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Most of us, at some point or another, have experienced some spooky relationship deja vu. It starts off all spark and sizzle—we’ve got chemistry and romance and it feels like this time it’ll be different. We start to make plans. Get comfortable. Then it happens.
We start spotting the red flags—usually ones we’ve seen before. Maybe we realize we’ve been trying to ignore them, or maybe it’s something else entirely. We all bring our own baggage and history into new relationships. Sometimes we pick situations and people that rhyme, sometimes it’s our own behaviors and patterns that bring trouble to paradise.
If you’re stuck in a relationship loop and looking for a way out, here are some tips to get free:
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Look for Patterns
It’s pretty easy to float from one relationship to the next—but when we do that, we aren’t always taking the time to learn lessons from the one that just ended. Think of your relationship history as a whole. Are there any patterns that emerge?
Some patterns to look out for include:
- Are you having the same fights and arguments in your relationships?
- What role do you play in bringing those patterns to the relationship?
- Are you picking similar partners, and expecting different outcomes?
You can’t control your partner’s behavior, but you can recognize patterns in personality and behavior you may be drawn to—and it’s important to be aware of that so you can spot those issues early and approach them differently.
Many of us also carry our own history into our relationships. A fear of rejection and abandonment can color how we behave in a relationship. It can lead us to do some crazy things, or to accept an awful lot of abuse before we finally stick up for ourselves.
These patterns probably stretch back into your childhood and upbringing. Consider how you might be bringing those patterns into your relationships. Are those patterns still serving you, or is it time to let go?
If you’re caught in a loop, it’s time to take a new approach. Whip out a notepad and organize your thoughts on paper. What are your values? What are your deal breakers?
Conflict almost always comes from a lack of communication. It’s all in the expectations. Think about the feeling you get when you’re expecting something in the mail and you open up a package and they sent you the wrong thing. Relationships are like that. You want to know that what you’re buying is what you’re getting.
By the same token, you need to make sure that you are what your partner is looking for. You should be asking questions about what they want and need in a relationship, and you should be honest with yourself about whether or not you can provide that to them.
Good communication & setting expectations is one of the key ways to keep your relationships running smoothly—and it’s important to revisit these conversations even if you’re exclusive, because your needs may change.
Learn Your Languages
When it comes to relationships, we’re all speaking different languages. This is true in a few different ways—you may have heard of love languages before. Some of us love through touch, others through acts of service or words of affirmation—it’s important to make sure we know our own language and make sure we ask for what we want.
It can also be helpful to know your attachment style. Some of us avoid emotional connection, others desperately crave it. Knowing how we get attached (and why!) can help us avoid those triggers that turn our relationships into wild emotional rollercoasters.
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If you’re interested in a deep dive into any of these tips, reach out for a consultation for relationship counseling.
We work with a diverse group of clients to help them shake themselves free from old patterns and start living to their fullest potential. It might feel like you’re stuck on a wheel, but there’s still time to get off.


Today’s quick-service restaurant is wired—literally. From drive-thru order confirmation systems to online ordering, operators have more tech gadgets than ever before. And they plan to use even more of them.
According to the National Restaurant Association 2007 Forecast, 50 percent of quick-service owners will allocate a larger proportion of their budget to technology. The report says operators are using technology to deliver better value and to pass savings on to customers.
But some restaurant veterans question the industry’s fixation on so much technology. “We place a high premium on quality of service,” says Don Fox, chief operating officer for Firehouse Subs, a 260-unit sandwich chain based in Jacksonville, Florida. “Technology can work against that.”
Over the years, there has been a lot of technology overwhelming guests and employees, says Don Buonavolanto, vice president of restaurant operations for Buona, an 11-store quick-service restaurant based in Chicago.
“You go into most places and the order takers are not even making eye contact…They’re not even looking at the guest,” Buonavolanto says.
Fox, a former Burger King executive, believes that good training and good help are more valuable than technology. The problem with that theory is labor is very costly and good help is hard to come by, says Mark Godward, president of Strategic Restaurant Engineering, a Miami-based firm that specializes in restaurant efficiency, productivity, and profitability.
“With the possibility of minimum wage going up substantially, things are going to get even more difficult for the quick-service industry,” says Godward, who has worked with McDonald’s, Chick-fil-A, Burger King, and Yum! Brands. “In some cases, operators cannot fill all the positions that they have open.”
One labor-saving piece of technology is self-service kiosks, Godward says. According to InfoAmerica Transactional Kiosks, this technology saves operators anywhere from 15 to 50 hours per week in labor.
“The real benefits from kiosks are more transactions through the store by redeploying the labor from the front to the kitchen,” says Paul Knight, president of InfoAmerica.
Godward says Subway and Blimpie have had great success with kiosks, because their customers “know they can get in and out quicker by using order terminals.” Knight says kiosks range from $5,000 to $15,000 apiece.
“If you expect franchisees to spend 1,000 dollars, you better prove he can get back $1,001,” says Rob Hough, Atlanta principal for Technisource, an IT firm that represents FOCUS Brands.
Hough, the former chief information officer for Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits restaurants, knows not all operators will invest $30,000 in technology to make their store more efficient. But he encourages franchisees to at least buy an integrated point-of-sale terminal, which he says are effective tools for controlling cash. With a point-of-sale terminal, “I know if my employees are robbing me.” On many point-of-sale terminals, employees clock in by swiping a card or pressing their finger against a scanner.
“This guarantees that nobody is buddy punching,” says Jim Melvin, chief strategy officer for PAR Technology. “You have tight control over early punches…With 40 to 50 people working a day, that’s a lot of extra labor if everybody punches in early.”
Melvin says point-of-sale software tracks audit events, too. “We track a few dozen events that would be related to employee theft, such as a credit card used multiple times,” he says.


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Crime Girl in the Bunker Kidnapper and Rapist, Who Held Teen Underground for 10 Days, Dies in Prison
Mummified Body of Leader of the ‘Love Has Won’ Cult Found Covered in Christmas Lights, 7 Followers Arrested
Lia “Amy” Carlson was found dead in an alleged member of the cult’s home The seven were arrested by the Saguache County Sheriff's Office, but were transported to Rio Grande County Jail because the Saguache County Jail does not have the space to hold the accused separately, according to Guru Magazine. Captain Ken Wilson of the Saguache County Sheriff's Office told the outlet Friday that Carlson's body appeared to have been deceased for several weeks. © Provided by People Dr.phil RELATED: Body of Missing W. Va.
A South Carolina man whose 2006 kidnapping, detention and rape of then 14-year-old Elizabeth Shoaf in an underground bunker for 10 days led him to be sentenced to 421 years in prison has died there.
Law enforcement officials confirm that Vinson Filyaw, 51, died behind bars at South Carolina's McCormick Correctional Institute on Monday, reports Columbia TV station.
Elizabeth's abduction, manipulation of her captor and her escape inspired the 2018 Lifetime channel movie.
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Her abductor had approached her pretending to be a police officer.
Elizabeth was on her way home from school in Lugoff, South Carolina, on Sept. 6, 2006, when the man dressed in combat fatigues handcuffed her, walked her into the woods, and then held her captive in the hand-dug underground bunker for 10 days, during which he repeatedly raped her.
As part of her strategy to escape, Elizabeth resolved to win his trust,so she could play games on it. Then, when he slept, she urgently texted family and friends, Elizabeth told NBC's Today show in 2008.
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John Daly III, a former Border Patrol agent, was arrested after DNA evidence connected him to sexual assaults in Arizona from 1999-2001, police said.John Daly III, 57, was arrested in Sierra Vista, Arizona, on Tuesday, the Mesa Police Department said in a statement.
That rallied police who initially had considered her a runaway, and they were able to zero in on Filyaw, who was then an unemployed 36-year-old construction worker and a suspect in an unrelated sexual assault.
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Alarmed as he watched news coverage of the manhunt with the girl, Filyaw asked Elizabeth what to do.
"I told him he needed to leave because if they'd catch him, he would go to jail," she said.
After he did, she fled and was recovered — exhibiting her own bravery as later recounted in the TV movie.
Filyaw was captured five miles away and arrested. Facing multiple charges including kidnapping, he avoided trial by pleading guilty to all counts and was sentenced in September 2007 to 421 years in prison.
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"I look at her all the time and think what she went through and how she did it," her father, Don Shoaf, told Today in 2008. "I'm still amazed."
Elizabeth said she focused her thoughts on family and prayer as she devised her way out.
"I guess if I wanted him to trust me I'd have to have him think I kind of wanted to be there and be more comfortable letting me do things I wanted to do," she told Today.
That included asking for access to his phone. When he gave it to her, she texted her mom.
"Hey mom, it's Lizzie," Madeline Shoaf recalled the message as saying,in 2006.
"I looked at the text, and I ran straight to [my husband] and told him, 'It's Elizabeth. No one else has my cell phone,'" she said.
"She told me exactly where she was, down the road, which road it was … get the police. She's in a hole."
Investigators traced the message as coming from an area around Filyaw's trailer located less than a mile from his victim's parents' home. Authorities moved in, eventually finding Elizabeth wandering on her own.
After her ordeal, Elizabeth turned the case of her abduction into activism.
"I'm the perfect example of what can happen," she told dozens of mothers and daughters in 2013 at Lugoff-Elgin Middle School, sharing her, according to WISTV.com.
"I survived and I can help others survive," she said.
"Unfortunately we can't stop it from happening, but we can reduce it if parents are more cautious of what's going on and who's around," she said.
No cause of death for Filyaw was released.
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NZ Petroleum Conference 2016 - Presentations by The Minister of Energy & Resources and Steve Bielby
GAS A 'BRIDGING' FUEL - HON SIMON BRIDGES
Energy and Resources Minister, Hon Simon Bridges announced the launch of the 2016 Block Offer when he spoke at the opening of the NZ Petroleum Conference held 21 – 23 March 2016. During his speech, the Minister announced that more than 525,000 square-kilometres of mainly offshore frontier acreage will be available for tender in the 2016 Block Offer.
Minister Bridges said he hopes gas will play a larger role in New Zealand’s energy mix. He also said gas has a lot of potential to replace coal generation in countries such as China and India, which opens a lot of possibilities for any potential large finds in New Zealand.
The Minister’s speech can be viewed here.
A HEALTHY DOMESTIC GAS MARKET - STEVE BIELBY
Since the 1960's, New Zealand has built a robust and healthy domestic gas market that continues to play an important role in the nation’s primary energy mix and its wider economy. Though small in global terms, maintaining a healthy market provides key assurance and incentives to the upstream sector to continue investing, even where principal targets are oil/liquids and where options include gas export in the case of a large find.
This presentation provides a downstream perspective to the New Zealand Gas Story, updating key recent trends and discussing paths forward, including:
- Key health indicators on the state and performance of the downstream sector
- The strategic role for gas in the New Zealand economy
- Developing trends in relation to electricity generation, gas transmission and gas pricing
- Key issues including consumer and carbon challenges
- Future scenarios and opportunities
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BANBRIDGE Academy netball player Emma Cartmill has been selected to represent Northern Ireland on the Under 17 squad in next month’s European Championships.
This is 16-year-old Emma’s second year training with the U17 NI squad and she has also been training with the U21 squad for several months. This week Emma was delighted to hear that she has made the final FENA selection.
Emma will be jetting off to Malta on 7th-11th March and representing Northern Ireland at U17 level, she will face England, Scotland, Wales and Malta.
Emma has faced intense selection processes since September, as selectors gradually whittled the squad down to 12 top players.
Year 12 student Emma commented, “It was hard trying to fit in training for two squads, first XI hockey matches, Banbridge Netball Club and school work, but it has definitely been worth it in the end.
“I’m really looking forward to the FENA tournament and travelling with the team to Malta.”

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What Do You Need To Know About Invisalign?
As a parent, it is important to understand as much as possible about things that could affect our child. The entire role of a parent is built around the fact that you do everything in your power to make sure that your child is taken care of, happy, and finds success in life. For this reasons, it is important, in our opinion, for parents to understand as much about our orthodontic treatments as possible. Orthodontics, by the very nature of the field, is a permanent solution to teeth positioning and is something that people should have a base knowledge of before they decide to make use of these services. Here at Camilo Riaño Orthodontics, we wanted to take some time in the next two blog posts to go over some of the facts that parents need to know when it comes to Invisalign Teen. Continue reading below to learn more.
What Can Invisalign do for Teens?
In the simplest terms, Invisalign Teen is designed to provide patients with a nearly invisible way to straighten their teeth without the normal problems and restrictions that are associated with traditional metal braces. Where regular braces require wires and brackets to straighten a patient’s teeth, Invisalign makes use of clear plastic aligners that are custom made for each patient’s mouth. All your teen has to do is wear the aligners as they would normal braces with new aligners introduced every few weeks to make slight adjustments to the alignment of the teeth. Below, we have listed a few answers to common questions parents have about Invisalign.
Q1: Compared to traditional braces, is Invisalign effective?
Any parent can tell you that raising a child and providing them with all of the things that they need is not cheap. Because of this, most parents want to make sure that when they invest in a service for their children it is worth the investment. Luckily, Invisalign Teen is a great investment in relation to orthodontics because they are just as effective as braces. When worn according to the recommendations of an orthodontist, the aligners are able to handle a wide range of orthodontic cases and can help in the correction of underbites, overbites, misaligned teeth, and gaps. IF you are worried that your teen might not be a good candidate for Invisalign, take a moment to consider that the vast majority of patients are eligible for this service.
Q2: How long does the treatment take?
Another question that parents have in relation to Invisalign Teen has to do with the amount of time it takes for the treatment to deliver the results that are needed. When compared to traditional braces, the majority of patients who decide to use Invisalign to straighten their teeth can expect a treatment period comparable to regular braces. While the length of treatment depends entirely on the amount of work that needs to be accomplished in relation to your teen’s teeth, most patients who use Invisalign can expect a treatment period of approximately two years. When moving teeth into the correct position, it is important to take the appropriate amount of time for the treatment to take effect to ensure that the results stick.
Q3: What advantages does Invisalign offer over traditional braces?
Anyone who has dealt with braces knows the issues associated with wires and metal brackets. These brackets can trap food close to the teeth that would normally not be there, potentially causing bacteria and plaque to build up at a faster rate than is normal. Invisalign allows for the removal of the clear aligners, meaning that patients are able to properly clean their teeth. Additionally, many teens worry about the fact that braces can cause injuries during sports due to the fact that mouthguards are not exactly designed to handle braces. Again, because the clear aligners can be removed, teens don’t have to worry about breaking a bracket or puncturing their cheek during sports activities.
Be sure to check back next week as we continue to cover some of the most common questions that parents have in regard to Invisalign Teen. If you are interested in learning more about this orthodontic options, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us today at Camilo Riaño Orthodontics in San Francisco.

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'Kinectimals' website launches to promote Kinect's digital pets
Friday 22 October 2010
Kinectimals, one of the Xbox 360 Kinect's first titles, now has its own website to illustrate the advantages of making friends with its friendly feline cubs.
To the tune of "Everyday" by American indie folk band Vetiver, a video shows two girls and a mum playing with some of Kinectimals' cubs.
On display are a young tiger, lion, and cheetah, and an agility course which features jumping and balancing challenges. Players stroke, jump with, and play hide and seek with their new friends.
Screenshots illustrate various environments for the Kinectimals to have fun in - an island beach, a grove, an archaeological site, and a house. Not yet displayed are the Suri Mountain and Celestial Glacier locations.
An early release of the game's list of special Achievements hosted by Xbox360Achievements.org indicates that the game also involves cleaning, frisbee, hoop-la, and interior decoration.
Cheaper than many real pets, certainly less deadly than a wild beast (but decidedly less furry), Kinectimals is out for Xbox 360 Kinect on November 4 in North America, and November 10 in European regions. The game retails for $49 / €49, and requires the Kinect Sensor ($149 / €149) and an Xbox 360 (from $199 / €199, or $299 / €299 with Kinect included).
The game is made by Frontier Developments, known for their creative touch in titles such as Frontier: Elite II (Amiga, ST, PC), Dog's Life (PS2, Xbox, PC, GC), and the Lost Winds games (Wii).
Kinectimals goes up against EyePet on the PlayStation 3, Nintendogs on the Nintendo DS, and Felis catus, the domestic cat.
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Tuesday 13th March March 7.45 pm
Evostik Northern Premier League Premier Division
North Ferriby United v Chasetown
Ferriby entertain Chasetown in an Evostik Premier Division match on Tuesday.
After three wins in eight days, Billy Heath's team will be full of confidence but Heath w ill be warning them against complacency. Chasetown have found themselves drawn into the relegation fight in recent weeks and will be desperately seeking at least a point on Tuesday.
In four fixtures against Chasetown, Ferriby have yet to record a win. Heath will be looking to his players to alter that on Tuesday as they look for the points to consolidate their ninth position in the League.
The Villagers are virtually safe from relegation with 45 points but Heath will certainly not be considering it "job done". He will be looking to finish with a good run of results and claim as high a league position as possible.
Club Chairman Les Hare summed-up Saturday's victory at Marine in one word, "Superb!" Heath said "It was a fabulous all-round team performance and we could have won by more. We controlled the game played some very good football. I'll be looking for more of the same against Chasetown on Tuesday."
Such was Ferriby's dominance at Marine that the home side was restricted to just three serious attempts on goal. The Villagers defended from high up the field, harassing Marine as soon as they had the ball.
Two first half headers from Gregg Anderson gave Ferriby a comfortable lead and they played the second-half at a slower tempo to close down the game.
Heath should have a full squad to choose from on Saturday. Chris is available again after suspension. The only injury doubt is Lee Morris who missed the Marine match with a stomach strain.
Probable Ferriby Squad: Adam Nicklin, Steve Wilson, Nathan Peat, Paul Foot, James Williams, Sam Denton, Steve Gardner, Kevin Larvin, Gregg Anderson, Chris Bolder, Russell Fry, Gary Bradshaw, Lee Morris, Ben Hunter, Timothy Taylor, Danny Clarke, Lee Morris, Tom Richardson, Wayne Brooksby


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OAN Newsroom Correspondent Shannon Kelland
UPDATED 7:02 PM PT – Thursday, December 15, 2022
On Thursday, the final three episodes of Netflix’s original series, “Harry & Meghan” dropped.
In the episodes, Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, revealed behind the scenes insight as to why they left the family and the innerworkings in the palace.
Back in March of 2020, the Duke and Duchess decided to leave the family due to a series of controversies. Harry claimed that aides who worked for Prince William had played a role in the negative stories that appeared about the couple. Harry believes that as a result of the constant scrutiny from the press, the negative impact had a toll on Meghan’s mental health. In turn, this could be a factor as to why she had a miscarriage.
These events resulted in Harry’s decision of wanting to separate from the family being “half in and half out” for the couple’s own wellbeing. The family held a summit to discuss his future role.
“It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me, and my father say things that just simply weren’t true, and my grandmother quietly sit there and take it all in,” Harry said while referring the summit with Prince William, then-Prince Charles, and Queen Elizabeth II.
The decision to leave was announced to the press before it was told to the family. This may have played a part in the royal family’s intense reaction to the news.
While the couple are recognized for their humanitarian efforts, many British citizens are not big fans of theirs. The Savanta poll displays that six out of 10 Brits thought that it was a bad idea for the couple to release the Netflix documentary. The same poll also showed that both Harry and Meghan have negative approval ratings of -3 and -19 compared to his brother Prince William who has an approval rating of +60.
The consensus in the British press is that this venture is an opportunity for the Duke and Duchess to cash in on their previous royal status, while pushing their anti-monarchy narrative. It is not yet known if the docuseries venture will improve their reputation in their current post-royalty chapter. However, there are unconfirmed rumors by Netflix or the couple that the deal was worth $100 million. The palace has stated that they are not going to comment on the series.
The episodes came out right before the current royal family attended mass at London’s Westminster Abbey. The service was called “Royal Carols: Together at Christmas.” It was hosted by Kate, the Princess of Wales. She was accompanied by her Husband Prince William and their two oldest children. King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort, along with other royals also attended the event.
The Royal Carols was dedicated to the late Queen Elizabeth II. Her funeral was also held at this venue in September. Even though, she is no longer here, she still had a presence at the event as she delivered a taped Christmas message to the nation.


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First post-election meeting of the community council for Cathedrals and Chaucer wards.
Half the membership of the community council has changed since the last meeting: come and meet your new councillors - Geoffrey Thornton in Cathedrals ward and Poddy Clark and Claire Hickson in Chaucer ward.
Help to set the agenda for the community council for the next year.
This year's projects to be funded by the Community Council Fund will be announced.
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Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (HoSE: TCB) maintains its prominent position in the industry in terms of asset quality as well as profitability. The Bank is constantly improving its digitalization and expanding the ecosystem to attract customers. We update TCB's target price at VND 43,700 based on expectations of continued revenue growth and TCB's asset health. However, we adjust the forecast based on fluctuations in the macroeconomic situation and discount downside risks related to the corporate bond portfolio.
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Sometimes Decency and Grit Win
A review of the documentary film “Time for Ilhan”.
Posted Apr 17, 2018
This film, premiering at the 2018 TriBeCa Film Festival, opens in the living room of a modest, two-decker suburban home as a mother braids her young daughter’s hair. But this is no ordinary woman: She is about to run for the Minnesota state legislature—a woman of color, an immigrant, a Somali and a Muslim. She will run against two other candidates, the incumbent of 43 years, a Jewish woman, as well as a fellow Somali, who happens to be a man. Speak about having the deck stacked against you.
Ilhan Oman stands a (slim) chance because in her district live seventy thousand Somalis as well as the students and faculty of the University of Minnesota. But never before has a Somali (and woman and Muslim) won a statewide or national election in the USA. Yet she has the spirit of a fighter, a belief in the power of community and humanity, brains, warmth and wisdom, and a determination to serve. She reminds me of Barack Obama when he came onto the national stage. Ilhan seems like him, bringing a message of hope and having been a community organizer. She also has a family—a father, husband and three children (her mother died when she was two), who stand by her, literally and figuratively. Her husband takes a leave from his work to enable her to be constantly on the campaign trail.
Ilhan, as all her posters and media refer to her, arrived in the United States, in New York City at the age of 12, speaking no English. Her father and siblings had fled the civil war in Somalia and had lived for four years in a refugee camp in Kenya. They found their way from the East Coast to the Twin Cities and so began her route to an education, citizenship and the cause of making life better for the people of Minnesota. A rags-to-riches (in values and meaning) story. Yet there is nothing sentimental about this documentary, which takes us through the ordeal of her trek from caucuses, to the primary (where none of the three candidates was endorsed), and to election in her district.
Her campaign policy focus was a tableau that included fossil fuels, economic inequity and poverty, student debt, unemployment and the correctional system. She also signified the growing emergence of women running for political office as well as a future characterized by diversity in color, race and religion. Ilhan had to face and rise above the deep biases held against Muslims throughout our land, and the views in her own Somali, Muslim community that she was too young and a woman. She faced questions from voters like “…did you father and husband give you permission to run?”
Ilhan’s legislative journey reminded me of what Gandhi famously said about taking on the establishment: “First they ignore you, then they shame you, then they fight you, then you win.” Though for Ilhan the fight, which she was winning, preceded the shaming, in which she was falsely alleged of immigration fraud in an effort to destroy her politically. The US Attorney in Minnesota determined there was nothing illegal. But she had to both suffer and recover from the hate campaign that had been waged against her. That’s resilience, grit and a good measure of grace.
Finally, Ilhan wins the statewide election against all the odds. At the same moment, another woman, Hillary Clinton, loses. Ilhan is humbled by her victory and cries, not only for the privilege she has been given but to a sense of what lies ahead in our nation.
Directed and produced by Norah Shapiro, a former public defender, the film has the pace and suspense of a Hitchcock thriller. Even if you know the outcome, you will sit on the edge of your seat. Shapiro has the eye of a fine photographer, the timing of a bullfighter, and the capacity to take us into intimate personal and campaign moments without feeling intrusive or voyeuristic.
Bravo for this film, for Ilhan Oman, her family, her community, and for Ms. Shapiro. At a time when our country seems to have lost its moral compass, we need ample doses of humanity and hope, and a moral tale that shows us that sometimes the good guys win.
Dr. Lloyd Sederer is a psychiatrist and public health doctor. The opinions offered here are entirely his own.

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What do we find in the LSE Library and Women’s Library archives and special collections if we look for the earth?
This exhibition brings together some of the stories that offer answers to this question; from the Keep Britain Tidy campaign (founded by chair of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes Elizabeth Brunner), to the extraordinary series of women’s protests held at Greenham Common in the 1980s and 90s.
The exhibition also marks LSE Library as the new home of the archives of the Green Party of England and Wales, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of their founding this year. Beginning life in Coventry as PEOPLE in 1973, special guests Mitya Pearson (King’s College, London) and the Green Party Archives Group curate objects from this new and important collection.
Jean Lambert, Green Party Archive Group and former MEP:
This is a significant collection for the whole Green movement and not just the Green Party of England and Wales. It’s great that the archives now have a home at LSE. This exhibition only gives a taste of the many fascinating original documents to explore and which make clear the impact the party has had nationally and across Europe.
Daniel Payne, Library curator:
It’s been a very interesting experience to look at archives that speak about the environment within our collections, as it’s a theme I’ve not explored before. I chose the title Clothing this Naked Earth from the memoir of Wangari Maathai, which appears in the exhibition. My favourite item on display is a jumpsuit worn by one of the protestors on a march to Greenham. Having objects like these as well as text-based ones really brings it to life.
Watch the recording of our event Is There an Alternative to “Growth, Growth, Growth”?
Green Party Archive
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Green Party of England and Wales. In 2021 a Greens Archive Project was established by the Green Party to locate historically important material. LSE Library joined the Project and since August 2021 the Library has been collecting material from activists to form a Green Party archive. The archive has been catalogued by LSE Library archivist Nick White and is now available to all for consultation.
Our archives and special collections are open to all. You can browse the archives record for the Green Party and also the papers of Jonathan Porritt. If you would like to book an appointment to come view the archive, please see our access and special collections archive page, or else get in touch.
The image of the earth in the sandtimer is from a Green Party poster, which also appears in the exhibition.
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Belluscura has developed the X-PLOR, a lightweight, portable oxygen delivery device aimed at treating the millions of people globally suffering from chronic lung diseases. The company plans to launch this novel and cost-effective device in the US in 2019, with Europe to follow.
Over 250 million people suffer from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) globally; now the third leading cause of death. COPD is not curable, but patients with COPD are prescribed supplemental oxygen to help relieve shortness of breath and reduce the risk of death. Improving both the mobility of patients and their quality of life is key to living longer, more productive lives.
We have an exclusive license to a patented portable oxygen concentrator (POC), the X-PLOR, that delivers 96% pure oxygen to patients 24/7. The X-PLOR is designed to replace metal oxygen tanks and heavier devices.
Weighing only 1.4kg, X-PLOR is 33% lighter and our research suggests can provide 37% more oxygen per kg than leading competitors. X-PLOR will be both portable, increasing the mobility of people suffering from COPD and price efficient, costing less than tanks over the duration of the disease.
As pollution, smoking and lives increase, the oxygen market will continue to grow from £1.1bn to £1.9bn by 2024. Our research suggests that a 3% market share within 3 years could generate £46m in sales.
We plan to expand our proprietary oxygen platform technology into other multi £bn markets such as sleep and wound care. Moreover, we have filed patents on a next-generation portable artificial lung.
We are seeking to raise £500,000 to complete regulatory clearance and launch the X-PLOR in September 2019.


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Harvard College was removed to Concord to allow its buildings to be used by Revolutionary soldiers. Leaving the station, take the short street leading eastward, nearly parellel with the railroad; turning from which to the left into Monument street, you will pass along the road followed by the British to the old North bridge, and crossing the track you will soon reach on the left the old Manse. 9 On the other side of the street, nearly opposite is another of the old houses of Concord, in the L of which, near one of the windows, may be seen a diamond-shaped mark, showing at its center the hole made by a British bullet on the day' of the fight. Fastened directly over it is a fragment of the old bridge. Placed on the lawn in front is a large stone which was originally one of the stepping-stones of the causeway beyond the bridge, for use when the water was high; and over which Capt. Isaac Davis fell, instantly killed by the volley of British guns which Opened the fight.
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Christina Lauren’s Beautiful Secret is ALMOST HERE!!! I can’t wait for you all to experience Niall and Ruby’s story – Fans of the series won’t want to miss it!
Beautiful Beginning by Christina Lauren
Series: Beautiful Bastard #4 (full reading order below)
Publication Date: April 14th 2015
AN UPTIGHT BRITISH EXECUTIVE. AN ADVENTUROUS AMERICAN NEWBIE. A SEXY INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL IN THE MAKING.
New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Christina Lauren’s Beautiful and Wild Seasons series hook up in Beautiful Secret for an erotic intercontinental romp that celebrates the best of both worlds!
When Ruby Miller’s boss announces he’s sending her on an extended business trip to New York City, she’s shocked. As one of the best and brightest young engineers in London, she knows she’s professionally up to the task. The part that’s throwing her is where she’ll be spending a month up close and personal working alongside—and staying in a hotel with—Niall Stella, her firm’s top urban planning executive and The Hottest Man Alive. Despite her ongoing crush, Ruby is certain Niall barely knows she’s alive…until their flirty overnight flight makes him sit up and take notice.
Not one for letting loose and breaking rules, recently divorced Niall would describe himself as hopeless when it comes to women. But even he knows outgoing California-girl Ruby is a breath of fresh air. Once she makes it her mission to help the sexy Brit loosen his tie, there’s no turning back. Thousands of miles from London, it’s easy for the lovers to play pretend. But when the trip is over, will the relationship they’ve built up fall down?
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Reading Order: Beautiful Bastard series
#1 ~ Beautiful Bastard: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads
#1.5 ~ Beautiful Bitch: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads
#2 ~ Beautiful Stranger: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads
#2.5 ~ Beautiful Bombshell: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads
#3 ~ Beautiful Player: My Review • Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads
#3.5 ~ Beautiful Beginning: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads
#3.6 ~ Beautiful Beloved: My Review • Ebook • Goodreads
#4 ~ Beautiful Secret: Ebook • Paperback • Goodreads (April 14, 2015)
Lauren Billings (but everyone calls her Lo) has a Ph.D. in neuroscience and before she made writing her full-time job, would spend her days doing nerdy research-type things wearing a lab coat and goggles. She is silly Mommy to two littles, wife to one mountain biking homebrewing scientist, bestie to a shoe-stealer, and an unabashed lover of YA and romance.
Christina Hobbs (but you’ll always hear Lo call her PQ) used to spend her days in a junior high counseling office surrounded by teenagers. Married to the cutest boy in school, she has a thirteen year old daughter, is an unapologetic lover of boy bands and glitter, and also likes to steal Lo’s shoes.
You can follow their shenanigans at:
Their Website. @lolashoes (Lauren) & @seeCwrite (Christina) on Twitter. On Tumblr! where we post kissing gifs and writerly stuff and Wattpad for short stories and sneak peeks!
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Superb! Watch now the world premiere of Maroon 5's 'intimate' music video for "Love Somebody", one of the band's greatest songs ever, and the fourth official single from Maroon's platinum-selling newest studio album "Overexposed". Watch above!
Directed by Rich Lee, the original, simple and visually stunning MV for "Love Somebody", shows band frontman Adam Levine getting hot and heavy with a fine lady, model Emily Ratajkowski, as they 'unveil' their painted bodies by touching and caressing their own and each other's 'blank' skin. How cool was that?. "Love Somebody" is produced and co-written by Ryan Tedder. This song has got to smash! It's one of Maroon 5's best yet.
What do you think of the video?
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Wednesday, 10 August 2016
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I painted these beauties as a "favour" to a friend who I play D&D with, I'll be expecting payment in full Marty.!
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August 10, 2016
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Long was the Huskers top offensive lineman.
Nebraska guard Spencer Long is expected to miss the remainder of the season due to a knee injury suffered in Saturday’s win over Purdue.
Long was one of the best linemen in the Big Ten and was a preseason All-American selection by Athlon Sports.
The senior had 33 career starts prior to Saturday’s injury.
Junior Mike Moudy is listed as Long’s backup at right guard, but with a bye week, Nebraska may evaluate the entire line and shuffle this group before playing at Minnesota on Oct. 26.
Spencer Long will have surgery Thursday. "It looks like he'll be out for the year," Bo Pelini said on Big Ten teleconference. #Huskers— Steven M. Sipple (@HuskerExtraSip) October 15, 2013


The fouta towel lurex Malabar & Gold serves initially as towel for hammam and bath, nowadays it became the essential accessory used as a sarong, beach towel, cloth or cast for sofa and bed. It’s very soft , chic and elegant.
- Size: 100 X 200 cm, weight approximately 400 grams
- 97% Cotton, 3% Lurex
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Brand new shape. I'm using this one at the moment. Great in the sea and rivers. Pulls with a big grip but first bite not that important so a little more forgiving than the B min. Size: 49 x 15,5
I personally love this blade. It works in all conditions, sea,river, flat water you name it! Its forgiving but still grips the water. Perfect for just about anyone. Size: 50 x 16
I enjoy this blade on flat water and lots of guys use this in the sea and rivers too. It has a strong initial bite in the water and can be tricky to learn with but great once you're looking to go faster! Size: 50 x 16
This is a perfect size blade for kids and women. It has a lovely shape that will guide your paddle stroke giving you a good technique and forcing you to use your body to pull the blade not just your arms. Size: 46 x 14
The good old Flat paddle made in the stone age but still has its uses! White water, wave ski, fishing ski and sunset cruses! generally a heavier blade and dead easy to use but not for racing!


The 10-year anniversary of the dot-com crash is next month, a good time to write about the fine line between leadership and hubris.
In early 2000, HomeGain, an online real estate company that I started the year before, was chasing leader Realtor.com. We were quickly building awareness and sign-ups around our home-valuation tool and our venture-backed radio spend. In those days, we were second or third in online real estate traffic and the premium was on visitor count and user engagement, not revenue. (In just a few months, the math and mood changed for all dot-com entrepreneurs and their investors). Hubris was creeping in.
Get stars in your eyes and your head will blow up.


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For the minor feature-length documentary Place de la Republique (produced 1972, released 1974), Louis Malle and his mini-crew (Jean-Claude Laureux, Etienne Becker and Fernand Mozskowicz) travel to the Place de la Republique in Paris during the autumn of 1972 and utilize a "man on the street" approach, filming various passersby and asking them random questions about their lives, their experiences and their feelings. At one point about 2/3 of the way through the film, a pretty girl who starts off as one of the subjects takes Malle's camera and conducts the interviews herself. Place acts as a kind of companion film to the director's Humain, trop Humain; both are cinema direct works, but only in Humain does the director utilize a schematic editorial structure. Though Suzanne Baron edited Place, here Malle generally resists imposing any kind of an editorial vision and simply films what he comes across, letting the events unfold before him.
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(...) In his next film, Place de la République (1974), Malle takes a more direct approach to the lives of working people, simply training the camera and microphone on anyone who happens to stroll by one short stretch of sidewalk in a working-class neighborhood of Paris. Malle asks them questions about themselves and playfully comments on the camera’s role in the film. The result is a surprisingly penetrating examination of the very real, material factors that affect people’s happiness. Money, race, religion, sex—they’re all there in this elegant experiment, which embodies the curious, compassionate sensibility that informed all of Malle’s films, and especially his documentaries.
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Local structures in BaTi1-xZrxO3 solid solutions were analyzed using x-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) measurements and density-functional theory (DFT) calculations. We demonstrate that for low concentrations of Ti, isolated Ti atoms in the relatively large octahedral sites of the BaZrO3 lattice acquire centrosymmetric coordination with average Ti-O distances shorter than those in BaTiO 3. In contrast for higher concentrations of Ti, Ti atoms having one or more Ti as their B-site nearest neighbors undergo polar off-center displacements. Our DFT calculations confirm both effects. These results combined with the previously published data suggest that isolated polarizable ions on the B sites of a relatively expanded host perovskite lattice remain nonpolar by symmetric relaxation of the nearest-neighbor oxygen atoms to yield nearly ideal bond lengths around the dopant species. For neighboring Ti atoms, such symmetric relaxation is impossible, and these atoms are displaced off center. Our XAFS measurements did not detect any significant deviations from a random distribution of Ti and Zr in the present samples except for compositions close to BaTiO3. The DFT calculations suggest that the dominant effect of the local displacements on band-gap values for this system is determined by the shortest Ti-O bonds due to strong Ti 3d-O 2p hybridization; however, local displacements have only a secondary effect on the band-gap behavior.
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A 14-year-old kid Braydan Wrana passed away in the shooting incident. He died on Wednesday night at his house on Tabor Ridge Road NE in Mineral City. This news is getting circulated on the web. This news has made several questions in the mind of the people. Braydon Wrana dead shot on Wednesday Night. When the kid dead people got shocked. He was only 14 years old and left the world tragically. People are hitting the search engine to gain all the details about the news. What happened to Braydon Wrana? How did he die? Let’s continue the article. Keep Visting Grabuptrends.com
According to the report, He died when accidentally shot himself in the head while playing with a gun on Wednesday. This news has been shared by Tuscarawas Valley Local School District on the official Facebook page. This is very shocking and devasted news for people. They are showing their shocking reaction to this news. Several things remain to tell you about the news, which you will find in the article’s next section.
Braydan Wrana Cause of Death?
On the basis of the report, the School counselor and clinical counselors from the Village Network were made available at the middle school. He got the enrollment in the grade of eighth, on the basis of Derek Varansky, superintendent of Tuscarawas Valley Local Schools. He visited Tusky valley for all four years of his education. Scroll down the page to know more information about the news.
Reports are saying that Staff members were trying to search before school on Thursday. On the basis of the superintendent the team of counseling has organized an assembly with eighth-grade students on the morning of Thursday to deliver the information and show support for the kids and staff. We will give you more details about the news, which you will find in the article’s next section.
Furthermore, people are mourning his death and they are sharing their condolences with his family. This is a very tough time for his family. They are very sad and broke at this time. His family never thought that they will leave this world like this. This Wednesday was the worst Wednesday for his family. His parents shattered after his demise. This is the reason we should be careful while playing with things because incidents can happen anytime. We pray God gave peace to his soul and strength to his family. Stay tuned for more updates.


Lagos — Experts and regulators are seeking increased collaboration, advocacy and sensitisation as part of efforts to curb incessant electrical fire outbreaks in buildings across the country.
This was the focus at the Eaton Safety Roundtable tagged “Enhancing Electric Safety in Buildings”.
Affirming the importance of collaboration amongst all stakeholders to ensure standardisation in the industry, Engr. Usman Momoh, Assistant General Manager, Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency, said this will go a long way in enhancing safety in both residential and commercial properties.
He revealed that the regulators as watchdog has the role of enforcing safety codes and standards.
“Prevention is better and cheaper than cure. Safety in buildings should precede the design of buildings. Regulation is the foundation on which safety in buildings depend upon. However, ignorance and lack of awareness on the regulatory requirements often lead to loss of not just properties but lives,” Momoh stated.
Engr. Achema Alewu, Assistant Director, Standards Organisation of Nigeria, reiterated the need for increased collaboration among stakeholders.
“We will continue to ramp up measures to stem wide circulation of substandard products of imports and local manufactures. However, only through increased awareness and continuous collaboration between all stakeholders will we effectively reduce, to the barest minimum, the cases of electrical fires in buildings” he said.
Also speaking, Charles Iyo, Regional Manager, Eaton Nigeria, claimed that the existence of counterfeit products has continued to threaten safety in buildings and his company will continue to collaborate with the government agencies and relevant stakeholders to eradicate such products in the market.
“We will continue to advocate for knowledge sharing sessions such as this to bring all relevant stakeholders together, ensuring that the tough conversations are had while also providing access to members of the public to ask and receive answers to pertinent questions,” Iyo declared.
The panel session at the event featured Engr Achema Alewu, Assistant Director, Standards Organisation of Nigeria; Engr. Usman Momoh, Assistant General Manager, Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency; Engr Abdulrasheed Busari, Assistant General Manager, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission; Mr Semiu Adeshina, Commandant, Technical Services, State Fire and Rescue Service and Charles Iyo, Regional Manager, Eaton Nigeria, amongst others.
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When I think of secession movements in America, I usually think of the South. But the idea is moving North, and not without reason.
Several state university campuses in Pennsylvania are trying to secede from the state system, in order to avoid exactly the kind of bill currently being considered in New Jersey for its public colleges.
The Northeast is having a rough go of it this year, and not only because of The Winter That Wouldn’t Die.
West Chester, Shippensburg, and Millersville universities are petitioning for a change in status. They want to exist PASSHE, the Pennsylvania state public system, and instead become “state-related,” like Temple. The idea is to give up a rapidly-shrinking subsidy in exchange for greater control over their own decisions, whether about salaries, tuition, or programming. Presumably, they would be free to negotiate their own union contracts, as well as to set whatever policies they see fit. The rest of the system is nervous, because losing its financially healthiest members doesn’t bode well for the rest. The unions are nervous too, because going from one contract to several reduces leverage at any given location, and they might lose whatever gains they’ve accrued over the years in the new contracts.
From the outside, it’s easy to condemn West Chester and the others for abandoning ship. But as someone who actually works on a public campus, I understand the impulse.
States have become much less reliable, and yet much more controlling, partners than they used to be. The inexorable pressure of increased costs for Medicaid, Medicare, corrections, and K-12 combine with a strong anti-tax electorate, strict rules about balancing budgets, and an unpredictable political climate to create a higher education climate of seemingly perpetual austerity. After hearing the umpteenth variation on “tighten your belts,” I can understand the appeal of telling the state what it can do with its belt. One could easily blame the secessionists for mixed motives, and I assume that nobody is entirely pure. But when the state persistently fails to uphold its end of the bargain, year after year, and the direction is downward and accelerating, well, what would you do? One could argue that trustees who fail to support a drastic change are falling short in their fiduciary responsibility to the institution.
New Jersey’s latest idea exemplifies the kinds of kneecappings that public higher ed has been taking for a while. New Jersey is considering legislation for force colleges to freeze tuition for any given student for nine semesters upon initial enrollment. When the state enacts its latest round of cuts, colleges will be entirely helpless to offset the losses elsewhere. The bill is written to apply even to private colleges. I have a hard time imagining that holding up in court, but there it is.
For the community colleges, there may be some solace in county-based funding. For the state colleges, that source doesn’t exist, so the suffocation should be complete. The language behind the proposal is unintentionally revealing. Rep. Celeste Riley, D-Salem, refers to it approvingly as a “great, simple concept.” Great, no. Simple, yes. And that’s really the heart of the issue.
A “freeze” has a superficial simplicity to it. It suggests discipline, and offers an easy conceptual hook. It feels like decisive action. But detached from operations, it’s delusional.
At the simplest possible level: controlling prices without controlling or offsetting costs is madness. It’s like assuming that if you get rid of health insurance, people will just stop getting sick.
Colleges don’t raise tuition for fun. (If I had a nickel for every time I hear a pundit refer to colleges charging “what they want,” I’d be a wealthy man.) They do it to address costs. When underlying costs go up -- whether labor, utilities, health insurance, technology, financial aid, unfunded state or federal mandates, or whatever else -- colleges have to find that money somewhere. Ideally, public colleges would get most or all of that from the state (and/or county). When colleges absorb years upon years of cuts, though, they have to make up the difference somewhere. In my experience, they split the difference between spending cuts -- adjuncting-out faculty positions, cutting administration and staff, freezing pay, automating whatever possible -- and price increases. Students rightly balk at paying more for less, but that policy decision has been made at a much higher political level than local administration.
To make matters worse, “freezes” reward past aggression and punish past frugality. A campus that had the foresight to hike tuition when the getting was good will permanently be better off than one that held the line. Existing inequities will be baked into the system permanently. Why that’s a good idea is beyond me.
The New Jersey proposal addresses the price increase part, but does nothing to address the underlying costs that the price increases are supposed to cover, or to provide alternative support. It just ratchets up the climate of austerity and tells the campuses to deal with it. It’s the kind of no-win situation that encourages secession.
I’m not in Pennsylvania, and I’m not privy to enough facts on the ground to say whether I would support the secessionist movement. But I understand the impulse. If Pennsylvania wants to retain a state system that means something, it needs to do a drastic re-envisioning of what that means. And if New Jersey doesn’t want to follow Pennsylvania, it needs to start by recognizing the difference between cost and price. In the case of public higher education, secession amounts to privatization, with all of the costs that entails. Better to create the conditions that make it possible to avoid it.


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Dairy products are one of the most widely consumed foods globally, and they are essential sources of vitamins, minerals, and protein. Some recent studies have indicated positive associations between the intake of dairy foods and the risk of mortality. This study aims to examine the effects of dairy food intake on total and all-cause mortality in men and women.
This study is a combination of three prospective cohort studies, including repeated diet and lifestyle measures. It included a total of 217,755 participants (168,153 women and 49,602 women) without cancer or cardiovascular disease at baseline. The primary outcome was total and cause-specific mortalities during 32 years of follow-up.
Researchers found that the multivariate pooled heard ratio (MPHR) for total mortality in the lowest category of dairy consumers (>1 servings per day) was 0.95. For the second category of dairy consumers (1.5 servings per day), the MPHR was 0.98; 1.0 for the third-category (2 servings per day), and 1.02 for the fourth category (2. servings per day). However, the consumption of whole milk intake was associated with higher risks of total mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and cancer mortality.
The research concluded that there were no significant associations between dairy intake and the risk of total mortality. However, the consumption of whole milk increased the risk of all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in both sexes.

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It speaks volumes that I spent my opening moments within Disney Infinity’s Toy Box mode beaming in a helicopter, from which I fulfilled my uncontrollable desire to chase a dragon that was ominously circling the world’s expanse. I grinned for hours, despite being fruitless in my pursuit.
For all the appeal their family-friendly characters have, Disney share Nintendo’s unquestionable trait of attracting a diverse audience. Disney Infinity looks surely set to capitalise on that, delivering five play sets at launch – The Lone Ranger, Pirates of the Caribbean, Monsters University, The Incredibles, and Cars – the selection of which will be progressively broadened down the line.
These individually serve as expansion packs, seeing players gallivant through levels as characters from each respected franchise. Though the downside here is that there’s no character crossover, so Johnny Depp’s now infamous Captain Jack Sparrow can’t fumble his way down the halls of Monsters University just yet.
So, it falls to the game’s Toy Box mode to deftly break away from the confines of Disney Infinity’s play sets, players letting their imagination run wild as they fuse together their favourite franchises to craft their own dreamscape.
“We firmly believe that creativity breathes life into the game,” lead producer John Day explained, before taking us through a brief tutorial to showcase just how much there is to play around with. Aerial courses, race tracks, stunt courses, the possibilities are endless.
Armed with a mere Magic Wand, or transitioning your character into a floating Spark, it’s clear that the only real limitation here is your own ideas… as well as an on-screen thermometer that indicates how much space you have left to add more to your creations.
At this point, the Wii U version really comes into its own with the GamePad’s screen serving as an assorted menu that allowed us to scroll through everything available to be placed within our world – an aspect that seemed slightly more confused on other platforms, mainly due to the wealth of content at your fingertips divided between multiple menus.
With total control of the world around you, players can alter terrain at whim: placing roads, decorating their surroundings with plants, creating multi-tiered platforming challenges, or positioning cannons, catapults and vehicles. Each can be customised with differing skins inspired by Disney’s stable of franchises, and you’ll most likely be at a loss when kicking off your ideas.
Set pieces are also an option, players able to position grandiose buildings such as Cinderella’s Castle within their worlds, with other examples being the Cave of Wonders and Epcot’s Spaceship Earth.
Everything becomes more complex through the introduction of switches, basic programming seeing players employ logic rules such as items falling from a box if someone steps on the switch to trigger it. Those fearing that these may lead to immediate bemusement can find more detailed explanations through in-game tutorials.
Whilst play set progression will allow you to unlock more content for use within the Toy Box mode, Disney will also serve up what they call “Power Discs.” Available at retail in blind packs, these will provide additional items, backgrounds and terrain which can be beamed in-game through the game’s Infinity Base portal.
Meanwhile, characters themselves can enjoy getting their hands on items plucked from other franchises – Monsters University’s Mike strapping on Buzz Lightyear’s jet pack and taking to the skies to whizz around the area. Weaponry sees guns that allow players to enlarge or shrink anything around them with a simple blast, which resulted in us mucking around with Bullseye for a good half hour and being regularly reduced to uncontrollable laughter at the results.
As with any game creation tool, it will be those that invest their time that will reap the rewards of what Avalanche Software’s enticingly-filled toy box grants. A 10-minute challenge set by Disney saw us tasked with building “surprising” race tracks, the conclusion of which saw plenty of loosely constructed concepts emerging.
With more time on your side creations will naturally become more sophisticated, with John Day revealing that members of the development team have already modelled remakes on classic Donkey Kong and the Bowser’s Castle track from Mario Kart. Four-players can join you online to speed such detailed creations up, whereas two-players can do so co-operatively locally.
There’s clearly potential here for players to begin to expand the gameplay experience without the need to purchase additional content, an aspect Disney themselves have come to realise. You’ll be able to save and upload your Toy Box world to Disney, who, following moderation checks, will make them available to download across all platforms – meaning Wii U owners can share their skills with those playing on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Disney Infinity’s Toy Box mode so easily embodies Sony’s own “Play. Create. Share” moniker, which most notably saw success through Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet series. It’s a comparison that should flatter more than criticise what Avalanche Software have achieved here, and for that I’m very excited indeed to see what the game has in store.
Disney Infinity will release across North America on August 18th and Europe on August 20th, across Wii U, Wii and Nintendo 3DS.


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Oral law – the Jewish Oral law
- May 3, 2013
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That which is entrusted, bestowed or given into someone’s life via the art of oral speech. (God commanded Adam not to eat from the tree of Knowledge of good and evil
Gen 2:17 , and Adam spoke orally to Eve, so that he may illustrate, teach, disciple and transmit what God said).
Oral law; meaning to orally speak words of instructions, moral teachings, and the prophecies which pertains to someone’s moral and spiritual purpose.
God’s oral law went from Adam to Seth, from Seth it was spoken orally into Enosh’s life. From Enosh it was passed down to Jared, from Jared the oral law of God was passed down to Enoch, from Enoch it was spoken into the life of Methuselah.
From Methuselah it went to Lamech and from Lamech it was passed down to Noah as it is written in (Gen 5:1-32).
Noah spoke the oral law and moral teachings of God into Shem’s life, Shem and his father Noah taught it into the life of Abraham.
(Noah was still alive during the time when Abraham was dwelling in the land of Ur of the Chaldeans)
The Oral law: Moses commanded it verbally to Joshua and the congregation of Israel saying; Make sure you observe every thing that I proscribe to you. And from that point the Jewish Oral law began to take shape.
The written Torah (five books of Moses) did not have power on it’s own with out the Oral law.
During the exile of Israel in Babylon, the Jewish Oral law was compiled up and written in the Talmud.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU’s nominee for health chief pledged on Tuesday to oppose the import of some U.S. foodstuffs such as chemically-treated meat that Washington hopes to be able to sell to Europe under a planned multi-billion-dollar transatlantic trade deal.
In comments at his confirmation hearing in the European Parliament that will delight EU heavyweights France and Germany, Vytenis Andriukaitis also said genetically modified crops posed a “philosophical problem” that threatened Europe’s biodiversity.
The United States, now in negotiations with the European Union on a free trade pact that would create a joint market of 800 million people, wants the 28-nation bloc to take a more science-based approach to GM crops and hormone-treated meat.
“I cannot make any compromises on this issue, whether it is hormones in meat or chlorine baths for poultry,” Andriukaitis told EU lawmakers in the hearing on his nomination to be head of health and food safety policy in the next European Commission.
Asked repeatedly by EU lawmakers from across the political spectrum where he stood on GM crops, which are widely grown in the Americas and Asia, the Lithuanian nominee urged caution.
“Cultivation of GMOS is a huge problem from a philosophical point of view,” said Andriukaitis, a doctor by training. “If we want to interfere with biodiversity, we have to be very vigilant and cautious.”
There is strong opposition in a number of EU member states, including France and Germany, to GM foods, growth hormones in cattle and to chicken that is disinfected with chemicals. Europe uses antibiotics.
Andriukaitis’ stance signals further tension in the talks to clinch the free-trade pact, which proponents say must also break down farm trade barriers to deliver the greatest benefits.
An accord would allow the EU to sell more of its luxury cars, trains and chemicals in the United States, a very attractive prospect for an economy whose slow recovery from the euro zone debt crisis is faltering.
Selling the benefits of a deal, which could generate $100 billion a year in economic growth for both the EU and the United States, has also been complicated by concerns about U.S. companies becoming too powerful via the accord.
The EU’s designated trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom of Sweden, told EU lawmakers on Monday that provisions for investor arbitration - so called investor-state dispute settlement - could be dropped from the free trade deal.
Andriukaitis also promised on Tuesday to review the EU’s GM approval process in the first six months of his mandate.
The European Union decided in May to make approval of GM crops easier but to allow some countries to ban them.
In the case of GM crops, the EU has cleared for import some 50 of about 450 commercial strains.
The EU imports about 30 million tonnes a year of GM grains for its cattle, pigs and poultry, but EU retailers hardly stock any GM food because of stiff consumer resistance.
The United States says it is unacceptable that GM strains take years to gain access to European markets after winning clearance from the European Food Safety Authority, compared to about 18 months in the United States.
Editing by Gareth Jones


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A Midwestern, publicly traded mutual fund firm's c-suite is both expanding and contracting this month.
has joined Columbus, Ohio-based Diamond Hill Capital Management
] in the newly created role of chief administrative officer — investments, CEO Chris Bingaman confirmed
on April 4. Then on April 19, chief financial officer Tom Line revealed via an SEC filing
that Lisa Wesolek
will step down as chief operating officer on April 30. She will retire from the company completely on December 31.
"The Company does not anticipate hiring a replacement Chief Operating Officer," the filing reads. "Ms. Wesolek's responsibilities will be divided among current team members."
Columbus Business First reported
on the two changes.
Skinner's new role may not come as a surprise to Diamond Hill watchers. Bingaman notes that the new hire hire "has a longstanding relationship with Diamond Hill as a consultant and corporate board member." She is now part of Diamond Hill's executive leadership team, which also includes Bingaman, Line, and Wesolek.
"She will be instrumental to our firm's continued growth, with her role primarily focused on optimizing our investment team structure and succession planning, as well as coaching and development," Bingaman states.
Wesolek, meanwhile, "has been on short-term medical leave," according to the SEC filing, and is stepping down "to focus fully on her health."
Since 2009 Skinner worked as a partner at AUM Partners, and since 2010 she has served on Diamond Hill's corporate board of directors. An alumna of both Saint Xavier University and the University of Illinois at Chicago, she worked at Focus Consulting Group, Allstate, and Mellon before joining AUM Partners.
Wesolek, an alumna of Franklin University, joined Diamond Hill in 2012 as managing director and head of distribution, and at the beginning of 2014 she rose
to COO. Prior to Diamond Hill she worked at Wells Fargo, Evergreen (the asset management arm of Wachovia), J.P. Morgan, and Banc One.
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Author has written 5 stories for Ninja Turtles, and Naruto.
03/06/13: Chapter 13 is up! Thank you to all of you who have already reviewed :)
25/05/13: Writer's block really sucks! I'm about halfway done with chapter 13 and am hoping to get it done for next Friday... we shall see.
14/05/13: Writer's block sucks!! Thanks for all your reviews, I'm trying to push past this and continue chap 13 but inspiration is lacking and I don't want to post a crappy chapter. I've been working on another Naruto fic (not sasusaku)...
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About me: Hmmm... what to say...
I'm a 28-year-old girl, living in France and who adooooores manga and anime! I love Naruto obviously, Cowboy Bebop, Fairy Tail, Code Geass, Cross Game, BECK, Ao No Exorcist, Sword Art Online, Bokura Ga Ita, Kimi Ni Todoke, Chihayafuru, Baccano!, Angel Beats!, Bakuman and the list goes on and on and on. So I read a lot of Naruto fanfic (specifically SasuSaku although I like Sakura with almost anyone!) and finally decided to write my own high school AU fic. I do have another serious fic in the works but it takes a lot more time to write than 'Bad Romance'.
If you're a Harry Potter fan, specifically a Draco/Hermione shipper, feel free to check out my other penname on ff hathor x.
As for TMNT, I've pretty much dropped out of that fandom so it's hard to finish my current fic 'Because You Left'
I've never read the TMNT comics, but would love too if only I could get my hands on them! I read and collect comics otherwise, particularly Marvel comics, my favourite being X-Men, New Avengers, Wolverine, but also Fables, The Walking Dead and Batman. I watch too many tv shows for my own good, although I'm not particularly active in any other fandom except Harry Potter and Supernatural (although I use a different pen name).
About writing: It's my favourite 'hobby', although I spend much more time reading than actually writing. Writing has recently become a dream I'd like to see become reality so I'm always looking for ways to improve. Reviews and comments are like food and water to a writer and constructive criticism is always welcome!
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