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Over the past few years, I've read/studied a number of books on the craft of writing, everything from tension & conflict, to character development, to the 3-part story arc. Here's a list of the best books I've read on how to develop and hone your writing.
"It was about time the world saw Egypt not through a Western lens, but through an authentically Egyptian one."
My favorite fantasy books of all time
Who knew mummy brown was actually, at one point, made of real ancient Egyptian mummies...
What I enjoyed a lot of the story is the main character, Tea, has powerful skills, so powerful she raises her dead brother from the grave without realizing it, and yet though people celebrate her, they also turn their backs on her.
I could almost hear my father or grandmother telling me these sorts of stories woven from oral tradition.
Silver in the Wood is a woodsy folktale that harkens to the old gods and mischievous fae.
Tiffy answers Leon's ad for a strange, but potentially doable living arrangement: sharing a flat, and not only that, but sharing a bed. Just not at the same time.
I was a little jealous of Allegra's chance to make as much money as she does right out of school, while living in NYC, and "living the dream." But like anything, once you take a look under the surface, things are anything but a dream.
Writing Wild Writing Wild is a book not in line with how I view the world, namely the spiritual undertones. The author is too David Avocado Wolfe for me, with her messages of balancing ions in the body, energies, chakras, etc. A snake crossing your path has meaning only because you’ve given it meaning; not … Continue reading Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature


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Indulge in the Metropolitan way of life: fresh, stylish, energetic. The Metropolitan in London is among the capital s most enduring design phenomena, a hotel that combines cool looks and cosseting service with a contemporary mindset, putting it squarely on the map of travellers seeking to be at the centre of the action. From floor-to-ceiling windows, look out over a glittering skyline, comfortable in the knowledge you are standing right where it matters - on Park Lane, with the city s best bar and restaurant in the very same building. A contemporary hotel with an enduring design aesthetic. The hotel s sleek yet serene urban image combines soft whites, pear-wood panelling, suede upholstery and pure Egyptian cottons. Colours are subtle, featuring cosseting mauves and warm plum. Carefully selected pieces of antique Asian furniture introduce soft, Eastern accents. This is the work of Keith Hobbs, regarded as a true innovator in hotel design for the modern generation. Natural light floods the spaces, while walls of glass draw you into the city. The Japanese- Peruvian restaurant, Nobu, buzzes at lunch and dinner with devotees of its Micehelin-starred cuisine. The Met Bar is a cult classic among the music, media and fashion crowd, a sultry lounge bar and club with live DJs and memorable Martinis. For a quieter moment, retreat to the intimate and newly renovated COMO Shambhala Urban Escape offering a full-range of holistic, Asian-inspired therapies in addition to yoga and a fully-equipped private gym. It is an uplifting perspective, proof of simplicity s power, and the chic appeal of understatement. It is your private haven at the heart of the metropolis, a place to retreat to when the need for quiet comes upon you.
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"Nights of Azure 2" Previewed in ‘Forbidden Lily’ Trailer and Gameplay
This past week Koei Tecmo announced a delay for Nights of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon, pushing it from its original December 22 release to February 2017. This was followed by some new footage at the Fall 2016 Dengeki PlayStation Premium Event, including a ‘Forbidden Lily’ trailer and some gameplay.
Like the earlier The Witch and the Hundred Knight 2 footage, you can skip around to get to the goods in the video below. The trailer starts at 23:33 and the gameplay can be found around the 30:43 mark.

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When I first met these two at their maternity portraits, they were just so content just to be together. Their easygoing nature is just so easy to photograph and it was such a joy to photograph them with their sweet baby boy. He just fit right into the family perfectly – he was as content as can be and was just so happy to be held and snuggled during the session. This was a travel session for me (yes I travel for sessions – contact me for more info) A lot of clients can worry about lighting in their home and we really used the best of the light we had that day and were able to get several different images of the three of them together. I loved their sign, “Home is wherever I am with you,” and we definitely had to use it in a few photos.
If you’re on the e-mail list, I’ve been sending out a lot of information lately so make sure you’ve signed up. There’s a client event on October 3rd, and you can also contact me for more information about the Free Holiday Minis 11/21, 12/2 and 12/5.
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Readerz.Net / Josephine Tey
Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth MacKintosh (25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952), a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot, under which name she wrote plays, many with biblical or historical themes.
Life and work
MacKintosh was born in Inverness, the eldest of three daughters of Colin MacKintosh and Josephine (née Horne). She attended Inverness Royal Academy and then, in 1914, Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. She taught physical training at various schools in England and Scotland and during her vacations worked at a convalescent home in Inverness as a Voluntary Aid Detachment. In 1923, she returned to Inverness permanently to care for her invalid mother, and stayed after her mother's death that year to keep house for her father.
The curriculum for "physical training" included much more than athletics. Tey used her school experience in Miss Pym Disposes when describing the subjects taught at the school, and the types of bruises and other injuries sustained by the pupils. When she graduated, Tey worked in a physiotherapy clinic in Leeds, then taught in schools, first in Nottinghamshire, then in Oban, where she was injured. A boom in the gymnasium fell on her face. Tey repurposed this incident as a method of murder in Miss Pym Disposes.
While caring for her father she began her career as a writer. Her first published work was in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the name Gordon Daviot. She continued publishing verse and short stories in The Westminster Review, The Glasgow Herald and the Literary Review.
Her first novel, Kif: An Unvarnished History, was well received at the time with good reviews, a sale to America, and a mention in The Observer's list of Books of the Week. Three months later, her first mystery novel, The Man in the Queue, was published by Benn, Methuen. It was awarded the Dutton Mystery Prize when published in America. This is the first appearance of her detective, Inspector Alan Grant. It would be some years before she wrote another mystery.
MacKintosh's real ambition had been to have a play of hers running in the West End. Her play Richard of Bordeaux was produced in 1932 at the New Theatre under the Daviot pseudonym. She stated she was inspired by John Gielgud's performance in Hamlet and by the Royal Tournament. Tey had an excellent knowledge of military tactics, which she put to good use in several of her books. Two more of her plays were produced at the New Theatre, The Laughing Woman (1934) and Queen of Scots (1934).
About a dozen one-act plays and another dozen full-length plays were written under the name of Gordon Daviot. How she chose the name of Gordon is unknown, but Daviot was the name of a scenic locale near Inverness where she had spent many happy holidays with her family. Only four of her plays were produced during her lifetime. Richard of Bordeaux was particularly successful, running for 14 months and making a household name of its young leading man and director, John Gielgud. (Tey writes of Inspector Alan Grant that "he had in his youth seen Richard of Bordeaux; four times he had seen it".)
Her only non-fiction book, Claverhouse, was written as a vindication of someone she perceived to be a libeled hero: "It is strange that a man whose life was so simple in pattern and so forthright in spirit should have become a peg for every legend, bloody or brave, that belonged to his time."
MacKintosh's best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey, which was the name of her Suffolk great-great grandmother.
In five of the mystery novels, all of which except the first she wrote under the name of Tey, the hero is Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. (Grant appears in a sixth, The Franchise Affair, as a minor character.) The most famous of these is The Daughter of Time, in which Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Grant comes to the firm conclusion that King Richard was totally innocent of the death of the Princes.
The Franchise Affair also has a historical context: although set in the 1940s, it is based on the 18th-century case of Elizabeth Canning. The Daughter of Time was the last of Tey's books published during her lifetime. Her last work, a further crime novel, The Singing Sands, was found in her papers and published posthumously.
Tey was intensely private, shunning all publicity throughout her life. During her last year, when she knew that she was mortally ill, she resolutely avoided all her friends as well. Her penultimate work, The Privateer (1952), was a romantic novel based on the life of the privateer Henry Morgan. She died of liver cancer at her sister Mary's home in London on 13 February 1952. Most of her friends were unaware that she was even ill, including Gielgud, who was shocked to read news of it in The Times during a matinee performance of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Her death notice in The Times appeared under her "Gordon Daviot" pseudonym, with no mention of her real name or "Josephine Tey".
Proceeds from Tey's estate, including royalties from her books, were assigned to the National Trust.
Appearances and adaptations in other works
The heroine of Mary Stewart's The Ivy Tree (1961) uses Tey's book Brat Farrar as a model when impersonating the missing heir to an estate. She describes the book as "the best of them all".
Tey is mentioned in the Stephen King novella, Apt Pupil (1982).
Tey appears as a main character in a series of novels by Nicola Upson called the "Josephine Tey Mysteries". An Expert in Murder (2008), the first in the series, is a detective story woven around the original production of Richard of Bordeaux.
Tey's Brat Farrar is mentioned extensively as a work vividly remembered and imagined by the narrator in the first section of Gerald Murnane's 2009 novel Barley Patch.
The Daughter of Time influenced later mystery writers, notably Barbara Mertz. Mertz, writing as Elizabeth Peters, refers explicitly to Tey in The Murders of Richard III, which sets a country house murder mystery among a group who believe that Richard III was innocent.
Reception and legacy
In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British Crime Writers' Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time; The Franchise Affair was 11th on the same list of 100 books.
In 2012, Peter Hitchens wrote that, "Josephine Tey's clarity of mind, and her loathing of fakes and of propaganda, are like pure, cold spring water in a weary land", and
Inspector Alan Grant novels
These novels are set in the same fictional 20th-century Britain as the Inspector Grant novels.
Radio and television dramatisations
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i have been norco 5/350 4 a day for over 2 years and ambien for about 10 years, 1 at bedtime. a couple of weeks ago my doctor had me take a blood test to make sure my levels were normal. the first test came back negative. so the following week i took another blood test and it also came back negative. i also take soma and xanax. my doctor has never heard of false negative and will not treat me anymore. i know there is a false positive. what can i do to make the doctor know that i am taking my medication as perscribed. now there saying its an incident
I would first talk to the agency or hospital that did the test, tell them what you are taking and ask them what they were testing for. Secondly what was the chronological relation between the medication and the test. If you have taken the tablets at say 8.00 am you should give the blood for testing anywhere between 12.00 noon and 4.00 pm. Next change the place where teting is done, first discuss with the people doing the test and tell them the problem that you have faced. Ask them details of false positive and false negative with their test methods or kits.
I think the problem should be solved.
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I just saw Airi’s new music video, I love it. It is like a 60/70s scifi show. It was really fun and the song is just amazing. I really like the way Airi’s music has evolved into this fun and interesting style that sets her appart from other artists. And this new song was no exemption.
Hasta la proxima,


That’s right feast your eyes on this beauty, it’s something even lefties will love!
It is the raw tactical look of the KelTec KSG 12 gauge pump action shotgun and at 30 inches long it’s a very handy package.
Impressive 12 shot (or 8 with 3inch) magazine. The magazine is set up with two user selectable tube magazines. What does this mean? Duck loads in one tube, goose loads in the other? You choose. You can switch to whatever load you need. No Chokes to worry about so steel shot is fine – the KSG has a straight cylinder bored barrel.
Best of all the ejection system is straight down, at the shoulder- great for all you lefties – but ladies make sure your cleavage is covered when you are out shooting!
Its compact and at 3.3 kilo (unloaded) it certainly is easy to handle. A useful weaver type rail is on the top and bottom so you can add accessories like a torch or red dot sight ideal for possum or rabbit shooting with buckshot in one tube and number 3’s in the other!
Go into Reloaders now they are on the shelf, have a look and see if you are up for thirty inches of 12 gauge.
Summary: The KSG™ is no ordinary pump action shotgun.
Weight 3.3kg, length 30 inches, Price $2,099
Dual tube magazines hold eight 3 inch, 12 gauge shells (plus one in the chamber)
Patented downward ejection system makes it truly ambidextrous
You can’t go past a couple of videos on this shotgun from Youtuber hickok45:


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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras , informed German Chancellor Angela Merkel , which on top of Eurogroup on Tuesday will present "proposal" of Greece to reach an agreement with the European Union (EU) following the decision of the Greek people not accept the impositions of the troika.
Government sources said that Tsipras and Merkel "agreed" in a telephone conversation that "the prime minister presented Tuesday, July 7 morning at the summit of the Eurogroup the proposal of the Greek government "but did not offer further details.
Tsipras spoke by phone with Merkel during a break in the meeting that is keeping more than five minutes ago with leaders Greek political parties, except the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn.
Previously, according to these sources, the prime minister and Greek President Prokopis Pavlópulos, held a telephone conversation with the boss French statesman, Francois Hollande, overlooking the meeting that the French president will keep tonight with Merkel.
also Tsipras have also spoken with the President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi , and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
the Greek people rejected on Sunday with 61 percent of the vote the proposal made by European creditors, involving more cuts in social spending and deepening humanitarian crisis in the Greek nation. (See: Greece wins "No" to the adjustment measures of the troika)

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Thank you all for joining FBC events autumn season 2019!
Our autumn started with EU Young Professionals Networking evening on August 28. FBC cooperated with NBAS (Norwegian Business Association in Singapore) in the spirit of Nordic collaboration. You all made the event happy and joyful, over 90 participants. We thank the speaker Saira Gill from Antler who opened the event speaking about the next generation of start-ups in Southeast Asia, touching upon technology developments, main macroeconomic developments and providing a few examples of start-ups in the region. The event was sponsored by Aalto Executive Education Academy and Finnair and hosted by Nordea.
We got a fully informative outlook for The Global and APAC market on September 26, 2019, when Mr Rajiv Biswas dived into China-US trade relationships and discussed their effects on the other APAC economies. Thank you for the interactive discussion! The event was hosted by Nordea.
The Nordic joint event Nordic Ambassadors’ Luncheon on Work-life Balance was held on October 2, 2019. We reached out both local and Nordic business communities to join this very important topic-focused luncheon. We received a lot of positive feedback about Nordic cooperation and wishes to continue on a similar path. Nordic countries are on the top on the work-life balance in the world and Nordic Ambassadors emphasized it is the one area the countries will continue to support. Thank you for the HE Ambassadors Dorte Bech Vizard (DK), Antti Vänskä (FI), Anita Nergaard (NO) and Niclas Kvarnström joining the discussion with Ms Jacqueline Poh, Deputy Secretary, Prime Minister’s Strategy Office. We also heard different company policies and solutions on work-life balance from Mr Gustav Heiberg (Norsk Hydro), Mr Vasishtha Tandan (Maersk), Mr Robert Radway (Handelsbanken) and Ms Minna Rouru (KONE). Special thanks to our sponsors, Nordea, Salling Search, Flokk and the VIP sponsors Astra Zeneca and Lofoten Arctic Water.
FBC members and Nordic network were invited to INSEAD to listen to a fascinating talk about “Leading Diverse Teams for Breakthrough Performance” by Professor Henrik Bresman on October 8. Many of us got excellent takeaways to leverage our leadership at work. Thank you INSEAD for the very interesting evening!
On October 23 Mr Robin Speculand’s talk gave us an insight on how digitalization is dramatically transforming the way businesses operate today. He shared with us shocking research results on how a majority of digital executions (84%) are failing. Fortunately, he also shared how to succeed. The breakfast event was intensive and interactive. Thank you Aalto Executive Education Academy for hosting & sponsoring the event!
We had a chance to learn more about the Philippines as a market on November 11. Mr Joona Selin (NordCham Philippines) gave a talk about what is doing the business in the Philippines. Ms Eugenia Victorino (SEB) helped us to understand the Philippines’ economy and future possibilities. Thank you for being interactive! The event was hosted by SEB.
This year the traditional, and carbon-neutral, Independence Day reception was held on the 3rd of December at Chijmes. HE Ambassador Antti Vänskä and also Dr Amy Khor, Singapore’s Senior Minister of State, Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and Ministry of Health stated the two nations share many similar commitments, bringing forward many opportunities in collaboration for instance on education and health care. Ambassador Vänskä emphasized Finland’s current mission on sustainability and circular economy and continued that Finland has again ranked the happiest country in the world this year. We thank the Embassy of Finland for the celebrations.

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WHDH-TV (Channel 7), the NBC television affiliate in Boston owned by Ed Ansin, has gone to court in a bid to block Comcast Corp. from terminating the station’s network contract.
WHDH, in a 68-page complaint filed Thursday in US District Court in Boston, alleges that Comcast’s plan to take away the network affiliation is a breach of their contract, and that the cable giant, which owns NBC, is in violation of Massachusetts and federal antitrust law. Ansin’s station is seeking an injunction to stop the move, as well as unspecified damages.
In January, Comcast said its new station, dubbed NBC Boston, would carry the the network’s programs such as “The Voice,” now seen on Channel 7, as well as new syndicated shows, starting in 2017. The station will have a local news team, adding to the expansion that has already taken place at New England Cable News and Spanish-language station Telemundo Boston, which are also owned by Comcast.
Comcast has not said where the new station will broadcast from, but WHDH in its filing asserts that the cable giant intends to share a signal with WNEU-TV, a New Hampshire station that NBC owns and currently broadcasts Telemundo on Channel 60.
WHDH contends that the New Hampshire transmitter is much weaker, with less than half of the 7.1 million viewers that Channel 7 reaches in the Boston market. Such a move would mean many viewers would lose free over-the-air access to NBC programming, and WHDH believes that violates the agreement Comcast struck with the Federal Communications Commission in winning approval to acquire a controlling stake in NBC in 2011.
In an interview, Ansin said WHDH is weighing whether to file a complaint with the FCC, but an agency spokeswoman confirmed on Thursday that several viewers have already done so out of concern they will lose free access to NBC programming when the network switches channels.
A spokeswoman for NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast that oversees NBC, issued a statement calling the lawsuit “meritless” and assured Boston-area viewers that it will continue to deliver strong programming that will reach over-the-air viewers.
Elbert Robertson , a former antitrust adviser with the FCC, said he would be surprised if the agency didn’t intervene because Comcast appears to be bypassing its affiliate, which would violate the terms of its government order.
“Everyone was concerned about that from the very beginning,” said Robertson, now a professor at Suffolk University Law School. “This should definitely be before the FCC.”
Other legal experts say that what’s less clear is how strong of a case WHDH has against Comcast for violating antitrust or breach of contract laws.
“It’s not a completely meritless claim,” said Daniel Lyons, a professor at Boston College Law School who studies telecommunications issues. “It’s not clear to me that it’s a slam dunk either.”
Keith Hylton, who teaches antitrust issues at the Boston University School of Law, thinks WHDH faces an uphill battle, but one US Supreme Court precedent could bolster the station’s claims. In Aspen Skiing v. Aspen Highlands Skiing, a monopoly refused to deal with a smaller competitor. The court ruled against Aspen Skiing, the monopoly, saying its actions were an attempt to destroy Aspen Highlands.
WHDH, in its suit, outlines a similar scenario.
“That’s his best case,” said Hylton, but “the facts have to be pretty special.”

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I hope you are well.
Today in the Christmas Shop I have listed something for the weavers amongst us.
I'm not a weaver but I do appreciate the art form. It's all about colour placement, the creation of layers of interest and texture and patience, patience and more patience. I'm not that patient.
I get asked a lot by weavers for lengths ofyarn to add some chunk to their weavings. The best examples of how effective adding some chunk to a weaving can be found in the works of my lovely friends Natalie Miller and Maryanne Moodie. Check them out!
This Christmas, to make your life so much easier, I have bundled together 5 sample packs, all in different colour combinations, so that you can try your hand at adding some chunk to your own work. Each pack has 8 colours and 2 metres of each colour.
K1S1 is a perfect yarn for weaving because, while it is soft and easy to manipulate around your warp and weft, unlike roving, it will not shed, break or tear whilst you are working with it.
Hope you love.
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Why Are Elon Musk and Pope Francis Urging Us To Have More Babies?
This isn’t exactly the way to save humanity
Pope Francis has long enjoyed the reputation as the ‘cool pope.’
But it looks like those days might be over now.
A few days ago, he enraged quite a lot of people by suggesting that couples who choose to have pets over children are…


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Peripheral neuropathy is serious and can even be a dangerous nerve issue that often develops gradually over time which is a common condition we see in our office.
The peripheral nervous system works as a messenger to send sensation signals (pain, pleasure, etc.) from your body to your brain. Your brain then interprets these messages and lets you know what is happening. This is an important job because if you are in pain, then you can address whatever is causing it to avoid any harm to your body.
However, when peripheral neuropathy occurs, this becomes very difficult for the nerves to do. And this is where things can become dangerous. If the nerves have been damaged or destroyed by an underlying cause, you may begin to feel increasingly severe pain when there is nothing wrong or not feel the pain when a serious problem occurs.
If you believe you may be developing peripheral neuropathy—even if the symptoms do not yet seem severe—it is critical that you receive expert care and an evaluation from an expert as soon as possible. Our team at Capital Podiatry Associates is exceptionally qualified to diagnose and treat your peripheral neuropathy to keep you as active, pain-free, and safe as possible.
What Causes Peripheral Neuropathy?
Unmanaged diabetes is the most common cause of peripheral neuropathy. Diabetes can cause stress on your body because of high blood sugar levels and high blood pressure. This makes it crucial to manage diabetes by maintaining low blood sugar levels and a weight healthy range.
Diabetes can be the main cause, but it is not the only cause of neuropathy. Other risk factors for peripheral neuropathy, include:
- Chronic inflammation
- Kidney disease
- Vitamin deficiency
Foot and ankle injuries are another common cause of neuropathy. Other reasons this condition can develop include exposure to toxins, autoimmune diseases, and certain kinds of medication.

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text: Maternal malnutrition is a risk factor for the next generation: in some developed and emerging countries more than 50% of young women are now overweighed (BMI >25-30) or obese (BMI (>30). Their children have a higher risk to become obese later in life. On the other hand, more than 10% of the global female population (childbearing age) is undernourished (BMI<18.5), which is a risk factor for the offspring generation. Maternal malnutrition can result in unfavorable (epigenetic) programming of fetal genes which has lifelong consequences. Childhood obesity and under-nutrition frequently have their origins in the fetal period. There is a need to intervene early, ideally before or during pregnancy.


After the Rosetta mission's successful landing of a probe on a comet more than 300 million miles away from Earth earlier this month, NASA's plans for future asteroid mining may be looking more realistic not just to the general public but also to investors.
The European Space Agency pulled off the comet feat when its decade-long Rosetta mission landed the Philae probe on the chunk of space rock it had been chasing, and in true entrepreneur spirit, David Gump, vice chairman of Deep Space Industries, told the Boston Globe
his company may start trying to prospect near-earth asteroids within a year.
In June, NASA signed two contracts with Deep Space Industries to boost its asteroid prospecting and harvesting program. Deep Space will analyze commercial approaches to NASA's asteroid goals and how an industry-led asteroid economy can make manned Mars missions safer and less expensive.
The second NASA contract will allow Deep Space to examine how several small asteroid-prospecting payloads can be launched as hitchhikers on NASA missions. Gump told the Globe the big trick for commercial asteroid mining is cost because it is still expensive to build something safe enough to escape Earth's atmosphere and re-enter it.
He said that since asteroids have little to no gravity, a probe would need little fuel to get on or off it.
"Right now it costs $17 million per ton to get anything up to geosynchronous orbit," said Gump. "If we can beat whatever that price is in 2022, we'll have a big market."
Eric Anderson, chief executive of the asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, told the Globe that finding material like platinum on an asteroid would make up the cost of mining.
"An asteroid 30 or 40 meters wide has more platinum on it than five years of platinum trading on earth," Anderson said to the newspaper. "We could bring platinum back at cost of $300 per ounce and that could go way down over time."
The Globe reported that terrestrial platinum currently trades at $1,185 per ounce.
Hoyt Davidson, managing member at Near Earth LLC, which is collaborating with Deep Space on NASA contract, said in a statement that the future cost of space exploration will continue to go down with experience, making it more economical.
"The space industry is transforming with new lower-cost launch options and inexpensive small satellites, trends that Deep Space intends to exploit for its prospecting missions," Davidson said in a statement.
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Jennifer Lopez is returning to both the big screen and the small screen. Variety reports that the actress, producer and all-around entertainer has inked a deal with Netflix to partner with her Nuyorican Production Company. Under the deal, Lopez will reportedly produce a slate of scripted and unscripted projects for content in both movies and television.
Lopez shared the news on social media with the caption “Lets Go [Netflix]!!! The best is yet to come…”
Two projects, titled The Mother and The Cipher, have already been announced. The Mother already has Lopez in training for the role as a deadly assassin mother who comes out of hiding in order to teach her daughter how to survive. It is currently in pre-production and is set for a fall 2022 release. The second project, The Cipher, is based on the book of the same name by Isabel Ojeda; it’s the story of an FBI agent who is hunted by a serial killer. Jennifer Lopez will take on the lead for this role as well.
The deal also includes Lopez’s longtime business associate Benny Medina and Nuyorican President Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas.
“I am excited to announce my new partnership with Netflix. Elaine, Benny and I believe there is no better home for us than a forward-leaning content creation company that seeks to defy conventional wisdom and directly market to the millions across the globe who no longer view art and entertainment with the kind of boundaries and limitations of the past,” Lopez said in a statement to Variety.
In the meantime, Lopez has two projects set to release soon. First up is Shotgun Wedding which wrapped filming in April just as Lopez and fiance Alex Rodriguez called off their engagement. That movie is due to hit theaters on June 29 and stars Josh Duhmal. Marry Me,starring Owen Wilson is due next Valentine’s Day 2022.


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The Sandiganbayan has allowed the administrative officer of Damanjug town in Cebu to undergo probation instead of serving her prison term ranging from two to eight months for usurpation.
Granted was the motion filed by Emmylou Cabonilas, who was the co-accused of the late Dumanjug Mayor Nelson Gamaliel Garcia.
They were found guilty of violating Article 177 of the Revised Penal Code for signing a Sangguniang Bayan (SB) resolution and usurping the functions of the municipal council secretary in 2014.
On Jan. 20, Cabonilas filed an Application for Probation and said that she qualifies under the Probation Law since the penalty imposed on her does not exceed six years.
She also told the anti-graft court that she has not been previously convicted of another crime against national security and public order.
In a resolution issued last Feb. 8, the anti-graft court said: “Upon initial assessment but without prejudice to the findings of the Probation Officer, Cabonilas may avail of the privilege granted under the Probation Law.”
Probation is a period of supervision ordered by the court over a convicted individual instead of having him or her serve time in prison.
Section 4 of Presidential Decree 968, the Probation Law of 1976, provides that a “court may, after it shall have convicted and sentenced a defendant for a probational penalty and upon application by said defendant within a period for perfecting an appeal, suspend the execution of the sentence and place the defendant on probation for such period and upon such terms and conditions as it may deem best.”
Cabonilas’ probation officer has been given 60 days from the receipt of the resolution to submit a post-sentence investigation and report to the court.
Associate Justice Maria Theresa V. Mendoza-Arcega wrote the resolution with the concurrence of Associate Justices Rafael R. Lagos and Maryann E. Corpus Mañalac.


The Center for Community Schools in the College of Community Innovation and Education (CCIE) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) seeks applications for a research associate coordinator for Technical Assistance and Evaluation. The research associate coordinator will work with the program director and other Center for Community Schools staff in providing assistance to schools and partners across the state to plan, implement, and evaluate community school best practices. The UCF Center for Community Schools serves as a comprehensive resource by providing technical assistance, university-assisted partnership, training and development, assessment and evaluation for the development of high-quality community schools. Center responsibilities include managing day-to-day operations; identifying indicators of program and student success; designing evaluations regarding student and program outcomes; compiling and reviewing evaluation findings and preparing reports for Florida’s governor, legislative bodies, the Florida Department of Education, and the commissioner of education.
The research associate coordinator reports directly to the program director of the UCF Center for Community Schools. Position responsibilities include:
* Provide management of the day-to-day operations of the Center for Community Schools.
* Manage up-to-date monitoring of all center projects to ensure ongoing strategic goals and objectives are being addressed and action steps are being implemented.
* Provide leadership and management, as well as information, consultation and direction on how to plan, develop and implement community school projects throughout Florida and beyond.
* Assist in the management of the day-to-day operations of the Center for Community Schools.
* Responsible for the administration, planning, and coordination of the center and its role in the development of community schools.
* Supervise a team of graduate students who are the support personnel for the Center for Community Schools.
* Develop and implement communication plans to ensure internal and external coordination and project cohesion.
* Assist in developing and producing strategic planning frameworks for center planning purposes.
* Coordinate Center for Community School projects and provide technical assistance for program development and implementation of programs, services and collaborative partnerships.
* Assist the director in creating systems for statewide evaluation and technical assistance efforts.
* Assist in meeting all Florida Department of Education accountability requirements and those outlined in SB7070 Community School Grant Program.
* Responsible for assisting with the legislature and community agencies to acquire support for the sustainability of the center and community schools across the state.
* Other duties as assigned to help advance the vision, mission, and goals of the Center for Community Schools.


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Whether you've had the chance to check out Brooklyn four-piece Beach Fossils every time they've come to your city or if you've just been dying to catch the band since they started things off in '09, we've got good news. Not only do we have an interview with frontman Dustin Payseur, but we've also got tickets to give away to their upcoming tour with Heavenly Beat and Axxa/Abraxas.
So scroll down to read our interview below, then sign up to win tickets to catch a live set in your rad city!
If someone had never heard your music before, which one song would you recommend they listen to?
If you could work with any other band or musician (living or dead) that you haven't yet worked with, who would it be?
Sometimes I think I it would be nice to collaborate with artists I look up to, but most of the time I think I love them for what they made on their own. It's usually better to observe their works from an outside perspective. I would love to collaborate with people who are making exciting shit that's off the wall, people who are in their own heads and don't usually collaborate. Not sure who that would be though.
Who are some of your favorite throwback punk bands?
Some of my favorites are Part 1, Crisis, The Sinyx, Flux of Pink Indians, The Disrupters.
What are some pieces of merch you have from bands you admire?
I like when musicians are creative outside of music, like if they release a book of their own art... even if they're bad at it, it's cool that they at least are working with other mediums and releasing that energy in more ways than one. If you could figure out how to get a plant to grow in the shape of your band name, that would be a pretty nice piece of merch to have at the booth.
Where is your favorite spot to go for brunch in Brooklyn?
Probably my apartment; smother a half-cooked veggie patty in BBQ sauce, put it in a bowl that still has a bit of cereal left in it, that's kind of my daily routine.
What's your favorite music venue in the entire world?
It used to be Market Hotel and then it was 285 Kent, but they're both shut down now. We've definitely played a lot of moldy warehouses when we first started touring, they're all great for their own reasons.
If you could give fans one piece of advice for attending your live shows, what would it be?
Our recordings are mellow, so if you come to the show and want to stand back and listen, that's totally cool. But live, we are much more energetic, a lot of our fans are very rowdy and like to jump on and off the stage and lose themselves in the noise. Learn to love mess and just enjoy yourself!
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What a great year it has been for video games. We have had so many long awaited releases come out and live up to every bit of their hype. This is a wonderful thing to see because a lot of times the hype trains can tend to be for not. The Last Guardian, Inside, Stardew Valley, and even though there was a huge negative reaction to No Man’s Sky, it is still a game that a lot of people enjoy and love. I have been very impressed with all of the games I have been able to play that were released this year, and it leaves me anxiously awaiting the years to come as we see this industry shaping itself into something that is truly special. I will be mentioning my runner up, but for now let’s get to my big winner for the year, Stardew Valley.
I just can not praise this game and developer enough. I did go in depth about this game very recently In my review, but there was a challenge posted in a video games community that I enjoy writing in to name a best game of 2016 & Stardew was the clear shot winner for me. I can’t get my wife to play video games for anything, I always try to hype her up about different things and get her involved but nothing was able to do get her hooked until Stardew. We both now have over a collective hundred hours into it and do not plan on stopping any time soon. I will try to hit in its strong points without being too repetitive, please forgive me if I do hit on any same topics from before.
This game just does so much right. It’s hard to pick out favorite aspects when really everything just flows together in a complete & satisfying set of tasks each day. Some days it is hard to know where to even begin after getting the daily mandatory tasks completed, such as watering plants or feeding & petting animals. There are plenty of options to choose from. I would also like to say that I am an apologist of the fishing mini game, just hang with it you guys! It is seriously fun, it just takes a little bit of grinding and you get better at it while really getting a little bit of taste of fighting with a fish to reel it in. I read a lot of people who are down on it or think it is too difficult, but I have thought that it was a great addition from the beginning.
The mining is my favorite area to venture into. It gets more difficult and perilous the deeper you delve into the mines, and there is plenty of awesomeness to discover while trekking below. There are different environments, monsters, ores, & prizes for various sections of the mine. It is extremely engaging and interesting, I spend much of my time adventuring here. The farming works great also and can take up much of your time depending on how many animals you have or how many crops before you get sprinklers. This is all not even including the social aspects, the marriage and children, the mini game at the bar which is daunting and a blast, and the amazingly done events that happen at certain times of the year. It really is a full game that is just bursting with life.
Now I don’t want to go on too long, I will let you read the full review if interested in reading more about this spectacular game. Let me get to a small section about my runner up, Oxenfree. This game was a beautiful and artistic story driven game. You choose the way the story unfolds as you follow a group of teens who stumble into a very trippy series of events while celebrating on an island where they often get together. The storytelling is top notch and the way you affect the direction is while only very slightly reminiscent of games like TellTale is totally done in a way all of its own. I only mention it because it is the best way I can think to reference the timed response, if you do not choose in time you will say nothing and the group will react accordingly. My full review of Oxenfree is up right here.
Well that wraps it up for this year, I hope that yours was a happy and full one. There have been some great additions to the gaming selection this year. As you might imagine I highly recommend that you give these two a shot, they are extremely well done and will continue to stand out as excellent games for years to come. Happy holidays from my family to yours, and thank you for taking the time to check out my first game of the year selections.
Read my full review of Stardew Valley Here
Read my full review of Oxenfree Here
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Here are three things to watch on the increasingly tense situation at the Southwestern border, where federal and state authorities are bracing for an influx of migrants who want to seek asylum in the U.S:
A court fight
In a major test of executive power, on Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether lower courts can force the Biden administration to keep using a policy implemented in 2019 by former President Donald Trump that makes asylum seekers wait in Mexico for their U.S. immigration court dates.
Under the Remain in Mexico policy implemented in January 2019, roughly 70,000 asylum seekers who arrived at the Southwest border have been returned to dangerous, crime-ridden Mexican border cities to await their hearings in U.S. immigration court. That can take months or even years.
When the Biden administration attempted to stop the policy, Texas and Missouri sued. A judge required that the policy continue. The Justice Department called it “unprecedented” for courts to force the Department of Homeland Security to retain a policy it has twice determined is not in the country’s interests, and which has “imposed unjustifiable human costs on migrants facing extreme violence in Mexico.” It will argue that the president has the right to end the policy.
Bracing for an influx
Federal and state authorities are preparing for an influx of migrants along the border after the pandemic-related heath order Title 42 is lifted on May 23. The order allows for the rapid expulsion of people who cross the border to legally seek asylum, and it has been criticized for depriving them of due process.
The government believes that, with seasonal increases factored in, as many as 6,000 to 18,000 migrants will be crossing the border every day. This is in part because, with the lifting of Title 42, migrants who have been stuck in dangerous and unsanitary camps or in shelters in Mexico border cities will again try to cross to seek asylum.
Declaring that the Biden administration has failed to provide adequate border security for the U.S., Abbott has spent billions of state dollars on his Operation Lone Star border security effort, which includes a new effort to build a border wall and calling up 10,000 Texas National Guard soldiers and sending them to the border along with state troopers.
Abbott’s inspection toll
A report released Wednesday by leading Texas economist Ray Perryman estimated that stepped up commercial truck inspections ordered April 6 by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cost more than $4.2 billion in lost goods and services. The inspections were meant to interdict people and drug smuggling.
Abbott’s inspections were widely criticized by Republican and Democrat politicians and business leaders because they snarled traffic on international bridges, creating hours- and days-long delays for commercial crossings. Perryman said about $1 billion a day in cross-border trade to the United States was lost and $470 million a day to Texas.
Abbott ended the additional inspections last week after the governors of four Mexican border states — Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas — announced they had reached security agreements with Texas. But those agreements mostly outlined what the states were already doing.
And those inspections? The Department of Public Safety reported that as of the end of April 15, state troopers had inspected 6,484 commercial vehicles.
DPS said 1,541 commercial vehicles were placed out of service for safety violations such as defective brakes, defective tires and defective lighting. Additionally, 153 commercial vehicle drivers were placed out of service. DPS did not say whether any smuggled people or drugs were found.


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SHIP is an ”Internationalisation in the Humanities project” aimed at a comparative history of health and disease in European port cities, 1850-1950. Port cities in the past acted as ‘gateways of disease’ in the same way that airports today function as hubs for the transmission of infectious diseases such as the Ebola and ZIKA viruses. SHIP studies the dynamics of mortality change in high level disease environments in port cities across 19th and early 20th century Europe by reconstructing their epidemiological fingerprints and the way these changed in an exceptional period in the history of European health, in which life expectancy at birth nearly doubled, infectious diseases sharply declined, and cancers and cardiovascular diseases greatly increased. The project focuses on port cities for which there are historical individual-level cause-of-death data available and entails currently the following cities: Antwerp, Amsterdam, Bergen, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Ipswich, Palma de Mallorca, Rostock, Stockholm, Trondheim and Venice.
The SHIP-network is directed by Prof.dr. Angelique Janssens (Radboud Group for Historical Demography and Family History), financed by NWO (The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) and co-financed by Cambridge University (The Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure, Dr. Alice Reid), Ghent University (History Department, Prof.dr. Isabelle Devos), University of Copenhagen (Saxo Institute, Prof.dr. Anne Løkke and Dr. Barbara Revuelta Eugercios), Autonomous University of Barcelona (Centre d’Estudis Demogràfes, Prof.dr. Anna Cabré and Dr. Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Department of History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Prof.dr.med.dr. Heiner Fangerau).


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Symptoms of a Heart Attack
Symptoms of a heart attack may include:
- Chest pain or pressure, or a strange feeling in the chest.
- Shortness of breath.
- Nausea or vomiting.
- Pain, pressure, or a strange feeling in the back, neck, jaw, or upper belly, or in one or both shoulders or arms.
- Lightheadedness or sudden weakness.
- A fast or irregular heartbeat.
The more of these symptoms you have, the more likely it is that you're having a heart attack. For men and women, the most common symptom is chest pain or pressure. But women are somewhat more likely than men to have other symptoms like shortness of breath, nausea, and back or jaw pain.
If you have symptoms of a heart attack, callor other emergency services immediately. After you call , the operator may tell you to chew 1 adult-strength or 2 to 4 low-dose aspirin. Wait for an ambulance. Do not try to drive yourself.
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Norwich are hopeful Wales midfielder Andrew Crofts (ankle) and full-back Russell Martin (calf) will be fit for tomorrow's Barclays Premier League opener at Wigan.
Striker James Vaughan, signed from Everton, and centre-back Elliott Ward are sidelined after picking up minor knee injuries during pre-season training in Germany.
Anthony Pilkington could be included in the squad as the former Huddersfield winger continues his rehabilitation from a serious ankle injury.
Provisional squad: Ruddy, Martin, De Laet, Barnett, Naughton, Bennett, Johnson, Crofts, Surman, Hoolahan, Holt, Rudd, Morison, Whitbread, Jackson, Pilkington, Fox, Martin, Tierney.
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§2056. Compensation; Orleans excluded
Ex-officio tax collectors throughout the state shall be paid as provided by law for the payment of sheriffs. For the seizures, sales and tax deeds made by each tax collector, they may be allowed the same costs which are allowed by the law to sheriffs for mileage, seizures, sales and sheriff's deeds in judicial proceedings; provided that they shall not be allowed to charge for any services not actually rendered, for any seizure not actually made, nor for any mileage not actually traveled.
Where property has been adjudicated to the state, the ex-officio tax collector shall be allowed and paid for making acts of sale, having the same recorded, and furnishing the Register of the State Land Office with a certified copy thereof, a fee of one dollar and fifty cents for each name contained in the act and shall be allowed their expenses for advertising, not to exceed the rate as fixed by law. The fees and expenses shall be certified to by the Register of the State Land Office on the deposit with him of the acts, audited and warranted for by the auditor and shall be paid by the treasurer out of any funds in his hands realized from taxes.
The tax collectors throughout the state shall receive the same rate of commission for collecting the parish taxes as for the collection of state taxes.
H.C.R. No. 88, 1993 R.S., eff. May 30, 1993; H.C.R. No. 1, 1994 R.S., eff. May 11, 1994.


The Film Society of St. Augustine shows many films and presents special showings for clubs or organizations.
Most of their films are shown at the St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine St., and are open to the public.
A special presentation of "The Battle of Algiers" will be shown at 3 p.m. Feb. 11 for free at the St. Augustine Library.
The 1965 French, 123-minute film is a textbook on terrorism without one foot of newsreel or documentary.
The Black Panthers used it, then the Pentagon -- just last year -- as a field guide to fighting terrorism.
Director Gillo Pontecorvo creates the "sense that all sides in the conflict have lost their souls," according to the New York Magazine reviewer.
"Lost in Translation," a 105-minute film, will be shown at 4:30 and 7:15 p.m. Feb. 17 at the Art Association.
Director Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" features Bill Murray, and playing opposite him is 18-year-old Scarlett Johansson.
Film Society members are $5, others $7 and students $3.
"Richard Avedon: Darkness & Light," an 87-minute film, will be shown at 7 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Art Association.
In 1946, moving from Harper's Bazaar to Vogue, Richard Avedon startled readers with his fresh approach to fashion photography. Then, turning to portraiture, he became the New Yorker's first staff photographer.
Art Association and Film Society members are $3; others $5.
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CBS STUDIOS/NAACP VENTURE AND THE BLACK LIST PARTNER TO IDENTIFY TELEVISION WRITERS TELLING BLACK STORIES
CBS Studios/NAACP Will Provide a WGA-Minimum Script Deal
LOS ANGELES –August 16, 2022 – CBS Studios/NAACP Production Venture and The Black List today announce a new initiative to discover episodic writing talent whose work authentically represents the Black experience. CBS/NAACP’s production partnership, run by Sheila Ducksworth, will offer a WGA-minimum script deal to one of the writers identified by this initiative.
The Black List will assist CBS Studios/NAACP in identifying a shortlist of talented writers who exemplify authentic storytelling of Black narratives through a submission period on blcklst.com that begins August 16 and is open until Nov. 16.
Interested writers with feature films, pilots, plays or theatrical musicals hosted on the Black List website can opt into consideration for this opportunity at no additional charge. Writers who do not currently have a script hosted on blcklst.com are encouraged to sign up and host their script for at least a week before the deadline to guarantee eligibility for this opportunity. They may also opt in to consideration for any of The Black List’s dozen other writer opportunities at no additional charge.
The Black List will then use all available data related to script submissions to determine a shortlist to be shared with CBS Studios/NAACP. Shortlisted writers may be asked to provide additional materials, such as a professional resume and personal statement, as part of the consideration process.
“The NAACP’s response to the release of ‘Birth of a Nation’ remains a criminally underappreciated moment in the history of cinema,” said Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of The Black List. “It’s a real joy to partner with them and CBS Studios to find exceptional writers writing about the Black experience.”
“Our CBS team has seen tremendous growth in the breadth of writing talent from diverse voices that crosses our desks every day,” said Tiffany Smith-Anoa’i, EVP, Diversity and Inclusion West Coast at Paramount Global. “But what many of these gifted writers lack is a specific opportunity. This new initiative will provide us with a platform to reach and ultimately nurture writers who wish to tell compelling and inclusive stories that speak to the Black experience. And from a business perspective, it allows CBS to continue to build a pipeline for finding the very best content creators.”
“The Black List has provided a much-needed platform for writers to showcase their work and engage with industry leaders,” said Sheila Ducksworth, president of CBS/NAACP Production Venture. “We are very excited to participate in this new partnership, and we look forward to supporting the talents and endeavors of these dynamic storytellers.”
Writers of features, pilots, plays and musicals whose work can speak to the Black experience are encouraged to opt in for consideration on the Black List website starting today.
About CBS Studios
CBS Studios is one of the world’s leading suppliers of entertainment programming, with more than 60 series currently in production for broadcast and cable networks, streaming services and other emerging platforms. The Studio’s expansive portfolio spans a diverse slate of commercially successful and critically acclaimed scripted programming, which includes genre-defining franchises such as “NCIS,” “CSI” and the ever-growing “Star Trek” universe, award-winning late night and daytime talk shows, as well as an extensive library of iconic intellectual property. The Studio also develops and produces local language and international content originating outside of the U.S. with series in the U.K., Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
About The Black List
The Black List, an annual survey of Hollywood executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays, was founded in 2005. Since then, at least 440 Black List scripts have been produced, grossing over $30 billion in box office worldwide. Black List movies have won 54 Academy Awards from 267 nominations, including four of the last twelve Best Picture Oscars and eleven of the last 28 Best Screenplay Oscars.
In October of 2012, the Black List launched a unique online community where screenwriters make their work available to readers, buyers and employers. Since its inception, it has hosted nearly 80,000 screenplays and teleplays and provided more than 130,000 script evaluations. As a direct result of introductions made on the Black List, dozens of writers have found representation at major talent agencies and management companies, as well as sold or optioned their screenplays. Several films have been produced from scripts showcased on the website including Golden Globe nominated NIGHTINGALE, starring David Oyelowo.
Currently, the Black List hosts over 5,000 scripts by approximately 3,700 writer members. These scripts are available for download by industry professionals ranging from agency assistants, to studio and network presidents, to A-list actors and directors.
The Black List’s first feature production, COME AS YOU ARE, debuted at SXSW in 2019 and is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes (98% Critics, 80% Audience). Its second feature, BREAKING NEWS IN YUBA COUNTY, directed by Oscar-nominated director Tate Taylor and starring Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Regina Hall, Awkwafina, Wanda Sykes and Juliette Lewis, was released in February 2021 by MGM Studios.
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Vivo’s phones have subtly managed to climb to the top of users’ camera preferences in recent years. While not as popular as Samsung’s models, or as “desirable” as Apple’s, Vivo’s high-end phones equipped with top-of-the-line cameras can keep up with the competition and even surpass it in some cases. Thus, the Vivo X90 Pro+, the company’s next flagship is a highly anticipated one, especially since it might have a 1″ sensor camera. Here’s what it looks like from the first photo leaked on the internet.
The back of the new Vivo X90 Pro+ attracts attention with an unusual design
It looks like Vivo will adopt an asymmetrical design for the back cover of its new flagship, the V90 Pro+. It will also come in a red back cover version, with a round camera module that is not positioned centrally on the back of the phone, but rather aligned to the left. It still includes ZEISS branding for the camera and a large flash, similar to that of a compact camera.
Interesting, however, is the new design gimmick below the camera module, a metal strip reminiscent of the horizontal viewfinder on the cameras of the new Google Pixel 7 models. This could be used to improve the structural integrity of the phone, or it could simply be a design decision. It remains to be seen how much it helps the device’s body rigidity if it makes it into the JerryRigEverything channel’s tests.
Digital Chat Station, the China-based leaker who also published this unofficial photo of the phone, also offered some details about its hardware. It looks like the Vivo X90 Pro+ will be one of the first models to use MediaTek’s Dimensity 9200 chipset, the most powerful chipset announced so far. The phone will also use 12 GB RAM, 256 GB storage and the 1″ Sony IMX989 50-megapixel photo sensor for the main camera.
Most likely, the phone will be officially announced before the end of 2022.
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What are the Four Horsemen?
John and Judy Gottman are researchers who studied many couples and their communication styles and identified four common and problematic communication errors known as the Four Horsemen. The Four Horsemen are problematic communication errors that might come up in fights or arguments with your partner. The first is criticism. This when we attack our partner’s character by way of statements such as, “You’re always so selfish!” The second is contempt. This is known as possibly the worst communication error. This is when you mock your partner with insults, eye rolls, or sarcasm. The third horseman is defensiveness. This happens when we observe our partner’s statement as an attack (typically in response to a criticism), so the goal is to defend ourselves. This might look like blaming your partner or playing the victim. Finally, the fourth horsemen is stonewalling. Stonewalling is typically in response to contempt, and is when one partner shuts down and stops talking. The biggest problem with Four Horsemen is that most of the time couples don’t even realize they are committing them.
How do the Four Horsemen affect my relationship?
The Four Horsemen can have detrimental effects on each partner’s mental health and the relationship as a whole. Things like criticism or contempt can impact the receiving person’s self esteem, stress level, anxiety, and depression. The Gottmans have found that relationships which endorse these communication errors have a 90% chance of breaking up if they do not correct them ahead of time. Further, research has found that viral infections (such as colds and flus) are more prevalent in couples which both partners endorse contempt. This is because of the weakened immune systems that are caused by heightened stress.
What are the antidotes for the Four Horsemen?
The first step to take in correcting the Four Horsemen is to become aware that they are being committed. The antidote to criticism is to be specific and use “I” statements to convey your feelings to your partner. For example, “I feel frustrated when I come home and the house is messy.” The antidote for contempt is to treat one another with respect and create a relationship of fondness and admiration. The antidote for defensiveness is taking responsibility for actions. You can try to say something like, “You’re right. I didn’t have enough time to clean. I’m sorry, and I’ll do it now.” The antidote for stonewalling is to take a break when you’re feeling like you might shut down. This might look like telling your partner, “I am feeling a bit emotionally flooded right now. Can we talk about this in an hour?”
You can read more about the Four Horsemen at Gottmans’ website: https://www.gottman.com/blog/the-four-horsemen-recognizing-criticism-contempt-defensiveness-and-stonewalling/
This page is part of the Roamers Therapy Glossary; a collection of mental-health related definitions that are written by our therapists.
While our offices are currently located at the South Loop neighborhood of Downtown Chicago, Illinois, we also welcome and serve clients for online therapy from anywhere in Illinois and Washington, D.C. Clients from the Chicagoland area may choose in-office or online therapy and usually commute from surrounding areas such as River North, West Loop, Gold Coast, Old Town, Lincoln Park, Lake View, Rogers Park, Logan Square, Pilsen, Bridgeport, Little Village, Bronzeville, South Shore, Hyde Park, Back of the Yards, Wicker Park, Bucktown and many more. You can visit our contact page to access detailed information on our office location.

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The most jaw dropping statistic EVER. If 7% of those who call themselves Christian's would ADOPT just ONE, the current orphans would all be in homes **. Today is Orphan Sunday.
Get OFF out Bums.
AND DO SOMETHING!
Change the life of a CHILD. Make a difference for ONE.
Because after all, we too are ADOPTED.
I will not leave you as orphans. I will come to you. John 14:16
**I realize that adoption is not the complete answer, and adopting all of the current orphans is not feasible for various reasons. The statistic is more for the illustration, as it was for me when I first read it, that we as a collective group can really make a difference! For a more detailed explanation, see the wonderful comment by Haley.**

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- Opera MediaWorks engaged with CodeScience to centralize its teams and deliver a system to manage the complete business process end to end in a single Salesforce instance: including CRM, Sales, Order Management, Ad Operations, Reporting, and Billing.
- CodeScience used its proven CRM integration tools.
- Apex and Visualforce for custom page functionality and generating IOs.
- Apex Triggers for Opportunity Forecasts, Revenue Schedules, and syncing data between line items and delivery data from AdMarvel.
- SOAP API for the ad server integration.
Opera MediaWorks’ new solution standardizes business process and centralizes data that were previously fragmented across several different environments and allowed it to:
- Manage media campaigns, client relationships, approvals, and reporting.
- Create campaigns in the form of Insertion Order (Opportunity) and Line Items for ad placements.
- Merge data from seven different systems and implement standard business processes, workflow, and approvals.
- Integrate Salesforce with AdMarvel to automatically deploy campaign details to ad server.
- Centralize reporting, opportunity forecasts, and revenue schedules for media campaigns spanning multiple months.
- Generate insertion orders in PDF format with the click of a button.
Whether you're a long time partner or just now evaluating the Salesforce ecosystem, we would love the opportunity to help you build for success.


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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Philip Morris International managed to push its first-quarter profit 15% higher with the help of currency swings, even as overall volume was pressured by tax increases and the global economic downturn.
Revenue jumped 17.3% to $15.59 billion from $13.29 billion or to $6.5 billion from $5.6 billion net of excise taxes.
The average estimate of analysts polled by FactSet Research had been for the company to earn 91 cents a share on revenue of $6.45 billion.
"Despite widespread share growth...our organic volume declined by 2.3%." said Louis Camillieri, chief executive, in the earnings report. "This was attributable to essentially four markets, the Baltics, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine, which all suffered from the compounding adverse effect of steep excise tax increases and weak economies."
PMI reaffirmed its 2010 profit target of $3.75 to $3.85 a share, up from $3.24 in 2009. Knocking out the effects of currency fluctuations, the company said earnings per share should be up 10% to 13% excluding the impact of potential acquisitions, along with asset impairment and exit cost charges.
Shares were down more 1.3% to end at $51.30.


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Chronic Violence and its Reproduction: Perverse Trends in Social Relations, Citizenship, and Democracy in Latin America
The Latin American Program is pleased to share with you a new report "Chronic Violence and its Reproduction: Perverse Trends in Social Relations, Citizenship, and Democracy in Latin America" by Tani Adams. This report reviews a broad literature on the causes and social effects of chronic violence in Latin America – particularly in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and the Caribbean – and details the consistent and diverse ways that chronic violence undermines social relations and support for democracy. The trends identified – also relevant for parts of Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Middle East – provoke ever increasing violence and social disintegration, and appear to constitute perverse norms among affected groups. Unabated, this problem –which remains largely overlooked by policy makers today – could constitute a growing threat to peace making and state building in affected regions throughout the world. The report proposes a collaborative initiative that will join international, national, and local actors to develop more effective approaches through research, policy reform, and local social action.
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In Mexico, Colombia, Central America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere in Latin America, people are riveted by spiraling social violence and the threats it poses to democracy. This report examines how chronic violence affects social relations and the practice of citizenship in the region. Based on an extensive review of the literature, it demonstrates that chronic violence is stimulated and perpetuated by a range of deep rooted forces, destroys the social fabric of vulnerable communities and countries, undermines support for democracy, and perverts the practice of citizenship. Given the nature of the forces that stimulate chronic violence and its tendency to reproduce itself, moreover, these destructive trends may constitute de-facto social norms in some parts of the region. If these dynamics continue to be neglected by policy makers, they will evolve into progressively more serious challenges to peacemaking and state building in the future.
Although Latin America leads in the global indices of violence, the phenomenon of chronic violence is also occurring in various lower and middle income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. (Pearce and McGee, 2011) The 2011 World Development Report calculates that 25 percent of the world’s population – both rich and poor – lives with high levels of long term violence and conflict that have trans-generational repercussions. (World Bank, 2011a) Some groups, however, are particularly vulnerable. These include young people (80 percent of whom live in developing countries), women, and certain ethnic groups. (PRB, 2010) The problem also affects chronically marginalized groups in wealthier countries– for example, undocumented migrants and certain minorities in the US, Europe, and elsewhere.
This paper provides a schematic picture of the causes and social effects of chronic violence in Latin America based on a review of relevant literature; proposes some ideas to build a fresh conceptual framework with which to approach this phenomenon; and outlines recommendations for policy reform, research, and social action. It is organized as follows:
Section I lays out the purpose of the working paper, the sources reviewed, and forwards definitions of five terms that are critical to understand this phenomenon: “violence,” “chronic violence,” “social fear,” “grey zone,” and “illicit trade.”
Section II reviews the major factors that stimulate violence in the region. These include various unintended consequences of globalization including especially the “new poverty” and the explosion of illicit trade, disjunctive democratization, the mass media, and the effects of extreme political traumatization.
Section III first provides a catalog of major social effects of violence, starting with the consequences of the “new poverty” and the breakdown of families, intergenerational relations, and traditional community structures. Following, it provides summary descriptions of the major kinds of responses to chronic violence that emerge consistently in the literature reviewed.
Scapegoating and xenophobia produce dangerous “common sense” mechanisms that convert people into “victims” of dangerous “others,” while social silence and other avoidance mechanisms distort their capacity to clearly understand their realities and to act accordingly. The state is progressively viewed as the enemy, and citizens construct diverse kinds of “parallel polities” that provide “state-like” protections, but further undermine state power and legitimacy. Increased legitimacy of violence and illegality fuels toxic mixtures of complicity and guilt, social silence and amnesia, social isolation and aggression. The result is further distortions of reality, more social isolation, reduced use of public spaces, and the flourishing both of “pentecostalized” religions and reactive social action. In many countries, moreover, these trends are built on traumatic legacies of previous internal armed conflicts and state repression.
Finally, Section IV (a) forwards observations about the challenge posed by chronic violence to international and national policy makers and vulnerable populations and states, (b) presents four working propositions to contribute to a new framework for approaching this problem, and (c) outlines recommendations to enable policy makers, practitioners, scholars, and affected populations to address it in more integrated and strategic ways.
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Latin American Program
The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin American Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action. Read more

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As a rule I use standard tuning (EADGBE) for guitar but on this recording there are two tracks where I use Open A (EAC#EAE). Open A tuning is obviously conducive to playing in A Major, but perhaps surprisingly, is also amenable to playing in A Minor.
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