In terms of horror movie video game adaptations, Friday the 13th: The Game is unquestionably among the best of the bunch, and it’s one of the most popular titles on the market. While the asymmetric multiplayer horror game didn’t exactly set the world on fire, it is still an impressive love letter to the Friday the 13th franchise, featuring a slew of memorable characters and locations, as well as a plethora of Jason Voorhees skins that will please fans of the film franchise. A new rumor making the rounds on the internet suggests that another classic slasher movie franchise will be given the Friday the 13th treatment in the near future, though fans should temper their expectations accordingly.
According to the rumor, Friday the 13th: The Game publisher Gun Media could be involved with a video game based on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise. Users discovered that visiting leatherfacethegame.com redirects them to the Gun Media website, which sparked the rumor that began spreading. To be clear, it should be noted that it is entirely possible that someone completely unrelated to Gun Media purchased the leatherfacethegame.com domain and is redirecting it to Gun Media in an attempt to troll Gun Media fans. Needless to say, fans of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre should proceed with caution before becoming overly excited about the prospect of a Leatherface video game being developed.
The possibility that this Texas Chainsaw Massacre game is a hoax exists, but it would not be surprising if it turned out to be the real deal in the long run. It would make sense for Gun Media to pursue a project along the lines of Friday the 13th: The Game, which was a commercial success for the company. A video game release would also allow for some cross-promotion with the upcoming release of a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film on Netflix, which would be an added bonus.
In addition to the comments made by actor Kane Hodder about the “leaked” Leatherface Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game, there are some other factors working in its favor. In addition to playing Jason Voorhees in various Friday the 13th films, Hodder recently revealed that he has been working on motion capture work for a new horror game based on a different horror franchise, which was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Hodder did not specify which horror franchise he was working on motion capture for, but if the rumored Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game is true, it is possible that this is the case.
This rumor is at least somewhat credible because the rights holders to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise have already expressed an interest in bringing Leatherface to video games. Leatherface has made cameo appearances in video games such as Mortal Kombat X and Dead by Daylight, in addition to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game from the 1980s. Most recently, the Call of Duty: Warzone Halloween event featured Leatherface’s house, and the character was made available as a skin that could be used in both Warzone and Modern Warfare, according to the game’s official website.
Fans should keep an eye out for news on the horror game Kane Hodder has been working on and what Gun Media has in store next.
At this point, the existence of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre video game is only rumored.


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A high-tech inflatable tent concept, is a clever solution for long expeditions on the Moon.
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The Floating Retreat is an impressive lodging facility offering an exciting and unique camping experience amid the gorgeous Sharjah mountains.
Samsung Electronics launches The Freestyle, a portable projector for entertainment wherever you are.
Thundertruck all-electric 4×4 off-road concept, an innovative and versatile new multi-purpose EV that delivers superior on and off-road performance.
Backdoor is the new 4-person tent by Heimplanet, designed for a wide range of usage
Scrubba wash bag portable “washing machine,” an unbelievably small washing machine.
RhinoWolf developed an attachable camping unit that is at the same time a tent, a sleeping bag and a mattress.
Rinspeed Snap self-driving cars will help solve the transport problems in urban areas in the foreseeable future.
RhinoWolf modular attachable super-tent, has a built-in mattress and sleeping bag and connects to other tents.
Desert dome camp in Jordan offers visitors “the Martian experience.”

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VA Paid out $871 Million for Malpractice
Over the past decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs has paid out $871 million to settle medical malpractice cases against its healthcare facilities and providers. Payouts have trended upward in recent years, with payments of $230 million since 2014 with payouts in 2015 reaching the highest annual level ever.
Since 2006, the VA has settled over 4300 malpractice claims with an average payment of approximately $200,000. The number of claims has increased since 2006, with 322 filed in 2006 and 541 filed in 2014.

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When I came to Camilla, my everyday life was characterized by "everything or nothing" around food and body, thoughts about myself and how I was to those around me.
I had a very bad pattern where I overcompensated all I could my weeks while I had the kids, and then it was completely the other way around the weeks I was alone. The overeating went completely out of control, the mood was in the blind cellar and I withdrew from absolutely everything except that I went to work.
I had an awfully low self-esteem, overeating and a huge drive over previous events in my life. I was in a lot of pain in my life where I was.
During the work with Camilla, I have completely stopped overeating. I have less focus on weight and body and more focus on making good choices for myself and treating myself well. I have better routines in everyday life in terms of meal planning and composition. I have more energy and more profit, a more even mood and much more joy in everyday life. I see opportunities that I have not seen in many years, and I am very happy.
I have cleaned up a lot of clutter, and regained my own self-esteem, so I feel so much better now - life is actually absolutely fantastic.
I see my own value and I make good choices for myself and my children. I have taken on so many other fields as well, and created changes now that are wonderful for myself and everyone around me.
I have benefited fantastically from both everything I have learned about the body, food, how to think about things in everyday life, but also about the mental tools I have learned. These are things I want to carry with me for the rest of my life.
Camilla is very clear and easy to relate to. At the same time, she takes great care of you and you notice she really wants the best for you. I can really recommend working with Camilla❤
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Sen. Ron Teck’s proposal to completely cut off state funding for
higher education may seem dramatic, an overreaction or just plain a
bad idea, but unfortunately he’s just being realistic.
The legislators who deal with funding higher education, prisons,
K-12 education and everything else the state provides in Colorado,
are put in a position of choosing to cut the only thing they can –
higher ed – or … actually, what other options are there?
Teck’s proposal recognizes the very real fact that if the cuts
continue at this rate – every year losing 34 percent of our budget
or maybe more – higher education won’t be state-funded anymore,
regardless of whether a bill passes that says it isn’t.
So eventually, the picture Teck draws will be reality. Maybe we
should just cut the ties right now and sink or survive on our own.
Might as well find out now, instead of slowly wilting away over the
next 10 years, each year offering a poorer and poorer education to
students, and watching as university faculty and staff lose their
jobs or quit to move somewhere where they’ll have job security.
This is not Teck’s fault, nor is it the legislature’s fault. The
governor is not to blame. No university officials can be
implicated. Without the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, we’d have to
find something else to write about today and Teck would have to
find some other bills to support.
You may disagree with the solutions people are proposing, but
let’s face it the status quo is not going to suffice. Teck could be
proposing this as a solution, or it could simply be a way to draw
voters’ attention to the problem. Regardless, the answer will not
come from doing nothing.


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Angie and her family were wonderful and loving to our dog. This was the first experience we had with Rover with an in-home sitter, as we usually use local kennels. She was much better taken care of with more attention and less stress to her. They have a great yard, are very attentive and sent photos which we appreciated. Highly recommended!
Enzo had a great stay at Angie's house. He was well taken care of and enjoyed playing with her Great Dane. Even though Angie's dog out weighs Enzo by about 80 lbs, he played very gently with him.
Angie also kept in touch by sending me pictures and videos, which I really enjoyed.
I will definitely use Angie again.
Pepper loves Angie's family! It's funny because she had stayed at Angie's almost a year ago and on our way over it was as if Pepper remembered her last stay, she started getting excited similar to when we go home after a visit with family. Angie's place makes her feel right at home and their ample large sized yard always allows Pepper to get her crazy zoomies out of the way :) Angie's home should be ...
Dogs rule/baby drool, home fulltime
I've been a dog owner for 18 years. I'm that girl who sees a dog and a baby and I'll run to the dog and "ooh and ahhh" over the dog. I have also fostered puppies for Labs and More for the last year so I have a bleeding heart for all dogs. My kids are the same way so they're always excited when a new dog comes for a visit. We have a big ...
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text: I have read/heard that the Sendero stocks are not the same as the 700P stocks. The 700P has a bedding block that runs all the way forward to the sling studs while the Sendero (VSF, etc) bedding block stops at the front of the action. I also noticed that some of the "early" Senderos I've seen only had 1 forward swivel stud. Do the newer Senderos with 2 studs have the full length block also? Is there more to this stock story? I found a good deal on a "newer" 7mmRM Sendero, but I want a rifle with a full length bedding block. I'm trying to figure out if this one has it.

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If there’s anything I’ve learned since moving out of my parent’s suburban home outside of Philadelphia at the age of 22 to live abroad in Australia, it’s that home isn’t a place – it’s a feeling.
Feelings can be cultivated anywhere, and that’s the true beauty of creating a new home for yourself. As someone who previously had barely left the East coast, let alone the country, I’m so relieved that I did and horrified to think about the consequences of having not done it.
That’s who I’m writing this article for – for the previous version of myself and all of the other people out there who haven’t yet had a reason to or are hesitating to move away from their hometown. I promise you there’s a bigger world outside the boundaries of where you went to high school, made your first friends, and had your first heartbreak. I’m not saying everyone needs to move away forever, nor should they, but I do think everyone should do a test run of exploration before they commit to a lifetime of settlement in one place.
If not now, when? Can you honestly say that out of the 7 billion people on this planet, you’re surrounded by just the right ones? Out of the 195 countries in the world, you were born in the right place? While most of us can’t explore every possible opportunity throughout the entire world, we can start by trying something – anything other than what is familiar. These are the biggest reasons I’ve found traveling far away from home to be therapeutic and important for my personal growth.
Your Surroundings Create Your Reality
If you’re miserable where you are, maybe you should ask yourself if it has anything to do with where you live. Do you like your job? Are there many opportunities in your town or city? Do you have people to reach out to? What I’ve found from traveling to different places is that with each new city, I felt different. The vibe changed, the energy of the people changed, and so too did the scenery. This isn’t a ground-breaking idea, it’s actually quite intuitive.
If you surround yourself with negativity, you’re probably not going to feel great. There are many reasons to feel unhappy or unfulfilled at some point in life, but one huge factor that we often overlook is where we’re forcing ourselves to spend 24 hours a day, every single day. Start with questioning if the place you live is compatible with your values and what you want out of life. Maybe you dream of living by the beach or somewhere hotter. Or you could be living in the city, but you desperately wish you could live in a rural town with acres of fields surrounding you.
Start with questioning if the place you live is compatible with your values and what you want out of life.
On a deeper level, you may live in a state whose politics deeply unsettle you or that’s populated with people with whom you can’t find common ground. If you’re forcing yourself to put up with conditions that are the explicit antithesis of what you want, that’s a recipe for unhappiness. When you gain control of your environment, you become more autonomous and less dictated by your surroundings. You should be manipulating your surroundings to meet your needs, not the other way around. Since studies show that where you grew up can influence whether you're less likely to get married young or if you'll have an anxiety disorder, it's no small matter. Those who live in the city are 21% more likely to have an anxiety disorder and are less likely to get married young.
You Realize How Big the World Is
If you never venture beyond your hometown, a little voice will always be there in the back of your mind, squawking about how you never lived up to your potential. How could you, if you’ve never ventured beyond where you grew up? Even if you just take a vacation somewhere for a few weeks and try to soak up a different culture as if you were a local, that experience would be invaluable, because you would realize how different the world can be outside where you were born. Your worldview is shaped by the people you associate with and your surrounding environment. If that environment never changes, neither do your views. You never expand your thoughts or potential. You never challenge your worldview, which does you a disservice.
Traveling can be a blast. If it wasn’t, people wouldn’t be desperate to quit their 9-5 to pursue a career in travel blogging or sell all of their belongings simply to afford an adventurous life. However, it’s more than just fun. It’s necessary. You may think you prefer living in the West, but how do you know if you’ve never tried anything else? Likewise, maybe you assume America is the best country in the world, but then you spend a semester abroad somewhere in Europe and it opens your eyes to some of America’s social services that seem to be lacking, leading you to question if you'd like to return at all.
This can be true in a domestic context – if you’ve always lived in the city, you may not realize all of the negative aspects of city life, and vice versa. It’s about empowering yourself to control your environment. However, fewer of us are leaving our hometown these days. Between 2010 and 2011, we saw the lowest rates of migration since the 1940s with just 11.6% of the population deciding to move.
Just the act of traveling before you’ve gotten to your destination can be huge. As you’re looking out your window seat on the plane, surrounded by nothing but clouds, hovering thousands of feet in the air in a metal contraption, you realize how small you are. That can be incredibly scary, but it can also be a huge relief to put your life into perspective. This is when the fleeting thoughts about our mortality pop back into our minds, and we’re urged to remember that we don’t get this experience forever. This can revitalize you and motivate you to do more in your everyday life by taking more risks, pursuing what you’re passionate about, and refusing to settle for less.
You Need To Make Yourself Uncomfortable To Grow
To put it bluntly, stagnation is the enemy of growth. I know firsthand how scary change can be. For the first 20+ years of my life, I loathed change and feared the new. I had anxious thoughts about everything. However, once I started to push myself out of my comfort zone by traveling far away by myself, exploring new places, and living abroad, I became less anxious. Exposure to new experiences is crucial if you’re high in neuroticism because you learn how to tolerate fear and move past it. According to neuroscientist Philippe Goldin, by repeatedly exposing yourself to the thing you're afraid of, you gradually bring down the physiologic fear response until it's gone or more manageable.
Once I started to push myself out of my comfort zone by traveling, I became less anxious.
You don’t necessarily become less fearful, but you do become more courageous. You’ll have experiences you otherwise wouldn’t have given a second thought to. This has been huge for me because it’s carried over into so many other facets of my life. Once you defeat one monster, you’re more empowered to defeat others. You need to take more risks to get any rewards worth speaking about.
To have a once-in-a-lifetime experience, you can’t just sit at home, unwilling to try anything new. When you go to a new place, you not only expose yourself to new foods, sights, and smells – but also people. What if the person you’re meant to spend the rest of your life with doesn't live in your hometown? So many romantic, professional, and friendly relationships are out there waiting for you to pursue them if you would just step outside the bubble that you’ve remained in for all of these years. We should never underestimate the power of relationships. They have the potential to change the course of our entire lives.
Sometimes life can seem monotonous, tedious, and boring. Feelings like this occur when our inspiration has died, and we’ve become trapped in a never-ending cycle of living the same day repeatedly. This is when world travel can be revolutionary.
When things seem bleak and the colors of life begin to dull, that’s when you need to walk the streets of Paris or marvel at the architectural allure of Rome. You’ll be inspired by the beauty, culture, and history of these remarkable cities that have been touching the lives of people for centuries. Not only will you feel moved by the sheer beauty of it all, but you’ll be inspired by the amount of foresight it takes to build something like a cathedral that takes hundreds of years to complete. That sort of time, dedication, and vision isn’t a norm that really exists in our culture anymore.
When You’re Old, It’s Experiences You’ll Cherish the Most
When you’re 80, it’s not possessions that you’ll look back on most fondly, but the experiences you had – science says so. A University of Penn study found that happiness was higher for participants who spent money on an experience like going to a sporting event or restaurant than purchasing a product across all categories, regardless of cost, and this was true when measuring happiness before, during, and after its consumption.
Experiences make us happier, and for longer, than possessions.
Another study found that the happiness we derive from material goods diminishes very quickly, and becomes worse over time, but it’s the opposite for experiences. This is because our experiences are more directly incorporated into our identity, as we are our lived experiences. Of course, it’s easier said than done to just pick up and move across the country or, furthermore, the world.
I acknowledge that most people are tied down by family, friends, money difficulties, and a lack of opportunity. What I do suggest, however, is that you take whatever opportunity you get, especially while you’re young, to travel somewhere, anywhere, for any amount of time. At the very least, you’ll find out what you don’t like, which is just as useful and empowering as finding your dream life.
There’s nothing wrong with living in your hometown. However, I think you should hold off on making that decision until you at least give yourself the opportunity to try something different. Maybe your “different” is just in a different town in the same state, or maybe you're ready to pick up and move halfway across the world. Either way, I encourage you to explore somewhere new before it’s too late, because you may regret it if you don’t.
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For two officers in Roanoke, Virginia, the oath of protecting and serving their community extended to a snake that needed help crossing a street. Video shot by a local resident shows the cops halting traffic so the slow-moving snake could slither safely across a busy road.
Randy Leftwich, who took the video Tuesday morning, was dropping off dry cleaning when he noticed a pair of Roanoke police officers stopping traffic on Franklin Road.
“I thought it was a turtle at first,” Leftwich told . “When I saw the snake I thought cops get such a bad rap these days, here are two officers helping out an animal.”
The footage shows the cops diverting several cars to get the snake out of harm’s way. After a few minutes, the Roanoke reptile made it to the other side intact.
“Awesome to see these guys out there helping,” Leftwich said.
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For the carrot muffins:
1 1/4 cup blanched almond flour
2 Tbs coconut flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 large eggs, room temperature
1/4 cup coconut liquid
1/3 cup honey
2 teaspoons vanilla
½ cup finely grated carrots
Directions for cupcakes:
Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Line a muffin tin with 8 muffin liners.
Mix together the dry ingredients and set this aside.
Mix together the wet ingredients.
Add the dry mix to the wet mix just until combined and then gently fold in the grated carrots.
Scoop ±1 teaspoon of the batter in the bottom of each liner.
Made an indentation (push the dough to the side of the casing) in the batter and add a scoop of filling, and cover with more batter.
Bake for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the side comes out clean.
Let the muffins cool for 5 minutes in the pan and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.
Cream cheese filling:
150g cream cheese
Up to 1/4 cup berry sugar (depending on your taste). I used about 2/3’s of a 1/4 cup
½ teaspoon vanilla
Mix all ingredients together and blend till creamy.
Yields: 8 muffins
Recipe credit: texanerin but adapted it and used a different recipe as a filling.
For the filling I used my own creation.
Modified, prepared, tried and tested by: Esme Slabs

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Rev. Desmond Hall of the City Mission Church, Harlesden that has been threated with eviction from its premises by developers Fruition, has just commented:
As a result of the collective effort and the intervention of Andy Slaughter MP, Mr David Lunt, the CEO of the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation, (OPDC) spoke to the Trustees of the church, expressing his full support for the church by promising to have open dialogue with the developers to restore matters.
OPDC intend to act as brokers for the situation.
The Trustees of the church have expressed their deep gratitude to everyone involved, even though as yet the situation is not fully resolved. Today, the outcome is moving in the right direction.
Cllr Jumbo Chan (Kensal Green ward) said:
I fully support the local church, including their demand to stay. Indeed, it is especially important during such uncertain times that valuable community assets such as the church (and the nursery) are not cast away for the sake of profit. I am therefore perturbed that, and despite Brent Council’s formal designation of the site as an Asset of Community Value, profiteers are seeking to eject the church.

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Jazz Happening Now is a one-hour program of new jazz releases and current performance information. Every week, host Jeff Hanley connects listeners to today's vibrant jazz scene — from emerging artists to the living legends still playing and recording. Innovation, invention, musicality, and heritage are all celebrated in this music-filled show. The newest jazz music and the living artists who are writing, playing and recording it are spotlighted every week. Like the improvisations and solos of a jazz musician, every week of "Jazz Happening Now" is different. Every week is a fresh experience!
This is the music and these are the artists jazz listeners will still be talking about in 20 or 30 years. Young and old, these musicians are redefining and reimagining America’s great musical contribution to the world. Listeners will hear the ongoing evolution of jazz on Jazz Happening Now. We think the future of jazz is bright and even thrilling. We hope you will too.
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Jeff Hanley is a broadcaster, filmmaker and digital media creative director in Silicon Valley. His broadcast career includes roles at budding west coast radio stations such as KLOS/Los Angeles, KOME/San Jose, and KJZZ/Seattle, among others. Jeff was KJZZ's creator and first Program Director.
Jeff's love for jazz goes back to the days of working for legendary jazz man Jim Wilke, the retired host and originator of "Jazz After Hours." Jeff engineered Jim’s late night jazz show on KING/Seattle for somewhere around 500 nights, listening to Wilke’s brilliantly eclectic programming and learning from his commentary about the music.
Jeff recalls fond memories from working with Wilke:
“It was an 11P-12M jazz show on a classical music station. Jim would program 3 vinyl sides, usually from 3 very different styles of jazz. One night might be a side of very early Pat Metheny, a side of the LA Four, and a side of classic Zoot Sims. Between Jim’s discussion of the music and the album liner notes, one couldn’t ask for a better jazz education.” — Jeff Hanley
Jeff took that education into a several year run as host of the very popular Sunday morning jazz show on KZAM/Seattle, and the 24/7 jazz station, KJZZ/Seattle. He went on to San Jose, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara for stints as On-air Host and Program Director.
In 1997, thinking that he was leaving radio behind, Jeff picked up the camera and began his second career in visual media. In 2000 he moved to Silicon Valley, where he has directed teams of filmmakers, writers, web developers, and other digital media specialists ever since.
In 2002, he launchedKZAM.net, an eclectic streaming music channel that harkens back to the days of progressive FM, and features KZAM Sunday Brunch, a mix of jazz and acoustic instrumental music.
FROM THE HOST
The men and women who play jazz today, particularly the young musicians who are devoting their lives to this music, inspired the creation of “Jazz Happening Now.”
Every week, as host of “Jazz After Hours,” I receive dozens of excellent new releases. The musicality and professionalism of the players and their recordings is extraordinary. The depth, breadth and variety of the music being written and performed is thrilling. These new artists and their work serve as the catalyst and the inspiration for each new episode of “Jazz Happening Now.”
There’s no end of doom and gloom about the future of jazz. People who claim to love it regularly mourn its demise.
Consider this. It’s the premise of my new show. The future of jazz is happening now, if you just listen.
Yes, there are challenges. Yes, the recording industry has changed. The musicians are largely out there on their own now. But, I encourage you to listen closely to what they’re doing with their new freedom, and watch how nimbly they are taking control of their own careers.
Since the peak of what many people think was the golden age of jazz, there have been two or three generations of musicians who have dedicated their lives to building upon, sometimes deconstructing, but always honoring the work of those who came before. They’re committed to writing and recording and performing music that is beautiful and thrilling and as true to jazz as anything ever recorded. They’re playing it in cool bars and classy clubs and quality restaurants, and at vibrant, often sold-out destination festivals all over the country. They’re honoring America’s unique musical contribution to the world and every time they step on stage, or play before a microphone, they’re making something new of it.
They do it for love. Is there anything more authentic and important to our culture?
Jazz is powerful music telling original stories. Listen to jazz being played now. Let it wash over you. You’ll be rewarded with a beautiful gift. I’m certain.
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COLUMBUS (WCMH) — On December 29, 2016, Brian Casey and his daughter, Megan were on a flight heading back from Cleveland back to Columbus with family friends. Tragically, the plane crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all six people on board.
“Brian and Megan were just amazing people. They had huge hearts that they would do anything for anyone,” said Sharon Casey, Brian’s widow and Megan’s mother. “And as part of our healing, we felt like giving back to the community was something we really wanted to be a part of, and the PLAY foundation was just the perfect place to do that because Brian had been so intimately involved.”
Dozens of golfers will hit the links in the 25th annual Champions for PLAY golf outing on May 7th.
Brian was a member of the planning committee for the event for 10 years. The outing raises money for the PLAY (Private Leisure Assistance for Youth) scholarship fund , which helps eliminate financial barriers for local youth to participate in programs and camps offered through Columbus Recreation and Parks. Since 1993, the fund has awarded $1.3 million in scholarships.
“Our children have always been athletes and they attended a lot of camps when they were younger, and we just saw how important that was for their development,” said Sharon. “I think that kids need to have something to do and somewhere to go and friends to be with. And I think these camps provide that for them. They’re able to go and experience something other than sitting around in their house and that’s really, really important this year.”
With that in mind, the family took the extra step to help more young people, keeping Brian’s legacy of supporting PLAY alive.
“We’ve established the Brian Casey Memorial Fund and for every dollar donated, our family will be matching up to $10,000. We just hope people will go out there and donate and see the value,” said Sharon.
If you want to donate to the PLAY scholarship fund, go to championsforplay.org

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We are thrilled that four ATMA recordings and artists have received nominations for 2015 JUNO Awards! The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) announced the nominees who will vie for the nation's highest music honour at a press conference in Toronto today.
The four ATMA nominations for 2014 JUNO Awards are:
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Vocal or Choral Performance:
• Terra tremuit | Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, Christopher Jackson, director
• Mozart Arias | Karina Gauvin, soprano | Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, conductor
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Solo or chamber ensemble:
• Prokofiev Sonatas and Melodies for violin and piano | Jonathan Crow, violin | Paul Stewart, piano http://www.atmaclassique.com/En/Albums/AlbumInfo.aspx?AlbumID=1502
CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Large ensemble:
• Bruckner Symphony No.3 | Orchestre Métropolitain, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Congratulations to all of the artists on their nominations!


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Many GNSS RTK systems require users to perform complex settings and calibration before doing inertial tilt measurements. After the latest program was applied to K6, users only need to walk a few steps to activate the inertial sensor. This improvement makes measurements simpler and faster.
Farlink Radio, Built-in Transmitter
K6 is equipped with a 2W farlink radio transceiver, in optimal condition the working range can be as far as 8km or even more.
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K6 is a full-function GNSS RTK that has Radio, Bluetooth, Wi-fi, and NFC modules onboard, and can work as base and rover, but the receiver size is really small, only 13x 13 x8 cm. The built-in 6800mAh battery and Intelligent power management program allow K6 to work up to 12-15 hours (Rover mode and Static mode).
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Bonnie Henry, BC's "top health official" and public face of the crisis, ordered everyone to wear a mask - as a sign of respect! It's not about stopping a virus (which we know is impossible). It's about control.
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This issue has divided society even further than it already was, and it's not going to get any better while 90% of us are glued to the mainstream media and smart devices!
Unplug from the mainstream media, turn off the TV and smart phone, leave the fear and paranoia behind.
The awkward feeling you got the first several times you put on a mask was your gut telling you that it's wrong. It's not too late to free yourself.


You can find the new petition here. The petition will go to Justice Alito, who can decide the matter himself or refer to the entire Court. Last time Justice Alito decided the matter himself, after asking for a response from the other side.
Like the last petition, this petition argues that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, by holding that the existing maps violated the state Constitution, usurped the power to draw Congressional maps given to state legislatures (unless Congress overrides). As I recently explained;
Because this was a case decided under the state constitution by the state supreme court, the usual path for review of this case by the U.S. Supreme Court is limited. The only plausible argument I see is that the maps violate the Elections Clause of the Constitution, which vests in the state legislature the power to choose rules for congressional elections (unless Congress acts to preempt them).The problem with this argument is that the Pa Republicans already went to the Supreme Court when the state supreme court announced a redistricting– and Republicans raised the very same argument. At the time it was raised, I called the argument a long shot, given a line of cases (most recently a 2015 case from Arizona) reading the word legislature much more broadly in the context of the elections clause. The emergency stay request went to Justice Alito, who denied it without even referring it to the Court. So he likely did not think much of it at the time.Now it is quite possible that Pa. Republicans will go back to Justice Alito, arguing that things are even worse now that the state Supreme Court has adopted a map itself. That’s the job first and foremost for the legislature. But remember that the Pa. legislature did not even come up with an official passed plan for the state supreme court to reject. (A pair of legislative leaders had a plan, but it was not passed by the legislature.) This seems to give Pa. Republicans even less standing to complain about things. I expect something new filed with Justice Alito will get no further. (After all, we are even later into the election season.)


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Deal or no deal, New Year’s Day 2021 will herald a brave new world for the United Kingdom. We will (for better or worse) be in a new relationship with the European Union, after five years of debate, division and uncertainty. We will not quite have exited the COVID-19 winter, but the shape of that exit will be much clearer. And although the 2019 UK General Election now seems a distant memory, the UK Government’s majority in Parliament gives us the greatest degree of political stability since 2010. With Brexit receding into the background as a pre-occupation, new issues will emerge for UK economics, politics, society and real estate.
This report explains what CBRE thinks happens next.
Which sectors are thriving and which are facing substantial challenges?


France stands on the brink of paralysis as an increasing number of unions call for more days of national protest and blockades in an attempt to overturn President Sarkozy’s hugely unpopular pension reforms, due to voted on by the French Senate on Wednesday.
Petrol stations scattered across France are reporting shortages or having to close due to running dry, and flights landing at Charles De Gaulle airport are being told to ensure they have enough fuel for the return flight, such is the shortage of available reserves. Nearly all of France’s refineries and oil depots have been forced to close by striking staff, and numerous tankers have been forced to wait outside the port of Marseilles, whose terminals have been blockaded by strikers. There have been scenes of violence between protesters and riot police in the streets of Paris, which is also seeing increasing levels of youth and student involvement.
Government ministers have been quick to downplay both the significance and legitimacy of the strikes. “The government is in control,” said Industry Minister Christian Estrosi, going on to assure “there will be no blockades for companies … for transport … for road users”. French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said that he would not allow the strikes to unduly impact the economy, and that “the right to strike isn’t the right to stop access to a fuel depot. That’s an illegal action”. Despite the assurances panic buying of petrol continues across the country, with long queues from petrol stations and increasing anger from citizens.
According to unions around 2.5 million people took to the streets in protest last week, although police reports put it lower at around 825,000. Although the vote is imminent and seems decided, the pressure from strikers and unions is not letting up. Truck drivers have joined in the past few days, enacting ‘go-slows’ on the motorways surrounding major cities and ports and rail unions are calling for fresh strikes to coincide with a day of action from other sectors, including refuse collection and other public sector utilities.
The unrest has occurred in response to plans to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62, and the age at which full state pension can be paid from 65 to 67. There is no history of privately funded pensions in France, meaning that nearly everyone relies on state pensions once they leave the workplace. President Sarkozy and his government believe the reform to be vital for the French economy, and the measures seem likely to receive the final backing needed on Wednesday, which it is hoped will diffuse further protest. Surveys however suggest that some 70 percent of people believe that the reforms are unjust, and only slightly less want the strikes and blockades to force a change or reversal in policy.
France has a long and well-documented history of public protest against unpopular new legislation, but there are also increasing signs that the protests are beginning to feed off other underlying issues, such as unemployment. Far from being confined in impact to the present, it seems likely that the longer they go on the more damage will be done to Mr Sarkozy’s election chances in 18 months time, where the Socialist party will hope to take power. Their leader, Ségolène Royal, was criticised as acting irresponsibly last week for encouraging people to turn out and protest. The party will be keen to capitalise on this dramatic demonstration of public dissatisfaction. For his part, Mr Sarkozy seems intent on playing the hard statesman and promising that the reforms will go ahead. His attention is firmly fixed on France’s upcoming hosting of both the G8 and G20 in mid-November and he will be determined to seem in control of the finances and organisation of the nation, which will allow him to try and regain support by fighting for French global interests.
The French government and commentators will be watching to see whether the protests endure beyond the vote on Wednesday, which may well depend on what if any concessions may be given in order to try and placate the unions and protestors. Student protesters on this side of the Channel may be watching to see what overall impact the youth movement has on the eventual policy outcome, no doubt looking for lessons that can be applied to the upcoming higher education protests in London in early November.


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Some people might have thought that the UN was greatly exaggerating when it described the current war in Syria, and more exactly in east Ghouta, close to Damascus, as “hell on earth”. But what else can one say at the sight of the scenes of devastation caused by the bombardments and the chemical attacks on civilians?
The number of dead and wounded is continually growing. I read that the wave of attacks happening now is the most severe in the last few years. Pope Francis has named Syria a “laboratory of cruelty”.
The seriousness of these attacks is aggravated because whoever is attacking is totally ignoring the UN Security Council, which on February 24 approved a resolution in favour of a ceasefire. Because of the battle, several corridors used for providing humanitarian assistance to the civilian population that has been living under siege for the past five years have been closed.
To make things even worse, the BBC has recently reported that some UN operators have been caught sexually abusing some women approaching them to beg for food or other humanitarian assistance.
These women, who needed to obtain for themselves and their families what was theirs by right, were humiliated by being asked to give sexual services.
The situation in Syria continues to become more complicated, because many people are abandoning their country. In fact, up to now 12 million have escaped, and this is creating a social crisis. I have read that 80 per cent of doctors and health specialists have abandoned the country, and 60 per cent of the war injured are dying through lack of available medical attention.
Some time ago I heard Bishop Samir Nassar, who is responsible for the Maronite Christian community in Damascus, say that last year they had only ten marriages and seven christenings, while in 2016 they had 30 weddings and 40 baptisms. What future can Christians have in Syria?
This picture, by itself, must instil in us not only sadness but also anxiety: such behaviour exhibits how prone man is to becoming a wolf preying on other humans.
I appeal to the political authorities to commit themselves to delegitimising war
However, it is a curious fact and also worrying that we have Damascus burning up by the minute and many have no interest at all in this dramatic event. I find it very strange that currently one sees thousands of people in our society concentrating on preparations for Good Friday while ignoring the calvary evolving in Damascus, where crosses are constantly being erected to crucify innocent people. If this is true, we have a serious contradiction.
The vast destruction of humanity like that in Syria caused Pope Francis to go beyond the traditional teaching of the Church about war. From the time of St Augustine (the 4th century) the Church has spoken about “the just war” – teaching which is also found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (paragraph 2309).
Pope Francis in the interview book (Politique et Société, 2017) with the sociologist Dominique Wolton, says that “just war” does not exist. “In political philosophy we learned that to defend oneself one can go to war. But can one speak of a just war?
“Can one make war to defend? There is only one thing that is just: peace!”
The expression “a tooth for a tooth” does not make sense. Because calumny generates further calumnies, a conflict causes other conflicts, and violence brings only more violence. Considering that even today we still hear that there are those who use war as a threatening argument, I appeal to the political authorities to commit themselves to delegitimising war.
Therefore, I accept with pleasure the news of last Monday, when the Russian President, supported by the US and the European Community, asked for a ceasefire for five hours every day to permit humanitarian assistance to reach Ghouta and allow the evacuation of civilians trapped in the war zone.
One hopes that those parties involved in this war have the sense to realise what a high price is being paid in this fight.
I make my own the emotional appeal of the Ecumenical Council of Churches of February 26, 2018: “We pray God to console those who lost their loved ones in the war.
“We are in solidarity with the Syrian population that is passing through great suffering and we hope that their wishes to obtain freedom and human dignity come to fruition, through a political process under the auspices of the United Nations and that in agreement with the resolution of the Security Council, this absurd war comes to an end.”
I salute those Syrians in our country, while I appreciate those who received them and offered them help. I encourage our Christian communities to offer signs, even small ones, of love to these brethren.
Because, although they are physically in our country, it is certain that their minds are heavy and their hearts wounded by the atrocious suffering of their families, friends and compatriots.
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Perhaps my words will be inadequate to describe the Enron disaster, but here goes: Enron was a Houston-based energy company that went from being dubbed "America's Most Innovative Company" more than once by Fortune to flaming out in a 2001 bankruptcy wrapped up in accounting fraud, criminal charges, and the destruction of employee investments and retirement savings.
- Ken Lay: Former Enron CEO and chairman; convicted on fraud-related counts in 2006; died in 2006 before his sentencing.
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built a 308 win on a savage long action (110) and she shot lights out. wish i would have never got ride of that rifle. i sold it for a savage 110 in a mcmillian stock, and i think i would rather have my old rifle back. do get me wrong, the new one shoots, it just the ol long action shot everything i feed her into little tiny groups. it even shot crappy surplus really well. the nice thing was that i could load big heavy bullets out to the lands and they would fit/feed flawlessly. plus, if i wanted to change to another caliber, i would have had more options. live and learn i guess.


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Chris Pitts was born into a family of blues musicians. He had inherited a sound passed down through several generations of his family. When Pitts was five years old, he picked up his brother's acoustic guitar and started to play. His parents bought him his first electric guitar when he was thirteen. Pitts played his first show with his uncle, Steve Nelson, at This Is It, a blues club on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Later he became a regular player at the famous Memphis blues club, Wild Bill’s, where both his uncle and great-uncle, Clarence Nelson, played before him. Pitts has performed as a guitarist and vocalist with Bobby Rush, Latimore, and Blind Mississippi Morris. He joined the band Mississippi Bigfoot in 2016.
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Summit League Quarterfinal-Oral Roberts Golden Eagles vs. IUPUI Jaguars - 3/8/15 College Basketball Pick, Odds, and Prediction
IUPUI Jaguars (10-20) at Oral Roberts Golden Eagles (17-13)
College Basketball: Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 9:30 pm (Denny Sanford PREMIER Center)
The Line: Oral Roberts Golden Eagles -5 -- Over/Under: See the Latest Odds
The IUPUI Jaguars look to knock the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles in the Summit quarterfinals.
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The IUPUI Jaguars were something of an afterthought during the regular season at 10-20 overall with a 6-10 record. You can blame that on not enough scoring at 60 points scored and 67 given up which is not a good situation. Things took a turn for the worse when the Jaguars ended this season losing seven of nine. The Jaguars were 0-6 against top 100 squads including a pair of defeats to Summit rival South Dakota State. Indiana-Purdue was a score by committee team that does not field a double figure scorer. Marcellus Barksdale, DavRon Williams and Mason Archie II average between 7-9 points and all need to have a big day for this team to advance beyond the quarterfinals.
The Oral Roberts Golden Eagles are one of those mid majors that seem to be a danger to the unsuspecting. The Golden Eagles were no pushovers at 17-13 overall and 10-6 in the conference but their numbers didn’t jump off the page as they scored and allowed around 69 points with a season opening win against Tulsa easily being their best win although ORU wouldn’t beat the Golden Hurricane right now. The Golden Eagles biggest threat is Obi Emegano with his 18 points and 4.7 boards on nearly 47% marksmanship with Korey Billbury adding another 14 points. Denell Henderson and Bobby Word at nine and 7.5 points are the pair that need to step up the production but in my view it comes down to Oral Roberts getting stops.
The Jaguars are 18-37 ATS in their last 55 games following a ATS loss and 2-7 ATS in their last 9 games overall. IUPUI are 2-7 ATS in their last 9 vs. Summit and 2-7 ATS in their last 9 neutral site games. The Golden Eagles are 4-10 ATS in their last 14 games following a ATS loss and 2-5-1 ATS in their last 8 games vs. a team with a losing S.U. record. Oral Roberts are 8-21 ATS in their last 29 neutral site games and 3-8-1 ATS in their last 12 games overall. This isn’t a good game to bet regardless of which side you like. The Golden Eagles are the better team but this is the Summit…


Horrifying moment as crane topples inches away from motorists
The terrifying moment a crane weighing 120 tonnes toppled just metres away from vehicles and pedestrians in Pune on Saturday has been caught on a CCTV camera. It shows motorists and pedestrians escaping death by a whisker as the crane, weighing as much as about 40 elephants, appears to lose balance and swoops down into the ground. The crane collapsed during metro work near the Nashik Phata flyover (JRD Tata flyover) on Saturday afternoon. No casualty or loss to life and property has been reported.


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If you think of history as a series of nested hierarchies, or as a cyclical story that keeps repeating in one form or another like a spiral, then "the
end of days" could mean the end of history (as we know it) meaning an abrupt shift or fractal type bifurcation, or like a plunge into a strange
attractor aka the "eschaton", which represents an "object" (moment?) of absolute novelty ie: a new heaven and a new earth. I think of "it" as a great
clearing or cleaning-up process by which everthing becomes new again. In terms of "time" and a dimensional shift, we might consider that time, which
used to play us, is something that will become a tool which we can play with, creatively. For all this to occur, "history", the entire long breadth of
it, from the most ancient times to the present day, must be fully "grokked" or understood in a new light, whereby it's drivers, both good and evil,
may be fully recognized for what they are.
"There is nothing now hidden which will not be made known and brought to light."
Such an "end" would be a day of judgement, not of the horrific, cataclysmic variety, yet a point of demarcation and differentiation nevertheless
(sheep from goats), which is no less terrifying for those who will continue to do evil as if that "nexus" hasn't passed over and recorded and rendered
a just judgement upon them.
For those who can set aside a religious bias or aversion, and understand, if such a day is upon us or fast approaching, now would be the time to wash
our "garments" in the blood of the lamb, because he alone has been proven worthy, trustworthy and true, and is known in Revelations as the Alpha and
Omega, the first and the last. All this really means, is that the great gift of incalculable value is freely available to any who might have the
wisdom and courage to recieve it and open it, and the gift, on opening we discover to our dismay and utter joy, is our true self as we really and
truly are, made whole again, reintegrated.
It is not the time to be found in pieces without integrity and wholeness, yet who among us is perfect, whole and complete? This is where the "lamb" of
God comes in, to fill those gaps, in the form of an intercessory grace. This is just good sense, it's not "religious" or a "threat". It's an
invitation in fact, to the great Wedding feast of the ages, an invitation which is first rejected by the "PTB" and then re-sent out to the lowly and
the downtrodden, and the outcast, but one which, to accept, means to leave all attachements of selfishness and self-centred preoccupation behind, in a
For those who will, it is a time of great joy and celebration, when the Bridgeroom is at the opened door. In truth, that day has already come, and is
here now already, but few know it. And I am here to say, don't be afraid, and there is still time, but oh, the sorrow, and the weaping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth when THAT door closes, if ever, and it could, but no one knows except the "father" if and when (if ever) it will close.
NAM aka Bob
P.S. As far as I know, although I don't know the mind of God, the great gate (of heaven) remains forever opened, with all the nations being led into
it (over time), and the height of the twin pillars of Justice, and Mercy, from the apex at Calvary (Golgotha), all the way down, is forgiveness, yet
without making any compromise whatsoever with sin and evil. This would be very good news, if what I posted above appears to be just too devastating,
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TikTok's Tech-tonic shift attempt in US
TikTok, banned in India since 2020, is making a significant push into social commerce in the United States. The platform aims to combine social media's product discovery capabilities with e-commerce, a model successful in Asian markets but less adopted in Europe and the US due to cultural differences in consumer behavior.
Social media platform TikTok banned here in India since 2020 along with more than 100 other Chinese apps - is making its most ambitious effort to move US consumers over to social commerce. If the endeavour succeeds, it could aid the creation of super-apps that US tech majors have been wary of. TikTok is seeking new revenue by merging the product discovery capacity of social media with ecommerce capability. This has been wildly successful in Asian markets, but has found few takers in Europe and the US because of the cultural differences in consumer behaviour. Selling products through live streaming is a more collective experience and draws its power from affirmation by co-buyers and the individual salesman's ability to influence buying decisions. Digital consumers in Western markets behave differently, preferring Amazon's marketplace, where they can make quicker choices from among a greater variety.
The situation is changing in both markets. Chinese rules on using data have toughened, and Elon Musk has talked of making microblogging site X an everything app. Newer generations of US customers are mobile-first and concerned about app bloat from stores run by Apple and Google. Mobile browsing allows a more seamless experience that aids social commerce. Brands are incorporating influencer-driven channels into their marketing strategies. Adding a buy button to a video, the most powerful medium for marketers, is a logical conclusion. TikTok just might get Amazon and Instagram to revive plans to integrate social media with ecommerce.


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A recently published book, “New Strategies in Blockchain” written by Roberto Capodieci and Barton Johnston, experts who themselves have built a new blockchain platform through the Blockchain Zoo, explains the technology that makes cryptocurrencies possible and explores the non-financial uses for blockchain. The two-part innovative volume also invites readers to contribute to the book with comments that will shape the future of information technology. The book’s timing is auspicious, as cryptocurrencies are gaining traction and credibility throughout the financial world at this time.
Capodieci is the CEO of Blockchain Zoo, a global association of blockchain experts and technology professionals. Blockchain Zoo supports blockchain projects from ideation to implementation through a bias-free technological approach. Blockchain Zoo’s consultants and associates strive to deliver actionable insights and measurable added value based on the technology that suits you the best.
According to authors Capodieci and Johnston, the new book is about a technology breakthrough that has the potential to fundamentally change internet use, privacy controls and to create new business and banking solutions.
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The Coming of Dunkeys Halftime from CoolRain x Seman10Cm x EPICASE
New figure series from CoolRain x Seman10Cm, with DUNKEYS HALFTIME poised to drop via www.myepicase.com somewhen, featuring the 8-inch tall figures "clothed" in fabric tailored hoodies, after a triumphant game of preyball / basketball, on the court of art toy culture!
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A Difficult But Critical Decision
I would like to commend Dr. Purser’s willingness to make difficult budget decisions. This is both the responsibility and obligation of any good leader, especially in these difficult economic times. She and her staff certainly are in the best position to weigh all options and make the important decisions that are in the best interests of the entire school system.
While I am certainly sympathetic to the inconvenience that closing Academy Heights will cause some parents and teachers, I respectfully disagree with those who feel the academic success will be lost with its closure. The success of any school is not based on its physical structure but the culture derived from active participation of its students, parents, teachers and staff. There is no reason that Academy Heights’ best-in-class attributes cannot be translated to Southern Pines Elementary and Primary schools to make those schools even better.
The Moore County school system long-range building plan has included the recent additions of West Pine Elementary and Cranes Creek Middle schools. As with any well-thought-out capital investment program, new assets are brought online to meet increasing demand, while older facilities with higher operating costs are retired. It would make no financial sense to close newer facilities.
We are well beyond the point of getting by with small, incremental cost cutting. Federal stimulus money was a one-time event. State funding has been drastically reduced. Major cost reduction options such as school closings are now required. Otherwise, even more teaching positions would need to be eliminated, leading to even larger average classroom sizes.
We could only be so fortunate that our local and federal government leaders had the same courage to make the same difficult, but necessary, decisions, instead of continuing to kick the proverbial can down the road.
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If you’re an English dub watcher, then Attack on Titan is not over for you yet! In fact, it’s almost time for Attack on Titan Season 4 Episode 25 to air. If you’re not certain when the new episode will premiere on cable or online, we’ve got all the information for you below. Here’s every detail about how to stream the Episode 84 English dub online.Here's how to watch the #AttackonTitan Season 4 Episode 25's English dub online, aka Episode 84. Click To Tweet
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Attack on Titan’s Season 4 Episode 25 English dub can be streamed on Funimation starting Sunday night, April 10, at 9:30 p.m. Central/10:30 p.m. Eastern/8:30 p.m. Mountain/7:30 p.m. Pacific/3:30 a.m. UTC, according to a representative from Funimation.
When you’re ready to watch, change the dropdown menu on Funimation to Season 4. Each episode will have “English/Japanese” beneath the episode title (and other languages where available) once the dub is available. This allows you to choose between the sub (Japanese) or dub. Once the new episode has “English” listed under the title, you’ll know the dub is available.
You Can Watch the English Dub on Toonami Late Saturday Night If You Have Cable
If you have a cable or satellite subscription that includes Cartoon Network (or Adult Swim/Toonami), then you can watch the English dub quite a few hours earlier than if you’re waiting on Funimation. But the catch is that this is only available to people with cable/satellite subscriptions that include the Cartoon Network (which is also Adult Swim/Toonami.)
According to Toonami’s schedule, Season 4 Episode 25 (“Night of the End”) airs on TV at 12:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, April 10. In other time zones, this is 11:30 p.m. Central on Saturday night, April 9, and 9:30 p.m. Pacific on Saturday night. Keep in mind that some local cable stations may choose a different time, so double check.
If you prefer streaming, Toonami’s airing should also be available on Hulu Live TV, Sling TV, AT&T Now, and YouTube TV services, as long as you have a package that includes access to the Cartoon Network. (Note that this is Hulu with Live TV, not the regular Hulu service.)
You can see Toonami’s schedule here. Clicking on the Attack on Titan link on Toonami takes you to Adult Swim’s page here. Season 4 Episode 25 will be added at this link (likely after it has streamed on TV), but you’ll need a cable login to watch.
Season 4 Episode 24 Refresher
Here’s where we left off last week (spoilers below from last week!) For a full review, check out our review and analysis of S4E24 here.
“Pride” was the calm before the storm, so to speak. (Although technically, the storm — aka the Rumbling — has already started.) Hange, Levi, Pieck and Magath formed an uneasy truce as the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” was never more appropriate.
Levi is still obsessed with killing Zeke, which might ultimately stop Eren. The ongoing theory right now is that Eren still needs Zeke to carry out the Founder’s power.
Mikasa reclaimed her scarf from Louise and treated her every beat as coldly as Eren had treated Mikasa. It was a sad scene.
Meanwhile, Armin was prepared to die in order to ensure that a new Titan war didn’t break out between Gabi and the Marleyan Titans, who are now on Paradis with them. He was ready to jump into Connie’s Titan mom’s mouth in order to save Falco. Connie saved Armin and realized that his desperation to save his mom had clouded his judgment, as heartbreaking as that might be.
Annie’s reunion was funny, if not a bit anticlimactic, when Armin, Jean, Connie, Gabi, and the others accidentally sat next to her while she was eating. Armin, as expected, came to her defense, and everyone was a little overly casual about seeing the person who murdered their friends again. But then again, it has been four years and a lot has changed since then. Now they’re forming an uneasy alliance too.
Gabi ultimately keeps the promise she made while Reiner was sleeping, and brings the entire gang to him so they can “save the world.”
But at the same time, Floch is getting drunk on power. Jean thwarted him for now so they could escape, but how long will that last?


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PASADENA–State Senator Jack Scott (21st State Senate District – Glendale/Pasadena) will be traveling to Armenia on a fact-finding trip aimed at furthering relations between California and Armenia.
Senator Scott leaves Los Angeles for Yerevan–Armenia on Saturday–September 17 – returning Saturday–September 24–2005.
While in Armenia–Senator Scott will be meeting with representatives of the Armenian government including President Robert Kocharian and Parliament President Arthur Baghdanarian. The Senator is scheduled to participate in Armenian Independence Day activities on September 21 and tour historic parts of the country. The following day he is scheduled to visit Holy Etchmiadzin and nearby churches.

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Tilt was a rock band fronted by Peter Butler. The remainder of the group included Luca Adam [Guitar] Joel Patino [Bass Guitar] and Jeff Scully [Drums]. There is very little known about this group, however, it is known to have been active during the mid-1990s. Tilt is known to have released a CD entitled 'The Tomorrow People' in 1996.
Joel went on to perform with Initial Stone and Sinead Martin & The Long Knives. Peter performed as a solo artist as well as fronting The Katonahs.
Peter Butler [Vocals], Luca Adam [Guitar] Joel Patino [Bass Guitar], Jeff Scully [Drums]
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By Ed Wright
Irish writer John Boyne's fourth novel is the first he has written for children. It's a touching tale of an odd friendship between two boys in horrendous circumstances and a reminder of man's capacity for inhumanity.
Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. His father wears a fancy uniform and they have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury, a pun which adult readers should have no trouble deciphering. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, to Bruno's chagrin, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With.
When Bruno gets there he is immediately homesick. He has left his school, his three best friends, his house, his grandparents and the bustling street life of urban Berlin with its cafes, fruit and veg stalls, and Saturday jostle. His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window, however, he notices a town of people dressed in striped pyjamas separated from him by a wire fence. When he asks his father who those people are, he responds that they aren't really people.
Bruno is forbidden to explore but boredom, isolation and sheer curiosity become too much for him. One day, he follows the wire fence cordoning off the area where these people live from his house. He spots a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he sees it's a boy. Excited by the prospect of a friend, Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Shmuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. Eventually, for a variety of reasons, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and explore Shmuel's world.
After some initial tonal clunkiness where you can almost detect the author thinking "how do I write a child", the story is an effortless read that puts you directly into Bruno's worldview. It is elegant story-telling with emotional impact and an ending that in true fairytale style is grotesquely clever.
Bruno's friendship with Shmuel is rendered with neat awareness of the paradoxes between children's naive egocentricity, their innate concept of fairness, familial loyalty and obliviousness to the social conventions of discrimination. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is subtitled A Fable and, as in other modern fables such as Antoine de St Exupery's The Little Prince, Boyne uses Bruno to reveal the flaws in an adult world.
For me, as an adult reader, however, the fact that this fable is set in living history - the Holocaust - did, at times, jar. I couldn't help comparing it to the immediacy and complexity of Primo Levi's If This is a Man, or, to stick with children, The Diary of Anne Frank. From a perspective of German complicity in the Holocaust, books such as
Christa Wolf's superb A Model Childhood provide images of what it was like to have had a Nazi childhood, making this tale seem rather implausible.
Given his father's rank, it's highly likely Bruno would have been a brainwashed acolyte of the Hitler Youth. Perhaps fables are best when, like the The Little Prince with its asteroid settings, they are insulated by either time or imagination from actual history.
Still, these are adult quibbles about a children's book and probably unfair because of it, even if there is a sense this novel has ambitions to follow in the steps of The Little Prince (or Harry Potter, for that matter) and become one of those children's novels that adults read.
None of the scruples above should affect the reading pleasure of the book's primary audience. I wanted to test-drive The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas book with a nine-year-old but none could be bribed into reading it within the necessary timeframe for this review. Nevertheless, at the risk of using intuition instead of market research, I envisage children will identify with and be moved by this story, just as I was by books such as Ian Serraillier's The Silver Sword at a similar age.
Be prepared, however. In its allusiveness, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas will provoke questions about the abhorrent conditions in which it is set and you may well find yourself needing to explain the Holocaust.

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Is there really a difference between dvd’s that are “data discs” and ones that are “movie disks”?
Just like Data CD and Music/Audio CD, the answer is no. And wrong sub-forum.
There is lots of difference in media quality, but don’t let stuff like “excellent for audio/video” or “professional quality” mislead you. It all comes down on the dye of the disc (and of course how it is applied… by what writer in what way).
I’m moving this thread to the newbie forum. For more detailled information, please pay a visit to the media forum!


PHILLY: We Are Still Here
The way that Australian colonial history is taught in our schools makes us come to the assumption that our treatment of the Indigenous people of Australia happened hundreds of years ago. The reality is that colonial Australia is very young and the acts of our nation's past realistically took place one lifetime away from our own.
Philly is a young Indigenous rapper making a name for himself around the nation. During this interview we talked about how being an Aboriginal in Australia is a statement, whether you want it to be or not.
'My mother was born before the Australian Referendum (1967). So, she spent 8 years of her life labelled as "Flora and Fauna" before Aboriginals became citizens to Australia - that blows my mind. Australians love saying all this stuff happened so long ago but it didn’t. All this stuff happened one generation ago.'
THE PIN. What mob do you belong to and where is your country?
PHILLY. Wamba Wamba Mob. That’s Swan Hill, Lake Boma way in Victoria.
What was your childhood like?
P. My childhood was cool. Being born into a family of a single mother, my father was never around. We were in Nowra, New South Wales and they had threatened to have us taken off her. So we went to Mildura, Victoria, because that’s where my mum grew up. There it got to the point where she realised it was going to be too hard to keep us, so she called Aunty Bev Peters.
Aunty Bev is a well respected Elder in Mildura. She had a hand in helping raise my mother and uncles, so my mum called her and asked her to take us in. During her time as a foster parent she had taken in a thousand children and my sister and myself were her last. In the household she left her door open to anyone that needed a place to stay.
Growing up with the foster family taught me social skills early on, learning people are different in terms of stories and backgrounds.
Growing up, were their any values around race and culture that were instilled in you?
P. Aunty Bev was a well respected Elder in the community. She had met the Prime Minister and travelled all over Australia. She was really relevant in community, speaking up for blackfellas. I was surrounded by really strong aunties who were activists protesting and that was a very powerful thing for me to be a part of. It’s why I am super proud of who I am.
Was there a time when you became aware of race?
P. Pretty early on. A lot of the older foster brothers were getting mistreated by police and weren’t able to acquire jobs because they were black - that’s just the reality. I saw my brothers being held while being pepper sprayed. I saw that early on. One thing that I thought happened to every kid was being pulled up by the police to do their little check-ups. That happened to me 3-4 times a day. It happened so much that I thought it was normal.
Once me and my boys had a couple of white mates with us and we got pulled over by the police 5 times during the day. My mate freaked out (one of my white mates) and he told his mum. She went down to the police station and gave them a new one. I was 13 when that happened and it was then that I realised that’s not normal, that’s not supposed to be happening.
Do you feel that being on stage is a statement for you?
P. I think that anything you do as a black person is a statement, whether you want it to be or not. It’s a gift and a curse. You feel proud standing for something that is going to help the next generation of young Aboriginal people, at the same time everything you do is going to be looked at as a statement because you’re black, no matter what it is that you say. I am happy to speak out on things, and I definitely have, but I'm not looking for that label of activist. I am not an activist. What music is supposed to do, what art is supposed to do is reflect self and educate.
One thing you have to understand is that Aboriginal people were never in Australia’s future plans when they arrived. We were meant to be wiped off the face of the earth. I am not supposed to be here, I am supposed to be dead. I am proud of all the things we have overcome and accomplished over the years but still we’re getting pushed down.
What does it mean to be a modern day Indigenous man in Australia?
P. I was fourteen years old when I decided not to smoke or drink, for a couple of reasons. One, was that I was playing basketball and I wanted to play for the NBA. Two, I saw what it did to people growing up. What I saw was always negative.
I chose not to cuss in my music because I knew I was going to be put in that role model category and put out into communities where there are children and Elders. Sometimes swearing in music is relevant when you want to get your point across but I don’t need it.
I just wanted to be a young black fella that can hopefully inspire the next generation. That’s how our culture survives. That how we’ve been living for many, many years; passing on knowledge to the next generation and teaching them so they can pass it on.
Is being a role model also about being able to create an image of a strong Indigenous man and give a positive representation for Indigenous people to see as opposed to what’s out there in mainstream media?
P. It was a choice I made from a young age because I never had that growing up. All my aunties provided a strong female influence but I never had a positive male influence of my life - black males anyway. I had teachers at school but they were all white. I liked them but at the end of they day they can learn but they can’t fully understand and relate to what’s going on in our lives. I never had that male influence so I decided to be one.
Uncle Jack Charles says that Australia is uniquely racist towards its Indigenous people. Do you agree from your experience and, how does Australia treat it’s Indigenous people?
P. Australia was built on racism and white supremacy. Aboriginal people were not in Australia’s plans and now they don’t know what to do with us. People love to say that Australia is the most diverse country in the world - we are not racist! I’m like, really?! It’s white privilege when it comes down to it. Australians like telling people what’s racist and what’s not. If it’s what they’re saying, it’s right because that’s what they have been taught.
I think if whitefellas learned about their white privilege we could start moving forward together. They might not feel superior to me on a personal sense, just that they’re in a better position to me when they’re born and throughout life and that’s all it is. A lot of whitefellas don’t understand because they haven’t been through it.
Along with other artists, you used social media to highlight your disapproval of the blackface that happened this Australia Day/Invasion Day. As an artist, how do you get taken seriously and find a platforms to address issues? Also, how do you deal with the backlash of the nation’s ignorance?
P. It’s never easy to point out anything. With the blackface of course we’re going to get attacked, especially on social media. That’s where people feel safe attacking from behind their screens. Australians don’t like being told they’re wrong when they are. They don’t like being disciplined and when they are outed, they rebel.
One argument people love using is that Australia doesn’t have a history of blackface and that definitely is not true. Chris Lilley is black faced in his T.V. series (2007) and he drops the “n” word here and there, like it’s an ok thing to do. He's not bringing a positive message, painting himself black and making stupid music and speaking about stupid things - you don’t think there are subliminal messages there? He couldn’t have done that without painting himself black?
THE PIN. If you could give your younger self on piece of advice about the skin you’re in, what would it be?PHILLY. I am content with my life and have enjoyed my journey. Even though it was pretty crappy, it’s made me who I was today. I’d just let myself be. Just enjoy your life little man - that’s it.
- This interview has been edited and condensed.
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Nothing says drama like an election for the leadership of a library volunteer group. Beg to differ? Then take a look at the battle that’s shaping up over tonight’s contest for the presidency of the MLK Library Friends.
LaToya Thomas, the current president of the group—-which advocates for programming, literacy efforts, and attraction of D.C. residents to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library—-is expecting a challenge from Robin Diener, the director of the Ralph Nader-founded and funded D.C. Library Renaissance Project. Accusations of mismanagement and fraud are flying, and the election could very well become a referendum on the idea of a mixed-use renovation of the central library.
Diener, Nader, and the Library Renaissance Project have been fighting the planned redevelopment of the West End Library into a mixed-use building with residences and retail. They argue that the project is a giveaway to the developer and that private uses have no place in public library buildings. But the project has the support of every neighborhood group nearby, and many neighbors have complained about the Library Renaissance Project’s involvement.
Now, with MLK gearing up for an overhaul that is expected to involve a mix of uses, the Library Renaissance Project has begun making noises about opposing such a project. If elected president tonight, Diener could use the MLK Library Friends as a platform to stand against a public-private redevelopment.
“Everything about her platform has been focusing on the building effort,” says Thomas. “And that’s not what the group was founded on at all. Our whole stance has been we’re just like everyone else in the community and we’re receptive to whatever community outreach process the library undertakes.”
Diener says she’s not officially running, but if she receives a nomination, she will accept it. Still, there’s something of a campaign underway on her behalf. Mary Alice Levine of the Friends of the Tenley-Friendship Library sent an email yesterday to about 30 people with the subject line “Robin Diener for President of MLK Library Friends.” The recipients include several Ward 3 residents who have been vocal opponents of proposed development projects and changes to the zoning update aimed at rolling back some of the car-friendly policies from the 1958 code.
“Robin is opposed to renovating the historic MLK Library building by means of a partnership with a developer that would introduce non-library uses to DC’s central library building,” Levine wrote in the email. She said she would join the MLK Library Friends at the door tonight—memberships cost $10—and then vote for Diener, and encouraged others to do the same.
Thomas accuses Diener of creating a fraudulent membership application for the group and distributing it to her friends in order to win support in the vote. “She basically forged a membership application for the group and signed up a bunch of her friends as members,” Thomas says. “She was not authorized to provide this membership form. She’s not a board member.” Thomas says that when she informed people who signed up with Diener’s form that it was not the real membership application, some of them asked for their money back, while others expressed surprise but still asked to become members. (They were allowed in.)
Diener denies that she did anything inappropriate. “I wouldn’t use the word ‘forge,'” she says. “I asked her many times how we could get a membership application [and Thomas did not provide one]. At the time there was nothing online. And I did take the step of creating a form so that people could join. And as soon as I did that, she produced a form.”
Thomas says the group has never been this politically charged before, and she’s tempted to step away. “I’ve been dealing with Robin issues for the last several months, and in the last two months it’s gotten out of hand,” she says. “There’s only so much I’m willing to put up with.”
But she won’t step aside if it means allowing Diener to become president. “I don’t want Robin to become president by any means,” she says. “And I’m willing to do as much as I can to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
Diener, for her part, says Thomas has been an ineffective president and objects to her stance that discussion of the library redevelopment is not a central part of the group’s mission. “Ms. Thomas has repeatedly told people that there will not be discussion of the future of Martin Luther King Library, of public-private partnerships, of the design of the building, of financing,” Diener says. “As far as I’m concerned, she’s not aware what a friends group is for. I object to a closed process and a tyrannical friends group president who says what we will and will not do.”
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