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National Pie Day.... Who made the first Pie
The ancient Egyptians were first to create the pie. Early Romans used the practice of pie making and Greeks caught on as well. The pie caught on so much that the Oxford English Dictionary reports that the word pie was a popular word in the 14th century. The first pie recipe published was by a Roman and was a recipe for rye crusted goat cheese and honey pie. Perhaps by the sound of the recipe you have gathered that most of the early pies were ones made with meat.
During the twelfth century pies began to appear around England. These pies often featured more crust than filling. Tarts or fruit pies were first made in the 1500s and the first cherry pie has been credited to the chef Queen Elizabeth I herself. Pie became such an acceptable dish to place on the table that the first English settlers to America brought the recipe to pie with them. However, like the Romans the crust was not very edible but did a good job holding the filling as it baked.
Since those early days pie has came along way and is now often considered the "most traditional American dessert"
Check out these other great pie recipes
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cherry pie (my daddys favorite)
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Did you know that the confederate flag was not the original flag of the southern states that succeeded?? The flag the bars and stars was the first flag that was accepted by the 7 early states that left the union.
This flag was used first on March 5, 1861 but it was hard to distinguish between the American flag and the new flag. During the Battle of Bull Run, the first battle of the Civil War, the Stars and Bars Flag of the 7 states was hard to distinguish from the Union Stars and Stripes. Thus making it difficult to distinguish between the Union Stars and Stripes and the Southern Bars and Stars.
After the battle the Confederate commanders demanded a new flag. In November 1861 they were granted and the first flags were issued. It seemed in fact there were many battle flag patterns representing the area they were from but the one flag most accepted was the "Southern Cross"
After the war much had changed but the Confederate Battle Flag would continue to remain one of the most recognizable symbol of the Confederate States of America. It was not until the end of the 1900s that groups in the south challenged the practice of flying the Confederate Battle Flag on public buildings. To many the flag recalled thoughts of Southern heritage the way things used to be and the sacrifices of those that did not want to see a lifestyle change and went to battle. However, those against the flag thought that it stood for resemblance of racism and slavery and fought to have it removed.
The confederate flag has been used many times in many different ways The white supremacy adopted the flag as its own placing a dark light on the flag. During the 1960s and 1970s the landscape was dotted with confederate flags as well as street names and statues to resemble the past as well. This would all change in time as a political war of power would begin. Thus placing a stigmatism on the confederate flag that would see controversies at the local, state and national levels.
The battle to reduce the flag's profile on public property was waged. The truth is the confederate battle flag did not fade into history in 1865 but rather was kept alive and took on new uses and new meanings and continues to be part of the ever changing history of the United States While some see a historical and symbol of pride in the flag others see hate.
Perhaps you would consider me a rebel. I am not sure but the Confederate flag will never stand as tall as the American flag or the Christian flag but still I have some pride and empathy for it. i do not come from a southern state but since a teen age girl I have lived just miles away from the border line of Kentucky and have learned much history thru the stories that have been passed down. Many use the flag in the wrong way and that I am ashamed of but I still love the dixie flag.
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Color of Purple
If you paid any attention on todays inaguration then you may have noticed the color purple. In fact not only this year but in past inagurations purple has been a primary color. One may think that this makes sense since the president is to help bring the democrats and republicans together so the colors of blue and red mixing to make purple signifies mixing the politics of the country together. Thus hopefully making the United States Great again.
Other colors such as white and gold are great colors of symbolism as well. White is the emblem of purity, gold is the color of light and life the same color as Mrs. Libertys torch leading our lives with purpose, pure and unswerving. Purple also stands for the act of suffragette. Thus making sense that Harris, the new vice president who wore black to her victory speech when Biden-Harris won the election would wear purple another great suffragette color to the swearing in.
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Popular Microwave Treat Recalled by FDA
The FDA has issued a recall of Pepperoni Hot Pockets. The recall occurs after Nestle was sent four complaints from individuals who had found "extraneous material" inside. The recall has been labeled as a "class I" or a health hazzard situation that has the reasonable probability of causing serious, adverse health cosequences or death.
The Hot Pockets covered by the recall are only the "premium pepperoni pizza" variety, which come in a 12-pack in a 54 oz. carton. The boxes in question have a Feb. 2022 expiration date and lot codes 0318544624, 0319544614, 0320544614, and 0321544614 printed on the carton. They also include establishment number "EST. 7721A" inside the USDA mark of inspection toward the bottom of the front of the box
The FDA has advised if you have this product to throw it away.
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Children's Distress Over Parental Conflict Continues Over Time
Published	 Friday 10 February 2006	 Published	Fri 10 Feb 2006
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Fighting with your spouse in front of your kids, or even ignoring each other, leads to negative thoughts and distress in your kids about your marriage and family today and even one year later. That\'s one of the major findings from researchers at the University of Rochester in New York and the University of Notre Dame in their study on marital conflict and its effects on children published in the January/February 2006 issue of the journal Child Development.
\"Witnessing high levels of destructive conflict between parents has been associated with greater child distress and negative thoughts in response to conflict,\" said lead researcher Patrick T. Davies, Ph.D., professor of psychology. Although previous work has shown that children don\'t get used to this hostile conflict but, instead, become more sensitive to it, Dr. Davies and his colleagues wondered if different forms of destructive conflict between parents played different roles in children\'s reactions. They also explored whether differences between children\'s negative reactions to the conflict were consistent over time, and whether children\'s responses to the conflict changed as they got older.
To answer these questions, the researchers studied 223 six-year-old children and their parents for one year. They used interviews and observations at two time points one year apart to measure children\'s distress reactions and negative thoughts. By observing how parents worked out their disagreements, the researchers identified two types of destructive conflicts: hostility and disengagement or indifference.
\"Our results highlight the possibility that several different types of conflict between parents may negatively affect the well-being of children over time,\" said Dr. Davies. \"Conflict between parents may have distinct meanings and implications for the child and family system even after considering the effects of parenting difficulties.\"
In the long run, he said, the stress of witnessing these forms of conflict may have long-term implications for children\'s functioning by directly altering their patterns of responding to conflict between their parents.
Summarized from Child Development, Vol. 77, Issue 1, Child Adaptational Development in Contexts of Interparental Conflict Over Time by Davies PT, Sturge-Apple ML, Winter MA, Farrell D (University of Rochester), and Cummings EM (University of Notre Dame). Copyright 2006 The Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Everyone wants flawless, glowing skin. Don't get me wrong, I am not talking about fair or dark skin per say, just better-looking skin. Earlier this month I reviewed Elmore Bleach Cream where I shared my experience of using bleach cream properly for the first time. I got many questions after that so I did some more research and tested the cream further. I know how doubtful one can be when it comes to bleaching so I compiled a brief dos and don'ts of bleach cream for you.
Even though there are many natural, organic forms of bleaching, like lemon, we all want quick results. However, due to the use of chemicals in the existing bleach creams, it does lead to fear. This is where I will suggest that you look for Bleach creams with a mix of both chemical and all-natural ingredients similar to Elmore Bleach Cream if you want to try out bleaching for the first time.
I find body bleaching easier than facial bleaching because face is a more sensitive as well as the most obvious part of your body. Keeping the following in mind you can take your first step forward in the world of bleaching (just don't go overboard).
Bleaching formulations vary as per need. The formulation or strength is different when bleaching hair, face or body, so always mix as per directions before applying. For face and body 10 minutes or so of lightening the pigment (color) of the hair is required before it's removed with cool water. Bleaching works by lightening skin and also the skin appearance through lowering of melanin level.
I hope that this brief and literally to the point post helps. If you have any further question please do ask in the comments below and I will surely answer.
This is an interesting post specially for clearing all the doubts and questions of superstitious people like me. Thanks for sharing.


Ah-Tah-Thi-Khi Museum features the history and culture of Florida's unconquered Seminole Indians. See lifelike exhibits and rare artifacts; watch a dramatic five-screen film on Seminole history; walk the beautiful one mile Boardwalk; watch Seminole Tribal members making arts & crafts in the recreated "living" village. Buy unique Seminole and Native American arts and crafts at the Museum Store. Located one hour west of Fort Lauderdale.
Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation 34725 W. Boundary Rd.


Fron Cottage, originally two dwellings which have been transformed into one spacious holiday home sleeping 6 people, stands at bottom of a short track over looking farmland and a stream.
Historically, it was also known as 'March Melin' (mill of the stallion), as there was a water-powered woolen mill on the site until around 1840.
The cottage is close to the Elan Valley and within a mile of the market town of Rhayader. Through every window you are able to look out onto countryside, especially through the large windows in the Sun Room where the variable Welsh weather can be watched from the comfort of a leather sofa. French doors open out onto a large patio with evening views of the sun setting behind the hills of the Cambrian Mountains.
1 King size zip-and-link (which can be made into twins on request) with en-suite WC. This bedroom is accessed by separate stairs.
A cosy Sitting Room with log fired wood burner, TV and DVD/BluRay Player. A Sun Room, Dining Room and Kitchen with electric oven and induction hob, microwave, dishwasher, fridge/freezer and washer/dryer, as well a spacious downstairs Wet Room. The cottage is heated by underfloor heating downstairs and radiators upstairs from a bio-mass boiler.
The cottage sits in about half an acre of garden, with an enclosed patio with table and chairs and BBQ. At the rear of the Sun Room there also is smaller area with table and chairs.
Bed linen, towels, electric, heating and WiFi are included, together with a starter pack of wood for the wood burner. A supply of logs are available for a small charge.
We welcome well behaved pets, as the area offers excellent walking opportunities with or without a canine friend. As there are sheep and cattle in the adjacent fields, it is wise to check when booking if you are planning on bringing a dog with you. There is open access to the stream from the garden. something you may want to consider if coming with young children.
Rhayader has a good range of independent shops with a butcher, greengrocer, and deli where you can get fresh bread. There are several pubs and places to eat and all are within walking distance. If you don't fancy walking then the local taxi can safe you taking a car.
We prefer to changeover on Friday and welcome short breaks, especially way from the peak holiday periods. Prices range from £535 – £1170 with short breaks ranging from 90% for 4 nights and 80% for 3 nights.
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Hunie Poppin' Ladies: This Dating Sim Should Be Offensive, and Why I Love It So Much
Cathryn Sinjin-Starr
Most should know by now that I'm a sucker for anime games and dating sims, so when I first saw jacksepticeye playing HuniePop on Youtube, I was immediately intrigued. And then I heard Kyu speak--holy balls. So many waifus, so little time! HuniePop is an indie game developed by the aptly-named developer, HuniePot. Originally funded
Most should know by now that I'm a sucker for anime games and dating sims, so when I first saw jacksepticeye playing HuniePop on Youtube, I was immediately intrigued. And then I heard Kyu speak–holy balls.
So many waifus, so little time!
HuniePop is an indie game developed by the aptly-named developer, HuniePot. Originally funded by Kickstarter, it appeals to the niche markets of dating sim aficionados, puzzle game addicts, and the ecchi enthusiasts of H-games. I'm all three of these, more or less. To say this game is not for the faint of heart isn't really fair. It's more that's it's not for those that dislike stereotype satire, in addition to those that don't find nudity and sexuality entertaining. If you don't like nudity, sex, or over-the-top caricature, this game is not for you.
The premise is simple, really: a Love Fairy named Kyu decides you need to ramp up your game in the dating department. So she lightly nudges (see: forces) you to start dating some ladies. The first part is getting to know the women: learning about them, buying them gifts, keeping them fed (wait, are these women or ponies?), and generally responding to them in the way they want when they ask you more personal questions. Correct answers earn you more Hunie points, which you can spend on leveling up your skills for dates.
After this, we move on to the date itself. The dates are done via make-a-match puzzles, comprised of pieces called Tokens. Match three or more alike tokens and you earn Affection. Each date has a threshold of Affection you have to reach for the date to be a success. You have a set number of moves to do this in, or you will fail the date and have to do it again another day.
There are four main types of tokens, which correspond to a woman's desired traits—Talent, Flirtation, Romance and Sexuality. Each partner has a most desired trait and a least desired trait. While the least desired trait will still get you points when matched, there's a big difference in the amount of affection you will receive for other traits and the most desired trait. So there is some strategy involved in trying to make the most of your moves. Others tokens on the board are Joy (which earn you more moves), Passion (which acts as a multiply as you gain more levels), Sentiment (which gives you the ability to use gift items to turn the tides of war the date) and Broken Hearts (which give a massive drain in Affection when matched, so watch out for those!).
Beli, we're in an ice rink. Are you not cold?
Should I give her my jacket?! Oh no, I don't have one! Oh god, I'm a horrible girlfriend! ;o;
Winning a date rewards you with "munie" ($$$)–which makes me feel a little like a gigolo/escort when I think about it too much, but thankfully I don't. You can then use that munie to buy gifts and food for the ladies. And thus, the cycle repeats. The day is split into four parts: morning, afternoon, evening and night. In total, you can speak and date up to four girls a day.
The real magic happens when you have had enough dates with the women. Each date earns you a heart—once you have four or more hearts with a paramour, winning a nighttime date will move things to the bedroom. I won't spoil anymore for you at this point, but I'll just say that the more skittish of you will be sputtering all over yourselves. For those of you that want spoiling, watch jacksepticeye squirm! (link is definitely NOT Safe for Work!)
In terms of the puzzle aspect, the gameplay is pretty solid. The puzzle game is intuitive and quickly becomes addictive. It's actually amazing how worked up you can get by a victory snatched from the jaws of defeat, and how demoralising it can be when you JUST miss enough points to make the date a success—being berated for a bad date doesn't help either. It was to the point that during sexier bits, I neglected to notice that clothing was going astray—I was just too concentrated on the quick-fire puzzle round and didn't want to lose momentum. Yes, your boobs are lovely, but Momma needs a combo!
In addition to the mechanics, the girls are fully voice acted by English-speaking actresses. As much as these characters are overblown stereotypes, they are written and voiced well. No particular character has sounded flat or unprofessional to me. Some characters will come off as obnoxious or annoying to some, but this is going to be more from personal preference in character types, rather than any failing on the voice work itself.
As for the ladies themselves, the game has tried to apply as many archetype and stereotypes it could while making each one stand out from the others. As such, you have women spanning across ages and races (in some cases, species). Of the original eight girls, you have the following stereotypes:
Audrey The Drug-Using Shopaholic Bitch
Tiffany The Bubbly Academic Cheerleader
Jessie The Seductive Porn Star MILF
Kyanna The Athletic & Practical Single Mom
Beli The Nature-Loving Yoga Instructor
Nikki The Introverted Retro Gamer
Aiko The Crass & Lazy Bespectacled Teacher
Lola The Romantic, Jet-Setting Air Stewardess
There are also four secret characters to unlock. Two are fairly straight-forward to get as you play the game—the other two are obscure and may require some internet searching to know what to do. Don't feel bad—we all Googled it.
There a few other details here and there that are nice. For instance, you can choose to play as a Male or Female main character. The dialogue doesn't change much, but pronouns referring to yourself and the girls' sexual orientation do shift accordingly. The girls are customisable, too. Giving them gifts will unlock new hairstyles, which you can set as default. The same goes for outfits, though those are unlocked by completing dates successfully. Like more than one? Assign either their hairstyles or outfits to Random and they'll change each time. The game also features a Difficulty setting (Easy, Normal, Hard) and the ability to turn off the girls' voices, if the silent type is your thing.
I've found it difficult to articulate just what it is that I love about this game. The puzzle aspect is addictive, which certainly helps. But that's just not it. That's not enough. My feminist senses told me I should hate this game, that I should be offended and find it objectifying. But Pervert-Otaku Lindsey beat Feminist-Lindsey with a comically-sized Japanese fan and insisted I had to give it a fair shake before making judgement—also, boobies. She likes those, you know.
What first appeared as a plethora of stereotypes quickly revealed itself to be a range of diversity. All of the girls have different body types—some are petite and svelte whereas others are voluptuous and curvy. They are of varying weights and heights, which is important (in the context of the game), because they will quiz you to see if you remember them. There are just as many people of colour as there are caucasian from the main set of girls. I'm not including the secret characters in this, for spoiler reasons.
I swear, I only gave her a cupcake. IT WAS JUST A CUPCAKE.
(Also, is that a maple leaf or cannabis on her boob…?)
Along with being well written and well voiced, the characters are fairly well-rounded, with distinct personalities. Even while playing, my own favourites were shifting constantly. I found things I liked in all of the characters, though there were a few that did annoy me more than others. There is no "best" girl. Everyone's take will be different. When I spoke with two other players, we all had differing takes on the same characters. And I like that in a game. I like that everyone is free to have their favourites, that they're not shoehorned into liking just Romantic Interest #1 or Romantic Interest #2 (I'm looking at you, Mass Effect (1)).
I'll give an example of this: Nikki. A lot of gamers love Nikki. She's introverted, wears over-sized sweaters and glasses, and works in customer service while her true passion lies in retro games. She appeals to many gamers because we can identify with her. So why don't I like her?! I'm turning out to be the black sheep here! Let me clarify that I know why a lot of people like her. I completely get it. But her "Okay, yeah, I guess" wallflower shtick just isn't something I like in a partner. And there's nothing wrong with that. That's not to say Nikki isn't a bad character—she's just not my type.
Another example is Audrey. Audrey is definitely going to be one of the love-her or hate-her characters, and damned it I don't flip-flop between the two. There was never a moment where she was "alright" in my book. I either felt like screaming at her to shut her effing face, or I was laughing along with her critical bluntness. What's worse? Audrey's physical appearance is actually very appealing to me. We both share a love of dying our hair numerous and crazy colours. Out of her available hairstyles and outfits, I don't dislike any of them—and I did find ones I disliked with the other girls. It's an odd dynamic. For me, Audrey is that girl you date though you're not really sure why, until you have an aggressive make-out session that leads to mind-blowing sex—a relationship cemented in physical chemistry.
The Audrey Conflict continues. She calls me a bitch, and then says this when I tell her my favourite position is from behind. Why must you confuse me so?!
I'm sure a lot of people liked Lola, our ebony-skinned business-minded elite. She was pretty, and her curly afro was doing it for me. I was disappointed to find all of her other hairstyles didn't reflect her ethnicity at all. But as a character, she doesn't didn't feel consistent to me. For starters, her introduction is her nagging a barista (Nikki) to get her a cappuccino, even though the girl has finished her shift and is leaving. As someone who has worked in customer service before, this immediately turned me off to her. Her bio confused me as well. She has a 4-year degree in Business Admin, but she's an air stewardess? And while I can understand her desired trait is Romance, why is her least Talent? Surely an educated, independent woman would want someone with some talented skillset? I just don't get it. Maybe I'm missing something.
I hear you cry, "Tell us why else you like this game already!" amidst the question of, "But who is your waifu?!" My choice of waifu is linked directly to why I like this game so much. If I had to choose my kawaii desu ne waifu, it'd have to be (secret character spoiler!) Kyu. YES, KYU. The very same I "holy balls"ed to within the first paragraph of this entry! And here's why:
Kyu is funny and honest. She is the last person that should be spouting hip-hop slang, but she does. At first, you assume it should be offensive, so you just sort of shake your head at her. But the more she talks, the more "real" or fresh she sounds. It's like two friends just having a chat, and maybe not being the most politically-correct while they're at it, but not actually being malicious.
She has a good sense of humour. While speaking with her and choices, she never really gets offended with anything you say, and has some comebacks.
She is meta—as in, she is aware she is in a game. Her own quizzes are a mix of information about her, as well as aspects of the game she has covered for you.
She is sex-positive. Her preferred gift is sex toys, which she enthusiastically accepts. She appreciates the sexual appeal of the other girls along with you during your dating journey.
I feel like the game is all of these things. It's funny and honest with itself. It might not always be super PC about it, but then it never pretends to be such either. If you disagree with the girls' views during the more personality-based questions, most of them will respond with a "That's fair enough" and move on (besides some of the more vocal ones, like Audrey, whom tells you you're stupid even if you get things right…). It's also very aware of what it is as a game, openly making fun of itself and the dating sim genre as a whole.
Kyu, Kyu, Kyu…I know Aiko is a hot Asian, but god damn it…you can't say shit like that!
What am I gonna do with you…(I love you. <3)
Lastly, I view the game as sex-positive. While some will argue the game is based around lying to people in order to sleep with them (which is wrong, regardless of anyone's gender), I will point one key thing out here—you actually do NOT have to lie to any of the girls to date or sleep with them. Most people don't do this and prefer to tell the ladies what they want to hear, but you can in fact answer the girls' more philosophical questions with your honest answers. Will they always like your answer? No, but that's life. Will you be penalised? Not really—you just won't get Hunie points to spend on trait upgrades. That does not make the game impossible though. A bit harder, but not impossible. Nothing is deducted for picking the less than optimal answer. You'll just have to spend more time with the girls you do agree with to raise your stats. Or buy them lots of gifts…
Regardless, I never felt that any of the girls were being forced to sleep with me, outside of the game mechanic that dictates when such an event occurs. Some were shyer than others, and some asked for me to be gentle vs those that were more aggressive. But I never felt that any of them were being demeaned or coerced into shagging me. We were just two people having some intimate fun after a nice evening together. (I will admit, keeping their panties after the night together is kinda creepy, but it's a common dating sim trope.)
HuniePop is not perfect. I don't think anyone is purporting that it is. It's a dating sim centred around wooing multiple women, many of them have skimpy outfit options, and while it makes fun of existing tropes of the genre it is still utilising them heavily, even the problematic ones. I do see it as a an overall positive game, though. It has a great sense of humour, whether just in general or specifically about itself. The characters are diverse and well-executed, both in writing and vocal work. And in a genre where many games that feature sexuality swim in the dark creepy end of the pool, HuniePop is refreshingly light and positive about the sex (implied, shown or heard) within it. These are all things I can appreciate in games, and the latter (you know, the positive-sex stuff) is something that desperately needs to be done more often.


For this collection, we joined forces with Creative Room, a design lab provided by our friends at ISKO (FOMO time: our team traveled to Italy for the collab). The vibe for this skirt? Classic '60s denim details, including patchwork piecing, a raw hem and buttons all down the front.
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Frozen Synapse gets single-player campaign
May 5, 2011 Michael Johnson Comments 2 comments
Oxford based indie developers Mode 7 have announced via amusing press release that Frozen Synapse is now entering the final stages of beta testing. They've also announced a single-player campaign which is available to those of you who pre-ordered to play right now.
Full details from the press release follow:
'"We always wanted Frozen Synapse to have a big single player component. This was inherently daft, given the fact that we're a very small team, but we've done it now. We're very pleased with the results!" ejaculated Joint Managing Director Paul Taylor, quotably.
The single player campaign features missions where you escort VIP's, assassinate nefarious scientists, rob banks, conduct honey-trap operations and defend confused philosophers, among other things. There are 55 glorious missions in total.
Bullet points for fun and profit:
– The game is set in a near-future city named Markov Geist; various factions vie for power there, from the corporate behemoth Enyo:Nomad to the dangerous cultists of the Blue Sunlight Foundation.
– Do factions ever do anything other than "vie"? They're just vying all over the shop. Dammit, I've wasted a bullet point now.
– Each mission has a defined set of objectives but takes place in a semi-randomly-generated level, so replaying brings unexpected delights
– Once generated, every iteration of each mission is unlocked, meaning that if a particular random configuration tickles your fancy, you can replay it ad infinitum
– Every mission has dynamic dialogue which responds to the player's actions
– New special units, civilians, friendly AI units, laser tripwires (as requested by the community!), unique single player mission types, rapping hackers, an in-game dossier which allows players to delve into the backstory and a full musical soundtrack all feature in the current pre-order version
All this…and money off as well!? We must be INSANE AT THESE PRICES!!? We must abuse punctuation!!?
To get 30% off the pre-order, all human beings have to do is use the code STANCHER during the order process at http://www.frozensynapse.com'
For those of you yet to sample the delights of Frozen Synapse, it's a top down, turn-based squad shooter with a retro-future aesthetic (that sounds contradictory, but think of Tron-inspired wire frames given a modern sheen). Players queue up moves and strategise for possible outcomes, trying to predict enemy movements before ending their turn. Once both players have decided upon their actions, the results occur simultaneously, often resulting in hilarious and unpredictable carnage, as each player tries to second-guess the the other's actions.
Single-player is a welcome addition as it can be quite daunting for a new player to head straight into the multi-player against more experienced foes. If your curiosity is piqued you can find out more at http://www.frozensynapse.com where you can also pre-order and get access to the beta.
Here are a couple of new screenshots that show off the single-player:
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2 thoughts on "Frozen Synapse gets single-player campaign"
Chris Evans says:
That was a great press release, the ones packed with humour are the best :)
Michael Johnson says:
I've written a press release or two in my time, I wish I had the freedom to include humour in them!


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Peter and Wendy (1911)
by J. M. Barrie
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Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and Peter and Wendy are the stage play and novel (respectively) which tell the well-known story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who spends his never-ending childhood on the island of Neverland, and his adventure with the ordinary girl Wendy Darling and her brothers. The story was written by Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie (1860–1937). It features many fantastical elements, including children who can fly, a magical fairy, and mermaids. It was first staged at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 December 1904, then adapted by Barrie into a novel published in 1911, and since adapted numerous times for film and other media, remaining popular with generations of children and adults.
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Chapter 1: Peter Breaks Through
Chapter 2: The Shadow
Chapter 3: Come Away, Come Away!
Chapter 4: The Flight
Chapter 5: The Island Come True
Chapter 6: The Little House
Chapter 7: The Home Under The Ground
Chapter 8: The Mermaid's Lagoon
Chapter 9: The Never Bird
Chapter 10: The Happy Home
Chapter 11: Wendy's Story
Chapter 12: The Children Are Carried Off
Chapter 13: Do You Believe In Fairies?
Chapter 14: The Pirate Ship
Chapter 15: "Hook Or Me This Time"
Chapter 16: The Return Home
Chapter 17: When Wendy Grew Up
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Background The introduction of the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (NSDR) represents a new, proactive, all-hazards approach to disaster management in Australia. This represents is a timely opportunity to revisit the recommendations and key themes from recent disaster inquiries. Aims/Objectives/Purpose To identify the common strategic themes across recent disaster inquiries and determine whether the NSDR is aligned with findings from the recent inquiries. Methods A thematic analysis of seven prominent Australian inquiries into natural disasters was undertaken. The NSDR was used as a thematic framework to analyse the inquiry reports. When an additional theme was identified that was not in the NSDR, this became a new category in the thematic analysis. Results/Outcome All of the themes from the NSDR were evident in the inquiry reports; however, a number of additional themes were identified from the inquiries. Six key themes were identified as particularly critical: State emergency management arrangements, understanding, awareness and assessment of risk, critical infrastructure, community communication and empowerment, research, and what does a disaster resilient community look like? Significance/Contribution to the Field The common themes from recent disaster inquiries provide key pointers toward strategies for enhancing Australia's disaster resilience in particular, and more generally, represent critical areas that require further research.


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In the Shadow of Hitler
Alabama's Jews, the Second World War, and the Holocaust
by Dan J. Puckett
Modern South Series
In the Shadow of Hitler chronicles the experiences of Alabama Jews as they worked to overcome their own divisions in order to aid European Jews before, during, and after the Second World War.
In this extensive study of how southern Jews in the United States responded to the Nazi persecution of European Jews, Dan J. Puckett recounts the divisions between Alabama Jews in the early 1930s. As awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust spread, Jews across Alabama from different backgrounds and from Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox traditions worked to bridge their internal divisions in order to mount efforts to save Jewish lives in Europe. Only by leveraging their collective strength were Alabama's Jews able to sway the opinions of newspaper editors, Christian groups, and the general public as well as lobby local, state, and national political leaders.
Puckett's comprehensive analysis is enlivened and illustrated by true stories that will fascinate all readers of southern history. One such story concerns the Altneuschule Torah of Prague and describes how the Nazis, during their brutal occupation of Czechoslovakia, confiscated 1,564 Torahs and sacred Judaic objects from communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia as exhibits in a planned museum to the extinct Jewish race. Recovered after the war by the Czech Memorial Scrolls Trust, the Altneuschule Torah was acquired in 1982 by the Orthodox congregation Ahavas Chesed of Mobile. Ahavas Chesed re-consecrated the scroll as an Alabama memorial to Czech Jews who perished in Nazi death camps.
In the Shadow of Hitler illustrates how Alabama's Jews, in seeking to influence the national and international well-being of Jews, were changed, emerging from the war period with close cultural and religious cooperation that continues today.
Dan J. Puckett is an associate professor of history at Troy University.
"One of the most impressive contributions of this book is Puckett's gathering of such a vast array of resources to compile the narrative. Many of the materials are relatively inaccessible for the general public, but the compilation of information places unpublished archival material at the disposal of the reader. Puckett's organization and conclusions provide order and meaning which make his work a starting point for those who may approach related topics in the future. The book tells the stories of many prominent individuals whose contributions to Alabama could otherwise easily evaporate over time. Influential persons like Abe Berkowitz, Leon Schwartz, Rabbi Milton Grafman, and Dora Roth deserve a place in Alabama's history. On the other side of things, it is fitting for us to remember the dissension caused by hatemongers like Arthur Terminiello. Puckett's book reviews the impact of these characters upon the state and the nation. Researchers, lay and professional, will find the book enlightening and useful."
—The Alabama Review
"Puckett has written a wonderful examination of America's Jews in Alabama and the Deep South, their conflict between orthodoxy and the more modern Reform Judaism, religious liberalism and cultural survival, and the realities of Jim Crow and Nazi mass murder. Every newspaper is examined, along with many organizations, archival documents, and synagogue newsletters—recorded in seventy-seven pages of detailed notes and bibliography. In the Shadow of Hitler is exhaustively researched, well written, and important."
"[a]... meticulously researched and carefully hewn study of Alabama Jews in the 1930s and 1940s."
—American Jewish History
"[Puckett's] excellent chapter on Alabama newspapers' coverage of the Holocaust, for example, is enlightening and informative well beyond its specifically Jewish relevance, as is his careful survey of expressions of anti-Semitism in the state. While Puckett's primary focus throughout the book is on the Jewish community, his insights will be of great interest to anyone curious about the impact of global events on the American South."
"[Puckett's] very detailed account is packed with fascinating anecdotes, revealing Alabama's small Jewish community as a microcosm of the nation, reflecting both unity and factionalism side by side."
—The Jewish Sound
"This well-written and scrupulously researched account chronicles the response of Alabama's Jews to the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Holocaust, and analyzes the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish life."
—Yearbook of German American Studies
"Those already interested in Jewish history will be his first readers, but In the Shadow of Hitler is clearly written as well as extensively documented and those unfamiliar with Jewish Alabama history will learn more than they anticipated."
—The Tuscaloosa News
"In The Shadow of Hitler is a major contribution to our understanding of what people in the United States knew about Hitler and the Holocaust—and when they knew it. By focusing on Alabama, Puckett reminds us that the history of Jews in the United States cannot be limited to New York and Los Angeles. This thoughtful, well-researched, well written study not only will broaden our knowledge of what Jews and non-Jews knew about the Holocaust and what they did about that knowledge; it will add invaluably to our knowledge of the history of Jews in the United States, to the history of the South, and, finally, to the complex history of the United States itself."
—Jack Salzman, editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History and, with Cornel West, editor of Struggles in the Promised Land: Toward a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States
"In the Shadow of Hitler will be a uniquely important book for us, the Alabama Holocaust Commission, and for all who are interested in the Jewish history of our state."
—Phyllis G. Weinstein, Chair, Alabama Holocaust Commission
"Dan J. Puckett provides academic and lay readers a compelling, well-researched, and strongly written case study of how the people in a Deep South state confronted Hitler's persecution of the Jews. This first detailed state study sheds substantial light on national issues and is a must read for anyone interested in the impact of Hitler's persecution of the Jews, Jewish and non-Jewish responses and interactions, and the histories of African American–Jewish relations, Alabama, the South, and the nation."
—Mark K. Bauman, editor of Dixie Diaspora: An Anthology of Southern Jewish History and the journal Southern Jewish History
"Puckett tells an important story. Its strength is to illuminate the very real and interdependent connection between major world events and the shifting parameters of local/regional life."
—Jennifer E. Brooks, author of Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition
Alabama in the Twentieth Century
Wayne Flynt
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie
Edited by Gordon E. Harvey, Richard D. Starnes and Glenn Feldman
Stand Up for Alabama
Jeffrey Frederick
This Bright Light of Ours
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At 8:00 a.m., the first of three showjumpers' competitions in Sapporo
Two more games: Saturday at 8:00 and Sunday at 2:00
The ski jumpers moved to another continent for the first time this winter and will continue the World Cup season with three races in Sapporo, Japan. Watch the broadcast on TV SLO 2/MMC at 8:00 a.m.!
Under Mount Okura, they are returning after a three-year corona break. Seven Slovenians take part in the qualifications, led by the third best jumper of this winter, Anžet Laniško.
In addition to Lanišek, standard members of the team Peter Prevc, Timi Zajc, Lovro Kos, Žiga Jelar, Domen Prevc will perform at this Olympic venue in today's qualifiers (6:30 a.m.). .
Lanišek, who is only behind Poland's Dawid Kubacki and Norway's Halvor Egner Granerud in the overall World Cup ranking, added: "Finally Japan again after three years and I'm really looking forward to it. The ski jump is very good and I hope it's still like it was."
With Zúmbal Primo and Rodrigo Tapari: Ranchera Cumbia lit up the Olmué Huaso Festival
Medvedev: Russia's defeat in a conventional war could trigger a nuclear war


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Q: Efficiency of System.Linq.Enumerable.Any() Given:
Dim values = {"First", "Second", "Third", "Fourth", "Fifth"}
Dim searchValue = "fourth"
Dim isPresent = False

Is it more efficient to do this:
isPresent = values.Any(Function(x) String.Compare(x, searchValue, True) = 0)

or this:
For Each value In values
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Next

Basically, my question is: does the Any method short-circuit -- as the For Each loop does -- when it encounters its first element that satisfies the predicate, and if that is the case, does it do so any faster than the O(n) of the For Each operation shown above?
Please note: my question is not about finding a string in a collection of strings.  I know there are plenty of ways to accomplish that.  My question is more general than that -- about the efficiency of the LINQ Any method vs. the For Each loop approach.
Also, I have reviewed What is the Efficiency and Performance of LINQ and Lambda Expression in .Net? and Find an item in List by LINQ?, among other resources, and they don't answer my question, and I wasn't able to find anything that does.

A: Enumerable.Any is implemented as:
public static bool Any<TSource>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Func<TSource, bool> predicate) {
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}

So, when the item is found it will break out.
Apart from that, you should use String.Equals Method (String, String, StringComparison) overload for comparing string for equality ignoring case. String.Compare is more useful for ordering.

A: They are absolutely the same.  The implementation of Any() will short circuit as soon as it finds a single matching element.
From the documentation:

The enumeration of source is stopped as soon as the result can be determined.

A: Decompile the Any method to see what it does...
foreach (TSource source1 in source)
{
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}
return false;

You can see that this is equivalent to the For Each code you posted.

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The new Uncut goes on sale from this Thursday – April 18 – but you can buy a copy online now by clicking here.
With news of a new Shellac release coming, I thought I'd post my Audience With… Steve Albini interview from October 2014. He was lots of fun, as I remember. Went very deep on the mechanics of baseball, if memory serves; but some very good gear on Page & Plant, Nirvana, fighting, Hobnobs and his recipe for dill sauce.
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It's 10am on a Tuesday morning and Steve Albini has just arrived at the offices of Electrical Audio, the two-studio recording facility in Chicago, Illinois that he founded in 1997. Over the past few decades, Albini has overseen the creation of hundreds of records – among them, legendary albums by the Pixies, Nirvana, Page & Plant, PJ Harvey and the Stooges. Today, however, he politely rebuffs enquiries about his current clients. "I am very discreet, because there are people who will form opinions on bands based on their association with me."
Of course, Albini is man of many skills, and not all of them lie behind the desk. As singer and guitarist, he has been a mainstay of the American independent scene from his earliest days in Big Black through Rapeman and now Shellac. In fact, this month, Shellac release Dude Incredible, their first album since 2007. Why the long wait? "We mastered it either end of June or beginning of July 2013 and since then we've been working on the cover," he explains. "Trying to get monkeys printed on paper turns out is really difficult. I could totally understand it if we were trying to print wood nymphs on aluminium or something but we're not. We're trying to print monkeys on paper. But apparently it's a new procedure so it's literally taken that long to get a fucking cover printed. If you see the cover, and you're familiar with the printing arts, you might understand what some of the technical problems were. But it still seems preposterous that it was so hard. But in the end we're happy it's monkeys on paper. We're fine with it."
And with that, it's into to the Uncut mailbag…
What's your walk-up song?
I'm going to say "Master Of Sparks" by ZZ Top because the riff in that is unstoppable. The thing that makes baseball much better than other games is because it's structurally unique. Virtually all other games can be reduced to a pretty simple formula: you've got one team in possession of a ball and you're trying to put that ball in a goal and the other team trying to prevent the movement of that ball or trying to steal the ball to put it in the goal. That's basically all other team sports and they're all fucking stupid. I mean, they all run on a fucking clock for a start. There's a clock, really? That's a part of your game? Is some kind of bell going to go off and you lose? That seems fucking ridiculous to me. In baseball, the ball doesn't do anything except control the behaviour of the players; the players do all the scoring. The defence team is in possession of the ball and in control of the ball, that's the only team where that's true. It's got some formal similarities to cricket in that regard but cricket, I feel like there is a crippled quality to it. You've only got two bases. But I'm a baseball fan and baseball is clearly the superior game.
Have you ever been in a fist fight?
Kelley Deal
When I was an adolescent, I was in a couple of actual fights. I really detest violence and its practice. I don't respect or admire fighting, wrestling, boxing, MMA – things like that. I can appreciate the effort and the conditioning and the tactical elements of it but it still boils down to physically trying to incapacitate another person. Children and animals fight, I don't think there's anything to be respected about fighting. I feel like watching fighting as entertainment is fucking barbaric, I don't care if it's chickens or dogs or people. Seeing people execute violence on each other as a pastime or as a sport is revolting to me.
Could you remind me of the recipe for the famous Electrical Audio 'Fluffy Coffee'? We've been trying to recreate it and never seem to get it right.
It's a pretty simple procedure. You have an espresso machine. You grind espresso grade coffee very fine and mix one portafilter worth of espresso coffee with about a quarter teaspoon of finely ground cinnamon. Don't just sprinkle the cinnamon on the coffee; you have to mix it in with the coffee. If you sprinkle it across the top of the coffee it congeals it into a matte and prevents the water from percolating through the portafilter. Tap that mix down and that's now prepared to make a shot of cinnamon-infused espresso. Before you make the shot of cinnamon infused espresso, put a tablespoon or more of maple syrup in the bottom of a pint class and half or three quarters fill that pint glass with whole milk. Then, using the steaming wand on your espresso machine, steam that milk and froth it so that it fills the pint glass to the top with foam. You now have a pint glass full of maple syrup infused milk with foam on the top of it. The foam is also infused with maple syrup and that stabilises the foam and makes it tasty like a marshmallow. Now you pull the shot of espresso from the espresso machine that you have charged with your coffee and cinnamon and dump it in one motion into the pint glass filled with foamy, hot milk. That is a traditional hot fluffy coffee. I'm convinced that if I had have come up with the fluffy coffee before we bothered building the studio, I wouldn't have needed to build it. I'd just have little van of some place that makes these and I'd fucking print money.
Ask Steve what prostaglandins are.
David Yow, The Jesus Lizard
He probably doesn't mean the actual definition, which he could find on the internet. He wants me to make something up, so I'm going to say that's the resultant stock made by boiling socks and/or underwear to kill lice and nits.
How many Hobnobs do you eat a day?
Stuart Braithwaite, Mogwai
There was a period where I was making a lot of records in England and I was in the company of English people and Scottish people in particular and I would go through a packet of Hobnobs a day. Hobnobs with hot tea, it might very well be the prefect food. Instead of looking for a thing to sustain mankind on the intergalactic journey to another planet, they just want one food that they can feed generations while the spaceship is travelling to a new home planet. Hobnobs and hot tea, absolutely no questions you could survive on that.
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Who would you like to work with before you die?
Sean Parker, Chester
I've been a lifelong fan of Crazy Horse and I admire Neil Young in many ways. But primarily, I appreciate his skills as a guitar player and the way he takes my most uncomfortable thoughts and makes them concrete using pure sound. I think I could do a good job with one of his records. But he's a very particular guy, he lies to do things in a very particular way and I can't blame him for it because the results have been spectacular. Lifetime and long-term, he's got an unbelievable batting average. All of my favourite music has been made by people whose general perspective has been to do it their way with a disregard for the audience and I can only admire that. Neil Young – top of the list and then Willie Nelson, unbelievable musician – always surrounds himself with really interesting players, he puts himself in really awkward situations. I think Dolly Parton is an underrated songwriter and musician and I think it would be great to work on her.
PJ Harvey says you make a great dill sauce. What's your secret?
Rose, Brighton
She's probably talking about a dill mayonnaise I was making for a while. There's no secret, it's a classic. You emulsify an egg yolk. I use olive oil because I like strongly flavoured mayonnaise but you could use sunflower oil or rapeseed oil if you wanted a more neutral flavour. You emulsify an egg yolk with oil and some acid. I typically use either vinegar or some lemon juice but you could also use something tart or sour to offset the oiliness. A little bit of salt, black pepper, white pepper, Cayenne pepper, something like that to make it a little spicy and then a load of fresh chopped dill. Use just the fronds and chop it as fine as possible. You could also use dill seed if you want a more uniform texture. You could powder the dill seed in a mortar and pestle and then use that. But I can of like that little speckly, yellow, aioli-looking stuff with the green flecks of dill. I think that's pretty nice. It's a great universal sauce.
I once saw on eBay a Shellac-branded weight loss/belt massager machine from the 1940s or 1950s. Someone had won it from you in a competition. What qualities does a machine have to have to be worthy of the Shellac brand?
Ivy, London
All the items that were made into Shellac items for that competition, they were all just things that were physically appealing and were simple technologies that we thought had not been appreciated. There was a beauty parlour-sit-down-hair-drying machine. Obviously, they were terribly inefficient but kind of beautiful and outmoded. There was a vacuum tube tester that was aesthetically gorgeous, and it had really beautiful arrangement of controls The exercise belt? The idea behind it was that it would do the moving for you so that you wouldn't have to exert yourself and exercise. Completely pointless and couldn't possibly be of any value. But, beautiful and funny to watch. We inserted little golden tickets into a number of our albums – I think it was 10. The tickets were printed by a friend of ours as a sort of certificate and they were called Shellac Dollars. If you got a Shellac Dollar in your record you could return it with your address to receive one of these prizes. We tried to make it so that the prizes were substantial.
Why do you think the guitar belt – as opposed to the strap – hasn't taken off in popularity?
Tim Bugbee
It is slightly awkward to put the guitar around your waist if you've never done it before. I really like the freedom of mobility I have with the guitar bound to me like that. I feel like my arms aren't encumbered, I haven't got a weight around my neck. I have a lot to recommend it. A friend of mine, Marissa Paternoster from the punk band Screaming Females in Brunswick, New Jersey, had debilitating neck, back and shoulder pain so she wanted my advice about wearing a guitar around her waist. She found a company making special harnesses for guitars. The only drawback to that is that it requires you to put a strap button on the lower bout of your guitar. That is the bit under where you're hand goes when you're shredding and she modified her guitar to have that thing for it and now she's happy as a clam. So there are other around-the-waist guitar set-ups. The thing that I like about my guitar strap arrangement is that it just uses a conventional guitar strap, you don't have to have anything special.
The original sleeve for Big Black's Headache is one of the nastiest record covers ever. What was your reasoning behind that?
Glenn Burke, Appleby
A number of things. Partly as a visual pun. Partly because there aren't that many images you can look at where you can identify with the image. You instantly imagine how that could happen to you. A major component of Big Black's aesthetic was this idea that we are all susceptible and vulnerable to dark thoughts or aberrant behaviour. We are all vulnerable to situations beyond our control, you're not special, you're not safe and you're not better than all these other people. You look at a picture of another person and they're totally traumatised like that and you can't help but picture yourself or someone you know in that situation and instantly you feel weakened by it. I'm deducing all this after the fact because we certainly didn't have this conversation when we did it. We just saw the picture and we were like "Wow! We should use that picture!" Everybody in the band was like "Yeah, you're right that would be perfect."
Were there any bands you really wanted to get on the bill but couldn't, when you've curated various All Tomorrow's Parties events?
Cheri Dickens, Edinburgh
My biggest disappointment was Bill Withers. We have a backdoor contact for him. We made some enquiries but he just wasn't interested in performing. There was a documentary on his current life called Still Bill that was made four or five years ago. It's really enlightening. If I had seen that documentary before approaching him about performing on All Tomorrow's Parties, I don't know if I would have approached him. Because it's clear from this documentary that he's quite content making music for himself on a very personal scale and he's not interested in being part of the public eye anymore. I feel like, in a way, being ignorant of that was my fault. It was a big disappointment at the time.
How did Plant and Page approach you to record Walking Into Clarksdale?
Robert Dawes, Chorlton
I literally got a phone call from Robert Plant. It was pretty incredible. You're talking about people who are responsible for a half-dozen of the best records ever made and who have shaped the idiom of my lifetime and those people called me on the phone to talk about working on their record. I mean there isn't an English word for how I felt, it was enormously flattering. Going into it, I knew it was kind of an impossible challenge to satisfy their core audience and make a record that they wanted to make. I would do another record with Page and Plant in a heartbeat. They were totally professional with me. It was clear that they were in charge of everything, but it was also clear that they appreciated the effort that everybody was making on their behalf. I was impressed with how collaborative Robert Page and Jimmy Plant were, bearing in mind that there was a previously existing power structure where it was Jimmy Page's band and Robert was hired to be the singer and in the interim, Robert Plant had gone on to become a very successful solo artist and now should be able to call the shots in a lot of situations. Jimmy Page was differential to him in that regard. A very similar experience for me was when I got to work on a record by The Stooges. I feel very lucky in that I have literally had my wildest dreams come true a couple of times.
Are you still a fan of proto-punkers Third World War?
Philip Delahunte, London
What an incredibly underrated band. They were radical, Communist, they were openly advocating overthrow the crown which is technically treasonous. Really rough, confrontational singing, really skeletal, stripped down music, biting guitar sounds. If their music had got more attention, I would be really surprised if they didn't get legitimate police attention because of their subject matter. The best thing about Third World War is probably that after they made the first album Third World War, they decided they were going to make another album and they may have decided to make another album for no other reason than to name it Third World War Two and that would've been a perfectly valid decision. That is without question, the greatest album title of all time.
How did it feel to revisit In Utero for the 20th anniversary?
At the time, there was a political problem between the band and the label. In the end, the record as it was released was accompanied by a rather unpleasant attempt by the record label to blame me for its failure which is a really bizarre perspective from a record label saying "This is a new record from a hit band. We hope you love it, if you don't it's Steve Albini's fault." It was an unpleasant six months for me and I almost went broke during that period. So there was a bit of bad taste in my mouth regarding that record when it was released. I tried not to personalise that towards the band, and it was great to reconnect with Krist down the road and realise we were still friendly and cordial and we can still work together. It was gratifying that the people responsible for that reissue were willing to let them go the distance for quality and by that I mean we had the original masters for the original LP sessions and I suggested that we do the vinyl reissue as double twelve inch and that we cut it direct into metal at Abbey Road and they signed off on all of that. I said I was happy to oversee the mastering and they signed off on that as well. So I got to see the production aspect of the reissue version of the original mix through to the very end. That was very satisfying and in the end I don't know how to make a record better than that.
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My SIL came along. She hasn't been a member of a guild in awhile, if ever, but I dragged her along. She said she had a good time, which made me happy.
More details about the meeting can be found on the BAM blog.
I missed the Charity Sew Day due to Political Wifery, but some of the quilts they made were shown. Michelle B. designed the pattern and they sewed the quilts together using the quilt-as-you-go technique. This was a brilliant idea as it made the quilting after the piecing unnecessary.
Show and Tell was fabulous as well. Joy-Lily has finished her 100 quilts project. Not all are quilted, but she has a nice variety of pieces. Zoe brought her tiny baby and the black and white playmat she is making. I loved them both! Claire set a bunch of blocks together in a really unique and innovative fashion.
I know it isn't true, but I feel like I haven't sewed at all after seeing all the great stuff people brought.
Jaime will be leading a workshop on making the Noodlehead Cargo Duffle. She has made a few and has made some changes to the pattern including more pockets. I signed up because I admire Jaime's bag making skills.
We both helped work on the Hearts for Orlando blocks, which I wrote a bit about yesterday. You can see the full details at the BAM blog.
I dropped Cityscape off with my SIL who is the new owner after the meeting. I think she liked it.


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Hong Kong • Politics & Protest • Sport
Hong Kong int'l Rugby Tens cancelled amid ongoing political unrest
Hong Kong's international Rugby Tens tournament in April next year – a curtain-raiser to the city's famous Sevens – has been cancelled, the latest sporting event to fall victim to seething political unrest.
Organisers for the 10-a-side jamboree, part of a week-long rugby festival culminating in the Hong Kong Sevens from April 3-5, 2020, had been struggling to attract teams after six months of protests rocking the financial hub.
Photo: Rugby Sevens, via Facebook.
"Owing to the ongoing situation in Hong Kong, the tournament has, for the first time, had difficulty in attracting and securing firm commitments from enough overseas teams of sufficient quality," hosts Hong Kong Football Club said in a statement late Wednesday.
"We have made the decision not to host what would have been a diminished event in 2020."
The tournament has been held on the Wednesday and Thursday before the Hong Kong Sevens every year since 1986 and features teams packed with past and future stars of the game.
The Sevens, part of the World Rugby's global series, are scheduled for April 3-5 and organisers said they were determined the showpiece will go ahead.
Hong Kong has been upended by six months of massive democracy protests which have seen increasingly violent clashes between hardcore demonstrators and police, as well as regular transport disruptions.
A string of high-profile sports and entertainment events have been cancelled or postponed as a result, including pop concerts, stand-up comedy shows and award-winning musicals.
Golf postponed
Tennis's WTA Hong Kong Open, the Formula E Grand Prix and the Hong Kong Squash Open are among sporting events to have been cancelled.
The flagship Hong Kong Open golf tournament, won by world stars such as Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose in recent years, was postponed last month and rescheduled for January.
The wave of protests was sparked by opposition to a now-scrapped proposal to allow extraditions to mainland China, but have since morphed into a larger movement for democracy and police accountability.
Protesters take cover during clashes with police at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in Hong Kong on November 12, 2019. Photo: Citizen News.
The city enjoys unique rights under the terms of its handover to China by Britain in 1997, including freedom of expression and an independent judiciary. But many feel these are under threat from an increasingly assertive Beijing.
Street battles between riot police and small groups of protesters have become a weekly occurrence, hammering the already struggling economy, spooking tourists and undermining Hong Kong's reputation for stability.
The last three weeks have seen a rare lull in the violence and vandalism after pro-democracy parties won a landslide in local council elections.
But Beijing and city leader Carrie Lam have shown no sign they are willing to make further concessions, leading to fears clashes could resume.
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«Сиверко» — картина русского художника Ильи Остроухова (1858—1929), написанная в 1890 году. Картина является частью собрания Государственной Третьяковской галереи ( 1469). Размер картины — .

Описание
Сиверко — холодный северный ветер. На картине изображён изгиб полноводной реки в хмурый летний день. На горизонте небо затянуто дождевыми тучами. С одной стороны берег реки пологий, а с другой — обрывистый. Вдали видна тёмно-зелёная полоса густого леса. Под порывами холодного ветра поверхность реки покрывается волнами.

История
Картина «Сиверко» была представлена на 19-й выставке Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок («передвижников»), открывшейся в Петербурге в 1891 году. Ещё до выставки, в 1890 году, картина была приобретена у автора Павлом Третьяковым.

Известны два этюда для этой картины, написанные в 1890 году, один из которых находится в частном собрании, а местонахождение второго неизвестно. Из других этюдов, связанных с темой картины, один («Обрывистый берег») находится в Национальном художественном музее Белоруссии, а другой («Хмурый день») — в Полтавском художественном музее.

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В книге «История русской живописи в XIX веке», первое издание которой вышло в свет в 1902 году, художник и критик Александр Бенуа писал, что в 1891 году «Остроухов выставил своё лучшее произведение "Сиверко", удивительно верное и скромное изображение русской природы». По словам Бенуа, «несмотря на свою жёсткую и не особенно виртуозную живопись, эта одинокая картина должна быть отнесена к самым драгоценным явлениям в русской живописи».

В 1910 году художник и искусствовед Игорь Грабарь так писал об этой картине: «В этой вещи есть замечательная серьёзность, есть какая-то значительность, не дающая картине стариться и сохраняющая ей бодрость живописи, ясность мысли и свежесть чувства, несмотря на все новейшие технические успехи и через головы всех модернистов». По мнению Грабаря, «Сиверко» «значительнее и левитановских картин, хотя ещё недавно такое утверждение могло бы показаться парадоксальным».

Искусствовед Юрий Русаков называл «Сиверко» «высшим достижением Остроухова-пейзажиста» и писал, что в этом произведении «черты национального русского пейзажа нашли законченное и органичное воплощение». В то же время Русаков отмечал, что на изображённой на полотне поверхности реки «местами однообразно повторяются мелкие мазки, передающие рябь от ветра».

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For 3 years, Malcolm Children's Foundation Uganda has been a beacon of hope for children and their families.
Unlike in developed countries, children in Uganda with life threatening congenital diseases are unable to get access to medical treatment they need. This comes as a result of the extreme poverty of their families. For some there's no treatment available in the country at all to save their lives. Malcolm Children's Foundation connects children to hospitals which provide such treatment. Parents end up desperate and running to MCF looking for ways of saving their little ones' lives.
Malcolm Children's Foundation believes in promoting the right for each child to get access to medical treatment they need. I can't describe the pain a parent goes through looking for funds to take a child for a life saving operation, neither can I describe the pain a parent goes through seeing their child suffering with a disease but unable to save them.
When I had my son, Malcolm, I was desperately looking for funds to take him for life saving heart surgery in India. Imagining I had not got the chance, I would blame my self everyday. Seeing a child lose their life when you are unable to do what is required is unbearable.
Seeing those who died without getting the chance to save their children's lives made my heart ache. I put myself in their shoes and it gave me the willingness to stand with them in their most desperate times. My son's short life inspired me to start helping others to receive treatment through Malcolm Children's Foundation.
I believe there's a person out there with the desire to help the save little lives project. And I won't thank you enough for your heartfelt assistance.
Just know we will be very grateful.
Our work involves connecting a patient to the right health professionals in the world. Our aim is to save children's lives. We have been able to save more than 20 children's lives since our commencement.
We have joined hands to work hand in hand with health care facilities in Uganda, Kenya and India that can give us treatment for our patients at a discount rate.
We create quality health care awareness through conducting community health workshops. This includes awareness about congenital life threatening diseases, causes and effects, we educate our societies on health prevention measures to be considered like immunisation, encourage parents to take tests recommended, these include neonatal tests, postnatal, HIV, sickle cells among others.
We educate them about the effects of believing in medical superstitions, and discourage the parents from waiting for miracle cures to happen.
We stand with these children and parents in the hard times when they need a shoulder to lean on. Some parents are illiterate and I act as a translator between patient, parent and doctor.
We do patient follow upa to ensure that our patients are treated well and check on their health treatment progress.
While contributing to what we can, MCF is not able to fund the full amount it takes to keep our patients healthy to full recovery. So we have to turn to supporters like you to help pay for medical treatment and run all activities of the foundation.
It's from this background that we are requesting for your support.
I can't forget to thank you, our generous supporters, for helping us always.
Together we can save little lives.
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Marie Alena Castle is the communications director for Atheists for Human Rights. She was raised Roman Catholic, but became an atheist. She has been important to atheism, Minnesota Atheists, The Moral Atheist, National Organization of Women, and wrote Culture Wars: The Threat to Your Family and Your Freedom (2013).
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