You may be wondering about the odd name for this website – allow us to explain!
FGSW started out chronicling K's efforts to lose weight and get out of debt. S was in the background helping out, but people came to know her just as well. After a while it just made sense that we talk about this journey together.
Kinda self-explanatory. We are overweight. Through the years we have gone through highs and lows with weight loss and we are working to change things.
Our focus isn't just a number on the scale, though, but we really want to be healthy so we can be the best for each other. Over the last few years we've faced a number of health challenges and we want to see how much losing weight will lessen these.
Because some people like numbers (K…cough…cough) we are approximating a combined loss of 250 lbs as our goal.
Another big discipline concern for us is eating out! We don't mean dining at 5-star restaurants, enjoying the finer things of life. K used to know the local chicken shack's phone number by heart! C'mon, who actually calls in an order at a chicken shack?!?!
A lot of times we justify it because one or both of us aren't up to fixing something to eat.
We have always had a budget on paper but never strictly followed it.
Did I mention that we have over $100,000 in total debt? Probably not!
So our goal is to take all of this money that was wasted eating out, and apply it to debt (and possibly a new wardrobe)!
We are Christians that want to honor God in all that we do. This means being good stewards of the bodies and the money that He has entrusted to us.
We also want to get out of debt so we can give more to support the work of our local church. So the more discipline we can develop when it comes to eating, spending, and losing weight, the sooner we can use our money to honor God!
Although we will be sharing a bit here, you can find us more consistently on other social media. K posts his stuff on Instagram. S posts on our fb page. We also have videos on YouTube!
We are counting on you to keep us on track! Are you ready?


Remembering Rabbi Alan Lew; a march of our own; protesters pollute the Mission; etc. – J.
Rabbi Alan Lew, the nationally influential rabbi of S.F.'s Congregation Beth Sholom, died 10 years ago this year.
Remembering Rabbi Alan Lew; a march of our own; protesters pollute the Mission; etc.
Those marchers were strengthening the ideology of the leaders in the front of the march whether they intended to or not. They should not have been there. They knew the leaders were neo-Nazis.
Neither should Jews march with leaders who support Louis Farrakhan or utter the tropes of anti-Semitic ideology. Jews don't belong there.
Yes, rabbi, try this alternative: On Jan. 19, Jews should march in a distinctly separate march. Then they can get their message across effectively and still preserve their dignity.
Newly elected Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) had every right to be sworn in with an oath on the Quran and to wear a traditional Palestinian dress. However, she missed the opportunity to use her newfound celebrity as a bridge for peacemaking efforts between Israelis and Palestinians. Instead, she has called for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel and allowed one of her guests to pin Palestine on the map on her wall in place of Israel, while not disavowing this hateful show of antagonism.
Hosting Linda Sarsour on her first day in office is yet another signal that Tlaib sees her role as a supporter of eradicating the sovereign Jewish State of Israel with no accountability for Palestinian responsibility, actions and terror. Israelis face attack tunnels, missiles and terrorists from Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon/Syria. Terror tunnels are another tactic to create havoc and destruction in Israel, along with Hamas attempts to break through the border fence.
Let us hope Democratic congressional leaders will distance themselves from the rookie errors Tlaib is making from the get-go. If she wants to build bridges with the majority in the Congress, she can exert better influence in cooperation with her colleagues who seek solutions for both Israelis and Palestinians. Tlaib's power and influence to help her Palestinian brethren can be put to positive action and reconciliation if she can transcend the slogans of hatred and dysfunctional self-delusion that have characterized Palestinian maximalism and have led to their own misery, isolation and self-destruction.
This is the 10th yahrzeit for Rabbi Alan Lew z"l, the most important and innovative Jewish leader I've ever known. He brought us back to Judaism and enriched our approach to prayer.
Before Rabbi Lew entered our lives, my husband Mark and I were irregular observers. In 1990, we moved to San Francisco and joined Congregation Beth Sholom. Rabbi Lew arrived two years later, and our religious rebirth began.
His Shabbat sermons captivated us with their symphonic symmetry. My Mondays began at 6 a.m. with his meditation, minyan, and a standing-room-only Torah study class. He inspired me to learn Torah trope. At age 61, I had my bat mitzvah, where I read and chanted about Korah, the rebel.
He was our Rock Star Rabbi with many personas: writer, Zen student, social activist. The rabbi's best and oldest friend was Norman Fischer, a Jewish Buddhist priest. They co-founded Makor Or, the first Jewish meditation group within a synagogue. I eagerly joined and became enriched by linking meditation with prayer.
This should be condemned as pernicious political polluting of public places. It is yet another example of disruptive activist bullying, priming the nation for much worse to come, if not stopped. Such behavior must receive maximum public opprobrium, via the three Ps: patronize, publicize, penalize.
May this new 2019 year find more of us reaching out across old boundaries in new ways, listening-to-learn, humanizing each other, even turning the "other" into a brother or sister — surely the life of the Shema.
The Z3 Conference held on Dec. 9 at the Palo Alto Oshman Family JCC was designed as a cooperative effort by Israeli and diaspora leading minds to identify, as far as Judaism is concerned, shared interests and goals of these two communities. One aspect that sounded wrongheaded was the suggestion by several panelists of a "reverse birthright," or visits by Israeli young people to America.
Just imagine: Israelis come here and visit our colleges and universities. While most have an Israel-supporting group, the number of students can rarely be counted on two hands. The boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, supported by Students for Justice in Palestine, is extremely visible and active on campuses. There is a group called J Street U on campuses, with a lot of Jewish students participating, that absolves Palestinians of any responsibility for their fate and blames Israel for all ills that have befallen them. The Israeli visitors return home and report their findings.
Visitors could notice one bright spot that does link the Jews of the USA and Israel, however, and it is the Ramah movement. Ramah counselors, American and Israeli, working together, engage campers in a meaningful and enjoyable experience of Jewish traditions, rituals and songs, along with sports, games, etc.
Still, our Israeli Birthright visitors may leave America in a rather pessimistic mood, since there is not much campus pushback against BDS, SJP and J Street U from either student bodies or administrations. So, "shared interests and goals," yes; but "a reverse birthright" — no, at least, not at this time.


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10 Fascinating Buildings Never Built
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This is a collection of 10 of the most intriguing buildings that never quite made it to fruition for one reason or another. I think most of the architects in this list would agree that "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry". For a larger view of each image, just click it and it will open in a new window. [JFrater: If you find this list especially interesting, I would recommend the excellent novel "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand which is based around architecture. You can buy it from Amazon.]
Hotel Attraction
Designed in 1908 for New York City
Hotel Attraction was to be the tallest building in New York at the time and was designed by architect Antoni Gaudi. The planned total height was 360 meters / 1181 ft and was probably unrealistic for its time. Little is known about the origins of Hotel Attraction and was unknown until 1956, when a report called "The New World Called Gaudí" was published.
Interesting Fact: The drawings by Gaudi of the Attraction Hotel had actually been proposed as a basis for the rebuilding of the Ground Zero project in Manhattan.
The Illinois
Designed in 1956 for Chicago Illinois
The Illinois was a proposed mile-high (1,609 meters/5,280 feet) skyscraper, envisioned by Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright believed that it would have been technically possible to construct such a building even at the time it was proposed. The design included 528 stories, with a gross area of 18.46 million square feet.
Interesting Fact: A number of problems occurred in Wright's design of The Illinois including space that was needed to service the elevators which would occupy all of the space available on the lower floors, thus defeating the purpose of the building's height.
Fourth Grace
Designed in 2002 for Liverpool England
Despite what many believe was the ugliest of all the proposals, architect Will Alsop entered the winning design for this project and named it "The Cloud". The projects name (Fourth Grace) is due to the development being located adjacent to the three historic buildings at the Pier Head site known as "The Three Graces". The project was cancelled in 2004 due to spiraling costs.
Interesting Fact: The Fourth Grace was designed for office space, a 107-room hotel and 50,000 sq ft of community facilities, including a bar, restaurant and viewing gallery.
Beacon of Progress
Designed around 1891 for Chicago Illinois
Plans called for a 457 meters / 1500 foot stone tower in Jackson Park, Chicago, on the site of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. French-born architect and MIT Professor Désiré Despradelle came up with the winning design. With more financial backing the structure would have been by far the tallest man-made object in the world.
Interesting Fact: The design called for an amphitheater at the base to seat 100,000 people and sweeping piers that would extend into Lake Michigan for regattas.
Ville Contemporaine
Designed in 1922 for Paris France
The Ville Contemporaine was to house three million inhabitants and was designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The centerpiece of this plan was the group of sixty-story skyscrapers built on steel frames and encased in huge curtain walls of glass. They housed both offices and the apartments of the most wealthy inhabitants. At the very center was a huge transportation center on different levels that would include depots for buses and trains, as well as highway and an airport at the top.
Interesting Fact: For a number of years French officials had been unsuccessful in dealing with the squalor of the growing Parisian slums, Le Corbusier thought this design was an efficient way to house large numbers of people in response to the urban housing crisis.
Tatlin's Tower
Designed around 1917 for St. Petersburg Russia
Tatlin's Tower would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The tower was to be built from industrial materials: iron, glass and steel. It was envisioned as a towering symbol of modernity. The tower's main form was a twin helix which spiraled up to 400 m/1312ft in height, where visitors would be transported around with the aid of various mechanical devices.
Interesting Fact: At the base of the structure was a rotating cube which was designed as a venue for lectures, conferences and legislative meetings. The cube would complete a rotation in the span of one year. Above that cube would be a smaller pyramid housing executive activities and completing a rotation once a month.
Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid
Designed in 2004 for Tokyo Japan
The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid was a proposed project for construction of a massive pyramid over Tokyo Bay in Japan. The structure would be 12 times higher than the Great Pyramid at Giza, and would house 750,000 people. It would be the largest man-made structure on Earth. The pyramid structure would be composed of 55 smaller pyramids stacked five high. Each of these smaller pyramids would be about the size of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.
Interesting Fact: The reason this project can not be built is the design of the Mega-City Pyramids relies on the future availability of super-strong lightweight materials that are currently unavailable.
Ultima Tower
Designed in 1991 for San Francisco California
This design is obviously more of a far fetched vision than a seriously considered project but I wanted to include it in this list because it's really cool. Architect Eugene Tsui originally conceived the idea of the Ultima Tower as part of a study of the compact urban area of San Francisco. The structure would utilize atmospheric energy conversion by converting the difference in atmospheric pressure at the top and bottom of the structure into electrical power. The Ultima Tower is 500 stories tall (two miles high) and is intended to house one million residents.
Interesting Fact: The structure's shape is modeled after the tallest structure not made by man– African termite nests.
Palace of Soviets
Designed in 1933 for Moscow Soviet Union
If the Palace of Soviets was built, it would have become the world's tallest structure. It was to be built on the site of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. A public international contest to design the Palace attracted 272 concepts from architects all over the world. The contest was won by Boris Iofan's who literally expressed the idea of "Lenin atop the skyscraper" in the most clear form.
Interesting Fact: Construction was actually started on this project in 1937 and was terminated because of the German invasion. In 1942 its steel frame was disassembled for use in fortifications and bridges. Also: The Cathedral was rebuilt in 1995-2000.
Volkshalle (The Great Dome)
Designed around 1930 for Berlin Germany
The Volkshalle (People's Hall), was a huge monumental building planned by Adolf Hitler and his architect Albert Speer. It was to be the capital's most important and impressive building in terms of its size and symbolism and the architectural centerpiece of Berlin. Thankfully the Great Dome was never built due to the break out of the war.
Interesting Fact: What makes the Volkshalle even more interesting is the illustration plans (pictured above) show a pedestal with the Nazi eagle figure. The eagle along with the pedestal and just the right shadowing gives an illusion in the form of Hitler's face and is believed designed to appear only at a particular time of the year.
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Q: QSqlDatabase can't be removed - Queries still active I started with c++ QT recently.
I created class "ControllerOfDB" to hold pointer to my QSqlDatabase and few functions (to make inserts/selects).
Example select function:
QList<data1> GetData1()
{
  QList<data1> output;

  if(!dataBase->isOpen())
      dataBase->open();
  if(dataBase->isOpen())
  {
    QSqlQuery* query = new QSqlQuery(*dataBase);
    query->prepare("SELECT * FROM table1");
    if(query->exec())
    while (query->next())
    {

        output.append( *(new data1(
                               query->value(0).toInt(),
                               query->value(1).toString(),
                               query->value(2).toInt(),
                               query->value(3).toInt(),
                               query->value(4).toInt(),
                               ))  );
    }
    query->clear();
    query->finish();
    delete query;
  }

  return output;
}

It was all working fine, until i had to add possibility to change db or login as different user. I modified Connect and Disconnect function. After few iterrations, this is what i get:
void Connect()
{
    dataBase = new QSqlDatabase(QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QPSQL", "Main"));

    dataBase->setHostName(hostName);
    dataBase->setPort(port);
    dataBase->setDatabaseName(dbName);
    dataBase->setUserName(userName);
    dataBase->setPassword(userPass);

    if(!dataBase->isOpen())
        dataBase->open();
}

 void Disconnect()
 {
    if(dataBase != NULL)
      if(dataBase->isOpen()){
        dataBase->close();
        dataBase->removeDatabase("Main");
        dataBase = NULL;
      }
 }

hostName, port, dbName, userName and userPass are also attributes of that class.
public:
  QSqlDatabase *dataBase;
  QString hostName;
  int port;
  QString dbName;
  QString userName;
  QString userPass;

whenever i try to diconnect and create new connection i recieve warnings/errors about queries of my current connections - even if i only "connected" ( = used function Connect() ).
I already saw few similar topics and documentation for it, saying i have to remove queries from scope, but at this point i don't know how.

A: when you look at QSqlDatabase document, the method removeDatabase is static, so your method Disconnect logic should be like:
void Disconnect()
{
    if(dataBase != NULL) {
        if(dataBase->isOpen()){
            dataBase->close();
        }
        delete dataBase;
        dataBase = NULL;
    }
    QSqlDatabase::removeDatabase("Main");
}

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A survey amongst teens has shed some light on the fight against teens drinking and driving when conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The survey known as the Youth Risk Behaviour Survey highlighted teens between the ages of 16 years old and older has shown that because of the pressure applied by schools and other local agencies the decrease of teens drinking and driving has gone down by 54% over the past 11 years. The study also was able to conclude that more teens are participating in binge drinking even though the survey showed a decrease. There are also nearly eighty-five percent of those same high school teens who openly admitted to participating in binge drinking.
What does this conclude? It concludes that teens are openly engaging in activity which could result in addiction later on in life. It also tells us that drug rehab is now busier than ever.
If you know someone or you yourself suffer from a drinking problem or drug problem, you could benefit from a drug rehab program. A rehab program is able to place a spot light on the area where the problem exist and works to make a plan on how to help you to learn to exist without those same drugs or alcohol.
A comprehensive rehab program is going to allow you time to work through the withdrawal of the symptoms that come with drinking and doing drugs. It will then move on to setting up a goal plan that includes extensive therapy sessions. In these therapy sessions, you and other members will engage in open conversation about what has led you down the path that you are on. It will help you to learn coping skills to overcome those fears and move on to a healthier lifestyle.
There are a number of drug rehabilitation centers which include other activities as well such as yoga, cooking and eating healthier meals, music therapy and many more fun activities. What this teaches to its patients is that when you are busy, you have less time to spend on drinking and doing drugs.
There is no set type of individual who cannot benefit from the use of rehab. It does not matter if you suffer from a slight addiction to a drug or have an addiction that has impacted your life for many years. Let's face it, the truth is that an addiction is still an addiction. It does not matter if you are a local member of society or even a celebrity. All patients are treated the same and will be expected to participate in all activities surrounding the overcoming of your addiction problem.
There are more celebrities participating in addiction and recovery programs each and every year because of the amount of people who have succumbed to their addiction. They are noticing the importance of recovery and how they are impacting those who love them and care for them. When you suffer from addiction, it is not just you who suffer but also those around you. That is why it is so important to participate in a rehabilitation program.


The aim of this study is to assess the impact of immigrants on the development of Mankweng community. The units of analysis are the immigrants in Mankweng township and the residents who are affected by the presence of the immigrants. This was a qualitative case study. The researcher used purposive sampling method to select the participants. Two interview guides were used; one for immigrants (guide A) and the other for the residents (guide B). In-depth interviews were conducted with the respondents. The findings revealed that immigrants left their home countries because of factors such as poor economic conditions and political violence. There is evidence to suggest that good governance and a favorable political climate has made South Africa a high ranking receiving country. According to this study, immigrants are blamed for unemployment and crime in Mankweng township. However, the study also shows that immigrants do not wait for jobs to be created for them. They are self employed and hard-working. Immigrants who own businesses hire local residents. The study further suggests that xenophobic attacks on immigrants can be reduced by educating the residents about the creation of jobs. Recommendations from the study include the formulation of more policies that will regulate migration. Evidently existing policies have loopholes as the immigrants find it easy to get into the country. The study also suggests that there is a dire need for the government to fund the acquisition of rare and critical skills such as in the sciences like computer technicians. The study also recommends that the youth must be encouraged to start their own businesses. Co-development systems with the sending countries must be put in place to attract the most skilled immigrants to come. As such, incentives such as housing allowance or immigrants' allowance should be given to those who are contributing to the economic development to stay longer. Partnership programs must be formed with sending countries to discourage future immigration movements of unskilled immigrants. Lastly, the study recommends that law enforcement at the border gates must be strict, so that illegal immigrants do not enter the country.


The goons out at Occupy Denver are back at it, demonstrating an extreme lack of intelligence and decorum, all behind the guise of free speech. Free speech to this bunch seems to mean that 'we don't possess the multi-syllabic ability to form coherent thoughts or sentences, so we sink to the lowest common denominator of speech'.
That's just a rough translation that I pulled from my Moron-English dictionary. Pocket version.
"If you want to act like grownups," Stokols told the adult adolescents, "then we can have a conversation." Unfortunately the reporter uses the "F" word as he vainly attempts to educate the leftists.
It's hard to blame the movement for being all kinds of disheveled, not having a clear message, and randomly attacking newsmen on the street. They did after all, elect Shelby the border collie as their leader. Please click on the link if you think I'm kidding. I had a chance to interview Shelby over the phone for comment on the incident. She simply yelled "Bacon!" and proceeded to lick herself.


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From 16 to 23 April Opinionated About Dining is coming to the UK, with a host of pop-ups and chef collaborations and the 100+ European Best Restaurants list.
Opinionated About Dining has an impressive spread of events to tempt London food lovers out to dinner in the capital from 16 to 23 April. From pop-up restaurants to unique chef collaborations this is one week you won't want to miss out on.
With a packed week-long agenda of 8 dinners and 2 lunches, an impressive 38 chefs will descend on the capital to cook. The crowning glory being the announcement of OAD's Top 100+ European Restaurants Announcement on 23 April followed by a themed dinner: The Great Roast.
A host of Britain's finest chefs plus a selection of Europe's most respected will be in town to cook the elaborate multi course menu dinner of langoustines, lamb, chicken and duck plus a trolley service of 30-day aged prime beef served with all the trimmings. Tickets are £400, but it's a unique chance to try the food of so many chefs at one sitting.
British chefs participating at the banquet include Isaac McHale (The Clove Club), James Knappett (Kitchen Table), Merlin Labron-Johnson (Clipstone and Portland), Simon Rogan (L'Enclume, Aulis and Roganic) and Stephen Harris (The Sportsman) whilst Alain Weissgerber (Taubenkobel), Angel Leon (Aponiente), Bjorn Frantzen (Restaurant Frantzen), Christian Bau (Victor's Fine Dining by Christian Bau), Jonnie Boer (De Librije), Kobe Desramaults (Chambre Séparée) and Poul Andrias Ziska (Koks) will be representing the best of Europe's fine-dining scene.
A number of other exciting events are planned including Japan meets Iceland, an evening of wagyu beef tasting and the New to the List Dinner where 13 of Europe's top chefs cook the future of European cuisine.
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Hey Guys ! I just started with another Blog @rahasyawrites (https://rahasyawrites.wordpress.com/ ) which will all be about, Travel, Living, Experience and Feeling. Would request you all to go through it once, whenever you feel like.
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So yup, today the challenge ends. And after digging a lot, here, I present you my last quote for this challenge.
My friend SOMYA ARORA, had invited me to be a part of this three day quote challenge.
This quote comes from real intellectual brains. Frustration and failure accompany stress and depression. Which results in a person, losing faith in his own existence.
But, if we view positively, then we see that, there's more to life.
Next time you are a bit depressed, try doing Buddhist chanting. I swear, it helps loads. The background music being sober of Monk Mantras, the vibration created due to the Tibetan bowl, the voice of chanters in unison. The aroma of the scented candles. The setting up of a calm atmosphere. The experience is way too amazing.
Okay ! So I end here peeps. And just re-read the above para by feeling every word. That will be enough to calm you at this hour of stress. Feel every word. I would elaborate it someday later in my diary. The secret is really worth knowing. Till then, I am heading to my chanting classes.
One failure may break us, but several activities can build us. Like, one may go horse riding, or pet a dog, or maybe learn some skill like swimming, or probably have sober parties with genuine people. This reminds me. A very drastic effect on the way of our living depends on the type of people we hang out with.
All that's deep psychology which I use on my friends, and honestly it helps. I guess, I find solace in changing the decisions of people from worse to good.
Take care and lots of love to all my readers.
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For the bank holiday weekend we were at Oulton Park for round three of the season where we got off to a quick start after being there for the official BSB test the previous week. We both had bits and pieces to work on during the practice session on Saturday including the bike set-up and our performance.
Qualifying one was meant to be the only dry session we had to qualify for the grid and as Saturday afternoon approached it began raining meaning that we only had the beginning couple of laps to piece together a strong lap time. We decided to go for dry tyres for both of the bikes and went out for the session knowing we only had a handful of laps before the rain got too heavy. Unfortunately Kurt had a stroke of bad luck as he first of all missed the chicane taking to the grass before crashing out when braking at the end of the back straight due to the slippery surface; however, he remained in 27th at the end of Q1. Matt managed to have a good run and ended the session on a high in 14th place.
Sundays Q2 didn't go to plan as the forecast predicted rain all day but by dinnertime the sun was out and the track had dried up leaving a blank slate for qualifying. We both continued to improve our lap times throughout the session but overall losing a few places each putting us back to 20th for Matt and 30th for Kurt leaving him with a lot of work for Mondays race.
We both had a great start to the race with Matt immediately jumping up to 16th by the end of the first lap. Kurt ran off the circuit during the first couple of laps putting him back a few places but once he got into a rhythm he managed to work his way up through the pack setting his new personal best lap time which was a second faster than qualifying and completed the race in 23rd. Matt on the other hand had his stroke of bad luck for the weekend during the beginning stages of the race and dropped back to 22nd by the end as he had difficulties with his contact lenses.


This week Lee, Kaydee, not Matt, Ethan, Allie, and Rod sit down to chat about the revival of canceled shows, awesome Kickstarters, Goosebumps, whether the internet is forever, and much more!
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National Labor Relations Board headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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Labor Board Will Offer Buyouts, Slim Down Agency Staff
By Hassan A. Kanu
Board will offer buyouts, early retirement to certain employees
Office of Personnel Management has approved the moves
The National Labor Relations Board will soon offer buyouts and early retirement to eligible staffers in its regional offices and headquarters in Washington, D.C., according to an agency e-mail obtained by Bloomberg Law.
The move is likely to continue or accelerate the board's trend toward a smaller footprint. Congress hasn't increased the NLRB's funding in at least four years, and agency staff has decreased significantly through attrition since 2002. The agency's Republican leadership has been operating under an effective hiring freeze.
The federal labor board safeguards employees' rights to organize and decide whether to have a union in their workplace. It also adjudicates unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions. The board's roughly 26 regional offices are another avenue for businesses, unions, or individual workers to seek a remedy for unfair workplace practices.
The agency cut "nearly 20% of its field staff" in recent years to make ends meet, according to its employees' union. There are currently about 200 vacancies in its field offices, including some large regional offices that are without a director—such as Region 1, in Boston. Staffers in that office are currently overseen by and reporting to the regional director in Buffalo, N.Y.
The NLRB didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The board is in the "final planning stages for the offering of the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA) and Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment (VSIP) Authority programs," according to the e-mail announcement sent late June 21. The Office of Personnel Management has already authorized the VERA request, which was initially filed by former NLRB chairman Philip Miscimarra (R) and former General Counsel Richard Griffin.
Federal agencies that are downsizing or restructuring can offer buyouts and "early outs" to eligible employees. The early out program expands retirement eligibility to certain employees in particular position grades. The government's VSIP buyout program allows the agency to offer up to $25,000 for voluntary retirement.
To contact the reporter on this story: Hassan A. Kanu in Washington at hkanu@bloomberglaw.com
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Chris Opfer at copfer@bloomberglaw.com
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UPDATE: The black Magical Kyoto tunics are now on general release!
There was so much love for the black version of the pattern when I posted it on Facebook and Instagram that it just had to be made!
When I was first designing the pattern, like all designs, it went through various versions. The design started as a development of the cherry blossom watch (now sold out). First I made a pattern with just cherry blossom branches. I tried out various sizes, but it looked too floral for my liking, so I expanded the design with elements from a Japanese garden: bridges, teahouses and stone lanterns, and torii gates because I love the shape.
Ever since I visited to Kyoto I wanted to create a design inspired by the elegance of traditional Japan. While it's modern Japan that stole my heart, the traditional side of the culture is beautiful in its simplicity and balance, and I know it's what draws a lot of people to the country. This design is a celebration of the beauty of historic Japan, and Magical Kyoto was the perfect name! You can see my adventures in Kyoto on YouTube – my favourite was Fushimi Inari with the thousands of red gates going all the way up a mountain.
They're in production right now and will be ready early September 2017. Pre-orders will be send out as soon as they're ready. You'll receive an email notification when yours is on its way. After that they'll be on general release in the shop.
The tunic tops are available in UK sizes 6 to 20. Chest measurements are in the shop if you're not familiar with UK sizes. The sizing's the same as the dresses – a little on the small side, so if you're between sizes (particularly for the smaller sizes) or large in the chest I'd recommend choosing the larger size. The tunics are fitted at the chest and flare out at the hips, and look perfect with leggings and shorts.
The original, white version of the tunic is still available. Both versions will continue to be on general release, so you have the choice of black or white.
If you get one, remember to tag Cakes with Faces in a photo (Facebook, Twitter or Instagram) – I always love seeing your pics!
There's a collection of your photos on Pinterest – it makes me so happy to look through them all, so if I've missed yours just send me a message!


Find Puar, Yamcha's best friend, in Dragon Ball plush of 28 cm. Puar is the inseparable and devoted companion of the young man. A very cute and small animal between squirrel and cat that can float!
The Faithful Companion Puar Plush is officially licensed Dragon Ball Z merchandise. You can be confident that it will be of the highest quality and give you that warm, fuzzy feeling that only comes from supporting the creators.
The Faithful Companion Puar Plush has been hand selected by the Merchoid team, to bring you the highest quality merchandise. We're sure you'll love it, that's why we give you 100 days to return your item.


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The Baby Handed To US Forces During Kabul Chaos Is Missing, Family Says
Nov 6, 2021 Baby, Chaos, Family, Forces, Handed, Kabul, Missing
The baby seen handed to U.S. forces in a viral video during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan is currently missing, the child's family told Reuters.
A viral video taken during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan shows a man handing a baby off to U.S. soldiers outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The soldiers appear to take the baby from the man and lift the child over the wall and into the airport.
The child's parents, Mirza Ali Ahmadi and his wife Suraya, say they have not seen their son, named Sohail, since the video was taken, Reuters reported. Mirza Ali, who worked as a security guard for the U.S. embassy in Kabul, told the outlet he was separated from his child moments after the video was taken due to Taliban soldiers pushing the crowd away from the airport fence.
#Afghanistan WATCH: A small, crying baby was passed over razor wire into the hands of a United States soldier guarding Kabul airport on Thursday. pic.twitter.com/eveNOewsDz
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) August 20, 2021
Once inside the airport, Mirza Ali told Reuters he could not find his son, and that he searched the airport with a U.S. official to no avail.
"I spoke to maybe more than 20 people," Mirza Ali told the outlet. "Every officer – military or civilian – I came across I was asking about my baby."
When reached for comment, a State Department spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the U.S. government is aware of the situation and is exploring all possible ways to find the child, including through international amber alerts issued by the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
"Unfortunately no one can find the child," a U.S. official familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The Ahmadi family is now living in Fort Bliss, Texas, and waiting to be resettled in the U.S., according to Reuters.
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Q: Python Spyder stops responding I have Spyder 2.3.8 that I installed with Anaconda.
Python version is 2.7.11, conda version is 4.0.5.
I have found that some types of code make the Spyder editor stop responding. One example is the line:
x = b'\x89\x50\x4E\x47\x0D\x0A\x1A\x0A'

I assume this is a valid python code. I am relatively new to Python, so please correct me if I am wrong here. I tried in on a terminal on the Python shell and it works.
Another very strange example is
png = 'oxy.png'

f = open(png, 'rb')
f.read(10) # That executes without any problems
f.close()

f = open(png, 'rb')
x = f.read(10) # this line makes Spyder freeze!
f.close()

The only difference here is that I assign f.read() to a variable, and that makes Spyder stop responding!
I just updated Spyder and all other anaconda packages. The error was happening before and it still happens. Any idea of what I could be doing wrong, or what could I try?
EDIT: There was this other part of the question which has been explained already (thanks!)
I also tried to run the following example I found on the internet:
name = input("What is your name? ")
print("Nice to meet you " + name + "!")

This example gives me an exception. Here is the full output:
name = input("What's your name? ")
print("Nice to meet you " + name + "!")

What is your name? sininho
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<ipython-input-1-e82cc0e3f7a3>", line 1, in <module>
    name = input("What's your name? ")

  File "/scr/elbe9/pauline/physio/program/python_libraries/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipykernel/ipkernel.py", line 165, in <lambda>
    builtin_mod.input = lambda prompt='': eval(self.raw_input(prompt))

  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>

NameError: name 'sininho' is not defined

A: In Python 2, the input() function executes the code you type in. To get q string, use raw_input() function which works the same way.


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October School 2020 Digital
WRONGING RIGHTS: CHALLENGING HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGH CULTURE
SEPTEMBER 28 TO OCTOBER 3, 202O
The October School offers the unique opportunity to interact with international peers on contemporary global issues and to build up an enduring network of contacts around the world.
The current pandemic is raising awarness of basic civil rights. The extraordinary circumstances may be used and misused by authorities to violate civil rights. The fear of falling back into bad and hard times is real – not only in South Africa with its apartheid past. While the popular slogan "Freedom on Hold" has spread over generations, an insidious or dark side of state control is becoming apparent. Those of us who have lived through authoritarian regimes in the past immediately understand, how dangerous such repressive circumstances can become for the pursuit of freedom.
The October School offers the unique opportunity to interact with international peers on contemporary global issues and to build up an enduring network of contacts around the world. Students get a deep understanding of the approaches and methods of contemporary public art not only on a theoretical but also on a practical level. It will substantially influence their future artistic practice and their life as a citizen. This years October School is conducted equally by the member institutions of InOctober in Mexico, Ecuador, South Africa, Switzerland, India and Japan. Every university of art contributes out of their local perspective one day to the condensed week of October School.
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 (General Assembly resolution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected and it has been translated into over 500 languages.


I have absolutely no problem waiting my turn in line as protocol dictates. However, I seriously have a problem when it seems that my time is frivolously squandered away by those to whom I as a customer depend on for service. Even worse is when I have a million things to do in a short space of time.
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I didn't think it was that funny.
I started working at as an actor at age four and was in several popular films throughout my 18-year career. I was recognized frequently, but the problem was that getting recognized gave me panic attacks. Starting at age 14, there had been mobbing and grabbing and cameras shoved in my face. Maybe that kind of thing looks glamorous from the outside, but to me, it felt like a nightmare. It left me gasping for air, feeling like I was having a heart attack.
So, I would panic whenever I had to leave my house, because I feared being recognized. I was terrified of the attention.
As you can imagine, this is a really poor affliction to have as an actor.
By the time I was in my mid-20s, I realized I had no passion for my job, so I retired from my acting career and left Los Angeles. I had seen too many of my peers spiral into very dark places and I didn't want to become the stereotypical child actor train wreck.
To my dismay, the panic attacks followed me all the way to my new home in Virginia. Now, they had another layer of anxiety to them: I had no clue what I was doing with my life.
I had spent my entire conscious existence working and never considered a path other than being an actor. The mere thought of my future made me burst into tears. I didn't know if I could survive in the real world when all I had known was the film industry — I hadn't even had time to get a high school diploma. Who the hell was I without movies?
So, I went to therapy, like all former child actors should. My therapist suggested I try meditation and sent me home with stacks of books and the instructions to just sit there and breathe. I wasn't sure how doing nothing would help with the fact that I had no goals, plans or skills. It seemed like nothing was exactly the problem in the first place.
My entire career was based on the fact that I could let my mind run away with me. In one TV movie in particular, it was my job to make the audience believe that my computerized house was trying to kill me, so I needed to dive into that absurd thought and simply let my body and mind react accordingly. But sitting here, on this meditation cushion, I finally realized that if I could see my thoughts, bouncing off the walls and making a mess of things, that I, the real I, must be something other than that.
So, who is it that is looking at my thoughts? Could that consciousness be in charge, instead of giving all the control to a mind that tended to run in terrified circles like a deranged rabbit?
Sadly, that realization didn't immediately change my brain into a peaceful and loving entity. It just meant that every awful thing possible came up. Every terrible emotion that I wished would stay lurking under the bed showed up and got in my face, telling me that I was a failure and that I would never do anything worthwhile again. It pitied me and pointed out all the other people in the world who understood how to do this "life" thing.
I'd stop and take a deep breath. It's okay, I'd tell the scared girl curled up on the floor. Just breathe. Everything is as it should be.
The nature of the search for a deeper understanding of oneself is both inherently natural and completely self-involved. It's exhausting. This self-reflection can leave you sweating and swearing and chewing your toenails if you are not prepared for it. It's easy to call this navel-gazing and self-obsession, but it seems more selfish to just wander through life and not take some time to think about what you want your contribution to be.
I wanted to live life with intention and passion, not just momentum.
Eventually, I detoxed Hollywood out of my system. I learned how joyful life could be when I was not desperately striving for the next big thing. I sat with the cruel thoughts that tormented me and the uncomfortable unknown. I acknowledged all that had come before and surrendered to all that lay ahead. Everyday, I sat in stillness and simply accepted everything that was.
Meditation, and later yoga, cleared a space for me where I could try to really see my life. When I quit acting, I could finally stop pretending. I practiced presence and gratitude and somehow the panic attacks melted away. I didn't worry so much about other people recognizing me, I just needed to make sure I could recognize my true self.
The whole world cracked open. In some inexplicable way, sitting in stillness connected me to everyone else.
In practicing radical acceptance and surrender, I joined the rest of the world and I began to wake up. When I looked ahead, life still seemed uncertain and kind of empty. But the emptiness had an increasingly appealing, simple feel to it, like a lovely empty bowl.
In all that nothingness I saw possibility. And that was the most beautiful thing I could imagine.
Lisa Jakub is a writer. She got tired of being called "That Girl From Mrs. Doubtfire", so she retired from acting to be a yogi, a traveler, a wife and a dog-mom. You can read more from her at LisaJakub.net, and follow her on Facebook or Twitter.


Built in 1854, during a time of great prosperity, the majestic Corn Hall in Diss was the at the town's social and cultural heart for more than a century.
Now, after a major year-long refurbishment, the venue has just re-opened, announcing a fantastic programme of film, music, theatre, comedy and literary events to mark the new era in its history.
The Diss Corn Hall Trust – a charitable arts trust – was set up in 2009 to breathe new life into the old building, which had been closed for some years. Within a year, it reopened its doors as an exciting arts venue and audiences have grown from 3,000 to 30,000 a year. The first gig was a student band from Diss High School with a young acoustic guitarist called Ed Sheeran as its support act.
As part of a major multi-million pound heritage project in the town, the Corn Hall was closed once more in 2015. This time, however, it was to build on the success of the Diss Corn Hall Trust and to enable work to begin to transform it to its former glory and add a state-of-the-art extension to creating a vibrant hub for the whole community attracting a world-class programme of events.
The old trading hall, now the auditorium, has retractable seating and modern under floor heating, two studio spaces, and an expanded gallery with a new bar, run by Grain brewery of Alburgh, and a café under the wing of Fredricks Fine Foods of Diss.
Among the first events announced are the Diss Jazz Club; historian, writer and commentator David Starkey; poet Luke Wright; a beer, gin and rum festival and live screenings from the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House.
Comedian, writer and television panellist Shappi Khorsandi brings her spring tour to the Corn Hall on May 25 with her new show 'Oh My Country!' From Morris Dancing To Morrissey' celebrating the 40th anniversary of her arrival in Britain from Iran. Her book – A Beginner's Guide To Acting English – tells the story of her life as a young girl arriving in England. Does she think it would be a very different experience today?
"I think people are exactly the same," she says. "Social media can make us feel hostility is more rife, but idiots have always been idiots. The majority of people, even if they don't get all their facts right, are kind to each other.


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SpaceX sets new mark in rocket reuse 10 years after first Falcon 9 launch
June 4, 2020 Stephen Clark
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 9:25 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0125 GMT Thursday) from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with 60 more Starlink Internet satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now
On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Falcon 9 rocket's debut flight, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral with a reused first stage Wednesday, then landed the previously-flown booster for a record fifth time after sending 60 more Starlink Internet satellites into space.
The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9:25 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0125 GMT Thursday).
Nine Merlin 1D engines lit the sky orange as the Falcon 9 rocket climbed into an overcast sky over Florida's Space Coast with 1.7 million pounds of ground-shaking thrust. Two-and-a-half minutes later, the first stage turned off its engines and dropped away to head for a pinpoint touchdown on SpaceX's offshore landing platform, or drone ship.
The rocket's upper stage fired into orbit with the 60 Starlink satellites, and then released all of the flat-panel spacecraft at one time around 15 minutes after liftoff in a preliminary elliptical orbit. The satellites were expected to deploy their solar arrays and spread out before beginning orbit-raising maneuvers to enter SpaceX's Starlink constellation around 341 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth.
The launch Wednesday came a little more than four days after SpaceX's previous launch from the Florida spaceport.
A different Falcon 9 rocket took off Saturday from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center — a few miles north of pad 40 — with SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station. The launch Saturday was the first time astronauts flew into orbit from U.S. soil since the final liftoff of the space shuttle program July 8, 2011.
Hurley and Behnken docked with the space station aboard their Crew Dragon capsule Sunday, and the Falcon 9 booster that carried them aloft returned to Port Canaveral Tuesday after landing on SpaceX's ocean-going rocket recovery vessel named "Of Course I Still Love You."
SpaceX's other rocket retrieval drone ship, named "Just Read the Instructions," was dispatched into the Atlantic Ocean before the other landing platform made it back to the Florida Coast with the booster from the Crew Dragon launch.
The drone ship Just Read the Instructions, or JRTI, was used for a rocket landing off Florida's coast for the first time Wednesday night, following a transit from California after supporting a series of Falcon 9 missions from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the primary launch site on the U.S. West Coast.
After detaching from the Falcon 9's upper stage and the rocket's payload stack of 60 Starlink spacecraft, the 15-story-tall first stage booster maneuvered using thrusters to fly tail first, extended four stabilizing aerodynamic grid fins, and plunged back into the thick, lower atmosphere.
An entry burn using three of the first stage's Merlin engines helped target the booster for landing on the drone ship, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean roughly 230 miles (370 kilometers) east of Charleston, South Carolina. The rocket's center engine fired just before reaching the vessel, and four carbon fiber landing legs extended as the booster touched down on the drone ship.
With the entry into service of a second drone ship in Florida, SpaceX can remove one hurdle to achieving a faster cadence of missions from its two launch pads on the Space Coast.
The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage used on tonight's launch has landed on SpaceX's drone ship "Just Read the Instructions" in the Atlantic Ocean.
This marks the first time a Falcon 9 booster has successfully launched and landed five times. https://t.co/MD92AjUx23 pic.twitter.com/gy70hezt1J
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) June 4, 2020
Wednesday night's launch of 60 more Starlink satellites was delayed from last month after Tropical Storm Arthur brought high winds and rough seas to the downrange recovery area northeast of Cape Canaveral in the Atlantic Ocean, where SpaceX's drone ship needed to be positioned for landing of the Falcon 9's first stage booster.
SpaceX decided to use the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You — originally deployed into the Atlantic for the Starlink launch — to recover the Falcon 9 first stage from the Crew Dragon mission.
With a single operational drone ship, SpaceX would require more than a week between Falcon 9 flights from different pads at Cape Canaveral, and still be able to retrieve both boosters for future flights. With two drone ships, SpaceX has demonstrated the capability to launch two Falcon 9 rockets from Florida and recover both boosters in a span of four days.
Two additional SpaceX vessels were in the Atlantic Ocean for Wednesday night's launch to attempt to catch the two halves of the Falcon 9 rocket's payload fairing, the aerodynamic shroud the shields satellites during the first few minutes of flight. Once in space, the Falcon 9 sheds the fairing halves to fall back to Earth with the aid of parafoils.
SpaceX has two ships equipped with giant nets to try to catch the fairings as they come back to Earth.
The booster and fairing recovery efforts pursued by SpaceX are unique the launch industry, and SpaceX made it a reality after a series of trial-and-error experiments and step-by-step redesigns of the Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket on a test flight 10 years ago Thursday from pad 40, the same launch complex that served as the departure point for Wednesday night's mission.
Spaceflight Now covered the first Falcon 9 launch in 2010. Read our story from that day.
SpaceX's first Falcon 9 rocket took off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on June 4, 2010, carrying a mock-up of the company's Dragon cargo capsule. Credit: SpaceX
The launch Wednesday night marked the 86th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket since its debut in June 2010, and the ninth Falcon 9 launch so far in 2020.
While the Falcon 9 still uses the same fundamental launch architecture as the first version of the rocket in 2010, SpaceX has revamped numerous technological details. For example, the Falcon 9's Merlin engines have gone through multiple upgrades to produce more thrust, and SpaceX stretched the length of the rocket's kerosene and liquid oxygen propellant tanks to gain performance.
When those upgrades proved not enough, SpaceX began loading liquid propellants into the Falcon 9 that are chilled closer to their freezing temperature. The change, known as propellant densification, allowed engineers to cram more propellants into the Falcon 9 to further improve its lift capacity.
There have also been changes to make the Falcon 9 reliable enough to carry astronauts, as the rocket did for the first time Saturday. And SpaceX has redesigned parts of the rocket's helium pressurization system to address the causes of two catastrophic failures — one in flight in 2015 and another on the launch pad in 2016 — that destroyed a pair of Falcon 9 rockets and their payloads.
But the most dramatic change to the Falcon 9's design since 2010 has been in how SpaceX lands and reuses the first stage boosters.
SpaceX originally hoped to use a parachute to slow down returning rocket boosters for a gentle splashdown at sea. When that didn't work, engineers devised a way to land the rocket vertically using variable thrust from the booster's throttleable Merlin engines.
In some cases, when a satellite payload is light enough, the Falcon 9 first stage carries enough reserve propellant to reverse course and return to an onshore landing pad near the launch site. In cases where a payload is heavier, or if a satellite needs more energy from the Falcon 9 to go to a more distant orbit, the Falcon 9 booster arcs toward a landing on a downrange drone ship after releasing the rocket's upper stage to continue the push into space.
Avoiding a splashdown in the ocean ensures sensitive engine components are not exposed to corrosive salt water, easing refurbishment and reuse.
SpaceX installed landing lets, aerodynamic fins and a heat shield on Falcon 9 boosters to make the recovery experiments a success. The company first recovered a Falcon 9 first stage intact on a land-based pad in December 2015, then successfully landed on a drone ship at sea for the first time in April 2016.
With Wednesday night's booster landing, SpaceX has recovered 53 Falcon rockets, including boosters used on the company's triple-body Falcon Heavy launcher.
The achievements have allowed SpaceX to reduce its launch costs — in some cases below $50 million — and caused rival launch providers to change plans, cut prices, and develop new rockets to try to compete with the Falcon 9.
SpaceX has won commercial business that previously went to international launch companies, and the company is now certified to launch NASA astronauts and sensitive U.S. military satellites.
Although SpaceX's relatively low launch prices compared to competitors has lured customers from around the world, the bulk of the Falcon 9 flights in recent months have been dedicated to the company's own satellite constellation.
The Starlink fleet could eventually number tens of thousands of satellites to beam broadband Internet services to customers lacking reliable, high-speed connectivity via terrestrial networks. Designed for low-latency broadband links, the Starlink network could be used by rural customers, support schools, hospitals and businesses in developing countries, and provide service to the U.S. military.
Starlink deployment confirmed! This video from aboard the Falcon 9 upper stage shows the release of retention rods holding the Starlink broadband satellites on the rocket.
That allowed the 60 flat-panel satellites to fly free of the launcher in orbit.https://t.co/MD92AjUx23 pic.twitter.com/RbKex5FTev
With Wednesday's flight, SpaceX has launched 480 Starlink satellites on eight dedicated Falcon 9 missions since May 2010.
SpaceX aims to launch around 1,000 more Starlink satellites later this year and next year to begin offering worldwide Internet service. Initial beta testing of the Starlink network could begin later this year, beginning in higher latitude regions like Canada and the northern United States, the company says.
Thousands more Starlink spacecraft could launch in the coming years to meet global demand, according to SpaceX.
A new sunshade to reduce the brightness of the Starlink satellites was also due to be demonstrated on one of the spacecraft on Wednesday night's launch. The umbrella-like visor will block sunlight from reaching the shiniest parts of the flat-panel spacecraft, making them less visible from the ground.
Scientists have raised concerns that thousands of Starlink satellites — as envisioned by SpaceX — could impact astronomical observations through ground-based telescopes. So far, SpaceX has answered with an experimental darkening treatment that offered some reduction in visibility, and the company says it is changing the orientation of the Starlink satellites during the period shortly after launch to turn their solar panels away from the sun.
The sunshade should provide a more significant dimming effect, SpaceX says.
With Wednesday night's mission in the books, SpaceX plans two more Falcon 9 launches later this month from pad 40 and pad 39A to deliver more Starlink satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral. SpaceX is also gearing up for the launch of a U.S. military GPS navigation satellite from pad 40 no earlier than June 30.
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There are many physical ailments that deserve human energy and enterprise to overcome, but when it comes to research on mental issues, often our public consciousness can't hold enough sympathy for the afflicted.
But depression affects one in 10 adults each year, and the World Health Organization has said it is the leading cause of disability worldwide — while it may not afflict us physically, it shapes all of our lives in ways we may not even know.
The Hope For Depression Research Foundation has enlisted the help of Southampton Hospital and other local businesses in organizing a three-mile walk around Lake Agawam in Southampton next Saturday, July 30, to raise awareness and money for depression research.
Walkers will pay a $50 registration fee, which will be spent on depression research throughout the United States and Canada. Prospective walkers can register online here through July 29 or in person beginning at 8 a.m. at the Southampton Cultural Center at 25 Pond Lane.
The Hope for Depression Research Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted solely to depression research. To date, HDRF has provided more than $20 million through over 125 grants for accelerated breakthrough depression research that promises to lead to new and better medications and treatments.
Despite its prevalence, depression is still misunderstood, underfunded and under-researched.
The group's mission is two-fold: To accelerate advanced brain research into the origins, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of depression, and to raise awareness of depression as a medical illness, educate the public, and help erase the lingering stigma of depression.
To learn more about their research, click here.


Sales and marketing experts Felix Young have recently been discussing success depends on professionals being able to visualise their goals and create a plan towards them.
In all areas of life and work, success starts with a goal. No matter how big a goal may seem, it will always act as a compass – ensuring an individual is heading in the right direction and provide them with a strong sense of purpose. Without purpose, there is no motivation or reason to make changes and an individual will find it virtually impossible to move forward and develop.
To successfully set goals, however, is not an easy feat, and the majority of people fail to reach their desired success due to an inability to establish inspiring goals. Felix Young, a fresh new Australian sales and marketing start-up believe that creating the right mentality is key to successfully setting and reaching goals. What a person thinks impacts how they react to their environment and the actions they take when faced with certain stimuli. Without the right mindset, a person is likely to miss out on opportunities that could help them to achieve their goals faster.
Felix Young believe that when setting a goal, the first step should always be visualisation. This is because to really want something a person needs to see and experience it. They need to picture exactly what it would feel like to reach their goal and create a mental image of their desired future. Research has found that as well as being essential in building motivation and altering a person's mindset to become more positive, visualisation can lead to performance improvement and help to reduce daily stress and anxiety.
Visualisation works because it can actually change the way a person's brain processes information. Neurones that transmit information in the brain interpret imagery in the same way that it does real life action. This creates a new neural pathway which plays a vital role in developing new memories and behaviours and primes the body to act in a way that is consistent with what was imagined.
Felix Young, therefore, believe that by thinking positively and imagining reaching a goal, for example, becoming rich, a person's behaviour and actions will soon reflect this visualisation, and they will start to move towards this goal at a much faster rate. However, to ensure action is taken the firm are also eager to warn professionals of how easy it can be to become stuck in the visualisation stage of goal setting. Many people get stuck dreaming about what they want and therefore never take action to achieve it. This is often because they lack clarity in their goals and as such, they see their visualisations as unobtainable dreams. The firm believes that to really change their lives, professionals need to be clear as to what they want to achieve, and visualise their goal in minute detail if they are to change their thinking and create new behaviour patterns.
With the new year fast approaching, Felix Young has been discussing the relationship between visualisation and goals with their young workforce to help them plan for a successful 2017.
Based in Melbourne, Felix Young is a direct marketing agency that supports client growth by offering a unique business advantage through their specially developed face-to-face marketing campaigns. Through these interactive direct marketing solutions, companies can engage consumers through targeted and personalised communications and form longer lasting and more meaningful connections. These relationships encourage greater brand loyalty and raise a considerably higher ROI than more traditional marketing approaches.


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Scorpio Talks About the Birth of Hip-Hop
Any emcee who rhymes on beat owes a debt to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. When Hip-Hop was just a newborn baby this crew gave it a name, then brought a musical language and a culture which has since flourished into a worldwide phenomenon. Scorpio discusses his experience with the Furious Five MC's during the birth of Hip-Hop and how DJ beef affected them from the outset.
Gentle Jones: What was your inspiration for this new Legends of Legends project?
Scorpio: Legends of Legends is an idea I came up with when I was speaking with Grouchy. A lot of interviewers ask questions of a lot of cats but they always have their own agenda and ulterior motives, they want to paint a legend the way they see them. And I thought it would be fair and righteous to have another legend speak to a another legend, because you know it is always going to come from a position of respect and never the intention to throw a cat under the bus or paint them as being something old school.
I interviewed all type of cats. Big Daddy Kane, Rob Base, Cold Crush, Fantastic, its nothing for me to get anybody on the phone.
Gentle Jones: This is so important because if these stories are not recorded they will be lost.
Scorpio: The stories are not lost, the legendary cats just need to be put in a light of respect. When it comes to the real media we don't currently have no part of that. That's why I'm so delighted to jump start this Legend of Legends show on allhiphop. Because it ain't like people don't want to know, you can take a 16 year old kid who might only know Lil Wayne or T.I. but they will be interested to know the real foundation of how Hip-Hop started. How what we did affects what they like today.
All the rappers that came out and got hot ain't really gave props to where it came from. Some of them stop at when they started listening to Hip-Hop they listened to Run, and that's when they fell in love with it, and I'm like cool, that's great I got love for Run but then do you stop and think where did Run and them get if from?
Some of these folks are trying to get back in the industry they love and helped build but people just don't know about what they've been doing. They don't get to see that. They industry went from being about culture first to where it is now, its about the money.
We feel like we should have a place at the table of hip-hop. If you look at any other genre of records or basketball, football, whatever, you see they always have positions for the Charles Barkleys or the Julius Irvings, all the greats, they are always around the table that they helped build and they can still eat and earn a living. Where as hip-hop music is the first culture, the first music on this level to basically spit out the old school cats like, "You old and you can't do it." We invented the game. We made the rules. And now they changed the rules like, "Oh this game ain't for you, its for them." And we are the original ones who built it.
Its not like cats like me don't acknowledge what they brought to the table, because they brought a lot of things that we didn't know about. Like a lot ways they do business now where they get what they worth, that's they chamber. We created the culture and they merged it with the business. We are just trying to be part of something that we truly love. And not looked at like, "OK thanks for creating hip-hop, thanks for building it. We don't need you no more." That is wack.
Gentle Jones: The creators of this music, from the beginning, are mostly still alive and available.
Scorpio: We are walking amongst the cats. The cats that invented rock and roll most likely are gone, cats that invented jazz are out of here, but the true cats that invented hip-hop, the culture that is a world wide phenomenon, are still here. We are still walking amongst them.
Its not even about hit records. We are only talking about a place at the table. People can look at legends like what they have or what they drive and it might now measure up to the standard of money that is right now. You can't use money to discredit the success.
Every parent would tell they kids if you work hard you can be a doctor or a lawyer. That was it. This was the criteria of success for everybody. In the world. They wasn't about nothing else. We came with a music that you didn't have to highest education, you didn't have to speak the perfect English, and you could work. You could live and take care of your family. And this is all predicated off the seeds we planted.
It is not like cats are knocking on doors like "Yo can we get some money?" Nah, nah, its nothing like that. All I'm saying is can I get in your video? I don't even have to say nothing. Just let people know that I am alive.
Gentle Jones: Looking at the stance an emcee takes, the perspective that is spoken from in Hip-Hop, there is a more adversarial approach groups take toward each other that was uncommon before Hip-Hop, with battles and such. Is it possible that the Furious Five invented throwing cats out?
Scorpio: No. I think at some point we had something to do with if you are down with your click then that's what you are doing and not doing too much merging with other rappers and stuff like that. But that was just coming from a competitive stand point. But it wasn't from the stand point like we don't want you to have nothing to do with the industry, that's crazy. We can't take the blame for that. It really started in New York with the crabs in the barrel mentality. We was the first rappers. When groups like Run DMC started coming out, they came directly from our blood line, you can hear they whole flow, the whole style, the switch-over going from one MC to another. The Furious Five created that. After it got to a certain level cats started looking back and trying to define themselves like "We not like the cats that came before us because we don't dress like them," and this and that and I think that's when all of that first started. Them saying stuff like, instead of saying we dress like this A, B, and C and don't point back at us like we fools or something. They basically opened the door for people to say "Oh you don't have to respect the people that come before y'all?" And right now that same stuff that they was doing, people doing to everybody now. Just like cats can talk about Jay-Z, one of the most talented cats on planet earth to me, and all he's done to build hip-hop and people will say "Check out old-head" what kind of disrespect is that? This generation is almost like you are supposed to be embarrassed to grow and to have wisdom. Like "Oh, you old." That attitude is the same reason there is so much drama in the streets right now. You have young cats that don't care nothing about grandmas and aunties that are all caught up in that world.
Gentle Jones: I don't see any reason why Hip-Hop legends shouldn't be invited to drop a verse on these young cats records.
Scorpio: Exactly. If you talking about rap then you basically taking about talking. If a cat can still talk he can still rap. Maybe in they head its sounds old but it is what it is. If you go get U2 or Mick Jagger to be on your track they gonna sound the way they sound. That's part of the beauty of it. Thats the original sound.
A lot of the old cats, not all but a lot, almost brought they perception of the way the new school cats see them. And its falsified. All they gotta do is be they self, like they always did. Don't get caught up into the hype.
The reality is the Park 106 audience and stuff like that ain't checking for us. And its not because the fans and the people ain't checking for us, its the way the industry has painted a picture of us.
You look at a cat like Russell Simmons, he's just as old as us if not even older, but he would never even be looked at as old school, because he got the new school money. You can tell this is not about the culture, this is just about paper. If you got paper you can be in it, you around it, you still hip. If you just have culture, knowledge, and wisdom, it don't make sense, because everybody is back on the paper chase. More then ignoring how to keep Hip-Hop alive, they just working on just how to get money. And the culture don't really mean nothing right now. When Nas said Hip-Hop is dead I'm like yo half the industry had they panties in a bunch over that. So there had to be some truth for them to even come at him like that. That was just his expression of the Hip-Hop that he know. Not the Hip-Hop that they know, cause its two different Hip-Hops. The Hip-Hop that Nas loved and growed up with in his head is dead.
Gentle Jones: There might be 15 different Hip-Hops, man.
Scorpio: Definitely, and that's what it is. Right now its so many different Hip-Hops cause there's no real gatekeepers of Hip-Hop. When cats get so out of line and stuff, it ain't no board where it can be like, listen you are part of our community as well. You can't be out there doing blah blah blah, that makes us look bad as a whole. Just like if a cop is doing something real out of line he has a sergeant gotta step in, even if he wasn't on the scene or around the crime, and say look you wearing that uniform, As long as you wearing that uniform you can't be at the bar doing what you doing. And that's where Hip-Hop is, there's 15 different rules. New York got its own rules, Dirty South got they own rules, and this and that. And when one speaks about Hip-Hop as a whole it might not line up with they rules so they feel they can disrespect it. This shit is weird right now.
Don't get me wrong, its the best time in Hip-Hop history to be in Hip-Hop. The reason is cause you get what you worth. You get really what you negotiate. On the business side. On the culture side its the worst. You have no idea, cats like us will go to a Hip-Hop club and security, manger or whoever might not know who we are right off the bat, and you go and introduce yourself and they are still like yo its gonna cost you $100 to get in.
Gentle Jones: *Groans*
Scorpio: Do you understand what that feels like hearing a club making money, a living, and putting their kids through college off of a music that you created and they want you to pay to go in and be around this music that you created? Its like Muhammad Ali of Hip-Hop is coming in the building to pop champagne and you don't know what he did for the game. To me its weird.
Gentle Jones: And you are in the fucking hall of fame too.
Scorpio: That's where its at. I understand that back then everybody might not know our group just by looking at us cause there wasn't that much visual. But now there is 1000 websites and TV channels its easy to know who somebody is just on sight. Hip-Hop is blazing up the clubs and I'm just like wow where did this shit go. Its almost like they want me to play big Willie style just to come in the club and be around this music I know I had a seed in creating. And I can still make just as well.
I want to be down with the industry. I don't want to just make records with cats from my era. I want to make records with the Nelly's and the other newer cats too cause I'm a fan of their's as well. And you don't have to be a fan of Scorpio, or the Furious Five or Grandmaster Flash. But you are a fan of the music that we created. Bottom line.
Gentle Jones: How long was the Furious Five together before you joined the group?
Scorpio: From the beginning, they had maybe been together about month.
Gentle Jones: At that particular time when y'all were performing how many people when they saw you never seen anything like it before.
Scorpio: Everybody, the whole world. Prolly the Bronx knew what we was doing, but there was a time we were starting to branch out to Jersey and Virginia and stuff like that and they never knew what it was, it was the first time. I can remember when Flash made his first scratch record called Adventures on the Wheels of Steel and we were sending them out all around the world. Everybody we sent them too the company said they were sending them back saying "somethings the matter with this record yo it keeps scratching!" (Laughs) They didn't know what the fuck it was! They heard Flash scratching and they thought really that they got a bad record, that's how new it was.
Gentle Jones: OK, so engineers, chemists, inventors, if they create anything they can apply for a patent and nobody can use that idea without giving them credit and probably paying them a fee. If music worked like that, how many patents would the Furious Five hold?
Scorpio: We would have had a patent for everything. Our group brought so much to the table. One of the guys in my group called Hip-Hop "Hip-Hop". That's because of Keith Cowboy. I didn't know him as long as Melle Mel did but me and Cowboy used to run together, we used to hang out. Before rapping. Cowboy was really the strength of the Furious Five. He was the guy that at any given time he would grab the Mic and have the whole party in a frenzy. Cowboys legacy was everybody that do a show, even now from Jay-Z to Lil Wayne whenever they do the in between stuff where they really wanna get the crowd going with "Throw your hands in the air", "Say oh yeah", "Say ho" say this, all of that that was Cowboys jingles. The blueprint that was written back then you still can't do great show now without incorporating Cowboys spirit in it. And they don't even know where its being summoned from, they think its them. But that was all Cowboy.
The reason I say he was the strength of the Furious Five is because I believe that if Cowboy was alive today that the original Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five would be together, because he didn't play that, he was just a no nonsense dude. We would have our ways where we don't speak, but when he get tired of that he'd call some type of meeting and we would all get together. You know he was like that type of big brother that would show you that tough love like yo you out of line I'm gonna knock you upside your damn head, he was that dude. We wouldn't let it get so far, wouldn't let us get too far into our own self or our egos, whatever.
Gentle Jones: You should write a book.
Scorpio: I am going to write a book. Because Flash half assed around a lot of stuff in his book, and the people want to know. How could grandmaster flash do all this stuff and the Furious Five you don't hear nothing about? When a lot of our rhymes are some of the reason people even know about Grandmaster Flash. We were the ones who put the dj's name first on the record, nobody else was doing that, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and that decision there has almost put us in competition with ourselves. They come to Flash first for everything because his name was out front, not taking nothing from him as a DJ but we had a long name. So when the record came out on the radio they wouldn't say, "And now The Message by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five," they would just say, "The message by Grandmaster Flash," because the name was long.
Gentle Jones: I never thought about that.
Scorpio: That's what people don't know. Yes, he is a DJ and an entity unto himself but that was also the name of our group.
Gentle Jones: So when you get back together and tour again is Flash going to come with you?
Scorpio: Nah. Listen, we have so many people that contact us. The BBC contacted us and wants to give us $150,000 to do one show. A guy wants to put together a 60 day tour at $50,000 a day. And Flash don't basically want nothing to do with the Furious Five. And its not no beef, I called him personally, said lets do a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five last reunion world tour. We could all walk away from this with a million. But he'll make money with any and everybody else but us. If you look at his last album, it got everybody under the sun from Busta to Q tip to Snoop and even Caz and this and that and not one track with the original Furious Five. I know all of them cats and respect them cats but they are not the original emcees that helped you get where you at. So if you are doing way much better than us they why does it hurt you to help us and shine a little light on us.
Gentle Jones: Who was the first to rap on a beat?
Scorpio: Us. Furious Five, all the way. We was the first group to put rap on rhythm. Before us it was cats like Kool Herc, he had the top emcees in the Bronx, but they emcee style, he'd be on the turntable and they would say stuff like "yes y'all you are now listening to the sounds of my man my fam DJ Kool Herc" and that was they whole style. Period.
Gentle Jones: That's actually some Jamaican stuff, the ska dj's were doing that in the 60's.
Scorpio: But Kool Herc was Jamaican so that's where his thing came from. Grandmaster Flash was first actual DJ on planet earth to take turntables and cut on beat. Before, Herc, when he used to play a record and then go to the next record, it sound crazy, different speeds, like "God Damn!" just drop the needle anywhere you'd be like, "Oh, shit. What is happening?" (laughs) but with Flash he was the first one to start cutting in the Bronx, everything on beat, you could dance and he could go from record to record, you never have to stop dancing. On beat. And with him doing that allowed us to start our rhythm, rhyming. Like the first rhymes was simple stuff like "yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all, the beat beat y'all, and you don't stop, its on and on and on and on, like hot butter on say what the popcorn," while he cuts on beat. So that was the original seed of Hip-Hop. whenever you hear they rhymes patterns and skills today, that's what it started from, on beat, on time, on rhythm. And that was the Furious Five, nobody on planet earth, no legend, no Herc, no Afrikka Bambaataa, nobody would ever deny that. It was the D-Squad, the Furious 5 emcees, at that time the 3 emcees.
Gentle Jones: Did you ever work with Herc back then?
Scorpio: Never. He hated us. He was the King of the Bronx at one point. I can remember going into his thing he used to play in a spot called the PAL, we used to be a break crew called the D Squad and he know we was slowly trying to get into music, and Herc would see Flash and say on the mic "I like to welcome the Dick Squad in the house y'all!" He used to straight diss us. He would take all the bass out and and say, "This is the way Grandmaster Flash sound" and it be all tweeters and then say, " and this is the Herculoids" and put all the bass back in, it'd be like "boom boom booom" He used to diss us crazy. We didn't speak. At all. He hated us. I really feel that.
Gentle Jones: I heard it was when Herc got stabbed that he kinda went off the scene for a while.
Scorpio: When he got stabbed, Herc was a big strong dude. What happened was somebody tried to steal his chain or some shit but he didn't go off the scene. When he recovered he was still around. That wasn't why we came up, we came up because we had the most talented emcees and the most talented DJ on planet earth. Our group was so unique compared to all the other groups, even the groups back then like the Cold Crush, we were so far ahead of them because of the style of routines and the realism of our raps.
Gentle Jones: How did your distinctive fashion come about?
Scorpio: We always dressed alike, even from back in the Bronx when we started rhyming. We all had Lee suits we would iron with a bunch of starch. We didn't come out individually, we always looked uniform. We was the criteria for rap for most of the other groups in the Bronx, the Cold Crush, Fantastic 5, the Funky 4, they all followed suit, because we was truly the leaders of it. And that's not coming from an arrogant space, that's just from a reality space. When we started getting our own individual mics and walk around with our own Mic cases and coming in the park, everybody else started buying Shure mics with the white case. We was just setting the trends. We did it big like that.
I had a lot to do with that because as far as the Furious Five I was the most fashionablest one as far as like my style. I used to go to Harlem and buy all my clothes from a spot called AJ Lester, I had a little more flair, but I think it was more like a united thing that the Furious Five all had to dress alike and hit the stage. We couldn't go on the road then with just jeans and sneakers. We was playing with groups like Parliament, Rick James, Prince, Zapp and Roger, and these cats was tight, it was theatrical, it was a show. It wasn't like OK I'm gonna wear the exact same thing the dude in the third row was wearing. We went on a 60 day tour and Al Haymon came after the first show and was like, "I like you guys, I want to be on the tour, but y'all need to come out with a little more," And thats where we really started getting into our character. At that time there was a little punk rock going around and we were running with Rick James and them.
Gentle Jones: Did you know the record Scorpio was going to be such a huge hit when you recorded it?
Scorpio: Of course not. With Scorpio all we wanted was a song on the level of Planet Rock. So we did it but we had no idea how huge it was.
I remember we did a show with Rick James and he was all fired up and couldn't go on. He was doing his thing.
We used to make a lot of money with Rick because promoters would be like, "Yo, we can't find Rick! Can y'all go back out to the crowd? We will give you another $10,000." So sometimes we would make triple the money, because you wouldn't ever know when Rick would come out.
So they asked to come back out, and we had already played all the records, I remember it was at Dallas Arena, 18,000 people there, and Rick's not there and we didn't know what to do so it was just like lets put on Scorpio and the crowd went crazy. To the point it scared us. The crowd was going bananas, and we had no idea we had a hit record like that. All over the country people was going crazy over the record and that is how we found out.
Gentle Jones: What were you all doing with Rick James?
Scorpio: Everything. He was like my father in this industry. I did it all with Rick. That was my dude We was freaks, man, we was straight freaks. You gotta understand we came up in the zone there wasn't all them diseases out there at the time it was a lot safer. You think about any given day being around Rick James and Prince all the time and think about the vibe, the climate then.
Gentle Jones: Whats the most naked girls you seen in a room at one time?
Scorpio: Its not that many... Maybe 10.
Gentle Jones: Laughing
Scorpio: That's not very much, it was just the ambiance of the time.
When we were doing Hip-Hop on tour it was really a revolution. It wasn't no violence or anything, but everywhere we went people didn't know what it was. We would go places and people would be like where the fuck is the band? What seems so natural, to get on stage with just the turntables and the mic, yo, we fought for that. The whole south was big on bands. So when we came on the stage with just the turntables and a Mic they didn't know what that was, all they know is that they heard the record on the radio. And they loved the record but when they came out and saw just turntables and a mic they were like what the heck? They thought they was getting cheated. We couldn't get away with what you would have identified as the Bronx, we couldn't go out there with just our Sassoon jeans and sneakers. By the time Run and them came out it was full blown, like OK this is Hip-Hop, but they stripped it down. They still wore the leather, but without the spikes and studs, and they wore sneakers. But the leather, that was our era and that was us. That wasn't Prince. That wasn't Rick. That was us.
Werner von Wallenrod said…
Great read; thanks!


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Arcane's Expansive Universe Releases On Netflix
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Michael De La Rosa, Staff Writer
Fans of the popular game League of Legends are excited about the release of Riot Games' animated show, Arcane.
Photo from Arcane Season 2 Announcement
Riot Games (makers of the popular games League of Legends and Valorant) has partnered up with Netflix to produce Arcane, set in the League of Legends universe. The production of Arcane was first announced in early 2019 and we had no further news about the show until recent commercials and advertisements.
Arcane currently releases three episodes weekly and is planned to have nine episodes (in 3 Acts). The releases begin on November 6 and end on November 20. Production of Arcane, season two, was announced on November 20.
The 4 main protagonists (Jayce, Vi, Jinx, Caitlyn)
Arcane follows the story of the four main characters, Jinx, Jayce, Caitlyn, and Vi, while also including guest appearance characters such as Ekko, Heimerdinger, and Viktor. Each of these characters engage in their own adventures throughout the story, some of which have shared arcs throughout the acts.
The show takes place in Piltover (The City of Progress) and Zaun before and after the creation of Hextech, one of the bigger elements within the League of Legends world. There are also brief moments in the story when we see Noxus and Freljord.
The show itself is fantastic. It explores a portion of Piltover's written lore thoroughly and also introduces new characters and groups to an already expansive universe. Every main character feels like they share an equal amount of screen time, something hard to do with four protagonists. Be aware that the while the show is rated 16+, it does contain a few adult themes.
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