I have interviewed many of these young people. No second chances were given; no rehabilitation, no hope. On the other hand, a convicted criminal is allowed to leave the country and put his finger up at our justice system in an incredible and flagrant abuse of power. Another "connected" criminal escapes to Malaysia and returns to a monastery and is then reinstated in his former position because of powerful political connections. And it goes on and on.
Why are we not taking the often shocking backgrounds of these young people languishing within our prison system into consideration? Why is our system of justice so unbalanced and unfair? Is this part of our culture?
It fills me with sadness to see so many young people not given a second chance after committing minor offences due to their circumstances. I have seen many young people in prison who deserve a second chance. One only has to look at the causes of the offences committed to realise this. We must do the right thing and work towards a balanced system of justice, the same justice for all.
A supposed leader who has no leadership qualities
Re: "Amnesty law would cause further divide", Editorial, February 18.
The current situation where Thaksin Shinawatra's supporters are trying every way to bring him back to power does not bode well for the man himself. How can Thaksin gain respect without himself showing respect for the country's rule of law: by coming back to fight his cases in court, or serving his jail term as every convicted Thai is obliged to do? How can he lead the country in future by hiding behind his supporters? A leader must take the lead no matter what.
By comparing himself with Nelson Mandela, but refusing to respect the rule of law, as Mandela did, Thaksin is shooting blank cartridges. Only by stepping forward and showing respect to the country's law, can Thaksin gain respect for himself. CHAVALIT VAN
October 7 inquiry results must be made public
Deputy government spokesman Buddhipongse Punnakanta said that the Cabinet couldn't disclose the results of its investigation into the October 7 clash between police and PAD protestors, as the report was "confidential". This is most ironic from a government headed by the Democrats. If the government keeps information from the people, how can we have communication and a vigorous democracy? If there is a reason for the non-release (e.g., to ensure that those responsible did not escape scrutiny), tell us that and let us know when the completed report will be released.
Otherwise, rights groups should follow Khun Buddhipongse's advice and sue under the Official Information Act.
Is a military coup better than judicial interference?
Re: "Amnesty law proposal Rejected", News February 12.
The rationale given by Professor Saneh Chamarik, chair of the National Human Rights Commission, that "using a law that interferes with the justice system is worse than a military coup" reflects how the NHRC is becoming irrelevant in addressing political development and its relationship to rights violations. Prof Saneh did not condemn the 2006 coup but gave remarks that, in a way, legitimised it. He said, "I do not think [the coup] is about progression or regression [of democracy] but about problem solving".
A coup is worse than judicial interference, as the latter will definitely happen with the former. It would also take democratisation and human rights development backwards, as the government and judicial system would not be accountable.
Bloody drinking session spoils readers' breakfasts
Re: "Taste of endurance", News, February 17.
The macabre image of snake's blood being dripped into the mouth of a US serviceman did little to help my breakfast go down. Before reading the caption, I took what was described as "survival skills training" to be psychological warfare, or worse.
Obviously, the joint military exercises are not called Cobra Gold for nothing.


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Secrets of a (Somewhat) Sunny Girl by Karen Booth Release Date: October 16, 2018
Publisher: Karen Booth
Book Synopsis: With divorce and infidelity hanging from nearly every branch of her family tree, Katherine Fuller sees no point in marriage. Boyfriends? Sure. Sex? Of course. Wedding vows? No, thanks. Still, when her younger sister Amy gets engaged, Katherine gathers all the enthusiasm she can. She won’t let Amy down. She’s done enough of that for a lifetime.
As the sisters embark on wedding plans, Katherine’s college love resurfaces. It nearly killed Katherine to part from sexy Irish musician Eamon more than a decade ago, but falling under his spell a second time forces her to confront everything she hid from him. The secrets surrounding her mother’s death are still fresh and raw in her mind, but one has haunted her more than the others. She can’t bear to tell anyone, especially not Amy. It could ruin far more than a wedding. It might destroy a sister’s love forever.
Genre: Romantic Women’s Fiction
About Karen Booth:Karen Booth is a midwestern girl transplanted in the South, raised on ‘80s music and repeated readings of Forever by Judy Blume. An early preoccupation with rock ‘n’ roll led her to spend her 20s working her way from intern to executive in the music industry. When her kids came along, she traded late nights for early mornings, writing contemporary romance and women’s fiction. Karen was a finalist for RT Magazine’s Series Romance of the Year and Gold Seal of Excellence, and the 2018 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages.
Excerpt: Katherine and Irish musician Eamon had a super-steamy relationship 11 years ago that ended abruptly when she returned to the U.S. to help with her alcoholic father. This scene has Katherine telling her sister Amy about her reunion with Eamon that morning.
I got home around six, and Amy came barging through our door a half hour later. She kicked it shut behind her, tossed her bag and keys on the chair, and bugged her baby blues at me. “So? Eamon? What happened?”
I’d had a good eight hours to process the breakfast date, and I still wasn’t totally sure. I swallowed a sip of my wine and set my glass on the coffee table, deciding it was best to start small. “It was great.”
“That text you sent me was the worst, by the way. Had a good time? What does that even mean?”
“What was I supposed to say? And you were at work. I didn’t want to bother you. You’re always giving me shit when I send you long, rambling texts.”
“For this, I would’ve cut you some slack.” She planted herself on the couch next to me and flipped her pumps from her feet. They tumbled under the coffee table. “So, again. Tell me. What happened? How was it?” She nearly went full-on chin-hands with me. I had to admit I loved the chance to gossip with her, but this was so personal, it felt too raw to gush and squeal. A lot had happened. Heavy stuff of consequence.
“It was great. But strange. But also awesome. What do you want to know? The highlights?”
“The sex lights.”
“There was no sex. But there was a kiss.” Was there ever. Hours later and my lips were still asking me what the hell happened. “And he answered the door wearing a towel.”
“Get out.” She crossed her legs and started bobbing her foot. “You are such a lucky bitch.”
“I know. I don’t even know what I did to deserve it.” How did it feel to suddenly talk about a secret as if it had always been public knowledge? Whatever it was, that was what talking to Amy felt like. Eamon had gone from hiding in the recesses of my mind to being fully out in the open.
“A kiss? On the lips? How was it?”
“Yes, on the lips. I wouldn’t call it a kiss if it was on the forehead. I’d call it a peck or I wouldn’t even mention it.”
“If he kissed me on the forehead, I’d call it a kiss. I’d tell all of my friends that Eamon MacWard kissed me on the face.”
“What? Nobody says that someone kissed them on the face. The cheek, yes. The forehead, the nose. Nobody says the face.”
“You’re stalling. Just tell me.”
I sucked in a deep breath. Of course I was stalling. So I told her everything…the towel…the room…and although I didn’t tell her every last word he’d said, I did tell her some things.
“Why didn’t he ever look for you?” she asked.
“He said he was waiting for fate to bring me back.”
Amy closed her eyes and flopped back on the couch. “Oh my God. I’m going to die of romanticism. He said that? I would literally pass out.”

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In a current poll from CNBC and Momentive, 70% of all those polled stated they were stressed about personalized funds. About 50 % said their strain has improved given that prior to the starting of the COVID-19 pandemic.
If that appears like you and you come across yourself weathering a monetary storm, there are tiny ways you can just take to regain handle of your condition. Right here are six strategies for conquering financial troubles you can start off implementing right now.
1. Establish your prime economical complications
When income is tight, you very first want to determine out why it’s tight. Is the difficulty a shorter-expression difficulty or obligation — e.g., an surprising auto or household mend — or is it some thing extensive-term — e.g., university student loans or ongoing well being difficulties. Recognizing how prolonged you are going to be working with a certain economical burden will aid you make options to offer with that dilemma.
It could be, nevertheless, that challenges are not external or environmental they could be behavioral. Investopedia lists the pursuing as the most common financial mistakes:
- Abnormal and frivolous paying out.
- Hardly ever-ending payments.
- Dwelling on borrowed income.
- Obtaining a new vehicle.
- Expending far too considerably on your property.
- Working with dwelling equity like a piggy financial institution.
- Living paycheck to paycheck.
- Not investing in retirement.
- Paying off personal debt with financial savings.
- Not obtaining a program.
As soon as you’ve discovered the external elements and personal behaviors contributing to your income woes, you will be far better equipped to commence earning improvements. And that starts with environment a spending plan.
2. Set a month-to-month spending plan
Pull out a piece of paper or open up a spreadsheet: It is time to write down your every month cashflow:
- Begin with your net revenue (i.e., your regular paycheck just after taxes and deductions).
- Following, create down all of your regular monthly fees.
- Divide your costs into two types:
- Wants: House loan/hire, utilities, foodstuff, etc.
- Desires: Enjoyment, items, and so forth.
The moment you know where all your revenue is going, you can make your spending budget. The ideal spending budget follows the 50/30/20 rule:
- 50% on requirements
- 30% on desires
- 20% on discounts and personal debt reimbursement
That currently being explained, when you are in the midst of economic hardship, the 50/30/20 rule may possibly not be promptly attainable. For instance, your requirements may perhaps need much more than half of your profits, necessitating you to invest fewer on would like and financial savings. Continue to, it provides you something to operate toward.
3. Slice charges
This may possibly appear to be apparent, but reducing charges is substantially simpler the moment you’ve sat down and crafted out your funds. After you’ve determined all of your charges, you’ll be in a position to realize which expenditures are important and which can get tossed — quickly or forever, depending on their mother nature.
For illustration, whilst likely in excess of your regular monthly expenditures, perhaps you will uncover overlooked subscriptions that are chipping away at your financial institution account. There are a lot of means to come across these subscriptions, from checking your Android or Apple keep logs to employing a membership-monitoring tool.
4. Start an crisis fund
A worrying 22% of U.S. older people have no unexpected emergency cost savings, and 30% who do really don’t have adequate to go over three months. Still, as the adage goes, the finest time to plant a tree was 30 decades in the past, and the second-best time is today.
If you are just starting up out, start off tiny. Established apart plenty of funds from your “wants” spending to deal with a single invoice — probably $200 to $300. As time goes by, keep incorporating to that fund. Preferably, you will ultimately have adequate to include up to 6 months of expenditures.
5. Know which credit card debt to slash initial
Appear, no just one likes financial debt. There is almost nothing like the emotion of coming out from underneath an monumental stress. Regretably, the bulk of us can not reduce all of our credit card debt in a one blow. When you’re in financial debt to many entities or for assorted financial loans (e.g., property finance loan, university student loans, credit rating card financial debt, and many others.), you are going to have to prioritize your credit card debt payments. Bankrate identifies five approaches, but let’s touch on two for now:
1. Pay out off the highest-desire financial debt very first.
With significant-curiosity debts, minimizing your regular monthly payments could only go towards paying off the interest, leaving the genuine debt untouched. Prioritizing these money owed and paying out more than the least payment will ultimately help you save you money in the long run.
2. Spend off the smallest financial debt 1st.
For these who wrestle with producing payments at all, paying out off the tiny money owed initial can be good for boosting your morale. It will charge much more in the extended run, but the psychological gains are almost nothing to scoff at.
6. Acquire benefit of third-occasion assistance
To be distinct, we’re not saying you really should operate to a payday mortgage business when experiencing money worries. You are going to be tricky pressed to obtain an advisor who’d at any time propose going to these exceptionally higher-curiosity, predatory financial loans.
Alternatively, we suggest that you achieve out to people businesses in the spot that are dedicated to assuaging poverty and assisting individuals in tough financial cases lift by themselves up. For instance, Group Motion Solutions and Foods Lender (CASFB) is a neighborhood nonprofit that “provides a two-step process to fixing poverty: very first, to provide the sources to support stabilize the person’s crisis, and then to support them rebuild their life.” In addition to foodstuff unexpected emergency assistance, CASFB provides preventative support in the variety of money mastering, homebuyer classes and teams/mentoring to help people and families improve their cases around time.
Storms move — even the money kinds. Follow this assistance — discover your top troubles, established a budget, cut your costs, start an unexpected emergency fund, know which financial debt to lower and reach out for help — and you’ll be better geared up to temperature the storm.
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Maryland Finishes In The Elite 25 Of The USSA Directors' Cup For 2003-04
June 30, 2004
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Maryland Athletics finished in "The Elite 25" among all Division I schools in the nation as the final United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup Standings were released Tuesday. The Terrapins placed 24th overall in the Division I field of more than 320 schools -- marking a finish in the top seven percent. Maryland had 12 teams garner points throughout the 2003-04 academic year for a total of 599 points.
"Achieving Top 25 status for overall competitive excellence was one of our department's goals for 2003-04," said Director of Athletics Deborah A. Yow. "It is particularly gratifying to see our coaches and student-athletes excel in this special way. We are in the midst of raising scholarship money for our eight underfunded men's programs and once that is attained, our goals will be Top 15 status."
This year marked the second consecutive year Maryland placed in "The Elite 25" as it finished 22nd in 2002-03. Over the last seven years, Maryland has finished in "The Elite 25" four times, finishing as high as 19th in 1997-98.
In the fall, five of the six programs at Maryland earned points with field hockey and men's soccer leading the way with 83 points apiece after both teams finished tied for third in the nation, reaching the national semifinals. The volleyball team picked up 50 points after reaching the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The football team was awarded 34 points as it was ranked 20th in the final USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll after beating West Virginia in the Toyota Gator Bowl. The women's soccer team also gained 25 points, making the NCAA Tournament.
The winter featured four teams collecting points with men's and women's basketball advancing to the NCAA Tournament second round, picking 50 points apiece. The gymnastics team was awarded 46.5 points after finishing fifth at the NCAA Southeast Regionals while the women's swimming team picked up 44 points for its 29th-place finish in the NCAA Championships.
In the spring, both the men's and women's lacrosse teams reached the NCAA Quarterfinals to earn 120 total points between the two teams while the men's golf team garnered 13.5 points for its 20th place finish in the NCAA Regionals.
The complete final standings can be found by clicking here: FINAL STANDINGS.


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Soccer Random is a fast-paced and entertaining online soccer game that adds a twist of randomness to the traditional sport. In this game, you’ll find yourself on a quirky soccer pitch, where unpredictability and fun rule the field. Developed by MadPuffers, Soccer Random offers an enjoyable multiplayer experience.
To become a soccer superstar in Soccer Random, you need to master the controls. Here are the basic controls for the game:
- Player 1 Controls:
- Move: Arrow keys
- Kick: N
- Jump: M
- Player 2 Controls:
- Move: WASD
- Kick: B
- Jump: V
- Pause/Menu: P
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- Select Your Team: Choose your team and get ready to face off against your opponent.
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- Practice: Use this mode to refine your skills and get comfortable with the controls.
- Objective: Score goals by kicking the ball into your opponent’s net while preventing them from doing the same to you.
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- Stay Agile: Given the game’s random elements, agility is key. Be ready to adapt to sudden changes on the field.
- Timing is Crucial: Master the timing of your kicks and jumps to make precise plays.
- Defense Matters: Don’t just focus on scoring goals; solid defense is essential to prevent your opponent from scoring.
- Embrace the Chaos: Embrace the randomness and have fun with the unexpected events that can occur during matches.
Soccer Random was developed by MadPuffers, a game development studio known for creating fun and addictive online games.
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Launch of Plastics Packaging and Textile Recycling Grants
The government is inviting organisations to apply for funding under a new multi-million pound grant scheme to help boost the recycling of plastic packaging and textiles.
The Plastics Packaging and Textile Recycling Grants scheme is part of the £18 million Resource Action Fund, which has been established by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to support resource efficiency projects, with the goal of diverting, reducing and better managing waste.
Organisations in England can apply for funding for innovative solutions to drive up the recycling of hard-to-recycle plastic packaging such as plastic trays, pots and tubs, plastic films and pouches, as well as funding for innovative projects that boost the recycling of textiles when they have reached the end of their life.
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ATLANTA — A DeKalb County jury on Thursday found Hemy Neuman guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but mentally ill in the 2010 shooting death of a man outside a Dunwoody day care, WSB-TV and other media outlets reported.
A judge sentenced Neuman, 49, who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the slaying, to life in prison, The Dunwoody Crier reported.
Neuman was convicted in the Nov. 18, 2010, shooting death of 36-year-old Russell “Rusty” Sneiderman. Investigators say Sneiderman was shot and killed after dropping off his then 2-year-old son at a Dunwoody daycare.
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Monday's Delaware County arrest log
Law enforcement agencies in Muncie and Delaware County jailed eight people Monday.
Except for warrant arrests, the following charges are informal and subject to change until the Delaware County prosecutor’s office reviews each case and files formal charges in court. In addition, some inmates listed below might have been booked into the jail to serve sentences for earlier convictions.
Those booked into the Delaware County jail are:
-- Albert, Landon James, 31, driving while intoxicated.
-- Spence, April Ann, 28, battery.
-- Bowens, Corey Lee, 25, out-of-county warrant.
-- Taylor, Joel Everett, 43, stalking.
-- Singer, Alicia Darlene, 33, possession of methamphetamine.
-- Henderson, Shaquita Denise, 48, dealing in cocaine or a narcotic drug.
-- Aldhali, Abdullah Ahmed, 28, driving while intoxicated.
-- Thomas, Michael Allen, 26, resisting law enforcement in vehicle.


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10:00 AM – 10:45 AM, Tuesday, October 16, 2018; Room: 114 McAllister bldg.
Models of Cell Migration
Nicolas Meunier, Université d’Evry Val d’Essonne, Evry Cedex, France
We study two types of models describing the motility of eukaryotic cells. The first model type describes protrusion activity by using stochastic processes. The cell velocity is a function of the (discrete) protrusive forces exerted by filopodia on the substrate. The key property of this system is the feedback that the cell motion exerts on the protrusion rates: faster cells form preferentially protrusions in the direction of motion. By using the mathematical framework of structured population processes previously developed to study population dynamics [Fournier and Méléard, 2004], we introduce the mathematical model and we derive some of its fundamental properties. We find back the trajectories usually described in the literature for cell migration.
The second model type is a non-linear free boundary problem for a Hele-Shaw type system of PDEs. We perform linear stability analysis and some numerical simulations. In this approach, the orientation of the actin filament network appears through boundary terms in a fluid framework. The marker concentration obeys to a non-linear and non-local convection-diffusion equation, where the convection field corresponds to the fluid advection field. We find a bifurcation explaining, how varying a single (physical) parameter allows the cell to switch from rest to motion. From the mathematical viewpoint, we consider the situation where the cell is 1D and rigid and we obtain global existence or apparition of a singularity in finite time, non-trivial steady states, long-time convergence.
The work was done jointly with C. Etchegaray, I. Lavi and R. Voituriez.

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Soul Sacrifice has received its first teaser trailer from Sony.
The video shows a dark action fantasy game, which is being created exclusively for PlayStation Vita.
The art style and brief gameplay footage for the title led many to believe that Soul Sacrifice might be co-developed by From Software as part of its Souls series, including Demon's Souls and last year's Dark Souls.
However, Andriasang reports new details of the game leaked early from Weekly Famitsu in Japan.
Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune is reportedly involved in the game, with development handled by Marvelous AQL.
The 'Sacrifice' in the title is reportedly a reference to the game's magic system, which requires payment to cast spells. Trees and rocks can be used as payment, but more powerful spells will demand sacrificing body parts - with the example given of a character sacrificing an eye to summon a gorgon ally.
Today's teaser trailer hints at a larger announcement scheduled for Thursday (May 10), where more details about the game will be revealed.
Sony today also announced the Crystal White version of PlayStation Vita, which will be available in Japan this June.


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Three new net art commissions by Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg, Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin, and Andy Deck will launch in February and March 2006.
These latest three works have been commissioned in collaboration with Tate Online and will coincide with Node.L, a season of media art in London.
Critical texts and video interviews with the artists will accompany the works at
Introductory text: Charlie Gere, Network Art and the Networked Gallery
The Dumpster [Valentine's Day '06]
Golan Levin with Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg
The Dumpster is an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers. Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has "dumped" another. The project's graphical tools reveal the astonishing similarities, unique differences and underlying patterns of these failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetically intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.
The Battle of Algiers [March 1 '06]
Marc Lafia and Fang-Yu Lin
This work recomposes scenes from the 1965 film The Battle of Algiers by Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo. The original film is a reenactment of the Algerian nationalist struggle leading to independence from France in 1962. The success of the actual battle for independence has been attributed to the nationalists' organization: a pyramidal structure of self-organized cells. For their project, Lafia and Lin recomposed the film along a cell-based structure, in which French Authority and the Algerian Nationalist cells are represented by stills from the film and move according to different rule sets. When cells of different camps intersect, they trigger video cells displaying each side's tactics (as depicted in the film) according to the rules of the system.
Screening Circle [March 22 '06]
This project adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle into an online format. Visitors to the site can enter the drawing area to compose loops of graphics and affect and edit each other's screens. The pieces can be made by one person or by several people and the arrangement of the segments can be haphazard or precise. In the screening area, the resulting motion graphics will be on view instantaneously.


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Before the first frame fades-in we see four logos: Le Vision, Legendary East, Atlas Entertainment and the China Film Group. Three out of these four film companies are Chinese – and their partnership makes The Great Wall one of the most evident, big budget Hollywood-China co-productions in the last few years.
To the average viewer it may not mean much, other than Damon (and about five or six other actors) surrounded by a lot of Chinese talent in dusty locations. However, to the China Film Group – the dominant state-owned film distribution company – this over-emphasis on China is a blunt pre-requisite.
Although The Great Wall, produced at $150 million, was a critical and commercial failure (it tallied $330 million worldwide with a mere $45 million in North America), the movie speaks volumes for the exponentially growing Chinese film market, where it made $170 million.
The film is one of the select international films passed by the Chinese censor board. Privileged others include some “blockbusters” as well as Warcraft and Independence Day: Resurgence – both of which failed in the U.S., but did excellent business in China.
The Chinese film market’s recent success story is similar to Pakistan’s – at least superficially. Both markets opened themselves to international distributors who saw them as a source of revenue (to us it is India; to China, Hollywood). This led to the multiplex boom and sold-out signs at the ticket window.
In 2005 China had 4400 cinema screens. Today, they have over 41,000 (10,000 screens alone were added last year); China’s box-office collections rose from less than 1 billion Yuan in 2003 to 41 billion in 2016.
Talking to Icon in a detailed hour-and-a-half long phone call, Variety’s Asia Bureau Chief Patrick Frater says that the Hollywood-China connection has been in a state of gradual build-up since the last decade.
“The industry has gone from miniscule to the second largest in the world, to overtaking India and Japan”, Frater stresses. “Anyone who is making expensive Hollywood movies would take notice”, he said.
“Hollywood being a studio and an economic system has become much more involved with China (today), and at the same time China has become much richer as a producer”
But why Hollywood, I ask.
“Aside from the glamourous aspect, the Hollywood industry is the only one – with the possible exception of India – where you have global distribution and industrialization of (such huge) scale. And that makes it an attractive investment to corporate investors”, Frater replies.
“(Chinese investors) are not going to make a five million investments here and there, because it will be too small for them”.
Frater also thinks that producers need to understand China first. “China is becoming middle-class, urbanized. (It’s) people bought the house, they’ve bought the car, what would they be spending on next? Leisure (and in effect movies) and healthcare?” he asks.
Most of the current media outlets in China are recent boomers. Almost all of them are subsidiaries of billion-dollar conglomerates that produce a variety of consumers services from pharma to automotive manufacturing.
“Alibaba Pictures (one of key players today) is a multibillion-dollar company” Frater asserts. “They have financial power which allows them to go out, and that’s what they’ve been doing for the last two years”.
The basic idea is quite simple to grasp: Strategically acquire entertainment businesses worldwide; Open doors to promote China in a nationalistic and unpolitical way; And only allow co-financed movies that utilize Chinese talent, and a handful of well-known Hollywood productions, into the country.
“I think that’s the quickest route to getting global insurance (on its productions)”, Frater tells me later.
To date, Chinese mega-corporation Dalian Wanda Group has bought AMC Theatres and Carmike Cinemas (for $2.6 billion and $1.2 billion respectively), making them the biggest cinema chain in the U.S.
The group has also bought Legendary Entertainment – producers of The Great Wall, Jurassic World, Batman V Superman, Pacific Rim, Godzilla amongst other tent-poles – for $3.5 billion, as well as TV giant Dick Clark Productions for $1 billion (the latter produces the Golden Globes).
Other buy-ups include Voltage Pictures (by Anhui Xinke, a metal trading company for $350 million), STX Entertainment (Hony Capital), international distributors IM Global (Tang Media Partners; previously owned by India’s Reliance).
“Any Chinese investor looking for a quick return, will find Hollywood a disappointment”, Frater said.
“A lot of Chinese investors, outside of the film industry, have not committed to the time necessary to learn about screenwriting, animation production, or return on investment. Hollywood films are often in development from two (to) ten years – and that’s a standard turn-around (time). This is when the stories are revised, re-written, re-written and re-written”, he said.
Speaking on the phone about the creative aspects of co-productions, Chicago
Tribune’s Chief Film Critic Michael J. Phillips says “I think there are just so many crummy action movies coming out of America that end up making a lot of money that people don’t even know which movies to take as their guidance”
For example, Phillips continues: “(The Great Wall) didn’t feel like the work of a distinctive, talented director – which (Zhang Yimou) is. I think it speaks to this question of whether or not the film actually lost sight of what it needed to do, because it was so concerned about appealing to a broader set of pre-requirements”.
“There’s a tremendous amount of capital at the ready to finance these types of co-productions, (in The Great Wall’s case) with all those talented writers, the producers needed to ask themselves that have the audience seen this before, and how can they temporarily forget this fact”, Phillips said.
“I think part of the problem has nothing to do with the Chinese-American financial alliances – it’s just that we are inhibited by this sort of digital effects fantasies in all sorts of stories every month now. (The movies) have a very hard time looking distinctive – they just look like the last five you’ve already seen”, he says.
“There is no pre-defined set of requirements that I know of. It’s basically common sense, based on a sense of what’s entertaining for both Chinese and global markets”, Ken Atchity, a veteran literary manager and Hollywood producer of films Life or Something Like It (Angelina Jolie) and Hysteria (Maggie Gyllenhaal), replies in an email conversation.
“(Film) development for China financing needs to be selective”, he writes. “Not everything works. Yes, having at least one Asian (preferably Chinese) talent element is good as we did for MEG which is now in post-production.”
MEG, an adaptation of Steve Alten’s 1997 novel about a monster-shark, is directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), co-financed by three Chinese companies and distributed by Warner Bros. The movie stars Jason Statham, Ruby Rose and Li Bingbing.
A report by China Film Insider confirms that the adaptation “swapped out (the) California location for a Chinese coastline setting, (and the change helped) bring China’s Gravity Pictures on as a co-producer and co-financier”.
Despite critical and aesthetic compromises already raising bumps in the road, Hollywood-China co-productions still have one more huddle in their way. The American government’s anti-China policy.
“I don’t think there’s enough organization on the government vs Hollywood front to make a dent in Hollywood’s sheer power to attract worldwide audiences. That power is based on audience demand and the worldwide audience is not demanding what the U.S. government is thinking right now, or feeling, or tweeting” replies Atchity in the email.
Compared to Hollywood’s perpetually enthusiastic stance with international financiers – and its eternal outcry against the government – this issue seems like a minor inconvenience. Any organization or industry in the world loves money, especially if its free-flowing your way with slight caveats.
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It was bound to happen eventually! The people over at Sa Wardega who always deliver the most amazing pranks have now set their sights on someone a little more high profile – Chris Pratt. After starring Jurassic World, the team of pranksters found it only fitting to terrorize the actor with a bunch of dinosaurs.
Check out the hilarious prank after the jump!
Continue reading Chris Pratt gets Pranked by a T-Rex
There wasn’t doubt that Jurassic World would become one of the biggest box office smashes of the year but not to this magnitude. The fourth film in the Jurassic Park franchise took a chunk out of the box office, logging the biggest global opening weekend of all time with $511.8 million.
Continue reading ‘Jurassic World’ Crushes Global Opening Record
Earlier this week, many projected that Jurassic World would earn somewhere in the ballpark of $125 million range for the weekend. After a massive $83 million haul on Friday, Jurassic World is now being projected to earn between $180-$200 million.
Continue reading ‘Jurassic World’ Smashes Box-Office Records with $180 million+ Weekend
After more than a decade, the park is finally open! Jurassic World, one of the most highly anticipated movies in recent memory, stomps into theaters this weekend, delivering all of the dinosaur goodness that the big screen has sorely been missing.
It is a daunting task to reinvigorate such an iconic franchise, but Jurassic World takes the franchise in a new direction while maintaining the essence of the original movies.
Continue reading Jurassic World (Review)
‘Jurassic World’ is set to take over the world on June 12 and will definitely get a sequel. It looks like Universal is going to have to find a new director because Colin Trevorrow will not be returning.
Continue reading ‘Jurassic World’ director Colin Trevorrow not returning for ‘Jurassic Park 5’
Raptor squad goals though!
After someone falls into a pen with a three raptors in it, Chris Pratt’s character Owen Grady leaps into action to stop them from tear this guy apart in this new clip from Universal’s Jurassic World.
Check out the clip after the jump!
Continue reading Chris Pratt faces-off against Raptors in New ‘Jurassic World’ Clip
One of the most anticipated releases of the year is the fourth entry in the ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise, ‘Jurassic World’. We are getting another taste of the movie with the release of the first clip featuring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas-Howard.
Check out the clip after the jump.
Continue reading ‘Jurassic World’: First Clip Debuts with Chris Pratt
After weeks of a lack of ‘Jurassic World’ news to quench our thirst, fans are getting some new photos to satisfy their needs.
The new photos taken from the newest issue of Empire Magazine depict Chris Pratt as Owen, fending off raptors, in a room full of screens and interacting with director Colin Trevorrow.
Check out the photos after the jump!
Continue reading ‘Jurassic World’ Photos Featuring Chris Pratt and Raptors
The official website for the upcoming ‘Jurassic World’ movie has launched a live park cam. The cam allows you to view the day-to-day operations of the park, being able to view the labs, commons grounds and dinosaur enclosures.
‘Jurassic World’ comes to theaters June 12th, 2015 and stars Chris Pratt, Ty Simpkins, Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Robinson, and Vincent D’Onofrio. The film is directed by Colin Trevorrow.
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water hits theaters this Friday, having to compete with new releases ‘Seventh Son’ and ‘Jupiter Ascending’ but the film just showed that they aren’t afraid of a little competition.
The film released three movie posters today, spoofing upcoming blockbusters like ‘Jurassic World’, ‘Terminator Genisys’ and ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. The posters depict Spongebob as Christian Grey in his office, Sarah Connor with a severed pineapple head and as a fossil.
Check out the posters after the jump and you can see the new ‘Spongebob Movie’ when it hits theaters February 6th!
Continue reading ‘Spongebob Movie’ Spoofs ‘Fifty Shades’, ‘Jurassic World’ & ‘Terminator’


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Originating as a grass track on farmland, Brands Hatch has hosted an array of events including British Grand Prix, BTCC & British GT over the years.
Totalling 2.433 miles & 9 corners the circuit offers two configurations, including the twist and turns of the GP circuit and the speedy Indy alternative.
Both offer challenging gradients and exciting corners, making it the ultimate place to enjoy a track day experience for any budding racing driver.
Address: Brands Hatch Circuit, Fawkham, Longfield, Kent, DA3 8NG
A thrilling circuit to endure in the south, Brands Hatch combines world-famous corners and sections of historic circuit. Making this an exciting and rare treat for any track day enthusiast.
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Sitting in the South East of England, Brands Hatch is roughly 20 miles away from Central London. Making it a real hotspot and one of the easiest tracks to access whether you are coming by road, rail or even air.
All of London's recognised airports are within relatively easy reach of the circuit. Gatwick is only 34 miles away, while Heathrow is around a one hour drive on the M25, with both having plenty of international flights. London City Airport is slightly closer at 20 miles, but they don't have the same amount of international flights as Gatwick and Heathrow.
By car, it couldn't be any more straightforward. Brands Hatch can be found on the A20 near to West Kingsdown. It's just three miles from junction three of the M25, and is linked via the A20 to the M20, M25 and M26 motorways.
As a major race circuit in the United Kingdom, Brands Hatch is right up there with Silverstone in terms of prestige and history. Some would even say that Brands Hatch is better.
Its current high-speed reputation is a long way from it origins though, with those dating back to a group of keen cyclists. The area was used for many years for military training, but when a cyclist called Ron Argent stopped by and noticed the bowl-shaped contours of the land, he asked the farmer if he could use it to practice on. For the next few years it became a cyclists heaven, who used the dirt roads that were carved out by the farm machinery.
Motorcyclists soon wanted to get in on the act and were regularly seen waiting for cyclists to finish before they can turn it up a notch. However, it wasn’t until after World War Two that Brands Hatch became serious about motor sports.
The grass circuit soon made way for a proper track in 1950, making it the first post-war, purpose-built circuit in Britain. Gradually, it emerged as a real force in the sport, with grandstand and marshal points popping up all over the track. Even a field hospital was added.
That opened the door to both motorbikes and cars to race around the circuit, and by the 1990’s the track received new pits lane and hospitality facilities.
Nowadays, the circuits headline international events are the DTM and the Blancpain GT Series, with the British Touring Car and British Superbike Championships regularly pulling in sell-out crowds for the track.
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With two choices of track layout, prime location just outside of London and whole host of Want2Race professionals on hand to make it the perfect track day experience, there really are no excuses.
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The White House just got a little less spicy, and our hearts just got a little bit smaller as Team Sputnik’s favorite White House personality, former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, has announced his resignation.
Justine Damond, an Australian woman residing in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was killed by a police officer after she called 911 herself. The specifics of the incident are still unknown, as both officers involved had their body cameras off.
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway made the grievous mistake of holding up mostly-blank flash cards in an appearance on Sean Hannity’s talk show on Fox News.
The liberation of Mosul from Daesh terror group (outlawed in Russia) opens the way to a potentially dangerous collision between Iran, Syria and Hezbollah against Saudi Arabia, Israel and their allies backed by the United States, analysts told Sputnik.
First Lady of Poland Agata Kornhauser-Duda snubbed US President Donald Trump during their meeting at the G20 Summit when she moved past his outstretched hand, denying him a handshake ... for a few seconds.
As North Korea continues to beef up its missile program, the United States warned that it might use military force against Pyongyang or sever trade relations with China if the international community fails to take strong action, as both Russia and China warned against any further escalation of a tense situation in their backyard.
Major US oil and gas companies have expressed concerns over the US draft law stipulating new sanctions against Russia, as the bill could hinder the implementation of their projects with participation of companies from Russia, US media reported Monday.
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New in paperback, Herndon’s Lincoln offers today’s readers the most influential biography of the Railsplitter ever published.
William H. Herndon aspired to write a faithful portrait of his friend and law partner, Abraham Lincoln, based on his own observations and on hundreds of letters and interviews he had compiled for the purpose. Even more important, he was determined to present Lincoln as a man, rather than a saint, and to reveal things that the prevailing Victorian conventions said should be left out of the biography of a great national hero.
A variety of obstacles kept Herndon from writing his book, however, and not until he found a collaborator in Jesse W. Weik did the biography begin to take shape. It finally appeared in 1889, to decidedly mixed reviews. Though controversial from the outset, Herndon’s Lincoln nonetheless established itself as a classic. This new edition restores the original text, includes two chapters added in the revised (1892) edition, and traces the history of how Herndon and Weik, after many delays, produced one of the landmark biographies in American letters. Extensive annotation affords the reader a detailed look at the biography’s sources.

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International Development Assistance
My question is to the Minister for International Development and the Pacific. How is the Albanese Labor government strengthening relationships with countries across the Indo-Pacific through Australia's international development program? What actions have been necessary, and why has it been important to update the government's policy settings?

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Presenting to you 2 ingredients Malai Kulfi. Milk, sugar and patience is everything you will need to make this creamy kulfi. I am not a huge fan of Ice-creams but I have a soft corner for Kulfi as it brings a lot of childhood memories especially if it’s Malai Kulfi. It reminds me of kulfi wala who would be standing outside the school carrying an aluminum pot in a basket topped with a red cloth full of cone shaped kulfis. We would enjoy it during lunch time or when we were ready to go home. And it would be the perfect thing to have to beat the Mumbai heat and bring joy to our faces. I have perfected this recipe over this summer and my husband says this is the best Kulfi he has eaten in USA.Ps: Stirring the milk continuously is the key to the recipe and requires lot of patience.
- 5 cups full fat milk whole Milk
- 1/3 cup sugar
- Saffron strands to decorate optional
- Take a heavy bottom pot and bring the milk to boil on medium to high heat.
- Reduce the heat and keep on stirring the milk till 75% of the milk has been reduced.
- Keep on scraping the malai formation from sides of the pot while you stir as this is the good stuff you want in your Kulfi. The most difficult part is to stir the milk continuously to prevent it from burning. It takes me around 35-40 minutes to reduce the milk.
- Once it’s reduced to 25%, remove the pot from the heat and add sugar and mix it for few minutes.
- Let the mixture cool and then pour it in the kulfi moulds.
- Freeze them overnight and enjoy the kulfi next day.
Stirring the milk continuously is the key to the recipe and requires lot of patience.

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Vic has treated her fans to a glimpse of their family getaway
Victoria Beckham and her whole family are currently enjoying a sun-soaked trip across the pond in LA. And we’re not jealous at all. Nope, not one bit.
While on their holidays, it looks like the 44-year-old has spending some much needed down-time with her three sons – including eldest Brooklyn Beckham who’s just returned home after dropping out of Uni.
The mum-and-son duo took the car out for a spin on Wednesday and designer Vic just couldn’t help but poke fun at her teenager with a hilarious Instagram post.
In the snap, Posh Spice can be seen riding in the front as aspiring photographer Brooklyn takes the wheel with a cheeky grin on his face.
Nodding to her son’s lack of clothing, the mum-of-four joked: ‘Contemplating how to rate today’s Uber driver 🤔 #whynoshirt@brooklynbeckham 🤷🏻♀🤷🏻♀🤷🏻♀🤷🏻♀’
Vic’s fans clearly found the whole thing hilarious, as one commented: ‘Love your humour level!’, while a second agreed: ‘Your family is awesome’.
And a third joked: ‘Shirtless on leather: not confortable at all!!!’
This comes after the Beckhams spent a cosy night in together as a family on Wednesday, with Vic sharing another snap chilling with her kids.
While hubby David Beckham is nowhere to be seen, the photo shows the designer wearing a pair of matching pale blue pyjamas as she lays across Brooklyn and youngest son Cruz, 13.
In a third and final pic – shared on her Instagram Stories – 15-year-old Romeo can also be seen joining the party as he cuddles up to his family.
Making a joke about her son’s VERY smiley face, Victoria wrote on the photo: ‘Romeo r u ok?‘, before adding: ‘Night in with the boys’. Cute, or what?
Little Harper – David and Victoria’s youngest daughter – is also missing from the snaps, but we reckon the six-year-old has been hanging out with her dad instead.
Keep the sweet photos coming, guys!

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Amazon is planning to release a new Kindle e-reader in July, according to a report.
Reuters claims to have heard from an inside source that the new model will feature a monochrome E Ink display like existing models, but add front lighting to facilitate reading in the dark.
The report adds that the new Kindle will include a touch-screen and come in both WiFi and 3G models. The inclusion of front lighting is expected to reduce the device's battery life somewhat.
Sources claim that Amazon is also prepping a larger version of its Kindle Fire for launch in North America. The colour tablet arrived in the territory late last year, but is yet to find its way to British stores.
Amazon's Kindle range has been touted as the most significant competitor to the market dominance of the Apple iPad. However, recent figures suggest that the iOS tablet has extended its market share, while Kindle Fire sales are in decline.
Apple is rumoured to be planning to take on the Kindle Fire with a budget-friendly version of its popular tablet, dubbed the iPad Mini.


We want to offer people a chance to escape the chaos of day-to-day living and technology.
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A Healthy Haven is an upcoming food retreat that was announced by MY Food, a British company that specializes in producing and promoting health-specific diets, as an initiative designed to help people gain control of their busy lifestyles.
The retreat is focused on promoting diversity and healthy eating habits, as well as the stepping down from the fast pace of today’s society. The first organized event will last for a total of five days.
Based in the Olhao, Algarve, in Portugal, it is expected to play host to a select number of guests from the UK and from abroad, being counted among the most unique food retreats and food demonstrations organized in recent years.
A Healthy Haven is regarded by experts as an opportunity to experience a healthy retreat to a life of luxury, to learn about the local culture and to observe cooking demonstrations exclusively geared toward healthy nutrition.
MY Food is the main organizer of the event, and their team claim that no expense or effort was spared in the endeavour of orchestrating the upcoming food demonstrations.
“We are all very excited” said Nas, MY Food Founder “we have been working around the clock to ensure everything is perfect for the retreat and there are many people who are eagerly awaiting the results. Without a doubt, it’s one of the most expansive initiatives we have attempted at MY Food, and everyone here has high hopes for the retreat to become a beacon for promoting healthy living.”
According to the company, there will be a wide assortment of different foods, focusing primarily on natural, healthy choices. Combined with the outlook of a peaceful décor, the prepared food, the accommodation options and the services provided by the MY Food staff are all expected to focus on increasing the balance between inner peace and a balanced lifestyle.
“We want to offer people a chance to escape the chaos of day-to-day living and technology” said Angela, MY Food Founder.
Well-decorated kitchens, hidden areas, luxury combined with modern comforts, and healthy fruit, fish and vegetables are among the highlights of what guests can expect once they arrive in Olhao. The small fishing town is particularly known for its fresh fish and peaceful living, which also prompted the organizers at MY Food to combine food with meditation sessions. Algarve is one of the few locations in Europe where visitors can still experience more than 300 days of sunshine per year.
As the company’s representatives at the MY Food HQ have pointed out, the ever-increasing pressure and tension created by modern, fast-paced living, corporate lifestyles and modern technology has led to people having less and less time for events like A Healthy Haven.
The retreat has become one of the few initiatives of this type not only focusing on the external aspects of improving lifestyle choices, such as the option of choosing healthier foods, but also attempting to guide those interested to change their lives completely through healthier practices and habits that can transform the way they see the world.


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The race to find the Bonhomme Richard
I hope they find it. John Paul Jones' bones reside in a crypt at the US Navel Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. One of his other famous sayings was "I want only fast ships for I am going in harms way." In that he was certainly accurate.
Every US schoolchild knows that John Paul Jones, their country's first naval hero, rejected a call to surrender with the immortal words: "I have not yet begun to fight." What is less well known is that he was within sight of the Yorkshire coast when he uttered them.
Whether Jones ever said what was attributed to him is not certain. But it is true that one of the bloodiest naval battles of the American Revolution was fought in the North Sea on 23 September 1779, and that the American commander, despite having to abandon his sinking flagship, won the day. He captured the British warship attacking him and sailed off into legend.
This summer, 227 years after that encounter, British and American crews will again contend with each other off the coast of Yorkshire. This time they are in a race to discover the final resting place of the Bonhomme Richard, the 42-gun frigate commanded by the "Father of the American Navy". Jones's heirs in the US military are planning an underwater search, but they face competition from two other teams.
The Bonhomme Richard has long been a holy grail of marine archaeology, thanks to its association with Jones, said the naval historian Peter Reavely. "Britain has Nelson, and John Paul Jones plays the same role in the US. He is the greatest naval hero of the American Revolutionary War."
Originally named the Duc de Duras, the ship was built in 1765, then bought by the French government, which refitted her as a warship and lent her to the fledgling US Navy. John Paul Jones re-named her the Bonhomme Richard - after a magazine published by the US ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin.
A Scotsman who started his seafaring career at the tender age of 13, Jones was considered a pirate by the British, but a hero by America's rebellious colonists. In 1779 he took the Richard and three other vessels on a raiding expedition around the British coast, hoping to draw the Royal Navy away from its blockade of American ports.
The squadron captured 13 ships before attacking a Royal Navy warship, the Serapis, which was escorting 41 British merchant vessels en route from the Baltic. After a savage four-hour battle, Jones captured the Serapis, but his ship was so badly damaged that it was abandoned. Safely aboard the British flagship, his crew escaped to Holland and eventually returned to America.
The rediscovery of Jones's flagship would be more significant than that of the Titanic in 1985, said Melissa Ryan, project manager at the Ocean Technology Foundation. "The Bonhomme Richard was lost in a battle of national importance: the first naval victory for America during the Revolutionary War."


Axial flow turbomachinery is susceptible to self-excited vibrations known as flutter, primarily affecting high-aspect ratio rotor blades. Experimental studies of blade flutter are essential to understanding the phenomenon. The existing research has shown that the most critical factor in determining the aerodynamic stability of the blade is the mode shape. In this work, measurements of subsonic flutter of a linear turbine blade cascade with various mode shapes and torsion axis locations in a chordwise direction are carried out. The cascade consists of eight blades representing the reduced tip sections of the last stage blade of the steam turbine rotor, and central four flexibly mounted blades are forced to vibrate in pure bending and pure torsion modes and a combined motion. Both the traveling wave mode approach and the influence coefficient method are tested. The results show that the pure torsion mode is insensitive to increasing reduced frequency and is aerodynamically unstable for each positive angle of incidence tested, while pure bending and combined modes become less stable with the increased angle of incidence. In addition, high sensitivity of blade behavior to changes in torsion axis position and phase shift between bending and torsion motions is demonstrated.


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Christmas Seamless Patterns. You can use these elements and patterns for your scrapbooking, postcards, albums, banners, posters, websites also like wallpaper, wrapping paper, cloth design, as a festive decoration, as christmas decorations and for your other design and ideas!


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It is always dangerous to say that a season is my favorite time of the year. But there it is. Right now Advent is my favorite time of the year. The hymns are sublime, the Gospel is clear and beautiful. The hope of the One to Come washes over you like a flood.
The longing of Advent for me is also closely associated with death. Our daughter, Nadia, died in utero the day after Thanksgiving in 2005. Our Son, Emmanuel, died in utero on December 21, 2009. My mother died on January 9. So this season is really a time of longing for me. Longing for what is gone. Longing for what can never be.
But that really is what our Lord’s coming is all about. Our Lord’s birth is miraculous. It should not have happened. By all reason and common sense, it is impossible. Yet it is true.
This season as we long for what is lost, look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. He is the One who wipes away our tears. He is the one who will create all things new. He is the one who has gives us hope (Nadia) by becoming one with our flesh and blood. He is God-with-Us (Emmanuel).
Lord, make all things new. I hope in your Word alone.

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I could go on and on waxing poetic about Autumn. It’s my favorite season… curling up by a toasty fire, taking an evening stroll in the crisp outdoor air, sipping spiced hot drinks, and enjoying the season’s most festive foods like pumpkins, apples, and squash!
I had a perfect opportunity to pick up some squash at the Harvest Festival last weekend but you can find it at your local farmer’s market or grocery store. I have made different variations of stuffed acorn squash before but this is my favorite. The savory quinoa stuffing plays off the slightly sweet and nutty flavor of the acorn squash creating a delicious and healthy meal that presents beautifully.
- 1 large acorn squash
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- Sea salt & pepper to taste
- 1 cup quinoa
- 1/2 yellow onion
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped mushrooms
- 1/2 package organic tempeh or 1/2 cup chick peas or white beans
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh herbs such as sage or thyme
- 1/3 cup raisins, cranberries or chopped dried apricots
- 1/3 cup pine nuts or pumpkin seeds
- A few splashes of tamari
- A sprinkle of cayenne
- A sprinkle of freshly chopped herbs for garnish
Pre-heat oven to 400ºF. Cut your acorn squash in half length-wise and scoop out the seeds. Brush the squash with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place in a lightly oiled baking dish and place into the oven.
While the squash is baking, prepare the stuffing. Cook the quinoa. Then add onions, mushrooms, garlic and tempeh or beans to a pan with a bit of olive oil, a few splashes of tamari, and a sprinkle of cayenne. Cook until onions are translucent & the remaining ingredients start to brown.
Add the cooked quinoa to the onion mixture in the pan and mix thoroughly. Remove from heat and put into a large bowl. Add dried fruit, herbs and nuts to the quinoa mixture and stir well.
After 45 minutes, remove the squash from the oven and spoon the stuffing mixture into the acorn squash halves. You should have enough leftover stuffing to be enjoyed on its own the next day. Cook another 15 minutes or so with the stuffing inside until the squash is very soft and golden brown around the edges. Top with fresh herbs and enjoy!


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A suit seeking the invalidation of Kola Abiola as the People’s Redemption Party’s presidential candidate has been transferred to a special task force of judges for speedy determination.
This came after the presiding judge, Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja, proceeded on his annual vacation.
Although the suit was number 15 on Tuesday’s cause list, the matter could not go on due to the absence of Mr Mohammed in court.
The registrar, however, informed that the judge, who was a vacation judge during this year’s annual vacation, had commenced his leave.
The registrar further informed that the chief judge of the court, John Tsoho, had directed that pre-election cases be transferred to the registry for onward transmission to the judicial task force recently constituted.
On November 2, Mr Tsoho constituted the task force of judges to hear and determine all pre-election cases before the court swiftly.
Mr Tsoho said it became necessary to designate a team of judges following the large volume of pre-election suits that have flooded the court.
He said that the judges would have four weeks to dispose of the pre-election cases.
Justice Mohammed had, on October 11, fixed today for hearing the suit filed by Patience Ndidi Key, a female presidential aspirant in the June 5 primaries conducted by the PRP, to challenge the emergence of Mr Abiola as the party’s candidate.
Ms Key, in an originating summons marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1001/2022, had prayed the court to nullify the poll that produced Mr Abiola as the PRP’s presidential candidate.
The presidential candidate is the son of the late MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election.
The plaintiff had sued PRP, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Latifu Kolawole Abiola as first, second and third defendants, respectively.
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Written between an isolated retreat in Joshua Tree and his home studio, January Flower sees Kearney in his rawest form, distilling the songwriting process and rediscovering the joy of making music. Over his career, Kearney has released five studio LPs, claimed the #1 spot on iTunes, topped multiple Billboard charts, made four entries into the Hot 100, amassed over 2.5 BILLION global streams. Kearney, a Multi-Platinum songwriter and producer, has performed live on TODAY Show, Ellen, The Tonight Show, Letterman and Jimmy Kimmel Live! and has garnered raves from USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, People, Billboard, PARADE and Marie Claire. He also has an incredible touring history, sharing the road with everyone from John Mayer to NEEDTOBREATHE.
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Beef + Turmeric Instant Bone Broth 5 oz
Just add warm water to make a nourishing drink, pour over kibble to create as a delectable gravy, or use it to rehydrate an Honest Kitchen meal to make dinner even more richly flavorful. This instant broth with pumpkin, parsley, and turmeric is yummy enough to coax appetite out of its occasional hiding place (under the couch with your missing socks).
Crude Fat (min): 1.8%
Crude Fiber (max): 4.2%
Moisture (max): 8%


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When your kids fly off to start a life of their own and leave you with an empty nest, it can bring up a lot of difficult emotions — but also a lot of opportunities.
If you’re currently or about to experience this milestone, chances are that you are dreading it. The reality is that becoming an empty nester can feel daunting, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, after a brief period of adjustment, many empty nesters go on to discover a new purpose in their lives and enjoy their new chapter of life.
In this guide, we plan to explore the psychology and feelings of empty nesters, different strategies for handling an empty nest, tips for decluttering and downsizing your house, and the importance of estate planning.
Empty nesters are parents who are left with an empty nest so to speak when their children leave the home. According to Statistics Canada data from the 2016 census, the rate of growth since 2011 among couples living without children has been greater than among those couples living with children, at 7.2 per cent compared to 2.3 per cent, respectively. This can be attributed to the increase of baby boomers becoming empty nesters.
After years of managing schedules, checking homework, making lunches, and shuttling them to lessons, it can be difficult for empty nesters to know what to do with themselves when they’re not busy with the hustle and bustle of raising children.
Dealing with an empty nest can lead to empty nest syndrome, which refers to when parents have feelings of loss, sadness, depression, or loneliness when their last child leaves home. This syndrome is something all parents can be affected by, but some more so than others. Even for parents who actively encourage their kids to become independent and go out into the world, it can be a painful experience to let go of them.
Over the years, there may have been times that you couldn’t wait for the days when you would have an empty nest. You may have dreamed about everything you’d do once you had the freedom of an empty nest and are now surprised to find the new challenges you’re facing, including an abundance of time to spend and empty space to fill.
There are many different strategies to help parents cope with transitioning to an empty nest.
If you’ve become accustomed to having a jam-packed schedule attending your kids’ lessons, practices, or chauffeuring them around, suddenly having an abundance of time can amplify feelings of loss.
If there’s something you’ve always wanted to do or learn, now is a great time to invest some time in it. If you don’t have an activity or skill in mind, now is an excellent time to sit down and think about what kind of hobby you might like to pick up.
Whether it’s a weekly exercise class or challenge, cooking lessons, a new craft you can pick up watching YouTube videos, or a new sport, embrace the opportunity to commit to activities that you will enjoy and help provide you with a new sense of identity.
Consider auditing a university class about something you’ve always wanted to learn more about or starting a new business. Perhaps you’ll find purpose in volunteering in your community or maybe it’s time to travel more. For those with partners, take time to reconnect with your spouse, and for single empty nesters, maybe it’s time to meet someone new.
That being said, if you find yourself savouring the peace and quiet after years of the hustle and bustle, enjoy it. Spend time catching up on your reading list, doing puzzles or finding a new show to love.
Pretending everything’s fine won’t help avoid the inevitable feelings of loss, only delay them. Allow yourself to experience your feelings and all the highs and lows of this transitional period. Understand that everyone’s versions of coping will look different, and don’t compare yourself to how other people have handled the process or have appeared to handle it.
When you’re dealing with so many major transitions, the last thing you should be doing is making major life decisions in the immediate aftermath. While the rush of your newfound freedom may make you want to make some impulsive decisions, it’s important to remember this is just another phase of life.
Avoid making permanent decisions based on temporary situations. Just as with making significant life and financial decisions when grieving the loss of a loved one, experts suggest holding off until you’ve adapted and a sense of normalcy prevails.
Taking time to declutter can be an excellent way to relieve stress and process the emotions of dealing with an empty nest. You might be surprised at all the belongings that have been collected in your home after spending a couple of decades raising kids. You might still have their old toys, school assignments, clothes they’ve long since grown out of, and more.
Going through these items also allows you to go through belongings once more, feel connected to the past, rediscover emotional keepsakes, and decide to pass on particular items to family members.
It can actually be a fun process to redesign and organize spaces for new purposes and actually make your home more conducive to your needs. There’s no need to get rid of all your children’s belongings, but depending on what stage of life they’ve moved onto, you may want to pack away their old belongings to make space for new activities.
Think about what your needs are and repurpose these spaces into a home office, set up a home gym, or create a personal sitting room. NEATSPACES’ home organization services are always available to help declutter and organize your spaces for any purpose.
Empty nesters downsize for many different reasons. When you have an empty nest, you may find that you don’t need as much space as you once did. Downsizing your nest can make it feel less empty and help you better transition to this new stage of life.
As with any significant event, if you’ve decided to downsize, there are many things to consider. Figure out what you need in your new home to match the lifestyle you’re after and get the help you need to facilitate this transition.
- Take photos of your home before you begin
- Decide what you want to do with the belongings you choose to get rid of
- Know that you don’t need to do it all at once
- Prepare for a range of emotions
- Get professional assistance
If you are overwhelmed by the idea of decluttering and downsizing your home, consider using NEATSPACES to help you. We strive to make the process easier for our clients and always build trust when helping seniors downsize.
If your will no longer applies to your current situation, or you never actually made one, now is the time to create an up-to-date will and estate plan. You may need to make updates or add addendums, appoint your adult children as executors, or you realized that one child has trouble handling money and need to insert a special clause that can help protect their wellbeing. Here are the areas to pay particular attention to:
- Powers of Attorney: Naming a person who will be in charge of your financial or medical needs if you become incapacitated or unable to make these decisions yourself.
- Inheritances: Naming who the beneficiaries of your estate will be.
- Life insurance and retirement accounts: Review all of these policies and accounts to ensure the beneficiaries you’ve named are still who you want to receive them.
- Health care directives:- Expressing your wishes should you develop a disability or terminal illness.
Without estate planning, you risk your wishes not being known or followed in the event of illness or injury. Another reason to make a plan is to ensure your family members know what you want to happen with your possessions when you’re gone.
NEATSPACES provides estate clearing in Toronto and surrounding areas, to help alleviate some of the pressures that can come in these situations. Ensuring your estate plan is up-to-date will allow you to enjoy your empty nest years with peace of mind knowing your loved ones will be taken care of.