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4 titles that brought gaming back
December 31, 2021 - The NES Super Mario games are an important part of gaming history so if you never played them, give them a go and you'll be impressed.
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Pokemon Shining Pearl Review (Switch)
Revisit the Sinnoh region
November 18, 2021 - It's time for a new adventure in the world of Pokemon but this time, we're going back to 2006 with a remake of a Nintendo DS classic.
Read more: Pokemon Shining Pearl Review
New Super Mario Bros. Wii Secret Exits
World skips and more
October 30, 2021 - Can you believe that this fantastic platformer released all the way back in 2009?! Well, let's revisit it and explore all of its secret exits.
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Ghouls 'n Ghosts: A Halloween Treat
Kill the undead, save the princess
October 30, 2021 - As the sequel to 1985's Ghosts 'n Goblins, Ghouls 'n Ghosts is a 1988 Sega Genesis platformer that has you battle hordes of ghouls, ghosts, demons, and even angry turtles. It was originally an arcade game then it came out for Genesis and many other platforms, too.
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King's Bounty II Review (PlayStation 4)
Explore a huge fantasy world
September 18, 2021 - King's Bounty II is a turn-based tactics / CRPG hybrid set in a medieval high fantasy world filled with mystery and intrigue. However, it's definitely a mixed experience as it can be engaging and enjoyable but I can't wholly recommend it because of a few serious problems.
Read more: King's Bounty II Review
Arietta of Spirits Review (Xbox One)
Live through a heartwarming adventure
August 25, 2021 - Arietta of Spirits is a story-driven top-down adventure where Arietta and her family vacation to a remote island but things take a turn.
Read more: Arietta of Spirits Review
Orcs Must Die! 3 Review (PlayStation 4)
Defend the rifts from Orc villainy
July 30, 2021 - Orcs Must Die 3 is an action tower defense game and the latest installment of Robot Entertainment's series. I absolutely loved the first Orcs Must Die for Xbox Live Arcade but is this a worthy sequel and does it meet the high expectations of tower defense fans?
Read more: Orcs Must Die! 3 Review
Streets of Rage 2: A Top-Notch Genesis Brawler
Beat up the evil syndicate
June 17, 2021 - Streets of Rage 2 was one of the best beat 'em ups of the '90s so let's have some fun playing through this classic brawler yet again.
Read more: Streets of Rage 2: A Top-Notch Genesis Brawler
Castlevania: Bloodlines - A Genesis Treasure
Battle Dracula as 2 legendary hunters
June 13, 2021 - John Morris and Eric Lecarde fight dark forces in this special installment of the Castlevania series. Bloodlines released in 1994 for Sega Genesis and it's the only Castlevania for the console but you can now play it on the Genesis Mini or Castlevania Anniversary Collection.
Read more: Castlevania: Bloodlines - A Genesis Treasure
Earthworm Jim: '90s Weirdness to the Max
Blast baddies in a groovy platformer
June 2, 2021 - Earthworm Jim is weird, its levels are totally random, and why do you play as an earthworm in a spacesuit anyway? Well, let's get to it.
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Award winning Scottish research could pave the way for 'low-emission cattle'
Professor John Wallace
A Scottish study that potentially paves the way for the breeding of low-emission livestock has won an internationally respected research prize.
The study, the result of a collaboration involving Scotland's Rural College, The University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute and The University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute, identified a genetic link between host animals, the microbial community in their digestive tract and the methane that they produce. The findings could ultimately help farmers respond to the growing global demand for meat, while minimising the associated environmental impact.
The results were reported in the international research journal PLOS Genetics and won the journal's 2017 annual prize for outstanding research.
Researchers have for some time discussed the possibility of breeding cattle that generate less methane but it was not known to what extent the cattle genome would influence the make-up of gut microbes. In the winning study, the researchers explored the interactions between an animal's genetic background, its diet and the composition of its microbial community. They identified microbial community profiles that can be used to recognise cattle that use their feed more efficiently while also emitting less methane.
Professor Rainer Roehe from the Future Farming Systems research group of Scotland's Rural College said: "In our research, we were surprised to find that the host animal's genetics shapes its own microbiome to the extent that it does and that this is highly informative when predicting traits like methane emissions and feed conversion efficiency. In the future we expect that the use of gastrointestinal microbial information will have a great impact in animal breeding and that it will also be of great value in medicine and nutritional recommendations that can be tailored to the individual in many different species, including humans."
The results have huge implications for breeding farm animals on the basis of their gut microbes, for better digestion of the feed, lower greenhouse gas emissions and many other possible applications." Professor John Wallace
Professor John Wallace from the University of Aberdeen Rowett Institute said: "I am delighted to have been involved in this project, what we – Rowett, SRUC and Roslin, combining our expertise in microbial ecology, animal genetics and bioinformatics, respectively – achieved is very much a first. The results have huge implications for breeding farm animals on the basis of their gut microbes, for better digestion of the feed, lower greenhouse gas emissions and many other possible applications."
Professor Mick Watson, Director (Agrigenomics), Edinburgh Genomics at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute said: "We employed a relatively new technique called metagenomics, which involves analysing the genetic composition of an entire organism including the microbes that exist within it. Our study demonstrates the power of combining this approach with big data analysis tool to solve a real world problem – in this case breeding more efficient animals."
The PLOS Genetics prize comes with a $5,000 award to the authors. The public nominates worthy papers from the previous year and the PLOS Genetics Editors-in-Chief and Senior Editors make their final selection based on the scientific merit and community impact of the research.
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29 April - 26 June 2022
White Cube Bermondsey
White Cube Bermondsey is pleased to present an exhibition by Andreas Gursky featuring new and recent photographs. Produced over the past four years, these works reflect Gursky's focus on the 'essential commonality' of contemporary life, and the forms and structures of global capitalism. Gursky's subjects – from multinational headquarters to fashion runways, a domestic interior to a political seminar – take on a scale akin to that of history painting. In so doing, Gursky gives spatial precedence to the pressing issues of our age, articulated through expansive scenes that reveal their pictorial complexity. In his new photographs, the artist elaborates...
White Cube Bermondsey is pleased to present an exhibition by Andreas Gursky featuring new and recent photographs. Produced over the past four years, these works reflect Gursky's focus on the 'essential commonality' of contemporary life, and the forms and structures of global capitalism.
Gursky's subjects – from multinational headquarters to fashion runways, a domestic interior to a political seminar – take on a scale akin to that of history painting. In so doing, Gursky gives spatial precedence to the pressing issues of our age, articulated through expansive scenes that reveal their pictorial complexity. In his new photographs, the artist elaborates upon the role of images in today's society, addressing the paradoxical nature of the medium and its relationship to the real. As Gursky states: 'Seeing and the imperative to find images leads me to my subjects, not the other way round.'
Several of the works in the exhibition revisit sites of earlier photographs, including the Hong Kong Shanghai Bank and the Rhine River. The resulting images appear to harness timescales and reflect accelerated political and ecological change. Those representing multinational headquarters include a series featuring Foster + Partners' Hong Kong Shanghai Bank, which Gursky first shot in 1994. A landmark of the city's skyline, Gursky's pictures of the building suggest a financial and social world in flux; Hong Kong Shanghai Bank II (2020), for instance, with its cascade of colourful umbrellas visible on the façade, is an allusion to the 2014 'umbrella movement' of anonymous protesters. Rhein III (2018), on the other hand, shows the same stretch of river as the iconic work Rhein II (1999) and uses almost identical dimensions and a similar, horizontal, banded composition. Resembling a muted colour field painting, Rhein III depicts a river now depleted, with bleached dry banks and low water levels following the severe summer drought of 2018. Eisläufer (2021) was also taken near to the Rhine but during winter, in a frozen meadow outside Düsseldorf. A busy, Breughel-esque scene recording people out walking and conversing, some wearing masks, in a landscape of lightly snow-covered fields, here the relationship of man to nature seems altered. The image, brimming with humanity, was taken during the period in which the pandemic forced many indoors, resulting in communal open spaces becoming central to urban life.
Another frozen expanse is the subject of Streif (2021), which depicts the famous World Cup ski run on the Hahnenkamm mountain near Kitzbühel, Austria. Viewed from a distance and with a slightly elevated perspective, the near vertical stretch is thinly covered and icy, while the surrounding trees are noticeably green and devoid of snow. The vertical composition recalls Gursky's earlier investigations of sport infrastructures including the Formula 1 racetrack in Bahrain I (2005), while the screen in the picture's bottom left hand corner – freeze-framing a crash on the course – behaves as a reminder of the commercial framework and manufactured thrill bound up with professional sport. Another image of nature bearing the imprint of humankind is Salinas (2021), a large-scale landscape photograph taken by Gursky in Ibiza. The extraction and trade of salt has a long history in Ibiza and here Gursky records nature as the site of industry, attesting to his long-standing interest in depicting reality as one built from many contradictions.
The question of pictorial verisimilitude underpins a new series of works that examine political structures, produced following several months observation of members of the German Bundestag. In Politik II (2020), 13 German politicians, with Angela Merkel at their centre, engage in conversation in an arrangement reminiscent of Renaissance depictions of the Last Supper, yet is here framed against the Pop Art painting Five Past Eleven (1989) by Ed Ruscha. Many of Gursky's works feature paintings by other artists (including Constable and Pollock), an interest in part driven by a broader engagement with methods of presentation and display. This includes iconic works like 99 Cent (2001), his Prada series and most recently, the Viktor & Rolf pictures. The notion of global industries readily incorporates the fashion industry, a unique multibillion-consumer business where creativity and capital are inexorably entwined.
Bauhaus (2020) and Königsbergerstrasse, Diptych (2020) focus on aspects of modern living. In Bauhaus, Gursky captures the minimal industrial exterior of the Swiss-German DIY store beside a motorway, the only trace of human presence suggested by the stacked goods, glimpsed just behind two slit windows. Conversely, Königsbergerstrasse presents an intimate scene from everyday life showing a woman in an apartment playing a block-building game. Alluding to the confinement imposed by the recent pandemic, Gursky portrays a moment of tension, perhaps seconds before the elaborate wooden tower topples.
This body of work will be shown concurrently at Gagosian, New York, from 5 May – 18 June 2022.
Andreas Gursky was born in Leipzig, Germany, and lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Collections include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Broad, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; National Galleries of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Kunstmuseum Basel; and Kunsthaus Zürich. Recent exhibitions include Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2012); Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (2012); National Art Center, Tokyo (2013); National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (2014); Landscapes, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York (2014); 56th Biennale di Venice (2015); Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (2015–16); Manifesta 11, Zürich (2016); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2016); Hayward Gallery, London (2018); Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany (2021); Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany (2021–22); and Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul (2022).
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MAP04: Alcatraz is the fourth map of Hacx. It was designed by John Herndon.
Turn 180 degrees, and you'll see some stairs that lead to the ledge above. Go up these steps.
Once you are on top of these steps, turn right and go in this direction until you see an opening on the rocky wall.
Inside this opening is a very steep set of stairs. Go up this stairway and go through passageway, then the staircase up ahead. You should now be in a prison cell. Exit this cell and look left. You will see a balcony with a staircase in the middle. Go up these steps.
You will see a wall in front of you. Go behind this wall to find a door. Open it, go through, them open the next door.
There is a long tunnel here. Go straight until you see a door. Open this door, go through the short corridor and open the next door you'll find.
You will see you are in another room with prison cells, but with a watchtower in the center and a staircase next to it. Turn right and follow the railing until you see a point where there is a gap in the railing. Jump from this gap and go up the staircase.
Once you are above the steps, go into the watchtower. There is switch here. Press it.
One of the prison cells ahead of you now has been highlighted. Exit the watchtower and go left. Follow the railing here until you are in front of this prison cell. Go inside the cell.
There will be a switch inside, next to the bars. Press it and exit the cell. You'll see that a secret entrance is opening on the other side. Go to this entrance and walk to the end of the hallway.
There will be an elevator surrounded by four green pillars. Stand on the platform and let it go down.
Once you can see an opening to exit the elevator, jump off. There will be a green staircase on your left. Go up these steps and go left. You'll see a locked door on your right side. To open this door, keep going in this direction until you see the green-purple tech wall up ahead go down, revealing a hidden room.
Go inside this room, and on your right is a control panel. Press use and the locked door will open. Go back to the door and enter through. Follow the winding hallway until you come upto a door. Open it by flipping the switch next to it. You'll see an elevator in front of you.
Press use on the elevator for it to come down. Once it is down, get on it quickly and let it rise up again.
Exit the elevator and follow this hallway. Once you are at a door, open it and walk through.
You are now on top the wall surrounding the prison. Follow the wall until you come across a ledge to get down on the ground. Jump off from here.
Once on the ground, turn to your left so that you are facing the white building in the middle. One of corners of the building is an elevator. This corner is the farthest corner from where you're standing. Go up to the corner and press use to bring it down. Get on it and let it rise to the roof of the building.
Without moving from the corner, look to your right. You will see a smaller building. Jump onto the roof of this building. Upon landing, the building will immediately start to descend.
Once it has stopped moving, look to your right, where there will be a small opening visible. Walk into the opening and go through the tunnel inside.
There will be a door at the end of the tunnel. Open it and you'll see there is an office with a big monitor.
Go towards the desk to exit the level.
There are no secrets on this map.


Create a digital clone of yourself floating in cyberspace using the latest AI chatbot technologies.
We will be using AI, mainly embedding generation and text generation, to generate a digital representation of a person's personality captured through hir chat records/written text (ex.twitter tweets) available on social media. Then these representations will be used to create a chatbot that embodies the "character" of it's creator. For maximum benefit attendees are expected to have a basic command of programming (we'll be using python). We will have a simpler process for non-programming crowds to go through the process of creating their chatbot, but some of the technicalities will be lost on them.
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# oauth-dyn-reg

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This is an implementation of the
[draft OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol][rfc].

## Installation

```shell
yarn add oauth-dyn-reg
```

## Usage

```typescript
import register from 'oauth-dyn-reg';

const metadata = { /* See RFC section 2 for what goes here */ };
const registrationEndpoint = /* See RFC section 3 */;

// resp contains your client's registered metadata
const resp = await register(metadata, registrationEndpoint);
// !!!: resp may differ from metadata, the server MAY change values
```

An [OAuth 2.0 token][token] maybe optionally be given as a third parameter.

## References

1. [OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol][rfc]
1. [OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework][token]

[rfc]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7591 'OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol'
[token]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-1.4 'OAuth 2.0 Tokens'

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Yun Che's tone of voice was light and casual, but it was clear enough for everyone to hear his words. But as if they were under some sort of spell, the people at the Conferred God Stage were absolutely silent—with only the sharp and clear sounds of jaws hitting the floor resounding continuously.
"Good! Good! Good!!"
God Emperor Shitian clapped hard while repeatedly roaring the word "good" thrice. There was an unusual light in his eyes, "Well done, boy! That divine skill of invisibility you displayed truly broadened the horizons of this king! Being able to witness such a divine skill alone is worth this king making the trip to the Divine Eastern Region!"
"It's a pity that you're from the Divine Eastern Region. If you were born in the Southern Divine Region, this king would have even vied with others for taking you in as a disciple, hahahaha!"
God Emperor Shitian laughed loudly. Each and every word of his sounded like a sudden thunderclap.
Words like "broadened this king's horizons" and "vied with others for taking you in as a disciple," carried unimaginable weight when spoken by the god emperor who was ranked second in the Southern Divine Region.
Earlier, Honorable Qu Hui had said harsh and insulting words about Yun Che's master. God Emperor Shitian saying such words at this time was much more than a smack in the face to Honorable Qu Hui.
All the people present in this place had clearly seen Yun Che's performance. Not only the realm kings of the thousands of star realms, but also the distinguished individuals watching the competition from the eastern seating area—the five great god emperors, star gods, moon gods, and the adjudicators—had a look of surprise on their faces.
"Divine skill… of invisibility?"
"Isn't it the legendary movement skill of the divine way…? Is it truly possible for someone to have practiced it? Especially… is such a thing possible for a youngster who is only at the Divine Tribulation Realm?"
"There are indeed records of such a skill, but we have never heard of anyone successfully practicing it before. Could he be using some kind of… eye-deceiving art?"
"God Emperor Shitian said it himself. How can it be fake?"
"Does that mean this boy… has far more ability than what it seems?"
"Is him passing the round this way… not considered cheating? Don't tell me that he… is now considered the first ranker in this round? Tha… That's not going to happen, right?"
Yun Che passed the first two rounds of preliminaries, despite having the strength of the first level of Divine Tribulation Realm. As he stood on the Conferred God Stage, although it surprised everyone, soon after, they found it laughable instead. Yun Che employed "crooked means" this time again, which completely deviated from the original intention of arranging such an assessment. Moreover, all of them saw his entire journey from start to end with their own eyes.
But they didn't find him contemptible and laughable due to him finishing the round in such a way, and instead were so shocked that they could not calm their emotions for a long while.
"What? Do you want to say that I cheated once again?" Looking at the stiff expression of Honorable Qui Hui, Yun Che let out a low laugh. Then, he said in a voice that was only audible to him, "There was no rule other than to reach Floor 300 first, and you announced it yourself. Could it be that Honorable Qu Hui, the one called as the most fair and strict person in the Eastern Divine Region, feels no hesitation in smacking his own face?"
Immediately, the face of Honorable Qu Hui contorted and his gaze turned slightly gloomy, but he still didn't say anything.
As the leader of the adjudicators, how was it possible for him to be unaware of "invisibility," the ultimate level of movement skills? Despite having lived for tens of thousands of years, it was only today that he had witnessed it for the first time… However, the one who had displayed such great skill actually turned out to be the junior he felt incomparable contempt for, the one that he loathed a lot.
He certainly said it himself… especially, to mock Yun Che. He put emphasis on words like "there are no restrictions on the means," "there are no rules," because he was sure that as everyone was separated from each other, and there was danger everywhere, with no place to flee in the Eternal Heaven Tower, it would be an idiotic dream to want to cheat in the third round.
He never expected that there was still the possibility of using such a method.
This "method" was something that even the five great god emperors couldn't use, let alone him.
Honorable Qu Hui turned around to look at the Eternal Heaven God Emperor. After the two looked at each other, the latter gave him a slight nod.
"…" Qu Hui turned back to face Yun Che. His chest faintly moved up and down as he said in a solemn voice, "Yun Che of the Snow Song Realm, you have passed the third round of preliminaries, and have the qualification to enter the final 'Conferred God Battle!' You will have to stay here for now, and can only leave once the preliminaries come to an end!"
WAAAH——
The Conferred God Stage at once became boisterous.
Witnessing invisibility definitely deeply shocked the audience, but the profound way cultivation of Yun Che was only at the first level of Divine Tribulation Realm, after all. He only relied on "invisibility" and not his strength to be the first to pass the competition inside the Eternal Heaven Tower, and it was true strength which was required to enter the final "Conferred God Battle."
It was already a huge joke for a "heaven chosen child" to be at the first level of Divine Tribulation Realm, and had angered even someone with self-restraint as great as the Eternal Heaven God Emperor.
Now, if he also entered the "Conferred God Battle,"… it would undoubtedly cause a tremendous disturbance and uproar in the Eastern Divine Region, and it would be laughed at by other divine regions without any reservations.
However, it was the decision of the Eternal Heaven Realm… A decision they could not help but make.
Yun Che turned a deaf ear to the reaction of the people in his surroundings. He calmly stood in place, as wave after wave of emotions surged within his heart.
The Conferred God Battle had been the final and most important event of the previous sessions of the Profound God Convention. He had heard that every fight of the Conferred God Battle was even displayed everywhere in the Eastern Divine Region via star tablets.
Looks like I'm really going to be well-known, huh…? He said inwardly in self-ridicule.
Jasmine, once you see me and hear my name, you'll definitely come to look for me… You definitely will.
I didn't think that to be able to meet you I would have to come across such ups and downs and hardships, but at this moment, it is only excitement that I can feel. I don't feel the least bit of regret about what all I had to face to come so far… Even if I have to pay ten times the price for my actions to this point, or face ten times the consequences I have suffered. I will still not regret anything.
Sometimes, I myself felt bewildered too. Why was I able to so resolutely abandon everything I had on the Blue Pole Star, only to arrive at the completely unfamiliar God Realm, regardless of whatever might happen? Moreover, it was only for the sake of seeing you once… or even the possibility of being able to see you once.
But right now, the crazily surging emotions within my heart have answered my doubt…
That is because you are Jasmine.
You are the one who gave me a new life, and changed my fate as well. You are the one for whom I can willingly give away everything I have, even if means being damned for eternity.
Time quickly passed by. The competition inside the Eternal Heaven Tower was still going on, and becoming more and more intense.
The gazes of the audience finally shifted back to the Eternal Heaven Tower. It was only Yun Che who was standing quietly with closed eyes. He didn't give another glance to the Eternal Heaven Tower. He clearly had a good opportunity to observe the powerful participants who were going to be his opponents in the "Conferred God Battle," but he didn't have any interest in doing so.
It was because he had already achieved his goal, and the "Conferred God Battle" had nothing to do with him any longer.
Furthermore, given his strength, he would suffer certain defeat at the hands of any expert strong enough to enter the Conferred God Battle.
The thing he was planning to do next, was to wait for Jasmine to come looking for him. After today, so long as Jasmine was present in the Eastern Divine Region, there should be no reason for her to not hear his name.
An unknown period of time passed when extremely excited voices began to resound beside his ear, "Luo Changsheng! It's Luo Changsheng! He is just about to reach the top!"
Very soon, a white light flashed behind Yun Che, and an elegant figure slowly walked out of it.
The cheers from the people of the Holy Eaves Realm shook the sky… If not for the presence of an abnormal existence like Yun Che, their cheers would certainly have been even more elated.
Luo Changsheng came a few steps ahead when he suddenly caught sight of Yun Che, causing a faint startled look to surface in his eyes. But the change in his eyes only appeared for an instant, after which he shifted his gaze away from the other party and didn't spare him another glance.
It was very obvious that in his opinion, or to be exact, in the opinion of anyone with a normally working brain, the sole possibility for Yun Che to appear here before him, was because of him voluntarily abandoning the competition.
Besides, it was only normal for someone like him to directly give up on the competition.
"Well done." Honorable Qu Hui slightly nodded towards Luo Changsheng, as an extremely rare look of appreciation emerged on his face.
Yun Che also didn't look at Luo Changsheng, either. These two people who had returned to the Conferred God Stage before the rest had no point of intersection between them, as if they were living in two separate worlds… Perhaps, in their hearts, they considered themselves to be an existence of a completely different world from each other's.
Following Luo Changsheng, the second, the third, the fourth winner appeared… More and more people reached Floor 300 and returned to the Conferred God Stage. This first batch of people to clear the competition inside the Eternal Heaven Tower was, undoubtedly, the group of most topnotch existences in the entire Eastern Divine Region. Each one of them already had a great reputation in the Eastern Divine Region.
Their reactions upon seeing Yun Che were basically the same as Luo Changsheng's.
Jun Xilei, in particular, had a deep look of contempt and disgust on her face when her gaze turned to him. The feelings of humiliation and hatred, which were buried in the depths of her heart, would also be roused every time she saw Yun Che.
At some point in time, there were already over twenty youngsters who had returned to the Conferred God Stage, and the remaining slots for the Conferred God Battle were also becoming fewer and fewer. It was at this time that Yun Che suddenly heard a name he was quite concerned about.
"That boy is… truly from the Flame God Realm?"
"How can someone from a middle star realm be so powerful!?"
Yun Che raised his head as his gaze very quickly locked onto a projection. The entire screen of the projection was filled with the faint golden light of flames. He could clearly hear the loud roar of Huo Poyun, as well as the painful and despairing growls of a large number of profound beasts that were located in the midst of Golden Crow flames.
Golden flames soared into the sky, as if they would burn through the Eternal Heaven Tower. Gradually, the growls of the profound beasts quieted, and Huo Poyun walked out of the light of flames that had filled the sky, his whole body dyed in blood. He was walking at a slow pace, but each of his steps were firm as iron. Within his blazing pupils, there was no sign of pain, and only his incomparably scorching hot and unswerving determination could be seen in them.
Leaving a long line of blood behind him, he stepped inside Floor 300 of the Eternal Heaven Tower.
Consequently, becoming the twenty-fifth person to enter the Conferred God Battle.
"…He is truly amazing," Yun Che sighed in sincere admiration.
He ranked within the top two hundred in the very first round, and then, he placed among the top hundred… Right now, he was the twenty-fifth person to pass the competition inside the Eternal Heaven Tower, out of the thousand "heaven chosen children," and successfully entered the Conferred God Battle.
Not only that, he was also the first young profound practitioner from a middle star realm to enter the Conferred God Battle.
He continuously shocked Yun Che with his performance, and gave tremendous pleasant surprises to the Flame God Realm time and time again.
"Conferred God Battle, it's the Conferred God Battle, you know…" Huo Rulie said repeatedly, as if he was lost in a dream, and didn't want to wake up.
"Who would have thought that Poyun could come so far? We completely underestimated his attainment in the flame element. After all, he has…" Speaking the first half of his words, a deep look of excitement and expectation surfaced on Yan Juehai's face.
The gaze of the Eternal Heaven God Emperor paused on Huo Poyun for a long time. Afterwards, he turned to the people from the Flame God Realm, as he said with a faint smile, "Congratulations to the two sect masters of the Flame God Realm. It seems that the Flame God Realm will be promoted to the status of an upper star realm before long."
Yan Juehai and Huo Rulie were feeling extremely flattered. They hurriedly greeted him back, as they felt extremely excited in their hearts.
As Huo Poyun walked out of the screen of light, there was still uncontrollable excitement on his face. The instant he turned to Huo Rulie to signal his greeting, he caught sight of Yun Che, and was taken aback immediately, "Brother Yun, you…"
Yun Che walked over to him, as he said with a faint smile, "Brother Poyun, now it's simply impossible for you to not be famous in the world."
"Ahahah, you…" Huo Poyun would act in an exceptionally fierce and cruel manner when fighting his opponents, but he was a quite a gentle person normally. He gave an embarrassed laugh, and was just about to ask Yun Che whether he withdrew from the competition voluntarily, but then he suddenly thought that it would definitely hurt Yun Che's self-esteem, and promptly stopped himself from speaking any further. He lowered his voice, as he said, changing the topic, "Brother Yun, you almost scared me to death earlier… You actually dared to contradict Honorable Qu Hui… Phew! You don't know how powerful an individual he is. Please make sure not to do such a thing again."
However, Yun Che said with a calm and collected smile, "Don't you worry, I'm safer than every one of you all. Even if that Honorable Qu Hui loses his mind and wants to launch a direct attack to kill me, I still have a means to render him unable to do so."
"Eh?" Huo Poyun was stunned. Although he trusted Yun Che quite a lot, he found it difficult to believe these words of Yun Che's.
"Quick, look over there… When did that little girl from the Glazed Light Realm overtake the others!?"
The majority of the gazes focused on the same projection. A lovely and exquisite girl was flying within it like a butterfly. There was a large group of profound beasts chasing after her, but surprisingly, the speed of these profound beasts slowed down little by little, until they finally came to a halt. They lifelessly watched the girl getting farther and farther away from them, but didn't show any signs of pursuing her again.
Shui Meiyin!
"Ah? What's going on?" Huo Poyun revealed surprise and incomprehension on his face. "All the profound beasts inside the Eternal Heaven Tower were endlessly chasing the participants like mad dogs. So why did they… stop chasing after her?"
"…It should be due to soul interference, and one that is extremely strong!" Yun Che frowned, as he said slowly.
This little girl had such a terrifying mental strength. She could actually interfere with the perception of so many profound beasts.
Could it be that his invisible state was easily sensed by her… because of her excessively powerful mental strength, too?
Yun Che himself had an extremely strong mental strength, but he had never tried to specifically train his mental strength. Therefore, the power of his mental strength was totally used in issuing simple and brutal mental attacks, and in providing him an extremely strong mental defense.
For example, the stun effect of Dragon Soul, and the soul-burning effect of Red Butterfly.
What Shui Meiyin had displayed was mental interference, something much more difficult and advanced than a simple mental attack.
With enough powerful interference, one could even be able to "control" the target.


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Cleveland Browns interim head coach Gregg Williams looks on during a game against the Atlanta Falcons on November 11, 2018 at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Aaron Josefczyk/UPI | License Photo
Cleveland Browns interim head coach Gregg Williams will have a chance to interview for the full-time job, general manager John Dorsey said Wednesday.
"Gregg will get interviewed for the head coaching position. I think he deserves that," the 58-year-old Dorsey told reporters Wednesday on Williams, who took over after the Browns fired Hue Jackson on Oct. 29.
Dorsey elected against commenting on whether the Browns' search for a head coach would extend into the collegiate ranks. Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley's name has been linked to the job due in large part that reigning Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield -- the top overall pick of the 2018 NFL Draft -- played for the Sooners.
Dorsey said the team plans to begin its coaching search in earnest after the season.
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"Me personally, I would like to see a man of character. I would like to see a man who can lead young men. I would like to see a man who has got high football acumen. Those are the three basic things there that I look for," Dorsey said.
Cleveland started the season with a 2-5-1 mark under Jackson after it went 0-16 in 2017 and 1-15 in 2016.
With Williams at the helm, the Browns dropped a 37-21 decision to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 9 before rebounding with a 28-16 home win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.
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The 60-year-old Williams was the head coach of the Buffalo Bills (2001-03) before serving as the defensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins, Jacksonville Jaguars, New Orleans Saints, Los Angeles Rams and Browns.
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Jan. 15 (UPI) -- LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady is leaving the Tigers to become the offensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers.
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Yes. You are required to have a very-low-calorie diet (Optifast) before bariatric surgery. This reduces the size of the liver, which facilitates a safer and more effective operation. The diet is required for two to four weeks prior to surgery. We work alongside your weight loss dietitian to guide you through the steps involved.
This will be assessed on an individual basis. Gathering anatomical information prior to an operation is important and a pre-operative contrast swallow or endoscopy will be required. Our anaesthetist will also require some tests to ensure a safe anaesthetic e.g. routine blood tests, an echocardiogram, and a sleep study. When you book in your initial weight loss surgery consultation, we can further explain these tests to you.
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After my operation what follow-up care is required?
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I am new to the Sunshine Coast and have had Weight Loss Surgery previously – can I continue my follow up?
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Finally getting a chance to play every day in the big leagues, Adams has 138 plate appearances over 35 games. And he's managed to drive in a measly nine runs. Ridiculous. He easily could have turned the Cardinals Friday night loss into a win by picking up a couple of the six runners he left on base. But with two opportunities to break the game open early he hit into a double play and struck out. On Saturday he left four more runners on base. That's nine ribbies on the season -- and 10 runners left stranded in TWO DAYS.
Sure the Redbirds offense has been anemic. But it's not as if Adams hasn't had opportunities to drive in runs. Batting clean-up much of the time, he has the least runs batted in of any St. Louis regulars.
Allen Craig, who has struggled to hit .200 and subsequently dropped down to the bottom part of the batting order, has driven in 14. And he's on the rise with a .293 average over the last 10 games. Matt Carpenter and Jhonny Peralta have shown signs of life, too.
Meanwhile, Adams is hitting .311. But he's hitting singles instead of home runs because he's seemingly going to the plate with a plan to hit the other way. So his power potential isn't what it used to be. Yet somehow he's still striking out plenty -- 28 times -- while only walking three times.
I can't blame the St. Louis Cardinals if they want to keep top prospect Oscar Taveras in the minor leagues until June so they can prevent his eventual free agency for another year.
But for the front office to claim that there is no place for him to play with the parent club is ridiculous.


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November 14, 2016 ttowntruthseeker 1 Comment
Meredith Cumming's article Houndstooth and crimson-cloaked hate: Tuscaloosa protest turns ugly described the lack of tolerance of many football fans towards anti-Trump protestors after the November 12th, 2016 football game at Bryant-Denny Stadium:
As I marched with my daughter from Bryant-Denny Stadium, down University Boulevard with about 50 other protestors toward Government Plaza people spewed hatred and slurs our way. I expected that.
What I didn't expect was the depth of their hatred for people simply practicing their American rights. We were young and old, students and grandparents, babies and children. It was a vulnerable feeling, given that we were outnumbered by tens of thousands.
I love my country. But the people of America have let me down with their lack of tolerance, just as Alabama fans did as they poured out of the stadium, or stumbled drunk out of bars to degrade people of a different color, religion, or opinion, and anything else they didn't understand. Just minutes before that we had sat alongside one another, united by our favorite team, their hatred cloaked in houndstooth and crimson.
Now at every turn I will wonder. When I get on an elevator I will wonder. When I attend a public event, such as a lecture or basketball game I will wonder. When I meet a new business associate for the first time I will wonder:
Does this person hate me too?
Cummings somehow doesn't get it. The Bama Football crowd is largely composed of Trump Republicans. Before Trump became the GOP's front runner, Republican Ted Cruz was hosted at the stadium. University of Alabama students are mostly Republicans and Trump supporters. That's just the way it is. Before the election there was a Trump for President tent right outside the stadium with a life size cardboard cutout of Donald Trump where fans were lining up to have selfies taken next to it.
Challenging Trump and, for that matter, whites in general at a protest after a football game will provoke a lot of hostility. Could the protestors have not been aware of this?
Too often idealistic students seem surprised that their freedom of speech is not respected. In this case, the outcome of a national election was to some extent being protested. If Hillary Clinton had won, how would the protestors react to Trump supporters staging a protest? Many would laugh at the disappointed Trump backers I suspect although perhaps they would've been less hostile.
It was opportunistic to say the least for the protestors to stage their action to coincide with a football game when there would be a huge crowd. The coaches and football players certainly seem to have no racial animosity even if some of their fans are prejudiced.
Some fans may just have resented the fact that there was a political protest at a game. But when there are over one hundred thousand fans, there are bound to be some of them who show less restraint when the candidate that they supported is attacked.
If I were one of the protestors however I wouldn't be worried about everybody hating me. Most fans didn't give the protest a second thought.
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The same people who protested Trump's election at the October 12th game are planning to do so at the November 26th "Iron Bowl" (the matchup between Auburn and Alabama). They're calling it a "Unity Rally" with a "Love Trumps Hate" message. If there are any adults in this crowd they should prepare the students for another hostile reaction. This is not a good way to get cheap thrills. It will be a feckless, counter-productive act. They are clueless


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A whopper of a tale? Tram runs off track, lands on whale statue's tail
General view of a metro that crashed through a stop block and landed on an artwork of a whale tail at De Akkers subway station in Spijkenisse
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – An elevated tram ran past the end of its tracks in Rotterdam on Monday, but instead of plunging 10 meters to the ground from a pier it came to rest delicately on top of a statue of a whale's tail.
The conductor emerged shocked but unharmed and there were no passengers on board. The statue, coincidentally entitled "Saved by a Whale's Tale", had not been intended to actually save a train.
"Of course it does look rather poetic," artist and architect Maarten Struijs was quoted as saying by the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper. "But it's really lucky that the tail can bear the weight of the train."
The suspended tram car could be seen by passers-by in the streets below. Amid calls on social media to leave it as a permanent addition to the artwork, Rotterdam Metro and local officials said it would not be safe.
Engineers were studying how the tram car and several others derailed behind it could be safely removed.
(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Giles Elgood)


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Shy Blonde Tweens Spend 6 Years Turning Themselves Into 'Brunette Barbies' Mistaken For Twins
by Amy Paige
Amy is the Director of Trending Content at LittleThings. After graduating from Florida State University with a creative writing degree, she moved straight to New York City to pursue a career in the arts. She loves discovering and sharing viral videos, watching movies with her Muppet-like poodle mix named Cali, and doing the robot whenever possible.
Julia and Sofia were 6 years old when they first met in their hometown of Stockholm, Sweden. By the time they were 10, Julia and Sofia were wearing the same outfits and matching their looks as much they could.
The best friends were soft-spoken and rather insecure, but they always had each other.
Julia and Sofia decided as tweens that they didn't want to just fit into a box like they were expected to. They say their peers in Sweden tend to keep to their traditional looks, which typically means blonde hair, fair skin, and slender frames. Their families wanted them to stay natural as they got older, but Julia and Sofia said they had no self-confidence. They wanted their fun and bubbly personalities to shine through their outer appearance.
At around age 14, the girls dyed their hair black, started lifting weights on a regular basis to gain strength, and began enhancing and plumping their facial features.
Today, these "sisters by heart" are 20 years old, and people assume they're twins.
While the girls' parents have not yet approved of their drastic transformations, and while they do get some negative comments criticizing the changes they've made to their bodies, Julia and Sofia say they have no regrets.
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La rencontre du  entre le président du Kuomintang, Lien Chan, et le président du Parti communiste chinois, Hu Jintao, à Nankin marque le premier échange officiel entre les deux partis depuis la fin de la Guerre civile chinoise. À l'issue de cette rencontre, les deux parties ont émis un communiqué présentant cinq points d'accords traitant du statut de Taïwan, de la collaboration entre les deux partis politiques et de l'économie. Y figure en particulier leur opposition commune à toute indépendance de Taïwan, faisant référence au Consensus de 1992, qui affirmait l'existence d'une seule Chine, incluant la Chine continentale et Taïwan.

Cette visite représente le premier contact pacifique entre le Kuomintang et le Parti communiste chinois, historiquement ennemis à partir de 1927, depuis la rupture du deuxième front uni chinois et la fin de la guerre civile chinoise. Aucun représentant accrédité du Kuomintang n'avait officiellement rencontré de représentant du Parti communiste depuis la fin des pourparlers entre Tchang Kaï-chek et Mao Zedong en . Les deux régimes revendiquant la souveraineté sur la Chine n'avaient jamais signé de traité de paix et étaient restés officiellement en guerre jusqu'en 1991.

La controverse qui est apparue en réaction à cet accord est due au fait que le Kuomintang était à l'époque de la signature de l'accord un parti d'opposition et, à ce titre, n'avait aucune légitimité à représenter la population de Taïwan.

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Politique à Taïwan
Histoire de la république populaire de Chine
2005 à Taïwan
2005 en Chine

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But it sounds so bleak when you put it like that.
Merrick was happy, he really was. He spent all his time in the fresh air. He'd discovered pretty early on that hoeing and plowing were excellent ways to stay in shape. There were animals to talk to when he was lonely and an acre or ten of plants to wander through when he wasn't. Life was simple and peaceful and that was just the way Merrick liked it.
The farm where Merrick lived and worked was divided nearly in half by a dusty country road. It was seldom used, and when someone did happen to pass through it was typically just another farmer exactly like Merrick, going from one dreary destination to another to discuss cabbage or celery or pig slop. Which is why when a gilded carriage so bright it hurt Merrick's eyes rumbled past, Merrick dropped his rake in the mud. He had heard of carriages covered in finery just like this one was–that wasn't what shocked him. No, the real reason Merrick had dropped his rake and was now standing and staring and covered in muck was because of the face in the window of the carriage.
The face was small and well crafted, with skin that had been kissed by the sun but never burned, with features chiseled by the finest artists and eyes that glinted knowingly even in shadow, their color mysterious and intriguing and inviting. She–the face belonged to a young lady–had hair, too: warm and wavy, the shade of healthy soil. Her lips, delicate and kind, curled into a smile. And what a thoroughly beautiful smile it was.
Now, the carriage was traveling at roughly five miles an hour, as the horses that were pulling it had come a long way and were tired of hauling a monstrous box filled with lazy humans who thought they were too good to walk. Approximately twenty meters to Merrick's right as he faced the road were the six acres of cornfields that were the pride and joy of Merrick's farm, each plant clocking in at an almost unheard of nineteen feet. Merrick's field of vision covered about a one hundred and seventy degree arc, give or take, and he could turn his head an additional forty degrees to either side. There's a lot of trigonometry and calculus involved here that could tell you exactly how long Merrick had a decent view of the carriage and the girl inside, but Merrick didn't know any trigonometry or calculus. He had never heard of the subject, actually. So if you had asked him, he would have said he'd had only the blink of an eye to gaze upon that magnificent face, so we might as well use that as the definitive measurement of time.
And in that blink of an eye, something amazing happened.
Merrick ran after the carriage. He sloshed through the mud and pushed past the pigs and called out until the driver stopped the horses and Merrick caught up, panting from the effort but more than ready to make conversation with the incredible creature he'd had the good fortune to meet. They spoke and she chuckled and finally she asked if he would like to accompany her back to the city. Merrick knew he had chores to do and cows to milk and all that sort of thing, but how often do you get a chance to go to the city with the girl of your dreams? To be fair, Merrick had never really had dreams, not about this sort of thing, anyway, but after only an instant he felt sure that if he had had dreams and they had needed a leading lady, this girl would have been it.
So he agreed and stepped into her carriage, his grime-soaked clothes leaving marks on the fabric, and away they went, talking and laughing all the while. She showed him the city with all its sights and sounds and smells and that very evening Merrick got down on his knees and promised to love her for the rest of his days. She was surprised and elated and kissed him on the mouth. They lived the rest of their lives in the city, in a huge house with a view of the fields Merrick never went back to, surrounded by their children and pets and feeling, every day, more joy than could be felt by any of the other inhabitants of that city or of the surrounding areas.
Of course, now and again Merrick would feel guilty about never completing his chores and leaving his corn fields to wither and his livestock, his only friends for the first nineteen years of his life, to fend for themselves, but then he would look around at his wife and his children and he would know he had made the right choice. And then he would smile to himself and put one of the smallest children on his lap and recount one of his stories of the time he'd found a pig in his bath, or the time he'd gotten lost in the wheat fields, or, all of his children's favorite, the day he had first seen their mother in her gilded carriage. And they would all sit and listen and she would be there, smiling at him, loving him as much as the first day she had met him.
All that happened in the blink of an eye.
What, you didn't think that was real, did you? Merrick was a relatively simple boy, but that didn't mean he was delusional. He was a farmer, always had been. He'd spent his life with cows and rakes and corn, what did he know about wooing a lady, not to mention a lady like the one in that carriage? No, Merrick knew what he was and what he wasn't. And he was alright with that. Really. Seeing some exquisite creature the likes of which mankind had never seen before and would never see again didn't change anything. Merrick had known he was going to die a farmer ten minutes before the carriage had come into view and his opinion had not changed ten minutes after it had disappeared behind the cornfields. Forever.
But sometimes, Merrick would wonder if he should have run after the carriage. He never saw it or her again, but as the years went by her face never faded from his mind. He would think about the carriage sometimes, when the vibrant green and gold of the corn wasn't enough for him. He would think of her smile when all he could see was ungrateful, apathetic frowns from the livestock. He didn't think much of the family they could have had. It made him too sad. No, he'd made the right choice, he would tell himself. The pigs needed him, and the corn and the wheat and everything else. This farm was his. He couldn't just leave it.
Merrick died alone, at home, just before dawn many years after the carriage had gone by. And as the sun rose over his lifeless body, Merrick, or whatever was left of Merrick, knew that he should have chased after the carriage. He should have run after it with every ounce of his being, thrown himself in front of the horses if they would not stop. He should have, he should have, he should have. But now it was too late.


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Kansas City Royals Fight Their Way to Extra Innings Victory
2. 128. 3. 7. Final
It is not every day that an extra innings victory can feel anti-climactic, but given the fireworks at the end of the seventh innings, this one certainly did. Instead of being remembered for Eric Hosmer's two out RBI double in the 13th inning, the game will be remembered for a legitimate brawl between the Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox.
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Facing off against the White Sox ace Chris Sale, the Royals got on the board early. Sale clearly did not have his best stuff early on, loading the bases with one out in the first. Kendrys Morales gave the Royals an early 2-0 lead with a base hit, but Sale was able to settle in at that point, escaping further damage.
Yordano Ventura was keeping the White Sox off balance through the first three innings, striking out five in the chilly Chicago evening. The White Sox finally got to him in the fourth. Jose Abreu was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning, and moved to second on a base hit. A fielder's choice put runners at the corners, but a grounder to first that resulted in Abreu being gunned down at home appeared to be able to get Ventura out of the jam. Unfortunately, it was only a brief reprieve, as Alexi Ramirez blooped a base hit to right to give the White Sox their first run of the evening.
Tensions began to mount at the top of the fifth. With two outs, Sale hit Mike Moustakas on an 0-2 pitch, certainly not the moment that someone would be looking to drill a batter. In the bottom of the inning, consecutive two out doubles by Melky Cabrera and Abreu tied the game at 2-2.
Then, in the bottom of the seventh, all hell broke loose. Adam Eaton hit a comebacker to the mound, leading to him and Ventura exchanging words, including a profanity or two from Ventura, before recording the final out of the inning. Both players were restrained from going after each other, but that was enough to touch off a benches clearing brawl that actually involved punches being thrown. In the end, both Sale and Ventura were ejected, as were Edinson Volquez, Lorenzo Cain and Jeff Samardzija. Chances are, we will be hearing about a suspension for Ventura, at the very least, in the next day or so.
The White Sox had a chance to take the lead in the bottom of the eighth, putting runners on the corners with one out. However, Kelvin Herrera, who is appealing his own suspension, struck out Avisail Garcia and Conor Gillaspie to end the threat.
Each team had a chance to score in extra innings, but the game remained knotted at 2-2 until the top of the thirteenth. With one out, Moustakas singled, but was erased at second by a fielder's choice, putting Jarrod Dyson on the basepaths. This proved to be fortuitous for the Royals, as Eric Hosmer doubled to right, plating Dyson to give the Royals the lead once again.
Wade Davis gave up a single in the bottom of the inning, but nailed down the final three outs to give the Royals the 3-2 victory, and the best record in the American League. Franklin Morales earned the win with a perfect twelfth, striking out one. Moustakas was 3-5 in the victory.
Next: Take a Bow, Ned Yost


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Categorized | Alma Mater
Tags | JOES STARS
JOES FELICITATED AT NIGHT OF THE STARS
Five Josephian Cricket stars, Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews, Chaminda Vaas, Thisara Perera, Dimuth Karunarathne and Sadeera Samarawickrama were honoured at a gala event at Waters Edge Thursday evening. The four cricketers who kept the Josephian flag flying high in the cricket arena were honoured with awards of excellence at the colourful event named 'Joes Night of the Stars 2014'. The event saw the participation of past rectors, old boys and a number of guests in the field of cricket. St. Joseph's College has produced a number of cricket stars over the years and the five stars of the day, were worthy recipients of such honour. The national cricketes, Mathews, Perera, Vaas and Karunarathne are heroes of our day while the youngest, Samarawickrama is also following the footsteps of his fellow Josephians to become a legend.
Among the guests who graced the occasion were Sri Lanka's cricketing legends, Aravinda de Silva, Arjuna Ranatunga, Mahela Jayawardena, Marvan Attapatu, Michael Tissera, Anura Tennakoon etc.
The guest speaker of the night, Mahela Jayawardene added colour to the event by briefing the award recipients and sharing few unknown facts about his teammates. "Vaasy is probably the bowler in international cricket, who would bowl his first delivery in the right spot; I have never seen anyone so accurate on his first delivery. He took Sri Lankan fast bowling to a whole new level. We all call Thisara 'Panda' not because of the way he looks but because of the way he moves around things. He is always with a smile" he said.
"Thisara is a brilliant team player on and off the field and mostly, Thisara loves his food. Dimuth is a fantastic player but he has not yet given his best in the international matches though we have seen his class few times. He's a real hard worker".
"I have seen young Sadeera in few games and at our training. I hope the very best for him as well. Finally, Angelo Mathews is a fantastic guy to have in your dressing room. It was a tough role for him when he first played for Sri Lanka under my captaincy but he established himself straightaway.
The way he has improved in the last two years is phenomenal." During the event, Angelo Mathews officially also launched the official Josephian Sports FB page.
Angelo Mathews, Chaminda Vaas, Thisara Perera, Dimuth Karunarathne and Sadeera Samarawickrama with Rev. Fr. Travis Gabriel, Rector of SJC, Brian Obeyesekere, head of the Committee of Management of the Josephian Sports Council and others.
Courtesy: Daily News by Chinthana Wasala


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Now that Fall is right here, we're thinking about redecorating our homes here at Brit + Co, which potential it's the ultimate time for some DIY suggestion. There are actually thousands of other ways to make fascinating artwork for the walls of your domestic or office.
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Antrett, P., Vackiner, A. A., Kukla, P., Klitzsch, N., Stollhofen, H., 2012. Impact of arid surface megacracks on hydrocarbon reservoir properties. AAPG Bulletin, 96 (7), 1279 - 1299. DOI: 10.1306/11211111069.
Description(s): Abstract: The megacrack pattern of the ephemeral north Panamint dry lake, California, United States, is characterized by variably sized polygons with diameters ranging from hundreds of meters to meters. The evolution and subsurface extent of this polygonal pattern and a probable tectonic link are examined by ground resistivity measurements and surface mapping. Crack development is initiated by the shrinking of clays caused by changes in water content near the surface. For crack evolution, the following processes are proposed: Cavities develop at approximately 1-m (∼3-ft) depth during a subsurface phase, followed by the collapse of the overburden into the existing cavities to form the surface cracks. Cracks are filled by wind-blown sand and dried-out lake sediments from collapsing crack walls. Following burial, differences in competence between crack-fill and surrounding playa-lake sediments provide zones of structural weakness that might channelize stress release and faulting. Ground resistivity measurements confirmed the extent of the cracks to a depth of more than 3 m (>9 ft). The megacrack pattern is compared to a Rotliegende (Upper Permian) tight gas field, located in the southern Permian Basin of northwestern Germany, situated in a comparable geologic setting. There, a multidirectional polygonal pattern is recorded on horizon slices of three-dimensional seismic data and compares well to our observations from the Panamint Valley. The Rotliegende pattern is associated with low-offset faults, which are proposed to be responsible for subtle reservoir compartmentalization.


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Polymer-XHP
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[Polymer][Polymer] Tags as [XHP][XHP] Classes.

### Usage
 Just require the `Loader.hh` file in your app and use the tags anywhere you like.
For example the markup below is __valid__ [XHP][XHP] markup.

```hack
echo
  <paper-dropdown-menu label="Your favorite pastry">
    <paper-dropdown class="dropdown">
      <core-menu class="menu">
        <paper-item>Croissant</paper-item>
        <paper-item>Donut</paper-item>
        <paper-item>Financier</paper-item>
        <paper-item>Madeleine</paper-item>
      </core-menu>
    </paper-dropdown>
  </paper-dropdown-menu>
```

__Note__: We recommend using the FB's XHP Fork [XHP-Polymer][XHP-Polymer] to use custom Polymer HTML Attribtues in XHP.

#### Supported Elements:
 - All of Paper Elements
 - Core-Dropdown[-Base]
 - Core-Menu
 - Core-Meta
 - Core-Overlay
 - Core-Range
 - Core-Selector
 - Core-Transition[-CSS]

#### License
This project is licensed under the terms of MIT License.

[Polymer]:https://www.polymer-project.org/0.5/docs/start/everything.html
[XHP]:https://github.com/facebook/xhp-lib
[XHP-Polymer]:https://github.com/steelbrain/XHP-Polymer


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Brisk a macOS app for submitting radars and optionally crossposting them to Open Radar. Brisk is written in Swift and uses Sonar to communicate with Apple's Radar web "APIs".
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