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This past weekend saw Kidrobot re-release the iconic Munny in new packaging which gives it a timely spruce up as we head into the backend of 2018. Now in a clear metallic box design, the 3D blank art toy feels & looks with the Munny front & centre like a premium product to us. We like!
This new packaging is available for both the 4inch Munny, as well as the 7inch Munny. You can snap these up from the Kidrobot store HERE. Priced at $9.99 for the 4inch, and $19.99 for the 7inch version of the Munny. Why not grab one and have a crack at painting it, slinging stickers on it or simply having it blank in your collection.

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Neanderthal by Avery Flynn is now live!
So I may be in the Last Single Man Standing competition with my cousins, but five minutes around Kinsey was all it took to take myself out. Who cares about bragging rights when you’ve just found the woman you’re going to marry? Sure, she may work for my biggest competitor. Sure, she’s not dating right now. Sure, she’s my sister’s best friend and I’ve been sworn off her. But somehow she agrees to go on six fake dates to help me save face in this competition.
What does the guy who never uses his words have to say to convince the girl of his dreams that they’re perfect for each other?
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When Avery Flynn isn’t writing about alpha heroes and the women who tame them, she is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip. She has three slightly wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband, and has a slight shoe addiction. Find out more about Avery on her website, follow her on Twitter, like her on her Facebook page, or friend her on her Facebook profile. Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the internet, she’ll be your best friend for life. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.org. She’d love to hear from you.
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“Love, real love, requires you to have both hands open so you can receive it. It’s surrender, not control that opens us up to all the possibilities of what could be.”
To be vulnerable and open to love is difficult. It requires laying down a self-imposed shield so that another being has the opportunity to inhabit one’s soul. In doing so, people open themselves up to being hurt, but on the other side, they can manifest a soulful love beyond explanation. In much of romancelandia, whether you’re reading smut or articulate, intentional romance with a social conscience, this is the crux of the stories. It’s also the struggles we encounter in everyday love relationships.
In Hope Ellis’s next book of The Leffersbee Series, Before and After You, this idea is underscored, highlighted, and evoked through the love-to-hate relationship of Leigh and Walker. This is Ellis’s second contribution to the SmartyPants Romance series, and it’s another impressive offering. I fell hard for Hope Ellis with her first book in this series, Been There Done That, the story of Nick and Zora (Walker’s sister and Leigh’s best friend and roommate). That book tugged at my heart and showcased the storytelling capabilities of Hope Ellis who had been a new author to me. At the end of that story, I was ready for Walker’s book, given his playboyish ways. For me, taking a character who is equal parts gentleman and f’boy and making him lovestruck is my FAVORITE characterization. However, Ellis adds Leigh to the mix: a warrior of a woman, ready to fight for what is right, but also who sports soul bruises from her former marriage. This means a story where both characters will have to overcome their baggage in order to find their happy ending. Usually, with this type of story, the love is fated and its depth is profound, and Hope Ellis’s Before and After You is a perfect representation of this; it’s heady, funny, and a representation of the best of BIPOC authorship. We need more stories from Hope Ellis and other authors like her.
What did I love about this story?
*For one, I adore a woman who fights for others. She tends to be the perfect mixture of sensitive and stalwart. Leigh absolutely embodies these traits, and her journey is an important one, as she must allow herself to become vulnerable with Walker in order to find her happy ending. Ellis has easily sculpted her into this story in ways that make her character sing across the page.
*Walker is easily my favorite Leffersbee at this point. Don’t get me wrong. I still adore Zora, but Walker’s older brother leadership, his willingness to sacrifice his personal happiness for his family tradition, and his want to love Leigh well to his own detriment make him a hero who you can’t help but adore.
*The familial connections of Walker and Leigh add more dimension to this story. I LOVE Pops and Leigh’s sister and brother-in-law. Her family adds compiclation to the story, and my heart hurt for her as my own similar hurts were embodied in Leigh’s story.
*Even more important is the importance of stories from BIPOC authors such as Hope Ellis. It’s essential that they pervade romancelandia because a book such as Before and After You pulls back more of the curtain of the experiences of POC. The more we can read these stories, the more we can understand, and the more we can become better humans responding with empathy and care. Hope Ellis’s inclusion into the SmartyPants Romance is the best thing to happen for this brand.
Look, in a nutshell, Before and After You is a delight. It’s steamy, soulful, and holds a depth of character development and storytelling that spotlights the brilliance of Hope Ellis’s storytelling. If you haven’t grabbed this story yet, it should be the next book in your reading arsenal.
In love and romance,
Before and After You, an all-new heartfelt small town romance from Hope Ellis, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited!
Leigh D’Alessandro is a fighter. She fought to escape her dysfunctional family, to end a soul-killing marriage, and to build a new life in a small Tennessee town. When the fate of the community hospital she works for is threatened, she’s primed and ready for battle. What she can’t fight any longer is her unshakable attraction to her best friend’s brother, who has a notorious reputation and triggers all her worst fears about trust and betrayal.
Walker Leffersbee is a lover. At least that’s the reputation he’s built in his hometown. Scion of a prosperous Tennessee banking family, he’s a known ladies’ man and a confirmed bachelor. His hands are full as he juggles competing demands from his family’s bank and his growing property renovation business. The last thing he needs is to give in to his long-standing craving for his sister’s headstrong and hot-tempered best friend. Especially because she’s the only one who knows the secret that threatens to upend his life.
When a home renovation project brings them too close for comfort, they both struggle to withstand the growing heat. As they grow closer helping each other navigate family minefields, Walker learns that love is not a four-letter word, and Leigh realizes that some battles are meant to be lost.
But Walker’s secret is the one thing that could keep them apart, unless they both decide to fight for the love they never looked for but now can’t live without.
‘Before and After You’ is a contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #2 in the Leffersbee series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.
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USA Today bestselling author Hope Ellis is a health outcomes researcher by day and writes romances featuring sexy nerds by night. She hopes to one day conquer her habit of compulsively binge-watching The Office.
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Getting Real by Emma Chase is now live in audiobook!
A sexy, hilarious, emotional, new romance from New York Times bestselling author Emma Chase.
Connor Daniels never thought he’d be starting over at dating square one. His career as a successful doctor, and his three boys, are everything to him. It’s not exactly a setup conducive to a scorching social life—but he’s giving it a shot.
ER nurse Violet Robinson never intended for Connor to find out she’s had a crush on him forever. It was a dirty little secret only meant for her dirty dreams. Her heart trips every time he’s around—and so do her feet.
When Connor sees Violet coasting across the grocery store parking lot—and she falls on her face—he starts falling for the gorgeous, young nurse right back.
Dating can be tricky. And life can be beautiful and crazy and unpredictable. But when it gets real, you discover what matters most . . . and the one person you want loving you through it all.
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Narrated by Zachary Webber & Andi Arndt
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Releasing in ebook & print January 31, 2022
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Emma Chase is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance novels filled with humor, heart and heart. Her stories are known for their clever banter and sexy, swoon-worthy moments. Emma’s novels have been translated in over twenty languages around the world.
Emma lives in New Jersey with her amazing husband, two awesome children, and two adorable but badly behaved dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine
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TAMING OF THE CREW (The Hockey Gods Series #5) by Xavier Neal
Release Date: October 28th
Genre/Tropes: Sports Romance, New Adult/College Romance, Opposites-Attract
Series: The Hockey Gods Series – Complete standalone
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Once upon a time, the Vlasta Vipers hockey team was so incredible — on and off the ice — they were almost mythical.
All the other college athletes across the country wanted to be them.
All the chicks who glided into their gazes were excited to bang them.
Their reputation was that of Gods who wore skates instead of sandals.
And thanks to a certain center’s constant leadership on the ice, they are true champions once again.
Captain Patrick Peck lives and breathes hockey, yet one glimpse at his head coach’s loud-mouth, full of life niece who has just moved to Vlasta, and suddenly, he wants more.
More days of watching old TV shows and less days of listening to hockey podcasts.
More nights of hearing her scream his name and less nights of scheduling extra practices.
More memories out of the rink and less memories of only being loved in it.
Will this overly focused center be able to balance hockey and love, or will he be forced to abandon one for the other?
About the Author:
Xavier Neal is a best-selling romance author who enjoys hopping from sub genre to sub genre like a game of Hopscotch she can’t resist.
In between writing, she loves to read (everything from romance to self improvement books), watch movies (old and new), eat too much Tex-Mex (her Chuy’s t-shirt collection is out of control), and watch AHL hockey games LIVE (preferably against the glass whenever possible).
She currently resides happily in Texas with her bearded husband “Lumberjack” and their two fur babies.
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The Man from Sanctum, the all new must read standalone in the Masters and Mercenaries: Reloaded from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake is coming March 8th, 2022 and we have the stunning cover!
A painful past
Deke Murphy and Maddie Hall should never have worked as a couple in high school. She was the class valedictorian and he the jock who took nothing seriously…except her. Together they formed an amazing team, and young love blossomed into something that strengthened them both. Until tragedy struck and Deke made a sacrifice that split them up forever.
An unexpected reunion
Seventeen years later, Maddie is living her dream working for a brilliant tech guru in the beauty of Southern California. She’s made a life for herself and it’s first class all the way. She rarely thinks of the jock who dumped her all those years ago. But when Maddie realizes her boss might be part of an international conspiracy, she can’t deny Deke might be her best bet to solve the mystery. Her one-time sweetheart works for one of the world’s premiere security and investigative firms. She’ll hire him and prove to herself their relationship could never have worked.
A dangerous future
As Maddie and Deke begin to uncover her boss’s secrets, they can’t deny the chemistry that has reignited. But before they can explore the connection growing between them, they must survive the deadly forces hunting them down.
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About Lexi Blake
New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband and three kids. Since starting her publishing journey in 2010, she’s sold over three million copies of her books. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings.
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Key Change, an all new slow burn rockstar romance from Heidi Hutchinson, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited!
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Before Hannah was a 9-5 working, dinner making, homebody, she was Ashton James: a paparazzi-stalked pop star with more enemies than friends.
These days she has one priority: keeping her sister safe and away from the public eye.
Hannah was doing a great job, until the pesky little brother of an ex-fling discovers where she is, and wants her help launching his career.
Now she has to trust Johnny—whom she betrayed in more ways than one—to protect her whereabouts. Johnny may have an infuriating moral compass and the timing of a storybook hero, but is he immune to the temptation of revenge?
Johnny’s focus has always been his music business, and a bad influence like Hannah is the last thing he needs at work, or around his brother.
But some things are too powerful to be stopped. For someone like Hannah, second chances—in life and in true love—don’t exist. She didn’t think so, at least.
Johnny is about to prove her wrong, and being wrong has never felt so right.
‘Key Change’ is a full-length contemporary romance, can be read as a standalone, and is book #3 in the Common Threads series, Seduction in the City World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
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“You’re a real piece of work. You don’t even remember me, do you?” Johnny said the words, knowing for years they were true but feeling that hurtful sting having to admit it out loud. He had been a nobody to her then. He needed to make peace with that.
Ashton shook her head. “I don’t remember most things,” she said, and it had the kind of ring of truth that sounded too real. She rapidly scanned the interior of the townhouse and her gaze paused on his guitar resting in the stand in the living room.
He held his breath for a minute.
The guitar was the one he’d had when they’d first met. Its sound was on her first record.
It wasn’t fancy by any means, but it was and always would be his favorite. A black Gibson orchestra model. The years of wear showed the scratches and bruises of the life of a working musician.
He wondered if she remembered the night she’d sat in his bed, naked, holding that guitar and singing to him.
Because he thought about it all the time.
“I don’t remember you,” she said after a beat, her voice quieter. The admission hurt more than he expected. “But I know that it doesn’t matter. Going with the odds and how you’re looking at me, it was probably pretty awful.”
Johnny wasn’t sure why hearing that didn’t make him feel any better.
Just then the door opened, or it tried to, but it bumped into the bodyguard, who moved to the side and let Shawn in.
The facilitator of Johnny’s current problem.
Shawn frowned in confusion at the bodyguard, and then his gaze drifted to Ashton. All the color drained from his face, and his round eyes darted to Johnny.
“Oh my God,” Shawn whispered.
“Oh, He can’t save you now,” Johnny cautioned.
Shawn dropped his bag on the floor and his hands came up in a placating fashion. Though he couldn’t figure out which person to direct them to. He faced Johnny, then Ashton, then the bodyguard in quick succession.
“I-I-I can’t believe you’re here,” he finally spit out, obviously speaking to Ashton. He spun to Johnny. “It’s her. I told you it was her.”
Johnny ran his tongue over his bottom lip and nodded once.
Shawn shoved both hands through his hair, unable to conceal the sheer joy on his face. “Did-did you listen to it?” he asked Ashton cautiously.
For the first time since Johnny had opened the door, he saw a crack in her exterior as she looked at his younger brother.
“No,” she said after a beat. “I haven’t listened to it.”
Undeterred, and oblivious to the tension in the room, Shawn eagerly grabbed the envelope off the table and removed the thumb drive. “That’s fine. You can listen to it here and then I can get your reactions up close.”
“Shawn,” Johnny tried to get his attention.
“This is better, actually,” Shawn continued, a slight tremor in his voice, which was pitching a little higher. “I mean, I would have invited you over earlier today if I’d known you would say yes.”
“Shawn,” Johnny said louder and sharper.
It got his attention.
“Read the room, bud.”
Shawn’s hands dropped to his side and his shoulders dropped. “I don’t understand. If you’re not here about the music, then why are you here?” he asked.
“I think…” Johnny said with a slight grimace. “That she’s here to pay us to keep quiet? Did I get that right?”
Ashton glared at Johnny.
“Pay us?” Shawn repeated, confused and devastated all at once.
For a split second, guilt sliced through Johnny. But the sooner Shawn figured out who Ashton James really was, the better for him. In the long run.
Though watching him find out that the artist he looked up to was a lying, selfish, horrible person kind of hurt like hell.
Silence descended like a thick fog as Shawn stared at Ashton, waiting for a response.
Finally, she took in a deep breath and let it out. “Who have you told? I really need to know how far this goes. Please.”
Her tone was different than the last time she’d asked that question.
“No one,” Shawn replied roughly. “Just Johnny.” He waved a hand in that direction. “And he didn’t believe me until Saturday when he saw you at the school. Even then, he told me not to do anything about it.” He shrugged helplessly. “But I didn’t listen.”
Her eyes moved to Johnny, looking for honesty and verification.
He hadn’t told Shawn about helping jump her car. He didn’t want to have to answer any uncomfortable questions that he didn’t have the answers to. Like, why was she so different in that moment than the woman he remembered? And was it real? Or did she just get a lot better at faking things?
Shawn took a step toward her, speaking excitedly.
“I was just so happy to finally meet you. I never thought I’d get a chance to, and then one day, I saw you get off the train. I wasn’t looking for you. Ashton, you have to believe me. I would nev—”
“Please don’t call me Ashton,” she stopped him. She regarded both of them carefully. “I haven’t been Ashton James in a very long time. And I have no intention of being her again.”
About Heidi Hutchinson
Heidi Hutchinson creates funny, clever, slow burn romance for readers looking for a guaranteed happily ever after.
She hopes the stories she writes inspire her readers to take their hearts on one more adventure.
She lives in the Black Hills with her alarmingly handsome husband, their fearless child, and a rather large and spoiled dog.
She is fueled by her unwavering and perfectly normal devotion to Dave Grohl and coffee.
And a whole lotta love.
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Overall Grade: 4.5 ⭐
“She anchors me, and until this moment, I didn’t realize how untethered I’ve been.”
L.B. Dunbar’s Love in A Pickle, her newest title in the SmartyPants Romance world, is divine. Seriously divine. You might want to know why. I’m a huge fan of the redemption of a former “mean” character, and Scotia Simmons of Green Valley, Tennessee has terrorized this small-town in various Penny Reid and SmartyPants Romance stories. However, you have heard that people who “bully” others or speak ill of them do so out of insecurity or some type of pain. And the interrogation of those underlying influences makes for some of the best stories, stories such as Dunbar’s Love in A Pickle.
To believe that Scotia is purely evil is to diminish and reduce her. In the first two books of this series, Love in Due Time and Love in Deed, Dunbar teases Scotia’s humanity as she steps in to support her sisters. The Queen of Mean shows her softer side in those books, and if you’ve been following the bouncing ball of Dunbar’s stories, then you have waited for Scotia’s story.
And Dunbar’s book did not disappoint. I’ve seen other reviews, and it’s a resounding response that Dunbar deftly wrote a compelling character in Scotia that changes your perception of her. Very easily, it changes your opinion of her character.
Without giving any details, let me talk around the parts of the story that simply work to cull together a beautiful story of redemption and love:
- There are secrets in this book that should not be divulged in any review. You definitely won’t find it in this one, and it absolutely is one of the factors that turns your head towards Scotia. For me, it brought tears to my eyes. It connects directly to Scotia’s most vulnerable place.
- Her hero, Chet/Chester/Big Poppy, is a revelation, and I appreciate how much Dunbar works to craft a character who is much like Scotia while seemingly very different. Dunbar’s story plays with the idea of identities or the masks we wear for different situations. Interestingly, Dunbar also admonishes her reader with the double-standard of judgment between men and women. Chet can throw ugly at someone, and it seems more acceptable, while Scotia is judged and characterized with ugly names.
Even more, Chet is a force of change. He challenges Scotia, while he falls in love with her. However, I wrote a note in the margins of my book around the 50% mark when I noted how much I wasn’t his biggest fan. One minute, Chet is beguiled by Scotia, wanting to protect her and encourage her to be a better person. The next minute, though, he pushes her away and cuts at her soul as she becomes more vulnerable. And this is the genius of Dunbar’s storytelling. It’s in these moments, along with Scotia’s other secrets, where Dunbar humanizes Scotia. It feels so calculated and necessary in order for people to accept a love story for Scotia Simmons.
- Ultimately, the camaraderie of the Winters sisters is the backbone of Love in A Pickle. Revisiting Naomi and Beverly while they support and encourage Scotia reminds us why these stories exist. They bring us back to Penny Reid’s Green Valley, Tennessee.
I’m sad that these stories seem complete for L.B. Dunbar. Maybe we need the children of these women to have stories, something to keep us in their small circle of sisterly love. What I do know is I think Scotia’s story is my favorite of the three. To take the villain of Green Valley and turn her into a puddle of love is a testament to L.B. Dunbar’s writerly craftsmanship.
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This can be resumed, even if not accurately, as the static meta of LoL versus the "free" meta of Dota. 6 level 1 Forum Spel Strategi och MOBA Tråd. Dota 2 vs HOTS vilken märklig spelupplevelse. 1. Sök. Skriv svar 2018-04-06 09:37.
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2015-07-04 History of The League of Legends vs Dota 2 Debate. There’s no question that the original Warcraft III’s Defense of the Ancients custom mod (or DotA 1) was the reason why the MOBA genre is so popular today. However, DotA was never an actual game by itself since it was a mere mod that used a large portion of design from existing Warcraft models. Now, for the final verdict in the Dota 2 vs LOL debate. If you want a more mainstream MOBA experience with a low barrier of entry to play, then go for League of Legends. However, if you’re someone that wants to challenge themselves from the start, then Dota 2 is your game.
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It is one of the first esports that offers prize money for competitors. The opposite isn't true as Dota 2 came out a few years later after League of Legends so a lot of players had a chance to get a taste of Riot's MOBA. Out of the two, LoL is definitely the game with the bigger player count and it's also more popular globally.
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The title of ‘best MOBA game’ is a hotly contested one, and often reduced to two warring champions: League of Legends and Dota 2. But, despite being the most popular in the genre, these two games The opposite isn't true as Dota 2 came out a few years later after League of Legends so a lot of players had a chance to get a taste of Riot's MOBA. Out of the two, LoL is definitely the game with the bigger player count and it's also more popular globally. Correct me if I'm wrong. So, for me, Dota 2 is the best MOBA games. There would be few reasons why I choose Dota 2, and they are: 1.
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MOBA : Multiplayer Online Battle Arena Una modalidad de juego que ha sufrido un pico de popularidad demencial en la última década. Si no conoces de qué estamos hablando, no sé que haces aquí.
It is multiplayer based where teams of 3v3 or 5v5 fight each other for supremacy on a map with “lanes”. The lanes serve the purpose of supplying a path for each teams minions to spawn and run towards towers that need destroyed. DotA 2 vs LoL which is the best MOBA game?
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Use the showcase view to see through the eyes of the hero himself and it looks so realistic, like a real forest. 2013-09-02 The common consensus is that moba is a game that revolve more into pure mechanics than strategy; whereas ARTS or ASSFAGGOTS revolve more around strategy, then mechanics. This can be resumed, even if not accurately, as the static meta of LoL versus the "free" meta of Dota. 6 level 1 MOBA meaning.
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Most people would be thrilled to be nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – but not Liam Gallagher.
The 51-year-old Mancunian musician wrote “F**k the Rock n Roll hall of fame its full of BUMBACLARTS,” on X on Monday after his old band Oasis received a nomination.
After a fan queried the singer, saying, “I fully understand why you aren’t interested but we really really want this for you and Noel, Oasis deserves it like no other band,” Gallagher replied saying, “I appreciate that you do but I honestly feel there’s something very fishy about those awards.”
Liam and his older brother Noel, 56, performed as Oasis for nearly two decades, before splitting up in 2009.So while Liam Gallagher is clearly not a fan of accolades, it’s undeniable that the musician has released some groundbreaking music throughout his career.
It is a further reminder that the larger UK music scene has produced some of the world’s most iconic bands and artists, whose work remains just as popular and revered to this day as ever. From hard rock to punk, new wave, indie and Britpop, British bands have taken the success of entire genres to new heights, influencing millions of rock fans through the years.
So from Joy Division to Radiohead, Rolling Stones and, of course, to Oasis, we’ve picked the best British rock bands of all time, listed in ascending order.
20. Joy Division
It's incredibly rare for a band to have such an impact in such a short space of time. Joy Division were one of the most influential bands of the late 1970s, despite the life of Ian Curtis being cut tragically short at the age of just 23. Factory Records changed the face of British music and Joy Division were a huge part of its success.
19. Super Furry Animals
The finest Welsh proponents of weirdo rock since... well, ever. The group, pictured above on a bad hair day, have created some of the most interesting albums of the last few decades and they're also one of the first commercially successful acts to record entire albums in the Welsh language. This is modern psychedelic rock at its finest.
18. The Jam
Not only did Paul Weller and the Jam create some of the most urgent and essential rock albums of the 1970s, but they also inspired an entire style movement. The mod revival the band helped to spark a whole subculture just shows how influential they were: everyone wanted to look like them and everyone wanted to buy their records.
17. T. Rex
Marc Bolan’s hugely influential rock act started off as a pastoral psychedelic folk group. They released four albums under the name Tyrannosaurus Rex before shortening the name, reinventing themselves as glam rock behemoths and releasing a string of incredible singles such as Ride A White Swan, Get It On, Metal Guru and Children Of The Revolution. Sadly, Bolan’s career was cut short following his death in a tragic car accident in 1977, but his musical legacy lives on.
16. Roxy Music
Roxy Music are fondly remembered by fans as one of the most eccentric and unusual rock acts of the 1970s and their self-titled first album is widely regarded as one of the best British debuts of all time. The group brought us Bryan Ferry, one of the most interesting frontmen of the era, as well as Brian Eno, one of the most influential electronic artists of all time, who’d go on to create a series of revered instrumental albums and produce records for the likes of Talking Heads, U2 and Coldplay.
15. The Who
They might be best known by many for proving the CSI themes these days, but The Who are, without doubt, one of the best British rock bands of all time. Pete Townshend proved himself to be one of the most expressive British songwriters of the 1960s and 1970s while Roger Daltrey was one of the most commanding frontmen of the era. They were also one of the first British bands to introduce the idea of a concept album, too, with 1969’s hugely successful Tommy. Who’s Next is one of the great UK rock albums, too, and the band are still talking about their generation five decades on.
14. Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne teamed up with fellow Brummies Geezer Butler, Bill Ward and Tony Iommi in the late 1960s to form the hugely influential Black Sabbath and pretty much invented heavy metal in the process. The group released era-defining classics like Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man, and influenced the outlook of British rock music more than most bands before or since.
So much is made of the Blur vs Oasis rivalry that ran throughout the height of Britpop and it’s certainly true that they were two of the most important bands of the decade. Blur’s impressive back catalogue boasts a wealth of indelibly British songwriting with some of the wittiest lyrics of the 1990s, and also some of the simplest (see Tender). Damon Albarn would go on to create music with Gorillaz and pursue a number of other intriguing projects, but the real star of the show was Graham Coxon, who remains one of the most criminally underrated British guitarists of the 20th century.
No one put on a show quite like Queen. Freddie Mercury’s unmatchable live vocals and the band’s incredible sense of spectacle made them one of the most celebrated live acts the UK has ever seen. The masters of bombast and excess, Queen created some of the most widely known and popular music of the 1970s and 1980s. Mercury’s premature death in 1991 shocked the music world but the band’s legacy is as strong today as it has ever been.
11. The Kinks
So many bands owe a huge amount to the work and influence of The Kinks. You Really Got Me is one of the greatest rock riffs of all time, and let's not forget that Dave Davis of the band actually invented distortion after slashing the cones in his amplifier with a razor blade; a sound which has been integral to the sound of rock and roll ever since. Their songs and their methods influenced entire generations of musicians and they remain one of the UK's best-ever rock bands.
10. The Stone Roses
Who cares if they only really released one good album, the Stone Roses have carved out a groove in the British zeitgeist unlike anyone else before or after them. Their self-titled 1989 debut is quite rightly regarded as one of the most influential British records ever made; if you walk into any indie bar across the country on a Friday night, you can guarantee it’ll be playing through the speakers and going down a storm.
9. The Clash
From the angsty exuberance of their self-titled debut to the ambitious genre-bending efforts of London Calling and Sandinista, The Clash put out a succession of classic albums between 1977 and 1985. The band stood up for admirable causes, famously performing at Rock Against Racism and embracing lefty politics in their writing too. Forget the Sex Pistols, The Clash is the greatest punk band the UK has ever produced.
8. The Cure
Robert Smith’s The Cure is one of the most iconic British bands of the 1980s and 1990s, and holds a special place in the hearts of many music fans up and down the country. From the stark and intense nature of albums like 1982’s Pornography, through to the more flamboyant and playful records like Wish, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and Disintegration – arguably the band’s masterpiece – Smith created some of the greatest alternative British music of his generation.
How many times has someone picked up a guitar and performed a dodgy rendition of Wonderwall at a party? Or how many times has someone murdered a rendition of Don’t Look Back In Anger at karaoke? Oasis's songs themselves are some of the most accessible and instantaneous British songs ever written and that’s before you even consider the charisma of the band that performed them: The Gallagher brothers were at war most of the time during Oasis’s career, but out of that tension came the most iconic songs of the 1990s and some of the most culturally significant British music ever made.
6. The Smiths
They might have inspired more terrible student bands than any other artist, but the Smiths remain one of the greatest bands Britain has ever produced. Morrissey’s unmistakable vocals and the chime of Johnny Marr’s beautiful guitar playing made them one of the most distinctive bands of the 1980s, and a hit with indie fans ever since. It’s almost scary to think that Marr formed the Smiths, released four incredible studio albums and quit the band all by the time he was 24: a staggering achievement at such an early age.
5. The Rolling Stones
Without a doubt one of the most influential British rock bands of all time, the Rolling Stones could easily top any list of iconic British rock groups. Childhood friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards formed an iconic musical partnership as kids in the 1950s before forming the Stones with Brian Jones, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Ian Stewart.
The group developed on their early covers of tracks by the likes of blues legends Howlin’ Wolf and Chuck Berry to produce more and more expansive sounds, but still kept blues-rock at the absolute core of their music. The reductive ‘Beatles vs Stones’ argument will always persist amongst music fans, but the swagger and the sheer riffage on display on classic Stones’ albums Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street is irresistible.
4. Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here... the list of classic albums goes on. Pink Floyd has created some of the most accomplished and successful UK rock music ever made and always maintained a distinctively British sense of eccentricity and idiosyncrasy. The prog rock legends are one of the most commercially successful British bands ever and David Gilmour remains one of the most revered guitarists of his generation too.
Radiohead could have carried on making albums like The Bends and OK Computer and become the biggest British band of all time in the late 1990s. However, they challenged themselves to change their sound, and with Kid A they showed the benefits of never standing still as an artist. They're a great band who refuse to settle, but still manage to create weird and wonderful music. They're beyond doubt one of the very, very best British rock bands of all time.
2. Led Zeppelin
Rock monsters Led Zeppelin are one of the greatest, hardest rock bands ever, and the four individual members are all some of the best players of their generation too. Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and Jimmy Page stand head and shoulders above their contemporaries as individual musicians, and their talents combined to create some of the heaviest rock of their generation. In fact, Communication Breakdown is often cited as the first heavy metal song. Whether you believe that or not, the band’s influence is undeniable and their status as British rock gods is untouchable.
1. The Beatles
Battle-hardened in the clubs of Hamburg, the fab four transformed from squeaky-clean pop sweethearts to rock monsters during the course of their career, and produced some of the best music ever made along the way. They constantly pushed boundaries, took their sound to places you'd never think possible and together with pioneering producer George Martin used the studio as an instrument unlike ever before. Their story and their music are legendary, and you just can't look past them as the greatest British rock band of all time.


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This Low Carb Chicken Broccoli Casserole has all the delicious flavor of the classic dish without all the carbs. Not all carbs are bad, and the few carbs you’ll find in this recipe are the kind you want — full of fiber from a cruciferous vegetable (i.e. broccoli).
What’s Wrong with Carbs?
Despite what you might have heard, not all carbs are bad. Bad carbs can cause spikes in blood sugar levels and are generally, lacking nutrients.
They’re also really easy to spot. They tend to be in “white” foods like white bread, white rice, white pasta, and pastries.
These foods are white because they’ve been processed and most (or all) of the fiber and nutrients have been stripped out of them. Sugary foods and drinks are also loaded with bad carbs.
Another way to identify bad carbs is to pretend you are a 5-year old and can eat whatever you want. Pretty much everything you’d pick is a bad carb (e.g. sweetened cereal, fruit punch, macaroni, Pop-Tarts, and soda).
In contrast, good carbs contain several helpful nutrients and should actually be a part of a healthy diet. You’ll find these in whole grains (or “brown” foods), vegetables, fruit, and beans.
In fact, you should be including good carbs from fruits and vegetables at every meal since your body desperately needs the fiber they provide.
That’s why this Low Carb Chicken Broccoli Casserole isn’t a zero carb dish. Your body needs the broccoli in this dish (plus it tastes amazing with the sauce).
How to Make Low Carb Chicken Broccoli Casserole
I don’t know about you, but I have way better things to do than spend hours and all my energy on dinner. So, this recipe, like almost all of mine, was created with ease and speed in mind.
Step 1: Combine Ingredients
That’s right, we’re going to add all of the casserole ingredients except the cheese to a large bowl — chicken, broccoli, cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, onion powder, garlic powder, and a little salt and pepper.
Stir them all together until they’re well combined. You want to make sure the broccoli and chicken pieces are well coated in the other ingredients.
Step 2: Transfer to Baking Dish
Next, you just need to pour the casserole mixture into a baking dish.
Then, sprinkle shredded mozzarella over the top.
Step 3: Bake
Pop the casserole in the oven and bake at 350 degrees for about half an hour. Since we started with pre-cooked chicken, we just need to bake it long enough to melt the cheeses and heat the dish through.
Remove from oven and serve immediately. It’s best while it’s still hot from the oven.
Ready to make your own Low Carb Chicken Broccoli Casserole? Here’s the recipe card with the exact measurements.
Low Carb Chicken Broccoli Casserole
- 2 cups cooked chicken diced
- 1 cup broccoli florets steamed
- 4 oz cream cheese softened to room temperature
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- Salt & pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the chicken, broccoli, cream cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream, onion powder, garlic powder and salt & pepper in a large bowl. Mix well.
- Pour the mixture into a baking dish and sprinkle the mozzarella cheese on top.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes or until heated through.
- Serve warm with a side salad.
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May is mental health month. Taking care of our mental health is as important as our physical or even more so. The importance can be downplayed by those who have not experienced it first hand.
After I had my baby, I was asked various assessment questions at every single appointment, from my family doctor, to my gynecologist, and health nurse. I don't remember the questions being this intense with my older son, which means more attention is being paid to various forms of mental health including Post-Partum Depression (PPD) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Early detection goes a long way and getting help is very important. When we have loved ones suffering it can be difficult and sometimes we may not know how to help them. How do you help a loved one with PTSD?
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Winslow Church of England Primary School serves the town of Winslow in Buckinghamshire, educating a capacity of 536 pupils between the ages of 3 – 11. In 2018 the school received a letter from the Minister of State for School Standards, congratulating them on their phonics screening check which rated Winslow CofE in the top 9% of all primary schools in the country!
Winslow CofE saw their energy costs rising, as their budgets were reducing.
Their lighting was poor, inefficient and costing the school increasingly more in energy and maintenance.
The school had upgraded to LED on an ad-hoc basis however this had compounded the issue with an uneven light spread in classrooms, and no funds to undertake a site-wide upgrade, particularly as their ceilings contained asbestos.
Watch how Winslow Primary achieved 62% energy savings
We believe the foundations of a successful project is in understanding the customer’s needs and issues. Ineco Energy specified a fully-funded solution to offer reduced energy bills at Winslow Primary School, to improve the learning environment, and to reduce the school’s carbon footprint.
Our feasibility survey and energy bill analysis determined the energy-saving opportunity. LED lighting and solar panels would assist the school in achieving its goals, yet also deliver the added bonus of reducing their reliance on grid energy.
Designing the solution
As we do with all schools, a detailed site audit captured building dimensions as well as an asset register. Subsequently, we produced a watertight installation plan to account for all eventualities. Our in-house design team engineered a solution to provide the greatest output while using the least resources. Our experienced teams installed the solution in a controlled and clean manner, skilfully working around the needs of our client. The team had to work with asbestos-containing materials, however, they took additional precautions to ensure a safe and efficient installation.
Positive results for LED and Solar PV
The LED lighting has transformed the school, providing a lighter, brighter learning environment for pupils and staff.
The solar PV panels have attracted praise from parents and pupils for enabling onsite energy generation, while reduced energy bills and carbon emissions have helped the school on its path to a greener existence.
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Players from both factions, Azuni and Crunn, can come to the contested areas to complete quests. The areas are divided by levels, and characters cannot enter the area anymore when the level cap is met.
- Windy Canyon (level 5 - 10)
- Cold Light Basin (level 15 - 20)
- Wounded Land (level 25 - 30)
- Round Top Hills (level 35 - 40)
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With a 4-3 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes in overtime, the New York Rangers have clinched a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Rangers' captain Ryan Callahan scored the game-winning goal for New York.
The Rangers tied their game with Carolina at three late in the third period on a fluke goal that bounced off the end boards and was then kicked into the net by Carolina goaltender Dan Ellis.
Once the Rangers had clinched, the Winnipeg Jets needed the Washington Capitals to beat the Ottawa Senators in order to keep their playoff hopes alive. That game went to overtime, which left the Jets a point away from elimination, but a Sergei Gonchar goal in overtime sent the Senators to the playoffs and officially eliminated Winnipeg.
All of the playoff participants in the East are now set, and the final games of the season will only determine the seeding. The Eastern Conference playoff teams are:
- Maple Leafs

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Rae Sremmurd are known for having shows that can get a little wild from time to time. However, one fan thinks the rap duo crossed the line and is suing them for wrecking part of his face in an incident that included water bottles being thrown into the crowd.
According to TMZ, a man in Michigan has named the emcees, Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi, in a lawsuit that is asking for an undisclosed amount of money for inuring the concertgoer by “recklessly” throwing water bottles into the crowd. The show in question took place in October of 2016, where both of the men in Rae Sremmurd gave no warning before they threw the water bottles into the crowd. There’s no outright accusations that there was an attempt to injure any given fan, but the man who is suing got corked square in the nose by one of the projectiles. The man’s legal representatives are claiming that part of his face was ripped off from the sheer force of the object that was thrown, which led to him being immediately rushed to the hospital. As per the report, the victim of the water bottle incident has allegedly suffered permanent disfigurement and scarring to his face, not to mention the embarrassment he’s surely faced as a result. The man is suing for assault, negligence and battery and is also asking for Rae Sremmurd to pony up the cash for his medical bills on top of any damages he may collect in the proceedings. There’s been no official comment from Swae Lee or Slim Jxmmi, nor has there been an official statement made available to the public by there reps at the time of this writing.
It’s been a bad year for concert litigation so far in 2017. In particular, negligence from artists and promoters seems to be an increasingly frequent reason that fans and their loved ones alike are pursuing legal action against any offending parties these days. Earlier this summer, Live Nation was sued by the parents of a young female concertgoer who OD’d on Molly. The mother and father pointed towards lack of security and water availability as the main reasons that their daughter met her tragic end. You can read more about that story here.


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Renault’s Kwid is one of those rare cars that have managed to give India’s largest selling car – the Maruti Alto – sleepless nights. A lot of factors have gone into making it the success story that it’s become – that SUVesque design, a spacious interior, a long features list, and most importantly, that coveted touchscreen infotainment system and low running costs.
The car did have a few shortcomings, most notably, an unexciting engine that also wasn’t very refined either. For those who wanted a peppier, sprightlier hatchback, Renault introduced a punchy 68hp 1.0-litre on the Kwid, and, more recently, gave this version of its little car the option of an affordable AMT gearbox. It time to find out how these variants of the Kwid are better to drive.
Let’s start with the new 1.0-litre engine. What you will notice the moment you start it up is that it’s smoother than the smaller 0.8-litre unit. It’s more refined and the vibrations typical to a three-cylinder engine are a lot lower here than in the less powerful version.
The engine cranks out 68hp, which is a healthy bump over the standard Kwid’s output of 54hp. It’s also got more pulling power and, while there’s a 40kg increase in overall weight, performance is a clear step-up from the smaller car. The extra weight is because of the reinforcements on the car to make it safer; the car now scores a one-star rating on the Global NCAP crash tests, which makes it one of the safest cars in its class. The upgrades to the Kwid 1.0’s body have also trickled down into the 0.8-litre variants.
When it comes to performance improvements, the Kwid 1.0 is over 3.0sec quicker than its 0.8-litre sibling and does 0-100kph in 13.85sec. It is also quicker overall during everyday driving.
The motor too is a lot smoother and more responsive. However, it still feels a little jerky when you get off the throttle suddenly, this is because it sharply cuts the fuel delivery to improve mileage. But, you only experience this hesitation in lower gears.
What’s also nice is that, thanks to the extra pulling power, there’s a lesser need to change gears. This allows you to even pull from really low revs.
The AMT gearbox too functions quite smoothly for everyday use. It does have a few weaknesses though, most notably the lack of creep function, and the fact that you cannot manually select/change gears. Also, the automatic version feels a bit hesitant when you want to make a quick overtake on say, highway stretches, or even tight city spaces. That said, however, it is still one of the nicer AMT units on sale in India.
So yes, the punchier 1.0-litre engine and the AMT gearbox have made the Kwid a lot better to drive. It isn’t perfect though – refinement could still be better, a smoother-functioning automatic would be welcome too, but as before, the Kwid still remains a car that offers a lot of appeal for the asking price. It’s stylish, practical, well-equipped and feels like a bigger car than it actually is. To top it off, the extra performance and convenience doesn’t come at too much of a premium over the 0.8-litre versions either, which in turn makes the Kwid 1.0 an even more compelling entry-level hatchback.
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Bond Denied For Chinese Businessman Who Was Charged With Visa FraudA 57-year-old Chinese businessman who is charged in a federal grand jury indictment with entering the United States using fraudulently-obtained visas will remain behind bars pending trial in Miami.
Bond Denied For Alleged 77th Street Gang MemberReversing a federal magistrate judge’s ruling, United States District Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. has ordered that Kenny Terlent, 19, will remain in a federal detention center without bond pending his trial on charges of illegally possessing a machine gun, identity theft, and Covid-19 benefit related fraud.
Bond Denied For Floirda Man Charged With Federal Gun And Drug Trafficking CrimesOn July 16, 2021, a South Florida federal magistrate judge ordered pre-trial detention for 37- year-old Lazaro Alfredo Ramirez-Alvarado, finding that he presents a risk of flight and danger to the community if released.
Garret Rolfe’s Florida Vacation Baffles Rayshard Brooks' WidowRayshard Brooks' widow echoed the Fulton County District Attorney's call Wednesday for a judge to revoke Garrett Rolfe's bond after the former Atlanta police officer who killed her husband went to Florida on vacation.
Rayshard Brooks' Widow, Attorneys Call On Judge To Revoke Bond For Garrett RolfeIn a brief news conference, Tomika Miller, the widow of Rayshard Brooks, and the attorneys representing her case against former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe, are calling for a judge to revoke his bond after learning Rolfe reportedly went on vacation in Florida.
DA Requests Garrett Rolfe Bond RevocationThe Fulton County prosecutor has asked a judge to revoke the bond of former Atlanta Police Officer Garrett Rolfe after Rolfe traveled to Florida on vacation.
Former APD Officer Garrett Rolfe Released From JailGarrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy's parking lot has been released from jail.
Is Adele Teaming Up With Bond?Adele may be gearing up for a new baby, but it seems she might also be spending a little time in the studio.


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Alexander & Baldwin selling more former Kawamoto Kahala properties
Alexander & Baldwin is closing this month on the sales of two more Kahala properties that were previously owned by Japanese businessman Genshiro Kawamoto , according to Lance Parker , who handles real estate acquisitions and dispositions for a subsidiary of A&B.
Aexander & Baldwin's Benjamin: Don't expect big changes in Kailua, at least not right now
A living wall outside the Whole Foods Market store in Kailua helps to anchor the building's Hawaiian sense of place in this file photo.
Who's buying in Kakaako? Alexander & Baldwin has the answer
Chris Benjamin, president and chief operating officer of Alexander & Baldwin, was a featured speaker at the Hawaii Economic Association luncheon on Thursday.

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MUNICH -- Caterpillar Inc. and its German dealer, Zeppelin Baumaschinen GmbH, are exhibiting the latest Cat machines, work tools and engines to thousands of visitors beginning Monday at the world's largest construction industry trade show, bauma 2013.
Caterpillar says that their theme of the show – "Committed to Your Success. All Day. Every Day." – means helping customers make more money with Cat products than with any others – and it begins with fuel economy.
"We're launching our first-ever product to use our new hydraulic hybrid technology - the Cat 336E H," Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman said. "This excavator uses as much as 25 percent less fuel than the standard 336E, without sacrificing performance, and is a core example of Caterpillar's innovation."
Caterpillar is also showing off other products at the show, including:
- The 988K wheel loader, also being launched at the show, is equipped with an engine type approved for the stringent European Union (EU) Stage IV, and that also uses United States (U.S.) EPA Tier 4 Final emission standards. The 988K also offers up to 20 percent greater fuel efficiency compared to the previous model.
- The Cat 966K XE wheel loader, equipped with an advanced powertrain system, delivers up to a 25 percent fuel efficiency improvement over the previous model with optimum performance.
- The Cat D7E Electric Drive track-type tractor, which was introduced in 2009, was the first track-type tractor with a diesel-electric power train to be sold commercially. The company marked a significant milestone in 2012 by selling its 500th D7E.
- A full range of Stage IV, Tier 4 Final industrial engines and technologies that meet high expectations for reliability, performance, fuel and fluid efficiency and component life, with significantly reduced emissions. Cat industrial engines are utilized by a wide range of Original Equipment Manufacturers in the construction, mining and general industrial sectors.
The show runs from April 15, through April 21. More than 450,000 visitors from 200 countries are expected to attend.


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Under the cosh Balfour said it had seen "further worsening" in trading at its mechanical and electrical engineering arm - part of its UK business since the first quarter IMS.
It now expects a £35mln shortfall in this division compared to previous expectations, it said, but added this would broadly be offset by further targeted disposal gains in the second half of 2014.
In May this year, shares lost around one-sixth of their value after the company revealed that pre-tax profits for 2014 are expected to be 'significantly' below previous expectations, and that it was on the search for a new CEO.
And in April, the infrastructure group's shares fell 10% as it issued a profit warning form the UK construction business.
Today, the group said that as previously highlighted, it is on a 12-18 month programme to restore its UK construction business.
"Whilst the regional and major projects businesses, which comprise 90% of the UK construction business, are on track and continue to perform in line with our expectations, there has been further deterioration in the Engineering Services business," it said.


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Pickerington library to seek levy after state cuts funding
The Pickerington Library will ask voters for a levy this November after the state cut funding.
At its June 8 meeting, the library board of trustees will most likely opt for a 0.75-mil levy that would cost the owner of a $100,000 home approximately $23 per year and would raise $830,000, said Dorothy Howdyshell, the library’s financial officer.
State funding continues to decrease, she said. In May, the library received $35,000 less than it did in May 2008 and April was $16,000 less than last year.
According to Library Director Suellen Goldsberry, the forecast for the remainder of the year is bleak. What was forecasted to be a 6 percent shortfall for public libraries, in the last few weeks, became a 10-15 percent shortfall forecast.
The board dismissed two part-time employees and will not replace a third who retires in June. The board also reduced the hours of operation, said Colleen Pospishil, the library’s community services coordinator.
If voters approve the levy, it would allow the board “to reinstate some if not all of the hours and staffing,” Howdyshell said. “It will get us a long way from where we are now.”
Story time for preschoolers will continue and this summer, the library will to offer programs for all ages.
For more information on library events, residents of the Pickerington local school district may visit www.pickeringtonlibrary.org.
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The US imposes visa rules for pregnant women on birth tourism so that they are not forced into pregnancy involuntarily. The US is one of the largest contributors to people having babies in the world. It also has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies, and the highest rate of infanticide in the world. All these factors have had a devastating effect on the health and social infrastructure of the country. The health and social infrastructure system of the country is in dire need of immediate attention. The US authorities are trying to make changes in their policies regarding birth tourism by making it hard for pregnant women to access visas to leave the country for childbirths abroad.
The US legislation on birth tourism states that women who give birth outside the country will be refused entry to the country. This goes against international and US law and has resulted in a lot of women being forced into dangerous situations. For example, in March 2021, an American tourist was shot and killed while in Mexico by a cross-border shooting between rival drug gangs. The government has launched a number of policies to prevent women from travelling out of the country to give birth. These include strengthening controls at Mexican border points and encouraging women to go through safe sex programs before getting married.
The US government believes that the introduction of visa rules for women on birth could reduce the rate of illegal migration into the US. If women had easy access to the required visa forms, many of them would have stayed put and not travelled out of the country to give birth. As it is, many women do leave the country to get pregnant. In such a scenario, tightening the visa norms will discourage women from travelling outside the country for their births.
The rules on pregnant women are currently in a testing period, and the Department of Homeland Security is likely to tweak them before they are implemented fully. While no formal announcement has been made, the current rules that apply to spouses are likely to continue. For example, the spouse applying for the visa must have valid work permits. The main reason behind this is that if the spouse’s visa application is rejected, the spouse will be forced to leave the United States immediately and cannot get another visa for five years. While the policy is intended to reduce illegal migration, it will also indirectly help curb human trafficking.
A study by the Migration Policy Institute at the University of New York estimated that 4.6 percent of the women born in the US but eligible for US birth tourism were illegally accessed via Mexico border crossings between 2021. The majority of these women (nearly 80 percent) were US citizens who overstayed their visa or did not apply for one at all. Undoubtedly, a relaxation of visa requirements for pregnant women will help reduce the rate of overstaying and allow many more women the opportunity to enjoy birth tourism in Mexico.
The Obama administration continues to face criticism from congressional Republicans and some within the United States immigration community. One argument against relaxed rules on visas for pregnancy is that it is a waste of government money given that the United States only spends about four percent of its Gross Domestic Product on immigration. Another worry among American citizens is that the rules are so strict that it could deny US citizens the opportunity to visit another country whose government shares the same values as we do. Finally, some worry that the rules could create a de facto ban on travel to Mexico among US citizens. These concerns are all legitimate.


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By Lee A. Daniels
Before assuming the presidency in 1960, John F. Kennedy barely paid attention to any Black American beyond his valet, and he intended to follow that approach during the first four of what he expected would be his eight years in office.
As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the land, he tried mightily to keep it from wrecking his mutually wary relationship with a Congress dominated by the Democrats’ Southern segregationist bloc and their Republican allies. Even as late as the August 1963 March on Washington, two months after he had proposed the legislation that became the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he tried to, first, dissuade the civil rights leadership from staging it, and then, to limit its scope.
Yet, ordinary Black Americans never stinted in their support of him – he had won more than 70 percent of the Black vote in November 1960 – and shared the profound grief that transfixed most Americans that November day at the crack of the assassin’s rifle shot.
But Black Americans’ sorrow was suffused by an even deeper anguish because from the bright beginning of his presidency to its violent end, John F. Kennedy was Black America’s Great White Hope.
In our era of extraordinary cynicism about what politics can achieve, it may be impossible for some not alive then to understand the faith Black Americans invested in the nation’s 35th president.
Like millions of White Americans, Blacks, too, were inspired by Kennedy’s image of youthful vigor, and his promises that, after the political and cultural blandness of the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, he would “get the country moving again.”
Millions of Americans were eager to believe those words had meaning.They were buoyed by the unprecedented prosperity of postwar American society; and by the sense, which JFK himself embodied, that it was time for the young men who had come of age during World War II and had fought in it to lead (At 43, he was the youngest president in American history). Like their fellow Americans, Blacks, too, were captivated by the cool charisma of this handsome, fabulously wealthy, Irish-Catholic American and his strikingly photogenic wife.
Furthermore, Black Americans drew a special meaning from JFK’s promise to lead America to a “New Frontier.” For Blacks themselves, six years past the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown school desegregation decision, had already gathered their forces on the boundary of a new racial frontier, ready to fully unleash the tactic of nonviolence protest to challenge the brutal regime of Jim Crow all across the South and the rest of America.
It was no accident that a month after Kennedy announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, four students from the historically Black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College (now university) launched the famous Greensboro sit-in to protest lunch-counter discrimination at the city’s downtown department store.
Nor that less than two weeks after JFK’s inauguration in January 1961, activists began the Freedom Rides through the South that told America and the world civil rights for Black Americans was going to be at the top of the American agenda. They, in fact, were already acting on the idealistic sense of purpose that had characterized Kennedy’s inaugural address.
Those two incidents underscore several larger points about the relationship between John F. Kennedy and Black America in the early 1960s.
One was that they liked him. But they also used his rhetoric about freedom as well as early waffling on civil rights to intensify their determination to get the rights the political system owed them.
They understood that Kennedy’s initial personal and political dislike of civil rights activism accurately reflected that of the overwhelming majority of Whites outside the South, too. It was the Movement’s task to compel them to recognize what was at stake, and to right the wrongs. The words of that Movement anthem—ain’t gonna let nobody turn me ‘round … gonna keep on a-walking, keep on a-talking, marching down to freedomland!—were meant not only for the Southern segregationists but for John F. Kennedy and other White “bystanders,” too.
And finally, there was one more thing that cemented the place of John F. Kennedy in the pantheon of African-American heroes: his murder at the very moment he had fully committed his administration to the Black freedom struggle. Horrific violence and a sense of tragedy had not only always shadowed Blacks’ quest for civil rights in America; it had shadowed their everyday existence. Now, that evil force had struck down the personification of American power, the 35th president of the United States – and Black America’s Great White Hope.
The irony is that in the sorrowful days of late November 1963, almost no one expected that JFK’s successor – the Texan, Lyndon Baines Johnson – would, for Black Americans, become an even greater benefactor.
Lee A. Daniels is a longtime journalist based in New York City. His latest book is Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America.

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Once again, comedian Amy Schumer has earned her reputation for pushing the envelope by making out with a fellow lady -- but it wasn't even her idea this time.
Nope, the credit actually goes to Tina Fey, who presented the prestigious Peabody Award to Schumer for her work on "Inside Amy Schumer" last night (May 31) in Manhattan. And, yes, she did it for the lulz.
"I really wanted to come down here tonight, and in a Madonna kind of way try to like feed off of her youth and maybe suck her soul out in a very awkward, staged lesbian kiss," Fey told the audience. "But when I pitched that idea to Amy's camp, they came back with such an immediate yes that it kind of grossed me out."
That didn't stop the two from pulling out all the stops anyway with an intense, passionate kiss together:
Okay but, like, REALLY intense:
Fey also had wonderful things to say about the show's ability to be edgy and pro-feminist at the same time (yes, it CAN be done!), which Amy acknowledged when she took the mic to accept the award.
"We thought we were making this secret feminist show and people weren't going to catch on what we were doing," Schumer said, "and they caught on very quickly and we're so glad that they did."
Of course, Tina's not the first female celebrity to share a smooch with Amy Schumer. At the MTV Movie Awards in April, she also locked lips with Amber Rose for the Revlon Kiss Cam:
This also isn't the first time the two comedic actresses have worked together -- the "Mean Girls" writer recently joined Schumer, along with Julia Louis Dreyfus and Patricia Arquette, for a sketch about the way that Hollywood deals with aging female actresses called "Last F--kable Day" (NSFW for language, obviously):

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Subject: Re: [boost] [system][filesystem v3] Question about error_code arguments
From: Detlef Vollmann (dv_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-30 21:53:22
Stewart, Robert wrote:
> Detlef Vollmann wrote:
>> Stewart, Robert wrote:
>>> >From a debugging perspective, the exception will be thrown
>>>> at the wrong point.
>> What you would probably throw is not the original exception,
>> but an exception objects of some type like 'unhandled_error'
>> that has inside the original exception data.
> That's fine, but then an exception isn't thrown at the point where the error was detected, so the stack frame giving context for the error is lost.
From a pedantic point of view I could argue that the exception
is that the error wasn't handled, and the context of that exception
would be preserved. But I admit that the really interesting thing
is where the original error occurred, and that is lost.
But if we're talking about system calls (and this is what I'm talking
about), then the exception would only be thrown at the point of the
system call anyway. So if the system call returns a 'poisoned'
error object that (possibly) throws at destruction, that shouldn't
be far from the failing system call, so you don't loose much of
>> For a lot of system level calls, you could get quite a number
>> of different error codes. Some of them are not really exceptional
>> errors (e.g. EAGAIN) in a lot of contexts. But it's up to
>> the application what error codes represent exceptional
>> errors and which don't.
> That's an interesting notion. I'm sure those in this discussion that want exceptions in all cases would expect different exception types to represent some of the types of errors that can occur. Your approach will collapse them into a single type.
Separate exception objects are the old times.
Now we have exceptions like regex_error, future_error or system_error,
whose sole purpose is to wrap a lot of different errors into one
>> So the call would be something like 'device.read(error_object, ...)'
>> and error_object would have member functions to query for error codes,
>> and the destructor would throw, if error_object would contain an error
>> code that was not queried for.
> One must check for each possible error individually in order to avoid an exception? That doesn't seem beneficial. There are many cases in which one wants to check for specific errors to handle locally and to throw an exception for the rest or just return a failure indication -- perhaps after logging the problem. Thus, there should be a means to simply query generally for failure and have that prevent throwing an exception.
The idea is that you check for things that are not exceptional, and for
everything else an error is thrown.
But of course there would also be an equivalent for
> Ideally, what we want is a compile-time failure if the error_code isn't checked. After all, the point is that we want to be sure that the caller gets an exception or checks for failure.
No, only non-exceptional "errors" should be checked, all others throw
Especially in system level code, it's really the application that
defines what errors are exceptional and what "errors" are to be
> ~error_code() could test for a pending exception before throwing an exception. If there is a pending exception, that means the stack is being unwound and the error_code shouldn't aggravate the situation by throwing its own. Otherwise, it can throw in its destructor, right?
In theory, yes. But that would violate a lot of exception safety
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The state-run Achievement School District has hired two public relations firms to bolster its community outreach and communication work in its efforts to turn around Tennessee’s lowest-performing schools, officials confirmed Tuesday.
Pique PR in Memphis and Crisp Communications in Nashville began working with the district during the summer. Pique has worked with Memphis city agencies and charter schools. Crisp has counted several state agencies among its clients.
The additional support comes as the district enters its fourth year of school operations and begins a new round of discussions with communities anchored by struggling schools that are eligible for state intervention. (See our list of priority schools in Memphis and Nashville that are eligible, and no longer eligible.)
“Although we are a statewide school district, we have only one communications staff professional, so we are utilizing private grant dollars to help bring a little extra support,” ASD spokeswoman Letita Aaron said in an email. “We want to make sure we’re getting great information to those who need it, especially parents. Both firms provide a range of communications services to help us do so, from communications strategy development to graphics support to event planning.”
Both firms have contracts for up to five months, with the option to extend their work based on the district’s needs.
The ASD isn’t the first district to turn to a public relations firm to assist with communication strategies. Shelby County Schools, which has an in-house communications department of four people, works with Memphis-based KQ Communications, mostly for projects related to the district’s teacher effectiveness initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
ASD officials have emphasized a desire to improve communication with families whose children attend priority schools eligible for state intervention.
The state district has authority to wrest control of Tennessee’s worst-performing schools from their local districts and assign them to charter operators in an effort to turn them around. The selection and conversion process often has been contentious in the schools and their neighborhoods, and the ASD rolled out a revised strategy in July designed to improve the community engagement and school matching process.
The Achievement School District currently oversees 27 schools in Memphis and two in Nashville.


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Rebel Wilson didn't always look like the glamorous movie star she is today.
The How to Be Single star stopped by NBC's Late Night Monday, where she told Seth Meyers about her show business beginnings. "A lot of people look at me and think I'm stupid, but no. I graduated from a school that's kind of like the Harvard of Australia," she said. "By second year I was already on TV, and I was famous for playing this gang girl who was like real gangsta...and then people would see me at law school, and I'd try to pretend to be studious. I'd wear glasses and, like, try to write notes and stuff. People would be like, 'Is that...?' It would just confuse the hell out of people. They're like, 'How did she get in here? Shouldn't somebody kick her out?'"
Wilson graduated with degrees in law and arts from the University of New South Wales in 2009. "I have never practiced—like defended any real criminals—but I feel like it could be really funny if I did. I could make jokes," she said. "The jury would really like me. I could get anybody off, I think."
Two years out of college, Wilson booked a breakout role in Bridesmaids. She starred in a short-lived series for ABC, Super Fun Night, and continued to appear on the big screen in films like Pitch Perfect, Pain & Gain, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb and Pitch Perfect 2. In a way, Wilson can't believe she booked such high-profile roles, given how she looks in her first headshot.
"You went to the Harvard of Australia and you thought this was OK?" Meyers asked.

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|Comet CNC Mill|
|In the Metal Shop.|
The Comet Mill is a CNC vertical mill in the Metal Shop. It is currently being repaired and refurbished.
The Comet mill is a Mighty MV-5 Mill. It consists of a Comet XT Mill, an Autocon Dynapath 50M controller, a Kurt PowerLock drawbar, and various modifications made by Mighty USA to incorporate ballscrews, servos, a control pedestal, and a control cabinet into the package.
Chorca (@Chorca on slack) is currently in the process of refurbishing this machine into a usable tool. Currently the controller is up and running and seems to be working properly after the replacement of two encoders on the servo motors. Coolant is non-operational. The front Y axis way-cover needs to be fixed, it is just a rubber mat at the moment. One vise is currently installed and trammed, and has aluminum jaws in it. The other needs to be mounted; Chorca will be making more t-slot nuts to install this onto the machine (or if someone wants to buy some and put it on, that's cool too). The monitor is just an LCD inside the box, @Circuit was working on producing a new front panel for the unit to handle an LCD screen while retaining the mounting ability of the keyboards and buttons. We probably need a postprocessor for Fusion 360 to talk to it. The mill is using a Dynapath 50M, but posts for the 40M, 50M, and 60M will probably work fine. Below that, there are different features and G-Codes and they may need modifications to work with our machine. The appendixes in the back of the Dynapath Manual has the accepted codes and formats needed to write a post.
Please contact @Chorca with any questions.
- Motor: 5HP (30 min), 3.75HP (continuous)
- Motor RPM: 1720 RPM
- Speeds: Low gear: 94 - 580 RPM, High gear: 760 - 4700 RPM
- Taper: CAT 40
- Quill Travel: 5"
- Size: 42 x 13"
- T-Slot: 5/8", 4 slots, 2.5" pitch
- Max Load: 1500LB
- Max Travel:
- Travel Speed: 250IPM
- Servo: MTS3OU4-42 40in-lb
- Gross Wt: 6400LB
- Power Supply: 220/440V 60Hz 3PH
The mill uses an Autocon Dynapath 50M controller. This is an early CNC control system that uses a simple PC-based backplane combined with ISA cards that handle PLC and servo control. It is a 486 PC with 4MB of RAM, a 500MB HDD, and three ISA cards that comprise the machine control section. There is also an ISA VGA card used to provide display.
The control panel is able to be swung in and out; make sure it is out away from the bed before you start moving the bed around. The panel consists of a few buttons at the bottom, a keyboard to the right of the display, and a few soft buttons below the display.
The control can be programmed in its inbuilt conversational language, or externally via a serial port with CAM software.
There are controls below the screen for the machine's motion.
Buttons on the panel
(Left to right, top to bottom)
- Handwheel - Or MPG wheel, this is a wheel used on the Jog screen while moving the selected axis by .001" or .0001" increments.
- Spindle - This switch allows turning the spindle on in the CCW or CW directions, off, or in automatic mode (controlled by the programming)
- Feedrate Override - This knob allows controlling the speed at which the axis motion occurs. It allows overriding to slow (or stop when turned fully CCW until a click is heard/felt) or speed up the cut and rapid/travel rate. Important to use this while testing programs.
- Tool Change Required - This lamp-only indicator is illuminated when an M06 - Tool Change command is executed in the software. It instructs the operator to change to the indicated tool. Pressing Cycle Start when the tool change is complete will continue the program.
- Cycle Start - This is the go button on the panel. It commands the control to start or resume executing a program, sequence, command, etc. It lights up green when axis motion is occurring.
- X/Y/Z - These jog dials allow for constant feed of the indicated axis when in the Slow, Fast, Rapid, or incremental jog modes. The speed is overridden by the Feedrate Override knob.
- Coolant - Flood coolant is not currently connected, leave this set to Off
- Retract - This button is for use in certain operations such as drilling or tapping. It will retract the cutter out of the hole for inspection or in case of breakage or other issue.
- Motion Stop - This is similar to the Feed Hold button on other machines. it will stop motion but usually it can be resumed by pressing Cycle Start above. It illuminates when a motion stop has occurred in the program or when initiated by the operator.
- Emergency Stop - This button stops all motion including spindle and servos. It disables power to the servo drive motors and the spindle motor, and also any other motors such as coolant and oil pumps.
Keyboard to the right
The keyboard consists of a sequential alphabet, followed by an Event Type button, four large buttons below, and a numeric keypad with -, . Enter and Clear buttons. At the bottom there is an Inc and a Mode Select button.
The Mode Select button is one of the most important, it allows you to change between modes in the user interface. The Reset button at the bottom is very important also, it allows you to recover from an error or emergency-stop button press, to start the machine after power on, and clear any errors from programming after they have occurred. It also allows stopping the program after a Motion Stop button press, resetting the program back to the beginning.
Mode TM1 should always be enabled on the 5 - Set Up page. This allows the Feedrate Override knob to also control rapid events and will help allow sufficient time to identify and prevent programming errors when running a program for the first time or testing an event. If it's not set, press Mode Select, then 5 to get into the setup screen. Then press T-M-1 and press Enter. TM2 may be used when trying to verify X/Y programming without actually performing cuts by disabling the Z axis. This will also disable the motion in Jog mode, so keep that in mind if Z is not moving but the numbers on the display are changing, verify TM2 is not set.
Parameters must be entered by typing the first letter of the axis or preceding letter on the setting to be set. For the tool tables, you would set Diameter 5 by pressing D005 Enter followed by X .5902 Enter. If you don't press X, the input will be invalid.
The control supports drip feeding via serial port. Refer to the manual for how to enable this.
- The Mighty website.


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3. Be True to Yourself
Remember Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? It wasn’t that long ago that the LGBT community was forced to hide their true selves from the world. And now Caitlyn Jenner is gracing the cover of Vanity Fair in all her gorgeous corseted glory!
Respect goes right along with tolerance. GP is all about respecting others’ choices and respecting yourself enough to stand behind your own.


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The Shape of Mercy
by Susan Meissner
- Places: United States of America
- Language: english
- Characters: Mercy Hayworth, Abigail Boyles, Lauren Dorough, Clarrisa, Raul
- Release date: September 16, 2008
- Awards: ECPA Christian Book Award for Fiction (2009), RITA Award by Romance Writers of America Nominee for Novel with Strong Romantic Elements (2009), ACFW Carol Award (2009)
- Publisher: Waterbrook Press
- ISBN: 9781400074563 (1400074568)
- Format: paperback, 307 pages
- Author: Susan Meissner
- Genres: fiction, christian, historical, contemporary, adult, romance
About The Book
“We understand what we want to understand.”
Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, Lauren Durough breaks with convention and her family’s expectations by choosing a state college over Stanford and earning her own income over accepting her ample monthly allowance. She takes a part-time job from 83-year-old librarian Abigail Boyles, who asks Lauren to transcribe the journal entries of her ancestor Mercy Hayworth, a victim of the Salem witch trials.
Almost immediately, Lauren finds herself drawn to this girl who lived and died four centuries ago. As the fervor around the witch accusations increases, Mercy becomes trapped in the worldview of the day, unable to fight the overwhelming influence of snap judgments and superstition, and Lauren realizes that the secrets of Mercy’s story extend beyond the pages of her diary, living on in the mysterious, embittered Abigail.
The strength of her affinity with Mercy forces Lauren to take a startling new look at her own life, including her relationships with Abigail, her college roommate, and a young man named Raul. But on the way to the truth, will Lauren find herself playing the helpless defendant or the misguided judge? Can she break free from her own perceptions and see who she really is?
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American Samoa Government employees have not yet received pay increments for the past two fiscal years despite money being budgeted.
Budget director Cathy Saelua told hearings for the proposed Fiscal Year 2015 budget that annual increments are still frozen under order of the governor.
But lawmakers were surprised that the proposed budget lists the current salaries of directors to be higher than what was approved in the previous budget.
Senator Laolagi Vaeao, who is the co-chairman of the joint budget hearings, said salaries which were only $US60,000 are listed at $US65,000 and some salaries have jumped to $US75,000.
The budget director explained that Governor Lolo requested that salary increases of $US5,000 for directors be included in this year's budget.
The governor will be evaluating directors in September and they will only receive the increases if they pass their evaluation.


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The peeping tom rom-com ‘How To Meet Girls From A Distance’ is a funny and heartwarming film that looks at how far we go for a crush. Premiering in Wellington as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival, How To Meet Girls From A Distance tells the story of Toby. Trying to win the heart of the beautiful Phoebe, he is determined to become the man of her dreams.
A small-town crim finds an ancient Chinese time-travel device that can help him pull off a heist and start a new life-but he may not survive the consequences of tampering with time. The Castle meets Looper, Mega Time Squad is a study in high-meets-low, combining elements of the sci-fi, the crime thriller and the comedy to make a comedy heist film with a time-traveling twist.


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In the summertime, Oslo Royal Palce is opened to the public as King Harald and Queen Sonja exchange residences for the royal farm at Bygdøy right on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital. From late June until mid-August the Palace can be visited. All visitors follow a guided tour which takes guests through some of the Palace’s most important representation rooms.
The visit includes a look inside the Council Chamber, where the King meets the Government as well as the Great Dining Room where a dinner can be served to 220 guests, and the Palace’s finest guest room, the King Haakon Suite, to mention some of the rooms. For the first time since the castle was opened to the public, visitors can this year see a new room in the palace.
The White Salon has been restored and will now be open to the public in the summertime. When the castle was completed in 1849, the White Salon was the Queen’s audience room. The room in white and gold was the Castle’s most expensive, in relation to its size.
The salon was completed for the state visit from the Netherlands in November last year, when it was used for gift exchange. The White Salon was also where that the official photos of Princess Ingrid Alexandra were taken on the occasion of her 18th birthday.
The room now looks like it did when it was originally finished. In the past, the room has had different purposes but had been left untouched for some time. By order of King Harald and under the direction of Queen Sonja, the room is now again incredibly beautiful.
The special project started in the Palace’s historical archive. Together with the Norwegian National Heritage Board, curators at the Royal Court, art historians and other skilled craftspeople worked on the room so that it was restored according to the original plans and drawings of castle architect Hans Ditlev Franciscus von Linstow.