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Elden Ring's Endgame Is A Step Too Far
Elden Ring's Endgame Is A Step Too Far
After well over 100 hours in the game, and currently entering the main course of my second playthrough, there are very few things I can say about Elden Ring that you have not seen or heard from the myriad of glowing reviews that make it out as one of the best video games ever made. I believe it deserves all of that acclaim and then some. Elden Ring blew my expectations out of the water.
So yeah, you have probably heard every bit of effusive praise about the vast majority of the game's immense content. As you can tell by the headline, I am here to talk about the last handful of those hours. Those moments where this masterpiece's biggest flaws appear, and they appear with the content From Software is best known for: the boss fights.
Spoiler warning for any who want to avoid them.
Elden Ring's endgame bosses easily live up to the "Prepare to Die" reputation that Dark Souls made the company famous for. Are they the most difficult? It's hard for me to definitely say that when something like Sekiro's Sword Saint Isshin exists. Difficulty, however, is not really my point. Isshin is a monster of a boss fight that took me somewhere around 6 or 7 hours across two days before I could beat it. I still had immense fun through every frustrating death.
Elden Ring's big problem with its endgame boss fights is not the difficulty, but the reason those fights are difficult. They cross the line from hard but fair to simply overwhelming and cheap. They are designed to punish the vast majority of play styles and funnel players towards a more limited approach. To sum up how these fights go: roll, roll, roll, maybe block once or twice, get one or two attacks in, go back to rolling.
These fights are simply too much, and too limiting in their tactics. They involve bosses who never stop moving and never stop attacking. The natural exchange between offense and defense devolves into pure defense, as the player's focus is almost entirely spent on just avoiding boss attacks and hoping to find a moment or two to poke them or cast a spell.
In the same way that Elden Ring is a culmination of every positive, industry-influencing trait From Software has been responsible for since Demon's Souls first released, it is also the culmination of a complaint that arguably began back in Dark Souls's first DLC.
Fights like Artorias and Manus are incredible to this day, but the praise for them has largely led From Soft down this "roll and poke" boss fight design. They were highly lauded for their demanding, but fair, difficulty, and so when Dark Souls 3 rolled around, there were even more fights in their ilk, where boss fights involve long enemy combos and limited openings for the player to counter them. This is a common complaint with Dark Souls 3, that the game is heavily biased towards dexterity builds and players spend most fights rolling and poking.
When the Ringed City DLC culminated in the Slave Knight Gael fight, which again was heavily and deservedly praised and is considered by many to be the hardest fight in the series, this approach reached its peak. Gael's combos can seemingly last forever and his openings seemed to be the most limited yet. They just kept building on the concept.
When the Elden Ring Closed Network Test came out, people immediately compared the Margit fight to Gael. So did many journalists writing previews involving the Godrick fight. It is an apt comparison. I think most boss fights in Elden Ring take care not to expand too far past their challenge. Some are tougher, many are easier, but the challenge never feels like I was punished too much for not playing a certain way.
This approach flies out the window in the endgame.
The worst offender, in my opinion, is the Maliketh boss fight. To say this fight feels like sheer nonsense is an understatement. This giant wolf knight attacks with blinding speed and without ceasing. He rarely stops rolling and flying through the air like a pinball. Even your limited openings can immediately be punished if he chooses to launch certain new combos. It is a level of overwhelming beyond anything I had ever experienced in a From Software game, and took all the enjoyment out of the difficulty. You spend the entire battle rolling and poking, with no real offensive initiative.
Godfrey, and his second form Hoarah Loux, pose largely the same problem. While he does not move as fast as Maliketh, his combos are relentless. There are brief moments to strike once or twice, then you are back to rolling. Sometimes even those openings can punish you, since the AI can decide that it wants to pull out a cheap move that smacks you for daring to attack. Or the AI will decide to spam Godfrey's arena wide shockwave stomps over and over, so you do not even get that brief opening.
You roll, roll, roll, hope that your efforts to poke are not punished before rolling again.
His stomps are an example of something else Elden Ring's endgame goes too far with, which is giving bosses one completely cheap mechanic that arguably ruins what otherwise might be fun fights. Maliketh has the blood attacks that drain your health. Godfrey and Radagon have stomps. The Elden Beast has a 20-second long orb attack that surrounds the player seemingly unavoidably, all while it follows up with other dangerous moves. These are all difficult bosses without this additional bit of cheapness, but these are the kinds of additional obstacles pushing the fight past fairness and fun.
The most unfortunate example comes with Malenia, an optional boss that is already being declared by many as the toughest boss From Software has ever made. Interestingly enough, she has a far less overwhelming flow to her boss fight than most of the bosses in the endgame. Her combos give you clear openings and she can be staggered by your attacks, so there is a nice flow between aggression and defense. It is tough, but doable.
Then you notice that she heals with each hit on you. And not just with attacks that damage the player, but even the ones that you block. Okay, fine. This makes things tougher but you can still identify her attacks, avoid them, deal your own, with some practice you can overcome it. Then she pulls out her flurry move.
Malenia's flurry move is not just the cheapest move in the game, it is the cheapest thing I have ever seen in a From Software game. It makes every poison swamp and multi-stage boss feel like heaven. Malenia's flurry is practically unavoidable if you are anywhere near her when it begins. Which, most likely, you will be. She will cover the length of the entire level in an instant and there are too many slashes within the attack to reliable dodge. If it catches you, it will kill you. It is an instant kill move she can pull out at any point.
Even now, weeks after Elden Ring's release, and with some reliable strategies about how to avoid the move, many fans admit it largely comes down to a bit of luck. So you not only have the life steal move, you have this flurry move. One is already too cheap. Both together makes what should be one of the best fights From Software ever made into possibly the most unfair.
Oh, then she gets a second phase that adds the most damaging status ailment in the game to these attacks, along with new attacks.
The problem with the way all of these fights operate is that they force certain optimal player builds, which limits the fun of trying new ones. This was a problem many had with Dark Souls 3. The game heavily discouraged any build that did not focus on dexterity and katanas. Elden Ring does the same thing. If you want to do a big weapon, heavy armor build, these endgame bosses will probably make you pay for it. The average player is almost required to focus on either sorcery or dex-heavy bleed builds.
How many people will put 80-90 hours into a build, realize how ill-equipped it is to handle some of these bosses, and be too frustrated to finish the game? Probably too many, and that is a real shame.
Now, did this come anywhere near ruining Elden Ring for me? Not at all. You know what you get into with From Software. I still had fun from beginning to end. Even if these endgame bosses had been so unfun that I hated them it would not come close to ruining the hundred-plus hours preceding them. Elden Ring is a masterpiece.
But if From Software wanted to maybe take a step back, I wouldn't complain.
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The beach resort of San Foca is situated within the Salento coastal region of Puglia, in the Province of Lecce. It belongs to the Comune of Melendugno which is a distance of 7 kilometres away.
The small resort offers a cluster of beaches including the Spiaggia degli Aranci, Mora Mora Beach and the Isola dei Briganti, while the area between the beaches is dominated by a large marina.
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The beaches either side of the marina are sandy with crystalline, shallow waters which emit a bright blue colour. The area south of the marina is marked by dunes which provide a pleasant area to stroll around. All along the main road that runs alongside the beach, the Via Lungomare Matteotti, are a variety of restaurants, snack bars and a sprinkling of small shops. The most iconic building in San Foca (which translates as Saint Seal), is the Torre San Foca: a medieval watchtower that was built to protect the village from Saracen raiders.
San Foca - frazione di Melendugno
Comune: Melendugno
Province: Lecce
Region: Puglia
Beaches: Mora Mora Beach, Spiaggia degli Aranci, Isola Briganti
Water quality: Blue Flag Beach 2021 - 2022
Fly to: Brindisi Salento Airport - 1 hour 2 minutes by car (78 km)
Recommended accommodation: Posia Luxury Retreat & Spa
Close to San Foca
The area around San Foca provides exactly what visitors to the Salento are hoping to find. This little stretch of shoreline on the Adriatic Coast north of Otranto is characterised by a landscape of jagged rocks throwing up some unlikely natural shapes, along with the brightest blue water which simply beg you to dive in.
Immediately to the south of San Foca at a distance of two kilometres is the village of Roca, a smaller resort than San Foca without a marina but home to two notable sights. One of those is the little archaeological area known as Roca Vecchia, while the other is the much more popular Grotta della Poesia. The Cave of Poetry is like a large but shallow natural well where the locals love to bathe and particularly dive into its alluring water. The Grotta della Poesia is very much one of the iconic sights of the Salento.
Heading three kilometres north of San Foca brings you to another small beach resort called Torre Specchia Ruggeri, while back in the other direction, south beyond Roca, is one of the best places in the area to find accommodation: Torre dell'Orso. A slightly larger resort than San Foca, Torre dell'Orso has some good hotels to choose from, some of which overlook its beautiful beaches.
Continuing in that southerly direction away from Torre dell'Orso, you shortly arrive at the sprawling Torre Sant'Andrea. I've used the word "iconic" a few times already above but Torre Sant'Andrea is well-deserving of this adjective as it offers some of the most dramatic scenery and beautiful water in the Salento.
Without a shadow of a doubt, the best way to enjoy the area around San Foca is with a car as public transport options are limited. The places described above cover just a fraction, around 12 kilometres or so, of the Salento coastline but this is a vast area with a great deal more to explore. With a car you can take one of the most scenic driving routes in Italy, from Otranto down to the southern tip of Puglia at the town of Santa Maria di Leuca, at which point the Adriatic Sea meets the Ionian Sea. You can then continue the course of the Ionian Coast as it heads north up to the beautiful seaside town of Gallipoli. The heart of the Salento is the city of Lecce which besides very much meriting a visit in its own right, is another great base from which to explore the local area.
The best airport for the Salento is the one that carries its name: the Brindisi Salento Airport which is an hour's drive north from San Foca, just north of Brindisi city centre. The next best alternative is Bari Karol Wojtyla Airport which is roughly double the distance with a journey time of just over two hours from San Foca,
Roca (2 km)
Roca Vecchia (2.7 km)
Grotta della Poesia (2.8 km)
Torre Specchia Ruggeri (3.6 km)
Torre dell'Orso (4.5 km)
Torre Sant'Andrea (9 km)

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Quiring C, Sanoski CA, Vallerand AH. Bunavail 6.3/1. Davis's Drug Guide. 16th ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/110199/all/Bunavail_6_3_1. Accessed April 19, 2019.
Quiring C, Sanoski CA, Vallerand AH. Bunavail 6.3/1 [Internet]. In: Davis's Drug Guide. F.A. Davis Company; 2019. [cited 2019 April 19]. Available from: https://peds.unboundmedicine.com/pedscentral/view/Davis-Drug-Guide/110199/all/Bunavail_6_3_1.


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Maya Jribi () (Bou Arada, 29 de enero de 1960-Radés, 19 de mayo de 2018) fue una política y activista tunecina pionera en la defensa de los derechos políticos de las mujeres. Fue la primera mujer que lideró un partido político en Túnez y la segunda en el Norte de África después de la argelina Louisa Hanoune.

Biografía
Su padre era originario de Tataouine y su madre argelina. Estudió en Radès —donde vivió— en la facultad de Ciencias de Sfax (1979-1983) donde militó en la Unión general de estudiantes de Túnez; se adhirió a la sección de Sfax de la Liga tunecina de los Derechos Humanos a principios de los años 1980. Colaboró también en la revista semanal independiente Erraï (La Opinión), después a Al Mawkif.

A principios de los años 1980, formó parte del grupo de estudios sobre la condición femenina del Club cultural Tahar-Haddad y participó en la Asociación tunecina de lucha contra el cáncer. Fundó igualmente con otras mujeres la Asociación de investigaciones sobre las mujeres y el desarrollo.

Trayectoria política
De regreso a Túnez en 1983, Maya Jribi participó en fundación de la Asamblea Socialista Progresista (RSP) un partido de corte laico y liberal legalizado en 1988 junto al abogado Ahmed Néjib Chebbi; convertido en 2001 en el Partido Demócrata Progresista (PDP), uno de los principales partidos de la oposición tunecina al Presidente Ben Alí. En 1986, una de las pocas mujeres miembro de la dirección de un partido político.

De 1986 a 1991, fue responsable en Unicef de captación de fondos y de comunicación. En 1996, fue encargada de estudios en el Instituto Laamouri, un despacho de estudios y de marketing, donde asumió la dirección general y la especialización en estudios cualitativos en 2001.

Secretaria general del PDP
Maya Jribi fue elegida el 25 de diciembre de 2006 al frente del PDP, sucediendo así a Chebbi que presentó como su « compañero de camino ». Se convirtió así en la primera mujer que dirigió un partido político tunecino y la segunda en el Magreb al frente de un partido compuesto mayoritariamente de hombres, después de la argelina Louisa Hanoune.

Jribi y Chebbi realizaron el 1 al 20 de octubre de 2007 una huelga de hambre para protestar contra la decisión judicial de expulsar su partido de los locales que ocupaba en el centro de Túnez.

Finalmente se logró un compromiso con el dueño del local que consideraba abusivo el hecho de haberlo alquilado al periódico Al Mawkif pero que sin embargo se utilizaba como sede del partido. Durante esta huelga de hambre, se encontró muy debilitada y sufrió graves desórdenes « biológicos ».

Parlamentaria
El 23 de octubre de 2011, Maya Jribi fue elegida miembro de la asamblea constituyente por la circunscripción de Ben Arous. Presentó su candidatura a la presidencia de la asamblea constituyente el 22 de noviembre ; fue vencida sin embargo por el secretario general de Ettakatol, Mustafa Ben Jaafar, que fue elegido con 145 votos frente a los 68 que ella logró.

Secretaria general de Al Joumhouri
Tras la fusión del Partido Demócrata Progresista, con Afek Tounes y el Partido Republicano, Maya Jribi fue elegida, el 9 de abril de 2012, secretaria general de la nueva formación denominada « Al Joumhouri » en el quinto y último congreso del PDP.

Con ocasión de la inauguración del congreso de Al Jomhouri, el 3 de febrero de 2017, anunció su retirada de la secretaría general del partido.

Murió el 19 de mayo de 2018 tras meses de enfermedad. La ministra de Asuntos para la Mujer Neziha Abidi anunció que la gran sala de reuniones ministeriales se llamará a partir de ahora "Sala Maya Jribi".

Distinciones
En 2014, Maya Jribi recibió los distintivos de chevalier del Orden tunisien del Mérito.

En 2015, fue condecorada como commandeur del Orden de la República tunisienne propuesta por el presidente de la República tunecina con ocasión de la Jornada nacional de la mujer,.

En 2018, el Centro de investigaciones, de estudios, de documentación y de información sobre la mujer le rindió homenaje por su trayectoria política activista.

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Políticas de Túnez
Fallecidos por cáncer de páncreas
Fallecidos por cáncer en Túnez
Políticos de Túnez del siglo XX
Políticos de Túnez del siglo XXI
Tunecinas del siglo XX
Tunecinas del siglo XXI

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Anolis maculigula, Rueda's anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Colombia.

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Endemic fauna of Colombia
Reptiles of Colombia
Reptiles described in 1984
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Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik coup. There was no Communist revolution in Russia in 1917, as there was not abolition of the wages system and establishment of a classless society.
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Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Bolsheviks during the "soviet revolution", although technically it is not called the soviet revolution, but the Russian Revolution or Bolshevik Revolution. The Soviet Union had not come into being until 1922.
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Alexander Kerensky was the leader of the Russian Provisional Government that was overthrown in the Bolshevik Revolution (also known as the October Revolution of 1917). Tsar Nicholas II was already out of power by then because he had been forced to abdicate his throne in March 1917 after the February Revolution of 1917.
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Tom Fergus played junior hockey for the Peterborough Petes, and was selected 60th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft where he played until he was dealt to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1986. Fergus immediately became Toronto's top centre and set a new career high with 31 goals in 1985–86, as well as matching his career high of 73 points. Tom joined the Vancouver Canucks in the 1991-92 season, and moved to Switzerland for two seasons with EV Zug before retiring in 1995. Fergus finished his career with 235 goals and 346 assists for 581 points in 726 NHL games, along with 499 penalty minutes. He now resides in Oakville where he is active in the Toronto Maple Leaf alumni association and owns a promotional clothing company, Blue Leaf Limited.
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Instant Racing gains in January in Kentucky are best since summer
The $26.13 million wagered at the two tracks in the first month of 2014 was up 38.53 percent over the previous...
Instant Racing gains in January in Kentucky are best since summer The $26.13 million wagered at the two tracks in the first month of 2014 was up 38.53 percent over the previous... Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/1eiBRrT
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Gregory A. Hall, @gregoryahall Published 1:27 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2014 | Updated 1:48 p.m. ET Feb. 10, 2014
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The slot-like Instant Racing game in use at two Kentucky tracks saw its best year-over-year gains in January since last summer, according to results from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission
The $26.13 million wagered at the two tracks in the first month of 2014 was up 38.53 percent over the previous January -- the biggest increase since August's 68.35 percent.
The $23.89 million at Kentucky Downs was up 42.2 percent over the previous January, the biggest year-over-year increase at the Franklin track since a 53.07 percent jump last August.
Ellis Park's $2.24 million was up 8.69 percent, the biggest year-over-year increase at the Henderson track since September.
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A judge's decision to sentence President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman to less than four years in prison — a fraction of the penalty called for in government guidelines — sparked widespread anger Friday and opened up a conversation about whether the justice system treats different crimes and criminals fairly.
Judge T.S. Ellis III's comment that Paul Manafort had lived an "otherwise blameless life" was particularly galling to those who pointed out that Manafort's past included work for people such as Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos and Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
Sen. Cory Booker, a Democratic presidential candidate, told "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Thursday night that the criminal justice system "treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent" and preys upon the most vulnerable such as "poor folks, mentally ill folks, addicted folks and overwhelmingly black and brown folks."
Asked if he was shocked, Booker replied, "No, this criminal justice system can't surprise me anymore."
Manafort, 69, was convicted by a jury in Virginia of eight felony tax and bank fraud charges. Probation officials calculated a guideline range of 19.5 to 24.5 years.
Many observers raised the case of Crystal Mason, a black woman from Texas who was sentenced in state court last year to five years in prison for voting illegally in 2016, while she was on supervised release from a federal conviction. Mason said she didn't know she wasn't allowed to vote.
Her lawyer, Alison Grinter, said Friday that the judge's comment about Manafort being "blameless" was infuriating, especially considering that he is awaiting sentencing on a different case in Washington, where he faces up to 10 more years. The Washington judge who will sentence him next week has the option to impose that sentence either concurrently or consecutively.
"I'm absolutely aghast. I hardly recognize the judicial system," Grinter said. Mason and "so many other folks like her have come to expect this kind of disparity. It's only now that we're paying attention to it."
Grinter pointed out that her client's original crime was a single tax-related federal charge, and she received the maximum sentence. Manafort, on the other hand, received more than 15 years less than what was called for under the low end of the guideline range.
The most recent statistics from the U.S. Sentencing Commission show that, in fiscal year 2017, roughly half of all federal sentences came in below the guidelines, while only 3 percent went above the guidelines. Roughly three-fourths of all tax cases came in below the guidelines in that fiscal year, according to the commission.
In Manafort's case, the judge called the guideline range "excessive." During Thursday's hearing, he noted that the guidelines were recently changed to calculate higher sentences in tax cases. As a result, many tax evaders who similarly avoided millions of dollars in taxes over the years received much lighter sentences, sometimes less than a year. Defense lawyers cited those cases, and Ellis said he arrived at his sentence in part to avoid unwarranted disparities.
Ellis , who was born in Bogota, Colombia, was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
A review of several of Ellis' cases by The Associated Press found that he is sometimes lenient, meting out lower-than-recommended sentences in multiple fraud and drug cases this year and last. In one drug case, he sentenced a defendant to just over four years, nearly five years less than the nine years called for by the lower end of the guideline range.
However, most of his sentencing departures could be measured in months.
In another high-profile case in 2009, Ellis sentenced Congressman William J. Jefferson to 13 years in prison for bribery and fraud, significantly less than the 27 to 33 years calculated for Jefferson under the sentencing guidelines. Still, it was the longest-ever prison sentence for a member of Congress. Ellis later released him after he had served less than half his sentence due to a Supreme Court ruling in another bribery case.
Jefferson, who is black, told the AP on Friday that he believed Manafort's sentence was "grossly inequitable."
"I just count it as another recognition of a fault in the system that seems to be ever-present when it comes to comparing how blacks and whites who are similarly situated are treated differently," he said. The disparity "keeps showing its ugly face."
Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, a group that works to reform sentencing policy and address racial disparities in the criminal justice system, said the system is a function of race and class disparities.
Manafort and other wealthy white-collar defendants are able to afford the best defense money can buy, he said. He questioned why the legal system does not "provide those same resources to the indigent defendants, who are the bulk of the people going through the court system?"
Another way to look at the issue, he said, is "that many people are getting harsh sentences. If there's one thing that characterizes the American court system, it's that our sentences are very severe by any international standards."
Not everyone thought the sentence was too lenient. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Manafort had been treated out of proportion to what he had done. Giuliani blamed prosecutors for what he called "excessive zeal."
"He's not a terrorist. He's not an organized criminal," said Giuliani, who was known for his tough-on-crime approach when he was mayor of New York City. "He's a white-collar criminal."
Associated Press writers Errin Haines Whack in Philadelphia, Matthew Barakat in Alexandria, Virginia, Jonathan Lemire in New York and AP researcher Jennifer Farrar in New York contributed to this report.


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UK Parliament Passes Law Forcing PM May to Delay Brexit
Anti-Brexit protester Steve Bray is seen outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, April 8, 2019 | Photo: Reuters
A decision will be made on Wednesday as the issue will be formally discussed by EU leaders at a special summit.
The United Kingdom's parliament approved a law on Monday that gives British MPs power to scrutinize and make legally binding changes to Prime Minister Theresa May's request for the European Union (EU) to delay Brexit until June 30.
EU Offers 12-Month Brexit Delay, May Wants a June 30 Deadline
The legislation, proposed by Labour MP Yvette Cooper, aims to force May, who has already asked Brussels to extend Britain's EU membership to allow talks with the opposition Labour Party in search for a different exit plan. Yet lawmakers wanted an additional legal guarantee against a "no-deal" divorce happening on April 12.
The bill passed through the House of Commons by a single vote last week and was then approved with minor changes in the House of Lords Monday, which the Commons then had to sign off on and wait for the Queen's seal to officially become a law.
"Both houses of parliament have tonight strongly made clear their view that a no deal would be deeply damaging to jobs, manufacturing, and security of our country," said lawmaker Cooper.
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Yet the legislation itself marks an unprecedented action in the U.K's constitutional order and a significant blow to May's authority, as it overturns the long-standing convention that the government has sole control of the agenda in parliament, allowing it to control what laws are passed.
"(It) is like tossing a hand grenade into our constitutional arrangements," said eurosceptic Conservative lawmaker Bill Cash.
On Tuesday, the MPs will debate changes to the PM's proposal for the EU. Meanwhile, May will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to ask for a Brexit delay as her ministers hold crisis talks with Labour to try to break the deadlock in London.
The prime minister will retain some freedom to agree to a different date with the EU. The short extension proposal is set for June 30. On the other hand, President of the European Council Donald Tusk will ask the EU to grant a "flexible" 12-month extension to Brexit, in an effort by the bloc's president to avoid further requests for short extensions.
The decision will be made on Wednesday as the issue will be formally discussed by EU leaders at a special summit. However, a no-deal Brexit is still possible as the decision for an extension can be vetoed by any of 27 member states.
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About the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a world-leading centre of expertise in digital information curation with a focus on building capacity, capability and skills for research data management across the UK's higher education research community.
The Digital Curation Centre provides expert advice and practical help to anyone in UK higher education and research wanting to store, manage, protect and share digital research data.
The DCC provides access to a range of resources including our popular How-to Guides, case studies and online services. The training programmes aim to equip researchers and data custodians with the skills they need to manage and share data effectively.
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At the DCC, Kevin directs activities whose primary goal is the development of research data services in UK universities. He began his career in computing support for medical research before moving to ULCC, one of the UK national supercomputing services. He worked in development and management roles and contributed to a number of international standardisation initiatives in networking. From the early 1990s his team concentrated on the development of digital archive services for a range of public bodies including the British Library and the Public Record Office with a special focus on database archives.
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The ghost prisoners of Pakistan
As another rights activist goes missing, his father struggles to sleep or live a normal life
A civil society protest in Lahore in support of Raza Mahmood Khan, who disappeared Dec. 2. (Photo by Kamran Chaudhry)
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Ismail Khan cannot concentrate on farming since the abduction of his son, a peace activist, last month.
"I have to leave everything after sudden calls by human rights organizations for protests and seminars. It is hard to stop worrying and get a good night's sleep. Even drinking a glass of water makes me wonder if he got one. Everybody encourages me to keep hope but it's tough," he told ucanews.com.
With the help of Lahore's civil society, the 68-year-old has been lobbying for the return of Raza Mahmood Khan, who has been missing since Dec. 2. He was last seen attending a seminar on extremism against the backdrop of the recent lockdown of Islamabad, the federal capital, by protesters from religious parties.
Police deny imprisoning Khan, saying they found his belongings scattered on the floor of his apartment. His computer's central processing unit was also taken, they said.
Khan, 35, was the convener of Aaghaz-e-Dosti (The beginning of friendship), an initiative to help students from India and Pakistan send each other messages and paintings depicting peace.
Pakistan's relationship with neighboring India has worsened over the past six decades since the 1947 partition when British-ruled India was divided on religious lines.
Afraid of being labelled a "foreign agent," the Catholic Church in Pakistan does not report any peace initiatives with India.
Ismail Khan says his son was inspired by his maternal family side based across the border.
"He visited them three times and wanted to bring the people on both sides closer. Raza is not an agent of RAW (Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing)," he said.
"On Dec. 21, we received the last call from a private (undisclosed) number. The caller suggested we take a middle path. They also pressurized my eldest son, who is pursuing the police case."
Ghost prisoners or missing persons started making headlines in Pakistan shortly after the country became an ally of the United States in the war on terror in 2001.
Human rights organizations say the practice of enforced disappearances has been prevalent since the 1970s in Balochistan province.
Some 1,498 cases of enforced disappearances were pending with Pakistan's Commission on Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances as of last November.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) claims 728 Pakistanis were added to the missing persons list in 2016 — the highest number in six years. These include activists, suspected terrorists, political dissidents and critics of the military.
According to research conducted by Defence of Human Rights Pakistan, 98 percent of affected families said they got no legal assistance from the government to pursue the cases of their loved ones.
"The state again failed to punish any security official or police officer accused of disappearing suspects. The claim from certain people that most of the missing persons were kept in internment centers could not be verified due to lack of civilian oversight of these centers," states the latest HRCP annual report.
The commission also highlighted the issue in a documentary screened during a Jan. 6 seminar titled "Human rights in the era of enforced disappearances" at South Asia Free Media Association in Lahore.
Speakers demanded the criminalization of enforced disappearances, giving judicial status to the commission of inquiry and state ratification of the UN's International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances.
Ismail Khan also shared his plight to an audience of more than 100 and later joined a protest demanding freedom for his son. "Free speech a right, not a sin," stated one placard.
Blogger's ordeal
Salman Haider, one of five bloggers abducted last year, shared his experience of 21 days of detention in an article for BBC Urdu.
"I was handcuffed and interviewed with my face covered by a black cloth," he said.
"Irrespective of wrong or right answers to my captor's questions, and sometimes even before replying, I was slapped, punched, beaten with sticks and pipes and intermittently given electric shocks. Lastly, they asked me where they should throw my dead body.
"One investigator was only appointed to give lectures. He increased my knowledge of adultery by politicians, the faults of democracy, the perverseness of poets, the damage caused by liberalism, the 18th (constitution) amendment and the Dawn Leaks."
Farooq Tariq, spokesman for the Awami Workers Party, said a person cannot return to a normal life after being held in an internment center.
"After returning home, Haider told me no part of his body is without wounds. Such people have to leave the country and save their lives," he said.
"We reject and protest against being called a traitor for speaking about peace within our country and with our neighbors. The movement against disappearances will continue on roads and social media."
South Asia has the highest number of alleged victims of enforced disappearance in the world, with tens of thousands of cases documented in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and India.
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Peter Maes () (born 1 June 1964) is a Belgian retired footballer turned coach. He is currently unemployed after most recently managing Beerschot VA in the Belgian First Division A.

Prior to Lokeren, he also managed KV Mechelen and Genk. until 26 December 2016.

Career
In May 2020, Lommel S.K. parted ways with coach Maes. The club announced that they were looking for a new head coach.

In December 2020, the STVV team welcomed 56-year-old Peter Maes as its new head coach. Maes, who had been a goalkeeper with Lommel SK, R.S.C. Anderlecht, Waasland-Beveren and Standard Liège, among others, decided to enter the coaching job after his active career as a player.
Maes was named coach of the year in 2014. Popular throughout the country, the coach played with Guy Hellers at Standard de Liège from 1996 to 1998. Maes also won two Belgian Cups in 2012 and 2014.

Investigation
In October 2018, Maes, coach of the Belgium national football team K.S.C. Lokeren, was arrested for corruption in Belgian football. After Ivan Leko, Maes is the second coach to be imprisoned in this case.

Honours

Lokeren
 Belgian Cup: 2011-12, 2013-14

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1964 births
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You can read this Irish blessing as you sit in my dining room. You can spot it when you hang out in the family room too. It hangs over the entry to the living room and is now my daily reminder to be thankful.
A little back story. We have a really special street. It's honestly the kind of place I always dreamed of raising a family. Kids run from yard to yard and we're surrounded by really good neighbors. On Halloween night, every year, one woman who has lived on our street for over 30 years, cooks the whole block dinner. She calls it Soup Night and invites us all in, with our children, after trick or treating to enjoy delicious soup and a fun night with neighbors. It's really one of my favorite traditions about where we live.
Our block consists of homes built in the 1920's. They're all old and a lot of our neighborly conversations end up turning to who's replacing what and what the next renovation will be. As far as the size of our homes, I'd say size is all relative, based on where you live in the world, but the 1920's was long before giant homes were being built in our country. We were all packed in our neighbor's kitchen, listening as she told us about this year's soup variety, eating and watching our kids run through the kitchen hyped up on sugar, when two people bumped into each other. The party's host said, "Oh may your home always be too small to hold all of your friends". We all smiled and laughed. How blessed were we to have such a place to visit on Halloween night and to have so many neighbors that wanted to eat dinner together that we were bumping into each other.
Now not to confuse you with the back story, but this is important too… one of my neighbors is my cousin. A cousin who is more like a sister and a best friend my entire life. I suppose that makes the block a little extra special for me. She caught my eye when our neighbor rattled off that Irish blessing and she knows me well enough, to know how happy those words made me.
So a few months later, on Christmas Eve, I opened a gift from my cousin: she had that very Irish blessing turned into a wood sign for me (yay Etsy). I was so excited.
Later that night, when I was done cleaning up from Christmas Eve celebrations and prepping for Santa, I looked at the sign and cried.
About a week before I hosted a Christmas party brunch for ladies in town. It was a really fun morning and afterwards I got text after text thanking me for hosting. All I could think during the party was that I wished my kitchen was bigger and how it looked crowded and I hoped everyone was comfortable. I thought if my kitchen were bigger, maybe I could have invited more people. What I should have been thinking was how incredibly lucky I am to be surrounded by SO many moms in town that want to spend a morning drinking coffee and mimosas with me. How having enough friends to make your kitchen look crowded is a blessing, not a problem to fix.
We get so easily caught up in wanting more, wanting bigger and wanting better. But honestly the best: those around us.
This Irish blessing has been a real blessing for my life and focus. It goes beyond the size of your house. It reminds me, in all aspects of life: do not focus on what's missing, focus on abundance. What might seem like a problem, is small in relation to the good.
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I don't go anywhere with my clan of kids without someone telling me "my gosh you have your hands full". I sure do. In this situation: what's missing… many things (my sanity, a few extra hands, maybe a glass of wine), but the abundance…. to have my hands full with 4 children, full of life and joy… that is abundance, love and what's important to remember.
Maybe I'm reading too into it. Maybe it's a blessing that's simply stated. For me, I heard it at the right place and at the right time in my life. When I heard it in that kitchen crowded with the best neighbors, it reminded me that there was no house I would trade for the place we were living and the people around us. It reminded me that I have far more to be thankful for than to complain about. It reminded me to have gratitude. For that I am thankful and will continue to read this blessing, as it hangs on my wall, every day.
Beautiful reminder…grateful to have met you, friend!
Grateful to have met you too!


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The High Priestess Tarot Card Meaning, Explained
By Kate Rose — Updated on Oct 11, 2022
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Tarot is more than just a fortune telling device — it is a way to receive guidance and support from the universal energies that surround us.
The High Priestess tarot card is one card that holds great significance in showing us that our intuition is not only meant to be trusted, but that it is our greatest tool in creating a life we love that is rooted in our truth.
The High Priestess Tarot Card Meanings
When we read tarot cards, they are either upright or reversed. Depending on which we receive them, it changes the meaning significantly.
Upright meaning keywords: Intuition, trust, desirability, subconscious mind, sensuality, truth, higher power or self, abundance
Reversed meaning keywords: Listening to head over heart, repressed feelings, frustration, lack of self-love, mental blocks, secrets
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The High Priestess card is one of the 22 Major Arcana cards. It is powerful and carries with it deep meaning and authority. This divine figure represents the connection to the spirit world and serves as the threshold that separates this realm from the mystical.
In similar fashion to the Empress card, the High Priestess signifies a connection to the Divine Feminine, but in a different way.
While both can represent fertility or the ability to grow and flourish, the Empress is more bodily and physically divine, while the High Priestess is spiritually divine.
This is a figure that doesn't just hold a connection with spirit, but also honors the balance between masculine and feminine energies.
When this card comes up in tarot readings, it means it is time to think about whether you are trusting your intuition or blocking it.
The High Priestess Card Description
This card holds many different meanings in its imagery, all pointing to the deep and all-encompassing significance it brings to readings.
The High Priestess herself is affluent in knowledge and in status, as evident by her blue robe with the cross on her chest. She is a divine figure, emphasized by the horned crown she is wearing.
The scroll she holds in her lap represents the divine law that governs our life paths, with the awareness that the answers only appear when we are ready for them; this is why it is partially hidden within her clothing.
The crescent moon at her feet signifies her connection to the moon cycles as well as the natural world around her. It is also another symbol of her divine femininity and her connection to her subconscious mind, where the secrets of life live.
Behind her is a thin veil covered with pomegranates, a symbol of fertility and abundance. However, the veil itself signifies the separation between two worlds: the one we think exists, and the one that truly does once we are ready for the truth.
The split of black and white behind her represents a balance of divine feminine and masculine energies. The "B" represents strength connected to Boaz, and "J" for Jachin means to establish. In the Bible, Boaz and Jachin are brass or copper pillars on the porch of Solomon's Temple.
This High Priestess portrays the importance of balance in ourselves to experience balance within our lives. And an essential piece of that is to listen to your intuition when it calls upon you.
The High Priestess Upright Meaning
When we see the upright High Priestess card come through, it means the card is operating under its strongest and clearest energies.
The High Priestess card signifies not just intuition, but a connection to spirit and our higher self, which means we can trust any inner feelings we have, and that doing so will lead to a greater awareness of self in the process.
What separates the High Priestess from other female cards is that she literally is the portal between the spirit world and the physical world. This represents pregnancy, abundance or growth, but it is also about the ability to see both sides of a situation.
In doing this, we might be able to see what our lower or wounded self wants or would do. But this card is encouraging us to step into that higher self and make different choices to support greater divine balance within our lives.
Because of the connection to the spirit world, the High Priestess tarot card also calls us to pay attention to the signs all around that are guiding us.
The High Priestess Reversed Meaning
While the upright position of this card signifies the divine connection to self and universe already present, the reversed High Priestess represents a complete disconnect and block to this part of the self.
The opposite of all the High Priestess represents is a complete oblivion to not just self, but to our truth. It is rooted in being preoccupied with the opinions and thoughts of others, so much so that we are not even sure who we are.
The High Priestess reversed signifies we are focusing on all the wrong things.
While our intuition is telling us the correct course, we have been ignoring it because we are too focused on what is happening externally around us.
The reversed High Priestess means we are too dependent on external validation and circumstances to listen to our gut feeling and truth.
If we receive this card during a reading, it is meant to be taken as a warning to disconnect from the rest of the world so we can connect with the self. We need to take a pause in our lives and take a trip within ourselves, so we realize the only truth we need is the one we inherently feel.
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The High Priestess Meaning in Love & Relationships
In love and relationships, the High Priestess card represents being found attractive and desirable by others, but not necessarily for looks.
Love and Relationships: Upright High Priestess Meaning
This card signifies a deeper, more spiritual connection that is part of the divine feminine and masculine love affairs, in which they are able to help one another grow and ascend into their higher selves.
No matter what tarot deck used, when drawn upright, the High Priestess card signifies that trouble may arise when we attract a divine partner. We may also end up attracting those who wish to use our energy for their benefit, but give off theirs in a reciprocal way.
The lesson in this is that even if the card comes across in an upright position, be wary of who we let in. Make sure it is someone whose energy will add to the balance in our life.
Love and Relationships: Reversed High Priestess Meaning
When this card appears reversed, it can signify a breakup or ending in our love life.
Tensions will be high, and because of a tendency to have uncontrollable emotional outbursts, it is unlikely we will be able to communicate and express ourselves in a healthy way to move through it together.
In a love reading, the reversed High Priestess means we are completely disconnected from ourselves and the inner voice of our divine intuition. It also signifies that now is the time to take a minute to step back and reconnect with ourselves.
The High Priestess Meaning in Career
There are two different meanings in a career reading, depending on whether the card is in the upright or reversed position. Regardless, it does ask us to be aware of the information we are told, as well as the secrets we are not.
Career: Upright High Priestess Meaning
In a career reading, the upright High Priestess card means we will soon receive information or news about a promotion, a new job, or even a different career altogether.
This card tends to rule the arts, so it can suggest that a hobby might include finding a new way to pay the bills, or to explore this option if you have not already.
There is also a connection to higher education, so returning to school may be an option for some.
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Career: Reversed High Priestess Meaning
The meaning of the reversed High Priestess card in a career reading means to be wary of secrets of others in the workplace, as it could indicate sabotage.
It also can mean that another person is trying to use you as a way to get ahead for themselves, or that you may be used as a scapegoat for illegal or immoral activity.
There is a general warning with this card that you need to pause and discover more information about a given situation before making a decision.
The High Priestess Meaning in Finance
Financial abundance can be ours in a finance reading with the High Priestess card. That is, as long as we trust the right people.
Finance: Upright High Priestess Meaning
Receiving the upright High Priestess card in a reading about money signifies to be wary about who we trust, which is similar to the reversed reading.
It does not necessarily point to us having financial problems, but someone may be working behind our backs to jeopardize our financial well-being.
This also includes trusting the financial advice of a planner or someone we hire to monitor our finances.
Finance: Reversed High Priestess Meaning
With the reversed High Priestess card, not only do we receive that similar message of being careful about who we trust, but we are also warned about contracts.
This is especially true if we receive this card during a Mercury retrograde, as it means that whatever we are signing will be modified in the future — not necessarily for a negative outcome, but it still does not exclude the immoral activities of others involved.
To receive this card is a warning to proceed slowly and make sure to read the fine print before you sign anything.
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Kate Rose is an artist, writer, passionate yogi, spiritual astrologist, relationship and life coach, and motivational speaker. As a spiritual intuitive, she practices the religion of astrology and love. For more of her work, visit her website.


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Something that I have talked about before is my fear of baking. The act of relinquishing control over how things are cooked scare me because you can't make instantaneous changes to the food as you go along. Once it's in, its in. No going back. For this reason I believe that baking is an art and something I stay away from for most of the times (this, and my oven always breaks down every time we use it). However, last week I saw my friend Naomi's Snap Story with these drool worthy cookies from NYC and I commented saying, "I could make them better." As expected, Naomi encouraged me to try and here we are!
I was pretty excited with this challenge. It gave me an opportunity to buy some new cookware, enhance my baking prowess, and also get that stupid oven fixed. I spent most of my free time (i.e. my 3 hour commute back and forth from work) looking up recipes to try and mimic. I started with tasty which tbh used too much butter and 400grams of chocolate for 12 cookies which is basically diabetes on a plate. I then tried to understand the different kind of cookies through Martha Stewart's Kitchen Conundrums (thin and crisp, gooey, and cakey). I chose to make the gooey ones because those reminded me the most of Insomnia Cookies which are one my favorite desserts in the whole world (tiramisu, and Jeni's come first and second though). From NYTimes Cooking, I learned about chilling the dough in order to cool the butter which reduces the spread of the dough and retains the lift. Lastly, Donal Skehan taught me that baking powder puffs and baking soda spreads (here we needed baking soda).
This knowledge helped me create a recipe of my own. I used light brown sugar over dark in order to reduce the sweetness, and added some coffee powder to infuse a little mocha taste into the cookie. It took some time and a whole set of failed tries before I got this right. This first batch was burnt and spread to make one giant cookie to a small batch that looked good enough to be pictured. After working on these the whole Sunday, my final batch actually came out pretty well. I increased the heat on the bottom filament of the oven which helped the bottom create a crust allowing the gooey top to not crumble the dessert. Et voila, it worked!
I don't know what Naomi's cookie tasted like but I think this was a good try and an easy cookie dough recipe for most of us. Nomez, make a batch and let me know how you like them! For everyone else, please like, share, comment, and if you have a challenge for me, let me know!!
Cream together butter and sugar until mixed well.
Mix dry ingredients: flour and baking soda. Mix the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients and mix well.
Add vanilla essence, eggs, coffee, chocolate, and salt.
Put the mix into the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour and maximum of 2 hours.
Preheat the oven for 190 Celsius (350 Fahrenheit). Make 1 tablespoon scoops on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and stick in the oven for 10 minutes or until the sides of the cookies are browned.
Remove the cookies from the oven, leave out for about 30 minutes to cool off and Enjoy!


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If you can't spell the days of the week, practice in this quiz.
This Spelling quiz is called 'Spelling Months and Days' and it has been written by teachers to help you if you are studying the subject at elementary school. Playing educational quizzes is an enjoyable way to learn if you are in the 3rd, 4th or 5th grade - aged 8 to 11.
It is expected that elementary school children should be able to correctly copy the months and should be able to spell all the days of the week.
There are twelve months in a year and seven days in a week. Each month and day should be written with a capital letter. This quiz is going to test you on all the days and some months. See if you can get full marks!
The fifth day of the week is ____ and the fifth month of the year is ____.
There is normally a legal holiday at the beginning and end of May.
I will start a diet on the first ____ in ____.
Monday is the first day of the week and January is the first month of the year.
Pancake ____ can happen in the month of ____.
It's actually called Shrove Tuesday!
____ and ____ are known as the weekend.
The other days of the week are called week days.
The first and last months of the year are: ____ and ____.
Even though one is the first month of the year and one is the last, they are next to each other!
A legal holiday nearly always happens on a ____; except for Christmas which happens in the month of ____.
Christmas and New Year holidays can happen on any day but all our other legal holidays happen on a Monday (except for Good Friday).
Today is ____ and we are in the month of ____.
When we date something, we always write the number of the day, month and year. You might not need to write the day of the week.
Lent begins on Ash ____ and can happen in the month of ____.
Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday can happen in either February or March - the dates vary. Lots of people give up chocolate for Lent.
Tomorrow is ____ and we are in the month of ____.
Remembrance Day happens on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at 11AM.
The week days are: ____, ____, ____, ____ and ____.
Wednesday is quite difficult to spell because it sounds as though there are only two syllables but if you sound it out, it sounds like it should have three.


The regexp query allows you to use regular expression term queries. See Regular expression syntax for details of the supported regular expression language. The "term queries" in that first sentence means that Elasticsearch will apply the regexp to the terms produced by the tokenizer for that field, and not to the original text of the field.
Note: The performance of a regexp query heavily depends on the regular expression chosen. Matching everything like .* is very slow as well as using lookaround regular expressions. If possible, you should try to use a long prefix before your regular expression starts. Wildcard matchers like .*?+ will mostly lower performance.
Regular expressions are dangerous because it's easy to accidentally create an innocuous looking one that requires an exponential number of internal determinized automaton states (and corresponding RAM and CPU) for Lucene to execute. Lucene prevents these using the max_determinized_states setting (defaults to 10000). You can raise this limit to allow more complex regular expressions to execute.
Regular expression queries are supported by the regexp and the query_string queries. The Lucene regular expression engine is not Perl-compatible but supports a smaller range of operators.
We will not attempt to explain regular expressions, but just explain the supported operators.
Enabled with the INTERSECTION or ALL flags.
@&~(foo.+)      # anything except string beginning with "foo"
Enabled with the ANYSTRING or ALL flags.


Not only was John Wooden a great basketball coach, he was a master teacher. In fact, he was a great coach because he was a master teacher. What Wooden has learned from others in the classroom and perfected on the practice court are fundamental principles of effective teaching, which are conveyed in You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices. Co-author Swen Nater, one of Wooden's former players at UCLA, provides insightful first-hand accounts on the many life lessons he learned from Wooden that he has applied to his life since becoming a teacher himself. Wooden's principles conveyed by Nater and co-author Ronald Gallimore in this book can be studied and applied by teachers, coaches, parents, and anyone else who is responsible for, works with, or supervises others.
In this revised version of the book, the authors include an afterword, in which specific examples and anecdotes are provided of how You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned has impacted people in the teaching, coaching, and business industries.
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package org.elasticsearch.rest.action.search;

import org.elasticsearch.action.search.ClearScrollRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.client.node.NodeClient;
import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
import org.elasticsearch.rest.BaseRestHandler;
import org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest;
import org.elasticsearch.rest.action.RestStatusToXContentListener;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
import static org.elasticsearch.rest.RestRequest.Method.DELETE;

public class RestClearScrollAction extends BaseRestHandler {

    @Override
    public List<Route> routes() {
        return List.of(new Route(DELETE, "/_search/scroll"), new Route(DELETE, "/_search/scroll/{scroll_id}"));
    }

    @Override
    public String getName() {
        return "clear_scroll_action";
    }

    @Override
    public RestChannelConsumer prepareRequest(final RestRequest request, final NodeClient client) throws IOException {
        String scrollIds = request.param("scroll_id");
        ClearScrollRequest clearRequest = new ClearScrollRequest();
        clearRequest.setScrollIds(asList(Strings.splitStringByCommaToArray(scrollIds)));
        request.withContentOrSourceParamParserOrNull((xContentParser -> {
            if (xContentParser != null) {
                // NOTE: if rest request with xcontent body has request parameters, values parsed from request body have the precedence
                try {
                    clearRequest.fromXContent(xContentParser);
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Failed to parse request body", e);
                }
            }
        }));

        return channel -> client.clearScroll(clearRequest, new RestStatusToXContentListener<>(channel));
    }

}


Resident Evil Revelations 2 was one of the high profile games at Tokyo Game Show 2014 this past weekend. Capcom is looking to recreate the critical success of Resident Evil Revelations HD, and many are wondering if they can nail the balance between older scary Resident Evil and newer action packed Resident Evil once again.
Capcom took to the big stage at the conference, and gave a demonstration of the new game. Our presenter speaks in Japanese, but the characters' voices are in English. Lead characters Claire Redfield and Moira Burton explore the dark prison they wake up in. Claustrophobic corridors, dark corners with surprises around each corner, bloody operating rooms and cramped jail cells. Atmospheric enough for you?
It doesn't take long before the fun starts and Claire and Moira get bombarded by the infected. They pop from everywhere. Shelves, doors, shadows. Moira does little to help because of her fear of firearms, but thanks to the modern over-the-shoulder combat, Claire is able to drop zombies far more effectively than she was able to in Resident Evil 2.
My own impressions from the game were tainted with confusion over the nomenclature of the axes (X vs Y), but once I finally got them to work properly, it was a fun game. I'm not ready to set it up on the same level as Resident Evil Revelations HD after just ten minutes, but I think it has the basics down to get there with proper pacing.
No release date yet, but Capcom has confirmed that this will be an episodic game with four episodes releasing over the month of its availability. Each with be priced at $5.99, and a season pass will be $24.99. A packaged version is also scheduled to be released with extra content for $39.99.


Bieber Tells Fans to Support Javier on "The Voice"
Javier Colon is getting some support from the Canadian superstar.
Javier Colon is competing to win The Voice and Justin Bieber wants his fans to support him.
If Javier Colon becomes "The Voice" tomorrow night, it could be just because of his amazing voice.
Or, it could be that great voice mixed in with some help from Justin Bieber.
The Beebs used his Facebook page to tell his 32 million fans to support Javier and Team Adam tonight.
"WATCH! Javier from TEAM ADAM is a BEAST! support him on THE VOICE! got to support friends and this dude knows Ernie Halter too," Justin posted.
Justin's agent, Scooter Braun, is from Greenwich and Tweeted to Adam Levine that he's from Connecticut and Javier is incredible.
"I'm about to have my team go in for Team Adam," Scooter tweeted on Monday.
That team includes Justin, Ernie Halter, Asher Roth and more.
Within the last 21 hours, more than 21,000 people clicked "like" on Justin's post and more than 4,000 commented.
Most of those comments were to or about Justin himself, but the teen Canadian sensation no doubt exposed the Connecticut singer to a whole new fan base.
Since getting support from Justin Bieber, Javier has tweeted Kim Kardashian to tell her fans to watch and support him. So far, Kim has not tweeted out to her 8 million followers.
You can watch the show tonight on NBC at 8 p.m.


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'My husband is Colombian, so we visit Cartagena every year and have done so for the past 18 years. The pace of life here is famously slow, and I love ambling around the old town early in the morning, buying coconut water, warm pan de bono (cheese bread) and arepas de huevo (egg-filled corn cakes) for breakfast. The Spanish colonial buildings are magical, and usually feature a planted central courtyard with cool rooms coming off it. Most are privately owned, but some have been turned into hotels, and the Santa Clara, housed in a former convent, is a beautiful place for a lemonade and some shade.