj Autos Pvt. Ltd. for the grant that made possible the production of these videos and e-book

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E.R. SHIPP Honestly, was lying worth it?
Black on black crime destroying community
There is a sad legacy being printed in the daily edition of The Vindicator. It speaks to a small segment of the population bent on destroying itself by any means necessary. Young black males in the prime of their lives are killing and being killed to the dismay of mothers, friends and family. They are being gunned down, sometimes in broad daylight by a segment of the populace that would be the first to talk of black pride and thug life. With their headbands and earrings and painfully loud and expensive sound systems, they seem bent on destroying that which seemingly reminds them of themselves. We can point to the loss of hope and despair through unemployment and the lack of strong black fathers in what used to be the traditional two-parent home.
We can point the finger at bigots or apa thetic politicians. To the influence of negative Rap culture, with its throbbing message of sensuality and violence targeted at our youth. Or talk of the negative effects that racism and police brutality have on the self-esteem of all minorities. But the fact remains: Young black males are killing, shooting, maiming other young black males and females. Young black males are raping, robbing, killing and pillaging the very neighborhoods in which they themselves live. Young black males are shooting down other unarmed black males.
And so I ask -- where's the outcry? Where is the chorus of voices shouting in the street lamenting the loss of our children? Where are the pickets? Where are the representatives from the Urban League or the NAACP? What, no Al Sharpton?
If this were the story of a white police officer gunning down an unarmed or armed black male during or after the commission of a crime, the scenario would be noticeably different. We would put on our "victim mantle" and parade in the streets shouting, "No justice, no peace!!" to display our displeasure and our hurt at another life lost at the hands of local law enforcement. We would ask, (no we would demand) for a full investigation into the practices and training of a police force apparently run amok. And as in Cincinnati, we would turn our anger inside and devastate our own neighborhoods in protest. To date, 22 souls have been lost to violence in the city of Youngstown compared to 20 last year.
In the last 11 days, four others have lost their lives as well. It appears that the passing of a young black male in the streets of Youngstown barely elicits notice from a public used to reading the same headlines through the eyes of an unsympathetic press.
I am the father of a young black male, and I cringe at the thought of reading of my son's loss or worse yet, the loss of another black youth at the hands of my son. The symptoms are rooted in the heart; and only Jesus can change the heart.
Until then, I guess, black males will stop killing black males when there are no more black males left to kill black males.
Petroleum companies' efficiency just amazing
In the very near past, a back-page article in your newspaper reported a refinery fire in Illinois that was affecting gasoline supplies and causing price increases in northern Ohio. Many kudos to the repair teams that had to have labored long, torturous hours even through the Labor Day week-end to bring the facility back on line because now that the holiday is over, retail prices are being reduced dramatically.
Fortunately, neighboring Pennsylvania must have been supplied from a different source since they did not experience a similar shock treatment as Ohioans.
E. J. HASSAY Sr.
Surplus didn't disappear, it went back to the people
What happened to the surplus?
Well, I would say, my dear confused Democrats, it went to the people as it was intended. Why all the mystery? The astonishing thing would be that after giving the surplus back to the taxpayers, we still would have a surplus.
The federal budget for fiscal 2001 is $1.9 trillion. The surplus was the amount above and beyond that. If $1.9 trillion is not enough to operate this country for one year, we should elect better managers.
And all this fear rhetoric about dipping into the Social Security Fund would not even be possible if the Social Security dollars were safely deposited in personal individual accounts putting them totally out of reach of all politicians.
For the sake of all our younger money earners, I hope that soon they will be able to place part of their mandatory Social Security contributions into an account in their name and in a safe investment (like 6 percent CDs) and not be able to touch it until retirement age. It should continue to be withheld as it is now, and the allowable options should be only in safe conservative investments (no gambling in the stock market).
Eventually all, not just part of this Social Security contribution should be in a personal account which over a 20- or 30-year period would result in a retirement fund far out performing the yield of the current system. And for certain, no politicians could ever get their hands on this money. No need for a "lock box."
ALBERT S. CELEC D.D.S.
Mahoning Valley comes through for Jerry's kids
I knew we could depend on the kind people of the Mahoning Valley to come through again. Thanks to the many generous people in the Youngstown area, you helped the 2001 Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon raise a record $56,780,603 in contributions and pledges.
Across the country, nearly a million volunteers, including hundreds of celebrities, donated their time on Labor Day weekend to help people of all ages with neuromuscular diseases, including many families in your community. I applaud the people of Youngstown for phoning in pledges to the Telethon and for so generously supporting MDA programs through out the year, such as Shamrocks Against Dystrophy, MDA Lock-Ups and fire fighters' Fill-the-Boot drives -- to name only a few.
Thanks to you, MDA is able to maintain a network of 230 clinics nationwide. There, children and adults with muscle-wasting disorders can receive the best possible care from a team of medical experts. You also help enable MDA to sponsor worldwide research seeking treatments and cures for these devastating disorders.
MDA National Chairman


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In a dazzling display of masterful storytelling, Marlon James explores the extraordinary backstory to the attempted assassination of Bob Marley.
Jamaica, 1976. Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. Marlon James investigates the story behind this near-mythical event. The result is a mesmerising, continent-crossing tale that spans three decades, with a shadowy cast of street kids, drug lords, journalists, prostitutes, gunmen and secret service agents.
In December 1976, less than two weeks before a general election was to be held in Jamaica and just two days before Bob Marley was to play at a concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, the country’s capital, several gunmen stormed the singer’s house.
The attackers, armed with machine guns, wounded Marley, his wife and his manager, as well as several others. It is that shooting – and the lead up and aftermath of it for a cast of fictional characters – that James explores in A Brief History of Seven Killings.
Despite his enduring popularity, the attempted assassination of Marley is often overlooked, and James’ book is responsible for bringing knowledge of the event to a new audience.
For those who want to know more about the real events that James’ book is based on, reggae historian and archivist Roger Steffens’ book So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley offers an insight into the events of December 3, 1976. Read an extract from the book at Rolling Stone.
What has it been like to be longlisted?
Fantastic and surreal. My literary sensibilities have been shaped by Booker winners, shortlisters and longlisters from I was a kid studying literature on high school.
What are you working on next?
Something set in the 11th century.
What are you reading at the moment?
Clarice Lispector, The Complete Stories.
What is your favourite Man Booker-winning novel?
The Line Of Beauty.
A Brief History of Seven Killings contains some 75 characters. What was your reasoning behind using such a crowd?
That’s just it, reason had to go out the window! I had to get the point where my inner critic stopped questioning my moves, because often I was moving without a second thought or even a first one. It was the riskiest thing I had ever done and reasoning had nothing to do with it.
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
This book is startling in its range of voices and registers... It moves at a terrific pace and will come to be seen as a classic of our times— Michael Wood, chair of judges, Man Booker Prize 2015
On accepting the award, James paid tribute to the whole shortlist:
‘There are so many ways to tell, let’s call it, the English language novel. It’s so humbling and so wonderful that you fell in love with six wonderful, experimental, outrageous, dark, beautiful novels that I think, what we’re really just trying to do is make sense of the world we’re in. And I don’t think we’re ever going to find the answers but I also think as novelists we’re just here to ask better questions. So I will continue to do that.’
James’ book was chosen by the judging panel of Professor Michael Wood, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey, John Burnside, Sam Leith and Frances Osborne.


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Hulu has removed an episode of The Golden Girls that contains a blackface reference.
Over the weekend, the streaming platform cleared its catalog of the 1988 episode of the beloved sitcom titled "Mixed Blessings." The season 3 episode's storyline follows Dorothy's son Michael introducing his fiancée Lorraine to the main characters.
While Dorothy (Bea Arthur) has reservations about the engagement because of the woman's older age, Lorraine's family is resistant to her marrying a white man.
The controversial scene in question finds Rose (Betty White) and Blanche (Rue McClanahan) in matching brown mud masks when Lorraine's family meets them.
Rose references their appearance saying, "This is mud on our faces, we're not really Black."
Some criticized Hulu's decision to take down the episode, claiming the choice is an overreaction. "That Golden Girls episode isn’t blackface. What the hell ?" tweeted author Roxanne Gay, adding, "Removing this episode is weird, counterproductive and stupid. It diminishes the effort to actually end racism. It’s just so dumb."
"I know Hulu better put that Golden Girls episode back," tweeted Daybreak writer Ira Madison III.
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On Twitter, author Erica Williams Simon commented about Hulu's removal of the episode, pointing out the recent trend of removing past television episodes with blackface references as a response to the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement.
"First of all, they were in mud masks not blackface. And second of all, in what world does 'Stop killing us.' sound like 'Please remove episodes of Golden Girls'? I didn't see that ask on anyone's protest sign..." she wrote.
"To be clear: I’m not 'attacking' Hulu. I would just hate for the seriousness of this moment and movement to get lost in symbolic (and sometimes silly) overcorrections," added Simon. "Impact on real lives should be the measure of any change worthy of a PR push."
The Golden Girls ran for seven seasons from 1985 to 1992.
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The retailer entered Bulgaria in 2011 when it bought Serbia-based group Delta Maxi, which had stores across south-eastern Europe.
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Regardless of what you may think about VR, the fact is that this is the first ‘killer app’ which requires as fast graphics experience as possible, and that’s something CPUs will not be able to handle, unless 90% of the CPU die doesn’t end up being a GPU (AMD, Apple, Intel, NVIDIA, Samsung – all produce chips with more than 50% of die space being allocated to graphics).
Enter EVGA. This small company (when compared to big guns) often came to market with innovative products, solving issues larger players don’t even consider. Being a customer-driven company, EVGA engineers thought how to address the issue that VR headsets are mostly connected at the front, while traditionally, computers have all or almost all connectors at the back.
Their solution is simple, and does not add a lot of cost – front 3.5″/5.25″ panel with a single HDMI 2.0 and two USB 3.0 connectors. The GeForce 980 Ti VR Edition is almost the same as the rest of EVGA’s successful 980 Ti line-up, with the addition of an internal HDMI 2.0 connector (on the graphics card itself).
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Snax – Jacqueline Gonzalez is a 26 year old emerging rapper to hit the west coast rap scene. She started as a dancer, well versed in krumping, crip walking, jerkin’ – she reminiscently said “I still dance”. The rappers new single “Cash” is available to stream and purchase on Spotify, Apple Music, Google play and Amazon music.
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Her lyrics are inspired by the struggles she faced, “Everything I’ve said is 100%, the metaphor is true – it has all pertained to my life”. She dropped her first single in 2019 – called “Bigger Picture”. It is an authentic narration of what it’s like to be in her skin.
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Coal India Officers Call Off Strike; Output Impact Minimal
March 14, 2014 5:48 PM EST
Coal India officers called off their three-day strike midway on Friday after receiving assurances from its chairman on pay-related demands, a union leader said, ensuring little impact on production that peaks in March.
Locals prepare to collect coal from an open cast coal field at Dhanbad district in Jharkhand. (file pic)
The state-owned company, the world's No. 1 coal miner that accounts for about 80 percent of India's output, frequently falls short of its output target due to employee strikes, delays in getting approvals to expand mines and other issues.
"We have called off our strike as Coal India's chairman has promised our demands will be met within a few weeks," said PK Singh, secretary general of the Coal Mines Officers' Association. "If it does not happen within about four weeks, we will go on an indefinite strike."
The company said in a statement to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday that the officers' association had served a strike notice "against non-finalization of performance related pay, new pension scheme and other demands".
Coal India's production peaks at 1.5 million tonnes per day in March. A company official said earlier he had expected "some amount of dent" from the strike that started on Thursday.
A company spokesman could not be reached for comment on Friday.
A labour protest in December had cut off supply of about 200,000 tonnes per day for almost a week, mostly to power generators.
In the 11 months to February, Coal India produced 409.13 million tonnes, or 95 percent of its target for the period.
India is the world's third largest importer of coal despite sitting on the fifth-largest reserves. Coal shipments rose 21 percent to 152 million tonnes in 2013 calendar year, according to research firm OreTeam.
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I’m a simple bloke with an analytical temperament. I don’t like fiction masquerading as fact. This is why I’ve always included a link to Snopes on the right.
Mythology per se has a real, cultural purpose, but I resent any attempt to pass it off as objectively real.
I get niggled by the little bits of misinformation and disinformation that spread through the net. Reading Snopes, it's apparent that a fair bit of urban myth is created maliciously, while some of it comprises stories (or opinion) that is eventually passed off as fact, via chinese whispers.
Snopes deals with the myth that eight glasses of water per day is good for you. As is typical, Snopes found it hard to identify the source of the original story. Like a lot of urban myths, it probably gained legs because it captured the imagination - entered popular culture as mythology does.
Also dispelled is the story of evil sulphates in shampoo (the bad ones were phased out, the not-so-bad ones are only minor irritants). This one’s probably being perpetuated by shampoo manufacturers who make a point of tagging their product “no sulphates” – probably in response to a previous generation of consumers.
This week's New Scientist bursts the bubble on antioxidant supplements. A recent study found that while there is benefit from antioxidents ingested naturally from fruit and vegetables, there is no benefit when extracted from the proper food stream and taken as pills.
Be aware that even good sources can sometimes snag. For example, Karl Kruszelnicki is an Australian scientist who spends his time these days spreading enthusiasm for science through books and radio. I have a lot of respect for him; like myself, he’s a sponge for information, and his gusto is infections. Yet despite an extensive background debunking misconceptions, he’s occasionally prone to propagating some himself. (Recently he made an off-the-cuff comment that the word hello was invented specifically for the telephone, whereas its use clearly predates that innovation.)
This is just to illustrate that nobody’s perfect. The best one can do is to check information, be able to refer back to your sources. Be suspicious of anything that is counter-intuitive, and check it up. And sometimes be prepared to drop that long-cherished belief that has no foundation.


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The superbug is primarily spread through the consumption of food (the first case of the bacteria was discovered on a Chinese pig in 2015). Analysis of the child’s diet while in the Caribbean showed that she had eaten chicken and goat meat from a live animal market and also that she interacted closely with a pet dog and cat.
MCR-1 has been found in 30 countries on all 5 continents and it spreads rapidly in various types of bacteria. We’ve long known that taking antibiotics when you aren’t really ill is a leading cause for “growing” superbugs. There may also be a connection between antibacterial soaps and gels. Scientists warn that if the superbug is not discovered early enough, it could make humans resistant to multiple drugs. In May, a woman showed antibiotic resistance in Pennsylvania but was eventually successfully treated after much trial and error. The source of that woman’s infection was never identified, but experts were able to determine that contamination due to exposure from colonized patients was extremely rare (since this woman had the superbug for some time and did not infect even her close family members living in her home).
Still, researchers wonder if at some point, a superbug will be resistant to all modern antibiotics. If this were to happen, medicine as we know it would degrade beyond recognition. Antibiotics are the basis for most medical advancements—cancer treatment, surgeries, and childbirth become extremely risky when there is no way to treat infection. The CDC is watching and waiting and hopefully they will be able to stay one step ahead of the bacteria. This is one SHTF scenario we certainly do not want to happen.
How to Protect Yourself
- Wash you hands with soap and water: Experts recommend singing the “Happy Birthday” song as you lather. Traditional soap mechanically removes germs from your skin, so time and motion and your friends.
- Avoid antibacterial soaps: they aren’t more effective than regular soaps, and many of them have also been recently banned by the FDA. They also tend to be drying, which leads to small cuts in the skin, which is how germs get into your body.
- Moisturize your hands: see number 2. Well moisturized hands offer more protection against germs.
- Avoid hospitals: Hospitals are breeding grounds for germs. Malingerers and those who use the emergency room for general treatment are at extremely high risk.
- Avoid taking unnecessary antibiotics: studies show that those who are most at risk for contracting a superbug are people with compromised immune systems (the elderly, children, and pregnant women) and people who routinely take antibiotics.

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On 27 December 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on countermeasures against the introduction of a price cap on Russian oil and oil products. These are in response to the G7 agreement on a US$60 per barrel cap for Russian seaborne oil. The decree bans the sale of oil and oil products if the sales contract is based on a price cap for Russian oil, although the decree allows Putin the right to make exceptions to the application of this rule. The ban will become effective as from 1 February 2023 and will apply ‘to Russian oil shipments to foreign legal entities or individuals under any contracts envisaging, directly or indirectly, any application of the price cap mechanism’. The ban relating to the sale of Russian oil products uses the same terminology and will take effect on a date determined by the Russian government but not earlier than 1 February 2023. The current oil price factors in this supply risk scenario to varying degrees but is any meaningful price adjustment for it truly justified? As with all matters relating to the global oil market there are two basic versions of ‘reality’ to consider: the official version and the unofficial version: spoiler alert – people with a lot to lose or a lot to gain frequently lie. Officially, some pricing in of the supply risk attached to the aforementioned ban and Russia’s reaction to it would appear to be justified. Russia’s own Deputy Prime Minister, Alexander Novak, said on 23 December 2022 that Russian oil output may fall 5-7 percent because of the G7’s sanctions on the sector in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. OPEC expects Russian liquids output to decline by 850,000 million barrels per day (bpd), to average 10.1 million bpd in 2023. The International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts Russian production to drop by 1.4 million bpd in the period.
The unofficial version is that there is no reason to expect any meaningful drop in Russian oil or oil products output in 2023 for several reasons. A key one of these is that Russia is still making a lot of money from each barrel of oil it produces, whether it is sold at a discount to the benchmark or not, and consequently it is in its interests to keep production going at the usual pre-Ukraine War levels to maximise its government revenues. For a very long time, Russia had a budget breakeven price per barrel of Brent oil equivalent of around US$40, about the same as the best of the U.S. shale oil producers, and this figure is still about right. With the
US$60 pb cap in place, this is a very healthy profit.
It is apposite to note here that the 30 percent or so discount demanded by some major buyers since the Ukraine War began – most notably, China and India – is a discount from the market price of oil, not from the price cap. Therefore, with Brent currently around US$80 pb, Russia is receiving around US$56 per barrel of its oil from these buyers, which is still a healthy profit. Ironically, as the astute readers of this website will immediately have deduced, the G7 price cap price is higher than the current market price minus hefty discount that Russian oil is being sold at to some other buyers around the world.
Another element to factor into the unofficial reality of the global oil supply/demand mix is that Russia can still work around any price caps or sanctions that G7 or any other group cares to put into place through the myriad of sanctions-avoiding mechanisms put into place by Iran since it came under various sanctions in 1979. As analysed in depth in my previous book on the global oil markets, to get more oil into Europe at better prices than the price cap allows would be no problem for Russia by utilising the basic shipping-related sanctions-stepping method of just disabling – literally just flicking a switch – on the ‘automatic identification system’ on ships that carry Russian oil. Simply lying about destinations in shipping documentation is another tried-and-trusted method, as boasted about by Iran’s former Petroleum Minister, Bijan Zanganeh, when he said in 2020: “What we export is not under Iran’s name. The documents are changed over and over, as well as [the] specifications.”
For oil going into Europe, Iran used this method repeatedly and successfully. The method involved initially shipping crude oil loads into some of the less rigorously policed ports of southern Europe that need oil and/or oil trading commissions, including those of Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia. From there, the oil was easily moved into Europe’s bigger oil consumers, including through Turkey. For Asian-bound shipments, the reliable methodology for Iranian sanctioned oil, also available to Russian oil, has involved Malaysia (and to a lesser degree Indonesia) in forwarding oil exports to China, with tankers bound ultimately for China engaging in at-sea or just-outside-port transfers of Iranian oil onto tankers flying other flags.
So, how many ships does Russia have access to move its oil in such a fashion? Several senior sources in the oil industry in the U.S. and European Union energy security spheres, spoken to exclusively by OilPrice.com in recent weeks, believe that Russia could secure in very quick time at least three quarters of the shipping needed to move its oil as usual to established buyers, and up to 90 percent within a few weeks after that. Before the invasion of Ukraine, according to IEA figures, Russia was exporting around 2.7 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil to Europe, and another 1.5 million bpd of oil products, mostly diesel.
More broadly, as at the end of January 2022, also according to the IEA, Russia’s total global oil exports were 7.8 million bpd, two-thirds of which were crude and condensate. Therefore, using the likely scenario range above, the global oil markets would only lose between 0.78 million bpd and 1.95 million bpd of pre-Ukraine invasion levels of Russian oil, even with the cap in place, regardless of all other factors. However, even this amount of supply loss is extremely unlikely, as Iran has a huge fleet of tankers, part of which could be made available to Russia, as do China and Hong Kong, and India, among others. The commonly cited ‘problem’ of shipping and cargo protection and indemnity insurance is also spurious as such insurance could be easily enough covered from all the countries mentioned, as it was when such shipping insurance-related sanctions were placed on Iranian oil tanker fleets by the U.S.
So, why is Putin firing off verbal warning salvos about the US$60 price cap, then? It seems clear enough that he is doing so in order that no one gets it into their heads to bring the price cap down to the levels originally mooted – of between US$20-30 per barrel of Brent equivalent – which would put Russian oil sales into a loss. The bottom line is that Putin, and Russia’s oil firms, are perfectly content to have an oil price cap of US$60 per barrel of Brent equivalent. So are all the buyers who can get Russian oil at this level.
Moreover, the U.S. is perfectly content for India – one of the two biggest buyers of Russian oil since February 2022 – to continue to do so, including at prices above the G7-imposed price cap mechanism if necessary, according to comments from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in November 2022. After all, it suits the U.S. and its developed market allies to have oil and gas prices much lower in order to ease their upwards pressure on inflation and interest rates and to alleviate fears of recessions in those countries. Oil traders as well can make as much money short selling oil and gas as they can from buying it, so they are equally content. The only people it does not suit are the oil companies, despite them still being in huge profit around these price levels.


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August 2 @ 11:00 am
An event every week that begins at 11:00 am on Tuesday, repeating until August 23, 2022
Meet at GLADL Tuesdays at 11 am and follow the little red wagon to the Trinity Episcopal Church playground for a outdoor family storytime filled with themed activities: music, bubbles, water play—and time for play with your Storytime friends too! Stories, songs, and literacy enhancing activities include: read stories and talk about them, sing, learn rhymes and finger plays as we build fine and gross motor skills, learn the conventions and structure of language and have fun too! Open to children of all ages. Families may bring chairs, a picnic blanket and a lunch.
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The “new era” also means new sets, as WWE has gone all out for the 19th SummerSlam today (Aug. 21) in Brooklyn.
A couple of shots from fans in attendance at Barclays Center (and one from ESPN’s new pro wrestling vertical) provide a look at how different the stage and ring area look:
Beautiful new set up for #Summerslam!! @WWE pic.twitter.com/Wj0zoFwbs5— Dalyxman's World (@The_Dalyxman) August 21, 2016
New screens. New ring posts. Welcome to #SummerSlam pic.twitter.com/lRRl93ID62— WWE on ESPN (@WWEonESPN) August 21, 2016
We out here. #SummerSlam pic.twitter.com/4XxXHwKoi6— Megan Smith (@Nuutmeg) August 21, 2016
The designers did their job. Now it’s up to everyone else.
See how it shakes out tonight in New York with a rundown of all the action and results in our live blog here, and in our storystream here.


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After six months as President of the Council, the Danish Government has today released a publication of the facts and results of the Presidency.
Today the European Heads of Governments agreed on the location of the Unified Patent Court. This ends more than 30 years of negotiations on the European Patent Reform. In the future patent applications should only be filled once to be applicable in all the 25 EU member states who are participants in the enhanced co-operation. This will make it both easier and cheaper for European businesses to protect their patents in Europe.
The Danish EU Presidency has reached an agreement about a European label for venture capital and social entrepreneurship funds in the EU. Thereby the Council and the European Parliament has agreed on two key initiatives in the Single Market Act; initiatives which can abate the current financing challenges for especially innovative and newly established companies in the EU.
The EU has taken one step further in the fight against cybercrime. The European Parliament and the Council have agreed on new minimum rules concerning the definitions and sanctions of criminal offences in the area of cybercrime. The file has been a priority for the Danish EU Presidency who in close cooperation with the European Commission and the European Par-liament has worked hard to achieve consensus on the matter.
On 26-27 June 2012 the Danish EU Presidency and the European Commission will host a conference in Copenhagen, concerning traffic safety.
Responding to cross-border health threats was the recurring theme of the Council Meeting on Health today.
Denmark launches a new journalistic shortcut to Denmark: Denmark Stay Tuned.
Joint press statement by the Danish Presidency and the European Commission.

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Floods and storms: Fierce winds expose ancient ship wreck in Sheringham
12:58 05 December 2013
The wreck of the ispolen, laying exposed on Sheringham beach. Picture: Callum Ringer
Mother Nature has already flexed her muscles this morning as the region prepares for severe flooding, after fierce waves moved an ancient ship wreck further up the beach.
The wooden ‘bones’ of the Ispolen, which was driven onto Sheringham’s shores in a fierce storm in 1897, have been stripped on their sandy casing and laid bare by the wild weather.
It normally lays submerged under the sand, and winter weather will occasionally scour away enough sand for curious residents to take a peep at her ancient frame.
But this morning, as strong winds have battered north Norfolk’s coastline, her remains have been completely revealed and moved her further up the beach and onto the shingle.
Callum Ringer, Bodham parish councillor, spotted the exposed wreck and alerted North Norfolk District Council, which has an officer that deals with the artefact, to its movement.
Photo gallery: Huge Norfolk evacuation operation begins from Hunstanton to Great Yarmouth
Norfolk and Suffolk floods latest: Police warn of 36 hours of disruption
Communities across Norfolk and Suffolk urged to brace themselves for severe weather
Fire and rescue services across the region were called out a number of times tonight, with a 999 service continuing to operate as four days of strike action got underway.
Little Cosmo Arnold is just nine weeks old – and already facing a double battle in his young life. The tot has Down’s Syndrome and a hole in the heart.
It has felt more like the height of summer than the end of October today, as unseasonably high temperatures smashed the record for the warmest Halloween in Britain.
A “dangerous” Halloween culture conditions all of us to fear mental illness and see it as “other worldly”, according to Norfolk MP Norman Lamb.


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At its core, Crawl is an 8-bit gem–whose music is just as impressive as the art– in a sea of games striving to capture the feel of the beloved experiences of our past. What Crawl gets right is something that so many games set on revelling in the nostalgia that usually comes with an 8-bit art style, fails to include–couch co-op multiplayer. Thank you, Powerhoof.
When I think of my favorite pastime video game experiences, the ones that stand taller than the rest are the ones where friends and I stay up way later than we should, drinking way more Mountain Dew than we should (I know, cliche, right?), screaming way more at each other than any game should have us do.
To test out the four-player action the game promised, three friends and I gathered in an office, energy drinks in hand and hours set aside to completely devote to this game. Ten minutes into the round, I felt a way I haven’t felt in years.
After choosing your character, each packing a different set of upgradable monsters and perks, you’re tossed into a dungeon room. Each character rises and without needing to be told, you know to eliminate the others in the room. I was eliminated first in the first round.
The last one standing becomes the “hero” while the others become ghosts. A quick slideshow of instructions occurs before each round begins explaining that the goal of the game is to reach level 10 (or higher) as a hero and enter the pit, or final room, where, with enough skill, you’ll defeat the boss and effectively win.
Easy on paper but so, so, so much harder when the round begins. Where does this difficulty come from? The friends sitting next to you.
As a hero, you’re simply trying to kill monsters, gain experience, find gold, and buy new weapons, spells and more, all in an effort to prepare yourself for the next room, and the next room, and the next room. Should one of the ghosts defeat you though, they’ll take your place as the hero, leaving you as a ghost.
Eventually, you’ll reach level 10. At this point, you’ve hopefully purchased one of the games many, many weapons, multiple spells and plenty of artifacts to keep your hero stronger than the rest. Of course, you can continue to peruse the rooms found in the dungeon in pursuit of more experience and gold, but after reaching level 10, you’re granted access to a portal that will take you to the final boss.
If you haven’t prepared enough, the fight will be quick and over before you even realize it. Not only is the boss attacking you, but the ghosts you’re playing with are possessing parts of the boss and using them to attack you. A hero can attempt to fight the final boss three times before the round of Crawl is over, which ends with a quick indication that the boss you failed to defeat has now emerged from the dungeon to likely destroy the world.
As a ghost, though, surprisingly enough, things get a lot more interesting. Almost every room the hero enters has something for one of the ghosts to possess. A ghost can possess a barrel, which allows you to aim and shoot it at the hero. A ghost can possess a trap, which they can aim to shoot at the hero, and so much more, such as flamethrowers, spike-tossers and cursed treasure chests. Every so often, the hero will enter a room, meaning the ghosts have also entered the room, with symbols on the ground indicating that a monster can be summoned.
At the beginning of the round, each player picked a character and each of those characters comes with three monsters. When a ghost possesses the symbol on the ground, one of those three monsters is randomly summoned for that player to control. In my time with the game, I played as a wolf with a spear, a skeleton with a bow and arrow, a wizard, a conjurer, a Cthulhu-like Kraken and so much more. Each monster comes with a standard attack move, some ranged and some not, and a special move such as a pounce attack or the ability to conjure up zombies. Every time a hero levels up, each monster gains wrath. Wrath can be used at certain points in the game to level up your monsters. By doing so, they take on new forms with better attacks. I found this form of levelling up particularly unique in that when the hero excels, so too does the hero’s enemies.
Sometimes, you’ll enter a room with enough monster-summoning symbols on the floor for all ghosts to become a monster. Because a hero can’t leave a room until all monsters are killed, the three-versus-one fighting that ensued was not only exciting but chaotic.
Which brings me to one of only two problems I had with this game.
Because of the 8-bit art style and the pure chaos that ensues when three players are attempting to kill one hero, the screen often became a cluttered mess, leaving me to button mash until something happened. Whereas the rest of the game relies on teaming up with your fellow ghosts, possessing numerous traps found throughout each dungeon, and searching for the next monster-summoning symbol on the ground, these cluttered moments left me feeling angry and annoyed.
As the hero, you can’t even really see what’s going on. There are three monsters attacking you while you’re (hopefully) attacking one or all of them. You will not really know what is going on because it is all jumbled in the mess of blood, health bars and muddled 8-bit interactions between the four characters. As a ghost, the strategic fun you’ve been having is lost in that you’re simply hoping to emerge victorious from the brawl by slamming the A button over and over again. You will not know that it over until it is over.
Because I was playing with three friends though, I never grew annoyed by this problem enough to call it quits. Sadly, I cannot say the same about single-player, which brings me to my second problem.
Crawl has no online multiplayer.
If you’re not fortunate enough to have three friends available like I did, and four controllers, you’re simply left to play alone or with A.I. bots. I didn’t notice anything particularly bad about the A.I. but I did notice a severe lack of accomplishment when I defeated an A.I. hero or an A.I. monster. That’s because I wasn’t defeating my friend who would then yell at me in expletives, only fueling my addiction to continue more; I was defeating a something that didn’t really care–a bot.
Had this game come packed with online multiplayer, I might find myself diving into it every day to take on random strangers, whom I can strategize, communicate, congratulate and of course, talk smack with. But, because there is no online multiplayer, I anticipate playing this game only when I’m able to coordinate schedules enough to have three friends present to join me. Because of this, I cannot recommend this game to anyone looking for something to play regularly.
A Steam review copy of Crawl was provided by Powerhoof

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The Amazon iPhone app introduced a new feature called “Flow” on Thursday. The idea behind the feature is to allow users of the Amazon app to shop more efficiently. Amazon explained the app in a statement saying, “It allows customers to simply move their iPhone camera over multiple items while standing in their kitchen, bathroom or laundry room, identifying and purchasing most of their shopping list in seconds.”
Flow is free. All you have to do, in order to utilize flow, is update your Amazon App. Flow’s advertising intentions are to target shoppers who are looking for everyday, household items. Flow makes shopping for mundane items an easier process. Amazon introduced a similar app called “Snap It” several years ago but the process took longer. An image was captured and had to be uploaded to Amazon through a separate process.
Salvador Rodriguez, a columnist for the Tribune, reported that the app has its flaws. “In some instances, Flow could not recognize a product, such as a pack of gum…,” writes Rodriguez. The way Flow works is it searches for logos on products in order to identify them. Harry McCracken, a writer for Time, says, “When it got confused, it usually got the company right, but not the product.”
The simplicity of the feature could influence Amazon customers to purchase more than they typically would. It makes shopping online painless, and customers won’t get as discouraged with the mundane process of buying items the customers needs.
Flow could set a new standard for online shopping. Perhaps features like flow will be the new normal for future online shopping.
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Rodriguez, S. (2014, February 7). Amazon Flow makes searching for items a breeze with an iPhone. chicagotribune.com. Retrieved February 12, 2014, from http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-amazon-flow-searching-items-iphone-20140207,0,7445470.story
McCracken, H. (2014, February 5). Amazon’s iPhone App Uses Image Recognition to “See” Real-World Products You Want to Buy | TIME.com. Time. Retrieved February 12, 2014, from http://techland.time.com/2014/02/05/amazons-iphone-app-uses-image-recognition-to-see-real-world-products-you-want-to-buy/