text: The actor from ‘Terminator’ felt like he was on set once again during a recent safari in South Africa. The actor was enjoying the sights when a huge elephant approached the vehicle he was in, and tried to attack everyone in the car. Fortunately, the former actor managed to escape completely unharmed, but he later confessed on social media that he was genuinely scared by what happened. The whole incident was caught on video. After seeing the images, I think it’s safe to assume he won’t be going back to that safari any time soon. Get it?

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Every episode of In Our Time - available to download to listen to when & where you want.
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In addition to the regular weekly In Our Time download, you can now download all previous editions of the series via the podcast genre pages listed below.
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The car started running hot, now I can not get it to start. There is no water in the oil, I have already checked and changed the oil. I have replaced the spark plugs, plug wires, fuel filter, thermostat, crank positioning sensor, coolant temperature sensor, and oil. I have gotten it to start twice after I changed the fuel filter but it wasn't a normal start. It still struggled. What's something else that could cause the no start?
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By Allen Carter
For the first time, emergency release blood will be available for patients being airlifted to hospitals on the Gulf Coast.
Last week Life Flight helicopters started carrying blood along with them on all emergency calls. Life Flight covers Mobile County, parts of South Mississippi and the Pensacola area.
“The leading cause of death in trauma patients is blood loss,” said Ben Hughes, a flight nurse. “We can go ahead and give you this emergent release blood in the event that you are suffering life-threatening hemorrhage and this will help increase a positive outcome.”
Life Flight is partnering with LifeSouth who provides the Blood. Each flight will carry two units of O-positive and plasma.

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A ROYAL author has slammed Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s decision to keep Archie’s christening private.
Royal expert Robert Hardman said the couple would “do well” to take a leaf out of the Queen’s book in being “seen to be believed”.
He cited the 1969 behind-the-scenes documentary Royal Family, and said the programme gave the public a “delightful, unscripted snapshot" of royal life.
Robert wrote on the Daily Mail: “Fast forward 50 years to another royal gathering and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have drawn up plans for this weekend’s rigorously ‘private’ christening of their son, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle.
“They would do well to dust off a copy of this remarkable programme from the Royal Film Archive to remind themselves how the Royal Family has previously juggled the public/private work/life balance — while still keeping everyone happy.”
The royal expert argued that the “small, private, human touches” of the documentary resonated with the public due to its “charm” and “honesty” of the famous family.
They [Prince Harry and Meghan Markle] should also be mindful of one of her [the Queen's] great maxims: ‘I have to be seen to be believed'Royal expert Robert Hardman
He argued that the decision to keep the christening “off-limits” suggests that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are doing the opposite of the documentary.
This includes withholding back the names of the godparents.
Robert praised the royal family for their decision over the years to do “walkabouts”, and said they have cultivated a relationship that has “never strayed into over-familiarity” but has “always felt genuine on both sides.”
He added of the christening: “The Sussexes would do well to take note.
“In embracing modern media, of course, Harry and Meghan are following the Queen’s example 50 years ago. But they should also be mindful of one of her great maxims: ‘I have to be seen to be believed.’”
ARCHIE'S PRIVATE CHRISTENING PLANS
The new parents also announced they will release official photos from the day some time in the future.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will christen the royal baby at the Private Chapel in Windsor Castle, and the couple have asked photographer Chris Allerton to take pictures.
A statement, released by Buckingham Palace, reads: "Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor will be christened in a small private ceremony by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Private Chapel at Windsor Castle on Saturday 6 July.
"The Duke and Duchess of Sussex look forward to sharing some images taken on the day by photographer Chris Allerton.
"The godparents, in keeping with their wishes, will remain private."
The couple are determined to keep their son a “private citizen”, with sources confirming they plan a media-free baptism.
The service will only be witnessed by around 25 guests, the Daily Mail reported.
MORE ON THE ROYAL FAMILY
We also revealed how the Queen is astonished and very impressed by "Hurricane" Meghan’s work ethic, a royal author claims.
In more Royal Family news, Meghan Markle's secret "dearest UK friend" has been revealed as a very private publicist who works for David Beckham.
The Sun Says
HARRY and Meghan surfed a wave of adulation when the world watched them wed. In 14 months they have, regrettably, blown it.
Their privacy fixation makes us doubt they grasp the contract between the Royals and the rest of us who fund them.
Baby Archie will be christened tomorrow in private. His parents will deign to release a photo at some point. Can we at least know his godparents? No.
Harry and Meghan may want to raise Archie away from the spotlight. But he’s still seventh in line to the throne. This is secrecy for secrecy’s sake. They are making a point. So let’s make ours.
If the couple still want taxpayers to fund their fabulous lifestyle — and spend £2.4million doing up their house — they must play the game. Is there no sensible adviser they listen to?
Because they need to fundamentally rethink their approach and see the damage they are doing to the Royals’ image.


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Probability of acceptance in dating choice
Maybe your parents had a troubled marriage and you’re scared things will be the same for you.
One thing about entering into a relationship is that it does entail some degree of risk.
It can take time to meet someone who is right for you.
And a little trial and error is always going to be part of the process.
To create this article, 12 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. There may be a good chance of her accepting, but there's always the constant fear of her rejecting you.
Fortunately for you, you've found the right article.
They might feel they’re into sporty, energetic people. The truth is we often base our ‘type’ around fairly specific, often arbitrary characteristics.
It can also mean entering into a new relationship too quickly, or making hasty decisions when it comes to choosing a partner.
There’s no guarantee that things will go well, or you won’t be hurt, or you won’t find it difficult to adjust to sharing your time with someone else.
But the benefits of making this change can be just as large as the challenges.
But internet dating has revolutionised the number of opportunities to meet people.
And if you’re already dating online, there are lots of different sites catering to specific interests, or ones that match people in different ways. The other side of internet dating, of course, is that there can be too much choice.

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Hear the thrusting like thunder
A fire-wind of thought, the coming storm
Feel the flaming rape of logic
Insanity's seduction is at hand.
Twisted are they who fornicate the storm
the seed of iniquity is forged
A tainted sky runs red from within
The ideals of a madman are born!
There is no love from within
Nor, the glitter of compassion
Only shafts of ice and crystalline
This, the house of pain.
A malodorous iceberg powered by cruelty
Unleashes that seething ooze
Blackened water this river Styx
Rush throughout the body so cold!
Hear the echoes, the dripping echoes
Hear black water slip from the roof
A rippled pool a sadism spews forth
The flow of hatred, a wave of evil.
Corridors of malaise run endless
A specter looms just ahead
What was good has been vanquished
Terror now reigns within the abyss!
Windows unto madness
Reflections of agony
Pools of pure deception
That prey upon the weak.
These black orbits of search
Relentless in their pursuit
Only magnify such pleasures
As they assess unspeakable deeds!
The true extensions of the mind
Reach out unbridled and unforgiving
Tread not these deadly vipers
For they shall strike at a moments notice.
A ten fingered vice, driven so
By blind fury and unnatural strength
Yet, precise and gentle when need be
These hands, so many lives have passed before them!
All melded as one like the metal in a fine sword
Behold the psychopath!!!

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A team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Navin Kumar Verma at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (LKCMedicine) has developed a new method of gene silencing in human T-lymphocytes, a type of immune cell. The immune system plays a key role in the protection of our body from inflammation and infections. The ground-breaking research findings have just been published in the internationally renowned Nature group’s journal Scientific Reports.
In the human body, information for synthesizing proteins that make up living cells is stored in genes. Genetic code is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA), which is translated into specific proteins. An antisense oligonucleotide that binds to the target mRNA can interfere the process of protein synthesis. Harnessing this RNA interference (RNAi) mechanism for modulating cellular responses is an area of on-going intensive investigation worldwide.
While various gene silencing approaches, such as siRNA and CRISPR-Cas9 techniques, are available, these cannot be effectively applied to “hard-to-transfect” primary T-lymphocytes. “The main challenge to the success of RNAi approach is cellular delivery, stability and in vivo applicability of inhibitory oligonucleotides. Even more challenging is to silence individual gene with high sensitivity while maintaining specificity and avoiding potential off-target effects”, says Dr Verma.
“GapmeR” is an emerging new class of gene silencing molecule, which is created by adding chemically modified Locked Nucleic Acid at both the ends of a central stretch or “gap” of 5-10 base single strand antisense DNA. These chemical and structural modifications provide the chimeric antisense GapmeR with high target affinity, sequence specificity, biological stability, favourable pharmacokinetic and tissue-penetrating properties – Dr Verma explains.
In the current study, Dr Verma and his colleagues at LKCMedicine Dr MHUT Fazil, Dr Seow Theng Ong, Dr Madhavi Latha Chalasani and Mr Jian Hui Low have developed and validated specific GapmeR molecules targeting a panel of genes in human primary T-cells. In doing so, they discovered two new proteins CG-NAP/AKAP450 and Stathmin as critical regulators of T-cell motility. They detected that GapmeR internalizes into cells through macropinocytosis – a process used by cells to take-up nutrients.
Professor Dermot Kelleher, co-author from the University of British Columbia (UBC), who is also a Visiting Professor at LKCMedicine says: “In addition to screening, identifying or verifying critical roles of various proteins in T-cell functioning, this study provides novel opportunities to silence individual or multiple genes in a subset of purified leukocytes and other cell types”.
“If we manage to fine-tune immune cells in a specific tissue, we may be able to devise selective therapies to better treat autoimmune diseases where drugs targeting T-cells have had unacceptable and serious side effects, such as progressive multi-focal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in the brain” – according to Professor Kelleher.
“In addition to addressing intricate biological questions, our study offers a general framework for future research for developing novel therapeutics and we are beginning to explore the opportunities. The next step is to tweak the design and scale-up the synthesis for testing in animal models for various diseases. The approach may be combined with small molecules, therapeutic peptides or antibodies that can be incorporated into purpose-made nanodevices capable of controlled release for next-generation therapeutics”, says Assistant Professor Navin Verma.
Article: GapmeR cellular internalization by macropinocytosis induces sequence-specific gene silencing in human primary T-cells, Fazil MHUT, Ong ST, Chalasani MLS, Low JH, Kizhakeyil A, Mamidi A, Lim CFH, Wright GD, Lakshminarayanan R, Kelleher D, Verma NK, Scientific Reports, doi: 10.1038/srep37721, published online 24 November 2016.

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For over fifty years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s peerless fantasy has accumulated worldwide acclaim as the greatest adventure tale ever written.
No other writer has created a world as distinct as Middle-earth, complete with its own geography, history, languages, and legends. And no one has created characters as endearing as Tolkien’s large-hearted, hairy-footed hobbits. The Prologue is meant partly to help people who have not read The Hobbit to understand the events of that book. It also contains other background information to set the stage for the novel.


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Calling all Pampered Pooches! The Pet Grooming Barn is set within the popular Stonham Barns Shopping & Leisure Village, and literally around the corner from Woodfarm. Their highly dedicated and experienced team are focused on providing not on the highest quality grooming, but tailoring the care for each pet to help keep them calm and relaxed.
Stonham Barns Leisure & Shopping Village is situated just around the corner from Woodfarm, and is home to a collection of unique and independent business units. They hold regular events, have a great restaurant on site, plus many shops to visit. It is a lovely day out during your stay at Woodfarm.
Exactly what you think this is! The Beauty Barn is set within the popular Stonham Barns Leisure & Shopping Village, and literally around the corner from Woodfarm, the salon is friendly and warm with a wide range of services on offer. It’s even in our Take the Dog section as your pooch can sit and watch if they are well behaved!
Literally next door to us at Woodfarm, Suffolk Surplus is a fantastic place to root around and hunt for bargains. Opened in 2012 by two school friends, they source their goods from job lots, clearances and auctions, so they always have an eclectic range of items for sale!
Doodledales is an independent specialist pet shop, set within the Stonham Barns Shopping & Leisure Village, literally just around the corner from Woodfarm. Stocking a large range of products, you can pick up anything from the essentials to some new treats and toys for your lucky dog! Continue reading Stonham Aspal: Doodledales Pet Shop

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Baby Development: Your 9 Month, 2 Week Old
At 9 months baby age, your baby is gaining more experience with solid foods, which means it’s about time to begin introducing “finger foods” — little diced bites of soft food — that your baby can attempt to pick up and eat.
If you haven’t already, it might be time to incorporate some soft, dissolvable foods in your baby’s diet. Examples could include soft fruit, teething biscuits, or “puffs” — dissolvable crackers made especially for babies. Your baby may love to play with these foods as much as eat them. Learning to manipulate them is an excellent way to bridge the gap from pureed foods to solid ones.
Some cultures skip pureed foods entirely with “baby-led weaning.” Here, babies drink breast milk until 6 months of age, then begin finger foods right away. This involves introducing soft, easy-to-eat foods that your baby could grasp and eat.
Examples of these 9 Months Baby foods include:
- Banana and other ripe, soft fruit
- Eggs (well-cooked)
You can provide these or other similar foods to your little one at a mealtime and allow them to explore. This may involve playing with food as much as eating it, but that’s OK. As an added benefit, baby-led weaning helps by allowing your baby to stop eating when he or she is no longer hungry because they are in control of how much goes into their mouth.
The alternative to baby-led weaning, or independent feeding, is spoon-feeding your child new foods. You can do both or either. Some parents like to see what their babies respond best to when it comes to eating.
Introducing new foods
You may have heard or read the rule of introducing a new food type every 3-5 days. The belief behind this was that starting new foods slowly could reduce the likelihood your baby could experience a food allergy related to introducing new foods. However, several new studies have found doing this doesn’t have this effect on babies who seem to be eating new foods well. Introducing new foods faster, every 1-3 days can help to expand your child’s diet.
Troubleshooting 9 Months Baby Diet
While you may love new foods, your baby is probably much more picky. If you’re having difficulties getting your new one to embrace varied food options, here are some things to try.
Try, try again. Just because your baby rejected a certain food or texture once doesn’t mean he or she won’t eat it again. You should try again a different day.
Consider seasonings. While you shouldn’t use salt in your baby’s food, you can expand his or her palate with herbs and spices, like garlic, onion, cinnamon, vanilla, and pumpkin pie extract.
Know your baby will eat enough. As a parent, it’s natural to be concerned your baby is eating too much or not enough. However, if you let your baby’s appetite lead the way, she should be just fine. Babies are smart. They eat when hungry and stop when satisfied. Avoid overfeeding by paying attention to the signs your little one is full (i.e. more food is going on the floor than in their mouth).
Be a good role model. Babies are influenced by parental eating habits, which means if you are eating a certain food, they may be more willing to try it. Eating and enjoying a variety of foods alongside your baby can help your child be more willing to try new things.
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How much stock does your e-commerce business need to satisfy current and future customer orders? How much inventory do you need on hand to create and package your products for sale?
For e-commerce sellers, it takes inventory to sell inventory. If you handle fulfillment in house, this means having enough merchandise on hand to fulfill your current and future orders before needing to re-up from your suppliers. For sellers utilizing third-party logistics (3PL) services, it means making sure you have distributed enough inventory to all of your partners so that orders can continue to be fulfilled reliably on your behalf. For dropshippers, it means making sure your suppliers are able to meet the demand of your customer base.
Whatever your omnichannel business looks like, the moment you aren’t proactive in establishing and maintaining access to proper inventory levels, your catalog fills with out-of-stock notices, and you run the risk of overselling. Customers who intend to purchase your products can’t get them. Customers who have already placed orders wind up getting notices that their orders have been canceled.
Establishing the ideal amounts of buffer stock and buffer inventory for your online retail business is critical to avoiding these types of profit-killing scenarios. Having the right tools and workflows in place to manage these logistics can make it both simple and pain-free to do so.
The Difference Between Buffer Stock and Buffer Inventory
For most e-commerce businesses, there are two types of physical goods that move in and out of their warehouses: stock and inventory. While oftentimes these terms are used interchangeably, there is a significant difference:
- Stock is any finished, retail product ready to be marketed and sold to a customer. They are typically assigned SKUs and listed for sale in your e-commerce catalogs.
- Inventory refers to the totality of the physical goods in your business’s possession. This includes stock (finished products), raw materials, and work in progress (WIP) products not yet fully in a state ready for sale. From an accounting perspective, inventory even includes the tools and equipment used in maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).
For your omnichannel e-commerce business to run smoothly, you need to always have enough inventory – of all types – to keep production and fulfillment moving forward. This is where buffer stock and buffer inventory come in.
- Buffer stock – sometimes referred to as safety stock – is a quantity of ready-to-ship products that you maintain to protect against overselling.
- Buffer inventory is an excess amount of raw materials and MRO that allow you to continue to produce stock for future orders. Buffer inventory also includes the amount of WIP products that you maintain to keep production moving forward and the aforementioned buffer stock quantities.
The optimal versions of these two amounts can look vastly different across brands and businesses. The nature of your products, production processes, supply chain, carrying costs, and storage arrangements will all play a part in determining the ideal buffer stock and buffer inventory levels for your company.
Furthermore, your ideal buffer levels may fluctuate over time depending on both internal and external factors. Events like supply chain delays, holidays, and promotions may necessitate increases in buffer inventory levels. Slow seasons or declining sales trends may lead to lower need. Ultimately, however you choose to calculate buffer quantities, it should be flexible and agile enough to adapt to your ever-evolving circumstances as an e-commerce retailer.
Ways to Calculate Optimal Buffer Stock and Inventory Levels
Ideally, all amounts of buffer inventory you keep in your warehouse should be enough to give your business peace of mind without incurring unnecessary carrying costs. Orders can be fulfilled without delay. Production can continue without interruption.
How you settle on what these numbers should be is up to you, but there are several popular methods widely used across the retail industry:
- Setting a fixed buffer inventory – Rather than opting for any of the more complicated algorithms below, the simplest option for some businesses is to just select and set a comfortable inventory quantity threshold as their buffer. This can be a particularly effective plan for e-commerce businesses that can afford to carry large amounts of excess stock due to either the nature of their products or their warehousing arrangements. It is a quick – albeit imprecise – approach.
Despite being called “fixed,” the buffer levels are certainly not set in stone. These levels can be manually increased or decreased based on sales forecasts or other business considerations.
- The “Traditional” safety stock formula – If you have access to some basic sales, production, and supply figures, you can use this method of calculating the proper amount of buffer inventory to keep on hand for a given product or material.
(Maximum daily sales x Maximum lead time) – (Average daily sales x Average lead time)
One disadvantage of this method is that it may lead to carrying more inventory than necessary. It also may be insufficient to satisfy sharp spikes in customer demand.
- More complex buffer stock formulas – For those looking for a more nuanced approach, there are several more complicated ways to generate more accurate figures. This is particularly useful for e-commerce businesses with high warehousing overhead, large products, particularly dynamic sales rates, inconsistent supply chains, and/or other types of logistical hurdles.
One popular buffer inventory formula is the Heizer and Render formula:
Z x 𝜎dLT
In this formula, Z is a variable known as Z-score that is set according to your desired service factor. It represents how many standard deviations above the mean level of demand you want to be certain that you will not oversell a given product or run out of a given piece of inventory. The higher the number, the lower the odds you will run out, but the more buffer inventory you will inevitably carry. 𝜎dLT represents the standard deviation in lead time – or the variation between your average supplier lead times and their actual fulfillment times.
This particular formula is useful in protecting you against out-of-stocks caused by suppliers that provide you with inconsistent fulfillment speeds and lead time requirements.
Another useful formula for calculating optimal buffer inventory levels is known as Greasley’s method.
Z x 𝜎dLT x Davg
Just like Heizer and Render, Greasley’s formula includes the Z-score confidence variable and the standard deviation in lead time variable. However, the addition of the average demand variable (Davg) offers an extra layer that considers patterns of customer behavior as a predictor of your buffer inventory needs. E-commerce sellers that regularly face sales variances due to seasonality, promotions, or otherwise volatile markets would be better served to opt for buffer calculations that account for fluctuations in customer demand.
No matter which method you choose, implementing and maintaining a buffer inventory is made simple with a proper, reliable inventory management system.
An Effective Inventory Management Platform is Critical to Managing Buffer Stock and Buffer Inventory Levels
Keeping track of order inventory and production stock is already challenging. Managing incoming and outgoing orders, juggling multiple warehouse locations, and tracking complex logistics operations all can be complicated workflows in their own rights. Modern omnichannel e-commerce all but requires a unified inventory management platform to manage it all.
Ideally, the platform you choose should also provide you with the tools you need to establish and maintain the buffer inventory and stock levels required to keep your business running smoothly and efficiently. Sellercloud’s family of products are ideally suited to this challenge. Not only does our omnichannel growth platform give you all the tracking and organizational tools you need to process orders, track inventory, maintain an omnichannel catalog, and manage all of your warehouse operations, but our predictive purchasing tools can also help automate the maintenance of your stock and inventory levels.
Using one of the methods outlined above, establish the buffer inventory levels you require. This may be for every product you sell, or possibly just for your highest-performing inventory.
From there, Sellercloud allows you to set a per-product “safety quantity” that will establish a stock buffer against overselling. This “safety quantity” is subtracted from the actual quantity of a product you have on hand before it is pushed out to your omnichannel listings. For instance, if you have 100 units on hand and a safety quantity buffer set to 10 units, Sellercloud will report to channels that you only have 90 units available for sale. This buffer can be used in tandem with predictive purchasing to ensure that you always have enough stock to meet customer demand.
For more on how Sellercloud can help you keep your omnichannel e-commerce business growing while protecting you against pitfalls like overselling, contact us directly for a free demo.

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US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who defected to Russia last year after exposing the US government's secret NSA spy scandal, has had his temporary asylum expire with no confirmation as to whether or not he can remain in Russia.
Although his application for an extension was is said to be being processed, there has been a campaign in Germany to grant him asylum there, after his revelations showed evidence of US spying on the German government.
However, in May US Secretary of State John Kerry urged Snowden to "man up" and return to the US to face charges.
"I know ultimately he would love to be able to come home or seek refuge in a country of his choice," Snowden's lawyer Jesselyn Radack said in an interview for Australia's ABC Radio on Wednesday.
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11 Dec 2020 | Amateur golf |
Metro stars lead Port Phillip Am
by Martin Blake
Two Metropolitan stars -- Jeneath Wong and Ted Donoghue -- have surged to the lead in the Port Phillip Open Amateur in Melbourne.
Teenager Wong, last year’s Vic Open Amateur winner and already a three-time club champion at Metro, shot an even-par 74 despite three bogeys on the back nine at Kingston Heath today, and she leads the women's field by two shots.
The door was opened for her by overnight leader Stephanie Bunque (Victoria), who shot an eight over par 82 for the day after opening with a 69.
Wong, 16, emigrated to Australia in 2015 from Malaysia, and she is also the reigning Riversdale Cup champion .
She has a habit of frontrunning strongly; she dominated both Riversdale this year by six shots and last year’s Victorian Junior Open by 13 shots.
Grace Kim (NSW) is the closest challenger at one under par, while The National’s Molly McLean is third at one over par.
WA’s Kirsten Rudgeley and Tasmanian Amateur champion Mackenzie Wilson are in the mix as well.
Donoghue, who is a member of Golf Australia's elite squads, is the reigning club champion at Metropolitan and he vaulted to the lead in the men's event with a second-round 71, one under par. He is at even-par overall, two shots ahead of a cluster that includes defending champion Louis Dobbelaar of Queensland.
The 23-year-old won the Dunes Medal last year on his return to top amateur golf after a hiatus of several years.
Joint first-round leader Chris Fan of New South Wales is among the bunch tied for second but the other leader from Thursday, Henry Fewell, slumped with an 80 today. In the breezy conditions scoring was high; one of the favorites Lukas Michel shot an 81 today and Davis Cup tennis star Sam Groth missed the cut after shooting 85-80.
The Port Phillip Amateur, which serves as the qualifying tournament for next week's Victorian Amateur, concludes with 36 holes at Commonwealth on Saturday. The top eight in both men's and women's events proceed to the state amateur finals next Monday and Tuesday at Metropolitan.
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Commentary on Revelation 21:10, 22—22:5
The view of the future offered by John of Patmos is beautiful.
The lectionary skips much of the detail, but the New Jerusalem is full of a variety of precious stone and is of impressive scope. This text is one of the primary influences on Christianity’s view of heaven, a place of beauty, peace, and perpetual light that emanates from the lamb.
In recent decades, as our society has become increasingly aware of our ecological crisis, scholars who study the bible have turned their attention to how the Bible has shaped our treatment of the environment. The field of “ecological hermeneutics” asks us to read the Bible in light of our environmental crisis. The vision of the new heaven and the new earth in Revelation is a fascinating text when read through an ecological lens.
For starters, many people, particularly evangelical Christians — those who read Revelation as a literal script for the end of the world — use the new heaven and new earth as an excuse not to care for the environment. Pastor Mark Driscoll is quoted as saying: “I know who made the environment. He’s coming back and he’s going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV.” This is obviously a drastic statement, but there are probably a good number of people today whose literal reading of Revelation 21 provides just cause not to care about the natural environment.
Although we may recoil from Driscoll’s harsh comments, the exegetical details of Revelation 21 – 22 present the reader with ecological problems. The first two come from earlier in chapter 21, which lies outside our particular text, but they do form a backdrop and introduction. The beginning of chapter 21 contrasts sharply with the end of chapter 20, where Death and Hades are thrown, along with the wicked, into the lake of fire. Once this is accomplished, a new heaven and a new earth descend, for the first heaven and earth had passed away (Revelation 21:1). Then we learn: “the sea was no more.” As someone who has lived most of his life in the central United States, the idea of a lost sea pains me. The sea fuels the imagination and provides a powerful metaphorical resource. More importantly, the sea nurtured early life on earth. For John of Patmos, the end of the sea marks an end to chaos. Eliminating the sea removes the abode of the beast which arose from it in chapter 13, a recapitulation of many sea monsters from the Old Testament, such as that in Daniel 7. In the context of Revelation’s ancient mythology, a sea-less reality makes some sense, but in our modern context, a planet without the sea would make biological processes impossible and weather patterns stagnant. Without the sea there would be no life. The image presented at the beginning of Revelation 21 is not a biologically viable world.
Another problematic text arises in Revelation 21:5. The one seated on the throne announces: “See, I am making all things new” (NRSV). Another possible translation of this verse would be: “See, I make all new things.” Scholars who read with an ecological lens argue strongly for the former reading, the one adopted by the NRSV. It suggests that there is some continuity between the old and the new, and thus it might create a crack into which some ecologically sensitive moral action might seep. While I completely agree with the sentiment behind such a translation, I’m not convinced that John intends such continuity. This new heaven and new earth seem awfully new to me. And if they are, it raises an eschatological problem about care for the planet.
The bulk of the text for this week is a description of the new heaven and new earth. What we find is that the vision is exclusively urban. The future for the righteous is to live in a city, one with 12 gates and built with myriad precious stones. There is one river, and the tree of life that somehow exists on both sides. The tree provides twelve kinds of fruit and its leaves are for the healing of the nations. We are told later that the dogs and wicked are to stay outside the city (Revelation 22:15). This is an urban future, devoid of wilderness, forests, and landscapes. (This ending contrasts with the ending of another ancient apocalyptic text, the Book of Watchers, whose future envisions vast, uncultivated forests and wilderness.)
Finally, the celestial phenomena of our universe are also rendered irrelevant in this new reality. The city does not need a sun or a moon because God is its light, and the lamb is the lamp that shines. Indeed, it will never be night, because this light shines constantly and eternally. This image has no basis in astronomical and physical understandings of how the universe works.
I am being unfair. Of course the Bible does not depict an apocalyptic, eschatological future that is in accordance with the knowledge of modern science. Even more obviously, we are not meant to take these chapters as a literal prediction of how the future will unfold. Nevertheless, these texts pose a problem to modern interpreters who want to study the Bible and its crossover importance with ecology.
From its beginning, Christianity has been beset with an eschatological problem. How do we reconcile a determined and unrealistic future with the need for ethical action in the present? Pope Francis, in his encyclical Laudato Si, struggles with this. In the final section, titled “Beyond the Sun” he, for the first time in the whole work, turns to eschatology and specifically cites Revelation 21: “Even now we are journeying towards the Sabbath of eternity, the new Jerusalem, towards our common home in heaven. Jesus says: ‘I make all things new.’” But a treatise such as this, meant to engender action, can’t leave things there. He adds a final section (244), that starts: “In the meantime, we come together to take charge of this home which has been entrusted to us … ” In some ways, what Francis seems to suggest is we ought not be too encumbered with eschatology. Leave that to God. How God decides to create the future does not remove the need to nurture God’s creation in the present.


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Kolomoisky joins legal process as intervener in case of VS Energy's asset seizure
Businessman Ihor Kolomoisky filed an application to join the court case as a third party in the Ministry of Justice's claim against sanctioned Russian oligarchs Aleksandr Babakov, Yevgeny Giner and Mikhail Voevodin, reported the chief expert of the public organization StateWatch Oleksandr Lemenov.
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According to the statement, Kolomoisky wants to join the case on the side of the defendants Mikhailo Voevodin and Natalia Selivanova (common-law wife of Voevodin).
The legal case involves the confiscation of assets belonging to the VS Energy group, whose ultimate beneficial owners authorities claim are Babakov, Giner and Voevodin. The Ukrainian state is seeking to claim the assets for state revenue.
One of the assets that the ministry is intending to sequester from the Russians is 49.84% of the shares of JSC Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Combine.
This share is owned by Kadis Holding Limited of St. Kitts and Nevis through the Cypriot company Starmill Ltd. It, in turn, is controlled by Newsteel Holding Ltd from Belize. The last two companies have been under the sanctions of the National Security Council since May 12, 2023.
According to the Ministry of Justice, Voevodin and Selivanova have been controlling the shares of the Ukrainian plant since mid-2017. The ministry's lawsuit mentions the decision of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales dated June 14, 2022, which established the fact of agreements between Kolomoisky and Voivodin to sell this share for $926 million.
The other half of the shares of the Kryvyi Rih Combine remains with Rinat Akhmetov, who is publicly listed as the beneficiary of the enterprise in the state register.
The Ministry of Justice considers the lawsuit against Aleksandr Babakov, Yevgeny Giner, and Mikhail Voevodin to be "the ke sanctions battle."
In case of confiscation, the state will take corporate rights from the Russians in eight regional energy companies, six hotels, two metallurgical plants, one of the shopping centers in Kyiv and 31 other companies, as well as about $2.5 million.
VS Energy insists that its owners are EU citizens Vilis Dambins, Valts Vigants, Arthurs Altbergs (all from Latvia), as well as Oleg Sizerman and Marina Yaroslavskaya (both from Germany). Giner ceased to be a shareholder of the group in 2014, and Aleksandr Babakov and Mikhail Voevodin never owned VS Energy group shares.


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Volume No. 2 Issue No. 63 - Monday, December 22, 2008
Life and death in the ER - Gunshot wounds
By FLORENCE - ICU/ER Nurse
I walked toward room 19 and saw the night nurse slip quietly out of the room to report off to me. There was something different about her today. I said, �Your eyes are red, it must be very bad.� I had worked with Jan for a while and knew her to be a hard core Critical Care nurse. She was a nurse I would allow to care for me if I was in an emergency. She looked at me as if to say, �I need a hug;� and then she wiped the tears from her eye.
A patient in rushed to the Emergency Room.
�You will be fine, give me the report so you can go home to rest. I�m sorry you had a bad night.� As nurses we have learnt the art of keeping our focus when it matters and breaking down later. I knew I was walking into something that was going to demand shrewd and tactical execution while pulling at my heart strings.
I made the calculated decision to receive the report at the bedside so that she could remain focused. Then she could have a cup of coffee before breaking down in the seclusion of her car in the parking lot.
�It�s terrible, it is just so senseless�, she said softly as we braced ourselves to enter the room. �My father in heaven will help me today!� I muttered under my breath. It was heart wrenching. A 25 year old Hispanic woman was kneeling at the bedside of her fianc�. Please don�t leave me now, she pleaded. Why? Why? Why? Dios mios�.
This sounded like it came from the depth of her belly. I fought the lump in my throat and I swallowed hard. I felt her pain and I realized that this situation was going to need the love of Jesus to minister comfort to this young lady while I tried to keep this 25 year old man alive.
I called for Pastoral care and while they ministered to her in the quiet room, I got the report I needed to continue the excellent care, which the veteran critical care nurse Jan had started. �25 year old Hispanic male with 2 gunshot wounds to the occipital lobe. No exit site.
Cat scan shows that the bullets are embedded where they cannot safely access them. GCS on arrival 1:1:1.� The GCS is the Glasgow Coma Scale is a neurological scale which provides an objective assessment of a person�s conscious state. 3 was the lowest score he could get.
Wow! This is somebody�s son, a little boy�s father and a young lady�s finance. My heart ached for him but there was no time to be distracted. �So what is our goal here?� I must have a strategy for this. Jan had regained her composure by then, she calmly said, �he is barely here but we have to keep his organs well perfused.
Organ donation has been called maybe he can help someone else or some other people. My goals suddenly crystallized in my mind. I was no longer trying to save this guy. I was working diligently to save his kidneys, lungs, heart, small bowels, eyes, liver etc. I am sure that there were many gravely ill but viable patients waiting for these organs.
The day went by and I worked quietly to ensure that this young man�s blood pressure was high enough to perfuse his brain, his heart rate did not drop, and his oxygenation was optimal. The family members were very solemn and respectful.
They tried so hard not to get in my way. The mood was somber as the reality of that tragedy was setting in. His father asked me when we were alone. �What are his chances? How bad is it?� I asked for wisdom before answering, �It is not good. It is critical� I said, �Come I want to show you something�. I flashed a light in the patient�s eyes; they were fixed and dilated at 6 mm. No sign of any movement.
I squeezed his fingers and toes with my pen. � no movement. He is not here with us.� I said in a monotone voice. �I am so sorry. I wish I had better news for you�. The father looked at me with a haunted look in his face. As if to say, this cannot be happening. I offered him some tissues and asked him to sit. I knew that the last 25 years was flashing right before his eyes.
He told me that the young man was set to graduate from college next year, and was set to get married. His brother was apparently involved in drug and gang activity and he was shot in the back of his head while he stood outside the family house talking after he came from work.
We immediately changed the name of the patient to ensure that there was no gang retaliation activity. The goal here was to work on convincing the family to donate the organs. I thought of the many people who could benefit from these donations including our own Charles Lawrence and prayed that the family would do the right thing.
However, there are still many hang ups about organ donation in Black and Hispanic communities. So the job of organ donation is always handled by the professionals trained to do so with the utmost sensitivity. In the meantime, I continued my job of caring for the hurting family and making sure that the patient was cared for with dignity and the highest level of skill.
After my shift, I check my driver�s license again to make sure that I was listed as an organ donor.
Saving the young in the ER
Editor�s note: This is the another story in a fascinating series of articles surrounding the isses of life and death at America�s hospitals penned by a highly respected Dominican ICU/ER nurse working at a major hospital center in the Western United States.
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Washington, D.C. – The Ethiopian Heritage Society in North America (EHSNA) condemns the killing of students in Oromia region in Ethiopia. Furthermore, EHSNA condemns the arrests, torture, and imprisonment of Ethiopians through out Ethiopia and calls on all human rights organizations to put pressure on TPLF/EPRDF regime for its heinous crimes.
For the past month and a half, the situation in Ethiopia has been very disconcerting. The vast ongoing human rights violation by the TPLF government has urged the Ethiopian Heritage Society In North America (EHSNA) to speak and condemn the ongoing onslaught on Ethiopian citizens. The level of instability in the country has never been more apparent than ever before.
Oromo students have been peacefully protesting against a land policy where the government intends to implement. Largely, the protests took place in universities in towns such as Ambo, Jimma, Wellega and so on. According to BBC, in Ambo, 125km (80 miles) west of Addis Ababa, eye witnesses reported at least 47 students were killed by security forces during the days preceding May 2, 2014.
Instead of addressing the issue peacefully the TPLF/EPRDF regime security forces used live ammunition at unarmed student protestors killing and leaving several hundred causalities in various parts of Oromia region.
According to human rights watch the TPLF government is, “showing increasing intolerance of any criticism of the government and further restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression and association.” Hundreds of students and perhaps in the thousands now have been so far imprisoned and expelled in relations with the protests.
The regime has been systematically implementing an ethnic cleansing of Amharas. As a result thousands of Amharas have been expelled by and still continue to be ethnic cleansed from South as part of the government’s land policy. In reality, the land policy is a façade to extend its systematic implementation of confiscating land from poor villagers. The regime systematically incites violence between ethnic groups to create mistrust and hate among them. . Such an agenda has been advantageous for extremists group to exploit the policy and in turn carry out violence. This agenda disguised as policy is eroding the communal relationship and harmony that has existed for centuries
The imprisonment and intimidations of bloggers and journalists is another case that has been increasingly unsettling. Several Ethiopian journalists languish in prisons for merely expressing their opinions. Just recently, the TPLF regime arrested young bloggers, also known as zone9 bloggers, for blogging about societal issues affecting the country. The zone9 bloggers were jailed without due process and effectively sent to prison where they still remain in horrendous conditions. They have been denied access to their families and lawyers and are being imprisoned in Makelawi federal prison which is infamous for torturing prisoners. According to the Committee for protecting Journalists (CPJ), “Ethiopian authorities are turning the peaceful exercise of free expression into a crime.”
The Oromo students, as any other group of students, have the right to peacefully protest and be herd, Amharas have the right to live where they wish, and Journalists and bloggers have the right to free speech without any form of repression and intimidation. The EHSNA does not advocate any form extremists’ ideologies or align itself with any political groups; however, the question of human rights is a universal obligation where every citizen and organization must stand guard diligently. As a society based in democratic country, we support and believe in these basic human rights ideals.
The government’s gross human rights violation and divisive character has put into question the very fabric of Ethiopian identity and the future prospect of the country. Preserving and promoting Ethiopia’s heritage is only possible when the rights of its people are respected and the essence of Ethiopia stands firm. Thus, EHSNA condemns the killings, arrests, torture, and imprisonments and calls on all human rights organizations to put pressure on and condemn the TPLF government for its heinous crimes.
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My wife and I have stayed at this hotel several times over the years, our most recent stay being 3 nights from the 16th-18th of May. The rooms and hotel in general have always been very clean. Service is good and the staff friendly. Breakfast is good but with somewhat less variety then other hotels in this chain. The area is nice and being next door to the mall means that restaurants and stores are convenient. We visit the Charlotte area once a year and this is our preferred place to stay. Our only complaint is that the pillows are rather poor. Not much body to them. If your are particular then I suggest you bring your own if possible. Don't know if others are available on request.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Nurses on the front lines of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic are calling for the state to enact minimum staffing standards ahead of another wave of infections.
Health care industry leaders, though, warn that passing such a law would saddle facilities with billions of dollars in extra costs they can’t afford.
Under legislation now before a legislative committee, the state would for the first time set minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, including a standard of one nurse for every two patients in intensive care units.
California now has such a law. Other states don’t. Supporters say the legislation would boost the quality of care, reduce staff burnout and let the state hold health care facilities accountable for inadequate staffing.
Minimum staffing ratios also might have helped last spring, they say, when hospitals and nursing homes in the New York City metropolitan area were overwhelmed with a flood of COVID-19 patients.
“If we had better staffing in place before COVID-19, if we weren’t stretched so thin, we would have been able to handle the flex and surge that was required,” said Pat Kane, who leads a union representing nurses statewide.
Health industry groups have long called minimum staffing levels too costly and unnecessary. They say implementing staffing mandates now would be especially damaging, as hospitals face sharp revenue losses.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised in 2018 to set safe staffing levels, which he said was “linked to quality care,” but this month his health department released a report estimating the proposed staffing rules would force nursing homes and hospitals to hire a combined 35,000 nurses, at a cost of around $4 billion.
“During the crisis, the increased costs would have been unbearable, coming on top of the extremely expensive surge costs frontline hospitals incurred,” Greater New York Hospital Association President Kenneth Raske told hospital leaders this month. “Now, in the COVID-19 transition era, when hospitals are fighting for their very survival due to a severe loss of revenue, such a mandate is unthinkable.”
It also is not clear whether staffing mandates would have made any difference in an extraordinary crisis like the one that enveloped the health care system last spring, when hospitals were seeing so many dying patients that they had to bring in refrigerator trucks to handle the bodies.
Simultaneously, many health care workers themselves were falling ill, disrupting regular staffing plans. With help from the state and staffing agencies, hospitals brought in thousands of temporary staff, often people from other states, but it took weeks for the help to arrive.
The state health department report said hospitals need to retain flexibility over staffing, especially during a crisis.
Bea Grause, president of a statewide group representing public and nonprofit hospitals, said the report confirmed long-held concerns about “rigid, statewide government-mandated staffing ratios.”
Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a Democrat from New York City, called the report “disappointing.”
“It acknowledges that higher levels of staffing saves lives,” he said. “But it doesn’t seem to offer any alternative to losing those lives.”
Kane said the report repeats old arguments, ignores potential savings and inflates costs by over $1 billion. She said the state should have interviewed nurses on front lines and examined staffing levels in hard-hit minority communities.
“Everything is such a fight for these nurses,” she said. “It’s one thing to say they’re heroes and they made the sacrifice. But listen to them, and that will show them you really mean that… Because they dread the idea, they can’t imagine going through something like that again.”


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Congratulations on your upcoming arrival! Did you know that proper prenatal nutrition sets the building blocks of growth for your child and their overall health? We all know that our daily food intake affects how our bodies work. For example, if you eat too much fat, you will likely feel sluggish and it may be harder for your digestive tract to work properly. The food we eat helps us heal, grow, and maintain energy. During pregnancy, nutrition is as much about the baby as it is about you. The food we consume helps the fetus grow and develop properly and it also provides a model for how they eat and what they eat during childhood. Pregnancy is likely the only time your eating habits directly affect and influence other humans. Pregnancy nutrition is a vital part of growing a healthy child.
Pregnancy can shock your world! You might experience a change in how you smell and taste – and then there is how your body changes! Every trimester brings its own challenges and how you eat in each trimester affects your baby. Cravings start early but not all cravings are great for prenatal nutrition. Your obstetrician may tell you to take prenatal vitamins and folic acid – which are great for fetal development but don’t forget about the FOOD!
As each trimester brings its own bag of tricks and challenges – from the glucose test through weekly or daily appointments with your OB/GYN, plus new cravings – you may want to consider prenatal nutrition counseling as an option for keeping you healthy through your pregnancy.
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As you navigate the waters of pregnancy, I will be right there with you helping you with blood sugar regulation, your blood pressure, weight management, and choosing the right foods to help your baby grow while helping with those pregnancy cravings. As a licensed and registered dietitian, I understand the importance of an individualized approach with meal plans and one-on-one sessions. With pregnancy, there is no such thing as a “one-size fits all” approach to nutrition. As your pregnancy changes, your prenatal nutrition changes with it and you need an approach that can fluctuate through your trimesters. I will work closely with you and your OB/GYN on your nutrition goals – whether it’s just learning to eat the right foods or helping you with weight management.
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The exhaust manifold collects the exhaust gases that gets emitted from the cylinders and passes them through a single pipe to the catalytic converter and out the tailpipe. The main symptom of a faulty exhaust manifold system is if you hear a hissing sound from the engine. This means that you have a crack in the exhaust manifold causing a leak in exhaust which creates a loud noise as the gasses push through the crack. This sound typically gets louder as you accelerate. You may also notice a reduction in engine power, especially during acceleration. Exhaust manifolds are heavy duty so they rarely break or crack but it can happen with some heavy equipment due to the increased stress and heat that the engine is put through. Depending on the engine, exhaust manifolds can be expensive to fix as the part itself can be upwards of $1,000 if it needs to be replaced all together. If the crack or break is small enough, the exhaust manifold can be welded.


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With Prerelease Week starting on September 18th and the full launch on September 25th, now is a great time to review the many Zendikar Rising Products on offer. Strap your Adventuring Gear down tight we’re heading into Zendikar.
Every main set release sees a prerelease event* and this pack contains the tools to build your deck; 6 Draft Boosters and a foil date-stamped card. They also provide a 20-sided die for tracking life and a divider to keep your current deck separate from your other cards. Prerelease Packs are only available from local game stores while supplies last.
*Where conditions do not permit a prerelease event, local stores will still have them for at home play.
Designed for Limited Play right out of the pack, Draft Boosters form the core of any Magic Release. Each pack contains 10 commons, 3 uncommons, 1 rare or mythic rare, 1 full-art basic land, and 1 token/ad card. Wizards tweaked the drop rate for mythic rares up to 1-in-7.4 packs. A third of the packs replace a common with a foil card. Also, exciting, alternate art versions of cards may be found in a booster ranging from showcase frames to borderless land cards.
Draft Booster Displays contain 36 packs each and 1 Expedition box topper.
The gold standard of Magic, Collector Boosters fill every slot with foils, showcase, and other upgraded cards. Each pack holds 4 guaranteed rares, 11 guaranteed foils, and 7 guaranteed alternate-frame cards. As an added incentive, Collector Boosters are the only packs you can crack a foil Expedition.
1 – Foil Expedition, foil showcase, foil borderless,
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1 – Showcase or borderless rare or mythic rare
2 – Showcase common or uncommon
1 – Foil rare or mythic rare
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1 – Foil full-art basic land
2 – Foil uncommon
5 – Foil common
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Each Collector Booster Display holds 12 boosters and 2 Expedition box toppers.
Set Boosters already have a detailed introduction on our site. So today we’ll just hit the highlights. The Set Boosters are a new type introduced with Zendikar Rising. Wizard’s stated goal is to make the experience of opening a pack exciting and fun. Smaller packs, 12 cards, but more quality content.
Up to 4 rares
1 foil in each pack
1-in-4 packs with a card from The List (more in a later article)
chances for alternate art cards
1 art card with 1-in-20 foil-stamped
1 token/ad card
A Set Booster Display will have 30 packs and one Expedition Box Topper.
Zendikar Rising Bundles
Cheaper than an entire display, but still contains a multitude of packs, lands, and other good stuff. Whether you’re sampling the set or getting a new player started, the bundle gives you a good entry point. Each bundle contains 10 Draft Boosters, 20 foil basic lands and 20 basic lands (both in the regular frame), and alt-art card (TBA), an oversized spindown, and packed in a card storage box.
Zendikar Rising Gift Edition
Upgrade your Bundle to a Gift Edition. In addition to the Draft Boosters and lands from the Bundle, you’ll receive a Collector Booster, an alternate-color oversized Spindown die, anda super-shiny box for your cards.
Another great entry point for new players or casual players looking for quick game. Five of the Theme Boosters focus on a different color of Magic. Meanwhile, the 6th Theme Booster gathers a multi-colored Party together to explore the new mechanic. Just add land to the mix and play.
Zendikar Rising themed Commander Decks provide an easy entry into the format or a solid source of strong, well-priced, cards for both new and experienced players.
Expedition Box Topper
You noticed I wrote about Expedition Box Toppers in sealed displays of Draft, Set, and Collector Boosters. Expeditions take you to some of greatest locations in the multiverse. The Box Toppers cover 30 different locations from the 10 fetch lands other intriguing spots. Let’s look at a few.
While supplies last, when you purchase a sealed booster display from your WPN store, you’ll receive Orah, Skyclave Hierophant in this alternate-art format.
Did you stick to the end? Here’s a special item for new players. The Welcome Booster is a free item at WPN stores for new players. It holds a small slice of Magic goodness with legends, planeswalker cards, showcase cards, and more. Each Welcome Booster has exactly the same contents so no need to stress over which one you open.
That’s all for the Zendikar Rising Products lineup. Saving up for any particular ones? Leave a note below.

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Anchor Steve Spriester from KPRC 2′s sister station in San Antonio, KSAT unknowingly made his music debut on a song by rapper Future from his latest album “High Off Life."
Spriester is featured on the fifth track titled “Ridin Strikers."
According to KSAT, the audio sampled in the song is from a bank robbery report that occurred in San Antonio in July 2014.
Starting at the 2:36 mark, Spriester is heard saying, “the police need your help in tracking down a suspect in a bank robbery this morning on the city’s north side. According to police, the suspect walked into the bank about nine this morning, went straight to one of the tellers, handed over a note that said ‘put money in bag.’”
The anchor said he learned about his feature on the rap track on Twitter.
It’s crazy, right? I found out on Twitter.— Steve Spriester (@stevespriester) May 17, 2020
“I think it’s kind of funny that he picked one of my clips, but it’s cool. My kids are thrilled. They’re calling me ‘Mr. Put Money in Bag.’” Spriester said according to KSAT.


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Yorkshire Dales Self Catering cottage, Croft Cottage, Pateley Bridge, sleeps 4
Areas: Yorkshire Dales
01244 352 197
Sleeps a maximum of: 4
Pricing From: £264.00
This charming mid-terrace cottage is situated in the town of the town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale in the Yorkshire Dales and can sleep three people in two bedrooms.
21 Park Road is a charming mid-terrace cottage in the town of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale in the Yorkshire Dales. The cottage can sleep three people in two bedrooms, which are made up of a double and a single with a ground floor shower room. The rest of the cottage is also made up of a kitchen, a sitting room with a woodburner and a lower ground floor second sitting room with sofa bed.
To the outside is roadside parking on a first come, first served basis. There is an enclosed lawned garden with patio and furniture. Situated in a stunning location, 21 Park Road is an ideal base for a good holiday at any time of the year.
Gas central heating with woodburner
Electric oven, gas hob, microwave, fridge, washing machine, 2 x TVs with Freeview, DVD, WiFi, selection of books, games and DVDs
Fuel, power and starter pack for woodburner inc in rent
Bed linen and towels inc in rent
Travel cot and highchair
Roadside parking on a first come, first served basis as well as a free public car park opposite
Secure bike storage
Enclosed lawned garden with patio and furniture
Sorry, no pets and no smoking
Shop and pub 2 mins walk
Note: The sofa bed is for flexibility only, max occupancy is 4
Get an Ordnance Survey map covering the Pateley Bridge area.
Nearest AttractionsHeritage Rated from 1- 5 (low-exceptional) on historic interest
Brimham Rocks - 3.6 miles (Countryside)
Parcevall Hall Gardens - 6.3 miles (Garden)
Studley Royal, St Mary Church - 7.6 miles (Historic Church)
Fountains Abbey - 7.7 miles (Abbey)
Studley Royal Water Garden - 7.7 miles (Garden)
The Strid - 8.1 miles (Countryside)
Druid's Temple - 8.2 miles (Historic Building)
Barden Bridge - 8.4 miles (Historic Building)
Ripley, All Saints Church - 8.4 miles (Historic Church)
Ripley Castle - 8.4 miles (Historic House)
Nearest Alternative Cottages
Details of facilities are believed correct at time of publication, but may be subject to change by the cottage proprietor. Up-to-the-minute facility listings will be always presented during the booking process for your approval.


Yreka's Souper Bowl Champion crowned
Seven soup contenders entered the field March 1, but only one took home the top honor of Souper Bowl Champion: Linda’s Soup Café of Yreka.
The city’s first Souper Bowl was organized by the Siskiyou Gardens, Parks and Greenway Association, drawing soup crafters from Strings, Jenner Family Beef, Dotty’s, Linda’s Soup Café, Dogwood Diner, Dinner’s Ready Siskiyou County and Puerto Vallarte.
SGPGA member-at-large Kris Taylor said that the sold-out event came down to a two-vote difference between Linda’s tomato bisque and second place Dogwood Diner.
According to Taylor, proceeds from the event will help support the Yreka Creek Greenway, Yreka Community Gardens, the Siskiyou Arboretum and Native Plant Nursery and the Friends of Greenhorn Park.
“The community supported the event very generously,” she said, adding that SGPGA also gathered up a number of volunteers for its various projects.
Other community input came from local artists who donated the 115 unique, hand-made bowls that were given to attendees. Taylor said that the bowls were donated by the College of the Siskiyous’ clay class, the Preservation Society Sculpting Class, Laurel Besiker, Maggie Shepard, Roger Davis, Les Helsley, Jane Hall, Dorothy Peters, Bianca Palmer and local artist Amber.
“It was really fun,” Taylor said. “And the soups were fantastic.”
She added that while many attendees requested that a Souper Bowl be held annually, the SGPGA board has not yet committed to an annual event.
Those interested in the SGPGA can find
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This delicious roasted cherry ice cream has sweet chocolate chips and makes the perfect summertime dessert.
A few years ago I purchased a Cuisinart ice cream maker to try our hand at homemade ice cream. We used it a few times that first year and then I confess it has sat pretty much untouched ever since. This year I've adopted a "Use It or Lose It" attitude towards my kitchen so I dragged the machine out from the cabinet to give it another try.
I've settled on two major takeaways from our experiment this week:
- Making homemade ice cream is time consuming for a fairly small batch of ice cream. Not difficult, but definitely messy.
- Homemade ice cream is ABSOLUTELY worth the effort.
We used fresh cherries to make a homemade roasted cherry chocolate chip ice cream that was absolutely To Die For. Just when I thought I knew every fresh cherry recipe there was, the roasted cherries blew my mind. The ice cream base was creamy, smooth, and delicious. Then I mixed in plump juicy roasted cherries, crunchy roasted almonds, and sweet chocolate chips for the perfect summer flavor.
The first step is to prepare these easy Roasted Cherries:
Rinse and dry 2 cups of fresh cherries. Remove the stems and pits. To roast them, I followed the recipe on Epicurious here. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. In a 9x9 glass baking dish, toss the cherries with ⅔ cup sugar and 2 tsp cornstarch. Bake for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
The roasted cherries become extra concentrated in flavor and the sauce is thick and sweet. Just by itself the sauce would make an amazing ice cream topping if you wanted to stop here and just use some vanilla ice cream from the grocery store.
But I highly recommend you keep going . . .
When we were in Charleston last summer, we stopped in for ice cream at Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. It was one of our favorite parts of the trip. I loved their ice cream so much, I bought Jeni's cookbook when it was on sale a few months ago. Her recipes tend to be complex and have many steps, but I was thrilled to discover her vanilla ice cream doesn't require eggs. I can handle making a custard base, but tempering the eggs was a step I didn't want to mess with this week. Instead, her recipe involves cream cheese to make the vanilla ice cream extra creamy.
I prepared the vanilla ice cream base as instructed, placed it into our chilled ice cream machine and let it process for 20 minutes. I added half the roasted cherry mixture, ¼ cup of roasted almond slices (instructions here), and ¼ cup of chocolate chips and let the ice cream machine stir them to combine for 2-3 minutes.
We were able to get 2 small "testing" scoops and 1 full pint of ice cream from our batch. Next time, I'd double the ice cream base recipe, add the entire batch of cherries, and double the almonds & chocolate chips.
Everything you need to make homemade roasted cherry chocolate chip ice cream:
- Cuisinart ice cream maker
- Jeni's vanilla ice cream base recipe (double it!)
- 1 batch of roasted cherries (see above)
- 1 batch of roasted almonds (instructions here)
- ½ cup of chocolate chips
- Ice cream containers for storing: We love these white paper cups but this reusable one would be awesome, too.


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Ecclesiastical Authorities and the Form of Medieval Towns
This chapter draws on and extends earlier work revisits the early development of Cumbernauld's Central Area to explore these issues further. It creates context by sketching the origins and development of megastructural concepts within contemporary architecture. At the outset, it is important to stress that megastructuralism is not inherently utopian. The use of concrete, however, was an expression of the austere style and aesthetics known as 'New Brutalism'. The resulting economizing adversely affected constructional work across the sector but was particularly serious for unconventional buildings using materials like concrete-which needed exacting standards of workmanship if it was to function effectively. The vibrant and multi-faceted debate that surrounded adoption of megastructures was paralleled by more specific but fiercely contested debates arising from the designation and planning of Cumbernauld. The Institute of American Architects' decision to make Cumbernauld the first recipient of its R. H. Reynolds Memorial Award for Community Architecture testified to its reputation in international architectural circles.


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Monsters Vs Aliens UK Premiere Gallery
Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland brought a touch of glamour to the UK premiere of new animated movie Monsters Vs Aliens in London’s Leicester Square on Wednesday, March 11, 2009. The stars spent time chatting with fans, posing for photos and signing autographs at the red carpet event, while a giant woman was seen strutting down the carpet and a giant blue blob kept crowds amused.
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The metaphor is an apt description of the depth of Gatsby's dream. To him, the dream and reality are the same thing. The reference to a 'rock' indicates stability and strength - a solid foundation on which something can be built. Gatsby tends to stray away from the reality that Daisy is unavailable and instead he focuses on what they could be if they were together.


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Chelsea handed a double injury boost involving Edouard Mendy and Christian Pulisic
In what will come as good news to Graham Potter, Chelsea seems to have been offered a double injury boost. Edouard Mendy and Christian Pulisic are set to be fit before the Blue’s next game against Crystal Palace, according to the Evening Standard.
Mendy has missed both the Champions League game for the Blues this season, due to a recurring knee issue. His deputy, Kepa Arrizabalaga has been the man between the post during his absence.
Pulisic, who is away on international duty, missed the United States friendly against Japan in Dusseldorf last Friday. The 24-year-old suffered a knock during training, but will now start the game against Saudi Arabia later tonight.
Both the player’s returns will come as a huge relief to Potter. Mendy has been the club’s undisputed first-choice goalkeeper since joining them in 2020 from French side Stade Rennais.
The 30-year-old is likely to remain the first-choice this season too, but with a new manager at the helm, Kepa could see this as an opportunity to reclaim his spot as the number one for the west London club.
Pulisic meanwhile will hope that his game time improves under Potter. The winger has started only one game so far this season and has come off the bench for seven games in all competitions. The 24-year-old is also yet to score or assist this season.
Chelsea are set to play nine games next month in what could possibly be the defining month for the Blues this season. They are currently seventh on the table with 10 points while sitting at the bottom of their Champions League group with only one point.
More Chelsea News:
- Former Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham wants to return to the Premier League soon
- Reece James believes Chelsea have an exciting future under manager Graham Potter
- Christian Pulisic entered talks with Juventus, Chelsea will demand £31m
The Blues will travel to face Crystal Palace this Saturday, which will also be Potter’s first league game in charge of the club. Mendy and Pulisic will hope to start the game, while fans will hope for all three points.
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- Liverpool’s Adam Lallana embarrassed himself in an U23 game this evening
- The England international got sent off for getting an opponent in a chokehold
- Lallana received a red card for the brutal attack on a Tottenham youngster
- WATCH: Video: Furious Liverpool fans still angry as Tottenham share Kane trolling clip
Liverpool midfielder Adam Lallana let his club down this evening as he bizarrely tried to get an opponent in an Under-23 clash in a chokehold after a coming together on the pitch.
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just a quick note, nothing new in depressing cleveland land, but last night, who watches american idol and is there anyone else here that thinks blake is just freekin hot????? plus new color and new cut.........damnnnnnnnn!
going out of town for weekend for a retreat near columbus this weekend, anyone wanna go with me????????
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About MeQuirky and interesting figures, beauty dolls, aliens, animation and movie characters have always piqued my attention since I was young. They had led me to study digital media design in university, where I acquired many skills for films, games, and 3D animations. Post college, I worked as a character designer in a video game company and took on makeup artist jobs in movie productions in Taiwan. Despite many awards I received for my work in the industry and competitions, these experiences did not offer me the opportunity to create interesting characters in real life. This has brought me to where I am today – a artist from the Cinema Makeup School, in Hollywood.
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President Obama's renomination of Richard Cordray, who has been running the bureau under a controversial recess appointment, is garnering the same GOP concerns expressed when his name was first floated.
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Ain’t No Such Things as Dangerous Drugs
For almost a century Americans have been warned against “dangerous drugs”. In this context, the term is usually synonymous with “illegal drugs”. However, this term as used is totally without meaning. It is strictly a propaganda tool. Even worse, this misleading concept has led to counterproductive, expensive, and dangerous public policies.
The problem with the misidentification of illegal drugs with dangerous drugs is that it leads to misconceptions in the formation of policy. These misconceptions arise mainly in three areas: that illegal drugs are a separate category, medically distinguishable from legal ones; that illegal drugs are a distinct category, related to each other physically and biologically; and that the dangerousness of drugs can be measured on some kind of absolute scale.
However, the only distinction between legal and “dangerous” drugs is the arbitrary delimitation drawn by Congress in a rather zigzag fashion. Two of the scariest dangerous drugs are cocaine and methamphetamine, but each of these is also a legal drug that can be prescribed by a doctor. Cocaine is used by doctors as a local anesthetic in some nose and throat procedures for which the synthetics are not as effective. Methamphetamine, under the trade name Desoxyn, is prescribed for children with affective spectrum disorders and as a diet pill for some cases of extreme obesity. For most people methamphetamine and amphetamine, also used for ADHD either directly or in a time-release form as Adderal, can be used interchangeably.
Heroin is the classic dangerous drug. Chemically, it is diacetylmorphine, and it is converted to morphine in the body. Experienced addicts cannot tell whether an injection they receive is heroin or morphine; the two drugs are indistinguishable to the user. The other opioids all have the same effects on the body although they may differ in strength, speed of onset, and duration of effect. These include the synthetics like methadone and fentanyl as well as the opiates derived from opium like OxyCotin, Percoset, and Vicodin. Surveys indicate that today the majority of new heroin users developed dependencies on prescription opiates and turned to heroin because it was cheaper and more readily available than the OxyCotin or Vicodin they had been using.
OxyCotin is a time-release formulation of oxycodone, one of the two active ingredients of Vicodin. Ironically, the other ingredient of Vicodin is acetaminophen, a “safe” drug available over the counter under trade names like Tylenol. Acetaminophen is actually the more dangerous of the two drugs, causing severe liver damage and resulting in more deaths each year than all of the opioids combined.
One surprising development of the past decade or so has been that many problems of dependencies and fatalities have involved legal prescription drugs like Valium, Xanax, and Paxil. Many seem confused by the idea that these “safe” legal drugs can cause such problems.
If the line separating legal drugs from illegal ones fades to invisibility when examined, the fence gathering the illegal drugs into one “dangerous” category never existed. When the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act was passed in 1914, it classified both opiates and cocaine as narcotics, and the confusion has worsened ever since. If heroin, cocaine, LSD, and marijuana, are taken as representative of the four major classes of illegal drugs – opioids, stimulants, psychedelics, and euphorants – one would be hard pressed to find any similarity other than legal status among them.
The opioids – along with legal drugs like alcohol, Xanax, and Valium – lead to classical addictions, with reward, tolerance, craving, and withdrawal. They can cause death by overdose, but have no other significant medical or behavioral consequences.
The stimulants, which include cocaine, the amphetamines, Ritalin, and caffeine, can lead to habitual dependency in heavy, frequent users, although this is not a classical addiction. They are frequently involved in binge usage, with paranoid behavior accompanying the binges. Death can result in users with pre-existing heart conditions. Long-term heavy use can result in psychotic episodes.
The psychedelics – which include LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline – are non-addictive and have little or no risk of overdose deaths. They induce visual hallucinations and some time distortions in users but do not interfere with normal intellectual functioning. Many of them have significant evidence of medical effectiveness.
The euphorants are marijuana and MDMA. They are non-addictive, although a small number of marijuana users develop weak habitual cravings. They are non-lethal, although in the early days of MDMA, a few users died of associated heat exhaustion. They elevate the user’s mood and may temporarily decrease muscular coordination and reaction.
The last irony is that no relationship exists between dangerousness and illegality. Danger in this sense includes both short- and long-term risks to the user’s health and risks imposed on surrounding non-users. Dangerousness is not an absolute measure, but is relative to the intended use. After all, a few dozen people die each year from water overdose, and over-the-counter pain relievers kill more each year than all of the illegal drugs combined. Many of the Drugs for cancer chemotherapy are deadly poisons that are used only in carefully controlled hospital settings, but as alternatives to certain impending death, most assume them to be reasonable risks.
By any measure, the most dangerous drugs are alcohol and tobacco. They cause deaths and injuries in numbers many times greater than any other drugs.
Over 400,000 people die each year from deaths medically related to tobacco consumption. Although tobacco is used primarily as a delivery mechanism for nicotine, tobacco is the main problem since most of the diseases come from ingestion of the smoke from burning tobacco, not from the nicotine. Acute overdoses from nicotine are rare. Most direct injuries are caused by fires started by negligent smokers.
Alcohol probably wins the title of most dangerous drug. Although the 150,000 or so deaths from alcohol-related illness are not nearly as many as those caused by tobacco, it presents two other risks. First, overdose deaths from binge drinking are significant. Second, alcohol use imposes severe social costs. Alcohol-related traffic deaths are around 16,000 a year – more than the total deaths from all illegal drugs. Alcohol is the only drug the use of which has been causally related to violent behavior, domestic violence being the prime example.
On the other hand, the risks associated with the illegal drugs are primarily the costs of their illegality. Almost all crime associated with drugs are crimes arising from the black markets in which they are bought and sold. Even the illnesses associated with illegal drugs are actually the illnesses of poverty brought on by the exclusion of users from normal economic activities.
Even the drug risks themselves are law-related. Opioid addicts in legal regimes, like heroin users in Switzerland or the Netherlands or methadone users in the U. S., practically never die of overdose and function normally in work and family.
These three misconceptions have led the country into a failed, expensive, and harmful set of drug laws. The time has come to recognize the failures of these policies and look for a new reality-based approach.


While most marketers are debating on how to improve their return on investment in the most profitable digital channel, many forget the decisive factor in this equation: Deliverability. No email marketing program can be successful if the campaigns do not reach the inbox.
This has been dynamically evolving over the years, going through progressive algorithms changes that ISPs (Internet Services Providers) determine on a daily basis.
A decade ago, the emphasis used to be on the subjects, and we saw how those campaigns that contained suspicious keywords could be filtered.
Nowadays, those filters have greatly progressed, taking into account two deciding factors that define the likelihood of inbox delivery: Domain Authenticacion and Sustainable Metrics.
Authentication is a key piece of the puzzle in order to achieve ISP’s goal of a greater transparency, granting additional security on the sender’s true origin, thus avoiding fraudulent addresses and “Spoofing”.
The main methods of authentication include the already familiar SPF and Domain Keys, as well as the newly added Dmarc, which gives users more control on how they want to manage unauthenticated mailing.
On the other hand, metrics analysis focuses mainly on three crucial statistics: Open rate, Bounce rate and Spam complaints. Do not confuse the latter with messages that are received in junk folder, as we are only referring to the ones that the recipient himself marks as undesirable.
The specificity sought by ISP’s now drifts into stricter and higher quality ratios, as shown by the requested increase in open rates and the sanctions applied to exceeding amounts on the other two variables.
ESP’s with automatic triggers offer a real possibility of rising engagement through the widely recognized effectiveness and superiority of automatic programs versus manual ones.
Therefore, the industry gets closer to (finally!) achieving a change of mentality in companies’ marketing managers, clarifying that a relevant and segmented communication according to their own subscriber’s elections (be it by filling a preference center form, a survey or interacting with the campaigns) is much more valuable than the old school argument of “sending everything to everyone” with the sole purpose of obtaining a higher pecuniary return at the risk of endangering their digital communications.