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Build production-ready generative AI applications for enterprise search using Haystack pipelines and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart with LLMs
This blog post is co-written with Tuana Çelik from deepset.
Enterprise search is a critical component of organizational efficiency through document digitization and knowledge management. Enterprise search covers storing documents such as digital files, indexing the documents for search, and providing relevant results based on user queries. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), we can implement conversational experiences in providing the results to users. However, we need to ensure that the LLMs limit the responses to company data, thereby mitigating model hallucinations.
In this post, we showcase how to build an end-to-end generative AI application for enterprise search with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) by using Haystack pipelines and the Falcon-40b-instruct model from Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon OpenSearch Service. The source code for the sample showcased in this post is available in the GitHub repository
To restrict the generative AI application responses to company data only, we need to use a technique called Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). An application using the RAG approach retrieves information most relevant to the user’s request from the enterprise knowledge base or content, bundles it as context along with the user’s request as a prompt, and then sends it to the LLM to get a response. LLMs have limitations around the maximum word count for the input prompts, so choosing the right passages among thousands or millions of documents in the enterprise has a direct impact on the LLM’s accuracy.
The RAG technique has become increasingly important in enterprise search. In this post, we show a workflow that takes advantage of SageMaker JumpStart to deploy a Falcon-40b-instruct model and uses Haystack to design and run a retrieval augmented question answering pipeline. The final retrieval augmentation workflow covers the following high-level steps:
- The user query is used for a retriever component, which does a vector search, to retrieve the most relevant context from our database.
- This context is embedded into a prompt that is designed to instruct an LLM to generate an answer only from the provided context.
- The LLM generates a response to the original query by only considering the context embedded into the prompt it received.
SageMaker JumpStart serves as a model hub encapsulating a broad array of deep learning models for text, vision, audio, and embedding use cases. With over 500 models, its model hub comprises both public and proprietary models from AWS’s partners such as AI21, Stability AI, Cohere, and LightOn. It also hosts foundation models solely developed by Amazon, such as AlexaTM. Some of the models offer capabilities for you to fine-tune them with your own data. SageMaker JumpStart also provides solution templates that set up infrastructure for common use cases, and executable example notebooks for machine learning (ML) with SageMaker.
Haystack is an open-source framework by deepset that allows developers to orchestrate LLM applications made up of different components like models, vector DBs, file converters, and countless other modules. Haystack provides pipelines and Agents, two powerful structures for designing LLM applications for various use cases including search, question answering, and conversational AI. With a big focus on state-of-the art retrieval methods and solid evaluation metrics, it provides you with everything you need to ship a reliable, trustworthy application. You can serialize pipelines to YAML files, expose them via a REST API, and scale them flexibly with your workloads, making it easy to move your application from a prototype stage to production.
OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it simple to deploy, scale, and operate OpenSearch in the AWS Cloud. OpenSearch is a scalable, flexible, and extensible open-source software suite for search, analytics, security monitoring, and observability applications, licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
In recent years, ML techniques have become increasingly popular to enhance search. Among them are the use of embedding models, a type of model that can encode a large body of data into an n-dimensional space where each entity is encoded into a vector, a data point in that space, and organized such that similar entities are closer together. A vector database provides efficient vector similarity search by providing specialized indexes like k-NN indexes.
With the vector database capabilities of OpenSearch Service, you can implement semantic search, RAG with LLMs, recommendation engines, and search rich media. In this post, we use RAG to enable us to complement generative LLMs with an external knowledge base that is typically built using a vector database hydrated with vector-encoded knowledge articles.
The following diagram depicts the structure of the final application.
In this application, we use the Haystack Indexing Pipeline to manage uploaded documents and index documents and the Haystack Query Pipeline to perform knowledge retrieval from indexed documents.
The Haystack Indexing Pipeline includes the following high-level steps:
- Upload a document.
DocumentStoreand index documents.
We use OpenSearch as our DocumentStore and a Haystack indexing pipeline to preprocess and index our files to OpenSearch. Haystack FileConverters and PreProcessor allow you to clean and prepare your raw files to be in a shape and format that your natural language processing (NLP) pipeline and language model of choice can deal with. The indexing pipeline we’ve used here also uses
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2 to create embeddings for each document, which we use for efficient retrieval.
The Haystack Query Pipeline includes the following high-level steps:
- We send a query to the RAG pipeline.
- An EmbeddingRetriever component acts as a filter that retrieves the most relevant
top_kdocuments from our indexed documents in OpenSearch. We use our choice of embedding model to embed both the query and the documents (at indexing) to achieve this.
- The retrieved documents are embedded into our prompt to the Falcon-40b-instruct model.
- The LLM returns with a response that is based on the retrieved documents.
For model deployment, we use SageMaker JumpStart, which simplifies deploying models through a simple push of a button. Although we’ve used and tested Falcon-40b-instruct for this example, you may use any Hugging Face model available on SageMaker.
The final solution is available on the haystack-sagemaker repository and uses the OpenSearch website and documentation (for OpenSearch 2.7) as our example data to perform retrieval augmented question answering on.
The first thing to do before we can use any AWS services is to make sure we have signed up for and created an AWS account. Then you should create an administrative user and group. For instructions on both steps, refer to Set Up Amazon SageMaker Prerequisites.
To be able to use the Haystack, you’ll have to install the
farm-haystack package with the required dependencies. To accomplish this, use the
requirements.txt file in the GitHub repository by running
pip install requirements.txt.
Index documents to OpenSearch
Haystack offers a number of connectors to databases, which are called
DocumentStores. For this RAG workflow, we use the
OpenSearchDocumentStore. The example repository includes an indexing pipeline and AWS CloudFormation template to set up an
OpenSearchDocumentStore with documents crawled from the OpenSearch website and documentation pages.
Often, to get an NLP application working for production use cases, we end up having to think about data preparation and cleaning. This is covered with Haystack indexing pipelines, which allows you to design your own data preparation steps, which ultimately write your documents to the database of your choice.
An indexing pipeline may also include a step to create embeddings for your documents. This is highly important for the retrieval step. In our example, we use sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2 as our embedding model. This model is used to create embeddings for all our indexed documents, but also the user’s query at query time.
To index documents into the
OpenSearchDocumentStore, we provide two options with detailed instructions in the README of the example repository. Here, we walk through the steps for indexing to an OpenSearch service deployed on AWS.
Start an OpenSearch service
Use the provided CloudFormation template to set up an OpenSearch service on AWS. By running the following command, you’ll have an empty OpenSearch service. You can then either choose to index the example data we’ve provided or use your own data, which you can clean and preprocess using the Haystack Indexing Pipeline. Note that this creates an instance that is open to the internet, which is not recommended for production use.
Allow approximately 30 minutes for the stack launch to complete. You can check its progress on the AWS CloudFormation console by navigating to the Stacks page and looking for the stack named
Index documents into OpenSearch
Now that we have a running OpenSearch service, we can use the OpenSearchDocumentStore class to connect to it and write our documents to it.
To get the hostname for OpenSearch, run the following command:
First, export the following:
Then, you can use the
opensearch_indexing_pipeline.py script to preprocess and index the provided demo data.
Implement the retrieval augmented question answering pipeline
Now that we have indexed data in OpenSearch, we can perform question answering on these documents. For this RAG pipeline, we use the Falcon-40b-instruct model that we’ve deployed on SageMaker JumpStart.
You also have the option of deploying the model programmatically from a Jupyter notebook. For instructions, refer to the GitHub repo.
- Search for the Falcon-40b-instruct model on SageMaker JumpStart.
- Deploy your model on SageMaker JumpStart, and take note of the endpoint name.
- Export the following values:
This will start a command line utility that waits for a user’s question. For example, let’s ask “How can I install the OpenSearch cli?”
This result is achieved because we have defined our prompt in the Haystack PromptTemplate to be the following:
You can make additional customizations to different elements in the solution, such as the following:
- The data – We’ve provided the OpenSearch documentation and website data as example data. Remember to modify the
opensearch_indexing_pipeline.pyscript to fit your needs if you chose to use your own data.
- The model – In this example, we’ve used the Falcon-40b-instruct model. You are free to deploy and use any other Hugging Face model on SageMaker. Note that changing a model will likely mean you should adapt your prompt to something it’s designed to handle.
- The prompt – For this post, we created our own
PromptTemplatethat instructs the model to answer questions based on the provided context and answer “I don’t know” if the context doesn’t include relevant information. You may change this prompt to experiment with different prompts with Falcon-40b-instruct. You can also simply pull some of our prompts from the PromptHub.
- The embedding model – For the retrieval step, we use a lightweight embedding model: sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L12-v2. However, you may also change this to your needs. Remember to modify the expected embedding dimensions in your
- The number of retrieved documents – You may also choose to play around with the number of documents you ask the
EmbeddingRetrieverto retrieve for each query. In our setup, this is set to top_k=5. You may experiment with changing this figure to see if providing more context improves the accuracy of your results.
The proposed solution in this post can accelerate the time to value of the project development process. You can build a project that is easy to scale with the security and privacy environment on the AWS Cloud.
For security and privacy, OpenSearch Service provides data protection with identity and access management and cross-service confused proxy prevention. You may employ fine-grained user access control so that the user can only access the data they are authorized to access. Additionally, SageMaker provides configurable security settings for access control, data protection, and logging and monitoring. You can protect your data at rest and in transit with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys. You can also track the log of SageMaker model deployment or endpoint access using Amazon CloudWatch. For more information, refer to Monitor Amazon SageMaker with Amazon CloudWatch.
For the high scalability on OpenSearch Service, you may adjust it by sizing your OpenSearch Service domains and employing operational best practices. You can also take advantage of auto scaling your SageMaker endpoint—you can automatically scale SageMaker models to adjust the endpoint both when the traffic is increased or the resources are not being used.
To save costs, delete all the resources you deployed as part of this post. If you launched the CloudFormation stack, you can delete it via the AWS CloudFormation console. Similarly, you can delete any SageMaker endpoints you may have created via the SageMaker console.
In this post, we showcased how to build an end-to-end generative AI application for enterprise search with RAG by using Haystack pipelines and the Falcon-40b-instruct model from SageMaker JumpStart and OpenSearch Service. The RAG approach is critical in enterprise search because it ensures that the responses generated are in-domain and therefore mitigating hallucinations. By using Haystack pipelines, we are able to orchestrate LLM applications made up of different components like models and vector databases. SageMaker JumpStart provides us with a one-click solution for deploying LLMs, and we used OpenSearch Service as the vector database for our indexed data. You can start experimenting and building RAG proofs of concept for your enterprise generative AI applications, using the steps outlined in this post and the source code available in the GitHub repository.
About the Authors
Tuana Celik is the Lead Developer Advocate at deepset, where she focuses on the open-source community for Haystack. She leads the developer relations function and regularly speaks at events about NLP and creates learning materials for the community.
Roy Allela is a Senior AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS based in Munich, Germany. Roy helps AWS customers—from small startups to large enterprises—train and deploy large language models efficiently on AWS. Roy is passionate about computational optimization problems and improving the performance of AI workloads.
Mia Chang is an ML Specialist Solutions Architect for Amazon Web Services. She works with customers in EMEA and shares best practices for running AI/ML workloads on the cloud with her background in applied mathematics, computer science, and AI/ML. She focuses on NLP-specific workloads, and shares her experience as a conference speaker and a book author. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, board games, and brewing coffee.
Inaam Syed is a Startup Solutions Architect at AWS, with a strong focus on assisting B2B and SaaS startups in scaling and achieving growth. He possesses a deep passion for serverless architectures and AI/ML. In his leisure time, Inaam enjoys quality moments with his family and indulges in his love for biking and badminton.
David Tippett is the Senior Developer Advocate working on open-source OpenSearch at AWS. His work involves all areas of OpenSearch from search and relevance to observability and security analytics.

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The ASEAN region, cradles a treasure trove of plant and animal species. Despite occupying only three percent of the earth’s total surface, it is home to 18 to 19 percent of all known species of plants and animals, making it critically important to global environmental sustainability. The region includes three mega-diverse countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines; several bio-geographical units: Malesia, Wallacea, Sundaland, Indo-Burma, and the Central Indo-Pacific; and numerous centres of concentration of restricted-range bird, plant and insect species. Southeast Asia has one-third or 284,000 square kilometers of all coral reefs, which are among the most diverse in the world.
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This loss poses a significant threat to the ASEAN people’s food security, health, livelihood, and the world’s overall capacity to provide for the present generations’ needs and those of future generations.
The region’s capacity to curb the problem is constrained by several roadblocks, one of which is the dire lack of awareness and knowledge on the values of biodiversity.
One alarming story is that of a critically endangered orangutan who was shot, hacked to pieces, and eaten by palm oil plantation workers in Indonesia’s Kapuas Hulu district in February 2017. Police arrested three workers after finding orangutan meat and bones in their cupboard.
A few years back, a Filipino farmer killed and cooked Kagsabua, a Philippine eagle, one of the world’s largest, tallest, and rarest eagles. Kagsabua was one of the remaining 800 Philippine eagles when he was shot in 2008. The farmer claimed he did not know that the Philippine eagle is a critically endangered species. He has since been sentenced to six years in prison for killing the eagle.
In 2014, fishermen in China’s Fujian Province hunted and captured a whale shark. They told police that they thought it was a sea monster. These are just some of many reported stories on crimes against biodiversity committed by people who claim ignorance of the endangered species and the law.
At the core of this problem is the fact that biodiversity is hardly a household name. Despite the emergence of celebrity biodiversity ambassadors like Harrison Ford and Edward Norton and environmental advocates like Leonardo DiCaprio and Cate Blanchett, there remains a huge gap in biodiversity conservation communication. Biodiversity remains faceless particularly in the ASEAN region.
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 ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC) and Scubazoo Images. Saving the ASEAN Dream. 2004.
 Badilla, Joselle. Tribal farmer surrenders, admits killing Philippine eagle. Inquirer.net. 18 July 2008. (Can be accessed at http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/topstories/topstories/view/20080718-149299/Bukidnon-farmer-surrenders-admits-killing-Philippine-eagle).
 Griffiths, James. Fisherman arrested after whale shark’s death sparks online outrage. CNN.com. 12 May 2016. (Can be accessed at http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/12/asia/china-beihai-whale-shark/).

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The House of Representatives has passed the N894.842 billion supplementary budget transmitted by President Muhammadu Buhari through Second Reading.
While introducing the Bill, the Majority Leader, Hon. Alhassan Ado-Doguwa explained that the President’s request was based on two main sub-heads, namely: health and security.
Hon. Ado-Doguwa who stressed for every lawmaker to be concerned about the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, harped on the need for provision of appropriation of adequate funds to curtail the pandemic.
He said further that the inclusion of security to get additional funding was vital as a way of addressing the security challenges in the country.
The House however, referred the Supplementary budget to the House Committee on Appropriation, chaired by Hon. Muktar Betara for further legislative action.
In the same vein, the House unveiled plans to investigate operations of Real Estate Developers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with a view to plug financial crime in the sector.
The resolution was passed sequel to the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance sponsored by Hon. Boma Goodhead harped on the need for collaboration among various security agencies including Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), National Housing Fund (NHF) and Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) with a view to plugging financial crime in the sector.
While noting that the industry has become a safe haven for stolen funds and money laundering, the lawmaker called for the setting up of an Ad-hoc Committee that will investigate complaints on the misconduct of Real Estate Developers and create a forum for members of the public to lodge complaints against such fraudulent developers.
“The House note the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) is one of Nigeria’s top property hotspot as well as the political and governmental heart of the country, and being one of the two primary international business gateways into Nigeria.
“This investment has allowed it to develop a burgeoning real estate industry to meet the growing need for housing.
“The House is aware that further real estate development means further economic growth as evidenced by the growing number of real estate developers in the FCT proposing off-takers housing solutions to individuals.
“The House is further aware that complaints of misrepresentation, deceit, fraud, non-delivery, incessant breach of contracts with zero consequences, impunity, unethical/illegal clauses that offer no protection for the client’s investment, money laundering, poor quality houses, etc.; has continued to dominate the sector, this was further exposed recently by reports on premium times online media and more recent remarks by the EFCC.
“The House observed also the harsh inhumane implication of these malpractices on individuals who having paid in full for homes continue to pay rent in their respective homes while waiting for their houses to be completed with no clear delivery date as the contracts are constantly being breached.
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“The House is worried that despite the operation of supervisory agencies such as FCT Urban and Regional Department, Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), EFCC, the malpractices in the real estate sector persists,” she noted.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. — U.S. home sales rose an unprecedented 24.7% in July as extraordinarily low mortgage rates, and a desire for more space in the pandemic, fuel demand.
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Technical Abstract: Soils on many dairy farms have increasing levels of soil test phosphorus (STP) caused by repeated fertilizer and manure P applications in excess of crop P removal. We determined STP levels in several areas within dairy farm fields in MN and WI that have received manure and measured apparent alfalfa and corn response to STP during the 1999 growing season. STP levels varied widely both among and within fields. Variation increased as the mean STP level increased. Site-specific manure applications may be acceptable even in high-STP fields because they contain many low-testing areas. Corn yield, corn P uptake, and first cut alfalfa yield were not related to STP, whereas second and third cut alfalfa yields increased slightly as STP rose from low to optimum. Tissue P concentration in first cut alfalfa increased with STP but not in second nor third cut alfalfa. Relatively little P was removed in forage, indicating that STP reductions will be slow. Soil test potassium (STK) was highly correlated with STP, and alfalfa K concentration increase with greater STP. Therefore, in addition to potential adverse environmental effects, high P-testing soils on dairy farms may also produce forage that contains too much K to be fed safely to dry or close-up cows.


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Before Deepwater Horizon, the British Petroleum oil rig that’s now 5,000 feet under the Gulf of Mexico, there was the Atlantis project.
When it began production in 2007 at a site about 200 miles south of New Orleans, that BP holding was the world’s deepest oil and natural gas well. In 2009, Deepwater Horizon, a BP-leased platform located just 100 miles away from Atlantis, claimed that title for itself.
Now, while Congress investigates the April 20 Deepwater explosion that killed 11 people and spiked an underwater leak that continues to spill more than 210,000 gallons of crude oil a day, the Atlantis project is at the center of its own firestorm — one that’s been smoldering since long before Deepwater gained notoriety.
On Monday, a Washington, D.C.-based conservation group filed suit in a Houston federal court, alleging that Atlantis lacks critical safety documents required under federal law. The Mineral Management Service, the Department of Interior division charged with overseeing offshore mineral leases, is the target of the suit, which asks for an injunction against BP’s operation of Atlantis.
“We have learned that, with respect to the Atlantis rig, the same safety deficiencies exist [as Deepwater],” says Mikal Watts, the San Antonio-based lawyer representing Food and Water Watch. “There's a complete and wholesale lack of documentation that is required under federal law in order to operate an offshore rig on United States oil and gas properties.”
Watts believes Deepwater and Atlantis are “very similar,” noting that they were both manufactured in the same shipyard and share the same “incredible capacity to draw oil out of the ground.”
“I can tell you, knowing as much as I do about this, that one of them has a complete absence of care shown that's caused a leak,” he says. “And the other one is in just as bad of shape that certainly will cause a leak if we can't stop this from happening."
“Catastrophic Operator errors”
To lease federal offshore lands, companies must comply with regulations promulgated by MMS that require up-to-date records, including “as-built” drawings that show the current layout of the platform and “piping and instrument diagrams” (referred to as P&IDs) that serve as operating manuals for safety and production equipment. Platform operators rely on the documents to show them what equipment located deep under the sea looks like — and they can be crucial in times of emergency.
The FWW lawsuit focuses on about 14 months of back-and-forth between BP, Congress and MMS, calling into question the adequacy of the Atlantis’ project's safety documentation. A BP spokesman denies there is any incomplete documentation, saying a BP internal investigation revealed that “we do have up-to-date drawings of everything that our guys need to operate the platform safely.”
That contradicts an Aug. 15, 2008, internal BP e-mail from a member of the Atlantis production team that was obtained by FWW that says “there are hundreds if not thousands of Subsea documents that have never been finalized” and cautions this could lead to “catastrophic Operator errors.”
According to a chronology provided by FWW, an Atlantis contractor who oversaw engineering documentation, Ken Abbott, brought the lack of records to the attention of MMS in March 2009 after first contacting BP’s ombudsman, who assured Abbott that the company would conduct an investigation. (BP has since laid off Abbott. In a March 2009 e-mail, he interpreted the company’s move as retaliation for drawing attention to the safety breach.)
In May 2009, Abbott contacted Mike Sawyer, an independent engineer who through his own study concluded that only 14 percent of Atlantis’ P&IDs had been approved by engineers for design or construction, and that only one had been engineer-approved “as built.” Sawyer concluded that “the absence of a complete set of final, up-to-date, ‘as-built’ engineering documents, including appropriate engineering approval, introduces substantial risk of large scale damage to the deep water … environment and harm to workers.”
Zach Corrigan, a senior staff attorney at FWW, explains: "If you don't have as-builts, P&IDs, you are basically operating from memory or what you think the platform should look like, not what it actually looks like. And this becomes absolutely critical when you're talking about what Atlantis doesn't have, which is the below the sea components."
Atlantis attracted congressional scrutiny as early as February of this year, when U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., wrote a letter signed by 18 other lawmakers calling for an MMS investigation into its safety documentation. Shortly after Grijalva’s letter, MMS said it would review Atlantis’ compliance with documentation requirements and issue a report by the end of May. On April 30, FWW said, MMS informed it in response to a Freedom of Information request that it would not take any further steps to investigate the Atlantis rig.
Watts said the lawsuit was spurred by continued inaction from MMS, even after attention from Congress and the Deepwater Horizon explosion. "We have a situation where the industry is left to police itself,” Watts says. “With respect to BP, there is a huge history of corporate malfeasance and safety problems, and we've got a situation where the wolf is being asked to guard the henhouse, and that's not a good idea from the standpoint of safety.”
Just last week, in the wake of congressional testimony highlighting problems with institutional deference to oil companies within the MMS, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced plans to split the division into two sections, one that concentrated on collecting royalties from oil and gas companies, and another focused on enforcement of safety codes.
News of the lawsuit also came as Chris Oynes, the MMS’s associate director and chief of its leasing department, abruptly announced his retirement. A spokesman for MMS, who would not comment on the lawsuit, said he did not know when more information about Oynes’ announcement would be made public.
“I don't think the people of the Southeast United States have any idea how devastating this oil leak is going to be to their way of life,” Watts says, adding that he hopes the lawsuit hits BP “in the pocketbook hard enough to get all their systems in compliance”
”I think that this is a repeat oil slick waiting to happen if BP is not forced to shut down this rig and get all their safety processes in place,” he says.

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Grand Theft Auto Online is now facing an exploit. The exploit is just resetting the game progress of players. And players are losing their in-game currency. Not only this, many accounts are facing bans or getting corrupt.
The main origin of this exploit is North Online GTA cheat mod. A remote code execution was launched through the developer.
Reportedly, it has the power to affect anyone in the game. Also, the multiplayer lobby is at the same risk as the attacker. Further, both online and PC players are at risk of potential attacks.
Yet, console players are safe for now. Rockstar, the GTA developer, has yet to speak about this. For the time being, the company accepts this on its Twitter account.
Earlier, the North Grand Theft Auto Online developer removed the offensive stuff. They apologized and published on their changelogs the following message:
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Previous Penalties on Grant Theft Auto Online Cheat Makers:
Rockstar does not block its community that makes harmless cheat mods. Even people who spread cheats and other hacks are affecting the competition in the game. Now, the company plans to punish them.
Once, Take-Two Interactive and Rockstar have taken legal actions against specific players. Cheat makers are now facing a severe challenge.
The company was successful in setting a heavy penalty for infinite money hacks. The cheat maker was fined $150,000 for creating bad cheats. Also, an attorney fee was ordered to pay separately.
This time, corrupt accounts have to face a worse thing. Several players say that they are still losing their in-game progress. And they are also losing their in-game currency. Yet, there is a solution to regain their game loss.
Deleting a folder “Rockstar Games” from the Windows Documents works well. However, you need to do this before reloading the game. In such a scenario, we suggest you quit playing Grand Theft Auto Online’s PC version until the company fixes the bug.


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A while back, we shared with you 10 Real-Life Haunted Houses in Massachusetts.
That’s a pretty spooky list right here in Mix’s home state. But we realize we have some listeners living elsewhere in New England.
And all of New England is VERY haunted.
Rhode Island may be a small state, but it is packed with ghosts and ghouls.
For the more adventurous residents of Southern New England, take a trip to one of these 10 truly haunted places this Halloween season. But don’t say we didn’t warn you…
University Hall at Brown University, Providence
(Ashlyn Mooney, The Bruin Club Blog)
I could probably make this list based on Providence itself. If you’ve ever been on a Providence Ghost Tour before, you know the capital city has a creepy past.
A stop on the tour lies on the Ivy League campus, at University Hall, the hall built on Brown’s campus. The current home of the President’s office, administrative offices, and even some dorms, was converted into an army hospital during the Revolutionary War. Naturally, lots of soldiers died there, and people today say they’ve seen a contorted soldier’s face in a second-floor window on the right side.
This isn’t the only Ghost Tour stop on Brown’s campus. Check out what other Brown University buildings are rumored to be haunted.
Rhode Island School of Design Campus, Providence
Part of the reason why Providence is so haunted is because in the 17th and 18th centuries, people would bury the dead in their backyards rather than in a cemetery. Lots of houses and backyards were exactly where RISD’s campus is now (adjacent to Brown’s campus, by the way), and those bodies were never moved. RISD has a whole bunch of haunted buildings, including Dexter House, which was a former morgue, and Nightengale House, where people have seen orbs in photos they’ve taken and students have been pushed down stairs by mystery hands. A building called Farnum Hall was so haunted by the ghosts of several children that it was ultimately demolished, due to “structural complications.” Read more about RISD’s ghosts here.
The Biltmore Hotel, Providence
This place is haunted as hell. It’s well known to be the inspiration for both Stephen King’s Overlook Hotel and Robert Bloch’s Bates Motel, and it was named “America’s Most Haunted Hotel” in 2000. Here’s the story: when the hotel was built, it was backed by a proud Satanist, Johan Leisse Weisskopf. There were lots of creepy rituals going on in its early years, including sacrifices and “purification” rituals.
As if that wasn’t enough, the hotel became a hot-spot during Prohibition, welcoming law officers and the public in to drink, get rowdy, and apparently kill some people. It’s most likely this string of murders that still haunts the place, because guests have heard parties going on in halls and ballrooms after bars close. Guests have actually disappeared as recently as 2008. If you still don’t buy it, check out the comments on this blog – you’d think the Internet would be super skeptical of this kind of thing, but lots of people here actually confirmed creepy experiences during their stay.
The Conjuring House, Burrillville
The movie The Conjuring was based on true events that happened at the home of Roger and Carolyn Perron in Burrillville, RI. Shortly after moving in, the couple and their daughters started seeing apparitions. According to the Providence Journal, “Mrs. Perron said she awoke before dawn one morning to find an apparition by her bed: the head of an old woman hanging off to one side over an old gray dress,” and that was just the beginning. Ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren concluded that the spirit was Bathsheba Sherman, a Satanist who lived there in the early 19th century and murdered her own daughter as a sacrifice to Lucifer. She later hanged herself according to Satanic rituals so she could stay on the property. At one point, Bathsheba possessed Carolyn, and…well, we won’t spoil the movie for you.
Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Exeter
(Andrew Lake, Greenville Paranormal Research)
In Chestnut Hill Cemetery lies the tomb (pictured above) of supposed vampire Mercy Lena Brown. Mercy, her mother, Mary, and two of her siblings died of consumption. People thought one of them was coming back, trying to take another of the siblings, so the bodies were dug up. The others were in decay, as any dead body should be, but Mercy’s was fresh and her hair had even grown. They skipped the whole stake thing and just cut out her heart and burned it. Visitors to the cemetery claim to have seen her ghost and gotten her voice on tape using EVP, saying “Please leave me to rest in peace.”
H.P. Lovecraft (a Providence resident) referred to Mercy in “The Shunned House,” and Dracula author Bram Stoker had newspaper clippings about Mercy in his possession when he died. Her ghost has been seen in a dirty, ripped black dress. You can read more about Mercy Lena Brown here.
The Barn at Roger Williams University, Bristol
(Paul Struck, The Hawks’ Herald)
The Roger Williams University theater was originally an actual barn – 2 barns, as a matter of fact – in Glocester. In full Phantom of the Opera style, a seat is reserved for a young boy’s ghost, who they call Banquo. He’s believed to be the grandson of Thomas Whipple Steere, the former owner of the barn, who died in the corner where Banquo’s seat is. Other legends say the boy froze to death in that seat. Either way, no one sits in his chair, and that area is called the “haunted corner” because of the strange things that have happened there.
Providence City Hall, Providence
(Flickr user Blueiscoool/Scott)
Providence City Hall was once featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters. City Hall employees have seen chairs move on their own, heard whispers, and smelled cigar smoke. According to the show, it’s all the doings of the ghost of former Providence Mayor Doyle, who was buried in the building. You can read a recap of the Ghost Hunters episode. WPRI also did a report on the episode:
Yup, the beautiful vacation spot that you can take the ferry to – it’s haunted. People have seen phantom pirate ships off the coast, and several buildings have ghosts of their own. The Surf Hotel was also featured on Ghost Hunters – employees have heard voices and seen apparitions in the hotel. The Southeast Lighthouse, pictured above, is also a hot spot for haunts, where a keeper in the 1900s pushed his wife down the stairs, killing her. Legend says her spirit never left, and she harasses male visitors to the lighthouse.
The Ladd School, Exeter
(Jason Carpenter, TheLaddSchool.com)
This is some seriously scary stuff. The Ladd School was founded in 1908 as a school for the “feeble-minded.” It became home to many criminals & “persons whose removal from the population was deemed a benefit to society” (as quoted from Haunted Places), which could just mean a promiscuous woman. The school was well known for horrible, immoral acts against its residents, such as forced sterilizations, and the patients themselves committed many criminal acts.
Jason Carpenter, founder of the Ladd School Historical Society, has had several creepy experiences on the premises. One of the most known of the 30 school buildings, he says, is the Howe Building (pictured above), where a 9-year-old boy with severe retardation was suffocated with a laundry sack suspended from a showerhead, the killer a former inmate who was also mentally ill. Upon revisiting the Howe Building for a video interview, Carpenter says, “I had just gotten through explaining the circumstances leading up to the child’s death, and had proceeded to conclude by describing the scene of the crime.
“But moments later, when the cameramen and I reviewed the tape, we were astonished to find that the description was missing; all of the filming equipment – two cameras and a sound recorder – had stopped suddenly at exactly same time.”
Other Exeter residents have reported hearing screams from inside the abandoned buildings, as well.
Providence Athenaeum, Providence
The Providence Athanaeum has a bit of romance in its spooky story. Edgar Allen Poe would go there with poet Sarah Whitman, the last woman he courted before his death. Supposedly, his ghost haunts the upper floor of the building. Librarians report creaking floors and books moving on the shelves. They think it’s Poe, holding on to the memories of his last love.
So, do you dare go to any of these haunted places? Have you ever had an eerie experience at one of them? Tell us your story in the comments section!


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Reggie Bullock scores 22 in victory over Greensboro Dudley
For the third straight season, the two perennial state powerhouses found themselves matched up in the N.C. High School Athletic Association's 3-A East Regional, and for the third straight time and the fourth time in the past seven years it was the Vikings who prevailed, winning 67-64 in a semifinal Friday night at East Carolina University's Minges Coliseum.
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Ever wonder about those engineers atop the pit box next to the crew chiefs working away on their computers during the race? This week’s NASCAR Behind the Scenes focuses on one such engineer, Tom Gray, who works with Jeff Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports Team 24.
“I’m the race engineer for the No. 24 car and my primary duties are looking at the simulation and working on race setups,” Gray said. “In layman’s terms, it’s kind of like finance. We look at graphs and try to boil what is happening on the track down to numbers.
It’s very much number crunching, turning Jeff’s feelings and the reactions of the cars into numbers and graphs. We compare those back and forth in order to optimize the setup. It’s an iterative process to optimize the car’s set up.
Basically, it’s a combination of speed and handling and Jeff’s feel and combining that all together.”
Much of Gray’s work, as with the other race engineers, does revolve around not only watching action on the track but also analyzing it all through technology.
“There are different kinds of programs we use for analysis,” Gray said. “Each team kind of has its own proprietary simulation package. It really does look like a stock graph, like when you think in terms of market trends. That’s how we digest amounts of data quickly.
My wife likes to call it ‘looking at colored, squiggly lines.’ That’s pretty much what we do on a daily basis.”
So, just how did Gray get into the business of race engineering?
“It’s a funny story,” Gray said. “My grandfather owned Mario Andretti’s sprint car. And my dad also drove sprint cars. I drove stock cars. So, we kind of have had a long family legacy I guess in racing. I’ve always been around it from a young age. So, I grew up racing go-karts and progressed to stock cars.
I went to school at Purdue University and graduated from there. I worked in the ASA Series and crew chiefed an ARCA car. And then I got my start through the ARCA Series when we bought old Evernham cars. I met a few people from Evernham Motorsports and then later got a job there. I worked with them until 2008 and then made the move to Hendrick.
I started out as a shop-based engineer at Hendrick, not really traveling. I had had some race engineer experience at Evernham, so it was a quick progression. Once they find out you’ve traveled, it’s a quick progression because it takes a certain personality and a certain type of person to want to do this because of the rigorous schedule. When they find us, they are quick to put us on the road.
And the rest is history.”
As with every race team, Gray has experienced the highs and, unfortunately, the lows that professional auto sports brings.
“My biggest accomplishment, growing up in Indianapolis, was winning the Brickyard,” Gray said. “Winning at Indy was amazing. It’s funny because I have pictures of my grandfather back when he was a chief mechanic at the track. They used to line up in front of the cars and take pictures, which was really neat and a cool tradition. So, to have a similar on the bricks and on pit road was really neat. We were all lined up kissing the bricks. That’s my biggest accomplishment.”
Gray’s biggest challenge is one that he will be facing this week at Kentucky, a track where his driver has not yet won.
“The biggest challenge for me comes with NASCAR rule changes and tires,” Gray said. “That’s very challenging. Every year it seems like you have to figure things out all over again. It’s good and I like the challenge. It keeps things interesting, but it is a challenge.
These are very complicated things in general when you figure all the mechanical moving parts on the car, Jeff’s feel for the car, the tires and then the rule changes with the aero packages. And then you have to figure in how good it is not only in clean air but in traffic.
And not only that, but you also have track conditions, temperatures, sunny, clouds. You have to take a step back every time and reorganize. And the quicker you can do that, the better you will perform.”
While Gray acknowledged that he has one of the best drivers and one that will likely be in the Hall of Fame shortly, he also spoke to the importance of the race team and of the team itself, under the leadership of Rick Hendrick.
“The driver has a lot to do with performance but having a good team is critical,” Gray said. “The product you bring to the track and how to balance that with your driver speaks volumes about how important each team is.
You can have a great driver and an ill-prepared car and you won’t win the race. So, the team is definitely important so we strive to execute on a weekly basis. That’s a huge task for us and a challenge to balance it all out.”
“The one thing I love about Rick Hendrick and working at Hendrick Motorsports is that it is a big family,” Gray continued. “Ethically to me, I thrive in an environment where people do care about the people they are working with and it is that type of an environment.
Mr. H. always makes a point to treat his people very well. I think that’s important. This is a rigorous schedule. We work a lot together and it’s easy to get a bit catty with each other. So, letting people know they are doing a good job and are appreciated is important. So, ethically we are on the same page there.
My dad owned a machine shop and he was very much a blue collar, hard worker. I believe that hard work is the key like my dad. You don’t get anywhere without hard work so I spend a lot of hours working at the shop and at the track and that is what Hendrick Motorsports is all about.”
While Gray admitted to thoroughly enjoying his current role as race engineer, he also might like to try his hand at another job in the future.
“I would say this job is close to my dream job,” Gray said. “But I would like to crew chief someday. But this job is pretty close to being my perfect role.
It’s funny, when you are having a bad day, I remember that I get to race for a living. The fans are great so being at the track is a lot of fun.”
For Gray, the role of race engineer is not only a dream job but has been a dream come true for him personally.
“For me, growing up in Indianapolis, I got to see Jeff win his first Brickyard 400, the inaugural one,” Gray said. “I actually had a hat that I got signed by him.
So, almost twenty years later, I wore that same hat and sat on his pit box,” Gray continued. “That was pretty awesome.
Jeff laughed and told me that I made him feel old. I don’t know, it’s pretty awesome.
To be able to work with guys like the caliber of Jeff Gordon, one of the all-time greats, I feel like is a privilege. I try to make the most of it every day.
So, yes, I’ve been fortunate and this is awesome.”


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Internal medicine practitioners are physicians who spend three of their seven, and sometimes more, years in medical school fine-tuning their specialty to prevent and diagnose as well as treat diseases that adults suffer from. So this type of training makes them eligible to practice internal medicine. They are mostly referred to as highly-certified physician internists. These knowledgeable specialists are often asked by other physicians to solve diagnostic problems that can be very complicated. These physicians practice either general internal medicine or concentrate on sub-specialty care.
General Internal Medicine
Physicians practicing under this category are experts in diagnosis and treating chronic illnesses. They also counsel you about disease prevention and promotes healthy living. They do not limit their services or organ systems. Any medical problem you bring to their office are dealt with whether your illness is rare or even a simple health problem and can treat you for several illnesses that you are suffering from at the same time. These multi-purpose physicians offer you care in their outpatient practices or offer you inpatient care in hospitals.
Internists sometimes choose undergo additional training in a particular focused internal medicine area that is referred to as a fellowship. So they complete another basic three-year internal medicine residency training. Many of these sub-specialists specialize in heart disease and practice cardiology. The training they further seek allows them to manage any complex medical problems you as a patient endure. Your unique problem benefits from the advanced clinical procedures that a specialist can offer you.
Consult with a sub-specialist for diseases that include allergy and immunology, endocrinology for diabetes and metabolism, infectious diseases brought about by parasitic and bacterial infections, cancer afflictions, gastrointestinal system ailments, pulmonary problems as well as kidney issues.
Many internists go one step further in obtaining extra training. They train in areas such as critical care medicine and adolescent medicine, palliative and hospice medicine, geriatric care, sleep medicine, women's health and sports medicine. You can rest assured that the internist you hire to be in charge of your health care comes armed with a variety of specialties, which address medical problems that you may have.
The internist practitioner you choose cares for you in a supportive environmental practice. Your internist partners with you and develops unique individualized care plans focusing not only on sick care but on preventive medicine care as well. They listen to your medical concerns and thereby develop the right plan for your ailments.
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West Highland Terrier Pet Portrait Cushion Cover
Knitted cushion cover pattern featuring a West Highland Terrier in a fun pop art style! This can be used to cover a cushion pad, or a box canvas if you’d prefer to display your hard work on the wall and have a unique piece of art!
This animal / pet portrait knitting pattern features written instructions and an intarsia chart for the main picture.
Finished piece measures 40x40cm knitted in one piece in Double Knitting yarn with a 5 button opening at the back when sewn up
Materials Required: DK Yarn 1 x pair 4mm knitting needles (6 US, 8 Old UK) 5 x buttons (approx 23mm diameter) 1 x cushion pad 40cm x 40cm (16” x 16”), or 1 x stretch or box canvas 40cm x 40cm
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I am very honoured to co-host and participate in this wonderful Silent Cinema Blogathon. Also to be able to share my review of the great Charlie Chaplin film The Gold Rush.
The Gold Rush was written, produced, directed and starred Charlie Chaplin. It was released on June 26th 1925. It was later re-released in 1942. It had a budget of $923,000 but worldwide it made a profit of $4 million.
Charlie Chaplin’s character ( The Lone Prospector ) is a weak man but he is looking for fame and fortune through the tough men during the Klondike Gold Rush who marched across Chilkoot Pass. The Lone Prospector’s comrades mock him because of his different and patient ways. As a result, he becomes a victim of the harsh conditions of the North frozen parts. The Lone Prospector gets stuck in a blizzard where the storm ensues which nearly takes his life. This is when he comes across the Black Larsen’s ( Tom Murray ) cabin. Larsen is not happy and struggles to throw the Lone Prospector back out into near possible death when Fate, which saves the destinies of children, turns up as in Big Jim McKay ( Mack Swain ). The renegade is calmed by Jim and he and the Lone Prospector enter the cabin while the Black Larsen is forced to gain food for them. A bear comes into the cabin and is killed to alleviate the pair’s long hunger.
The storm subsides and so the two leave to head for the nearest town. Jim makes his way to his hidden mine, which is the richest in Alaska. Jim arrives at his property to find Larsen in there. A fight starts where Larsen hits Jim so hard with a shovel that Jim falls into unconsciousness. Larsen panics and quickly flees but is swept up to his own demise in an avalanche. Luckily, Jim recovers from the attack but has lost his memory.
The Lone Prospector makes his arrival in one of the gold trail’s boom towns. This is where he is the buffoon and amusement and victim of mockery from the dance hall people. He notices Georgia ( Georgia Hale ) and grows very fond of her too.
Georgia is the absolute queen of the entertainers in the dance hall. In his usual shy and foolish way, the Lone Prospector puts up with the jibes and pokes of the dance hall to adore and watch Georgia. A cruel joke by Jack Cameron ( Malcom Waite ) , who is the leader of the camp, gives him a note of love from Georgia. The Lone Prospector obviously thinks she has written the note and starts to look for her enthusiastically throughout the dance hall. This is when Jim enters the dance hall with part of his memory restored.
Jim’s only concern is to get to the cabin to find his lost mine. He located the Lone Prospector and takes him, screeching, to show the way to the cabin so they can be rich with millions of dollars. Not counting on the love struck Lone Prospector seeing Georgia on the balcony. This is when he breaks away to tell her that he loves her much to her surprise and the crowd’s too. Jim drags the Lone Prospector harshly from the hall as the Lone Prosoector is shouting to Georgia that he will return to have her when he is a millionaire. Jim and the Lone Prospector return to the cabin, which has food unlike before.
While they are sleeping at night time, there is another blizzard. The cabin gets blown half-way over a cliff. Hence, the Lone Prospector and Jim arise to a lot of tense moments before the Lone Prospector is luckily pulled from the cabinet by Jim as the cabin falls to the abyss.
A year later, the pair make a return to United States as wealthy men but much to the Lone Prospector’s disappointment, Georgia has disappeared and can’t be found. The Lone Prospector still adores her but gives up the search. Jim and the Lone Prospector’s strike of fame has magnified the news so much that the newspapermen march on to board the liner to get interviews. The Lone Prospector agrees to put on his old clothes for a photograph. He trips up and falls down the stairs into Georgia’s arms. She was on her way back to the United States as a steerage passenger. The reporters immediately pick up on the romance and ask who Georgia is. The Lone Prospector discreetly whispers in Georgia’s ear, who nods in agreement. They happily pose for pictures and the reporters shout ” What a great story this will make. ” Indeed it was too.
This film was said by Charlie Chaplin himself to be the one for which he most wanted to be remembered.
Amazingly, even though it was a silent comedy, it still received Academy Award nominations for Best Sound Recording and Best Music when it was re released in 1942.
I wish to thank Crystal for the kindness and encouragement you have shown me by asking me to co-host this wonderful blogathon.


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Most of us, at one point or another, read to escape. Sometimes it’s from something serious, other times it’s just a minor annoyance; regardless, books create a perfect little bubble to hide from the world. The mark of a truly great book is one that doesn’t only shelter you from your troubles, but actually brightens your spirits throughout. Emma is the perfect example. I had an awful, awful weekend, which I won’t bother going into, just suffice it so say I pretty much just wanted to curl up into a ball and die. But Jane Austen creates such a perfect world in Emma, with loveable if slightly flawed characters, that you can’t help but feel slightly cheered by the end.
Quick-witted, beautiful, headstrong and rich, Emma Woodhouse is inordinately fond of match-making select inhabitants of the village of Highbury, yet aloof and oblivious as to the question of whom she herself might marry. This paradox multiplies the intrigues and sparkling ironies of Jane Austen’s masterpiece, her comedy of a sentimental education through which Emma discovers a capacity for love and marriage.
Dear Miss Austen,
Although I appreciate we have had a rather turbulent relationship, I am now ready to reestablish our closeness. It pains me that we lost touch, but after reading the disappointing Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park right after Pride and Prejudice (which I adored), I erroneously convinced myself that you were a one-trick pony and that the remainder of your books just weren’t worth reading.
For that, I apologise. I now realise I was deceived. I have owned every single one of your books for a good while, but earlier in the year I finally started Persuasion. In all honesty (because we’re such good friends I feel we can be candid), I only picked it up because it was short. Despite my dubious reasoning, I loved it almost as Pride and Prejudice.
Unfortunately, it only led to further confusion about your writing ability that I vowed to resolve. So, timidly albeit, I picked up Emma, and it is this book that has prompted me to reevaluate our relationship. I know that it’s one of your most criticised novels, but I actually liked Emma. The character, I mean. She’s a bit silly sometimes, but she always means well and accepts when she’s been accidentally rude. I heard that you wrote her character in response to critics claiming that Fanny from Mansfield Park was too much of a prude. I fully agree with your judgement – Emma is much more interesting than Fanny.
I particularly enjoyed the ending to Emma – it enabled me to pretend my own troubles didn’t exist. You wouldn’t understand, as it involves alcohol and psychotic ex-girlfriends, but I appreciate the help all the same. I haven’t read a book in a long time that I felt so connected to.
So this short note serves to declare my undying love for you (in a non-Sapphic way, as I’m sure your family wouldn’t approve) and to apologise for any offence I may have given you. Cause, you know, you’re fully able to be insulted by a 22 year old who was born 172 years after you died.


On the heels of their recently released EP ‘Bury The Bones’, The Northern California post-hardcore outfit DOWN AGAIN has dropped a single version of “The Fire” which features Counterparts vocalist Brendan Murphy. The special edition of the track is available today exclusively on IDIOTEQ and this Friday as a single on Spotify, Apple Music and Youtube.
Comments guitarist / vocalist Lenny Costa: “This is one of our favorite songs we have ever written as a band, “The Fire” has so many different elements and really showcases our versatility as an emo/post-hardcore band. When we were first writing it I was listening to a lot of early Thrice and Emery and I think that really came through on the track with the 2000’s vibe. It also has some of our hardest hitting moments as a band and was incredibly fun to write and record. The song is about realizing some of the lies and manipulation we have experienced growing up in church so it’s very personal and it was important to us that the emotions came through clearly.”
“The best part about the song was definitely getting to work with Brendan Murphy from Counterparts on his feature. He recorded his guest spot from Canada with Vince Soliveri, while we were at Fang Studio in California with Nick Loiacono. His parts really brought the song to a whole different level and it is really cool to have a track with one of our favorite artists on it.”
Down Again pulls heavy influence from early 2000’s post hardcore favorites, which they cite groups like Underoath, Thrice, Defeater and Brand New as their inspiration to pick up instruments and begin their own journeys. This young group, who are also longtime friends, grew up skating, surfing and going to shows together throughout the bay area. Down Again has assembled a new EP and singles that have the energy and songwriting of a veteran group but with the comfort of knowing they are just getting started. ‘Bury the Bones’ and “The Fire” are the follow-ups to their 2020 debut ‘The Devil Is A Gentleman’, which put the band on the map and garnered impressive media coverage from Metal Injection, Outburn, New Noise, Brooklyn Vegan and more.
Down Again had been carefully planning their introduction to the world and released their single “Actions & Their Consequences” May 2020, followed by their debut LP “The Devil is a Gentlemen” in June. These long time trio of friends have spent the last 9 years outdoors skating, surfing and hiking. The music on “The Devil is a Gentlemen” touches on the struggles of questioning faith, loss, infidelity and mental health.
Less than a year later the band released their “Live Acoustic Session” in March 2021 to give those songs a chance to be heard live, raw, and acoustic with shows being canceled due to the pandemic. Down Again draws heavy influence from early 2000’s favorites such as Brand New, Underoath, Thrice, and Manchester Orchestra. The band is rounded out by Lenny Costa (vocals/guitar), Lucas Garcia (vocals/guitar/drums/keys) and Alex Wechter (bass).


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I just wanted to know what you all think of marrying your first cousin? I mean I know its halal in Islam, but in the western culture its seen as a taboo orsomething weird, since first cousins are seen as your close family relative. I grew up in America, and I have this mentality in the back of my head! But at the same time, I know that my way of life is Islam, and whatever Allah(swt) allowed has benefit, and whatever He (swt) prohibited has harm.
Sometimes I say to myself since the west is not my way of life... meaning the western culture does NOT tell me how to dress, behave or live, then why should I go with who and who not to marry? I know both sides of the argument, but I still need more backup support to prove this point of marrying your cousin is completely and 100% a good choice.
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text: When it comes to curating various bridal looks, some festive colours like the ubiquitous red never disappoint. Case in point: Deepika Padukone’s three-toned creation from Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela. Touted as a modern adaption of William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the 2013 release was the first collaboration between Padukone and Ranveer Singh. The tragic romance movie focuses on Ram and Leela’s love story in a fictional village in Gujarat called Ranjaar. True to the ethnic vibe of the film are the various outfits put together by designer Anju Modi, who is best known for her occasion wear crafted using traditional textiles. A noteworthy number worn by Padukone is a red, white and black lehenga in the song ‘Lahu Muh Lag Gaya’. Lightweight and classic, a layered lehenga like this one makes for the perfect ensemble for a pre-wedding celebration like a mehandi or a dandiya raas night. Ahead, we show you how to recreate her look.


LEC construction issue to go to public meeting
SLAYTON -- The Murray County Commissioners decided Tuesday to delay any decision regarding an addition to the current law enforcement center (LEC) until the public can have their say.
A public informational meeting is now scheduled for 7 p.m. June 24 in the commissioner's room at the Murray County Goverment Building in Slayton.
More than $100,000 has already been spent on analysis of the current LEC and the plans to revamp the facility, but board members have yet to commit to a final "go ahead" vote. The restructuring and addition is estimated to cost $1.4 million.
The LEC construction project showed up the Murray County agenda in late April after being set aside several times since 2007. New interest in the project was sparked by a study for a regional dispatch center.
Short Elliot Hendrickson Inc. (SEH) prepared a two-phase approach and was asking for $9,500 to prepare the project for bids -- the first phase. In April, the commissioners tabled a decision for week so they could gather more facts, but at the first meeting in May the decision was again delayed so they could gather additional information.
A commissioner's retreat to discuss the situation was scheduled for Monday, with the board stating its intent to vote on the project at the Tuesday meeting. Instead, the public forum was scheduled.
"This way we can see what the sentiment out there is," said commissioner Kevin Vickerman.
During Monday's three-hour gathering, commissioners looked into alternate space and made a motion to have SEH work up costs on refurbishing the current Murray County Extension offices and moving the sheriff's office into that facility.
On Tuesday morning, however, the commissioners learned it would cost anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 for SEH to draw up plans, which would take one or two months.
"Is that really a viable option?" Vickerman asked the others." I have no problem exploring other options, but how much money do we put into exploring?"
He referred to moving the law enforcement offices to another part of the building as a "piecemeal, temporary fix," adding that the construction would still need to take place in the long run. A public meeting would give citizens a chance to express their opinions, he said. People he spoke to on the subject were equally divided between going forward with the project or dumping it.
Chairman John Giese reminded the other commissioners if the project went forward, it would still mean a $170,000 payment each year in a county where the budget was stretched tight.
"Can we make a commitment to reduce the sheriff's office budget by $100,000 a year?" Vickerman suggested. "I think we can do it."
Deciding the shuffling of offices would not accomplish much, the commissioners withdrew the motion to ask SEH to draw up plans and consulted their individual schedules so a public meeting could be planned -- a trickier prospect than it sounds due to summer vacations and other meetings. During the discussion of dates, Commissioner Bill Sauer stated it was nice to ask the people what they wanted, but that they were elected to make these kinds of decisions.
"It seems to me that if nobody wants (the new LEC), then it would be foolish to go ahead," he said.
In other business, the commissioners opened bids for a road construction project on Murray County 6 in Avoca. The engineering estimate on the project was for $873,107, and the three bids opened came in at $826,978 for Central Specialties Inc. out of Alexandria, $807,951 for R&G Construction of Marshall and $773,221 for Rupp Construction of Slayton.
The bids will have to be read thoroughly before a company is awarded the contract, but according to Murray County Engineer Randy Groves, the project will likely be awarded at the June 1 meeting. The large project, he said, is an "all-summer deal." It is being funded federally at the 80 percent level, he added.


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Beverly Gage, a Yale history professor, is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded....There can be no question that COINTELPRO was more intrusive—if also more targeted—than today’s apparent efforts at mass technological surveillance by the National Security Agency. But there is at least one important distinction that makes today’s scandal far more disturbing. When the FBI launched COINTELPRO, it was acting alone, outside of the boundaries of established law. Today, what the NSA is doing appears to be legal—and nearly every branch of the government is complicit. Unlike Hoover’s activities, the NSA’s programs come to us with the seal of congressional and judicial approval. It didn’t take J. Edgar Hoover to engineer this scandal. We did it to ourselves....
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Beverly Gage, a Yale history professor, is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded.The title of Robert Redford’s new documentary, which aired on the Discovery Channel last night, is All the President’s Men Revisited. At times, it seems more like All the President’s Men Repeated. Though created to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Watergate, the first half of the film contains little that could not be found in Alan J. Pakula’s 1976 political thriller starring Redford and Dustin Hoffman. You know the story: A pair of scrappy young reporters named Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein stick to their guns when nobody else will, and their reporting helps to bring down a president.
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- Critics Attacked, History Revised as China Nationalism Rises
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- A New Martin Luther King Jr. Parade Divides a Virginia Town
- Kevin Starr, California’s premier historian and USC professor, dies at 76
- Secret WWI telegram holds lessons for today, historians say
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Burian, A. and Ratuszna, A. and Dore, J.C. and Howells, S.W. (1998) Radial distribution function analysis of the structure of activated carbons. Carbon, 36 (11). pp. 1613-21. ISSN 0008-6223.
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The structure of a series of activated carbon materials prepared from a polymer of phenol formaldehyde resin with different degree of "burn-off" from 0 to 32% and variable porosity has been studied by wide-angle neutron scattering. The intensity measurements, extended to Q values of 50 Angstrom(-1) yielded the radial distribution functions with the real space resolution of about 0.12 Angstrom. The obtained results show that the structural features of the investigated materials are not affected by the activation process. All well-defined peaks of the radial distribution functions can be reproduced by the model consisting of the defective graphite-like layers with weak inter-layer correlations.
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Composing a care of the self : a critical history of writing assessment in secondary English education /
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