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Another decade of cinema has come and gone. The 2010s will go down as the decade of the shared universe, as Marvel Studios mainly wrote and perfected the blueprint of how to build a series of mega-successful, interconnected movies with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. If your film wasn't under the Disney umbrella, you likely had a hard time at the box office this decade. Disney controlled more than 31% of the U.S. market in 2019 and saw its box office gross more than double during a decade when multiplexes saw their profits eaten away by streaming services and other entertainment competition.
All of this is a roundabout way of saying that there were a lot of movies that flew under the radar over the last ten years. We've collected some of our favorites released between 2010-2019 that, for whatever reason, didn't get the acclaim or recognition they deserved. Here are ten underrated movies of the decade.
10. It Comes At Night (2017)
From the malevolent racism of Get Out to the familial trauma of Hereditary, 2017 was a banner year for horror movies. Yet one film that got left out of the conversation of the year's great thrillers was It Comes At Night.
Following two families trying to survive after a mysterious pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, It Comes At Night writer-director Trey Edward Shults weaves together a post-apocalyptic tale where distrust is more insidious than horrors from the outside world. Bleak and unforgiving, It Comes At Night is the kind of horror that gets under your skin and, in some ways, is The Last of Us adaptation we never got.
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9. Annihilation (2018)
Alex Garland's directorial debut, Ex Machina, is widely regarded as one of the best science fiction films of the decade. His follow-up, Annihilation, is arguably an even stronger film, a cancer allegory wrapped in a mesmerizing package of body horror and psychological trauma (with some alien mystery thrown in for good measure). While Annihilation is certainly not underrated from a critical perspective (it currently holds an 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), the film failed to garner the awards buzz enjoyed by its predecessor.
Ex Machina won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for a slew of other awards, whereas Annihilation was entirely ignored during awards season. Factor in the film's failure at the box office and Annihilation is now better remembered as a film that helped fuel the narrative that intellectual science fiction simply doesn't play with audiences.
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8. Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Our consumer tech obsession and always-online lives were represented well in film throughout the 2010s, with Spike Jonze's forward-looking Academy Award-winner Her serving as perhaps the most critically-acclaimed of the bunch. But now that the dust has settled, it's hard to think of a film that better captured the dark side of our virtual lives than Ingrid Goes West. Best described as Fatal Attraction for the Instagram crowd, Ingrid Goes West stars Aubrey Plaza as an obsessed fan who stalks and befriends a popular influencer (Elizabeth Olsen).
Ingrid Goes West easily could have been as shallow as the characters it profiles. Still, it's a film that recognizes the deep loneliness felt by millions of young people whose meaningful social interactions are increasingly online-only. It's just a shame more people didn't watch it.
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7. The Guest (2014)
Everyone knows the only action movies that mattered in the 2010s were Mad Max: Fury Road, The Raid 2, and the John Wick trilogy. In all seriousness, the last decade was something of an action renaissance, with many directors opting for stunt work and choreography to deliver more visceral filmmaking. The Guest is one such film, even if it's more of a thriller with short bursts of action.
As an ex-soldier hiding a deadly secret, Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Legion) proves he has leading man charisma, carrying the film as it weaves from tension-building dread to all-out action. The Guest failed to make much of an impact at the box office but has rightfully emerged as one of the decade's great hidden gems.
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6. About Time (2013)
At this point, you probably have a good idea of where you stand on Richard Curtis movies. Notting Hill and Love Actually are romantic-comedy staples, but their wide-eyed earnestness can be quite grating if you're not the sentimental type. About Time displays many of the hallmarks of a Richard Curtis film (right down to the troubling lack of casting diversity). Still, it's arguably the one film in the writer-directors catalog that could be recommended even to his detractors.
The central boy-meets-girl plot is enhanced by a clever time travel device and the fact that Domhnall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams are impossible to dislike. But it's arguably the touching father-son relationship between Gleeson and the always-great Bill Nighy that pushes About Time into a class above your typical rom-com drek. It's the rare feel-good movie that even cynics would have a hard time resisting.
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5. John Carter (2012)
Remember earlier when we mentioned Disney was the undisputed box office king of the decade? Well, the House of Mouse had its share of duds too, including the now-infamous John Carter. The first in a planned trilogy of sci-fi action films based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, John Carter was a bomb of epic proportions. Disney lost over $200 million on the film, making it one of the biggest box office busts in history. Yet underneath that failure is a surprisingly watchable film.
While by no means some sort of hidden masterpiece, John Carter is an immersive blockbuster in the tradition of Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings, with a mythology that pulls you in. Taylor Kitsch is decent enough in the lead role or at least doesn't deserve the scorn he received from many at the time of the film's release. Now that the dust has cleared and John Carter doesn't have the weight of expectations on its shoulders, it's easier to appreciate the film for what it is: an underrated gem.
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4. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Richard Linklater is a filmmaker keenly in tune with the powerful allure (and pitfalls) of nostalgia. His 1993 directorial breakthrough Dazed and Confused is awash in it (even if Linklater insists it wasn't his intention) because of its singular focus on a particular time and place. Linklater revisited this loose, meandering period piece structure with 2016's Everybody Wants Some!!, which plays like a Dazed and Confused spiritual successor.
Following members of a college baseball team over the final weekend before classes started in 1980, Everybody Wants Some!! is pretty much two hours of bros hanging out. Admittedly, that's a pretty tough sell and is probably part of the reason why this film has been overlooked. But underneath all that testosterone is a film fascinated by (and critical of) male power dynamics, never endorsing its characters' more toxic tendencies but rather showing how fleeting life at the top of the social hierarchy is.
We all have times we wish we could return to and Everybody Wants Some!! shows that, while it's fun to look back now and then, staying stuck in the past is fraught with peril.
3. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
What is it with music comedies getting overlooked by moviegoers? Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is arguably the most underrated comedy of the 2000s and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping may just be its heir apparent in the 2010s. A feature-length film written by and starring musical comedy trio The Lonely Island (Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone), Popstar is a surreal, hilarious parody of pop music and white guy privilege.
With Samberg taking center stage as the narcissistic Conor4Real, Popstar takes shots at pretty much every trend in modern pop. Buoyed by a soundtrack of Lonely Island material (the Macklemore-satirizing "Equal Rights" may be the hilarious takedown of broey homophobia ever recorded), Popstar deserved to be a hit but ended up a box office dud. Music mockumentaries don't get much better than this, and hopefully, one day, Popstar will achieve cult status on par with This is Spinal Tap.
2. Super (2010)
A few years before bringing the Guardians of the Galaxy to the big screen, James Gunn delivered the indie superhero flick Super … and nobody noticed. Sure, the film now has a sizeable cult following, but at the time of release, no one gave Super a passing notice. Made on a small budget of just $2.5 million, Super earned less than $600,000, making it Gunn's lowest-grossing film. Super deserved a better fate than a pitiful box office return.
Starring The Office's Rainn Wilson as a depressed middle-aged man who becomes a masked vigilante after his wife leaves him, Super is darker and more violent than your typical mainstream comic book film. In many ways, Super is an example of what Guardians of the Galaxy might have been had Gunn had full creative control and no studio oversight. Whether that would have made for a better film is a matter of debate, but anyone curious about what such a film might have looked like should track down a copy of Super and give it a watch.
1. The Nice Guys (2016)
The Nice Guys is the type of movie people complain Hollywood doesn't make anymore: an original property with a snappy script, made by a talented genre filmmaker (Shane Black), starring charismatic leads (Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe). Okay, to be fair, that description could be applied to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a film that was not only a commercial hit but was released three years after The Nice Guys. But the box office failure of The Nice Guys explains why, as described by Black himself in a 2018 interview, "No one takes risks in Hollywood."
Here was a film adult filmgoers ostensibly wanted, and its reward was a box office return that barely covered its production budget. What a shame too, as The Nice Guys is a seedy, absurd period piece murder mystery that may just be one of the most enjoyable films of not only 2016, but the decade as a whole.
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Facebook says it constantly struggles to protect the social media site from Russian manipulation that is aimed to influence elections in the U.S. and elsewhere.
The Government of India headed by Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi has quoted recent media reports claiming that Facebook has agreements which are allowing phone and other device manufacturers' access to its users' personal information, including that of their friends without taking their explicit consent.
The Government of India is deeply concerned about reports of such lapses or violations, an official statement released Thursday said.
In response to earlier notices about breaches of personal data relating to the Cambridge Analytica episode, Facebook had apologized and given strong assurances to the Government of India that it would make sincere efforts to protect the privacy of users' data on the platform.
As Facebook has no control on its site for stopping data theft and misuse of its social media property, now it is randomly blocking even genuine users who are using Facebook properly. Even when users complain for such arbitrary restrictions, Facebook ignores the users' complaints. As Facebook is slowly losing its relevance in the digital universe, its business will get adversely affected.
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Recently, Zuckerberg explained his company's position to the U.S. Congress. He took personal responsibility for the leak of confidential data of about 87 millions users, and assured that his company will ensure that the upcoming elections in India and other countries are safe.
It is reported that the British consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was secretly manipulating Facebook data of nearly 50 million users and selling it mainly to politicians to help them win elections.
Earlier, India's Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) led by PM Modi had blamed opposition party Congress for committing fraud in elections in connivance with Cambridge Analytica. Congress dismissed the allegations.
According to an Indian government statement, there are other downstream players such as Cambridge Analytica and its alleged associates who have been reported to be involved in the data breach.
According to the government statement of Thursday, such reports raise uncomfortable questions about the assurances made by Facebook. Therefore, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has sought an explanation from Facebook seeking a detailed factual report on the issue. Facebook has been asked to respond by 20th June, 2018.


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BORUP -- A semi driver from St. Cloud was involved in a crash in northern Minnesota. The Minnesota State Patrol says it happened at 2:00 p.m. Thursday on Highway 9 in Borup in Norman County.
A passenger vehicle and a semi were both going north when the semi made a U-turn at an intersection and the passenger vehicle struck the middle of the trailer.
A passenger in the vehicle, 35-year-old Katherine Zickur of Underwood, was taken to the hospital in Ada with non-life threatening injuries. Another passenger and the driver were not hurt.
The semi driver, 38-year-old Benajmen Koetter of St. Cloud, was not hurt.
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Move over Mantle and Mays. Make room for Mandela and Gorbachev. Randy Kaplan has spent the past two decades tracking down world leaders for their signatures on baseballs, a quirky melding of memorabilia and history that has resulted in an impressive collection of more than 200 autographs from presidents, prime ministers, two kings and the Dalai Lama.
"It's been a passion, a labour of love and an obsession," says the 50-year-old Kaplan, a lifelong collector whose day job is in government affairs for a real estate trade group.
It began almost as a fluke in 1996 when he positioned himself outside a speech and got then-president Bill Clinton to sign a ball. The next day, Republican Senator Robert Dole appeared at the same event, signed a ball and Kaplan was on his way.
Through the years, he has collected balls from former Israeli president Shimon Peres, Vicente Fox of Mexico, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and some leaders who had no clue what a baseball was.
One of his proudest moments came when Mikhail Gorbachev signed a ball during the former Soviet leader's short US book tour in the late 1990s.
"He stands up, smiles, pushes the security guard away, takes the ball, sits down and signs it. That was amazing," says Kaplan, whose balls – along with bats signed by every living US president – are on display through the presidential election (and the baseball play-offs) at Long Island's Cradle of Aviation Museum.
A timely feature of the exhibit: signed balls from Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sharing a display case together.
Kaplan declined to put a price tag on the collection, which he said reflected countless hours of work staking out world leaders on visits to the UN, at speeches and other public events. Other times, he networks with friends through his business, or writes to ambassadors asking for signed balls.
Although Pope Francis has not signed a ball, Kaplan has acquired signatures from about 20 cardinals who may someday ascend to the papacy. He says he does his homework and has gotten signatures of a country's lower-ranking political officials before they become president or prime minister.
Still on his wish list: Former Cuban president Fidel Castro – a known baseball fanatic – Britain's Prince Charles and Kaplan's holy grail of signed balls, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Parody, monologue, wit, nostalgia, gender-bending fashions and mind-bending music: The Afterglow Festival in Provincetown is back for its eighth year.
The festival kicks off Tuesday, with five event-filled evenings showcasing performance art that, according to festival organizers, seeks to "reinvigorate and redefine the form of cabaret by fusing it with theater, opera and dance … (while addressing) the politics of gender, identity and artistic invention."
Many performances may have a cabaret "look"; but, says Quinn Cox, event organizer and co-founder, the festival is "definitely not cabaret."
Afterglow could more accurately be described as "neo-cabaret," he says, a term that "emerged from the New York City performance art scene" and that makes use of "elements of interpretive dance, hip-hop, standup, poet artists and solo plays," all under the umbrella descriptor of performing arts.
Afterglow "takes the genre (of cabaret) and turns it on its ear," he says, also emphasizing that "no two shows are the same."
Artists who perform in more traditional cabaret, he says, often share their own resonant "personal stories" and songs. Those who perform in neo-cabaret, by contrast, seek to connect with "wider themes …The art is delivering a message. It's telling us something, opening our eyes, making us aware of a wider reality."
"The molecules in your brain tend to rearrange themselves" following an Afterglow performance, says Cox. "You decipher the message" as opposed to "just hearing the words."
A total of 10 acts, two each night, will bring both new and returning performers to Provincetown's Art House stage for this convocation of song, drama, humor, glamour and poetry.
Anne Stott, Provincetown resident and indie-rock artist, will bring a shot of hometown glam to the festival, joining Afterglow for the first time. The singer-songwriter has created a new show, "Scorpio Blonde," for the festival. In addition to her recording and performing career, she's been a familiar sight in the past as a street performer in town, and has hosted the local community television show "Word on the Street," interviewing fellow street musicians.
Other artists making their first festival appearances include New York-based Tammy Faye Starlite, channeling chanteuse Nico of the 1960s Velvet Underground band; The Illustrious Blacks, whose show "Hyperbolic" debuted in 2017 at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater in New York City; and Enid Ellen (poet David Mramor and singer/songwriter Greg Potter), out to "destroy the patriarchy one man at a time" with anthemic songs.
One purpose of Afterglow, Cox says, is "to build an audience for various artists" and "revitalize (the public's) interest in a number of different performers." Another goal, he says, is to restore the central place of Provincetown as a formative location and historical influence in the development of progressive theater, helping to evolve the genre of one-person plays, which have "made important inroads into legitimate theater."
The whole event is full of "fun and excitement, but it has a serious dramatic side," he says. "There has to be a strong narrative" for each performer's show, not just a repertoire of songs.
As a part of expanding Afterglow's reach, there are plans for a schedule of artist tours, thanks to new grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts to help defray costs. First up, performer Brian King's show "Gravitational Fool" takes to the road later this month.
Cox hopes to create a "moveable festival – a tour of New England venues" where artists can perform. "You don't have to go to New York to see all this talent – we bring it all to you." He sees the plans as a kind of "neo-vaudeville circuit" that would expose the public to different performers. "There are people everywhere who are interested and curious," he notes.
A number of Afterglow participants, both past and present, continue to perform with Afterglow-at-Oberon, running October to May through collaboration with the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge.
Afterglow does more than entertain, Cox says. "We think of ourselves as an incubator."


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Divided loyalties in Africa on invasion of Ukraine
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African countries are treading warily over the Russia-Ukraine conflict, especially those who have strong ties with Russia.
The continued strong influence of Russia across the continent, particularly in the military space, has persuaded some countries to refrain from condemning its actions.
Divided loyalties were clearly apparent when United Nations (UN) member countries took a vote on Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early March.
In total, 28 African countries voted in favour of the UN resolution demanding unconditional Russian troop withdrawal from Ukraine, including major economies like Nigeria, Ghana, and Egypt.
Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti and Rwanda were also among the 141 nations that voted "Yes."
But, 17 African countries abstained from voting, including South Africa, Uganda, Mali, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and the Central Africa Republic (CAR).
The day after avoiding the UN vote, Ethiopia's prime minister Abiy Ahmed issued a statement calling for restraint.
"Ethiopia has abundant lessons to share from its recent engagement in war.
"Our experience has shown the devastating consequence that war inflicts upon families, communities, livelihoods and the economy at large," he said.
Eritrea, Ethiopia's previous foe turned ally, which has a deplorable human rights record, was the only African country to vote against the resolution.
Africa's largest economy South Africa has a complex relationship with Russia.
The ruling ANC party had a long history with the former Soviet Union, which provided military equipment, funding and training to its activists and soldiers during the decades they fought to end apartheid in South Africa. "The history is however complicated as Ukraine was a separate socialist republic forming part of the Soviet Union with its own seat at the United Nations and many ANC members lived, studied and received training in the Ukraine" notes Pieter Steyn, director of Werksmans and Chairperson of LEX Africa.
A statement on the government's website urges South Africans not to take sides in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, as "this could go against our principles. In addition, South Africa has good bilateral relations with both countries."
This was a complete about turn from the government's original statement in February, which called on Russia to immediately withdraw its forces from Ukraine in line with the United Nations Charter.
South Africa's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine is further complicated by its membership of the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) bloc of emerging economies, established in 2006.
The split within the African Union (AU) member votes at the UN raises the question of why the block failed to unite in condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
But, as pointed out by The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in a recent article, voting in the UN is generally motivated by perceived national interests.
And it is misguided to think of African states as a bloc that will step in line with entreaties from Western countries.
PRIO points out that, as of 2020, 64% of AU member states were classified as not fully democratic, 38% as authoritarian, and 26% as a combination of democratic and authoritarian regimes.
"In such a predominantly undemocratic political landscape, aligning with democratic Western nations may appear to many states as a strategically less safe move," it says.
There are numerous other factors that complicate African countries' reactions to the war in Ukraine.
These include the fact that Africa's ties with the West have been tainted with mistrust due to the dark history of slavery and colonialism.
Many Africa states, even those with strong ties with Western nations, may therefore view the West through a lens of suspicion.
On the other hand, it may be argued, that Russia never participated in the 1884 Berlin Conference at which Africa was divided, shared, and colonised by European countries.
It has neither colonised African countries nor looted their resources.
After delaying its return to the continent after the Cold War, Russia has since increased its arms sales to Africa, as well as ventures in mining, and the deployment of the private military group, Wagner.
As widely publicised, trade between Russia and Africa is currently around $20 billion – about 10% of China's $200 billion – although in 2019 there was talk of it doubling that to $40 billion.
Military footprint
Events such as the US's withdrawal from Somalia, or France's withdrawal from Mali, both of which are on the cards, could create a security vacuum that Russia and its forces are likely to fill.
According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Russia was the largest arms supplier of major conventional weapons such as tanks or fighter aircraft to sub-Saharan Africa between 2016 and 2020.
Many African countries have important relationships with Russia in terms of their access to certain types of defence equipment, which Western nations might not be willing to supply.
Hence their need to stand in solidarity with Russia on the war in Ukraine while finding alternative supplies to maintain their military operations, says SIPRI.
Examples include a helicopter overhaul and maintenance repair facility that Uganda jointly owns with Russia's Pro-heli International Services, which was launched by President Museveni in late January.
Russia is also known to support African countries with equipment and combat training, in all forms and manifestations, including terrorism.
Countries known to have benefited from Russian support include Sudan, which has been in political crisis since late last year due to a military coup, which led to the resignation of civilian Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok.
Russia has also been expanding its military footprint, largely through military companies like Wagner, in countries like the CAR, Libya, Mali and perhaps beyond, according to the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in Pretoria.
Furthermore, a Russian citizen has been appointed to be the national security advisor to CAR's president, according to the Swedish Defence Research Agency, (FOI).
Both Russia and Ukraine are major suppliers of food commodities such as soya beans, wheat, barley, and sunflower oil to many African countries.
In 2020, African countries imported agricultural products worth $6.9 billion from Russia and Ukraine, according to the Observer Research Foundation (ORF).
A protracted war threatens to disrupt this supply and drive up the price of commodities and exacerbate food insecurity and poverty across the continent, it says.
With electricity in short supply in many parts of Africa, there is major dependency on diesel to power generators – from individual consumers to entire industries – and the cost of the fuel has soared.
Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer, but it has minimal refining power, and while the government subsidises the cost of petrol, diesel and aviation fuel are sold at market prices.
And local airlines are warning of looming flight cancellations due to fuel issues.
On the plus side, exporters of fuel and grain will benefit, from rising prices, examples being Nigeria with oil accounting for 95% of its exports, and South Africa as a net exporter of maize.
There is also an opportunity for South Africa and other mineral rich African countries to supply rare minerals to fill part of the vacuum left by Western sanctions against Russia.
Jakkie Cilliers, head of international futures and innovation at ISS notes that Africa could fill the gap in oil and gas supplies to Europe that will open up as it reduces its dependence on Russian energy.
Nigeria, Algeria and Niger recently signed an agreement paving the way for the construction of the 4,128km Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline, which will run through the three countries into Europe.
However, it will take time and investment for projects like this to be completed.
Meanwhile, concerns have been voiced that if left unpunished Putin's actions will encourage authoritarian rule across the world including Africa where it is already rife.
Others have pointed out that NATO's protection of democratic values is often marred by economic interest and power play.
The bottom line of all this is that African countries will need to tread carefully in managing their relationships with their various external trading partners to protect their national interests, as the ongoing conflict in Ukraine unfolds.
LEX Africa's chairperson Pieter Steyn notes that " the attack on Ukrainian sovereignty is not consistent with a founding principle of the African Union to respect the borders of African states inherited from the colonial era notwithstanding the arbitrary nature of these borders. The regional economic communities in Africa (including COMESA, SADC, ECOWAS, WAEMU, CEMAC and EAC) as well as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) have all involved big and small African states negotiating and agreeing a limitation of their sovereignty as equals to create a rules based system promoting trade, investment and development and strengthening the negotiating position of African states as a bloc when dealing with non-African players. The African approach promotes the rule of law and a global order where might is not right and military force is not an option to protect one's interests or resolve disputes".


While St. Patrick's Day is not really thought of as a major holiday, it is still a fun holiday and a great time for kids to play some fun and exciting games.
Fill the glass jar with the green candy and be sure you count how many candies as you put them in the jar.
Have each child guess how many candies are in the jar. Each child should write their name on a slip of paper along with their guess.
The person who guesses the closest wins the jar of candy.
You will need at least four players for this game.
Trace a shamrock shape onto each piece of construction paper.
Choose an area inside or outside to play the game.
Mark a starting line and a finish line using the tape.
Have players break into teams of two and one player from each team stands at the starting line.
Place one shamrock in front of the person at the starting line and the other team member holds the other shamrock.
When you say "Go" or "Start", the starting line players hops onto the shamrock with both feet together.
The other team member then places another shamrock down in front of the hopping player.
The hopping player hops onto that shamrock while the other player moves the original shamrock in front of the one that was just hopped on.
This continues until the winning pair moves their shamrock across the finish line first.
This game works best with a few children playing but can be played with just two players as well.
Trace a shamrock shape onto the construction paper and then cut out the shape.
Choose one child to be the one to hide the shamrock.
Everyone then opens their eyes and searches for the shamrock.
The person that finds the shamrock gets to hide it next time.
This game works best when there are at least five players.
One person is chosen to sit in the center of a circle and will be the leprechaun.
All of the other players need to sit in a circle and cross their legs.
The person in the middle tosses the potato to another player.
The person in the center then closes their eyes and the potato is passed around the circle.
After several seconds, the center player yells "Shamrock" and opens their eyes.
The person that is holding the potato is then out of the game.
The game continues until there is just one person left in the circle and that person is then the leprechaun for the next game.
Lots of these games can be switched up to work with almost any holiday. Enjoy time spent with your kiddos!
we actually did hot potato!
What fun games! I will have to bookmark them for next year.
All fun games and ones that you can adapt to any holiday!
These sound like really good games!
These are some pretty good games to play with the kids, to get them in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day!!
Thanks for sharing these games for kids,the grandkids will be here this year for St patty's so these games will come in handy.


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Officials of Ahlen in Germany have come under fire for confiscating a pet pug from a family with three children and selling it on Ebay for £640 in order to cover an unpaid tax bill. The dog, called Edda, was actually sold last year but the new owner now wants to claim compensation from the town for €1800 of treatment on Edda for undisclosed medical issues, as well as the cost of buying her in the first place.
Edda is a pedigree dog and as such, was deemed valuable enough by officials to be taken and sold as a means to meet the unpaid local taxes. The new owner said although the pug was listed for half the normal value of a dog of that pedigree on Ebay, she was advised by the town officials of the situation and was reassured that the dog was in good health.
The pet pug was taken for unpaid taxes from her family last year after they had failed to pay local taxes, which also included dog taxes. In Germany all dogs must be licensed and owners must pay a dog tax, however this family had not paid theirs.
Whilst animals can be taken by financial enforcement workers in order to pay off their owners debt, house pets are usually exempt from this. Frank Merschhaus, the spokesman for Ahlen said "The employee tried to find a pragmatic solution within the scope of his discretion and decided on the course of action now in question,".
Officials from the town have responded to criticism over their decision to sell the family pet on Ebay, saying it was a last resort to cover the unpaid debt. Ahlen's treasurer, Dirk Schlebes, stated the seizure was legal and only took place after other non-essential household goods had been taken.
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Supply Chain Signal: Chip Shortage affects Auto-makers
On February 16, 2021 February 17, 2021 By rushbabe49In business, Economics, government, Random Musings About Life, transportation
My readers will know that I am a retired industrial buyer. I am still in touch with my colleagues in the Institute For Supply Management, and receive various publications. I also watch for supply-chain stories in the business media, and there is a whopper in the Wall Street Journal this week.
The story is about the worldwide shortage of computer chips affecting the automotive industry. You will already be aware that newer autos and trucks are increasingly electronic, from engine controls, to automatic windows and doors, to complex "infotainment" screens in the cabin of your car. All of those electronics contain multiple computer chips, from complex central processors to different kinds of memory chips. Well, the worldwide government shutdowns in response to the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic last year wreaked havoc on the chip market. I saw this in my aerospace job, and it was everywhere. With all the factory shutdowns, companies large and small; aerospace, industrial, and consumer-product manufacturers canceled their semiconductor orders from their suppliers, so they would not be stuck with inventory they could not build into products. Auto-makers were among the biggest users of computer chips, after the computer industry itself, and their demand fell off the proverbial cliff.
At the time, in March and April of 2020, no one knew how long the shutdowns would be in effect, so instead of putting orders on hold, they were canceled. Few companies were ready for the economy to come roaring back in the summer. Most auto manufacturers, since the late 1970s, have been operating on what is known as the "Toyota Production System", or just-in-time manufacturing. Developed by Toyota in the 1960s, it involved manufacturing companies keeping minimal inventory on hand, and having various parts delivered to the factory in quantities need for short-term demand, and often delivered daily direct to the production lines. This way, the company could avoid overstocking of parts, and the costs of keeping inventory. TPS works very well, as long as there are no unforeseen interruptions, like earthquakes, snowstorms, broken bridges, or worldwide pandemics. From the WSJ Article:
In December, the parts flow from Continental, Robert Bosch GmbH and other suppliers had so dried up that VW announced it would stop production of bestselling brands such as Audi and its namesake VW brand at plants in Europe, China, and North America. Audi, citing a chip shortage, furloughed 10,000 factory workers for the first time since the spring lockdowns. Ford Motor Co., Honda Motor Co., and others soon reduced output of vehicles from big pickups to compact sedans.
I have been immersed in this kind of manufacturing for at least 20 years, and it works. Until it doesn't. But the kicker in this article that just made me laugh out loud, was that there is one big auto-maker who hasn't been affected by the chip shortage as much as the others have. And, that would be Toyota! And the reason they have not been as adversely affected is stated in the article as "their stockpile" of chips that they needed for production. Just give that some thought. Toyota, who has been the largest promoter of lean manufacturing, has now started to ignore their own production system and actually stockpile components. Someone in procurement at Toyota was forward-thinking enough at the beginning of the pandemic shutdown crisis to make sure they did bring in the chips they would need for production once the factories came back on line.
In the past, Toyota has had an excellent reputation for low-cost, high-quality products, but that reputation has had some stains on it in the last few years, including a big quality scandal where their inspectors were found to be falsifying quality records at their Japanese factories. So, even all-mighty Toyota is made up of human beings, with human frailties. This time, they did the right thing and stocked up on computer chips.
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I was introduced to Just In Time in the mid-80s and was amazed at how well it worked over long stretches, while expecting catastrophe when the supply chain was stressed. Thanks for confirming my paranoia. Is the answer more warehouse space? Have our technical designs gotten so complicated with multiplying dependencies that they are now too brittle. Being a software guy, so far my supply of bits and photons hasn't been compromised, but I occasionally note the mushroom clouds among my logy and engineer friends.
On 9/11 I was working near Scott AFB, the logistics nexus for air movements throughout the world. Making things move very quickly involved a five mile line of tractor trailers moving at a truck length every five minutes. My motel room was next to the railroad tracks. Rail and air noise abatement rules were suspended instantly. The logistics miracle that ensued was made possible only by a commitment to massive prepositioned supply centers. Of course, government and industry have very different requirements they must address.
Early on in my Purchasing career, I developed my own variation on "just-in-time". I called it Just Late. The main reason Toyota was so successful with lean manufacturing, was that the majority of their suppliers were in Japan, within a day's drive of their factory. It was very little trouble for them to require frequent deliveries to their factory. The US has always been unable to duplicate that condition, and it is nearly impossible to schedule daily deliveries from factories thousands of miles away. Especially when you factor in weather, and shipping charges. My company had a supplier in the UK, who supplied one part that was impossible for any other supplier to duplicate; we literally had to pay to keep them alive when they were close to bankruptcy, as there were no alternatives.
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Implications of the U.S. Navy's FONOP program
by Mark J. Valencia
KANEOHE, Hawaii – On Oct. 27, the U.S. Aegis destroyer Lassen carried out a Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea within 12 nautical miles of China-occupied Subi Reef.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang stated that "The USS Lassen illegally entered waters near relevant islands and reefs of China's Nansha Islands without the permission of the Chinese government. Relevant actions by the U.S. naval vessel threatened China's sovereignty and security interests, put the personnel and facilities on the islands and reefs at risk and endangered regional peace and stability." What is likely to happen next and what are the legal and political aspects?
This FONOP was rather long in materializing as its wisdom was hotly debated between the U.S. Defense Department and the White House national security team. It was purportedly intended to challenge China's maritime claims there. But its execution was muddled and its message ambiguous. Because of geographic and legal complexities it was not clear what and whose "excessive" claim was being challenged.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said in a letter to Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, that "given the factual uncertainty, we conducted the FONOP in a manner that is lawful under all possible scenarios to preserve U.S. options should the factual ambiguities be resolved, disputes settled and clarity on maritime claims reached." With that less than crystal clear explanation it is no wonder that the FONOP's message was confused and confusing.
There is mounting domestic pressure in the U.S. to follow it up with a clearer challenge to China's claims. But there is also mounting domestic pressure in China to respond with action to any further U.S. "provocations."
Nearly two months passed after the Lassen incident before Carter responded to McCain's letter requesting an explanation of the Lassen FONOP. However, Carter's "explanation" was incomplete in that it did not answer McCain's first and foremost question: "Under the freedom of navigation program what excessive claims was the Lassen operation intended to challenge?"
Indeed, because Vietnam occupies nearby Sandy Cay and requires prior notification for foreign warships to enter its territorial sea, the FONOP could be interpreted as having been primarily directed at Vietnam — not China. Further complicating the issue, neither China nor Vietnam have specified their claims or baselines for territorial seas in the Spratlys.
That is the legal aspect. Tactically, the FONOP may have been a means for the U.S. to measure China's resolve and response to incursions around its claimed and occupied features.
But Carter's tortured explanation indicates that the FONOP was meant to be less provocative than a direct challenge to a Chinese claim of sovereignty over Subi Reef — while not conceding that the originally submerged Subi Reef is entitled to a territorial sea. But it also limits the U.S. ability to signal to China that it does not and will not recognize any Chinese maritime claims to originally submerged features. Carter also stated in his letter that the operations do not "challenge any country's claims of sovereignty over land features, as this is not the purpose or function of a FONOP."
More FONOPs are expected — reportedly two per budgetary quarter. Shortly after the USS Lassen incident, analysts were predicting a quick followup FONOP in the vicinity of China-claimed and -occupied Mischief Reef. But that has not happened. It may — and soon, but the delay is not a surprise. The decision to do so is complicated.
Given the ambiguity surrounding the Lassen FONOP, it is likely that the next one will indeed be aimed at or at least include Mischief Reef. This feature was originally below sea level before China's reclamation and construction activities there, but it is now one of the largest and most developed of the features that China has reclaimed in the Spratlys.
It is also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan. It is politically significant because it was the first Philippine-claimed feature that China occupied, it is near Reed Bank which supposedly harbors important petroleum resources, and the U.S., is a defense treaty ally of the Philippines. Moreover, unlike Subi Reef, no other above-water features are located within 12 nautical miles of it.
A FONOP directed there would send a clearer message to China and the international community of the U.S. position and its willingness to back it up.
The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea provides only "innocent passage" for foreign warships in another country's territorial sea. Innocent passage is that which is not "prejudicial to the peace, good order and security of the coastal state."
To demonstrate to the world that it does not recognize that the feature can have a territorial sea, the U.S. needs to blatantly "violate" the innocent passage regime by having its naval assets sail close to the feature and use fire control radar, deploy helicopters, conduct maneuvers or fire their weapons. It could also fly military aircraft within 12 nautical miles of the feature. But doing either could be a bit dicey.
Although China's response to the Lassen provocation was rather weak in terms of action, perhaps partly because it observed the restrictions of innocent passage, that may not apply to a second FONOP that blatantly violates this regime. The pregnant silence that followed the incident and China's immediate angry verbal response may indicate that there are ongoing discussions behind the scenes between the U.S. and China to choreograph the next event and China's response to it. Indeed, the Lassen FONOP and future patrols were presumably one of the topics discussed by PACON Commander Adm. Harry Harris in his visit to China shortly after the Lassen incident.
A FONOP in the vicinity of Mischief Reef may seem straightforward to U.S. Navy lawyers and those advocating more robust U.S. action. The U.S. claims it is not challenging any country's sovereignty claims. So if it sends a warship (or aircraft) to purposely and publicly violate the innocent passage regime around a China-claimed and occupied feature, it is signaling that in its view the feature does not generate a territorial sea because it is not subject to a sovereignty claim by any country.
But China's People's Liberation Army leadership and especially its nationalist elite may not appreciate the legal nuances involved. Indeed, China's leadership may well view a FONOP around Mischief Reef as a challenge to its sovereignty — and sovereignty is a Chinese "core interest." More important, China's leadership needs to "save face" domestically on this issue.
Also, the U.S. needs China's immediate support in its attempt to expand U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea. Another FONOP right now could interfere with that effort. These are just some of the considerations surrounding the U.S. decision on the next FONOP and an indication of why such a decision is not so simple and straightforward.
Mark J. Valencia is adjunct senior scholar at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies in Haikou, China. A shorter version of this article appeared in the South China Morning Post on Jan. 20.
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Android app for scheduling volume changes.

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Q: How is print(count) resulting in a list index out of range error? I am just fooling around and decided to make a visualization of Gaussian distribution, and somehow this error happens to exist. I have never seen this error before, and the weirdest part is that somehow it doesn't happen every time the loop runs. It's completely random. Sometimes it errors on the first iteration of the loop, and sometimes it doesn't error at all. How on earth can the print() function return an index error when passed an int.
Here is all of the code:
import math
import pygame
import os

wS = 500

n = 50

os.environ["SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS"] = "%d, %d" % (5, 5)

pygame.init()

window = pygame.display.set_mode((wS, wS), 0, 0, 0)
li = [math.floor(random.gauss(350, 20)) for i in range(50)]
lmax = 0
lmin = 1000
off = wS/2

leng = len(li)

for i in range(len(li)):
    if li[i] > lmax:
        lmax = li[i]

xV = wS/n
xV2 = wS/lmax
print(li)

def run():
    global li
    global xV
    global lmax
    global off

    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    count = 0
    p = pygame.PixelArray(window)
    while not keys[pygame.K_ESCAPE] and not keys[pygame.K_SPACE] and count < (leng - 1):
        print(count)
        event = pygame.event.get()
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()

        x = int(xV * count)

        y = int(off + ((li[count]/lmax) * off))

        p[x][y] = (255, 255, 255)
        count+=1
    print("done")
    pygame.display.update()
    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    while not keys[pygame.K_ESCAPE] and not keys[pygame.K_SPACE]:
        event = pygame.event.get()
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()

run()

The error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "*redacted*", line 58, in <module>
    run()
  File "*redacted*", line 41, in run
    print(count)
IndexError: array index out of range

A: When you use the pygame.PixelArray, os events are blocked. pygame.event.get() and pygame.key.get_pressed() will both return errors while the pixel array surface is locked.
Here is the updated code. I removed the events from the loop. I also added a check for the x,y coordinates to be sure they are within the array.
import math
import pygame
import os
import random

wS = 500

n = 50

os.environ["SDL_VIDEO_WINDOW_POS"] = "%d, %d" % (5, 5)

pygame.init()

window = pygame.display.set_mode((wS, wS), 0, 0, 0)

li = [math.floor(random.gauss(350, 20)) for i in range(50)]
lmax = 0
lmin = 1000
off = wS/2

leng = len(li)

for i in range(len(li)):
    if li[i] > lmax:
        lmax = li[i]

xV = wS/n
xV2 = wS/lmax
print(li)

def run():
    global li, xV, lmax, off

    count = 0
    p = pygame.PixelArray(window)  # lock surface for drawing

    while count < (leng - 1):
        x = int(xV * count)
        y = int(off + ((li[count]/lmax) * off))
        if x < wS and y < wS: p[x,y] = (255, 255, 255)
        count+=1

    p.close()  # unlock surface

    print("done")
    pygame.display.update()
    keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()
    while not keys[pygame.K_ESCAPE] and not keys[pygame.K_SPACE]:
        event = pygame.event.get()
        keys = pygame.key.get_pressed()

run()

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Egypt: 2 Women Arbitrarily Detained, 'Disappeared'
Immediately Reveal Whereabouts and Release or Charge with a Crime
Marwa Arafa (left), the mother of a 21-month-old child, was arrested by security forces at her home in Cairo on April 20, 2020 and remains forcibly disappeared. Kholoud Said was arrested at her family home in Alexandria on April 21, 2020 and remains forcibly disappeared. © Private
(Beirut) – Egyptian security forces arbitrarily arrested and forcibly disappeared two women in recent days and later brought vague and apparently abusive charges against one of them, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should fully disclose the whereabouts of the women and release them or present evidence to judicial authorities of criminal wrongdoing.
Security forces arrested Marwa Arafa, 27, and Kholoud Said, 35, on April 20 and 21, 2020, respectively. Their families and lawyers said that they have received no response to their inquiries to authorities. Said appeared on April 28 before State Security Prosecutors in Cairo, who ordered her detained for 15 days pending investigations, without judicial review, under charges that included joining a terrorist group and spreading false news. Her charges appear to violate human rights including freedom of expression. Prosecutors did not inform lawyers of her whereabouts.
"Marwa Arafa and Kholoud Said were taken from their homes and forcibly disappeared as their families stood by helpless," said Amr Magdi, a Middle East and North Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. "No warrants, no explanations – this is the behavior of a security establishment run amok."
An acquaintance of Arafa's with direct knowledge of her arrest told Human Rights Watch that two plain-clothes officers accompanied by four armed masked men in police uniforms went to her apartment in Nasr City, east of Cairo, around 11:30 p.m. on April 20. One of the men in civilian clothes said he was a National Security Agency officer but presented no arrest or search warrant. They searched the apartment and confined Arafa's 21-month-old child, her 19-year-old sister, and a nanny to one room, while the lead officer interrogated Arafa in another room.
Eventually the security forces left, taking Arafa with them, after confiscating her phone and a large sum of cash. The acquaintance said that Arafa's father and mother, who managed to reach her apartment before the security forces left, tried but were unable to follow the security car that carried her to an undisclosed location.
On April 21, lawyers for her family filed appeals with the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General's Office inquiring about Arafa's whereabouts but have received no response. Lawyers and family members tried to locate her at various police stations, but the police there denied holding her.
Arafa, a translator and management consultant, had no known political affiliation and had not been politically active for the past four or five years, the acquaintance said. "She was only involved in some charity work such as children with disabilities," the person said.
Security forces arrested Said at her family's home in Alexandria shortly before midnight on April 21, according to a Facebook statement by her friends. A family friend told Human Rights Watch that security forces, including some in civilian clothes as well as uniformed armed men, did not show an arrest warrant when they arrested her. After Said's mother opened the door for them, they told Said to "get dressed and accompany them," the friend said. They searched Said's room and confiscated her phone, laptop, and some documents. They said they were taking her to al-Montazah First police station, but officers there denied holding her when the family inquired.
On April 22, Said's brother received a phone call from an unidentified number asking him to bring her laptop charger to the National Security Agency's headquarters in Alexandria, which he did. But officers there gave him no more information about her. The authorities did not respond to the family's inquiries about her whereabouts.
On April 28, lawyers spotted Said at the State Security Prosecution building in an east Cairo suburb where lawyers routinely wait for disappeared detainees to surface.
Prosecutors interrogated her over charges of "joining a terrorist group," and "spreading false news" in the apparently abusive Case No. 558 of 2020, known as the "Coronavirus Case," brought against an undisclosed number of activists, lawyers told Human Rights Watch.
Political activists including Aya Kamal and Noha Kamal Ahmed (both from Alexandria), lawyers such as Mohsen Bahnasy, and social media users have been recently arrested and charged in this case, mostly for criticizing the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak. The case includes seven children who were later conditionally released.
Said's friend said that a lawyer was allowed to attend Said's interrogation and that prosecutors focused their questions on Facebook posts in which Said shared news articles criticizing the government. Prosecutors did not inform the lawyers of where Said was being held.
Said, a senior translator and editor at the Alexandria Library, was active in cultural and anthropological activities in her city but had no political affiliations, the friend said.
Authorities should immediately present her to a judge to review her detention and present evidence of criminal wrongdoing or release her, Human Rights Watch said.
Enforced disappearance is defined in international law as "the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person."
Egyptian law does not explicitly prohibit enforced disappearance, but it requires that authorities inform detainees about the reason for their arrest, bring them before a prosecutor within 24 hours, and allow them to communicate with a lawyer and their family. Egypt's prosecutors in most political cases have the power to order the detainees' pretrial detention for up to five months while international law requires that a judge quickly (within 48 hours) review any detention.
Egyptian officials, including President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, have routinely denied that security forces disappear detainees. But under his rule, security forces, particularly the National Security Agency, have disappeared hundreds of people in recent years, many of whom only appear after weeks or months, or in some cases years, before prosecutors charge them with criminal offenses, often based on security allegations that provide no material evidence.
"Enforced disappearance is an ongoing crime," Magdi said. "It leaves loved ones living in agony not knowing if they are alive."
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