The entire world of football is eyeing the Mbappe – Real Madrid saga. The young sensation has made his desire to play for Los Blancos known publicly, and the summer is seen as the perfect time for his dream to turn into reality.
According to reports from Sergio Quirante of Gol, the PSG player’s entourage have confirmed that he will play for Real Madrid next season.
Mbappe’s contract at PSG ends in June after which he will be able to make a move as a free agent. Though the Parisiens have tried to secure his renewal, the player is firm about his commitment to join the Spanish side.
Moreover, it is said that the player already has a verbal agreement in place with Los Blancos. With Mbappe in their ranks, Real Madrid will boast of one of the most dangerous attacking trios in world football.
Karim Benzema has oozed class for the past few seasons, and Vinicius Jr. has finally found his footing as a world-class player. Together, the three will be a menace to opposition defences.
In 21 league starts for PSG this season, Mbappe boasts of a whopping 12 goals and nine assists. Further, he averages two key passes per game and has created 13 big chances in Ligue 1 alone.
Earlier today, La Liga president Javier Tebas was asked about the potential move of the French star to Real Madrid. He responded in the affirmative and added that Erling Haaland could be on his way to the Madrid-based side too.
“Madrid will get Mbappe and [Erling] Haaland as the others [Barcelona and Juventus] are half [financially] ruined.”
Real Madrid veteran has ‘adopted’ Arda Guler, is mentoring him in training
The current edition of the Real Madrid squad is full of young talents, who have shown remarkable potential in recent years.
Arda Guler is among the young players looking to make a mark in European football in the years to come.
The young Turk joined Real Madrid earlier this summer, rejecting many other European giants in the process.
Toni Kroos mentoring Guler at Real Madrid
Guler has not enjoyed the best of starts to his life at Santiago Bernabeu, as he is spending a brief time on the sidelines due to an injury.
However, Guler has not stopped working on his characteristics, as he looks to kickstart his Real Madrid career on a positive note.
To that end, the former Fenerbahce starlet is receiving some key support from one of Real Madrid’s midfield pillars in the form of Toni Kroos.
This is according to MARCA, which suggests that the German international is mentoring Guler in his early days at Santiago Bernabeu.
Kroos: huge ‘sponsor’ of Guler
The report highlights how Toni Kroos is a huge admirer of Arda Guler. The German had even heaped praise on the youngster from Turkey when he joined the club earlier in the summer.
Guler, therefore, is closely training with Kroos, whose years of experience, composure, and knowledge of football, could help the youngster grow at Santiago Bernabeu.
This fits in well with Carlo Ancelotti’s vision at Real Madrid, as the Italian boss wants youngsters to have room to grow, especially with guidance from some of the older guards in the team.
It is one of the key reasons Real Madrid wanted to stick to Kroos and Luka Modric, despite bringing in Arda Guler and Jude Bellingham in the summer.
Guler, therefore, has the stage set for him to start his Real Madrid career on a strong note. After impressing in training, the next step for the youngster is to make a promising debut, which is just around the corner.


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One of the better chinese buffets in town. Or at least this side of the river. Located in your typical strip-mall kind of place. Interior is clean but dated and the seating isn't very comfy but...
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A used to be a really good restaurant but I went today and it was just nasty. Some of the dishes on the bar or burnt. Some just had a really gross taste.
Ass. This place tastes like ass. The food tasted like it had been strained through a wet asshole. Small selection, horribly prepared. Cold food, raw chicken wings, nothing was fresh.
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Argues that the unidirectional measurement and evaluation of the trust in a specific business relationship is not enough to understand the trust between two actors in a dyadic business relationship. Furthermore, mutual trust may not always be sufficient to understand the trust in a specific dyadic business relationship. The incorporation of a third actor may improve the understanding of trust in dyadic business relationships. Therefore, a method is applied to analyze the dynamics of trust in triadic business networks.
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U.S. consumers may have saved $2.4 trillion more than usual since pandemic began
Americans with limited options to spend during the pandemic saved more than usual. And while it’s unclear how this money will be spent, everyone agrees this is awesome for the economy.
What they’re saying: "The savings are enormous," Wells Fargo’s Tim Quinlan tells Axios.
- "This is equivalent to 15-20% of typical annual consumption and is an ample amount of dry powder consumers are able to tap as the economy re-opens," he adds.
- How these savings will be deployed is "unpredictable," but they'll likely have a big impact on consumer spending "over the next couple years," Pantheon Macro’s Shepherdson said in a research note.
Yes, but: Quinlan notes that excess savings estimates don’t account for how much was used for things like paying off student loans, paying down a mortgage, or financing a brokerage account.
- Commonwealth Financial Network’s Anu Gaggar tells Axios, "Lower income households could quickly run down their savings once additional stimulus payments are halted and rent and mortgage payment moratoriums are lifted."
- "On the other hand, savings of higher income households could be stickier as they have lower marginal propensities to consume," she said.
But, but, but: "They still put households on better financial footing and therefore can support spending growth," Quinlan added.
- Similarly, Shepherdson estimates that if households spent just 15% of these savings over the next two years, it would provide a 0.8% boost to GDP per year.
The big picture: The economy faces all sorts of shortages as growth heats up, which is boosting inflation. But the fact that consumers are still piling up savings speaks to how much demand continues to eclipse supply.

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Gates open at 6:30 p.m., the ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m. and the launch will end with fireworks. Alcinda Buirds, a 32-year NASSCO employee, will pull the trigger to release the ship into San Diego Bay.
The Marlin-class vessel, and a similar one launched in April, are the world’s first container ships to be powered by clean liquefied natural gas. The technology will reduce the ship’s emissions of particulate matter by 98 percent and carbon dioxide by 72 percent — the equivalent of removing more than 15,700 cars from the road, according to NASSCO.
The LNG container ships were built for the shipping firm TOTE, which plans to use them for cargo runs between Jacksonville, FL, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Officials will also announce the vessel’s name during the ceremony, which is timed to take advantage of high tide.

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Unless you've been living under a rock or chilling at a d-a-i-y-e spa for the past week, you know that Zoolander 2 is officially happening. In one of the best PR stunts to ever happen, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson walked in the Valentino show to promote the upcoming film, and it’s all anyone has been talking about since. While this is all fine and good, Derek was obviously the main character and Hansel his right-hand man, there is something we’re all forgetting. More accurately, someone. The hands down betchiest character in a movie full of people who are really, really ridiculously good looking. The man who refuses to drink a foamy latte. The creator of the piano key necktie. The only fucking person in the fashion industry to realize that Derek had one goddamn look. Presenting this week’s betch of the week: Jacobim Mugatu.
For those of you who haven’t seen Zoolander, I’m deeply sorry for your tragic childhood. Let me fill in the blanks for you. The movie opens with a news story about the Prime Minister of Malaysia, who is trying to end child labor . This is a problem for the fashion industry because they would actually have to start paying people a livable wage to make their clothes. Not an option.
Enter Mugatu: an iconic fashion designer who has been tasked with the job of finding a dumb as shit male model that he can brainwash to murder the Prime Minister. Bold statement that someone will undoubtedly argue: this is one of Will Ferrell’s top five career performances. Fight me.
Mugatu calls upon Derek, who he has previously refused to work with, because he is undoubtedly the dumbest human to ever exist. Jessica Simpson in her “chicken of the sea” days is Stephen Hawking compared to Derek Zoolander. Obviously because the movie isn't called Mugatu (if only), his plan is foiled and he probably goes to jail for attempting to assassinate a world leader. Whatever. His time behind bars would undoubtedly inspire a line of chic prison wear. But before that happens, he manages to captivate the audience with his zero fuck attitude and middle parted cropped periwig. I've never met Karl Lagerfeld, but I sincerely hope he is the Anna Wintour to Mugatu’s Miranda Priestly.
Like a true betch, Mugatu isn't afraid to tell it like it is. He’s the only moderately intelligent person in the movie, and also the only one who knows what the fuck Malaysia is, but plays his cards close to his chest. If he hadn't been betrayed by his less fashionable partner he would have gotten away with yet another public assassination, further proof to never trust a nice girl.
In light of the sequel and all that it could entail, I have one question: where the fuck is Mugatu? Why has no one gone on record about his role in the film. Why wasn't he sitting next to Anna at the Valentino show, petting his dog and whispering about how Cara Delevingne is so hot right now, Cara Delevingne. Why is everyone ignoring the most important character of the movie? I feel like I’m taking fucking crazy pills.
The betches have not, and will not forget you, Mugatu. No matter what happens with Zoolander 2, you will always be number one in our hearts.

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Hi, I am Marzeyeh. Are you spent spiritually, emotionally and financially? Me too. I am a true born entrepreneur, I started my first "company" in second grade and haven't stopped pursuing my dreams since then. I grew up in poverty and disadvantaged circumstances but never once let me stop me from pursing my life. In the last few years I was able to build a successful business from the ground up but still found myself whirling. Why wasn't I feeling true happiness? Why was I struggling to find gratitude and mindfulness. How could I balance my business, my family and my inner self? I want answers.
To help us get these answers, I will be bring you real life stories of women finding success, gratitude and mindfulness while growing a business, managing a family, battling stress, anxiety and depression. Let's learn from women who are working hard, working small or simply working it, while trying to keep positive and moving forward.
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LANSING -- Several homes were evacuated Wednesday after utility workers inadvertently caused a gas leak.
Lansing police Sgt. Guy Pace said Board of Water & Light workers accidentally cut a Consumers Energy gas line in the 500 block of Sycamore Street about 11:30 a.m. Authorities responded, evacuating the area one block in each direction.
Consumers Energy and the Lansing Fire Department responded to the scene, as well as Lansing police.
"Consumers was right on the spot," Pace said.
Crews were able to stop the leak about 12:30 p.m., but additional repair work was expected to take several hours.
Residents in the affected area were displaced for about 90 minutes, Pace said. Authorities called in a CATA bus for the evacuees to stay cool in as they waited.
Pace said no one was injured in the incident.
Lansing firefighters used multiple fire hydrants to spray mist in an effort to stay cool in the 90-degree heat. An ambulance also was present at the scene, functioning as a cooling station for firefighters.
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Adele fans should be pleased to know that the singer, who’s teased possible new music for months now, is actually making good on her word. A new song of Adele’s was teased during the X Factor UK’s commercial break. This is the first time we’ve heard what the “new” Adele sounds like, and if we can go by a 30 second clip, it sounds like Adele never really left.
According to US Weekly, and the millions of fans on Twitter that are currently losing it, Adele’s new song was debuted in between commercials for Dominos and Tic Tacs. Then the screen went completely black, and the Grammy award winning artist’s voice was heard to the shock of many.
The lyrics of the song appeared on the black screen, as Adele’s soulful voice sang along to the words. From what we can hear, it’s a pretty bare song, which features a piano, so it’s not a huge departure for the songstress.
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The lyrics are: “Hello / it’s me,” words flashed on the screen along with Adele’s voice. “I was wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet / to go over everything / They say that time’s supposed to heal you / But I ain’t done much healing.”
Since the commercial aired, fans have been flipping out over the new Adele song.
Omg Adele dropped a teaser of her new song on X factor last night she sounds amazing.I can’t wait for her new album — Drew (@drew_slavik) October 18, 2015
ADELE IS BACK AND RELEASING A NEW SONG WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE OMG
— kait 🙂 (@KaitlinParente) October 18, 2015
As The Inquisitr reported, we’ve had little hints that Adele’s upcoming album, 25, was in the works. She had major success with her Grammy award-winning album, 21, but after that she took some time off to tend to her son. Then, out of nowhere, we heard buzz that Adele was working hard on her new album. And then, to no one’s surprise, there was no new news.
For months, fans were simply resigned to the fact that it was just a rumor, but Adele’s name emerged again when a song she wrote, called “Alive,” was sung by Sia. The “victim to victory” theme of the song had Adele written all over it, so even though we hadn’t heard anything about the new album, it was safe to say that she was cultivating her sound.
Around that same time there was news that Adele had a release date of her album. Hits magazine reported that Adele’s album is going to hit stories and digital platforms on November 20. In the age where Beyonce can release a surprise album and have one of the highest-selling albums, we can see Adele going this way as well. If you’re a big name like Beyonce, or in this case Adele, the marketing behind the album isn’t important as it used to be.
Because no matter what built in fan bases will make the music trend on sites like Twitter and Facebook. If anything, Adele just proved that all it takes is a 30-second clip of her singing a new song to get people talking again.
Hopefully this is a sign that her new album is indeed hitting stores in November.
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For those of us who’ve always wanted to shred like Hendrix, B. B. King or John Mayer but lacked the necessary skill and know-how, Giuseppe Pilla has come up with the perfect solution. As seen on display at Maker Faire Rome, the Maker has built a fully-automated, acoustic guitar-playing robot.
Impressively, the music-making machine is capable of playing tracks ranging from Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry,” to Leonard Cohen’s “Allelujah,” to “Jessica” by the Allman Borthers. To get started, a user first selects a song on an Android smartphone. Commands from the device are transmitted over Bluetooth to an Arduino Mega (ATmega2560), where they are then decoded, processed and matched up to one of the tracks already stored in the robot’s memory. This provides the actuators (motor steppers and servo motors) with all of the necessary instructions to begin strumming.
The guitar itself is placed horizontally on a smooth and even surface where handcrafted supports keep the various actuators mounted in place. Each servo motor is equipped with a pick allowing it to pluck away with precision, while six stepper motors located near the handle are used to correspond to a note. The motors, drivers and switches are all powered by the Arduino.
As to why we didn’t come across this project any sooner, we have no clue. But boy, are we glad we stumbled upon this at Maker Faire Rome! See it in action for yourself below.


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There’s no denying that Kate Gosselin is hellbent on making her “I’m Not A Horrible Person, Nor Am I A Horrible Mom” tour a success. Last week, she and her twins – Mady and Cara – gave a cover interview to People Magazine, and this morning she dragged their tired asses to Today for more press.
“It’s your chance, spit it out, ” Gosselin said to her 13-year-old twins, who clammed up as soon as Savannah Guthrie started asking questions.
Does the public have the wrong impression of Gosselin’s twins and sextuplets?
“I wouldn’t say wrong. I would just say not the full story,” Mady said finally. “A lot of people think that filming our show has damaged us, but it’s only really helped.”
After seeing the interview, Gosselin’s ex-husband Jon expressed his disgust over the situation, telling TMZ it was “horrible” to watch.
“I’m going to handle this as a family matter,” Jon, who recently had a vasectomy, said. “I don’t want to affect the children anymore.”
In October, Jon told OWN that his kids have developmental issues which make social interactions challenging, and that they have difficulties with “wants and needs and manners and morals.”

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Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman s gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new edition of one of the greatest comic novels in the English language. Steeple Bumphleigh is a very picturesque place. But for Bertie Wooster, it is a place to be avoided, containing not only the appalling Aunt Agatha but also her husband, the terrifying Lord Worplesdon. So when a certain amount of familial arm-twisting is applied, Bertie heads for the sticks in fear and trepidation despite the support of the irreplaceable Jeeves."
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Austin: University Art Mueum, University of Texas, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Exhibition catalog for Indiana's works, which traveled to five museums between September 1977 at the University Art Museum in Austin and concluding at The Art Center in South Bend IN in July 1978. Folio-sixed, polished black cloth with silver.....
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can you publish a book at 14
can you publish a book at 14 For any type of author who desires be a writer, knowing the best ways to publish a book is important. It’s a common circumstance– you have a suggestion for a book but you have no method of recognizing the best ways to convert that idea from your computer system screen into print or online.
Currently, greater than at any other time in history, there are more chances and opportunities to create, share, and publish a tale– and connect with an audience. Whether you desire the standard publishing experience, full with a representative, editor, as well as author, or intend to self publish your book, it’s completely within your understanding. You decide what works best for you and your job.
We’re going to direct you through guide posting process and offer you the sources to select which publishing alternative fits your job best. However initially, you need to learn about typical and also self-publishing. can you publish a book at 14
Typical Posting can you publish a book at 14
Standard book publishing is when a publisher supplies the writer an agreement and also, subsequently, prints, publishes, and markets your book via booksellers and also other stores. The publisher basically purchases the right to publish your book as well as pays you aristocracies from the sales.
If you wish to release a publication commonly, many authors have to find an agent. In order to find one, you should determine the ideal category for your writing. If you are or desire to be a non-fiction author, you will certainly should submit a book proposal with 3 sample phases, as well as a run-through of each chapter. If you are writing fiction, you should have your manuscript full.
When these actions are achieved, you prepare to create an inquiry letter. This letter is just what you will send to potential representatives. It is very important to point out the different parts that compose a query letter. You must be sure to point out the summary of your publication, the phase recap, the marketplace or target market your book is suggested for, as well as a description of on your own.
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There are a selection of different publishing designs, consisting of print-on-demand, vanity, aid, as well as self-publishing.
Print-on-demand (VESSEL) authors approve all submissions & emdash; any person who is eager to pay is released. SHEATHING publishing utilizes publishing modern technology to produce publications one by one with a business at a cost-effective price. The books are printed separately as orders can be found in. Consequently, you could adjust guide’s supply to fulfill the visitor’s need.
COVERING cut down on prices and gets rid of the demand for room to keep unsold duplicates. Commonly editing and enhancing, checking, or marketing is provided at an added expense and you earn money off of nobilities from sales. In terms of civil liberties, some could most likely to the COVERING publisher for a set quantity of time but this varies depending upon the publisher.
A vanity publisher, also understood as a publication producer, releases any anybody’s job offered they have the cash to pay for their services. The maker prints as well as binds a book on the writer’s dollar and also does not supply editing, marketing, or promotional support. Nevertheless, the writer owns the printed publications and preserves all profit from sales.
An aid author resembles a vanity publisher in that the author has to pay for the printing and also binding procedure of guide. However, this type of publisher contributes a portion of the cost to editing and enhancing, circulation, warehousing, and also advertising. In this instance, the author owns the books until they are sold and the author generates income from aristocracies.
Self-publishing needs the author to invest their very own cash to create, market, disperse, as well as storage facility the publication. While this could be a massive time commitment, the procedure could be a lot more cost-efficient than vanity or aid posting.
What’s the distinction between self-publishing and traditional publishing?
In conventional publishing, the author takes care of the advertising and marketing, distribution, and warehousing for your book. This is the traditional approach to book publishing because there is no expenditure to the author– mainstream authors earn a profit from the book’s sales.
Whereas in self-publishing, depending upon which sort of publisher or system you pick, the majority of the job drops on your shoulders and also you spend for all expenditures. The major advantages of self-publishing are that you regulate when the book is released, you preserve all legal rights to your book, and also you obtain One Hundred Percent of the revenues.can you publish a book at 14
In both cases, you have the alternative to select what style your book will be published in– printed book, electronic book, audio publication, cd, dvd, as well as much more. If you select an e-book, which is basically a book released in digital kind as well as available on e-Readers and other digital devices, it can be downloaded and install promptly, has the capacity to be translated right into various languages, as well as can never head out of print. Nonetheless, the as electronic book styles and also file types develop and also transform over time, lots of could have to be converted to a brand-new documents or format.
Exactly how do I recognize which one is right for me?
If seeing your operate in print is to accomplish an individual goal you have or you see yourself as an enthusiast, pick vanity posting.
If you’re creating a family history, narrative or book of verse that has a limited target market, as well as do not desire your publication stocked at book shops, making use of CASE is possibly to your benefit. They are frequently nonreturnable, not cost a discount rate, as well as you won’t need to store any unsold books.
Printing in mass through self-publishing could be your best option if you have a noticeable system developed to reach your target market, both online and offline (such as an internet site, Twitter manage, and Facebook follower page), have integrity with your readers in your genre/category as well as are prepared to commit your time to advertising as well as advertising your job.
Self-publishing is additionally an excellent choice if you have a time-sensitive manuscript, as an industrial publishing business could use up to 18 months to obtain your book from manuscript to final production.
On the flip side, here are a few points to take into consideration. If you don’t know ways to find or reach your visitors, do not have an on the internet presence, don’t have the time to invest online or disapproval social media sites, wish to be in a brick-and-mortar sort of book shop and have an author manage the marketing for you, the typical publishing course may be the very best alternative. can you publish a book at 14
Eventually it depends on you to determine!


I somehow wiped the partition on my external 3tb hard drive. I've been using filescav to try and recovery the files. I have had some luck getting back the files, but they are coming back as Unknown.
I need a recovery tool that will keep the folder structure. Although i can't help but feel all that has happened is that the hard drive has forgotten who he was. I know none of the data is corrupted.
Running Windows 7 64-Bit, i have the hard drive plugged in via sata now.
In disc management it displays 2tb as raw and the other tb as unallocated


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A former NBA player showed up at a charity basketball competition sporting his conservative politics on the side of his head.
Royce White, a first-round draft pick in 2012, appeared at a BIG3 basketball game in Brooklyn on Saturday with “Trump Won!” emblazoned on the left side of his shaved head, a reference to claims that President Trump actually won the 2020 election. The matchup was nationally televised on CBS, something White no doubt knew would give his outspoken position massive attention.
The president’s campaign team was quick to highlight the show of support.
No lies detected! pic.twitter.com/uCD7fwd3O5
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) July 9, 2023
Saturday’s event was not the first time White has touted his support for President Trump or his conservative beliefs. The power forward ran for Congress as a Republican in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District, home to “Squad” member Ilhan Omar, but lost the primary election.
White has publicly spoken out about his Generalized Anxiety Disorder and a deep fear of flying, preferring instead to travel to games by bus. He took a hiatus from professional basketball before joining the Canadian professional league in 2017 and later went semiprofessional with the Big3 league.
With more sports figures in recent years using their platforms to promote political causes, White is a contrarian in the liberal basketball world. He has called out China for its genocide in Uyghur and used his noggin to advertise his belief that the U.S. explored “gain of function” research with the coronavirus to increase its deadliness as a potential biological weapon.
Speaking out about the 2024 presidential election, White has voiced support for a theoretical ticket that would see Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. join President Trump as the vice presidential nominee. In a Twitter post, he defended RFK’s assertion that the nation’s surveillance agencies were behind the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy.
Protect RFK Jr — As long as the security state and deep state are not held to account for their role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the entire nation suffers from copious amounts of moral hazard. This is how we have to view his candidacy and safety. Trump/Kennedy 2024! pic.twitter.com/Ssx6ACDpbs
— Royce White 🇺🇸 (@Highway_30) July 6, 2023
Reactions on Twitter to White’s stunt were noticeably positive.
BIG 3 basketball is on TV and who the hell is playing with "TRUMP WON!" written on his head???
— Soundwave (@LocalSoundwave) July 9, 2023
Royce White. People are waking up. pic.twitter.com/cMCe9lZcwv
— Mr. America (@ConservativesSo) July 9, 2023
President Trump will certainly rely on celebrity surrogates like White if he is to reach unlikely conservative viewers more tuned in to the rough-and-tumble of sports than politics. Other celebrity sports figures like golfer John Daly, former basketball coach Bobby Knight, famous basketball star Dennis Rodman, and retired Bears coach Mike Ditka have all voiced their support for the 45th president’s latest run for the White House.

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About Tea Heart
Bubble tea (also known as pearl milk tea, bubble milk tea, or simply boba) is a Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Tainan and Taichung in the 1980s. Recipes contain tea of some kind, flavors of milk, as well as sugar (optional). Toppings, such as chewy tapioca balls, popping boba, fruit jelly, grass jelly, agar jelly, and puddings are often added. Ice-blended versions are frozen and put into a blender, resulting in a slushy consistency. Even though there are many varieties of the drink with a wide range of flavors, Tea Heart is dedicate themselves to make the best Tea for your Heart.


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For a Spectacular Sunset: Utah’s Coral Pink Sand Dunes
South of Mount Carmel Junction You will hear the sound of revving motors here, because the 2,000 acres of rolling
South of Mount Carmel Junction
You will hear the sound of revving motors here, because the 2,000 acres of rolling dunes in this 3,730-acre park attract dirt bike and dune buggy enthusiasts from far and wide. The sand is extremely fine, and off-road vehicles should have paddle-type tires.
The coral-pink dunes are beautiful, especially just before sundown, when they come alive with shifting shadows. Backpackers will find the campground here an excellent staging point for challenging, unmarked hikes through butte and mesa country. Be wary, however; rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and scorpions thrive in this desert climate.
A 256-acre conservation area prohibits motorized vehicles in order to protect the coral-pink beetle, found nowhere else in the world. Birders are likely to see scrub jays and hummingbirds.
Park and campground open year-round. Admission charged.

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Wealth Strategy Limited can be reached at 19/21 Hatchett Street, in Birmingham. The company's zip code is B19 3NX. Wealth Strategy has been in this business since the company was registered in 2007. The company's Companies House Registration Number is 06166394. Despite the fact, that recently operating under the name of Wealth Strategy Limited, it was not always so. This firm was known as Wealth Strategy until 2014-05-12, then it was replaced by Owen Aston Estate Planning. The definitive transformation took place on 2017-01-04. The enterprise's registered with SIC code 64999, that means Financial intermediation not elsewhere classified. The company's latest annual accounts cover the period up to 31st March 2017 and the latest confirmation statement was submitted on 3rd September 2017.
According to the latest data, this particular limited company is supervised by just one managing director: Glen O., who was chosen to lead the company 11 years ago. For almost one year Julia S., had been functioning as a director for this specific limited company up until the resignation in 2007. Moreover, the managing director's tasks are helped with by a secretary - Julia O., who was appointed by this specific limited company in 2007.

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUDICATURE
IN THE HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL DIVISION FIVE),
ACCRA- A.D 2019
ALLIED COMPANY LIMITED - (Plaintiff)
LEGACY GENERAL CONST - (Defendant)
DATE: 9 TH JANUARY, 2018
SUIT NO: RPC/175/15
JUDGES: GEORGE BUADI J HIGH COURT (COMMERCIAL) 5
JEMIMA DEI (HOLDING BRIEF OF BENSON NUTSUPUI) FOR PLAINTIFF
KWASI ADU MANTE FOR DEFENDANT
1 By a writ of summons plaintiff’s action against defendant simply is for:
i. recovery of the sum of GH¢350,528.33 being balance outstanding against the Defendant for lubricants and petroleum products supplied to the Defendant which sum the Defendant has failed or refused to pay despite repeated demands.
ii. Interest on the said GH¢350,528.33 at the prevailing bank rate from the 1st day of April, 2013 to the date of final payment.
2 Plaintiff is an incorporated oil marketing company, with its main office in Accra. Defendant is one of its customers to which it supplies petroleum products on credit on request. Plaintiff states that defendant resorted to breaching terms of their Agreement by failing and/or refusing to pay for products it had supplied on credit, and thus defendant had been indebted to it to the tune of GH¢350,528.33. Plaintiff avers that defendant has failed to settle the indebtedness despite repeated its demands including a letter from its lawyers. According to plaintiff, defendant shall not settle its indebtedness to it unless the court compels it by order.
3 Defendant admits the credit supply arrangement with plaintiff for supply of petroleum products. It however denies breaching the terms, contending that it strictly kept to the terms of the supply agreement, as plaintiff did not hesitate to supply it with products upon request. Defendant claims to have made series of payments to plaintiff, which plaintiff has not been taking into account in calculating its outstanding indebtedness. Defendant contends that it had made several efforts in drawing plaintiff’s attention to the anomalies in its account with plaintiff but same yielded no results. Defendant says it is ready to pay his just debt only after an accountant or an auditor has calculated all its transactions with plaintiff to reveal its true and proper indebtedness to plaintiff. It denies therefore owing plaintiff.
4 The pretrial court set down the following single straight issues for trial:
Whether or not the Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiff to the tune of GH¢350,528.33 being balance outstanding against the Defendant for the supply of lubricants and petroleum products to it by the Plaintiff. Any other issues arising on the pleadings.
5 Both parties have serially defaulted in complying with the court’s directives for trial; defendant in particular with respect to filing of witness statements. Defendant had had to engage new lawyers1 following withdrawal of their earlier lawyer. After series of defaults following extension of time for defendant in particular to file its witness statement, the court on 20 November 2017 had no option than to crack the whip by resorting to its prerogative powers in accordance with Rule 7A, subrule 3b of Order 32 of the Rules of Court2 to strike out defendant’s statement of defence.
6 Hearing of the suit since had to be adjourned to enable defendant’s lawyers to be served, but service of the hearing notice on the new lawyer did not change anything, as on the scheduled hearing, defendant and its lawyers were absent when plaintiff opened 1 Kwasi Adu Mante 2 2004, C.I. 47 its case on 8 January 2018. Notwithstanding their absence, and pursuant to Order 36, rule 1(2), C.I. 47) hearing of plaintiff’s case proceeded.
7 Evidence in proof of plaintiff’s case was by means of a sole witness statement filed by its Chief Operating Officer, Enoch Asamoah-Adjei. I have earlier stated that defendant and her lawyers failed to make appearance for the trial, and that the court had had to strike out their defense. Defendant’s absence does not absolve plaintiff of its duty to lay proof of its claim according to law. Secs. 11 & 14, Evid. Act. BWA Ltd v. Ackun  1 GLR 176 SC. Neither is the court relieved of its duty to evaluate plaintiff’s evidence and to base its decision according to law. After all, defendant does not assume any duty at all to disprove plaintiff’s case, unless determination of an issue in its favour hinges on a balance of probabilities and it provides no evidence on the issue. See In Re: Ashalley Botwe Lands [2003-2004] SCGLR 420.
8 It was not established or proven at the trial the agreement plaintiff has entered with defendant, and the terms thereof which defendant is purported to have breached. All the same, I have checked through plaintiff’s evidence in chief, particularly the exhibits tendered in proof of the claims. Obviously, upon default of payment of its indebtedness, and that subsequent to plaintiff’s commencement of the suit on 1 June 2015, defendant through its lawyers on 18 June 2015 per Exhibit ‘F’ wrote to plaintiff declaring its intention to settle the matter out of court. In fact, defendant made proposals in that regard, and called on plaintiff to consider waiving interests. In that letter defendant avers that plaintiff have not captured certain payments it had made to plaintiff. Nonetheless, I view Exhibit ‘F’ as explicit admission of defendant’s indebtedness to the plaintiff.
9 According to plaintiff’s witness, it is not true that defendant has made payments ostensibly in settling part of its indebtedness, which plaintiff has not captured in the accounts. Neither is it true, according to plaintiff that defendant has raised any issue for reconciliation of accounts. I find Exhibit ‘A’ as a statement of ledger accounts of defendant covering the period ending 26 February 2015, with debit balance outstanding of GH¢350,528.00. I find it uncertain, indeed unproven how as at the time of commencement of the suit in 1 June 2015, defendant’s indebtedness of GH¢350,528.00 had remained unchanged as at 12 July 2017 almost two years unless perhaps interest has been waived or its calculation stopped.
10 Nonetheless, neither defendant nor its lawyer is here in court to challenge or mildly put, to test plaintiff’s claim with respect to the real amount plaintiff considers to be its real indebtedness to plaintiff. In default of any such evidence, the court is satisfied to hold that on the face of the unchallenged evidence, and on the balance of probabilities, plaintiff action must succeed. The court upholds plaintiff’s claim and grant all the reliefs plaintiff seeks from the court.

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This article was originally published in Trinity News on November 22nd 2020.
Many of his own people call Alexander Lukashenko “the Cockroach”. Foreign media outlets frequently refer to him as “Europe’s last dictator”. He freely admits to having “an authoritarian style of rule” and until this year, he was the only person to hold the office of President of the Republic of Belarus since the country’s independence from the Soviet Union. But that may soon change. His grip on power, seemingly unbreakable for the last 26 years, is suddenly slipping in the face of unprecedented popular resistance.
When Art Balenok and Yuliya Aliakseyeva log onto our Zoom call, there is a white-red-white horizontal striped flag behind Balenok’s desk. The flag, which represented Belarus between 1991 and 1995 and the short-lived Belarussian People’s Republic of 1918-19, has become a symbol of popular resistance to the Lukashenko regime. This year, it’s been most frequently seen flying over crowds of protestors staring down armour-clad Militsiya – the national police force of Belarus.
Balenok, a journalist, and Aliakseyeva, who works in Trinity’s Buttery restaurant, are part of a Belarusian diaspora group in Ireland that has come together since July to mobilise support for pro-democracy protestors at home. Aliakseyeva estimates there are no more than a thousand Belarusians in total living in Ireland, and “we’re talking about 50, maybe 70 people who are really involved” in the group.
“Most of us didn’t really know each other before August or July,” Balenok says. “What the events of August 9 triggered was a never before seen unification of all Belarusians, within Belarus and outside Belarus.”
He’s referring to Belarus’ most recent presidential election. Since taking office in 1994, Lukashenko has claimed victory in five elections, none of which have been regarded as legitimate and free by international observers. This year was no exception. The voting was marred by violence, blatant electoral fraud, and the arrest of campaigners and independent observers.
The day after the vote, government officials and Belarusian state media announced that the president had won an almost comical 70-point victory over the main opposition candidate, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, on 84% turnout. Tsikhanouskaya was, up until this year, a teacher and an interpreter with no prior experience of advocacy or political ambitions. She entered the race in May after her husband, blogger and activist Siarhei Tsikhanouski, was imprisoned for “organization or preparation for a grave breach of public order.”
Pro-democracy demonstrations had been held on-and-off since Tsikhanouski’s arrest in May, but with the announcement of the bogus election results, they erupted. “We all came together and became Belarusian, all of a sudden” says Balenok. “Each one of us on that night said to ourselves ‘what can and what am I going to do to help.’”
Belarus experienced waves of popular protest in both 2011 and 2017, but this year’s numbers have dwarfed any seen before. Estimates of the number of protestors in the streets on the biggest days range from 200,000 to more than half a million, out of a population of just 9.4 million. More than 25,000 people have been arrested, at least six killed, and hundreds injured.
“Everyone, everyone has been affected. People from every social class in the country – factory workers, teachers, doctors, pensioners, students, young people,” says Balenok. “Everyone knows someone who has been arrested or who is still in prison.” The universality of the anger at the Lukashenko regime is reflected in the diversity of groups who’ve joined together to oppose him. Women’s groups, conservative Christians, social democrats, greens, and anarchists are just some of the factions who make up the opposition. Even small groups of Minsk municipal police officers have laid down their riot shields, refused to follow “criminal orders”, and recognised Tsikhanouskaya as the country’s leader.
Aliakseyeva and Balenok cite two key factors that differentiate this year’s protests from previous movements. The first is simply build-up; the protests in 2011 and 2017 were “so brutally suppressed, so quickly” according to Aliakseyeva, but people’s grievances continued to mount. “There was not enough critical mass of people” willing to stand in opposition, she says. “But it was all milestones that were leading to today. Everything that was happening at that time was generating momentum that was brought to the election, when it all exploded.”
The second factor is Covid-19. “The way the government handled the pandemic was atrocious,” says Balenok. Lukashenko made international headlines frequently over the past year for his dismissal of the pandemic, calling it “psychosis” and suggesting citizens visit the sauna or drink vodka “to poison the virus”. Balenok describes ordinary Belarusian citizens having to raise money to buy protective equipment for healthcare workers as the government refused to take the virus seriously. “It was people in Belarus who made things happen, and I am sure they saved a lot of lives.”
But the election was “the catalyst”, he says. “We always knew that this was happening. We turned a blind eye. But this year it was just too blatant.” And since then the country has been locked in “civil war, revolution, whatever one may want to call it“. Government forces continue to violently suppress demonstrations, with the United Nations Human Rights Office documenting upwards of 450 instances of torture in August alone. But protestors keep marching, night after night.
“You are constantly on Telegram, checking the news and YouTube, trying to think what you can do to help” says Aliakseyeva, on the experience of watching all this from afar. “We are all badly affected.” Balenok concurs, adding, “It’s as though we were there. Sleep has been affected quite badly. Overall my mental state has not been good at all.”
They’ve been in constant contact with friends, family members and others in Belarus as events have been unfolding. “People have been traumatised for life,” Balenok says. “The price has been so high that whoever takes part believes there is no way back anymore. The situation is never going to be the same as it was before election night.”
Within both the wider protest movement and the Irish group, there is a big emphasis placed on consensus. “We don’t have individual leaders. We don’t want them,” Balenok says. “There has been one of those for the last 26 years in Belarus.”
Nevertheless, they speak admiringly of Ms. Tsikhanouskaya. The opposition activist has rejected the results of the election, estimating that she received 60-70% of the actual vote, and worked from exile in Lithuania and Poland to gather international support. A few days after the election, she founded the Coordination Council, to develop “safe and stable mechanisms ensuring the transfer of power in Belarus.” The European Union and the United States have since ceased to recognise Lukashenko as the legitimate president of the country, and called for new elections.
“The way people feel about her has changed during the last few months,” says Aliakseyeva. “She was starting as a housewife, never taking part in politics. Since then she’s changed dramatically. She’s gathered a lot of very smart, intelligent and good people around her.”
“She’s openly said she’d like to go back home and continue making burgers for her kids,” says Balenok. “Her only presidential program was to become a transitional leader to take the country to a proper free and fair election.” He adds that “her goal was never to become president or to get personal power.”
This emphasis on grassroots organising is reflected in how the Irish diaspora group operates. The initiative wasn’t the brainchild of any individual person but came together organically. “We had a few protests in Dublin and other towns, before there was lockdown,” says Aliakseyeva. “People got to meet each other and make connections. We organised ourselves on a Telegram channel and tried to involve people from a Facebook group for Belarusians in Ireland.”
“All the diasporas are talking to one another now” Balenok adds, “trying to find common ways and effective ways of helping the country and helping the people.” Ireland’s Belarusian community is relatively small, the pair say, compared to those in places like Canada, the UK or Sweden. But they’re trying to build truly global solidarity – “we coordinate our ideas and actions with diasporas around the world.”
The Irish diaspora group has hoped in particular to forge connections between Irish students and their Belarusian counterparts, who’ve played a key role in the pro-democracy demonstrations. They’ve been encouraging people to send them videos with messages of support and solidarity, “to show that those who stand up against oppression and abuse are not standing alone.”
The group’s broader goals are very clear too. They want to “ensure that Ireland is part of a consolidated European front” to help enforce “effective sanctions against individuals and pro-government businesses in Belarus. We want them to play a key role in establishing the rule of law” as Balenok puts it. As part of this effort, they’ve been in contact with political figures in Ireland. “I should mention Senator Malcolm Byrne of Gorey. He spoke in the senate about Belarus, and we couldn’t be more grateful,” says Balenok. They also cite Frances Fitzgerald as an ally and advisor in their lobbying efforts.
More direct approaches are also being taken, according to Aliakseyeva. “Some of our members are helping people who’ve been fired or put in prison. We’re sending money, paying for their food.” Much of their effort has focused on camps in Poland and Ukraine where exiled Belarusians have sought refuge, many lacking basic necessities such as clothes and toiletries.
Though the community in Ireland is small, there are some unique connections between the two countries that Aliakseyeva and Balenok hope will play a part in mobilising support. Ireland hosted many Belarusians during the as part of Chernobyl Children International’s exchange programmes during the 1990s. Indeed, Tsikhanouskaya herself visited Roscrea, Co Tipperary numerous times in her youth. “Nothing is better than a personal touch” says Balenok, somewhat ruefully.
Despite a pragmatic desire for international support in achieving a transition to democracy, they reject utterly the regime’s characterisation of the uprising as a “foreign plot”. “Belarusians never wanted to side with Russia, or the EU, or America, or somehow to be against somebody” says Balenok. “What we want is to be integrated with the world community on equal terms. We don’t want to take sides.”
This pragmatism is a reflection of the seriousness of the situation. Not only are the Belarusian diaspora constantly bombarded with news of the regime’s brutality, it directly affects their own lives. “I’d love to go to Belarus for the New Year and celebrate it with my family,” says Balenok, “but at the moment I am not going to do that. I fear for my safety and my life.” Aliakseyeva nods in agreement.
But despite this steep cost being paid by the Belarusian people every day, at no point is there any question of backing down. Everyone is committed completely to seeing democracy achieved, no matter how long it takes. “It’s impossible to put a timeframe on it, although everyone would love to” Balenok goes on. “And so, we’re looking for that pressure to come from the EU in order to bring this to an end.”
“People are scared and tired,” says Aliakseyeva, “but there’s no way back. No one knows how long it will take, but the regime will go down.”


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3 Juillet 2020
"Sacred Core is a song about getting lost, drifting away and trying to find the way back to your safe haven - guided by swirling, hypnotic guitars and an insistent, heavy beat. Compared to the shoegazey post-punk of the album's previous singles 'Vultures' and 'Swallow', this track digs deeper into haunting, psychedelic territories, yet still maintaining our trademark dark and atmospheric sound," says frontman Trond Fagernes.
The accompanying video was directed by Astrid Serck, who also created the videos for previous singles 'Swallow' and 'Vultures'.
"To me, the song is like an open landscape - it’s grounded, but at the same time moving. I wanted to capture that feeling visually with footage from windmill fields and beaches, where there’s constant movement - like a rhythm, as opposed to the solid ground. A contrast between motion and stillness. Something to hold on to as well as something loose and vibrating," says Astrid Serck.
"The core is what you hold on to. The motion is what you can let go. The sunbeams are blinding you, like a sacred light. The ceiling of a church is another symbol for sanctity. The moon is dancing, in disturbing ways, on the screen. In the video there is also an abandoned house, left with the door open. It´s a metaphor for the feeling of something that is lost, you can go back there, but only the memories are left. In addition there’s live footage of the band filmed from shows in Oslo and San Diego."
'Prepared For a Nightmare' presents a dark and distinctive blend of post-punk, shoegaze and psychedelia. Here, the band delves deeper into their own distinctive blend of psych-noir and post-punk with elements of shoegaze and noise-rock.
Hailing from Oslo, Mayflower Madame is Trond Fagernes (vocals, guitars, bass), Håvard Haga (guitars) and Ola J. Kyrkjeeide (drums). Formed in 2011, they first rehearsed in a desolate industrial building, sharing space with a carwash company. Their hazy, smoke-laden sound was conceived naturally amidst these gritty surroundings. They soon recorded a four-track demo and became 'Unsigned Band of the Week' on a major Norway stations.
After a few years of touring, Mayflower Madame finally released their debut album 'Observed in a Dream' in 2016, followed by the 'Premonition' EP in 2018. Through eight tracks of theatrical psych-gaze exploration and dark romanticism, the album conveyed the wintry feeling of their home country – icy and gloomy, haunting and majestic.
Mayflower Madame has shared the stage with bands like Killing Joke, Moon Duo, Night Beats, Psychic Ills, Froth, The Underground Youth, Crocodiles, Cosmonauts and La Femme. They have also toured North America, the UK and Europe.
'Prepared for a Nightmare' was released on vinyl and CD on June 12. It is available through Bandcamp in all formats, as well as digitally via iTunes and Spotify.
"A seriously heady concoction of netherworldish sonic dabbling on a canvas of foreboding postpunk beauty wrapped in a psychedelic blanket. Utterly superb" – Louder Than War
"Deeply atmospheric psychedelia" – Clash Magazine
"A feverish nod to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club... the spacey menace of early Verve" – Q Magazine
"The love child of post-punk and neo-psychedelia" – Classic Rock Magazine (Germany)
"Their sneering vocals and wickedly distorted guitar riffs are pure Jesus & Mary Chain, the ominous, echo-drenched atmospherics recall Sisters of Mercy, and the overall and very palpable sense of fear and dread harken back to Faith-era Robert Smith" – BlackBook
'Sacred Core' from 'Prepared For A Nightmare' LP
Only Lovers Records
3 July 2020
Trond Fagernes - vocals, guitars, bass
Håvard Haga - guitars
Ola J. Kyrkjeeide - drums
Kenneth Eknes - synth on all tracks except 2, 6 & 7
Petter G. Marberg - bass on track 1 & 10
All songs written by Mayflower Madame / Trond Fagernes
Recorded by Trond Fagernes & Ola J. Kyrkjeeide at MaMa Studio, Oslo
Mixed by Bob de Wit (track 1, 5, 6 & 7), James Aparicio (track 2, 3 & 4) and James Trevascus (track 8, 9 & 10)
Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll Studio, New York
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The Baumgardner family really like parks. Last year, for the National Park Service (NPS) centennial, Neel, Lauren, Emma and Claire made it their mission to visit all 16 National Park units in Texas. They came up with the hashtag #TX16in16 to document their trip and shared photos on Instagram and Twitter.
While some teen and pre-teen girls may cringe at the thought of road trips with their parents to educational spots like the homestead of Lyndon B. Johnson, Emma and Claire don’t seem to mind spending time learning about mammoths, throwing atlatls, or swimming in the Rio Grande.
The girls come by their love of the great outdoors naturally – their dad, Neel Baumgardner, an environmental historian, teaches at UT San Antonio and writes about the history of the National Parks. Neel is also Texas Land Conservancy’s newest board member. We are thrilled to have his expertise and historical knowledge to help us gain a broader understanding of the context of land conservation in our great state.
I recently sat down with Neel and discussed the history of the creation of Big Bend National Park. Neel told me that in the 1930s Roger Toll, former superintendent of Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone parks, had the enviable job of travelling around Texas and researching which spots were ripe for preservation. Because of Toll’s advocacy (and the work of many others) places such as the San Antonio missions, Padre Island, and Big Bend have all been protected by the NPS for the benefit of future generations.
With Toll’s legacy in mind, Neel and his family traveled around Texas visiting sites of ecological, historical and cultural significance. While they hopped from one site to another throughout the year, Neel often thought about the history of the Park units and their current state: considering the context of their protection and what challenges they face today. Public lands face an uncertain future. Learning how and why these special places were set aside might help us continue to protect them today.
I asked Neel to share his favorite Texas national park story and he told me about his family’s visit to Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument in the Panhandle. This site was a Paleoindian flint quarry. The high quality, rainbow-hued Alibates flint is found in sites throughout North America, indicating that it was highly prized by the Paleoindian people.
The family visited Alibates twice; the first time their explorations were rained out, which ended up being an excellent opportunity for them to learn from Park Ranger, Jacob Collins, who was working at the information center. Jacob is Cherokee and does interpretation at Alibates. Jacob showed Emma and Claire how to fashion arrowheads, how to throw an atlatl, how to shoot a bow and arrow, and even how to make a friction fire to warm up on a overcast spring day.
This had such a big impact on Claire that she is now on the archery team at school. Emma later joined the Youth Presidential Leadership Council at the LBJ National Historical Park. Jacob took the family through the whole Paleoindian experience in one day – connecting them to the history of this place and to the land through interpretation.
In October, the Baumgardners went back and visited Alibates when the sun was shining. This time they explored the pit dwellings and found petroglyphs on a rock overhanging the Canadian River where the Paleoindians worked the flint to make it into arrows and other tools. Jacob led the tour again, sharing his knowledge of the Paleoindian culture and helping the family to form personal connections to the history of this stunning park.
Neel said, “The best teachers, like Jacob, can really bring history alive by showing how people lived, worked through problems, and adapted to their environment.”

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The Coffee Dictionary : An A-Z of coffee, from growing & roasting to brewing & tasting
by Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood
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From A to Z collects everything you need to know about coffee, from a barista championCoffee is becoming more popular than ever and more complex.The Coffee Dictionary is the coffee drinker of the guide to the use of the panoply of terms and techniques, equipment and varieties that go into creating the perfect cup.With hundreds of entries on everything, from supply, cultivation and harvesting, roasting, grinding and brewing, three times champion in the UK barista coffee barista and expert Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood explains the main factors that influence the taste of your drinkIllustrated throughout and covering something from country of origin, the variety of beans and the cultivation and harvesting of roasting techniques methods, infusion equipment, tasting notes, as well as the different coffee, drinks based on – The Coffee Dictionary is the word of the end, on coffee.
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Museum Rush is a competitive thieving game in which players race against time to steal treasures from a museum while avoiding cameras, guards, and greedy rivals. Luckily these dastardly robbers have an array of items to help them get the better of the guards and their fellow thieves, such as sultry Llamas, mighty Underwear and the high-tech Cardboard Box.
Each player controls a thief, moving up to three tiles a turn. Then if they are on a tile with loot they can take a stealing action to grab some loot from the tile. Certain tiles have special “Rare Treasures” that are worth a lot more than standard loot, but you have to crack the lock code by rolling the correct numbers before you can steal these!
Each stealing action brings the nearest guard two spaces towards the thief’s tile. Trying to crack a lock does the same. After stealing, the next card in the room is turned up, which might reveal more treasure. But turn up a security camera and the guard moves another 2 spaces closer! If the guard ends up on the same tile as your thief, you can slip away with a dice roll or play cards like “Take Down” or “Lure” to get rid of the guard. Otherwise the thief is thrown out of the Museum and loses all card but one. The player can break in again so there is no player elimination in the game.
Each thief draws new cards at the beginning of their turns, these cards can be used to take out guards, disable security cameras and mess with the other thieves.
When you draw a Clock card, time will advance and once you draw a certain number of clocks, depending on the number of players, the game ends. At this point there is a rush to the nearest exit, rolling a dice to avoid dropping a card for every space you have to cover. The winner is determined by who has the highest value of loot at the game’s end, once you are outside the Museum.
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David Stern continues to flex his muscle by blocking another potential deal sending Chris Paul-to-SoCal. By blue-balling both L.A. fan bases, the NBA faces questions surrounding the motive for the moves. Considering two very fair propositions for the Hornets were given the veto for “basketball reasons,” it appears that the Association prefers Paul in New Orleans, at least for the time being.
The NBA is planning to pesticide the Hornets.
Let’s look at the facts:
-Paul wants out of the Big Easy.
-New Orleans will get nothing if Paul leaves as a free agent. So…
-The Hornets would be much better off trading him before the season while they can get (considerable) value for him.
The lockout provided plenty of opportunities for owners to have conversations about what is best for the future of the league. Whispers of contraction have been discussed for years, and simply put, fewer teams mean more money for the players and owners. Also, as Magic Johnson has attested to, fewer teams would close the talent gap and improve competitive balance, making for more exciting and talented teams for every team. It is unrealistic to think this topic wasn’t discussed by the owners during the lockout.
Looking at candidates for contraction, the Hornets are a very logical choice for the first casualty.
Hornets President Hugh Weber said the team’s revenue is $4 million ahead of this time last year, having reportedly sold more than 9,000 season tickets and adding sponsors such as Chevron during the lockout. Despite these recent improvements, the NBA (aka the other 29 owners) owns the Hornets, and the league would obviously have a much easier time absorbing the team now before they find an owner.
Unless someone breaks the bank to land Paul (on a team that owners will allow), owners have tipped their hand. Paul is more valuable to every other team rotting this season in New Orleans, then leaving the team with nothing. It would be easier to sell the team with the better assets that a Paul trade would bring, so owners want to keep the lame duck Paul in N.O. so the team DOESN’T sell, ultimately giving the Association a more palatable excuse for why the Hornets are being contracted.
Let’s say a real Christmas miracle happens and owners decide to release Paul from purgatory, and then somehow get some sucker to save the Hornets from extinction. This doesn’t mean contraction is not still coming. Look for the Kings to be dethroned or the Bucks, TWolves, or Grizzlies to be hunted. Regardless, we now know that contraction is on the owners mind and the quickest and easiest way to get the ball rolling is to disband the team that doesn’t have an owner.


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Vegan pumpkin snack cake
November 16, 2014
While the traditional version of this snack cake is what I prepare for guests, this is the workhorse rendition that feeds my family on the daily. Trading the coconut oil for apple sauce cuts nearly 1,000 calories out of the snack cake as a whole, and sneaking flax seeds (and tofu…) into anything my child wants seconds of is always a triumph.
A pumpkin spiced treat you can devour without fear of turning into a pumpkin – November snacking, solved!
VEGAN PUMPKIN SNACK CAKE
Ingredients for Snack Cake:
- 1 15oz can pumpkin
- 1 tbls pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 “flax eggs” (1 tbls flax to 3 tbls water = 1 flax egg)
- ½ cup coconut oil
- ½ cup apple sauce
- 2 cups flour, 1 cup whole wheat, 1 cup white flour
- 1 ¼ cups low glycemic palm sugar
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
Ingredients for Frosting:
- ½ c Earth Balance whipped butter – room temperature
- ¼ c tofutti cream cheese – room temperature
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a saucepan over medium heat, cook pumpkin and vanilla with pumpkin pie spice for five minutes. Remove from heat and let cool for 10 minutes, while you prepare dry ingredients in a large bowl. Add oil, apple sauce, and flax eggs to the pumpkin mixture, blend together and then pour in the dry ingredients. Mix well.
Pour into a greased 9×13 pan and bake for 30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean, then remove and let cool.
Beat earth balance and tofutti cream cheese for five minutes or until smooth and fluffy, then add maple syrup and vanilla and mix well.
When cool, cut into snack cakes and then slather on icing. A dash of cloves on top adds an extra kick!
Total Cooking Time: 45 mins.
P.S. Check out my original Pumpkin Snack Cake as well!


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FIREFIGHTERS and community safety teams have visited over 200 homes in Bolton following a tragic fire that killed three children and their mother on Saturday (July 8).
Over the weekend, Safe and Well Visits have been carried out and smoke alarms have been fitted in homes in and around Rosamond Street after the tragic incident.
Officers from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and Greater Manchester Police have been carrying out a joint investigation and it is now believed that the fire was caused accidentally by a halogen heater in the living room at the front of the house.
Four fire engines were called to a severe fire at the terraced house at around 9am.
Assistant County Fire Officer Tony Hunter, who was at the scene, said: “When anyone loses their life in a fire, it is devastating – but even more so when it involves young lives.
“Our deepest condolences go to the family, friends and the local community following this tragic incident. We are especially thinking of the father of the children who has lost his family in such terrible circumstances.
“This was a tragic accident and over the coming days and weeks we will be working hard to spread our safety messages and offer reassurance and advice to residents to try and make sure that this never happens again.”
Chair of the Fire Committee, Cllr David Acton, said: “Our thoughts remain with those affected by this tragic incident. Firefighters and community safety staff will be in and around the area of Rosamond Street over the coming days, offering safety advice to local residents, but you can help to protect yourselves by ensuring you have a working smoke alarm on every level of your home and thinking about your escape routes.
“Please ensure that you check electrical appliances, plugs and cables and that you don’t overload sockets. And if you have particular concerns about your safety, call GMFRS on 0800 555 815 to book a Safe and Well Visit.”
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SAN JOSE, Calif., July 18 (UPI) -- A California transportation agency said it is considering a tax on motorists for each mile they drive in their cars.
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the San Francisco Bay area agency leading the discussions on the possible tax, said the plan would likely involve GPS-like devices installed in cars to keep track of the miles traveled by motorists, with low-income drivers excepted, the San Jose Mercury News reported Wednesday.
Randy Rentschler, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said the plan for a vehicle miles traveled tax, or VMT, could take up to a decade to implement if it is embraced by the public.
"I don't want to say it's pie in the sky. A VMT charge is really an option for the future to be looked at and considered," Rentschler said.
The Association of Bay Area Governments, which includes city councilors and county supervisors, is scheduled to analyze a study of the proposal Thursday.


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thou unconfinable baseness, it is as much as I can do, to keep the terms of my honour precise. I, I,
Again, in Randolph's Muses Looking-glass, 1638: the Lordship of Turnbull,
"Which with my Pict-hatch Grange, and Shore-ditch farm," &c.
Pict-hatch was in Turnbull-street:
your whore doth live
"In Pict-hatch, Turnbull-street."
Amends for Ladies, a Comedy, by N. Field, 1618. The derivation of the word Pict-hatch may perhaps be discovered from the following passage in Cupid's Whirligig, 1607: Set some picks upon your hatch, and, I pray, profess to keep a bawdy-house." Perhaps the unseasonable and obstreperous irruptions of the gallants of that age, might render such a precaution necessary. So, in Pericles Prince of Tyre, 1609: - if in our youths we could pick up some pretty estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatch'd." STEEVENS.
Pict-hatch was a cant name of some part of the town noted
"The meager letcher lewd Luxurio.-
"But of Pick-hatch, or of some Shoreditch baulke,
Sir T. Hanmer says, that this was 66 a noted harbour for thieves and pickpockets," who certainly were proper companions for a man of Pistol's profession. But Falstaff here more immediately means to ridicule another of his friend's vices; and there is some humour in calling Pistol's favourite brothel, his manor of Pickt-hatch. Marston has another allusion to Pickt-hatch or Pick-hatch, which confirms this illustration:
His old cynick dad
"Hath forc'd him cleane forsake his Pick-hatch drab." Lib. I. sat. iii. T. WARTON. Again, in Ben Jonson's Epig. XII. on Lieutenant Shift: "Shift, here in town, not meanest among squires
"That haunt Pickt-hatch, Mersh Lambeth, and White fryers."
Again, in The Blacke Booke, 1604, 4to. Lucifer says: "I
I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch and yet you, rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and
proceeded towards Pickt-hatch, intending to beginne their first, which as I may fitly name it) is the very skirts of all Brothel houses." DOUCE.
ensconce your rags, &c.] A sconce is a petty fortification. To ensconce, therefore, is to protect as with a fort. The word occurs again in K. Henry IV. P. I. STEEVEns.
-red-lattice phrases,] Your ale-house conversation. JOHNSON.
Red lattice at the doors and windows, were formerly the external denotements of an ale-house. So, in A Fine Companion, one of Shackerley Marmion's plays: "A waterman's widow at the sign of the red lattice in Southwark." Again, in Arden of Feversham, 1592:
his sign pulled down, and his lattice born away." Again, in The Miseries of inforc'd Marriage, 1607: tis treason to the red lattice, enemy to the signpost."
Hence the present chequers. Perhaps the reader will express some surprize, when he is told that shops, with the sign of the chequers, were common among the Romans. See a view of the left-hand street of Pompeii, (No. 9,) presented by Sir William Hamilton, (together with several others, equally curious,) to the Antiquary Society. STEEVens.
The following passage in Braithwaite's Strapado for the Divell, 1615, confirms Mr. Steevens's observation: "To the true discoverer of secrets, Monsieur Bacchus, master-gunner of the pottle-pot ordnance, prime-founder of red lattices," &c.
In King Henry IV. P. II. Falstaff's page, speaking of Bardolph, says, " he called me even now, my lord, through a red lattice, and I could see no part of his face from the window."
This designation of an ale-house is not altogether lost, though the original meaning of the word is, the sign being converted into a green lettuce; of which an instance occurs in Brownlow Street, Holborn.-In The Last Will and Testament of Lawrence Lucifer, the old Batchiler of Limbo, at the end of the "Blacke Booke," 1604, 4to. is the following passage: "-watched
your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of honour! You will not do it, you?
PIST. I do relent; What would'st thou more of man?
ROB. Sir, here's a woman would speak with you. FAL. Let her approach.
Enter Mistress QUICKLY.
QUICK. Give your worship good-morrow.
QUICK. Not so, an't please your worship.
QUICK. I'll be sworn; as my mother was, the first hour I was born.
FAL. I do believe the swearer: What with me? QUICK. Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?
FAL. Two thousand, fair woman; and I'll vouchfafe thee the hearing.
QUICK. There is one mistress Ford, sir;-I pray, come a little nearer this ways:-I myself dwell with master doctor Caius.
FAL. Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,
QUICK. Your worship says very true: I pray your worship, come a little nearer this ways.
FAL. I warrant thee, nobody hears ;-mine own people, mine own people.
sometimes ten houres together in an ale-house, ever and anon peeping forth, and sampling thy nose with the red Lattis."
QUICK. Are they so? Heaven bless them, and make them his servants!
FAL. Well: Mistress Ford;-what of her?
QUICK. Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord, lord! your worship's a wanton: Well, heaven forgive you, and all of us, I pray!
FAL. Mistress Ford;-come, mistress Ford,
QUICK. Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you have brought her into such a canaries, as 'tis wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches; I warrant you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift after gift; smelling so sweetly, (all musk,) and so rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of the best, and the fairest, that would have won any woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never get an eye-wink of her. I had myself twenty angels given me this morning: but I defy all angels, (in any such sort, as they say,) but in the way of honesty:-and, I warrant you, they could never get her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of them all: and yet there has been earls,
7 canaries,] This is the name of a brisk light dance, and therefore is properly enough used in low language for any hurry or perturbation. JOHNSON.
So, Nash, in Pierce Pennyless his Supplication, 1595, says: "A merchant's wife jets it as gingerly, as if she were dancing the canaries." It is highly probable, however, that canaries is only a mistake of Mrs. Quickly's for quandaries; and yet the Clown, in As you like it, says, we that are true lovers, run into strange capers." STEEVENS.
lay at Windsor,] i. e. resided there. MALONE.
nay, which is more, pensioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her.
FAL. But what says she to me? be brief, my good she Mercury.
QUICK. Marry, she hath received your letter; for the which she thanks you a thousand times: and she gives you to notify, that her husband will be absence from his house between ten and eleven. FAL. Ten and eleven?
QUICK. Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the picture, she says, that you wot of; 'master Ford, her husband, will be from home.
-earls, nay, which is more, pensioners;] This may be illustrated by a passage in Gervase Holles's Life of the First Earl of Clare, Biog. Brit. Art. HoOLLES: "I have heard the Earl of Clare say, that when he was pensioner to the queen, he did not know a worse man of the whole band than himself; and that all the world knew he had then an inheritance of 40001. a year." TYRWHITT.
Barrett, in his Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionary, 1580, says, that a pensioner was " a gentleman about his prince, alwaie redie, with his speare." STEEVEns.
Pensioners were Gentlemen of the band of Pensioners.the month of December,"  says Stowe, Annals, p. 973, edit. 1605,"were appointed to waite on the king's person fifty Gentlemen, called Pensioners, or Speares, like as they were in the first yeare of the king; unto whom was assigned the summe of fiftie pounds, yerely, for the maintenance of themselves, and everie man two horses, or one horse and a gelding of service." Their dress was remarkably splendid, and therefore likely to attract the notice of Mrs. Quickly. Hence, [as both Mr. Steevens and Mr. T. Warton have observed,] in A Midsummer Night's Dream, our author has selected from all the tribes of flowers the golden-coated cowslips to be pensioners to the Fairy Queen:
-you wot of;] King Henry VIII: “
"The cowslips tall her pensioners be,
"In their gold coats spots you see;" &c. MALOne.
wot you what I found?" STEEVENS.


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The worldwide protests that have followed the killing of George Floyd have prompted many of us to reflect on what we as individuals and organisations are doing to end racism and discrimination in our society.
The Ramblers is built on the belief that everyone deserves the right to experience the joy of walking outdoors. And it is also our duty as a membership organisation and an employer, to do all we can to ensure we are a truly diverse and inclusive place to work, volunteer and join.
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This is a new subject for me to discuss. Dating. Dating with a chronic illness, actually. And it is a really touchy subject. A subject for which I have no answers and am actually completely new to. Therefore, I guess this is the start of a new journey that I can try my best to navigate somewhat publicly in the hopes that it might help shed some light on this topic and alleviate some of the loneliness and alienation I am currently feeling.
I have always been an outgoing person. I have always been a girl who can get dates or who has boyfriends. There has never been a shortage of romantic drama / comedy going on in my life. Even though I was diagnosed with lupus when I was 25 it never really had a major impact on my life. It was just sort of there and popped up from time to time and lasted a few days and then went away. I took my medications (for the most part) and it was a part of my life that wasn’t scary and didn’t really cross my mind.
Until 2010 when I started to lose my hair. All my lovely hair fell out and I knew something was wrong, but I kept going to the doctors and everyone kept telling me that I was having a little flare and it wasn’t a big deal. I met my ex-boyfriend around the time my hair had fallen out and even told him about the lupus on our first meeting. But it wasn’t a big deal – to him or to myself. My decline continued over the course of our relationship and the next few years until I hit rock bottom with the transverse myelitis and the brain seizures. And our relationship ended (amicably) during that time as well.
I’ve spent the last 2 years in recovery mode. Learning to walk, learning to live with the new boundaries that this disease and all the residuals have placed on my life. It has been a difficult road. And lonely at times despite having the most wonderful group of friends and family constantly there for me. But I also was not in a place where I felt like a romantic relationship was a priority. It doesn’t help that I feel completely unsexy and ashamed of my lack of physical abilities.
Recently I thought it might be a good idea to try to date again.
As it turns out. Maybe I wasn’t ready.
In fact, it turned out to be a complete nightmare for me (and probably for the other person as well).
I wanted to go out there and be myself. Or probably more my old self rather than this new me. But I also wanted to be completely honest about the physical state that I am in. This turned out to be much more difficult than I had originally expected.
The being honest part turned into a giant mirror where I had to say out loud all of the things that were wrong with me. And when I lumped that all into a package it was devastating to hear. I think it was more devastating for me to hear because I haven’t ever said it all out loud like that. I can’t even imagine being on the receiving end of that speech. Plus I didn’t even get to get through the laundry list of “I can’ts” because some of them are so embarrassing that it would take seeing someone a while to have that conversation.
The list of facts or I can’ts went something like this:
- I can’t walk long distances. Most of the time it is difficult to even walk short distances because I am in constant pain in my spine and legs.
- When I do walk my legs feel like I have 50lb weights strapped to them because of severe nerve damage from the waist down. This adds to the pain and the fatigue that I suffer.
- I am perpetually tired. I may want to be fun and be the life of the party, but I probably need to be in bed by 10pm otherwise my next day will be ruined. I am so chronically fatigued that I can barely stay awake most of the time and it feels like I am living with my head in a cloud. I forget things, I become irritable, I can’t pay attention for very long.
- I can’t stand for long periods of time. If we go somewhere I need a place to be able to sit down.
- I can’t go out in the sun. My lupus starts to flare when I am exposed to the sun.
- I can’t go in the cold because I have Raynaud’s and my fingers and toes will turn blue and go numb.
- I can’t pee normally. I have to use catheters so if you see weird straws in my bathroom that is what they are.
- I can’t poop normally. The nerves in my bowels and my bladder have been permanently damaged by the inflammation of my spinal cord. This means that I have to take medications and deal with a ‘bowel management program’ that is neither sexy nor fun. This means that I have constant anxiety about going to the toilet because accidents can and have happened. This also takes a few hours of my evenings so staying over is probably not an option unless you want to watch me run to the bathroom 15 times in a row. If I don’t take care of this I spend the next day in constant anxiety and pain on my spine.
- I am on a lot of medications. These cause me to have gastro issues or weight gain or moodiness.
- I sometimes walk with a cane. But you do get free handicapped parking when you are with me.
- My lupus will never go away. It it under control and it fluctuates. This causes me to have pretty severe anxiety along with all the other things that are wrong.
Yeah. That list is pretty much a bummer. When I said (most) of it out loud to someone it basically caused me to regress and feel totally worthless and incapable of continuing the conversation. Who would want to date someone that has that many issues?!? I ended up feeling like a giant, sad loser.
I never wanted to be defined by this disease or by the limitations that it has placed on me, but recently it seems to be enveloping me to the point that all I see are these things because every day is a constant struggle to keep afloat. Adding the additional burden of dating on top of that was challenging because it drew attention to all the things that I don’t have to talk about all the time with my friends because they know all of it and accept it.
I ended up telling most of this to a person that I was seeing. And he took it all in stride which was encouraging and also terribly kind of him, but at the end of the day, I was still a wreck all of the time. Trying to find time for date nights when I am chronically fatigued, being “on” and in a great mood, worrying about someone else’s feeling, feeling guilty for always being tired and everything else that goes along with dating left me filled with constant anxiety and stress. And seeing myself through someone else’s eyes as this sad and incapable person who was filled with excuses and limitations really traumatized me. I don’t want to be that person. I am not that person. But that was who I felt like I was becoming and I don’t want to be pitied. I couldn’t continue seeing him because I was paralyzed with self-doubt and fear.
So, long story short, I’ve decided to shelve the idea of dating for a little while longer while I try to work through some of these issues. It is sad that something that should have been enjoyable turned out to be so difficult, but I’m glad I made the attempt even if I failed at it so miserably.
I think my next post will be brainstorming ‘things that I can do when dating with chronic health issues’. I might not be ready now to jump back in, but perhaps working on psyching myself up will help me get in a better mental state for that eventuality.


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