During a stint as visiting professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2014, I met weekly with a group of activist doctoral students who were working with narrative material in their field research. We came together out of our shared interest in thinking critically about the role of stories in movements for social change, and of generating methods to identify our own blindspots in social action research. Although most students in the group were not psychoanalytic, we found common ground in theoretical traditions that attend to aspects of mind and society that are cast to the margins, whether the social or political margins or the margins of consciousness. Enlisting a term I have used in my previous work, we decided to call our new website Subversive Storytelling. I describe that term here through the lens of my work as a as a psychoanalytically-informed filmmaker and field researcher.
During that same term at LSE, I was also carrying out pre-production research on a new documentary on dairy farmers—a project that I envisioned as breaking from some of the conventions of other progressive filmmakers who have taken up this same topic. The U.K. has been a center of animal welfare politics since the 1970s and animal rights groups, particularly Mercy for Animals and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), were a very visible presence on the London campuses. I was intrigued by ethical debates around animal welfare and of how to think through human obligations to other beings on the planet. The documentary that was shot over the following year was very much informed by the conversations with students and activists during that year.
Producing a documentary film begins with a pitch: a brief statement of what the film is about, why it's needed, and how it differs from the zillions of other movies out there. In getting my new documentary on dairy farming off the ground, Milk Men: The Life and Times of Dairy Farmers, my U.S. production team came up with a standard pitching plan. When I met with farmers to enlist them in the project, I introduced myself as a psychologist filmmaker who focuses on stressful jobs that are not well understood by the public—jobs carried out behind high walls or fences that have become the center of public anxieties and confusion. Even though the farmers were not schooled in psychoanalytic theory, they did understand how they were the objects of various public projections. Groups such as PETA often used hidden cameras to capture images of animal abuse on dairy farms. Farmers themselves were deeply offended by the claim that dairy cows were routinely brutalized to get them to produce milk. My pitch appealed to their practical sensibilities: If you don't tell your own story about what happens on these farms, someone else will tell it for you. I wanted to learn more about the pressures of farming from the perspectives of producers who saw themselves as ethically committed to the care of their animals—and to focus on how difficult it was to stay afloat in the intensified pressures of the global economy. As a documentary filmmaker and activist, my interest has been in bringing into the picture structural forces and power dynamics beyond the frame of what's most readily visible.
As activist documentarians, we were committed to telling the story in ways that challenge ideological conventions. Two conventions predominate in popular representations of dairy farming, each of which registers anxiety over how to think about this form of work long associated with rural America. One image—enlisted routinely in dairy commercials—evokes idyllic pastoral scenes inhabited by simple people tending their contented cows. These scenes invite nostalgia for a pre-modern way of life where humans lived in perfect harmony with animals and nature. The second image—the one most often drawn by anti-dairy critics (e.g., PETA) casts the farmer as an animal abuser, pushing over-bred cows until they drop and producing large vats of drug-laden milk. In both the bucolic setting of the family farm and the ghoulish scenes of factory farming, the story overrides the complexity of modern dairy farming, with its mix of business skills, animal science, technology, and social networks required to keep the enterprise going. These competing images could be framed as a form of cultural splitting—of defending against conflict by separating the world into all-good and all-bad representations of people perceived as affecting one's material survival but not well understood.
the big farms, like fighting the big firms, can easily perpetuate the bourgeois story that the middle class–small shopkeepers and operators–are the engine of progress. This narrative readily overlooks the oppressive and exploitative working conditions of many small businesses, including small farms, and the conservative social values that often accompany this level of competition in capitalist economies.
In some of the classic films (It's a Wonderful Life, Pretty Woman, Wall Street, Wolf on Wall Street, Margin Call, American Hustle), the story centers on the corrupting power of big financial institutions, set against small town morality. The denouement typically unfolds as lead protagonists come to the realization that the power of the big firm is a disguise, a seductive illusion. Whatever the transformation of the protagonist, the story often concludes with the restoration of an older (and more virtuous) social order. Many stories involving the trauma of soldiers enlist these same tropes: a period of moral innocence is followed by an existential rupture and loss of faith, with the denouement involving a reclaiming of lost innocence. What makes this story conservative is the centrality of the rupture as a decisive moment of loss, and the tendency to rely on the fantasy of a restored golden era of prior moral innocence. This prototypical narrative also represses how the subjects are implicated in the moral failures staged. The narrative depends psychologically on the fantasy of a goodness that defends against an externally located badness.
As activist filmmakers, we do bring history into the picture as vital context for understanding the present. There are profound losses in the vanishing landscape of agricultural life in the United States and throughout the world. But family farms also carry many conservative traditions. There is a palpably nostalgic tone to many progressive/left documentary films on family farms in America. Many of these projects repress the hierarchical and patriarchal side of this same cultural history.
In my teaching over the years, I have often introduced psychoanalysis as the most longstanding tradition of thought in psychology that places storytelling at the center of human experience. No other set of theories in psychology offers such rich conceptual tools for understanding this most basic and universal aspect of humanity. This is not to say that specific psychoanalytic formulations or tales of development are necessarily true. Nor is it to say that psychoanalysis is the only conceptual framework for thinking about this area of psychology. But as a set of heuristics, traditions that orient us to a key questions in the study of mind, psychoanalytic theories of storytelling serve to counter the atomizing and fragmenting tendencies of so many hegemonic methods in the social sciences. Psychoanalysis also brings conflict into the dynamics of generating accounts—of creating, communicating, and listening to stories.
Many scholars who study the psychology of storytelling suggest that the mind is organized to generate coherent accounts. Jerome Bruner contributed to the narrative turn in psychology by demonstrating how emotionally arousing events are particularly ripe for generating stories—for explaining what happened, why it happened, and who is responsible. But not all arousing stories find receptive audiences—a point often overlooked in the social scientific literature that maps this same cultural terrain. My focus on storytelling conventions addresses this political dimension of the problem, where contests emerge over the legitimacy of particular accounts and their social interpretations. Amy Shuman takes up some of these same questions in her insightful research focused on storytelling among urban adolescents.
Stories are structured around a series of actions: something happens that disrupts the normal state of affairs and a conflict (or series of conflicts) arises that is then resolved by the end of the story. The denouement may be unhappy or ambiguous, but stories are expected to offer some sort of resolution. In my work as a clinician, research interviewer, and documentary filmmaker, I am particularly interested in the beginnings and endings of stories. The beginning sets the stage for the framing of the conflict and introduces the protagonists that drive the story forward. The ending brings some form of closure, even as it may "repress" alternative resolutions by appearing as the natural outcome of events. Ideological readings of stories require that we uncover the role of social power in the narrative work of the ending and how ruling modes of story production may foreclose on the range of alternative accounts available.
Psychoanalytic case studies routinely enlist conventional storytelling tropes as well. Often conference case presentations unfold as a restaging of an ancient conflict, enacted through the transference relationship, that tests the capacity of the analyst to weather the various aggressions and seductions that threaten the therapeutic alliance. The analyst emerges as the transformative hero, having guided the patient on a journey centered on vanquishing the bad objects of the past, whether destructive parents or ineffective therapists. These stories often position the analyst—and the psychoanalytic project—as the critical protagonist in the narrative denouement of the conflict and the heroic figure in the drama. Indeed, clinical case reports in the 1990s of therapeutically recovered memories of sexual abuse were rife with such tropes. The clinical drama centered on a brave and virtuous clinician who "bears witness" to the unspeakable horrors of childhood recollected by the patient. While the idealization of the therapist as the good object is often a vital part of treatment, I show in Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory and the Perils of Looking Back how conservative cultural scripts were routinely enlisted by recovered memory therapists. Many of these cases involved a dynamic where the patient's troubles required a monstrously malevolent other—typically parents or other authority figures in the patient's past—to explain (and rationalize) a deteriorating clinical situation.
For activist filmmakers, conventional scripts hold some currency, particularly as they configure calls to recover an older and more "natural" way of life. This convention of recovery of a lost world carries appeal because it achieves two aims: 1) it challenges Western capitalist and colonial ideologies concerning the arc of progress, and 2) it suggests that the present social order grew out of destruction of older and better ways of doing things, and that the victors of history tell a one-sided story.
What are the costs, then, of relying on scripts that center on the ideal of restoration of the past? First, a key difference between right-wing and left-wing critics of the status quo centers on whether alternatives are sought in a return to a lost golden age or through the creation of a future society that has not yet been realized. Nostalgia for an earlier era tends to promote conservative values because it is often associated with romanticizing the past. Such portrayals tend to omit the oppression of women, workers, and racial minorities, for example—and the cruelties and inequities through which that old world was constructed. Or they may rely on dualistic distinctions between "traditional" (good) and "modern" (bad) that collapse too many of the currents and visions of each of these categories in the sweep of history.
While not typically equipped with literary critical methods, activists often intuitively work with such distinctions. In my book Hard Knocks, the battered women's movement serves as a site for studying the social psychology of storytelling and the role of subversive storytelling in movements for social change. The study of this movement illustrates how accounts of suffering often arouse defensiveness in listeners—stories people may not want to hear, either because the account is disturbing or listeners may feel morally implicated in them. One of the most effective interventions of second-wave feminism—a key strategy in legal advances—was to recast the story of wife beating. Rather than an isolated series of domestic tragedies, with each woman coping with her own terrible fate, the prototypical narrative of the battered woman—the "battered woman syndrome"—was re-framed as a public health problem of epidemic proportions. My book began with this interest in understanding how these stories circulate as cautionary tales—and how accounts of battered wives came to carry a heavy social symbolic loading. In the book, I trace the history of how the battered woman syndrome emerged as Every Woman's story. For example, as large numbers of women were entering the paid workforce in the 1970s, the claim that more women are killed in their homes than on the streets—a rallying cry of second wave feminism—secured the rightfulness of this exodus. The image of the battered woman also made palpable the fist behind the glove in patriarchal societies—and the seductive illusions associated with the idea that women could find security in the arms of a good man. Through my research and analysis of the dynamics of this movement, I show, however, the costs of what I describe as over-investment in a unifying story of the battered woman, and how the separation of domestic violence from a broader analysis of social violence was costly to the movement and to abused women themselves. I also explain how psychoanalytic social theory offers useful concepts in working through dilemmas in the feminist anti-violence movement.
The question of what constitutes a conservative versus a progressive story is not readily answered. In general, conservative stories begin with a socially harmonious social world where the drama centers on a disturbing disruption of that world, often through the agency of a deviant insider or alien outsider, and where order is restored through some process of renewal. Even as transformation of the lead protagonists may be required by the drama (versus a melodrama where transformation is secondary to the problem of revealing an underlying reality), conservative stories generally center on revitalizing the old social order.
Right-wing movements rely predictably on regressive modes of storytelling—narratives where a strong leader is positioned as defender of precarious social borders and where all of the bad is projected onto those cast outside of obsessively monitored borders. The fantasy centers on preservation of an idyllic fantasy of the past and restoration of an imagined place of moral innocence and uncomplicated virtue. While these are not stock and trade signifiers for leftists, progressives may unconsciously enlist them in their work in order to advance an argument. Further, whether in the clinic or on the streets, progressive practitioners carry some of the same anxieties and defenses into their work as do conservatives. But we also bring ideals, commitments and conceptual tools that help us to understand these dynamics and take into account the power of unconscious anxieties, longings and defenses.
Subversive storytelling—as we envision our website project—involves reflecting on these processes—both the regressive pulls and the progressive possibilities of everyday life. Please consider checking out or contributing to our website on the use of stories in movements for social change.
Your essay provoked thoughts about the many ways storytelling enlivens our humanity. When we share a story, we evoke imagination and that connects speak and listener. It's both an act of self discovery and empathy. Engaging essay.


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The 1903 Colt .38 Automatic Pocket Model
1903 Colt .38 Pocket Model (top right)
1903 Colt .32 Pocket "Hammerless" (bottom left)
In an effort to make an automatic pistol that would be a commercial success, The Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company issued two new pistols in 1903. The first was the "Hammerless" Pocket Model in .32 caliber, which continued in production for 44 years and had sales in excess of 500,000. The second was the .38 Automatic Pocket Model, which is often referred to by collectors today as the "1903 Pocket Hammer" to distinguish it from the "Pocket Hammerless ," and which had a production run that spanned 25 years but with sales of only about 31,000 guns.
The .38 Pocket Model was essentially a 1902 Colt Automatic Pistol, Sporting Model, with the barrel and slide shortened by one and a half inches, and was a direct descendant of the original Colt Automatic Pistol of 1900. Colt's wanted to expand their line of automatic pistols, and thought a slightly smaller version of their pistol chambered for the powerful .38 auto cartridge might sell. To call it a pocket model is a bit of a stretch, in my opinion, but it was certainly less unwieldy than its predecessors, and it was only a little larger than the .32 Pocket "Hammerless".
Bady states that preparations for manufacturing the .38 Pocket Model probably began early in 1903. The various internal lockwork components, sights, hammer, barrel fittings, grip, magazine release, slide lock bar and takedown mechanism were all identical to that of the Sporting Model. "A substantial amount of the machining and secondary operations on the slide, frame and barrel are the same for both pistols; these parts were probably run on an alternate lot basis through the tool and machining setups. Preparation of forging dies and special machining setups peculiar to the Pocket Model required a few months work." The first guns were probably ready for sale by December of 1903.
Throughout the entire production of the .38 Pocket Model the right side of the slide was marked "AUTOMATIC COLT / CALIBRE 38 RIMLESS SMOKELESS". The markings on the left side of the slide mirror those of the 1902 Military Model, so I will not repeat them here. The early guns had the spurless "stub" hammer (through 1908 and approximately serial number 24900), which was replaced with a spur hammer. The gun originally had 16 plunge milled slide serrations at the rear of the slide, but early in 1906 (in the mid-17000 serial number range) they were changed to 19 triangular cut serrations like those that have been used on Colt automatic pistols ever since. There are a few other minor variations that are documented in Sheldon's book.
The original design of 1900 had a safety incorporated into the rear sight, but the design was flawed and Colt's eventually dropped it. They didn't bother trying to retrofit another safety mechanism onto the .38 Pocket Model, and I believe that was detrimental to sales over time. When the .32 "Hammerless" Pocket Model came out it had both a manual safety and a grip safety, and people were much more comfortable carrying it with a round in the chamber. Neither gun had a mechanism for holding the slide open after the last round was fired.
After the introduction of the two pocket pistols in 1903, Colt's attention turned to trying to obtain a lucrative military contract. Soon after the .38 Military Model failed to win approval by the U.S. military, the U.S. Ordnance Department decided U.S. handguns should be at least .45 caliber and Colt's had already begun development of the .45 auto cartridge. Future military guns were required to use the .45, so Colt's and Browning focused on designing a .45 automatic pistol that would meet the requirements of the military. Further development of .38 caliber automatics was shelved for 25 years. The Colt .38 Military Model and Pocket Model were both discontinued around 1928--John Moses Browning had just passed away in 1926--and a year or so later the .38 super cartridge was introduced and a version of the Colt 1911A was chambered for it. The .38 Super cartridge is too hot to fire in the early Colt .38 automatics.
I bought this old gun cheap because it was lacking grips. I ordered some plastic reproductions from Vintage Grips, as well as some screws. Vintage Grips makes a lot of grips but apparently no one there knows much about the old guns. They sent me the wrong screws twice, and didn't have escutcheons for this gun. The person I spoke with said they have two sizes of screws, and they just eyeball the grips and send the screws that look to be the right size. Then I ordered some screws and escutcheons from ColtParts.Com. I was very careful to state that I needed screws and escutcheons for the 1903 Pocket Model .38, but I still received a screw, escutcheon, and nut for a 1903 Pocket Model .32. I ended up paying $40 for four escutcheons and slim brass screws with the wrong threads that were made for the .32. Then I cut the screws down to size and let the steel in the Colt frame cut new threads in the soft brass. At least now I have grips on the gun and can take it out and shoot it. I'm still looking for the correct screws and a set of original grips.
The magazine release is backward from modern pistol designs. You squeeze the lever to release the magazine. If you have a third-party magazine that doesn't fit perfectly, you may have problems retaining the magazine in the grip. This is usually remedied by cutting a deeper groove in the back of the magazine, or by adding a small amount of metal just above the groove.
The trigger is stiff, but not creepy. The angle of the grip is not as great as that on the 1903 Pocket Hammerless, and so the .38 Pocket Model does not point quite as naturally. There are no bells and whistles on the .38 Pocket Model--it is simply a reliable and accurate gun, like most of Browning's designs. Despite its age, my gun holds a pretty good two inch group at 10 yards and three inches at 20. Recoil is negligible and the action functions flawlessly.
Production Statistics for the Pocket Model
Serial Number Range (approx.*)
* The numbers given above are approximate. Colt's did not assemble or ship guns in serial number order. Prior to 1916 the figures above reflect ship dates rather than production dates.
Five Shots on a Paper Plate at 10 Yards
2.25 inch group
Field Stripping the .38 Pocket Model
It is not necessary to remove the magazine, but you should do so just to make sure it is empty. Clear the chamber.
Press inward on the spring-loaded plug in the end of the recoil spring housing at the front of the gun.
Tilt the gun to the left side and the slide lock bar should fall out.
Cock the hammer and draw the slide off the rear of the gun.
Copyright 2009 by Ed Buffaloe. All rights reserved.
Click the small photographs to open a larger version in a new window.
A Collector's Guide to Colt's .38 Automatic Pistols, by Douglas G. Sheldon. Privately Printed: 1987.
Colt Automatic Pistols, 1896-1955, by Donald B. Bady. Fadco, Beverly Hills, California: 1956.

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Q: EF - Save datetime with specific timezone in DB but read it as UTC Is there a mapping configuration in Entity Framework where I can state to convert any datetime that i will be saving in the db to a specific timezone (eg CEST) and whenever I read it from DB, it should be converted to UTC?

A: Quick answer: No.
EF just moves the values back and forth.
Suggestion: just store UTC values in the database. If you need to recover the original timezone then store the original timezone as well (but note the common timezone abbreviations are often ambiguous).
Dates and times are hard to process in general, but most systems simply assume a single locale and ignore the issues.

A: If you have to save datetime in a local zone, you can add a new property in your entity class for the UTC datetime. e.g.
public class MyEntity {
    public DateTime LocalDateTime {get; set;}

    //use this property in code instead of LocalDateTime.
    [NoMapped]
    public DateTime UtcDateTime {
        get { return /*convert LocalDateTime value to UTC */ }
        set { LocalDateTime = /*convert value to local zone */ }
    }
}

BTW, I didn't test this method. Just for your reference.

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The ember-math-helpers addon is a handy set of Handlebars helpers that lets you do common math operations in your template.
This screencast combines it with the ember-let addon to improve our shopping cart experience.
Ember-math-helpers is an addon that lets you do basic math in your template. So it has adding, dividing, all the things you would want. When you combine that with some of the other addons such as ember-let, that can be pretty powerful. So we're going to combine those and we're going to get a lot done just in your handlebars helpers. So the page we're going to be looking at is the shopping cart that we set up a couple of episodes ago. So here we have it adding up everything, all of these monsters, and showing the total, and then putting that total into here. But we're not taking into account taxes and shipping. So how can we add those?
So we have all of these different items and they're displaying and we're defining them right in the template. Now you can definitely take this too far, and you might argue that we have already taken this too far, but let's keep going. This is about how you can do stuff, not whether you should do stuff.
Alright, now let's calculate the total. So we're going to let the total equal the sum of everything so far, so the subtotal and the taxes and the shipping. And notice that some of these such as add can take as many as you want. We could have just two or we could keep on going. So then we'll display the total. And here we go.
Now what about this? We're calculating total in the cart already. That's something that we created previously. Is there a way to do that just in our template? So here you notice we have the sum of an array of prices. So we know that the add helper, it can take as many items as we want. Can we add in all of the prices of the monsters? Well, we could get the mapBy helper from ember composable helpers, so we'll map the price onto the monsters in the cart, and let's see how this works. We may just... Oh-oh, it seems to have converted them into strings. So it's just taking the strings of the numbers and putting them together.


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Chris Christie Blasts Marco Rubio Over His Experience in Eighth Republican Debate
By Celeste Katz
Republicans Marco Rubio and Chris Christie got heated enough to melt a foot of New Hampshire snow at Saturday night's presidential debate, tearing into each other in a perfect illustration of how badly both men want to win the state.
The two brawled after a question about the contenders' readiness to hold the Oval Office.
"Under Chris Christie's governorship of New Jersey, they have been downgraded nine times in their credit rating. This country already has a debt problem. We don't need to add to it," scoffed Rubio, who's played up his foreign policy chops throughout the GOP contest.
"I like Marco Rubio and he's a smart person and a good guy, but he simply does not have the experience to be president of the United States."
Christie lunged, seeing a chance to lump Rubio in with the much-maligned "establishment" in a play for fed-up voters.
"You see, everybody, I want the people at home to think about this. This is what Washington, D.C., does," Christie said with a sweep of his arm. "The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information and then the memorized 25-second speech that is exactly what his advisers gave him."
Rubio was having none of it.
"Chris — Chris, your state got hit by a massive snowstorm two weeks ago. You didn't even want to go back. They had to shake you into going back," Rubio said, hearkening back to Christie's hopscotching between his day job and campaigning in the Granite State.
Christie, who has staked his entire primary plan on a strong showing in New Hampshire, plowed on.
"I like Marco Rubio and he's a smart person and a good guy, but he simply does not have the experience to be president of the United States," the New Jersey governor said, playing up his executive track record.
He also took exception to Rubio's broadside on the storm issue.
"The shame is that you would actually criticize somebody for showing up to work, plowing the streets, getting the trains running back on time when you [have] never been responsible for that in your entire life," Christie told his rival.
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Haruna Mustapha, a local farmer, said the attackers destroyed the mosque and set many other buildings ablaze.
Up to 20 people were killed Saturday in an attack by suspected Boko Haram on a mosque in Buni Gari, a settlement about 105km from Yobe, the capital town of Yobe State in northeast Nigeria.
"Reports say up to 20 innocent lives were lost," Abdullahi Bego, spokesman for Yobe Governor Ibrahim Gaidam, told Anadolu Agency.
He said the gunmen had opened fire on Muslims shortly before the dawn prayer.
"This is a tragedy," added Bego.
"The government has authorized immediate manhunt of the criminal elements that, despite all efforts to stamp out terrorism from Yobe, are bent on ruining communal peace," said the spokesman.
"Once again, we appeal to those behind these senseless killings to desist. Enough of shedding the blood of the innocent," he added.
"Our people were gunned down while trying to pray," he told AA.
"We learnt that the terrorists did what they did because we are against their evil ideology and our young men have constituted a stumbling block to their recruitment strategy," Mustapha said.
"They are angry that our communities have succeeded in convincing our young men that Boko Haram is in fact a conspiracy against Islam and Muslims and that their ideology is strange to the peace and common human brotherhood that Islam preaches," he added.
Yobe, Borno and Adamawa are the three northeastern Nigeria's states gripped by the bloody Boko Haram insurgency. A state of emergency has been in place in the three states since May.
Unlike Borno, however, Yobe hardly experiences persistent Boko Haram attacks.
But the rare attacks had been very devastating, including the killings of over 40 school children at a central government college in their sleep early this year.
More than 1000 were killed in the first three months of the year alone in the Boko Haram insurgency.


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Every IGN Xbox One First-Party Exclusive Review
We rank the best Xbox One exclusives based on IGN score.
By Matthew Adler
Updated: 19 Mar 2020 7:46 pm
Posted: 14 Nov 2019 7:46 pm
It's been a rough generation for Xbox fans. After quickly falling behind to Sony's PlayStation 4 in the current console generation, Microsoft has fought diligently to make up ground over the past few years. With the addition of Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft is evolving the way we consume games, allowing players to experience some of its best games of the generation as a monthly game subscription.
While the future is looking bright once again for Xbox, it's made some missteps along the way, from the Kinect 2.0 to many highly anticipated games being canceled. Generally, PlayStation is regarded as having significantly better first-party exclusives, but from a critical standpoint, they score much closer than you'd think. Sony's first-party efforts for PlayStation 4 average out to a review score of 8.0, while Microsoft isn't far behind with its 7.7 average rating. We've compiled every Xbox One exclusive review and ranked them accordingly to show which Xbox One games are truly the best of this generation.
Every Xbox One First-Party Review
Have you played Gears 5?
Please note: this list contains every Xbox-owned first-party exclusive either developed or published by Xbox Game Studios. Games that have recently launched on other platforms (such as Cuphead or Ori and the Blind Forest), or timed exclusives (like Outer Wilds or Rise of the Tomb Raider) are excluded. Subsequently, games that are available on PC via Xbox Game Pass are included, while games that are available on Steam or Epic Games Store are not included. Games that launched cross-platform and are available on Xbox 360 (such as Titanfall) are also not included in this list.
Click through the gallery above to view every IGN-reviewed Xbox One exclusive, or scroll down to read through the list, sorted from lowest score to highest.
Here's how they rank:
17. Fighter Within - 2.8
T-16. Crackdown 3 - 5.0
T-16. Super Lucky's Tale - 5.0
15. Crimson Dragon - 5.9
14. Ryse: Son of Rome - 6.8
T-13. D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die - 7.0
T-13. Halo Wars 2 - 7.0
T-13. Powerstar Golf - 7.0
T-13. Sea of Thieves - 7.0
T-12. Kinect Sports Rivals - 7.3
T-12. ReCore - 7.3
11. Dance Central Spotlight - 7.4
T-10. #IDARB - 7.5
T-10. State of Decay 2 - 7.5
T-9. Project Spark - 8.0
T-9. Quantum Break - 8.0
8. Dead Rising 3 - 8.3
7. Killer Instinct - 8.4
6. Fru - 8.5
5. Forza Motorsport 5 - 8.8
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Xbox Game Studios has doubled-down on their first-party efforts in recent years by scooping up some talented studios to help bolster their lineup including Ninja Theory, developers of the recent Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, Double Fine Productions (of Psychonauts fame), and Obsidian Games, creators of Fallout: New Vegas and the recent hit The Outer Worlds. Matt Booty, who oversees Xbox Game Studios, has said Microsoft plans to continue acquiring studios in order to diversify their first-party games and create experiences that will appeal to everyone in some way.
With conversation ramping up around Project Scarlett and Xbox's next-gen efforts, it's worth noting that there are still some big games still due out for Xbox One including Halo Infinite, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, a Battletoads reboot, and more. Things are finally starting to look up for Xbox fans...at long last.
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British writer, James Speyer, launches brand new fantasy fiction website, promising a new and exciting platform for fans of the genre.
United Kingdom – A new fantasy fiction platform has been launched online, providing fans of fiction and fantasy alike with the chance to explore a new world through short stories, audiobooks and an anthology eBook. The Azrian Portal, run by British fantasy writer James Speyer, has been established as part of the up-and-coming author's growing portfolio. Designed to be a portal into the fictional world of Azra, within which all fiction on the website is set, The Azrian Portal currently features a number of stories and blogs, with new content arriving on a regular basis.
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Q: Tweaking table defined by exam class Question: Is it possible to remove the 0 point values in the gradetable using the exam document class to produce a potentially useful table for exercise sheets and the like?
Here's my idea:
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\begin{document}

\begin{questions}
\question Is it true that \(x^n + y^n = z^n\)
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\question Prove that the real part of all non-trivial zeros of the function
\(\zeta(z)\) is \(\frac{1}{2}\) \ldots

\question Another question.
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The idea is that students could have a sort of cover sheet for homework exercises or similar assignments and they could easily keep tabs on the problems they felt like they understood or did not (so as to facilitate classroom discussion or asking questions). I also thought having a column just to jot down a note would be useful. It looks like I can exploit some of the options made available for exam, but the main issue is that I cannot make a gradetable without using the addpoints feature.
I tried looking at the package documentation and even exam.cls as to how I might go about a dirty solution, but alas I cannot figure out anything effectively.
Ultimately, I would like to have blank spaces where the 0s currently are and remove the bottom row altogether (I tried cumulative instead of total to dream up something possibly of use, but it's an infinite stretch).
I thought about trying to somehow duplicate the style of the Note column (which usually lists the score later to be filled in by the instructor), but I did not see how to possibly do this by looking at the class file or package documentation.


Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk is reporting that, per a source with knowledge of the dynamics, the San Francisco 49ers might be angling to trade tackle Joe Staley for the right price. According to Florio, the 49ers are angling for a first-round pick from a playoff contender for Staley. That means it would be a selection late in the first round.
Playoff teams typically trade from picks 21 through 32 in the first round. Of course, that could be different depending on any draft pick trades that take place. Florio says that Staley has been tied to the same teams that have some degree of interest in Cleveland Browns tackle Joe Thomas. Those teams are the Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, and New England Patriots.
It is unknown if this information is pure speculation by his "source" or if these teams have a legitimate interest in Staley and not just a tackle in general. The inclusion of NFC West teams Arizona and Seattle seems odd, but not enough to debunk the rumor.
Over the course of the season, Staley has been the 49ers' top graded player per Pro Football Focus – not counting NaVorro Bowman, who is on the injured reserve list. He has been, by far, their best offensive lineman and that has been the case for years.
Staley, who is 32, is under contract through 2019. The trade window closes on Tuesday, November 1 at 1:00 p.m. PT.


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"What does the future of work look like?" | Rectorate University of Porto | 25 JUN 6:00 pm
The Young Professionals Group of the waste sector belonging to the Portuguese Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (APESB), in partnership with the Rectorate - Culture Unit of the University of Porto, invites you to the conference "What does the future of work look like?", on the 25th of June, 6:00 pm at Rectorate of the University of Porto.
With the 4th industrial revolution underway, it is widely agreed that technology will partially or totally replace multiple jobs, create new jobs, and profoundly alter others. There will be great challenges, especially for youngsters who want to prepare for the future job market.
What are the most appropriate skills, methods and tools? They should be envisaged so that youngsters can enter an increasingly demanding job market.
Andrea Winterstetter
Specialist in Sustainable Materials
Management at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO).
Founder and former Group Chair of the Young Professionals Group of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA YPG).
Current coordinator of ISWA YPG Regional Groups.
Joana Dias
Assistant Professor in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto.
Member of the Commission for Sustainability.
Member of the Scientific Committee - Integrated master's in environmental engineering.
Teacher Responsible for Continuous Education Circular Economy Course.
José Campos
Head of Talent Management & Organizational Development (TMOD) at Continental Mabor – Indústria de Pneus, S.A.
Specialist in People Development and tailored Qualification Processes.
Country TMOD coordinator Portugal (considering all the 6 Continental companies from manufacturing and services).
Consultant and Specialist for cross divisional/ international projects related to HR and TMOD areas inside Continental Group.
Certified Trainer and Internal Coach.
Nuno Formigo
Assistant Professor and Director of the Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto.
Director of Master's Degrees in Ecology, Environment and Territory, and in Ecology and Environment.
President of the Scientific Committee of the Master's Degree in Ecology and Environment.
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Bachelor in Biology.
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Paulo Farinha Marques
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto.
Director of Course and President of the Scientific Committee of the PhD in Landscape Architecture.
Director of Course and President of the Scientific Committee of Doctorate in Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology.
Member of the Scientific Committee master's in landscape architecture.
Raquel Teixeira
Coordinator of the Counseling area at Career and Development Office of Catholic Porto Business School.
Psychological intervention, vocational and career guidance sessions.
Work together with companies and professors to promote the development of transferable skills.
Private clinical practice.
The conference is free access, limited to room capacity for this reason requires prior registration here.
"You can't use an old map to explore a new world." — Albert Einstein
*Conference will be in English (without simultaneous translation).
Event in facebook here.
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The other day I was helping Zoey get ready to go to a friend's house (who happened to be celebrating her birthday) and upon getting the gift that we had gotten her ready we realized we had neglected to get a birthday card. No worries! Zoey could make one using punch outs from her Creative Card-Making Pad from American Girl Crafts! I thought I would share with you what she ended up making so you could get a little glimpse of what the kit all entails.
She chose the yellow patterned card and punched it out of the pad and folded it.
She chose what birthday punch out she wanted to use and punched that out and adhered it to the front of the card using the 3 dimensional adhesive that is also included in the kit.
She then got busy writing her sentiment on the inside of the card.
We also had one of the American Girl Crafts sticker pads so she chose some of those for the inside of the card as well.
Here are some of the stickers that are included in the sticker pad that we have. There are some pretty cute ones!
Once she was all done with her writing and with the stickers she flipped the card over and wrote her name in the "Made Especially for You" box.
Here is the finished card along with the punched out and assembled matching envelope.
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COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) - A Columbus pastor received a prestigious honor from Atlanta's Morehouse College.
Dr. Marlon Scott, pastor of Emmanuel Christian Church, was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College.
The induction is held each year around the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to being the founding pastor of Emmanuel Christian Church, Scott is also the chaplain at Piedmont Columbus Regional.


The continued rapid economic growth in the Asia Pacific Region is enabled by a rapid growth in motorization and the same economic growth will spark off further motorization. Increased motorization is associated with a growing demand for fuel. These trends affect the energy security of the region and at the same time they also threaten to lock in the region to a high carbon emission trajectory.
The desirable policy response is to ensure that the expansion of transport infrastructure and services takes place in a more low-carbon oriented manner. There is growing consensus now that transport policies that focus on Avoiding unnecessary transport (through smart land use planning); Shifting passenger and freight transport to the most efficient modes; and Improving the environmental performance of transport can improve equitable access to goods and services while being less harmful to the environment. The IEA has estimated that a large scale adoption of the Avoid-Shift-Improve approach can result in cumulative savings of USD 50 Trillion compared to a baseline scenario of USD 500 Trillion in cumulative transport spending till 2050.
The transition to sustainable, low carbon transport requires large upfront investments. Traditional financing sources for sustainable transport infrastructure and services (e.g. public sector funding, end user revenue, official development assistance, and climate finance) will be insufficient in themselves to provide the needed funding to meet these targets and goals. Thus it will become increasingly important to turn to the private sector to help bridge this funding gap, through expanding the range of financial instruments, and increased use of public-private partnerships (PPPs), and related strategies to drive projects and programs in the sustainable transport sector.
In short; it is understood that the private sector has an untapped potential for financing sustainable transport; what are the views of the participants in the Roundtable on how to best tap into that potential.
The Hong Kong Round Table had a specific focus on PPP units in developing Asian countries. The roundtable provides a platform for private sector organizations and financial institutions that fund transport, climate finance institutions, MDBs and bilateral development organizations, knowledge providers and advocacy organizations on sustainable transport.
The Roundtable was organized in corporation with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) and the GIZ TRANSfer Project.


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Eintracht Frankfurt – Borussia Dortmund (DFB Pokal)
Eintracht Frankfurt has this Saturday afternoon their only chance of taking something positive from this season, traveling to the Olympiastadion Berlin, where they will face Borussia Dortmund for the DFB Pokal final. Frankfurt reached the end of a disappointing season and has here the only chance of taking something positive from it, since besides the German Cup, this title also secures presence in the Europa League next season. Borussia Dortmund finished 3rd placed in the Bundesliga and secured access to next season's Champions League, but this is the only title at their reach and they will look for it.
Eintracht Frankfurt hasn't reach a DFB Pokal final since 2005/06, where they were eliminated by Bayern Munich, and are unable of lifting this trophy since 1987/88. This was a season where Frankfurt had a promising Bundesliga start of the campaign, reaching the european spots and fighting for them during a few rounds and even took points from teams like Borussia dortmund, Bayern Munich and Hoffenheim, but suffered a break in their form and finished the season in 11th place in the Bundesliga table.
The Eagles have only won 1 of their last 15 Bundesliga matches, losing 10 of them. A win here would not only be amazing, since it would be the first title since 1987/88, but would also be very positive for the team since it would take them to the Europa League next season. Niko Kovac's men are showing poor efficiency in finishing scoring chances, since they were the 5th team in Bundesliga with less goals scored this season, with long shots being their most effective way of creating scoring opportunities.
In their last 5 official matches, Frankfurt has a record of 1 victory, 1 draw and 3 defeats. This sequence of results started with a 3-1 home win over Augsburg. This result was followed by a 1-0 away defeat against Hoffenheim, a 2-0 home defeat against Wolfsburg, a 4-2 away defeat against Mainz, and in their last clash, a 2-2 home draw against Leipzig. Mascarell and Hasebe are both out due to injury.
Probable Lineup: Hrádecky – Hector, Abraham and Vallejo – Chandler, Gacinovic, Oczipka and Tawatha – Fabián and Hrgota – Seferovic.
Borussia Dortmund, on their turn, reached their 4th consecutive DFB Pokal final, although they haven't been able to win any of them, losing two against Bayern Munich and the other one against Wolfsburg. The last tim the Black and Yellows won this competition was in 2011/12, lifting their 4th DFB Pokal trophy in all their history. This was a disappointing season for Thomas Tuchel's men, who were unable of racing with Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga title and ended up being eliminated in Champions League quarter finals by AS Monaco, with the DFB Pokal now being the only title at their reach.
Dortmund finished the season as 3rd placed in the Bundesliga table, securing access to next season's Champions League. This is a team that compensates their defensive difficulties with lethalness in the offensive part, being deadly in counter-attacks, very fast in attacking down the wings and are very dangerous in creating scoring chances using through balls and through individual skill, having very talented players who are capable of making the difference at any moment.
In their last 5 official matches, Borussia Dortmund has record of 3 victories and 2 draws. This sequence of results started with a 2-3 away win against Bayern Munich, for the DFB Pokal. This result was followed by a 0-0 home draw against FC Koln, a 2-1 home win over Hoffenheim, a 1-1 away draw against Augsburg, and in their last clash, a 4-3 home win against Werder Bremen. Gotze, Schurrle and Weigl are all out due to injury.
Probable Lineup: Burki – Piszczek, Sokratis, Bartra and Schmelzer – Sahin – Dembélé, Castro, Kagawa and Reus – Aubameyang.
Frankfurt won 3 of their last 8 direct clashes, with Dortmund winning the remaining 5.
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Both teams arrive here with hopes of taking something positive from this season. Borussia Dortmund is an extremely offensive team and, unlike Frankfurt, were in great form in the final rounds of the Bundesliga. Expect this to be a very intense game from the outset, with Dortmund trying to put pressure on Frankfurt from the off.
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Original Source Mary Robinson is the founder and president of Realizing Rights, an Atlantic grantee. Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has been awarded the highest civilian honour in the United States - the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Announcing the award at the White House…
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By Meabh RitchieReligious feeling runs high on the two sides of Derry, but Northern Ireland's Sharing Education Programme sees Catholic and Protestant pupils working together, reports Meabh Ritchie It may be early summer, but sheets of rain are slicing the landscape in two and colliding…
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Iglesias, Roark lift Reds past Brewers for 5th straight win
MILWAUKEE -- Tanner Roark finally got some early run support and made the most of it.
Roark allowed one run -- a homer by major league leader Christian Yelich -- over six solid innings and Jose Iglesias homered and drove in four runs as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-1 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory.
"It's just one run," said Roark, who was staked to a 3-0 lead in the first. "You can't let it bother you or let it sink in. Who cares? On to the next one. I got the next three guys out, I believe. I wasn't worried about it. We still had the lead."
Iglesias followed a two-out triple by Yasiel Puig with his fifth homer to put the Reds up 5-1 in the fifth. He also singled in two runs in the first.
Roark (5-6), who had lost three consecutive starts and five of his last six, allowed three hits, struck out seven and hit three batters. Jared Hughes followed with two scoreless innings and Zach Duke finished.
"Offensively, it was a quiet night, there wasn't much there," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. "I thought Roark did a good job against our left-handed hitters. He made some good pitches, he stayed in, he stayed up."
The Reds had scored a total of six runs in Roark's previous three starts.
"It's definitely a good feeling going out there with a 3-0 lead behind you," said Roark, who has allowed just two runs in his last four starts at Miller Park, spanning 28 innings. "Go up there and put up a quick zero and get the guys back in the dugout to hit again."
Yelich, the reigning NL MVP, opened the fourth with his 28th homer, sending a 2-2 pitch from Roark 462 feet to right to extend his hitting streak to 17 games, matching his career high.
Nick Senzel hit his seventh homer for the Reds, a two-run shot off the left-field foul pole against Freddy Peralta, to make it 7-1 in the seventh.
Jimmy Nelson (0-2) continued to struggle in his comeback after missing all of last season following right shoulder surgery. Nelson allowed five runs and seven hits with four walks and a hit batter in five innings, the longest of his three starts since being called up June 5.
Nelson, 3-0 in five starts at Triple-A San Antonio, has allowed 13 earned runs and 16 hits in 12 innings with 10 walks in three outings with Milwaukee.
"Words can't explain how frustrating and upsetting and disappointing it is," said Nelson, who was 12-6 in 2017 before he suffered a season-ending injury diving back into first base. "There's nobody that's more frustrated about it than I am, I promise you that. And I'm also doing everything, along with our coaching staff and even some of the guys here in the clubhouse, in between starts to figure things out, whether it's a physical standpoint or a mental standpoint, whatever it may be."
The Reds capitalized on Nelson's early lack of command for three runs in the first. Cincinnati loaded the bases with one out when Joey Votto walked, Eugenio Suarez singled, and Derek Dietrich was hit by a pitch. Senzel walked to force in a run. Iglesias' two-out single up the middle made it 3-0.
Cincinnati loaded the bases in third on a pair of infield singles and an intentional walk, but Nelson escaped by striking out Roark to end the inning.
Milwaukee, coming off a 2-6 road trip, has lost four straight.
"A good day offensively, all the way around," Reds manager David Bell said. "Getting off to a good start and then adding on."
TRAINER'S ROOM
Reds: LHP Wandy Peralta (right hip flexor strain), who went on the 10-day IL on June 15, is "recovering rapidly," but the Reds "don't have an exact timetable for his return," Bell said before the game.
Brewers: LHP Gio Gonzalez (left arm fatigue), who went on the IL on June 1, will throw a bullpen session Friday and will get a minor-league starting assignment before returning to the team, possibly before the All-Star break.
YELICH REMAINS HOT
During his 17-game hitting streak, Yelich is hitting .457 (32-for-70) with seven homers, seven doubles, a trip and 14 RBI, along with scoring 15 runs. His 28 homers are one shy of the franchise record before the All-Star break, which was set by Prince Fielder with 29 in 2007.
Reds: RHP Sonny Gray (3-5, 3.77 ERA) is 3-1 with a 2.93 ERA in his last five starts. He picked up his first win of the season vs. Milwaukee on May 21, allowing five hits in six scoreless innings with nine strikeouts.
Brewers: RHP Chase Anderson (3-1, 4.05 ERA) has lasted six innings in just one of eight starts after opening the season with five relief appearances. He has allowed eight homers in 46 2/3 innings, after giving up a career-high 30 home runs last season.
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2019 National League Central Standings
Chicago 51 44 .537 0 W1
Milwaukee 49 47 .510 2.5 W1
St. Louis 47 46 .505 3 L1
Pittsburgh 45 49 .479 5.5 W1
Cincinnati 43 49 .467 6.5 L1
Cubs turn to rookie Mills vs. Reds' DeSclafani
Alec Mills will make his season debut when the Chicago Cubs host the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night.
For Andrew Cashner, a trade from the cellar-dwelling Baltimore Orioles to the playoff-contending Boston Red Sox on Saturday was met exactly as one would expect.
Rays, d'Arnaud seek encore vs. Yankees
Discussing his first career three-homer game, a performance that included a go-ahead, ninth-inning, three-run shot that gave the Tampa Bay Rays a crucial win over the New York Yankees on Monday, Travis d'Arnaud did not hesitate as to where it ranked...
Pujols' 3 hits, 3 RBIs power streaking Halos past Astros 9-6
Albert Pujols got three hits and drove in three runs, and the Los Angeles Angels remained unbeaten since the All-Star break with a 9-6 victory over the AL West-leading Houston Astros on Monday night.
Dodgers look to keep momentum going vs. Phillies
The Los Angeles Dodgers will be looking for their fourth consecutive victory when they visit the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday.
On this date: DiMaggio hits in 56th straight game
On July 16, 1941, Joe DiMaggio extended his hit streak to 56 games.
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Freshly baked Swiss Zopf, ready to be shared with a great mom! For these ones, I used a combination of unbleached white flour, spelt flour and multigrain flour. Although they look nice, the result was not ideal. I should heed my mom's advice: stick to the recipe, i.e. use plain flour!
Baking Zopf, a Swiss braided yeast bread, in preparation for brunch with my mother-in-law made me think of my mom. She lives in Vancouver and I won't get to see her until the end of June, so this is for her. Happy Mother's Day Mami!
My mom is a generous woman who is always thinking of others. So much so, that sometimes I wish she were a bit more selfish and would take care of herself first. But that's not the way she is. When I visit, she'll always ask me if there's anything I want her to make. It's so easy to say "yes" to something deliciously homemade, even when I think it wouldn't be necessary.
Zopf was one of those special, made-with-love Sunday treats we'd have a couple of times per year. Hers are my benchmark. Mine aren't on par yet, but I keep trying. And each time, I think of her. For me, Zopf will always be linked to my mom.
Combine flour and salt in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre. Heat 100mL milk (38° C) and stir in yeast. Pour into well. Melt butter over low heat. Add remaining 400mL milk and beaten egg to butter, then add butter-milk-egg mixture to yeast mixture in the well. Mix slowly to combine, then knead for at least 10 minutes (15 minutes if kneading by hand). Let rise until doubled in volume.
Step 1: Create a cross.
Step 2: Fold over left to right, and right to left.
Step 4: Continue left/right, top/bottom.
Step 5: Tuck ends under. Almost ready to bake!
Preheat oven to 350° F/180° C. Punch down the dough. Separate into two to three pieces (depending on what size and how many "loaves" you'd like), then divide each piece into two. Work with two pieces at a time. Roll out each one, making the ends less thick than the centre. Place one rolled out piece over the other to create a cross. To braid, fold the end on the left across the middle to the right, and the end on the right across the middle to the left. Next, fold the end on the top across the middle to the bottom, and the end on the bottom across the middle to the top. Continue alternating left/right, top/bottom until no dough is left. Tuck the ends under. This video is a good Zopf braiding demo. Braid remaining loaves. Let rest 15 minutes in a cool spot.
Brush with egg wash and bake for 45-50 minutes until golden brown. Share with a great mom!


This is the house for Robinson. The home was just remodeled and has three bedrooms and two baths. When I say remodeled I mean from roof to foundation! It has new Heating & Air Conditioning System, Roofing, Dual Pane Energy Efficient Windows - New Kitchen including Cabinets, Sink, Granite Counter-tops, Tile Back splash, Stainless Steel Appliances, Plumbing Fixtures, Light Fixtures - New Bathrooms including Vanities, Sinks, Granite Counter-tops, Shower, Tub, Tile Back splashes, Light fixtures, Mirrors - New Doors, Casing, Baseboards, Crown Molding, Paint, Laminate Flooring. There are three schools Elementary - High School within walking distance to this home. I want to hear from you about your plans you have for the 3/4 acres that this home sits on. Robinson is a dynamic town with an excellent school district and qualifies for USDA 0% down lending. Call us now to see and talk about you moving to 320 W. Tate.


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Daniels' Running Formula 4th Edition epub
Jack Tupper Daniels
Part I. Understanding the Formula for Training
Chapter 1. Essentials of Running Success
Chapter 2. Training Principles and Tips
Chapter 3. Physiological and Personal Training Profiles
Chapter 4. Types of Training and Intensities
Chapter 5. VDOT System of Training
Chapter 6. Environment- and Altitude-Specific Training
Chapter 7. Treadmill Training
Chapter 8. Fitness Training
Chapter 9. Training Breaks and Supplemental Training
Part II. Applying the Formula to Competitive Events
Chapter 10. Season-Tailored Training
Chapter 11. 800 Meters
Chapter 12. 1,500 Meters to 2 Miles
Chapter 13. 5K and 10K
Chapter 14. Cross Country
Chapter 15. 15K to 30K
Chapter 16. Marathon
Chapter 17. Ultradistance
Chapter 18. Triathlon
Appendix: Time and Pace Conversions
Jack Daniels has been called the world's best running coach. He has more than 55 years of experience coaching and mentoring some of world's top distance runners at both the collegiate and postcollegiate levels, including Jim Ryun, Penny Werthner, Ken Martin, Jerry Lawson, Alicia Shay, Peter Gilmore, Lisa Martin, Magdalena Lewy-Boulet, Anthony "Fam" Famiglietti, and Janet Cherobon-Bawcom. An elite athlete himself, he won two Olympic medals and one world championship medal in the men's modern pentathlon.
Daniels has decades of experience as a track and cross country coach at institutions such as Oklahoma City University, the University of Texas, Brevard College, and the State University of New York at Cortland. Under his guidance, Cortland runners won eight NCAA Division III team national championships, 30 individual national titles, and more than 130 All-America awards. He was named NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Coach of the 20th Century.
For a number of years, Daniels was the national running coach advisor for the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society's Team in Training program, which involved coaching thousands of marathon runners each year. He also enjoyed coaching members of the Nike Farm Team and the Chasquis, a group of Peruvian marathoners.
Daniels has logged years of graduate study and research on distance running in both the United States and Sweden. He holds a doctoral degree in physical education and physiology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and he studied exercise science at the Royal Gymnastics Central Institute in Stockholm under renowned sport scientist Per-Olof Åstrand. He was also an associate professor in the human movement program at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona, in addition to coaching Olympic runners.
Of all his accomplishments, Daniels is most proud of his two daughters and being married to his wife, Nancy.
"During my tenure as editor of Runner's World, I named Jack Daniels the 'World's Best Running Coach,' and 20 years later that remains true."
—Amby Burfoot, 1968 Boston Marathon Winner and Former Editor of Runner's World
Achieving running performance levels based on VDOT and age categories
Sample running program from Daniels' Running Formula
The basic laws of running according to Jack Daniels


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Hedensted railway station is a railway station serving the railway town of Hedensted in East Jutland, Denmark.

The station is located on the Fredericia-Aarhus railway line from Fredericia to Aarhus. It opened in 1868, closed in 1974, but reopened in 2006. It offers direct regional train services to Aarhus and Fredericia. The train services are operated by the national railway company DSB.

History
Hedensted station was opened on 3 October 1868 with the opening of the Fredericia-Aarhus railway line from Fredericia to Aarhus. It was closed on 26 May 1974, but the station reopened on 8 January 2006.

Operations
The train services are operated by the national railway company DSB. The station offers regional train services to Aarhus and Fredericia.

See also
 List of railway stations in Denmark

References

Citations

Bibliography

External links

 Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
 DSB – largest Danish train operating company
 Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark

Railway stations opened in 1868
Railway stations closed in 1974
Railway stations opened in 2006
Railway stations in the Central Denmark Region
1868 establishments in Denmark
2006 establishments in Denmark
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 21st century

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In 2017 I made an animated short film, called FOGLINE. It was hand-drawn using a marker on white board, and is a meditation on the importance of art, and the role of artists, inside prison. A fog line is called when visibility is low, due to heavy fog, and inmates can't be released from their cells. They are locked in. I think of it as a metaphor for the grey zones often encountered inside; the many barriers, the many 'unknowns'.
FOGLINE has been shown at the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, and at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California.
This is one of the hundreds of drawings I made, for the film.


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Robots could do 46 per cent of NZ jobs
Almost half the jobs in New Zealand may be done by computers and robots in the future, researchers say.
A study by the NZ Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has found that 46 per cent of current jobs are at "high risk" of disappearing in the next decade or two.
Most that go will be relatively low-skilled and low-wage jobs. The study found that 78 per cent of labourers and 74 per cent of machine operators, drivers and clerical workers are at high risk.
But some highly skilled jobs are also at risk, including 63 per cent of technicians and trades workers, 24 per cent of managers and 16 per cent of professionals such as accountants.


With 2 compartments with lockable door, this locker cabinet has ample storage space for keeping clothes and other personal belongings safe. Each compartment has a shelf, a hanging bar, a mirror and a name card holder. This locker cabinet is made of high-quality steel, making it durable as well as easy to clean. Assembly is really easy.


AGMB maintains a full-service residential real estate practice group dedicated to smart, practical and cost-effective counsel. We represent clients who seek the sophistication of a large law firm and the attention of a "personal" lawyer all bundled in a cost-conscious, result-focused package. AGMB has extensive experience in all phases of residential real estate transactions, including acquisitions and sales and lease negotiations. We work as a team and are therefore available to our clients twenty four hours/seven days. Our closing process involving a typical acquisition and sale transaction is detailed below.
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We work as a team and are therefore available to our clients 24/7. Our overriding mission is based on "respurgency", the combined qualities of being immediately responsive and taking all actions necessary with a sense of urgency. Although there are things we cannot control, our responsiveness, professionalism and knowledge are things we can.
Purchasing a home should be an enjoyable and rewarding experience! From the moment we receive a file, we guide our clients and strive to create a smooth, non-adversarial transaction.
Abrams Garfinkel Margolis Bergson, LLP is a full-service national law firm dedicated to smart, practical and cost-effective counsel. We represent clients who seek the sophistication of a large law firm and the attention of a "personal" lawyer – all bundled into a cost-conscious, results-focused package.
The purchase of property in the U.S. has its own set of customs and foreign investors should be aware of these customs and practices. Specific to Manhattan real estate, where a significant percentage of the residential property is cooperative property, a foreigner must come to terms with the concept of owning shares of stock in a corporation rather than bricks and mortar. In addition, cooperatives are free to reject sales and rentals of units based on the cooperative board's review of the purchaser's financial and personal application (although cooperative boards may not discriminate against a purchaser on the bases of certain categories protected under law, including race, color, gender, religion, etc.). The cooperative as well as the condominium form of ownership also bear important tax consequences to the foreigner.
A foreign investor therefore has many considerations to make prior to consummating an acquisition transaction. One of the most important decisions will be deciding which of the different structure options to select in which to purchase the asset. For example, the foreign investor will need to decide whether to conduct the real estate business in the U.S. as an individual owner, as a member of a limited liability company or as a shareholder of a domestic or foreign corporation. A foreigner may also acquire property in a trust, as part of an inheritance or as a gift, or might own fractional pieces of property through a partnership.
To meet the needs of each individual, it is important to consider how any purchase is structured. Therefore, it is extremely important for foreign investors to work with a qualified team of legal, accounting and brokerage/valuation professionals who as a team understand the interplay of the relevant tax laws of the foreigner's home country as those of the United States. The goal of the professional team should be to assist the purchaser in facilitating the most efficient investment, accounting and tax structure in the purchase transaction.
This closing costs guide is designed to provide you with the general costs associated with the sale or purchase of a cooperative, condominium or house. Please note that these are estimates only and that potential sellers and purchasers MUST consult their real estate attorney for specifics. Please also note that we do not represent that the information herein represents the entirety of potential costs but is only to be used as a guide.
AGMB offers a full-service commercial real estate department that takes great pride in providing their clients with the power to make knowledgeable decisions concerning their business and individual needs. Our New York and Los Angeles teams combine decades of commercial real estate experience with professional backgrounds in law, accounting, commercial brokerage, property management, planning and development.
A significant part of our commercial real estate group involves representing both tenants and landlords in commercial lease negotiations. Additionally, we represent our clients in restructurings, reviews and audits in addition to real estate acquisitions, dispositions, construction contracts and due diligence advisory services. Having sat on all sides of the negotiating table, the New York team of commercial real estate professionals has an increased business understanding of the mindset of all parties to a transaction, and consequently, a competitive edge that will only enhance our client's bargaining position. Other areas of expertise consist of commercial and residential real estate closings, including the representation of lenders in loan transactions and the representation of various national entities in leasing and sale transactions.
For more information on the services AGMB offers regarding commercial leasing transactions, please click on the "Leasing Transactions" link below.
AGMB offers a free lease analysis and consultation of your commercial lease and recent rent escalation statements, as well as other office, retail and industrial leasing concerns.
We are confident that as a consequence of wearing many different professional hats over the past 25 years-whether that of an owner, developer, asset manager, general counsel, accountant, broker, CEO or CAO-our team brings to the negotiating table a competitive edge that the challenging times necessitate and demand.
Please contact us for a free consultation to see if our personal and sensible approach is the right fit for your individual and business needs.
AGMB prides itself on providing its clients with the power to make knowledgeable decisions concerning their business and individual needs. As Larry Haber has sat on all sides of the commercial leasing negotiating table, we firmly believe that AGMB has an increased business understanding of the mindset of all parties to a transaction, and consequently, a competitive edge that will only enhance our client's bargaining position in securing favorable legal and business terms. Combining decades of commercial real estate ownership with professional backgrounds in law, accounting, finance, commercial brokerage, property management, planning and development firms, Larry and his AGMB team can be the difference in helping you navigate the challenging times that lie ahead in your life or business.
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When acquiring commercial real estate, the purchaser is essentially acquiring not only the physical property itself, but also the office, retail and/or industrial leases for such property. AGMB prides itself on performing comprehensive underwriting of a property's underlying leases during the due diligence period. In short, our primary objective is to put our clients in a position to make an informed and educated decision as to the viability of a potential acquisition.
Simultaneously with our formal review of the lease file, we prepare a lease abstract to fully summarize the financial, business, legal and technical terms of the lease, along with any unusual provisions. The lease abstract translates the comprehensive and convoluted terms from the lease into a concise and easy-to-read final product. The end result is a time-saving, customized tool that is designed to provide a convenient reference for a wide array of essential business activities. Whether used by your legal, accounting, property management, brokerage or administrative staff, AGMB strives to deliver an exceptional summary of the critical provisions of the lease to better enable your team to effectively and efficiently perform their duties.
An estoppel agreement summarizes the basic financial and business terms of a lease at a date certain, and potential problems between the parties (e.g., defaults) are often contained therein. Generally prepared in conjunction with a refinancing or a purchase, the agreement can be for the benefit of the lending institution, the owner, a prospective purchaser and/or a tenant.
Please know that our experienced team of professionals are available to prepare, negotiate and review estoppel certificates if the need arises.
With experience gathered from over 25 years of intimate exposure to leases, analyzed from many different professional perspectives, AGMB is well equipped to accurately and efficiently provide its clients the knowledge they need regarding how operating expenses and real estate taxes are impacting their lease. Our team is genuinely confident in our ability to convey to our clients a wealth of information, global perspective, and anecdotal tips about how operating expense escalations and real estate taxes influence how a lease functions and ultimately impacts a client's bottom line!
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Starting today, Newport Beach Restaurant Week will be in full swing. If you've ever wanted to try some of those popular Newport Beach restaurants, now is the time! This past Thursday I was invited to the media preview night at the beautiful Balboa Bay Resort (my first time there!) during sunset to get a glimpse of what's going to be released. With over 60 local restaurants participating, you know it's going to be good. There was even a special appearance from Mayor Diane Dixxon to welcome the Newport Beach restaurants for participating in Restaurant Week. Fresh sashimi from Sushi Roku, braised short ribs from Waterline, clam chowder from Fig & Olive, and ahi burgers from Lighthouse were among some of the media favorites from the night. Let's not forget the champagne, wine, and specialty cocktails. Of course, we had to also take some pictures at the photo booth - that's a must. Check out all the participating Newport Beach restaurants HERE. Newport Beach Restaurant Week 2016 will be going on from Monday, January 18th-Sunday, January 31st with special prix fixe lunch and dinner menus ranging from $10-$50. Now you have no excuse to dine Newport Beach. Go go go and get some!
***THANKS to Wagstaff Worldwide and the Dine Newport Beach team for such a tasty event!
Which restaurant are you curious to try? If you haven't tried Sushi Roku, you need to stat. Their albacore with crispy onions was oh-so-good, I went back for more and more after that! And bonus? It IS a part of their Newport Beach Restaurant Week 2016 special so check it out.