But President Donald Trump has forcefully defended the Saudi royal family over Khashoggi's killing, and signaled he does not wish to punish Prince Mohammed over the incident. As a result, the president has been accused of siding with the Saudis over the US intelligence community.
After Tuesday's briefing, key Republican senators said they were confident the crown prince ordered the killing, and signaled they intend to push for major changes to the US-Saudi partnership. In short, Trump's position on Khashoggi has increasingly put him at odds with the GOP foreign policy establishment.
"There's not a smoking gun – there's a smoking saw," Graham said in an apparent reference to allegations a bone saw was used to dismember Khashoggi's body after he was killed. Last week, Mattis said there was no "smoking gun" tying the crown prince to the killing.


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Alejandro Cabral, né le  à Buenos Aires, est un footballeur international argentin. Il occupe actuellement le poste de milieu de terrain offensif à Cruzeiro, club de Championnat du Brésil de football de deuxième division.

Biographie

Ses débuts au Vélez Sarsfield

Son prêt au Legia Varsovie
En juin 2010, Alejandro Cabral est prêté un an au Legia Varsovie, club de première division polonaise avec lequel il était en contacts avancés. La transaction est évaluée à cent-vingt mille euros, et l'option d'achat fixée à un million six cent mille euros. Utilisé partiellement par son entraîneur en début de saison, il se montre beaucoup plus décisif lors du sprint final, et attire même le regard du sélectionneur argentin Sergio Batista qui l'appelle pour disputer deux matches amicaux en fin de saison. Au sein d'un groupe argentin « bis », Cabral joue sa première rencontre internationale contre le Nigeria le . Cependant, peu après, le Legia choisit de ne pas conserver le joueur.

Suite de sa carrière

En août 2015, il s'engage avec Cruzeiro au Brésil.

Palmarès
 Vainqueur de la Champion du monde des moins de vingt ans : 2007
 Champion d'Argentine : 2009 (Clausura), 2013 (Inicial et Superfinal)
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de Pologne : 2011
 Vainqueur de la Supercoupe d'Argentine : 2013

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Footballeur international argentin
Joueur du Vélez Sarsfield
Joueur du Legia Varsovie
Joueur du Cruzeiro Esporte Clube
Naissance en septembre 1987
Naissance à Buenos Aires

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Christmas at the Cupcake Café (At the Cupcake Café #2)
This is not for gingerbread men, which is more of a cookie recipe as it has to stay hard and crunchy. And it is not for gingerbread houses, unless you have endless time on your hands and (let's say it quietly) are a bit of a show-off who would rather their cakes were admired than devoured. No, this is old-fashioned soft, sticky gingerbread. It doesn't take long to make, but you'll be glad you did.
NB Oil the container before you fill it with treacle. Otherwise you and your dishwasher are going to fall out really badly.
50g white sugar
180ml treacle
300g self-raising flour
1 tbsp powdered cinnamon
1 tbsp powdered ginger (or a little more if you like)
½ tsp ground cloves (I just threw in a 'lucky' clove)
60ml hot water
Preheat oven to 175°C/gas mark 3. Grease a loaf tin or square baking tin.
Cream sugar and butter together (you can do this entire thing in the mixer), then add the egg and the treacle.
Mix the spices, baking powder, flour and salt. Fold in to wet mixture. Add the water, then pour into baking tin and bake for 45 minutes.
You can sprinkle icing sugar on the top, or make an icing glaze, or just slice it like it is – proper yummy, sticky Christmas gingerbread. Serve liberally to people you like.
The scent of cinnamon, orange peel and ginger perfumed the air, with a strong undercurrent of coffee. Outside the rain was battering against the large windows of the eau-de-nil-painted exterior of the Cupcake Café, tucked into a little grey stone close next to an ironmonger's and a fenced-in tree that looked chilled and bare in the freezing afternoon.
Issy, putting out fresh chestnut-purée cupcakes decorated with tiny green leaves, took a deep breath of happiness and wondered if it was too early to start playing her Silver Bells CD. The weather had been uncharacteristically mild for much of November, but now winter was truly kicking in.
Customers arrived looking beaten and battered by the gale, disgorging umbrellas into the basket by the front door (so many got left behind, Pearl had commented that if they ran into financial difficulties, they could always start a second-hand umbrella business), then would pause halfway through wrestling with their jackets as the warm scent reached their nostrils. And Issy could see it come over them: their shoulders, hunched against the rain, would slowly start to unfurl in the cosy atmosphere of the café; their tense, anxious London faces would relax, and a smile would play around their lips as they approached the old-fashioned glass-fronted cabinet which hosted the daily array of goodies: cupcakes piled high with the best butter icing, changing every week depending on Issy's whim, or whether she'd just received a tip-off about the best vanilla pods, or a special on rose hips, or had the urge to go a bit mad with hazelnut meringue. The huge banging orange coffee machine (the colour clashed completely with the pale greens and greys and florals of the café itself, but they'd had to get it on the cheap, and it worked like an absolute charm) was fizzing in the background, the little fire was lit and cheery-looking (Issy would have preferred wood, but it was banned, so they had gas flames); there were newspapers on poles and books on the bookshelves; wifi, and cosy nooks and corners in which to hide oneself, as well as a long open table where mums could sit with their buggies and not block everybody else's way.
Smiling, people would take a while to make up their minds. Issy liked to go through the various things they had on offer, explain what went into each one: how she crushed the strawberries then left them in syrup for the little strawberry tarts they did in the summer; or the whole blueberries she liked to use in the middle of the summer fruits cupcake; or, as now, making customers smell her new batch of fresh cloves. Pearl simply let people choose. They had to make sure Caroline had had enough sleep or she tended to get slightly impatient and make remarks about the number of calories in each treat. This made Issy very cross.
'The "c" word is banned in this shop,' she'd said. 'People don't come in here looking to feel guilty. They're looking to relax, take a break, sit down with their friends. They don't need you snorting away about saturated fats.'
'I'm just trying to be helpful,' said Caroline. 'The economy is in trouble. I know how much tax avoidance my ex-husband does. There's not going to be the money to pay for cardiac units, that's all I'm saying.'
Pearl came up from the basement kitchen with a new tray of gingerbread men. The first had been snapped up in moments by the children coming in after school, delighted by their little bow ties and fearful expressions. She saw Issy standing there looking a bit dreamy as she served up two cinnamon rolls with a steaming latte to a man with a large tummy, a red coat and a white beard.
'Don't even think it,' she said.
'Think what?' said Issy guiltily.
'About starting up the entire Christmas shebang. That isn't Santa.'
'I might be Santa,' protested the old man. 'How would you know?'
'Because this would be your busy season,' said Pearl, turning her focus back to her boss.
Issy's eyes strayed reluctantly to the glass jar of candy canes that had somehow found their way to being beside the cash till.
'It's November!' said Pearl. 'We've just finished selling our Guy Fawkes cupcakes, remember? And don't make me remind you how long it took me to get all that spiderwebbing down from Hallowe'en.'
'Maybe we should have left it up there for fake snow,' wondered Issy.
'No,' said Pearl. 'It's ridiculous. These holidays take up such a long time and everyone gets sick of them and they're totally over the top and inappropriate.'
'Bah humbug,' said Issy. But Pearl would not be jarred out of her bad mood.
'And it's a difficult year for everyone,' said Caroline. 'I've told Hermia the pony may have to go if her father doesn't buck up his ideas.'
'Go where?' said Pearl.
'To the happy hunting grounds,' said Caroline promptly. 'Meanwhile he's going to Antigua. Antigua! Did he ever take me to Antigua? No. You know what Antigua's like,' she said to Pearl.
'Why would I?' said Pearl.

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The legacy of the Donegal-born poet and performer has been reclaimed in a new book
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Madge Herron on the streets of Kentish Town. "Isn't she wonderful," a psychiatrist once said of the poet. "It would be a shame to cure her."
Here is a memory of Donegal poet Madge Herron.
We are walking to the tube station in Camden Town, her recalling how shortly after the second World War she stormed into the BBC in London to demand back a short story she had submitted. As a former Abbey actress, Herron's infuriation was voiced vociferously and eloquently.
The BBC man apologised that her script was mislaid in the literary slush pile. But, on the strength of her vocal performance, she was invited to audition for Frank O'Connor's newly translated version of Brian Merriman's The Midnight Court, a rowdy 18th-century story of the grievances (predominantly sexual) of the women of Ireland against the men of Ireland. A week later Herron was back, playing the "young woman with downcast eye/attractive, good-looking and shy" for BBC radio.
The Northern Irish poets Louis MacNeice and WR Rodgers were involved in the production of The Midnight Court, and its cast included Abbey actress Maire Brennan as well as Frank O'Connor himself. Herron described O'Connor as a great character, a dapper dresser wearing a "brownish-green suit, light green shirt and mustard coloured tie". She said his liveliness and good humour rubbed off on the rest of the cast.
MacNeice, she said, "dressed in the English manner, a university type but in some way he was still distinctly Irish".
As we strolled through Camden Town, Herron uninhibitedly launched into O'Connor's part: "Then up there jumps from a neighbouring chair/ A little old man with a spiteful air/ Staggering legs and panting breath/ And a look in his eye like poison and death . . . "
People walking behind us fell in step just to listen and delight in her delivery.
Remember the voice
Anyone who ever met Madge Herron will have such memories, but particularly they will remember the voice: resonant, mellifluous and beautiful when reciting her own poetry; sharp as a surgeon's scalpel when expressed in frustration or annoyance – as often was the case with Madge.
Madge Herron was born in Glenamohill, near Fintown, Co Donegal in 1915 and died peacefully in a London nursing home in 2002. Her ashes are buried in the family plot in Fintown. Now her niece, Patricia Herron, a Scot and voluntary paralegal who lives in Sliabh Luachra in north Cork, has written a portrait of the poet.
Madge captures the volatility, eccentricity, cussedness, generosity, compassion and warmth of the poet who was utterly true to her craft. It also includes a CD of Herron reading a number of her poems, taken from a 1977 RTÉ interview with Kevin O'Connor.
There is an elemental power to Herron's poetry, which range in issues from God and humanity to nature and sex, with sometimes all of them interwoven. There is muscular strength and vividness to her images and language. "I'm not much good at writing roses and daffodils," she said once.
As a young woman, Herron was encouraged by WB Yeats; her poetry was well regarded by the likes of Ted Hughes and Brendan Kennelly, who described her as "half child, half genius". But her work is not widely known, because of an almost pathological reluctance on her part to have it published.
She was one of a family of six girls and four boys, whose first language was Irish. Patricia Herron has unearthed references in The Irish Times and other newspapers in the mid-1930s to "Miss Madge Herron" reading her poems in Irish on 2RN and on its successor station, Radio Éireann. She also wrote a number of plays and short stories.
The Irish Press found her performance in the Abbey's 1937 production of George Shiels's Quin's Secret as "good but rather too forceful", while The Irish Times reviewer called her a "most promising" actress.
Herron moved to London in 1937, where she made a favourable impression on actors Charles Laughton and John Gielgud. It was reported that she was being coached for film work in Hollywood. She also won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada), which she had to abandon due to lack of funds.
It seems that Herron's health broke down and she returned to Donegal, eventually moving to Belfast to work as a domestic servant while continuing to act and write. After the war she returned to London, where that encounter with O'Connor and MacNeice took place in 1947.
Pretentious pruning
At that time. Herron was in contention for the principal part in a planned film of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, to be directed by Gabriel Pascal. She is reputed to have scolded Shaw for his pretentiousness in pruning and eating strawberries while wearing white gloves, with the playwright remonstrating: "Miss Herron, you must not speak to me like that." The Shaw/Pascal film was never made.
Herron continued to live and write in London, frequently earning her crust through scrubbing floors and similar work. Nonetheless, she was making her reputation as a poet in the city. In 1970 she was invited to appear on ITV's The Eamonn Andrews Show. She was brought to the studio in a limousine and Andrews was charming.
All was going well until the host put his first question: "Now, Madge, surely everyone is writing poetry?"
"What do you know about f***ing poetry?" she responded, promptly taking her leave of Andrews, the interview and the studio.
Patricia Herron wonders if these stories were gilded by her aunt. But they do accord with her hot-tempered personality.
I interviewed Herron in 1980, when she lived – or perhaps squatted – in a big house on Fortress Road in Kentish Town, sometimes without electricity. She loved animals and kept a menagerie of cats and dogs. She also took in stray Irish down-and-outs from time to time.
One she told me about was an Irish speaker from Caherciveen called Barry. He nearly died outside her home, but she brought him in and tried to get him back in shape over a number of months. When Barry's condition deteriorated, she called a doctor, who was reluctant to treat him because he did not think he would get his National Health Service fee.
The doctor told Herron that if Barry had been lying out on the street, he could tend to him and be sure of payment under the NHS.
"Tell you what," she said. "I'll open the window here and we'll both pick him up and throw him out and then you can treat him."
"Is he a vagrant?" asked the doctor.
"Aren't we all vagrants," Herron replied.
A Kentish character
With her big heavy coat and her grey hair tied up in a bun, everyone knew Madge Herron around Kentish Town. Her more decrepit dogs and cats she would wheel around in a pram. It was a vehicle she sometimes also used to ferry the old Irish navvies she befriended.
At one stage, some of her London poet friends became concerned for her mental well-being. She was brought to see the unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing, who also wrote poetry. Herron was not impressed. She told Laing his writing was "soulless" and by the time her friend came to collect her, Laing "had lost his temper and was throwing her out".
They then tried her with a more mainstream psychiatrist, whom Herron loved. "Isn't she wonderful," he said. "It would be a shame to cure her."
Whatever were the occasional demons that possessed her, Herron told him of an "undivulged crime" that she could not tell – "it was that tight in her fist".
"What do I do for her then?" her friend asked.
"Just be nice to her," said the psychiatrist.
In 1979, Kevin O'Connor persuaded Herron to take her first flight, which she enjoyed, and travel to Dublin to give a reading in the Abbey's Peacock Theatre. Irish Times reviewer Elgy Gillespie was impressed, describing the night as a "grateful miracle" and reporting on the "extraordinary breathless images" that Herron created in her poetry.
Herron also allowed me, after much cajoling and occasionally tetchy correspondence, to publish a number of her poems in a monthly arts page called "The Rat Pit", which I edited in the Donegal Democrat in the early 1980s. Not that she'd have admitted it, but I think she was happy to see her work celebrated in her native county.
Two launches
Patricia Herron's book about her aunt was recently launched in the library in Fintown, and on November 15th it will be launched at the Irish Centre in Camden Square, London. As well as Madge's life history, the book features many of her poems and more anecdotes about her life and times.
Patricia is certain there are more of her aunt's unpublished poems out there. Indeed, on the launch day one local man presented her with a poem that Madge had sent him. If more such poems turn up, she said a collection could perhaps be published.
At the launch, a CD of Herron reading her poems was played. All in the room could tell that her poetic voice, vision and gift were special. No wonder strangers fell in step to listen to her all those years ago in Camden Town.
Madge is published by Clo Duanaire/Irish and Celtic Publications in a limited edition (€10/£10 plus postage.) Email patsparalegal@yahoo.com.
Donegal 1932
The flowers of Mary
Stand white in the field
And the red cow drinks at the river;
Today at four they buried my mother
And took her away from this house forever.
The dog sits by the henhouse door
His snout raised to Heaven;
Oh, my head is full of the song
Of pitying voices:
I will go and bring my cow home.
The preceding was written for Madge Herron's mother Sally, who died in 1932. The poem is inscribed on Madge's headstone in the cemetery at Fintown.
A PRAYER TO ST THERESA
(On behalf of my father who is mad)
This thing we have they call 'mental'
In no way restricts us.
Socially, we are tremendous.
If it is friendship you are after
We will come tumbling up to you.
In Donegal Gaelic is our language,
With its humps, its shadows, it is like ourselves.
You go up a mountain and down the other side
To find out who you are.
Theresa – go De mar a ta tu?
(In English that means, how do you do?)
Theresa, they said last night you were all love,
Tossing rose bushes out of the sky.
They said – and I'll quote – nobody at any time is ever
Refused anything.
I want to know if it's true – and if I qualify.
I have, among other drawbacks, a father bereft of reason,
All reserves cancelled out,
The clothes line in his head's gone bust,
That little line where all his flags hang out to dry is
Now collapsed.
In the house next to us, there the people take to killing one
Another at odd hours of the night.
My father thinks it's him they're after.
He charges into the dark night with a 'hip hi and 'Be
Jaysus, I'll plug one of them.'
'How can you Da, you haven't got a gun?'
'Never mind, I'll throw the horse at them.'
I never try stopping him.
I don't do anything to interfere with the way he is
Constructed.
Theresa, take him by camera – and you kill the light.
My father isn't photogenic.
Call to him, get him the first time around,
The ink-quick splash of his heel,
I don't want him coming out with half a face.
I don't want him to be seen going around
And him looking uneven.
I don't want my father full of holes
With scores of dead sheep pouring out of him.
Put him seated between two mountains
And at his ease,
That to future generations, when looking up.
He will be giants.
PADDY GILL'S BULL
I tell you
He bugles
And is akin to birds.
He pipes streams
From fine thin fluting.
Angered, he cracks
Mountains.
Sensational is his
Arithmetic.
Bell-bugling brute
You threaten my
Identity.
You flank my entrance,
And put out my light,
And would diminish me
In outraged bullery.
But come a day
A cock crows,
And I am free
I will come to you.
Then will your black
Redeem the earth.
And if Noah
Ever doubted you
Let him now listen,
For I say,
You do bugle
And are beautiful.
Sing then,
Split me with your
Bugling,
And I will tell him
The music comes
From you
And not his
Brittle lark.
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The Best Console Launch Games, Ranked
Starting Off Strong
By IGN Staff
Updated: 12 Feb 2020 8:11 pm
Posted: 30 Jan 2020 11:00 pm
If everything goes as planned, 2020 will conclude with two brand new next generation video game consoles launching all over the world alongside a slew of brand new launch games to hopefully make their steep price tags worth it.
The games available the first day a new console arrives usually run the gamut from slightly upgraded cross-generation ports to gorgeous but hollow racing game eye candy. But occasionally, a launch game comes along that is so exceptional and essential that it defines that console's lifecycle and revolutionizes the video game medium as we know it. Here are the top 10 best console launch games of all time.
The Top 10 Console Launch Games
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10. Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (Game Boy Advance)
Amidst colorful racing games and ancient platformer ports, Castlevania: Circle of the Moon was by far the deepest and most feature-rich Game Boy Advance launch game. Circle of the Moon took everything that made the franchise special up until that point and built upon it - that is, assuming you could actually see it. The GBA launched without a backlit screen, making Castlevania's dark and moody graphics a bit hard to make out unless you were sitting directly under a lamp. But once you got cozy under the spotlight, it's sprawling castle, giant boss fights and dual set-up system made it an epic title to launch an epic handheld console.
Have you played Halo: Combat Evolved?
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9. Soulcalibur (Dreamcast)
Soulcalibur was a fantastic game all on its own, but it was especially significant as a Dreamcast launch game because it was one of the first examples of a popular arcade game actually being better on a home console. The Dreamcast version of Soulcalibur looked dramatically better than its arcade counterpart, and also came with a host of modes and features that simply weren't in the arcade version.
Beyond all of that though, Soulcalibur gifted the Dreamcast with one of the best fighting games of its time at launch, and its success paved the way for other amazing arcade fighting game ports like Marvel vs Capcom 2, Capcom vs SNK, and many more
- Mitchell Saltzman, Editorial Producer
8. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo Wii)
Following bright, colorful games like The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker and its many spinoffs, fans were wondering when Nintendo would go dark again for its marquis adventure series. T he company responded with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a Zelda game that begins with a literal royal coup. While Twilight Princess' waggle controls on Wii occasionally frustrated, the game will be remembered as an achievement full of dark atmosphere, beautiful visuals, and ambitious storytelling that dared to imagine a Hyrule that was as grand as it was terrifying.
- Matt Kim, Reporter
7. Wii Sports (Nintendo Wii)
On launch day, every single Nintendo Wii was bundled with a copy of Wii Sports, meaning even if you didn't care about real sports, it was a no-brainer to at least give Wii Sports and your brand new Wiimote a spin, a shake, a waggle, and potentially even an accidental toss through your television. Video games are usually designed for hardcore gamers to conquer in isolation but Wii Sports was designed to play at parties with friends and family members, causing millions of people - even those who had never played a game before - to join the fun and celebrate the game's eccentric take on motion controlled sports. Making the experience even better was the addition of Nintendo Mii's, allowing players to recreate themselves or famous pop culture figures and then sending them off to dominate the tennis court and bowling alleys.
- Brian Altano, Host & Producer
6. Tetris (Game Boy)
Tetris had been around since before the Game Boy launched, but it was the pairing of Nintendo's handheld wonder with the Soviet-made block puzzle game that catapulted both into mainstream popular culture. The game's simple graphics and easy-to-learn-hard-to-master game mechanics were perfect for the Game Boy, its limited hardware, and its washed-out green dot-matrix screen.
Nintendo wisely bundled Tetris with their handheld during the U.S. launch, and before they knew it, they had sold 40,000 Game Boy units in the first day alone, with that version of Tetris going on to sell 35 million copies. The world was and in many ways still is addicted to Tetris and the Game Boy let them take that addiction with them everywhere.
- Jobert Atienza, Producer
5. Super Mario World (Super Nintendo)
Super Mario World was a revelation when it launched alongside Super Nintendo in the early '90s. It was bigger, more colorful, and packed with more secrets and branching paths than any Super Mario game that came before it. Super Mario World's dozens and dozens of levels were spacious and often incorporated verticality - a necessity to find the games numerous hidden exits and secret stages. And thanks to the Super Nintendo's Mode 7 capability, Bowser could spin, scale, and appear like he was flying right toward the screen. Super Mario World helped pave the way for the complex, larger-scale games that would start to become commonplace that console generation and set off the 16-bit era with one of the greatest games ever made.
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4. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Nintendo Switch)
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is an interesting launch game because it also doubled as the swan song to Nintendo's previous console, the Wii U. Nonetheless, when Breath of the Wild launched on Switch it instantly became one of the deepest and engrossing launch games ever made, giving players a massive, sprawling open world to explore and conquer in a seemingly infinite number of ways. Even more impressive is that it doubled as a portable game, meaning day one Switch owners could sink hundreds of hours of adventuring into this gigantic open-world game anywhere they traveled. Oh, and it also managed to successfully overhaul and evolve a franchise that had been going since the 1980's which is no small feat despite the small screen.
3. Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
For a long time, Super Mario 64 was the benchmark to which every 3D platformer was compared to. Mario's venture into the third dimension was well met, and proved that the fun and aesthetic of classic 2D game franchises could not only be recaptured in 3D, but in Super Mario 64's case, set the standard for how 3D platforming games would be like for decades. Many people still remember where every single one of its 120 stars are located and sometimes it feels like the entire N64 controller was designed around this game. Super Mario 64 was the reason to own a Nintendo 64 on day one.
- Mark Medina, Features Producer
2. Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox)
How important – and how good – was Halo 1 as the original Xbox's premier launch title? For starters, there's a strong argument to be made that the Xbox would not have survived without it. The rest of the Xbox launch lineup wasn't anything to write home about, and in fact the console's entire first year until Fall of 2002 - when Xbox Live launched and games like Splinter Cell began rolling in - was pretty barren. As to its quality, it defined "killer app" in that people bought the console specifically for it. Oh, and it also perfected and normalized first-person shooters on consoles in a way that Goldeneye and Perfect Dark never quite could.
- Ryan McCaffrey, Executive Editor
1. Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Outside of being vibrant, challenging, and just plain fun, Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System can be defined in one word: iconic. Not only did Super Mario Bros. set the stage for the NES as a console, resurrecting console gaming after the tragic video game crash of 1983 - it also instantly established Super Mario as one of the most recognizable characters in all of pop culture. Super Mario Bros. embodied what became part of Nintendo's core philosophy as a game company - to create products that are fun to play for novices as well as difficult to master for pros. From children to aging casual gamers to hardcore speedrunners, Super Mario Bros. is still celebrated and played today, and thanks to tight platforming physics, great level design, and instantly recognizable music, the game will forever be synonymous as the medium of video games as we know it.
So there you have it! As you can see, Nintendo dominates this list quite a bit, but it doesn't hurt that they've launched more video game consoles and handhelds than their two closest competitors combined. Meanwhile it looks like Sony tends to save their biggest first-party guns for a bit later in their respective console's life. But hey, this is just our list! What is your favorite video game console launch game of all time? What's the game you couldn't stop playing on day one and beyond? Let us know in the comments below!
An online-playable sampler of the PC title. As a member of an elite military force, you must fight to defend the Earth from alien aggressors on the ancient alien artifact known as Halo. You must fight your way through Halo's mountainous terrain and underground labyrinth to discover the secrets of the mysterious world, and protect the human race. Escaping Halo with your life requires a cunning wit and a major arsenal of weapons.
Franchises:Halo
Genres:Sampler, Shooter
Animated Violence, Blood and Gore, Blood, Gore, Violence
Platforms:Xbox, PC, Macintosh, Xbox 360
Developers:Gearbox Software, Westlake Interactive, Bungie Software
Publishers:ACE (2), Bold Games (Destineer), Microsoft
Features:EAX, Dolby Digital 5.1, System Link / LAN, Local - Co-Op # of Players, Local - VS # of Players, Online, 480p, Online - VS Number Of Players, DualShock, Memory Card, Number Of Players
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Babyteeth is a vivid new take on coming-of-age directed by Shannon Murphy from a script that Rita Kalnejais adapted from her play of the same title.
★★★★, France, Italy, out now, Reviews, UK August 13, 2020
Matteo Garrone's surreal live-action fantasy takes the Italian classic Pinocchio disturbingly back to its original dark roots.
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Make Up is an original coming-of-age horror/drama by first-time director Claire Oakley.
★★★★, Female Filmmakers, France, Germany, out now, Reviews, sci-fi July 26, 2020
The superbly focused French female astronaut in woman-centred Proxima directed by Anna Winocour is torn apart by the conflict between needing freedom to achieve and the pain of separation from her daughter.
★★★★, Iran, Jordan, out now, Reviews, UK July 24, 2020
Undocument (2017) – ON DEMAND NOW
Undocument describes so much human misery that it's hard to watch – but we must.
★★★★, Chris Drew, out now, Reviews, Short films, UK May 26, 2020
The Uncertain Kingdom (2019) – ON DEMAND
By Chris Drew
The Uncertain Kingdom collection of short films is a powerfully diverse commentary on 21st century Britain.
★★★★, festivals, India, out now, romance May 6, 2020
The Lunchbox (2013) – ON DEMAND
In Mumbai, in Ritesh Batria's The Lunchbox, a typical lunchbox accidentally delivered to the wrong person leads to a touching romance by correspondence between two lonely people.
★★★★, London Film Festival 2019, UK April 20, 2020
Calm With Horses (2019) – Q&A and ON DEMAND
Calm With Horses is a stunning first feature by director Nick Rowland, adapted by screenwriter Joe Murtagh from a short story by Colin Barrett in his Young Skins collection, executive produced by actor Michael Fassbender.
★★★★, Curzon Home Cinema, London Film Festival 2019, Reviews, UK March 30, 2020
BAIT (2019) – LIVE Q&A and ON DEMAND
Curzon's Live Q&A series continues with Mark Jenkin, director of Bait hosted by Mark Kermode on Tuesday 31 March.
★★★★, Curzon Home Cinema, Female Filmmakers, Germany, Reviews March 27, 2020
System Crasher (2019) – ON DEMAND and Q&A
By Olivia Neilson
Nora Fingscheidt's System Crasher is explosive and riotous with tour de force performances.
★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2019, Curzon Home Cinema, Finland, Latvia, London Film Festival 2019 March 20, 2020
Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019) – on demand
Despite its silly title, black comedy Dogs Don't Wear Pants by J.-P. Valkeapää is a touching – if harrowing – study of an extreme way of overcoming corrosive grief.
★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2019, Curzon Home Cinema, France, Japan, Reviews March 20, 2020
The Truth (2019) – ON DEMAND
Hirokazu Koreeda turns to Europe for a French-language family drama with comic undertones that spans the generations in The Truth.
★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2019, Curzon Home Cinema, France, Luxembourg, Reviews, Spain March 18, 2020
Fire Will Come (O Que Arde) (2019) – ON DEMAND
Fire Will Come is a prophetic, arresting and mesmerising love letter to nature by Oliver Laxe.


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The Hill es un periódico y sitio web de periodismo político estadounidense publicado en Washington D. C. desde 1994. Centrado en la política, negocios y relaciones internacionales, la cobertura de The Hill incluye el Congreso de los Estados Unidos, la Presidencia y las campañas electorales.

El periódico fue fundado en 1994 y publicado por el empresario neoyorquino Jerry Finkelstein. El periódico es actualmente propiedad de su hijo Jimmy Finkelstein, que ejerce de presidente. Bob Cusack actualmente es el editor en jefe, Johanna Derlega como la editora, e Ian Swanson como director de redacción.

Historia

The Hill fue fundado en 1994 bajo la compañía News Communications, Inc.. El éxito de Roll Call fue citado como un factor que inspiró a The Hill. Jerry Finkelstein, el exeditor del New York Law Journal y The National Law Journal, fue el principal accionista de la compañía. El representante demócrata de Nueva York Gary Ackerman era un accionista importante de News Communications, pero la compañía había asegurado la independencia editorial del periódico.

El primer editor de The Hill era Martin Tolchin, un corresponsal anterior en la oficina de Washington de The New York Times. En 2003, Hugo Gurdon, quien anteriormente era corresponsal extranjero (Nueva York, Hong Kong, Tokio, Washington, editor industrial en The Daily Telegraph (Londres) y jefe de edición fundador de National Post) se convirtió en jefe de redacción de The Hill. Gurdon convirtió a The Hill de un periódico semanal en un diario durante las sesiones del Congreso. En 2014, Gurdon se fue al The Washington Examiner y fue reemplazado por su editor jefe, Bob Cusack.

El periódico tiene la mayor circulación de cualquier publicación de Capitol Hill, con más de 24 000 lectores de la edición impresa. También opera un sitio web de noticias que cuenta con seis blogs dedicados a cuestiones políticas específicas: Ballot Box, Blog Briefing Room, Congress Blog, Floor Action, In the Know, and Twitter Room.

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Q: RegEx including last word with newline character Hi I am trying to use RegEx to split up a logfile into groups that later go into a database. For some reason I cannot get the last group to include the last word of the string with the new line character.
My log file I am parsing looks something like this:
12:00:01 GRP this is a test1
12:02:03 TES here something else has happend
12:32:22 MCH This processe is finished

I want to group them into three groups
Time
3-letter code
Text

Currently in Python I am using this:
def parse (s):
    mO = re.search ('([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]) (\w*) (\w.+) ',s)
    if mO:
     print "1: "+mO.group(1)
     print "2: "+mO.group(2)
     print "3: "+mO.group(3)

The result I get is:
1: 12:00:01
2: GRP
3: this is a
1: 12:02:03
2: TES
3: here something else has
1: 12:32:22
2: MCH
3: This processe is

Constantly missing the last word in the string that the new line is attached to. I tried adding \n\r in all variations but after 1 day of search totally lost.
any help much appreciated.

A: In '(\w.+) ',  + captures(()) all(.) characters eagerly until it finds the last white space.
   # Extra tail whitepace removed
   mO = re.search ('([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]) (\w*) (\w.+)',s)

A: If it is a well-formed log file (all the lines look the same) I would not overcomplicate it with regex and use plain split
def parse(s):
  time, code_3_letter, message = s.split(None, 2)
  # ...

Keep it simple!

A: i have a lot of experience with regular expressions and log parsing. (its part of my job)
what you want to do is instead of using a regular expression to search the whole file, you want to feed lines of the file into a regular expression. this will give you much better performance, instead of having the whole file in memory, only 1 line at a time. also the regular expression can then use match which is much faster than anything else. here is how i would do it:
import re

def parse_logs(file_path):
    results = []
    regex = re.compile(r'(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d) (\S\S\S) (.+)')
    with open(file_path) as f:
        for line in f:
            ms = regex.match(line.strip())
            if not ms:
                continue
            results.append([ms.group(1), ms.group(2), ms.group(3)])
    return results

or, for an even better approach, turn it into a generator:
def parse_logs(file_path):
    regex = re.compile(r'(\d\d:\d\d:\d\d) (\S\S\S) (.+)')
    with open(file_path) as f:
        for line in f:
            ms = regex.match(line.strip())
            if not ms:
                continue
            yield (ms.group(1), ms.group(2), ms.group(3))

A: A simpler and shorter regex:
[0-2][0-9](:[0-9]{2}){2} [A-z]{3} .*$

This matches a valid time (based on your input format) followed by a space, three letters*, another space, and then matches everything until the end of the line.  This will allow the 'Text' portion to be captured even it contains punctuation, etc.
* [A-z] will match lowercase letters, if that is not desired use [A-Z] instead

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Allison has been with the Career and Professional Development Center since May 2017. As a transfer student (she went to 3 colleges before finally landing at Cal State Fullerton!), who majored in what her family told her to, she knows what it's like not to know who you are, or what you want to do with your life. Thankfully, she discovered her passion for supporting and coaching college students during her time as a New Student Orientation Leader, which she attributes to being one of the most pivotal moments in her career trajectory. Allison's journey has allowed her to work with students in both small and large, public and private institutions including Academic Advising at the University of Southern California, and Experiential Learning at Pomona College. In her spare time, you can find Allison playing softball, line dancing, cuddling with her rescue dog, or working on her first fixer-upper home.
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Amanda was born and raised in Portland, OR before moving across the country to attend Bryn Mawr College, a small private liberal arts and women's college, for her undergraduate degree. During her time at Bryn Mawr College, she was highly involved working with the Civic Engagement Office, the Office of Residential Life, the Admissions office, the Teaching and Learning Institute, the Communications Office, and the Wyndham Alumnae House. Additionally, she was on the executive board for the Art Club and managed a student-run art studio and coordinated an art education program at a local elementary school. She also had the opportunity to receive funding to do internships with the Mural Arts Program in Philadelphia, PA and to travel to Yogyakarta, Indonesia to study the Indonesian language and collaborate on a research project with Indonesian university students. Her leadership and involvement inspired her to pursue a master's degree in Student Affairs Administration at Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI to advocate for student access and success and to pay forward the opportunities and mentorship she received as a student.
Amanda has been with the Career and Professional Development Center since March 2019. Prior, she worked as a Financial Aid Advisor and Specialist at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, OR. She has also worked as the Peer Advising Manager for the University of Oregon Career Center in Eugene, OR, an Assistant Community Director for Michigan State University Residence Education and Housing Services, and has served as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Philadelphia, PA. She has lived and worked across the U.S, including Oregon, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, and now Utah. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys playing video games, engaging in activism, making art, listening to podcasts, cosplaying, spending time with her rescue dog Rusty, traveling, playing tabletop roleplaying games, and cooking.
Hometown: Portland, OR | Hashtag: #SAGamer | Education: MA in Student Affairs Administration, Michigan State University | AB in Psychology, Bryn Mawr College | First Job: Teacher's Aide at Belmont Academy in Portland, OR. I supervised children from infants to 12 year-olds while I was in high school at the same school my mom taught at.
Coaching Focuses: Counseling & Social Services, Nonprofit, Philanthropy & Fundraising, Education (K-12, Special Ed, Higher Ed), Exploring
Campus Partnerships: TRIO, The Dream Center, University Marketing and Communications
College Liaisons: College of Social Work, College of Education
Anna was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, however for the past 13 years she was living and working in Seattle, WA. There, Anna attended Western Washington University, where she grappled with choosing a direction for her own career. Through the many ups and downs of college, Anna discovered her passion and drive to support students through their own individual career journeys. Since getting her master's degree in Student Development Administration, she has been supporting a diverse range of students, including undergraduates, first-generation college students, and graduate students. Prior to her work in higher education, she worked in the non-profit sector and spent some time supporting adults with disabilities at the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
Anna considers herself a lifelong learner who enjoys collaborating with and learning from others. It is her goal to motivate and empower students to see their innate strengths and abilities, and to follow a career path that is most fulfilling to them. In her down time, Anna enjoys hiking with her dog Boots, staying balanced through yoga, and seeing a play or live music.
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Crystal joined the CPDC in June of 2019. Her time as an undergraduate at Purdue University had its highs and lows. The high was her very high involvement with the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, serving in a number of Executive roles, completing large amounts of community service each semester, and most of all finding her campus family. The low was that she felt very directionless after she became disenchanted with engineering and the sciences, something she had prepared her whole life to do (blame organic chemistry). However, an internship at an adult education center helped her to realize how rewarding it is to help people to realize what skills they have and how it applies to the world of work. After realizing she could continue this work as a Career Coach, she began that journey and never looked back.
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Megan became a member of the Career & Professional Development team in June 2017. Prior to that, Megan served as a Learning Abroad Coordinator at the University of Utah for a year and a half. Before coming to the U, Megan was an on-site intern for a study abroad program in Nicaragua and also taught English to international students in Boston and Tanzania. Since moving to Utah in 2016, Megan has enjoyed getting outside and taking advantage of the Beehive State's many beautiful hiking trails! She is passionate about travel, language, and culture and enjoys working with and getting to know students from different backgrounds.
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Olga has been with the Career & Professional Development Center since August 2018. Prior to this, she taught English as a Second Language in a private ESL school in Salt Lake City where she also served as a college admissions advisor helping international students apply for college and pursue higher education in the United States. Olga moved to the United States from Russia where she received her Bachelor's degree in Linguistics. She is bilingual and is passionate about assisting students on their way to academic and professional fulfillment.
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Coaching Focuses: Government, Legal Professions & Criminal Justice, Politics & Public Policy, Public Administration, Sustainability, Social Sciences, Exploring
Campus Partnerships: Pre-Law Advising, CESA, University Student Apartments, Student Success Advocates, LEAP
College Liaisons: College of Social and Behavioral Science, School for Cultural and Social Transformation
Sarah has been with the Career & Professional Development Center since June 2019. After switching her major three times, she found her passion for working with college students while a student at Penn State working for the Office for Summer Session as a mentor and with Union & Student Activities as an intern. It was not until she had those experiences working with students that she knew what she wanted to do when she graduated (something very different from her major!). Upon graduating from Penn State, Sarah moved to Kansas and worked in Residence Life and First-Year Success at Bethel College. More recently, she attended the University of Kansas, where she was a Graduate Assistant at the University Career Center and a Teaching Assistant for a Job Search Strategies course. When not working, you can find Sarah reading or listening to a book, going for a run, or exploring a new place or National Park.
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Coaching Focuses: Business, Finance, & Management; Consulting; Human Resources & Training
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College Liaisons: Honors College
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Colleges: Graduate students in College of Engineering, College of Mines & Earth Sciences, College of Science, & School of Medicine Research Groups
Campus Partnerships: The Graduate School
Francine's professional experience has been largely in industry, consulting in technical and business communication, and her academic background is in languages and linguistics. She taught Persian at the University of Utah, then transitioned to the business world (with trepidation, initially) and ended up working with hundreds of engineers and research scientists across a range of industries. She appreciates their practical focus, their willingness to engage and learn, and their sense of humor.
Hometown: Paris, France | Hashtag: #serenefrancine | Education: PhD in Middle East Studies/Persian | MS in Linguistics | BS in Russian | First Job: Pier 1 Cashier, Cambridge, MA. I also did inventory, which was a big challenge back when Pier 1 sold myriad varieties of small brass figurines from exotic countries.
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Colleges: Graduate students in College of Education, College of Health, College of Nursing, College of Social and Behavioral Science, College of Social Work
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Campus Partnerships: K-UTE
Dan has been with the Career and Professional Development Center since December of 2018.
As an undergrad at Montclair State University in New Jersey, Dan majored in Religion and Political science, minored in Philosophy and Psychology, volunteered as a DJ and mobile events coordinator at 90.3 WMSC, and ran the campus chapter of STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition. As a graduate student in the Department of Religion at Syracuse University, Dan stayed involved on and off campus, planning graduate student symposia and skill-building events, serving on a range of university committees, hosting a Saturday night music show on 88.3FM WAER, volunteering for advocacy groups and electoral campaigns, and hiking in the spectacular landscapes of upstate New York. As he moved through his grad program, Dan realized what he liked most was connecting and collaborating with a wide range of people at the university and in the community. He is excited to do continue doing so as a Graduate Career Coach.
In his spare time, you can find Dan exploring (and photographing) Utah's incredible landscapes, checking out new places in Salt Lake City, running, biking, making pizza, and playing guitar. As a new Utahn, he plans to get back into archery and ham radio, learn to snowshoe, photograph moose in the canyons, build a vast reserve of SPF-rated clothing, and avoid mountain lions. He owns an undisclosed number of cowboy hats, and plans to acquire more.
Hometown: Bloomfield, NJ | Hashtag: #canonrebelt6 | Education: PhD, MA in Religion, Syracuse University | BA in Religion, Political Science, Montclair State University | First Job: Editorial Intern at CQ Amateur Radio magazine. The world of amateur or "ham" radio is full of fascinating people doing amazing things in science, technology, and public service, like bouncing radio signals off meteorite vapor trails, building custom mobile antennas, and providing the only failsafe emergency communications system. My call-sign is KC2OOM.
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BY JEN FIERS – The 2016 Pro Tennis Exhibition Series will be held next spring each Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Boca Grande Club from February 3 to March 16. The series, with proceeds benefitting the Suncoast Humane Society, will include eight men and eight women competing for over $5,000 in prize money. There will be three men's doubles matches and three women's doubles matches with a mixed doubles match to round off the event. This is the second week of an eight-week article series profiling all sixteen players.
This week, the two players to be profiled are Tiffany Dabek Davis and Nate Griffin. Tiffany is an assistant pro at River Strand Golf and Country Club in Bradenton. She holds a B.A. in nutrition and is a new mom to her son, Grayson.
Tiffany was ranked #1 as a junior in Florida and turned pro shortly after to embark on a career that spanned almost a decade. She reached world rankings of #170 in singles and #200 in doubles, winning nine titles and qualifying for the 2005 US Open in the process.
Tiffany played in Boca Grande Club's first women's doubles exhibition in 2014 and is excited to participate in this season's series.
Nate Griffin has been director of tennis at River Strand Golf and Country Club in Bradenton since the beginning of the Club's tennis program in 2007. Nate, a father of three, is returning to Boca Grande Club for his 15th year of competing in the series.
He played number 1 singles and doubles for Concordia University in Nebraska and was the Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference Player of the Year.
After moving to Florida to teach at The Oaks in Osprey and, then, Laurel Oak Country Club in Sarasota he won the 2008 USPTA Men's Open Doubles World Championships with colleague Ty Braswell, who has won the Pro Series at Boca Grande Club in past years.
Nate currently competes in USTA 10.0 Mixed Doubles and 5.0 Men's Doubles Leagues and runs Griffin Tennis Prize Money League for players of all levels. Interested players can visit his website at griffintennis.com.
The 8th Annual Tennis Ball/Silent & Live auction to benefit the Suncoast Humane Society takes place at the Boca Grande Club on Wednesday, Jan. 27 from 6 to 9 p.m. The event will include cocktails, dinner, and a live and silent auction. Kennedy Brothers Auction Services will be handling this year's live auction, which will feature a three-night stay with four wine tastings at Grgich Hills Estate Winery's VIP cottage in Rutherford, CA, in the center of Napa Valley, and a $1,000.00 travel voucher.
Tickets are $125 and can be purchased at the Suncoast Humane society (contact Jackie Elliott at 474-7884, ext. 422) or at the Boca Grande Club (contact Stephanie Benton at 964-2211).
*Correction to last week's profile: Jen Fiers played at the University of Florida and the University of Virginia 20 years ago, not for 20 years as the article previously stated.


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