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Kate Middleton, Britain’s Princess of Wales, turned heads at a special coronation reception for world leaders and royals on Friday night, bringing “Hollywood” glamour to the ornate setting of Buckingham Palace, according to a leading royal fashion expert.
Kate attended the evening reception at the palace hosted by King Charles to welcome world leaders and other high profile guests who have travelled to Britain for his coronation on Saturday.
Among the invited guests were First Lady Jill Biden, who is representing the U.S. at the celebrations, and Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska.
For the occasion Kate created a striking impression in a vintage silhouetted blue evening dress accessorised with diamante embellishments and a pair of royal heirloom diamond and sapphire earrings.
The overall look is notable for its modern twist for the usually conservative princess, celebrity stylist and royal fashion expert, Miranda Holder, told Newsweek.
“Princess Kate’s star shone very brightly last night, as she simply dazzled at the coronation reception,” she said.
“Kate wore a new cobalt blue, fashion-forward dress by contemporary brand Self-Portrait. The figure-hugging shape with ruching at the hip, together with a twisted knot at the neck and 80’s-inspired built-up shoulders was a change of direction from Kate’s usual, more classic aesthetic, which made a refreshing change but an interesting choice for the tone of the evening.”
This is not the first time that Kate has looked to the British ready-to-wear brand Self-Portrait for fashion inspiration. The princess has worn a number of their designs over the course of her marriage, including a mint-green diaphanous day dress worn in the Bahamas during her 2022 tour of the Caribbean with Prince William.
Sister-in-law, Meghan Markle is also a fan of Self-Portrait. During her time as a working royal she wore a number of dresses from the designer, including a striking red example showcased on a visit to the island of Tonga with Prince Harry in 2018.
Kate has increasingly looked to updated takes on 1980s styles and silhouettes for her royal event dressing over the past 12-months. A designer she wore increasingly in 2022 was Alessandra Rich, known for taking inspiration from the style of powerful women from the past—included among them is Kate’s mother-in-law, the late Princess Diana.
Kate elevated her look on Friday with a new twist on her famous free flowing hair-style. According to Holder this showed the princess dressing more for her age rather than for her senior and elevated status as the second most senior female royal.
“Kate styled her hair differently, wearing it in a new way, swept to the side and tumbling down her shoulders in glamorous Hollywood waves,” she said. “The result was nothing short of breathtaking, and most notably – Kate looked considerably younger and more contemporary – dressing for her age, rather than solely for her role as our future queen.”
Kate’s side-swept hairstyle highlighted an important pair of royal heirloom earrings she selected for the occasion, formerly belonging to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
The diamond and sapphire drop earrings feature small fringes of diamonds that sparkle as the wearer moves. The style of the earrings and the stones used compliment another of the princess’ inherited jewels, her famous engagement ring which was formerly worn by Princess Diana.
For shoes, Kate opted for her second pair of Aquazzura heels of the day. Previously in the day, the royal debuted a new pair of black “bow tie” style heels which are a favourite of her sister-in-law, Meghan Markle’s.
For the evening reception, Kate selected a pair of the label’s “Love Link” slingback high heels in a royal blue silk with crystal linked embellishment on the heel strap. The princess first wore this pair in 2022 for the annual Garter Day ceremony at Windsor Castle.
Following the event at Buckingham Palace on Friday, Kensington Palace released an official portrait of Kate together with Jill Biden and Olena Zelenska.
Kate and Zelenska have met on a number of occasions before. At the time of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral in 2022, the princess officially welcomed the First Lady to London in a meeting at Buckingham Palace.
James Crawford-Smith is Newsweek’s royal reporter, based in London. You can find him on Twitter at @jrcrawfordsmith and read his stories on Newsweek‘s The Royals Facebook page.
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Cal April tax revenues crashing
So much for the hope that the “recovery” would raise revenues and lessen the $20 billion state budget deficit. This just in:
Income tax revenues are lagging far behind projections with just five days to go until the end of what is typically California’s highest-grossing month.
The state took in about $574.5 million in personal income tax receipts Friday, boosting the month’s running total to $5.2 billion.
That means the state has a ways to go to meet Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s projection that California would bank $10.2 billion in income tax revenues this month. Income tax revenues accounted for 51 percent of state General Fund revenues in 2008-09.
California had collected $2.7 billion more in total revenues than projected through March, so the state entered the month with a bit of a cushion. But that may be evaporating.
Say, weren’t the 2009 tax increases supposed to increase revenues and solve the deficit problem? Instead, it’s obvious that Max-Tax Arnold is chasing more and more businesses and families out of the state, so they no longer fork over record high amounts to him and his greedy mechanical Terminator claws.
It’s just going to get worse, leaving a massive mess for whatever masochist voters plop on the governor’s throne in November.
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EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY WINNER STOPS PLAYWhen Margaret Loughrey won a £27m EuroMillions jackpot, she promised to use her winnings to help people. However local bowls players and cricketers in Sion Mills might not agree with her.Margaret Loughrey, 49, from Dunbane, was unemployed when she won the EuroMillions jackpot last December. She purchased the Sion Mills site for around £1m and has planned a multi-million refurbishment turning it into a tourist attraction and creating plenty of jobs for the local community. Part of that purchase also saw her acquire the local cricket pitch and bowling green.The village’s bowlers have been banned from using their green after they were accused of disrespecting the lottery winner. The EuroMillions lottery winner says: “I was up there one night with a friend and the attitude from the bowler’s wasn’t great. One of them said to me: ‘What are you doing here?’ I just thought ‘Where are the manners?’”The local cricket team are also upset after they were locked out of their ground. As a result the team has had to forfeit two home games. That meant them being unable to hold a fixture for the first time in their 150-year history.A spokesperson for Sion Mills Cricket Club this week emphasised that the club remains “dumbfounded” as to why the prohibitions are now in place. “She has swung the axe and this time it’s across all generations,” the spokesperson said. “This isn’t good for anyone in Sion and it’s not good for the clubs.The club is the oldest and most successful cricket club in the north west of Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1864, under the patronage of the Herdman family, the former mill owners. Forty-five years ago the ground was the venue for the famous match when Ireland beat the West Indies. The Under-11 boys team have also had to forfeit games.Both clubs hope to be able to sit down with Ms Loughrey in the coming weeks to try and come to a solution to the problem. Not that she seems to be all that keen, saying: “It’s down the line, and it’s something I can deal with later.”Next jackpot in the EuroMillions draw that will take place on Tuesday September 16th is an estimated £73 million. Don’t miss this chance and play online with us at Lottery24.com.

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Charcon has supplied approximately 3,500m2 of hard landscaping materials to the Trafalgar Place residential project in Elephant & Castle. The development has been hailed by The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson MP for its ‘design innovation and longevity.’
The project is part of a £1.5 billion regeneration scheme taking place across 28 acres of London.
The latest development has seen an office block converted into 235 homes, in which Charcon was consulted to recommend appropriate hard landscaping materials which would establish a relationship between the green spaces of the private communal and public areas, to the adjacent buildings and edges.
Architects dRMM specified 1,840m2 of Charcon’s Andover Textured flag and block paving in a three colour blend of Midnight Grey, Silver Grey and Light Grey. The paving was laid in five different block sizes throughout the areas main tree-lined avenues.
Charcon also supplied 1,050m2 of Appalachian flag paving in Leemoor Ground. Incorporating up to 60% recycled and reclaimed materials, the paving was used for an upper private courtyard podium.
The hard landscaping experts also created a bespoke 250m2 of ‘Special’ Appalachian Leemoor for the project. Charcon’s specialists used a double process prior to sandblasting to expose a greater amount of aggregate, to produce a polished finish that created a distinctive contrast of textures within the courtyard.
100 linear metres of Natural Granite kerbs and radii in Silver Grey were used to create features throughout the development, and 240m2 of Europa block paving in Brindle was laid in the heavy-use pedestrianised areas.
Trafalgar Place has won several awards including the Mayor’s Award for Planning Excellence and Best New Place to Live at the London Planning Awards 2016.
Architects dRMM collaborated with landscape architect Grant Associates on planning the project, which was managed by developer Lendlease. Landscape architecture company Randle Siddeley was invited to complete the detailed landscape design.
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Joel Soisson’s biography reads like a list of everything people watched and rented in the 80s and 90s, including Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Phantoms, Pulse, Trick or Treat, The Supernaturals, The Prophecy and so many more.
With the release of his new film, My Best Worst Adventure, we had the amazing opportunity to discuss Mr. Soisson’s career. We’re incredibly indebted to him for his time and energy. Please check out his new film on Amazon, Comcast, FandangoNow, Vudu, Verizon Cable, Overdrive, Vimeo and more right now.
B&S About Movies: Tell us all about My Best Worst Adventure.
Joel Soisson: I was looking for something that had a little bit more heart and substance than a lot of the genre stuff that I’ve been doing for quite some time. I wanted to find a sort of a vehicle that would allow me to scratch that itch, but I didn’t want to get so far from my sort of horror/action/suspensive roots that it got soft.
When I was actually shooting a little horror-thriller in Bangkok, I met the producer there and started talking to her about her own life in Northern Thailand and growing up with this crazy sport called buffalo racing, which you know from seeing the movie is kind of insane. I mean, kids riding stampeding buffaloes!
That was kind of my way into the story, it’s like I want to do an alien kid on an alien planet, someone who lands in the middle of this place where it’s scary and exasperating and predatory and completely outside of their frame of reference. And she’s got to survive. In the middle of that, she has her sort of coming of age.
B&S: It is an alien place. And one not often explored in a western-made film.
Joel: Oh, it isn’t! And the parts that are, are kind of like The Hangover 3 aspects of Thailand. The glitz and the seamy underbelly of Bangkok. But there’s also this whole other side to Thailand that is ancient and spiritual and just super fascinating, especially from somebody from a culture like ours where you just don’t share a lot in the same experiences. But it does turn out that we share a lot of the same values and that’s sort of one of the discoveries that the lead character makes.
B&S: People are still put off by foreign countries and say, “It’s so strange.” Yes! It’s foreign. Celebrate that there is a different place outside of your experience.
Joel: I wasn’t trying to make necessarily a timely movie, but this is such a factionalized divided country in a divided world. At some point, the divisions kind of melt away and you have to look at what drives people. And to me, it’s bonding between people and family and the desire to do well by one another.
There are moments of abuse and bullying in the film. There are these traumas, but even with the perpetrators of these acts, I wanted to find their hearts. Is there some merit in their lives? Can they ultimately come around? Because this film does not have a conventional bad guy and so much of my career has been based around defining the bad guy and allowing him to pillage and plunder and behead people for 65 minutes until he gets his in the end. And then we say, “OK! We’re satisfied. We for our revenge!” (laughs)
B&S: It struck me as anything but a traditional Hollywood coming of age movie.
Joel: I think that’s because it is real. It’s not biographical per se but it was based on real experiences that this producer had. And so it informs the whole story. There was the challenge of animals, children, language and culture, but I felt like I had her on my side guiding me. What was legitimately Thai? What was her experience? And when I became my crass Hollywood self, she was never shy to point out that I was falling back on my old Hollywood tropes.
B&S: So I went a little crazy researching your career and you’ve worked on a lot of movies that I’m quite frankly obsessed about. You said that you’ve worked in every role there is, well, here’s your first credit and you were the boom operator on David Hess’ To All a Good Night.
Joel: Wow. (laughs) Yes, yes. Okay. Obviously, you’re on the level. Wow, I’m glad that I have an audience for some of the things that I thought just slipped away in the anonymity — whether deserved or not.
B&S: I may have watched it more than a few times. I mean, Harry Reems shows up in it.
Joel: So what did you think of my sound mixing? (laughs) At least the boom doesn’t show up in the movie! When I was hired, I had no skills whatsoever except that was six foot three, so they figured, “Okay he can keep that thing out of the way.”
This is a first for me because I’ve never been asked about To All A Goodnight. I’m just like having a little bit of PTSD, so you’ll have to forgive me. All of the cast and crew were put up in the same house, there was no money whatsoever and it was just bedlam. And somehow, something comes out of that kind of thing. I guess it’s watchable!
B&S: I mean, look at the conditions of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Joel: I’ve actually only quit a film once in my career and it was during the same period I was booming. I want to say that the title was Operation Overkill and it was shot in Reno. The production manager had this brilliant idea to take all of the catering money and half the production budget and run over to the casino and see if he could double it and have us actually have a credible budget.
It did not go down that way.
Rather than return to the seat of the set, he just took off because, you know, he had failed us. Basically, we are now getting no money and no food. And that was the killer. Right there, I said that I was done with this film. If my book comes out about the art of making movies, it’s going to be titled Make the Food Good.
B&S: Another early film in your career was Superstition and it’s another movie that I’m kind of fascinated with because — you can tell it wants to be Suspiria — but it also feels like it outright hates its characters.
Joel: It also outright hated the people who paid to watch it!
Full disclosure: I don’t know if I’ve ever actually seen either of those films but the memories are still raw after 35 years. I was in the art department on that one. It was another learning experience about what I’m not good at. I was driving the art department van through Los Angeles on Fairfax and there was a light on a pole and I took a corner wrong and scrape! There was just this incredible gouge on the side of this five-ton truck that I had to drive back to the set.
I’d been in the business just a few months and I thought my career was over. How do you get out of that anonymously, like how can you return the truck and get away with it? I didn’t succeed in doing that and had to own up to being the worst hire on the set.
B&S: Which brings us to The Supernaturals. And what a cast this had.
Joel: Doesn’t it? Yeah, again, I wouldn’t say the movie I’m most proud of! There was a guy named Sandy Howard that did probably pound for pound as many films as Roger Corman was doing back in the day. They were cranking those out and anybody that was even remotely in his orbit could wind up producing, writing or even occasionally directing just because he’d have so many movies. He’d look around and say, “Who can do this?”
There was one thought that he gave us to guide the movie. There was an s on the end and it was The Supernaturals, not the Supernatural. So we have to have more than one supernatural.
B&S: There’s an urban legend that Maurice Gibb is in the movie in the Civil War scenes.
Joel: No, but he did some music for it and we dumped the score he wrote! I remember meeting him at the Plaza Hotel which was a trippy experience for me. I’m a wide-eyed 22-year-old film geek and here I am meeting a Bee Gee.
If we could have set the whole Civil War minefield scene to “Stayin’ Alive,” that would have been great. I don’t think he would have gone for it.
B&S: He should have been in it. It would have been an actual good film unlike Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Joel: (laughs) I would love to be compared favorably to Sgt. Pepper’s!
B&S: The movie is a rough watch.
Joel: Aren’t you the guy who likes To All a Goodnight?
COMING UP TOMORROW: Joel gets into some of the 90s films that he’s best known for such as Trick or Treat and The Prophecy.

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In early March, sooner than stay-at-home orders have been issued in Virginia, 14-year-olds Luke Marston and Joshua Nichols hosted about 100 folks at a backyard birthday party of types. However this was once no odd yard blowout. Attendees fanned out throughout 30 websites within the town of Newport Information, together with schoolyards, museum gardens and the sides of public parks, to plant flora and shrubs — for bumblebees.
Pollinators are in hassle. By way of one estimate, some 40% of insect pollinators international are vulnerable to extinction, particularly bees and butterflies. One of the most primary drivers in their decline is the rampant destruction in their herbal habitats.
It’s an issue Luke and Joshua are seeking to assist resolve. The mass planting match was once a part of the teenagers’ plan to construct a 13-mile stretch of pollinator habitats that they name the Bee Byway. Their homegrown effort is one in every of a couple of initiatives going down around the nation to supply pollinating species with the crops they want to continue to exist.
Pollinators are a very powerful for agriculture. Bugs, birds and different species that lift pollen from plant to plant as they forage for meals give a contribution to the manufacturing of greater than a 3rd of the plants grown and eaten all over the world. But publicity to agricultural insecticides threatens the well being of bees and different pollinators, and the growth of huge farms that develop only one or two forms of plants is changing their local habitat and diminishing the plant biodiversity on which they rely.
In the meantime, city and suburban construction are riding additional habitat losses. About 1,000,000 acres of land are take over by way of towns within the U.S. annually. With out meals and safe haven, and struggling well being results from insecticides, pollinators turn into simple pickings for bad parasites.
First woman Michelle Obama identified the disaster in 2015 when she promoted the Million Pollinator Lawn Problem to inspire folks around the nation to plant for pollinators. The mission reached its million-garden purpose in simply 3 years. “It was once a huge effort,” stated Mary Phillips, senior program director on the Nationwide Natural world Federation, who co-founded the mission.
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A bumblebee collects pollen from a blooming tomato plant. Pollinators are important for agriculture and rely on plenty of particular crops for his or her survival.
Now not each and every backyard is easiest for pollinators. Pollinator habitats most often contain plenty of crops which might be local to that individual a part of the rustic. Maximum pollinators have advanced over hundreds of years to have symbiotic relationships with particular crops, defined Mario Padilla, an entomologist researching bumblebees on the Butterfly Pavilion, a nonprofit insect zoo in Denver. Bumblebees, as an example, have advanced a novel means of grabbing onto the central a part of a tomato flower and vibrating their our bodies to dislodge pollen, one thing different pollinators akin to honeybees don’t do. In flip, tomato crops pollinated by way of local bumblebees develop higher and yield extra fruit.
Given the large number of pollinators ― 4,000 species of bees local to the U.S. on my own ― there is not any simple one-size-fits-all method to developing pollinator habitats.
Increasingly more, conservationists and researchers are understanding that pollinator habitats additionally want to be hooked up or close to each and every different to maintain the bugs that depend on them. Simply having one backyard in an remoted yard miles from the following one isn’t sufficient.
“Connectivity is terribly vital as a result of a large number of our pollinating bugs don’t go back and forth very a long way,” Padilla stated.
Honeybees can fly two to a few miles from their nests, he stated. However bumblebees and solitary bees — particularly the hundreds of species that reside underground — most often have a shorter vary through which to hunt out nectar for power, pollen for protein and nesting fabrics like leaves and twigs. The solitary leafcutter bee, as an example, flies handiest inside of a 300-foot radius of its domestic.
Bees’ survival is dependent upon having abundant plant life and nesting subject matter of the proper varieties inside of flying distance, stated Phillips.
That’s what motivated Joshua and Luke to get a hold of the Bee Byway as a part of their access in a STEM finding out festival known as the FIRST LEGO League.
Buddies since they have been 6, Joshua and Luke have participated within the festival since 2013. They were given within the plight of pollinators a couple of years in the past when this system’s analysis mission part was once in keeping with the theme “Animal Allies.”
The problem was once to “select an issue with an animal that is helping people,” Luke recalled. “And we selected bumblebees.”
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Luke Marston (left) and Joshua Nichols are rallying their neighbors in Newport Information, Virginia, to make the town extra liveable for bees and different pollinators.
To struggle habitat loss, the duo designed kits that they name Bees in a Field — cedar wooden bins with one compartment for bumblebees to nest in and some other for rising flowering crops to feed the population. However the kits had some issues. They have been dear, costing about $100 each and every, and may just handiest toughen bee colonies for 12 months, till new queens left to mate and determine colonies in different places. They couldn’t do the task on their very own.
For the theory to paintings, the 2 discovered, the bins would need to be in “your backyard, your neighbor’s backyard, your neighbor’s neighbor’s backyard,” Luke stated. “But when it’s simply your backyard, they simply all die out.”
So, when this 12 months’s FIRST LEGO League festival introduced a analysis mission theme of “Town Shapers,” Luke and Joshua noticed a possibility to strengthen their bee-saving technique by way of ditching the bins and as a substitute making a string of pollinator-friendly areas all the way through Newport Information.
“We’ve been truly enthusiastic about bees and the way we’d paintings on them these kind of years,” Joshua stated. “And we have been truly excited to have this chance to proceed running this 12 months.”
The 2 first recognized current public areas in Newport Information which may be used as pollinator habitat and labored with town officers to get permission to plant on public land akin to parks and faculties.
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A honeybee flies to a barren region gold peach flower. Many American citizens select pollinator-friendly crops for his or her gardens.
“Then we discovered there are nonetheless some gaps between the ones public websites,” Luke stated. The websites had to be not more than one-third of a mile aside to be sure that employee bees may just carry meals again to their queen. So the teenagers regarded for puts that might attach the ones dots, increasing to privately owned areas akin to church buildings and universities. “After all, we reached out to householders to look in the event that they have been keen on planting in their very own backyard,” Joshua concluded. The outcome was once a plan for the 97-site, 13-mile-long Bee Byway.
The Bee Byway is an instance of the way towns and suburban spaces that encroach on wild pollinator habitats can in finding efficient answers for development them again up.
“Although you reside in a town, when you’ve got a balcony the place you’ll plant flora, that issues,” stated Tony Landretti, CEO of Colorado honey corporate Native Hive, which provides away wildflower seeds to shoppers, outlets or any person else who desires to plant their very own pollinator backyard.
Over the past 3 years, 1 in Four American adults have decided on crops for his or her gardens with pollinators in thoughts, in step with the 2020 Nationwide Gardening Survey.
The Nationwide Natural world Federation designates gardens that supply pollinators with meals, water and nesting wishes as Qualified Natural world Habitat gardens — a part of the Lawn for Natural world program that Phillips leads. She stated there was a 46% build up in habitat backyard certifications this 12 months in comparison to 2019, a bounce she attributes to folks staying domestic as a result of COVID-19.
Lately, to inspire connectivity between gardens, this system has begun spotting neighborhoods with clusters of qualified habitat gardens as Group Natural world Habitats. So far, there are about 240 such communities within the U.S., with many extra anticipated.
For any person hoping to assist pollinators, Phillips recommends planting a minimum of 3 forms of crops ― a flower, a shrub and a tree ― with overlapping seasons, so there are blooms all the way through the spring, summer season and fall. The Nationwide Natural world Federation has a web-based instrument to assist householders choose crops which might be recommended to butterflies and moths local to their space. Phillips is these days running so as to add plant suggestions for bees.
Joshua and Luke have some other piece of recommendation: Achieve out to neighbors and interact the neighborhood. After the March mass planting, the 2 had deliberate to carry gardening workshops and provides away crops at their native library. But if social distancing measures went into position, they switched gears.
As a substitute, they recorded webinars to assist audience create pollinator gardens in their very own backyards, left 700 flyers promoting the Bee Byway in mailboxes, and delivered 1,100 crops they grew themselves to householders’ doorsteps across the town. With their steerage, citizens have planted dozens of gardens. The workforce has only a few extra spaces to plant sooner than their 97-site mission is entire.
The duo’s subsequent purpose is to increase the Bee Byway for some other 10 miles. After that, they’ve set their attractions on beginning their very own nonprofit and petitioning town officers to institute bee-friendly laws like barriers on pesticide use. They would like Newport Information to be a “Bee Town,” a time period they coined themselves.
“The one method this complete mission has been imaginable is thru running with our neighborhood,” Joshua stated. “It could by no means had been imaginable with simply two folks.”
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Design Bridge celebrate The London Design Festival with exclusive ‘ginstillation’
For London Design Festival 2014 we are celebrating the new bottle design for Tanqueray No.Ten and all things gin in our very own ginstillation.
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3D Touchable Memories Here is something to make you smile. Wouldn’t it be great to re-imagine a memory at the touch of your finger tips? It would be cool, right? Well, the creative agency LOLA thought that too and created the social experiment ‘Touchable Memories’ for the printing company Pirate3D, to promote their new product the Buccaneer […]
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Rap Genius, the noted US-based blog that takes the time and energy out of dissecting rap lyrics and slang so you don’t have to, have taken on a mammoth task. Apparently not content with working through the rap canon with equal parts parody and affection in a way that has seen them gain the attention of the NY Times amongst others, they’re now taking on possibly one of the most mammoth tasks of cultural translation going – the 17th century King James Bible. It’s so mammoth, in fact, that they need your help in finishing the job.
Through an extensive series of hyperlink explanations, ranging from detailed theological and cultural explanations of phrases and passages to relevant audio clips, images, rap lyrics and memes (yes, really) Rap Genius are appealing to the (knowing) public to contribute to this swarm of links. All you need to do is sign up for an RG account to add your annotations, just as with song lyrics. Quite how accurate, tongue-in-cheek, contemporary and funny this will turn out remains to be seen but, it seems that you can’t keep a good blog down.
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Sand Trap Bar and Grill
Review by Kevin Klose
Let’s begin this by admitting right up front that I’m not a golfer. I’m about as “not a golfer” as you can possibly be. I mean I understand the premise of the game. I can throw some of the terminology around. I can even pick Tiger Woods out of a crowd…..but that’s about it.
Haven’t got a bad word to say about the game. Never tried it. Doesn’t interest me. I have even gone on record as to admitting that I don’t even like miniature golf.
Ok….so with all of that out of the way….I’m guessing that you are wondering how I found myself having lunch in the Osprey Ridge Golf Club..
The truth is that I was told that this is a hidden gem. No crowds. No waiting, No ADRs. Just good food in a beautiful setting.
Upon hearing this, I’m thinking, this is too good to be true. A little known restaurant on Disney property and you don’t need an ADR? I have to see this for myself. So off we went…
The Osprey Ridge Golf Club is located adjacent to Fort Wilderness. Eagle Pines is there as well, but that’s under development with the new Four Seasons resort, but that’s another story for another day.
If you are coming from the direction of the Magic Kingdom area, Osprey Ridge Golf Club is just past Fort Wilderness on the same side of the road. It’s fairly easy to find as there are GIANT silver golf tees and a sign that says Osprey Ridge.
On your drive in, you travel a winding road through some lush, green Florida landscaping. It’s beautiful and tranquil and it’s hard to imagine that the Magic Kingdom is quite nearby. It’s easy to believe that you are out in the country.
At the end of the drive, you come to the parking lot and the Golf Club itself. It sits at the top of a small hill.
The building is pretty non-descript by Disney standards. You shouldn’t expect topiaries, or characters or any theming at all.
Upon entering, there is a small seating area, a pro shop selling pricey Disney golf attire and the Sand Trap Bar and Grill.
There is a small sign at the door that lists the name and lets you know that you should “Please seat yourself.” At this point, the Disney veterans reading this are probably thinking “huh”?
You enter a large room, with a bar running along one wall. There are televisions showing sporting events over the bar.
The opposite wall is floor to ceiling windows overlooking a lush golf course landscape with a lake and a fountain. There is a verandah just outside these windows running the length of the building. It’s furnished with white chairs, table and rockers. It’s a very appealing location.
We chose a table and waited. And waited. And waited.
Just as I was about to go look for someone, a man dressed in golf attire and a Disney name badge approached the table and asked “what’ll it be?” We asked if there were menus and he asked us why “no one gave you a menu?” We just sort of shrugged and he went off to find them. So far, the “Please seat yourself” thing doesn’t seem to be working.
Things smoothed out after that and we made our selections.
The menu is basic lunch / bar food. There are wings , salads, sandwiches, wraps…nothing surprising.
We tried the soup of the day (Cream of Tomato at $5.49 per cup). It was basic tomato soup with a heavy dose of garlic.
We also ordered the chicken wings (10 for $8.49). Again….they were basic serviceable chicken wings. Nothing out of the ordinary.
For our entrees, we tried the Rueben ($9.99) and the Barbecue Pork Sandwich ($10.49) Each came with fries.
It’s a bit difficult to come up with a way to review these items, as they were absolutely ordinary. I wouldn’t say they were good or bad. They were ordinary. This was ordinary, serviceable food that’s just a bit overpriced.
I think the reason that we had this feeling about the food and the location is that there is really nothing “Disney” about the experience. The service seems a bit of an afterthought. We got our order and it was accurate….but that’s it.
If the server wasn’t wearing a recognizable Disney nametag and there wasn’t a store selling overpriced Disney stuff across the lobby, you could be in Generic Hotel Restaurant in Anywhere, USA.
Please don’t misconstrue this as a negative review. It’s not.
If you want a $10 Rueben and fries and a $2.50 soft drink….that’s what you’ll get.
If you sit facing the window, you’ll get a pretty view of a golf course, lake and fountain.
If you need a $75 Disney golf shirt, there is a store ready, willing and able to sell you one.
The Sand Trap is also a free WiFi spot.
If you are looking for the “Disney” experience, you have come to the wrong place, unless, you are a die-hard Disney fan and need to see every square inch of Disney property. This is a bit off the beaten path, and if that’s your thing….go for it..
It’s my opinion that unless you are golfing or have virtually nothing else to do…..go do something else.
You are mere minutes away from some world class entertainment that you are probably paying big bucks to experience. Go do that. You can eat in a golf course restaurant at home.
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Vocabulary.com explains: The noun mediocrity means the quality of being average or ordinary. Mediocrity has Latin parts that together literally mean "halfway up the mountain."
If you measure your life by looking at and comparing yourself with others you become average and ordinary. You perceive them as being better and more successful than yourself. This causes feelings of inadequacy, and makes you believe that “the grass is always greener on the other side”. You get frightened of living your own way and this causes your path to become clouded and your vision to be blurred. Fear of the unknown sets in.
No single person is average or ordinary. We are all unique beings, every one of us is one of a kind. That makes us anything but ordinary. We are so good at putting ourselves down and finding faults. Instead we should look at everything we can do that makes us different and celebrate this fact. Look at your life, embrace the challenges and with every step you are forming yourself as the most unique, different, and excellent person that you are. Go out into the unknown, knowing that you are enough, know enough and have enough to live your very special life. Only you can live your life!

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The wife asked what would be a really good 50th birthday present for her to get me. I quickly replied a rifle. So she has agreed to buy me a CZ American Safari Magnum .375 H&H Magnum.
No African safaris for Cape Buffalo planned yet, but a man can dream and I think it will be a fine addition for my 50th.
My rifle came last night and I shot it today. Really nice rifle. Recoil is not too bad. Pretty wood stock.


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James Kelser ran for two scores and 121 yards on 15 carries to lead West Blocton to a 47-10 rout of Holy Spirit in the regular-season finale Friday night.
TUSCALOOSA | James Kelser ran for two scores and 121 yards on 15 carries to lead West Blocton to a 47-10 rout of Holy Spirit in the regular-season finale Friday night.
“I had great blocking from the line,” Kelser said. “When I got to the second level, instead of trying to run over people, I just ran for daylight.”
West Blocton opened up scoring barely two minutes into the first quarter, capping off a 56-yard drive with a 5-yard run by Kelser. Holy Spirit answered back on the ensuing drive with a 30-yard field goal by Adam Cubel.
On the next drive, the Tigers drove 59 yards and Jacob Bush scored from a yard out.
In the second quarter, Holy Spirit attempted to punt, but a high snap resulted in a 27-yard loss and gave the Tigers the ball on the Titans’ 11. Kelser scored from 9 yards out two plays later. Then, as the half was winding down, Tiger quarterback Jacob Lindsey completed a 32-yard pass to Justin White, setting up a 13-yard touchdown pass from Lindsey to Charro White.
To start the second half, Holy Spirit received, but was forced to punt after three plays. Lindsey then ran the ball 43 yards for a score.
On the ensuing drive, Bush intercepted a pass, and West Blocton took the ball 33 yards down the field to score. The drive was capped off by a 1-yard run by Lindsey.
In the fourth quarter, Holy Spirit finally found the end zone on a 10-yard run by Chris David. However, West Blocton was unfazed, and Quentin Boles ran the ball 53 yards for a score.
“Our guys played hard, and they had a good week of preparation,” West Blocton coach Greg Farnetti said. “They were not quite as physical as I wanted, but it was a good game.”
West Blocton (7-3, 5-2 in Class 3A Region 4) travels to Dadeville next week for a first-round playoff game.
“Everything went wrong,” Holy Spirit coach Jack Hankins said. “We need to learn how to play as a team. We need to lean how to play football. We need folks who want to carry out a gameplan.”
Holy Spirit (5-5, 5-3 in Class 1A Region 3) will travel to Loachapoka next week in a first-round playoff game.


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The Withlocals fee is a 32% fee charged directly to the guests from the final overall price of each booking. This transparent fee is included in all the experiences offered on the platform, such as host offers (your own experiences), Withlocals Originals experiences, Live experiences, and personalized offers.
Here are some example calculations to help you understand how the fee works:
Total guest price (traveler paid price) = €110, including €10 of guest expenses like food costs or entrance tickets.
Withlocals fee of 32% = €32
Amount you receive = €68
Service fee of 10%: €10
The income you generate = €58 (the amount you receive minus EUR 10 of guest expenses)
As a host, you would like to receive €15. This €15 is 68% of the total price a guest has to pay (excl. service fee).
The total price (excl. service fee) would be calculated as (€15 / 68%) * 100% = €22.06 (22.058 rounded up).
This means the Withlocals fee amount is €22.06 - €15 = €7.06 (you can also calculate this as €22.06 * 32%, which will give the same result).
The service fee is 10% of the total price, which is 10% of €22.06 = €2.21.
The total price for the guest, including service fee, would then be €22.06 + €2.21 = €24.27.
Withlocals keeps the right to adjust the % of the fee for marketing purposes such as launching campaigns and other promotions.

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1. Simple structure is the design purpose-the scraper chain is used to feed fertilizer, which reduces the wear of moving parts, and discharges materials more quickly and has a long service life.
2. The manure spreader is used to haul and throw solid manure materials from beef cattle farms, dairy farms, chicken farms, pig farms, sheep farms and other breeding companies, including compost, stable manure, bedding waste and manure.
3. The fertilizer thrower adopts a box body made of all steel welded, solid bottom and side plates, and a detachable vertical auger sprayer, which has become a model of solid material sprayer.
4. The twin augers design has a good guarantee for the uniformity and continuity of material dissemination. When the material moves to the hammer discharge port, each hammer tears and smashes the material, and throws the material evenly and rhythmically from bottom to top. The design keeps the material in a horizontal state and prevents overhead and squeezing. It can throw a variety of materials, such as: poultry manure, organic fertilizer, furrow fertilizer, mud, compost, manure, distiller's grains, mushroom residue, medicine residue, straw, etc. , You can also spread most of the industrial waste.
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For those of you who are PC gamers, XCOM Enemy Unknown is a cool game. Different type of game, but fun fo sho.
It's not a PC exclusive.
Don't live for pleasure, make life your treasure...
\m/ Ronnie James Dio, 1942-2010 \m/

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Missing teen found safe, London police say
LONDON, ONT. -- London police say a missing teenager has been found safe.
Kayla Bellinger, 17, had last been seen Jan. 17 at 11 p.m. in the area of Trafalgar Street and Clarke Road.
Family and police were concerned for Kayla’s welfare and police put out a public call to help locate her on Saturday.
On Monday, police confirmed she had been located safe and thanked the public for their assistance.


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Energy Storage business key for GE as it expands battery factory
July 10, 2012 | By Anthony Capkun
July 10, 2012 – GE will expand its new, advanced manufacturing battery factory in Schenectady, N.Y., which is part of the company’s new Energy Storage business. The company will invest an additional $70 million to expand the Schenectady plant, effectively doubling production and adding 100 new jobs, which will bring the total factory workforce to 450 when at full capacity.
“Just a few years ago, researchers in our labs invented a new battery—one that was simple in its ingredients but advanced in its design and science, containing more than 30 patents,” explained GE chair & CEO Jeff Immelt. “It soon became obvious that we weren’t just making a new battery; we were building a new business, so GE teams went to work designing an advanced manufacturing process to build the battery efficiently and a go-to-market strategy to ensure it can reach customers where they work.”
The Durathon battery products are the result of GE’s $100-million initial investment in battery technology developed at GE’s Global Research Center in nearby Niskayuna, N.Y. The batteries are produced using abundantly available raw materials such as salt and nickel, and are non-toxic and fully recyclable.
The new battery plant is about the size of four football fields. Its projected annual production capacity is about one GWh.
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Methinks it is time for a new generation of Americans to read Buck's novels about life in China. For the people living in China's hinterlands (the "peasants" as they are still called today), life hasn't changed much in thousands of years, except the water is more polluted where water is still available (millions have been driven off their hereditary lands through massive damming projects, and millions more are withering away through a 10-year long drought that shows no signs of ending anytime soon, thanks to shifts in weather patterns due to global warming), and the earth is more poisoned than ever with industrial pollution.
As a country and as a western culture, we cannot begin to successfully understand and deal with the juggernaut that is today's China unless we know it - and through Buck's novels we can come to know it.
So, I am glad to see a biography of Buck being published. Perhaps it will spur interest in her novels in this country and her readers can learn a few things about what life in China is really like - things haven't changed for the "peasants" since Buck wrote about them in her novels, and the cultural mores and outlooks they embody are deeply embedded in the people who control China today, despite a cosmopolitan gloss that fools some of the people (i.e., our leaders) most of the time.
Burying Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China
By Hilary Spurling (Profile Books 288pp £15)
How does a woman overcome the suffocating messages of her culture to become an artist? In Burying the Bones, Hilary Spurling unearths the creative roots of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Pearl Buck (1892-1973). Spurling points out that, although Buck's most famous novel, The Good Earth, is still in print, the author is 'virtually forgotten. She has no place in feminist mythology, and her novels have been effectively eliminated from the American literary map.' Boldly conceived and magnificently written, Burying the Bones should repair Buck's literary fortunes and restore her to the pantheon of feminist heroines.
In her foreword, Spurling dates her fascination with Buck to her childhood reading. The first book she remembers was Pearl Buck's The Chinese Children Next Door, about a family of six little girls totally overshadowed and enslaved by the seventh child, a baby brother. When she reread it as an adult, Spurling recognised 'echoes of stories my mother told me about her own childhood when she, too, had been the last of six unwanted girls'. For Spurling, these were stories of a remote time and place, but for Buck, who played as a little girl 'in a Chinese town where wild dogs foraged for babies routinely exposed to die on waste land', it was a domestication of the terrors of finding the 'half-eaten' remains of bodies, 'nearly always girls suffocated or strangled at birth'. Spurling makes this story a symbol of the archaeological process of 'recovering the remnants' of Buck's early life, but it is also a fable about male supremacy and the silencing of women's voices. How Buck survived and transcended this destiny is the empowering theme of the book.
Pearl Sydenstricker grew up in China at the turn of the century as the daughter of Southern Presbyterian missionaries, cared for by a beloved amah. 'I spoke Chinese first and more easily,' she recalled. 'I did not consider myself a white person in those days.' Pearl's father, Absalom, was an ascetic, fierce Christian in search of martyrdom, who demanded an area 'as large as the state of Texas' north of Shanghai as his first post, in a futile effort to convert a people for whom he had little personal compassion or cultural sympathy. In three years 'he made not a single convert', and came home from his solo trips around the country covered with bruises and spittle. Absalom's blind devotion to his church robbed his wife Carrie of all material comfort and emotional support, and fuelled Pearl's sympathy for all women bound in their minds as well as their bodies. In The Exile (1936) Buck told her mother's story of sacrifice, poverty and suffering in a marriage of sexual and spiritual duty. Nevertheless, as Buck would acknowledge in a biography of her father called The Fighting Angel (1936), there was something heroic in Absalom's single-minded calling and something admirable in his lifelong effort to translate the New Testament into the Chinese vernacular.
In 1901, having survived the sieges of the Boxer Rebellion, the Sydenstrickers returned temporarily to their native West Virginia, and nine-year-old Pearl had her first American experiences. Later she was sent to be educated at the genteel Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she continued to read Dickens obsessively and briefly reinvented herself as a Southern belle. But Pearl was eager to return to China and went back in 1914 to keep house for her father, care for her ailing mother, and teach English to the new generation of Chinese students and intellectuals influenced by the Nationalist revolution of Sun Yat-sen.
During this exciting time she acknowledged her vocation as a writer, and was determined to follow the example of Chinese popular fiction, championed by the young iconoclasts of Chinese literary reform. Unlike the arcane classical Chinese literature of the past, this new writing, according to Buck, 'was an enormous release to educated men and women. To be able to say what one felt ... was to free an energy suppressed for centuries.' While for all Chinese writers, the change meant a shift from the classical to the 'despised' vernacular language, for women it meant the freedom to describe female experience, to tell the truth about their lives.
Pearl had just started to write stories and journalism about China when she married John Lossing Buck, an agricultural economist stationed in Anhwei Province. Although it began as a love match, the marriage turned out to duplicate some of the worst elements of her parents' unhappy life together. Lossing (as he was called) was obsessed by his work, and their sexual incompatibility showed up in her writing 'about thwarted sexuality, marital rape, and the physical repulsion' women could feel for their husbands. Indeed, Spurling writes, 'Sex was Pearl Buck's territory as a novelist.' Tragically, their daughter Carol was born in 1920 with a genetic birth defect called phenylketonuria, which led to mental impairment. The Bucks adopted another daughter, Janice, hoping to stimulate Carol with sibling companionship, but the emotional and practical weight of caring for the children fell on Pearl, and Lossing refused to leave the political chaos of China for America, even in 1927 when the violent clash between Nationalists and Communists in Nanjing put their lives at risk.
I see now that I was in a queer submerged state. It was like living in a solitary cell, nothing and no one came in, and I seemed unable to communicate with anyone ... remembering it, I have the feelings of someone having spent part of his life in jail.
She would explore this sense of imaginative and emotional imprisonment in her fiction.
In 1929, she made the agonising decision to put Carol in a private institution in New Jersey and, upon her return to China, began to write The Good Earth. Published by the small New York firm John Day in 1931, the novel was an international sensation, 'the first attempt to penetrate the deep underlife of ordinary Chinese people that no one else had ever written about before'. Its depiction of a strange and harsh society and its portrait of the stoic mother, O-lan, connected with the fears of ordinary Americans in the Depression. The book's success dramatically changed Buck's life. She divorced Lossing Buck, married her publisher Richard Walsh, and moved back to the US. Together they adopted five more children and founded Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In the last forty years of her life, Buck became a popular novelist who never lost her faith in the importance of fiction to reach a mass audience, and a staunch advocate for birth control, the care of mentally disabled children, and racial and sexual equality.

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Apple and Samsung are the two largest cell phone manufacturers in the world, so it is no secret that the rivalry between the tech giants generates competition for higher sales volumes in different regions. THE channels published this Tuesday (22) a market survey that shows which of the brands is most popular in North America.
According to the report, Apple continued to dominate the North American market in Q2 2022, occupying six of the ten positions in the ranking of best-selling cell phones in the period in question. Samsung appears in 6th place with the Galaxy S22 Ultra; 8th place with the Galaxy A13, the “cheap” launched in March in Brazil; and 10th place with the Galaxy S22.
Motorola managed to place one of its cell phones among the ten best sellers. The Moto G Power (2022) seems to have been a relative success in the entry-level cellphone segment with its MSRP of just US$199, which translates to around R$1,019.
Some interesting data can be extracted from the graph of the channels. It is possible to observe that the 3rd generation iPhone SE surpassed the sales of the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, but it does not overcome the high demand for the iPhone 13. The most compact model of the current generation, the iPhone 13 mini, still suffers from low demand and loses value for the iPhone 12.
Although it doesn’t have the same demand as its North American rival, Samsung has had good results in North America. The research firm claims that the Galaxy S22 Ultra S Pen is a good differentiator between top cell phones with Android, making the South Korean flagship even more popular than the Galaxy S22.
Samsung grew a percentage point more than Apple when comparing the earnings of both companies in the 2nd quarter of 2022 to the same period in 2021. Apple, on the other hand, holds 52% market share against 26% of the Asian rival. . Motorola is in 3rd place, benefiting from the departure of LG and the sanctions imposed against Huawei.
cheapest cell phones
In the field of cheaper phones, the Galaxy A13 competes fiercely with the Moto G Power (2022), but Motorola has shown more popularity in this segment. Both excelled in sales compared to the iPhone 13 mini and Galaxy S22.
The market analysis company notes that some more advanced models – such as the Galaxy A53 and Galaxy A33 – did not have the expected success in the last quarter, and the phenomenon can be explained with the current economic scenario in North America.
The performance of the 3rd generation iPhone SE, Galaxy A53 and Galaxy A33 is worse than initially expected. Declining purchasing power is forcing buyers who would normally consider devices costing between $250 and $600 (about R$1,299–R$2,999) to look for cheaper options as they feel the financial pressure of inflation on daily expenses.
Canalys Research Analyst
Decline in overall sales
Looking at the general balance of the North American market, there was a 6% drop in sales from all manufacturers combined. This is the second consecutive month that the industry has been shrinking due to different factors.
“A combination of high inflation, waning consumer confidence and an economic slowdown is reducing demand in North America, which was once the most resilient market in the world,” says Runar Bjørhovde, research analyst at channels.
The expectation is that manufacturers respond to the decrease in sales with investments in marketing and promotions that accelerate shipments of current stock, causing cheaper cell phones to lose ground over the next few quarters.
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January 17, 2020 – The second week of session was full of legislative activity. Both chambers are now fully engrossed in legislative hearings and are moving through the enormous number of bills in a swift manner. is the last day to introduce legislation and the total so far is 1651 house bills and 1014 senate bills.
The full list of bills that we are following can be found at the link below. Most of these have not been taken up yet, but will be considered over the next two weeks before the February 11th crossover deadline. One thing that moved this week is legislation to define milk as the “lacteal secretion of a healthy hooved mammal and provides that a food product is unlawfully misbranded if its label states that it is milk and it fails to meet such definition, except for human breast milk.” An amendment clarifies that this change will take effect if a coalition of southeastern states all agree to the change collectively. Also Del. Rasoul’s legislation to create a grant program for the Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Fund experienced movement. Both bills reported out of subcommittee and will be heard in full committee next week.
Legislators also submitted their ideas for amending the state budget this week, and they can be found here. We will be reviewing and identifying key amendments this week. The House Appropriations committee and Senate Finance committee will review these proposals and put together their own versions of the amended state budget for approval on Sunday, February 16th. The full House and Senate are scheduled to adopt their versions of the budget on Thursday, February 20th, before budget negotiators will begin crafting a new two-year spending plan to send to the governor.
January 14, 2020 – Last week marked the completion of the first week of the 2020 Virginia legislative session, in which there were several historic firsts for the Commonwealth. Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn was sworn in as the first female Speaker of the House of Delegates, as well as the first person of Jewish faith to be speaker. Delegate Charniele Herring was selected as the first female and first African American to serve as Majority Leader of the House of Delegates. In the Senate, Senator L. Louise Lucas was elected the first female and first African American to serve as President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
Both chambers met last Wednesday to organize. The Senate welcomed 5 new members to the chamber. Senator Dick Saslaw of Fairfax was elected Majority Leader and Senator Mamie Locke of Hampton was elected Caucus Chair. Senator Tommy Norment of James City County was elected Minority Leader and Senator Ryan McDougle was elected Minority Caucus Chair. Senator Louise Lucas of Portsmouth will now chair the Senate Education and Health Committee and Delegate Mark Sickles of Alexandria will now chair the House Health, Welfare & Institutions.
The House of Delegates welcomed 18 new members to the chamber. The House adopted a new set of rules to govern the House for the biennium. Major changes include changing masculine pronouns to feminine and changing the names of three committees. The rules resolution preserved the practice of proportional committee representation, giving each Caucus seats on committees equivalent to the number of House seats they hold overall. Another major change for the House and Senate is that Capitol Square, including the General Assembly Building and the Capitol will now be a gun free zone. No one, including legislators, will be allowed to carry a firearm in any legislative government building.
As of January 10th, 1546 House bills had been introduced and another 926 Senate bills. That’s almost as many as were introduced in 2018, and members still have another week to introduce legislation, though they are limited to only a few bills each after the start of session. Members had until January 10th to submit amendments to the governor’s introduced budget, and those will be made available by the middle of this week.
The legislature will spend the next eight weeks acting on the legislation introduced in their own chamber, and after February 12th they can only consider legislation approved by the other legislative body. Each chamber will adopt its own version of a new biennial budget on February 13th and work to negotiate a final agreement by the scheduled date of adjournment, March 7th.
While more bills will be introduced over the next week, here’s a list of the bills we are following so far:


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For persons persuaded by the rhetoric of sixteenth-century religious reformers, authenticity was a complex matter of access to the reality of divinity. George Levin's paper on empiricist "habits of mind" seems a strange place to start elaborating on that observation, for such "habits" look to be worlds apart from what I study, the sixteenth-century Calvinist adaptations of patristic and medieval ascetic spirituality. Yet Levin maintains that he has identified empiricism's near-ascetic techniques. "To know nature," he claims, "one must make it alien ... and deny one's own desire." If he is correct about "the programmatically self-alienating" character of "the positivist model of knowledge" and about the empiricist assumptions it extends and refines, then perhaps asceticism, Calvinism, empiricism, and positivism someday will file companionably through sweeping histories of the human imagination. If he is correct, that is, and if the historians of that someday are still reupholstering old ideas and long-standing "habits of mind." I cannot pronounce authoritatively on the first condition and am only slightly tempted to guess about the second. Not so George Levin, who crosses cavalierly from self-alienation to self-annihilation, sure that "the religious/moral implications of that tradition of self-annihilation continue to thrive in the practice of science and the language of the social sciences."
Copyright © 1999 Cambridge University Press. This book chapter first appeared in Performance and Authenticity in the Arts.
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Kaufman, Peter Iver. "The "Confessing Animal" on Stage: Authenticity, Asceticism, and the Constant "Inconstancie" of Elizabethan Character." In Performance and Authenticity in the Arts, by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell, 49-65. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.