On a rainy October day in the UK, I have been reading our annual report. Like other organisations every year we publish a comprehensive account of what we have done over the last 12 months and report on the state of our organisation. It's always rewarding to look back and remind myself of what, with your help, we have achieved.
The words and numbers are impressive. At the end of March 2018 around 950,000 people had access to fresh clean water thanks to the work of Excellent Development and its partners across the world (and since then the number has risen to over 1 million people). That's considerably more than the population of Glasgow (which is home to over 800,000 people) or Leeds (760,000 people live there) or Bristol (just over 600,000 live in that city). Imagine that. Since we started our work back in 2002 we have worked with communities to provide clean water for more people than live in many of the UK's major cities.
We have achieved these impressive results by enabling over 1,000 sand dams. If you do the arithmetic you will find that the cost of providing clean water to each of the 1,000,000 we have helped, works out at just £13.00 per person. That's quite a bargain.
The figures are impressive but what strikes me most about this year's annual report are the photographs. The document is full of pictures of happy faces. Children drinking clean fresh water, men and women making their way in the world by growing fruit and vegetables to feed their families. These pictures tell very personal stories. They remind us that behind the statistics are individuals whose lives without access to clean water had been hard and perilous. The advent of a sand dam and the opportunity to cultivate and care for the land around it has enabled them to transform their lives. That's why Christina and Meshack, Eric and Charles and over 1 million other people across the driest parts of the world are smiling. With your help, we have given them a reason to be hopeful about their future.
So if you do nothing else when you read our annual report this year take a look at the photographs. Get to know the people you have helped over the last year. You have, quite literally, put smiles on their faces.


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A woman who allegedly tried to hire an assassin to kill her ex-husband through a transparently fake website called RentAHitman.com has been arrested.
The website, which tells visitors it is "no longer affiliated with the Donald J. Trump, CIA, SIS, Diners Club, the Illuminati and Rudolph Giuliani", claims to be "100% compliant" with the made-up Hitman Information Privacy & Protection Act of 1964 (HIPPA).
However, 51-year-old Michigan woman Wendy Wein filled out the "service request form" on the website to request help with an undisclosed "issue".
The request was passed on to undercover officers, who met Mrs Wein and say she offered them $5,000 to kill her ex-husband and paid a $200 deposit.
Mrs Wein was arrested and has been charged with solicitation to commit murder and illegal use of a computer to facilitate a crime, FOX 2 reports.
Brian Oleksyk of Michigan State Police said: "I can't believe someone would think that a website like this exists."

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Does playing crickets and similar sounds layered improve Sonic??
By expansivelovestories,
August 14, 2021 in Sonic Games
expansivelovestories
That is to say, some of the stillness and artfulness present in all of the games but certainly the ones you consider to be most artful, with an echoing nearly endless grove of crickets nearby!! That seems to be something that could work! the Sonic 2022 seems to be very natural in focus but we don't know yet if there will be crickets!!
So far I have especially been impressed with playing Marble Zone and Emerald Hill Zone because they do have so many areas where essentially there could be crickets filling the pine trees and vast meadows!!
charmsb
im the coolest
Well, this is extremely specific. But I mean, sure! Ambience is always welcome. I'm just not sure how well ambience functions when Sonic stages always have loud, boisterous music and sound effects. In Sonic 2022, I assume the music will chill out at times, so you can have all the crickets you want if they're willing to put in that detail.
Grunt and expansivelovestories
Kazhnuz
Grumpy dev noises
It's specific. I won't say if they'll have crickets or not specifically, but Sonic have a good ambient sound design (Forces is pretty good in that, which is strange as most is kinda drowned in the music) so I think that there is no reason that 2022 won't have one too.
I think it could help, but the music design would also have to change, as otherwise you wouldn't hear the ambient noise at all.
I'd love to see Sonic create music in the same way as the Ashtray Maze in Control: the music is made up of smaller repeating parts, and moves on to the next section when you reach a certain point. It all feel incredibly natural and feels like the song perfectly matched your paly of the level.
If they do something like that, they could have the song building towards something until the finale of the level, with some quiet moments to let the ambient noise be heard.
I also think that something like this would be a great start for a Sonic level if you're using ambient sound
Where the ambient noise morphs into the music.
Power enriched by the heart
They would have to prioritize ambient noise over the music to make a significant impact and that's a tool I would use sparingly for Sonic. Sonic's more of a playful, exciting action game than an experiential one. The player isn't really meant to be smelling the roses that much even in slower entries.
Of course, this doesn't mean there's no place at all for it. Breather levels, hubs, results screens and extra time wasters like the chao garden or gallery screens can benefit from extra touches like this.
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KnuxDLX
I've noticed now that pretty much every game is striving to have lots of bugs.
Of course, Sonic games have always had plenty of those.
9 hours ago, Cube said:
I'd love to see Sonic create music in the same way as the Ashtray Maze in Control: the music is made up of smaller repeating parts, and moves on to the next section when you reach a certain point. It all feel incredibly natural and feels like the song perfectly matched your play of the level.
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Ambient sound is actually fairly present in the Adventure games; I know this because while modding them (SA2 specifically), I came across some issues, and a lot of ambient hums, enemy noises and other environmental sounds weren't working; it was incredibly unsettling and broke the immersion.
That is to say, yes, there's a benefit to having those sorts of noises in games.
expansivelovestories and charmsb
Maybe it does sense then to find and archive different recordings in this topic that feel like they are coming from the background of each of the zones in the earlier games and also any others that didn't have them, not for patching into the games themselves but to have playing at the same time as the game audio (and for a more reflective experience, simply the ambience although i have found turning down the game audio substantially so that the crickets are a bit louder is best so far!)
A full ambience soundtrack for Sonic 3 & Knuckles sounds like an actually very feasible project over a period of months and years: whether it is finding the long loops on youtube that fit, and there is also a place called freesound.org that has many field recordings from different real locations, and of course using software to combine sounds to fit that otherwise aren't together yet!!


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Bayern Munich hit out at RB Leipzig over 'cynical' Asia preseason tour comments
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Bayern boss Carlo Ancelotti is pleased with the club's preseason trip to Singapore and views it as a positive experience.
Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has called RB Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhuttl's comments about the Bundesliga champions' summer tour of Asia "cynical and divisive."
Bayern have just returned from a 12-day tour of China and Singapore, playing four games against Arsenal, AC Milan, Chelsea and Inter Milan.
Leipzig, meanwhile, went to Austria as part of their preseason preparations and Hasenhuttl said: "I'm very grateful we are in Austria and not doing marketing in Asia."
Reacting to the former Bayern reserve-team striker's comments about the Bavarians' 12-day tour of Asia, Rummenigge said: "I find his comments cynical and divisive.
"Clubs that went on tour to Asia or America performed a service for Bundesliga TV marketing. I'm sceptical whether teams choosing the easy option to prepare in Austria and Switzerland do this.
"They [Leipzig] were in Austria. I read that it rained a lot there — perhaps they did some rafting against [preseason friendly opponents] Konyaspor. It's all about solidarity. This word is overused in the Bundesliga, but you need to tour and take on a certain burden."
Bayern Munich played against Arsenal, AC Milan, Chelsea and Inter Milan during their tour of Asia.
Rummenigge also said that Bayern expect to name a new sporting director in due course. The position has remained vacant since Matthias Sammer left due to ill health last year.
"I can't tell you anything new because we have to stick to a certain procedure, meaning that Uli Hoeness will discuss and eventually decide on it with his colleagues on the supervisory board. But it won't take much longer," he said.
Bayern president Hoeness added to reporters in Singapore: "We need a sporting director. We have our eye on a candidate and will unveil him in the coming weeks. We believe we have resolved the situation really well."
Reviewing the tour, Rummenigge was impressed by the seamless integration of new signings Corentin Tolisso and James Rodriguez, while also reserving some praise for Thomas Muller — the only remaining Bavarian player following Philipp Lahm's retirement.
"The team have treated 'Coco' Tolisso and James incredibly well," he said. "You really get to know the characters on a trip like this because you're with them every day. Tolisso is a great guy who fits in very well with us. And then there was this discussion, Muller or James? This tour has demonstrated: Muller and James!
"[Muller's] a relaxed guy who's crucial for us both on and off the pitch. He represents this club like no one else. If he continues like this, we'll have a successful season with him. We're unanimous: if we could create a Bayern player from scratch, Thomas Muller would be the result."
Mark Lovell covers Bayern Munich for ESPN FC. Follow him on Twitter: @LovellLowdown.


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For other people named Eric Johnson, see Eric Johnson (disambiguation).
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist from Austin, Texas. Best known for his electric guitar skills, Johnson is also a highly proficient acoustic, lap steel, resonator, and bass guitarist as well as an accomplished pianist and vocalist.
Johnson is skilled in a wide array of musical genres evidenced by the many different styles incorporated in both his studio and live performances including rock,electric and acoustic blues, jazz, fusion, soul-inspired music, folk, new-age, classical, and country and western.
Guitar Player magazine has called Johnson "one of the most respected guitarists on the planet". His 1990 platinum-selling, full-length album, Ah Via Musicom, produced the single, "Cliffs of Dover", for which Johnson won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. He was voted No. 47 on "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" by Guitar World's readers.
Born into a musically inclined family, Eric and his three sisters studied piano and his father was a whistling enthusiast. Johnson started learning the guitar at age 11 and rapidly began progressing through the music that would heavily influence his future style, including Mike Bloomfield, Chet Atkins, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ric Bailey, Wes Montgomery, Jerry Reed, Bob Dylan, and Django Reinhardt, among others. At the age of 15, he joined his first professional band—Mariani, a psychedelic rock group. In 1968, Johnson and the group recorded a demo, which saw extremely limited release; years later the recording became a prized collector's item.
After graduating from high school, Johnson briefly attended the University of Texas at Austin and traveled with his family to Africa. He eventually returned to Austin, and in 1974 joined a local fusion group called Electromagnets. The group toured and recorded regionally, but did not attract attention from major record labels and as a result disbanded in 1977. However, the strength of Johnson's playing attracted a small cult following to the group's early recordings, and decades later their two albums were given wide release on compact disc.
The Electromagnets with Eric Johnson performing at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 11, 1976.
Following the Electromagnets' demise, Johnson formed a touring trio, the Eric Johnson Group, with drummer Bill Maddox and bassist Kyle Brock. They played to audiences around Austin and between 1976 and 1978 recorded (at Odyssey Studios in Austin) his first full-length album produced and engineered by Jay Aaron Podolnick titled Seven Worlds. Although the album showcased Eric's sound, contract disputes held up the album's release for several years. Seven Worlds was eventually released in 1998 on Ark21 Records. Unable to secure a new management contract, Johnson began working as a session guitarist for some well-known acts, including Cat Stevens, Carole King, and Christopher Cross, among others. While a session musician, Johnson continued to perform locally, developing a flashy but tasteful electric guitar sound. His career rebounded in 1984 when he was signed to Warner Bros. Records. There is some disagreement about exactly how Johnson caught Warner Brothers' attention, with some reports suggesting that pop superstar Prince recommended him after hearing him perform on the public television program Austin City Limits. Others suggest that it was singer Christopher Cross and producer David Tickle who recommended Johnson to the label. In any case, Johnson's major-label debut, Tones, was unveiled in 1986 with Tickle as co-producer.
In May 1986, Guitar Player magazine ran a cover story about Johnson. The article helped promote the release of Tones and brought Johnson critical praise as well as elevating his profile in the guitar and music community. The album's track "Zap" was nominated for the 1987 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, but as a whole the album didn't sell well and Warner Brothers let Johnson's contract expire. He signed on with indie label Cinema Records, distributed by Capitol Records.
By the time Johnson released his 1990 Capitol Records debut album, Ah Via Musicom, he was regularly winning awards for his musicianship in the guitar press. During this period, Johnson also drew recognition for the rich, violin-like tone he coaxed from his vintage Fender Stratocaster. The album's second track, "Cliffs of Dover", exemplified his unique sound and won Johnson a 1991 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.Ah Via Musicom was a crossover hit, and was certified platinum.
Johnson is an admitted perfectionist, and those traits seemed to work against the Ah Via Musicom follow-up release. Unhappy with his recordings, Johnson mastered, then later scrapped, several completed tracks for the new album and delayed its release for three years, on top of the three years he had spent touring in support of Ah Via Musicom. He also had setbacks involving musical growth and personal issues while recording his next album Venus Isle.
Venus Isle was finally released on September 3, 1996. It was a unique album with world influences that demonstrated Johnson's growth as a guitarist, songwriter, producer, musical arranger and vocalist. But the album received mixed reviews and did not match the success of its predecessor. As a result, Johnson was dropped from Capitol Records. He rebounded with a successful tour from October to November 1996 with fellow guitarists Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Named the 'G3' tour, it resulted in a successful platinum-selling compact disc and DVD titled G3: Live in Concert.
In 1998, Eric Johnson was among the judges in Musician magazine's "Best Unsigned Bands" competition, along with Ani DiFranco, Moby, Art Alexakis of Everclear, Keb' Mo' and Joe Perry of Aerosmith.
In 1994, Johnson formed a side project called Alien Love Child and played shows sporadically while recording Venus Isle. The positive fan feedback from the shows made Alien Love Child a permanent gig. A live performance recording, Live And Beyond, was finally released in 2000 on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label, showcasing their new songs. The Alien Love Child project helped Johnson move away from his perfectionistic tendencies and loosen up enough to embrace and release a live album.
Johnson eventually returned to the recording studio, releasing Souvenir in January 2002 on his own Vortexan Records. The album, released on the Internet, received nearly 65,000 plays in the first seven weeks after it was made available on mp3.com. Johnson promoted Souvenir with an electric tour in 2003 and an acoustic tour in 2004.
In 2003, Eric Johnson contributed an extended guitar solo on Mike Tramp's solo album, More to Life than This. The solo was featured on the track "The Good, the Sad and the Ugly".
In 2004, Johnson performed the song "Desert Rose" at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, included on Disc 2 of the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival recording.
Johnson's next studio album Bloom was released in June 2005, again on Vai's Favored Nations label. The album was divided into three sections with different musical styles, intended to showcase Johnson's versatility. His December 1988 Austin City Limits performance was released on both DVD and compact disc on New West Records in November 2005. His instructional guitar DVD, The Art of Guitar (Hal Leonard Corporation), was also released at the end of 2005.
In January 2006, a man named Brian Sparks was arrested for posing as Johnson and in the process defrauding businesses out of about $18,000 worth of guitars and equipment. Also in 2006, some of Johnson's guitars that had been stolen 24 years before were recovered.
In September 2006, Johnson took part in a theatrical production titled "Primal Twang: The Legacy of the Guitar" – the first definitive theatrical journey through the guitar's colorful and controversial 3,500-year history. In September 2007, Johnson participated in a second theatrical production by the same company titled "Love In: A Musical Celebration" in which he performed a Jimi Hendrix set, a tribute to the year 1967, often called "The Summer of Love". Also in late 2006 Johnson participated in a second G3 tour in South America, with Joe Satriani and John Petrucci.
Johnson had been working on an all-acoustic project and a live video from his 2006 Tour with Satriani. However these were shelved in 2007 in favor of cutting a new studio album.
His hit single "Cliffs of Dover" appears in the games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rocksmith. Johnson has also signed up with "Operation Immortality", a project to create a digital time capsule of theirDNA and humanity's achievements in the event of a global calamity.
He began a six-date U.S. tour in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 27, 2013, followed by a 14-date European tour which concluded in Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg on April 24, 2013.
Johnson appeared as part of Guitar Player Magazine's Ultimate Musician's Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas Feb. 13–16, 2014, alongside guitarists Joe Perry, Steve Vai, Elliot Easton, Michael Anthony and others.
He appeared with Zakk Wylde, Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Dweezil Zappa and Doyle Bramhall II as part of the eighth edition of the Experience Hendrix Tour highlighting the music of Jimi Hendrix, in March 2014.
On June 24, 2014, Provogue records released Europe Live, a retrospective of Johnson's work that features two new compositions. One of the new compositions is entitled "Evinrude Fever" and draws inspiration from water skiing and boating.
Johnson returned to the Experience Hendrix Tour in September and October 2014.
Eric Johnson and fellow guitarist Mike Stern kicked off their Eclectic Guitar Tour on November 6, 2014 and released an album supporting it on October 27, 2014.
In August 2015, he participated in the "Vai Academy" along with guitarists Steve Vai and Sonny Landreth, and also kicked off an acoustic tour of the Southwest.
Johnson is best known for playing stock Fender Stratocasters and Gibson ES-335 electric guitars through a triple amp setup that consists of Fender, Dumble and Marshall amplifiers. Johnson has also played other guitar brands such as Robin, Rickenbacker, Jackson and a Charvel, which appears on the cover of the Ah Via Musicom album. In 2001, Johnson added a Gibson Custom Shop '59 Les Paul Reissue to his guitars of choice.
Johnson has had several models built to his specifications for sale in the mass market. In 2003, C. F. Martin & Company released a limited-edition Eric Johnson Signature MC-40guitar built to his specifications. Johnson donated 5 percent of the profits of the guitar's sales to his father's alma mater, Jefferson Medical College. Johnson has also been known to use the Martin D-45 before his signature Martin guitar was released.
In 2005, Fender released an Eric Johnson Signature Fender Stratocaster also built to his specifications. This was followed up in early 2009 when Fender released the Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster Rosewood model, featuring the same specifications as the Eric Johnson Maple Neck guitar, with the addition of an unusual 3-ply, 8-hole white pick guard, hotter treble pickup and a bound rosewood laminate fingerboard with pearloid dot position markers.
Johnson has also released other signature gear such as GHS Eric Johnson Nickel Rockers Electric Guitar Strings, DiMarzio DP211 Eric Johnson Signature Custom Pickups, and a Fullton-Webb amplifier. Jim Dunlop also has released an Eric Johnson signature Jazz III plectrum and an Eric Johnson signature Fuzz Face. 2012 also saw the introduction of the Eminence Eric Johnson signature 12″ alnico guitar speaker.
In early 2015, Roland Corporation announced the "Eric Johnson Tone Capsule", an accessory to Roland Blues Cube amplifiers.
Johnson uses effect pedals such as the Dallas-Arbiter Fuzz Face, BK Butler Tube Driver, MXR KD IV Stereo Chorus, Vox CryBaby wah-wah, ToadWorks Barracuda flanger, Prescription Electronics Experience octave fuzz, Xotic AC Booster, MXR Flanger/Doubler, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man delay, Boss Corporation DD-2 Digital Delay, MXR 1500 Digital Delay, Line 6 Echo Pro Studio Modeler, and up to two Maestro Echoplex tape delays. All of these are connected to multiple A/B boxes to create sounds and tones that are both clean and distorted. Although the majority of Johnson's setup is vintage, he has recently started using more modern equipment, including a stereo chorus made by Analog Man and a Fractal Audio Systems Axe-Fx. Dunlop has also begun selling Johnson's signature Fuzz Face pedal.
In late 2006, Johnson switched from recording in analog to digital format.
Guitarist Alex Lifeson of Rush gave a thank you to Johnson in the liner notes of Counterparts for being the inspiration for the guitar solo in the song "Cut to the Chase".
Guitarist Steve Morse recorded a song titled "TruthOla", which is a tribute to Jeff Beck, Alex Lifeson, and Eric Johnson. The song is on Morse's album "Major Impacts".
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The countdown is on to one of the biggest events on the local social calendar, the Goondiwindi Picnic Races.
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One of this year's fashions on the field judges is Sammie O'Brien.
Sammie is a lifestyle TV presenter on Channel 7 but has taken a few months off and headed to the bush to work on cattle stations.
"It's the best decision I've ever made!"
Sammie said the most important thing when it came to fashion was to dress to your body shape and what you feel comfortable in, and then adjust this to what the season/trend is.
"You've got to be comfortable first, to have a cracker of a day," she said.
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And sorry ladies, Sammie said, "my major don't, is never take your shoes off".
The committee have been busy with new works being completed at the track including new elevated areas, gardens and entry gates.
Another new feature is the introduction of online tickets.
President Casey Simpson said, "We're constantly looking for ways to improve our event, and online ticketing was a logical next step for us. Many of our racegoers spend a great deal of time online - browsing, shopping, researching, using social media – it is just part of their everyday lives. We hope that the introduction of online ticketing for the Picnics will be welcomed by the community. It's about making their lives easier. It should also help streamline processes at our entry gates and help people get into the event more quickly," Miss Simpson said.
"We're thrilled with how preparations for the event are coming along. It really is a team effort by our 20-plus committee members. We can't wait to see everyone at the event."
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(5731) Connection of Korach to Gimmel Tammuz - the day the Joshua said (Josh. 10:12): "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon", and the day when the Rebbe Rayatz was freed from prison (5678-1927);
How can one name a Parsha in Torah after an evildoer; Explanation of Korach's controversy regarding the priesthood
Lesson:
The name of the Parsha alludes to something ultimately good "Obstacles to one's avodah, can enable us to reach a higher level of service
Name of the Parsha alludes to something not good
Out of discord comes a higher level of peace; just like the lower worlds in their state of being separated, become connected to the higher worlds
Lessons of the two miracles of Gimmel Tammuz
1. Parshat Korach is read in many years during the week of Gimmel Tamuz (either on the day itself or at least close to it) – This is the day that Joshua said: "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon", which was one of the greatest miracles which ever happened and as the verse states: "There was never like that day before or after etc.". And many years later (5687-1927) on the same day, the Rebbe Rayatz was freed from prison, which (the Rebbe's release) also was one of the most revealed miracles that occurred in our generation.
Since the miracle of the Rebbe's freedom from prison – is by Divine Providence, on the same day that of the miracle of "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon" – there is probably a connection to it from a Chassidishe outlook. Since the two miracles happened on the same day, it is a lesson that they have a connection between them.
And as is known that all the holidays are alluded to in the Parshiot which we read in the appointed time, it is understood that these very two miracles: "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon" and the Rebbe's release – can both be found in the hints etc. that are in Parshat Korach.
2. The topic of the "53 (gan) parshiot of Torah" has been discussed many times. In that each Sedra (Torah portion) has within it a specific topic (nekuda/point), which "permeates" (nemt durch/follows through) all of its sub-chapters (parshiot) and verses.
[And since this point, which is the common denominator
(briach HaMavrich – the center pole that traversed and connected all the boards of the Mishkan )
of all the verses of the Parsha, is alluded to in the name of the Parsha –
since the name of the Parsha, in the holy tongue ( and , in general the name according to Torah) – from all aspects (the name) depicts the topic ]
therefore, we understand that the connection between all the sub-chapters (parshiot) of one Sedra
Also including between the forst Parsha and the last – even though many Parshiot have a separation between them
is much greater than the connection between the conclusion of one Sedra and the beginning of the following Sedra –
even though they are next to each other, which shows a connection between them.
For since they have been separated into two different Sedrot, it is proof that they have within them different points.
[so much so that sometimes the connection between the beginning of the Sedra with the conclusion of the previous Sedra – is in a negative (opposite) manner. For example the "episode (parsha) of the Spies" (the beginning of Parshat Shlach) with the "episode (parsha) of Miriam " ( the conclusion of Baalothecha) where their connection lies in that the Spies saw how Miriam was "afflicted by slanderous deeds" yet nevertheless they did "not take the lesson"]
Therefore it is understood concerning the parshiot of our Sedra, that the connection of the section "Behold I have given you the charge of My offerings" (which discusses the gifts to the priests (matanot kahuna) to the section of Korach's controversy, is not just in that the twenty-four priestly gifts came about through that which "Korach came and made a claim against the priesthood" , but rather that the twenty-four priestly gifts specifically have a connection to Korach's controversy itself.
And that is why the section of the twenty-four priestly gifts is a part of the sedra which is called by the name "Korach"
One must understand:
The topic of Korach is fighting and disputing the priesthood of Aharon. This is contrary to the aspect of the twenty-four priestly gifts which is the affirmation of the priesthood of Aharon, as it states: "I will write and sign a deed for you, and record it in court", How then, can we say that the two opposites have the same point, so much so that the section of the priestly gifts are called by the name "Korach"?
3. Another aspect is not understood regarding the name of the Parsha.
On the verse: "the name of the wicked shall rot." The Talmud states (Yoma 38b):
"Rottenness enters their names, none name their children after them",
which from this it is understood, from a Kal v'Chomer (an a fortiori) that one should not title a (book or a) sedra in Torah with the name of an evil-doer (rasha),
because through this, one immortalizes his name. And it is much more so than if (just) a person "names" someone after him, for the Torah is eternal.
Accordingly this is problematic:
Korach was an evil-doer who did not repent (himself. albeit his sons did repent). Therefore how is it possible that a Sedra in Torah should be titled after his name?
In this itself (itself it is problematic). For, in addition to that which concerning all evildoers it states: "none name their children after them", (this means naming a person even after someone who has) a "regular" (glaten) name – Yet here, the name itself, refers to division and controversy (for)
(Korach is from the word 'baldness' meaning 'plucked out of Israel').
It is therefore even more puzzling that a Sedra in Torah should be called with the name Korach.
The entire Torah (including the Parsha of Korach) was "given to make peace in the world" How then could a Sedra in Torah be called Korach from the word 'plucked out' – controversy?
4. Also the actual aspect of the Korach and his followers' controversy is not understood. For their claim against the priesthood of Aharon was: "the entire congregation are all holy, and the L-rd is in their midst. So why do you raise yourselves above the L-rd's assembly?"
(Seemingly) even Korach and his assemblage wanted to be kohanim [as is understood from Moshe Rabbeinu's answer to them: "now you seek the kehunah as well?", Therefore, how could they claim "So why do you raise yourselves etc.? which completely negates the aspect of status (hisnasus)?
Regarding Korach's followers, one could answer that, with their claim: "why do you raise yourselves", they meant
[not that the aspect of status should be entirely nullified, but]
just to negate a certain sort of status (namely) like the status of (Moshe Rabbeinu and) Aharon, since he was the only high priest. Therefore the claim: "why do you raise yourselves etc.?" was not a contradiction to "now you seek the kehunah as well?" since they wanted many high priests.
However concerning Korach himself, it is not understood:
For he meant that he should remain the sole Kohen Gadol . Therefore, the claim "why do you raise yourselves" also would refer to himself?
5, The explanation of all this can be understood by prefacing that which s stated in the book – Noam Elimelech on the verse: "vIspaleg Korach"
(paleg means 'divided' - which is the Targum of: "And Korach took")
that this is like the firmament which divides the waters from the waters (Gen. 1:6).
What is the connection between the firmament which divides etc. with the Korach's controversy over the priesthood of Aharon?
One of the explanations of this is:
The division between the Kohanim and all the other Yidden expresses itself in that the Kohanim are divested from the aspects of this world and occupied solely with holy things. And especially a Kohen Gadol (which, on him, was Korach's dispute), on which it states: "He shall not leave the Temple"
Yet notwithstanding that a Kohen and especially a Kohen Gadol is separate from all the Yidden, they draw down and influence from their priesthood - all Yidden. And as it states in Likkutei Torah on the verse: "When you light the lamps (behaalotecha)", that through lighting the lamps of the Menorah, Aharon "lifted up (oifhgehoiben)" all the Yidden to his level. He implanted within them the level of "great love (ahava rabba)" which is greater than "eternal love (Ahavas olam)" – the level of Aharon.
And on this Korach claimed that, just as there is a quality to Kohanim, in that they are separated from aspects of the world, so too, there is a quality in the "entire congregation" who deal with the aspects of the world and make from them vessels for G-dliness.
[And on the contrary: the main intent is – that one should make from the lower worlds (tachtonim) a dwelling place for G-d].
And since: "the entire congregation are all holy, and the L-rd is in their midst etc." meaning that the effluence from the name of G-d, the (four-letter) primary name (shem HaEtzem) is "in their midst", through "the entire congregation's" Avodah of making this world a dwelling place for G-d -
therefore: "why do you raise yourselves above the L-rd's assembly?".
Why should (Moshe and) Aharon raise themselves, and hold themselves greater (groishalten) than the congregation of G-d, since they (the Yidden already) have implanted within them Aharon's greatness (hoichkeit)
Therefore the claim: "why do you raise yourselves" was not a contradiction to "now you seek the Kehuna as well?" because they wanted a type of Kehuna that has no attachment to the "entire assembly"
And this is the connection of "vIspaleg Korach " with the "firmament which divides the waters from the waters" because the aspect of the firmament was to divide the upper (waters) from the lower (waters) that the "upper" and "lower" should be divided and not have any connection between them.
6. The grounds for Korach's mistake can be understood from the very firmament that divides:
The reason that on the second day (of creation) it does not state: "and it was good", is explained by the Sages in that: "on that day controversy was created" - the "controversy" and barrier between the Upper and Lower.
Nevertheless on the third day "That it was good" was repeated twice (huchfal bo ki tov): "Once for the completion of the work of day two, and once for the completion of the work of that third day". Thus the barrier that was created on the second day was refined (and polished).
Therefore it is understood, that even though there must be a barrier between the upper and lower (waters), which is why G-d created the "firmament the divides", nevertheless the "good" – the purpose and completeness of the barrier – was only then (on the third day). For notwithstanding that they are divided into two different categories, nevertheless there is a connection between them.
And a similar situation is Matan Torah – which occurred in the third millennium (corresponding to the third day of Creation (ma'aseh bereshit) , whose aspect is that even though there is a separation between the two categories "Upper (elyonim)" and "Lower (tachtonim)", nevertheless the "lower should ascend to the upper and the upper should descend to the lower'
And accordingly, this applies to Yidden.
For even though, among the Yidden, there are different types:
· Yidden that have their Avodah given over solely to holy aspects. For example a Kohen Gadol who may not "leave the Temple"
· Yidden whose work is mainly in refining aspects of the world through their Avodah of "All of their deeds should be for the sake of Heaven" and "in all your paths, know Him"
Nevertheless, the "Kohanim" must influence (mashpiah) with their holiness, also other Yidden –
"the upper should descend to the lower'.
And through this effecting that all: "light the lamps (behaalotecha)"
that the "lower should ascend to the upper" - namely, evoking them with the love and desire to be "Kohanim" – that they should , at least in certain moments, be divested from the aspects of the world, and occupy themselves with the study of Torah like Torah scholars (Yoshvei Ohel)
7. Just as the intent of the creation of the dividing firmament was, in order, that on the third day, it should be brought to the epitome of its purpose – the connection between the Upper and Lower (which is why it later states: "That it was good" which also pertains to the actual creation of the firmament)
So too, does it pertain to "vIspaleg Korach" which is similar to the "dividing firmament".
The reason that G-d caused that there be a controversy from Korach on the priesthood, is in order that consequently, it should bring the giving of the twenty-four gifts (of Bnei Yisroel and their possessions) to the priests with the everlasting covenant of the salt.
This means, that the connection from the upper and lower (worlds)
(where also the Yidden who are occupied with aspects of the world – give from the "first" and "best" to G-d) -
which expresses itself in the priestly gifts – should be much greater than it was before the Korach's controversy.
And that is the explanation of the connection of: "Behold I have given you the charge of My offerings" to the Parsha of the Korach's controversy – even though (as aforementioned in par. 2) they are two opposites –
Because on the contrary: the intent and purpose of the Korach's controversy is that it should bring (the aspect of) "behold I have given you etc."
And this is also the reason why the Sedra is named "Korach"– even though "Korach" (from the word "pluck"/controversy) is the opposite of the aspect of Torah.
Because the intent of Torah –
which "was given to promote peace in the world". making (a new thing) – peace) –
is that "Korach" also be Torah; (meaning that) also from controversy and "plucking" should there should be peace.
And as mentioned previously (par. 6) that even after Matan Torah, there remains a separation between "upper" and "lower" (worlds). Yet on the contrary, this is the innovation of Torah, that also the "lower", as they remain in the level of "lower" should be attached to the "upper".
8. According to all of the above, one can also understood the connection from Parshat Korach with Gimmel Tamuz, when Joshua said: "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon":
When Joshua said "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon", the sun claimed from him: "You say that I should stand still, yet who will say praise to the L-rd?" Joshua answered: "be silent and I will say them"
Seemingly the sun with its claim: "who will say praise to the L-rd" meant,
[not that if it is silent that no one will say "praise to the L-rd" – because also the other creations say song to G-d – but rather it meant –
that during the time that it is silent, no one will say it's (specific) praise of G-d which comes about through (the circuiting of the) sun. Therefore why did Joshua answer "I will say them:"? Joshua's song does not evoke that specific praise?
But the explanation is:
In (lauding and) praise of G-d there are two aspects:
· The praise of G-d from all creations. who do not change their mission and conduct themselves accordingly in the way that G-d appointed them - "they do not cease (rest)". And in this itself, each creation evokes a different praise.
· The praise of G-d from Yidden that praise Him – the song of the souls (Shirat HaNeshamot) – whose aspects are higher than creation.
These two sorts of praise are similar to the two services of businessmen (baalei esek) and Torah scholars (yoshvei ohel):
· The Avodah of businessmen, whose task is to draw down G-dliness into aspects of the world,
(but the light (Or) that is drawn down through this Avodah, which states in refining permissible things, is a constricted light that corresponds to the level of creation)
is similar to the praise of G-d that is evoked from natural conduct (hanhaga Tivi'it)
· The Avodah of Torah scholars, who are divested from the world and occupied with Torah study which preceded the world – is similar to the song of the souls
And just as businessmen
although there is an advantage to their Avodah compared to Torah scholars, (since they draw G-dliness into the actual world) nevertheless, they
require the "lower ascending to the upper". At times they need to divest themselves from the Avodah of refining and occupy themselves with Torah. And specifically through this, the purpose and completeness of their Avodah (of businessmen) is specifically brought out.
So too, is it also with the natural conduct (of the world). Notwithstanding that the "praise of G-d" which is evoked from the natural conduct, (also) has an advantage compared to the song of the souls,
through that which, this conduct shows that also creations ("lower/tachtonim") do not change their mission,
nevertheless, at times there must be the nullification of nature.
And through this, that nature becomes nullified for the sake of Yidden, and Yidden praise G-d for the miracles that He did with them (in "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon") – through this the Pnimiyut and purpose of the conduct of nature itself, the praise of the song of the sun, becomes complete (nishlam - from the world whole).
9. Just as with the "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon" that, even though outwardly the nature of the circuit of the sun was nullified (halted), nevertheless, through this, the purpose and completeness of the nature of the sun itself was manifested, as above,
So too, it is also in the miracle of Gimmel Tamuz, 5687. For even though it was a revealed miracle above nature, together with this, however, it had a working in nature itself, that it (nature) also "concurred" with the miracle.
And as it has been told many times, that the same persons who locked (farshpart) the Rebbe in prison, (while still in power) had to free him, themselves –
And on the contrary: this brought out the "connection between upper and lower" in an even greater measure than by: "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon". Since even at the time of the release they were still in power and because of their power (with their aides) were able to hasten the release,
(not like with "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon", where, during the miracle, the nature of the sun's circuiting was nullified)
10. Another aspect in this:
Even the level of "lower" (tachtonim) was, in 5687, incomparably lower, for:
· The level of "lower" of the sun's circuit is in the aspect of "praise of G-d".
· However, those who arrested the Rebbe because of his work in spreading Torah and strengthening Judaism , did the opposite of praise – yet nevertheless, even they later helped the Rebbe in his release (while still in power).
Accordingly, it is understood how the miracle of Gimmel Tamuz 5687, has an even greater hint (connection) to Parshat Korach, than the miracle of "Sun, stand still upon Gibeon". For even "vIspaleg Korach" (Korach's controversy ) was an aspect contrary to praise.
(not like: "And G-d made the firmament" that divided – which was created by G-d) –
Yet nevertheless even the "vIspaleg Korach" brought the advantage of: "Behold I have given you the charge of My offerings". So much so that from "Korach" (controversy), it became a sedra in Torah.
11. The lesson from all this, in our Avodah is:
When one sometimes sees, things that bar and withhold the service of G-d, whether they are barriers and obstacles from nature, which G-d implanted in creation,
(for example the nature of the circuiting of the sun, which prevented Joshua from carrying out the victory of the battle)
or even certain barriers and obstacles, that are created from man's deeds (like, for example, that which occurred in the year 5687)
One must realize that all occurrences that happen in the world come from G-d. And therefore, it is not applicable that they should truly oppose, G-d forbid, one's service to G-d. It is only that: "the L-rd, your G-d, is testing you, to know (whether you really love the L-rd etc.), in order that through the tests there should come an additional strength and elevation in one's service to G-d.
And when the thing is truly resolved (upgelaigt/set aside), then one ultimately sees, even with physical eyes, the increased light that comes through the hiddenness and cloakings – and as the Rebbe concludes in the notes (reshima) of Gimmel Tamuz – "And to all Bnei Yisroel there should be light, spiritually and physically'.
M'Sichas Shabbat Parshat Korach , Gimmel Tamuz ,5718 and 5724


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Q: Spyon method in jest - Cannot spyOn on a primitive value const onSubmitClick = async () => {
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}
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async function callDispatch() {
const result = call to server;
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fireEvent.click(button);

but i am getting Cannot spyOn on a primitive value; undefined given
I tried below too but it didnot work
jest.spyOn(EnterPin.prototype, 'callDispatch').mockImplementation(() =>{
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Expensive cars may turn heads, but rare cars have a story.
The reason for the rarity varies, but they all have two things in common: there's very few of them, and they're very, very expensive.
So let's dive in and take a look at some of the rarest cars in the world.
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Packard Panther
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Looking like something from The Jetsons, the Panther was built in 1954 as a show car, with more than few futuristic features to match its design.
The Panther never entered widespread manufacture. The Panther was always an endangered species, but now it's a dying breed – only two of the four original Panthers still exist.
Combined with its distinctive cat's 'face' modeled after its namesake, the Packard Panther is one of the strangest treasures of the automobile world.
Tucker '48
The Tucker '48 has a sordid past.
Named for the year of its manufacture, only 51 of the 'Tucker Torpedoes' were ever produced.
Its manufacturer, Preston Tucker, ceased operation in 1949 amidst a media frenzy. Accused of stock fraud, Tucker was eventually acquitted of all charges. Even today, the theory remains that Preston Tucker was muscled out of the industry by his competition.
Francis Ford Coppola is a fan. His 1988 movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream is based on the true story, and Coppola proudly displays his own Tucker '48 in his winery.
1954 Oldsmobile F-88
Unlike some other cars on this list, the Oldsmobile 88 line itself isn't rare. There are plenty of brothers and sisters to F-88 out there, but only four of this particular model were ever built.
It's believed that only one of these still exists.
Another car with a retro-futuristic vibe, the F-88 is still pleasing on the eye with its stylish curves and design chock full of personality.
With its part in shaping the future of the automobile industry over, the last remaining F-88 now sits on display at the Gateway Colorado Automobile Museum.
Mercedez-Benz 300SL Gullwing
This bizarre creature is another native of 1954 – a year that produced a number of the rarest cars in the world!
By far the most standout feature is the titular gullwing doors. But it had a few other claims to fame: as one of the first cars with fuel-injection, it broke top speed records in its day.
The 300SL represented a forward-thinking gambit of toning down sports cars for sale to wealthy enthusiasts, which now represents a huge bracket of the most valuable cars in the world.
Ferrari F50 GT
Not all of the rarest cars in the world are from the distant past.
The F50 was built for the track in 1996, intended to race with household names like the McClaren F1 and the Porsche 911. Sadly, it was outclassed before it could ever go into full production.
Only three F50s were ever made, and these were sold on to customers. The poor F50 became a dead-end, outmoded before it could even face its competition.
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So What!: Dobrzy, wściekli i brzydcy (ang. So What! The Good, the Mad, and the Ugly) – oficjalna kronika amerykańskiego zespołu thrashmetalowego Metallica. Została ona opublikowana 17 sierpnia 2004. Edycja książki przetłumaczona na język polski została opublikowana 1 listopada 2005.

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So What!: Dobrzy, wściekli i brzydcy zbiera razem wybrane opisy, komentarze, wywiady, czy też ilustracje które miały miejsce w historii Metalliki od 1981 do 2004, a także przed założeniem zespołu. W książce zamieszczone są m.in. pierwszy artykuł Steffana Chiraziego o Metallice z października 1984, wypowiedzi na temat Cliffa Burtona, sekcje "Whiplash" w których zespół odpowiada na pytania swoich fanów, kilkugodzinny wywiad z całym zespołem przeprowadzony 2 lutego 1996, czy liczne artykuły z oficjalnego magazynu Metalliki, So What!.

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 Projekt: Mark Abramson, Rose de Heer, Aleksandra Jelic, Lesley Crawford

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I used Revvvolution as the base and did some BM stamping using Color Club Wild at Heart, Fashion Addict, Worth the Risque...you really cant see the stamping much, but I still liked how it came out!
PS: I can't remember the plate number I used, but its all butterflies, if anybody wants to know!
Are you breaking up with me????
I like this a lot! the stamping is subtle,but I like that!
i love this alot! stamping is another thing that scares me, HAHA!
I'm so jealous that you got your hands on that! The only place I know to get CC other than online is Ross, and usually it's picked-over and outdated collections.
ooops! there you go.. I just followed your blog! yehey!
Deseree ~ My stamping most of the times are fails, but oh well.. its still fun!


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How Game of Thrones launched an industry of content based on manufactured shock
Calum Marsh: Once again, Game of Thrones' writers will be accused of indelicacy. HBO will be charged with exploitation. And the series will be said to have gone Too Far.
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Calum Marsh
The most consistently amazing thing about Game of Thrones is its capacity to scandalize. If movies are machines that generate empathy, as Roger Ebert famously claimed, then HBO's popular medieval fantasy series is a machine that generates offence: the outrage it seems to inspire on a weekly basis, ventilated in broadsheet editorials and thousand-word blog posts blazoned the morning after every new episode airs, remains inexhaustible, even as the show enters its sixth year and seventh season.
That's the one thing we can predict from this Sunday's premiere with any certainty: whatever violent delights may transpire – whatever butchery or mutilation proves essential to the ongoing saga of the Seven Kingdoms – we can be sure of the indignant web-wide yawp to follow. Issues of representation are a matter of course in its reception: the show will doubtless continue to have a gender problem, or a race problem, or a problem with the kinds of things it does and doesn't show. This is a series well-accustomed to criticism on political grounds — and the outrage won't abate this time around. The show's writers will be accused of indelicacy. HBO will be charged with exploitation. And Game of Thrones, once again, will be said to have gone Too Far.
Game of Thrones is always going too far — or is in any case always provoking critics to claim as much. What's occasioned umbrage so far? Well, Theon Greyjoy burned a pair of innocent children to death and hung their tiny charred bodies on display. Tyrion Lannister murdered his father on the toilet and his ex-lover in bed. Cersei Lannister was obliged to walk through the streets of King's Landing nude, humiliated and abused — not long before which she had been raped by her brother before the corpse of her murdered son. Sexual violence frequently abounds: several of the show's central female characters have been victimized on screen cruelly, including Daenerys Stormborn and, more recently, Sansa Stark. Skulls have been crushed. Heads, among other body parts, have been severed. A pregnant Talisa Stark was stabbed in the belly. Poor little Shireen Baratheon was sacrificed at the stake.
Needless to say, Game of Thrones is intended to upset its audience. That much should have been obvious from its pilot, which concludes with a cheerful 10-year-old boy accidentally observing an incestuous tryst and being shoved out of a six-storey tower window. Thrones defies expectations as a matter of course, which is precisely its appeal: you watch because it barrels toward conventional dramatic satisfaction and then thwarts it at the last minute, punishing without mercy its most likeable and charismatic characters, and rewarding with victory and glamour those so malevolent that their very appearance fills you with rage. When the righteous, right-minded Ned Stark investigates the suspicious death of King Baratheon, you can all but guarantee that, far from solving the crime and foiling the schemes devised by the nefarious Lannisters, he will wind up summarily beheaded by them — a first-season twist so vexing that more sensitive viewers abandoned the series in irritation before season two. The show understands acutely what you want and unfailingly does the opposite.
Ned's execution in season one. HBO
In this, Game of Thrones is not unlike another critically acclaimed HBO drama: The Wire, David Simon's five-season Baltimore crime epic often celebrated as the greatest series in TV history. The Wire invented, and then perfected, the art of the frustrated expectation, making use of the serialized format to insist, over and over again, harrowingly, that America's most enduring institutions – its courts, its schools, its newspapers – were so mired in corruption and bureaucratic disorder that justice would always be thwarted by avarice and predation. In other words, The Wire was deliberately unsatisfying. It went out of its way to disappoint, because it wanted to reflect the truth of life: that principles alone will get you nothing.
But there is a marked difference between the indignation inspired every Monday morning by Game of Thrones and how The Wire was received week after week when it was first on the air. No minor meltdowns were publicly staged. No radical grievances about brutality and sadism were self-righteously aired. In fact, very little was written about The Wire at the time, at least by the standards of contemporary television — endless diatribes of the episode-recap variety being pretty well nonexistent circa 2002. It isn't difficult to imagine the sort of ink that might be spilled if The Wire had arrived a decade later. What events could be scrutinized for their politics? What incidents could be deemed problematic? Columnists have attempted to drum up chagrin over these transgressions retroactively: the show's been looked back on in certain quarters as variously racist, misogynistic and otherwise flagrantly ill-conceived. Were new episodes still being made we'd be hearing complaints like this nonstop.
Are we simply better attuned to problems of representation in pop culture now than we were 15 years ago? Or are we better equipped, thanks to improved media literacy and a culture that values this kind of analysis, to think seriously about the political import of cable TV? Certainly, audiences seem more aware today than ever of the ways mainstream movies and television have failed them. This idea of the problematic has so swiftly and forcefully entered the public consciousness that conversations which not so long ago would have been relegated to the halls of academia are had today at the dinner table in the common tongue. We are all fluent now in a shared language of analysis, and we can speak freely of the callousness boasted by Game of Thrones to an extent that's never been so widely possible.
Shireen's death. HBO
But the ire recurringly aroused by Game of Thrones is not always so organic. Rather, it tends to attract a brand of writing – incensed, chiding, spurious – whose odium feels distinctly preordained. So many of the arguments mounted against Game of Thrones each week seem somewhat synthetic, devised not out of genuine concern but out of a need to find something to say; you get the sense that the writer has scoured the episode in question actively looking for something to home in on and sanctimoniously denounce, as if in pursuit of a prize for the web's most moral critic.
Acts of candid violence that have been the show's metier from the beginning are seized upon as glamorized. Bad things depicted are written about as if they'd been endorsed. For every honest, fruitful assessment of, say, how the series represents sexual assault – a point of contention for many after a season-six episode involving Sansa Stark and Ramsay Snow – a dozen more dubious remonstrances are bogusly declared. It's an epidemic of phony moralizing.
But this moralizing is only a symptom – and the disease is economic. The problem is not so much that TV writers are inordinately inclined to be offended by what they watch on TV. It's that TV writers need to be inclined to feel something about what they watch, and something, indeed, worth writing about: they need content because, like everyone, they need to eat. Ersatz controversy is a handy way to pay the bills.
Game of Thrones is not exactly unique in this respect. Any series, popular or otherwise, can be mined for problematic content to lambast – witness recent efforts to denounce GLOW (misogynistic), The Ranch (reactionary, conservative), and even Fear the Walking Dead (vaguely racist), as if anybody actually cared about these programs at all – while the biggest names on the airwaves, from Amy Schumer to Kimmy Schmidt, can be raked over the coals in clickbait headlines 10 times every season.
The Red Wedding. Before the red. HBO
And of course all this feigned thinkpiecing has hardly been confined to objectionable content exclusively. This cottage industry also includes the rampant strain of theorizing that over the last several years has plagued True Detective, Westworld and The Leftovers, among countless others. Writers may gravitate to dissent for the thrill of the polemic (and because editors love to publish hate-reads), but conspiratorial super-analyses of the "this one shocking detail you may have missed in last night's episode" variety are no less dubious – and reek just as much of desperation.
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We are bound to endure another round of such disquisitions as Game of Thrones returns this weekend. What we are far less likely to see, however, is serious, reasoned analysis, or long, in-depth considerations of form, or attempts to reckon with how the series works rather than What It Means — in other words, we won't see much actual criticism. That's because, as any critic not laboring beneath a rock-heavy daily deadline will tell you, criticism is difficult work: it takes time, not only to write but to think, and it cannot be churned out the morning after an hour-long installment airs merely to satiate an appetite for content.
That's the real problem with Game of Thrones as a machine that generates offence: the urgency that impels people to spot the outrage precludes the real work of criticism. It makes it impossible for writers to think hard and think seriously about what they're watching — and instead makes them sniff out doggedly whatever might qualify as Too Far. The real machine is the system that demands its constant supply of content, of hot-takes and think-pieces on the fly. That machine generates nothing but manufactured crises, disingenuous complaints: outrage whipped up for a paycheque.
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In a first, Twitter adds misinformation label to Trump's tweets on vote-by-mail
Aroon Deep
In a first, Twitter has added a misinformation label to a series of tweets by US President Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported. In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson said, "These Tweets (here and here) contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots. This decision is in line with the approach we shared earlier this month."
Trump's reelection campaign said in a statement that "Partnering with the biased fake news media 'fact checkers' is only a smoke screen Twitter is using to try to lend their obvious political tactics some false credibility." Trump himself lashed out in similar terms in subsequent tweets, saying Twitter was "interfering" in the 2020 presidential election. Twitter in March had added a tag to a deepfake video of Presidential candidate Joe Biden, which Trump had retweeted.
While the label doesn't show up on embeds, it is visible on Twitter's apps and website. The one on Trump's tweets links to this curation of news articles that counter the narrative that voting by mail results in widespread fraud, by relying on CNN, Washington Post and others.
Per Twitter's policy, these labels — which were rolled out more widely after the COVID-19 pandemic started — are usually applied to false statements that are not "serious" enough to remove. In any case, since Twitter's policy protects public office holders like Trump from having their accounts or tweets removed in most cases, this seems like the only option the company might have to curb misinformation from powerful people. We have reached out to Twitter to see if the company plans on rolling out this approach in India as well, where the company has done far less on much more serious issues like targeted harassment.
Twitter has been testing features that would let users limit who can reply to them. The company has also been testing tweet scheduling, a feature previously only available on TweetDeck. Earlier this month, the BJP's Vinit Goenka filed a suit in the Supreme Court seeking directions for the government to create a mechanism to check content and advertisements on Twitter, which are allegedly spreading "hatred amongst the communities, [are] seditious, instigative, separatist, hate filled, divisive, against the society at large and against the spirit of the Union of India".
Written By Aroon Deep
I cover the digital content ecosystem and telecom for MediaNama.


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The Rule in Foss v Harbottle rears its head once more.
Harris v Microfusion 2003-2 LLP [2016] EWCA Civ 1212.
The appellant (H) appealed against an order for only allowing two derivative claims out of three that were sought. The respondent cross-appealed against the decision to allow the two claims. The appellant alleged that the respondent breached the fiduciary duties they owed.
It was common ground that the common law derivative remedy survived, meaning that a derivative claim could not be brought by an individual member unless the circumstances fell within one of the exceptions set out in Foss v Harbottle (1843) 67 ER 189. The judge deliberated whether the appellant's proposed claims fell within the fourth exception, which was that 'H' alleged "fraud" and no other remedy was available. Relying on Abouraya v Sigmund [2014] EWHC 277 (Ch), the judge held that where there was wrongdoing falling short of "fraud" in the sense of a deliberate and dishonest breach, the fourth exception could only be invoked if that wrongdoing had resulted in a loss to the company and a personal benefit to the wrongdoers. The judge granted 'H' permission to follow a claim. 'H' felt that all three of his proposed claims satisfied the requirement in Foss v harbottle rule, and he argued that all that was required was an allegation of a breach of fiduciary duty or an abuse or misuse of power.
A derivative claim for the purposes of this case is set out in s260 – 264 Ch 1 Part 11 Companies Act 2006. A shareholder's derivative suit is a lawsuit brought by a shareholder on behalf of a corporation against a third party. Often, the third party is an insider of the corporation, such as an executive officer or director.
The judge dismissed the appeal and said at paragraph's see paras 25, 28-40, people were free to join as members of corporate entities on whatever terms they chose, formulated in articles of association, partnership deeds for LLP's, or shareholders' agreements. They would, however, be bound by those arrangements, and if majority rule was provided for, the minority would be bound by the wishes of the majority. The majority could choose to excuse breaches of duty by directors, provided they did not use their voting powers to confer benefits on themselves in breach of duty or to prevent the company from recovering any loss. Where the minority was disallowed from remedying a fraud or taking proceedings because of the protection afforded to the fraudulent shareholders or directors by virtue of their majority, the fourth exception prevented the majority from improperly benefitting themselves at the company's expense. None of H's proposed claims contained any allegation of deliberate and dishonest breach of duty the second and third involved no personal benefit to the respondent and the first involved insufficient benefit to satisfy the requirements of the fourth exception. Therefore, none fell within the fourth exception and the judge should not have permitted any of them to proceed.
 This case not only highlights that a derivative claim against a company, regarding one's fiduciary duties, can backfire if the majority choose to excuse s breach of duty by a director, but that a case as old as Foss v Harbottle still holds precedence today, even with the forever growing developments in business and law.


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EU must stop legitimising oppression of Saharawi people!
Systematic human rights abuses, police brutality, violations of international law and fundamental rights, the Sahrawi people of Africa's last colony, Western Sahara, have endured decades of repression at the hands of Moroccan occupying forces. Since replacing Spain as coloniser, Morocco has attempted to control a territory about the size of the UK using military force to suppress free speech and pro-independence protests. Europe has largely stood by watching a tragedy unfold on its doorstep. In recent plenary and committee votes, MEPs further consolidated the EU's shameful record on this subject.
persistently worked to defer the referendum, which has still not taken place.
Moroccan authorities also continued to block journalists and human-rights organisations from entering the territory and investigating abuses.
passivity and complicity with the illegal occupying force.
contradicts the European Court of Justice ruling.
resources that do not belong to it.
show some respect for the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination?
on how we answer these questions.