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"Its kind of a bit of a change," said Scott Walker who was visiting the zoo with family. "Yesterday we felt it coming in but today its really gotten cold."
Even the four-legged locals were getting ready. Staff at the Abilene Zoo made sure the 600 animals housed there were ready for the weekends temperature drops.
"We are always paying attention to the weather so we kind of know whats coming ahead of time," said Joy Harsh, the zoo's education coordinator.
The zoo had to close last February because of the snowstorms. They don't expect to have to do that this weekend, but with temperatures dropping fast, some of the animals will have to be kept indoors.
"If its cold like today the monkeys are locked inside, so because this is not good weather for them so we pay close attention to the weather and we're prepared before weather gets here," said Harsh.
Throughout the day staff set out extra hay and turned up the heat in the animals dens. Most of the animals are able to withstand colder weather even sleet.
With temperatures as low as 23 degrees, it's a good thing they'll have their fur to keep them warm.


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Pics of the Shots Fired NYC Premiere
10.03.2017 Entertainment, Events, Television 0
New York, NY – March 10, 2017 – Last night, FOX hosted its New York screening for the much-anticipated new series “Shots Fired”at the Paley Center for Media. Creators/executive producers Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Bythewood attended along with cast members Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Mack Wilds, Richard Dreyfuss and Jill Hennessy.
Attendees enjoyed a pre-reception followed by a screening of the premiere episode and a Q&A moderated by Associated Press editor Nekesa Moody.
Special guests included activist Nicole Paultre Bell (fiancee of Sean Bell), fashion icon Bethann Hardison, actor Rotimi (“POWER”), NY City Councilman Jumaane Williams, actor J. Alphonse Nicholson (“Shots Fired”) and model Ebonee Davis.
#ShotsFired is a 10-part event mystery that examines the dangerous aftermath of two racially charged shootings by law enforcement in a small southern town. With amazing music, and an all-star cast led by Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Mack Wilds and Helen Hunt, “Shots Fired” will entertain and challenge perspectives.
The series premieres March 22 at 8/7c on FOX, prior to the spring return of “Empire” at 9/8c.
Follow the show on social media at @ShotsFiredFOX using hashtag #ShotsFired. http://www.fox.com/shots-fired
All Photos by Bernard Smalls

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And now they have come up to the point of shaming most ICE-powered vehicles out there. For example, the Tesla Model S Plaid does the standing quarter mile in around nine seconds and only now there is an OEM answer for that. One in the form of the highly limited ‘Last Call’ 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170, a purpose-built drag-focused car that is way more exotic than Elon Musk’s sedan. And the Plaid can also do nought-to-sixty mph (96 kph) in around two seconds on its way to more than 200 mph (322 kph).
But there is one which can do better, allegedly – aka the Lucid Air Sapphire, which hits 60 mph in 1.89s! Alas, they are not the quickest and fastest out there, an honor which goes to a trio of hypercars. Those would be the Rimac Nevera and Pininfarina Battista, though both are superseded by a model that probably very few people have even heard about – the Japan-designed and Italy-built Aspark Owl. Albeit that is a $3+ million affair, of course.
So, how do you make these ultra-expensive electric hypercars a little more affordable? Well, although it is against planet-saving logic, you can always get rid of the expensive battery packs and all the cutting-edge technology that makes them so expensive by switching them back to an ICE flavor. That is easier said than done, of course – at least in the real world. Across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, though, one should remember that absolutely everything is and will always be possible!
And there is no need to take our word for granted, as we have an eloquent example courtesy of Mike Dog, author of “bloody renders,” aka _mikedog_ on social media, who has “redesigned the contours of (yet another) appealing car," a different kind of Rimac. Dubbed C2 because it swears allegiance to the Nevera – which, in turn, was nicknamed C_Two back in 2018, when it was presented in concept form at the Geneva Motor Show – it now rides dressed up in white and lots of exposed carbon fiber like a rear-mid-engine V10 hoot! So, it’s definitely of Audi-Lambo inspiration to keep the Rimac – VW AG connection, even though it’s no W16 from Bugatti.
Otherwise, aside from the V10 peaking from under the rear glass, this is a pretty cool CGI affair of the Rimac variety. At least at the beginning of the digital project, when the “only modifications are the engine, rear hood, extra vents, rear spoiler, and small extensions.” Later on, a fashionable CGI video was also in order, along with a recent blue transformation of the C2 that was also plastered all over some vintage-looking BBS LM aftermarket wheels! So, is it cool to think of the Rimac Nevera as a potential V10 sibling to the Audi R8 and Lamborghini Huracan, or is that too blasphemous to give it our CGI hall pass?


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We are working towards trying to save the bank, said Kuben Naidoo during a press briefing.
The Reserve Bank has committed to recover the monies of retail depositors of VBS Mutual Bank, however the same cannot be said for municipal deposits, a committee has heard.
The standing committee on finance on Wednesday held a briefing on progress made on VBS Mutual Bank, since it was placed under curatorship by the Reserve Bank in March due to a liquidity crisis.
Deputy Reserve Bank Governor Kuben Naidoo briefed the committee on the bank’s status.
“Curatorship is ongoing, we have every intention to continue with curatorship to try protect depositor interest.
“The level of confidence we have that the bank can be saved and is salvageable is lower than the day it started the curatorship,” he warned. “I am not saying zero, I’m not saying there’s no chance, we’ll continue to work in that direction.”
READ MORE: SARB confidence in saving VBS declines
Naidoo previously told journalists at a briefing on the Bank Supervision Department annual report, that the situation at VBS Bank was worse than they thought.
The Reserve Bank also fined VBS R2.5-million and suspended R2-million for the year, for failure to comply with the Financial Intelligence Centre Act.
READ MORE: VBS fined R2.5m for flouting money-laundering regulations
Naidoo explained that the Reserve Bank has not been able to put in place a mechanism to refund depositors of less than R50 000, because the Reserve Bank could not make an unsecured loan to VBS.
“The SARB Act does not allow us to put money in without security. To date we cannot establish the veracity of assets (loans) to determine if there is adequate security to put money in,” Naidoo said.
He added that it should take between two and three weeks to put in place the mechanism to refund retail deposits.
Naidoo however said that the SARB cannot explicitly guarantee recovery of municipal deposits. “It is highly likely municipalities will lose a significant portion of the money deposited.”
He said the Reserve Bank is in discussion with National Treasury and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) on what can be done, ultimately this is an issue Treasury and CoGTA must deal with as the SARB cannot refund municipalities.
“In an optimistic scenario where we recover all loans, it could take seven to 10 years to recover money to pay depositors, a highly unlikely scenario.”
The process of recovering money is ongoing, Naidoo assured. “I am pretty sure we will be able to pay the bulk of those retail deposits – perhaps even above the implicit guarantee of R50 000, we are working very hard to do that, we are working very hard to do that as quickly as we can.”
He said that the focus has shifted to recovering money and the forensic investigation, commissioned in April to uncover possible fraud at VBS, is at a sensitive stage and cannot be compromised as it may affect the recovery of monies.
Naidoo confirmed it would take two to three months to conclude the work of the investigation. The investigation will also determine if the salvageability of the bank is likely.
Anoosh Rooplal, leading the curatorship team from SizweNtsalubaGobodo, explained that it is necessary to have financial statements of the previous year restated, as credible information is needed to move forward. The outcomes of the investigation are necessary to ensure recoveries are made, he stressed.
READ MORE: VBS-linked Limpopo municipalities face provincial probe
As for the curator’s fees, Rooplal said that the R2.6-million went to SizweNtsalubaGobodo and he had not received monies in his personal capacity. He also said this amount should be benchmarked against other curators’ fees and what the executives of the bank had earned.
We started with a liquidity crisis, but when we got into the bank as curator, in a short space of time we found there were more issues, he told SCOF. A curatorship process is complex, but this particular process with VBS is even more complex given the investigation.
The curator has a 12-person team looking at various issues. The curator has to make big decisions in a short space of time. For a bank, specialist skills and technical skills is required to run it and decisions are more pressured, he emphasised.
“You need experts to save a bank. You can’t take an ordinary CA (chartered accountant) from the street to save a bank, it’s important to understand. We report diligently to the Reserve Bank and the National Treasury.” — Fin 24

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The first chord of your favourite song can immediately transport you to another time on your life. It can excite you, make you melancholy or just put a smile on your face. This ability to transport your mind is one of the reasons so many people like to listen to music as they work. It just makes working more pleasurable.
The science behind this relates to the dopamine effect. Music releases dopamine in your brain. This is the feel-good chemical that is released when you eat delicious food, fall in love, or get heaps of likes on social media. It’s also released when you listen to music you like.
In most instances, after a certain amount of pleasing stimuli, the dopamine effect diminishes. You build up a tolerance known as the law of diminishing returns. But this isn’t so with music. It’s one of the easiest and healthiest ways to get a dopamine fix.
You just need to be careful not to overdo it and start rocking out in your cubicle, instead of doing your work. Here are some tips to choosing the right music for your work tasks.
For mundane and repetitive tasks, such as filing, invoicing, sorting through social media comments or filling in spreadsheets, it’s best to play music you already know and like. Play something familiar that will make you feel happy doing your tasks.
If you’re trying to learn something new or doing a new task with which you are not familiar, or trying to commit some difficult knowledge to memory, it’s best to avoid lyric-driven music. It’s too easy to become distracted singing the lyrics in your head to learn. Try playing instrumental music or something not too wordy.
When you need to be creative or solve a problem, your music selection becomes vital. The secret is to keep the music between 50 and 80 beats per minute. Think Beyonce’s ‘Halo’ or Disney’s ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’, for your reference.
So next time you’re looking for inspiration while you work, don a pair of headphones and run your favourite playlist. At least you’ll be smiling while you earn a dollar.

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Seth Rollins back in action at WWE live events this weekend
As noted in our live report, Seth Rollins returned to action for the first time since November at last night’s 6/3 WWE live event in Odessa, Texas. Rollins took part in a triple threat match against WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns and AJ Styles. Rollins is scheduled for tonight in Lubbock and Sunday in Amarillo.
AJ Styles on MITB announcement
WWE has a video up of AJ Styles reacting to the announcement on Friday that he would be facing John Cena at the upcoming Money in the Bank PPV on June 19.
Eric Bischoff documentary
WWE has added a brief clip from the “First Look” portion on the WWE Network of Eric Bischoff’s new documentary titled, “Eric Bischoff: Sports-Entertainment’s Most Controversial Figure.” The DVD and Blu-ray will be released this Tuesday (June 7).

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Rotatrim paper cutter
Rotatrim operates both nationally and internationally through a network of exclusive official dealers. They have a new mat called the Magic Cutting Mat that, according to the company, allows you to cut without leaving visible marks.
In addition, Rotatrim offers an excellent level of customer support with a 5-year guarantee on the majority of its products. Rotatrim is a British company that is currently a global leader recognised in the production and manufacturer of the finest rotary cutting equipment.
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By cutting the larger sheets down, you can create a mix of print sizes. At Rotatrim, we can offer you the following… Educational Suppliers Are you a school, college or university? A safety ruler can help avoid serious injury, and can also help make more precise cuts. The company also sells centering rulers, which can help save time when measuring and making cuts. There are also some significant safety issues to consider compared with rotary trimmers, although some models have protection for the blade throughout the entire cut. It is not as robust as cutters like the RotaTrim Mastercut, but I highly recommend it for cutting light- to medium-weight papers on-location, at home or in a studio or office. For example, you can gang-up multiple images on single sheets of paper when sending them to a lab, or you can buy rolls of paper and pre-cut them in advance before loading them into your printer. Made by qualified engineers who are experts in their field. Which Paper Cutter is Right for You? Find Out More Global Distributors Our online shop is currently only available to UK customers, however you will still be able to purchase from one of our distributors worldwide. A more flexible alternative that costs much less is to combine a self-healing cutting mat, safety ruler, and a good quality utility knife. They also have a non-slip base that can help protect the material you are cutting while helping to keep the ruler steady during cuts. Simply select your model and we'll point you in the right direction so you can get trimming again.
Rotatrim markets a broad range of cutting equipment, spares and a full range of accessories. A safety ruler can help avoid serious injury, and can also help make more precise cuts. The following suggestions and product recommendations are based on my personal experience with a number of products over the last years.
They are ideal for cutting films, paper, and canvas before and after printing and come in widths from 12 to 54 inches. Please read the recommendations carefully from the company if you decide to make this modification to your cutter. This combination can be used on a table, or even a floor if necessary, and using all three makes cutting large sheets much easier.
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Points for Creativity
Paul Ryan's constituents place a Craigslist Lost and Found ad asking: 'Have you seen our Speaker?'
Unable to reach their congressional representatives the old-fashioned way — by phone, email, and in person — Americans across the country are getting creative.
This week, Republican lawmakers like Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) have faced angry constituents who peppered them with questions about everything from repealing the Affordable Care Act to President Trump's ties to Russia. Some of these representatives might run away from their meetings as fast as humanly possible, but at least they're showing up — the same can't be said for House Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.), and Rep. Paul Cook (Calif.), according to their constituents, who want to know why their congressmen aren't holding town halls or even letting people inside their offices.
In Wisconsin, the residents of Janesville are concerned over Ryan's whereabouts, so much so that they have placed a missing-person's ad in the Lost and Found section of the Madison Craigslist. "We had been planning on having an intervention at his recess town hall meetings, because he seems to be addicted to power, but he fled sometime in and around January 20, 2017, and hasn't been seen since," the ad states. To make sure people know who to look for, they included helpful photos of Ryan lifting weights while donning a backwards hat, a much different look than in this billboard in Wisconsin:
And last week, after a tussle at Rohrabacher's Huntington Beach office involving activists seeking a town hall meeting, one of his staffers, and a door, the California congressman accused the citizens of being "engaged in political thuggery, pure and simple." Here is an example of said thuggery on a local beach:
The search is also on in California's 8th District for Cook, who last appeared at an in-person town hall on Sept. 5, 2013. Anyone with any information is urged to visit www.WhereIsPaulCook.com. Catherine Garcia


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Domesday name: Maltebi. In Maltby and Hellaby, Alsige had 4 carucates of land to the geld, where there could be 6 ploughs. Now Roger has in demesne there 5 ploughs; and 13 villans and 18 bordars with 18 ploughs, and 3 mills rendering 16s. There is woodland pasture 16 furlongs long and 5 broad. The whole manor is 2 leagues long and a half broad. TRE worth 8l; now 6l.
Maltby 'farmstead or village of a man called Malti, or where malt is made', OScand. pers. name or malt + by: Source A Dictionary of British Place Names in Names & Places
Maltby Green, 1908
Before the Norman Conquest, Maltby had been the property of Elsi, but at the time of the Domesday survey it was held, in part, in demesne by Roger de Busli, and the rest was cultivated by his villeins and borderers. Roger subinfeuded his brother Ernaldus here. Before her death Idonea, conveyed the manor of Maltby to her nephew, Robert de Clifford. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, it was sold in 1587 by George the 3rd, Earl of Cumberland, to Sir Edward Stanhope, whose son again sold it to Sir Nicholas Saunderson, from whom it descended to the Earl of Scarboroughs.
The Earls of Scarbrough succeeded the Viscounts Castleton as Lords of the manor of Maltby in the early 18th century.
Described in 1822 as, a parish-town, in the upper-division of Strafforth and Tickhill, liberty of Tickhill. The seat of John Cook, Esq. Situated 4.5 miles from Tickhill, 7.5 from Rotherham, 13 from Sheffield, 47 from York. Population 679. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, in the deanry of Doncaster. Patron, the Earl of Scarborough. Here is a School founded by one of the Earls of Castleton, and repaired by his heirs. Within the communion rails of the Church lies an infant son of George Viscount Castleton, who died in 1655.
The following places were in the Parish of Maltby in 1822:
- Brook House
- Hooton Levitt
- Roche Abbey
- Sandbeck, the seat of the Earl of Scarborough
- Thornborough Hill
- Woodlee Mill
- Yews, a farm-house and Paper Mill
George Rolleston, Vicar of Maltby, established a school here in 1823.
Maltby in 1862
Maltby Parish, including the townships of Maltby and Hooton Levet, both in the upper division of the Wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill, contains 4,444 acres and in 1861 had 858 inhabitants.
A large, pleasant, and well-built village and township, on the Bawtry and Sheffield road, 12 miles E.N.E. of the latter. It contains 3,974 acres and in 1861 had 185 houses and 734 inhabitants. Rateable value, £3,991 4s.
The Earl of Scarbrough is lord of the manor and owner of most of the soil. Sir W. Eadon has an estate
The Church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, is a fine structure, consisting of nave, chancel, side aisle, and tower, the latter of which in surmounted by a spire. The living is a vicarage; value £120, being augmented in 1792 with £200, Queen Anne's bounty, and in 1814 with £1,400 Parliamentary grant. The Earl of Scarborough, patron, and the Rev. George Rolleston, M.A., incumbent.
The School was endowed in 1714 by Viscount Castleton with about 14 acres of land.
Opposite the Swan Inn is an ancient stone cross, which was fenced round and surrounded with shrubs, by Mr. F. Hartshorn, in 1859. The poor have the interest of two small benefactions left by T. Tankersley and G. Spence.
Carr is a small hamlet, 2 miles S.W.S. Stone is a small village, about 2 miles S. by E., near which are the celebrated Freestone Quarries and the ruins of Roche Abbey; and a little east of the latter is Sandbeck, the extensive park and elegant mansion of the Earl of Scarbrough, pleasantly situated in the delightful vale of a small rivulet, about two and a half to three and a half miles S.S.W. of Tickhill.
Hooton Levet is a small township, half a mile S. by W. of Maltby, containing 470 acres of land, and in 1861, 22 houses, and 124 inhabitants. W.F. Hoyle, Esq., and Mr. Roger Hayward, are the principal owners. The Hall, a pleasantly situated residence, is at present
Post Office, at Ann Revill's. Letters arrive at 6 a.m., and are despatched at 8.45 p.m.
Marked ¹ are at Roche Abbey, ² Stone, and ³ The Yews.
Earl of Scarborough, Sandbeck
Mrs Elizabeth Aldred, Grove Cottage
Thomas Askren, Cattle Salesman and Grazier
Adam Botham and George Machin, Millwrights and Manufacturers of Agricultural Implements and Machines
Thomas Clayton, Sandbeck Lodge
William Henry Crossley, Surgeon
Henry Ellison Esq., Land Agent to Earl Scarborough, Stone
George Foster, Gent., The Yews
George Godber, Corn Dealer
² Jane Goodband, Infant School
William Greaves, Stone Mason
Miss Hartshorn, Roche Abbey House
¹Michael Hartshorn, Cabinet Maker, Roche Abbey
William Kemp, Millwright
William Law, Lilley Hall
Mrs. Sarah Laycock, Maltby Villa
Mr. William Revill, Wood Leys
George and William Ridgway, Masons
Daniel Robinson, Police Officer
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson and Miss Ellen, Rock Cottage
Rev. George Rolleston M.A., Vicar, The Hall
Miss Lucy Rolleston, Manor House
Steel and Batty, Milliners
William and Harriet Stewart, National School
Jonathan Thackrey, Millwright and Machine and agricultural Implement Manufacturer
John Thompson, Saddler and Registrar of Births and Deaths
Rev. Walter Tyrrell, Curate, Maltby Villa
Joseph Winfrey, Gamekeeper
Inns and Taverns
Don John, George Hibbert
Eagle, William Chester, Sandbeck Road
Scarborough Arms, John Hawke
White Swan Inn, Francis Hartshorn
Henry and George Ellis
³ John Chester
² Godfrey Coward
Henry Austwick, Wood Leys
¹Joseph G. Cockill
Thomas Wood Hirst
Felix Nicholson, Abbey Leys
² George Nicholson
² Thomas Nicholson
³ William Pagden
George Chambers Revill
Joseph Dickens Draper
Wheelwrights and Joiners
Botham and Machin
John Athey, to Rotherham, Monday and Friday
George Butler, to Doncaster, Saturday
George Godber, to Sheffield, Tuesday and Saturday
Joseph Winfrow, to Sheffield, Tuesday
George Cattle, Farmer
John Greensmith, Huckster
Roger Haywood, Farmer, Manor House
Charles Thornhill, Corn Miller, Woods Leys
Henry Yeardley, Farmer
John Yeardley, Collector of Poor Rates
Reverend Philip Scholfield of Goulceby and his wife Anne Georgiana Sherlock(d.25/03/1878) from Tickhill, youngest daughter of Sir Thoms Sherlack Gooch of Benacre, Suffolk,was vicar in the 1890s
Maltby Hall, 1908 one time residence of Miss White and Lady Violet Smithe. In 1921 a Mrs Gore-Booth was living here
Congregational services were first held in Maltby in the Council School on 22 September 1912. The first minister, Mr D.J. Lane, began work in June 1913. On 18 September 1913 he was ordained and on that day a church was opened for worship. This church was destroyed by fire on Christmas Eve 1925, but it was re-built, and the new church was opened on 2 June 1927. From 1973 the church was known as Maltby United Reformed Church. It was closed on 31 January 1983 and the remaining members were transferred to Herringthorpe United Reformed Church
In 1980 a hoard of 56 folles of 320-333 AD date was found in the south west facing bank of the valley near Maltby. The coins were found scattered over the bank as if they had trickled out from where they were hidden. There was no evidence for a container. Site adjacent to the Blythe Road, near Hooton Levitt. At a nearby site a Roman coin hoard was found consisting of 3503 Antoniniana contained in a grey coarse ware jar. The hoard contained coins of the Central Empire from Philip I to Probus and coins of the Gallic Empire from Postumus to Tetricus II. It was probably buried c.282 AD.
Maltby Grammar School, opened in 1932, was built on the site of the old Rolleston Hall. In the upper left hand corner of the school badge is a golden eagle representing Rolleston house, one of the original four school houses.
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Your attitude shapes your kids’ attitudes.
1) Parents’ attitudes about reading
Even in communities without bookstores or libraries, if the parents showed children in many different ways that reading is essential, the kids were more successful. The parents also read to their children daily.
2) Having books around
The kids who had an ever-present supply of books were more likely to succeed at reading. This finding is also supported in the book, “Freakonomics.”
Parents and caregivers who regularly supported their kids through positive statements like, “I’m glad to see you reading,” or “What a great book!” helped ensure that their children would be successful readers.
Children succeed when you expect them to succeed. Foster a reading culture in your home, and keep your attitude about reading upbeat, and they’ll want to read because it’ll be fun.
Source: This research study was cited in the booklet, “Raising Kids Who Read,” by Carolyn Munson-Benson, funded by the National Literacy Secretariat, Social Development Canada and YMCA Canada. I wish I had more specifics about this particular research study. I can tell you that these findings are reflected in much of the literature I’ve read about creating successful readers.

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This book analyses the controversial and critical issue of 2% inflation targeting, currently practised by central banks in the US, Japan and Europe. Where did the 2% target inflation originate, and for what reason? Do these reasons stand up to scrutiny?
This book explores these key questions, contributing to the growing debate that the global 2% inflation standard prescribed by the central banks in the advanced economies globally is actually contributing to the economic malaise of these nations. It presents novel theoretical perspectives, intertwined with historical and market understanding, and features analysis that draws on monetary theory (including Austrian school), behavioural finance, and finance theory.
Alongside rigorous analysis of the past and present, the book also features forward looking chapters, exploring how the 2% global inflation standard could collapse and what would ideally follow its demise, including a new look at the role of gold.

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Turn any photo into a dot grid artwork with these Photoshop actions. You'll get great results with dots that change size. They get larger in brighter areas and smaller in darker areas. Free download available.
After that duplicate the layer three times. To duplicate it right click on in and simply select the option Duplicate layer.
Place the three other helicopters on the same place as you can see in the preview picture. Resize them similarly as you've already done it in this and previous step. And flip two helicopters horizontally. To do that go to Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.
On the picture below you can see the result of this step.
Step 11 - Mist
To create bit more enigmatic atmosphere you'll add mist above the river in this step.
Download the mist brushes. I used the ones listed in the beginning of the tutorial but feel free to use any other which are free. Install the brushes into Photoshop.
Add new layer on the top of all layers and name it MIST. Grab the Brush Tool (B), select some of the brushes you've just installed, set the Opacity on 100% and pick some light grey color from the sky.
Avoid using pure white color because it's usually too harsh and doesn't look well in pictures. Try to use some softer alternatives such as light grey, light yellow etc. It's the same case with black.
Below you can get the inspiration where to paint fog.
Step 12 - Adding Rock and Woman
Background is almost done, let's focus on the foreground. This will be very quick step. Download the picture of stone and drag it into your photo manipulation. Place the layer on the top of all layers and name it ROCK.
Do the same with the picture of a woman. Place it on the top and name it, surprisingly, WOMAN.
Step 13 - Adding Hair
Because of all the wind woman's hair should be flying. You'll do it in this step. Download the hair brushes listed in the beginning of the tutorial and install them into Photoshop.
Create new layer on the top of all layers and name it HAIR. Grab the Brush Tool (B) and select some of the hair brushes you've just installed. Press Alt on your keyboard to activate the Eyedropper Tool (I) and select some very dark brown color from woman's hair. Paint hair similarly as on the following picture.
As you can see the painted parts are bit darker than the original hair. It's intentional because the overall hair should be bit more darker to look better.


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By Scott Anderson (Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin)
This is a story unlike any we have previously published. It is much longer than the typical New York Times Magazine feature story; in print, it occupies an entire issue.
The product of some 18 months of reporting, it tells the story of the catastrophe that has fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis.
The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences — war and uncertainty throughout the world — are familiar to us all.
Scott Anderson’s story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Accompanying Anderson’s text are 10 portfolios by the photographer Paolo Pellegrin, drawn from his extensive travels across the region over the last 14 years, as well as a landmark virtual-reality experience that embeds the viewer with the Iraqi fighting forces during the battle to retake Falluja.
It is unprecedented for us to focus so much energy and attention on a single story, and to ask our readers to do the same.
We would not do so were we not convinced that what follows is one of the most clear-eyed, powerful and human explanations of what has gone wrong in this region that you will ever read.
– JAKE SILVERSTEIN, EDITOR IN CHIEF
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PART Ia: ORIGINS (1972–2003)
1. Laila Soueif (Egypt) – The Matriarch of a prominent dissident family
Laila Soueif attended her first political rally when she was just 16. It was 1972, and the protesters were demanding what students have so often desired — a more equitable world, greater freedom of expression. But they also had a demand that was a bit more specific to the Arab world: that Egypt’s president, Anwar Sadat, launch a war to recover the Sinai Peninsula, which was seized by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967. From this experience, Laila would soon be convinced of the power of civil disobedience; Sadat launched an attack on Israel the following year. What Laila hadn’t counted on was the more immediate wrath of her parents. Just two hours after she joined the protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, Laila’s mother and father tracked down their teenage daughter and dragged her home. “From that, I learned that it was easier to defy the state than to defy my parents,” she said.
Laila was born into a life of both privilege and intellectual freedom. Her parents were college professors, and her older sister, Ahdaf Soueif, is one of Egypt’s best-known contemporary novelists. She gravitated toward leftist politics at an early age. While studying mathematics at Cairo University in the mid-1970s, she met her future husband, Ahmed Seif, who was already the leader of an underground communist student cell calling for revolution.
By then, Egypt had long been regarded as the political capital of the Middle East, the birthplace of revolutionary movements and ideas. In the modern era, it owed that status largely to the legacy of one man: Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Well into the 1940s, Egypt, along with most of the rest of the Middle East, remained a lesser global concern, still in the thrall of the European powers that imposed their will on the area decades before. That began to change at the end of World War II with the discovery of vast new oil fields in the region, and with the collapse of the British and French colonial empires. The pace of change greatly accelerated when Nasser and his Free Officers Movement of junior military officers overthrew Egypt’s Western-pliant king in 1952.
Championing “Arab socialism” and Pan-Arab unity, Nasser swiftly became a galvanizing figure throughout the Arab world, the spokesman for a people long dominated by foreigners and Western-educated elites. Just as crucial to the strongman’s popularity was what he opposed: colonialism, imperialism and that most immediate and enduring example of the West’s meddling in the region, the state of Israel.
Nasser’s success inspired many other would-be Arab leaders, nowhere more so than in the artificial states of the Middle East formed by the European powers. By 1968, military officers espousing the Baathist (“renaissance”) philosophy — a quasi-socialist form of Pan-Arabism — had seized power in Iraq and Syria. They were joined the following year by the Libyan lieutenant Muammar el-Qaddafi, and his somewhat-baffling “third universal theory,” which rejected traditional democracy in favor of rule by “people’s committees.” In all three countries, just as in Egypt, Western-favored monarchs or Parliaments were neutered or cast aside.
But Nasser possessed an advantage that his fellow autocrats in the region did not. With a sense of national identity that stretched back millenniums, Egypt never seemed in danger of being torn apart; the centrifugal pull of tribes or clans or sectarian identity simply didn’t exist there to the degree it did in Syria or Iraq. At the same time, Egypt’s long tradition of relative liberalism had given rise to a fractious political landscape that ran the spectrum from secular communists to fundamentalist Islamists.
Part of Nasser’s genius was his ability to bridge these divides, and he did so by appealing both to Egyptian national pride and to a shared antipathy for the West, a vestige, perhaps, of 70 years of heavy-handed rule by Britain. Thus, even when Islamist conservatives became alarmed by Nasser’s moves toward greater secularism, most still saw him as a hero for nationalizing Western businesses, and for besting Britain, France and Israel in the 1956 Suez crisis. Similarly, urban liberals like the Soueif family who disdained Nasser’s strong-arm rule — his was a military dictatorship, after all — also cheered him for his leadership in the international Nonaligned Movement, for proudly thumbing his nose at the threats and enticements of the United States as it sought to compel Egypt into its orbit during the Cold War. This became the means by which Nasser and his successor, Anwar Sadat, maintained their grip on power: play left and right off each other as a matter of course; bring them together when needed by focusing on an external foe. Such maneuvering resulted in many odd political turns, including the first protest march of Laila Soueif.
After working on leftist causes together throughout their time at the University of Cairo, Laila and Ahmed married in 1978. That same year, Egypt’s political landscape was neatly turned upside down. In September, Sadat signed the Camp David accords, which led to an American-brokered peace treaty with Israel. That stunning about-face simultaneously propelled Egypt into the camp of American client-states and isolated it from much of the rest of the Arab world. Even more ominously for Sadat, what was seen in the West as an act of courage was regarded by most Egyptians as an act of betrayal and national shame. This was certainly the view of Laila and Ahmed. It was in the wake of the 1979 peace treaty that some of the men in Ahmed’s underground cell began buying up arms on the black market and vowing armed action against the government. Those plans never got off the ground, though. Instead, it was a cabal of Islamist military plotters who finally got to Sadat, shooting and killing him at a military parade in Cairo in October 1981.
A month later, Laila gave birth to her and Ahmed’s first child, a boy they named Alaa. Their lives took on an air of increasingly apolitical domesticity, and by 1983, Laila, then 28, was juggling the demands of child-rearing with her new position as a professor of mathematics at Cairo University. All normalcy was shattered, however, when Sadat’s successor, Hosni Mubarak, ordered a sweeping security crackdown. Among those ensnared in the dragnet were Ahmed and his colleagues in the underground cell. Severely tortured until he signed a full confession, Ahmed was then released to await his verdict. When that verdict was returned, in late 1984, the news was grim: Ahmed was found guilty of illegal weapons possession and sentenced to five years in prison.
At the time, Laila was in France, having accepted a scholarship to further her math studies, but when Ahmed’s sentence was handed down, she rushed back to Cairo with Alaa. Thanks to a curious loophole in Egyptian law, sentences for security-related offenses like Ahmed’s had to be approved by the president, a process that normally took several months and during which the defendant could remain out on bail. It presented the couple with a tempting choice.
“We had to decide,” Laila, who is now 60, told me. “Does he submit and go into prison for five years, do we try to find some way to get him out of the country or do we go into hiding?” She gave a nonchalant shrug. “So we went into hiding.”
For several months, the couple lived as fugitives with their 3-year-old son. Ultimately, though, both realized it was a futile exercise. “He wasn’t willing to leave the country,” Laila said, “and he couldn’t stay in hiding forever. He decided it was easier to do the five years, so he gave himself up.” But not necessarily easier for Laila. She became pregnant during her and Ahmed’s brief time on the run, leaving her to tend to a second child, a girl they named Mona, as Ahmed served out his prison sentence.
It was in prison that Ahmed experienced something of an epiphany. By continuing the entente with the United States and Israel that Sadat had begun, Mubarak naturally also inherited the taint of capitulation in the eyes of many of his countrymen. Unable to forge national cohesion by turning to the old external enemy card — after all, Egypt was now in bed with those supposed enemies — Mubarak had devised a more carefully calibrated system to play his secular leftist and militant Islamist oppositions against each other. Ahmed, thrown into prison with both factions, saw firsthand how this strategy played out when it came to even the most basic of human rights. As he would later tell Joe Stork of Human Rights Watch, “The communists would say secretly, ‘It doesn’t matter if Islamists are tortured.’ And the Islamists would say, ‘Why not torture communists?’ ”
Determined to fight for judicial reform, Ahmed devoted himself to studying law in his prison cell. Within a month of his release in 1989, he was admitted to the Egyptian bar.
This placed the ex-political prisoner and his wife at a crossroads. With Laila a tenured professor at Cairo University and Ahmed now a lawyer, the couple had the opportunity to carve out a comfortable existence for themselves among the Cairene elite. Instead, and at ultimately great personal cost, they would plunge ever deeper into Egypt’s widening turmoils, trying to cross the very divides that had for so long been critical to the government’s own survival.
2. Majdi el-Mangoush (Libya) – An Air Force cadet with divided loyalties
A once-prosperous port city roughly 120 miles east of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, Misurata was a main terminus of the old trans-Saharan trade route, the stopping point of camel caravans taking gold and slaves from sub-Saharan Africa for export across the Mediterranean. Ever since, it has been one of Libya’s chief commercial hubs, its residents regarded as industrious and particularly capitalist-minded. Prominent among those inhabitants is the Mangoush clan, so much so that one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city bears the family name. And it was in that neighborhood on July 4, 1986, that Omar and Fatheya el-Mangoush, civil servants for the
Misurata municipal government, welcomed the birth of the youngest of their six children, a boy they named Majdi.
By the time of Majdi’s birth, Libya had been ruled by Muammar el-Qaddafi for 17 years. Viewed in the West as something of a rakish enfant terrible when he and his fellow military plotters overthrew Libya’s king in 1969 — Qaddafi was then himself just 27 — the handsome former signal corps lieutenant was wildly popular among his countrymen in the years immediately following the coup. A key to that popularity was his emulation of Gamal Abdel Nasser in neighboring Egypt. Like Nasser, Qaddafi kindled Arab pride by nationalizing Western business interests, including parts of Libya’s vital oil industry, and standing in vehement opposition to the state of Israel. By spreading the wealth around, he also enabled families like the Mangoushes to live a comfortable middle-class life.
Over time, however, Qaddafi’s rule increasingly bore less resemblance to Egypt’s “soft” dictatorship and more to that of two others influenced by the Nasser model: the Baathist regimes of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez al-Assad in Syria. The parallels were quite striking. In all three countries, the dictators developed elaborate personality cults — their faces adorned posters and murals and postage stamps — and aligned themselves with the “anti-imperialist” bloc of Arab nations, their stances helped along by deepening ties with the Soviet Union. True to the Baathist credo of “Arab socialism” and Qaddafi’s third universal theory, all three countries embarked on fabulously ambitious public works projects, building hospitals and schools and colleges throughout their lands and bankrolling those enterprises with oil receipts (in the cases of Libya and Iraq), or through the patronage of the Soviet Union (in the case of Syria). At the same time, the states established extravagantly bloated governmental structures, such that their ministries and agencies quickly became the main pillars of the economy; eventually more than half of the Libyan work force — Majdi el-Mangoush’s parents among them — was on the government payroll, and the figures in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq were similar. “Everybody was connected to the state somehow,” Majdi explained. “For their housing, for their job. It was impossible to exist outside of it.”
For all their revolutionary rhetoric, the dictators of Libya, Iraq and Syria remained ever mindful that their nations were essentially artificial constructs. What this meant was that many of their subjects’ primary loyalty lay not to the state but to their tribe or, more broadly, to their ethnic group or religious sect. To keep them loyal required both the carrot and the stick. In all three nations, the leaders entered into elaborate and labyrinthine alliances with various tribes and clans. Stay on the dictator’s good side, and your tribe might be given control of a ministry or a lucrative business concession; fall on his bad side, a

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SkyDrive Inc., a Japanese eVTOL maker, has announced former Volocopter Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Arnaud Coville as its new Chief Development Officer (CDO).
SkyDrive is currently developing the SD-05, a compact, electric-powered aircraft, which will be used as a commercial passenger aircraft in the Osaka Bay area beginning in 2025. The Japan Civil Aviation Bureau granted type certification for the aircraft in October, 2021.
Arnaud Coville has three decades of experience in the aircraft industry and holds a Ph.D. in automatic control and robotics. At Airbus, he held various management positions responsible for the development of vehicles, systems and structures in programs of helicopters and large aircrafts.
At Volocopter, Arnaud was responsible for organizing and growing the engineering organization and leading development projects as CTO. According to SkyDrive, he will further accelerate the development of the SD-05 by leveraging his experiences in aircraft development at Airbus and leading eVTOL development at Volocopter.
Arnaud will be the new leader of the development team tasked with building the SD-05, with Nobuo Kishi (CTO) focussing more on the type certification3 process, they are expected to work closely together and aim for entering into service in 2025.
Arnaud Coville, CDO of SkyDrive Inc, said: “I am proud to join SkyDrive as the company has big potential to play a leading role in the industry. I believe that my international expertise will contribute to growing its engineering team and accelerating the development of eVTOL aircraft. I look forward to working with all the SkyDrive teams to ensure that our first commercial model flying car, the SD-05, is a market success.”
Tomohiro Fukuzawa, CEO of SkyDrive Inc, commented: “We are thrilled to have Arnaud Coville as our CDO. He has gained remarkable management skills over the course of his career at major enterprises as well as a startup. I firmly believe that his extensive experiences not only in conventional aircraft development but also in a new type of air mobility will be invaluable to us as we seek to take the lead in the once-in-a-century mobility revolution from Japan.”


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May 17, 2022
Health Department Recommends Masks due to increase in COVID-19
Dear GBSD Staff and Families,
We wanted to share with you an update from Multnomah County Health Department (MCHD) on the COVID-19 cases in our region.
The Health Department is currently seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases in schools and among school-aged children and teens.
Multnomah County Public Health is asking schools to encourage students and staff to wear masks in indoor spaces for the next few weeks, to protect in-person instruction and ensure students have the opportunity to attend year-end events.
As the message from the Health Department states, this is not a mandate. It is a recommendation for voluntary indoor masking.
Thank you for all you are doing to keep the students and staff of our community safe.
We appreciate your understanding during these challenging times.
Gresham-Barlow School District


The Briscoes will challenge La Rebelion for the NWA World Tag Team Championship; Mark and Jay won the Crockett Cup tournament last month, so momentum is certainly on their side.
Plus, Homicide will defend the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship against Rhett Titus.
Enjoy #wrestling the way it was meant to be.
— FITE (@FiteTV) April 26, 2022
Elsewhere on the show, former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Nick Aldis will face Jordan Clearwater. Trevor Murdoch, a fellow former world champion, will battle Aron Stevens.
The card is as follows:
- NWA World Tag Team Championship: La Rebelion (c) vs. The Briscoe Brothers
- NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship: Homicide (c) vs. Rhett Titus
- Nick Aldis vs. Jordan Clearwater
- Trevor Murdoch vs. Aron Stevens


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After his scheduled appearance before the Privileges Committee was yesterday cancelled without reason, opposition Member of Parliament Juan Edghill voiced his frustration over the drawn-out proceedings against him.
Last Monday, Edghill was summoned to appear before the committee to answer questions in relation to a comment he made during a parliamentary debate in 2015.
Edghill told reporters at the Public Buildings yesterday that at about 1.40 pm, he received communication from Speaker Barton Scotland indicating that the hearing was cancelled and that he would be informed as to further developments.
He voiced suspicion and frustration at both the timing of the summons he received last week and the decision to cancel the meeting at which he had been invited to answer questions.
“I feel harassed and feel that I’m not given adequate opportunity to clear my name as it relates to this matter. I’ve attended to the Privileges Committee since November 25, 2016, at which I presented documentation with my calculations showing my justification. At minimum, you could’ve given us a reasons to say this is why we are cancelling. I’m under the cloud while the committee enjoys the luxury of keeping me under the cloud,” Edghill lamented.
The shadow Minister of Finance for the PPP/C maintained that he was ready to answer all questions as long as a quorum exists. He added too that any attempt to silence him in the House will fail. He speculated that the issue before the Privileges Committee is only raised at those times when he is most vocal. “I sit as an elected member and can only be removed by the electorate. The Chief Justice has ruled that no member of the House can be silenced. Your right to speak is because you speak on behalf of the people who elected you. I will speak continually. I will not stop asking questions on procurement and being active in the Public Accounts Committee,” he stressed, while indicating that he intends to lay more questions before the House.
On December 17, 2015, Edghill claimed in an address to the House that the salary increases quietly announced for government ministers would cost an additional $1 billion over five years. This was objected to during the same debate by the government side, which said the annualised increases would be about $67.8 million per year or $339 million over five years.
The decision to have Edghill appear before the committee was made on May 5, 2016 after APNU+AFC MP Charrandas Persaud brought a motion asking that Edghill withdraw the statement and apologise. After he failed to do so, Persaud said the matter should be taken to the Privileges Committee, since the statement and his subsequent refusal to apologise for it or withdraw it violated the privileges of the National Assembly and “brought the entire National Assembly into disrepute.”
Edghill has since vehemently denied that he had any intention to mislead the House or deliberately misinform and defended his statement as a “fair comment.” Appearing before the committee in November, 2016, he presented documentation which asserted that salary increases in all of the categories in Order Number 16 of 2015 would total $964.4 million over the five-year period and with the inclusion of the salary for Minister in the Ministry of Communities, Valerie Patterson, the figure would rise to $1.001 billion.


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About three years ago, I was sitting with a female friend in a bar on a frantic Saturday night in Dublin.By the end of the night, several worse-for-wear men had wandered in our direction and attempted – some more ably than others – to strike up a conversation.
It seems that in searching for Mister (or Ms.) Right, we often ignore the potential of Mister Right In Front Of Us.
In one sense, online dating platforms have done much good.
They’ve taken our immediate social circle out of dating, so you can do what you want without ever having to deal with the judgement of a peer group.
Slightly embarrassed at the prospect of admitting in a public sphere that I would actually like to meet a man, I’d put off signing up to dating apps.
But I’d had enough of weird, often obnoxious strangers.
Surely, I thought, being able to “swipe” through potential prospects prior to meeting them would minimise the agonising tension of rejecting or being rejected face-to-face, and eliminate complete mismatches.
Online and app-based dating has changed the way we interact with each other.
We’ve moved on from discomfort or embarrassment about using technology to connect with other people.
There’s a whole generation of millennials who use dating apps as a matter of course, and it makes sense that we think a bigger pool increases the likelihood of finding someone we’re actually compatible with.
One in four relationships now start online, and that number will only increase.
However, research seems to suggest that vast choice – although alluring – actually works against us, and that online dating compounds our biases rather than challenging them.


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The man, whom [reporter Louisa] Hodge reports identified himself as Jason Luis Rivera, was carrying a pair of nail clipper-like scissors. Video from the scene shows police on scene arresting the suspect, who was wearing a heart-shaped ornament made of rope over his chest.
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Oil’s free-fall continued as big speculators dumped more of their massive commodities bets, pushing down crude to the $100-a-barrel mark, and triggering a forecast of a new bottom of $87 within months.
“When all these institutional speculators are out of commodities markets, crude will eventually return to its levels of between $67 and $79 a barrel where crude stood before they came in,” said energy analyst Peter Beutel of Cameron Hanover.
Despite the onslaught of Gulf Coast hurricanes and OPEC’s moves to tighten oil spigots, traders got swamped again yesterday with more unprecedented selling and unwinding of pricey oil positions by the big funds.
“This oil market cannot rally even in the face of one of the most bullish combinations in the history of oil trading,” said Beutel.
Oil fell here as low as $100.10 a barrel before settling at $100.87, off $1.71. Wholesale gasoline here rose 8.72 cents a gallon to $2.7488.
A technical analysis widely used by oil traders indicates that if crude were to bottom today at $100 a barrel – down from its $147-a-barrel high of July – its next up-and-down swing pattern shows crude rising to its next high of about $122 a barrel during the coming winter, then back down to a new bottom of around $87 a barrel by early spring.
Gas at the pump could fall as low as $2.85 a gallon by March.

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The Bookworm: Cross Country
Cross Country: Fifteen Years and Ninety Thousand Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America with Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant by Robert Sullivan. 416 pages. Bloomsbury. 2006.
When he left office in 1961, Eisenhower gave one of his most famous speeches: “In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” And yet, by signing the legislation that began the construction of the interstate highway system, Eisenhower, in the words of one historian, “had done as much as anyone to extend the power of the military-industrial complex that so worried him in his farewell address.”
The Bookworm post series is being renovated. I’m introducing a new format and new features to jazz up the dull presentation. For now I’m playing around, experimenting, so bare with me while I make improvements through trial and error.
One thing I’ve decided to do is profile each book the same day I finish it. So to deliver on that new goal I’ve sat down tonight to write about Robert Sullivan’s Cross Country, which I finished about a half hour ago. (In that time I took the above picture, turned off my MacBook, let it cool, removed the battery for the first time, cleaned the screen with the nifty cloth Apple included in the box, reattached the battery, and prayed I did everything right when I restarted it. I also did a little web browsing, tapping the New York Times’ Books section to see how they format their reviews.)
I bought Cross Country at the Northside Book Market in Iowa City way back in September. My reading habit slowed to a near standstill in the fall, which is why it’s taken me so long to get to it. In an odd twist of events it has become the last book I ever bought from Northside the business, yet it will likely not be my last purchase at Northside the location. While in Iowa City recently, I learned Northside was closing for whatever reason. Coincidentally, The Haunted Bookshop had begun a search for a new home, so the couple who own Haunted bought Northside and are relocating their collection and name to North Linn Street. When I talked to the owner at Haunted about the move she had this to say about Northside’s closing: “Hmmm. Evil plan…” They plan to reopen on January 16, so check them out if you’re in the area.
Cross Country caught my attention because I’ve been meditating on my own cross-country trip. It wasn’t quite cross-country, but my move to California crossed a large portion of the United States. I’m mulling over the idea of a memoir, putting that experience, as well as those of finding work and shelter in Santa Cruz, into book form (or at least into the form of my future MFA dissertation). I won’t go into detail, but I bought Cross Country to do research, to see how others have written about moving and traveling across America.
The book follows the return leg of Sullivan’s latest cross-country trip with his family, from Portland back to New York City. He takes us through the Columbia River Valley in Oregon, the Northern Rockies in Montana, the Great Plains of North Dakota, Wisconsin’s dairy empire, the suburban wasteland of Chicago, the tollway islands in Ohio, and the ancient Appalachians. Interspersed throughout the narration, along with asides about the many other trips Sullivan has taken, are insights regarding Lewis and Clark (mostly while in Oregon, though, following the Corps of Discovery’s return route back to St. Louis), suburb and ruburb growth, the history of American tourism, disposable coffee container lids, the design of gas stations, roadside restaurants, the advent of the hamburger as road food, dams, the local legends of the towns they pass (including Evel Knievel, Woody Guthrie, and Jack Kerouac), local attractions (like the Angel Museum in Beloit, Wisconsin, and the Giant Cross in Groom, Texas), motels and hotels, Holiday Inn, beef jerky…you get the idea. Sullivan expounded on just about every thought provoking aspect of transcontinental travel. It was exactly what the title and back cover promised, making for a very interesting and enlightening read.
One overlying subject was the interstate driving experience. Except for a stretch through the Bitterroot Mountains, Sullivan stuck to the interstates on his way home. Seeing the same fast food restaurants, the same choices at convenient stores, the same hotels, and the same signs at each exit almost drove him and his family over the edge. The conformity and increasing lack of local flavor was a source of frequent criticism, and Sullivan shows that the conventionalization of America, Americans, and our on-road choices developed hand-in-hand with the interstates as they were completed.
Overall I enjoyed Cross Country, but there were a few things that bothered me not only as a reader and writer but also as a perfectionist. Cross Country featured more typos than any other book I have ever read. In other books you may find one or two throughout the entire text, but typos pop up every 15 or 20 pages in Cross Country. It’s sloppy and unprofessional, and Bloomsbury, the publisher, is to blame. Sullivan deserved better.
Speaking of Sullivan, this is the first time I’ve read him. His other books include The Meadowlands, A Whale Hunt, How Not to Get Rich, and Rats, a book which has always interested me because the cover features the silhouette of a rat superimposed on a map of Manhattan. I’m unsure what his other writing is like, but his style in Cross Country is repetitive in a stream-of-consciousness way that is more annoying than artistic and clever. There are times when he will literally say the same thing three times in a row. Here’s a common example: “A mere twenty-three miles from Billings, we take the exit for Pompey’s Pillar and then the side road to Pompey’s Pillar and then, following signs, drive to the gate for Pompey’s Pillar.” I get it — you went to Pompey’s Pillar.
Another annoyance was Sullivan’s obsession with Holiday Inn Express. For about 200 pages I thought his longing to find and stay at a Holiday Inn Express was a not-so-subtle type of literary product placement. In Miles City, Montana he begrudgingly settles for a Super 8 because the Holiday Inn Express is completely booked, something he broods over until arriving in Beloit, Wisconsin two days later when his family finally stays at a Holiday Inn Express. (My repetition is Sullivan-esque.) After getting his wish, he spends about three pages on the hotel’s revamped breakfast area, a section which even includes a personal drawing of the Express Start® Breakfast Bar complete with labels. I almost skipped the whole thing, but having forced myself to read it saw what he was getting at: another example of American/interstate conformity.
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New word I learned: “Ergo,” which is another way of saying “therefore.”
Cross Country was a very enjoyable and enlightening read despite a few annoyances, which I hope are corrected in subsequent printings (that is, if the book has subsequent printings). Those seemingly dull ribbons of concrete and asphalt we use and abuse without thought each day have a unique and intriguing story of their own, one that Sullivan has told quite well.


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Four teams (and counting) have already punched their ticket to the Big Dance and championship week is upon us.
Yes, March Madness looms and Turner Sports and CBS Sports are teaming on a multiplatform marketing campaign to tout the 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
The campaign features a full-length music video featuring the four-time Grammy Award- winning band Kings of Leon and their song "The Immortals," from their Come Around Sundown album.
The video (check it out here) debuted nationally across 5,800 movie screens on March 4 and will run through St. Patrick's Day. The video, along with a comprehensive cross-platform campaign, is designed to tout the tourney in its new expanded 68-team form, which for the first time features every contest live across CBS, TBS, TNT and TruTV. The campaign concludes when Kings of Leon headlines the Coca-Cola Zero Countdown on Saturday, April 2, part of The Big Dance Concert Series during the 2011 Men's Final Four weekend in Houston.This marketing campaign is part of the 14-year, $10.8 billion agreement between Turner Sports, CBS Sports and the NCAA to air the tournament. The tourney tips of March 15, with TruTV's coverage of the "First Four."
CBS Sports and Turner Sports' extensive initiative includes online, spot cable, digital billboards, digital elevator ads, spot radio and print. In addition, promos will run on select Turner-owned networks, notably TNT, TBS, truTV, CNN, HLN and CNN Airport and select CBS's shared resources, including the CBS Television Network, CBS Radio, CBS Outdoor and CBS Interactive, as well as local promos over 200 CSB affiliates nationwide.Throughout March, CBS and Turner also will use their stars in special messages to promote the tournament.
"We are proud to be working with Kings of Leon throughout the tournament and using their powerful song "The Immortals" as a theme of our marketing campaign and coverage," said Christina Miller, senior vice president of Turner Sports strategy, marketing and programming and a member of the 2011 Multichannel News's class of Wonder Women, in a statement. "Our extensive multi-platform campaign will help communicate to fans the exciting new changes to the tournament's coverage, particularly that every single game will be broadcast live nationally for the first time ever, allowing fans to choose which games they want to watch."
Noted CBS Marketing Group president George Schweitzer: "CBS is thrilled to be traveling down the "Road to the Final Four" with Kings of Leon and Turner. This unprecedented multi-layered marketing campaign maximizes CBS's powerful media platforms through television, radio, outdoor and online, combined with Turner's many great platforms, to yield the greatest reach with unprecedented impact."
Capping the overall marketing campaign, Kings of Leon also will headline the Coca-Cola Zero Countdown at the three-day free music festival at Discovery Green in downtown Houston. Other artists to perform during the Coca-Cola Zero Countdown and during the other two days of the Big Dance Concert Series will be announced at a later date. For the latest on The Big Dance Concert Series and all of NCAA Men's Final Four events and activities, go to NCAA.com/FinalFour.
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A banner celebrating Pride month was vandalized in Winston-Salem, which city officials call a hate crime. The banner was discovered cut in half early Friday morning. Mayor Allen Joines said in a statement that the city reaffirms its support of Pride Winston-Salem.
“I view this act as an apparent hate crime. I want to state in the strongest terms that the city of Winston-Salem and the city council fully support Pride Winston-Salem, their upcoming events, and Pride Month. The city is acting swiftly to repair the banner in the interim and replace it with a new banner as soon as possible,” said Joines.
The city’s director of human relations, diversity, equity, and inclusion, Wanda Allen-Abraha, says that a replacement banner is scheduled to be installed on Monday.
“We want to assure the members of the LGBTQIA+ community that we empathize with and are sensitive to their concerns about such incidents,” Allen-Abraha said. “I have asked Police Chief William Penn to investigate this as a potential hate crime.”


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The show by DAAR (Decolonize Architecture Art Research) in London proposes a Palestinian refugee camp as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Stateless Heritage, held at The Mosaic Rooms in London, is the first UK solo presentation of art and architecture collective DAAR (Decolonize Architecture Art Research), led by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. The exhibition sets out to challenge the mainstream narratives of refugee experience and humanitarian crises.
Stateless Heritage presents DAAR’s proposal to nominate a refugee camp in Palestine – Dheisheh, near Bethlehem – as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. By misusing and redirecting UNESCO World Heritage guidelines and criteria, DAAR asks how architecture can be mobilised as an agent for political transformation.
DAAR’s nomination to register the camp as a World Heritage Site (which premiered at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale) is intended as a provocation, to expose how the definition of heritage is not universal, but subject to political forces. Hilal and Petti instead reorient the notion of heritage towards forms of collective memory.
In the exhibition, an installation of large light box photographs evokes the geography of Dheisheh refugee camp, giving visitors an insight into its urban and social fabric. The photographs are taken by Luca Capuano, who had previously documented Italy’s World Heritage Sites for UNESCO. DAAR tasked Capuano with documenting Dheisheh as a living monument of ‘permanent temporariness’.
Elsewhere in the exhibition, a series of photo books documents the 44 villages of origin of Dheisheh’s residents; these are placed on plinths of varying heights, forming a kind of landscape. The exhibition ends in a social gathering space, where people can socialise, read, relax and organise.
Stateless Heritage raises issues of migrant justice at a time when the right to claim asylum is under renewed threat in the UK and internationally. As part of the exhibition, Migrants in Culture is running workshops to design a campaign against the UK’s proposed New Plan for Immigration.
Stateless Heritage is at The Mosaic Rooms, London until 30 January 2022


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Douglas Costa rejoins Bayern Munich three years after leaving the club with Brazilian winger agreeing season-long loan move with Bundesliga champions from Juventus
Douglas Costa has re-joined Bayern Munich after agreeing a season-long loan deal from Juventus.
The 30-year-old winger spent two seasons at the Allianz Arena before moving to the Serie A champions in 2017.
But now he has returned on loan to help Hansi Flick’s side out wide as they aim for a ninth straight Bundesliga title.
Bayern Munich have re-signed Douglas Costa on loan from Juventus after he left in 2017
Costa won two Bundesliga titles at Bayern Munich and scored 14 goals in his first spell there
Upon completing his return to Munich, Costa said: ‘I’m very happy to be playing for FC Bayern again. I had a wonderful time in Munich with lots of successes and I’m sure we’ll win titles again.’
Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic added: ‘Douglas will strengthen us on the wings, which is important for our game. With Serge Gnabry, Leroy Sane, Kingsley Coman, Jamal Musiala and Douglas we now have top players in those areas.
‘This gives the coach the opportunity to rotate the squad sensibly. Douglas knows FC Bayern and will settle in again very quickly.’
Now he has returned for a second spell at Bayern after a frustrating period at Juventus
Costa scored 14 goals in 77 competitive matches in his first spell at FC Bayern following his move from Shakhtar Donetsk.
During his time in Munich, he won two Bundesliga titles as well as one German Cup and one Super Cup.
The Brazilian represents the second bit of business concluded by Bayern on deadline day after signing free agent Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting from Paris Saint-Germain.
The 31-year-old striker has been without a club since leaving PSG but will now provide back-up to star striker Robert Lewandowski after signing a two-year deal.
It is the second piece of business for Bayern on deadline day after Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting


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COLUMBUS — Manufacturers in Ohio will benefit from six partnerships statewide through the Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
These regional partners will provide assistance to small and medium-sized manufacturers to increase their productivity, growth and competitiveness, in collaboration with the Ohio Development Services Agency (ODSA).
Through the current, five-year grant agreement with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, ODSA has been awarded an additional $7.47 million, which will extend federal support and state-wide partnerships into 2019.
“Manufacturing is an integral part of job creation in Ohio,” said David Goodman, director of ODSA. “We are committed to helping these businesses continue to grow.”
The six partners include the Center for Innovative Food Technology in the northwest region; the Manufacturing Advocacy and Growth Network in the northeast region; PolymerOhio in the central region; the University of Dayton Research Institute in the west central region; TechSolve in the southwest region; and the Ohio State University’s Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence in the central and southeast regions.
The Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership is a state and federal initiative to develop and distribute technology, management, and technical expertise to improve the competitiveness of manufacturers. For information, visit https://www.development.ohio.gov/bs/bs_mep.htm.

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Today, I want to share with you how much our branch has grown over the last 2 years. To do this, lets use an old picture I dug up of the IEEE workbench 2 years ago and now. Two years ago, the only equipment we had was a power supply, a solder station, some wires, and random spare parts. After 2 years of hard work raising funds, donations, and time from our members, our bench now has better equipment than the graduate students labs. (We have been told this by grad students who use our equipment) Here's to another 2 years of IEEE.
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A Hamilton man says he must have fallen asleep after celebrating his birthday before veering off the road and crashing head-on into a car, killing its passenger.
Justine Anderson was sitting in the front seat of her partner, Nick Horwood's Nissan Skyline, when Girish Mahadev Kale's vehicle abruptly swerved into the southbound lane they were travelling in.
Miss Anderson, 24, died of her injuries at the scene.
In the Hamilton District Court today, Kale, 42, pleaded guilty to one charge of careless driving causing the death of Miss Anderson and careless driving causing injury to his pregnant wife, Anagha Kale, after the crash on December 5, last year at Karapiro.
Miss Anderson, a former Cambridge High School student, and Mr Horwood had been visiting her family in Cambridge and were on their way back to Tauranga when the crash occurred.
The pair were about to do renovations on their home and were looking forward to getting married one day, Mr Horwood earlier told the Herald.
Little did they know that Kale had just spent the day celebrating his birthday, which included a flying lesson and spending time at the beach with family, before they made their way back to Hamilton.
The court heard that when they hit Karapiro, about 6pm, Kale's people mover vehicle slowly veered left, going onto the grass verge for a short time before it then sharply veered back onto State Highway 1, on a 45 degree angle, crossing the centre line and crashing head-on into Mr Horwood's vehicle.
Mr Horwood, who suffered only bumps and scratches, said he tried to swerve to avoid the collision but it was too late.
Kale's wife suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to Waikato Hospital.
When spoken to by police, Kale, a co-director of Kiwi Tourism Limited, said he must have fallen asleep.
He was remanded on bail to reappear for sentencing in July.
In the meantime, he will attend a restorative justice conference with the victim's family.


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Colorado Group Launches Cannabis Safety Campaign
The Marijuana Industry Group (MIG) has launched a campaign focusing on safe cannabis use. The campaign aims to promote taking precautionary measures when using cannabis to ensure the safety of themselves and others.
“By design, this campaign is stark and serious, because public safety is serious. Government agencies shouldn’t be alone in encouraging good decision-making," said MIG interim executive director Kristi Kelly. "It’s important that people know that the industry also cares about our communities.”
The Colorado based group launched their public service announcements during the third year of the states legalization of cannabis. The primary focuses are safe driving, keeping cannabis from children and partaking of a safe amount of cannabis. Phrases such as, "It’s 4:20 somewhere. Start low. Go slow. Please consume responsibly," "If you’re gonna dab, take a cab. Please consume responsibly,” and, "Please consume responsibly," are heard through out the PSA's.


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MSPs "must do everything" they can to reduce suicide in Scotland, a Holyrood minister and Aberdeen MSP has said.
Mental wellbeing minister Kevin Stewart, member for Aberdeen Central, delivered a statement to Holyrood on Wednesday after the launch of a strategy aimed at tackling factors and inequalities that can lead to suicide.
Creating Hope Together: Scotland's Suicide Prevention Strategy is a 10-year plan from Cosla and the Scottish Government to address the underlying social issues that can cause people to feel suicidal, while providing support to those affected by suicide, such as families, friends and carers.
Mr Stewart told the chamber: "Every suicide is a tragedy with profound and lasting effects on people's lives.
"And it is imperative that government set a clear course to reduce suicide and ensure that anyone affected by suicide is able to get the help that they need."
The SNP MSP said Scotland's approach must be rooted in "the three principles of time, space and compassion, across government, across party lines, and across all sectors and communities".
"Putting it simply," he added, "we all must do everything that we can to reduce death."
He said the strategy will focus on the different needs of various population groups, highlighting that older adults and young people will require responses suited to them.
"We're taking a focused approach right across our work so we have maximum effect in our overall aim to reduce suicide," Mr Stewart said.
"So the strategy prioritises settings such as prisons and locations of concern, particular communities, and parts of the workforce where we feel our efforts can make the biggest difference."
He said the strategy also intends to ensure anyone seeking mental health support is met with "compassion and given the support that they need" with a primary focus on recovery.
The Programme for Government set out a commitment to double the annual budget for suicide prevention to £2.8 million by 2025/26.
Scottish Conservative MSP Sue Webber welcomed the funding, but said that making support more accessible is what is required from the Government.
She said: "It doesn't matter how much money we spend on developing effective suicide prevention interventions when ultimately we know that the most significant barrier to improving mental health nationwide is the lack of well-trained clinicians.
"We may have the mental health interventions that work, but we lack the workforce or infrastructure to deliver them.
"A strong suicide prevention strategy requires us to intervene early."
Mr Stewart disagreed that there is a lack of workforce, but accepted more action is required to ensure people do not reach the point of crisis.
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On February 11th, SEPCOIII Hongrui Consulting Company got 5 national utility model patents and 4 software copyrights, and including the utility model relates to a type of welded plugging plate in hydraulic pressure test of pipeline, a system of molten salt storage tank in a solar-thermal power stations, a steam turbine off-line shaft seal system in a solar-thermal power stations, solar thermal power station heat absorption tower, a fault recording system of power plant based on microcomputer and networking technology and cable loss calculation software, soft wire short circuit mechanical effect calculation software, indirect air cooling tower thermal calculation software, extreme books manager.
The first four kinds of utility model patents all belong to the field of solar thermal power generation. The last one belongs to the field of information mining and processing system, which can reliably realize fault recording of the whole plant, including the middle and low voltage system, and improve the stability of power plant operation.
SEPCOIII always adheres to scientific and technological innovation, research and development. It has obtained more than 20 patents and soft certificates in 2018. In 2019, SEPCOIII will continue to accelerate the pace of scientific and technological innovation, promote the patent, soft and scientific research results transform and form the management methods.


text: Estimating the contribution of forests to carbon sequestration is commonly done by applying forest growth models. Such models inherently use field observations, such as leaf area index (LAI), whereas relevant information is also available from remotely sensed images. The purpose of this study is to improve the LAI estimated from the Physiological Principles Predicting Growth (3-PG) model by combining its output with LAI derived from Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) satellite imagery. A Bayesian network (BN) approach is proposed to take care of the different structure of the inaccuracies in the two data sources. It addresses the bias in the 3-PG model and the noise of the ASTER images. Moreover, the EM algorithm is introduced into BN to estimate missing the LAI ASTER data, since they are not available for long time series due to the atmospheric conditions. This paper shows that the outputs obtained with the BN were more accurate than the 3-PG estimate, as the root mean square error reduces to 0.46, and the relative error to 5.86 percent. We conclude that the EM-algorithm within a BN can adequately handle missing LAI ASTER values, and BNs can improve the estimation of LAI values. Ultimately, this method may be used as a predicting model of LAI values, and handling the missing data of ASTER images time series.

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Teen Talent Showcase
CA’s International Exchange and Multicultural Program is proud to host three special nights of multicultural performances.
Teen groups from across our area come together to showcase their incredible and diverse talents. Enjoy Bollywood dance, Step, Mexican vocals and more!
Visit LakefrontLive.org for a full schedule of events.


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Join #NoMowMay to Help Native Wildlife Thrive!
#NoMowMay is an annual campaign asking you to not mow your lawn during the month of May to help our native wildlife. One-third of our wild bees are threatened with extinction, mainly because there isn't enough food to support them.
Native Irish wildflowers offer the best source of pollen and nectar. By mowing less, we can give them a chance to appear naturally – no seeds needed! You might be surprised by what appears over a few short weeks. You may see plants like Dandelions, Red and White Clover, and Birds-foot trefoil, all of which are excellent sources of food for pollinating insects. 🐝🐛🦋

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The fast-moving nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, and its particular impact on women, makes clear the importance of Ms. in keeping you informed.
These are challenging times for all of us, with the fast-moving impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
We were at work on our latest issue of Ms. magazine when the world changed suddenly. As we go to print, we’re still reeling from the tragedy—the increasing numbers of people sickened by the disease, the increasing numbers of deaths, the increasing anxiety and feelings of helplessness.
These are difficult times for all of us. And yet, we continue.
Here at Ms., we’re providing up-to-the minute reporting on the COVID-19 crisis—both in the magazine and online at MsMagazine.com. Our team is focused on aspects of the crisis not often reported by mainstream media: mainly, how this virus disproportionately impacts women,…


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Ellis Island is open on a limited basis while repairs continue.
Ellis Island has reopened on a limited basis. Due to the nature of the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, parts of the historic Main Building and museum remain closed at this time. The museum's artifacts remain in off-site storage. More »
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Once off the ferries, immigrants crowded through the main entrance of Ellis Island into this room where they could check their baggage. With thousands of people being inspected every day, keeping track of everyone's belongings was a major logistical problem and lost baggage a common complaint. Some immigrants, refusing to check their possessions, insisted on carrying them through the entire inspection routine.
"Journeys: The Peopling of America 1550 – 1890"
"Journeys" explores the early history of immigration before Ellis Island opened as an immigration station. It examines how immigration, both voluntary and involuntary, shaped the early landscape of this country and introduces visitors to the diverse groups of people, who, before 1890, populated the land that would become the United States.
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When Ellis Island was opened in 1892, the facility bore little resemblance to the Renaissance Revival/Beaux Arts structure that people have come to know today. Made out of Georgia pine, the complex caught fire on June 15, 1897 and burned to the ground in about 6 hours. The current building was opened on December 17, 1900.


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As Clover looked down the hillside her eyes filled with tears. If she could have spoken her thoughts; it would have been to say that this was not what they had aimed at when they had set themselves years ago to work for the overthrow of the human race. These scenes of terror and slaughter were not what they had looked forward to on that night when old Major first stirred them to rebellion. (7.30)
Boxer passed it off as usual with "Napoleon is always right!", but Clover, who thought she remembered a definite ruling against beds, went to the end of the barn and tried to puzzle out the Seven Commandments which were inscribed there. Finding herself unable to read more than individual letters, she fetched Muriel […]
"Muriel," she said, "read me the Fourth Commandment. Does it not say something about never sleeping in a bed?" […]
With some difficulty Muriel spelt it out... "It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,"' she announced finally. (6.10-6.13)
"My sight is failing," she said finally. "Even when I was young I could not have read what was written there. But it appears to me that that wall looks different. Are the Seven Commandments the same as they used to be, Benjamin?"
For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran:
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS (10.17, 10.18, 10.19)


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Jason Sudeikis Calls Olivia Wilde Out For 'Traumatizing' Their Son At Disneyland
On the Wednesday, June 12 episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, guest-host Jason Sudeikis interviewed his fianceé, Olivia Wilde, and jokingly asked her why she keeps traumatizing their 5-year-old son at amusement parks.
Olivia, 35, and Jason, 43, probably won't be making a trip to Disneyland anytime soon.
While interviewing the mother of his children about her directorial debut in Booksmart, the actor jokingly asked Olivia why she decided to take their son, Otis, 5, on Space Mountain.
“This is important, this is something I wanted to bring up,” Jason said before explaining to the crowd that the couple brought Otis to Disneyland to celebrate his fourth birthday in April 2018.
After realizing that their son loved Splash Mountain, the parents said they "got cocky" and decided to take things to the next level by having him try out Space Mountain.
The former Saturday Night Live star then shared a photo of their experience on the roller coaster, which showed Olivia holding on tightly to Otis's hands in the front seat. Jason was in the back seat staring at them with a shocked expression.
“It’s really traumatizing for me because you’re not supposed to take a 4-year-old on the ride — look at my face!” Olivia said. “I’ve never been so scared in my life! That’s real mom fear!” Jason added with a laugh, “And that’s real little boy fear. He looks like he’s in The Ring!”
“First of all, why did we go in the front? That I’ll never understand,” the mother-of-two said. “Second of all, why did they let him on? There’s a height chart, but there’s no weight chart. So he’s really tall, but he’s really skinny, he’s like a little string bean. He could have flown right out of there. I have never been so scared in my life.”
Jason and Olivia met at a Saturday Night Live finale party in 2011 and started dating shortly after. They confirmed their engagement in January 2013 and welcomed Otis in April 2014. Olivia gave birth to their daughter, Daisy, in October 2016.
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