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This Is The Week that Japan Goes on the Road
This weekend marks the start of the so-called "Golden Week" in Japan, a string of national holidays celebrating many cultural festivities and remembrances across the nation.
The Golden Week is the longest string of holidays in Japan with many large companies closing for as long as 10 days to give their employees time off. That also causes huge traffic as people try to travel abroad and domestic destinations all at the same time. It is said that Japan's population drops by millions during those days as people head overseas.
Okinawa also gets its share of the traffic. As tourism is the most important industry here, most Okinawan companies with the exception of government offices and banks do not close. In a matter of fact, the Golden Week is the busiest season of the year for restaurants, hotels and resorts.
Starting with Greenery Day on Monday, Golden Week holidays include Constitution Memorial Day (Kempou Kinenbi) on Thursday, Citizen's Day (Kokumin No Kyuujitsu) on Friday and Children's Day (Kodomo No Hi) Saturday.
Greenery Day was originally set aside to celebrate the birth date of Emperor Showa. Beginning in 1989 with the emperor's death, it was changed to a national holiday in celebration of nature, one of many issues the late Emperor held close to his heart. Constitution Memorial Day celebrates the establishment of the modern Japanese constitution in 1947.
Kokumin no Kyuujitsu, on May 4, is the newest of the holidays, and was enacted only three years ago to encourage nation's companies to close shop and give their workers time off for an entire week..
May 5, is the pinnacle of the holiday called "Kodomo no hi," or Children's Day. children's Day, formerly known as Boys' Day, is when colorful carp streamers (koinobori) are raised on poles, each representing a son in the family.
Tropical Beach Season Opening
Rescue demo, treasure hunt, fish catch, beach flags, concerts and more.
Date: Apr. 29 (Sun) 13:00
Place: Tropical Beach, Ginowan City
Sea carnival 2001 in Sesoko island
Fish catch, beach volleyball, treasure hunt and more.
Date: Apr. 29 (Sun)
Place: Sezoko Beach in Motobu
Ryukyu Kingdom Festival
A ritual dance with a lion mask and Eisa dances will be performed throughout the festival.
Recreation of life styles and people in the old castle town of Ryukyu Kingdom sends you for a time-trip back to the old days.
Try out some traditional handicraft such as glass, pottery, dyeing and textile weaving.
Collect stamps from various locations throughout the village and get a present.
Date: May 3 (Thu.) through 6 (Sun.)
Place: Gyokusendo Kingdom Village
The 27th Naha Harii
Harii means dragon in Chinese. The boats used in Harii races have a sculpture of dragonhead in the bow and the tail at the stern. The races are held to ensure good catch for fishermen during the coming season. The Main Harii races are scheduled for May 5 throughout the day. At the festival grounds there will be various entertainment, Eisa dances, live music, comedy shows and more on two special stages. Fireworks are scheduled for every night.
May 3 - Fireworks, 20:40 - 21:00
May 4 - Kachimba1551 concert, 19:00 - 20:20, Fireworks 20:40 - 21:00
May 5 - Harii race in two categories, general and strong. Qualification races for the general category start at 10:30. Women's foreign team, Torii Knights will start at 12:00. Teams Niraikanai, Shogun, and Devil Dogs will start at 12:15. Qualification rounds for the 'strong' category start at 14:15 with men's foreign teams competing each other first. The names and numbers of men's foreign teams are the same as women's teams. Finals for both categories will start at 15:30. Fireworks 20:30 - 21:00
Place: Naha New Port (Aja port)
Cow Parade in South East Botanical Gardens
For this extraordinary annual parade, artists from various parts of the world decided to create their impressions of cows. The first parade took place in '98 in Zurich, Switzerland. The next years it was held in Chicago, and last year was New York's turn. "Cow Parade Holdings Corporation" collaborating with each city organizes the parade. The cows exhibited in the parade go on an auction afterwards and the proceeds are given to charity organizations. The South East Botanical Gardens in Okinawa bought nine cows on a net auction, and the sculptures will debut for everyone to see in the park starting Golden Week.
Place: Tonan Shokubutsu Rakuen (South East Botanical Gardens)
For more info 939-2555, email info@sebg.co.jp or visit www.sebg.co.jp
Peter Pan Dolls Musical at Neo Park
A playgroup using stuffed dolls presents the funny and moving story of Peter Pan in Nago City's Neo Park.
Other Golden Week events include an Orchid Festival. A ride on live elephant turtle is something unusual that is offered for children.
Peter Pan show schedule
Apr. 29 & 30 at 13:00 / 15:00
May 3 – 6 at 12:00 / 14:00 / 16:00
Admission: adults ¥1,200, children ¥800 for advance tickets, ¥1500 and ¥800 at door.
Place: Neo Park Okinawa in Nago, 0980-52-6348
World Cat Exhibition in Naha
Cats from all over the world rule the Ryubo Hall in Kumoji, Naha City, during the Golden Week. Even some cats that are stars in TV commercials will participate. More cats can be seen at a pphoto exhibition home cats.
Date: Apr. 25 - May 6, 10:30 - 19:30
Place: Ryubo Hall in Palette Kumoji, Naha
Admission: adults ¥500, children ¥400


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Recent Congressional Research Service report, Global Economic Effects of COVID-19
Terence P. Stewart	· August 26, 2020 · COVID-19	· Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, United States	· No Comments
Governments around the world have been struggling with the health and economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic. Multilateral institutions generate a great deal of information on the pandemic and its effects and many countries do as well.
On August 21, 2020, the Congressional Research Service released an updated report on Global Economic Effects of COVID-19, Report No. R46270, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46270.
While the United States went through a huge resurgence of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the June-August 2020 time period, there have been smaller resurgences in a number of other developed countries in the July – August time frame including Australia, Japan, Korea, France, Germany, Spain and others. At the same time, the pandemic is raging in much of the Americas (other than Canada), in India, in some parts of Asia and increasingly in a number of African countries. While it is likely that the world total on new cases peaked in the two weeks ending August 16, the two weeks that end on August 30 will be very close to those numbers (3.6 million cases),
Most global economic outlook projections have been premised on the pandemic's worst economic effects being in the 2nd quarter of 2020 with a strong recovery in the third quarter and a continued rebound through 2021. Those projections are increasingly at risk as major economies struggle to return to normal without the need for further economic restrictions to address new surges of the pandemic. In the United States, despite efforts by the House of Representatives to pass legislation several months ago to continue the stimulus to the economy to help those unemployed and avoid massive evictions, help schools prepare for the fall season and state and local governments deal with the massive shortfall in revenue among other matters, the Senate didn't take up legislation until late July and had trouble agreeing on any additional funding. The impasse between the Democrats and the Republicans and White House has led to limited if any support in August and heading into the fall with the potential for millions of additional job losses and reopenings that are not adequately prepared. The opening of schools in recent weeks has had a number of challenges and many schools are proceeding virtually in an effort to remain safe but putting downward pressure on the economy. Thus, the global challenges are likely to worsen in the remaining months of 2020 making the global economic recovery slower and later than has been hoped.
The first pages of the CRS report (pages 5-8, Overview (excluding Table 1)) do an excellent job of reviewing the challenges for the United States and the world and re copied below.
"The World Health Organization (WHO) first declared COVID-19 a world health emergency in January 2020. Since then, the emergency has evolved into a global public health and economic crisis that has affected the $90 trillion global economy beyond anything experienced in nearly a century. Governments are attempting to balance often-competing policy objectives between addressing the public health crisis and economic considerations that include, but are not limited to these:
" Confronting ballooning budget deficits weighed against increasing spending to support unemployed workers and social safety nets.
" Providing financial support for national health systems that are under pressure to develop vaccines while also funding efforts to care for and safeguard citizens.
" Implementing monetary and fiscal policies that support credit markets and sustain economic activity, while also assisting businesses under financial distress.
" Implementing fiscal policies to stimulate economic activity, while consumers in developed economies sharply increase their savings as households face limited spending opportunities, or a form of involuntary saving, and concerns over their jobs, incomes, and the course of their economies, or precautionary saving.
" Intervention by central banks and monetary authorities generally in sovereign debt and corporate bond markets to stabilize markets and insure liquidity are raising concerns among some analysts that this activity is compromising the ability of the markets to perform their traditional functions of pricing risk and allocating capital.
" Fiscal and monetary policies that have been adopted to date to address the immediate impact of the health crisis compared with the mix of such policies between assisting households, firms, or state and local governments that may be needed going forward should the health and economic crises persist.
"Policymakers and financial and commodity market participants generally have been hopeful of a global economic recovery starting in the third quarter of 2020, assuming there is not a second wave of infections. Some forecasts, however, raise the prospects that the pandemic could negatively affect global economic growth more extensively and for a longer period of time with a slow, drawn-out recovery. Without a quick resolution of the health crisis, the economic crisis may persist longer than most forecasters have assumed and require policymakers to weigh the most effective mix of additional fiscal and monetary policies that may be required without the benefit of a relevant precedent to follow. Additional measures may have to balance the competing requirements of households, firms, and state and local governments. Various U.S. States reversed course in late June to impose or reimpose social distancing guidelines and close down businesses that had begun opening as a result of a rise in new confirmed cases of COVID-19, raising the prospect of a delayed recovery.
"In its July 29 policy statement and subsequent press conference, the U.S. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) indicated that the rise in COVID-19 cases in the United States since mid-June was weighing down economic growth and that, 'The path of the economy will depend significantly on the course of the virus. The ongoing public health crisis will weigh heavily on economic activity, employment, and inflation in the near term, and poses considerable risks to the economic outlook over the medium term.'
"Differences in policy approaches between countries are threatening to inflict longer-term damage to the global economy by impairing international political, trade, and economic relations, particularly between countries that promote nationalism and those that argue for a coordinated international response to the pandemic. Policy differences are also straining relations between developed and developing economies and between northern and southern members of the Eurozone, challenging alliances and conventional concepts of national security, and raising questions about the future of global leadership.
"In some countries, the pandemic has elevated the importance of public health as a national security issue and as a national economic priority on a par with traditional national security concerns such as terrorism, cyberattacks, and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.1 The pandemic-related economic and human costs could have long-term repercussions for economies through the tragic loss of life and job losses that derail careers and permanently shutter businesses. Fiscal and monetary measures implemented to prevent a financial crisis and sustain economic activity may also inadvertently be adding to income and wealth disparities. Within some countries, the economic fallout may be adding to widening racial and socio-economic cleavages and increasing social unrest. In speaking about these costs for Americans, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell said on May 19, 2020,
"'Since the pandemic arrived in force just two months ago, more than 20 million people have lost their jobs, reversing nearly 10 years of job gains. This precipitous drop in economic activity has caused a level of pain that is hard to capture in words, as lives are upended amid great uncertainty about the future.2'
"The virus was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China, but has been detected in over 200 countries and all U.S. states.3 In early March 2020, the focal point of infections shifted from China to Europe, especially Italy, but by April, the focus had shifted to the United States, where the number of infections was accelerating. The infection has sickened more than 20.2 million people, about one-fourth in the United States, with over 800,000 fatalities. At one point, more than 80 countries had closed their borders to arrivals from countries with infections, ordered businesses to close, instructed their populations to self-quarantine, and closed schools to an estimated 1.5 billion children.4
"Over the 22-week period from mid-March to mid-August 2020, 56.3 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance.5 On a seasonally adjusted basis, the number of insured unemployed workers was 14.8 million in mid-August, down from a peak of 25 million in mid-May, as indicated in Table 1. The total number of people claiming benefits in all programs in the week
1 Harris, Shane and Missy Ryan, To Prepare for the Next Pandemic, the U.S. Needs to Change its National Security Priorities, Experts Say, The Washington Post, June 16, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/to-prepare-for-the-next-pandemic-the-us-needs-to-change-its-national-security-priorities-experts-say/2020/06/16/b99807c0-aa9a-11ea-9063-e69bd6520940_story.html.
2 Powell, Jerome H. Coronavirus and CARES Act, Testimony before the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, U.S. Senate, May 19, 2020.
3 "Mapping the Spread of the COVID-19 in the U.S. and Worldwide," Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, March 4, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/22/mapping-spread-new-COVID-19/?arc404=true.
4 "The Day the World Stopped: How Governments Are Still Struggling to Get Ahead of the COVID-19," The Economist, March 17, 2020. https://www.economist.com/international/2020/03/17/governments-are-still-struggling-to-get-ahead-of-the-COVID-19.
5 Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims, Department of Labor, August 20, 2020. https://www.dol.gov/; Romm, Tony and Jeff Stein, 2.4 Million Americans Filed Jobless Claims Last Week, Bringing Nine Week Total to 38.6 Million, The Washington Post, May 21, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/21/unemployment-claims-coronavirus/
ending August 1, totaled 28 million, up from 1.7 million in the comparable week in 2019. The insured unemployment rate was 10.2%, also down from the peak reached in early May. On May 8, 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that 20 million Americans lost their jobs in April 2020, pushing the total number of unemployed Americans to 23 million,6 out of a total civilian labor force of 158 million. The increase pushed the national unemployment rate to 14.7% (with some caveats), the highest since the Great Depression of the 1930s.7 On June 6, BLS reported that nonfarm employment increased by 2.5 million in May, reducing the total number of unemployed Americans to 21 million8 and pushing the unemployment rate down to 13.5%, again with some caveats.9 On July 2, the BLS also released data on the employment situation in June, indicating that nonfarm payroll rose by 4.8 million, lowering the unemployment rate to 11.5%; on August 7, the BLS reported that nonfarm payrolls rose by 1.8 Million in July, lowering the number of unemployed individuals to 16.4 million and the unemployment rate to 10.2%.10
"Preliminary data also indicate that U.S. GDP fell by 9.5% in the second quarter of 2020 from the previous quarter, but at an annualized rate of 33%, the largest quarterly decline in U.S. GDP recorded over the past 70 years.11 In its May 27 Beige Book analysis, the Federal Reserve (Fed) reported that economic activity had fallen sharply in each of the 12 Federal Reserve districts.12
"In Europe, governments have attempted a phased reopening of businesses.13 After several months of data indicating an economic rebound had begun in the Eurozone, surveys of business activity in August reportedly indicated that the recovery was slowing amid a rise in new COVID-19 cases and countries reimposing new quarantines and lockdowns in various parts of the Euro area.14 Industrial production across the Eurozone as a whole fell by 17% in April, raising the annual decline to 28%, surpassing the contraction experienced during the global financial crisis.15 The European Commission's July 8, 2020, forecast projected that EU economic growth in 2020 could contract by 8.3% and only partially recover in 2021.16 In addition, a July forecast by the European Commission forecasts a larger drop in gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 among European economies than it had forecasted in its spring report, with a less vibrant recovery in 2021. Second quarter data indicate that economic growth in the EU contracted by 11.7% from the first quarter and by 14.1% compared with the same quarter in 2019.17 Second quarter data indicate the UK economy contracted by 20.4%, the largest quarterly decline on record.
"After protracted talks, European leaders agreed on July 21 to a new €750 billion (about $859 billion) pandemic economic assistance package to support European economies. Second quarter data also indicated that employment among the EU countries fell by 2.6%, or 5.5 million jobs. The jobs data, however, does not include roughly 45 million people, or a third of the workforce in Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Spain, currently covered by employment protection programs.18 Similarly, Japan reported on August 17 that its economy contracted by 7.8% in the second quarter of 2020, compared with the previous quarter, or at an annual rate of 27.8%.19
"On May 27, 2020, European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde warned that the Eurozone economy could contact by 8% to 12% in 2020, a level of damage to the Eurozone economy that Lagarde characterized as being unsurpassed in peacetime.20 Foreign investors have pulled an estimated $26 billion out of developing Asian economies not including more than $16 billion out of India, increasing concerns about a major economic recession in Asia. Some estimates indicate that 29 million people in Latin America could fall into poverty, reversing a decade of efforts to narrow income inequality. Some analysts are also concerned that Africa, after escaping the initial spread of infections, is now facing a sharp increase in rates of infection outside South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria, and Ghana, where most of the infections have occurred to date.21
"3 'Mapping the Spread of the COVID-19 in the U.S. and Worldwide,' Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, March 4, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/22/mapping-spread-new-COVID-19/?arc404=true.
"4 'The Day the World Stopped: How Governments Are Still Struggling to Get Ahead of the COVID-19,' The Economist, March 17, 2020. https://www.economist.com/international/2020/03/17/governments-are-still-struggling-to-get-ahead-of-the-COVID-19.
"5 Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims, Department of Labor, August 20, 2020. https://www.dol.gov/; Romm, Tony and Jeff Stein, 2.4 Million Americans Filed Jobless Claims Last Week, Bringing Nine Week Total to 38.6 Million, The Washington Post, May 21, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/21/unemployment-claims-coronavirus/.
"6 This total does not include 10.9 million workers who were working part time not by choice and 9.9 million individuals who were seeking employment.
"7 The Employment Situation-April 2020, Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 8, 2020. https://www.bls.gov/.
"9 The Employment Situation-May 2020, Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 5, 2020, https://www.bls.gov/. BLS indicated that some individuals were misclassified in April and May. Instead of being classified as unemployed, they were misclassified as employed, but absent from work due to coronavirus-related business closures. If such individuals had been classified as unemployed, the unemployment rate would have been 5 percentage points higher in April.
"10 The Employment Situation-July 2020, Bureau of Labor Statistics, August 7, 2020. https://www.bls.gov/. The unemployment number does not include 8.4 million workers who were working part time not by choice and 7.7 million individuals seeking employment. In addition, BLS indicated that some workers had been misclassified as employed, but should have been classified as unemployed, which would have raised the rate of unemployment by one percentage point.
"11 Gross Domestic Product, 2nd Quarter 2020 (Advance Estimate) and Annual Update, Bureau of Economic Analysis, July 30, 2020. https://www.bea.gov/news/2020/gross-domestic-product-2nd-quarter-2020-advance-estimate-and-annual-update.
"12 The Beige Book, Federal Reserve System, May 27, 2020. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/beige-book-default.htm.
"13 Stott, Michael, Coronavirus Set to Push 29m Latin Americans Into Poverty, Financial Times, April 24, 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/3bf48b80-8fba-410c-9bb8-31e33fffc3b8; Hall, Benjamin, Coronavirus Pandemic Threatens Livelihoods of 59m European Workers, Financial Times, April 19, 2020, https://www.ft.com/content/36239c82-84ae-4cc9-89bc-8e71e53d6649, Romei, Valentina and Martin Arnold, Eurozone Economy Shrinks by Fastest Rate on Record, Financial Times, April 30, 2020, https://www.ft.com/content/dd6cfafa-a56d-48f3-a9fd-aa71d17d49a8.
"14 Arnold, Martin, Eurozone Economic Rebound is Losing Steam, Surveys Suggest, Financial Times, August 21, 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/cc4fa3df-40e7-4e19-be9f-9d01efb74f69. Chazan, Guy and Anna Gross, Europe Battles to Contain Surge in Coronavirus Cases. Financial Times, July 29, 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/bcddc297-b7f2-444d-908f-54e8ce6f4f98.
"15 Arnold, Martin, Eurozone Industrial Production Falls by Record 17.1% in April, Financial Times, June 12, 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/e3301cd6-27ce-35f0-829a-c6613849b378.
"16 European Economic Forecast Summer 2020, European Commission, July 8, 2020.
"17 Newsrelease, Eurostat, August 14, 2020.
"18 Ben Hall, Ben, Delphine Strauss, and Daniel Dombey, Millions of European Jobs at Risk When Furlough Support Ends, Financial Times, August 14, 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/0f01a9ed-5b15-4e2d-921c-6eed7a80d0bd.
"19 Quarterly Estimates of GDP for April – June 2020 (First Preliminary Estimates), Cabinet Office, August 17, 2020.
"20 Arnold, Martin, Coronavirus Hit to Eurozone Economy Set to Dwarf Financial Crisis, Financial Times, May 27, 2020. https://www.ft.com/content/a01424e8-089d-4618-babe-72f88184ac57.
"21 Pilling, David, The Pandemic is Getting Worse: Africa Prepares for Surge in Infections, Financial Times, July 20, 2020." https://www.ft.com/content/1b3274ce-de3b-411d-8544-a024e64c3542.
The complete CRS report is embedded below.
CRS-8-21-2020-Global-Economic-Effects-of-COVID-19
The world is going through the worst economic contraction since World War II. The pandemic has affected the health of people around the world, with close to 24 million confirmed cases and likely a multiple of that considering the extent of infections in people without symptoms. More than 800,000 people have died, a number which is also likely to be low based on the number of people who die but never are hospitalized and thus not likely reported as COVID-19 related in many countries.
Most developed countries have followed the tried and true methodology of aggressive testing, tracing, and quarantining to slow the spread of the pandemic and then drastically reduce the number of new cases. For most developed countries this included some form of stay at home orders, social distancing, mask wearing with severe negative effects on many economic sectors. The United States has largely been alone among developed countries in having a generally poor, unorganized and mixed message response to the spread of the coronavirus. Yet other developed countries, as they have reopened, have experienced some of the rebound in cases that the United States experienced on steroids these last three months. The result has been deep economic contraction in the second quarter of 2020 and slower economic recovery likely in the third and fourth quarters of 2020.
At the same time, developing countries have become the center of the pandemic in recent months and may face greater health care challenges because of their infrastructure. These countries are facing severe economic contractions as well both from internal demand declines and from international market contractions.
While the billions being poured into development of vaccines and therapeutics will hopefully result in tools to reduce and then stop the spread of the pandemic, 2021 is the early side of likely massive amounts of vaccines and therapeutics being available.
With the ongoing economic challenges, worsening debt structure of nearly all countries and the collapse of many businesses and employment (e.g., travel and tourism employment is projected to drop by 100-120 million jobs in 2020), the world needs greater coordination of recovery strategies, increased attention on keeping global markets open (and limiting export restraints) and renewed attention to see that vaccines and therapeutics are equitably available to all at affordable prices as new products become available.
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If you are planning to travel in and around London this weekend, 13 – 14 April, most of the network will be open with services running normally but please check if any of the following works will affect you.
Farringdon station is closed this weekend to allow for continued work to enlarge and rebuild the station complex.
There is no service this weekend between Turnham Green and Ealing Broadway to enable us to renew points at Ealing Broadway and to improve 300 metres of drainage at Acton Town.
There is no service this weekend between Charing Cross and Camden Town to allow us to continue work to enlarge and rebuild Tottenham Court Road station.
Additionally, on Sunday only, there is no service between Camden Town and Edgware before 08:30 southbound and 09:00 northbound. This is while we make further progress installing a new signalling system as part of a comprehensive improvement of the line.
There is no service this weekend between Acton Town and Uxbridge while we renew points at Ealing Broadway and improve 300 metres of drainage at Ealing Common.
There is no service this weekend between Bank/Tower Gateway and Canary Wharf/Canning Town as well as between Canary Wharf and Stratford. This is to enable us to carry out track improvement work at Canning Town and maintenance work on track and signal systems.
There is no service between Highbury & Islington and New Cross/Clapham Junction/ Crystal Palace and West Croydon. This is to allow for waterproofing work at Canada Water, and to enable Network Rail to undertake signal testing and track and points maintenance work.
Before 12:15, there is no service between South Tottenham and Barking to enable Network Rail to undertake bridge maintenance and track work.
Before 15:00, there is no service between Shepherd's Bush and Willesden Junction to allow for Network Rail maintenance and survey work.


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The University hosted in its sports hall the national championship for kids in Kung Fu, organized by the Palestinian Kung Fu Association under the slogan of "Protectors of Al-Khan Al-Ahmar & Northern Valley" sponsored by the Palestinian Olympic Committee.
The match started with the entry of 16 judges and 13 teams from all around West Bank, then sang the national anthem and read Al-Fateha on the memory of the souls of the martyrs then said the championship oath and judges oath.
The president of Palestinian Kung Fu Association Mr. Hussain Al-Khateb said that this championship held within the annual agenda of the association. Where the teams are competing in the classification of the provinces and regions throughout the year to win the national championship, pointing out that the mechanism of playing in this match is fighting competitions on the ring according to the games standards and methods adopted for international competitions.
He also thanked the Arab American University for harnessing its sports facilities to support the various Palestinian sports. As he added that the Association has participated in the Olympic week in the opening and closing ceremonies held in April this year. Praising the efforts of this national academic edifice in supporting various sectors of Palestinian society, academic, culture, and sports.
For his part, the Director of Sports Facilities at Arab American University, Mr. Udi Darghma expressed his gratitude to the Palestinian Association of Wu Shou Kung Fu for choosing the university sports hall to organize this match, assuring the University's support for all sports games where these facilities were set according to international standards, pointing out that Kung Fu championship is the first of its kind in North West Bank, and expressed the University's readiness to cooperate with all sports Unions for individual and group games.


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Steven Jobs
Computer designer and corporate executive Steven Jobs (born 1955) is cofounder of Apple Computers. With his vision of affordable personal computers, he launched one of the largest industries of the past decades while still in his early twenties and remains one of the most inventive and energetic minds in American technology.
Born in 1955, Steven Jobs was adopted shortly thereafter by a California couple, Paul and Clara Jobs. Jobs showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. As a high school student, he boldly asked William Hewlett, co-founder and president of the Hewlett-Packard computer firm, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was impressed enough to give Jobs the parts and offer him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard.
Dropped Out of College
After graduating from high school in 1972, Jobs attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, for two years before dropping out, partly to ease his family's financial burden and partly to find himself. He hoped to visit India and study eastern spiritualism, but lacking necessary funds, went to work part-time for Atari Computers. He was able to save enough money to finance a trip to India in the summer of 1974. While there, he practiced meditation, studied eastern culture and religion, and even shaved his head. But by the fall, he became ill with dysentery and was forced to return to the United States.
For a short time, Jobs lived in a California commune but soon became disenchanted with the lifestyle. In 1975, he began associating with a group of computer aficionados known as the Homebrew Computer Club. One member, a technical whiz named Steve Wosniak, whom Jobs had first met at Hewlett-Packard, was trying to build a small computer. Jobs became fascinated with the marketing potential of such a computer, and in 1976 he and Wosniak formed their own company. The team was content to sell circuit boards designed by Wosniak until the computer prototype was complete. That same year, Wosniak succeeded in designing a small computer, and using Jobs's parents' garage, the two men worked to refine and market the product.
Cofounded Apple Computer Co.
Jobs saw a huge gap in the existing computer market, as no product was targeted for home use. Wosniak improved his initial computer while Jobs lined up investors and bank financing. Marketing manager A. C. Markkula eventually invested $250,000 and became an equal partner in the Apple Computer Company. With new capital, Jobs and Wosniak refined the prototype. The redesigned computer— christened the "Apple II"—hit the market in 1977, with impressive first year sales of $2.7 million. In one of the most phenomenal cases of corporate growth in U.S. history, the company's sales grew to $200 million within three years. Jobs and Wosniak had opened an entirely new market, that of personal computers, bringing the computational speed of business systems into people's homes and beginning a new era in information processing.
By 1980, the personal computer era was well underway. Apple was forced to continually improve its products to remain ahead in a growing marketplace. Competitors such as Radio Shack, Commodore, and IBM were gaining sales from Apple's market. In 1980, Apple introduced the Apple III computer, and improved version of the Apple II, but the new model suffered technical and marketing problems. It was withdrawn from the market, but was later reworked and reintroduced.
Jobs continued to be the marketing force behind Apple. He admitted that mistakes were made with the Apple III, but looked for innovative ways to meet new and existing consumer needs. Early in 1983, Jobs unveiled Lisa, another new computer, aimed this time at business executives. Lisa was designed for people possessing minimal computer experience. The model did not sell well, however, because of its high price and increased competition from IBM personal computers. By 1983, it was estimated that Apple lost half of its market share to IBM.
Macintosh falls, Jobs resigns
Faced with a declining market share, Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984. In designing the model, Jobs apparently paid more attention to appearances than function. Although the Macintosh had "user-friendly" software and on-screen displays, Jobs failed to equip it with either a letter-quality printer or a hard disk drive. Lacking these features, the Macintosh did not sell well to businesses. The failure of the Macintosh signalled the beginning of Jobs's downfall at Apple Computer Company. In 1985, following a highly publicized showdown at Apple, Jobs resigned from the company he had founded, though he retained his title as chairman of its board of directors.
It was not long before Steve Jobs resurfaced, however. Soon after leaving Apple, he hired some of his former employees to begin a new computer company. The company was called NeXT, and Jobs invested $7 million of his own money to get it started. For three years, Jobs and his employees worked to produce the first NeXT computer, which was aimed at the educational market. Late in 1988, the NeXT computer was introduced at a large gala event in San Francisco. Initial reactions were generally good; the product was user-friendly, with very fast processing speed, excellent graphics displays, and an outstanding sound system. Other innovations included an optical disk drive instead of floppy disks, and a special sound chip to provide the fidelity of a compact disc. Judging from initial reactions, many critics were convinced that Steve Jobs had brought another revolutionary product to American consumers.
Despite the warm reception, however, the NeXT machine never caught on. It was too costly, had a black-and-white screen, and couldn't be linked to other computers or run common software, Joseph Nocera wrote in a biting profile of Jobs in Gentleman's Quarterly. Nocera argued that Jobs's charisma and persuasive charm duped his employees, the press, and Jobs himself into believing he could not fail—despite strong evidence to the contrary. "Jobs started NeXT with an unshakable faith in his own press clips, in which his mistakes were always overlooked while his supposed triumphs were always wildly oversold," Nocera wrote.
Nocera said he also fell victim to the Jobs myth when he visited NeXT in 1986. He witnessed Jobs brutalize employees who worshipped him, obsess over mindless details, and indulge his expensive tastes—yet Nocera reported none of the contradictions. "The point is," he wrote in 1993, "my willingness to be seduced by Steve Jobs caused me to miss what I was seeing with my own eyes. Even in 1986, the evidence strongly suggested that lightning was not going to strike twice. The incongruities were too severe, the dreams too farfetched…. You'd ask the people at NeXT how, exactly, their computer was going to change the world and they would lapse into gobbledygook; they really had no idea what they were trying to accomplish with this new machine."
Bought Pixar, Made Toy Story
NeXT was not, however, the end of Steve Jobs. Lightning, indeed, struck a second time. In 1986, Jobs paid filmmaker George Lucas $10 million for a small firm called Pixar that specialized in computer animation. "Over the next six years Jobs poured another $40 million of his own money into the company … as it set out to make the first-ever computer-animated feature film," Time magazine reported in February 1996. That film was Toy Story, a huge box office hit. Pixar's initial public stock offering was an enormous success. The share price climbed dramatically, and Jobs's 80 percent stake in Pixar suddenly was worth $1 billion.
"Jobs makes the point that Pixar, like other (initial public offering) overnight successes, was really anything but an overnight success," said the Time article. "-The things I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off,' he says. He and Wosniak started work on Apple in 1975. -So it was really six years of work before we went public. And Pixar has been 10 years…. The thing that drives me and my colleagues … is that you see something very compelling to you, and you don't quite know how to get it, but you know, sometimes intuitively, it's within your grasp. And it's worth putting in years of your life to make it come into existence."'
In December of 1996, Apple announced that it was purchasing Next Software for over $400 million. Jobs returned to Apple as a part-time consultant to CEO Gilbert Amelio. The following year, in August, Apple entered into a partnership with archrival Microsoft, in which the two companies, according to the New York Times, "agreed to cooperate on several sales and technology fronts." The alliance was an unprecedented one for the industry, but analysts predicted that Microsoft's support will ultimately save Apple, a company that had in the late 1990s come to serve a much more niche market than Microsoft. "We want to let go of this notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose," Jobs said. In September of 1997, Jobs was named interim CEO of Apple while a replacement for the ousted Amelio was sought.
Further Reading on Steven Jobs
Butcher, Lee, Accidental Millionaire: The Rise and Fall of Steven Jobs at Apple Computer, Paragon House, 1987.
Young, Jeffrey S., Steve Jobs: The Journey Is the Reward, Scott, Foresman, 1988.
Esquire, December, 1986, pp. 84-101.
Fortune, February 20, 1984, pp. 86-88.
Gentleman's Quarterly, October 1993, pp. 105-111.
Newsweek, January 30, 1984, pp. 54-57; September 30, 1985, pp. 46-50; October 24, 1988, pp. 46-51.
Rolling Stone, April 4, 1996, pp. 51 °.
Time, February 15, 1982, pp. 40-41; January 3, 1983, pp. 25-27; January 30, 1984, pp. 68-69; February 19, 1996, pp. 43-47.
Business Week March 17, 1997, pp. 116.


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Bound By Flame Review (PC)
Alex Langley
Alex Langley Published: May 14, 2014
It's not easy, battling the undead. To roughly paraphrase the opening to the action role-playing game Bound By Flame, every undead monster you kill is just one fewer monster, while every living soldier they kill swells their ranks further. Fortunately, after a magical ritual gone awry, protagonist Vulcan finds him/herself in command of some powerful new infernal magicks... now if only Vulcan could be in command of a less uneven RPG experience.
If you're familiar with any of Bioware's popular RPGs, or the more recent Witcher series from CD Projekt Red, you'll feel (mostly) at ease with Bound By Flame. The world is as grim and dark as it is in Dragon Age, with character customization options reminiscent of Knights of the Old Republic, and foul language that wishes it was half as clever as The Witcher. As the customizable hero Vulcan, you're a member of an elite mercenary group helping combat the seemingly-endless army of undead encroaching on the land of the living. Thanks to the aforementioned infernal magicks, it looks like Vulcan may be the only one who can stop these unliving losers for good. Bound By Flame's plot doesn't exactly break the mold for fantasy RPGs, offering a typical narrative most gamers have played a dozen times before, and NPC party members who feel more like Wikipedia pages about themselves than actual characters. Like a Bioware game, Bound By Flame offers important choices for players to make... only, these choices often end up leading you to the same basic outcome, which begs the question as to why players have to make such choices in the first place.
Character customization, while robust, suffers from some of the same things the plot does. Upon starting a new game, you're asked to create a main character, with options to customize this character's gender, ethnicity and name. Once you start the game, however, everyone just calls you by the default name, Vulcan, making the name selection thing feel pretty moot. Being able to customize gender and ethnicity is a welcome choice, however, one that more game development teams should take note of.
Outside of cosmetic choices such as appearance, Vulcan comes with numerous ways to enhance her combat abilities. Levels grant skill points and feats. There are several skill trees for players to pump points into, each specializing in things like magic, stealthy combat or all-out brawling. These skill trees are fairly straightforward, but still feel a bit uninspired, as this mechanic has more than overstayed its welcome at this point. The trees themselves are well laid out, as each point grants a small bonus of some kind, and later sections of each tree are roughly as strong as the early areas, so if you're the kind of player who likes to be a jack of all trades, go ahead. Feats each have prerequisites to them which can be unlocked by performing certain actions like consuming X number of mana potions or opening Y number of chests— this system is far more successful and interesting, giving you a direct look into your exact playstyle and allowing you to customize accordingly.
When you're not traipsing around looking for treasure or talking to NPCs, a bulk of your time will be spent in combat. Don't be fooled, gentle gamer, as Bound By Flame's combat is rough; even on the easiest difficulty you'll have to be fully aware of your surroundings to survive, and sometimes even that's not enough. With dodge, parry, and stealth kill mechanics in play, Bound By Flame's combat is more active than most RPGs, and herein lies its problem. You'll have to dodge and parry with precise timing to survive, but the controls can be sluggish, the auto-targeting system finicky, and the enemy AI and distribution too aggressive for you to do anything other than chug health potions and try to barrel your way to victory. These frustrations are compounded by the enemy monsters' tendency to reset back to their spawn point should you drag them too far, instantly recovering their health and wasting whatever supplies you used against them in the process. You do get NPC party members fighting by your side, but they're often useless, getting pummeled into unconsciousness before they even know what's happening.
Bound By Flame's aesthetics, like the rest of the game, are an uneven experience. The score is impressive, oppressing the player with ominous beats and strumming up stirring fanfares for the more epic moments. The voice acting, however, is a bit on the rough side. Most of Bound By Flame's characters are dirty-mouthed hooligans, and while this can be funny at times, at others it just comes off as puerile. The art direction skews a bit too far into the brown-and-greys, with most everything having a bit of a muddy look, and characters lack the kind of facial animations or lip-synching accuracy needed to take things seriously.
Bound By Flame's combat is difficult, but often it's due to bad game design rather than challenging game design, and many aspects of the game, from the main storyline to its audio and visuals, are hit-and-miss. On the positive side, there's a lot to do for players who like to scour menus and dungeons alike, plus there are numerous ways to customize your character, and the whole package comes at a discount price tag. Bound By Flame strives to live up to its forefathers, and while it doesn't exactly fail, it does make some serious mistakes that drag the experience down.
This review is based on a purchased download of Bound By Flame for the PC.
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Sir Eric William Dalrymple Maclagen KCVO, CBE
Active: 1905 - 1945
Country of birth and death: England
Museum curator, director
'He was a son of the late Dr. W. D. Maclagan, Archbishop of York, and his second wife Augusta Anne, daughter of the sixth Lord Barrington. Educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford, he joined the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1905. He was attached to the Department of Textiles, and in 1907 produced a useful 'Guide to English Ecclesiastical Embroideries'. Shortly after this he was transferred to the department of Architecture and Sculpture, where he worked under Mr A. B. Skinner, and on Mr. Skinner's death in 1908 became head of the department.
...On the retirement of Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith in 1924 Maclagan was appointed director and secretary of the museum. He made great strides in humanizing the museum by such developments as the extensive sale of picture post-cards and Christmas cards of museum objects, the issue of a popular series of sixpenny picture books (his own 'Children in Sculpture' and 'Portrait Busts' are good examples), the arrangement of lantern lectures open free to the public, and the encouragement of guide lecturers. Another valuable step of this kind was the placing on prominent exhibition each Monday of an 'Object of the Week', selected from the museum's principal treasures, with a descriptive label combining scholarship and popular appeal: no one could write those descriptions better than himself. In a wider sphere the prestige of the museum was undoubtedly increased among leaders in the art world abroad owing to his personality and scholarship, his powers as a linguist, and his almost unrivalled knowledge of Italian sculpture.' [Extract from Obituary of Sir Eric Maclagan from
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at Ivory Carving (Art Workers Guild), 1911
Institutional and Business Connections
Employed at Victoria and Albert Museum
Department of textiles 1905-7, then moved to the department of Architecture and Sculpture, rising to keeper of 1908-24, then director of the museum from 1924-45
Lectured at Royal Academy Schools
Delivered a lecture entitled 'Modern Sculpture'. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1931', (1932), p. 57.
Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1931, 1932 Royal Academy Annual Reports
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
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'Sir Eric William Dalrymple Maclagen KCVO, CBE', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1216636445, accessed 02 Feb 2023]


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'Fear TWD' showrunners tease we'll finally learn who saved Morgan, how the rest of the season changed due to the pandemic, and what changed to make the show good again
Morgan and Alicia are reunited on Sunday's episode of "Fear TWD."
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Showrunners Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg spoke with Insider about the first half of the season and what's next.
Warning: There are spoilers ahead for "Fear the Walking Dead," season six, episode seven, "Damage from the Inside."
The episode's title is a hint at why Strand (Colman Domingo) doesn't go with Morgan (Lennie James) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) by the end of Sunday's episode.
We will learn who saved Morgan in the episodes to come and they may have an agenda against Ginny (Colbie Minifie).
Chambliss said the latter half of season six will continue to explore Sherry's PTSD.
"Fear the Walking Dead" ended a pretty stellar half-season run on Sunday night with Morgan (Lennie James) reuniting most of his group and fans finally knowing that Grace (Karen David) is alive and well.
But it wasn't supposed to be the mid-season finale. "Fear" was in the process of filming the original finale back in March when production on the show came to a halt.
"We were a couple of days shy of finishing production on 608 when the pandemic shut us down," coshowrunner and executive producer Andrew Chambliss told Insider.
Insider caught up with Chambliss and coshowrunner and executive producer Ian Goldberg to get real about why the show feels completely different this season and how the title of Sunday's episode connects to Strand's (Colman Domingo) difficult decision by the end of the mid-season finale.
The duo also told us we'll finally learn who saved Morgan later this season, weighed in on our dream for a "Fear TWD" and "Walking Dead" merger, and told us how the latter half of the season — which is currently filming — was tweaked in light of the pandemic.
The showrunners said 'Fear TWD' is good again because in season six they reinvented the series.
Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) hasn't been forced to paint trees again all season. And that's been a good thing for season six. "Fear" feels likely a wildly different show from the past two seasons.
Insider: I don't know what changed, but holy cow. This first half of season six is the best "Fear" has been since season three. If you recall, I was giving you guys a bit of a hard time at the end of season five. What changed? And don't say it was just turning it into an anthology.
Andrew Chambliss: Our intention at the end of season five was to bring our characters to kind of their most optimistic place and then tear the rug out from under them and test them in ways that we had never seen them tested before and take everyone to kind of the depths of who they are. Then [you] see who breaks down in those situations, who thrives, who can rise above it.
So I think just by virtue of the fact that we separated everyone and we took away their control and their agency, it really forced us to dig down deep with these characters and really examine who they are, who they want to be, who they think they can become. That I think is what has been so exciting about the storytelling and has led to some really interesting stuff coming out of these characters.
I heard that maybe some people on the show were a little frustrated with their character directions and how they were acting a bit out of character. I'm not going to name names, but maybe that feedback helped guide and inspire a revitalization in the show because, guys, it's fricking good. It's like I'm watching an entirely different show. Characters are acting in ways that they should be. Strand is back to being Strand. Alicia's not painting trees. Is there anything else that you guys can can say there?
Ian Goldberg: We're obviously constantly talking to the cast and we say this every season, but it really is true: Every eight episodes we try and reinvent the show, with every season, with every half season. And I think the re-invention with season six, maybe it's just more pronounced than it has been between seasons before because it is such a total shift from season five and the brightness and optimism that the characters were going through.
Like Andrew said, that's been exciting for us because it's about taking the characters from their highest highs to their lowest lows and seeing how they react when they've all been kicked in the teeth, which I think has been super exciting. And it's been fun to have those conversations with the cast as well because they're getting to play entirely different shades of these characters.
Sunday night's episode wasn't supposed to be the mid-season finale.
Sunday's episode ended with the reveal that Grace is alive and locked away in a hidden room.
I forgot that [this episode], 607, was going to be the mid-season finale because we're so used to having eight. Are you guys a bit bummed that this is where we ended the half? Or are you guys happy with the end point? I'm not sure if 608 would have felt more like a true mid-season finale, but I think that this works.
Chambliss: The plan had been for 608 to be the mid-season finale and then, of course, the world decided that wasn't going to happen. We were a couple of days shy of finishing production on 608 when the pandemic shut us down. I think in looking at the storytelling, it is a very good place to leave on a cliffhanger because we have some open questions about what these characters are going to do.
It really seems like we're at the precipice of Virginia backed into a corner where she's got to act. And then the next couple of episodes when we return are going to answer a lot of those questions and those episodes kind of stand as their own little kind of anthology story within the greater whole.
The pandemic changed the next nine episodes of 'Fear TWD,' but not too much. Expect to see less extras, though.
On Sunday's mid-season finale, we see quite a bit of the undead together during, what felt like, a "Frankenstein"/"Hannibal"-esque inspired episode. Don't expect to see that in the back-half of season six.
You guys have been killing it in terms of quality. My fear was that filming during COVID-19 may impact the storytelling. Did you have to rethink how you're filming these upcoming nine episodes? Do they feel a little bit different? Did you rewrite things at all?
Goldberg: What's interesting is that because we had been writing them in the anthology model before COVID hit, the scripts did not need to be retooled as much as they would have been if they were all big ensemble episodes. So, in a strange way, we were writing COVID-friendly episodes before COVID.
That's not to say we haven't had to make some adjustments here and there for safety. There's still issues of how many extras we can use in a scene or how many walkers, things like that. But the stories really remained pretty much unchanged, which has been a blessing.
We'll see more of Sherry's personal trauma play out.
Sherry was finally reunited with Dwight, but fans learned that Sherry has been battling some demons from her past that she needs to work through.
Something that was unexpected that I loved, and that a lot of fans were receptive to this half season, was diving into Sherry's PTSD from her time with Negan. I was shocked, but happy that you guys broached this. It's such a timely story. How did you guys decide to tackle this and how much deeper can we expect you guys to explore Sherry's PTSD?
Chambliss: It just seemed like the story that needed to be told for her. We got to see Dwight deal with so much of that on screen, both on "The Walking Dead" and his journey to "Fear," that it seemed like we would really be leaving out a big part of her story if we found Sherry in a much better place — if we saw her already past all that trauma. It's definitely something that we're going to continue as the season goes on.
Goldberg admits the reason why Strand didn't go with Morgan and Alicia is because he's walking a 'constant tightrope.'
Strand, who chooses not to join Alicia and Morgan, severely looks pained by his choice on Sunday's episode.
On Sunday's episode, is Strand making the wrong call by not going with Morgan and Alicia? Why doesn't he go? I have two theories because Strand is a complicated man: He's being selfish and he believes Ginny is his best chance of survival or maybe Strand wants to be the man on the inside and is playing the long game.
Goldberg: I think both those theories are valid and to speak to the second one, Strand has been talking about doing damage from the inside since the end of season five. That's what the title of this episode is all about. It's why he separated himself from Alicia at the end of episode 602. It's ultimately also why he killed Sanjay in that episode because he needed to curry favor with Virginia.
I think the constant tightrope that Strand is walking is while he's doing this damage from the inside, is he destroying his relationships with the people he cares about the most and is he going down a path he can't walk back from? So that's the really fascinating thing about Strand this season.
We will learn who saved Morgan by the end of season six.
On the season six premiere, Morgan reveals the note left for him by his mysterious savior.
In the back half of the season, will we learn who saved Morgan? Yes or no answer here is fine. And the person who saved Morgan — Is there a chance it may be someone who has an agenda against Ginny, as in, someone who maybe had a reason to keep Morgan alive?
Chambliss: I think the answer to both those questions is yes.
Insider: Very succinct, Andrew.
Are we heading towards a merger between 'TWD' and 'Fear TWD?' Well, maybe.
Could Maggie wind up becoming a part of Ginny's key communities at some point? "Fear" is currently a few years behind "TWD."
Jackson Lee Davis/AMC
With "The Walking Dead" ending in 2022, are we heading towards an inevitable merger between "Fear" and "TWD"? This key to the future stuff on "TWD" with Maggie's group is certainly starting to feel like it could be part of Ginny's group. Here's what I see: I see Ginny getting taken out, Morgan and Strand taking over, and then working with Georgie and Maggie. That's my dream right there.
Goldberg: You just gave us a great roadmap for the rest of it [Laughs]. We should be writing this down.
It's recorded. [Laughs] I'll send it to you.
What's next for 'Fear TWD?' A Ginny and Morgan confrontation and more of the 'end is the beginning' folks.
Ian Goldberg says we'll get a full circle moment to Morgan and Ginny's walkie moment from the season six premiere.
What can you tease for the nine episodes ahead? The gang's almost all back together. Are we gearing up for — excuse my "Walking Dead" pun — but "All Out War" on "Fear of the Walking Dead?" I'm getting some season eight "TWD" vibes.
Goldberg: Well, we're certainly gearing up for a confrontation between Morgan and Virginia. They haven't spoken since 601. Morgan told Ginny over the walkie that she was dealing with somebody else now and we are going to get the bookend to that moment coming up in the next few episodes.
Chambliss: The other element that we've hinted at, and Virginia's been worried about, is this group who remains mysterious now, but has been leaving these messages — "The end is the beginning" — all around the apocalyptic landscape. They will definitely be rearing their heads.
"Fear TWD" will return to AMC next year. You can follow our "TWD" coverage here.
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Lady Gaga: Everything is Empy
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23 million albums and 64 million singles. Grammy awards. Voted one of the most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2010. The young 20-something has managed to catch the eye and the ear of, not only her generation, but the world. But what exactly does Stefani Germanotta have to say to the world? What is her message? Most people look at her garish outfits or her bizarre behaviors and view her as a freak or a genius or an artist. My belief is that her performance belies what is truly at the heart of the matter. We must look beyond our reactions to her styles and look deeper at why she sings what she sings.
In our attempt to pull back the layers of this artist, I would first note that she has asked that we do this. In her 2009 hit single "Paparazzi" she sees the world fawning over her and telling her that they're her "biggest fan" while all the while missing that she is in great danger (which she pictures variously using symbolism of a monster, illness, and a dangerous relationship). People are caught up in chasing her fame, but they fail to recognize the struggle that she has inside. Part of her bizarre outfits and crazy stage shows likely mask the personal frustrations of a girl who can't even look herself in the mirror. She can't have anyone see her for who she really is and so she hides herself ("Dance in the Dark") and puts on her "Poker Face."
As we pull back the curtain on her lyrics, we see why she remains hidden in giant eggs and meat outfits. Lady Gaga bares her soul about a number of struggles and let downs in her life. Her desire for sexual gratification has led her down a reckless and dangerous path of empty relationships. Countless songs point the listener in this direction. In "Bad Romance" she finds herself trapped in a controlling sexual relationship. In "Alejandro," her desire to take in a healthy relationship leaves her empty and scarred. When it's all said and done, she just keeps returning to harmful relationships as portrayed in "Monster." This return is evidence that she has made men her "religion" in her bondage parable "Teeth." She needs someone who can pull her out of her addiction and destructive lifestyle. She cries out for someone to "change me," but help never comes. The ups and the downs of her romantic life and career end up leaving her in an emotional prison of sorts ("Telephone"), where she is trapped and can only attempt to find short-sighted avenues to seek revenge.
All of her frustrations put her, as described in "The Edge of Glory," dangerously "on the edge" as she recklessly pursues something meaningful in life. She believes for an instant that she has captured something meaningful in what she describes as a "moment of truth" only to fall off the edge and back into her life of emptiness and lies. Her resolve to this is "Just Dance." When life is a wreck and you don't know what to do, "just dance, [it's] gonna be okay." In a drunken fling she gets "hosed" in order to escape the reality of her frustrated life. In stark contrast, she looks at the near-death experience of her dad and stands "Speechless." She doesn't know how to cope. The sadness and struggles of life have closed in on her and she sees no escape.
"I am beyond repentance," Gaga continues in her "Judas" epic. She's lost her moorings and is hopeless now. She knows that Jesus is still "pulling" her away from her destructive life (imagined as Judas), but she won't give up her desire to "cling to" Judas. This, she demonstrates, is the reason for the frustrations of her life. She has given up Jesus for Judas.
The story of Lady Gaga matches the personal experience of many teens, college students, midlife crisis cases, septuagenarians, and so on. Even in the Bible we find the story of the wisest and wildest king that ever ruled Israel. He had 1,000 wives, loads of money, an impressive following, and was a total genius. Who wouldn't want to have everything that Solomon had. He wore the best and was, no doubt, thronged by the paparazzi of his day, but in the end he passes a very similar verdict on it all as does Lady Gaga. He summarizes it like this: "everything is meaningless" (Ecc. 1:2). After talking about his attempts to find happiness in wine, wisdom, home improvement, wealth, and women (Ecc. 2:1-9) he sums up:
"I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun."
Chasing the wind. What a letdown! This is the end of someone who chases anything that this life has to offer. This is what Solomon and Lady Gaga have to tell us. This is the warning shouted by those who are surrounded by fame and glory to us who ignorantly pursue what they have already achieved. Let us consider the pursuit of something eternal. None of us is beyond repentance. We can still reject our infatuation with Judas. We have all betrayed Jesus, but He will take us if we but return to Him in faith looking to Him to take the punishment for our betrayal. Only in Jesus will we find escape from the life of frustration and empty recklessness presented to us in the music of Lady Gaga.
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Boston Marathon Bombings
7 thoughts about Boston
By Joe Klein @JoeKleinTIMEApril 20, 2013
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Flowers, personal objects and three crosses for the victims of the bombings are seen near the Boston Marathon finish line in Boston, Mass., on April 20, 2013.
Some thoughts about Boston:
1. American law enforcement is extraordinary. This case was wrapped up with remarkable speed–with the help of surveillance cameras and, it seems likely, our ability to trace cell phone calls. Both of these tools have been controversial among civil libertarians–and indeed, in the days since the Boston attack, there have been those on the left who have warned against further government intrusion into our lives. I am not at all worried about that, not even slightly…because this is a country that, if anything, errs on the side of libertarian excess–as witnessed by the Senate's disgraceful vote against background checks for guns, and the various tweets and noise pollution about the post-Boston need for armed citizens to defend themselves against terrorist marauders. I do not see how armed civilians would have made a difference in this case. In fact, those killed or wounded by gunfire this week in Boston were police officers (although I'm not sure the MIT campus police officer was armed).
2. Do not extrapolate. There is talk now that this will affect our immigration debate, or our gun control debate, or raise issues about the President's vigilance against terrorism. These are the very sorts of arguments–tiny, tawdry political arguments–that disgust the overwhelming majority of Americans who (a) stood together, with Boston, after the attacks and (b) celebrated the swift resolution of the case and (c) appreciated and were moved by Obama's extraordinary address at the memorial service. These extrapolations are also specious because…
3.The government has been extremely successful in stopping other terrorist attempts. Rudy Giuliani, known for his intemperance on occasion, took to the airwaves after the capture of the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to say that both the Bush and the Obama Administrations have been rigorous and excellent in combating terrorist attacks. The record is, in fact, remarkable. But you can't stop them all–and the promotion of the idea that we can entirely safe and protected from this filthy, insidious threat is a dangerous delusion. The fact that the Boston attack came from two Chechen brothers who probably–but not definitely–were lone wolves was a scenario that no one could have predicted. The ricin letters addressed to public officials, including the President, last week allegedly came from an individual who may have been mentally disturbed. We live in a society where all sorts of lethal weapons are available–and where anti-government paranoia is encouraged–at both deep ends of the political spectrum. (Although, in recent decades, the right has far outstripped the left in its nuttiness). But…
4. We have been very lucky. There have been precious few of these attacks, a fact that has mystified law enforcement and security professionals. It is extremely easy to create terror in this country. Home made bombs can wreck shopping malls, sports events…and elementary schools.
In the months after 9/11, I participated in a successful terrorist attack on an elementary school in a St. Louis suburb. It was staged, of course, by a government agency, but it was scary as hell. Our team secured shotguns with a phone call to a gun shop. We had an Israeli security official along for the ride ask, in a heavy foreign accent, a woman in the school's office, "When is the next school assembly?" She cheerily told him it would be Wednesday afternoon, for Halloween. We were able to case our points of entry and exit without any questions asked. It is simply remarkable that we haven't had a slew of attacks against soft targets. And therefore…
5. We're going to have to be far more vigilant now. Copycats may be out there.
6. And I would urge those in the media who speak of the United States government as if it were a foreign entity to chill out. You may be further poisoning the demented. Criticism of the government is, of course, as American as oxycontin…but it is our government and this is our President. You may disagree with one program or another–you may think (wrongly) that Obamacare is socialistic, you may think that the Patriot Act is part of a ruinous, possibly conspiratorial invasion of privacy–but this President has proved time and again that he is a strong American patriot. Any inferences otherwise may reap the whirlwind.
(PHOTOS: Images: Joy and Relief in Boston After Bombing Suspect's Arrest)
7. As the President said, Boston is a piece of me, too. I began my career there. Far more important, my terrific son, Terry, his wife, Lindsay and my two absolutely perfect granddaughters, Zoe and Bibi, live there. I had my heart in my mouth on Monday–and again on Friday, when the younger Tsarnaev was on the loose. I wonder what the long-term impact of this week of horror will be on the girls…and on all Bostonians. It truly is a unique and fabulous American place. My kind of town: obsessed with sports and politics. And this week, in their feisty calm and courageous grace, Bostonians have shown the rest of the world why so many of us love them so.
Joe Klein @JoeKleinTIME
Joe Klein is TIME's political columnist and author of six books, most recently Politics Lost. His weekly TIME column, "In the Arena," covers national and international affairs.
Klein's latest book is Politics Lost.


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The FIRST Trailer For 'Free Meek' Is Out!
The story of Meek Mill at this part of his career is full of many ups and downs, not only in his personal life, but in his career was well.
Last year, he was finally released from prison after Judge Genece Brinkley decided to put him in prison for violating probation after being arrested for riding a dirt bike in New York City, and another incident at an airport. Both cases had been dismissed at the time, and the Philadelphia prosecutor recommended that he not go back to prison due to these incidents.
A five part documentary titled Free Meek, is finally scheduled to be released August 9 on Amazon Prime. The series will show his fight to bring change to the criminal justice system, and his own life as cameras film every breakthrough in his own case following his release.
Take a look at the first trailer below.


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Trans couple whose future is pregnant with contradictions
By Priscilla Pollara
MEET Jake and Hannah Graf. They are the transgender couple who are about to become parents. Jake, 41, was born female and Hannah, 32, was born male.
In this age of enlightenment, when barely a day passes without another extraordinary human interest story being told, readers might think there is nothing exceptional in the Grafs' arrangement. But there is. For when their child is born, they will be the first parents in Britain who are both transgender.
They gave an interview to the Daily Mail in which they revealed that their unborn daughter, being carried by a surrogate, is the product of eggs belonging to Jake. Apparently, Jake harvested these eggs six years ago at a cost of £17,000 – having stopped taking testosterone for six months.
People must make up their own minds about what effect, if any, this convoluted set of circumstances might have on the life of the Grafs' daughter. Yet since they have shared their story with the public, they must accept that others will have a view and may well see things differently compared with them.
Personally, I am puzzled. Firstly, the Grafs are at pains to say they want the world to treat them normally, yet they have given media interviews on TV and in print in recent months in which it has been highlighted just how unusual they are as a couple. (Have they ever been paid for talking about themselves, I wonder?) Within such inherent contradictions does trouble fester.
Second, if they wanted to be parents so badly, why didn't they adopt? By going down the fiendishly complicated surrogate route, only one of them (Jake) will have a genetic connection to the child. This imbalance seems rather sad. And what about the countless children who live in orphanages who do not know life at the centre of a warm family unit full of love, but really might like to?
Third, Jake froze the eggs which have enabled this imminent birth at a clinic aged 36 (before even meeting Hannah), thereby acknowledging that he was in fact still a she; for no man, obviously, could do such a thing. Talk about having your cake and eating it!
Without a trace of irony, Jake called this clinical procedure 'emasculating', but explained: 'I'd been on testosterone for a good six years and I was very happy living as myself, but I didn't want to miss out on kids and there was only one way I could be certain of being a father.'
This is the epitome of self-identification and for the public it is extremely hard to know whether we can, or should, ever regard Jake as the child's mother or father, potentially leaving anyone who questions Jake's status open to accusations of intolerance. Jake was happy to exploit 'her' eggs (so was at this point biologically female) but is to be classed as the 'father' (so in societal terms is male).
Yes, we should all live and let live. But Jake and Hannah have to realise this philosophy cuts both ways. If this couple – or anybody else – take exception to those who don't agree with what they've done, or those who question the biological status of Jake, it is they who will be guilty of intolerance, not the other way round.
My overriding view is that even if your life is different in whatever way to what society still considers normal or average, that doesn't mean the rest of us want to hear about it.
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Amber Rose Smith was reported missing from her home in Paris, Michigan on Tuesday, October 8.
An Amber Alert that was issued Tuesday for a 2-1/2 year-old Newaygo County girl resulted in over 100 police and volunteers combing woods, swamps and fields for 24 hours to find the toddler, who was finally found safe on Wednesday, about 1-3/4 miles southeast of her home.
According to the Newaygo County Sheriff's Office, Amber Rose Smith was reported missing from her home at 8227 E. 13 Mile Road, in Paris, about 2 p.m. October 8.
Her father, Dale Smith, reported that he had gone into a different room in the residence and when he returned, Amber was gone. He and his wife, Diane Smith, searched the residence and immediate area for about a half hour and could not locate her, so they called 911. Officers arrived on scene and immediately began searching the area with police canines and an MSP helicopter. Search parties were formed with dozens of volunteers.
Reportedly close to 100 people searched overnight for the girl, but did not find her until Wednesday afternoon. DNR Conservation Officer Mike Wells, who was assisting with the search for Amber, located her on the edge of a two-track near 12 Mile Road and Cedar Avenue, approximately 1-3/4 miles south east of the residence she left from. Amber was standing and alert. She was transported to Spectrum Health Hospital in Big Rapids.
The Newaygo County Sheriff's Office, Michigan State Police, FBI, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Forestry Service jointly investigated her disappearance.


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Script to extract Installer packages from the Apple AppStore for macOS.

### IMPORTANT
Before you start using this script, please make sure to have the needed licenses covered (for example by site license, Apps&Books or single licenses).

This script was tested under OS X Mavericks 10.9.5, Yosemite 10.10.5, OS X El Capitan 10.11.0, macOS Sierra 10.12.6, macOS High Sierra 10.13.1 and macOS Mojave 10.14.6. Compatibility with Catalina, see below.

__Attention__:
If you extract on High Sierra (or higher), please be aware of the fact, that `hdiutil` will build DMGs with APFS as default filesystem. If you need to re-use your dmgs on older plattforms (10.11.x or older), please ad `-fs HFS+` to the hdiutil command.

__Compatibility with macOS Catalina__:
The scripts runs on macOS Catalina, but the finalize step (renaming the package) is not working as Apple has changed the way this information is distributed to the client. Until now, I do not have a solution for this, but a work around:

If you do not manually download the App(s) from the AppStore, but using the `mas-cli` [https://github.com/mas-cli/mas](https://github.com/mas-cli/mas) to install the apps on your Mac, my script is still able to pick-up the right version/name.

### Information
Based on an idea from Tim Sutton and Rich Trouton for downloading from the AppStore:
http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2013/10/19/downloading-microsofts-remote-desktop-installer-package-from-the-app-store/

Rich although published a detailed tutorial on how to use the script:
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/downloading-installer-packages-from-the-mac-app-store-with-appstoreextract/

### How to use
This script needs the temporary download folder from the AppStore App, this is individual by host and is extracted from within the script using "getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR".

If you want to check what folder is used by the AppStore.app, enter this command into your terminal:
`getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR`

- The script generates and uses the directory "/Users/Shared/AppStore_Packages" as a destination, if you want to change this, just edit the script

- Open terminal and start this script (make it executable first), keep the window open. To make the package naming more munki friendly (using a "-" instead of "_") use the "-m" option to start the script: `AppStoreExtract.sh -m`

- Back in the AppStore.app, login in to your account and navigate to your purchases (or buy a new App)
  - Click "Install" for all desired packages
  - wait till every download/installation has finished

- go back to the terminal and continue the script by pressing any key to stop processing downloads

- answer the following question with yes (y) to finalize and clean up the downloaded packages

### other known problems
If the App ist to small (didn't find an exact size) the extraction might fail sometimes, probably when the installation is finished to fast.

### Alternatives
 -  __mas-cli project__ https://github.com/mas-cli/mas
 -  __AppStoreXtractor__ as a GO project https://github.com/schnoddelbotz/golang-playground (no longer maintained)


I wanted to update a prior post where I had exposed some false business truisms. The recent financial crisis has given me the opportunity to update that list with a couple more.
Financial markets can self regulate – You know this is untrue if you've been following the recent events in the financial sector with the collaps of Bear Stearns, Fannie and Freddie and of course Lehman, Wachovia and so many more..


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Match Preview: Brentford vs Luton Town
All the info ahead of tonight's return to action
BrentfordFC
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After a three-week break from Sky Bet Championship action, we're back tonight hosting Luton Town at the Brentford Community Stadium. Both sides come into this match having beaten AFC Bournemouth in their last league game, ours shortly before the New Year while Luton beat The Cherries 1-0 on Saturday. Below you'll get all the info ahead of the game.
It remains very much a case of job well done for Nathan Jones and Luton Town this season, heading to TW8 tonight 12th in the Sky Bet Championship as we tick past the midway point of the campaign.
The Hatters have won nine and lost nine in the league this season. They've taken four points off AFC Bournemouth in recent weeks, won at home to Norwich City, and beat Reading 1-0 in the Emirates FA Cup Third Round ten days ago to set up a weekend game against Chelsea.
If Luton want to close the eight-point gap to the top six it is goals they need to find. Even though they've won four of their 12 on the road only Watford (5) have scored fewer away goals than The Hatters (6).
In general, Jones has made his side much more solid defensively than they were last season when they shipped a league high 82 goals in 46 games. This time round they have only conceded 26 times in 24 games but do average under a goal scored a game, finding the net just 21 times so far.
Pontus Jansson and Christian Norgaard (both ankle) are out as is Shandon Baptiste (knee). Josh Dasilva serves the second of his three-game ban but Mads Roerslev did return for our Emirates FA Cup win over Middlesbrough ten days ago. Jan Zamburek is also back in training following his recall from Shrewsbury Town.
For Luton, veteran centre-back Martin Cranie and midfielder Eunan O'Kane are the only absentees.
Nathan Jones endured a nomadic start to his playing career, first in his native Wales, then with Luton Town and finally in Spain before he found a home at Brighton and Hove Albion. The midfielder spent five years on the south coast at the start of the 2000s, making more than 150 appearances as The Seagulls went from Division Three to The Championship. He then spent seven years with Yeovil Town before retiring in 2012 after more than 550 professional appearances.
His first steps into coaching came within the youth setup at Charlton Athletic before jumping to a First Team role at Brighton & Hove Albion. It wasn't, however, until he returned to Luton in January 2016 that he began to make a real impression. He won 11 of his first 21 games to ensure The Hatters' EFL survival before leading them to the Play-Offs the following campaign. He went one better in 2017/18 and had Luton second in League One when he left for Stoke in January 2019. His 38 games at Stoke City brought about just six wins but, back in Bedfordshire, he is once again proving a fine manager at this level.
PRE-MATCH VIEWS
⚖ Stephen Martin takes charge of our visit from The Hatters tonight
🆚 Mike Simmonds of The Luton News previews tonight's game
THOMAS' THOUGHTS
HOW TO FOLLOW
Tonight's match is only on iFollow Brentford - it will not be on Sky Sports red button.
Frozen Season Ticket and Premium Seat Holders have VIP access to this game, meaning you can watch by simply logging in to your iFollow account*
With all profit going to us, match passes are also available for only £10 each (£7 International fans).
BUY A MATCH PASS NOW
*To check you have been upgraded to VIP, login and head to 'My iFollow Account' select 'Purchased Packages', if you have been upgraded you will see a Brentford Season Ticket with an active status. If you are having any issues about your VIP upgrade, get in touch with tickets@brentfordfc.com.
Brentford vs Luton Town on 20 Jan 21


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Here at Eden Prestige and Performance, we carry a wide selection of used and nearly new prestige and executive cars - some of the best small luxury cars on the market! Here are the top 10 luxury prestige cars that you can buy today.
1) Mercedes S-Class
Luxury cars don't come much better than the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which has long been regarded as one of the very best cars in the world. There's a good reason for that, too. Supremely luxurious, beautifully finished and unbelievably comfortable, the S-Class is also engaging to drive and is the perfect chauffeur transport
6) Jaguar XF
The latest generation of Jaguar XF is a great example of the premium luxury concept - surprisingly affordable to both buy and run, the mid-size executive saloon is classically styled, elegant and beautiful to drive, with a great choice of engines and trim levels and that special feeling that only a Jaguar can bring.
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7) Mercedes E-Class
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The alloy-bodied A8 is Audi's entry into the luxury saloon car market and has always represented the most technologically advanced and most brilliantly engineered luxury on offer. The current A8 features Audi's Virtual Cockpit - a fascinating and modern twist on the digital dashboard.
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Sophisticated, luxurious and powerful, the Volvo S90 is an executive saloon without compromise. Or, should you choose, in V90 form, it's also an executive estate. Add in a choice of petrol, mild hybrid or plug-in hybrid powertrains and you have one of the most multi-purpose executive cars that money can buy.
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Time to file your vacation leaves!
Some of the go-to beaches this season are in Siargao. The barreling waves invite us to surf, and the lush islands and enchanting caves wait to be explored. If you haven't been and are aching to go, here's some good news: You can win two round-trip tickets to the country's surfing capital just by shopping at Robinsons Department Store!
A single-receipt purchase worth P3000 entitles you to one raffle entry, while a single-receipt purchase worth P1000 from Sassa, Angelfish, Sun Kissed, Hawaiian Sun, Nivea, and Banana Peel entitles you to three, so you have more chances of winning.
To get to spend four days and three nights in Siargao with your BFF, shop at Robinsons Department Store now, before the promo ends on May 15. For more information on the promo, follow Robinsons Department Store on Facebook and Instagram.


I acquired this Frailea at the Sheffield branch auction last week. It's labelled Frailea goldii, but I can't find any reference to this name. Any suggestions please?
Possibly Frailea buenekeri ssp. densispina?
I'll get the label done.