Check out Carey’s selection of Beatles covers in a previous JUKEBOX here.
Confession time: I’ve always been one of those stubborn Beatles fans who scoffs at most cover versions of their songs. Maybe it’s because there are so many, but it’s rare that a cover blows me away and makes me feel as excited as hearing the original. The Beatles are probably the most risky band in the world to cover, purely because they are musical royalty. But equally, every artist who loves them (and isn’t that pretty much everyone?) wants to give it a try.
Despite my stubborn nature, I do have a list of Beatles covers that have managed to worm their way into my affections.
1) “With a Little Help from My Friends,” Joe Cocker (1969)
It says a lot that this was also the title of Joe Cocker’s debut album, on which the cover appeared. It couldn’t be further from the Beatles’ original. Cocker’s unique voice, the female backing vocals, powerful guitars and bluesy feel combine to make a complete re-interpretation that works extremely well. At times it’s easy to forget you’re listening to a Beatles song, which is something only the very best covers can manage.
2) “Yesterday,” Ray Charles (1967)
One of the most recorded songs in history, it would be fair to say that “Yesterday” loses some of its magic touch when just about everyone has tried to sing it. Ray Charles is one of the exceptions, with a voice that reignites the magic in any song he sings. In fact, I could have picked any of his Beatles covers (including his sublime version of “Something,” which George Harrison wrote with his voice in mind).
3) “Day Tripper,” Otis Redding (1966)
I would rate this as the best cover of “Day Tripper” I’ve heard. Like the original, it’s very energetic, but Otis Redding brings something different to it with his distinctive vocal.
4) “A Hard Day’s Night,” Peter Sellers (1965)
There is perhaps no better example of someone putting their own twist on the Beatles than Peter Sellers. The comedian covered several of their classics, but it’s his hilarious spoken-word version of “A Hard Day’s Night” as Laurence Olivier’s Richard III that is my personal favorite.
5) “Across the Universe,” David Bowie (1975)
I’m not ashamed to say I like this one purely because it’s by Bowie. He could sing anything and make it brilliant. It appeared on his Young Americans album and actually featured John Lennon himself on guitar and backing vocals. Lennon also stuck around to collaborate with Bowie on another of the album’s tracks, “Fame”.
6) “In My Life,” Keith Moon (1975)
Keith Moon certainly isn’t the first member of the Who most people think of in terms of solo careers, but the drummer released one album of his own, 1975’s Two Sides of the Moon, on which he covered “In My Life.” Not renowned for his singing abilities, he nonetheless managed a tender and endearing vocal performance on this track, which I’ve always had a soft spot for.
7) “Eleanor Rigby,” Aretha Franklin (1969)
It seems that soul artists really do manage to cover the Beatles better than most, and Aretha Franklin is no exception with her powerful and upbeat version of “Eleanor Rigby”, a stark contrast to the minor chords and string section of the original. Some may say this cover doesn’t capture the same emotion the Beatles were going for, but with a singer as great as Aretha, it’s incredibly difficult not to get into it.
Check out this Spotify playlist of great Beatles covers, and let us know your favorite in the comments below!


“There are plenty of evangelical Americans who maybe didn’t support President Trump in the last election because they didn’t believe he was a true ally, but who are now taking a second look at him because of his record,” said a Trump campaign adviser.
It’s a strategy that is drawing some skepticism. While Trump’s religious advisers hail the president as their greatest champion since Ronald Reagan, the policies they point to — a restrictive immigration policy, appointment of anti-abortion judges, rollback of environmental regulations and support for Israel — are often the same issues driving key religious constituencies further away from the president.
“The evangelical community has never been 100 percent lockstep conservative. The 20 percent of white evangelicals who don’t like Trump include younger voters, college-educated voters and suburban moms,” said Diana Butler Bass, a scholar of American religion.
“That the Trump campaign thinks they could pull those people away after antagonizing them for three years shows a very thin understanding of the nature of American evangelicalism,” she added.
Indeed, ahead of Trump’s Friday appearance, Florida Democrats issued a letter signed by 12 Christian leaders from five Florida counties that appealed to the president: “We cannot stand idly by while you attempt to co-opt our religion for your political gain and claim support from our community.”
The letter decried Trump for pushing policies that it said are antithetical to Christian faith: “There is absolutely nothing good or virtuous about tearing immigrant families apart, cutting programs for the poor while giving hundreds of millions of tax cuts to the wealthiest among us, or threatening to take away health care from those with preexisting conditions — all of which are lynchpins of your agenda.”
The president’s allies say he needs to add only 3 or 4 percentage points to his 65-point margin of victory among white evangelicals in 2016 in order to compensate for weakening support among other demographics, including college-educated white voters and suburban men and women. At the same time, they plan to target religious voters outside the white evangelical community who skew more conservative and live in crucial 2020 battleground states — hence the Florida location for Trump’s speech on Friday.
Former GOP Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Florida described the president’s visit to Miami as “a political two-fer” for the president, since the crowd is likely to include Hispanic voters and religious individuals. Trump lost Miami-Dade County by nearly 300,000 votes in 2016, but recent polling has shown as many as 41 percent of Hispanic voters approve of his handling of the economy — a figure the campaign says gives it an opening in the critical county. That’s one of the reasons the president will underscore the accomplishments his administration has made outside the Christian conservative agenda when he speaks Friday, according to the campaign adviser.
Trump will build on the same themes he discussed in his speech at the annual Values Voter Summit in October, the adviser said. The president’s appearance at the conservative gathering last fall also came at a difficult juncture in his relationship with the evangelical community. To appease top religious allies who decried a desired troop withdrawal from Syria as rash and irresponsible, Trump used the speech to announce his administration would release $50 million in aid to Syria “to protect persecuted ethnic and religious minorities.”
The president’s aides took similar precautions during the course of impeachment to avoid any crack in the president’s support among evangelicals: On a Thursday afternoon before the House voted to impeach him, Trump met in a conference room with more than a dozen influential Christian and evangelical pastors who had been invited to the White House to pray for the president and the country.
“Honored to pray for @realDonaldTrump and our nation! Also discussed the many great accomplishments under the leadership of President Trump. He continues to work tirelessly on behalf of the American people,” tweeted televangelist Paula White-Cain, who recently joined the White House, after the gathering.
It’s unclear, however, if such overtures will work with white evangelicals who did not support the president in 2016 because they were skeptical of his conservative bona fides, opposed to his policy agenda and wary of his personality. An even greater challenge exists with Trump’s attempt to court religious Hispanics and African Americans: Only 12 percent of black Protestants supported Trump in 2016, and he lost Hispanic Catholics to Hillary Clinton by a 41-point margin, according to exit data by Pew Research Center.
“My overall sense is the roughly 20 percent of white evangelicals who did not vote for Trump are pretty baked in,” Butler Bass said, adding that the same goes for Hispanics and blacks who identify as evangelical but did not support the president four years ago.
Furthermore, it could take more than enlarging his support among white evangelicals and other religious voters to ensure a path to victory next November.
In addition to his steady decline in support among suburbanites and college-educated voters, a handful of statewide elections last fall suggest the president could perform worse with rural voters in 2020, who voted for him by a 27-point margin in 2016.
In Kentucky’s gubernatorial election last November, five rural counties that supported Trump in 2016 voted against incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, despite the president’s pleas for such residents to support Bevin’s bid for a second term. Rural voters also contributed to Democratic gains in Virginia, where the GOP lost control of the state’s General Assembly.
Still, evangelical turnout for Republicans remained steady in last fall’s off-year gubernatorial, state legislative and special congressional elections, according to exit data. About 75 percent of white evangelical voters supported GOP candidates last fall and in the 2018 midterms.
The question for Trump is whether that trend will hold when he’s on the ballot in November.
Matthew Dixon contributed to this report.
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The core subjects of English, PE, math and science will remain subjects within the National Curriculum
, with statutory "Programmes of Study" from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 4, or ages five to 16.
This project of worth Rs 100 million aims to facilitate NCC to make coordination among various federating units in development of minimum National Education Standards up to Higher Secondary level and National Curriculum
That's in the national curriculum
too and deserves an extra mark.
But it is worth considering that about 80% of the workforce in our schools hasn't experienced anything else apart from the existing national curriculum
Ties are broken by the number of pupils on roll eligible for assessment in the National Curriculum
tests and then alphabetically.
The new national curriculum
puts a stronger emphasis on skills such as reading, spelling, grammar, essay writing, problem solving and mathematical modelling.
Education min ducation minister Huw Lewis ister Huw Lewis heralded the report as painting "a compelling, exciting and ambitious vision" of a future national curriculum
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15 May 2014 - The US needs to overhaul its education system and adopt a national curriculum
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Federal Minister Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman said with 18th Amendment the national curriculum
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The planned expansion of the school will enable students to seamlessly progress from the primary to secondary phases of the British National Curriculum
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How to address the gun ban journalists
There was a deep and angry response brewing in me when I first read the headline, “It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of The.” Thankfully, I read the article and calmed down a few notches. What I assumed was going to be a heartfelt and progressively reasoned argument against guns as a whole in America turned out to be an embarrassingly bad attempt at political reasoning.
The premise is this: all guns are bad and nobody should have them. They only reason that nobody’s considering banning all guns, according to the author, is that people are too moderate or realistic to express their actual views. I can actually buy into that argument. I believe that there really is a large number of Americans who would love if all guns went away, even those owned by the police. This is utterly ludicrous, of course, but not just because of the logistical nightmare and the second American revolution that would result.
It’s ludicrous because, as per usual from the far-left mindset, people are not capable of making their own choices and the government must step in to protect us from ourselves. The idea that legal gun ownership as a final recourse against crime and/or oppressive government entities is insufficient according to the far left. We shouldn’t enforce current gun laws or assist the mentally ill (who would be marginalized as a result, the author claims). We should just ban them all.
By this logic, there are many other things that we should ban. Cigarettes are the easy one. After all, they’re responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths every year. Let’s ban alcohol as well. There’s nothing good that can come from a liver-destroying, road-endangering substance that impairs our motor skills and decision-making abilities. While we’re on the topic of drunk drivers, we should ban cars. Even when people aren’t drunk, they’re behind the wheel of a moving lethal weapon. Cars kill. Ban them.
The article calls for the same type of anti-law support that opposition to Roe v. Wade brings to mind. The anti-abortion people don’t worry about the Supreme Court ruling on abortion. In fact, they openly fight it. Why can’t gun banners fight against the 2nd Amendment with the same fervor and lust for justice?
At the end of the day, this particular article does little to contribute to the gun rights/control debate. It doesn’t offer solutions other than calling on people to protest gun usage of any sorts. The author tries to encourage people to head towards the impossible dream of ridding America of all guns of every type.
Normally, I don’t recommend reading an article that spouts off far-left ideologies, but this one is worth it for a great laugh.
If the goal of taking away all guns, even from the police, were ever to become a reality (which it could not), then the first sword-wielding, pipe-bomb-carrying terrorist gang that takes on police armed with batons only will likely look back at that article and smile.


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Choir makes me want to pee myself. I first started singing in 4th grade in the Swing Choir. I still remember bits and pieces from our rehearsals and outings. But, I don't know how good we were... but, I suppose that doesn't matter, right? I was in choir 5th grade, but when I got to Middle School, chorus wasn't offered to the 6th graders. So, I began singing again in 7th grade. We had two concerts that year; one in winter, and one in spring. Our choir was the best out of all three (the others were 8th grade, and then the HS.)... and continued to be the following year.
This year, our freshman year in High School, our incredible choir had to be broken up. The 10 strongest singers were placed in Treble Ensemble, which is what I'm taking. Treble Ensemble is only for the second semester - Mixed Chorus being only for the first. So, these past 18 weeks I felt what it's like not to have choir - and I cannot do that ever again. In exactly 9 days, I will begin Treble Ensemble. I'm very excited to begin this new experience! I am happy to say, though, that next year I will have enough room in my schedule to participate in both Treble Ensemble and Mixed Chorus.
Throughout these years, I met the best director or teacher I have ever had. Miss S. She's that kind of genuine person everyone needs in their lives... despite the age difference, I am very close to her, and we can talk about almost anything. At the end of 7th grade choir, we exchanged email addresses so we could keep in touch over the summer. Miss S has helped me in so many ways, in ways that I don't think anyone else ever would be able to.
Well... I know some people with better choir stories :::cough.cough::: but yeah... dat be mine. Heh.
(Oh... & for Treble Ensemble, we're planning on doing ABBA!)

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STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is a term used to group together these academic disciplines, typically used when addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools. Rather than teach these four disciplines as separate subjects, grouping them together under the heading STEM means schools take a more interdisciplinary approach, often integrating real-world applications into the teachings.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, only 16% of high school students are interested in a career in STEM career. This skill gap has caused a lot of businesses to struggle to fill critical roles in STEM occupations, which in turn leads to sluggish growth. According to a report by STEMconnector.org up to 2.4 million STEM jobs go unfilled. As well as a skills gap there is also a gender gap with only 16% of women globally graduate college with STEM degrees.
As a result of these findings there have been many campaigns which aim to motivate and inspire students to excel in STEM subjects and support stronger collaboration between the industry and schools.
Check out Onalytica's list of the top STEM influencers segmented by job role. Our founder and CEO Marija Butkovic was included under Top Entrepreneurs in STEM list. Check the full report here.


This week’s edition of the 1001 is an editor’s choice, meaning I’m drawing from some of the albums I’ve been looking forward to hearing. The best thing about a list like this is that there’s quite a lot that I want to hear – there’s at least 100 I’m keen to check out. Here’s seven of them…
The melancholy quartet’s second of three albums, all of which have their attractions. On this one, the template is tight, dubby rhythm section, howling John McGeoch-ish guitar and plaintive vocals, but this stretches to accommodate funk, vibraphone and sax, which creates a feel closer to PiL-style post-punk than to goth. On opener ‘Hair of the Dog’, the sound even approximates the sort of desolate industrial that Nine Inch Nails would later create on ‘The Downward Spiral’. An album with a lot of personality.
Billie Holiday, ‘Lady in Satin’.
I wasn’t awfully familiar with Holiday aside from the Hungarian death song ‘Gloomy Sunday’ so time to rectify that. Perhaps, however, this wasn’t the best place to start: recorded in 1958, Holiday was already in the twilight of a career that was at its apex in the 1930s, before charts or LPs were much of a thing. Recorded with an orchestra, ‘Lady in Satin’ makes room for Holiday’s unusual voice and phrasing, allows for the occasional pleasant trumpet solo, and completely fails to change BPM at any point. Surely not every song in the Great American Songbook is exactly the same tempo? Having said that, even if all the songs sound basically the same, the album flies by.
King Crimson, ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’.
Robert Fripp’s screechy guitar contributions to Eno and Bowie albums had made me interested in checking out his main project, but it turns out that in his own kingdom, Fripp is a tyrant, enforcing his power of copyright with an iron fist and sending a Spanish Inquisition of lawyers out to the pirate galleons of Spotify and Last.fm. This made exploring KC difficult, but luckily the help of friends got me a copy of their debut and here we are. This is heralded as one of the first prog albums and contains a lot of the trappings that would later become cheesy cliche – the lyrics especially (e.g. there is a song called ‘Moonchild’) but also the seemingly endless noodling sections (‘Moonchild’ is nearly ten minutes of it). It’s quite easy, however, to dig the Black Sabbath-ish heaviness of ’21st Century Schizoid Man’ or the lovely flute-driven ‘I Talk To The Wind’. Woodwind/keyboard player Ian McDonald drives a lot of the best music here, so of course he was gone by the band’s next album. Worth checking out if you can do so without invoking the wrath of Fripp.
MC5, ‘Kick Out The Jams’.
RIGHT NOW, RIGHT NOW, RIGHT NOW IT’S TIME TO KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHERFUCKERS!! There aren’t many more exciting openings to a song than the title track here, which would make it a shoo-in for best Side A, Track 1 ever if it actually was (it’s the second song, weirdly). The Detroit proto-punks’ album appears to be mostly recorded live, and while it captures the exhiliration of the band’s live energy, it doesn’t quite succeed in sweeping you along with it (the production isn’t quite up to it). Also, the album’s called ‘Kick Out The Jams’ but the closing song is eight minutes long? What a title track though, eh.
Pink Floyd, ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’.
Floyd are, of course, most famous for their super-serious stadium prog fare of the 70s and 80s, but we’re a million miles away from that here, on their debut album. For example, track 2, ‘Lucifer Sam’, is pretty much a surf song: not a style that you’d hear on ‘The Wall’. PATGOD features some of Floyd’s best-known songs from this era – ‘Astronomy Domine’ and ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ – yet it feels as though there’s a lot of directionless messing around and not enough in the way of actual songs. ‘Chapter 24’ and ‘Bike’ are the most coherent songs on the album; perhaps English psychedelia just doesn’t move me.
Talking Heads, ‘More Songs About Buildings and Food’.
Another album on the list with Eno associations, this time recruiting the effete Roxy Music synthist on production and occasional performance. I wasn’t too bothered about ’77’, but by giving more room to keyboardist Jerry Harrison and adding some more flavours (soul, scratchy funk), this one ups the ante a bit. We’re still a while away from the Afrobeat/Latin dabblings they’d arrive at by the time of ‘Stop Making Sense’, and the album has just one single on it. Imitators in recent years mean this still holds up though: in fact it sounds as if it could have come out in the last year or two.
Neil Young, ‘After the Gold Rush’.
There’s something so cracked and vulnerable about Young’s falsetto at this point in his career that it overcomes any of the dull roots trappings or lumpen piano or harmonica arrangement, and this album feels heartbreaking even despite the elliptical lyrics of most of the songs. The title track and ‘Don’t Let It Bring You Down’ are as good as anything I’ve heard on this project so far, while the two minute-long fillers that close each side make you regret that they’re not longer. All in all Young does the sort of thing that Van Morrison or Bruce Springsteen are generally regarded as doing, yet has the ability to move me whereas those two (so far at least), can’t. Pretty much perfect.
Next week, I’ll be looking at some of the finest albums in hip-hop. There’s 21 albums on the list that I’ve not heard yet: time to bring that number down a bit.
Status update: 294 out of 1001 (29%), 707 remain (I’d forgotten to properly update the list last week, hence the sudden jump).


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Two-Cheese Baked Penne With Roasted Vegetables
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This full-flavoured pasta dish can be made ahead, so itís appropriate for weeknight entertaining as well as for taking to potluck dinners.
2 sweet red or yellow peppers, sliced
1/2 lb (250 g) mushrooms, halved or quartered
2 small zucchini, sliced
2 small red onions, cut into chunks
4 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup (50 mL) olive oil
Salt and pepper
2 tbsp (30 mL) chopped fresh basil or 2 tsp (10 mL) dried
1/2 tsp (2 mL) dried rosemary
1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped fresh parsley
1 lb (500 g) penne pasta with ridges, cooked
3 1/2 cups (875 mL) meatless spaghetti sauce (or one large can or jar plus tomato sauce to make 31/2 cups/875 mL)
1 lb (500 g) provolone or mozzarella cheese, shredded
1 cup (250 mL) freshly grated Asiago or Parmesan cheese
Preheat oven to 450F (230C). Toss peppers, mushrooms, zucchini, onions and garlic with oil. Roast in a large shallow pan for about 25 minutes or until softened, stirring once or twice. Season to taste with salt and pepper and stir in basil, rosemary and 1/3 cup (75 mL) of the parsley. Reduce oven temperature to 375F (190C).
Combine pasta, sauce, vegetables, provolone and half the Asiago. Transfer to a greased 13- x 9-inch (3 L) baking dish. Sprinkle with remaining Asiago and parsley. (Can be covered and refrigerated for up to 1 day or frozen for up to 2 months; thaw frozen casserole in refrigerator. Bring to room temperature before heating.)
Bake, covered, in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for about 10 minutes longer or until hot throughout. Makes 8 servings.
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Along with rolling out the (five-in-one vaccine to check pneumonia as planned, the union health ministry will launch an impact study in one high-mortality state before deciding on introducing pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as part of the India’s national immunization program.
The National Technical Advisory Group, India, the highest body to advise the government on introducing any vaccine, had recommended for an impact study on the seven-valent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV 7) in one state as early as possible. The government, which is yet to finalize the state for the study, will make a decision on introducing PCV based on the outcome of the study, sources said.
Taking into consideration the existing data and prevalence of pneumonia among children, the NTAGI had recommended the national roll out of Hib vaccine by 2012 as a multi-dose liquid pentavalent vaccine (DPT-Hep B-Hib) and the government is going ahead with the plan to introduce the same in 10 states next year.
Haemophilus influenza type b (Hib) is one of the two bacteria causing pneumonia and meningitis. Experts in the field have called for the introduction of PCV as the follow-up to this Hib because it immunizes children against pneumonia and other diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
The Indian Association of Pediatrics: Committee on Immunization has recommended for inclusion of pneumococcal vaccines in the routine immunization schedule, considering the high mortality caused by this disease in children in the country.


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Do you know How To Make A Colorful Fall Tablescape? Today I am joining my friends to show you various ways to create a Fall Tablescape Ideas.
There are many ideas to choose from and I will have all of their links below for you to browse through.
If you have been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I like blues, greens, creams, whites and any soft colors.
I have used orange, red, yellow and browns in the past. And for some reason, I just can’t do it this year. I even set up my table and took pictures like this…
I thought by using a runner with blue touches and vintage blue mason jars I could do it. My heart wasn’t in it. It wasn’t ME. I so
BUT, I can show you How To Make A Colorful Fall Tablescape using YOUR favorite colors. EVEN pops of orange.
I started off with a vintage shutter as my table runner. I painted it years ago to one of my favorite soft greens. So it was the perfect pallet to start with.
I like to use natural components like pine cones, dried artichokes, dried maple leaves, pecans, vintage books, faux pumpkins, branches, etc…
The vintage champagne bucket filled with branches and my large faux pumpkin was REALLY fun. And to top it off…The pumpkin has a crystal door handle as a stem.
Mixing and matching Fall colors and patterns was giving the tablescape a cohesive look I was hoping for.
Layering a embroidered vintage runner added texture and more soft colors.
Learning How To Make A Colorful Fall Tablescape using soft colors is easy when you use muted natural components. Use nuts, wooden beads, leaves, pine cones, pumpkins, etc… You get a Fall feel and look.
And, if you noticed, I spray painted the pecans both silver and gold, to add a little metallic. Not necessary, but fun.
Artichokes in chalices? Another way to add Fall colors and interest.
All the faux pumpkins actually have REAL stems on them. I saved them from last years real pumpkins. (Um…is that weird?)
How To Make A Colorful Fall Tablescape using my favorite colors? It is a great way to change it up, a new look for your Fall decorating, and a great way to bring your own favorite colors into Fall.
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text: As someone who has gone through a relapse (the word I choose to describe my experience of drinking alcohol after a period of abstinence), I can tell you from personal experience that it is not easy. Not only is it physically taxing, but it’s emotionally exhausting — made worse by the shame and stigma. But the truth is, relapse is incredibly common — 70 to 90 percent of people in recovery will experience bouts of drinking before they are able to remain sober for an extended amount of time. So why are we so ashamed when it happens to us? Read more from The Temper here.

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