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Publisher Bigben released a new gameplay trailer on Tuesday for Ukrainian developer Frogwares' open-world, Lovecraftian-inspired investigation game "The Sinking City."
Well, they call it a gameplayer trailer, but there's very little gameplay to be found in the 1 minute, 30-second video. Not unless "The Sinking City" is actually a creepy shaving simulator.
The trailer focuses on 1920s private investigator Charles Winfield Reed and his deteriorating mental state. As he shaves in a bathroom mirror, tentacles sprout from his face. He slices them off. Are they imaginary? Perhaps. There are also glimpses of the game's setting of Oakmont, Massachusetts. Once a trade harbor known for its lucrative smuggling business, it's now isolated from the rest of the world thanks to unprecedented flooding of supernatural origins.
"The Sinking City" is not an official adaptation of Lovecraft's works, Frogwares said in an April Q&A video. "It's more like an expansion of his universe by devoted fans of his novels," said community manager Sergey Oganesyan.
Frogwares is perhaps best known for its series of "Sherlock Holmes" adventure games. Like that franchise, "The Sinking City" focuses heavily on investigation. As Reed, the player will poke around crime scenes, talk to witnesses, track down killers, and other detective-y things. But, "The Sinking City" is also a more ambitious project, as it takes place in a full-scale open world with a main story and sidequests. There is a proper combat system and a number of unlockable skills, Frogwares said. The studio is aiming for 30-40 hours of gameplay.
"The Sinking City" is scheduled to release on Mar. 21, 2019 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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Gloria Borger Married, Bio, Husband, Age, Son, Plastic Surgery, Salary, Net Worth
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The pair, who have been married for more than 45 years, are enjoying their decades-long marriage with their son, who is now married as well.
Gloria Borger and her husband, Lance Morgan, a public relations executive, are happily married. Lance Morgan is a prominent communication strategist at Powell Tate, a company that plans and implements communication campaigns for its clients. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Morgan.
On September 8, 1974, she and her husband, Lance, exchanged wedding vows at Beth El Synagogue in New Rochelle after years of dating.
The couple is the proud parents of two sons. Evan Morgan, one of their sons, married Mary Anne Huntsman, the daughter of politician Jon Huntsman Jr.
The couple, who first met in 2013, married on Saturday, October 17, 2015, at Flathead Lake Lodge in Bigfork, Montana.
There isn't much information about their other son.
Gloria Borger began her career as a news reporter for the 'Washington Star.' She then worked for U.S. News & World Report Magazine as a columnist and contributing editor.
She also worked for CBS News as a national political correspondent, appearing on 'Face the Nation' on Sunday mornings. She co-anchored CNBC's "Capital Report" from 2002 to 2004.
She joined CNN in 2007 as a top political commentator and has worked there ever since. He also appears on 'The Situation Room' and other primetime shows on a regular basis.
In terms of her earnings, she is predicted to earn roughly $62K per year, with a payroll ranging from $36K to $132K, according to the CNN news reporter's estimated compensation. Her net worth must be in the millions of dollars, at the very least more than $2 million, based on this.
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The journalist went to Colgate University after graduating from New Rochelle High School. She is at a good height of 5 feet 11 inches and weighs in at a healthy weight.
She also had a facelift, giving her the appearance of being younger than she is.
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Pauri's crumbling healthcare a cause for concern
In Pauri Garhwal, ayurvedic doctors outnumber their allopathic counterparts and it doesn't come as big surprise that the region has higher infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate as compared to other districts in the state.
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DEHRADUN: In Pauri Garhwal, ayurvedic doctors outnumber their allopathic counterparts and it doesn't come as big surprise that the region has higher infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate as compared to other districts in the state.
Pauri Garhwal has a population of over 7 lakh people and there are just 60 doctors, including ayurvedic practitioners, to provide treatment and healthcare in the entire district. Battling against the shortage of doctors, the health department is trying hard to bring more specialists, but in vain.
Admitting to the shortage of doctors, chief medical officer A K Singh said, "There are 22 regular allopathic doctors and 26 ayurvedic doctors. The number of patients are increasing in district hospital, community health centres and primary health centres. We are doing our best to provide facilities to people."
The shortage of doctors has sparked violent protests in past and locals have gone on to the extent of locking the office of the chief medical officer. They are now in combative mode and claim that they will soon launch a massive agitation. "The residents are fed up with the attitude of the state government. There is no one to listen to the problems of lakhs of villagers here," said Dinesh Bist, a local resident. The anger about the crumbling health infrastructure is justified if one takes a look at the high infant mortality rate and maternal mortality rate.
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Regional journalists' union board conference: Information cross-checking or yet another form of censorship? (Stavropol Region, North Caucasus)
1. Deputy minister threatens to fire newspaper editor (Republic of Karelia, Northwest)
2. Law enforcement defenceless against "black PR" (Karelia)
3. Editor charged with extremism because of posting link to YouTube video (Krasnodar Region, South)
4. Bankruptcy commissioner lodges legal claim against newspaper (Omsk, Siberia)
5. Journalists attacked by men in camouflage uniform (Moscow Region)
6. Newspapers in Karelian dialects about to sink into oblivion (Karelia)
7. Two glossy magazines to be fined for ignoring advertising law amendments (Rostov Region, South)
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Journalists' union board conference in Stavropol Region: Information cross-checking or yet another form of censorship?
By Olga Vassilyeva, GDF correspondent in North Caucasian Federal District
The Stavropol Region Journalists' Union Board on 20 September held an assize session in Pyatigorsk to discuss ways of fighting extremism and terrorism in the media sphere.
The region lately has been teeming with explosive rumours about potential inter-ethnic conflicts – a topic that the prosecutors have largely dismissed as idle talk. The head of the regional prosecutor's office's division overseeing the enforcement of laws on federal security, inter-ethnic relations, and on countering extremism and terrorism addressed the Board to explain why his agency has established such a unit having few analogues elsewhere in Russia. He called on the journalists to cooperate – at the stage of verifying the accuracy of facts cited in would-be publications. It might be a good idea, he said, for journalists to develop "a certain algorithm" cross-checking information with the help of the Centre for Media Action against Extremism and Terrorism, recently established in Stavropol.
He did not ever once say "you must"; on the contrary, he was constantly stressing that "no one is talking about censorship". However, "Article 49 of the Media Law requires a journalist to check any information slated for publishing, but it fails to specify in what form, nor says anything about how a negligent reporter may be held liable for non-compliance," the official said, noting that as a result, no one has ever been held responsible for circulating information that "explodes like a bomb in a region where the out-migration of Slavic population has, as it is, grown from year to year". Besides, security agencies have spent lots of budgetary funds on counter-propaganda, so "it seems unfair that persons circulating unchecked and explosive information stand by, paying nothing," he summed up.
After a heated debate, Board members took the floor one after another to respond. They explained to the guest that "objective information", just like "the absolute truth", is non-existent by definition; it is an ideal that anyone can at best aspire to reach; in inter-ethnic relations, each side actually defends "its own truth". As regards methods of cross-checking information, they are as easy as ABC and are taught at any school of journalism: one just has to check with three unrelated sources.
Journalists, Board members said, would be eager to consult with specialists and even to show them a story prior to publishing – but only if they dealt with a consultant directly and if feedback were available within three hours at the longest. They would not submit it for scrutiny to any "Centre", where the story would be sure to get stuck at the stage of coordination, as it has happened so many times before. By the time the officials agreed among themselves who would bear responsibility for the would-be publication, the news would not only have been published in the blogosphere but would also have become long outdated. And one other thing that seems significant: the Centre for Media Action against Extremism and Terrorism, which has been established under the regional Public Communications Committee, has many government and security officials on its payroll, but not a single journalist…
Board members advised the prosecutor to research the experience of the National Counter-Terrorism Committee, whose members directly cooperate with journalists without fearing to give them their phone numbers and e-mail addresses. And the Committee's website reports on anti-terrorism operations while they are still in progress.
The guest said he would certainly familiarise himself with the NCTC experience – but he declined to give his telephone number, although journalists asked him to…
Deputy minister in Karelia threatens to fire newspaper editor
The election campaign in Karelia is over, but it looks like it will have repercussions on some of the republic's media – the newspaper Novosti Kalevaly (NK) as a minimum.
Aleksandr Rybakov, deputy minister for inter-ethnic policy and contacts with public and religious associations and the media (it is he who is in charge of the press), has urged NK Chief Editor Lyubov Gorokhova to find a pretext for firing one of her staffers, journalist Andrei Tuomi. He did not tell her why she should do that; she thinks Tuomi is a pretty good professional. When she said no, the deputy minister hinted that she herself might get fired for non-cooperation. The official was talking to Gorokhova in the office of Kalevala District Head V. Bulavtseva in the presence of his direct superior, Minister L. Migunova.
It all began with Tuomi's announcing his decision to run for the head of the Kalevala township administration against a rival candidate nominated by the ruling United Russia party, who happened to be head of a district administration division. Taking a leave from work until the end of the campaign, as required by law, Tuomi started posting in his blog and commenting on local government documents that revealed district leaders' involvement in a number of dirty deals. That caused friction between the district newspaper editor and the head of district administration. For Gorokhova, the situation was complicated by her combining the editor's position with that of director of the municipal budget-financed Novosti Kalevaly Information Centre (actually, it is NK proper; the organisational form was once adopted to simplify the receipt of budgetary subsidies, but it so happened that the newspaper editor found herself directly subordinated to the district administration as head of "another" organisation). For the administration, firing Gorokhova as Information Centre director meant losing her as NK chief editor, too. Her dismissal was fraught with unemployment, since she could hardly ever find an alternative job in the district centre – a point both parties knew all too well.
Anyway, the conflict persists, and the likely loser is already known. To prevent NK's shutdown, the Journalists' Union of Karelia has sent a message to the republic's prosecutor, detailing the conflict situation and asking to defend the NK staff from ill-behaving district and republican officials, who are flagrantly violating both the Russian Constitution and the Media Law, which prohibits censorship in any form.
The situation is still hanging in the balance. No one has so far subjected either Gorokhova or Tuomi to any reprisals. Hopefully, making this conflict known to the broad public will cause the government officials concerned to start respecting the law.
Karelia's law enforcement defenceless against "black PR"
Investigators in Karelia are to find out who issued the newspapers Nam Ne Vsyo Yasno ("Not Everything's Clear") and Yablochny Skaz ("Yabloko Tales") in the run-up to the latest local government elections. The first publication fully replicated the format and design of the newspaper Nam Vsyo Yasno ("Everything's Clear") issued by the Karelian branch of the Fair Russia party; the fake harshly criticised Fair Russia and its nominees. It was circulated in an estimated 100,000 copies (as a minimum) in the five districts across the republic where FR's positions were particularly strong. The second newspaper – actually a leaflet – attacked the Yabloko party nominees running for seats on local councils. It was found only in the Olonetsky district, and its print run is unknown (Yabloko activists picked up about 5,000 copies in the district centre and nearby villages).
The regional branches of the two political parties reported those information attacks to law enforcement, demanding that the "black PR" masterminds be identified and held liable. In real terms, though, none of those who ordered the issuance of the malicious fakes are likely to be found, ever.
For several months before the 2011 parliamentary elections, the weekly Kriminalnaya Sreda ("Criminal Environment") was released in Petrozavodsk, publishing news leaks that compromised United Russia's rivals. The prosecutor's office, police and Central Electoral Committee in Karelia knew everything about the newspaper's publisher and editor; moreover, civic activists carried out an independent investigation that showed Kriminalnaya Sreda was made at United Russia's headquarters. Yet the unlawful issuance of the newspaper did not stop until the election campaign was over. The publisher/editor managed to get away only with a minor fine.
Members of Karelia's Legislative Assembly, whose parties suffered at the hands of "black PR" specialists during the elections, have, too, urged the republic's law enforcement to find and punish the authors of illegal newspapers and leaflets, and promised to hold a special session to discuss unlawful methods of campaigning and what law enforcers have done to put an end to those practices.
Website editor in Krasnodar charged with extremism because of posting link to YouTube video
Criminal proceedings have been started against Anatoly Kuznetsov, chief editor of the Anapa-pro.com news website, under Criminal Code Article 282 ("Instigation of hatred or enmity, and disparagement of human dignity"). The measure followed his posting on the website a hyperlink to a YouTube video featuring a clearly extremist and nationalist speech by public activist and writer Eduard Bagirov, who also acted as Vladimir Putin's authorised representative during the latest presidential campaign.
By posting that link on his website, he wanted to draw public attention to nationalism – an exceedingly popular topic for discussion in the Krasnodar Region lately, Kuznetsov said. He also posted a same-page questionnaire supposed to reveal website visitors' attitude to the video. The editor insists he did so for research purposes only, and that his action was anything but criminal.
It may be noted that Anapa-pro.com has regularly reviewed the crime situation in the region and repeatedly published materials criticising local authorities – specifically, analysing the regional government's role in encouraging pro-criminal, including nationalist, sentiments in the Krasnodar Region. This gives Kuznetsov reasons to believe the criminal case against him is politically underpinned.
Lawyers at the Voronezh-based Media Rights Centre are providing legal consulting for the Anapa-pro.com editor.
Bankruptcy commissioner in Omsk lodges legal claim against newspaper
In the 18 months since the previous governor's retirement, the authorities in Omsk have drastically cut budgetary expenditures on media support and have actually left the journalists alone. Legal claims against media have only been lodged from time to time by some angry businessmen, each of whom, though, is somehow or other related to either the previous or the incumbent administration.
For example, as we have reported (see digest 586), Oleg Shishov, an MP and the general director of the road-building company Mostovik, has claimed 1 million roubles from the Biznes-Kurs weekly, which reported about 2 billion roubles of budgetary funds stolen during the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi. Although law enforcement did start criminal proceedings in the wake of that report, and the investigation is still not over, a court of law has ruled for Biznes-Kurs to pay Shishov – a close friend of ex-Governor Leonid Polezhayev – 35,000 roubles in moral damages.
The Arbitration Court in Omsk the other day accepted for scrutiny another legal claim, filed (rather unexpectedly) by businessman Nikita Utochenko against the newspaper Kommercheskiye Vesti and its author Mikhail Gintsyak. Utochenko is a bankruptcy commissioner with a reputation for liquidating ruined companies in such a manner that they needn't repay their debts to the national savings bank, SberBank. In some cases, this has reportedly enabled the owners of bankrupt companies to save up to 100 million roubles on such liquidation.
Gintsyak, a Moscow-based businessman, wrote that he "will never know rest until criminal proceedings have been started against Utochenko". The latter lodged his claim a whole six months after the publication, explaining this long pause by the fact that he cares not so much about his own honour, dignity and business reputation as about those of law enforcement and the judiciary, which have secured his success as a bankruptcy commissioner.
The court is to confirm or disprove the fact of an "organised crime ring" operating in Omsk; so the forthcoming trial is certain to attract considerable public attention, Gintsyak wrote in Kommercheskiye Vesti.
Journalists attacked by men in camouflage uniform in Moscow Region
By Dmitry Florin, GDF correspondent in Central Federal District
Unidentified men wearing camouflage uniform attacked a group of journalists and green activists who arrived on 19 September at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where a third landing strip is under construction – reportedly, without official authorisation and with flagrant violations of environmental laws, leading to the pollution of the Klyazma River flowing into a reservoir that serves as a water intake for the city of Moscow.
An FLB.ru reporter was shooting video sequences of the construction site when a group of men – apparently building workers – surrounded him and rudely demanded that he switch his camera off. They did not explain why, nor did they identify themselves.
The journalist told them that in line with effective legislation, he may continue recording until someone explains to him the legal reasons for his stopping to do so. Two men in camouflage uniform started bullying the reporter, and one told the other, "Come on, break his camera!"
The journalist had to retreat, but resumed the recording soon. Meanwhile, the men attacked one of his companions, striking him on the hand in which he was holding a cell phone and dialling the police number.
The attackers refused to explain anything; they talked rudely to the journalists and calmed down only after they were told police would arrive shortly.
Newspapers in Karelian dialects about to sink into oblivion
After a routine inspection of the republic's print media, Karelia's branch of Roskomnadzor [federal authority overseeing public communications] has found to its surprise that the newspaper Oma Mua ("Native Land") has never presented its charter or an equivalent document to the oversight agency, although it should have done so within three months of its establishment in 1990.
Now it seems the newspaper needn't be in a hurry to correct its legal mistake, since the two dialectal newspapers issued in today's Karelia – Oma Mua (in the Livvic dialect) and Vienan Karjala ("White Sea Karelia", in Karelian proper) – are supposed to merge into one as of 1 January 2014. In the 15 years of the Terms and Spelling Commission's operation under the auspices of the President of Karelia, scholars have developed a single literary Karelian language, eliminating the need to print newspapers and magazines in those two dialects.
Oma Mua has a circulation of 608, and Vienan Karjala, of only 504. Both newspapers, just as all the other Finno-Ugric media (four more newspapers and magazines issued in Karelian, Vepsian and Finnish), are financed from the republic's budget.
Two glossy magazines in Rostov Region to be fined for ignoring advertising law amendments
The Rostov branch of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) on 18 September levied a 100,000-rouble fine on Kto Glavnyi magazine for advertising alcohol on its pages.
The measure followed a complaint by the regional department of Roskomnadzor about Kto Glavnyi and another glossy magazine, Kult Yedy, carrying commercial ads placed by some wine boutiques and a private brewery. Although the ads featured the boutiques and the brewery, not the alcohol they sell, a FAS commission in Rostov concluded that the two magazines actually "advertised original brand names identifying the manufacturer and seller, as well as their products – wine and beer; and carried images of alcoholic beverages that are prohibited for advertising via the print media".
The administrative case against Kult Yedy is not yet complete, but the magazine is likely to pay an equal amount in fine. "The two media outlets ignored the amendments to the Advertising Law which were passed a year ago and entered into full legal force as of 1 January 2013," commission member Valentin Gavrilov told the GDF. "Federal Law No. 119 prohibits any kind of alcohol advertising in the media."
Dr. Aleksandr Lukyantsev, head of Southern Federal University's Civil Law Department, commented at our request on other legislative amendments affecting the media:
"Significant changes were made to Articles 150-152 of the Civil Code, dedicated to citizens' intangible assets (life and health, dignity, physical integrity, honour and good name, business reputation, privacy, etc.) as well as the legal procedures for defending one's honour, dignity and business reputation.
"In addition to a disclaimer and the payment of damages, provided for by the previous edition of the law, moral damages may also be payable now, but only – and this is the novelty – to individuals, not to legal entities as before. In line with Article 151, a court may award moral damage compensation 'proportionally to the physical and moral suffering inflicted on the affected individual, depending on his/her personality'. The reason for revising this provision is that legal entities cannot suffer physically or morally.
"When passing the amendments, the legislators took into account the fact that in the world of electronic communications, a person feels poorly protected. A set of new Civil Code provisions is coming into legal force as of 1 October, defining liability for the spread of smearing information in the Internet. This is a significant novelty requiring the media to protect people's honour, dignity and business reputation when circulating data via the Internet.
"What's to be done if such 'smearing' information appears on a website allowing visitors to post comments anonymously? I think an honour-and-dignity protection claim may be lodged against the Internet service provider in that event. Of course, this doesn't mean website owners must erase all insulting postings that are questionable – that is, their accuracy has not been confirmed by a court of law. Such an approach would mean imposing yet another restriction on freedom of expression."
Adil Soz Foundation's monitor of freedom-of-expression violations in August 2013
In August, the Adil Soz Foundation registered 83 reports about restrictions of freedom of expression in Kazakhstan, including the following:
- The case of Aleksandr Kharlamov, who is charged with fanning inter-religious strife, has been returned for additional investigation;
- The release of the newspaper Pravdivaya Gazeta has been suspended for three months;
- Pravda Kazakhstana's print run has been seized because of a technical error in the output data;
- Uralskaya Nedelya staffers have been accused of arbitrary behaviour.
For further details, see www.adilsoz.kz
[Adil Soz monitoring service report, 23 September]
Ever since Ukraine proclaimed independence, more than 60 journalists have been killed in the country, the National Journalists' Union of Ukraine (NJUU) told the newspaper Rakurs.
"Today, it is known that during the independence period, more than 60 journalists – most of them NJUU members or reporters for other media and human rights organisations – have died in work-related or obscure situations," NJUU First Secretary Sergei Tomilenko said.
"The past few years have been marked by particularly numerous violations of journalist rights; government officials' cynical connivance at, or deliberate neglect of, such violations has become a trend," according to the NJUU. Ukrainian authorities perceive journalists not as people performing their professional duty but as persons who are supposed to serve them, Tomilenko said, pointing to this as the reason for the ruling elite's often treating reporters as servants, using them as instruments in political battles, while forgetting all about their rights, duties, and so on.
"The situation wasn't as frustrating as this at any time in the past," Tomilenko said. "Even under President Leonid Kuchma, government officials used to respect media legislation and to more actively respond to journalist rights violations. Today, police feel free to use force against journalists or remain inactive watching media workers being beaten in their presence."
[Rakurs report, 16 September]
My sincere congratulations on winning the trial in Abakan to Mikhail Afanasyev and to everyone who helped him win! As GLEDID head, I am really happy to learn that the defence succeeded in proving the inconsistency of this [prosecution-ordered] linguistic study done on the side – it didn't work! It might be a good idea to post its text on the JUR and GDF websites as an appalling example of "sponsored" work some linguists agree to do, and as counsel to those who choose this wrong and pernicious path for thirty pieces of silver…
Prof. Mikhail V. Gorbanevsky, Ph.D. (Philology),
Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Board Chairman, Guild of Linguistic Experts in Documentation- and Information-related Disputes (GLEDID)


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I got my vita version for $35 after GCU and Tax included. I think it was amazing deal for the value.
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Game play is fun. Its reminiscent of classic Final Fantasy games and that's a plus.


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Ello, the new Facebook competitor, and social media fatigue.
Ello is a new social network that's been getting a lot of attention this week. It's currently in beta, so you can join only if you get an invitation from someone else. But those invites are now hot commodities, as people start to embrace it as an anti-Facebook. Ello doesn't force people to use their real names—which has driven its popularity in the LGBTQ community—and it promises to never serve ads.
Of course we've heard that before, and who knows how long it will last, but Ello is trying to be serious about the no-ads thing. The WTF section says, "A social network that has ads is a social network created for advertisers, not for people. … We're not interested in ruling the world. We think people that are motivated to do things like that have unresolved psychological problems." Duly noted.
Ello has standard features like the ability to write posts, at-mention other users, follow people's accounts in either the "Friend" or "Noise" category, be followed by others, share multimedia, type emojis (!), and view posts from the accounts you follow in a chronological stream. The site has an attractive design, though it's not the most intuitive to use. Since we've all used other social media services, though, it doesn't take too long to pick up on things.
It's unclear how the site will support itself as it grows, but that won't matter if it doesn't take off. And will it take off? All I can say is that if you all want to be on Ello, I'll go, too.
It's tough for me to be excited about a new social network that seems mostly similar to the old ones. I like Ello's stance on ads if the founders can find a way to sustain it, but I don't care that much. Also, part of Ello's appeal is supposed to be an emphasis on design and visual art, but that's not really something I'm looking for in a social network.
So since I interact relatively infrequently, the most important thing to me about social media is just being where everyone else is. I want to hear from smart and interesting people (my friends and others), and I want them to have the opportunity to hear from me if I ever do have something to say on a social platform. I want to be able to stalk people I haven't seen in years. I want to know what's going on with everyone's pets/babies. But in terms of features, I basically have social media fatigue.
Wherever you all want to be is fine. I'm just in it for the otter videos.


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Vatican Diaries: A Behind-the-scenes Look at the Power, Personalities and Politics at the Heart of the Catholic Church
Author(s): John Thavis
The Vatican Diaries is an inside look at one of the world's most powerful and mysterious institutions, by John Thavis. "A humane and realistic and (yes) humorous picture of a mortal institution. To an old Prot like me, it's a tour of alien terrain and a bridge to old and dear friends". (Garrison Keillor). For thirty years John Thavis worked for the Catholic News Service in Rome and reported on the inner workings of the Vatican. The Vatican Diaries is his insightful and often very funny account of exactly what goes on in this unique and secretive institution. It's a place where cardinals fight private wars, scandals are constantly threatening to undermine papal authority, and reverence for the past comes up painfully against the considerations of modern life. He describes the politics surrounding the election of a new pope and the beatification of an old one, the angst of dealing with the international issue of sexual abuse, the intricacies of arranging a Papal visit to India, the conflicts involved in trying to build a car park over an ancient Roman burial site - and above all the unfathomable personality of the conservative Pope Benedict XVI, the first pope to resign for 600 years. At this extraordinary moment of crisis in the Church, Thavis' account of its inner workings is invaluable. 'One closes John Thavis' perceptive study reflecting on the Vatican's challenge: to persist in a secularizing world sometimes fascinated by the pomp and pageantry of St. Peter's-but often hostile or increasingly indifferent to the Church's determined mission to harmonize warring factions and bickering enemies, even if both are on the same Catholic side' New York Journal of Books John Thavis recently retired as the prizewinning chief of the Rome bureau of Catholic News Service, where he had covered the Vatican since 1983. He is the past president of the International Association of Journalists Accredited to the Vatican, and in 2007 the Catholic Press Association awarded him the Saint Francis de Sales Award, the highest honour given by the Catholic press. He divides his time between Minnesota and Rome.
In this highly readable memoir of being a journalist at the Vatican, John Thavis follows the conclaves, sex scandals, internal backstabbing and olympian nature of the popes with a sense of comic relief at the caravan passing through his viewfinder -- Jason Berry, Author Of Render unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church One closes John Thavis' perceptive study reflecting on the Vatican's challenge: to persist in a secularizing world sometimes fascinated by the pomp and pageantry of St. Peter's-but often hostile or increasingly indifferent to the Church's determined mission to harmonize warring factions and bickering enemies, even if both are on the same Catholic side New York Journal of Books Not only provocative, this report is illuminating and fully accessible to members of the faith and doubters alike Kirkus Reviews
In 2012 John Thavis retired as the the prize-winning Rome bureau chief of Catholic News Service, the world's largest and oldest religious news agency. In addition to Vatican coverage, Thavis has written extensively on religious affairs in Europe and the Middle East, winning awards for his first-hand reporting on war in the Balkans. He has also lectured extensively on Vatican affairs in the United States and Europe.
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
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Author : John Thavis


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The «Blues» won the direction battle in KrF
TOPICS:bourgeoisHareideKrFLysbakkenNorwayNorway TodayRedRopstad
Ropstad won the battle for direction in the Christian Democratic Party (KrF). Photo: Stortinget.no / NTM.
Posted By: Pieter Wijnen 2. November 2018
A majority at the Christian Democrats (KrF) extraordinary National Assembly wants the party to enter the bourgeois Government against Party Leader Knut Arild Hareide's wishes. Hareide announces that he will resign as his dream of a left turn was shattered, paving the way for a continued Solberg Government.
The result was received without applause. Just a single shout in jubilation, which was immediately clubbed down by the director.
With 98 against 90 votes, the bourgeois option won the majority at the extraordinary National Assembly. Two abstained.
This means that Party Leader Knut Arild Hareide resigns as he announced just before the vote and that Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Conservatives) can continue to lead Norway – and probably expand her Government with a fourth party. After five years leading a minority Government, she can likely experience a majority in the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) for the first time.
A moved Knut Arild Hareide says that he is disappointed by the result.
– But the Christian Democrats' soul does not depend on who the party is working with, he states after the defeat was announced.
He points out that many are happy and many are disappointed, encourage the winners to show generosity, and the losers to respect the outcome of the vote.
Norway's bravest politician
Current Deputy Leader, Kjell Ingolf Ropstad has been the main advocate for the «Blue» alternative and is now emerging as the Christian Democrats' next candidate as Leader of the party.
He thanked Hareide in his speech.
– You are Norway's bravest politician and I am incredibly proud of you, he says, for which he received prolonged applause from the delegates.
– I hope this is for the last time we talk about «Red» and «Blue». From now on we stand together and we are once again all yellow, he adds.
The other Deputy Leader, Olaug Bollestad, had a lump in her throat when she took the floor. She says that the party must build safety in order to trust in each other.
– In fact, I also think we must be able to forgive each other. I feel the need to apologize, she continues.
Sees no future to the right
The choice of the path ahead means that the Christian Democrats (KrF) will seek government cooperation with the current Government. The third option, to remain in opposition, got the least votes – 30 in the first round.
Knut Arild Hareide wanted to lead the party into Government with Labour (Ap) and the Centre Party (Sp) for the first time in history but did not succeed in this. Hareide was clear in his speech that he believes the party has no future either in opposition or in continued bourgeois cooperation.
– Since 2001 we have worked together with the Conservatives. It's 17 years where our support base has fallen steadily, Hareide implores.
– We must take a choice in order to survive. I believe that it's in the centre/left that our potential is greatest, Hareide continues.
In his speech, Ropstad emphasized all the concessions that the Christian Democrats has achieved from the bourgeois in the last five years.
– Considering its size, there's hardly any political party ever, that has achieved more impact than the Christian Democrats (KrF) have, he says.
A shame that Hareide resigns
Prime Minister Erna Solberg (Conservatives) says she thinks that it a shame that the Christian Democrats' choice of path leads to Knut Arild Hareide's resignation.
– I want to say that I think it's a pity that Knut Arild does not want to continue as the Party Leader, but I have both understanding and respect for that decision, Solberg states.
She goes on to say that she has appreciated the cooperation she has had with him.
– I have worked well with him for many years, and we have had many good and confidential conversations and found good solutions, the Prime Minister continues.
Red promises fierce opposition
Leader of Red, Bjørnar Moxnes, wish to turn the majority in important matters through pressure from the outside and promises a fierce opposition.
– A slight majority in the Christian Democrats has now made the party a hostage to the Progress Party (Frp). That is deeply regrettable. The parliamentary foundation of the Government is, however, more fragile than ever before. We promise a continued fierce opposition to the Government in the future, and there is already a queue of issues that will be difficult for the Christian Democrats in the Parliament, Moxnes promises.
The Party Leader believes it will be harder to achieve consent in the Norwegian Parliament with a majority Government to the right.
– But with assistance from the outside, we will do everything we can to turn the majority in important issues in the future, as we saw in the fight for the battle for reservation rights (in medical questions). The same was true of the proposal for gilded after-pay for parliamentary representatives. Red will lead the opposition inside the Parliament and lead the movement against the «Difference Society» in Norway outside it, he rounds off.
The Christian Democrats' choice is an opportunity lost
Socialist (SV) leader, Audun Lysbakken, fears that the Christian Democrats' choice to enter into negotiations with the current Government will affect vulnerable groups hard.
– This is a lost opportunity to ensure that fewer children will grow up in poor families, for smaller economic differences and for an aggressive climate policy that actually has an impact, according to Lysbakken.
In addition, he believes it will be far more difficult for Norway to meet its climate goals.
– With both the Christian Democrats (KrF) and the Liberals in Government, it is no longer possible for environmental partners to find each other across the divide. This strengthens the power of the Conservatives (Høyre) and the Progress Party and weakens the possibility of reaching Norway's climate targets.
He fears that the Conservatives and the Progress Party will have more power to conduct their policies.
– Now we obtain a Government that becomes more asocial in the economic policy. With a majority government, the bourgeois policy, with increased inequality in power and wealth, will win through more often, the Conservatives and the Progress Party has today increased its influence over the Norwegian society.
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Rater, Jacksboro ready to work on successful encore
Jacksboro lost a strong core to graduation, but the Tigers are intent to have another successful season under Brannon Rodgers.
Rater, Jacksboro ready to work on successful encore Jacksboro lost a strong core to graduation, but the Tigers are intent to have another successful season under Brannon Rodgers. Check out this story on timesrecordnews.com: https://wtrne.ws/2PBTu1s
Zach Duncan, Wichita Falls Times Record News Published 12:02 a.m. CT Aug. 26, 2018
Jacksboro's KC Rater tells us what it's like being an offensive lineman heading into the 2018 season. Lauren Roberts and Zach Duncan, Wichita Falls Times Record News
Jacksboro's Alexis Sanchez is one of three offensive linemen returning that helped the Tigers lead the area in rushing last year.(Photo: Lauren Roberts/Times Record News)Buy Photo
JACKSBORO – KC Rater made an agreement with his father that he could avoid working this summer if he dedicated his free time to football.
Jacksboro's starting center and nose guard was planning on making the high school's weight room a second home regardless. But now Rater could spend more time preparing for his senior year.
What drives Rater and his fellow Tigers is how a breakthrough in Brannon Rodgers' first year at the helm ended so cruelly. New Diana's touchdown pass with 12 seconds left ended Jacksboro's storybook season in the third round of the playoffs.
"It was a shot in the heart. That's the reason we come up here every day to work out," the 2017 Red River 22 selection said. "If we're not here in the morning, we're up here in the evening trying to get an extra workout in. Sometimes I wish I would have spent more time up here."
Jacksboro's top five rushers are gone so it'll be breaking in a whole new backfield after averaging an area-best 328 rushing yards per game in 2017. But the Tigers do have the benefit of Rater plus guard Alexis Sanchez and tackle Cody Howard returning.
"It's definitely going to be a process, but one thing I do believe in is we're returning three offensive linemen. In this offense, that's really important," Rater said. "What will help us the most, those kids coming up had to learn everything from scratch last year and now we don't have to."
Rodgers agrees having three offensive returning linemen and an enhanced understanding of the offense is paramount to Jacksboro's success. He's confident another large senior class can keep the momentum going, even though there's plenty of gaps to plug.
"I don't know if I've ever had there be this much shakeup before (losing 17 seniors), but we still have the kids," Rodgers said. "We flipped almost our whole varsity, but we have a good group who's ready to come in. The JV went 7-3, had a good season and good spring."
Jacksboro's KC Rater watches for a New Diana defender Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at The Star in Frisco. (Photo: Lauren Roberts/Times Record News)
Rater has been on varsity since the last couple games of his freshman season. He's seen the Tigers transform from winning 10 combined games during his freshman and sophomore years to becoming a feared program almost overnight.
The results from Rodgers' debut may have surprised some, but now Rater and his teammates anticipate it being the norm.
"Now our expectations are way higher," Rater said. "The coaches' expectations have always been that high, but the athletes themselves have expectations that are through the roof."
Jacksboro's KC Rater (Photo: Zach Duncan/Times Record News)
Although the names carrying the ball will be different, Rodgers believes he'll have a dependable group again with running backs Ethan Fudge (208 yards, two TDs) and Gio Salazar along with fullbacks Alex McAnear (152 yards) and Brayden Pewitt.
Senior Ethan Sanchez takes Payton Laake's place at quarterback with sophomore Landon Davenport possibly adding something to the equation.
The defense returns only two starters, but Rodgers likes the depth in the trenches with Rater spearheading a unit that includes a faster Howard plus Reno Rollans.
Fudge is the leading returning tackler with 41 stops, while the coaches are excited about defensive back Keondrae Sadler, who is coming off a strong track season.
"We'll know a lot about ourselves early," said Rodgers, who scheduled Breckenridge, Windthorst and Eastland in non-district. "They'll let us know what we need to work on. Breckenridge is going to be a tough opening game."
DISTRICT RACE
The Tigers broke away from the area's other 3A Division II teams and landed in neighboring 6-3A with Comanche, Tolar, Millsap, Dublin and Rio Vista.
Comanche is coming off a 12-win season and lost to Brock in the 3A Division I quarterfinals, but graduation hit the Indians hard like it did Jacksboro. Tolar returns eight starters on each side after a 7-5 season, while the other three schools posted losing records in 2017.
"I know there are good coaches in the district, but I don't know anything about the kids," Rodgers said. "Comanche will likely be the favorite. Dublin is coming down to Division I and that should help them. Coach (Jake) Johnson is going to have Millsap ready to play and (Jeremy) Mullins at Tolar has coached some good football teams through the years."
EXTRA POINT
The Tigers thrived off fast starts last year, outscoring their opponents by an average of 15.9 points before intermission compared to a 2.8-point edge in the second halves of their 13 games.
JACKSBORO TIGERS
Head Coach: Brannon Rodgers (second year)
Last year's record: 11-2
Returning starters: 3 offense, 2 defense
Base offense/defense: Multiple/4-3
Last playoff appearance: 2017 (Lost to New Diana in regional round)
Last district title: 2013
Aug. 31 vs. Breckenridge 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 7 at Windthorst 7 p.m.
Sept. 14 vs. Paradise 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 21 at City View 7:30 p.m.
Sept. 28 vs. Eastland 7:30 p.m.
Oct. 12 at Comanche* 7 p.m.
Oct. 19 vs. Tolar* 7 p.m.
Oct. 26 at Dublin* 7 p.m.
Nov. 2 at Millsap* 7 p.m.
Nov. 9 vs. Rio Vista* 7 p.m.
PLAYER TO WATCH: RB/DB Ethan Fudge (Sr.) – He's the top returning rusher and tackler from last year and expect those numbers to spike on both sides of the ball.
GAME TO WATCH: Oct. 12 at Comanche – Tolar may also have a say about how the District 6-3A Division II race plays out, but the winner of this opener will be in the driver's seat.
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Discussion in 'Women's International' started by guignol, Sep 7, 2012.
Nice to see Le Sommer with the nice chip goal, and Van de Sanden, too. I see so many players, open and in on goal, merely whelp the ball directly into the oncoming keeper when a chip would score the goal.
A rather embarrassing result for PSG, to say the least.
Is it fair to say that Fishlock has been a nice addition to Lyon? She's a good player with an excellent work rate.
Yeah, Lyon were short of midfielders and Christiansen was probably a stopgap imo and they found so much better in Fishlock.
sbahnhof and blissett repped this.


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101. Symmetric Tree
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- Total Accepted: 129707
- Total Submissions: 363307
- Difficulty: Easy

Problem
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Given a binary tree, check whether it is a mirror of itself (ie, symmetric around its center).

For example, this binary tree `[1,2,2,3,4,4,3]` is symmetric:

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    1
   / \
  2   2
 / \ / \
3  4 4  3
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But the following `[1,2,2,null,3,null,3]` is not:

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    1
   / \
  2   2
   \   \
   3    3
```

If the tree is `[]`, the answer is expected to get `True`.

**Note:**

Bonus points if you could solve it both recursively and iteratively.

Related Challenges
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You can leverage this problems with `100. Same Tree` and `226. Invert Binary Tree`.


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Formula 1 News
Teams baffled by refuelling rig problems
Formula One teams admit they are baffled by the cause of the spate of refuelling rig problems during the Hungarian Grand Prix
Jonathan Noble
Aug 3, 2008, 5:54 PM
Toro Rosso, Williams, Honda and Toyota all had issues with their refuelling rigs at the Hungaroring - with all but the latter suffering brief flash fires.
All of the teams are still investigating what caused the issues - with Toyota team chief John Howett suspecting that high temperatures as teams tried to fill up cars to the brim may have been a contributing factor.
"We have to really look at it," Howett told autosport.com. "We lost about five seconds and we think it is partly temperature.
"When you get these high temperatures you get a bit of pressure coming out of the tank. With the fuel we can't cool it that much and everyone was struggling -Toro Rosso, Honda and Williams had some issues.
"We do as much as we can, but sometimes it is temperamental. We can't adjust the rigs ourselves, they are standard piece of kit."
Honda Racing's Nick Fry said: "All we can identify so far is that the refuelling rig didn't go on exactly square, so it was as simple as that.
"There doesn't appear to be anything more than that and, as a result, we spilled about half a litre of fuel, which was quickly put out. Then we just used the other rig to fuel the car as normal, so no harm done by anyone.
"It will be interesting to know what happened on the other cars because it is unusual to have so many small fires. It might be coincidence but it does seem to be a bit coincidental."
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Diego Maradona and his hand with God
To some, he was the most gifted footballer ever, whose feet rendered the beautiful game all the more beautiful. To some, he was the most flawed of geniuses, flirting with drugs and keeping friends from the underworld.
Written by Sandip G | New Delhi | Updated: November 26, 2020 2:02:00 pm
Here are the five documentaries you can watch on the athlete. (AP)
There are legends, immortals and G.O.A.Ts, the Greatest of All Time. Then there is Diego Maradona. The legendary footballer died, aged 60, after suffering a cardiac arrest on Wednesday.
To some, he was the most gifted footballer ever, whose feet rendered the beautiful game all the more beautiful. To some, he was the most flawed of geniuses, flirting with drugs and keeping friends from the underworld. To some others, he was an outright cheat, who flicked a goal with his hand, the creator of the most vilified yet the most romanticised goal in World Cup history.
Whatever the opinions and perspectives, Maradona was magical, yet real. Magical with his feet and real in his life. The most magically realistic and realistically magical of footballers. One who lived both life and football on his own terms. He was no pretender, never tried to erase his shanty-town upbringing past, never feigned righteousness, never denied the darkness of his soul. A human footballing god, to take a liberty. You could make a thrilling best-seller out of his life as well as his football. Both could exist without overlap, and both could thrill. You needn't be a football tragic for that.
But in this moment of departure, it's his footballing legacy that needs appreciation. Short and sturdy, the build concealing his agility and dexterity, he was a darting virtuoso tethered to a soccer ball.
Argentine soccer superstar Diego Armando Maradona cheers after the Napoli team clinched its first Italian major league title in Naples, Italy, on May 10, 1987. (AP)
Dig no further into archival memory than the non-hand of God goal in the quarterfinal against England in the 1986 World Cup. The dream fusion of raw pace, power, precision and trickery had made everyone involved in the frame look foolish.
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With England yet to recover from the first 'Hand of God' goal, physically and psychologically, Glenn Hoddle gave the ball away cheaply in the middle of the Argentina half. It was bunted upfield to Maradona, who was closer to his own goal than his centre-line. Spinning around, he took off and tore past the frozen Peter Beardsley and Peter Reid, then slithered to the right. The ball stuck hypnotically to his feet, as though entranced by the grandeur of the man.
He then teased past Terence Butcher, and then cut inside as the strapping defender lunged cynically. Maradona picked up more pace and slipped past Fenwick, before drawing goalkeeper Peter Shilton off his line. Maradona rounded Shilton on the right, holding off Butcher, who had resiliently come back, and placed the ball into the right-hand side of the exposed net.
A "golazo", screamed the Spanish commentator. A scream so loud that the commentator emptied two litres of water at one go, the story goes.
In this June 13, 1982 file photo, Argentina's Diego Maradona, front, is attacked by Belgium's Guy Vandermissen during the opening game of the Soccer World Cup in Barcelona, Spain. (AP)
Thus, Maradona adorned, defined and won the 1986 World Cup with his trickery, his sleight of hand, his breathtaking slalom runs and goals and his determination to make his own destiny.
Also read | The sainthood and fall from grace of Napoli's Argentine deity
He was never the stuff of virtual dreams, because he was so human. There were piles of other golazos — screamers from 30 yards out, back-heels from close range, daisy-cutters and pile-drivers — but nothing reached the romantic high notes of the World Cup golazo. Nothing quite gave him the kick of rounding off a goalkeeper and then side-footing to an empty net.
The years between Italy 1990 and USA 1994 were perhaps the most difficult phase in his life. After a 15-month suspension from international football in March 1991 for testing positive for cocaine, Maradona's soccer career took a deep dive. He fell further into a deeper abyss when he was dismissed by three clubs, fired a pistol at reporters, was thrown out of one country and denied entry into another. The epitaph was hastily written: The greatest who could not be the greatest.
Diego Maradona blows a kiss to fans in Cannes, France, on May 20, 2008. (AP)
But Maradona was far from finished. For Italy 1990, he undertook an intense workout regime and knocked off 26 pounds in less than six months, returned fresh and strong. The twists and turns were not as lightning-quick as they were in 1986, but he was still an unstoppable force. "Had we won that World Cup, I would have prized it more than the 1986 Cup," he said in his autobiography.
Then, midway through the 1994 World Cup, Maradona was sent home after he twice failed a dope test. A career that had more peaks to scale thus ended on a self-destructive note.
For all his flaws and faults, Maradona was still Maradona. Awed, loved, and worshipped. The dark hero who shone the brightest. An everyman hero with supernatural gifts. So he never shirked away from public life — he continued to coach, continued to be spotted with a cigar and diamond earrings, and continued to be get hospitalised with alarming frequency for heart-attacks, seizures, lung issues, and multiple-organ failure.
In ages to come, there could be legends, greats and G.O.A.Ts. But there will only be one Diego Maradona.
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The CEO of social media marketing tech firm Ahalogy, which was acquired by a Silicon Valley firm Friday, said the acquisition goes to show what Cincinnati is doing to boost startups is working.
Quotient Technology Inc. (NYSE: QUOT) announced June 1 that it is acquiring Ahalogy for $20 million in cash, with up to $30 million payable on the achievement of certain financial goals by the close of fiscal 2019. The deal is expected to close June 2018.
It's not the beginning of the relationship between Quotient and Ahalogy. Quotient already has a sizable presence in Cincinnati, moving into an office in the Rookwood Exchange in 2016 and growing to 120 employees. Quotient is a digital promotions, media and analytics company that delivers digital coupons and ads to millions of shoppers daily. It serves CPG giants like Procter & Gamble, Clorox, General Mills and Kellogg's, as well as retailers like Kroger, Walgreens, CVS and Dollar General.
Click here to read the complete article. Originally published June 1, 2018.


The long-term Suzuki was put to good use on Christmas Day recently, reports Iain Robertson, as he used his car for a very testing drive to and from the Welsh border country, on slippery, rain-lashed roads, with which he is mostly unfamiliar.
Harping-on about things is not a regular practice for me, because I really loathe repeating words in a single sentence, let alone for consecutive paragraphs of text, in subsequent months of reportage. However, I want to highlight a couple of aspects. The first is a need to be prepared for seasonal motoring.
Every winter, I prepare a small 'box of necessities' that is positioned in the boot of my car. I keep it in a box, so that I can transfer it from my Suzuki to other test cars, as appropriate. It contains a blanket, a pair of heavier shoes, a fold-up ex-Army shovel, a large bar of chocolate, a pair of gloves and an extra flagon of concentrated de-icer fluid.
While this might sound excessive, since I also carry a walking-stick umbrella, small fire extinguisher and First Aid Kit, coming across a recent incident, in which a car had skidded off a snow-covered roadway and rolled into a ditch, I was able to comfort and attend to an uninjured young chap and his girlfriend, before the emergency services arrived. Trust me, I am no local hero and certainly not an 'ambulance-chaser' but holding a Driver's Licence does warrant a degree of responsibility, not just in respect of my own on-road activities but also those of others. The 'kit' served purpose.
Secondly, my occasionally tortuous drive to friends at Christmas was peppered with the knowledge that they had been snowed-in only a few hours earlier and weather conditions were, at best, testing and, at worst, tempestuous! As you may recall from previous long-term reports on my Baleno, I always fit what are known as 'winter tyres' to my cars. The set on the Suzuki are from Kumho, in WP51 guise, and are fitted to the car's standard alloy wheels, the summer tyres being held by my local Suzuki dealership.
Most tyre firms refer to the temperature cut-off point for these covers as being a notional seven degrees Centigrade. Personally, I prefer to adhere to a plan of sub-10-degreesC, which provides me (and the tyres) with a bit of leeway, after all, while the air temperature might be ten degrees, the road could be anything between three and seven degrees, or even colder in shaded areas.
However, a popular misconception is that 'winter' tyres are related to 'snow' tyres, which is simply not the case. Market forces and consumer demands being what they are, have led to a largely fashionable raft of low-profile, super-sticky summer tyres being fitted as standard to more than 90% of all new cars sold. The problem lies in the fact that their flexible rubber compounds that provide such unerring traction in the height of summer are all but useless, when they harden (as natural rubber tends to) in the cold. Stiffer rubber equates to less grip, as a result of reduced tread-block flexibility.
The 'winter', or low-temperature, alternatives replicate summer levels of grip in adverse conditions. However, different tread designs also factor in greater traction on ice-frozen and snow-bedecked surfaces, because the treads will not fill-up with ice and will also self-clear constantly. Even if ice is not present, the tread design cuts through standing water and puddles like a knife through butter, in the process aiding stability and safety. My progress to Ludlow and back home was made significantly easier, thanks to the Kumho WP51s, and I urge anybody remotely concerned about making headway during the winter months to consider carefully acquiring a set. Besides, there is no wear on the summer tyres, while they are stored at your local garage.
Incidentally, under zero time pressure, I averaged 48mph for the trip and an outstanding 62.4mpg, despite the torrential conditions. Life with Suzuki remains eminently joyful, even through this winter's more severe weather conditions. More soon.


Spring is in the air here in beautiful Derbyshire! It's also six months since launch, and it seems a good time for some spring cleaning. First order of the day: renaming the Agendashift facilitator day to the Agendashift practitioner's workshop. Not a dramatic change, but it does more clearly reflect 1) the typical audience, and 2) the fact that it's a hands-on workshop and not some other kind of event. We have two public workshops coming up in late April – Oslo (24th) and Bristol (27th) – and we've updated both their titles and their descriptions. Check them out!
I'm also leading some private workshops in the next few weeks, two of them abroad. These come in two flavours: the practitioner's workshop (essentially the same as the public workshop but with the advantage of some shared context), and the Agendashift transformation mapping workshop, aimed at client organisations. The former is mainly for coaches, consultants, and managers; at the latter we've had everyone from C-suite execs down to new joiners (diverse is good, by the way).
We may in due course rename the partner programme also. I've been soliciting the input of existing partners; overall we think the name describes the relationship well but there is the nagging concern that it may suggest a level of difficulty or cost that may cause some to be deterred quite unnecessarily.
The blog and by extension the LinkedIn group have been particularly active in recent weeks – helping ideas to crystallise before they find their way into the book – so do please make a point of reviewing this month's highlights towards the end of this roundup. I'm very encouraged by the response so far. Long story short: 20th century prescriptions have had their day, and even the Lean and Agile communities need to take notice.
I've reached out to everyone who has requested the PDF for the Clean Language cue cards we use in our 15-minute FOTO game (FOTO standing for From Obstacles to Outcomes) and as described in my new book's preview chapter. Soon there'll be a blog post describing both the recent update and the role Clean Language fulfills in Agendashift; meanwhile to obtain either or both of these free resources just drop me a line.
I'm thrilled to be invited back to India this autumn. If you'd be interested in attending an Agendashift practitioner's workshop in Bangalore in September (immediately before or after Lean Kanban India), do please let me know. Let's make this happen!


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Jake Miller Drops New Album: 2 AM IN LA
posted by @JoeyRadio - Jun 15, 2017
Congrats to my bro Jake Miller (The 24-year-old rapper/singer) on releasing his first album since leaving Warner Bros and being an independent artist. This album is REAL. He recently broke up with his girlfriend of 8 years and is on a new journey. My two favorite on this album are 'Parties' and 'Sleeping With Strangers.'
The inspiration behind the project derives from the artist channeling his emotions after being single for the first time in eight years. "If you're single in L.A. it's always a weird time, you are either going home alone or sitting in bed overthinking while your friends are at a party...being in this break up, in this weird space and you know I just moved to L.A. kind of recently and I have a new group of friends."
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Sleeping With Strangers
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Editor's note: This is the seventh of a series of 13 weekly articles originally published on Slowtwitch in 2003/4. The articles chronicle newbie RD Jeff Henderson's journey toward the production of his first race: the Musselman Triathlon in Upstate New York. After these 13 weeks worth of diary entries, we'll flow directly into a new series Jeff is writing for us, where he talks about his challenges and goals now, as he prepares for Year-7 of Musselman.
I've stopped taking my pulse in the morning—I no longer have a resting heart rate. As soon as the alarm goes off, my adrenaline shoots straight for my heart and I race for the computer.
"How many do you think signed up last night!?!?!" I shout to my wife as I wait impatiently for boot-up.
If you want to complain about personal attention, I'm not the guy to complain to. I'm fairly confident I know the birth dates and medical conditions of everyone who has entered the Musselman, because I scan the entry list so frequently. The Howe's from Bainbridge are bringing the whole family—all four are in the mini-Mussel—and we have entrants from two Arlington's: Virginia and Massachusetts. Lou Battaglia was our first entry, and Samuel Clemence is our oldest (at a spry 65).
I wage battle with one of our committee members, Tom Reho, to see who can email the other fastest when we get a new entry. He's ahead, and we are both pathetic.
That's right, the late winter doldrums have arrived in Central New York and the action is slow at Musselman Headquarters. The whole world (at least in my living room) is waiting for the snows to melt and the lake to warm, so until then I pass the time looking for delinquent sponsors to harass.
"Hello, Gail, have you had a chance to review the Musselman proposal?" I start my latest phone call in an upbeat manner.
"No, you haven't? Should I give you another couple weeks?" is my standard next line. I have no idea why five pages of information should require seven weeks to get through. But we'll give Gail a chance because, hey, we're desperate.
In the midst of winter's icy grip the Musselman has inspired a fortuitous relationship. One of our first committee members, way back in December, was Jim Hogan, owner of the Geneva Bicycle Center. Jim's bike shop carries road, mountain, BMX, hybrid, and kid's bikes as well as walls of accessories and parts. But he hasn't done anything with triathlon.
The Musselman has given him the impetus to introduce tri bikes, wetsuits, number belts, and all manner of other merchandise into his store. The better our race fares, the better business will be for him. Recognizing this marriage of interests, we have decided to thrust triathlon into the forefront of central New York early by holding clinics.
Escape From Alcatraz has a clinic, a three-day variety that will set you back something like 600 clams. Our clinics will be more spread out—every two weeks—and will cost you $5 at the door. We're not looking to make money directly; $5 will pay for pool time, keeping the shop open after hours, and some food. The immediate goal is to introduce beginners to the sport, spark interest in the Musselman, and kick off a tri club in Geneva that will draw attention to the sport locally.
The idea of a clinic is not new, and here's why we're pursuing it. Starting April 1st, the Musselman Clinics will be constant exposure for the July 11th race. We'll start with a general introduction to triathlon which is intended to flush first-time athletes out of the bushes. We'll ride the courses, run through the park, and swim in the lake so that each attendee will have intimate familiarity with all aspects of the Mussel come July. And in the process, Jim's shop will host dozens of potential customers needing wheels, jerseys, and heart rate monitors for their new hobby.
Jim and I will present most of the clinics, though others will be invited to lead and contribute where our knowledge and skills run lean (the world of running, for instance). Even if the clinics made no business sense for the bike shop or the Musselman, I would still hold them—I love teaching and sharing my interest in this sport.
In the meantime, I think the lack of action around here is getting to me, because I've started having a recurring set of dreams based loosely on The Apprentice. Our monthly committee meetings are held in an overly-elaborate oak-paneled boardroom and everyone shows up in business suits and power ties. No, I am not normally naked in these dreams.
In every single dream I've tasked my volunteers with running a triathlon (read in your best Donald Trump: "With my excessive and undeniably enviable fortune I have purchased musselmantri.com— now get out there and run this thing! First team to reach capacity gets to run the show next year! And the year after that! Hahahahahaha!!!!!...") They get one day to organize everything, figure out the courses, drum up sponsorships, and hire entertainment. Oh yes, and there's a bonus prize for most leftover gel packets.
In my dream, I of course get to fire someone. That's the best part.
"John, you've done nothing I've asked. You think the three sports should include roller hockey and the only group you've approached for volunteers is the middle school cheerleader squad. You ask sponsors 'is that the best you can do?' and you get surly with city employees. You're fired."
Then I wake up and I realize I can't fire anyone, because everyone is a volunteer.
But that's ok, because every single one of them is doing the best job I could ask. We're not going to make millions, but we're going to have one hell of a show.
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The Guardian this week reported on the rise of a number of new hybrid sports, the most intriguing being "blackminton".
But could the concept be transferred to squash?
Essentially badminton played in the dark with fluorescent strips taped over the racket and a glow in the dark ball, the sport looks allows its participants to act out Tron-style fantasies without the need to climb inside an Amstrad CPC 6128.
Surely the squash's speed would make nocturnal play prohibitive. But with crackpot enthusiasts already mad for blokarting, octopush and goalball, coming up with a wacky name might prove most difficult.
If you don't believe it, have a look here.


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VIDEO: Chief Keef Evicted for Being A Bad Boy!
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014 at 10:10 am
Chief Keef wants the world to know he was not evicted for being poor but for being a BAD young boy.
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Chief Keef Instagram AK-47 Photos and Links Himself to Chicago Shooting!
Wednesday, March 26th, 2014 at 5:16 pm
The little homie Chief Keef instagramed a photo of himself holding an AK-47 and implying that something is getting ready to happen. You can guess it a victim is sitting in ICU and we are all shaking our heads wondering WHY would you instagram a crime before it happens. When Instagram GOES WRONG!
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Chief Keef Gets Out of Jail Early
Friday, October 25th, 2013 at 8:52 am
The homie Chief Keef is a free man for good behavior/conduct.
Chief Keef Evicted By Uncle
Monday, September 2nd, 2013 at 9:59 am
Paying bills can be added to the lists of things ish Chief Keef doesn't like.
The young rapper is being sued by Georghe Simoniah-Sas, who is his uncle and the landlord of the mansion he's been renting.
According to the suit, Keef has not rent paid on his Illinois 5,100 square foot, 6 bedroom, 5.5 bath home that is valued over $1 million for the months of July and Augusta.
Simoniak-Sas is suing for eviction and the 9,400 in back rent that he's owed.
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Chief Keef Not Paying Child Support and Accused of being a Dead Beat Dad
Thursday, July 18th, 2013 at 8:10 am
The homie Chief Keef is in the news again; he has failed to pay child support. According to Chief Keef's baby mama he's a DEADBEAT that has not paid any child support but he walks around with stacks of cash in his pockets.
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50 Cents on Chief Keef: "He Didn't Listen!"
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 at 4:06 pm
Chief Keef stays turnt up and the big homie 50 Cent says that he just won't listen to sound advice.
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Jose Canseco is continuing with his bizarre string of behavior, and it looks like he's once again taking his gripe to Twitter.
The NY Post reports that the former Major League All-Star is accusing another former star of cheating on their famous fiancee. Canseco claims former Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez is cheating on Jennifer Lopez, and he's doing it with Canseco's ex-wife.
Watching World of Dance watching J.Lo text Alex Rodriguez little does she know that he is cheating on her with my ex-wife Jessica poor girl she has no idea who he really is.
Jose wasn't done there. The Post says the 54 year-old Canseco even challenged A-ROD to a boxing match.This isn't the first time he's accused Rodriguez of being involved with his ex.
Canseco is certainly no stranger to controversy and odd behavior. In February, he invited people to go Sasquatch hunting with him for $5,000 a piece. He's also ranted about everything from other baseball players who may have been on steroids, to UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Canseco's previous attempts at organized fighting haven't always gone so well. In 2008, he was knocked out by former N.F.L. player Vai Sikahema in a boxing match. He later reached a draw in another fight with former radio and television personality Danny Bonaduce.
He also got his clock cleaned in an MMA bout in 2009 by Hong Man Choi at around the 1:17 mark in the first round, so mixed martial arts wasn't working out much better for him.


I made this cup using the optics mold, trying to reproduce the beautiful blue and white and light blue cups I gave away two years ago. I can't even remember exactly what they looked like, excepet that there were a number of them and when I let people take whichever cup they liked, those went first. This isn't right. This isn't the right color blue (I think I used blue adventurine) and I think it's not the right white either (I think I used larger frit.) It's an okay looking cup though, and it's got a thin enough lip t hat I can drink out of it.
I do have plenty of drinking glasses. In our house, all the drinking glasses are different from one another, so that when you get a glass to drink out of, you can just keep using that glass instead of getting a new one. That's the theory, anyway. In reality, we still run the dishwasher an awful lot. I think I'm just as bad as the rest of my family.